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in Ireland are agreed. It is not only in Munster, Leinstur,
and Connaught, that this agreement prevails; but many,very
many of the most patriotic and truly Irish of Ulster have in-
timated their readiness to co-operate. I mention Ulster with
'nide as well as with pleasure, becau.s.z. I know what persever-
ing and unfair mews have been taken to estrLnge the people
cf Ulster from the poi:ular can“,. hut I have lately much
reason to believe that the men of Ulster, will, on this occa-

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SiC)ll, show thee selves as patriotic and as Irish as ever.
There are, intlee;?, some who do not rgree with me as yet
upon the eecesity of insisting up.el all the four; but there is
uebeely who can claim to be caled an Irishman that does not
aeree upon its being impossible to consider the Union as corn-
te until some of them are unequivocally and fully redressed.
Every'::tidy agrees that it is but a nominal union, whilst Eeg-
land and Scotlaed have obtained corporate reform, and II e-
land has still close, unte!formed, restricted, and bigotted cor-
porations—a mass of all possible abuses and corruptions.
Everybody also agrees thet the elective franchise in Ire-
land should be co-extensive with that in Scotland, or rather
in England. where the tenures of lands agree with those in
Ireland. It is indeed monstrous tleit one man in every
twenty-fetes pe,sons in England should have the elective fret-
chime and only oee in every ooc hundred acrd fifteen in Ireland.
Alniost everybody also agrees that it is monstrous that the
church temporalities, being the public property of the entire
irith nation, should not be applied to purposes useful to the
entire, but should all be appropriated to the exclusive use of
the church of net one-tenth of the entire people.
All those who desire the redress of any one of these griev-
anc!s, ought to join N% lkb me in the present effort to obtain full,
C implete, and unequivocal relief.
But the question remains, how are sac to obtain this relief
and redress? This shou'd he now our only question. How
is each grievance. to be abolished? My answer is by another
question—‘'lltreditary bondsmen, know you net?" &c. 6.c. 6-c.
We must have recourse to our own energies—to our own
concentration—to our own combination—to our own continu-
ous and active agitation. I, for one, will agitate without ceas
ing and without weariness. We succeeded already by such
agitation; and we succeeded when only a part of the Irish
people were concerned in interest. Shall we now fail when
all the people of Ireland, of all sects and persuasions are equally
interested in the result ? Impossible.
But it is also utterly impossible that we should succeed by
any other course than by the most strenuous exertions of the
Irish people themselves. •
This I undertake to demonstrate. It is most necessary that
such demonstration should be before your eyes constantly, be-
cause persons of great respectability, and deserving your cor-
dial gratitude, are busy preaching up patience, and quietude,
and confidence, and talking in prophetic strains of something
t':at s! or may happen hereafter.
Listen to me, then, and I will show you that there is no hope
but in your own exertions—that your patience ought to be ex.
hausted—that quietude now is folly—and that further confi-
dence in any body of men to do your business, when they
merely desire. to do you good, but have not the power to effec-
tuate that good, would be drivelling idiotism, now that the
rant of power is experimentally demonstrated.
It is impossible for 03 to obtain the legislative enactments
we desire, unless, as we obtained emancipation, Ireland arouses
herself for this as she did for that struggle—quite impossible
--for these reasons—
FinsT—The House of Lords is against us. An overwhelm-
ing: majority are hostile under the leadership of Lyndhust and
Lorton, Wellington and Vesey Fitzgerald, occasionally of
Brougham—” in the case of the Irish Sheriffs—and con-
stantly of Roden. Anything or everything serves amongst
them for a leader ; but the entire Tory party in the Lords are
determined to redress no Irish grievance.
This fact, that the House of Lords will not redress any
Trish grievance—that they will not allow any one measure
favourable to Ireland to pass into a law, is so obvious—so
certain...-so familiar to every body, that it is waste of time to
write it, or to announce it.
We must determine, therefore, either upon submitting to
of the Lords—to their
the tyrannj readiness to distort every
measure for the good of Ireland into an evil—we must, in
short, become the.- bag_' acquiesing slaves of the Lords, or
that adverse destiny by all the
determine to struggle arrain:! tution have left in our
means which the law and the ConsL

power.
It was expected that at the Coronation a sufficient
' realign
of Liberal Peers would have taken place to countervail tr..
Tory majority—that opportunity is lost, I believe, for ever.
The Ministry cannot now assist us—we can only hope in
ourselves. The Lords are our enemies and our masters. Let
us, at least, have the manliness to make our tyrants uncom-
fortable, as the way ultimately to overcome their opposition.
Unless we succeed in the struggle, we are for ever slaves.
SEcoNDLY-A minority of the House of Commons refuse
to do any justice to Ireland. It is, indeed, a minority, but it
is a minority so numerous, so well organised, and so rancorous,
that it is in itself so powerful as to back and support the House
of Lords in all their tyranny. What chance is there of making
any impression on the Lords !'avourable to Ireland, when the
measures of justice to us—scanty and small as they be—reach
that House almost still-barn, and certainly scarcely more than
kept alive by the miserable majority by which they are carried
through the Commons, to be annihilated by the Lords?
The Lonls and a great number of the Commons are distinctly
inin.;!al to Ireland. How can the Ministry assist us? Fellow-
countryhicn, be up, then, and stirring. Those who aid them-
selves deserve, and often experience, the protection of Provi-
and your father laud, be up and
denee. For Cod sake, then,
stirring I
a'IIIRDLY-The great majority of the people of England
are higoqedly hostiie to us. They are Tories principally by
nelson of their prejudico against the Pope and Ireland. I
hoc.w th:lt the fact of a majority of the people of England
beiri. hostile in the Irish is denied. iloiv are the En.lish
to 1-,e juTlj,l cf ? Is it nut fair to judge of them by their
choice of representat:ves? Now Englac:d ass chos,n cnor-
muos ntaj,rity of p -rsons to represent her, ail of whom were
recommended to Cleir eunstituem; by their bigotted hostility
to Ireland, and many of whom had no other recommendation.
Let any man after that tell me that the majority of the people
of England are nut bitterly hostile to Ireland, and I laugh
them to scorn.
FouarrtrA—The ultra-I-Laicals of F,ngl.ind have much
prejudice against, and n u em ill, though rdfctedly secret, tios.
tiii:y to Ireland. With this hostility mixes occasionally an
und:vquised contempt. I have seen some striking instances
of .this latterly.
I know th:it th:.> very persons most implicate 1 in these bad
paajons are the very loudest in denying their existence. But
I pet that existence to this test—namely, to account to me,
hos in any other way it is pr)c.sible to a::couct for one glaring
folly committed by the ultra-Radicals. It is this :—They
deti-st Toryism, and yet they labour assiduously to get the
Tories into power. T;icir absurd project is first, to turn
out the Whigs; secondil, to get in the Tories ; and, thirdly,
(Heaven knows alien I.) to substitute the Rad.cals for the To-
ries t i I Such is the maniac Wan of the ultra- ltadicals. It may
not bo difficult to put the Whigs out, and e Tori. s into
poa er—so tar may be p7act:cabl.e—but how and when arc the
R.sdic=ils to get into po.-.et?
; the u't R. R IdICAS, to be at all consMent,
emit iliac the Tories are moro hostile t i the progress of
Liberal Gove,Tor,e, t than the Wnigs. The Whigs may not
be ,oaieiently friendly to liberal ituititutions, but the Tories
are the long-tried, decided, and persevering enemies of all
-such institutions. Yet there are ultra-Radicals of intellect,
eve, and of literary fame, who insist that the Tories shall get
pover in preference to the Whigs. The wisdom of even
childhool is denied them, elso they would remember those
other croa'ers who, having despised their log king, just pro-
ell- el a stork, who taught them to thzir cost the difference be-
tween Whigs and Tories.
How is this sheer fully of the English u'tra-Radicals to be
accounted ? Simply by reason of their innate distaste of
The Whig AdminiQ,trati,ni of Lord Meillourne has
acted io Ireland energy, and justice to all.
lord Narnianby, for the first time in six hundred years, showed
that Ireland might be governed svitiviut undue favour to one
p trey or any oppression to the other. He held the scales of
justice even, aid knr.ws no distinction but that of merit. The
heart of Ireland is full of gratitude to him and his colleagues ;
and vet the tilt:.:- Radicals sneer at us, and give them no credit
for their multi-elinoul services to Ireland. Yes. these is in
this conduct of trig ultra- Ra licalz something which does not
rn-et the eye, but b.:speaks i " foregone co:,clusiou" in their

miods.
FIFTHLY —Even the moderate and judicious Reformers cf
-Englaml are cold to frigidity in their desire to see Ireland
rillited—l do not mean all the Reformers of England, but I
speak cf the great and immense majority of such Reformers.
Stilt this want of sympathy in our- sufferings is not only wrong
is itself, but is especially ungrateful, because it is a fact, part
of history, that all the recent ameliorations in British institu-
tions were supported by a large and most influential majority
of the Fish members. Nay, when there was a majority of
Sectch members, .and also a majority of English members,
a7ainst the Iteform Bill, it was carried at the second reacting,
because the majority of the Irish mendwrs in its favour' over-
powered the adverse Scotch and English majorities, and thus
achieved for Rcfoi m the Fiasr acrd BEST triumph. And yet,
iirstead of cheering on the Ministry, who are of the utmost
v.luc to Ireland, we Irish are assailed, by the weekly, monthly,
and quarterly organs of the British Reformers, simply because
we prefer a Min!stry conciliatory and just to Ireland, to the
horrid misrule of the Tories, stained in Ireland with every crime
that ever was inflicted on a prostrate people.
Btit there remains, alas I one topic more useful to show
the people of Ireland the entire necessity of self-reliance
alone. It is--
SIXTIILY —The fact that the present Ministry totally refuse
to take those fair and just
stepssw,which the ought ta take, to
a in Greyat Britaio as in Ire -
render them;elvcs popular,
themselves power to dO espe-
lan.l, and thereby to give
cia!lv to this country.
The Ministry threw away much of the pow to do good,
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much cf the string wl;ich wourlidd enable them ti? .carry out
importance t.o..the entire
measures of the greatest value honest, the
empire. There is the Ballot, fora example—the'
protes tire Ballot. The Ballot, which, in ever `constituency, constituencY,
would destroy intimidation, and, in large constituencies, would
render bribery impossible—the Ballot, which would extinguish
the present ten.ptatons to cause rich men to becme ready
bribers and intimidalors—and would lay them under thn
e obli-
gation to earn the good will and the favourable o
electors, and to impress the thorough
conviction opifntla of the
heir use-
ful qualities and Nir: nvg en the minds of those electors, as by
these means alone could they, with the Ballot, secure election.
There was the Ballot, which, if the Ministers had taken up at
the beginning of last Session, they would have surrounded
themselves with so much of popular support, as to enable them
and us to set Orangeism in Ireland, and Toryism in England,
at defiance.
If the Ministers would but popularise themselves—and they
may yet attain popularity, sound popularity, if they would
adopt the Ballot, arid make it a Ministerial measure, instead of
taking their stand against it—then, indeed, might Lord Nor-
:pant; recommend patience—and, in plain truth, Ido think