The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-20 00:00:00

CHARACTER OF qCONNELL.

BY YEA RGIA O'CONNOR.
You are the great political leviathan of the day, and Many
an honest but unsuspecting man has been wrecked against
veur wiles and s.,phistries. Perhaps 1 shall share a similar
late; but I- would rather dash myself at once to pieces than
be constantly covered with Your foam. How my indigna-
tion swells, when in vain; I eulleavout to arrange the catalogue
of your treasons against Ireland. Your principal object through
life has been to accumulate power, and no man has ever fostered
his res.oirces for this purpose with more cunning but less virtue.
Your chief object since the passing of the reform bill has been
to aid in balancing the two great political parties in this country
so nicely, that, by your Irish parliamentary influence, you could
hold the balance of power between them, and as power leads on
to power, you did not remain satisfied with the political, supe-
riority which your Irish connection afford you, but as 1 shall
presently show, you did, at the close of the present session of
of parliament, endeavour to prostrate English independence by
those means which you have be; too successfully practised in
Ireland. You accepted of emancipation, with the disfranchise-
ment of thousands and tens of thousands of Irish voters; but
mark, without emancipation, you never would have acquired
political power. You did therefore disfranchise the Irish peo-
ple, and while you were doing so, your mouth was full ut the
provision and protection which a poor law would afford them;
but the moment you acquired political power, you discovered,
for the first time, that food for the hungry unwilling idler would
demoralize the " fair" daughters of Ireland. You knew
that religious persecution had raised you to power, ani you
knew that bodily suffering would preserve and increase your
power; but it was for the accomplishmeut of a great measure!
You abandoned the people, and fell in with the political econo-
mists (of whose doctrines yrai are wholly ignorant) and the
moneyed men of England. The object which you had in view,
was to preserve your parliamentary influence by your out dour
popularity, and, finding that your policy was discovered in
to England, you.return to Ireland, and there denounce me and
the radicals of England. Had you succeeded in preserving'
popular support, your aim was to break up administration after
administration, to create new discussions about metaphysical
questions, to set the public mind wandering, until. in the vast.
presumption of the man, the people bad lost sight of the object;
and, when you had sufficiently disorganized society, you a etild,
" solo epiicopal i," with becoming modesty, have ventured upon
taking the reins of the steed, whose vices were Lest known to
his instructor, and, thus mounted, the 'only bounds to your
tyranny would have been in the pitiful sarplications of Your
victims. If I have been accessary in sparing one beaded
or piteous imploring, I am prepared for the fullest outbreak of
your disappointed ambition. I witnessed vour domineering
Planner ; the wicked resolve to accomplish by extravagant
bullying that which was retuned to the most servile application.
In short, the determination to be " nal Cwsar au/ auflus."