A main reason why a wise man must deprecate the weak surrender by Englishmen of rightful power is the dread that, if in a moment of irritation they reassert their strength, they may exhibit neither their good faith nor their justice.
FOOTNOTES: [95] J.M'Carthy, April 10, 1893, _Times Parliamentary Debates_, p.

354.
No part of these quotations is italicised in the report.
[96] J.M'Carthy.
[97] Mr.Sexton.
[98] Mr.Gladstone, April 21, 1893, _Times Parliamentary Debates_, p.
565.
[99] At Bodyke, June 2, 1887, Mr.M.Davitt said:--'Our people, however, who so leave Ireland are not lost in the Irish cause, for they will join the ranks of the Ireland of retribution beyond the Atlantic; and when the day shall again come that we have a right to manage our own affairs, the sun may some day shine down upon England when we here in Ireland will have the opportunity of having vengeance upon the enemy for its crimes in Ireland.'-- _Freeman's Journal_, June 3, 1887.

See 'Notes on the Bill,' published by the Irish Unionist Alliance, p.368.

These expressions were used after the union of hearts.
[100] 'But all these matters are, as it were, minor details.

They all sink into comparative insignificance before the one great demand--and I almost apologise for mentioning them--because I want you to concentrate your attention on the one great demand which we make, and the one unalterable statement we intend to adhere to, that whether guilty or innocent, these men, according to their lights and their consciences, were trying to serve Ireland; that any of them who were guilty were driven into this course by the misgovernment of Ireland, and the oppression of Ireland by an outside power, and that if we are asked to settle this Irish question, if we are asked to let peace reign where discord and hatred reign at present, there must be no victims--that if there is to be peace there must also be amnesty.