Excerpt from Gladstone and Irish Grievances: An Essay on the Irish Land Laws, Tenures and Grievances; Their Proposed Solution; The Gladstone Coercion Act and Land Bill; And the Land League
Tm: question of Irish grievances has been agitating the world, but particularly the English speaking portion of it, for many centuries, and it yet remains unsolved. The people of Ireland have been obliged to emigrate to Great Britain and to her colonies, as well as to Continental Europe, and wherever they go they are to her a cause of anxiety and disturbance. Even into lands not subject to her imperial sway, as the United States, or in countries foreign to her in race, creed and speech, they have carried the story of their wrongs, and transmitted the ever burning tradition of her injustice and persecutions. The gory ghost. Will not down at her bidding. Neither enormous capital nor a powerful press can smother the irrepressible conflict of Irish public opinion, aggressive, persistent and ever growing in force in every spot where an Irish colony exists, whether in London or Glasgow, in Australia or Canada, in the United States or in France. Spain or Austria. The bitter hostility of the Irish blood to the English government is as strong in the mcmahons,. O'donnells or Nugents, now French, Spanish or Austrian for several generations, as in the millions of naturalized Irishmen and their descendants in our own mighty Repub~ lic, of whose strength they constitute one of the most im~ portant and powerful elements. A marked peculiarity of this Irish public opinion is that English concessions only make it stronger. Repeatedly has the English government, morally forced into yielding, relaxed the severity of its oppression and yet the Irish cry is still for more concessions; each hard wrung right serving but as another step in the climax of aspiration for race indepen dence and national liberty. The cry for Home Rule and. For the abolition of oppressive laws has been taken up by.
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