session of the Imperial Parliament in Dublin. Mr. Dicey clings to the existing Union while demonstrating its failure, because he has persuaded himself that the only alternative is separation.
Irishmen may be pardoned for acting on Mr. Dicey's facts, and disregarding his prophecies. The mass of Irishmen believe, with Grattan, that the ocean protests against separation as the sea protests against such a union as was attempted in 1800.[59]
FOOTNOTES:
[26] Omissions here and elsewhere are merely for purposes of space. In some places the omitted parts would strengthen the Irish case; in no place would they weaken it.
[27] Lecky, Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, new edit. (1871), Introduction, pp. viii., xiv.
[28] Lecky, Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, new edit. (1871), Introduction, pp. xiv., xv.
[29] Lecky, History of England in the Eighteenth Century, vol. ii. pp. 59, 60.
[30] Leaders of Public Opinion, pp. 33, 34.
[31] Leaders of Public Opinion, pp. 120-123.
[32] Leaders of Public Opinion, pp. 125, 126.