The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-12-24 00:00:00

MR. CASEY'S SPEECH.

CO'n the 16th inst. we presented our Readers witl
Mr. CASEY'S first speech at a late pahlic celebration
in Liverpool, we now Rive the second speech-which
that Gentleman delivered on that occasion.]

On the Chairman Ovine the health of Mr. Cavy and the ssier
Ibl.tial. he addreped ibe Meeting ia the follostsmg waist—
" GEttraxmem, I rise to make you my best xi.
knowledgmeists for the honour you have done my
country. Hut let me not be mistaken. In thatilo.
ing yen for your kind *wishes towards Ireland, I
cannot compliment or commend the conduct of Eng-
land to that country. Gentlemen, I would disdali
to present myself to you as a crouching slave, or a 1.
canting' and• a sneaking hyrocrite, casting a ttheriel.
upon the place of my nativity, by aping Ens •
feeling. Those may do so who love base reeoilee.
ikons to extiuguish. I have none. 'I lore aed-ho.
nour my own country too much to ape the feeling;
lof yours or any other. I was bofn, I am, add 1
will die, an Irishman. Gentlemen, it has bepolny 1.
fate to be pillaged and defamed by Scotches* by :.
every mode of treachery and cowardice. All risk
of them is to produce themselves—to'come combed 1
openly and avowedly ; and I promise you it shall
be to their own utter infamy and confusion. 'Stand-
ing firmly upon the rock of in* own coneccous in. •
tegrity, I challenge my enewilette plain, open, and
intelligible contest. Gentlemen, I beg you portion
. for this 'digreasism, which by me was wholly unpile.
meditated. I most now return to my hoitist7.—.
1 Ireland asks for the constitutions and the.leer whit*
;
i gives her raceuost, will gire you iItGUILIT T. If 1
I your victories are not graced with this act of justice
you do mach mischief. I speak from observation.
You pervert and corrupt the best sympathies of the 1,
nation—you turn the feelings of the people from i
the interests of the State--yea" exhibit a shocking
mockery pf
.common sense--you unfold a miser. I
able drama of separate plots and interests, but of
reciprocal necessities!! It is quite clear that in
Ireland the denial of political power to the 'people
1 is established upon the persevering fidelity of man
Ito that BEING who makes fidelity the condition of•
salvation. If this be not the case whence the
civil disability ? You speak of Goo, avnosc WOK-
SHIP is PERFECT ritecoost, and then, with frau:,
tic and 'consuming blasphemy, visit with pains, pe•
nalties, and exclusions, that perfect freedom—
that probity of. mind which, with base and un-
blushing
hypocrisy you introduce into the ritual of
your church, but efface from the volume of the Con.'
stitution! YOU invade IRELAND With your power and''
IlLavert with your presumption ! Such is the odious
and persecuting System which you have brought to
bear upon four millions of the Irish people ! Peo
pie who wan y.onrkets, who animate our-lines,
who conitlialgYo fir iiptties,. viho add 'to, **yip,
of your greatness without iblitliig the '04.0! Tielt
own misery, and who, I week it literally, embark
in chains to bresk the foreign columns which were.
destined to invade you ! Is this your J ClSME—
this your UNION ? Is it to be expected—is it to he
I .1
I endured, that my countrymen, like the Coromantee
Negroes, just mentioned by my Reverend and Learn-
ed
Friend, are to have the honours of the deck
I merely to fight the ship, but having won the victory
are tb be replunged into the gloom of. the dungeon,
"again to be • galled with fetters, with Your English
irons ? Gentlemen, it is .quite impossible. This
system cannot •go on. In the monstrous , scheme of
your extravagance you wilt expend even the resources.
of your profligacy. .
.." This was the . necessity of the Slate—an over-
powering necessity to the Minister, but a k lorioas
'one for the country, This is your necessity—the
Minister who. cannot govern by FORCE, malt have
.recourse to JUSTICE. This was the necessity, this was
the very priticiple, which gave ricroly to the Nerth,
and which will give rat:zoom to Irelind. Lookat
the natureef•your policy, and above all at the all-'
palling magnitude of ypur debt. Let 'the Minister
reflect, be surely will do well to reflect, whether
there may not arise considerations, paranammt to
that interest which a nation.undmibtetily has in the
preservation of established institutions, and whether
the growing force of these conitillmtibtp may not
ultimately become tecontienieit to thoiti'viAo now un.
wisely dlsregaird it. These ins nut tip views that
. will be tayetA,by Mr. Canning in his hopeleis exclu-
siou from offiCe—in his rigs for'unCiating viii, and

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