A

MEMOIR OF THE UNION,

AND

THE AGITATIONS FOR ITS REPEAL;

IN WHICH

THAT MEASURE, ITS CAUSES AND ITS CONSEQUENCES,

ARE

HISTORICALLY AND POLITICALLY REVIEWED;

AND ITS INDISSOLUBILITY DEMONSTRATED FROM MANY GREAT
AUTHORITIES, AND PARTICULARLY BY THAT OF

DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ., M. P.

"Thine own mouth condemneth thee."-JOB.

"Beware of Milos' end,

Wedged in the oak, he vainly strove to rend."-DRyden.

BY AN IRISH CATHOLIC.

DUBLIN:

WILLIAM CURRY, JUN., & CO., 9, UPPER SACKVILLE-STREET.

LONGMAN, BROWN, & CO., LONDON.

1843.

TO THAT PORTION OF THE COMMUNITY,

WHO, UNINFLUENCED BY PREJUDICE, AND UNAWED BY TERRORISM,

Ꭼ Ꭱ Ꭱ Ꭺ Ꭲ Ꭺ .

Contents, p. iii,-On the 21st line, for "statute," read statue."

P. 41,--On the second last line, after the word capital, insert the word "and." P. 108,--On the 37th line, for "unquestionable," read "unquestionably."

P. 122,-On the 17th line, for "Stafford," read "Strafford."

DUBLIN, November 19, 1843.

BY A LOVER OF PEACE.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE extracts in this Memoir from Mr. O'Connell's Speeches at the Dublin Corporation Discussion, are taken from the Report revised by himself, Edited by Mr. Levy, and "Printed by James Duffy, Dublin, Repeal year, 1843." The extracts from his Parliamentary Speeches are all from the MIRROR OF PARLIAMENT; those from his Speeches delivered in Ireland, are taken from the reports of the MORNING REGISTER and FREEMAN'S JOURNAL, Dublin newspapers. The short extract from a Speech of Mr. Sheil, relative to the Litchfield Alliance, is from the report in the latter paper. The extracts from Mr. O'Connell's Speeches, delivered at public meetings in England and Scotland, are taken from the reports in the LONDON MORNING CHRONICLE; and the extracts from his letters are from the same source that paper having been favored with his patronage. The author has carefully abstained from any allusion to the pending prosecutions, conceiving that while justice holds the scale, it would be unwise and unfair to touch the beam. "No villainy," said Curran, "can be greater, than to hold a traitorous silence at such a crisis, when," in the apprehensions of many, still to use his words, "the existence of the empire is at stake; and when its strongest and most precious limb is not girt with the sword for battle, but pressed with the tournaquet for amputation." The author himself feels that the severance of the Union is an impossibility; his object is to prove, that even if practicable, it would be impolitic. If by an attentive perusal of the following pages, any of the deluded advocates of Repeal shall be reclaimed, the aim of the writer will be achieved, and the present publication vindicated. Obstinate perseverance in error, can only have the effect of driving the Legislature in the next Session, to the adoption of a measure similar to that alluded to in the letter of Lord Bolingbroke, referred to at page 38, respecting the Union with Scotland.