The Irish Question (Classic Reprint): The Chicago Convention: The Chicago Convention (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This meeting he considered a sort of ratification of the action of the Convention. AS a member of the Committee on Resolutions, he could say that there was no division of Opinion, and no reading between the lines in the resolutions, but a plain statement of facts. The gentlemen from Ireland, who were made members of the committee, had refused to draft a single resolution, but had left all to the judgment of their brethren on this side of the water.

The Finerty incident then simply amounted to this: that in an assembly consisting of 972 delegates, one individual alone dissented from the resolutions adopted; and in order that his Opinions should be clearly understood, claimed and obtained the right to explain, that he did not believe in Mr. Gladstone's bill as afinal settlement, and would not pin his faith, under all circumstances, to peaceable methods. Lest these sentiments should be held to compromise the Convention, they were at once, and amid universal applause, repudiated by Mr. Davitt, Mr. Redmond, and others. This incident, indeed, so far from detracting from the value of the support tendered to Mr. Parnell and Mr. Gladstone, ought, on the contrary, to enhance it, by emphasizing what was an unexpectedly cordial and unanimous acceptance of a policy of peace and friendship by a body of men who, before the introduction of the Home Rule bill, were bitter and apparently implacable enemies of England.

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