The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1839.

TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND

" Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not
" Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ?'

" Darrynane Abbey, Sept. 13, 1839.
" Fellow Countrymen—Another effort is necessary
for the good of our common country, and I, with con-
fidence, call on you to make it.
To induce you to this exertion I shall not enter
into any retrospect of the past. It is enough if I make
you disiinctly understand your present position and in
particular the strength and intentions of the enemies of
Ireland. I u ill he brief, and I trust distinct.
" There are these features in the present aspect of
political affairs
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" First—At no period of English history did there
exist towards Ireland among the English people a
stronger spirit of hate and antipathy than at the present

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moment.
" Secondly—This hate and antipathy are composed
of two separate and distinct ingredients. The one,
national prejudice and dislike towards the Irish people ;
the other, malignant enmity towards the religion of that
people.
Thirdly—The strength of -the Tory party in Eng-
land consists in the cultivation of these two evil quali-
ties. That party has no connecting link so strong or
so universal as its bad passions towards Ireland ; for,
" Fourthly—The Whigs and Tories are almost agreed
upon the subject of reform. There is but this differ-
ence—that while the Whigs refuse to work out the
amelioration of British institutions, the Tories are
anxious to diminish or to divert to their own purposes
the improvements already made by the Whigs.
F►fthly—The countenance and support of the So-
vereign, which is enjoyed by the Whigs, would, in its
nature, influence the moderate and more wealthy Tories
to support the Ministers of the Crown, if they were not
prevented from doing so by a more prevailing cause than
that of respect for the Throne.
" That cause is their bigoted hatred of Ireland and
the Irish.

" Fellow countrymen ! One moment's reflection will
convince you of the accuracy of my statement. You
have only to look at the itself
in Aristocracy as it exhibits
in tie House of Lords, and you will at once see that
the animating principle of that body is to be found in its
hatred of Ireland. Their speeches, their Committees,
their reports, the nature of their interrogatories, and
the course of their examinations—nay, the very wit-
nesses whom they have summoned, all—all prove the
anti-Irish spirit, irrational and senseless, but at the
same time malignant and unrelenting.
" Next, loos-. at the House of Commons, and you will
perceive that the powerful minority of that House is
kept together by the spirit of opposition to the rights and
liberties of the Irish nation. There is not one of that
minority who underwent a contested election that did
not avail himself of the anti-Irish prejudices of his con-
stituents to promote his return to Parliament.
" Look, also, at the Established Church, and you will
find that in almost every parish in England there is a
virulent anti-Irish agitator in the person of the Protes-

tant Clergyman. The virulent intolerance of the over-
whelming majority of these reverend gentlemen may be,
and indeed is, highly disgraceful to them ; but it is not

;he less mischievous to us.

" To the Established Church we must add some
classes of Dissenters ; and, in particular, those undigni-
fied but unrelenting enemies of civil and religious liberty
—the Wesleyan Methodists.
" 1 have not misrepresented nor exaggerated the pre-
valent spirit of England, her hostility to this country
and its people. Neither do I, on the other hand, mean
to deny that among the English nation we have, of
course, many valuable friends. The disposition of the
Ministry is favourable to us. The conduct . the Ex-
ecutive in Irelandf—first, under Lord Normanby, and
now under Lord Ebrington—merits the highest praise,
and deserves the fullest confidence.

" Reflect, my beloved countrymen, I implore you,
upon these facts. Reflect upon the hostility, the ani-
mosity, the malevolence of the Tory faction ; and how
much this bad spirit is augmented and aggravated by
their necessary connection with, and reliance on, the
Orange faction in Ireland.
" I ask every man this simple question : could a
greater misfortune by any possibility occur to Ireland
than the restoration to power of the Orange faction in
this country, backed by the Tories in England? There
can be but one answer to the question. A greater mis-
fortune to Ireland could not .exist than the restoration
to power of our malignant enemies—the Orange-Tory
party.

" In the first place, all hope of justice for Ireland—
all chance of obtaining similar franchises for the Irish
with those which the English enjoy—all chance of im-
peding or preventing the crerAion of fictitious votes in
corporations or in counties, w ould cease. All prospect
of relieving the land of Ireland from the payment of
rent-charges to the Clergy no t of the people would be
lost for ever.

" But the evil would not rest here. There would be
direct and positive oppressions practised with impunity.
All those who hail been strut k out of the commission
of the peace for partiality ()r incapacity would, of
course, be restored ; and the ill-suppressed and only
half-concealed anima:Ay of m any existing Magistrates
would no longer be cloaked 017 disguised, but, on the
contrary, would dcvelope itself in all the details of the
most frightful enormity. The depopulation of the land
would go on with increasing an. d accumulating rapidity.
The 'bench of justice would he polluted by the promo-
tion to the highest offices in t he law of all those who
most distinguished themselves b .y the virulence of their
bigotry, and of their hostile fe, slings to the freedom of
the Irish pople. That people might, and probably
would, be driven into useless and cruel insurrection,
and, whilst they were slaughter ed by an overwhelming
military force, the island would be covered, from one
end to the other, with blood and desolation.
" There is but one way of pi 'eventing the realization
of the fearful scenes which I ha\ re thus described. But,
blessed be Heaven ! there is tha t way. It is, the regis-
tration of every elector who has not hitherto registered,
and the re-registration of ever!, r person who has been
six, or even five, years, upon the registry.
" People of Ireland, you can save yourselves by ono
generous effort, but that effort n Lust be simultaneous—
unanimous—universal !

Let every county, city, an town arouse itself.
Let every parish be organized . For registry. You will
receive assistance and co-operati on from Dublin ; but,
if possible, let every parish de pend on itself. The
expenses may easily be deft ayed by small local
contributions, aided as they will be by the General
Registry Association in Dublin. ' l'he noblemen and gen-
tlemen who compose that Assc )ciation will be bound
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to find the requisite funds in aid C.I& surplus of the
Precursor money. But the grt mt—the paramount—
the all-absorbing duty, is to ascer ;ain how many in each
parish can be registered or re-regit itered ; to furnish their
names and the nature of their qu tlifications to the local
clubs ; to have notices served ii s every possible form
for each individual, and to take c, tre to bring up each
person for registry before the assistant-barrister at
Sessions.

" People of Ireland, I invoke 3 ou to make with me
this great effort. I respectfully s elicit the aid of the
Clergy. This is a peaceful and c onstitutional struggle,
tin which it is befitting that the Clergy should bestir
themselves ; inasmuch as, and b, !cause the Clergy of
he Establishment never cease to ;gitat: in a most mis
chievous way against 62 people.
" Men of Ireland, I once again ca 11 upon you to rouse!
Let every parish be organized fo r registration. Let
every town and village be organised for registration. Let
the non-electors perform their duty t o their country, and,
if requisite, of almost (but gently) c ompelling those who
can register to do so.
" The Poor-law is coming into o; Aeration, and will at
all events impose a heavy tax ; a t ax which, the tithe-
rent-charge ought to be applied to l iquidate. It is of
the most pressing necessity that rues ns should be taken
to secure such a number of Irish repr !sentativas as would
be able loudly to proclaim that th s poor rates render
it absolutely incumbent upon the L egislature to apply
the tithe rent-charge to alleviate the burden that
otherwise is too great to be born e by the resident
occupiers of Ireland.
The state shouid provide comps nsation for the ex-
isting vested interests of the Protest ant Clergy.
" I trust that it will be found imp 3ssible to point out
a single county in Ireland that will r lot have its registry
club. Shame upon those who have hitherto neglected,
and, above all, upon those who shall henceforth neglect,
such $ wipe off this dis-
honour, a
o ur,daLnt(N B
and make
makuotitleeteuasse, otnoeexainsdt. IlThis we can effect
by a county, but, above all, by a parochial, organi-

zation.
Fellow-countrymen, accept and r ,et upon the advice
of your faithful and devoted friend al id servant,
.‘ DANIEL C YCONNELL."

FIVE LIVES LOST.—The scl 000ner Byron, of
Newcastle, from North Shields, bound for Inverness
with
a cargo of coals, was totally lost about eleven o'clock on
Sunday night on the rocks of Embo, two miles cast of
Durnoch. The crew consisted of the
master, John R.
afn d
the these,
mate,
have all perished. e deeply regret to
a
Smith ; the mate, William Alackay, a
native of Thurso ;
three, seamen,
Isveiathmetnh,eanedxcaeptbiooyn o
;
During the night of Saturday
.and un day, it blew a per-
fect gale on that coast from the N.E.N , and accompanied
with rain ; and when night fell, the darkness was exces-
sive, so that the Tarbatncss light was not observed until
the vessel had got to the north of it and into the Durnoch
Frith. An attempt was then made to v, ser round, but this
was found to be impracticable from the fury of the gale,
and all the canvass but tne fore-top.: ;ail being gone.
Shortly after this the schooner struck ti se rocks or the
Embo shore, and very soon went to pi !ces. The mate
wandered about the fields near the ahoi 'e until day.light,
when, nearly exhausted, be found his wa3 •to the Mansion-
house of Embo, the residence of Mr. Bra ndcr, who treated
him with the greatest kindness and attent ion. Mr. Brander
immediately prccoeded to the shore with his farm servants,
in the hope of saving the remainder of the crew, but no
trace of them could be discovered.

On Monday last, the sale of whe les, stranded in
1341,h0pe Flotta, took place there, and l were principally
sold to purchasers from Kirkwall and Sti •omness, at prices
averaging about 7s. 61. per cwt.—Scotc. h Paper.