One hundred years ago
On the 21st inst., Mr Parnell sanc- tioned a furious manifesto, signed by the Council of the Irish Nationalists of Great Britain, calling upon all his coun- trymen in England and Scotland to vote for Tories. The Liberals, it is declared, as in 1880, are appealing to the country on false pretences. They promised peace, and gave war; they pledged themselves to economy, and their Budget was the highest ever seen; and, horror of horrors, 'they crushed a national movement under Arabi.' They flagrantly violated all pledges to Ire- land, and practised 'a system of coer- cion more brutal than that of any previous Administration.' Juries were packed 'with a shamelessness unpre- cedented even in Liberal Administra- tions' . . A more wonderful display of political ingratitude was probably never made.
Spectator, 28 November 1885
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