Mr. De Valera and his malignant& will now, of course,
set to work to try to reverse the result of the elections by means of terror. Here are some remarks made by Mr. De Valera on Wednesday :-
" The results seem, indeed, a triumph for the Imperial methods of pacification—outrage and murder and massacre, and then threat with concession : tho policy of the kick and caress, with a kick in reserve. By the threat of immediate renewal of an infamous war, our people, harassed and weary and fearful of chaos, have in a majority voted as England wanted, but their hearts and their aspirations are unchanged, and Ireland unfree will never bo at rest or genuinely reconciled with England. England's gain is for the moment only, and England's difficulty will still be prayed for as Ireland's oppor- tunity. The men and women who have been rejected by the electorate have gone down with their flag flying, untouched by prospect of place or power, true to their principles, true to every pledge and promise they gave."
Speaking of the Constitution, Mr. Do Valera said :-
" As it stands, it will exclude from the public service and practically disfranchise every honest Republican. It is a test code as comprehensive against Republicans as the Test Acts of the Clarendon-Shaftesbury code against Catholics and Dissenters in the reign of Charles II. It is, as Burke described the Penal Code, a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, a complete system, well digested and well composed in all its parts, and peculiarly fitted to the end in view—the degradation of a people directed, not against the few, but against the many. Dail Eireann will not dishonour itself by passing it."
