. An olive branch in Ireland, and its history. ed to acceptas sheep of the finest fleece some of the more taintedmembers of all the three Parliamentary flocks whom it wasproposed to foist upon her. The one passionate interestfelt by the people in Parliamentary contentions was tohear no more of them and elect a party with summarypower to stamp them out. My own attitude towards Mr. Healy never varied. Forseveral years I had allowed his attacks upon the United IrishLeague and myself to pass wholly unreplied to ; nor, afterthe party was relieved from the responsibility for those idio-syncrasies wh
. An olive branch in Ireland, and its history. ed to acceptas sheep of the finest fleece some of the more taintedmembers of all the three Parliamentary flocks whom it wasproposed to foist upon her. The one passionate interestfelt by the people in Parliamentary contentions was tohear no more of them and elect a party with summarypower to stamp them out. My own attitude towards Mr. Healy never varied. Forseveral years I had allowed his attacks upon the United IrishLeague and myself to pass wholly unreplied to ; nor, afterthe party was relieved from the responsibility for those idio-syncrasies which are tolerable, if not inevitable, in a truechild of genius, did I ever make an unfriendly referenceto him. Had I been free to shape my own course, andremain out of Parliament in order to preserve and developthe disinterested popular power which would be to the partyas well as the country the surest guarantee against internaldisorder, the difficulty as to Mr. Healys retention in theparty, even with a very wide latitude, indeed, for the 126. rhotOy Cuy^ Lhnffui. THE EARL OF DUNRAVEN, for Co. LimcrlLk. 2 CH. VII CAPTAIN SHAWE-TAYLORS LETTER 127 freedom of criticism he claimed would have been tomy mind at an end. But Mr. Redmond intimated, forreasons that need not now be recalled, that it would not bepossible for him to undertake the conduct of the movementunless I returned to Parliament, and Mr. Dillon was stillmore emphatic that a party of which Mr. Healy was amember could have no place for him unless with my co-operation. My reply was : You can command me freely,either as to remaining out of Parliament or rejoining it;but, if the latter it is to be, you must not ask me to goback to the hell upon earth whose torments I endured forfive years at Irish Party meetings. Make up your mindseither to fight Healy manfully or to let him alone, and Iam with you ; as you know, I have never had a word ofpersonal quarrel with him ; but nothing will induce meever agai
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