And yet Mr. Harrington was able to produce in the
Free- man's Journal, evidence that two at least of the Archbishops had appealed to Mr, Parnell against the violent policy of Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien, after the departure of those two gentlemen to the United States, and before the opening of the divorce suit. A letter from the Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland, Archbishop Logue, was quoted, dated October 15th last, and beginning, " Dear Mr. Parnell," its drift being to protest strongly against " the independent action of individual members of the party in originating and sustaining movements involving the gravest consequences, political, social, and moral, without sanction of the party as such." " The Bishops feel that the time has come to declare that they cannot in future sanction the oo-operation of their clergy in proceedings taken under individual responsibility." What result this appeal might have produced, if the exposure in the Divorce Court had not come to stimulate Mr. Parnell to assume an attitude of showy violence, we cannot say. But as it is, Mr. Parnell represents the party of violence, while the more moderate Home-rulers are unfortunately saddled with the two chief representatives of violence in the period before Mr. Parnell stood at bay. The Archbishops and Bishops will hardly
have the moral courage, we fear, to break with that party altogether.
