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... whole people never can be bribed . But the people - the Catholic masses of Ireland - were a political non- . entity for nearly the whole century . They formed no element of power - no ingredient in the speculating politician's calcula ...
... whole people never can be bribed . But the people - the Catholic masses of Ireland - were a political non- . entity for nearly the whole century . They formed no element of power - no ingredient in the speculating politician's calcula ...
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... whole people of Ireland ; and for that purpose we strove to dispel all reli- gious distinctions from our political union . " * To exasperate the friends of reform , not only by an insolent rejection of their claims , but also by a ...
... whole people of Ireland ; and for that purpose we strove to dispel all reli- gious distinctions from our political union . " * To exasperate the friends of reform , not only by an insolent rejection of their claims , but also by a ...
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... , 1799. Correspond- ence , vol . iii . pp . 144 , 145. See for the whole passage , chap . xxvii infra . Cornwallis Correspondence , iii . 89 . men may now regard their struggle with the feeling expressed IRELAND AND HER AGITATORS . 21.
... , 1799. Correspond- ence , vol . iii . pp . 144 , 145. See for the whole passage , chap . xxvii infra . Cornwallis Correspondence , iii . 89 . men may now regard their struggle with the feeling expressed IRELAND AND HER AGITATORS . 21.
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... whole house was with the duke . Clare had not the poor con- solation of sympathy or pity from any man even of his own political party . His influence , once almost omnipotent , was now extinct . He returned , mortified and broken ...
... whole house was with the duke . Clare had not the poor con- solation of sympathy or pity from any man even of his own political party . His influence , once almost omnipotent , was now extinct . He returned , mortified and broken ...
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... whole sum was immediately expended on the purchase of votes in the English House of Commons ; the result of which traffic gave the court , upon questions of finance , a majority of about thirty voices . But English senators did not ...
... whole sum was immediately expended on the purchase of votes in the English House of Commons ; the result of which traffic gave the court , upon questions of finance , a majority of about thirty voices . But English senators did not ...
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absentee agitation alleged anti-Irish Britain British Chartist cheers Church claims Clare clergy connexion constitution constitution of 1782 Cork Cornwallis Correspondence corruption countrymen court declared Dublin Duke Duke of Portland Earl Emancipation empire England English fact favour Feargus Feargus O'Connor Fenian friends gentleman Grattan heart honour hostility House of Commons imperial influence interest Ireland Irish nation Irish parliament Irishmen justice kingdom land landlord leaders legislative legislature Lord Castlereagh Lord Cornwallis lordship Maddyn meeting ment military millions mind never O'Brien O'Connell O'Connell's O'Connor Orange parish parlia parliamentary party patriotism persons Pitt political popular present principle prisoners prosperity Protestant Protestantism question rebellion Reform religion religious rendered rent Repeal Association revenues Rigby Roscrea says sentiment speech spirit Steele taxation taxes tenants tion tithe Tory triumph two-seventeenths Union United Irishmen Viceroy votes Whig words Young Ireland
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Page 240 - But all this is trifling compared to the numberless murders that are hourly committed by our people without any process or examination whatever. The yeomanry are in the style of the loyalists in America, only much more numerous and powerful, and a thousand times more ferocious. These men have saved the country, but they now take the lead in rapine and murder.
Page 149 - Resolve, resolve, and to be men aspire. Exert that noblest privilege, alone, Here to mankind indulged ; control desire ; Let godlike Reason, from her sovereign throne, Speak the commanding word — I Will ! — and it is done.
Page 156 - Nothing can convince tyrants of their folly but gunpowder and steel, so put your trust in God my boys and keep your powder dry.
Page 73 - An Act to amend the Law as to the Subscriptions and Declarations to be made and Oaths to be taken by the Clergy of the Established Church of England and Ireland.
Page 53 - From Queen Elizabeth's reign until the Union the various commercial confraternities of Great Britain never for a moment relaxed their relentless grip on the trades of Ireland. One by one each of our nascent industries was either strangled in its birth or handed over, gagged and bound, to the jealous custody of the rival interest in England, until at last every fountain of wealth was hermetically sealed, and even the traditions of commercial enterprise have perished through desuetude.
Page 5 - ... though they had acquiesced in the decision of the Cabinet that the Bill should not be introduced by Ministers. Their support of the administration had been the result of ' a precise engagement,' that ' if the Catholics insisted to carry forward their Bill, Government would give it a handsome support.
Page 240 - The principal persons of this country, and the Members of both Houses of Parliament, are, in general, averse to all acts of clemency...
Page 243 - The greatest difficulty which I experience, is to control the violence of our loyal friends, who would, if I did not keep the strictest hand upon them, convert the system of martial law (which, God knows, is of itself bad enough) into a more violent and intolerable tyranny than that of Robespierre. The vilest informers are hunted out from the prisons to attack, by the most barefaced perjury, the lives of all who are suspected of being, or of having been, disaffected ; and, indeed, every Roman Catholic...
Page 225 - The destiny of a nation ought to be determined, not by the opinions of other nations, but by the opinion of the nation itself.
Page 248 - Laws well arranged and administered ; a constitution fully recognized and established; her revenues, her trade, her manufactures thriving beyond the hope or example of any other country of her extent — within these few years advancing with a rapidity, astonishing even to herself; not complaining of deficiency in any of these respects, but enjoying and acknowledging her prosperity.