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MR.O'CONNELL'S REPLY TO THE

HON. C. LAWLESS.
British Hotel, Jermyn-street, July 28, 1846..
My dear Sir,—Meaning you, of course, no kind of dis-
respect, yet I cannot avoid saying that I was sincerely sorry
at receiving your letter of the 18th instant. lam still more
sorry that you thought it right to publish that letter, be-
cause it necessarily imposes upon me the painful act of a
public reply.
You are—it need not be said—entitled to every kind of
courtesy in manner and in expression, as well as in substance.
Nobody can he less inclined than- I am to stint or limit that
courtesy , but I am bound to tell you the whole truth, and
not conceal from you any of the sentiments, however grievous
to me, that your letter has excited.
Addressing you, therefore, with entire civility. and. at the
same time, with perfect candour, I am reduced to the un-
pleasant necessity of telling you that your letter fills me
with anxious fears that Ireland has little to expect from
any exertion of yours. I say this, because in bitter sorrow I
perceive how trivial the pretext is upon which you decline
joining in the struggle for Irish nationality.
Yet how glorious is that cause—how glorious is the strug-
gle for elevating one's native land front provincial degrada-
tion to legislative independence !
Ireland once had a Parliament of her own. The unsuspi-
cious testimony of the late Lord Clare, and of Mr. Pitt, prove
the extent and rapidity of the improvement of Ireland from
the period of the independence of her Parliament until the
fatal day of the Union.
Ireland was deprived of that Parliament by the foulest
means by which liberty was ever struck down—fraud and
corruption, and brute force.
How is it possible that
.you cannot discover the indignity
offered to your native land, and to yourself personally, by the
practical assertion, as a matter of fact, that Englishmen and
Scotchmen are fitter to legislate for Ireland than are the Irish
to make laws for themselves?
Let me now bring you to the pretext under which you de-
cline to join us. Your words are :
"Lord Milltown suggested the formation of an Irish party
to assist the Ministry, if willing to do justice to Ireland. You
state in your reply that the repeaters are determined to do
so. This, my dear sir, is the very point I should wish to see
proved, for a doubt of this has alone prevented my joining
the Association."
Thus, you refuse to join the Association because you doubt
whether and my fellow-repealers are determined to assist
the Ministry in doing justice to Ireland. How can you doubt.
it? I, who take a leading part in the Association, stated
that fact to you as one within my own knowledge, and one
that 1 was, and ant, perfectly ready to realise by my conduct.
I am here to assist the Ministry in doing justice to Ireland.
Every other repeal Member who shall be elected must avow
his readiness to attend, to assist the Ministry in doing justice
to Ireland. It is not possible, I think, for any man reason-
ably to doubt the sincerity with which we repealers declare
and exhibit our determination to assist the present Ministry
to do justice to Ireland.

Upon your own showing, therefore, we, are entitled to your
joining us immediately.
But you have an excuse—you allege a fact—you refuse to
join the Association for the following reason :—You allege
that Mr. Sheil is a man of powerful talent—a statement
which everybody must admit—you allege that it was with
difficulty that I prevented his being opposed in his election
for Dungarvan.

Such Is your excuse for riot being a ntembd-of the Asso-
ciation.

I mean no disrespect whatsoever when I say, there never
was a more futile excuse fur neglecting a great national
duty.

In the first place, let us dispose of the fact, and that the
mere readily because it is infinitely more strong in favour of
your excuse than your own statement—the truth being that
went to Ireland. net to prevent Mr. Shell being opposed
in his election, but to assist in having him opposed by a re-
pealer—if he could be so opposed with a reasonable prospect
of success.

Take the dates. On Friday the writ for Dungarvan was
moved for; on Saturday I started for Liverpool, and on Sun-
day night went across to attend the Association on Monday,
at one o'clock.

Monday came, and I attended the Association, but no in-
t4matiou reached us during the day, of any movement in
Dungarvan, or of any candidate in the repeal interest.
I therefore moved that the matter should be referred to the
committee.

Tuesday came, and for the first time we had a communica-
tion from Dungarvan, stating that the election was to take
place the ensuing Saturday, leaving only an interval et
three days, and also infrming me that the repeaters of Dun-
garvan were divided. many of them being of opinion. that
there ought not to be a contest with so little time to pre-
pare; and several repealers—among whom were some of the
most influential—having already promised to the agent of
Mr. Shell their votes for that election.
Thursday—the committee-day—arrived, and there was no
further information about Dungarvan. We of the committee
examined strictly and minutely the list of the voters of
Dungarvan, and we were of opinion, with the exception of
one or two, that there was not the least prospect of success-
, which was to take
fpulallcyeotphpeonsienxgt
day Mr.Sbhuetiol
naet. the election
Some few there were who thought that Dungarvan ought
to be contested at all events, even with the certainty of de-
feat. The majority of the committee were of opinion, as so
was I, that such a course would be vexatious and unbe-
coming, and it was not adopted.
Thus, therefore, if there be anything in your argument,
it is strengthened, not weakened, by the determination of
the repealers—a determination which I coincide in, to sub-
stitute a repealer for Mr. Shell, if that were practicable.
Its impracticability is manifest, there being from the time
the committee met but one day between us and the election.
Thus I meet your excuse in front. I take the bull by the
horns. I admit that all the repeaters desire to have' a re-
pealer returned for Dungarvan instead of Mr. Sheil.
Now, I do most respectfully implore of you to consider the
amount of the objection which you raised against joining the
national cause. It is just this—because the repeaters should
prefer a repealer to Mr. Shell as a Member for Dungarvan.
Recollect, also, I pray you, -that if a repealer had been re-
turned in Mr. Shell's place, that repealer would also join with
me in assisting the Government (just what you desire) to do
justice to Ireland.

I know full: well how little chance there is to convince a
public man by a public letter; and yet I do not see how you
can resist joining the Association, at least without abandon-
ing your professed principle of action.
You say you would join the Association if we were ready
to assist the Government in doing justice to Ireland. We
are ready—most ready to assist the Government in that
great work. Why do you not at once determine to assist us?
There never was, and there never will be, a period at which
your p• esence in the Asiociation would do so much good—
it would 'repair the unhappy feud Which thb physical forcd
men have created in the Association—it would restore us all
to agitation by peaceable meaus•aloue.
You Ooidd, as c mutter or cowa.o4,ka Glo:ourry'6