Mr. Healy remarked that if the Irish ship of State
seemed almost on the rocks under the "full speed ahead" order, the reason was that the old captain and admirals were no longer on the quarter-deck and the wheel had been taken in charge by the cabin and pantry boys. Mr. Redmond had acquiesced in the tearing up of the contract with the Cunard Company to carry the mails from Queenstown to New York, simply because most of the Cunardera were Liberals, and he would do nothing to disoblige the Liberal Party. Mr. Redmond might profess ardent desire for a settlement by consent, but he had taken all the national spirit out of the country, and in Parliament had reduced the national cause to the position of a huckster's shop. Ireland was being sold to the Liberal Government as if it were a beast at a fair.
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