In our leading columns we have tried to show how
warmly we' welcome American help in solving the Irish problem, and how greatly that help would be increased if Americans would study the precedent of Western 'Virginia and the illuminating statesmanship with which Lincoln handled that problem, a problem . curiously apposite to that of North-East Ulster. Here we may notice that once again the Government are being confronted with the feet that Pitt's incorporatiog-Union was not due to any natural depravity in the statesman, but to the overmastering force of cir- cumstances. On Monday a manifesto was issued signed by three of the four Archbishops and fifteen of the twenty-four Bishops of the cRoman Catholic Church in Ireland, and by three J3ishops of the Churela of Ireland—i.e., Protestant Bishops—calling on Irishmen; of.all creeds and parties to give their names -to a great _protest which will show " that the country is unrelentingly opposed to pertition."
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