Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-10-10
REPEAL,


At the usual meeting of the Repeal As
sociation Oh Monday, the 2lst ult., the rem
for the week was announced to be e., l3C
Mr.. OConnell was not present, and tn
meeting adjourned until next day; when h
propounded his plan for the restoration O
the Irish parliament, as prepared by thu
committee.
PLAN FOR THE RENEWED ACTION OF THE
IRISH PARLIAMENT.
81 The Irish people recognize, &C
knowledge, maintain, and will continually
preserve and uphold upon the throne o
Ireland, her Majesty Queen Victoria, [whon
God protect!] Queen, by undoubted RICH
and by hereditary descent, of Ireland, ant
her heirs and succession forever. The PEG
pie of Ireland recognize, acknowledge
maintain, and will continually preserve anc
uphold, all the prcrogatives or her VI iiesty
and of heirs and SUCCESSORS, belonging to
and inherent in the Imperial crown of Ire
land, and they will true allegiance bear,pure
indivisable, to her Majesty, her hers and
successors, forever.
80. The people of Ireland acknowledge
and will maintain and preserve forever, the
privileges, hereditary and personal, of the
peers of Ireland, together with the legisla-
tive and judicial authority of the Irish House
of Lords, and the exercise of the preroga-
tive in amending and limiting the peerage,
az the same did of right exist before the
year 1900.
SO. The people of Ireland do firmly in
sist upon the restoration of the Irish House
of Commons, consisting of three hundred
representatives of the Irish people and
claim in the presence Of their Creator the
right of the people of Ireland to such res
toration They have submitted to the I'm
ion as being binding as law, but they de-
clare solemnly that it is not founded on
right, or on constitutional principle, and that
it is not obligatory upon conscience. They
agree with the Tory Attorney General Sau-
tin, that the only binding power of the I'm
ion is the strength of the Englsh domination
to the Union is in the abstract duty and
the exhibition of that resistance mere
question of produence. They will therefore
resist the Union by all legal, peaceful, and
constitutional means.
"a. The plan for the restoration or the
Irish Parliament is as follows Il. That the
county members should be increased to
l73, in the manner hereafter specified
2. That there should be l27 members re-
manner mentioned. 2. That the county of
Carlow, being the only county in Ireland
with less than one hundred thousand inhab-
itants, should get an increase Of one men,
Der, so az to have three representatives; that
every other county having above 100000
inhabitants, should get an increase of two
members; that every county ranging above
10000 inhabitants should get an increase
of three members.
That every county ranging above $780,
900 inhabitants should get an increase of
four members.
That the county of Tipperary, having
more than 1905 inhabitants, but less than
100000 should get an increase of eight
members.
That the county Of Cork, having more
than 100000 inhabitants should get an in
crease of ten members.
-. With respect to the towns and Cit
les, it is proposed that the city of Dublin,
having more than 100000 inhabitants, should
have eight representatives. four for the
plrts north of the Liffey, and four for the
parts south of the Liffey.
THAT the University of Dublin should
continue on the basis of its present constitu-
encv, 10 send two members.
IL is proposed that the city of Cork, ha-
..-a.> ,L,,> 100 nnn -. l.
have five members.
THAT the city of Limerick and the town
Of Balfls', having respectively more than
$4,000 inhabitants should send four mem
bers each.
1t is proposed that the town of Galway,
and the cities of Waterfowl and Kilkenny.
having respectively more than 10000 inha.
bitanis should send each three members &c
Parliament.
That other towns having about 1000
inhabitants, should each send two members
to Parliament, and the forty-nine other town.
next highest in sthc ratio of population
should send one member each.
st. 1t is proposed that the right of vo
ting should be what is called - household
sutirage;'' requiring six months residence
in the counties, with the addition in the
town of married men resident for IL month:
whether resident ornot.
II. 1t is proposed that the mode of vo
ting for members of Parliament should Ger
tainly be by ballot.
The Monarch de facto oil Eng and at al
times hereafter, whoever he nav be, shall b.
Monarch dc .jurc in Ireland. And so in cas-
of future Regency; the Regent de fact
in England to be Regent dc jure in Ireland
.The connexion between Great Britai
an. Ireland, 10y means of the power author
ity, and prerogatives of the Crown, to b
perpetual and incapable of change, or an
: severance or separation.
The foregoing plan TO be carried in,
effect according TO recognized law an
strict constitutional principle.
, "Signed by order,
"DANIEL O'CNNNELL,
| Chairman of the Committee