Another interesting feature of the debate which must be noted
was the evident feeling of uneasiness which inspires a good many members of the Liberal Party in regard to the forcing of Ulster under a Dublin Parliament. This is specially strong amongst Scotch members owing to the Presbyterian nexus between Ulster and Scotland. It remains to be said that the efforts of the Government to extricate themselves from the logical difficulties in which they have placed them. selves were extraordinarily unsuccessful ; indeed, we can only describe the Prime Minister's speech as a prolonged wriggle. Mr. Redmond's speech claiming his whole pound of flesh must also have been, we imagine, extremely unconvincing to Liberal Home Rulers. His arguments were Unionist arguments. Just as the politician in the " Bigelow Papers" describes Liberty as " the kind of thing that don't agree with niggers," so Mr. Redmond and hie friends in deeds though not in words declare that local autonomy, i.e., Home Rule, is a thing which is much too good for such creatures as the people of Ulster.
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