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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 21 January 1890, Page 2

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On the 12«h. day of the Special Com»i«*!toB- Sir Henry James brought liiii gjw^wbifelf of The Times to a dole eloquent peioris©n ■:*» life,, jp 1^ 8 *""" Long as I hare ooCus|&|»ut attention, and poorly yialgrTO as the thread of my trie j^^togn woven, yet I hope I have pfft^tt Wore you now, in come sort of a history often ywt4, a sad^history to befong to any people 'It hat been & history full of crime, springy ing from hasty ' kssump^etf 6t p%#eV by men who hard inaptly flsed" It. ! " My Lords, I say it is a period *of ii? shame, and sad shame ; and it is »■■ pfltiod that surely" Irishmen-^ j)%^l . . m otic Irishmen-i-must now boi."«M, . :

ever will be, regretting. Irehttd 1 ;: has had dark and hitter dav^te' ! 6»> past. Ther* are time* /Wtfc'f W^ brave men have fotigfoft in the" open l field, hare fallen, and hard, failed. Her statesmen, 1 her eloquent statesmen, have been silent in jUi^u^;,/* ness, as in the days when, we are tpld < t '/Qratjan and Charlemont went with her sorrow ;" but I know not that ever till now Irishmen have had , cause to be ashamed of the history of their country, M>f Lw^ it is said that happy is the country that has no history. So it may b«, andithis I know, if mtrb doobti tie | application of that tf»t» statement s to Ireland, that happy would it have * been foV flippy wtwild ' i|i -''■ have been for those who acted and for those who suffered, if the tvefeti of the last ten years, could be blotted out. N6 human! hand catt 116 ■# The anriUrikfttti ' ! of y *vettiT Hi' impossible, amd all that remain be do is that faithful record shall to

made of' the acts*<& thai tim». Such, wUJ be your dtftft :| |)ir ( <* be — it doubtless will .-Ibf — ttat all who have tiken part in this inquiry, from you, my Lords to fchethurakta*; officer of tbw Court, wilt re/jftil* t some condemnation, some atiaok, and some ol >loquy. But I& ■ th<t pass. The result will repay. For, the truth being toldi it mart :£)* thai! 1 | 1 people, stirred by an awakened con* ■'- science, will be. aroused from the dreams of a long night, and \yt%w , awake, they will despise tbeir dreanif. ' They will seelc nett trioies of a&tytf ,with true men to guide them," 'aW I'then it will be-God gFaut it niiy b* — thait bleiaingS will bepour«d <m ft a£ happy and Contented peoples > ' • '■'•■■■ ■<*