...Brougham said, No Catholic could lift his hand under it without breaking the law. I have no time to speak of his still more remarkable success in the House of Commons. Of Flood's failure there, Grattan had said, He was an oak of the forest, too old and too great to be transplanted at fifty. Grattan's own success there was but moderate. The power O'Connell wielded against varied, bitter, and un...