BOYCOTTING.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Snt,—I enclose you herewith copy of the excellent pamphlet by Mr. T. W. Rolleston, in reply to Mr. Samuel Laing, which has just been published (Ponsonby, Dublin), in the hope that you may find room for some notice of it in the Spectator. Mr. Rolleston is, as you are doubtless aware, a leader among the Nationalists, and his pamphlet received, the other day, a hearty approval from that stout old Fenian, John O'Leary, in a letter to the Freeman, of Dublin, which that journal would probably have burked if it had dared.
If I were not a Unionist, I should be a Fenian. To fail with honour is not what men should fear. I am convinced there is no halting-place for Ireland between the Union as it is, and the position of, say, Hanover under the Georges. The former is worth fighting to keep ; the latter, if in an evil day Great Britain should abandon Ireland to the tyranny of the League, might be worth fighting to win.—I am, Sir,
AN IRISH LIBERAL.
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