The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-01 00:00:00

MUNSTER PROVINCIAL MEETING.

(Abridged from the Dublin Morning Register of Friday.)
(SECOND SAY.)
The adjourned meeting on Tuesday was as numerously
and respectably attended as on the first day. Shortly after
eleven o'clock the chair was taken by JaarES Secl.l.Y, Esq.
°I Tipperary.
Mr. Rog, of Roesberough, a Protestant Gentleman of
the that reepectahility, rose and said, Mr. Chairman and
fellow-countrymen, it is essential that each and all of our
!'spreisentatives must he zealous, active, and unctimpromia-
Itne--and in order to insure thew indispensable qualities,
I...adependent Comity Clubs would be of great utility.—
`noling from a person situated as I am, this opinion will
n°ti I trust be considered as intrusive. I sin anxious,
Ilierefore Mr. Chairman, to propose the formation of one
fur this our .
county.an
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I rise to second the resolution which
I°_ll have just heard. I congratulate the meeting that I
have been preceded by a Protestant gentleman. It cannot
but occur to the most inattentive observer of our politics,
tleain no country in Europe are the elements for organize-
. t'arl more abundant, or in greater maturity, than at this
moment in Ireland. Our enemies have long since done us
this real and especial service. They have sent us in upon
narselvee—they have taught us the naeraure of our own
minds, and lay a hardy and persevering discipline, gra-
ii"llY made us acquainted with the resources of our power,
'4d (assured us the certainty of victory, upon the best of
all Possible I:es:ll66N, a knowledge and confidence in our
aaoral and intellectual strength. Public discussions under all
' forms, amid iu all places, habituated us to each other's senti-
ttlente• We began to perceive that we did indeed belong to
"ash, other—that our cause was the cause of every man,
Torn the highest to the lowest in the land, and that
4 was a high and commanding moral duty for every
unnis no matter what his position in the community,
to add his exertion and contribution to its early and
Perfect attainment.—(Loud Cheers.)—The Association
'ls the visible expression of this feeling—it grew out of
eta growth, and in tnru sent back new influences to invi-
..- Prate and animate the still slumbering portion of the na-
tion. Ity degrees the seeds of national regeneration were
all set in motion. The sense of unmerited wrongs, and a
cool and determined resolve to seek for its redress, through
'very sacrifice, took poeseeien of the reason and con-
science of the entire people.—(Cheers.) The elections
broke up the popular mind into new and vigorous forms—
aualities which lay almost unknown to the possessors, ap-
Deared on the surface in the course of that momentous
struggle—every feeling was sacrificed to the one absorbing
cause—they became real co-operators in bursting their
°Aa fetters—a few weeks redeemed the losses of (-tutu-
Tiee—Onee taught their iatereets and their rights, there
wits no need farther to rouse them—they knew their duty,
they had the moral courage to execute it—every village
in the land added new impulse and vigour to the solemn
Purpose of being tree.—(Cheers.) Nor were they the
nnly regenerators of Ireland : the Pastor preceded the
flick ; the gentleman accompanied them ; a three-
"d power sprung up from their union—it now
"iglu over the entire land. It is mighty—it is uni-
versal—you have it before you—you have it in your
hands ; upon you, therefore, it depends to make it
useful or perilous; you are the persons who will have to
answer before the country, whether it shall be attended
With its blessings or not. Neither you nor your enemies
can exercise or destroy it now ; no suppressions of Associa-
ti°a-s—no anathemas of Orange Corporations—no menaces
Of the " eleven men in buckram" of the North—can now
annihilate it; you may change a name, but you cannot
quench a reality; the spirit is enshrined in living hearts;
Paine and penalties, wrongs and insults, shall never wring
it thence. —(Cheers.)—l3ut, like all other great forces, it
must not be allowed to run random; it must not be per-
mitted to range idly through the community ; it must be
eiuPleyed for purposes of benefit,but may rush on for purposes
"injury--you must give it practical and judicious direction.
I have but one desire, and I shall express it in one sen-
tence, like Briareus, that our body should have many
baud; but like Briareus also, that these hands should have
but one heart and one head to guide them. (Cheers.) I
wish that that head should be, as it has been, the Catholic
Association, a presiding and protecting club over every other ;
I wish that in every county the county clubs should depend
upon it, and that every county club should have its paro-
chial or branch clubs, equally independent on them as
they on the Asaociation, far their guidance and instruc-
tion. This I cell organization—public, legal, constitu-
tional organization ; the combination of every single man
in the country with the other ; cash member of the great
political body in his place ; each assisting where they can
be most useful; cornmanding and obeying in tunic, and
all recognizing, not, indeed, the single authority of any
wan, but the uacurtaileti power and knowledge of
our body, in the Catholie Association. (Cheers.) In
every county, in every city, have your meeting, and your
committee.management, and your committee of inquiry.
Associate the artizan and the farmer in your labours. Give
each man an interest, and you will give him a bond, in a
cause from which, at the present moment, riot a single
Irishman should be excluded. Preach everywhere the
kindling truths of your great political faith. Let instruc-
tion flow through all the land. Let every village have its
paper, and ever chapel door its Sunday lecturer. (Cheers.)
&s shall you oppoeme to your enemies a phalanx stronger
than bayonets or iron--calmness, justice, and mind. Mind
and justice are strength ; oppreseion and mere physical
coercion is weakness. Fellow-sufferers! I leave you to
your conclusions.—(Loud and long-continued cheering.)
Capt. Powee, of Ballydiue, moved the next resolution,
which was seconded by the Rev. Mr. Cole, of Limerick,
who addressed the meeting in an elaborate and must
eloquent 'pectin
Mr. O'CoNwEr.t. moved the next resolution, repelling
the imputations east upon the Catholic body by Mr. Hut-
chinson's letter.
Mr. :alone's, of Waterford—Mr. Hutchinson must
have been an inattentive observer of Catholic proceed-
ing', if he for one moment supposes that it is the eb-
• jest of she Catholics to raise themselves above their Pro-
testant fellow-countrymen ; if such is their object, they do
not merit the support of Mr. Hutchinson, er any other
man ; the object of the Catholics is not to raise themselves
Leto a monopoly of power, but to break down that mono-
poly which has been an " incubus" on this unfortunate,
degraded, and calumniated country.--(Hear, bear.)—
Mr. O'Connell has over and over again disclaimed, on the
part of the Catholics, and on his own part, soy intention of
raising the Catholic interest at the expence of the Protestant
interest. Their interests are the same—in fact there ars no
conflicting interests—the interest of the Catholic and the
interest of the Protestant are the same. Mr. O'Connell
yesterday, before the altar of his God, most solemnly pro-
tested, that if an attempt was made to raise a Catholic ascen-
dancy on the ruins of the Protestants, that he would oppose it
with the same zeal which lie has opposed that hideous as-
cendancy and monopoly which have brought down such
ruin and misery on his ceuntry. These are sentiments
worthy of the Representative of the people of Clare, and
which is a pledge that he intends to be, what he ought to
be, the Representative of the Protestant as well as the Ca-
tholie.—(Cheers.)—Having drawn the attention of the
meeting to that part of Mr. Hutebinsion's letter, which, I
am sorry to say, is so objectionable, and which I ant will-
ing to believe, was written under some misapprehension,
I feel great pleasure in calling the attention of the meeting
to other parts of it, in which he expresses sentiments
worthy of one who is, I hope, the hereditary advocate
of his Catholic coontrynaen.—They possess great and re-
deeming qualities. Ile says, he " will yield to no
Catholic in devotion to the great (souse of civil and re-
ligious liberty." Ile is anxious that " his Catholic
countrymen should enjoy, to the fullest extent, all the
infernal aspiration, that this his native land should be in-
undated with slaughter, and deluged with human gore !
A little blood would, forsooth, have some tnonths ago
contented him. If. would have had Ireland cupped—he
he would have Ireland just leeched with a corps or two
• of yesnuanry—he would have used his rusty sabre as a
lancet, and opened a vein in a northern county, and bled
Its according to the approved principles of his political
Phlebotomy..--(Cheers.)—But now he demands an artery,
+we requires a large and abundant g'-',NII of blood--aye,
shed blood, enough, old Renault.'
has been kept in his cage since 1799, where tYrChCer l
he Las rie
el-
tPailatal in a state of truculent torpor, and yawned for car-
usge. Time could not extinguish his thirst, and with a
renovation and ripeost an increase of ferocity, he starts up
at the bars of hisden, Zird glaring eeith savageness, howls
tem rush on us agairi.—(Load cheers.).--" Torrents of
blood must now be shed !" And this was the sentiment
which au assembly of Christians could listen to without
horror ! Do Englishmen know whp the man is who is
chasm as the moeth,piece of Orangeitao, or as the in,
terpreter of ascendancy iu Ireland ? *rye they ever
read or heard anything of the history of this country
I verily believe they are scarcely aware of the mis-
deeds that under the name of loyalty have been per-
petrated in this unfortunate appurtenance of the em-
pire, for if they did, they would rise up together, and
in the name of common humanity, require of the Govern-
ment not to surrender the people to the mercies of those
men by whom cruelties were inflicted to which no parallel
can be found in the animals of modern Europe. During the
political agitation of Ireland, a system of torture was put
into practice, which 1 do not hesitate to *ay, exceeded in
Rolla of barbarity time terrible excesses of the French ne'

volution. In France, life was at a discount—the guillotine
went rapidly throuel. tie pro's es of miscellaneous decapita-
tion, and althotzl, dll
I in-n must shrink at the con-
templation of the crimes which were committed ii. tkat
great parox}sin of ..atiet. .1 freuzy, yct it Ili ti-t l,e aek now-
lodged that little nt that species of cv uelt was indulged
in, which seeks its .1 light in the inflictien et agony—
which regales itself upon suffering. In Ireland tf.ere
was no guillotine, but Mete was what was worse—
there was the triangle.—(Loud cheers.) But what
am I doing? Do I forget where I stand,. and to
whom I sin speaking? Do I forget that you have had
a terrible attestation of the system of which I speak in the
very spot where I am addressing yeti, and that Clonmel
was the theatre of an exhibition which will be long me-
morable in the annals of loyal ferocity amongst us.—
(Cheers.)—Yes—it was lien—in this very spot where the
aggregated Catholics of this very province are assembled—.
that a wretched man was seized upon no other charge than
that he had written ou a fragment of paper a few words in
a foreign tongue (I am speaking what was proved in a
Court of Justice), and while his protestations of inno-
ceuce were received with a savage derision (I am speaking
the fact), and his cries for mercy were laughed to scorn,
his hands and his feet were bound to the engine of tor-
ture, his bark was laid bare, and then Fitzgerald—aye--
I do not wonder that you recoil at the name !—Fitzgerald,
the lacerator of human flesh !—the incarnate demon 1—
the giant of inhumanity! who grew huge upon men's
groans—who thrived upon their shrieks, and was fed into
a plethora with blood!—(Loud cheer.)—This was the
' villain (he is since gone before that God to whom the
screams of Wright ascended), who gave the horrid man-
date of torture, and saw it carried into a dreadful
fulfillment, and this too was the villain over whom
the loyal Parliament of Protestant Ireland threw
the shield of a legislative indemnity.—(Loud cheers.)
--These, these are the scenes for the recurrence of
which there are men sufficiently execrable to offer up an
infernal orison. and who find others to applaud them in the
utterance of their sanguinary desire " The sooner it
timed the better." This was the yell, the savage howl,
the blood-hound baying, which broke forth in the midst of
their barbarous festivities. The chief of their own faction,
appalled at the contemplation of the crisis to which these
malignant maniacs are endeavouring to hurry the country,
deprecates an event so terrible, and he is assailed by a si-
multaneous cry of " the sooner it comes the better." The
sooner what comes? Thxt which would inundate our
fields with slaughter, would unbar every door to murder,
and throw open every home to dishonour—which would
make every street the scene of butchery, empurple the very
mina in the public way, and choak every sewer with blood.
_(Loui cheers.)
" Lords Riveradale, Cloneurry, Rossmore, Sir Richard
Musgrave, Bart., Robert Delaceur, Esq., and the other
Protestant Noblemen and Gentlemen who would, if they
could, be with us this day."
" The venerable Bishop of Norwich, and the liberal por-
tion of the Protestant Clergy."
" The Lord Chancellor, and the liberal portion of the
Irish Bench and Bar."

The Catholic Hierarchy of Ireland, and the second
order of the Priesthood."

V.
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Several other loyal and patriotic toasts were given. At
half-past one o'clock Mr. O'Connell and a few of the
guests retired. The Secretary of the Catholics of Ireland
was then called to the Chair, and the festivities were con-
tinued until an early hour in the morning.