Repeal of the Union: Report of the Debate in the House of Commons, on Mr. O'Connell's Motion : and the Proceedings in the House of Lords on Earl Grey's Motion for Concurring in the Address of the Commons : April 1834 |
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... evil was intended . In consequence of this engagement the well - affected came , and soon after they were assembled , they found themselves surrounded by three or four lines of English and Irish horse and foot , completely accoutred ...
... evil was intended . In consequence of this engagement the well - affected came , and soon after they were assembled , they found themselves surrounded by three or four lines of English and Irish horse and foot , completely accoutred ...
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... evil inflicted by ab- senteeism upon Ireland , that this was held out as one of the greatest blessings which the Union could bestow . But was it necessary for him to detain the House with going into a detail to show that absenteeism had ...
... evil inflicted by ab- senteeism upon Ireland , that this was held out as one of the greatest blessings which the Union could bestow . But was it necessary for him to detain the House with going into a detail to show that absenteeism had ...
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... evil to Ireland , and that it was an evil greatly increased by the Union . The next disadvantage was the increased scale of taxation . In Eng- land , taxation increased 20 per cent . , while in Ireland it increased 80 per cent . in the ...
... evil to Ireland , and that it was an evil greatly increased by the Union . The next disadvantage was the increased scale of taxation . In Eng- land , taxation increased 20 per cent . , while in Ireland it increased 80 per cent . in the ...
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... evil of the Union extended , not to Ireland only , but to the artisan and labourer of England , and to the poor - rates of this country ; for the poverty of Ireland interfered with the wages of the English artisan , because the distress ...
... evil of the Union extended , not to Ireland only , but to the artisan and labourer of England , and to the poor - rates of this country ; for the poverty of Ireland interfered with the wages of the English artisan , because the distress ...
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... the Union produced good or evil to Scotland ? Was there a Scotchman from the borders to Shetland , out of a lunatic asylum , who would venture to address such language as this to any set of men at a REPEAL OF THE UNION . 43.
... the Union produced good or evil to Scotland ? Was there a Scotchman from the borders to Shetland , out of a lunatic asylum , who would venture to address such language as this to any set of men at a REPEAL OF THE UNION . 43.
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Page 46 - To subvert the tyranny of our execrable Government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — • these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic, and Dissenter — these were my means.
Page 9 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 44 - If, from these last-mentioned records, it be concluded that the parliament of England may bind Ireland, it must also be allowed that the people of Ireland ought to have their representatives in the parliament of England ; and this, I believe, we should be willing enough to embrace ; but this is a happiness we can hardly hope for.
Page 15 - ... for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be. And when the people have said, "We will submit, and be governed by laws made by such men, and in such forms...
Page 13 - To a mighty people, totally exceeding her rn all calculation of territory or population ? No, but to another happy little island, placed beside her in the bosom of the Atlantic, of little more th'an double her territory and population, and possessing resources not nearly so superior to her wants...
Page 70 - It must strike the most careless traveller to see whole strings of cars whipped into a ditch by a gentleman's footman to make way for his carriage...
Page 21 - France, in all the unrestrained excesses which anarchy and atheism have given birth to, has not committed a more insidious act against her enemy than is now attempted by the professed champion of civilized Europe against a friend and an ally in the hour of her calamity and distress...
Page 44 - I should certainly wish for it; and, as a general lover of liberty, I sincerely desire it; and for this plain reason, that an inferior country, connected with one much her superior in force, can never be certain of the permanent enjoyment of constitutional freedom, unless she has, by her representatives, a proportional share in the legislature of the superior kingdom.
Page 19 - ... have petitioned against the measure. The petition from the county of Down is signed by upwards of 17,000 respectable independent men, and all the others are in a similar proportion. Dublin petitioned under the Great Seal of the city, and each of the Corporations in it followed the example. Drogheda petitioned against the Union, and almost every other town in the kingdom in like manner testified its disapprobation. Those in favour of the measure possessing great influence in the country obtained...
Page 20 - ... to publish the present resolutions, in order to undeceive our fellow-subjects who may have been led to believe, by a false representation, that we are capable of giving any concurrence whatsoever to so foul and fatal a project; to assure them that we are incapable of sacrificing our common country to either pique or pretension; and that we are of opinion that this deadly attack upon the nation is the great call of nature, of country, and posterity...