Excerpt from The Nonconformist Treason If this proposal to break the Union were broached by a free Liberal Party, with a majority independent of the Irish Seceders; if it were made, for instance, between January 1906 and January 1910, it could not have been called a sale, though it would have been a betrayal. But now, when the men who propose it are dependent from day to day on the Irish Seceders for their posts and salaries, and when the proposal is made to secure those posts and salaries for the full term allowed by the Parliament Act, it is a sale as well as a betrayal, and as venal a transaction as human selfishness ever de vised. And within this greater sale there is a lesser sale, by which we are to buy the dis establishment of Anglicanism in Wales by the establishment of Romanism in Ireland. If this proposal were an honest attempt to relieve Irish distress by a change in the methods of Irish administration, it would be pardonable even in a Government dependent on the votes of the Irish Seceders. But, as I have shown in chapters xvii. And xix, so far from that being the case, the present is a time when Ireland, as the result of the Union. 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.