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TO TRi•PROPLE OF ISILAND.
'n't fluplsen-etreet, Am. 7th, 1130.
Nniteravnam-t-Illy object, in 'obi into Parliament, has
been always avowed and single. It is to form a party there for
the-pipe. ' I have said before, and I repeat it, that the people
AM have no party there. The Tories, a most baneful ram of
bad Politicians, have a powerful party in Parliament ; the Whip,
sassy of wham are bed Towles out dpeee, have a strong petty le
Parliament ; the West Indigos, who audaciously call human beings
property, these execrable West ladling, have a strong party; the
antiAlavery society have also a respectable party there; the East
loam elsonapolists, who insist en sailing tea at double its valve to
the progeny of wise Jaw Hall, and to alibis DMA subjects, and
who also inquire to be allowed to coutkungto peers, with ems-,
• ciasing. rapacity, upwards of one hundred millions of souls. they
have &large party in Parliament; the enemies to this monopoly
and usultitodinous iniquity have also theirlarty ; the High Church
has its party. numerous, merle/idly, and unyielding.; the Low
Churekror Dissenters have their party ; the army haspowerful par.
tisane: eves the navy, neglected as it may appear to be, has some
supporters, who recollect that it was, and may yet be, the pride as
well as the protection of England.
In fine, every thing and every body has a party, save only the
. people. Igo to•Parliantent to form o The Party of the People."
by motto is, &oddball be," For Goo and the people."
I know that there are many neelleat men in the House of
T.ontatens, who will heartily join with me in working for the
.people. But our strength must be derived from the people them-
selves. They most, in order to enable us to succeed, assist us with
,petitions—by public meetings—by open mods:ions and popular
vial's, and by the due use of whatever remains of the elective
franchise.
With all these aids, our progress will be slow and painful. The
powerful phalanx of conoptionists in a thousand and one grades
will assail us. No matter—we shall suffer many a defeat. I expect
to be its more minorities than any man before me ever was in ; but
again I say—no matter. Each defeat will bring us nearer to
victory. Discussion will give us increasing strength—discussion
wl I espose and weaken our adversaries. The people, by degrees,
will perceive that they have honest and disinterested friends In
Parliament; and that despair, which now Slop into apathy and
irlaCtiVl so many friends of rational measures, will give way to the
activity of hope, and to the enthusiasm which bespeaks and insures
approaching success.
For my part, I am resolved to brio. :Ise following subjects before
the Hesse of Commons during the ensuing Session of Parliament.
I will endeavour to attain the following objects :
I+t. The repeal of the Sub-letting Act—l mean its total repeal.
It is unjust in its enactments, and founded on the worst possible
principle.

ed. The repeal or modifiation of the Vestry Bill, 110 that every
person who pays parish cots shall have a vote at the Vestry, and
that no one man shall in future have leave to put his hands into the
pocket of others in the name of religion.
3d. The total alteration of the present Grand Jury system of
jobbing. My plan Includes a small annual savable cuss, to be cal-
culated en the actual value of each acre, and to be payable by the
kndlords, and deducted from the occupiers' rents. in the manner
of the Tithe Composition Bin. The mooey, when raised, to be
under popular cootroul, that is, of a Grand Inquest, to be chosen
by BALLOT, and to coedit of two or mace for each parish.
4th. I will apply for leave to bring in a Bill to declare that
TAM( Is sot a libel, or a crime. I say, to deciere—because, as a
constitutional lawyer, I have always denied that there is any law
to punish theistinting and publiddly of truth. There could not
be any part of the common law, as it is called, directed against
such polgleatioes. The genuine source of common law ceased
before the &vendetta printing. There 'lea statute law: there
is nothing but a star-chamber decision--adopted and enforced by
time-serving prerogative judges. This judge-made-law has been
tie curse of England—and Is is oonsoktory to perceive that every
body now admits that the most proligate, shameless, tools of power,
that the world ever saw, were the successive judges of England,
" in bye-gonedoses ;" yet, bow each set of them was, In Its day,
bepralsed and helmeted !!! Verily, verily, John Bull has bees,
and still la, a shott.sighted animal.
Stls. I shall promote an act to render the charitable insdtudose
of Protestant Dissenters and of Catholics perfectly safe; and to
secure such property for its proper purposes, without costly litiga-
tiOtt, or the expensive and clumsy machinery of renewal of
trusteeships.
Ctb..kly next object will be the correction of the enormous in-
sulting and oppressive weight of corporation monopoly and exec-
tides. I look foe in the first instance the repeal of the new rules
sad regulations, as they are called, annexed to the &at. 17th and
le* chap. e. These rules were Intended to destroy popular in-
hume, in twenty.one principal corporations In Ireland.
7th. The precoriog an act to punish more dikaciosaly all.
attempts to levy illegal toll, and to reduce the amount of all legal
tails and define their nature—la tact, to abolish all tolls but these
fee which the owners give value or suildeutly compensate the
etb. To extend the freedom of all the corporations to all red-
dest householders, and to take away such freedom from all non-
risidents, so as to identify corporadeos with the inhabitants of the
towns and cities.
"etti. totally to Abend' tythes In Ireland. The church lands are
mast abundantly suEcient to support the clergy of the Established
Church, provided an equal distributionshal be used/ of them, re-
gulated In seek a way as to give ample but not profuse incomes to
all orders of that clergy. The abolition of tytbe la Ireland is
tbir;fore an object not only of great national importance, bet of
video *eke and propriety.
• tOtk.' Tett* to abolish all sinecure Alms, and all pensions net
eut god by public services.
11th. to diminish all such public salaries as have been raised
Ping the war, orb consequence of the depreciation of the paper
emccoep. The salaries of the ledges have been twice railed in that
way, andepught, is My. °pluton, be the first to be reduced.
P&L The subject of law reform shall engross my most anxious
dosagins. And sly most streams. resedens. This is, indeed, one
4411611fr0t and lead* purposes of nay pontia.llife.
I intend to introduce a motion to procure a draft. or
drattsof as all-compreiseedve code of legislation and procedure.
The slily expense to the public to be that of printing and dls.

wilawiem
. • ;14th. The present system of legal proceedings is mkt' with
utism. deity. sammein 'sponse, sod mach injostke. TM date
is mow whoa die law ahead be reodered simple and pia —the
oak of proceeding shay. distinct. sod espeditiossi and redress
• wowed fee every wrong, wits *goal facility by the partisan es
by the rick 'Noma comes Mow to men's doors. and neat sisips.
Josue *aid be- egally accessible and' peimassent—crime is at
regehted by stated adjournments, neither should tbp repression of
ildllisit-4eathe shahl take no vandal.
iSth. The principle plats of detail fee which lab* waggle.'
see these The abolition of die brespasible pow pieced la
&healed somitable Made of sapid. Magistrates. I truly believe.
'kat &ea it we' Tielley any thing men radically despotic
• than the *rake systems of auglatedal kw--abet It is dwindle
sewardi 'the' pbw. ad. The shad= of Ike prevent system of
sada ilsiding..** brim the meet Mtge ears.., ?alibied.
bealliery. 'lid. The shades of the aliesid distiocties
kw sit imay. '46:-114 *Maks a ter dais
itliaaelernere piste of tele... essupsiling a decision to kW
'moillails die maktwely. ll*. The abeildena all mchiskel elaW
he abe nil.*of evitlearo. sod the empellieg. Mese to receive
evigeeee tree every resew eapable of Valle It. *h. The pre-
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peeper peresaalbeelleislggb wharves web etteedisee eta be
W. It will dies be pereetedt tbst lan a dwreeeb Beedieedle.
and entirely ewer in the benevolent pions of that Olnadnewlfita.
This is sot the place for further details of kw rehere. sad
I been emended ibis topic too muck as the aka* preferdis
tie Berstbainke weed slaws my 4/revoked's to weleaveet be
make the law rational, cheap, and expedidens. •
lath. My efforts in Moment wM be directed lllMMlledly
reader law rational. cheep, mid expeditiees. Wilms se ameba kW
one's property more staple sad valuable. rod every man's lb sad
liberty more secure and more comfortable.
There remain one other great Impose of my Partamenter, weer
—k bto obtain a radkal reform of the Howse of Ceessine. My
plea is ceeeprebeerive and simple—that every more Amid lave a
right to vote. with no exclusions but these three; Ist. persons under
the age of gt ; ad, persons convicted of crime made punishable with
this eaclaslon by the cods 3d, pet eons declared incompetent by the
verdict of a Jury. This, in other words. can be called univsnal
suffrage. Tbe mode of voting should be by ballot. I take these
two things to be essential, and not to be dispensed with or broken

in up= by any qualification—universal suffrage and voting by bal-
lot. The duration of Parliament should be limited to two yeah.
This experiment has succeeded weU in America. L would follow
that example. though lam not wedded to It. But I never can
qualify or abandon my view of universal suffrage and voting by

I have said nothing of the provision for the aged and the desti.
tote poor—and yet there cannot be any one subject more intensely
interesting to my feelings and judgment—but the troth la that the
01011? I consider this important matter the more does It appear to
me to be surrounded with difficulties. The unfitness of the Irish
jobbers to manage the machinery—the want of confidence Is
the wisdom or disinterestedness of many of the Magistracy—

start up IN formidable dangers, requiring much circumspection
and the greatest caution. Again, the terrific immorality—
the loss of all female notions of purity produced by the En-
glish Poor Laws. The measures Indicted by the cold hearted
under-banded managers on the wretched paupers themselves.
—The temptation to a more mad recklesonesa, of bidding for
land which would be induced by a certainty of a provision for
the family from the parish if the speculation failed. These and
many other considerations make me to pause with apprehension,
and to determine not, prematurely, to commit myself to the details
of a plan which may drive chastity from the lower clause. and
harden the hearts of the higher. I doubt, therefore. how far it
may be safe to proceed during the present Session on this point•
much as I approve of the principle. if it could Sod sußelently sacred
bands to manage and mould the detail, for purposes of utility and
genuine charity.

There is one great resource to which i think the poor of Ireland
dearly entitled, that is, to ■ per ammo on the lemmas of ab•
sestet's. Twenty per cent. on such income would place more than
one million sterling at the disposal of proper trustees for the Irish
poor.

It is clear, that whatever is taken away from resident land-
lords, in the shape of a poor-rate, would diminish their means to
that talent of giving employment, and thus take away from the in-
dustrious poor an independent livelihood, whilst it gave the money
which the labourer was thus deprived of to persons, perhaps, merely
indolent. Indeed I much fear that the paupers generated on the
estates stablemen would render the landed property of the resi-
dent gentry of little value ; and then the agents of absentees ate,
In general. and with a few amiable suceptions, such a harsh and
unfeeling crew, that I am unwilling to give them any dominion
over a poor rate. In short, the only present resource lam is the
per manage of a fifth at least on the humans of the absentees.
This, however, is a subject of which I shall not lose sight. It
will be to me a sacred duty to use ail my faculdes to discover the
means of some resource for the Lisle poor, which may be adminis-
tered without madly every gem of individual independence, and
destroying every trace of private morality.

I am for the present &tient on the most important of all topics—
the repeal of the Union. I will Dot bring that subject before Par-
liament until the combined wish of the Irish people shall demand
that repeal In a voice too distinct to be nalsundentood, and tou for-
midable to be trifled with. 1

It will take some time to reconcile the Irish people. We who
were Injured readily forgive, becaufe forgiveness belongs to an
lint time* who did the wrests" have not yet forgives either them-
selves of us—" reeentibies coals:* Perfecticonciliation is difficult ;
bet when these hatreds have grown stale sod antiquated. the kind-
lier feelings will have their natural play, and a community of suf-
fering will produce In good time a combination of exertion.
It will be perceived that I do not intend to be an idle, though I
may be an unprofitable, servant. I cettainly shall nut place myself
to the attitude of regular opposition to the 'Unfurl, though I
deem it right to add, that I ant in my conscience must deeply con-
vinced, that there Dever was en Administration composed of more
miserable materials than the present. It seems to me to be alto-
gether a Ministry without principle, system, sagacity, or Informa-
tion; kept together by a rec►less love of power and emolument,
and incapable of appreciating the difficulties, and mucb.less of dis-
covering the suitable remedies for the national distress and misery
which are growing around us at every side.
I have the honour to be, fellow-countrymen, your devoted ser-
vant, DANIEL O'CONNELL.