LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

for the expression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the
debasement in them of human nature itself as ever preceded from the
perverted ingenuity of man.”
Well, as Prattling Nelson is telling you, you haven’t seen anything YET.
And it has been forgotten that the 18 years of Irish Parliament, 1782–
1800, followed close on our American revolution, preceding the French
[of] 89. That is, if it isn’t rank pretense that any non-Irish American
knows it, save by odd chance.
For indeed is there much analogy in it for North America ? There is for
South American countries. Our South American policy hasn’t yet got as
far as the Times. A Celt will soon be as rare in Ireland as a Red Indian
on the shores of Manhattan.
Perhaps it would be unwise to see too deep for analogies. Palmerston,
Lord John Russell and the Times, intending their utterance to apply only
to the Pope and the King of Naples, had been advocating the right of
every people to choose their own rulers. [By that allusion, I mean short,
that they] had a word for it before the Atlantic Conference.
What am I getting at with all this which what, what which ? Well, the
moral behind any reference to John Devey is that Oireland kept hold of
something. Call it the soul of the Irish nation. Kept hold of it thru 700
years of oppression, bloody oppression, not tea party conversation.
And the Americans, the U.S’ers, have started a fine government in 1776.
Couldn’t keep it a century and have now plum forgotten it ever existed.
It is to be supposed that you are all running round hot and bothered, like
headless chickens, no man understanding another. And the pathological
brainstorm in the White House after years of robbing the country
dipping into the Treasury, years of frothing at the mouth about Mussolini
and Hitler, in mid January comes out with a discourse and EVERY