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It cannot be, that amidst all her achievements and 

 renown ; amidst that moral and material splendour — 

 that wealth and status, which makes happy Albion 

 the gaze and wonder of the nations : the emulation 

 of the good and wise, the envy and the hate of the 

 malevolent — it cannot be, that as regards this un- 

 happy country she will any longer hesitate in the 

 good work of — aye, we will say it — reparation : fain 

 would we see her even now, by a series of humane 

 and equitable measures, erasing at once and for ever 

 from her escutcheon, those dark stains, which, hke 

 the spots upon Macbeth's dagger, will not " out " 

 until full justice be accorded to us ; not partial, nig- 

 gardly, bit by bit ameliorations and developments, 

 but good and ample measure, heaped up, pressed 

 down, and flowing over. 



Sir Robert Peel spoke of " Ireland " as the great 

 pohtical difficulty of his day : we are humbly per- 

 suaded that the pohcy here indicated, is the only 

 lever that will ever raise and overthrow it. 



Never was more fit or apposite quotation, than that 

 lately enunciated by Lord Eglinton at a public 

 meeting in Belfast : — " There is no nation," says 

 Sir John Davis, " under the sun, that doth love equal 

 and indifferent ''justice' better than the Irish."' Let 

 that be our ultimatum ; that, the practical and tan- 

 gible object of our pursuit ; that our propaganda : 

 justice to our com.merce, to our manufactures, to our 

 agriculture ; justice to our fisheries, justice to our 

 ports — ^justice, justice, justice. The advice of Lord 



