Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-09-06
VOL. XI.-NO. 2.
O,CONNELL.

from the pen of Walter Savage Lander, Eco,
whose name and writings are well known to the
American public. IL is written with great
clearness and force, and sets forth the wrongs
of Ireland in a manner that should make the
face of every Englishma TO Jingle with shame
for his country and her expressions.
We copy the Memorial from the Liverpool
Times of June S5,h, which says it was then
receiving signatures at Bath:
We, the undersigned, inhabitants Of Bath,
yielding TO none in loyalty toward your gra-
cious Majesty or in veneraton of our estab-
lished laws, crave to approach the throne
with our petition.
We pray of your gracious Majesty that
the Royal mercy may be extended to Dam
iel OConnell, against whom verdict of
"Guihy" was delivered in Dublin on a
charge of conspiracy, and who at this time
is suffering the penalty Of fine and impris-
onment.
We presume not TO question the justice Of
the sentence, nor the composition of the
jury but we implore your Maiesty's pardon
of the offence, OH these considerations.
First. That the Act of Union, which we
hope will be indssoluble, was brought about
by such practices as would disfranchise any
borough in England.
Secondly. That Ireland did not obtain by
IT such advantages as were obtained by
Scotland namely, that the religion of the
majority should be the established religion
of the land
We reflect with shame and sorrow that
Ireland at the present hour is treated less
literally in regard to religion than Greece
was treated under the dominion of the
Turks, which dominion she was aided in o.
verthrowng by the arms of England. And
yet the Turks do not "profess and call
themselves Christians"
We remember by what evil counsels two
millions of British subjects in America were
severed from the dominion of England
They had incomparably less cause of COM
plant than, according 10 the public opinion
Of Europe, Ireland always had, and has
on the correctness of which opinion il is
not our business or our duty or our wish to
speak. Two millions, who had no free
states to sympathise with them, were able,
contrary to the expectation Of many wise
and experienced statesmen, to declare and
enforce their independence. Seeing that
Ireland, at the present day. contains seven
millions OF malcontents seeing that the
nearest and the most powerful nations are
ready to espouse her cause, and omit no OPP
portunity Of displaying their sentiments, Of
uttering their threats, and of attacking the
weak who are under your Majesty's protec-
ton we cannot dissemble the danger we
apprehend, nor can we believe that it is re-
mote.
We doubt not that your Majesty's most
dutful Parliament will readily grant all sup
plies which your Majesty's Ministers flor
any purPose) may demand. But, in the
three millions of your Majesty's subjects
are enduring, and under the long and hope
less loss OF employment which another mil
lion, for the most part manufacturers and
artiicers, impatiently bear and angrily la
ment, we doubt whether it is possible to add
to the national debt, in one year, even so
moderate a sum as thirty millions Of money;
a sum which we know is quite insufficient
for the first years expenditure. We are as
sured, by the highest authority in military
affairs. that little war is beneath the digni-
~ Of England we believe that il lies not
in human power to circumscrbe the extent
of the calamity, or in human sagacity to
calculate IFS duration and we are certain
that not only one people, nor only one conti-
nent is alert and ready to meet us again in
arms.
Formerly, when q tempestuous tide of
war set in, we considered Ireland as the
great breakwater of our country we grieve
to see this breakwater loosened in the whole
length OF its foundations, and propelled a.
painst u.s. We know how much eas;er n 10
to ALLEVIATE the affections of people than to
recover them when once estranged but we
believe that the virtues of your Majesty may
silence forever that turbulence which the
most eloquent and potent man in the en-
pire has for time, and perhaps only for
time, suppressed.
We deprecate the unwse and (as il seems
to us) somewhat harsh and inhumane threat.
that Ireland is to be conquered again. She
has been conquered four times already, and
by the four wsest of our governors Hen
ry III, Elizabeth, Cromwell, and William
But part was yet unwon; part Of which
your Majesty has never failed to win else
where; the heart of the people, This is
conquest far beyond the reach of the sword,
and your Majesty, without the hand or the
voice of another, can achieve it. -
We reflect with shame and sorrow that
every other part of your Malesty's domin-
ions is more favored than Ireland in that
which is dearest to virtuous man, viz, in
the maintenance of his religion.
We reflect with shame and sorrow that
greater indulgence was recently shown to
the impurest idolatry Of Asia than to the re-.
ligon of a Fenelon and More.