William Gladstone: “There must be, and will be, cases of harsh and unreasonable persecution under the name of boycotting.”

What I fear is rather this, that if resistance to the national voice of Ireland be pushed too far, those who now guide the mind of that nation may gradually lose their power, and may be supplanted and displaced by ruder and more dangerous…

For that statement of the right honorable gentleman, as amended and admitted, there is not a shadow of foundation. (Irish cheers.) That you cannot contradict, although you have plenty of myrmidons, and, perhaps, some minions.

If this be a question of time at all, then it is most important to consider what is the right time.

It is a sign that the law does not do its work.