These wild, disordered elements suited better for the campaign in which he engaged of renovating an Irish nationality."-- _English in Ireland_, ii., 448.

But, however on many points we may see reason to agree with Mr.Froude's estimate of the superior wisdom of Fitzgibbon, we conceive that this opinion is quite consistent with our acquittal of the other of the meanness of deliberately aiming at a continuance of evils, in order to find in them food for a continuance of agitation.] [Footnote 133: Froude, "English in Ireland," i., 304.] [Footnote 134: See especially a letter of Mr.Windham's.

quoted by Lord Stanhope ("Life of Pitt," ii., 288).] [Footnote 135: Mr.Archdall, in his place in Parliament, denounced the term as utterly inapplicable.

"Emancipation meant that a slave was set free.

The Catholics were not slaves.