It is at any rate that sort of "bluster" at which the justice and humanity of a loyal Englishman must take alarm.
I have not yet learnt to look without horror on the possibility of civil war, nor to picture to myself without emotion the situation of brave men compelled by the British army to obey rulers whose moral claim to allegiance they justly deny and whose power unaided by British arms they contemn.

Civil warfare created by English policy and despotism maintained by English arms must surely be to any Englishman objects of equal abhorrence.
But in England no less than in Ireland our new constitution gives artificial power to weakness.

At Westminster the Irish members, be they 80 or 103, will have no legitimate place.

Mr.Gladstone on this point is, for aught I know, at one with the Unionists.

In 1886 he without scruple, and therefore no doubt without any sense of injustice, expelled the representatives of Ireland from the British Parliament.