The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-28 00:00:00

peal Association.

Mr. O'Coeleeri. agein rose, and said there did not live
a purer or mere single-minded Man, or one more at-
tached to Ireland or to religion, than that revered pre-
late. lie waa see of the feeremoet of the apostles of the
church or () or!, anti,
though in extreme old age, his heart
be-
es warmly as the youngest amongst them in
the cause of their country-.---(Cheers.) He moved the
insertion of the letter en the minutes, and the marked
thanks of the Association to the right. rev. writer.
Captain LEVER seconded the motion, which was car-
Tied unanimously.
r. ° e and said he had to hand
thein 11, u
Phi-
ladelphia, whom ho regretted to see in this country.
s()rsEcriLpti aognaoinf theru seliev. Mr. Moriarty, of
Personally, he rejoiced to see him, but he regretted ex-
ceedingly the cause that had brought him there—it was
to raise money to rebuild the Catholic churches that had
been burned during the late riots.—((sear.) The public
were aware that atrocity unparalleled in civilized times,
horrors that made men ashamed to belong to human na-
ture, had been perpetrated by the inhabitants of Phila-
delphia, under the name of ." natives," against the Ca-
tholics and the Irish. He read the other day in an
American newspaper a leading article, stating that peace
could never be established in America until those mis-
guided and unfortunate people, the Mormonites, were an-
nihilated ; and it then added, that after the Mormonites
were exterminated they should exterminate the Catho-
lics. He would leave the meeting to consider what a
state of society it was in which such a newspaper was
supported.
Ihe Rev. Mr. MontAwrt, on rising to address the
meeting, was received with loud cheering, and proceeded
to speak at some length. During the recent outrages in
the United States it was not only the extermination of
Catholicity, but the suppression of the spirit of nation-
ality, and of the movement in favour of Ireland, which
was sought for.—(Cheers.) Her cause had been advo-
cated by the educated, enlightened, and civilised men of
America, hut he was sorry to say that the number of
such men there was few. Their houses had been laid
waste—their churches burned—his own life had been
three times attempted in the public streets of Phila-
delphia.—(Loud cries of " Oh, oh.") He trusted that
these words would be heard across the Atlantic. The
design of parties was to extermimate, or to frighten them.
—(Cheers.) He trusted no Irishman would leave Ame-
rica. It was intended to frighten clergy and laity out of
that country, but they were not to be frightened.
The SECRETARY announced the receipt of the fol-
lowing remittances;-111. from Flushing, Long Island ;
251. from Peterson, New Jersey ; and 501. from Troy,
United States.

Mr. O'Cosiaceea then rose, and was received with
loud cheers.—lie said, as soon as the noise had sub-
sided, Hurrah for repeal.—(Loud cheers.) This is the
first day of a new campaign.—(Cheers.) We begin
again to act more distinctly and more decidedly, and,
I trust, more cautiously, and with greater exertion,
than ever.—(Cheers.) The period of silence, in expec-
tation of aid and assistance from others, is gone by,
and once again we put up our high motto,
" Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not,
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow r
Year
after
been
cheers.) That motto (continued Mr. O'Con-
neil) had been the rallying maxim of his life for many
ayeenstr phreasdsemdatutpeoran of the
thaethinhtieosnt
iteaortaraeye.
to Ya
of England, and brought forward with the greatest force.
Tasty lied been treated with contempt. The press had
longd Ireland
treated them with contempt ; and suddenly the English
people find out that the Irish are determined to be free,
and they wake up with astonishment, and ask, " How
can they have arrived et that conclusion without going
through any intermediate stages ?" They had passed
through them without their knowing it. The proceed-
ings of last year—the monster meetings—the monster
trials—had drawn itheir attention to Ireland, and had
made an impression, not only upon England, but upon
all the members of the human family.—(Cheers.) If
he were asked how he intended to proceed, in order to
obtain repeal, he would answer, at once.— (Cheers.)
He had seen an Irish Parliament once sitting in College-
green, and he had registered a vow in his political sanc-
tuary that he would never rest until he saw it there
again.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) At the commence-
ment of his struggles he had been met by proclamations.
As an Act existed to give proclamations the force of law,
he obeyed them. When they ceased to have that effect,
he set them at defiance.—(Cheers.) But there had been
no repetition of them, until that at Clontaff, which
Lord Cloncurry had so well denounced as a " projected
massacre."—(Cheers.) After a protracted effort, ho had
been forced to bring forward the repeal question rather
prematurely in the House, and, after a debate of eleven
nights, there appeared a majority of 456 against them,
and 45 for them ; but at that time the House of Com-
mons pledged themselves, and the House of Lords joined
them in au address to the King, praying that the griev-
ances of the nation should be redressed. To that his
Majesty had readily given his acquiescence, and they
had, consequently, made a solemn declaration to that
effect.--(Land cheers.) How had they performed
that promise ? Not one of those grievances had been
redressed since. The declaration was nothing but a con-
gregation of falsehood. In fact, to use short language,
it was a lie—a practical he. It had had much of autho-
rity about it i it was the pledge and declaration of King,
Lords, and Commons. It had everything in point of
form, which could have given power to an Act of Par-
liament, and therefore he had paused in the agitation
of repeal when it came out. He did so, because he i
knew had he not done so, it would have been said," Why
do you not give time to the King, Lords, and Com-
mons to give effect to their pledged declaration ?" Ho
saw that, and he tried an experiment, and gave them
time. It had produced nothing.—(Hear.) They left
their pledge—as every other pledge made by England
to *lreland had been left—broken and unperformed.—
(Cheers.) Well, he began the agitation again.—(Hear,
and cheers.) Had he begun it hastily? No; he formed
the Precursor Society, to let the English ear be informed
of his objects, and to let them see how far he was from act-
ing peremptorily.—(Cheers.) They had given her the
alternative, and for twelve months they had told
her of Irish grievances—first among them the state
of the suffrage.—(Cheers.) They were disregarded, and
they were laughed at—laughed to scorn.—(Cheers.) He
tried the House of Commons. He moved for a Bill for
the increase of the franchise, and the motion was se-
conded. Who opposed it ? Not Peel, nor one of his
party, but an excellent man, who was obliged to take
that position—Lord Morpeth. Neither Whigs nor Tories
were with them. What had been his answer ?;Hurrah for
repeal.—(Cheers.) He then formed the Repeal Associa-
tion—(Cheers)—with a solemn pledge that nothing short
of repeal should satisfy them.—(Cheers.) lie had thus
given England every opportunity of doing them justice,
but she had not availed herself of one. Now, they had
gone for ever, and the Irish insisted upon repeal.—
(Cheers.) The history of the last two years was im-
portant in any account of the struggle for repeal. But,
when their enemies found out that the monster meetings,
commencing with 15,000 at Newcastle, increased to
1,000,000 at Tara, they set Brewster at them. He
had plenty of clerks—they killed a whole flock
of sheep to make parchment for the monster indict-
ment—(Laughter)—which literally was thirty-six
yards long (Cheers and laughter) and which
had been well characterised by the Lord Chief Justice.
The trial took up the public time from November to the