eproach to her manhood, and a denial of the lessons of her
history, if young Ireland confined their efforts to remaining at
home to defend the shores of Ireland from an unlikely invasion, or
should shrink from the duty of proving on the field of battle that
gallantry and courage which have distinguished their race all
through all its history. I say to you, therefore, your duty is
twofold. I am glad to see such magnificent material for soldiers
around me, and I say to you: go on drilling and make yourselves
efficient for the work, and then account for yourselves as men, not
only in Ireland itself, but wherever the firing-line extends, in
defence of right and freedom and religion in this war."

On the following Thursday Mr. Asquith, as Redmond had publicly urged him
to do, came to Dublin and spoke at the Mansion House with the Lord Mayor
in the chair. Mr. Dillon and Mr. Devlin, as well as Redmond, were on the
same platform and spoke also. The papers of September 25th, which
reported the speeches of this notable gathering, contained also a
manifesto from twenty members of the original Committee of the
Volunteers, definitely breaking with Redmond's policy and taking his
speech to the Wicklow Volunteers as their cause of action. Having
recited a version of the facts which led up to the inclusion of
Redmond's nominees on the Committee, it continued:

"Mr. Redmond, addressing a body of Irish Volunteers on last Sunday,
has now announced for the Irish Volunteers a policy and programme
fundamentally at variance with their own published and accepted
aims and objects, but with which his nominees are, of course,
identified. He has declared it to be the duty of the Irish
Volunteers to take foreign service under a Government which is not
Irish. He has made this announcement without consulting the
Provisional Committee, the Volunteers themselves, or the people of
Ireland, to whose service alone they are devoted."

The next paragraph announced the expulsion of Redmond's nominees and the
reconstitution of the Committee as it existed before their admission.
Six resolutions followed. It is noteworthy that the attitude taken up
with regard to autonomy was simply "to oppose any diminution of the
measure of Irish self-government which now exists as a Statute on
paper," and to repudiate any "consent to the legislative dismemberment
of Ireland." The