Healy,  it  must  be  added  that  Parnell  himself  on  more
critical  occasions  than  one  showed  as  slight  a  regard  for
the  susceptibilities  of  both  these  men  as  Gladstone  did
when  he  left  Mr.  Chamberlain  dependent  upon  a  paragraph
in  the  Leeds  Mercury  for  the  news  that  he  had  made  up  his
mind  for  Home  Rule.  While  the  Parnellites  were  embittered
by  the  cry,  which  smells  rank  of  the  brutalities  of  the  hour,
that  "  Parnell  was  hanged  in  Kilkenny  and  was  cut  down
at  Boulogne,"  it  was  necessary  at  the  same  time  to  keep
up  a  constant  fire  of  protests  to  Parnell  and  his  friends
against  the  unscrupulous  injustice  with  which  they  repre-
sented the  delays  at  Boulogne  as  a  hint  that  I  had  forsworn
my  American  declaration  against  Parnell's  leadership.
