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IRELAND.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
DUBLIN, Nov. 11.—The weekly meeting of the
Association was held this day in the Conciliation
Hall. Captain Broderick in the chair.
The SECRETARY read the following lettter from
Mr. O'Connell, which, although a private one, he
would lay before the meeting. He had great pleasure
in saying that it announced the receipt of 5001. from
the friends in New York.—(Cheers.)
" Darrynane Abbey, Nov. 7.
"My dear Ray,—l send you a letter from New York,
and an address to me from the repeaters of that city,
together with a draft on Baring, Brothers, for
five hundred pounds. I wish I could be per-
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the splendid support we receive from the true-hearted
friends of Ireland in New York. Pray get Maurice to
make commemoration of the generous liberality of our
American friends. It will delight them to hear of the
bright prospects that open before us of restoring the
nationality of our beloved fatherland, by a combination
of Irishmen of every sect and persuasion in the cause of
Irish legislative independence.
" Pay all honours to our friends in New York.
" I intend, please God, to be in the Association on
Monday, the 25th, in full health, and renewed anxiety
to forward the cause of Old Ireland.

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" My intention of attending the meeting of the
25th would not be sufficient to justify the parade of
this announcement, but that its real object is to in-
form the members of the Association of my design on
that day to bring for ward two topics of great and vital
importance.
" The first involves the subject of an application to
Parliament for an impeachment of the persons principally
concerned in the late Monster Prosecutions, and, iu par-
ticular, to consider deliberately the propriety of address-
ing the people of Great Britain, in order to procure their
aid in enforcing on Parliament the necessity of such im-
peachment. If such an address shall be agreed upon, it
will remain to be determined whether it shall take place
by personal attendance in England of a delegation of the
Association, or through the medium of the press.
" The second great object for the consideration of the
Association on the 25th, is one which has engrossed
much of my thoughts, and from which my mind is full
of anticipations of great utility, if it can legally be
arranged—l mean the appointment of a Preservative
Society of 300.
" It is quite true that the legal difficulties are very
great ; the Irish people are oppressed by the tyrannous
weight of the Convention Act—an enactment from the
infliction of which the people of England are perfectly
free. It may be worth while, by way of parenthesis, to
remark, that the present connexion with England is
called a union, though the people of England are free
from the burden which thus most cruelly embarrasses
the people of Ireland in their political exertions—
" A union, forsooth I !
" I shall not dictate either of these measures to the
Repeal Association ; it is as little within my power as it
is within my inclination to do so. They are subjects
deserving the most grave consideration, and upon which
the most honest of mankind may reasonably and fairly
differ.
"I invite the most earnest attention of the members
of the Repeal Association to these topics ; that which
presses most is the impeachment, because, if that be
adopted, our arrangements must be complete before the
sitting of Parliament, which will, most probably, take
place in the first week of February next. Every fact
connected with the management of the jury list must be
investigated and ascertained ; and I will, in particular,
call the attention of the Association to the conduct of the
Recorder. At first I thought that he was not to blame,
but farther reflection upon his most unnecessary journey
to England at a most critical period, convinced me that
the public are entitled to a strict and critical inquiry
into his conduct upon that occasion. The mode of his
deportment in Parliament on the subject, dissatisfies my
mind very considerably ; he cannot be allowed, as I
think, to cover himself by his judicial situation ; he was
ministerial as well as judicial, and, in both capacities,
responsible to Parliament.
" A full investigation is required, because if he had
taken proper care that the jury list was duly made out,
the jury trial upon that list would never be denounced
by the highest legal tribunal in the land as a delusion,
a snare, and a mockery.'
" Ho may be able to vindicate his conduct, but in-
quiry is absolutely necessary to satisfy the public mind ;
and it is strongly my purpose, if approved by the Asso-
ciation, to have the entire case, including the Recorder's
conduct, brought distinctly before Parliament.
" There has been a longer pause in the repeal agita-
tion than I had anticipated, but I do not by any means
regret it. There was in that pause a deference to the
opinions of those Irishmen who differ from us, which
was calculated, I think, to convince them how respect-
fully their opinions have been treated, and will be treated,
whenever they join the ranks of the Repeal Association.
It was an experiment we made, and I claim the merit of
being one of the principal promoters of that experiment.
If it had been immediately successful, its importance is
almost incalculable ; it would have produced two things;
first, the enunciation of a specific plan which Protestant
gentlemen of fortune, rank, talent, and patriotism,
deemed most useful to remedy the admitted grievances,
the poverty and destitution of Ireland, and to give to
her the power of domestic legislation in all affairs relat-
ing to her own concerns. It would, secondly, have given
the opportunity to us, thorough and out-and-out re-
peelers, to show courtesy and conciliation where we
differ with the federalists, and also our readiness to
concede everything for that conciliation, consistent with
our great and immutable principle of Irish nationality.
" This experiment has not been as yet successful ; the
federalists have not come forward with any specific plan,
they have made no public movement, they have effected
no organisation among themselves ; our notions as to
their plans are purely conjectural.
" It would, under such circumstances, perhaps, have
been better if a perfect silence had been adopted by those
who formed particular ideas of what federalism meant,
and thus opposed the creature of their own imagination.
" But I am far from thinking that those who adopted
the course different from that which I should have ad-
vised, were therefore in the wrong ; this much, however,
is certain, that the discussion, if it were prematurely en-
tered into, was at all events conducted with good temper
and civility ; no improper motives were imputed by the
dissentient repealers to the federalists.
" The experiment, it is true, has not as yet been suc-
cessful, yet I think it has afforded grounds of confident
hope, and pleasing anticipation of future and complete
success.
" These things have been ascertained—
" First —That there are a number of Protestants, of
various classes—but in particular of rank and station—
who are as dissatisfied with the working of the Union
statute as I am, and who are as convinced as I am of the
iniquitous means by which the union was effected ; who,
also, are as thoroughly persuaded as I am that the mi-
sery and destitution of the Irish people must continue,
and augment yearly, unless the present political con-
nexion between Great Britain and Ireland is essentially
altered.
" It is well to know this fact—the declaration of Mr.
Grey Porter is decisive upon it, and I am bound to say
that I have abundant reasons to be convinced that the
abhorrence of the present union is more extensive among
the wealthier classes of Ireland, especially the landed
proprietors, than Mr. Grey Porter was aware of.
"The second important fact ascertained is, that if, or
whenever the federalists shall announce their plan, it
will be received with deference and respect, it will be
discussed with coolness and temper ; and if we are com-
pelled by our great principle of nationality to reject it
in part, or in the entire, it will be rejected in a manner
of the most conciliating courtesy.
" Thirdly. It is also ascertained that if the repealers
should find the plan of federalism is one by. which Ire-
land could get all that simple repeal could give her, and
something more, that in such case the federalists will be
permitted, and even solicited, to take their natural sta-
tion, according to their talent, wealth, and rank, at the
head of the movement.
" Let me, then, tell my fellow-countrymen that our
experiment has not totally failed ; it must necessarily
leave behind it an impression of the entire absence of

any angry, irritating, or vexatious spirit among the re-
peaters. Yes, and an impression, also indelible, of our
anxiety for conciliation and harmony amongst Irishmen
of every class, creed, persuasion, and political principle.
" I think it right to express my very strong opinion
that we should have had a very powerful federal demon-
stration, if the English Whig party had not succeeded
in stifling it for the present. There is something exceed-
ingly ludicrous in the fact, that whilst the English Tory
press were abusing the Whigs, and abusing me for having,
as they untruly alleged, entered into a compact to sub-
stitute federalism for repeal, and to assist in bringing the

Whigs again into office, the Whigs were, at that very
time, counteracting every effort of mine to procure a de-
claration from the federalists, and they actually succeeded
in preventing a federal declaration—which, I believe,
would have long since appeared but for their antagonist

" There is another thing certain, that whether or not
we shall have any other federalist make an appeal to the
Irish public, Mr. Grey Porter has, in his pamphlet,
pledged,himself to produce his plan of federalism before
the end of the present year, and, judging from his cha-
racter, it is to the last degree probable that he will re-
deem that pledge. Let us, however, in the meantime,
exert all our energies to forward the repeal cause, as if
this interlude had not occurred.

"It is quite true that, according to the constitution:of the
Repeal Association, federalism is an open question, and
we have admitted as avowed federalists many individuals
of the first respectability—for one instance, the Right
Rev. Dr. Kennedy, the Catholic Bishop of Killaloe—yet,
I am very decidly of opinion—and as respectfully sub-
mit that opinion to the Association—that it is much bet-
ter to limit our exertions to simple repeal, and confine
our efforts to the restoration of the Irish Parliament,

without seeking anything further—marking, however,
distinctly, the limit between simple repeal and federalism.
" Simple repeal, I take it, consists in this—
" First. On the preservation of the connexion between
Great Britain and Ireland, through the means of a sole
executive and the golden link of the Crown.
" Secondly. In the repeal of the Union Statute, 50th
George 111., chap. 47.

" Thirdly. In the restoration of the Irish House of
Lords in all its integrity.
" Fourthly. In the re-construction (upon Reform prin-
ciples) of the Irish House of Commons, consisting of
300 members, distributed upon the basis of population,
that being the basis adopted in the English Reform Bill.
" Fifthly. That the restored Irish Parliament should
have all the powers which were vested in the Irish Par-
liament before the union ; that is to say, complete legis-
lative and judicial authority in Ireland.
" I think it right to state my thorough conviction, as
well as my perfect determination, that we should never
consent to receive less for Ireland than what is contained

in these five propositions ; this would be giving Ireland
to the Irish ; but it would give them no further share in
the advantages of British connexion. It will, however,
amply content me, because the Irish Parliament would
have in itself inherent means of opposing the abuse of
Great Britain of the powers which are vested in the Bri-
tish Crown, and in which the late Irish Parliament here-
tofore had no share.

" I repeat, thus much I require for Ireland—complete
legislative and judicial authority vested in the Crown,
and the restored Irish Houses of Lords and Commons.
It never entered into my mind to accept of less, and it
never can.

"It may be right here to remind the Irish people of a fact,
that there were seventy nomination boroughs in Ireland
before the union. All these would have been swept away
at the time of the Reform Bill in England, if Ireland
then had her own Parliament. They will, of course, be
considered as annihilated, and so much of the Union
Statute as sweeps them away, would be re-enacted by the
Act repealing the Union Statute itself.
" There is one inquiry which the people of Ireland
have a right to make, and which I am ready to answer.
" What occasion has there been to raise the question
of federalism, I, myself, being content with the restora-
tion of the Irish Parliament in a reformed shape ?
" My answer is—that it is a duty which I owe to the
people of Ireland, to obtain for the struggle for the re.
storation of their Parliament all the strength, power, and
energy that I possibly can accumulate in that cause ; it
is my sacred duty to show to the British empire, and to
the world, upon what slender foundation of support the
Union Statute is based ; to demonstrate to the British
Ministry and British Parliament, the universality of the
disgust which pervades Irishmen of every clsss, at being
deprived of any share in the government of their own
country. I demonstrated by means of the monster meetings
of last year how intense was, and is, the anger of the Irish
people at the loss of their national independence, and how
peacefully, but fixedly, determined they were, and are,
never to relax their exertions until the Parliament shall be
in College-green again—and now it is equally incumbent
on me to procure, if possible, a similar combination
among the wealthier classes, and particularly among the
Protestant nobility and gentry, for the restoration of our
national independence. . . .

" There is no taunt—there is no reproach—there is no
calumny that I am not cheerfully ready to endure, if I
am able to procure the support of such of the Protestant
nobility and gentry as have not yet joined us in seeking
the repeal of the Union ..-3.tatute.
" There is nothing short of principle which I would not
sacrifice to obtain the support of the Protestant gentry :
I desire to place them at the head of the movement, that
all fear of religious ascendancy may be done away with
for ever, and the repeal of the union rendered secure.
" But the repeal of the union, in order to be useful to
Ireland, should have the assent of nearly all per popula-
tion, clergy, nobility, gentry, and laity of every class,
creed, and persuasion. lam recruiting sergeant for the
Irish people, and whilst I beat up for recruits by every
argument convincing and conciliatory, and in the sacri-
fice of everything but principle, the success of my plans
may be postponed ; but I think I am quite safe in de-
claring that such success is not remote or uncertain.
" The chief argument against repeal, used especially
by the class I allude to, is that the restoration of the
Irish Parliament would necessarily tend to a separation
between the two countries—a powerful argument, if true.
They (the non-repealers) assert that the repeal of the
union would leave many questions unsettled between
Ireland and Englard—that Ireland would have no con-
trol over treaties with foreign Powers—over the appoint-
ment of the Executive—that is, of the British Ministry

—or over the management of the colonies, or other im-
perial concerns ; and thus, that numerous international
and hostile questions would arise, tending to create a
civil war between the two countries, and leaving Ireland
to no other choice than submission to British conquest ;

or, by a successful revolt, throwing off British connexion
and the allegiance to the British Crown.
" Unhappily, there is a great difficulty in persuading
the persons who take up these ideas of their futility ; it
is infinitely better to discuss with them in perfect temper
and kindliness, the remedies they themselves propose—
that; remedy consists in a federal congress upon some
plan as yet undefined, to give Ireland a potential voice
in the regulation of foreign treaties—in the checks on
Ministerial power—in the management of colonial affairs,
and in all other imperial concerns.
" It is quite true, that in striking out the plans for
such congressional powers, many difficulties will arise,
and many conflicting interests will have to be consulted.
This may tend to render the arrangement more difficult
to he effected ; but if federalism shall bring to our aid
a great force of the Protestant nobility and gentry, more
than equivalent to those difficulties, the gam will be en-
tirely on the side of Ireland.
" I confess I should be glad to see a plan that would
give Ireland an effectual share in the arrangement of
foreign treaties. In that case the linen yarns of Belfast
would be in no danger of being sacrificed to the inte-
rests of the makers of cutlery in Sheffield and Bir-
mingham.
" Again, look to the colonies, read the names of the
official persons in those colonies, you will find very many
English, and, above all, plenty of Scotch, but scarcely
one Irish ; and if there be an Irishman among them, it
is in all probability some renegade, who has sold his
country for a colonial bribe.
" Then, as to the state of religion in the colonies, the
religion of the people of England is protected in the co-
lonies, so is the religion of the people of Scotland ; but
the religion of the people of Ireland is scantily tolerated;
for example, in Newfoundland, the Protestant Bishop has
a salary from Government of 5001. a year, while my rev.
friend, the Right Rev. Dr. Fleming, has a salary of only
501. a year, though his duties are in the inverse ratio
of the salaries.
" I have thus shown that I seek for Ireland the full
benefit of the repeal of the union, and the restoration of
her domestic Parliament ; that I will never take less
for the Irish Parliament than that which it had before
the union, that is, final legislative and judicial authority
in Ireland.
" But, if I can get more for Ireland, if I can, in addi-
tion to her legislative independence, procure for her, by
means of a federal arrangement, a direct interference as
to foreign treaties, and a direct and unequivocal power
in colonial affairs, I will not refuse the advantages and
authority which may be tendered to Ireland, as addi-
tional links in the connexion with Great Britain.
" In fine, fellow-countrymen, the pause of experiment
is over ; let us rouse again for the peaceful contest—a
contest not to be suspended until the Parliament is again
in College-green with all its ancient authority and ju-
risdiction.
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" DANIEL O'CONNELL."
The SECRETARY again said lie had another im-
portant communication to lay before the meeting.
It was an address from the Complete Suffrage So-
ciety to the Repeal Association, and was signed by
that excellent individual Joseph Sturge :
" TO Si. RAY, SECRETARY TO THE NATIONAL REPEAL
ASSOCIATION, DUBLIN.

" Esteemed Friend,—ln forwarding the inclosed ad-
dress, it is scarcely necessary for me to say that the opi-
nion I long ago publicly expressed in favour of federal-
ism remains unchanged.
" I earnestly hope that the question will have the deli•
berate and candid consideration of every true friend of