England's Title in Ireland

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Excerpt from England's Title in Ireland: A Letter Addressed to His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland My Lord, - I address this letter to your Lordship because you represent the Government of England in Ireland. I do not think that you will take amiss what I have to say. Were you allowed you would, I believe, discharge the duties of your office in sympathy with the national aspirations of the people you have been sent to rule, to say less would be to impeach your character as a Governor with constitutional instincts. "All government, " it has been well said, "without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery." You certainly do not desire to govern without the consent of the governed. Yet, in honest truth, you do so govern, if, indeed, it can be said that you govern at all. Your Excellency's position is an impossible one. You are a "constitutional ruler" in a country whose constitution has been destroyed. You represent a monarchy which rests on a Parliamentary title. But your office has survived Parliamentary institutions in Ireland. The English monarchy is the embodiment of English nationality, the Irish Viceroyalty is the very negation of Irish national sentiment. Were you the representative of an absolutist sovereign your position would be consistent, and might be strong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.