English clergymen are at least as reasonable as excited politicians, yet Ritualists have not invariably submitted to the authority of the Privy Council.

Why should Irishmen be more reasonable than other men?
In Ireland we are trying an entirely novel and dangerous experiment; we are fostering the spirit of nationality under the forms of federation.

The Privy Council, hide the matter as you will, represents British power.

If Ireland is a nation, the Government of Great Britain is an alien Government; the judgments of the Privy Council are the judgments of an alien Court, and reason forbids us to expect more submission to the decisions of an alien tribunal than to the laws of an alien legislature.
Suppose, however, that British judgments are enforced by the British army.

Is this a result in which any Englishman or Irishman could rejoice?
Can we say that the new constitution works well when its real and visible sanction is the use of British soldiers?
The plain truth is that arrangements for legally restraining the Irish Parliament within the due limits of its powers must be ineffective and unreal and, if the principle of Home Rule be once admitted, the widest must be the wisest form of it.