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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n Ireland all through 1883.The formation of the National Leagueat the close of 1882 was understood asthe old Land League under thin dis-guise, and it was observed that thespeakers at the meetings of the NationalLeague were all chiefs of the Separatistparty. The conspirators known as TheInvineibles, who had planned andcarried out the assassination in PhcenixPark, the murder of the man who hadinformed against The Invineibles, and EUROPE IX STORM AXD CALM. 655 the conspiracies for the use of dynamitein London, Birmingham, and Glasgow,enraged the English, and the outcome offour busy years of parliamentary tinker-ing seemed to have resulted only in thetriumph of the peasantover the landlord,and an increased determination of the and Scotland. Innocent travellerscoming from the continent were sub-jected to all the rigors which alarmedcustoms officials could invent. An Al-pine hat or an American accent was suf-ficient to subject tin1 wanderer to carefulwatching by the police ; and such explo-
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A LAND-LEAGUE MASS-MEETING. Home Rule party to pursue its policyregardless of difficulties and opposition.The Separatists had received a severeshock at the time of the conspiracy dis-closures, but in 1884 recovered, andassailed the Executive in Dublin with alltheir force, and by means which werescarcely creditable to their frankness orsincerity. The dynamite party becameso aggressive in its bearing that its ex-ploits created a veritable panic in England sions as occurred at Victoria station, atSt. James square, Scotland yard, Lon-don Bridge, and, finally, at Westminsterand the Tower of London, so shockedand enraged the public that it was un-willing to hear of any conciliatory meas-ures with regard to Ireland. But eventsin which the honor, and even the very ex-istence, of Imperial Britain are connectedhave compelled a certain modification oftone, even of sentiment, and the Heir- 65(5 EUROPE IX STORM AXD CALM. Apparent to the throne finds it not ineon-nt with his dignity to hold court i

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