The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-08-20
o,NE1LL DAuNT.

O'NEILL DAUNT.
MS GREAT SPEECH BEFORE THE DUBLIN
CORPORATION.
The intense enthusiasm manifested
throughout Ireland at present with re-
gard to the Home Rule movement, headed,
IS it is, by such staunch patriots as Isaac
Butt, John Martin, O'Neill Daunt and 9TH
ers. warrants us in the belief that extracts
from the speeches of these great men will
be appreciated by our readers and will be
read by them with great interest. At the
meeting of the Dublin Corporation, held
on the 10Th of July, a full report Of which
was given in last Sundays STAR, Mr.. w. J..
O'Neill Daunt made one Of the most forci-
BILE and convincing arguments in favor Of
Home Government which we have ever
read and from which we make the follow
ing extracts:
CONDITION OF IRELAND BEFORE THE UNION.
Mr.. Jebb, who represented Callan in the
: Irish parliament, and whom / remember to
have seen presiding in the Court of Kings
Bench, published q pamphlet in 1898, in
which he thus speaks of our advance in
prosperity. ''1n the course of fifteen years
our commerce, our agriculture, ana our
manufactures have sweiled to an amount
that the most sanguine friends of Ireland
would not have dared to prognosticate."
On the 18th December, 1898, the bankers
of Dublin held meeting, at which they
resolved: THAT since the renunciation of
the power of Great Britain, in 1882, to
egislate for Ireland, the commerce and
Increased" On the 1lth of April, 1893,
the Right Hon. John Foster, Speaker Of
the House of Commons, delivered a speech
+ fn which, speaking of the constitution of
l752, he says: at has not only secured,
but absolutely showered down upon you
than ever fell to your lot in double the
space of time that has elapsed since its
! accomplishment. Will you Che asked the
hOuse) be cajoled, duped, or threatened
into u surrender of it." The House OF
Commons in the previous July, had unani-
mously stated in an Address to the Lord
Lieutenant, that "Ireland had risen to a
height of prosperity unhoped for and unpar-
alleled in any former era" Mr.. Plunkett,
afterwards Lord Chancellor, thus spoke of
the advance of Ireland in q speech in the
House of Commons, delivered on the 18th
January, 1900: "Uer revenues, her trade,
her man ufactures, thriving beyond the
try of her extent; within these few
years advancing with a rapidity astonish-
ing even to herself; not complaining of
deficiency in any of those respects, but en-
joying and acknowledging her prosperity"
Such, my lord, are q few of the many tes-
timonies borne by the anti Unionists. Let
US now cite few corroborative words
from the friends and promoters of the
Union. First comes Lord Chancellor
Glare, who published in 1898 pamphlet,
containing the following strong admission
of the progress of Ireland "There is not
nation ON the habirable globe which has
advanced in cultivation and commerce, in
same rapidity 10 the same period" My
next witness is the author of the Union,
/ Pitt. In his speech in the English House
of Commons, delivered on the 31st of JAM
uary, 1899, he spoke of the prosperous
state of Irish commerce as it stood in 17S5,
and then said: "But how stands the case
now ? The trade is at this time infinitely
more advantageous to Ireland"
HOW THE UNION WAS EFFECTED.
1t was no easy task that Pitt undertook
when he resolved to overthrow the Irish
Union; aud the means he adopted to effect
that wicked end were every way worthy OF
i the hateful purpose they were intended to
accomplish. Mr.. Goodwin Smith, in his
Tolume entitled "The Empire" says that
Pitt sank knee.deep into pollution to eff
q WV CuS OulOu. LII Gu0 SASLloEeapu SOTE6s-
pondence, edited by Castlereagh's brother
the late Lord Londonderry, there is let.
ter from Lord Castlereagh to. Mr.. Secretary
Cooke, dated June Dist, 1900, in which his
lordship urges that promise of bribery to
\ certain applicant should be kept; and in
the free and easy candor of private com
nunication with his confidential ally, ht
plainly talks of the profigacy of the
! means by which the Union had been car
ned. Profigacy is his lordship's word
q pollution is Mr.. Goodwin Smiths. Blu
those words are totally inadequate to DIES
t lgnate the enormous and complicated gull
Isl Of Pitt and his janisaries in their machina
IONS against Irish prosperity and liberty
The Ministerial scheme was this-the Ca
ii tholics were first to be t1attered by stron,
H hopes of immediate emancipation hope
which Pitt had encouraged Grattan to con
slder certRinties, in personal interview
between them in October, 1794, In the be
ginning of 1895, Earl Fitzwilliam, a we'll
known emancipation, was sent over here q
Lord Lieutenant, with full authority t
support emancipation; or, to use his owI
words, in his letter to Lord Carlisle. st
give it q handsome support on the part {