Mr. Justin McCarthy professed to say no word of Mr.
Parnell except in pity and compassion, but his pity and com- passion were not inconsistent with describing him as "the unhappy and ruined man who had caused this division in the Irish people." "In future the cause of Ireland would not be the cause of any one man. He did not care who the man might be ; if the man's career stood in the way of the nation, the man should He down, and Iet the nation stand. If the man did not give way, it was for the representatives of the nation, and the nation itself, to depose him. They would have no more idol-worship in Ireland, no fetish-worship, no dictator- ship." Mr. Davitt took the same line, congratulating the people on the close of the era of the "one-man power." The meeting, however, was careful to conciliate Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien, and to anticipate their being placed on the com- mittee directly their term of imprisonment shall be over.
