. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. defied thegovernment to arrest him. He urged the Irish to leave nothing undonethat might be done in resistance to the hateful legislation. Finally he said, If you want earnestly and like men to carry out the policy of the League,you must learn to know that the only way in which you have got to revengeyourselves or to protec
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. defied thegovernment to arrest him. He urged the Irish to leave nothing undonethat might be done in resistance to the hateful legislation. Finally he said, If you want earnestly and like men to carry out the policy of the League,you must learn to know that the only way in which you have got to revengeyourselves or to protect yourselves against such acts of tyranny is to attackthe men whom you have the power to attack; and whenever you see a man,no matter what his profession in life, helping a landlord who does a thing FIRST BATTLE FOR HOME RULE. 567 like that, let the Land League of Tipperary follow him through every turn-ing of his life, let them, if they can, ruin him, as he sought to ruin you inyour difficulties. For the utterance of these sentiments Mr. Dillon wasarrested on the next day, and was imprisoned for several months, until hishealth was ruined. Thus if we view the field at the close of 18S1 and thebeginning of 1S82 we find almost universal discontent and rebellion among. DISTRESS IN IRELAND—EVICTION OF TENANTS. the Irish, and their leaders under arrest and in prison, with the suspensionof Iiabcas coTpus. It was in this manner that the great battle for Home Rule in Iceland wasbegun. The government was greatly embarrassed. The legislation whichwas devised to meet the emergency did not meet it. An Arms Bill waspassed, which provided for the disarmament of the Irish people; but it couldbe enforced only against the better classes, and with them there was no neces-sity for its enforcement. The underman simply concealed his gun and con-tinued lawless. There was in all Ireland and throughout many of the pop-ulous districts of Eng-land a (ground swell favorable to the Irish cause. Itappear
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