William Gladstone: “I do not expect, any more than I desire, these foreign complications, but still it is not wise wholly to shut them out.”

It is a sign that the conditions of legality do not exist.

In fact, these men have been punished for doing in Ireland that which would be perfectly lawful in England, and which, I believe, is perfectly lawful even in Ireland, under any fair interpretation of the act.

Has the administration of the law been of a character to reconcile, or has it been of a character to estrange, or has it been calculated to teach respect for the Government, or to bring the Government into increasing hatred or contempt?

But the day may come when your condition may not be so happy.