Authorised Report of Proceedings. January 23.-25. 1872 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: forbid its supremacy, then is he prepared for the indignation which he will arouse in England, in Wales, in Scotland, and in the North of Ireland ? And if he is resolved to resist the Roman Catholic demands, then is he prepared, is the Government prepared, for that new Irish grievance which will engender a deeper and more envenomed disaffection towards England and English rule than has existed for the last fifty years ? Mr. Forster boasted that he " would canter over the religious difficulty," but in his adventurous horsemanship he has fallen into the meshes of Denomi- nationalism, and there he lies in a hopeless entanglement. As for us, our course is clear, and we mean to pursue it until we have obtained a national education which shall trample upon no man's conscience, and which, instead of widening and perpetuating the divisions which exist among us shall heal them, and give to our nation a unity, a power, and a happiness which it has never yet attained. (Loud applause.) The resolution was seconded in a few words by the Rev. Dr. Raleigh. Mr. Alfred Illingworth, M.P., supported the resolution. He said: Ladies and gentlemen, at this time of the night, and after the lesson whicli has been administered from this platform, it is not my intention to occupy more than two or three minutes; but, Mr. Chairman, if you and I were vindictive men, we might well say to-night that we had had our revenge. In the House of Commons we formed a small party that sought to show to the Government the danger which was ahead. Heedlessly Mr. Forster and his allies went on, and now we find the whole Nonconformist body of this country in open rebellion. (Applause.) I want only just to point out one thing which I think is on our part a practical duty. I do hope that the Nonconformists are not lookin...