THE POET COLERIDGE ON HOME RULE.
It is interesting to note these utterances on Ireland of Coleridge (see Table Talk) :—": — " lam sure no dangers are to be feared by England from the disannexion and independence of Ireland at all comparable with the evils which have been, and will yet be caused to England by thn union. We have never received one particle of advantage from tfur asociation with Ireland, while we have in most vital particulars violated the principles of the British Constitution solely for the purpose of conciliating the Irish agitators, and of endeavoring— a vain endeavor— to fiud room for them under the same Government," 17th December, 1831. Again on the sth February, 1533, Coleridge said :—": — " If any modißcation of the union takes place, I trust it will be a total divorce vinculo matrimonli. I am sure we have lived n cat and a dog life of it. Let us hava no silly saving of one crown and two legislatures; that would be preserving all the mischiefs without any of the goods, if there are any, of the union. I am deliberately of opinion flat England, in all its institutions, has received injury from its union with Ireland."
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2161, 15 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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200THE POET COLERIDGE ON HOME RULE. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2161, 15 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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