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    • Death saoxi a Tau..—On Monday, Mr. William 4 Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, received information Of the death Of Mr. Smith, nf thu flrnwn anrl
    • THE NORTHEBN STAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1846.
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      Death Saoxi A Tau..—On Monday, Mr. William 4 Carter, The Coroner For Surrey, Received Information Of The Death Of Mr. Smith, Nf Thu Flrnwn Anrl

      Death _saoxi a Tau .. —On Monday , Mr . William 4 _Carter , the Coroner for Surrey , received _information Of the death Of Mr . Smith , nf thu _flrnwn anrl

      I Cushion, "Westminster-Road, Lambeth. I...

      i Cushion , "Westminster-road , Lambeth . It appears _itbat on Saturday evening last the deceased retired i to his bed-room , and sometime afterwards one ofhis j relations going into his apartment , he was found _ly-Aing _m blood by the . fireside . There was a fearful v-wound on the _^ eseased ' 8 forehead , from which the I blood was flowing . There is no doubt that he fell £ from h _ji _sseat _, and struck his head against the fenidee The latter _skowed a great indentation where tthe head hadeome m contact , Mr . Berrall , surgeon , ¦ « _-was called in , ana he attended upon the deceased 0 until Sunday when he died .

      _O'Cohiiell a »» " _Yocko _Ihshnd . "—Wednesday severing was the first" command night" of the new _ILord-Lieutenant at the Dublin Theatre , on which ( Moccasion the house was very crowded , and his _Lordahhip received a Yery cordial reception , The rimes _cccorrespondent notices one omission in the accounts of tithe Ir ish Morning Papers , which is most important , asas indicate of the state of public feeling upon the pcpolitical controversy ofthe day . " In the course of thtke evening there was a iOUd and rapturous cheer _j-ipvfln , with lungs potential ' ,- for "Smith O'Brien imnd Young Ireland , " and _£ his more than once ¦ hihroughoufc the evening ; while—tell it not in Darryliiane—breath it not on Burgh-quay—the once-faphailiar name of " O'Connell" was never mentioned rorom the rising to the fell of the curtain . Old Ire-BJfflJttd waa evidently at a discount on the occasion . " IMiere is hope for Ireland yet , only let its eyes once j * * opened !

      I Cushion, "Westminster-Road, Lambeth. I...

      THE HONOURABLE PLASTERERS . This is to give notice that the Plasterers who ran away from Herringsgate Farm , having cheated a widow , and defrauded some pool labouring boys who they brought down from London to attend them for the munificent wages of one shilling per day , are hereby informed , that if they do not return forth ; with , finish their contracts according . to estimate , and pay their debts , that 1 will in the first place summons them before the local magistrates , and in the next place call a meeting of their trade , and in justice to that body , and the poor boy whom they have plundered , demand their . _expulsion from any club , benefit society , or trades'

      association , to which they may belong . One poor boy was brought to me on Sunday morning , crying arid fasting , and twenty miles from his home ( Mile-End ) , who was brought from London to work long time at a shilling a day . J paid his railway fare , and gave him a shilling in his pocket , which I require the defaulters to refund . I have always" _. protected the Trades fearlessly against their oppressors , and I will as fearlessly protect the labourers against their tyranny . Next week , if they do not return and discharge their obligations , I shall publish their names , _descriptions , and places of residence , and send the hue and cry throughout" the land . Feargus O'Connor .

      Tom Steels And The Pors.—Mr. Thomas Stee...

      Tom Steels and the _Pors . —Mr . Thomas Steele has written a letter to tbe Pope ! a spurious copy of which bas appeared in the malicious columns of a ' Young Ireland" paper . We have been favored witb the MSS . copy by the author , which will appear verbatim in our next publication , together with a correct report of that patriotic gentleman ' s last speech at Conciliation llall , upon tbe occasion of our illustrious Liberator attending the Saxon Viceroy ' s Levee in bis Aldermanic robes . . , '

      The Northebn Star Saturday, September 12, 1846.

      THE NORTHEBN STAR SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 12 , 1846 .

      "The Nation" And "The Charter." " We Hav...

      " THE NATION" AND " THE CHARTER . " " We have received a printed address from the Chartists of England to the Irish people , with a reguest that we should insert it in the " Nation . " We desire im fraternisation between the Irish people and the Chartists—not on account ofthe bugbear of ' - 'physical force , " but simply because some of their five points are tons an abomination , and the whole spirit and tone of their proceedings , though well enough for England , are so essentially English that their adoption in Ireland would neither be probable nor at all desirable . . Between us and them there is a gulf fixed ; we desire not to bridge it over , but to make it wider and deeper . " From the " Nation" of Aug . 15 , 1846 .

      ABOMINATION NO . IL—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 oi the several represented classes from their legitimate cause , the disfranchisement and consequent neglect oflabour , and . we might have gone further ; and have proved that every 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 aud 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 ! and 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 Fox to the Reform Bill , deeming it necessary to make that exciting subject the great rallying cry of factions seeking their own ascendancy , and , perhaps , the principal reason with the working classes for tolerating Sir Robert Peel ' s free trade measures , arose from the opposition of tbe p rivileged order , and they , and perhaps not unwisely , calculated tbat defeat of the enemy was triumph to them .

      As we have recently seen , however , ministers in power receive as new convictions the old prejudices of opponents ; hence Lord John Russell while lookiug for power was the uncompromising advocate of a TEN HOURS' BILL , while Lord John Russell in power confessed his conversion to the deeper thought of Mr . Lahouchere , the opponent of the measure . Nay , his Lordship , with an ease of conscience peculiar to an expediency minister , as even surrendered many of his own HASTY conceptions to the maturer discretion of the ex-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 . We require uuiversal suffrage then , as well for the purpose of developing the genius , the wisdom , and integrity of ministers , and to enable them to preserve a decent consistency , as to cultivate our national resources wisely , to distribute their profits justly , and to make rational laws instead of capricious

      edicts for the government of society and the preservation of the national honour . We have ever seen more national greatness in a nation of happy individuals with a collective interest in the preservation of institutions , and the support of the national character , than in the leviathan speculations of wealthy merchants , bankers , and manufacturers , to whom the blood of the civilized or the barbarian , the peace ofthe neighbour or of the foreigner , are fruitful sources of speculation though the innocent coin of the realm is their simple type of traffic and barter .

      Domestic industry and national regulations are but as the penny speculatioas of the Stock Exchange , while the blood , the carnage , the devastation aud suffering of nations _constitute their heavier stakes . The marriage ofa 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 were represented , their comforts would be thought of greater importance than the marriage o . f a simpleton . If our representative system was based upon universal suffrage , we should have the disputes of nations , like the disputes of individuals , submitted for adjustment to the tribunal of mind instead of the wager of battle . If our institutions were based upon universal representation , we should have a pure

      "The Nation" And "The Charter." " We Hav...

      church based upou pure religion , instead of _( Hvided churches living upon state patronage upon the one hand , 'or what antagonist ' ministers can glean from prejudice to it Jupon 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 inthe more mature discretion of their less zealous and more cautious allies , and the ghost of IGNORANCE and WANT- OF EDUCATION _staggew the faith

      and paralyses the exertions of the advocates of the principle . For seventy-five long years , _| he war-of suffrage , has been waged , and throughout the objection urged has heen ignorance . It is riot 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 of ignorance , if there was any course prescribed by which the educated could be distinguished from the ignorant . We might believe in the Justice of withhold _, ing the 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 in Heaven oyer 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 crime ; and as English Members , Irish Members ,

      and Scotch Members , sit together in Parliament , we presume that it would he an injustice to En gland , and an insult to the Irish , to urge the education of the Scotch people as their title to the suffrage , while tlieir rationaland legitimate conclusion is , that the educated Scotch people are subjected to injustice and insult iu 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 countrymen , 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 beyond the choice of the constituents ; they 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 body may be safely entrusted with the power of electing persons without a money qualification ; while . we feel convinced that , nevertheless the PEOPLE'S HOUSE would still consist of the wealthy and arrogant . If the son of the protege ol a Minister , or wealthy patron , requires to be qualified for the possession of office , or the discharge ol any duty ever so onerous , even although the very peace of society and welfare of thc 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 . Only 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 bu ; the tyrant's plea . It is not thc ignorauce , hut thc knowledge , of the people , that tyrants dread . If they were too ignorant to understand their rights , the _\ 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 people , who falsely and _foolishiv 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 thc 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 subjugation of mind to the terror of prejudice ; but they have wrenched the dagger from the assassin ' s hand , and plunged it into the assassin ' s heart .

      KNOWLEDGE HAS SLAIN PREJUDICE ; and its enfranchisement must be its reward . Of all crotchet-mongers , we have the most thorough contempt for the _KNOWLEDGE-MONGER . Education will follow the suffrage as sure as day succeeds night .

      Repeal! Hurrah For Repeal!—Who Fears To ...

      REPEAL ! HURRAH FOR REPEAL!—WHO FEARS TO TALK OF ' 98 ? This is the year of gathering the harvest of Erin ' 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 v _« _lgar physical force gatherings ; her year of unbroken tranquillity ; her year of As sure as yonder sun shall set ; " her CLINCHING year , and her Repeal is coming year ; she has had all those years , constituting a whole age of P YING YEARS , and eternal glory to that moral force eye which is as a powerful shield against thc bullet of the assassin , and to that tongue which is as a scabbard to tbe 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 "Rathcormack , ! the protector of the slain at Church-town , Newtonbarry 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 tlie charmer ' s wand , his righteousness covers the earth like a thick veil , and shields her

      toiling sons from the wrath of the oppressors . Erin ! no longer mourn , but shout your acclamations of joy , sing praises to your Liberator ; let the cymbals aud the timbrels sound the glory of his name throughout the land , yea , to tiie farthest corners of the earth , for Ireland is free . Yes , thanks be to God , her deliverer has arisen in the Liberator ' s own native county ; yea , in 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 1 with the small salary of Two thousand five hundred a-ycar ! and is not Ireland free ? Talk to us no longer of the blessings to be bestowed upon a starving nation by 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 condense d nutnmt „ t from rotten potatoes ; have . we . not here Jhe science of centralised _sustentation made practically manifest in this new science of justice to Ireland , which verily anu 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 will require no ready reckoner to discover how

      many 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 , anil 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 place-hunter , and one who joined the Moral Force Association upon condition that opposition to Whig _, gery should cease , has heen gazetted as the repeal member for Clonmel , nice the place-hunter Pigot , who has been appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer ; in truth , these rotten boroughs of Ireland , Clonmel , Cashel , Kilkenny , Dundalk , Drogheda , and Dungarvan stand as much in need of reform as did Gatton and Old Sarum 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 ia 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 thc constituencies , and the whole . of the people who are affected by the fraud , will petition

      for their disfranchisement , or for their purification 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 onl 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 Hutchinsons , " have heen 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 Uttle did we think that the Liberator's nephew , and member for his native county , 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 ' s regeneration would be manifest in the purchase of a thousand pounds worth of linen by a Saxon viceking ; hut 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

      Letter Vii

      Letter VII

      TO THE IRISH RESIDING IN GREAT BRITAIN . Fellow _Coun-trtmen . —In laying before you the ' bllowing 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 shoiildlike to sec him retrace his steps , abandon both the Whig and Tory factions , and stand by you , who would , to a man _. _risk your lives for him . To show you that I feel no personal enmity towards Mr . O'Connell , 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 oppose any Administration but one that will give its official advocacy to a Bill which will place jou on a political equality with myself . I am an elector—so should you be . Let Mr . O'Connell , 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 , nnd he shall have my hearty co-operation . Thc Bill should enact , " That every male inhabitant of this Empire , ( infants , insane persons , and criminals , only excepted , ) shall

      fully , 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 aro but slaves and outcasts . With it yon 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 arc 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 of thunder . Bow 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 Ministrv 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 I refused to vote for him at the City of Dublin Election , in 1837 . It was because he refused to take this pledge , tliat I refused to vote for him at the City of Dublin Election , in 18-11 . He lost that election ; and it is well known that he would have beeu returned on the last occasion had I voted for him . I am not boasting , when I tell you that he would not ha ve been Memb er for Dublin in 1832 , nor again in 1835 , had I not voted for him , and sat up day and night to secure his return . In 1837 he turned Whig , and came forward as thc Whig Candidate , openly abandoning all his former principles .

      1 his 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 . _O'Conneil wiil not be returned for thc City of Dublin unless I vote for him ; and I shall not vote for him upon any other condition than that of a pledge , iu writing , that he wiU support no Administration but one that will make " Uuiversal Suffrage" a Cabinet measure . There shall be no quibbling about tbe meaning of these two words . ' * Universal Suffrage , " in the plain , ordinary , and well-known meaning of tlie terms—means now what it always meant . Let him ( jive this

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      pledge ; and all his crimes and _' contradictions _, shall be forgiven ; and his return for _Dublin insured * . _, I cannot avoid taking notice of the grow and infamous libel which Lord John Russell has pronounced upon the people of Ireland , in his speech on the Irish Arms Biil , Monday , Aug . 10 th :- ** Lord John Russell— " I have no doubt , if this Bill is thrown out , tbat persons will go about Belling their _asBlatance to commit murder , ae any one , 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 Liberutor here in Dublin , sowing dissension amongst Irishmen , instead of opposingthe Irish Arms Bill-in his . place in Parliament ? Because he had sold himself and his country , as far aa be 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 ' s , Tuam , Feast of Saint Peter , 1846 . " The Patriarchal Patriot ; of Half a Century . Just hear this Patriarchal Patriot , whom the " Lion ofthe fold bf Judab , " the great teacher _^ of infallible truth , commandsus to follow as an unerring guide . " I trust in God the time is not distant when Irish bwod will be snEO in the name of Ireland . "—Daniel O'Connell's speech in the Freeman ' t Journal , 7 th July , 1816 . "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'ConneU . "Blesses be Get ! tb » t a handful of-Msb Calh * Ue 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 fire 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 , the Rig ht Rev . Dr . Cantwell , be enrolled a member of the unarmed volunteers . " —Daniel O'Connell . " Does the Duke of Wellington vainly imagine that this right arm is universal , or that this eje could not look unblanched on the gory battle 6 eld . " —Danitl O'Connell .

      " The brave Scotch , relying on 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 ihe 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 . We shall not be the _firft to attack ; but if they attack us , and I dare them to it , then Vie _victis . '" —Daniel O'Connell . "Hereditary Bondsmen , know ye not who would be fr _« e themselves must sti ike the blow . " —Daniel O'Connidl . . " Let -me have one hundred thousand enrolled volun . _tesrs ofthe 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 grant Free Trade , the brave volunteers of ' 81 planted their camions on College Green , the muzzles pointed at the House of Commons with the inscription _« A Free Trade or else—' It may become our duty to say 'REPEAL the UNION or ELSE—* "—Daniel O'Connell . " Bide your time ! England may go to war . We never got anything front her sense of justice . W _« may from her fears . England ' s difficulties is Ireland ' s oppor tutiity . " " Onwards the Green Banner rearing " Go flesh every sword to the hilt , On our side is Virtue and _^ rin _, On theii _s 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 _canbecne on tlieir heads nnd short sticks in their hands , and whisper _pentlj in the members' ears , " Abolish tithes or else— '" —Daniel O'Connell . " I move that the meek , amiable , mild Right Rev . Dr . Blake be enrolled a member of the unarmed volunteers . " —Daniel O'Connell . " Can the wronged realm no arms supply , But the abject tear and the slavish sigh . " ' Dame ! 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'Conuell _, Letter dated 1 st September , 1830 .

      "I more that my revered and esteemed friend , the Lion of the fold of Judah , the Archbishop of Tuam , be enrolled a member of the _okaksted vold . nteeks . "Daniel O'Connell . " 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 thought 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 HAVE FOR BEING A REPEALER IS TIIE INJUSTICE OF TKE PRESEXT GOVERNMENT TOWARDS MY COUNTRY _; AND THE TOTAL

      WANT"OP HOPE THAT JUSTICE WILL BE DONE TO MY COUNTRY . "—Daniel O'Connell , speech in the House of Commons , Monday , 18 th February , 1 S 33—Jfirror of Parliament . "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'Coniu-11 , Merrionsqua ' re , 18 December , 1 S 37 . 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 of the Government of Ireland , but ' for the vigour and determination _* hich they have exerted to maintain thc dominion of the law ( the Coercion Act ) and the consequent peace and tranquillity of the country . And that our ardent thanks are due to that incomparable nobleman , the Earl of _Mulgrave , for his able , spirited , judicious , and just conduct of public affairs in this long oppn ssed country . "

      Resolved , " That the present Administration in their Government of Ireland having deserved the eternal gratituoe and unbounded confidence of the Irish p ; ople , we deem St the duty of the citizens of Dublin to present to Her Majesty on the throne , on thc first favourable opportunity , an address expressive of onr gratitude , and most respectfully praying that she will be _graciously pleased to continue her support of the sacred principles of right and justice by which Ireland has been governed since her happy accession to the tbrone 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 . thatthoy would prefor a civil war , with all its horrors , to a Repeal ofthe Union ; but declared also that they would give all the places nt their disposal to the Liberator ' s friends and _refntions , with Ji 6 cr £ y to agitate any question that would increase liis tribute without endangering tlieir tenure of office . This was the compact , and hence the vote of eternal gratitude . Just read what tiie meek moral force Liberator said a few years before this compact with the Saxon } Parliament . I

      " I now come to sketch with a sad and _hasly pencil the evils of the Union . I can give but a sketch , an outline ot thoac evils . It would require ——Ample space , 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 , jou who recognise this as your own , your native land ! attend to me , mark me well . *• The Union has now lasted thirty years . The espe- ' riment is complete . It has not produced one singlei benefit to Ireland , not one . "—Daniel O'Connell , 27 Sep- j tember , 1830 . !

      " The time has come , when we must , once , and for , all , experimentally know whether the Union is to be , made real , by a perfect identification of the Irish and ' British franchises and liberties , or ( he duty be cast upon lis of requiring in the voice of seven millions of people ' the repeat of that obnoxious and degrading Statute ' , Hurrah then for a powerful , a combined , and a last ex- ¦ _periment . " — Daniel O'Connell , 20 th September , 1888 . j " Br . Blake asks , when the Repeal Assoeiation will ¦

      bring the question before Parliament ? 1 ' Jl answer his- ¦ Lordship ' s question , b y te ))) ng him that wlien this mow ' ment has gone through the length and breadth ofthe . land , when it is no longer douhted that a majority ofthe : Irish people are for the measure , then , and not till then ' will Ldo so . "—Daniel O'Connell , 20 April , 1841 ' i _liBI'liAhBRS TURNED OUT OP THE GltEAT RooilS , CoitK I _iiXCiuxGK , Oth Sept ., 1830 . i "At a meeting ofthe Committee , held on Munday the ' Sth of September , 1839 , at the Corn Exchange Rooms .

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      "Resolved . Thata cota _# etes'and ample _Registration Of the LlBIBii _ElECTOBS being the sole object for whieh the People op Ireland are now called npon to _etert their best energies ; nnd a union of all classes being indiirpen . sable , we deem k highly injudicious . and detrimental to the furtherance of the Liberal CAUse , that the public room * ofthe Corn Exchange , be open for the discussion of any Tories _calculated to create a divsion among tbe 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 _wasthe topic objected to upon that occasion . Theuse of these rooms was given by Mr . O'Connell to the beggarly , temperising , placehunting Rump of the National , Trades Political Union—once an independent and influential body , but who a short time before had elected Mr . O'Connell their president , and subsequently sold themselves to tho Whigs forthe promise of _plae- < B in the new police , in the poor law bastiles , and other Whig insti * tutions . These fellows began to think , wlv n they saw their old friends getting places , that they were overlooked ; and in order to have themselves taken

      notice of , became clamorous on the then repudiated subject of Repeal , for which they were ' _unceremo * niously kicked out . It will be borne in mind that , about a month before these worthies were _kickad out of the Corn Exchange rooms , for having tho temerity to renew the " Repeal topic" there , ( it waa onlya " topic" ) theymal-treatedMr . Robert Lawery _, the Chartist Missionary _. at a meeting in Henry Street , and for which they received the thanks of Lord Ebrington , then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland . Some of tliose patriots , when applying to the Whigs for

      places , had no groundsupon 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 police * men , others detectives ; some eollectthe police tax , others the poor rates . One in particular , more _successful than the rest ,-though he cannot spell words Of two syllables , 3 s Clerk of the Corn Table—Sword Bearer to the Corporation , and an Informer , a public , notorious _informed

      Basis op the present Repeal Movement . You , my countrymen , may , have forgotten , but I have not , the Basis of Repeat . 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 , Oth August , 1841 . John © 'Connell , Bgq . ' , in the Chair . _Reaotutions and extract from the Report , drawn up by Mr . O'Connell , and unanimously adopted .

      " There hat been crime , a grievous crime , committed b y the Whig Ministry against the 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—thc Union Statute . It was made an incapacity for any office or employment , to be a Repealer . Perhaps in the annals of the crimes commuted against _Ireland , there seldom was one of more flippant insoienoe _, than this prescription of Irish patriotism , by the Whig Ministry .

      " No Repealer can he sincere and honest—no repealer can love Ireland and her Legislative Independence , who does not come to the fixed determination seveeagais to scppobt a miwstky , that will notleave the Repeal an open question . " We _suggost 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 say , amongst the "people" as _contra-distinsuished from the members ofthe Cabinet ,

      Secondly . Never in future to support any ministry that does not _disc ' aim ' 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 * parliament of her own ; with the Westing of God sbe will have her parliament again . Signed by Order , "Daniel O'Conneil , Chuxrman of the Coxnmi r- e . '" Mr . O'Connell : I bave now to move that tbe following _renolutions , recommended by the Committee , be adopted by this Association : —

      Resolved , — " That we are convinced that the Repealer of Ireland cannot , without treachery to their cau _* e , _sappw-tany Ministry that docs not leave Repeal an open question to ihe Irish people , so that no man shall be dig . paraged in his claim o . v tbe covebnment for being a _Repi-aler . " Resolved , — " That we deemi * right solemnly to de _:-lare our fixed convietion that no Repealer should in future support any . Ministry but one that avoirs fi _* btue » reform , and disclaims Finality . " "Mr . O'Connell announced the week ' s receipts to be £ 183 7 s . Did . "—Freeman ' s Journal , Tuesday , August 10 th , 18 U . . "

      Is it not as plain a 3 the nose on the Duko of "Wellington ' s face that the very basis ofthe Repeal Association was to keep the "Whigs , the enemies of Repeal , in power , provided that they would , in return , give tlie 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 iobject 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

      ofthe Loyal National Repeal Association , lay and clerical , armed 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 , 1841 , and known by the name , style , and title of " You . vg _Irelanp , " come forward now , after having done all in their power to restore the Whigs to office , and complain in tbe most exciting tones of eloquence , in bitter invectives against Mr . O'Connell and the Repeal Association for adhering to the basis , objects , and resolutions of the Association . Was there ever anything so unseasonable as this ? Surely 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 n < m , or cause them to kick up their little heels and leave the Loyal National Repeal Association ot Ireland now , when at the end of six years of fiery , _haxardou _** , doubly _hazavdous , 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-earned claims on the government ; but have in the most patronizing manner proclaimed their intention of providing for them all , from the great Captain Broderick , down even to little John ! O'Connell himself .

      Ave not the resolutions entered into , and the Report adopted by the Repeal Association on the Oth day of August , 1 _S-11 _, in perfect accordance with the resolutions and proceedings of the Association in August , 1810 ? He is 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 ol the wisest and most experienced of them , such as Dr . Cantwell , Dr . O'Higgins , Dr . Blake , his Grace of Tuam , and Frederick William Conway , E < = q the learned and profound Editor of the Dublin Evening 1 ' ost , 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 TIIE REPEAL AGITATORS . " For my part , I by no means approve of , but , on the contrary , feel _indi-. nant at the thought of any dignitaries of the Catho _' _s Church lending themselves and the great inauen ce they possess , tosuch a delusion . My _o-iiniou wiu , and is still , that the manly , open , straightforward course , would have been preferable . But they have succeeded ; and success always carries great weight with it . A vast number of the parish _prieste 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 niust , nevertheless , go with the bishops . Few of them have any knowledge whatever of political principles , and fewer still know anything of the Theory of the British Constitution .

      One 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-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_12091846/page/4/