For my present purpose there is no need to establish that English discontent is reasonable; enough to note its existence.
A consideration must be here noticed which as the controversy over Home Rule goes on will come into more and more prominence.

We are engaged in rearranging new terms of union between England and Ireland; this is the real effect of the Home Rule Bill; but for such a rearrangement Great Britain and Ireland must in fairness, no less than in logic, be treated as independent parties.

Whether you make a Union or remodel a Union between two countries the satisfaction of both parties to the treaty is essential.

Till England is satisfied the new constitution lacks moral sanction.

That the Act of Union could not have been carried without, at any rate, the technical assent both of Great Britain and Ireland is admitted, and yet the moral validity of the Treaty of Union is, whether rightly or not, after the lapse of ninety-three years assailed, on the ground that the assent of Ireland was obtained by fraud and undue influence.