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Aggregate Piecting of the County of
aes ae eaieptor, :
© On Friday, July 29th, this vast and imposing assembly was held
, inthe Catholic Chapel of Wexford, which really presenteda spec
The C:
‘and the body of the Chapel was allotted to the lower orders,
with the exception of a space near the altar, where a commodi-
‘ous platform was erected for the speakers, the movers and se-
._ conders of resolutions, and all those who took a part in the busi-
+ “ness of the day. . : :
+ The hour appointed by the public requisition for the mecting
. Was one o’clock, but Mr. O’Connell’s occupation in the Record
Court in the case of Hedges Eyre v. Howard, in which he was
4. specially retained, occasioned a postponement. About twenty
* minutes, or half an hour afcer three, Mr. O’Connell entered the
Chapel, accompanied by Sir Thomas Esmonde, H. Lambert,
, ,Esq., James Edward Devereux, Esq,
. Catholic Gentlemen of distinction, The Protestant Gentlemen
* of rank were also in very numerous attendance. Robert Shap-
land Carew, Esq., the independent Member for the County,
Cesar Colclogh, Esq., Arthur Chichester, Esq., Christopher
Harvey, Esq., Cadwallader Waddy, Esg., F. Goff, Esq., Samuel
Boyce, Esq., Ebe: y
* Butler, were of the number.
took the Chair, and Mr, Meyler was appointed Secretary to the
meeting. : .
Sir Thomas Esmonde then called the attention of the meeting
three inestimable and indispensible qualitie:
ance, and union. (Cheers.) -
John Talbot, Esq., said, that it had fallen to his lot to have
| the honour of proposing the first resolution. “It professed the
‘ yegret of the mecting at the late decision of the Legislature on
the ‘subject of the Catholic claims, so contrary to the often de-
clared sense of the majority of the House of Commons.
* Henry Lambert, Esq., seconded this motion, and in so doing
could not be restrained, even by the presence of his esteemed
friend, from congratulating the County of Wexford on the no-
ble and manly spirit. which Mr.’Talbot had just evinced. The
resolution was then carried with acclamations.
Patrick Walter. Redmond, Esq., rose to moye a resolution,
-which pledged the meeting to a perseverance inall eonstitu-
tional measures, to obtain a restitution of their rights.
; Itwas seconded by Mr. White, and passed unanimously.
_ Mr. Lambert now rose, and said—Sir, if ever there was a pe-
Nod, in the sad and eventful history of Ireland, that imperative-
ly called upon the Catholics of Ireland—and not alone upon the
Catholics, but all Irishmen who take an interest ia the welfare
of their country—to. come forward with a strenuous and united
exertion for ber emancipation, the present, above all others, is
that period. . I deeply, bitterly lament, that intemperate, impo-
Aitic, and ill-omened declaration, by which the Bill for our relief
Was driven out of the House of Lords; and I the more regret
this circumstance, on account of the exalted individuals who so
fur forgot their daty to themselves and their country, as from
Motives of selfish ambition and individual interest, to deny t!
rights, and insult the feelings of seven-millions of their fellow-
hear.) However, Sir, when we view the pre-
feel spect of our cause, we have no reason to despond; if a
ewe Of mercenary animosity has sprung up in one quarter,
a8 cal h nobler and more exatted sentiments in many
guished quarters. » (Cheers.) We have, Mr. Chairman,
01 great majority of the
auk. Wealth, and influence of the Parliament. (Cheers.) We
anid the pure patriotism ofa Canning—and here it may not be
mMis3. to remark, that the objection which had been stated to
stinguished Statesman continuing in office, i
sean may not be in the recollection of every gentleman who
M eines, but it is nevertheless an undoubted fact, that when
vane ‘Anning thought, that by retiring from office, he could ad-
or assist the cause of Catholic emancipation, he hesitated
ce: the legitimate and honest ambition which a
outhe ee naturally cherishes, and he declined office. When,
tal omen of Mr, Canning’s late accession to the ministe-
* made it 2 Steat talents were not mecessary ; had Mr. Canning
tions, that eee of his entering upon the important func-
's, firmness, temper-
Statesman n
9 ‘oyernment, perhaps smootlily and safel
‘or aome ry »_perhap: iy ly
ome time longer. Mr, Canning is endowed with a su-
hapel, (a
ff,
n. Jacob, Esq, Rev. Mr. Morgan, and Capt.
in the motion of James Edward Devereux, Fsq.j of Carrick-
mannon, seconded by John Talbot, Esq., Sir Thomas Esmonde
nn portnana
Ces core
NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1825.
pace with the progress of that mind; and the liberal and truly | lence either in word or deed. We all know by experience
what have been and may always be expected to be the lamenta-
ble consequences of violence—insurrections and massacre, by
n| which we are always reduced to a still more degraded state
| than we were in before. What has ever been the result of hav
ing recourse to Physical force? It has ever been productive
of a drunken burst of fury, and attended with wanton, cow-)
ardly massacre. I apply this observation not to one side, but
to both. As to acts of violenee, so far, as regards myself, f
t | would feel it necessary to apologize to my countrymen for not
No-Popery part of the Administration enjoy. (Cheers.) Soo
will every man in’ the country be ‘called upon to support he
doubt, M
Ce
Ireland.
(Loud cheers.) "Tis tru are-no
slaves,
. Sir, we
The detestable. Penal Code is, disarmed of the mos'
still remains. (Hear, hear.) “Tis true,
prosperity, not of
Ireland alone, but of the whole
(Much cheering.)
species of corruption with which a people can be afflicted, is
that which origiuates in the law. |The evil in such a case is ir-
dy itself. (Cheers.), Those laws, which assigned a reward for
injustice, which held ont a temptation to crime, are not yet en-
tircly abolished—their hateful trace is not yet completely wiped
away, from our minds. _ We shall now, Sir, consider, for a mo-
ment, what are the causes which have prevented, or, at least,
retarded, So long, and so unaccountably, the success of Catholic
emancipation, I say the cause has been in ourselves. (Hear,
hear.) ‘There is, in the whole range of universal history, no in-
stance of a people having remained so long degraded, but by
their own fauit. At the head of those causes which have so lon,
injured and ensinyed us, Ihave no hesitation in placing those
lamentable dissensions’ which have incessantly distracted and
div s, and those dissensions I feel myself warranted in
tracing to a pitiful feeling of restless and insatiable self-vanity.
No sooner has one Catholic, by his great and, signal services to
his country, acquired that confidence and that gratitade which
are so justly his due, than there are found men to cross him, to
sneer at him, to grudge him his well-earned honours, and, if they
can, to trample him under foot,—(Hear, hear, hear.) This 1s
our national defect, and that we should learn to hear it toldto
our faces, and that we should study to amend it.—Sir, [ am n
versed in flattery. There is no length to which [ would not
gladly go in my country’s service save that of flattering my
countrymen to their ruin. A great and distinguished man, per-
haps the most glorious being that the history of the world pro-
duces, who wished to emancipate the Poles from the iron do-
mivion of Russia, gave up the design in despair. Napoleon
thus described the Poies—‘t They are,” said he, “a passionate
but a frivolous people, They, do every thing by impulse, and
nothing by system. Their enthusiasm is violent, but it is mo-
mentary, they can neither direet nor perpetuate it. |
their ruin in their character,” ‘Such is Napoleon's description
of the. Poles, and I must say that much of, it is applicable to
ourselves. Our eas are constantly tickled with the eaumera-
tion of our own perfections. Iam weary of perpetually hear-
ing of the goodness of Paddy’s head and Paddy's heart, and
Paddy’s every part. I would ask what has Paddy accomplish-
ed by this congregation of wonderful parts. Look at his pre-
sent condition. Whatis he but the scorn of Europe and of the
whole world? (Hear, hear, hear.) 1 should wish to see the
blush of shame burning upon the cheek of every Irishman ra-
ther than see him coming forward to challenge his own applause.
1 should like, Sir, to see the day when we would emancipate
ourselves. . (Yelement cheering.) I would say to my country-
men, in the language of that celebrated hero who never erred
in his calculation of lwman nature, except once, when he com-
mitted his fallen fortunes to the supposed generosity of a Bri-
tish Ministry—it will require another Waterloo to wipe out the
stain which their treachery on that occasien has cast upon the
English nation—I would say to my countrymen as Napoleon
said to the French, whom he had so often led to conquest and
to glory, and who afterwards turned their backs upon him, gnd
left him to perish upon a barren rock— When shall we ex-
change all this vanity for a little pride?” (Loud cheering.)
Sir, there are two ways by which the ultimate success of our
cause may be ensured. ‘The one is, an appeal to open force,
and the other, the adoption of those constitutional means of
which we are not yet, and I hope we never may be deprived.
(Cheers.) ‘These are our only resources; ‘there is no middle
course.. As to the former means, every man will see that it
would be absurd to go befare men who are hostile to us, and
prejudiced against our claims, to present ourselves before them
ata moment of security, and to ask a favour in the language
of contumely and insuit, to say—“ you shall grant us what we
ask, and you shall grant it on our own terms.” This language
will never do—our conduct must be‘ firm and temperate—in
They bear
ppen to express ourselves warmly on a sub-
coilengues in the Cabinet are unable to keep
é
noble policy which he has adopted with regard to South-Ameri-
ca, will require greater talents to bear England out than the
i
against the, hostility of a Holy Alliance, and then, I make no
r. Canning will impose upon the Government, as the
condition of his services, to save the country by emancipating
longer
oppressive and most odious of its statutes; but too much of it ii th ive i i i
remediable—the disease is incurable—for it exists in the reme-
AND WILL PREVAIL... {
having been hitherto more active in their service.
hi
lie potities, properly so calied, but I should be ashamed to face
suffered a'single instance of oppression, to pass without resist-
ance—if I had not merely resisted injustice, but, if 1 had gone
to treet it with that honest abhorrence, that detestation of o;
pression, which I have not derived from books, or learned from ,
t which is born and branded in my very soul. (Loud
cheering.) _ As we read in the beautiful Eastern Romance, the
Caliph Vathek, of spectres, which roamed in mournful silence
through the di
hands concealed their hearts, while those hearts glowed beneath
with inextinguishable anguish; thus have] endured the torture
of an incessant longing, for the deliverance of my country;
but, I will own, that the measures hithertoadopted, did not strike
me as calculated to accomplish that object. It appears to me
that they would only sully the purity and deface the brightness
of our cause. If I have been wrong, I am sorry for it— «
(Cheers.) , Gentlemen, the Orange Institutions are no more; I
shall pronounce their funeral oration ; but, I think it right to
observe, that there is another body rapidly growing in the coun-.
erish a more de atred to us, and practise @
uomanly resistaace to our claims than the Orangemen
themselves. I allude to that class of men, whom some desig-
nate as Saints, and who have the presumption to call them-
selves Evangelists; but I believe they are better known by the
name of swindlers. (A laugh.) It is vain for them to attempt
to conceal it. With alltheir smooth professions of good will
to all sects; with all their liberal subscriptions for Bibles and
tracts, the link that binds their society together, is hatred to the
Catholics. (IIear, hear, hear.) I admit, I know that there are
many amiable men among them, and | lament it. These men are
dupes to the art of designing and interested persons, and while ~
they mean well, are miserable, because they are led on under
the semblance of conscience, to pursue a course, which their
heart and their reason cosdemo. (Hear.)We have known of.
men of this description, who, unable to bear the load of misery +
which their delusion has entailed upon them, have terminated
their existence, when they ought only to have terminated their
folly. (Hear, hear, hear.) It is right that I should say, it is
not my intention to give offence to any man; I should be most
unwilling to give utterance to any thing that would inflict pain
in any quarter.—No if, the evils were of less magnitude, or if I
saw a chance of its having an end, I should have suffered it to
pass without notice. There is auother point to which I wish >
to call the attention of this meeting, and I do so with diffidence,
because, it is ‘the first time that the subject has been touched
upon, before a meeting of Catholics. All L claim is, that
my words may not be misr+presented, and that motives may not be
attributed to me, which f detest and abhor. If, after having stat.
ed my sentiments, as fully and distinctly as the power of language
will enable me, motives whick J disclaim should be imputed to me,
I’ shall hear the insinuation with the most heartfelt coutempt.
Having thus premised, I shall preface with a few observations
the subject to which I have alluded, which is that of tithes. I
the first place, I disclaim solemnly and emphatically, any hos«
tility tothe Established Church, or the members of which it is
composed. [t has often given rise to wonder and astonishment >
in my breast, in moments of anxious and painful meditatioa,
how mutual hate could exist in the bosoms of two sects s0 closely
resembling each other iu their religious orders, as the churches
of England and Rome. » Often have I reflected with astonish.
ment, on looking at the book of Common Prayer, and at the."
Roman missal, how it happened, that on the same day, and at
the same hour, the same portions of scripture, and in taany in-
stances the same prayers were repeated by the two congrega-
tions, and sent simultaneously to heaven. (Hear, hear, hear,}
Is it to be believed, sir, if we had not, unfortunately, sad and
lamentable experience of the fact, that two societies imploring
the blessings of their common Father, in the saine words, wit
the trifling difference of one repeating them in English, and the
other in Latin, that these two societies should go forth froin the
temple of that Gor to calumpiate and to hate each other, Soon,
I trust, will this feeling of jealousy and uncharitablencss sub.
side amongst us. (Cheers.) Having made these prelimi
remarks, I will now beg to state my consejentions conviction of
the injustice that compels a people, the poorest in the world, to
contribute out of their hard-earne, pittance, or in fact out of
any pittance honestly acquired, so large a portion to the main-
tenance of a body, whose serviecs are of no manner of use to
them, and which they will not, can not accept, [am satisfied
that some modification of the tithe system, some alteration in
the way of paying the clergy, instead of subverting, or even in
ject that go nearly concerns us. [am not an advocate for vio- | juriag, would strengthen the Established Church, Lt would give
"NO. 24
(Hear, hear.) ™
. , ve can no longer be | I have not, it is true, hitherto taken a very active part in Catho-
robbed by the first Protestant discoverer, of that property which
is the acquisition of our industry, or which has descended to us
by the bequest of our ancestors; but the fatal stain is not yet
thoroughly wiped out. Irishmen cannot unite, as 1 hdpe they
one day will—(cheers)—in promoting the tranquillity and the
empire.
‘The Penal Code has been attended with the | men, but
accustomed results of bad laws ; they have degraded and demo-
ralized the people. The great Montesquieu says, that the worst
my countrymen here this day, if 1 were conscious of having }
dismal and solitary halls of Eblis—whose right ”
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