Every sort of remedy has been tried.

The rule of the ordinary law, coercion, Protestant supremacy, Catholic relief, the disestablishment of the Anglican Church, the maintenance of the English land tenure and English landlordism, the introduction of a new system of land tenure unknown to any other country in the world and more favourable to tenants than the land law of any other State in Europe, the removal of every grievance which could be made patent to the Imperial Parliament, every plan or experiment which could approve itself to the judgment of English politicians has been tried, and no scheme, however plausible, has ended in success.

Concession has proved as useless as severity, and the existence in the Statute Book of a permanent Coercion Act is a standing proof of failure.

He who asserts that Irish disloyalty or discontent has not declined understates the case.

It has increased.