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Qnslutrs to Gllorrtspunlitnm.
' in reply to several inquiries-lt is not mu am Mr. nizcnni was per-
uttaclsed by anybody in Limerick-or dcfcni-led himself with o
u laboring man, or any other
person-or urdcrcd a car to llathkcalo In the lnonilng-or was smuggled
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meeting was over, air. Mitchel proceeded to the door of the building, de-
ti
accompanied by Bmlle Confederates or the Sursllcld Club. when he
Pi-<--I rm iicfnnnt M I
slum’ had just been closed. he vmneu back. through Gcorgchrarcet and
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day; and hcspcnt the rernunricror ma evcuing there, lie returned to
dc um Dublin coach, having taken an place thereon before the
. no is n full.ln1I'-‘. and particular account wh , ,
pencd; bntbzhu now no doubt Lhuths mrpea sudden ileath,mcrc1y
us Dublln shopkeeper‘ complains of us for injuring business with
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will be utterly ruined. We believe it well: ‘ ‘
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independence is decided: and decided nrlght. Your safety now, friend
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Any Dublin keeper who imagines bare posllilllty of our fislllng
back under Ibo dominion of the Imperial Yilrlinmcnt lsn Jazlrau, and
deserves It stall in the Insolvent Court.
T0 UR It ADEIK , Etc.
-.0 Tn: lliurno Inisiiimx of to-dny comes out with only half its proper
. Iiumborolpligus. All the proprietors of large printing-inuchlncsln
we r...u.., in...
however, was found too smiill.
THE ‘UNITED IRISHMAN;
Mcrrion-square, in their morning ivdks4Rer E11 this.
to have not ever so little a rebellion think
of It man, culling himself is chief governor, and crying
‘ IF . ,, months with
u piteous cry, " Will nobody, nobody rise in insurrection?"
in peace and disappointment after all.
F1
up e
to admiring shopkeepers, would be the 0
But licr Majesty's chief governor of Ireland, dying fronts
capital in insurrection, after, in h p
. M .
would be quite another
thin . Politi al disgrace would be the result of the former.
An: utter would entitle him to the coronet of a Marquis,
’ ‘ in s.
It is plain, then, his Excellency must have an insurrec-
tion, hit or miss, if only to save his character.‘ And the
1
that we need only sketch it.
week ago it was known that “ evil-disposed" persons
contemplated peace, law, and order, for some months.
Next day it was universally known that the “ Lord Lieute-
councii" mu 11 hm‘! I ' ‘ ‘ , and
carry out his intention, resolved to lay on proclamations.
Magistrates of Dublin county, paid and otherwise can-
a of
a public notice. T e magistrates
met, as ordered ; addressed, as ordered; and before the
' t eh rum in
h
‘ ’ d'vined,
ourselves we are obliged 1
course omitting muclincws and correspondence, besides advertise-
niqmg, ll’ ll 9 ll 1 ma
ii is possible ‘we may be crmnpep in this way one week longer; but not
n.P.cru':irds. . ’
- .- THE
‘UNITED IRlSHil1Ahi.
will not suppo us. llieymlist full: we can support ourselves by the
u that numerous and respectable class or the community, the
rn ql Jo rropm
--our Independence must be had at all hazards it tho men or property
y."-THEUHALIJ WOLFE TONE.
DUBLIN, sA"rUnnAi', MAY 6.
‘I‘ll.lll.1ATS; AND IIOW TO MEET TI-XI-llll.
After all, it seems Ireland is not to wait for freedom till
the end of summer, as many "evil-disposed persons" be.
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the dog-days; niiy, hnrllnnn mun ins I o
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singular to so , by the Qucen’s printer, and posted on the
castle p,rAu.= uy ' "" " 5 he address was,
however, duly presented; in these well-fed justices of the
peace were ordered to complain of the “indiscn’minate"
and possession of arms by ill-fcd people; and
y His Excellcnc , b re-arrangcmen
in
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administered indiscriminate condolence: and assured them
an
intended for bad uses"-that ls, pikes-he would proclaim
D 111 suppress “ agrarian outrage."
Hence follow two important fnctsrone, in Vice-regal
evidence; the other, in Vice-regal law. . in ’ e
can only be made for “bad uscs;" and, second, that to
make or buy a pike in a city.is an “ agrarian outragc"..it
is hard to say on what, ‘ ' ‘ ‘ "
However, this you see is the state of the law. Lord
Cunnnnon has authority to consider a certain fabric o
iroumvim, onc pi e-an agrarian cutrag:-,..to place a city
‘ ' our? 1- In-In
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May d. 4
upper story, answer, "No." Shall we or shall we not. when
force is resorted to, reply by force, and defend our houses.
and properties, and lives, to the last, and sell, them with
our hearts’ blood only ? . I '
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practically soon, 'and which it is as well to [consider befoi-Le‘.
rid '
a .
If we adopt any of the former courses, we shall fail.f:iil
irrcdeeinably, and with dishonor.
If we adopt t o last, we may fail as individuals..u-e
may fail as citizens, but we shall nobly and honorably f.i‘il.
Right, justice, will be on our si e; an , in any
event, our countrymen and the watchful nations of Europe
ill not be slow to avenge us.
may not fail. Percliance the means which this
citizens of Paris, Vienna, and Berlin Milan, and Palermo,
have successfully and nobly used to resist unjust aggres-
sion, may not be found wholly inapplicable to the defence
of our honor, our manhood, and our ives.
A man knocked on the head at aistreet corner. or shot
?
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n o r bayonetted, is a small matter in the
n stract; but when this is done by it foreign usurper, ur-
suing a course of lawlessness, and crim and brigimdage,
unprecedented in history; alternately slaughtering by th-
mine and slaughtering by’ the sword is people too long
patient and too inliumauly submissivcfwhen this is done
u
discharging ll. public duty, and resisting a. priv
' ' ’ ‘nst ruilisn despotism, a
y r n crime
like this is done on such in man, his body becomes the
threshold ‘freedom, and from his wounds are lieard
vuc uuvu.
T. Dnvrn Ilsu.r.r.
. - -w-+e-s-
PROTESTANT REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
This ncw Society. we are deliwted to learn. is gaining
growing in numbers, notwithstanding the
Protestant Repeal Assoclationl Why not
h1vnaT’I-nn=<i'int‘RnIz ..., A - r- - ‘V ,
or a Presbyterian Board of Guardians ? What does " lic-
peal" mean at all, but that we. the Irish, should take into
0 wn band d noge for our own use, our own
a. Visible Church: a senate is not a Synod: one is not.
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of blood.
Yet, after all, we hear the adoption of the name had xi
meaning, and may serve good ends. It will show the
her smtn t n are gregarious.
yet witlpa principle of repulsion, too, which makes them
‘ " ' ' in us=y mm o .
Luului ‘ ‘ “Protestants,:’ they will move
more conlldently in the usual companionship: if they
' may ‘ ' ‘
command from a Protestant oillccr. Be it so.-only let
them fall in, and more . '
riiorniiig in June may not sec in single foreign usurpcr on
our soil-so greedy is Lord Clarendon, the Well Disposed
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l'nc. llc cannot brook delayor disappointment; unll wr-
conimend him for the notion. In him, and him alone, of
inon..aud not ' g or in you, is the selection of the day
on which the question of Irish independence shall be deci-
dcil.-a. day not depending on the sons
the sun, but on the moon, an
iptliat is, if it lets him. Lord CLARENDON has, further,
one Buownn, alicad draftsinan of agrarian outrage; who
has one KIRWAN, to order agrarian outrage, at three sliil.
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earn an honest penny. no matter whether “lxv.w" may call
iW$31'ia11 0‘m'=ll;’e 01” bi nmy. ' Wlicnce it follows, by
vinucfot‘ this machinery, that Ciinnnnon, <Bl'l.oWN, Km.
WAN, Sin-ru, Jones, or Ilonmsou, may lace Dublin,
before this ink is dry, under a bill to prevent Tippcra
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c
The Address already issued is it spirited and ‘straightfor-
ward document;-and although it takes care to repudiate
L T‘
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o llepublicnnism, yet we strongly sus--
pect these worthy Protestants, if the jnatter should unhap-
pily come to a bloody arbitrement, would make up their
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without any dcmur, or nrriivo pen.re'e.
‘ We begin to behave it possible, 'udcctl, that, if the Pro-
uiicndy fixed it twice in joke ; it is the least
leave to fix it once in
fall y tlirce several insurrecti n
pi-ovokingly, intended ; and, to say the least oi’ it, it is only
h's Excellency, as a pre ' f
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o
of law and logic ; ‘that there is in Dublin Castle 9. procla-
mation, out and dry, or domiciliary visits to, and the dis.
arming of, the citizens of Dublin, waiting Lord CLAREN.
nox's plczisurc. And without BIIOWNE or Kriu-VAN, this
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g ml evcr appreciate duly.
riy, and people talk of presci-.
oath o
71'' re; and there is no
pcrpetuit of ten e i hn Cas 9,-nor even tenant.
right.-s that let one labor never so hard to ore te a
rebellion. he cannot dispose of his good-will, nor deserve
any credit, if he do not actually
to
Horrible‘ Wlint-.af '
Hot his asses," afte roclamations. and
nddrcs s and replies, and declare ‘ans, and assurances
after towing the Tagus tlcet all the way t C rk, a
bi-inginva stcam frigate even unto llalpiii‘ Hole; all r
dragging into Irclnnd twice the usual Englisl garrisoii,
aml kocpin, tlicin awake, on i bed a d ccuu
trcd vi oftc riig , after importing as of cast
mu cts un st lead, me n the bank with grcnad
. t is a base design of ‘,‘ cvil-disposed
c hat !..'iftcr arming himself with one '
liillagziinst the people lie 1'; ‘
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. after employing his agents to
swear thcy were in terror, as well they might be; and get.
ting up divers meetings-of other
any rcbcl said
" r Chief ovcmor, cvciinllcr cm-
ployiiig a head commissioner of spies to select pikcs, to
justify his trepidation, and his head law-olliccr to fabricate
Own imlictm hr ‘ ' " ' ‘ ‘
and tlnnriuss-tliu well-disposed Viceroy 1-nay, after, ‘by
rvrr-it 0 -nrlinne ' r - -
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himself While he Can, cheaply and conveniently. It has
always been the right of man to arm-it is still the “legal”
right of Irishmcn-it is now, more tlian evcr, their duty
to assert that rig .
Lil1101’i0ki5 3179357 llfoclziimeumliow the citizens of that
lnct vv kn not. But how the people of Dublin
should act, should their city he proclaimed, is plain.
In the first place, if Dublin be disarmod in peace and
W393. there is an end of Ireland. The czipiml secure, Eng-
city wil
rmitn '1'
r of ' in nm... 5 -
lire manner, to protect‘ the, pretty nursery-maids of
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Distrust, dispiritmelltr cowardice, will spread over the
land. Men everywhere will submit to the like ignominy,
and quote tlic capital in defence of their conduct. ‘Va shall
be the cause of our country's min, the object of our
tvr ininn 4‘ L a - . uvln it
after all our boasts, after cramping our means to purchase
a s, ruler pledging ourselves bcforc earth and heaven to
defend our liberty to the d h, tauicly and hound-likc, at
the bidding of mi English viceroy, to gather up our guns,
in
houses, insults our families, discovers our weapons 1
like secret crimes, and am
piuu
est.-mt middle-classes come ocking into the national
so 7:, Re ublicanism may not be the first, 01‘
1.?
V
y government again. 1'0?
rind thus the sovereignty of Liberty, soon or
-we ,
, THE IRISH CONFEDERATION.
The following letter was sent to the Council on Wcdnosr
nnder the circumstances a the present me.
very unaccountable, indeed. I believed that I lmd"-1
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mybrotlier Confcdci-ates at the earliest possible moment:
but the Council has judged differently, and suppressed the
Not only has my own account of the matter been
withheld, but Mr. DILLON, I obserrc, has so for “'4 ‘
t r as to treat my resi '
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akes it the more neccssorv not only to give 1!
1 Cl‘
itself, but to state other circumstances wliicli are W3‘
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0 run C0)Ull1TKE or run riusii CONFUDII t'l‘lDF- Q“,
8, Ontario Terrace, 3 -->2 kg,
Gl’.)'Tl.l-)llE. .. is with deep regret and ilisappolimngntt In W
and myself compelled to resign my place on your Collllclii “W rm
request that my name be removed from the books Of the Lou s
crnt on.
I do not qunrtcl with any of the principles, olijccfsa 0" '“ll‘;",,:,
the s cicty. I am not less tlctcrminctl than over to tlcvol'-' 3 .,',
mm s " ‘ ‘ ' : of ow.-rtlimuii ,,
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courage, and manhood of Irislimcn ?
Or slioll W1‘, when the day of “surrcnder" comes urn
arm’ into Our 11011505. Place our children in the niosts l 1‘
rmim barricade door and ' 1 .,'1 mm W acme
, iuuuui, to! ie
‘ ‘ Irvlnml - and now, especially, wilt‘
lutinr mid capacity of the Confederation are about hora‘
‘ , I am extremely roliictan rciiminec 1‘ ‘an’
and o cvlidc responsibilities, in which liun fully as mus
. Wm! ow
pike, and-when ti police constable or other emissary of the
- "V !‘ W“ 4001‘. and. without olfence
”9"“5“ "‘“' ‘"“‘5“1"’1"‘-'1)’: and without ollincc, from in;
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Into the rilnsons which have iiilluccrl me to take this S1“l";"Ir
not enter furilier than to say, that the dill:-rrnccs MW
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portaiit questions of national pohcy which, you sir: ‘
cl ed, we have very good hopes of this movement.’