Lanterna Rally

Author: Philip George Cambray

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9781331188902

Excerpt from Irish Affairs the Home Rule Question: A Comparison of the Attitude of Political Parties Towards Irish Problems I have been asked by the author to contribute a few words by way of introduction, and I conclude that the request is made of me as an ardent Irish Unionist by conviction and birth. As a relative of the Lord Castlereagh who was responsible for that great blessing to Ireland, and especially to Ulster, the Act of Union, I am by heredity an opponent of Home Rule. Experience and knowledge of Ireland as a former member for an Ulster constituency and, at a later period, as as Lord Lieutenant have strengthened my opinion against Home Rule. Whatever progress and prosperity have come to Ireland - and of later years the advancement has been pronounced - they are due to the policy of Union. If it were broken, as the Home Rulers desire, ruin, bankruptcy, and not impossibly civil war might be the result. From the financial point of view the statement laid before Mr. Gladstone in 1893 by the Belfast Chamber of Commerce proved beyond all doubt that his proposals were absolutely unworkable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.