The men of 1798 or 1800 would mock at our ideas of necessity.

Ireland has not an eighth of the population of the United Kingdom; our Home Rulers are not Ireland; they are a very different thing--the Irish populace.

Let us yield everything which ought to be yielded to justice; let us obey the dictates of expediency, which is only justice looked at from another side; let us concede much to generosity; but in the name of common sense, of honesty, and of manliness, let us hear no more of necessity.

Once in an age necessity may be the defence of statesmanship forced to confess its own blindness, but it is far more often the plea of tyranny, of ambition, of cowardice, or despair.
B._No danger in Home Rule_.

The arguments which are employed to show that the policy of Home Rule and the new constitution which embodies it involve no danger for England are in the main drawn from the 'Safeguards' or Restrictions contained in the Bill--from the alleged precedent of Grattan's Constitution--from the success of Home Rule in other parts of the world--and, generally, from the expediency of trustfulness.
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