[113] Add also that steamboats and railways have practically, since the time of Grattan, brought Ireland nearer to England, and Dublin nearer to London.  At the end of the last or the beginning of this century a Lord Lieutenant was for weeks prevented by adverse winds from crossing from Holyhead to Dublin.  Mr. Morley can attend a Cabinet Council at Westminster one afternoon and breakfast next morning in Dublin.

[114] With the conclusions as to Home Rule of my lamented friend Mr. Freeman it is impossible for me to agree.  But for that very reason I can the more freely insist upon the merit of his paper on Irish Home Rule and its Analogies as an attempt to clear up our ideas as to the meaning of Home Rule.  He, for instance, points out that the relations between Hungary and Austria do not constitute the relation of Home Rule and afford no analogy to the relation which Home Rulers propose to establish between Great Britain and Ireland.  See The New Princeton Review for 1888, vol. vi. pp. 172, 190.

[115] A Gladstonian who thinks the case of the Channel Islands in point, would do well to get up the facts of their history.  They were no more ‘given’ a constitution by England than, as most Frenchmen believe, they were conquered from France.  See Mr. Haldane, April 7, 1893, Times Parliamentary Debates, p. 333.

[116] They have now (1911) led to political separation, happily without the need for civil war.

[117] See further on this point, Home Rule as Federalism, England’s Case against Home Rule (3rd ed.), pp. 160-197, and for Home Rule as Colonial Independence, ib. pp. 197-218.

[118] Then the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

[119] See ‘Andrew Jackson,’ American Statesmen Series, p. 182.

[120] Hilty, Separatabdruck aus dem Politischen Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft (Jahrgang 1891), p. 377.

[121] For the story of Kavanagh, Hanlon, and Smith, and their attempted landing at Melbourne, see England’s Case (3rd ed.), p. 207.

[122] Mr. Gladstone, February 13, 1893, Times Parliamentary Debates, p. 307.

[123] An eminent and very able Gladstonian M.P. once said in my presence, in effect, for I cannot cite his actual words, that the difference between Gladstonians and Unionists was a difference in their judgment of character or of human nature.  He touched I believe far more nearly than do most politicians the root of the differences which divide the authors and the critics of our new constitution.

[124] Report of Special Commission, pp. 54, 55.

[125] Ibid. pp. 53, 119.

[126] Ibid. pp. 119, 120.

[127] Report of Special Commission, p. 120.

[128] Ibid.

[129] This Committee Room was the scene of the desertion of Parnell by the majority of his former followers.