1-151-017 - The Cartoon Collector/Heritage-Images

'The Messenger of Peace', 1887. The radical Liberal, Joseph Chamberlain, is here the Messenger of Peace. He had become the Conservative's Colonial Secretary, although he stayed within the ranks as a Liberal Unionist. This cartoon accompanies a little article giving details of Chamberlain's recent speech in Belfast, in which he said, 'I have read ... that I have come to Ulster to revive religious bigotry, to rekindle the embers of party strife, and to revive ancient feuds ... I can assure you that these are not the objects which I propose to myself. Much laughter followed. From Punch, or the London Charivari, October 22, 1887.