The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-28 00:00:00

REPEAL ASSOCIATION-THIS DAY,

The usual weekly meeting was held this day in the
Corn Exchange, which was very much crowded through-
mut the proceedings. Mr. O'Connell arrived at half-past
one o'clock. his' appearance was greeted with the roost
enthusiastic applause. Owing to the crowded state of
the gallery, nine-or ten ladies were accommodated with
vents behind the chair. Michael Staunton, Esq., Proprie-
tor of the Morning Register, was called to the chair.
Mr. O'CoxxELT, said he had to hand in 4301. from
persons wbo (lid not wish at present to give their names.
--(Great cheering.) _ _

The SEcnETAlii-proceeded to read the correspondence
received during the past week. The first letter was from
the Secretary of the " Repeal of the Irish Union Society."
at Providence, Rhode Island, America, inclosing
53/. ss. 2d.
Mr. O'CONNELL moved that this letter be inserted on
the minutes of the-. Association, and that their thanks be
given to their friends at Rhode Island. He hailed with
delight this gen?rous expression of sympathy from their
fellow countrymen in America.
The next letter read was from the Rev. Mr. Brennan,
at Bellville, County of Hastings, Canada, inclosing
18/. 45., being the subscriptions of 120 persons.
Mr. O'CONNELL moved the admission of these persons
as members of the Association. He could do so in this
case. as they were their fellow-subjects.
Th 3 motion w as passed with ac:damation.
Oth3r sums wore received from different parishes in
Ireland.

Mr. O'CONNELL then rose to call attention to the pre-
sent state of affairs. First, in Dublin, they had been
defeated by West and Grogan, but it should not be sup-
posed for a moment by the Association that this defeat
was produced:by the decision of the real electors of Dub-
lin. The present Members had been returned by that class
of animals called "assessors."—(Laughter and groans.)
After making some comment on the Dublin and Carlow
elections, he proceeded-to say, the present contest had
assumed an aspect ,of religious antipathy, which was
produced by the Tories. They had also excited a feel-
ing of hatred towards Ireland, even among the English
Catholics. He read an advertisement from the Tablet of
-last Saturday; a Roman Catholic paper, for a cook ;
every qualification as to abilities and character was re-
quired, and she should be a Catholic, but there were
tacked to this advertisement the words, "No Irish need
apply." Here was an advertisement coming from a
Roman Catholic ! .- And this cool expression of national
antipathy was published in the only Catholic organ in
England. What would the English Catholics be now
but for the Irish—he might say for this room—for this
man ?—(Cheers.) Mr. O'Connell concluded by reading
the following address, which contains several topics al-
luded to by him :

"DECLARATION OF GRIEVANCES AND RIGHTS
TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND.

" Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not,
'Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Can Gaul or Muscovite relieve you?
No!
By your own right arms your freedom must be wrought.'
" Corn Exchange, July 26, 1841.
" Fellow Countrymen—The Loyal National Repeal
Association of Ireland respectfully lay before you the
following declaration of the rights of Irishmen, and state-
ment of the wrongs and oppression which Ireland has
endured and yet endures.
" We lay before you a plain and unexaggerated pro-
position of historical fact, or of matter now existing.
We do not desire, to mitigate anything, but we are deter-
mined not to exaggerate. The plain statement of facts
will have a more powerful and permanent effect than any
imaginative description.
1. No country upon the face of the globe ever in-
flicted upon any other country such wrongs and iniquitous
oppressions as England has inflicted upon Ireland.
"2. No country upon the face of the earth ever sus-
tained and endured from another country so much wrong
and oppression as Ireland has endured from England.
" 3.. No country in the world ever violated towards any
other country its plighted faith, and solemn treaties so
often and so foully as England has done towards Ire-
land ; from the massacre of Mulloghmaston to the treaty
of Limerick, and from the treaty of Limerick to the
unanimous pledge given to Ireland by King, Lords, and
Commons. in 1834, at the conclusion of the first debate
on the Repeal of the Union.
" 4. So far from having relaxed in the antipathy to the
Irish people, and their hatred of the religion of the Irish
nation, the English people now exhibit more venomous
virulence and acrimony than ever they did in the worst
periods of our history.
"5. Another fact, that the disposition to insult the
Irish people is not confined to any party holding the
reins of power, is demonstrated by the fact that the mo-
tion to place the franchises of England and Ireland upon
an equality was opposed by Lord Morpeth with as much
determination as it could be by Sir Robert Peel, or even
Scorpion Stanley.
" 6. That the hatred of Ireland is not confined to any
Government, but is a popular and national hatred, is
proved by this fact—that the English constituencies have
returned to the present Parliament an overwhelming
majority of enemies to the Irish people, and especially to
the religion of that people.
" 7. That the English aristocracy have stimulated, and
arc at the head of the present hostile movement against
Ireland. They have used their influence in affording a
highly lucrative patronage to those organs of public opi-
nion which are the most atrocious calumniators of Ireland
and of Catholicity.
" 8. That the aristocracy of England, the leaders of
the present hostile movement against Ireland, have em-
ployed enormous masses of their wealth in the most pro-
fligate corruption of the English constituencies, in or-
der to procure the return to Parliament of the inveterate
and virulent enemies to Ireland and to Catholicity.
" 9. That this wicked hostility to Ireland and to her
Catholic people is vicious, almost to a pitch of demoniacal.
insanity, inasmuch as it is exhibited at a period when the
Irish people, instead of meriting this satanic hostility, are
in reality deserving of the respect and gratitude of the
English aristocracy of wealth and rank.
" 10. That the claim of the Irish people to such respect
and gratitude is founded upon these plain facts ; that
Ireland never was so generally, or for such a length of
time tranquil, or unstained by so few retaliatory outrages
as she is now and has been during the Reform Adminis-
tration, and that the Irish people have not only refused
all communion with the torch and dagger Chartists,
but actually demonstrated their readiness to protect the
Throne and Constitution, at the expense of their lives,
against those misguided persons.
" 11. That this diabolical enmity of the English aris-
tocracy and electors is still further enhanced by the fact
that it is exhibited in contravention of the mild and bene-
volent virtues, and just and patriotic intentions of the
wise and illustrious Lady who fills the Throne of these
realms, and whom may God long preserve !
" 12. That another aggravation of the unprovoked and
insane hatred of the English aristocracy and electors to
people of Ireland is to be found in the contrast with
Scotland ; the majority of the Scottish people being de-
cidedly favourable to justice to Ireland.
" 13. The insanity of the hatred of the English aris-
tocracy and electors towards Ireland is further demon-
strated by the fact that their re-establishment of the Orange
oppressions and massacres in Ireland will by inevitable
consequenbei diMinish the strength of the British empire
and its influence upon foreign nations, by rendering
the people of Ireland justly discontented and unwilling
to, contribute in purse or in person to the support of
such a Government.

" 14. That under the Administration conducted by
Peel and Lord Stanley, it will be imprudent—and, in-
deed, utterly unsafe—to call out the Irish militia, as
that force must necessarily be constituted in the propor-
tion of ninety-nine Catholics for one of every other re.
ligion.
" 15. That Foreign Powers, in dealing with the Peel-
Stanley Administration, will avail themselves of the
weakness and wickedness of that Administration, occa-
sioned by their misgovernment of Ireland.
" 16. That the conduct of the Tory aristocracy and
electors in England is thus manifestly marked by that
insane self-delusion and political extravagance which ap-
pear from history to precede, as they presage, some sig-
nal national vengeance of the Almighty.
" We call the attention of the people of Ireland to
the consideration of the facts we thus exhibit. We lay
these facts before that people—not so much to stimu-
late their exertions as to guide and direct their conduct,
to inspire hope, and not to generate despair ; to suggest
to the natural shrewdness and sagacity of the Irish
nation the impossibility of the continuance of a system
of administration so unjust, so iniquitous, and at the
same time so insane as that now threatened by the sup-
porters of Peel and Stanley.
" WE NOW PROCEED TO THE ENUMERATION OF THE
GRIEVANCES OF WHICH THE IRISH PEOPLE COM-
PLAIN :
" 1. Our first grievance is, that Ireland has not ob-
tained an equalization of privileges, franchises, and
rights, with the people of England and Scotland.
" 2. This grievance is much aggravated by the fact
thatireland was deprived of her natural protection—a
nalive Parliament—and burdened with the weight of
what is called a union, without being such in reality.
"3. The giant practical grievance of Ireland is, that
the ecclesiastical state revenues of the nation are enjoyed
by the church of a small minority,
4. This giant grievance is much aggravated by the
fact, that the clergy of the dominant Church are in gene-
ral virulent enemies of the Irish people, hostile to their
rights, and calumnious of themselves and of their religion.
5. Another great grievance of which The Irish justly
complain is, the scanty and inadequate measure of cor-
porate
reform doled out to them by the United Parlia-
ment in a manner much more restricted than the corpo-
rate reform enjoyed by the English and the Scotch.
"6. The next great and outrageous grievance of which
we complain, is, that the elective franchise in Ireland is
restricted by law to a miserable fraction of the Irish pen-
ple. Practically speaking, the franchise is not enjoyed
by three per cent, of the male adult population, whilst

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from five-and-twenty to thirty per cent. of the male adult
population of England and Scotland enjoy the elective
franchise.

" 7. The next great and outrageous grievance sus-
tained by the people of Ireland is, that they are inade-
quately represented in Parliament. The Irish ought,
upon a calculation of comparative revenue and popula-
tion, to posseis more than 170 Representatives. They
have but 105.

"8. The next great grievance—and one of the most
emaciating nature--is the enormous increase of the ab-
sentee drain occasioned by the union ; to the amount al-
together of, probably, more than four millions of pounds
sterling per annum.
" 9. That this evil is greatly aggravated by the sur-
plus revenue of Ireland being also remitted to England,
to the amount of nearly two millions sterling per annum,
thus exhausting Ireland by the payment of a tribute of
upwards of five millions
,sterling per annum.
" 10. That the greatest; the master grievance—the
source of all others to Ireland—is the legislative union ;
a union brought about by force, fraud, treachery, corrup-
tion, and bloodshed.

" It ought to sink deep in the minds of the English
aristocracy that no people on the face of the earth pay to
another such a tribute for permission to live, as Ireland
pays to England in absentee rents and surplus revenue.
There is no such instance—there is nothing like it in an-
cient or modern history. There is not, and there never
was, such an exhausting process applied to any country
as is thus applied to Ireland. It is a solecism in political
economy, inflicted upon Ireland alone of all the nations
that are or ever were. Under heaven there is not—
there cannot be any remedy save one, and that remedy
can be discovered and worked out by an Irish Parlia-
ment—and by nothing but an Irish Parliament.
" We have stated the grievances which Ireland
endures, and under which she actually suffers. Grievances
unparalleled in any other country.
" Yet, fellow-countrymen, it is, alas ! but too true, that
these grievances, which ought to satiate the malignity of
fiends, are not sufficient to satisfy the acrimonious viru-
lence of the Orange Tory party. That party audaciously
threaten to inflict upon the Irish nation the following
additional calamities :

" 1. They intend to carry into full effect the Scorpion
Bill of Stanley, to annihilate the elective franchise in
Ireland. They say they will have the power, and you
know they have the inclination, to annihilate the re-
priventation of Ireland, or to reduce it to a mere mockery,
controlled and possessed by the Irish Orangeists.
"2. The Peel-Stanley party add insult to injury.
They declare the that the people of Ireland are such,
VILLAINOUS PERJURERS' that they justly forfeit all right
to adequate representation.
" 3. The Stanley-Peel party declare that they will fill
the bench of justice with the most acrimonious partisans
they can find—with men who declare their conviction
that the Irish are systematic perjurers, and that perjury
is encouraged by their religion.
"4. The Peel-Stanley party declare that they will
not only thus deprive the Catholics of Ireland of all hope
or chance of justice from the Superior Courts, but that
they will forcibly compel the Irish people to submit to
such injustice.
" 5. The Stanley-Peel party declare that they will
select their Sheriffs from the most violent Orange par-
tisans from each county and city in Ireland.
" 6. The Peel-Stanley party declare that the will re-
store the practice, some time gone by, of packing Juries
in all the criminal cases ; and allow. no man to remain
on the criminal Jury panel but partisans of their own
religion and politics.
" 7. The Stanley-Peel party declare that they will
correct the lists of Magistrates by striking out several
impartial men, and adding to it clergymen of the Estab-
lished Church, and every virulent Orange partisan they
can procure.

"8. The Peel-Stanley party declare that the people
of Ireland must submit to all these additional indignities
and iniquities, and that no efforts, however constitutional
and legal, to mitigate these evils, or to obtain relief, will
be permitted by the civil or military authorities.
" 9. The Stanley-Peel party declare that the Piess in
Ireland shall be subdued ; that, in the present iniquitous
state of the libel law, they will meet every unpalatable
truth by a State prosecution ; that they will prevent the
exposure of their crimes by all the inflictions which a bad
law and partisan Judges can possibly furnish ; by the
summary process of attachment, and by the equally vex-
atious, though more tedious, proceeding by ex-qfficio in-
formation or indictment.

"In fine, betwetn present grievances'andfuture oppres-
sions, the object of the Peel-Stanley party is to deprive
the people of Ireland of all constitutional channels of
exertion and of every ray of hope, and ultimately to
force them, if possible, into open insurrection.
" Wa caution you, beloved friends, not to be provoked
into any such course. Your bitter and unrelenting ene-
mies would be delighted could they drive you intoinsur-
rectionary courses and violent resistance. You could not
gratify your enemies more than by adopting such a course.
A stronger argument cannot be used to induce you to
avoid it, than the certain knowledge that you could not
possibly please your mortal Orange enemies more than
by violating the law or committing any outrage.
You are unorganised, and you must continue to be
so. You are undisciplined, and you must continue to
be so. You are unarmed, and you must continue to
be so. England is at peace with all Europe and
America. The Orange party, once in power, could,
under such circumstances, pour into Ireland more
than 100,000 of the best armed, best disciplined, and
bravest troops in the world. They would be irresistible
in the field, whilst the dastard Orangemen, of no use in
the day of combat, would gloat upon the work of mas-
sacre, of female violation, and of every other crime which
the defeated and the defenceless could endure from the
malignity of human fiends.
"Do not, therefore, we most earnestly and solemnly
conjure you—do not gratify your enemies by committing
any outrage. 1)o not give them strength by committing
any breach of the law.
" Remember, and keep constantly before your eyes,
the leading maxim, the very basis of the Loyal Repeal
Association—that WHOEVER COMMITS A CRIME
STRENGTHENS TIIE ENEMY.'

" But there is another, a higher, a nobler motive for
your acquiesence in present evils, and for your submis-
sion to the law. It is to be found in your affectionate,
your grateful, your most dutiful allegiance to your illus-
trious Sovereign. May the great God of Heaven bless
and protect her ! Should you be reckless of yourselves,
yet recollect you owe a duty to HER and to your Goy,
to secure the tranquillity of her Throne, and to prevent
the possibility of disfiguring her reign by the shedding
of one drop of human blood. No political amelioration
was ever worth one drop of human blood.
"Be tranquil, then, fellow-countrymen--be forbear-
ing—be enduring ; BUT BE NOT WITHOUT HOPE. O❑
the contrary, be confident, be full of the expectation of
future and not distant triumph : the Orange-Tory reign,
the Stanley-Peel domination cannot endure long. In its
nature it must be transitory and evanescent. The evil
times that approach cannot last long. Amongst the
English people themselves Ireland has many active and
zealous friends. The friends of Ireland, to be sure, are
comparatively few among the English people ; yet,
taken by themselves, they are numerous ; and if they be
not zealous, they are at all events sincere. Hope some-
thing from the existence of your English friends.
" The majority of the Scotch nation are with you.
Hope much from their zealous and spirited assistance.
"The Queen, my friends—our noble Queen—heartily
and sincerely desires to see justice done to Ireland : your
enemies are equally her enemies ; she is in their toils ;
she wears their fetters: but, with the blessing of heaven,
and the aid of good men, her bonds shall be broken, your
enemies scattered, and she shall be restored to the bril-
liant freedom of her majestic throne.

"Be peaceable, be orderly—A iolate no law—commit
no offence. But whilst we conjure you to adopt this
course, in the voice of allegiance to the Queen, and in
reverence to your God, do we ask you to be acquiescent,
silent, torpid ?
" No, no—a thousand times no !'

" On the contrary, we call upon you to rouse into ac-
tion, to be energetic, determined, persevering ; lose no
day, lose no hour in silent inactivity. Exert yourselves
within the limits of the law, and in the channels of con-
stitutional agitation, and no other.

" Hold nicetings; register votes, prepare petitions to
Parliament. Tell that assembly manfully—and through
them tell the civilized world—how you think, and what
you feel.
" Let every parish in Ireland simultaneously meet to
address the Queen. Let us all pledge our lives, and all
we
posassusess, fo
her r the protectionshe may depend with the utmost
certitude upon the bravery and fidelity of her Irish
people.
" Whatever be the result—whether the Queen shall be
allowed to select for her Ministry friends of Ireland, or
whether she shall be overpowered for a season by Tory
corruption and intimidation—let our fidelity be unim-
peachable,
hable our allegiance pure and unbroken—
True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shone upon.'
No despair, no hopelessness. On the contrary, be
buoyant with hope, and cheerful in your expectations.
There is, fellow-countrymen, one great, one unfailing
resource—one instrument of terror to the Orange Tories,
of protection and success to the friends of Ireland—the
peaceful agitation of the Repeal of the Union.
We know Ireland well. We know by experience
the feelings and the wishes of the universal Irish Pegleci
We know that the fibres of their hearts are e n
mlnnoew
around the restoration of the Irish Parliament.We
the enthusiasm of their souls for the repeal is
k
animated
and vivacious.

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permanent
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proswt h
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et
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only resource for,
to Ireland is to be found in the Repeal of the Union. It is
said the
Repeal is impracticable. Impracticable !! !
There is no such word in the vocabulary of a generous,
a moral, a religious, a brave people.
" Impracticable—to repeal an Act of Parliament ?
Impracticable—when that Repeal is required by the
overwhelming majority of a nation of near NINE MIL-
LIONS of human beings ? That which is really imprac-
ticable is to inince such a nation to continue to submit
to the gross, glaring, iniquitous oppression and misrule
of the Union.
" Rally, then, with us, men of Ireland. Let every
human being declare for the Repeal. Let there be no
' parish without Repealers and Repeal wardens. Peace-
ably and constitutionally declare your determination,
by enrolling yourselves in the Loyal National Repeal As-
sociation qf
" There is no other means to prevent a separation,
from England—from haughty, bigoted, tyrannical Eng-
gland—except the Repeal of the Union. There is no
other way to obtain prosperity or liberty for Ireland,
but the Repeal of the Union.
" Let, thee, one shout arise from the Giants' Cause-
way to Cape Clear—from Connemara to the Hill of
Howth—let there be but one universal voice upon the
breeze of heaven,
" HVBRAH FOR THE REPEAL
DANIEL O'CONNELL,
Chairman of the Committee.