. An olive branch in Ireland, and its history. Sexton, and abate theedge of their hostility, and the withholding of confidencebegan with them and not with Mr. Redmond or , at every successive stage of our proceedings—the choice of delegates to the Land Conference, the accept-ance or rejection of the Report of the Conference, theacceptance or rejection of the Wyndham Bill, the arrange-ments for amending it, and the methods of testing it whenthe law was about to come into operation—we submittedourselves unreservedly to the Irish Party, to the NationalDirectory, or to the Nation
. An olive branch in Ireland, and its history. Sexton, and abate theedge of their hostility, and the withholding of confidencebegan with them and not with Mr. Redmond or , at every successive stage of our proceedings—the choice of delegates to the Land Conference, the accept-ance or rejection of the Report of the Conference, theacceptance or rejection of the Wyndham Bill, the arrange-ments for amending it, and the methods of testing it whenthe law was about to come into operation—we submittedourselves unreservedly to the Irish Party, to the NationalDirectory, or to the National Convention, according as eachor all of them possessed the competent constitutional juris-diction, and none of our projects could have advanced aninch without their authorisation. In giving effect, therefore,to the national policy by so many accumulated sanctionsformulated, we represented the undivided authority of theIrish Party, of the United Irish League, of the NationalConvention, and of an unprecedented concordance of the 276 % i. , /..i/O. Dublin. T. C. liAKRlX(;TON, Mayor of Dublin. / \ CHAP. XIV MY WITHDRAWAL 277 local governing bodies in the country in addition. That isto say, Mr. Redmond and his advisers were the executiveorgan of every settled national authority which stood f between the country and anarchy in its counsels and con- • tempt for its word. Consider now the position, from the constitutional pointof view, of the only two men of consequence who set theirprivate judgments up against this unbroken array of nationalauthorities.^ > Mr. Sexton had withdrawn from the Irish Party seven \ years before in despair of its fortunes. He had never sincegiven any material token of interest in the national causein the many crises of its struggle for existence. His onlyconnection with public life was his office as commercialdirector of the Freeman!s Journal. He obtained the controlof that paper, as we have already seen, only because Ideclined the
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