Word: britain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Blake, in speaking of the Irish question, said that any reconciliation between Ireland and Great Britain must be based on an acknowledgement of errors in the past. The Irish are now struggling for a federal government. Federalism has enabled statesmen to create out of conflicting elements, a nation with a central government to deal with common concerns, while under it each little state manages its own local affairs...
Isaac Butt, in 1870, originally started the movement, suggesting a means of reconciliation between Ireland and Great Britain, which now seems about to approach a happy consummation. His movement even then was supported by the protestants and conservatives of Ireland. In the great meeting at Dublin they said that they wished no separation from England, but they would not have their domestic affairs regulated by an English parliament. The views propounded by the meeting rapidly spread. The extremists fell in with the movement, and had it been led with sternness then, things might have been far cifferent than at present...
...whole difficulty would seem to settle itself, if the present occupant of land could be made its proprietor. All of Ireland would be relieved, prosperity would begin, and there would slowly be brought about a restoration of a feeling of friendship between Ireland and Great Britain...
When the crisis came he met it gloriously. In 1823 he sailed for Greece, in three months restored order and died of the fever, far beyond the blame of Britain or the praise of Greece...
...United States we have inherited the political habits of Great Britain and in reality, we have never known any other form of government. Washington's attitude was like that of William of Orange and he took into his cabinet men who represented different political opinions and sympathies. The result was that party divisions in the United States began in Washington's cabinet and before his first term was finished, he became perfectly satisfied that he could carry on his government successfully only by having men of like political opinions about him. Much as he deplored the perils and excesses...