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Excerpt from The Irish Question: A Reply to Mr. Gladstone
Let the Irish Nationalists but once become the arbiters of the fate of the two English Parties, and one or other of these political hucksters whose system of party government is so fast settling down upon the lees of its demoralization, will sell the unity of their Empire to defeat their rivals. - thb. New Locum.
The General Election of 1886 will be as memo rable in our annals as the General Election of 1832, and the appeal to the people, which resulted in the Convention Parliament of 1689. It was an election in which the constituencies were called upon to consider a change in the political system that amounted to a revolution. The decision of the people was as near an approximation to a plebiscite as the nature of our institutions would admit. A vast population, newly enfranchised, and to all appearance without a previous political education, was called on to regard the wisdom of an the.
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