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GRATTAN.
"It would be a misery to me if I had forgotten or omitted, in
these my closing years, any measure possible for me to take
towards upholding and promoting the cause, not of one Party or
another, of one nation or another, but of all Parties and of
all nations inhabiting these islands; and to these nations,
viewing them as I do with all their vast opportunities, under a
living union for power and for progress, I say, let me entreat
you to let the dead bury the dead, and to cast behind you every
recollection of bygone evils, and to cherish, to love, and
sustain one another through all the vicissitudes of human
affairs in the times that are to come."
Mr. GLADSTONE
(First reading of 1893 Bill, 13th February).
CHAPTER IV.
THE HOME RULE PLAN
The Home Rule Bill of 1912 is now before the country, both in the clear
and simple statement of the Prime Minister and in the test of the Bill
itself[37]. The Bill has already passed through the fire of one
Parliamentary debate, and secured one great majority of 94 in the House
of Commons.
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