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4 THE NORTHERN STAR. Smr-anmi 12. 1846.
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IHE NORTHERN STAR : SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1848.
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Letter VII
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4 The Northern Star. Smr-Anmi 12. 1846.
4 THE NORTHERN STAR . Smr-anmi 12 . 1846 .
E\V Evening London Paper-
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UX 1 TED TRADES ASSOCIATION . A rii : aiero : is pu ' ilx : aceiiii ' " * ihaTni- ' cs of Et ' int lui ^ h . LskL , i"i vkL-. I ' v , vrashdJ iu AiLim-squarc 1 llsil , on Tb . iifr-d . sy t-voiiini - , lor the purpose of ise . tr i ; iiir . ro w ' isr < -5 * ! ri » i -Mr . - > . J : i « ii ;* , mlssK'nary from t : ihb " United Trm '~ : »* . A-s-.-elaii ^ n i ' or tlr- Protection o of 1-Jjwir in ] j > ::-:. ) r , " >^ * . !;>• objects oi" the Society h he -.-¦ yrwcr . t .- ^ " , ^ ^ bvv-Hl * tfii < A ll may tenure tf to tilt- vwkl ; tlr- " - ? # v- -: ; -:- ; . ' ! v . ' 1 ¦ «< . » Securer was li listts ; eH V * > - <» i , U : in-M proionau attenimn , and all S ( seemed intercsi ' -i i = -iK-s-asiciilasid extensiveoi / 'uati tious =- ' « :. ; -u ; 'i ' .-. i- ; -r ' := v i " ::-.- as oiisuon . Tie lecturer lalaj-Ico- ^' ernlV-s ^' rJ- - «> iit 3 icia « t that various inipiproTLrsrinls of -, rn e = > Smeii by amended laws , new aiaud cxtciiueJ ib . ! : v :.: ii . ai ; u iiu := vriu : it incc ! s : < n- ' -al
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inventions , bad not benefited the condition of the labouring classes ; and he justly contended that the ¦ working man was entitled to participate largely in the advantages conferred on trade bj these circumstances . Uis conviction was , that is was in vain to expect their condition to be bettered through the instrumentality of the legislature or the sovereign . They must better it by means of their own , and the chief of these means would be found in union , and funds contribnted in seasons of good trade . One important object nl the association was to do away with all " strikes , " and establish a system of deciding differences between the employers and the employed by means of amicable arbitration . With the capital to be raised , it was proposed forthwith to establish
Ihe Northern Star : Saturday, September 12, 1848.
IHE NORTHERN STAR : SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 12 , 1848 .
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"THE NATION" AND "THE CHARTER . " " We have received a printed address from the Chartists of England to the frisk people , with a request that we s ? tould insert ¦ it in . the " Nation . " We desire no fraternisation between the frisk people and the Chartists—not on account of the bugbear of ¦ ' physical force ? out simply because some of their fice points are to us an abomination , and the whoie spirit and tone of their proceedings , though well enough for England , are so essentiall y English that their adoption in Ireland would neither be probable nor at all desirable . Between us and them there is a gulf fixed ; toe desire not to bridge it over , but to make it wider and deeper " From the " Nation" of Aug . 15 , 1846 .
ABOMINATION NO . II . —UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE . In our last number , under this head , we showed the utter impossibility of the patchwork minister of faction dividing the plunder from labour satisfactorily amongst the several privileged orders , whose accountant and distributor he is . We traced all the contention , the strife and dissatisfaction of the several represented classes from their legitimate cause , the disfranchisement and consequent neglect of labour , and ' we might have gone further , and have proved that even- riot , rout , tumult , conspiracy and
revolution that has taken place within the last three centuries , from the plunder of the monasteries by Harry to the plunder of the cottage by the Whigs , have been originated and perpetuated , not by the people or for their benefit , but by the leaders of faction and for their benefit ; whereas , upon the other hand , if the people had been fully , freely and fairly represented im the Commons House of Parliament , they would have seen , and they would have compelled the higher and middle classes to have seen , that contention and strife are the bane of industry , anil would have secured the peaceful progress of industry , arts and sciences , instead of being mere tools
in the hands of faction for the perpetuation of their own inferiority and the superiority of the master class . The fact of the desire to possess the suffrage being the thought uppermost in every working man ' s mind is clearly illustrated by the circumstance of all parties , from the days of Pox to the Reform Bill , deeming it necessary to make that exciting subject the great rallying cry of factions seeking their own ascendancy , and , perhaps , tbe principal reason with the working classes for tolerating Sir Robert Peel ' s free trade measures , arose from the opposition of the privileged order , and they , and perhaps not unwisely , calculated that defeat of the enemy was triumph to them .
As we have recently seen , however , ministers iu power receive as new convictions the old prejudices of opponents ; hence Lord John Russell while lookins for power was the uncompromising advocate of a TEN HOURS' J 5 ILL , while ; Lord John Russell in power confessed his conversion to the deeper thought of Mr . Labou . chere , the opponent of the measure . Nay , his Lordship , with an ease of conscience peculiar to an expediency minister , as even surrendered manv of his own HASTY
conceptions to the maturcr discretion of the es-secretary of the Home department , Sir James Graham . These are glaring crimes , by fashion termed proper caution , which the minister of a free people dare not commit—they are unpardonable sins from which popular vigilant controul would have saved the delinquent minister . Wc require universal suffrage then , as well for the purpose of developing the genius , the wisdom , and integrity of minister .-, and to enable them to preserve a decent consistency , as to cultivate our national resources wiseiv , to distribute their profits jiisllv ,
and to make rational laws instead of capricious edicts fur the government of society and the preservation of the national honour . We have ever seen more national greatness in a nation of happy individuals wiiii a collective interest in the preservation of institutions , and the support of the national character , than in the leviathan speculations of wealth y merchants , bankers , and manufacturers , to whom the blood ot" the civilized or the barbarian , the peace oi" the neighbtiur or of the foreigner , are fruitful sources of speculation though the innocent coin of the realm is their simpl-j tvue of traffic and
barter . Domestic industry and national regulations are but as the penny speculations of the Stock Exchange , while the blood , the carnage , the devastation ami suffering of nations constitute their heavier stakes . The marriage of a little Spanish simpleton of fourteen years of age may set the world at war , while a few thousand pounds judiciously administered by faction is esteemed sufficient to keep a
starving nation in peace . Now , if the whole people Wire represented , their comforts would be thought of greater importance than the marriage of a simplet-in . If our representative system was based upon universal suffrage , we should have the disputes oi nations , like the disputes of individuals , submitted for sdjcstiueiit to the tribunal of mind instead of the v . a-^ er of bailie . If our institutions were based upon universal representation , wc should have a pure
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church based upon pure religion , instead of divided churches living upon state patronage upon the " ori ' e hand , or what antagonist ministers can glean from prejudice to it ( upon the other hand . However , although faction seeking for power has made the question of the suffrage the means of willing enlistment in its ranks , yet the same faction possessing power has nevertheless discovered RATIONAL and SEASONABLE objections to the principle in the more mature discretion of their less , zealous and more cautious allies , and the ghost of IGNORANCE and WANT OF EDUCATION ' staggers the faith
and paralyses the exertions of the advocates of the principle . For seventy-five long years , the war of suffrage has been . waged , and . . throughout the objection urged has been ignorance . It is not presuming' too much , then , to ask , when a nation of slaves , consigned from inoperative youth to ineffective old age to the longest day ' s toil , shall be supposed qualified by education for the possession of the suffrage . It is not going too far to ask , when the people will be prepared by education , while those whose duty it is to administer it appropriate to their own sole use the amount set apart by their ancestors for its promotion .
We could attach some faith to the charge ofvignorance , if there was any course prescribed by which the educated could he distinguished from the ignorant . We might believe in the Justice of withholding tbe Suffrage from those who are too ignorant to exercise it , if philosophy , had ' ever . prescribed any educational qualification , though never so complicated . But as . throughout the many years that popular ignorance has been pleaded as a reason for withholding the privilege , " we have never heard any course prescribed as a test of qualification , we shall now endeavour to treat the matter by Divine justice .
The Bible tells us , that there , is more joy m Heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance . It further tells us , that it is better that ninety-nine guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer unjustly . Now let us try the justice of man by these Divine precepts . When will the Irish working classes , or even the English working classes , as a body , be as well educated as those of Scotland , where ignorance is looked upon as a cr ime , and as English Members , Irish Members ,
and Scotch Members , sit together in Parliament , we presume that it would be an injustice to England , and an insult to the Irish , to urge the education of the Scotch people as their title to the suffrage , while their rational and legitimate conclusion is , that the educated Scotch people are subjected to injustice and insult in consequence of the presumed ignorance of the English and Irish working classes . How does it happen , then , that the pride of the Scotch members , who rejoice in the superiority of their country- , men , does not claim the suffrage for them upon the plea of educational qualification . The Scotch
electors , under the present system , are supposed capable of selecting a fit and proper representative , without the fetters of " property qualification . In Scotland there is no other qualification required for representation bevond the choice of the ' constituents ; thev may elect fifty-three Scotch members out of a Poor Law bastile . This distinction , we presume , is a tribute to their superior education , and why not , then , extend [ the Franchise , even as a compliment to THEIR superiority . We admit that even in England , with its class constituency , the electoral bodv mav be safelv entrusted with the
power of electing persons without a money qualification ; while we feci convinced that , nevertheless the PEOPLE'S HOUSE would still consist of the wealthy and arrogant . If the son of the protege of a Minister , or wealthy patron , requires to be qualified for the possession of office , or the discharge o ' any duty ever so onerous , even although the very peace of society and . welfare of the nation ' should depend upon his fitness , only prescribe the required qualification , and the aspirant very speedily becomes possessed of it . So , then , with the people . Onlv
let them know what the required qualification is , and they will speedily possess themselves of it .- But , as we have said a thousand times before , —Ignorance is but the tyrant ' s plea . It is not the ignorance , but the knowledge of the people , that tyrants dread . If they were too ignorant to understand . their rights , they would be entrusted with the franchise'to-morrow ; as the ignorance of the people is the tyrant ' s best title to power . The struggle of faction for ascendancy has ever been supported by a cajoled pcop ! e who falsely and foolishly supposed that the victory was to be theirs , and its spoils theirs ; but ,, thank
God , we have lived to throw faction on its own resources , and have at length marshalled the nonelective influence for a struggle with electoral power . In conclusion , we repeat our-firm conviction , that the possession of political rights must precede education , as the people themselves have the largest amount of interest in the education and knowledge of their own order . They know that the monopoly of learning in former ages led to a monopoly of power , and the subjuga : ion of mind to tbe terror of prejudice ; but they have wrenched the dagger from the assassin ' s hand , and plunged it into the assassin ' s heart "
KNOWLEDGE HAS SLA N PREJUDICE ; and its enfranchisement must be its reward . 'Of all crotchet-mongers , we have the most tho rough contempt for the
KNOWLEDGE-MONGER . Education will follow the suffrage as sure as day succeeds night .
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REPEAL ! HURRAH FOR REPEAL !—WHO ' YEARS TO TALK OF ' 93 ? This is the year of gathering the harvest of b'rin ' s long and incessant toil ; she has had her year of thought ; her year of deeper study ; her year , of calm enquiry and angry discussion ; her year of vulgar physical force gatherings ; her year of unbroken tramiuillitv ; her year of '' As sure as vondcr
suti shai ! set ; " her CLINCHING year , and her Repeal is coming year ; she has had all those years , constituting a whole age of PAYING YEARS , and eternal glory to that . moral force eye "which is as a powerful shield against the bullet of the assassin , and to that tongue which is as a scabbard to the sword of the murderer ; her moral struggle has triumphed over the evil machinations of her covert foes .
Oh yes , thrice blessed be the name of the holy and divine Liberator , the guardian of the widow ' s son on the bloody plains of Pathconnack , the protector of the slain at Cliurch-town , Kewtonbarry and Carrickshock . Yes , thrice blessed be his name , and cursed be that recreant blood of Irishmen that was shed in obedience to his will and command . Like the charmer's wand , his righteousness covers the oarth like a thick veil , and shields her
toiling sons from the wrath of the oppressors . Erin ! no longer mourn , hut shout your acclamations of joy , sing praises to your Liberator ; let the cymbals and the timbrels sound the glory of his name throughout the land , yea , to the farthest coiners of the earth , for Ireland is free . Yes , thanks he to God , her deliverer has arisen in the Liberator ' s own native county ; yea ,.. iu the person of its own representative and the Liberator ' s
nephew—Morgan John O'Connell , M . P . for Kerry 1 is a Poor Law Commissioner ! . with the small salary of Two thousand live hundred a-year ! and is not Ireland free ? Talk to us no longer of the blessings to be bestowed upon a starving nation hy the fasting science taught- us by Cavanagh , no longer prate about the blessings of centralisation or
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the value of extracting the condensed nutriment from rotten potatoes ; have we not here the science of centralised sustentation made practically manifest in this new science of justice to Ireland , which verily and in truth doth mean the Repeal of the Legislative Union . Is not this food and clothes , and fuel and lodging , and comfort , for 1500 of the Irish people at an average of 8 d . per day , for three hundred days in the year , allowing six to a family . The Irish people wilj require no ready reckoner to discover how maiiy " renegade repealers' must be thus sopped off to
secure the people from famine and the country from degradation . Let them divide £ 10 , which is eightpence per day for three hundred days , into the salary of each menial , and let them multiply the remainder by six , which is the average of each family , and they will be able to discover the amount of Whig patronage by which the starving may be fed , or , which is the same thing , by which they may be retained in starving passive obedience and non-resistance . But this is not all , this is not . the full measure of Irish
joy , for , behold ! the . Hon . Cecil Lawless , a pauper piace . hunter , and one . who joined the Moral Force Association , upon condition that opposition to Whig , gery should cease , has been gazetted as the repeal member for Clonmel , vice the place-hunter Pigot , who has been appointed Chief Baron of the Exche ' . quer ; in truth , these rotten boroughs of Ireland , Clonmel , Cashel , Kilkenny , Dundalk , Drogbeda , and Dungarvan stand as much in need of reform as did Gatton and Old Saturn in the days of wholesale
corruption . We defy the veriest stickler for the Liberator ' s policy to point out an equal number of boroughs in the worst of the boroughmongering time that have done so much mischief to the cause of liberty and of Ireland . It is in those sinks of corruption in which her degenerate sons have qualified themselves for Saxon patronage . They have filled the bench with partizan judges , or filled offices with corrupt officials , and should this practice of qualifying vice for ministerial favour continue , we trust that the honest of the constituencies , and the whole of the people who are affected by the fraud , will petition
for their disfranchisement , or for their jpnrification by universal suffrage , which would create a current too pure , too powerful , and too rapid for the Liberator s resistance . But to return to the appointment of Mr . Morgan John O'Connell , M . P . for the county of Kerry , to the office of Poor Law Commissioner , we may ask ,, whether the English people will submit to this humiliating degradation as the price of his uncle ' s treason and a portion of the terms of that new coalition which we were the first to announce . We rejoice to find that the repealers of Cork county , born and nurtured in the true faith , have been too
powerful for the apostates who have joined for pelf . Yes , the plunderers feared the last reckoning day , and dare not meet the multitude for the monthly settlement until the great magician ' s presence should ensure the juggler ' s triumph . But even this is not Ireland ' s only cause of rejoicing . A Saxon usurper , who represents her Majesty in the faded metropolis , has actually ordered one thousand pounds worth of Irish linen , we presume to make shirts and sheets for his beggar household of needy Ponsonbys , who , of all tribes in the world , *| save the Beresfords and Hittchinsons , have been the greatest enemies of Ireland .
The Repeal Association is fast approaching to dissolution from absolute rottenness . We announced that O'Connell ' s mission was to break it up ; we announced that the most physical force repealer was as easily converted into a moral force place-hunting Whig as the purest insect of that order ; but little did ' we think that the Liberator ' s nephew , and member for his native countv , would become an
Saxon Poor Law Commissioner , ! with two thousand five hundred a year as the purchase money of his treason to Ireland , that Clonmel would be once more sold to a place-hunting Whig , or that Ireland ' regeneration would be manifest in the purchase of a thousand pounds worth of linen by a Saxon viceking ; but we live in the age of novelty . The Repeal is carried as sure as yonder sun shall set , whether Kerry shall be represented in a native legislature or in a Poor Law bastile .
So hurrah for Repeal ! For Repeal hurrah !!! Ould Ireland for ever !!
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Letter VII
TO THE IRISH RESIDING IN GREAT BRITAIN . Fellow CouvTnvME . v . —In laying before you the following extracts from Mr . O'Connell ' s-letters and speeches , be assured that I am not influenced in so doing by any ill-will towards him , but , on the contrary , I should like to see him rotrace his steps , abandon both the AVhig and Tory factions , and stand by vou , who would , to a mnn risk your Pves for him . To show you that I feel no personal enmity towards Mr . O'Cunnell , I am ready and willing to forgive the
past ; and , hereafter , render him every aid in my power , upon this simple condition , that he will opoose any Administration but one that will give its official advocacy to a Bill which will place you on a political equality with myself . I am an elector—so should you be . Let Mr . O'Connoll , then , bring in a Bill for your political emancipation ; and oppose any Administration but one that will make it a Cabinet measure . Let him do this , and ho shall have ray hearty co-operation . The Bill should enact , " That every male inhabitant of this Empire , ( infants , in--a ' ne persons , and criminals , only excepted , ) shall
tully , fairly , and completely enjoy , possess , and inherit the Elective Franchise . " Let this once become the law of the land , and your emancipation is complete . With this Bill of rights you are freemen at once—without it you are but slaves and outcasts . With it you will be cherished and respected—with - out it you will be as you ever were—despised , cast out , and trodden upon in your o-d age , when the work is out of you . With it you will be treated with kindness and consideration , while ever vou are able
to , vote at an election . Come , then , stand erect , like men made in the image and likeness of your Creator ! and demand your rights in a voice 7 of thunder . How down to no man—follow no man cheer no man . Lend your aid to no man , but the man who will pledge himself to oppose any Ministry but one that will grant your right—the Elective Franchise . There , now , is a simple test for you , by which you can easily know the difference between a true friend and a hollow one ; between a real patriot and a professing one .
It was because Mr . O'Connell refused to take this pledge , that 1 refused to vote for him at the City of Dublin Election , in 1837 . It was because he refused to take this pledge , that I refused to vote for him at the City of Dublin Election , in 18-11 . Ho lost that election ; and it is well known that he would have been returned on the last occasion had I voted for him . I am not boasting , when I tell you that ho would not have been Member for Dublin in 1832 , nor again in 1885 , had I not voted for him , and sat up day and night to secure his return . In 1837 ho turned Whig , and came forward as the Whig Candidate , openly abandoning all his former principles .
This subject is introduced now for the purpose of telling you beforehand , that , notwithstanding the favourable appearances which the City of Dublin Repeal Registry presents , Mr . 0 Ctmnell will not be returned for the City of Dublin unless 1 vote for itiin ; and I sliali not vote for him upon any other condition than that of a pledge , in writing , that ho will support no Administration but one that will make ' Universal Suffrage" a Cabinet measure . There shall be no quibbling about the meaning of these two words , " Universal Suflrii < ro , " in the plain , . ordinary , and well-known mranhuj , of the terms—means aoiv what it always meant . Let him give this
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pledge ; and at ? Wscrimes and contradictions shall beforgim' ;^ I Cannot avoid ttifog " ot 5 ce of the gross and infa . mous libel which Lord John Russell has pronounced upon the peoplf of Ireland , in his speech on the Irish Arms Bill , Monday , Aug . 10 th : — Lord John Russell— "I have no doubt , if this Bill is thrown out , that persons will go about selling their assistance to commit murder , as any 0 « e , who ^ knows anything of trials in Ireland , is aware is the case . '
There for you ! That is something to look at , and bear , in mind . This' is the man whose administration Mr . O'Connell is pledged to support . Alas my poor countrymen , they are all cheats and you are all dupes . , Why was the Liberator here in Dublin , sowing dissension amongst Irishmen , instead of opposing the Irish Arms Bill in his place in Parliament ' Because he had sold himself and his country , as far as he has power over them , to the Whig Ministry . But I am forgetting the extracts . Extracts From some few of the Speeches , Letters , and Resolutions of Daniel O'Connell . Esq . M . P ., the acknowledged leader of the Irish people ; or , as the Archbishop of Tuam says , in a letter to Lord John Russell , dated "Saint Jarlath ' B , Tuam , Feast of Saint Peter , 184 ( 5 . " ' The Patriarchal Patriot of , Haw -a-Century .. '
Just hear this Patriarchal Patriot ; whom the "Lion of the fold of Judah , " the great teacher of infallible truth , commandsus to follow as an unerring guide . ¦ " I trust in God the time' is not distant when Irish ntooo will be shed in the name of Ireland . "—Daniel O'Oonutfll'B speech , in' the Fm «» umi * 4 Journal , 7 th July , 18 iG . " .. - ,.-" The greatest victory that ever was' won was not worth the shedding of one drop of human blood . "—Daniel O'Connell . " British valour will teach the saucy Chinese a salutary lesson at the cannon s mouth . "—Daniel O'Connell .
"Blessed be God that a handful of Irish Cathahe raw recruits , under Serjeant Daly , shot down English Protestants , at Newport , in Wales . "—Daniel O'Connell . "Let the British Parliament do us justice and I will undertake to arm and equip five hundred thousand brave Irishmen to put down the ' Chartists , the Queen's enemies . "—Daniel O'Connell ' s speech at the dinner at Listowel , . . , "I move that my esteemed and venerated friend , tho Right Rev . Dr . Cantwell , be enrolled a member ofthe unarmed volunteers . " - —Daniel O'Connell . " Does the Duke of Wellington vainly imagine that this right arm is universal , or that this eye . could not look unblanched on the gory battle Beld . "— -Daniel O'Connell .
" The brave Scotch , relyingon their trusty claymours , won from a tyrant King religious freedom and liberty of conscience . Are the Irish less brave than the Scotch . " —Daniel O'Connell . "Neither the Duke of "Wellington nor Napoleon Bonaparte ever led- braver troops to battle than I see around me , nor did both ever command so great an amount of physical force . T 7 e shall not be the first to attack ; but if they attack us , and I dare them to it , then Voevictis !"—Daniel O'Connell . "Hereditary Bondsmen , know y « not who would he free themselves must strike the blow . "—Daniel O'Connell . '' Let me have one hundred thousand enrolled volunteers of the fighting age , and the Union is Repealed . "Daniel O'Connell . "I move that the Right Rev . Dr . O'Higgins , Catholic Bishop of Ardagh , be enrolled a member of the unarmed volunteers . ' "—Daniel O'Connell .
" "When the Irish Parliament refused to fjrant Free Trade , the brave volunteers of ' 82 planted their cannons on College Green , the muzzles pointed at the House of Commons with tho inscription 'A Free Trade or else—' It may become our duty to say * REPEAL the UNION or ELSE— ' "—Daniel O'Connell . !' . ., ' ! ... " Bida your timet England may goto war . We never got anything from her sense of justice . We may from her fears . England ' s difficulties is Ireland ' s oppor tunity . " " Onwards the Green Banner rearing " On flesh every sword to the hilt , On our side is Virtue and Erin , On theirs is the Saxon and guilt . " Daniel O'Connell .
" Give me a parliament in College Green , where twenty thousand Kildare boys could walk in some fine morning with ennboens on their heads and short sticks in their hands t and whisper gently in the members' ears , " Abolish tithes or else— ' "—Daniel O'Connell . " I move that the meek , amiable , mild Right , Rev . Dr . Blake he enrolled a member of the vmabmed volunteers . ' —Daniel O'Connell . "Can the wronged realm no arms supply , But the abjtet tear and the slavish sigh . " Daniel O'Connell . "Well ! blessed be God ! the Repeal of the Union is neither so distant nor so difficult as some / friends of Ireland may have apprehended . "—Daniel O'Connell , hotter dated 1 st September , 1830 .
'' I move th-it my revered and esteemed friend , the Lion of the fold of Judah , the Archbishop of Tuam , be enrolled a member of the unarmed volunteers . "Daniel O'Connoll . " Oh ! Erin shall it e ' er be mine , To wreak thy wrongs in battle line . " Daniel O'Connell . : " I should prefer seeing this House doing justice to my country rather than any necessity should exist for a Domestic Legislature . I know that this avowal will be turned against me in Ireland , but I adhere to it . If I ( bought that the machinery of the present government would work well for Ireland , there never lived a man more ready to facilitate its movements than I am . THE ONLY REASON I HATE FOR BEING A REPEALER IS THE INJUSTICE OF THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT TOWARDS MY COUNTRY : AND THE TOTAL
WANT OF HOPE THAT JUSTICE WILL BE DONE TO MY COUNTRY . "—Daniel O'Connell , speech in the House of Commons , Monday , 18 th February , 1833—Mirror of Parliamei \ t . "I request a meeting of my constituents on Thursday , the 21 st instant , at the Great Room , Corn , Exchange , that I may submit to them my views on the total abolition of Tithes , and upon the Bill purporting to be for the relief of the poor in Ireland . "—Daniel O'Connell , Merrionsquare , 18 December , 1837 . Resolution passed at this meeting of the Liberator ' ¦ < Constituents . Moved by Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., seconded by Thomas Dixon , Esq .
- " That the Irish people are deeply indebted to the present Administration , not only for the strict impartiality ofthe Government of Ireland , but for the vigour and determination * hich they have exerted to maintain the dominion of the . law ( the Coercion Act ) and the consequentpeace . and tranquillity of the country . Aid that our ardent thanks arc due to that incomparable' nobleman , the Earl of Mulgrave , for his able , spirited , judicious , and just conduct of public affairs in this long oppressed country . " . .. . ..
Resolved , " That the present Administration in their Government of Ireland having deserved the zterna l obatitude and unbounded confidence of the Irish people , we deem it the duty of the citizens of Dubliu to present to Her Majesty on the throne , on the first favourable opportunity , an address expressive of our gratitude , and most respectfully prayiug that she will he graciously pleased to continue her support of the sacred principles of right and justice hy which Ireland has been governed since her happy accession to the throne of these realms , "
What did this Ministry do for Ireland , which caused , or induced , the Liberator to vote the eternal gratitude of the people of Ireland to them ? Do you forget ? If you do I shall just refresh your memory a little . This Ministry declared , one and all , that they would prefer a civil war , with all its horrors , to a Repeal of the Union ; but declared also that they would give all the places at their disposal to the Liberator ' s friends and relations , with liberty to agitate any question that would increase his tribute without endangering their tenure of office . Tin ' s was the compact , and hence tho vote of eternal gratitude . Just read what the meek moral force Liberator said a few years before this compact with tho Saxon Parliament .
" I now come to sketch with a sad and hasty pencil the evils ofthe Uuion . I can give but a sketch , an outline of those evils . It would require Ample spaea , and verge enough The characters of Hell to trace . " Daniel O'Connell . Derrynane Abbey , 27 Sept . 1830 . ' Now , youths of Ireland , listen . Catholic young men Of Ireland , you who recognise this as your own , your native land I attend to nid , mark mo well . "The Union has now lasted thirty years . The eiperiinent is complete . It has not produced one single benefit to Ireland , not one . "—Daniel O'Connell , 27 Sop lumber , 1 S 30 .
" The time has come , when we must , once , ana for all , experimentally know whether thu Union is to be made real , by a perfect identification of the Irish and British franchises and liberties , or the duty be cast upon us of requiring in the voice of seven millions oi ' people the repeal o < that obnoxious and degrading Statute . Hurrah then for a powerful , a combined , and a last experiment . "—Daniel O'Connell , 29 th September , 18 S 8 . " Dr . Blake asks , when the Repeal Association will bring the question before Parliament ? I'll answer Ins Lordship ' s question , by telling him . that when this movement has gone thioush the length and breadth of tho land , nheu it is no longer doubted that a majority of the Irish people are for the measure , then , and not till then , will I do so . " —Daniel O'Connoll , 20 April , 1811 . UEfSALERS TUKNKD OUT OP TUB GllEAT ROOMS , CORX Exchange , Qtu'Sott ., 1 S 39 . " At a meeting ofthe Committee , held on Monday , the 9 tk of September , 1839 , at the Corn Exchange Rooms ,
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" Resolved . That a complete and ample Registration of the Lumbal Bmctobs being the sole object for which , the Peofle or Ireland are now called upon to exert their best energies ; and a union of all classes being ii ( Unpen « «> ble , we deem it highly Injudicious ana detrimental to the furtherance of the Liberal cAuse , that the public rooms ofthe Corn Exchange , he open for the discussion of any Topics calculated to create a divsion among the friends of Reform , ¦ " T . M . Ray , Secretary ,-
What topics do you imagine were calculated to create division among the friends of reform ? The . Repeal ofthe Union was the topic objected to upon that occasion . The use of these rooms was given by Mi ' . O'Connell to tbe beggarly , tomperising , placehunting : Rump of the National Trades Political Union—once an independent and influential body , butwho a short time before had elected Mr . O'Con * nell their president , and subsequently sold themselves to the Whigs for tbe promlsa of place ' s in the new police , ire the poor law bastiles and other Whig insti " tutibns . These fellows began to think , when they saw their old friends getting places , that wera overlooked ; and in order to have themselves taken
notice of , becarae clamorous on the then repudiated subject of Repeal , for which they , were unceremoniously kicked oat . It will be borne in mind that , about a month before theso worthies were kicked out of tho Corn Exchange rooms , for having tha temerity to renew the " Repeal topic" there , ( it waonlya " topic" ) they mal-treatedMr . RobertLawery tho Chartist Missionary , at a meeting in Henry Streotand for which they received the thanks of Lor Ebriiigion , then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland . Soma of " those patriots , when applying to the Whigs for
places , had no grounds upon which they could rest their claims than those of having magnanimously beaten , overthrown , and torn the clothes of the Chartist missionary . For this signal service these heroes were appointed to various-situations . Some-are policemen , others detectives ; some collect the police tax , others the poor rates . One in particular ,-more sue . cessful than the rest , though he cannot spell words of two syllables , is Clerk of the Corn Table—Sword Bearer to the Corporation , and an Informer , * public , notorious informer .
Basis op the present Repeal Movement . You , my countrymen , may have forgotten , but I have not , the Basis of Repeal . Here it is ; and when you read it you will not be surprised that I did not join it . ' . " Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland , Monday , 9 th August , 1841 , John O'Connell , Bgq ., in the Chair . Resolutions ahd extract from the Report , drawn up by Mr . O'Connell , and unanimously adopted .
" There has been crime , a grievous crime , committed by the Whig Ministry against tbe Irish people , That Ministry have outlawed the Repealers of Ireland . They have pronounced a civil excommunication upon every Irishman who dared to look for the Repeal of an Act of Parliament—the Union Statute . It was made an incapacity for any office or employment , to be a Repealer . Perhaps in the annals of the crimes committed against Ireland , there seldom wai one of more flippant insolence , than this prescription of Irish patriotism , by the Whig Ministry .
" No Repealer can be sincere and honest—no repealer can love Ireland and her Legislative Independence , who dbeft n 6 i 6 <\ me t 6 the fisted determination UEVEB ACAIM TO svpror . T a otxjstbt , that will not leave the Repeal an open question . " . "We suggest the adoption of two resolutions . First . Never to support in future any Ministry that shall not leave the Repeal an open question in Ireland , that is'to s » y , amongst the " people" as contra-djstinguished from the members of the Cabinet .
Secondly . Never in future to support any ministry that does not disc ' aiui " Finalitt , " and declare in favour of " Further Reform . " No despair—no despondency . Ireland has already achieved one great and bloodless victory —she will achieve another and a greater . Ireland had a parliament of her own ; with the blesiing of God sha will have her parliament again . Signed by Order , "Daniel O'Coknell , . ' Chairman of the Commi'tee . " "Mr . O'Connell ; I have now to move-that the following resolutions , recommended by the Committee , be adopted by this Association : —
Resolved , — " That we are convinced that the Repealers of Ireland cannot , without treachery to their cause , sup-[ iorc any ifiaistry that does not leave Repeal an open question to ihe Irish people , so that no mas shall be disparaged in his claim on the oovebkkeht for being & Repealer . " Resolved , — " That we daem it right solemnly to declare our fixed convietion that no Repealer should in futura support any Ministry but one that avows FC < BTaxK REVOitM , and disclaims Finality . " "Mr . O'Connell announced the week ' s receipts to b « £ 183 7 s . 9 id . "—Frseman's Journal , Tuesday , August 10 th , 1541 ,
Is it not as plain as the nose on the Duke of Wellington's face that the very bash of the Repeal Association was to keep the Whigs , the enemies of Repeal , in power , " provided that they would , in return , give the places to the Repeal Agitators , " that no man should be disparaged in his claim on the government for being a Repealer . This was then , and is now , the sole end and . ' object of the Repeal Agitation . It was openly , honestly , and fairly recorded on the books ofthe Association , and published in all newspapers , Whig , Tory , sham Radical , and honest Chartist . Notwithstanding all this publicity , and the record open for the inspection of every member
of the Loyal National Repeal Association , lay and clerical , aimed volunteers as well as unarmed volunteers : we find a number of elegantly accomplished , and highly educated young gentlemen , most of whom have arrived at man ' s estate , since that period , August , 1811 , and known by the name , style , and title of" Yocso Irelaxd , " come forward now , after having done all in their power to restore the Whigs to office , and complain in the most exciting tones of eloquence , in bitter invectives against Mr . O'Connell and the Repeal Association for adhering to tho basis , objects , and resolutions of the Association . Was there ever anything so unseasonable as this ? Surelv these young gentlemen cannot deny that they
were the pliant tools of O'Connell for the last six years . For the life of me I cannot see what he has done to them to excite their ire . now , or cause them to kick up their little heels and leave tho Loyal National Repeal Association ot Ireland now , when at the end of six years of fiery , hazardous , doubly hazardous , agitation , a ministry has been restored to power through the means of that agitation , and who does not only not disparage Repealers in their just and hard-oariied claims on tho government , ' but have in the moat patronizing manner proclaimed their intention of providing for them all , from the great Captain Broderick , down even to little John O'Connell himself , 1
Are not the resolutions entered into , and the Report adopted by the Repeal Association on the 9 th day of August , 1 S 41 , in perfect accordance with tho resolutions and proceedings of the Association in August , 1846 ? He ia but a poor , shallow politician , who could imagine , even for a moment , that Mr . O'Connell ever entertained the slightest notion of repealing the Union . Every sensible man in the British empire knew this very well ; but some of the wisest and most experienced of them , such as Dr . Cantwell , Dr . O'Higgins , Dr . Blake , bis Grace of Tuam , and Frederick William Conway , Esq ., tha learned and profound Editor of the Dublin Evening
Post , were of opinion that no other subject but that of Repeal could excite the people of Ireland to that degree which would make it dangerous to any Government to "DISPARAGE THE CLAIMS OF THE REPEAL AGITAl'ORS . " For my part , I by no means approve of , but , on the contrary , feel indignant at the thought of any dignitaries of the Catholic Church lending themselves and the great influence they possess , to such a delusion . My opinion " was , and is still , that the manly , open , straightforward course , would have been preferable . But thev have succeeded : and
success always carries great weight with it . A vast number of the parish priests and curates were as great dupes as the YOUNG IRELAND party . The second order of the Catholic clergy must feel a good deal disappointed ; but they must , nevertheless , go with the bishops , Few of them have any knowledge whatever of political principles , and fewer slill know anything of the Theory of the British Constitution . Une of them was quite offended lately at my having said , that Catholic priests were generally . bad politicians ; that their education was not political , but religious ; and that their avocations prevented
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 12, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12091846/page/4/
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