Help for Scotland - (Impassioned political speech)
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
British (General)Transcript
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I ask you only for justice, will you? Can you? I will not say dare you refuse because that would make you turn the other way. I implore you as English gentlemen to take this matter into consideration now because you never had such an opportunity of conciliate ing. Experience makes fools wise. You are not fools. But you have yet to be convinced If you refuse justice to that country. It is a melancholy consideration to me to think that you are adding substantially to that power and influence while you are wounding my country to its very heart's core weakening that throne the monarch who sits upon which you say you respect severing that union which you say is bound together by the tightest links and withholding that justice from Ireland which she will not cease to seek tell you it is obtained. Every man must admit that the course I am taking is the legitimate and proper one. I defy any man to say it is not. Condemn me elsewhere as much as you please. But this you must admit you may talk the ministry with having coalesced me. You may raise the vulgar cry of Irishmen and papist against me. You may send out men called ministers of God to slander and calumny eight me. But the question comes into this narrow compass I demand I respectfully insist on equal justice for Ireland on the same principle by which it has been administered to Scotland and England. I will not take less refuse me that if you can.