William Gladstone: “But the day may come when your condition may not be so happy.”

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.

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

Therefore the exhibition of particular instances is a very unsafe and insufficient test.

This is not the only place where extra legal combinations and anti-legal combinations have been brought into existence for the purpose of mitigating social disorder.