son Gower. Depend upon it you could not displease him more, nor more disturb the course of his honest exertions, than by continuing these large meetings. Instead of being your friend, you will necessarily make him your enemy, if you reject so much good advice as is thus given you, and if you continue those meetings after you are thus emphatically and earnestly called on to desist from.

Seventhly-In proportion as the Catholics and the friends. of the Catholics are anxious to put an end to those meetings, in the same proportion are the Orangemen desirous that they should be continued. The Orangemen wish that you should disobey the Catholic Association. The Orangemen wish to commit you with the Government and against the law, We desire that you should cultivate the esteem of a friendly Government and strictly obey the law. I need not ask which you will obey, the Catholic Association or gratify the Orangemen. I am ready to pledge my life for it, that you will obey us-that you will confide in our affection for you, and, as we ask it, you will at once discontinue those meetings.

Eighthly-The Orangemen have assumed a new denomination. Some of them call themselves Brunswick Clubs, but they are better and more appropriately known by the appellation of "Blood-hound Clubs," because they seek to continue an unjust and odious monopoly, by shedding the blood of the people. These wicked and sanguinary men haye subscribed large sums of money, for purposes which they, depraved though they be, are ashamed to avow; but which must be, amongst other bad intents, to hire spies and informers, and other wretches, who would mingle amongst the people, instigate them to acts of violence, fabricate false plots and conspiracies, and betray the people in every way to their enemies. These "blood-hounds," wish that you should continue those large Meetings, in order that by means of their own spies and informers, they may find some opportunity to shed your blood. If any man tells you to disobey the advice of the Catholic Association, believe me that such a man must be in the

pay

of

"the Blood-hounds." I implore of you to treat him a such.

Ninthly and lastly-If you disobey the advice of the Catho lic Association, and if you refuse to listen to my entreaty, we must at once desert you-we must abandon you. It would be with the greatest reluctance that we should desert or abandon the people of Tipperary. But we ask yourselves, what else can we do? If you refuse to listen to the honest advice which we give you for your own good, and for the benefit of the Catholic cause, why, it will, in that case, be our duty not only to abandon you, but actually to resist the course which you are taking.

But, my friends-my brothers-honest and worthy people of the county of Tipperary, I am quite certain that you will obey us. I firmly believe that one word would have been sufficient to procure that obedience. You know there is no use in being resolute and brave, unless you also have the virtue of perfect subordination. Without subordination it would be impossible to preserve the peace amongst yourselves, or to prevent the recurrence of crimes and outrages which would stain you with guilt-bring down deserved punishment on you, and give a triumph to your bitter and unrelenting enemies, "the Blood-hounds" of Ireland.

Allow us of the Catholic Association to conduct the great Catholic Cause to final success-we approach to that success daily; and I tell you that we are certain of success, unless the people themselves by some misconduct prevent us. Is there a single honest man amongst you that would not bitterly regret his disobedience, if it were-as it certainly would be, the means of preventing the success of the Catholic cause, which involves in itself the very principle of freedom of conscience all over the world?

Rely on the Catholic Association; we will not sleep on our posts-we desire to obtain liberty for the Irish people; but we desire to do it by raising the moral and religious character of that people. Liberty-glorious liberty-is within our reach, if we will only deserve it. Let me strongly advise you

to be regular and constant in your various duties; consider no man as worthy of being called " a friend and brother," but a man who is observant of the rules and practices of his religion; who is honest, conscientious, and moral in his conduct; who is, according to his relations of life, a good son to his parents, a good brother to his sisters, a loving and kind husband to his wife, and a tender and careful father to his children. We disclaim the assistance of the idle, the profligate, the vicious. Religious and moral men are those alone who can regenerate Ireland, and I am sure there are amongst you many, many, very many such friends to Liberty and Old Ireland

The greatest enemy we can have is the man who commits any crime against his fellow-man, or any offence in the sight of his God. The greatest enemy of the liberty of Ireland is the man who violates the law in any respect, or breaks the peace, or commits any outrage whatsoever.

My friends, my beloved brothers, cultivate your moral and religious duties; avoid every kind of crime; avoid, as you would a pestilence, all secret societies, all illegal oaths; seize upon any man who proposes to you to become a member of any secret society, or proposes to you any oath or engagement of a party or political nature. I denounce every such man to you as a "bloodhound" in disguise. Treat him as such, and drag him before a magistrate for prosecution and punishment.

Rely on it also that I will not lose sight of the great work of the pacification of the county of Tipperary. I am proud of having begun that great and glorious work. We, my friends and brothers, will not leave that work unfinished. You will, I am sure, desist from those large and unnecessary meetings, and I promise you to mature a more useful plan; that plan, when matured, I will submit to the Catholic Asociation of Ireland; and if it meets the approbation of that learned, intelligent, and most patriotic body, I am sure you will adopt it, and that it will spread all over the land.

The outline of that plan will be to divide the people for ali

political, moral, and religious purposes into numbers not er. ceeding 120. That these 120 should elect amongst themselves a person to take charge of the whole under the name of a "Pacificator." No man to be a "Pacificator” but a man regular in his religious duties, and at least a monthly communicant. The "Pacificator" to have power to nominate two persons, to be called "Regulators," under him, and the three to be responsible that no crime or outrage, or violation of the law should be committed by any of the 120. On the contrary, that they should assist in the preservation of the peace, in the prevention of all crimes, in the suppression of all illegal societies, in the collection of the Catholic Rent, and in all other useful, legal, and honest purposes.

It would be a part of my plan, that the name and residence of each Pacificator" should be transmitted to every neighbouring magistrate and police station, and advertised in the newspapers, and enrolled in the books of the Catholic Association.

I mention this faint outline of my plan, merely to shew you, that if the Orangemen and Bruns wick Blood-hounds proceed in their sanguinary career, we shall easily find legal and constitutional means to counteract them, and to protect the people against them, and to set them at defiance.

Observe, however, that this plan is not yet adopted by the Catholic Association; until it is, it will not be carried into effect any where. As soon as I reach Dublin, and I will return thither speedily, I will bring forward my plan of "General Pacification."

Obey the laws; follow the advice of the Catholic Association; listen to the counsels I give you; discontinue, I know you will discontinue, those large meetings; avoid secret societies and illegal oaths; contribute, according to your means, to that sacred and national fund, the Catholic Rent; cultivate your moral duties; attend seriously and solemnly to your holy and divine religion.

You will thus exalt yourselves as men and as Christians. Bigotry and oppression will wither from amongst us. A pa

rental Government, now held out to us, will compensate for centuries of misrule. We will plant in our native land the constitutional tree of Liberty. That noble tree will prosper and flourish in our green and fertile country. It will extend its protecting branches all over this lovely island. Beneath its sweet and sacred shade, the universal people of Ireland, Catholics, and Protestants, and Presbyterians, and Dissenters of every class, will sit in peace, and unison, and tranquillity. Commerce and trade will flourish; industry will be rewarded; and the people, contented and happy, will see Old Irelandwhat she ought to be

"Great, Glorious, and Free,

First flower of the Earth, first gem of the Sea."

DANIEL O'CONNELL,
Of the Order of Liberators

Let us now glance at the transactions of those who saw and feared the mighty engine which had been raised to shake their supremacy. Sundry efforts were made to convert the minds of the Roman Catholics from the error of their ways by persuasions; and missions were undertaken by some of those foolish bigots whose intemperate zeal has so often insulted the religion of the Irish Catholics, and almost rendered it impossible that they should look with calm charity on the professors of the Protestant faith. The assumption of those who come in personal contact with a fellow-citizen, and tell him that his faith is erroneous, is offensive at all times-it must have been doubly so when the members of the oppressing religion vented their sneers on the oppressed, who were struggling for equality. The missions seem, however, to have been received with courtesy. They held public meetings, at which they were exposed to the arguments of men fully as stubborn in their particular belief as themselves; and the discussions were ornamented by the sarcastic eloquence of Shiel. It was said, that from among the millions, a convert or two were made; and