Union Or Separation (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Union Or Separation (Classic Reprint) written by E. Ashmead Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-19 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Union or Separation These facts have been overlooked far too much during the Home Rule contest. The English people are so great and strong that they have almost lost sight Oftheir own nationality, and are in danger of forgetting what is due to their own interests and to their own race. There are Of people inhabiting the United Kingdom, and Of these inhabit England. But a large proportion of the Lowland Scotch are also Saxon, that is English in blood, and many of the people of Ulster are English in blood and history. The English people of the United Kingdom number at least and probably near This question Of Home Rule has been too much treated as an Irish issue. It is not a purely Irish issue; it is a National and an Imperial Question. Whether it be just or unjust to grant a separate Parliament to Ireland, the interests of Great Britain and of the world-wide Empire of which the United Kingdom is the centre and the heart, must be first considered. The Unionist party believe - and all the lessons of history and experience, past and present, support their belief - that union means strength, and that separate Parliaments and Separate administrations mean, first discord and weakness, and then ultimate disruption and decay. 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.