The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

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MOST IMPORTANT.
.BANDONMENT OF REPEAL FOR PEDE-

Hal-past Seven o'cloek

I send y ou a full report of the proceedings this day at the
LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The avenues leading to the Corn Exchange were
densely crowded long before one o'clock. The chair
was taken by John Augustus O'Neill, Esq., of Bun-
owen Castle, county Galway, formerly M.P. for Hull,
and a captain of dragoons ' • and subsequently a deputy-
lieutenant and magistrate, both of which offices he re-
signed.

The CH AIRMAN said, that when he heard of the arrest
of O'Connell and his son, he was determined that O'Neill
should not be backward in sharing the post of honour and
of peril. (Loud cries of '• Hear, hear," and cheers.)
He proceeded to explain the grounds of his conviction
that repeal was necessary for Ireland, and was discussing
the subject of federal legislation when, at one o'clock
otecisely, the Liberatorentered the meeting, accompanied
by his sons, the Member for Kilkenny, and Daniel
O'Connell, jun., upon which the entire assembly rose,
and the cheering was kept up for several minutes. He
(Mr. O'N.) deprecated the use of the word Saxon as a term
of reproach, and said that all that was good and favour-
able to liberty in the British constitution was handed
down from the Saxon—the evil was introduced by the
Normans (hear, hear). He would go from that chair to
the dungeon, and from the dungeon to the scaffold rather
than admit that he was deterred from seeking right and
justice by the insulting presence of troops and artillery
(great cheering). The soldier in Russia was a mere
machine—a fire-lock upon legi'(laughter). The French
soldiers were armed and disciplined citizens. No men
knew better where the duty of the soldier ended, and that
of the citizen commenced (hear, hear). He trusted our own
soldiery would never forget the distinction (loud cheers).
We observed seated at the end of the reporter's table,
Inspector Maher, who took a note in a book when any
one of " the conspirators" rose to speak.
After subscriptions had been banded in from various

places,
Mr. O'Coaratett, said—He would, at the conclusion of
his remarks, move that their present chairman be re-
quested to act as chairman on Monday, at the meeting
which would be held in the Conciliation Hall, which
would then be ready for that purpose. (Hear, hear.)
He also promised that for the future be (Mr. O'Connell)
and he trusted the association also, would give up the
word " Saxon," as it was calculated to give offence.—
(Hear, hear.) When they first used the term (and it
should he recollected that the only phrase in Irish to ex-
press the word Englishman, was " Sassenach")—Lord
Stanley was very angry, and they used it ten times more
on that account at the time. The use of it was sub-
sequently revived when they were branded as aliens in
language, in blood, and religion, by Lord Lyndhurst,
and it had been pretty freely applied ever since; but he
now promised that for the future the word should not pass
his lips, or if it inadvertently fell from him at any time,
he would immediately retract it. ( Hear, hear.) Having
denied that the people were obnoxious to the charge of
disloyalty, but, on the contrary, entitled to the greatest
praise for their strict obedience to the laws, Mr. O'Con-
nell came to the topic of a federal parliament. In the
corporation debate on repeal, he had declared his willing-
ness to accept a federal parliament, and instanced Canada,
where such a par liament had done much good. Since then
many persons had joined that association, who went no fur-
ther than a federal union, and he had lately received a letter
from a gentleman of high distinction in England on the
subject, in which his (11r. O'Connell's) attention was
directed to two points, concerning which the writer be-
lieved it to be of the greatest importance that the people
of England should have correct information before they
would join generally or extensively with that association—
(hear.) The first point was, that it should be shown to
the people of England that Irishmen, in seeking for the
restoration of a parliament to the;r country, strove only to
procure for themselves the management of the it own local
and internal .ffairs, leaving matters of national importance
to both countries to he legislated upon by representatives
from both counties in the imperial legislature. The
next point was that Englishmen should be satisfied that
as they co-operated with Irishmen, so Irishmen should
assist Englishmen in their struggle to obtain a full,
fair, and free representation—(hear, hear, hear.) He
(Mr. O'Connell) would meet such propositions in the
spirit in which they were put forward, and he told
that gentleman that, if a sufficient number of the Eng-
lish people came forward, there world he no difficulty in
arranging repeal on the definite terms mentioned by him.
(Hear, hear ) Let him not be taunted with shrink-
ing when he accepted these terms, for by doing so, they
not only took away all argument from their enemies, bu,
merely followed a course to which the association was
alrearig, pledged by the admission of the Catholic Bishop
of KilTaloe, and other gentlemen, on the same terms.
(Hear, hear, hear.) The change of which they were on
the eve, must be bloodless and sinless. He had ascer-
tained, by a series of monster meetings, that the people
were peaceehle and determined to obey the law. Acting
on the advice of Grattan, who declared that repeal was
impossible—the national voice was clearly ascertained to
be in favour of it. He had ascertained that voice so far
b
' in peace and quietness, and if the proclamation had not
issued he should have gone on as quietly to the end.
before that he should be pre-
He hed been told Op day
• • ,
'vented from addressing that meeting to-day, but he re-
plied that that could not he, because he was the auxiliary
of the government in preaching peace. If the government
were to interfere with him in that room, would it not be
said that, having failed to irritate the people by the Clon-
tarf proclamation, they wanted to do so by arresting the
man who preached peace ? Therefore he was there to
preach peace.
The Repeal rent was then announced to be £1,232, and
the meeting was adj turned to Monday next (yesterday),
when the Conciliation Hall will be ready for use.