MR. HARRISON ON ROMP-RULE.
LTO TRH EDITOR OF TEE SPECTATOR.. J
Sia,—I most distinctly deny the statement about myself made- in your issue of February 19th by "An ex-M.P." It is per- fectly untrue that I "recommend that Ireland should be- plunged in anarchy, and that we should resist all temptation, to protect the weak until at last the fittest had survived." I have never said this, or anything to that effect. I observe that when a politician attacks another whilst concealing his own name, he usually wants to say something he cannot prove.—I
[" To such a national authority we, at any rate, if other English politicians hesitate, are willing to commit the destinies of Ire- land. For we have confidence that the Irish people are indeed a nation, a nation neither crushed by evil rule, nor degraded by centuries of civil war. And though there may be creel troubles yet in store for them, and for us in the last wrench ; though many an innocent one may suffer, and many an evil one may work his bad will, even though England ring with rage an& shame before it is all over ; and though Ireland pass through times of hardship and distress, nothing but the satisfaction of the national desire can ever heal the secular struggle between the two nations, and close what is the deepest stigma upon the. English people, and one of the darkest blots on the life of humanity.' "—Times of January 2nd, 1686, the peroration in F. Harrison's address on New Year's Day.—En. Spectator.]
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