CHAPTER X.
AN EPILOGUE ON "LOYALTY" According to precedent, well-established if not wise, no discussion of political Ireland must end without some observations on "loyalty." The passion of the English people for assurances on this point is in curious contrast with their own record.

It is not rhetoric, but crude history, to say that the title-deeds of English freedom are in great part written in blood, and that the seal which gave validity to all the capital documents was the seal of "treason." No other nation in the world has so clearly recognised and so stoutly insisted that, in the ritual game of loyalty, the first move is with governments.

With that premised, the difference between the two countries is very simple.

England has developed from within the type of government that her people want.

She expresses satisfaction with the fact.