Sir George Trevelyan, having been told that Mr. MacNannass had
stated in a letter to a Glasgow newspaper that Sir George had attributed to the Parnellites the planning and executing of the Dublin and Galway murders, as well as boycotting and firing into houses, Sir George has replied that Mr. MacNannass must refer to a speech (delivered, we believe, at Hawick on February 9th, 1883) in which he told his audience of the existence of two Irelands,—the Ireland of order, and the Ireland of the men who "foment and condone and sympathise with crime." After great praise of the Irish Conservatives, Sir George Trevelyan proceeded :—" On the other side stand the men who planned and executed the Dublin murders, the Galway murders, the boycotting, the firing into houses, the mutilation of cattle, the intimidation of every sort and kind throughout the island. These are the men who not long ago were masters of the rural districts and tyrants of the streets of Dublin." Sir George now asserts, apparently, that in this classification of political parties into two separate Irelands, he did not include the Parnellites at all, but left them out of account as belonging to neither party. Any one, however, who will read his speech on the Address, delivered in the same month of the same year, will find that he took a great deal of pains to prove that the National League was really the active centre and cause of all the outrages, and was consequently to be in- cluded in the Ireland of violence and crime. But times have changed, and Sir George Trevelyan now wishes to stand as well with the Parnellites as he wished in February, 1883, to stand with the Irish Conservatives.
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