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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 30, 18 November 1887, Page 5

While commending most of the avowed motives which impel the British residents of Roston — even at this late day — to become American citizens, our {Pilot's) esteemed contemporary, the Congregationalist, takes serious exception to their determination, as voiced by one of their leading men, "to vote against the Irish Catholics on every occasion." Says the Congregationalist :— " We regret this language, and we cannot endorse its spirit. We are staunch Protestants, and we often have had occasion to condemn strongly the coarse of oar Roman Catholic fellow-citizens as sucb. Probably we Bha!l feel compelled to do so again, and we shall do it frankly whenever necessary. But the spirit which would lead any man to seek to acquire citizenship among us for the distinct and declared purpose of opposing others of our citizens is not the true American spirit. It is neither wise nor fair. It is improperly partisan, and therefore dangerous to the public welfare."

The Glasgow Mail is the exponent of the sentiment of the best element of the Scotch people. It says of the proclamation of the Irish National League :—"lt: — "It would be impossible, we think, to point to any recent event recorded iv Irela vi where the National League has made an unfair use of its enormous powers. It has beon tbe guardiau angel that has watched over and protected the Irish people, and the Irish paople will stand by their leaiersnow that the hour has come when those leaders can be thrown into prison at any time at the will of the Lord Lieutenant. We do not for an instant believe that the Government will be able to administer the Coercion Act to any purpose in Ireland. It will certainly not succeed in putting dowu the National League."