SEPARATISM.
[To THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In his recent speech at Newcastle our English Separatist, Mr. John Morley, Mr. Gladstone's Irish Secretary, had the amusing audacity to appropriate to himself and party the well-known words of the great Unionist General, U. S. Grant, —" United States " Grant. Mr. Morley ended his speech in this way :—" Gentlemen, in the words of a great American General, spoken at a critical stage, we mean to fight it out on these lines all this year.". These memorable words were used by the Unionist General in the midst of his final and most sanguinary campaign for the preservation of the American Union. The Unionist Army of the North was infinitely more numerous than the Separatist Army of the South, and the Unionist General had deliberately resolved, by sheer supe- riority of strength and numbers, to exterminate, man by man, his Separatist opponents. The Separatists offered a stubborn resistance, and repulsed the Unionists in three long and bloody battles. It was then that the undaunted Unionist General, with undiminished confidence in the patriotism and courage of his big battalions, solemnly declared, "I will fight it out on this line all summer." And "United States" Grant continued his bloody but necessary work until the few gallant survivors of the Separatist Army re- luctantly surrendered at discretion, and the Unionist flag again floated triumphantly throughout the length and breadth of the American Union. Our chattering English Separatist, Mr. John Morley, has made an unhappy choice in selecting as his model for imitation the silent and relentless conqueror and exterminator of the Separatists of the United States.—I Santry School, Dublin, September 11th.
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