The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-21 00:00:00

suffering country are in your hands ! Is it your will
that Ireland shall continue an ill-governed, because not
a self-governed province ? or do you determine that she
shall again be a nation, under the Britisher Crown, pos-
sessing a Parliament composed of her own sons, freely
chosen by her own people, and really representing the
8,000,000 of her brave, generous, moral, And temperate
population !
" Last year the people of Ireland were assembled to
pronounce upon repeal ; and in town and city, in county
and in province, the national voice declared in favour of
legislative independence. It was right that the people
should be so consulted, and the sense or the Ration so
collected. The result was a glorious one
" The people of Ireland are now committed to repeal !
A nation cannot, without the deepest dishonour, abandon
opinions so loudly and so unanimously proclaimed.
" 1843 was a year of display, of demonstration, of
most noble promise ; 1844 must be the year of steady,
persevering, unostentatious work. Be it your care, re-
peal wardens of Ireland, that 1844 fulfils the promise of
1843. . . . . .

" The National Repeal Association in alone legally
appoint repeal wardens—other persons, bodies, or meet-
ings may recommend, but they cannot appoint to the
office. All committees of repeal wardens are in fact only
local Committees of the Association, to be appointed by
that body, and subject to its control.
" We now proceed to describe the manner in which
repeal wardens are to be appointed :
Firstly, we recommend as the best and wisest mode
of proceeding, that proper and efficient persons should
be recommended to the Association by the parochial
clergy.
" Secondly, should the clergy be unwilling to inter
fere, that persons anxious to become wardens should be
recommended at a public meeting of the parish, con-
vened for that purpose, and their names transmitted to
the Association. In either case reliance may be had,
that unless for some very strong reason, the recommen-
dation of the persons named either by the clergy or at
the meeting will be confirmed by the Association.
" When a repeal warden shall have been appointed,he
will receive a written notification of his appointment
from the secretary of the Association ; and on his com-
pleting remittances to the amount of 51. he will be pre-
sented with a handsome diploma of office.
" The first duty of the repeal wardens is, to divide
each parish into sections of convenient size for the pur-
pose of collecting the repeal rent. To each section there
should be a repeal warden, whose duty it would be to
apply to every repealer in his section for one halfpenny
fortnightly, or one penny monthly.
Ei" Is is advisable that in each parish there should be
two inspectors of wardens, each to hare half the parish
under his care. The inspectors to be selected by the
el rgy, in conjunction with the local committee of war-
dens, and their names to be transmitted to the Association
for appointment.
" The inspectors' duty shall be to receive from the
wardens, and remit weekly, if possible, to the secretary
of the Association ;the sums received from each warden ;
and also to answer any queries which the Committee of
the Association may, from time to time, transmit to them.
" The wardens and inspectors of each parish are to
constitute a Committee, to be named The Committee of
Wardens of parish,' and wherever it is practicable,
a convenient place for holding weekly meetings should
be obtained. _ _

" All committees thus formed will be allowed the pre-
sent drawback of 21. out of every 101. contributed by
their parish, for local repeal expenses, suck as rent of
reading-rooms, purchase of newspapers ; and will, be-
sides, be supplied with all the publications and docu-
ments emanating from the Repeal Association. But in
all cases where one of those most invaluable institutions,
repeal reading-rooms, exist, such repeal reading-room
will be considered by the Association the best and most
fitting place for the keeping of their documents.
" It is also the duty of the repeal wardens to procure
signatures to the various petitions agreed on by the Asso-
ciation, and to take special care that none but genuine
signatures are affixed thereto ; or, when persons cannot
write, to obtain their authority for affixing their names ;
and also to transmit such petitions, according to the in-
structions of the Repeal Association, to Dublin.
" Another duty of the repeal wardens is to promote
the registry of Parliament, municipal, and poor-law
electors, in the repeal interests, by ascertaining the names
and qualifications of all sach persons, not registered, who
are qualified, and inducing them to take the necessary
steps to have their franchise established.
" The chief duty of the repeal wardens is to be always
actively alive to preserve the public peace, and to pre-
vent crime. They should call in the aid of the police
and magistrates to prevent riots, or breaches of the
peace, or any acts of violence ' • and they are bound to
prevent the formation of illegal societies, of whatever de-
scription ; or, if any such subsist, to denounce them to
the legal authorities of the State.
" All the proceedings of the repeal wardens must be
open and public—no secresy can be allowed.
" The Loyal National Repeal Association disclaims
and rejects all force and violence. It proclaims that the
cause is to succeed by peace and perseverance, and that
the man who violates the law gives strength to the
enemies of Ireland.

" In order to the working out of a peaceful and legal
agitation, pecuniary funds are essential.
" The repeal rent, therefore, is absolutely necessary,
in order to work out our peaceful and legal purposes.
" Extraordinary occasions will ever produce extraor-
dinary exertion upon the part of the people of Ireland.
They have marked their indignation at the imprison-
ment of our beloved leader and his fellow-martyrs, by
pouring into the national treasury, in the first month of
his captivity, 12,3941. 14s. 9d. Still it is most desirable
that the weekly amount of rent should not depend upon
the impulse given by extraordinary events. Every exer •
tion should be made to place the fund on a perfectly
regular and permanent footing.
" A general collection in small sums would greatly,
tend to prevent fluctuations, and would hare the addi-
tional advantage of being more convenient to a great
majority of the contributors.
"We therefore again impress upon the wardens the
fact that the Association is more anxious that the sum
collected by each repeal warden every week should be
sent at the end of the week through the inspector of his
half-parish, than that it should be retained until other
sums would be added, with a view to send a larger
amount. The Association would feel more indebted for
small sums regularly transmitted than for large sums
occasionally forwarded.. Every half•parish in Ireland
should send a weekly remittance to the Association
through its inspector.
" It is on all hands admitted that much more than
3,000,000 of Irishmen declared last year for repeal.
Were one-third of that number to contribute a halfpenny
a fortnight, a penny a month, a shilling a year, an an -
nual fund of more than 50,000 L would be created; which,
with extraordinary subscriptions, would amount to a
weekly average of more than 1,0001.
" Repeal wardens of Ireland, it is right you should be
made acquainted with the greatness of the responsibility
which attaches to your office ; you should understand,
and duly appreciate, the importance of the services your
country calls upon you to render her. If there be among
you, which we do not apprehend, men unfitted for the
office, from want of zeal, activity, or perseverance, they
should, at once, if they are honest men, resign. Ire-
land requires real, not nominal, services ; working, not
professing, friends.
" Therefore, let no man who is not conscious of pos-
sessing the following qualifications assume the office of
warden. All honest men shrink from the assumption of
a position to the duties of which they are unequal.
" The title of repeal warden' is a noble title, of which
all true Irishmen should be ambitious ; but they alone
deserve it who,
" 1. Are men of industrious habits, of good moral
character, and enjoying the respect of their clergy,
let them be of what religious denomination they may,
and possessing the confidence and esteem of their neigh-
bours.

" 2. The wardens should possess an intimate know-
ledge of the district over which they are to act, and they
should labour to increase that knowledge by a study of
such maps, statistics, and other documents relating to
the neighbourhood to which they can get access.
"3. They should be men determined to discharge
their duties zealously and perseveringly, and look on a
week in which they do not collect repeal rent, and trans-
mit it through the inspector of their half•parish, as a
week of dishonour.

" 4. They should be disposed to reason civil and
calmly with those who are yet opposed to repeal. They
should love peace, avoid strife, suppress hatred and
animosities, and ardently seek to conciliate all—to alie-
nate and insult none.

" 5. They should, in the repeal reading-rooms and at
home, in town and in field, try to learn the resources,
statistics, history, and prospects of Ireland. They should
especially study the arguments for repeal, both for their
own benifit and their neighbour's. A repeal warden
should be able to explain, to all who require information
on the subject, the strictly legal and peaceful means by
which repeal is to be attained. He should be capable of
detailing the disastrous effects of the union upon our
trade and manufactures, and of explaining the advan-
tages that would inevitably result to Ireland from the
rost6ration of her domestic legislation. In short, the
Repeal wardens shbuld be the instructors, the teachers of
the people, anxious to disseminate among them useful
and wholesome political information.
" In order to make these attainments easier, the Asso-
ciation will give every help in their power to the Repeal
reading-rooms.
" In conclusion, we call upon the Repeal wardens, in
the name of our common country, to do their duty, to
worthily perform the glorious task assigned them—the
regeneration of a nation ! Again, we tel them that the
destinies of their country are in their bands ; let the
reveal wardens in every parish in Ireland act ener-
getically, zealously, and, above all, perseveringly, and
repeal is certain.

"Let every man in Ireland act as if the legislative
freedom of his country depended solely upon his indi-
vidual exertions.

" Repeal wardens of Ireland, we repeat it, your coun-
try's dependence is upon you ! Upon your exertions,
upon your active, persevering patriotism, rest her hopes
of regeneration.

" Be active, then, zealous, persevering. Be so, for your
own great honour—your children's welfare—your coun-
try's gratitude.
" A. R. STRITCH, Chairman of Parish Committee."

N.B. Each person having paid up one shilling is enti-
tled to be enrolled as an Associate Repealer.
"Each person having paid 11. is entitled to be admitted
a member.
"Each person having collected twenty shillings is
entitled to be admitted a member (provided he is him-
self a contributor of one shilling or more to the repeal
fund).
"Each person subscribing 101. is entitled to be enrolled
a volunteer.
"Each person collecting 10/. is entitled to he enrolled
a volunteer (provided he is himself a subscriber of one
shilling or more to the repeal fund).
"In each and all of the above cases, the

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