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men there. England's experience north of the Tweed 

 should have taught her better. 



Conquerors cannot rule as conquerors a people who 

 have parliamentary institutions and publish newspa- 

 pers ; and neither of these can ever be taken away 

 from Ireland. They always come to stay. You may 

 succeed in keeping down slaves for a while, but then 

 you must govern them as slaves, and the Irish people 

 have advanced beyond this. Just in proportion as 

 they do grow less like serfs and more like men, the 

 impossibility of England's governing Ireland must grow 

 likewise. I hear some Americans reproaching the Irish 

 people for rioting and fighting so much ; the real troub- 

 le is they don't fight half enough. Take my own 

 heroic Scotland ; let even Mr. Gladstone, one of our- 

 selves and our best beloved, send an Englishman as 

 Lord Advocate to Scotland, and let him dare pass a 

 measure for Scotland in Parliament against the wishes 

 of the Scotch members, and all the uprisings in Ireland 

 would seem like farces to the thorough work Scotland 

 would make of English interference. She would not 

 stand it a minute. Neither should Ireland. If she 

 has the elements of a great people within her borders, 

 she will never submit. In less than a generation Ire- 

 land can be made as loyal a member of the British 

 confederacy as Scotland is ; and all that is necessary to 

 produce this is that she should be dealt with as Eng- 

 land has to deal with Scotland. Let the Emerald Isle, 



