Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-07-21

inadequate is the elective franchise; how mserably small
our representation IN the House OF Commons; how H.
mited our corporate reforms how totally impossible 1t is
To obtain redress Tor these or any other grievances
from the British Parliament.
.I.et them remember how fiippan,ly every foreign
minon insult the people OF Ireland; with wha'
insolence Tie right of petition may be inerered WIN
perhaps taken away; now constitutions! prncipe
may, with perfect Impuniy, be violated IA IFelanu ny
every Engl'shman ho ding lltte bret authority
'Above ALL let not the absentee dram Dc ~
is now proved to amount 10 upwards OF h9oVc'ooo
per annum. 81 the Union we are drained oil more
than 100000 annually. The two Islands connected
with Continental Europe SARDINIA and CicIly, which
are subject 10 an absentee draln both occupied BY
a poorer population than any Continental country,
whist Ireland is occupied by wretched peasantry,
whose poverty, con,rasted with the productiveness and
fertility % the soul forms the strongest proof OF the mise
rable effect of an absentee drain.
alt should never be forgotten, that whilst the English
Parliament incurred deot of ti46 100000, the IRISH
Parliament kept the deb; of Ireland under go 0G0-
saw round numbers he English debt has doubled since
Union; Just proportion ought moi at all events
To exceed similar duplication, namely, from 20 TO 40
Millions and the rapidly wi,h which the entire would
be paid oti,-aye, within less than FIVE years-wo2ld
leave Ireland the least taxed country IN the world
Contrast Ireland with Belgium; think what Bsig-
nm was when she was loaded with the enormous deot
and taxation of Holland when she sacrificed IN
every thing to Dutch niereats her laws administered
by Dutch lawyers Dutch tunctonaries filling all her
offices: insul,ed by Dutch nsoence, aud threatened
with coercion and military vengeance, because she
dared consti,utionally 10 complain What diherent
picture does she present Her trade increasing;
her commerce extending: her agriculture prosperous;
her axaon much lowered; her debt diminishing; TIE
rights Of her people respected and manlanec national
honor preserved and nai,ona! prosperity secured
ssShe suffered much from Protestant Holland, her
Clergy abused and prosecuted by Dutch bisory; her
Episcopacy reduced 10 single individual; her Reli
con insulted aud vexaously .nleriered with every
occasion Yet, mark it we'll, PtoiesaDts OF Ireland
although the population OF Belgium about four m'l-
lions, including only 100000 Proesants, yet no eH
elusive law-no restrictive iaw-no prosecuting law,
was ever passed by the Belgian Legislatures Legs
lature returned BY nearly universal suffrage
1--WE do not desire, nay repudiate total sePara-
tion such as that of Belgium but we do not look Tor
and seek local Parliament ike Norway. We seek
the prosperity of Belgium. In fact, The enjoyment of
our own and p,oductiveness the administration
of our affairs, and that self government which
once before gave TO all of industry an ani
mating and augmentng power, and demonstrate, that
all ireland requires s-that she should belong 10 the
Irish
THE time is come when lrshinen can make Ire
land their own Where tbe with an Irish
heart who will JON IL the glorious struggle 10! The
nght-lhe berty-ihe prosperity of his native land;
Away then, with Idle fears with vain jealousies, with
causeless apprehensions, with ant-rehgious anmosi
ties-Irishmen, and ALL Catholic, Protestant, Pres
byterian, Drssenter, rail-. for the land of your birth
your father land. 81. ned bv order,
"DANlEL O'CONNELL,
"Chairman Of the Committee.