The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-30 00:00:00

all events use every exertion to convince the people that
the repeal" is intended and calculated for the benefit of
all, and that it is immaterial for the purposes of the club what
the religion of any individual may b We are looking for
the restoration of the liberties of all classes and creeds in Ire-
land, without any distinction whatsoever. This duty is an
awful one—it consists in the perpetual severance of religious
prejudices or interests from the agitation of " the repeal." If
we succeed in this separation, our ultimate success will not be
remote; but if, by our present indiscretion, we enable the
Orangemen to convert " the repeal" into another Catholic
question, no other event can have the power of inflicting such
a blight upon the hopes of repeal. Let us, then, whilst we
act firmly, act also cautiously, and steer such a course as will
prevent the great cause of legislative independence from, on
the one hand, embarrassing a Ministry disposed at present to
be just towards Ireland, or from, on the other, enabling the
deadly foes of Ireland—the Orangists—to tarnish and griev-
ously injure that cause by degrading it into a sectarian
squabble.
Let us, then, in agitating the repeal, keep these dangers in
view ; and whilst we neither abandon nor relax our efforts to
attain " repeal," let us put those efforts under the guidance
and control of the most prudent and discreet caution, recol-
lecting that, after all, a domestic Legislature is the only one
under which Ireland can prosper.
Having thus sketched my present plan of counteracting
agitation to that of bigotry and tyranny which has been com-
menced by the Orange faction, I beg that the leading features
will be borne in mind, not for mere approbation or for idle dis-
cussion, but for practical adoption.
I propose, then, that there shall be formed in each county,
city, and large town in Ireland " a Liberal Club," principally
for the following purposes :-
Ist—To suppress agrarian crimes and outrages.
2d—To suppress, by legal means, and to punish by due
course of law, the members of Orange Lodges, and all other
Orange criminals.
3d—To procure, by legal and constitutional means, the to-
tal extinction of tithes, in nature as well as name.
4th—To attend to the elective franchise throughout Ireland,
so as to secure the return to Parliament of " friends to Ireland."
sth—To advance and secure the restoration of a domestic
legislature to Ireland.
All of these are of great importance—the last is the most
important of all ; but the most pressing is the extinction of
tithe • and also the most immediately practical. If the Irish
people exert themselves as they ought to do, tithes will speedi-
ly be extinguished by law. This is the point on which we
ought all to combine—the constitutional extinction of tithes
—and, for my part, I will co-operate with every " Liberal
Club" which concurs in that alone. I feel strongly that we
have this game completely in our hands, and that if the tithes
were once extinguished, the moral effect of such a victory
over the Orange faction would be to destroy their power for
ever.—l have the honour to be, your ever faithful servant,
DANIEL O'CONNELL.