Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question — Some Arguments Considered by John Morley, M.P.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 71: The following pages, with one or two slight alterations, are extracted, by the kind permission of Mr. James Knowles, from two articles which were published in the _Nineteenth Century_ at the beginning of the present year, in reply to Professor Dicey's statement of the English case against Home Rule.

] [Footnote 72: The late J. E.

Cairnes, after describing the clearances after the famine, goes on to say, "I own I cannot wonder that a thirst for revenge should spring from such calamities; that hatred, even undying hatred, for what they could not but regard as the cause and symbol of their misfortunes--English rule in Ireland--should possess the sufferers....

The disaffection now so widely diffused throughout Ireland may possibly in some degree be fed from historical traditions, and have its remote origin in the confiscations of the seventeenth century; but all that gives it energy, all that renders it dangerous, may, I believe, be traced to exasperation produced by recent transactions, and more especially to the bitter memories left by that most flagrant abuse of the rights of property and most scandalous disregard of the claims of humanity--the wholesale clearances of the period following the famine."

--_Political Essays_, p. 198. ] LESSONS OF IRISH HISTORY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.