HOME RULE FROM THE STAND-POINT OF HISTORY.
l%tXT*£™t h s^ : laVl aV ' *«•*»«* to the WeeUy Home Rule viewed from the stand-point of history nrespnt* many hopeful features to the advocate for of ble^X'u^ &£?« swsrss tfc^ra'sisss the dominion of the heathen Dane; when the ascenSv of the XfKllE 1 " Was , Becured ': and d ° rin * the iron rulfofrte TuSor SSS^^^ aa^A a^ littONnmti^ Btero and bloody tyranny. Tbe positive and obvious inability of the conauerors entirely to subjugate the people of Ireland has only been eanaUed by tt ■JET* ina f bUity ° f *£> IriFh P e °P ]e to »™ entoelyXi , from the dominion of some other power extraneous to its own It is a SS^SIf to KlCaK ICa i Pr ° blem ' dlt i 8 one which ««S be summarily eoesb^tL n^nfT^ 01^ BCe v° f p i >l ! tical 6 «ence. "or by whS goes by the name of the philosophy of history. Why Ireland, with SIJKSff 88 f W " e " u P e f i *» *» defence than attack, or.atCJ with advantages which make it harder to retain than to invade -with with f JS.i l°™ ff P~ >tlcall y *»* ever brought against her ; and with a people not less brave and equally warlike with its tnanv TSSSh^VT' a^Z- Iv^ wa^ fchese coStions shTld jet have been held in subjection to a succession of alien races for so ne °Li he inßolable q aeßtionß of hisTor^. The problem has never been satisfactorily solved even on paper : nor as I know, entertained. Will it be solved practically and SSbly in ?he domain of active politics ? It is true that the banes were eventual!? repulsed and expelled fiom Erin. It is true that^he EnSsh pIZ ™Khi^imiSl^ W iJ^ IBm S» rpiirtof iU It is true that the STextent^nd SSS^"S 11 W Bava^ er^ and * Parallel United Kingdom. Ireland and the Irish people have always and ever iSfiSZ V h? s d raorV frOn ? th ,f. En^ sh Conqueror a^fwm the SSw.. T 1 18tbis the only national peculiarity to J;^}" ha ! been often remarked, but it is well to repeat the SbfSS""^ fl ° Ul l dß /""doricaL but is not really so-that «SSSI ' to # Bp< S ° f i Bcotch and o^er settlers, who forced ?n^ lull Z™ ff ° rC + lbly Vl&n ? d on Irißh lands, so far from absorbwtJhpJ^^^*^!- 1!?1 !?^ 111 *?01? 011 ' became themselves absorbed. nf?hp n<Zl ?°J ce f- En fu 8h lmml g r ants were converted to the faith «liftf ft c 1 on^ a f. red nation, they eventaally were inoculated with their ESSjf« Be lll l J l ™ en i? MmdM ' md social habits and national instincts, and s£^L t i Fit after them became, more thoroughly' Irish Jfew Indeed, to breathe the air and to walk Snir^ m? ,?S Patr !, ck T m ? ke l evea a lafc terd ay traveller conscious of Smla li eed8 *, Ddl r lands Woeßof w Wchhe was not previous?? so clearly nor so deeply persuaded. But in England it was and is Zte^oL^tt I?''1 ?'' 80Cially ,' BlxonsfiJstTSdthen fJ T ioT- y between *<? Saso 'i garrison and the Celtic population «i« a aOy i° ne P artlcnlar o£ f act, or belief, or desire, or senti. 2S««ut °r gßr fc ? n^ e indeed « exißtß which tends outwardly?) SSS^Sfi J— racesw s° ] r e under a common Bwa 7» »° d this to some extent minimises gradually, and exterminates eventually, many differences between the victor and the vanquished. But such nSS S£J!£f SM^ J he attd ineradicable *™T?l^ between Englishmen and Americans, though both speak the same common and sweet mother tongue. Even thl style £uu ! L°L t i ell ?^ rialßn^ hliation testifies to these tauths. Fo? ™Jf* the , f ame ?f the 4 P r °° d Scot has been utterly lost in the compli-. £3^i3%«m Britain ' the name « f d espi«ed but irrepresTble ££?«!* i holds its own as a still integral but distinct, an^ if not WuS M& ™ n mdestruc * ibl l Potion of an United Kingdom. SSXYcLEl 1 beC ° mean ""W «» the political
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 1, 25 April 1884, Page 18
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670HOME RULE FROM THE STAND-POINT OF HISTORY. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 1, 25 April 1884, Page 18
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