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SposxuTiors Cohbustios . —About a quarter past
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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LOED MATOB OF DUBLIN .
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Wn . UiX Coopeb must have read the Star inattentively , or he would have known that the conviction by the magistrates of the fellow who lurnt his petinon-sheel mas inserted the same week that he sent it . HeSBJ BaXKIK . —We have had < paie enough of the discussion between Mr . O'Brien and Mr . Duncan , Tiin corLTRY . —We have no room for the memorial to the Queen againsi the Afghanistan and Chinese wars . Yisdk may be a friend to truth ; hut we must lake leave to tellhim that ice require otTier evidence of ii tfian reprimand without authority , and denunciation iciihout proof .
JOH 5 Frazzb . — TVe never notice rejected p&elry . "William Atkiksox . —Sis communication is an advertisement : but xce irill willingly insert it on payment of the duty , which is Is . 6 d . SaZF ? ist . p . —Our space tcili be bidly occupied in replying to the ravings of Mr . Ibbatson . A Block Printer . — We have no room . As Old Democrat . —Mr . Moir lines in the Gallong ale , G . asgozc . 3 L C . Cabbcthers may send whatever communication he may have for Mr . WConnor to that gengentleman direct . The Northern Star is no postffficeli CTl-BEKS XEG 1 XCTIKG TBEIE -iPPOIKTHE . NTS— Mr . John Croiclher , of Lower Moor , Oldham , writes us , in reference to the lale disappointment at Stockporl . that the fault rested not with him . but
with Mr . Siorer , Ashton-nndeT ~ Lyne * whohcd some weeks before , in return for Mr . Crowther ' s fulfilling anappotntmerit ofhis at Norburn , promised to attend as Mr . Croiether ' s substitute at Stochport , on Easter Sunday : why Mr . Slorer did not keep his promise MT . Crmrther d » esTioi know . W . H . Dtott , Secretary to the Irish Universal Sufjrace Association , has to gratefully acknowledge the receipt of several Stars , end would be more particular with regard to _ some written communi cations did time end circumstances allotc . He beps further assistan ce as regards the newspapers which are regularly transmitted to the provinces , and are sure to do extensive service to the cause . DirectHS . North X ^ g-street , Dublin . Contenhos Tvrnn . —The following monies have been received by Mr . J . Cleave . —
£ b . d . Jforsricb 4 7 Shcffifld 2 0 0 Hunslet , near Leeds ... ... 0 12 0 Todmerden -4 0 0 Oxford 0 10 Bishspweannouth ... ... 0 12 0 South Shields 10 0 A Repnblissn , Hochdale ... 0 1 0 "Tenths , Stockport" ... ... 10 0 Salisbury 1 10 0 Ai-dsJey , Xear Barnsley ... 0 10 0 Simtford , near Banbnry ... e JO 0 Bradford , per T . Bouse ... 1 10 o Chelmsford 0 8 0 Selby 1 0 e Selby Female Society ... ... 0 10 0 Ksighley 15 6 Chartist Meeting , Walworth ... 0 7 6 Stotesley ... ... ... 1 0 0
£ 22 12 6 MS . Watkixs . —The conclusion of his sermon is in type but is unavoidably post ^ -ontct iUlnu . t week . BaXB . —The address of our Correspondent at Bath is Mr Birtittt , 19 , Gloncesier-road Bviidings , Smi 72 Swic k , Bath . William Jones , ok the Mekthyr Ttbth Association . —The letter Tias teen du'y received , but the Plates caxxot be sent tadil the amount they oice to the qfice be paid . We hope to hear from item immediate . '}/ . A full statement of all monies reeeired by Abel Heywood for { hose who vtrt injured , and repairing the Sail of Science , will be ( riven in our next .
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Messrs . Harrison , Barm-ley ; Taster , Siipton ; Storer , Dcmc&fter ; Pratt , Howden ; Hodson , Eetford , would oblige ub by making their post-office orders payable to Mr . John Ardill , our clerk . We never supplied any Papers to R . H . & Carrathers , Newcastle , and consequently tare not any account toaendhia . The Papers of those Agents who have not paid their accounts -will be stepped after this -ffeefc . J . "WHIDDOS- —Apply to the Agent Johs Toiixrysos , Sutiox-ix-Ashfield . —Yes . FOB TH £ XASCHESrEB SCTFKREKS-£ a . d . Prom a few DeYonpoft frierd * ... 0 5 0 _ a fe-ar "Friends to Freedom , at Stourbridce ... 3 0
FOB THE CHABTIST CAUSE . FromTriendj , Eregmoiit , per Adam Keitfl . ... 0 5 0 FOB MRS . FBOST . rrom the Chaitista of Sowerby , near Halifax .. 070 JOB MBS . JONES A > "D MBS . ZEPHANlAH TTILL 1 AHS . Prom Hit- . BedweD , Sfconrbrfdge ... * 0 €
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seven , o ' clock on Sunday morning , ponce constable Fr ier , 263 R , while on duty near the basin iu Wool-¦ wieh dock yard , discovered smoke issning from the hatches of the Fearless steam vessel , at present in the basin , preparing to resume the survey in which she was last year engaged , from R&msgate to Putney Bridge . The alarm was immediately given , and on Sergeant Harvey , 29 R , and the constable going below , they found some empty coal sackB and tow , which , from having been damp , had heated and taken fire , and were smouldering to ashes . The dock yard engines were promptly on the spot , bnt feeir services were not required , as a few pails of water effectually cheeked the farther progress o the combustible materials .
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at that time in Parliament , the three of them ) , they have more influenced my conduct than I have done theirs , and I am glad of it . They were present during the entire investigation , and were capable of forming their own judgments . As to your charge of my son-in-law hayins signed by my influence , I need not say how totally untrue it is . Ii would be shameful of him if he did so ; and he never has done any thing for which he ought to blush . His name alone is a sufficient defence . When yon speak of CHRISTOPHER FlTZSIMON , a man who has this xno ^ i singular good fortune , that he is esteemed by every body—he is loved bv those who
agree with him in politics , and he is respected by the most violent of those who differ from him , whilst he ia perfectly firm in the assertion and the carrying out in action of his own opinions , he with courteous cheerfulness allows all otherB to do the Same with respect to their opinions . Influence him to sigh a vereiot without his own judgment being convinced of its truth ! Is it Chhistooheb Fitzsihqx ? Why iTit were possible that the angel-wife I have given him should endeavour so to influence him , it would be in vain ! Aye , I fearlessly say it , notwithstanding your paltry taunt , that if ever there lived a model of a Christian gentleman in . conduct , character , and feeling , Atf is that man 1
Let me by way of parenthesis remark , that you might as well have confined your Chartist virulence to me alone , and have passed by my sons and son-inlaw in the same silence with the other twenty gentlemen who signed the verdict . Bat you make several other odd assertions . You toast thai the Hon . Colonel Butler did not sign the verdict . Quite true . It would have been wrong of him had he done so , as he was not one of the gentlemen to whom the case was referred . These were in all 44—Colonel Butler was not one of th 6 m . You also allege that my respected brotber-in-law , Mr . Finn , refused to sign it . I do not know that any body asked him to do so . Bat I am quite sure of this—tbftt if asked he would have refused , because it appears from Mr . Dwyer ' s entries that he was not present on the 18 th of January , the day of the investigation ; nor even on the 15 th , the day on which the charges were given in by you .
A similar reason would of course have induced the other persons whom you name , not to sign , as none of them were present upon both days . la snoit , no persons signed , except those who attended the investigation of the 18 th of January . You must really be endowed with great confidence in the effrontery of assertion , when you have the face to assert that the document I signed , stated , " that the committee unanimously ay reed to it . " Why , it states no such thing . It does not refer to any committee at all . Even you yourself set it out as beginning thus , " WE HaVE HEARD THE CHARGES AND SUCH EVIDENCE AS MR . PATK . O"Hl « GlN'S PkODUCED , AND WE ARE UNA > 'IMOtSLY OF OP 1 MON , " &C &C . It is followed by the siguaturea of the twenty-four gentlemen who attended the investigation . It does not say the com ' mittee was unanimous . But it is idle and foolish to reason with a man who sets forth a document , and then directly contradicts it
Even in tae number of signatures you wer » wrong . There were 24 , and not 23 : —Three barristers , Counsellor Close , ( who was chairman at the investigation ) , Counsellor Stephen Coppinger , and Counsellor George Kernan ; the late lamented Mr . LavelJe , of the Freenian ' s Journal ; Mr . Laureiice Finn , Mr . James Sheridan But why should I continue ? You have them all before you ! But I cannot omit one name more—as pure a spirit as ever breathed—my respected friend , General Clooney . You next call upon me to make a public reparation to you ; because , as you allege , " I know that the resolution to which I affixed my name sets forth upon the face ef it that which I know to be untrue . "
If your premises were true , your conclusion would be irresistible . I would be bound to make you reparation ; and I -would -make it to you most publicly , and most cheerfully ; but I know no sucU thing as you allege . I do nat believe any such thing . I believe every word in that resolution to be perfectly true . I am quite sure it was called for by all that appeared before us in evidence ; and if such circumstances again occurred one thousand times over , I would sign that resolution as often . Bufwhat-were the circumstances ? These you keep back . These yoa cart fully cushion . You give the verdict , bat y » u don't condescend to explain what may be technically called the pleadings and proceedings , and which can be more familiarly denominated , the circumstances that created the necessity of a verdict Yon thus mistify the matter , and prevent the public from seeing on the face of yonr own letter how glaringly absurd your calumny is .
I will , however , put the matter beyond a doubt I will state the circumstances as briefly as possible . The facts were these;—First—An associatien , called " The Volunteers of Ireland , " was formed on the 3 rd of January , 1833 . You and Mr . John Reynolds , with many others , became members of it . Mr . Reynolds was shortly after named a member of the standing committee . You Were not . Secondly—Immediately afterwards you commenced a career of insinuation of the grossest and most debasing criminality against one of the members of that committee , whom you did not then name ; but you gave strong groands for the conjecture that you meant Reynolds .
Thirdly—You cannot probably forget , though you may be ready to deny the fact , that I endeavoured to induce you to abandon that line of conduct . I begged of you not to introduce personal quarrels into our proceedings . You , however , persevered , and rather augmented , the virulence of your insinuations than otherwise . Fourthly—The gentlemen forming the committee felt themselves obliged to call upon you to explain who it was that you meant , and to state what were your charges . Fifthly—You wrote twe equivocal letters , alleging that yeu could prove gross criminality in a member of the committee , rendering him unfit to be associated with —but still declining to name him , lest , as you said , you should subject yourself to legal proceedings .
Sixthly—It having beeu rumoured and tolerably well known that you alluded to Mr . John Reynolds , be ( Reynolds ) came forward and declared that he would not take any legal proceedings whatsoever against you , but weuld submit your charges to the investigation of any of the members of the association . Seventhly—You therefore persevered ; and on the lith of January produced no less than ten . distinct charges against Reynolds . It was agreed on that the matter should be investigated by such members of the standing committee , unconnected witn either party , as should attend . The thTee principal charges "weie these : — You charged Reynolds with being a public liar in a matter relating to the Trade ' s Union . You charged him with having committed gross and corrupt perjury in the case of a person called James Ahem , of Charlevilie .
You charged bun with having committed subornation of perjury iu the same case . You will admit at once that charges of more atrocious criminality could not possibly be made by one man agaicst another . A public liar ! a gross and wilful perjurer ! a vile suborner of peijury ! If true , Reynolds would have been ruined—and deservedly—for ever . If Irat , he would be a beggar ; for his station in life depended altogether upon biB character . Rey-EoldB would feave been a disgraced pauper . His wife and children would have been beggars , or starved . Such -were tbe charges you repeatedly insinuated ; and which you ended by directly , and with full premeditation , chareins against Reynolds .
The investigation took place on thu 18 th of January . Twenty-four members of the committee attended , if you had succeeded in establishing your charge ; if you had even made out a probable case against Reynolds ; nay , if you had made out such a case as to the unhappy malignity of human nature would have even created a donbt of his guilt , he was ruined for ever . Mr . Reynolds Las since then brought up in respectability a fine family . He has held a situation of great trust with large emoluments for years in a public establishment . And when , from motives of economy , his effioi was suppressed ha got from that public body a large sura by way of compensation , for his services ; and a most nattering testimonia . to his character and conduct ; and ha is now more confidentially engaged in forming another establishment of great prospective utility .
What weuld he have been , Mr . Patrick O'Higgins , if you had succeeded in Wasting bis character ? What would be have been , if you had even been tible to create a miserable suspicion of ' his guilt ? Are you become at Iergtb » o sensitive about yourself , that you totally farget the envenomed stab you made at another ? . Recollect that you volunteered the accusation—that you persevered in spite of every friendly admonition in bringing forward your charges . Recollect that you deliberately and with the fullest premeditation produced those charges . Recollect also that you had no pecuniary interest , nor any manner of property to be affected by establish ^ ing tho ? e charges . You would not be one shilling the richer if you established them . He would have been a wretched pauper . You would have been in nothing the better , save in the gratification of your personal malignity . * _ . ' . . _ - :
The investigation took place on the 18 ta of January , 183 S . Yon produced , and we examined two witnesses in support of the charge—yourself and another . And though yon now insinuate the contrary , yoa produced your vouchers , and we read them and considered them . Let me tell yon that this fact appears on the face of Mr . Dwyer's book , In bis own hand writing . We were ready , and we offered , to bear any other witness , and to consider any other documents that you conld produce . We fully considered the entire case ; and there was not the least donbt upon tbe mind of any one of the twenty-four gentleman , that the charges you brougtt were totally false and calumnious . We , accordingly , fully and honourably acquitted Mr . Reynolds .
And what else could we do ? Yet , here are you requiring of me , byway of " reparation" to yon , to reveree this verdict of acquittal pronounced by me and twenty-three others , nine years ago ! If I am to do that , prsy what is to become of Mr . Reynolds ? Am I te deprive him of the benefit of the judgment pronounced
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—————^—^—ZZ Z ^^ T ^!^ ii **' ' " •'•¦¦ ' ' ¦ nine years ago in his favour , and sanctioned and ratified by the entire public , amlpngat whom he has since lived as a gentleman , instead of being scouted ( as yoa would have had him ) as a shameless liar and a profligate perjurer ? r . ¦' ¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ -. - .: '¦ - ' '"' " ¦ ¦/• ' . . ; ¦ •;¦ ¦ ¦ .. Sham * upon you j 6 shame I Yet you coma out upon me with an air of ihjurei innocence , ^ forsooth ! And you complain of nia for having concurred in stating' . that youi conduct on that
occasion was mali cious : Now , 1 ask you , In the name of common sense , w&ati other motives , save malice , could have possibly actuated you ? You bad no lucrative gain to stimulate yoB . You had no money profit to obtain by blackening Reynolds . You bad no oflSoe , no employment , no emolument to acquire by ruining the man . There is one thing quite certain—that , whether yoiw ; charges were traa or -false , hatred , malice , and ill-will were your only motives for bringing them forward * for , I repeat , you had no other earthly motive . - : r
Yet yoa come put with your air of injured innocence toaskfromme a double reparation . First , you want me to retract my share of a verdict of acquittal in favour of Mr . Reynolds . That I utterly refuse . I should be very criminal , and , if possible , more absurd than criminal , if 1 did not refuse ' . ^ Secondly , yea want me to retract : that part of the verdict which declared that you were actuated by malice in making and prosecuting the charges against Mi . Reynolds . In this respect I really would grant
your request if I possibly could . Enable me to do so , and I will— readily and cheerfully . fell me what other motive than rancour and hatred to the man did , or possibly could , actuate yen . Show roe that you had anything to gain , any interest to promote by ^ dishonouring and disgracing John Reynolds , and I will retract my share of tbe verdict convicting you of malicious motives , and 1 will insert in its stead such other motives as you yoarsclf reasonably desire to substitute . ' ¦ Nothing , sorely , can be more fair or reasonable ! ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ • ¦ •' . ; . ' . ¦ . ¦ -.-. V ¦ ¦ : .. ¦ . ¦ - ¦ -
There only remains the third point ; the opinion was announced that you pught to be excluded from the Coni Exchange rooms . It was unnecessary to go bo far . You yourself would , after the honourable wquittal of Mr . Reynolds , have , I presume , deemed it prudent to refraia from frequenting these rooms . It happened , however , tfaat after my departure for London , the matter Was taken up by the Association , 8 nd on the 19 th of Fbbruary , whilst I was , as I recollect , fighting the Coercion Bill , and certainly whilst I was inXendon , your expulsion was moved by . the Rev . Dr . Groves , D . D .. a Protestant clergyman ; and seconded by the Very Rev . Mr . L'Estranga , a Catholic clergyman , and carried on a division by a majority of 56 to 23 . I need not describe what these clergymen were who thus acted against you vehilst the matter was fresh , and all the circumstances known to every body .-. ¦ ' . . ; ' ¦ - ¦ ¦' . . " . " . ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' - ' - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ • . ' . ' .. : ly
After this , le ^ mournful you , of what avail would any retraction of mine be , under these circumstances ? ¦ -. . . :. . ¦¦ ¦ ¦ - ' - . '• ¦;" ... ' ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ . ¦ V " . But the truth is , yon do not desire any retraction All you want is an excuse to vilify me to the Chartists It is an attempt to delude those poor people , especially in England , by endeavouring to make out t&at you are an innocent suffering man , injured by me ; and therefore only exercising natural levenge when you caluinniate and vilify me in all possible ways as you have hitherto done , and as you are heartily welcome to do in future to the utmost extent of yovir evevy facnlty . . . . ¦;'¦
Two observations more , and our correspondence ends on my part for ever . The first is—that you do not state any reason whatsoever why I should have been inimical to you upon that investigation , or what raotivo I could have to injure or do you any wrong . Reynolds was no friend of mine . You and I w ' ere upon better terms . I had been your counsel , and I believe your successful counsel . And what is ludicrous enough , is , that one of your charges against Reynolds—it waa the second^—was for calling- men together "to put down O'Conncll and to put up one of Hie ilahon family . " So strangely does folly mix with malignity in alljjou do ! . ¦ ¦ . '¦ . '¦¦ . ¦¦ " ' ' ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' '¦ ' ' . ¦" ' '¦ ¦ - ^ fP ' My second observation is—tbat it is quite impossible that any but the greatest dolt and driveller imaginable could believe that I bad atrociously injured you with your full knowledge in January , 1833 . There are to be sure many stupid blockheads among the Charttste y but it is hard to think that any of thorn who read yonr letter could possibly believe you .
Let them look only at ; your dates . You actually boast of yeur friendly services > to me In the year 1835 . You exaggerate the value of those services , but you boast they were most friendly , and I admit that they were as useful a » you make them . You would have been of more use if it were in your poor power . You also actually boast that you were my benefactor in November 1833 , and in 1834 . Can human credulity go so far as to believe that I bad atrociously injured you in January , 1833 , In your presence , and with your full knowledge ; yet that yon were my benefactor in November , 2833 , again in 1834 , and again , my active , friendly , and disinterested , though not very serviceable , agent at the election of 183 B ? ^ >¦ . ¦
But the climax is not capped yet . Your enmity to me—your malignity to me—your frequently calling me " a knave in ? polHics and a hypocrite In raH ^ ton , " -were not occasioned by the alleged injury I inflicted on yoa In January , 1833 . But—I moat use my o « rn words—< it all arose by reason of my turning Whig and Banker at one and at the same lime !!! Why , Mr . Patrick O'Higgins , there is ludicrous insanity mixed with your melancholy malignity I I cannot omit one more fact . I published to tbe world that I became what you call a " banker" in June , 1834 ; and the election in 1835 , at which yoa gave me some friendly assistance , Was one for the expross purpose of turning out the Tories whom the King had brought back to power and re-Instating the Whigs ! I The proverb truly saith— " A lie stands upon one leg , " Ayo , Mr . Patrick O'Higgios—however ludicrous a lie may be , it stands but upon one leg ! Farewell—I kisa your bsnds J 1 Daniel O'CONnell .
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Ht Xobd , —Only a few weeks have passed sir-ce 2 \ ras amused by the happy intelligence *• thatyour Ijord-Bifip was decidedly a Chartist , " and that u ^ tking ^ hort of " TTniversal Suffrage" would satisfy ; ea m behalf of your suffering fellow-countrymen . Many peraens were so certain of the bontiij o' jour declarations , tfwft I have been requested " to tw more kind , and less severe , in my addr&sses to your Lordship in future . Sow , my Lord , ¦ whatever othe- a may thinfe , I do most c&aritaUy assure yon , I look with caution to every msarare -srlrich . eiaanat € 8 from the scarce of which yom Lordship is the head , and which holds its councils %% the Corn Exchange .
It is new certain that your Lordship ' s cry for Universal Safrage was not the bold and intrepid cry of a patriot , red the leader of a suffering nation ; but the pepy baif-sxpiriisg "whimper of a defeated faction , who ¦ wou ld fain be thought the friends of the people , but who have not tbe honesty , er the courage , to agitate for a fall and HEqnslifed measure cf justice , without any compromise whatever . When a man is ( like yonr Lordship ) in possession of parsincniiS iEnnerce , and when it is known that that
irSnence is , upon occasions , directed towards the furtherance of jour own Tiews , and the subversion of evEry measure which happens to be at variance with yonrptlicy ; > rhen we find this irflnenee keeping in saVjittion trd a-vring rcto csntemptible servility the rponters cf your party , we cannot help bolding your Lordship responsible for tbe polidcal acts of yonr creatares , siid at tbe same time despise the tffoits of the no&Ettr and the man—ihe demagogue and tbe slave , - who ¦ would , reckless sf principle or patriotism , fitill endeavour to keep the people in misery .
Your Lordship is aware that your creatures of the Corn Exchange dare cot stir an inch , or move a resolution , contrary to your wishes , under pain tf denouncement Thta how comes it that the brave Tom SUele is to be forad in the " Conference of Joseph Siurge , " heaping abuse on " O'Connor , and the mad Chartists of England who follow him , " and stamping himself with ike chETEcttr cf a ninny , and an animal very like what in Ireland they cali an a—es 1 Th = saswer is a plain one . He either has been sent
at the expense of thfi Irish people , or he has obtained or copes to obtain a place on the Stuxge pension list . To ibe forzaer , I only Eay to the Irish , their monty might be hitter expended than by paying an agent to support a * VvLdg measure , and for abusing their only certain remedy for political evils—the People ' s Charter ; and if tie Mttr , it only angers tljafc « itber tbe fonds of th » Corn Exchange are a discount , and poor Tom is obliged to seek anotLfci market for hia genius , or that jour Lordibip prefers any Enffrsge to a full , Mr , * hq straightforward oce like the Chartists .
It would te wiser , my Lord , to adopt the People ' s Charter without any compromise ; for be assured neither the policy of Sturge , nor tbe oratory of Tom Steele will ever be the means of benefiting the people , or alterin g the present system ; aud much as the WMgs Hhcfile and quibble abtufc detail , they will in Sis end have to come to tte people , scd , what is more , to be honest -ritb the people ; and although your Lord-Jihip may not relish the prophecy , I Eevertbeless beg to inform you , my Lord , thatyou will ere long be compelled te become a Chartist in name and principle , or forfeit Jdet pofuiarity . as for poor Tern Steel , I nate little
wi foi him ; for , as Boon as your Lordship becomes a Gartiat , he will become one too . I would , however , *« piest your Lordship to order " Bear Ray" to recal « m ; it is really a pity to let him go at large . He is iJther " da't" or politieally mad , to think himself wiser San the miiiiocs of honest men who declare tbat the ^ srter as it is , is the oniy remedy for existing evils . " « , ay Lord , have him brought back , and sent te drif ts" until a " lunar change" is effected in him , M let his keeper be chosen from amongst the mem-!^> of tiis Irish Universal Suffrage Association , who 31 have no donbt , administer proper treatment to ^ Ms reason , and cool his head-1 have the hononx t » be , My Lord , Your L # rdship '« niost obedient ternnt , JW . H . Ciirio > ' , _
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TO PATRICK O'HIGGINS , ESQ . Mansion-house , 2 d , April , 18 i 2 . " O'CoimeU is a imaTe in politics , end a hypocxite in religion . "—Pairick OHiggi > s . Sis , —In replying to your letter I very properly begin by making you a free preseiit of tbe above text , which you have hitherto so often used wuhoui my permission . I now not only forgive you for your past use of it , hut allow you to employ it in future at your uncharitable discretion ; and I gratuitously add to this permission a plenary license to abuse , calumniate , and vilify me as often , as loudly , and as long as you please . You shall not only have this license , buimy cordial forgiveness beforehand , with theknowledtce superinduced that it 13 my determination never again to repjy to aay one of yc-ur charges . Let these who chose believe you—I consent . TLo ? e who knov us both , or know either of us , will have no difficulty in deciding without any intervention of mine . Lei this be underload between us .
In the present controversy this letter will serve to aid Tight-thinking persons in coining to a proper judgment , by having the facts of the case before ihem , stripped of some of the distortions , foTe-* hcrreniDgs , invention ? , and ludicrous absurdities with which it ha 3 pleased your piety to surround tnem . Is ow for tha facts . You have called upon me to make reparation for an injustice which yon say I care done you . That injusiice yen allege to consist in my having fiuntd , and having been , as you allege , but allege untruly , actually engaged in procuring signatures to , a document wh ch you ftave set forth in your letter , aud which I think it right to repeat in this pjace . li bears date ihe 18 : h of January , 1833 . It invoive 3 three distitct propositions . The fir-1 is contained in thtse
words" We have heard the < -hargt-s and such evidence as Mr . Patrick O'Higains produced , and we are unanimcus y if opinion that the charges are totally iaise and calitzniiioa .-, and we do mct-t fully and honourably acquit Mr . John Reynolds thereof . " The second proposition is contained in these words"And it appearing that these charges originated in malice , we fecommend Mr . Dwyer to return Mr . O'Higgin ? bis ^ ubsfripnon . " The tuird proposition is contained in these words"Being of opinion that Mr . O'Higgins ought not any longer 10 frequent these rooms . " You call upon me for reparation for having signed that document .
You then , strange to fay , complain that this document was signed without the institution of any trial—without any uwestigavson of written testimony which yon prodnctd . Yon also accuse me of influencing my sous , and other members of the Committee , to s ' gn the document . Why do I dwell upon these drivellings ! The French call such things " niaiseries . " Why should I tken take any trouble with these gross and palpable distortions of thefacts ! Thrre were iour-and-twenty gentlemen who signed tbat document . I have BOW before me the original entry in the late Mr . Edward DwyeVs handwriting ; and it appears , by that entry , tbat no other persons attended that in-TestijEatJon except tiose fonr-End-iwemy gentlemen . Not one . '
It . is a favourite point of yours , that out <> f this number three were my sons , and one my son-in-law , whom you say I iuflttenced . Of my sons I fhall say nothing . It does not become me—except this—tbat since they came to man's estate ( and they were
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN , Sir , —In the Freeman of this day , the € th inst ., you have published at letter of mine of the 24 th alt ., addressed to Mr . O'Cqnnell , and a letter from him in reply , dated Mansion House , April 2 d . Bath these letters have been pnbliBhed at the desire of Mr . O'Connell . When I wrote to him on the 24 th , and received the following note from him on the 25 th , I little expected the kind of letter which appears in this day ' s paper in reply : — " Mansion House , March 25 tb , 1842 . " SlE , —I have received a letter from you , marked ' private , ' but intended to be published . "I have not time to answer it at this moment , but you shall hava an answer before I leave this city for London , on Monday , 4 th of April . ¦ " I have the honour to be your , humble servant , .- ¦ , ¦ ' f' DaniEt O'Connell . " To Patrick O'Higgius , Esq . "
I certainly did expect quite a different answer , and I am . iree to admit that in theanswef I have got I am bitterly disappointed . But , notwithstanding the provocation which I have received I shall not be betrayed into one angry expression , nor should I ever trouble you or the public with any observations of mine , onlyit might be considered that by remaining silenfc I had assented to the whole of the statement which has been made against me * I regret to see that Mr . O'Connell still acts the part of an advocate instead of an arbiter . No doubt it is his charitable disposition that has led him along from the beginning to act as counsel for the accused . The odda , then , against me are fearful .
Mr . O'Connell has not stated the charges . He snppresses the principal charge altogether . However , I shall not state it , lest any one should imagine that in so doing I was actuated by either " malice , envy , or ill will . " I feel none towards any human being : private wrongs I am as ready to forgive as any man , but political wrongs I cannot forget . When Mr . O'Connell had the books before him he should have stated the whole of the resolution , which appears on those books , in Mr . Dwjer ' s handwriting , on the 18-. h of January , 1833 , and not a part of it . It was for thb sake of brevity that I did not state the whole in my letter , and Mr . O'Connell , with the books before him , seizes upon that omission , and says : —
"You must really be endowed with great confidence in the effrontery of assertion when you have the face to assert that the document I signed stated that the Committee unanimously agreed to . it . " ¦ . ¦ : . . . / . - ¦ . . ¦ . l v . : ¦ . '" Now , Mr . O'Connell , for to yoa I shall now address the remainder of this letter , you give this statement of mine a flat contradiction , and upon this point alone I might rest the whole case ; for if I prove that you are in the wrong here , it naturally follows that you may bfe wrong throughout the whole of yonr long letter . The following is a correct copy of the entry in Mr . Dwyer ' s book , as well as of the lithographed circular , which was sent to all my triends and relations upon the occasion . ~ ' * , ' Com Exchange Booms , 18 th Jan ; , 1833 .
" Mr- Patrick O'Higgum having instituted several charges against Mr . Jobn Reynolds of a political nature , the committee cf tbe Voliiatters were convened , and after due consideration came to the following opinion ; ¦ We have heard the charges and such evidence as Mr . O'Higgins produced , and wo are unanimously of opinion tbat the cbArges are totally false and calumnious , and we do nost fully and most honourably acquit Mr John Reynolds thereof ; and it having appeared to na that those charges originated in malice , we recommend Mr . Dwyer to return to Mr ., O'BLiggins his subscription , being of opinion that Mr . P'Higgins ought not any longer to frequent those rooms ; " ; . . Now thi * is the whole resolution , with the exception of the twenty-three names attached to it : and if it do not convey to the public the meaning thai the committee wore nnaniroous in their opinion , I shall give up the whole case . The text point I shall netice ia that wherein you jay— "I have now before me tha original entry in the late Mr . Edward Dwyer's handwriting , and it
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appears by that entry that no persons attended that investigation except thoso four-and-twenty-gentlemen ; no- —not one . ' . ; ; Now here again , on this single fact , I am ready to rest the case of veraflity , at issue ; tetwet ; n you and me . Surelyi you cannot forget that you solicited several gentlemen to sign that document who refused to sign it . Is it possible that you forget the : names of the gentlemen who refused tQ YOte with you on the occasion , and who left tho room under the imprefisioii that ihe matter would end there I With allyour power , and all your influence , you could get but twenty-three to sign that ; dpcHmenfc ; and who are , they ? I left it to you to name them , and you have named but seven . Are you ashame-i of the rest of them 1 What have you done with the sixteen ? Who are they i What was their occupation than ? What has become of them since I These
aro questions which you are bound to answer . In your anxiety to make those whom yo » did not name appear even above thfir rank in society , you have transformed Mr . Goofge Kertian , the attorney , into a CounseUor Kernan . However , Sir , I am greatly indebted to you for mentioning the name of my respected and lamented friend , Mr ; j ? atrick Lavelle , of the Freevian ' s Journal , and I still hope , Sir , that you will yet follow the example of Mr , Lavelle . Shortly after his return from Italy , he invited me to his editorial room , abd there , in the presence ef Mr . Molony , Mr . Prendergast , and another gentleman , said he wished to speak to me in the presence of those gentlemen ;
that the fact of his having affixed his name to the sentence which was passed upon me by those who signed it had preyed apon his mind , and that he had long wished to explain to me how he was inflaenced to sign it , aud to apologise to m . e > a « d to ask my forgiveness for having joined iu such a sentence against me . Those who ^ were present recolleot that the very reaeons which you assign in your letter of the 2 nd infctint for throwing the shield of your protection around your client , were the same wJsich you made use of in order to induce Mr . Lavelie to sign that document , that is to say" What would become ' of him if you did not protect him . " : And he said that you also urged it as a reason why he Bhould sign it , that the committee was
a private one , and that the signatures to the document would have the effect of preventing me from proceeding further in the matter : thai : it couid do me no harm , as there was uo oharge of any kind against me , and unless I was stopped I would ruin the other . After this explanation , which is not half so ample as Mr . Lavelle made it , he , in the presence of those gentlemen , asked me to forgive him , and reached cut his hand to me . I did forgive him most heartily , when ho said it | tppk a load off his mind . I suppose , Siri yovi will now say that I had just reason to be thankful to you for having mentioned Mr . LaveHe' 9 name . Who is it that will read this but will admit he acted the part of a true Christian and a gaaHeman !
It woiild occupy too much apaoo to follow you through every part , of your long letter , and to refute it paragraph by paragraph , what I ini ^ ht very easily do ; but I shall content myself for the present by taking a leaf out of your own ruleB of . evidence . . That rule is , that jf a witness break down in any { essential pa rt , thBwhole of his evidence goes for nothing . I quoteBour own words , and beg your particular atientm to them . They are— " Yoii cannot probably fMget , though you may be ready to deny , the fact , Wat I endeavoured to induce you to abandon that fine of conduct . I begged of you not to introduce personal quarrels into our proceedings . You , however , persevered , and rather augmented the virulence of your insinuations than otherwise . "
It is y * ry strange , indeed , that with the record of the proceedings before you , as you have stated , that such a paragraph ae tne foregoihs ; should be given to the world under the Eviction of your high naine . Ho # stands the / act \ Why , tho very day after I had stated that I had an objection to be a member of the same committee with a person ; whose conduct I could not approve , and constituted , as it was , with power to try and decide upon the character of any man against whom an objection wa 3 mad © by any member , I was seryod with a copy of a resolution , which the committee adopted the very next day ! ihe 11 th of Jauuary , requiring me to state the charges '' forthwith in writing to the secretary , ' * ¦ ' . and on the 12 th I wrote a letter to the committee , of which the folio wing is an extract :- — " That I will not state in writing , through the secretary , any charges whatosever aeaintt any man , until sooh time as a tribunal
is appointed against which there can be no personal bbjection , and to whyni all charges shall be submittod , in accordance with the rules of the society ; and , moreover , before I underfake to bring a charge against any man , it is neoessasy and right that my own name should be potted up in the committeeroom for a week , and the public inyited to bring any charge , political or otherwise , against my own charaoter , and if it be found at the end of a week , that there is no charge against me , I shall then v and not till then , consider myself bouad to comply with your resolution . . ¦ ' , ' - ;¦ ¦ ¦' , ¦' - : . --. . / . '' ¦; ¦ - . - . ¦• • ' . "¦ ' :- ' . ' '¦ ¦ ¦ '' „ ¦¦ - ¦' ; " .. Well , what was the answer to this proposition ? It is scarcely credible . The 1 very next day , ihe 13 th of January , John O'Connell , Esq ., M . 3 P ., '» the chair , the following resolutions , with three others . were all drawn up in the handwriting of Daniel O'Connell himself : —
" Resolved unanimously—That tha Secretary do write to Mr . O'Higgins , to inform him that his letter is considered in the highest degree unsatisfactory . " That Mr . O'Higgins be also informed that he ia required to follow up his indistinct and general oharg , es which j if he should decline to do , it will then become the Committee to wipe off a stain which , in suoh event , cannot be too indignantly repelled . " This is the way yoa " eadeavoured to induce me to abandon the . charges , " and not" to introduce per-Bonal quarrels into yeur proceedings . " I hope , for your own sake , that you forgot that those documents
were in existenoe when you wrote your letter How could yeu say , With those resolutions before you , "that I persevered , in spite of every friendly admonition , in brinfi [ ing forward iho charges V No , no ; I am sure you overlooked this part of the proceedings . : You acquit me ( and I am obliged to you ) of being actuated by any selfish motive—any motive of gainj throughout , the whole of this affair ; your own words are , : ¦ You had no lucrative gain to stimulate you ; yoa had no money profit to obtain . You . had no o £ Bce , no employment , no emolunien !; , to acquire by ruining the man . " NoWjthisisallstrictly true . But be pleased to recollect ,, to bear in mind , what jou are pleased to call the pleadings .
You should recollecfc ^ -lst . That when you suddenly changed the National Political Union into that of the Irish Volunteers , one of the reasons you assigned for the change wasf tbat in ¦ the then . ' crisis of affairs . it became your imperative duty to form a society of such a nature as to prevent the possibility of any person whatever , of even doubtful character , becoming a member of it . And one of the rules drawn up by your Own hand was to the effect , ' That any member to be proposed for admisaion should have his name entered by the Becrctary , Mr .
Edward Dwyer , in a book kept for that purpobo , for one week before such member should be proposed , and in the event of any member objecting to the person to be proposed at the open meeting , such objection should go before the standing committee , to be there investigated ; and should any difference of opinion aris _ e as to whether the person objected to should be admitted or rejected , the committee should at once proceed to a ballot , and ( bat one black bean in four should exclude him . "
Now , mind this was all to be done privately , and by ballot , and other resolutions stated that the mas was no patriot who ehould wilfully and knowifi ? ly allow any person to become a member of the Irish Volunteers against whom he had an objection , without submitting such objection to the decision of the
committee . : This resolution , I trust , will in itself explain to the ' satisfaction-. of every honest and well-lhirikirigman , the motives which influenced mo to object to the individual in «[ ues ^ on « My objection to him went no further ( and it was so stated in a letter of mine to the committee on the suhject ) than that of his being a member ^ 01 ^' a commit tee which assumed the right and the power to sit in judgment on the characters of other men . . I-do now most Eolemnly declare that I did ; in the firat instance , conceive my-Beif morally bound to state my objections , and that I
never would have gone on with them had I thought tha ^ t they would have become public , and had I not been forced to go on by the resolutions of the Committee , which resolutions I showed to the Hou . Colonel Butlerj and Wiiliam FranbiB Finn , on the 15 th of January , when they we ? e both kind enough to offer me their assistance to quash the proceedings ; but who , on seeing the resolutions which I have already quoted , deemed it useless to interfere in the matter . I have no doubt but these two honourable gentlemen mil bear testimony at any time to the fact rhavejustbtated . "¦ ¦ ¦ : , / v ' ' - :: . -- ' . ¦ ¦ " ¦' . ' . ¦ ' X '" ¦'¦ . ¦ , ' -
Peraut me here to remind yon , 'Sir , that the renewal of ibis BUbjBCt teBts entirely with yourself j that in a speech of yours in August kBt , which was not provokexi by any act 01 word of mine , you Baid that " I hated you , and that I ought to hate you , for it was you who procured my expulsion from the society of the Irish Volunteers , for conduct nnbecoming a patriot , a gentleman , or a Christian . " New * Sir , let me ask you was there any reason under heaven for this attack upon me . except my having
refused to vote for yon at the last election , unless you would sign a pledge that you would support no administration but one that would give its official advocacy to Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Annual Parliaments , Equal Electorial pistricts , the Abolition of the Property Qualification , and the Payment of Members ? It was my demanding this pledge that excited your ijre . Had yon signed it I would have voted for you ; and to show that I want no ** excuse to villify you to the Chartists of England , " I now pledge myself to vote for yod j provided you give me the foregoing pledge in writing . You
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TO DANIEL O'CONNELL , LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN , &c . &c . Bablin , March 24 , 18 i 2 . Sia , —I have now for more than nine years suffered in f 01 tune , in reputation , and in feeling from a wrong inflicted on me by you . On the 18 ; h day of January , 1833 , yon were a party to the passing of tne following resolution in the committee of the Irish-Volunteers : — " We have heard the charges and such evidence as Mr . Patrick O'HiggmB produced , and we are unanimously of opinion that the charges are totally false and calumnious , and we do most fully and honourably acquit Mr . John Reynolds thereof ; and , is appearing that these charges originated in malice , we recommend Mr . Dwyer to return Mr . O'Higgins his subscription , being of opinion that Mr . O'Higgins ought not any longer to frequent these rooms . "
This resolution bears your signature , as well as the signatures of three of your sons , and of your sonin-law , and every member of the committee whom you conld influence to sign it . It condemns me before the whole world of having sought to destroy the character of an innocent man by charges known to me to-be false , and preferred from malice , and thia horrible sentence , bearing your signature , and the signatures of your three sons on the face of it , bears also orr the face of it the proof that Xhis sentence of infamy was passed upon me by you without your apprising me that any charge was to be preferred against me—without your instituting any trialwithout yonr affording me the slightest opportunity of defence—and without any investigation of the
written testimony which 1 produced , and upon which the charges against Mr . John Reynolds were founded . There 13 no man who reads this resolution who believes it te be just , and who has any sense of Ylrtue in his own bosom , who must not regard me as one of the most abandoned villains upon earth j and it 13 by yon that I ^ taud so branded before my countrymen . It was on the 8 th of May , 1835 , I first thought tbe blame of yonr not doing me justice rested upon myself ; for , on the previous day , in a speech of yours at tbe Corn-Exchange , relating to the transaction in which Mr . Morgan O'Connell was engaged-with Lord Alvanley , jon were reported to hare
said" I never injured any man to whom I was not perfectly ready to make reparation to the fullest extent in my power , i he required it . " I never required you to make reparation to me till then . I aid so then in a letter , of which the present one is nearly a copy ; I did so by the advice of a friend of mine who read your speech , and by the advice of a Catholic clergyman , a personal friend of your own . All I asked then was , that you should remove an unjust stigma from me as publicly as you fcad fixed . it upon me . I sent you a copy of that letter at every Easter since , in the hops that your conscience would move you to name it to your confessor , because I knew that your confessor should
tell you that no political expediency could justify this foul calumny upon me . I knew that he would tell you that you were bound by ail the laws of tu 8 church to make reparation to me . And finding that those private letters had no effect , I now call upon you publicly to make reparation to me before you presume again to approach the Holy Communion ; because you know that that resolution , to ¦ which you have affixed yonr name , sets forth upon the face of it that which you know to be untrue . - It states that the committee unanimously agreed to it , whereas you know that yon could get but iireniy-three to BigH it . The verv man vsho brought forward the motion for the
inquiry refused to sign it . Your own brother-in-law , Mr .. Finn , to his credit , refused to sign it . The late Mr . John Redmond would not sign it . The Hon . Colonel Butler did not sign it . Neither did Messrs . Barrett or Staunton , nor Messrs . Dolan , O'Pwyer , M-Loaghlin , Doyle , Cavendish , and others , in all twenty-eight . You led the world to believe that the committee were unanimous . You have certified the charges to have been malicious , false , and calumnious , while yon know fnll well that their truth or falsehood depended entirely on the genuineness of the written evidence which I produced in support of them , and which you refused to examine , and yet you publicly prononneed me guilty , on the 18 th of January , 1833 , in the teeth of evidence signed by Robert Cully , Aeeountant-General of the Bank of Ireland , by Michael Roche , of the
Hibernian Bank , by Obadiah Willans and Sons , Lower Bridge-street , by Robert Byrne aud Co ., Lower Bridge-street , by Armstrong and Byrne , Merchants * - qnay , by William Lock , Linen Hall , by Blood , Noit , and Co ., Trinity-street , by Greenongh and Hobinson , of Manchester , by Lingworth and Co . Manchester , by William Boiton , Manchester , and t ' ne oral testimony of Mr . John Robinson , of Delgany , of Mr . William Russell , of Lower Bridgesireet , of Alexander Reynolds , of Lower Bridge-Ftreet , and of Mr . John Hudson , of Mecklenbnrghstreet . - Let me ask you now , Sir , at the end of nine years , did you examine any part of this testimony , or any of those witnesses ? No , not one of them . Yet , you , with all your piety , persevere in pronouncing me guilty of having brought false , calumnions , and malicious charges against an innocent man !
Let no one say this letter is written from any other motive than that of giving you an opportunity ofdoingmeanactof common justice , even now at the end of nine years' suffering . Do not say that I am actuated by any feeling of revenge for the grievous wrong which you did me , because that would not be true , as I have the secretary ( Mr . P . V . Fitzpatrick ' s ) acknowledgment , that I contributed largely to swell your tribute , in November 1833 and 1834 , and was mainly instrumental in returning you for the city of Dublin in 1835—all of which have occurred Bince January , 1833 ; and I would have supported you still had you not deserted the people by tnraiDg Whig and banker at one and the same time . _ 1 am , Sir , with as much respect for your public services as any man can feel , Pateick O'Higgins-P . S . —I think it is due to you to feud you this Jetter before I publish it , and at the same time to eay that you are at perfect liberty to make any use of it you may think proper . P . O'H . Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., M . P .
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mistake if you think that people forget public proceedings as soon as they used to do . Every one who ha « seen your letter will recollect that I demanded this pledge in July last , and that you attacked iae soonaftr . ¦ '¦" -. ' . " --p " " - '^¦ -, ¦•• • ¦ ... ¦;¦ ¦ . "¦ : ' 2 d . That the reported proceedings in all the Dublin morning papers of the 4 th of January , 1833 , which are worth reading even at this distance of UtabjwiU fully explain ihereal object of the stringent resolutions to which I have already adverted . l s though a member of the committee from its formation till ' the-Ilih of January , the day of the date of my letter requesting to have my name posted up in the room for » week , agreeable to the rules , before I would state , charges in writing against aay man , was wholly and altogether V ignorant of the pecret motives : which led to the adoption of this
objectionable resolution—a resolution which , when its evil tendency was discovered and admitted , was then tosciaded , but not till long after the pnblioity of tho circumstances which gave rise to the proceedings , in which I havej : I must say , borne a , very unenviable part . There was no malignity in my act ; there was neither ; malice , . envy ' , " hatred , or ill-will in it . There was great folly in my supposing * even for a moment , that any political society could be formed in strict accordance witli ^ he terms ofahe resolution . There was folly also ia my being duped into the belief that the committee had either the power or the ; will to summon aed examine evidence on oath , or even to imagine for a moment that it was their intention to" abide by their own rules * If it wero right or jost to expel a man for credulity , and implicit reliance on the ; integrity and honour of some public men , no man deserved expulsion more than ¦ ¦
I did . ¦ • . . ¦ ; . ¦ •; : ¦ -. ,. ., _ ¦ ;; ' : ¦ -- \ - . > , : ; I had thefolly to believe tbat mankind generally but particularly the members of the Irish Volunteer Society , required only to be told that they were acting wrongfully in any thing in oirder to make them act rightly . I did not know that Mr . O'Connell was counsel for Mr . Steele when 1 mentioned to him the real state of the case of Wigly , Dixon , Steele , and O'G > rmau JVIahon . I was wholly unacquainted , with O'Gorman Mahon at the time , and have had little acquaintance with him since ; but I knaw tha facts of that case well , and I thought it my duty to mention them toMr . O'Connell , little ; conoeiviug at the time tbat I should be looked upon for so doing aa the partisan of O'Gorman Mahon . In addition to
this I objected altogether to the appropriation of the fund for certain tithe martyrs , to any other purposes than those for which it Wa « subscribed , perhaps it may be necessary to remind Mr . O'Connell that I and another gentleman had an interview with him upon this subject at his own house 00 * the 14 uh of January , and tbat we mentioned to him that Mr . David Lynchj the treasurer , concurred with us in opinion , and that Mr . O'Connell made au appointment to meet us upon the same subject the next day , the 15 th , at . the entrance to the Court of Chancery , and subsequently at the meeting at the Rayal Exchange , where he did not scruple to tell me that I should be sorry for my obstinacy upon this subject .--It . it right also to remind Mr . O'Connell thai I had
reptatcdly applied to the committee of the National Political Union , between the 20 th De « ., 1832 , and the 5 th January , 1833 , for the re-payment of the £ 100 , Which was advanced by the late Mr . Ruthven , at the close of the city election , but which £ 100 was applied to the county election for the purpose of returning the Repeal candidate . That this £ 100 never was refunded , though the order for it was duly signed by the Finance Committee , one of whom was General Clooney himself ; that this £ 100 never waa repaid , and that theorder for thepayment ofit is still in my possession , drawn in the usual terms in which such orders were drawn , and signed by the proper number of msmbers to assure its payment . The excuse for not paying it » i the time was that
there were no funds in hand belonging to the National Political Union , and that the Volunteer Association could not pay the debts of the defunct society . Nowj Sir , would it not be justfor some ot those pure spirited , high-minded gentlemen , who beneEtted by the advia , nce of this £ 100 , and who aie very well off now , to pay it to Mr . Ruthven ' heir , who , perhaps , may be in want of it at present . I shall give up the order to any of the parties Who pays mo the money , and you may depend upon it that I shall hand it over to the man . ' who is entitled to it , and shall moat cheerfully publish his receipt for the money . You asked me Sir , to state , or rather acouaed me for not stating , my reason why yoia fchould be inimical to me > upon the investigation ? I stated before that your having taken part against me might have arisen from your natural disposition to throw the shield of your protection round those
Who were under prosecution . You answer this yourself by saying that the maa would have been ruined had you not acted aa you did . Inowfully admit and declare that I know of no other reasons why you should have turned round upon me than those I have stated . - : You have said , and said truly , that you were my suecesaful counsel upon one occasion ; You were my successful counsel ,-arid obtained for ma a verdict for , £ 200 ; bat I-am sure you . did not kuow that your ¦ f riend , the attorn » y , who is the relative of him whose oauBe you espouse , never paid me the money , but took the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act . I am sure you forgot , too , that you were counsel in the case of Farrelly against Reynolds , prior to your having been my successful counsel , and you read your brief , and you know the witneeees whoeustained that case . ' V . - -- - ' - ' . . ~ : ' - - ¦ ' : ¦ - . ' ' : ¦ ¦ '' , '• ¦ ' * .. ' . *
I have but a few words more to add to fchia letter , already too long , and exceedingly painful to me , and these are , that in a letter dated the 23 rd of January , just five days after you had pronounced sentence on me , and twenty-one days before that sentence Was brought before the public , with all the pomp and circumstance attendant on the expulsion , on the 12 th of February , in that letter which was addressed to the Chairman of the standing Committee , and read and answered by the resolution of that Committee , I offered the following terms , which were rejected ' : — ¦ ¦ ¦[¦¦ " \ * * . . .. '¦ * , ,.. ; -, .., -. ' . , ; * V ; : ¦ /*; " ; . * , * ' '¦ . ¦ ¦ " . '¦ •* ' 1 st . —That your friend should name six gentlemen unacquainted with tho case at issue ; tbit those six should not include a lawyer , attorney , or relative .. . ' -V- * ¦' ... * ;; - • ¦¦ ; . ¦ . ¦ . .. - ,.-. : * - / , ; . : .. - - ¦ ' -v ' ;¦ * . ¦ [¦¦¦ ^ 2 nd . —That , I ihould name six others upon the saine terms . ,
" 3 rd . —That these chosen twelve should act under a deed of submission , which should be made a rule of court , as in Mr . Lawlesa ' a case , with full power to summon witneseeis , ande"sainine them upon oath " 4 th . —That I should , in the event of a . ver diet being against me , pay all the costs and expenses , as well as : the cost of inserting the verdict in all tte Dublin papers , if my Opponent required it . " Thfs fair , reasoBable , and equitable , proposition was refused . However , had I then known as much of the world as I have learned since , I would not have gone on even i ? these tstms had been fully conceded to me .
It is impossible to overlook thai species of rhetorical artifice to which some great and powerful advocates have recourse , for the purpose of leading the public away from : the real qnestion at issue . Instead of calling in question the authehticity of the names which are published in iny letter of tho 24 th ultimo , and upon which the truth or falsehood of the whole ca ? e depends , yOHleave that part whole and entire . There it stands ; and uutii yoti prove that those names are not genuine bnt forgeries , you fail m proving that I brought false charges . ¦ - ¦ . * ¦' * . -. . ** " '¦ .- - ' . ¦'" ' :.- ¦ : '¦"' : ' - ' ¦'¦¦ / -: \ ., The case does not depend for its tmth or false hooi either upon- yoyut veracity or upon mine , but upon the evidence which I have ^ Ajpced , and which you do not even condescend to a « 5 ert to , much less to impeach ¦ - ¦''¦! .
. . What would you , or what would any man , say of the judge who Would overlook all the evidence * and , in his charge to the jury , tell that jury that their verdict should forgiven in accordance with the statement of tha defendant's c&unsel ? Here are your own Words— ; ; "Let those who choose believe- yoa ; I consent . Those who know us both , or know either of as , will have no difficulty in deciding without any intervention of mine . " ¦ *•¦ :: .- ¦ . - *;• ¦ '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ /;; ¦ - ' . ;" - r , [ r ' - ¦ •' . ;¦ . Now , in the name of common sense , what has fihis to do with the question 1 ; / :
I have nov 7 , in conclusion , merely to add that I did not see the diniculty in . which my demand for reparatioii had placed yoii , until Monday , the 4 th instant , when a gentleman , whom I had COnEUlted upon the propriety of publishing the letter afc all , pointed out that difficulty to me , when I at once made up my mind not to publish it . Wishing , most sincerely , to see you once more the pledged opponent of any ministry but one that will give itB official advocftcy to Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Annnal Parliaments , Equal Electoral Districts , Abolition of the Property Qualification , and Payment of Members * I am , Sir , with as much respect for yonr pnblio Betvices as any man can feel j Patrick O'Hieoius . No . 14 , North Anne-street , : . AprilC . 1842 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 16, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1157/page/5/
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