Yet again, the Northern Parliament had refrained from making difficulties
for the South by adverse comments on the trade boycott. But -it was now necessary to state that in spite of all the promisee that the boycott should cease interference with the trade of the North-had been greater since the signing of the London agreement than it had been in the whole previous period. As regards the release of prisoners, Sir James Craig stated that he had, of course, never promised to release men convicted of grave civil offences. In the list of nearly l70 prisoners whose release was demanded by Mr. Collins, a large proportion had been convicted of murder and other serious crimes. " rurally," said Sir James Craig, " we would ask you most earnestly to remember the terms of Article II. of our agreement, and to join with us in asking our peoples to exercise restraint in the interests of peace."
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