Correspondence Of Daniel Oconnell The Liberator Vol 1 Of 2 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... to the editor, December 6, 1859. To the Drake of Leinster. London: March 28, 1810. My Lord Duke, ----It was with the most sincere respect that I differed from your Grace upon the part which you took in the years 1831 and 1832, and against the agitation for the repeal of the legislative union. But I recollect with gratitude that your opposition to such agitation was accompanied with an avowed hope, and a distinct demand, that the Imperial Parliament should do justice to Ireland. My Lord Duke, I respectfully remind you of that hope and of that demand; and I submit to your judgment whether the hope has not been disappointed, and the demand disregarded, with more of indifference, if not of contempt, than could have been anticipated by any rational being, with respect to a demand made on the occasion, and with the political weight of your Grace, and of those who joined with you in supporting the Declaration against Repeal at that period.... We have all been disappointed, deluded in our hope, and deceived in our expectation of attaining our just object. That object was the perfect Identification of the Rights, Privileges, Franchises, and Liberties of the Irish People with those of the British People. My Lord, that Union which you, in your exalted station, conscientiously uphold, and which I, in my humbler capacity, would wish to repudiate and repeal; that union is but a name and a mockery, whilst it leaves the people of Ireland in an inferior station of political rights and privileges; and unless it so amalgamates the people of both coimtries that there shall be no distinction or difference between them, no inferiority on the one part, nor superiority upon the other, and unless all shall be placed upon an equality in the eye of the law and in..