Official Report Of The Speech Delivered By Hon Edward Blake On The Irish Question House Of Commons April 20th 1882

Author : Edward Blake
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ISBN 13 : 9781331274537
Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book Official Report of the Speech Delivered by Hon. Edward Blake written by Edward Blake and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Official Report of the Speech Delivered by Hon. Edward Blake: Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada on the Irish Question, House of Commons, April 20th, 1882 Mr. Blake. If no other hon. member proposes to address the House on the subject, I do not, for my part, feel disposed to give a silent vote upon it It is now two years ago since, in the course of a very important discussion here, I ventured to suggest in my place in Parliament that the accession to power which had then recently taken place of the Liberal Administration in England, would lead very shortly to the concession of some measure of Home Rule to the Irish people I believed, as I said, that such a solution as could be obtained of the land question, such a solution as had boon from time to time reached of other questions, would, after all, not settle the Irish question, and that unless the dictates of prudence and of justice alike wore observed and fulfilled by the granting of some measure of control over their local affairs, we would see that which has been the disgrace and the humiliation of the British Empire for many years still continued. I also observed, as the hon. gentleman in his speech and in his motion has observed, that we had one amongst many material interests here, in Canada, in the solution of that question, in the change which might be expected from it in the altitude of the great bulk of the Irish people towards the Empire, that we had a material - although I regard that as a much lesser interest than the interest which has been mainly discussed - we had a material interest of a serious character with reference to the chances and the opportunity of immigration to our soil so long as the present state of feeling continued. Now, I propose to justify the attitude which I took upon that occasion and which did not then meet with any very animated response in the House or in the country; I propose to justify it by a reference to some obvious historical facts which it appeal's to me can load to only one inevitable conclusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.