Note 139 — Chapter VII · AMERICA—IRELAND

Eight years before, Disraeli had written in the trenchant slap-dash of his Runnymede Letters: “... Then, Ireland must be tranquillised. So I think. Feed the poor and hang the agitators. That will do it. But that’s not your way. It is the destruction of the English and Protestant interest that is the Whig specific for Irish tranquillity.”