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assemblies have always been composed of desperate scoun-
drels. And what is the manifest inference? Of course, that
they would be so again.
"To this you reply—True, they were,desperate scoundrels.
Therefore we ought to undo whatever they did. But they
consummated their scoundrelism by doing away with their
own existence. Ergo, we ought to revive the scoundrels.
That is your argument.
" A,pply it, and see what conies of it. You consider Lord
Castlereagh the worst of men : most unjustly you do so; but
still you consider him the worst of men. Ile put an end to
his own existence (I am not monk enough to enter into the
spirit of your observations about the cause of that deplorable
• event.) But whatever Lord Castlereagh did ought to be un-
done. Ergo, the slit caroted ought again to begin to conduct
the blood from the heart which (you say) never throbbed with
one generous emotion— never swelled with one touch of sym.
pathisiug humanity (pardon me, illustrious shade !) to that
head w hich planned the accursed Union, and which, were its
thinking functions again in operation, would (you believe)
forthwith begin to plot new schemes still more parricidal!
"It reminds me of the sophism of the lying tailor. Jack
Jordan was a tailor, and he said that all tailors were liar,.
Now, iu saying so, he either spoke truly or he did not. If
he spoke truly, then he, being a tailor, was a liar, and he
did not speak truly ; if he did not speak truly, then, being
a liar, what he said of himself as a tailor was true. There-
fore he was a liar—therefore he lN as not a liar. Therefore,
anything that Lord Castlereagh did ought to be undone, the
union and the cut-throat inclusive.
"Ay—but it would only he the frame, the skeleton, the
funcional principles of the body politic, that,you would re-
vive. Let the rotten integuments and dishonoured members
of the defunct lest in an infamous eternal grave. The
muscles and sinews Lv which the regenerate body should
work, the spirits which should animate it, every thing but its
individuality and functional identity would be new, healthy
honest—in a word, Catholic.
"And who were they, then, who passed Poyning's Act
Who were they who gave

That command,
at Crommeal and Coolan should cease in your land;
...at all your youths' tresses of yellow be shorn,
And bonnets instead of a new fashion worn ?
'or this has been a clamorous cause of complaint amongst
nr historians.,)
That the echoes of music should sleep in their caves,
That the slave should forget his own tongue for a slave's,
That the sounds of yourlips should be strange in your ears,
As your bleeding hands toiled in the dew of your tears ?"
Who bought you, who sold you, who first invaded and con-
quered you—abettors of an adulterer, and men of blood that
they were? who but Catholics and their Sovereign Pontiffs?
Who pierced the wolf's head and the head of the mere Irish-
man at so much ? Irish Catholics. Who made it lawful to
kill any man who was guilty of the contempt of wearing
hair upon his upper lip? Irish-Catholics. Who made it
penalty of land sod goods to write the great 0 before your
names ? Irish Catholics. Who, in tine, gave the first origir
to the saying, put an Irishman on the spit, and you shal
never want for another Irishman to turn him?' Irish Ca
tholic