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No doubt, however, part of the service which Willie Redmond rendered to Ireland in dying lay in the sympathy which he conciliated to his leader in whom men saw, rightly, not only his nearest kinsman, but the representative of the principles for which the soldier-politician died.
Redmond, in accepting, said that the request for acceptance without discussion was putting the goodwill of Nationalists to a very severe test.
Devlin wished to join also, but Redmond held that he could not be spared from Ireland, where his influence was enormous; and he was placed in a somewhat unfair position, even though everyone who knew him knew that his chief attribute was personal courage.
Unionist magnates joined with Nationalists in denouncing the system of taxation, which the Commission by a majority of eleven to two had described as oppressive and unjust to the weaker country. Redmond was one of the members of this Commission, which included also distinguished representatives of his Nationalist opponents Mr. Blake and Mr.
Unquestionably the receipt of it weakened the position of the party in the eyes of Ireland, and gave a new sting to the charge of a bargain. All this was clearly discerned in advance, by no one more than by Redmond; and an amendment was moved to strike Irish members out of the application of the resolution.
"For myself," said Redmond in his speech to the Irish Convention in May 1907, "I have always expressed in public and in private my opinion that no half-way house on this question is possible; but at the same time I am, or at any rate I try to be, a practical politician.
'SIRRAH! Sir, said I, 'I am as good a gentleman as any in Ireland. 'You're an impostor, young man: a schemer, a deceiver! shouted the Captain. 'Repeat the words again, and I will run you through the body, replied I. 'Tut, tut! I can play at fencing as well as you, Mr. REDMOND BARRY. Ah! you change colour, do you your secret is known, is it?
"I wonder Dick, I do think I'm afraid " Beatrice hadn't her society manner now; she was her unaffected, girlish self; and she was growing excited. "What's the matter?" Dick got up, and came and stood at her elbow. "They're acting queerly. The maids are running about, and the cook is out, waving a large spoon, and mama has her arm around Miss Hayes, and Sir Redmond." "Let's see."
But they had not reckoned on Mr Devlin and on the younger priests, who had now begun to assert themselves vigorously in politics. For some inscrutable reason Mr Devlin set himself at the head of his delegates to intrigue with the young and ardent priesthood against the Bill. Mr Redmond, Mr T.P. O'Connor and their friends got to hear of the tempest that was brewing when they reached Dublin.
There was none of the terrified clutching at a rescuer which sometimes causes disaster to two instead of one. Miss Redmond was badly shocked, it may be; but she was far from being in a panic. "Now for the boat. Can you swim a little faster? They'll surely come back to pick us up," said Jim, with an assumption of confidence that he did not feel.
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