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TRUTH 15 POWERFUL,
CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.
Dublin, July 16.
Qn Wednesday last a numerous meeting of the Catholic As-
sociation took place at the Corn Exchange Hotel—John Bric,
Esq. in the chair. |, .
THE LATE ELECTIONS. ,
Mr. O’Connell rose. He had demanded as a right, to pre-
face the opening resolution, and it had met with the fate which
he had anticipated. id now proceed to the business
which had called them together, and that was to devise an
carry into effect such plans as may be best calculated to pro-
ware Catholic Emancipation. A great deal of exertion had
Leen lately made throughout the country, but in the moral as
well as in the physical body, a state of excitement was usually
followed by a state of relaxation, and a collapse of the faculties
ensued after they had been wound up to the highest pitch. But
they should not suffer such a collapse to take place—it was their
duty to keep the public mind wound up, and to pursue those
constitutional exertions which have, been making to obtain the
freedom of their country.” The Orange flag was now prostrate
% nineteen out of twenty parts of Ireland. (cheers.) To crush
it where it still remained unfurled, and to extend the right arm
of fellowship to their Jiberal friends in England should be now
aheir object. It was a matter of triumph that the Orangemen
were no lounger able to keep Ireland down. (cheers.) ‘The Be-
vesfords were trodden under: foot in Waterford—the Fosters
had barely escaped in Louth—-Smyth, of Westmeath, was sent
juto his original obscurity—and in Monaghan, Orange Leslie
had fled back to the old man of the mountain..(Loud and con-
NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1826,
were against the Catholics there. [Je, Mr. O'Connell, remem-
bered having seen Mr, Alderman Thompson seconding au ad-
dress against the old Association, “The worthy Alderman on
that occasion pronounced a speech of some length, and one
that might be justly termed his own, for he had paid dearly
for it, He, Mr.O’Connell, had a personal knowledge of the fact,
that this speech was written by an frish Papist, and sold to the
Alderman for twenty guineas. (Great laughter.) ‘This nota-
ble Alderman said at the late €lection in London, that he oppo-
sed the Catholics, because Popery was less tolerant than Pro-
testantism. And to prove the truth of his assertion, this Alder-
inan gives his vote for excluding Catholics from their civil
rights! He affords io himself a perfect pattern for intolerance.
‘Three out of four of the late members for London were inimi-
cal to them—they have nuw two decided friends in the per-
sons of. Messrs. Wood and Waithman.. (Cheers.) And from
what had fallen from Mr, Ward, it was evident that he would
not vote against the Catholics. It may, perhaps, be too much
to reckon on his support, but it was his, Mr. O’Connell’s con-
viction, that Mr. Ward would not vote against them. He would
now refer to Dover, for the purpose of indulging in laughter,
were it not for an event which had just occurred, namely—the
death of poor Butterworth. Ie is dead—that election killed
him, and if the filthy spirit of swaddling mendacity were buri-
din his grave, one would almost be inclined to rejoice at this
melancholy event. Out of one thousand voters at Dover, But-
terworth polled only two hundred. ‘There was one triumph in
ngland, at which they must all rejoice—he meant the defeat
of Mr. Home Sumner, in Surry—that fine example of servile
and worthless toryism, who was always ready to join tie go-
+ tinned cheers ) ‘The English Government have now to choose | yernmeut, and to support the Minister whether riglit or wrong.
“and his excellent colleague, Mr.
which way they shall govern Ireland, The people, at least,
jnave defeated the faction that so long ruled this country—that
faction no longer reigns supreme, and its days were gone by,
and he (Mr. O'Connell) would now regard it with feelings of
generous pity, if it were not supported, even at its downfall, by
aportion of the British Cabinet. (Hear, hear, hear.) What
line ef policy would that Cabinet now adopt? He, for his part
did not much care whether they sent the miserable Orange fac-* resolution expressive
dion into eternal oblivion, or whether they sided with it, and
Mr. Sumner was the first and the most intolerant in every No
Popery discussion. ; Where is he now? ‘This No Bppery cham-
pion and President of the Pitt Club; this iman, who, like the
hand ou a dial plate, which turned with the weather cock,
veered always to the point whence the Ministerial wind blew—
this man has been bravely defeated. . It was a great triumph;
many others occurre England ; and he intended to move a
i fthe thanks of the Catholics to the libe-
ral and truly Chiristian Electors of England, who hyd put
continued the system of misrule and injustice which had so long | down the No Popery cry. (Cheers.) But to come home—the
blasted the energies of this fine couutry.. He hardly cared | victories in Ireland were many and splendid.
which fine it was they should follow. He would, no doubt, wis|
ihat they should adopt the liberal course, for the sake of peace } The Beresfords,
and tranquillity, and because he desired, before his sun was set
‘in the West, to see tranquillity established in his native land.—
(Cheers.) He
might be allowed first to speak of Waterford. (Loud cheers.)
who had ruled this county for nearly a centu-
ry, possessed in it large property, and through whom all the
government patronage was dispeosed—who had, upon their
But the pcople of Ireland were prepared for the other alterna | own estates, eight hundred voters and upwards 3 the Beres-
try.
avould make all Irishmen brothers—the:
commerce, and the manufactures of Irelan
the blessings which G
longer be converted into curses, and an opportunity would be | erma:
Ss
tive, and ready to fight the constitutional battle of their.coun-| fords, though the Marquis of Waterford forgave arrears of rent
if the ministry adopted the wise and liberal course, they | ¢o 13,0
| would unite them in | for the future—though 42,0001. were expended previous to the
the bonds of social affection and mutual interest~the trade, the | clection,
would increase— |} der 100,000!
had showered on the land would no | were defeated.
the amount of 13,0001, and reduced the rents materially
and though the subsequent expenditure cannot be un-
-, yet, with allthese mighty efforts, the Beresfords
_ (Immense cheering.) “As the Dungarvan fish.
n said, Lord George Beresford is like a sea calf onthe
given to this fine country to rise to that station in the scalé of | shore with the fide out—he has not a drop of water to float him,
stations, for which she was destined by nature and nature’s God.
and there he lies slashing with tus tail in the mud.’ (Laughter.)
Cheers.) But if they adopted the other course, misery ard | Jy the entire county Lord George polled only 609 voters, in-
destruction would pervade the land—whole millions would be'| cluding 30 fat Parsons.
His own tenantry voted against him,
given up tothe domination of a faction—the energies of Ireland | and his gardener left his garden, and his steward his business,
» would be weakened—she would always present an ally to every | saying that they would prefer honesty and distress, sooner than
foreign foe; and what would all this be done for by ministers ?
Mtn order to preserve a wretched and miserable consistency.— | One landlord, whom he, Mr.
~ “But would it prevent the activity of the Catholics? Not at all) because his name and conduct will hereafter be dragged before
vote against their religion and their country, (Loud cheers,)—
O'Connell, would not now name,
—it would consolidate their ‘strength—it would add to their | the British Parliament, sent the cattle of his tenantry to pound,
union—it would give to the country an increased number of
Catholic ‘agitators,’ and rouse the Catholic Clergy to (if possi-
isle) greater exertions in behalf of the libertics of their country,
He (Mr, O'Connell) was not speaking the idle language of spe-
culation. Events in England fully justify what he has advan-
ced, notwithstanding the misrepreseatations of the paltry and
wretched Courier, it. was lately proved, that some creature
who seribbles for that journal, had sought the blood of Mr.
Brougham, by endeavouring to excite a personal quarrel be-
tween that gentleman and Colonel Lowther, at the Westmore-
tand Election. This wretched organ was, indeed, a fit repre-
‘sentative of the intolerant portion of the Cabinet. If the Duke
~of York were to-moxcow seated on the Throne of England, and
that he established a Royal Divan instead of, a Parliament, the
Courier would be foremost in Jauding the taste of his Majesty,
and it would, no doubt, assert, that a Parliament was the worst,
and a Divan the best institution under the sun, This base and
miserable written Paper had asserted that the cause of bigotry
was triwephant in England; or, to use its own blundering lan-
guage, the “No Popery cry was not obly heard, Lut felt through.
ont theland.” To feclacry! This was new phraseology in
Jreland, ‘and it was equally false and blundering. The elec.
tions ia England ‘had principaily gone in favour of the cause
ig Liberty, In the Metropolitan county in
England, from whici the life’s blood of the country circulated,
they had seen Sir Francis Burdett, that admirable character,
Hobhouse, re-elected for
Westniinster, In Southwark, it was delightful to see Sir Robt.
Wilson triumphant, and. Poilhill, with a bag of money in one
hand, and a No Popery hand-bill in the other, defeated.—
‘Then Jovk at London itself,
and when fifteen days had elapsed, they were advertised to
be sold by auction, Some gentlemen, who wished to save
them for the pdor tenants, attended: but while they happened
to be at Mass (it was a holida the unfeeling landlord order-
ed the auction to proceed, and fiilch cows were gold at 8s. and
10s, a-head, and horses that were worth SOL, were sold for Sl.
A freeholder, named Casey, exhibited at this contest an in-
stance of patriotic generosity, worthy of the noblest days of
Roman virtue. He was offered 70 guineas if he would not vote
atall; he refused to do so; he was then told that he should
have the 70 guineas home with him in his pocket, if he would
vote for Power alone. Though seventy guineas were as much
to this man, as seventy millions would be to othe efor he was
poor and distressed, he spurned the offer, and voted of course
for Power and Stuart. (Immense cheering.) Mr. O’Connell,
here paid many happy compliments to the successful candidate,
Mr. Villiers Stuart. “Ie was a young man of a noble race, and
more, that he possessed a noble mind—a mind stored with
ideas and rich with genins—ready, apt, and eloquent. Mr.
Stuart will be an ornament to the senate, and a scourge to our
oppressors, Lord George polled only in three baronies out of
the eight into which the county is divided, -But to whom was
his defeat mainly attributed? Oh! it was to the Catholic Cler-
gy, with their excellent Bishop at their head. (Cheers.) | Itis
said that the Beresfords wilf petition parliament on account of
the Catholic priests having exercised their influence at the elec-
tion; yet Lord George himself polled thirty-one Parsons,
‘They certainly exercised no influence over the people, for they
possess none, and if they attempted to influence the people, they
would be answered by the cry of “ Tithes, tithes"—" Chareh
AND WILL PREVAIL.
Wo. 35.
shearing times, to shear their flocks, but they rendered them
not the smallest service, They had no power there to influence
the votes of the people. - The contest in Waterford aGorded a
splendid example in another point of view. He, Mr. O'Connell,
had sometimes seen fifty thousand, and frequently thirty thou~
sand people congregated there, but there was not upon any
occasion the least disturbance, and their enemies actually com-
plained that the people were frightfully tranquil, and dreadfully
obedient to the laws! Itis a fact, that rufians had been brought
down from. Dublin, in order to excite the people to the com-
mission of outrage, and sdéne of the Jocal gentry, who bad
snapped loaded pistols at the people, have fled the country.
They have escaped for the present, but warrants are after then
in three countics and there is little doubt but they will be sex” _
cured, s the Catholic Clergy of Waterford who had at- '
chieved the great victory there, He, Mr. O'Connell, had re- ~
turned from thence with the deep conviction that the people of
Ircland will be chiefly indebted for. their. political safety to
those men, who watched over their eternal salvation. (Cheers.) |
| He saw men there who were fitted by their zeal and the purity > |
of theirlives to walk in the footsteps of the Apostles, and who
formerly had but required the flame of patriotism Co be lit in
their bosoms to make them, not only Christian patriots, but
honest Irishmen. Jt was delightful to contemplate the triumph
achieved iv Waterford, ‘Lhe proud oppressor, who-had so
long stalked over that county, has fallen ; atid an unison of >
sentiment has taken place between Protestants, Catholics, and
Presbyterians, to bring back to Ireland her own government— |
(cheers)—by obtaining a repeal of the legislative Union. At
this late hour he would not speak as he wished of the glorious
triumph achieved in Louth.” ‘fie Catholics of that county bad
formerly passed a vote of censure on his, Mr. O'Connell's, opi-
nion relative to the Freehold wings ; and they have proved that
they were right, His opinion was now changed, and ‘to the
Catholics of Louth, who then censured him, and to Mr. A. Mar~
mion in particular, he begged to return his grateful ackoow-
ledgments (cheers.) Mr. Shiel, too, threw the brilliancy of .
his talents over that splendid triumph. With the keen and clean |
cutting weapon of his sarcasm, he cut Leslie Foster to the
core. | is now proved to Leslie Foster, that unless be
ceases to oppose the Catholic claims, he shall be dismissed
from the representation of the county of Louth at the next
election. ‘The triumph of Westmeath is also very gréat—
‘There the Catholic gentry, with the exception of Mr. Nugent,
of Donore, did not belong to the old Association, but all the Ca-
tholic clergy did ; and it was by them and the people that the
victory was achieved, It is a singular fact, that no Catholic in
any parish in Waterford, which had subscribed to the Catholic
rent, voted for Beresford.” It was not possible to do justice
to the exertions of Sir Edward Bellew, in the county Louth.—*
They may have differed from the Hon. Baronct at other times,
but upon this trying occasion he was at his post, and evincing
as much anxiety as the foremost among them, in the canse of —
the country. He would leave to the chairman to describe the
glorious tiuinph in Monaghan, ‘The Catholic clergy had done
their duty, Mr. O'Connell then alluded in terms of pride and ~
exultation to the election of Armagh, where the inimitable
Brownlow had triumphed over the champion of Orangeism.—
In Roscommon, the Catholics had been swindled by a species of
political swaddling. In Cavan, the fight was Strong, and the’ «©
friends of liberty had been victorious, if measures had been
taken in time. He, Mr. O'Connell, had been told, that the
Bank of Ireland took ashameful part in this contest. If it be the
case, he, Mr, O'Connell, hoped that every Irishman who loved
his country would not keep a note of the Bank of Irclaud a sin
gle moment in his possession. (cheers and laughter) He, for .
one would demand sovereigns for their notes the instant such”,
notes came into his hands. There was Mr, William [Humphreys
also, at this election, tvho endeavoured to put down and crush
the efforts of the people. He, Mr. O'Connell, cared not for the
aristocratic connections and great wealth of Mr. Humphreys.
Such circumstances added to the baseness of his conduct. and
no man was now tore deservedly despicable in the eyes of Ire-
Jand than Mr. William Humphreys. (Cheers.) He, Mr.
Connell, denounced his conduct, and he pitied him for his
wealth, . Humphreys had basely attempted to crush the’
efforts of the people from whom he had himself sprung.—Mr.
O'Connell said that he could allude to the contest in his own
native county, Kerry, only in a spirit of unusual solemnity and
ef. It was impossible to contemplate the horrible destruc,
ses are to be shot—the father is killed while attempting to carry
o dying son, and females are plunged in core in the mid-
dle of the streets of Tralee! And all this that the son of Lord
Enunismore, a foreigner as it were in the county, by means of
his aristocratic influence, should obtain a seat in Parliament .
Four or five years ago, five o .
cuted in ‘Tralee for murder—shall the gemry now escape 1.
Shall broad cloth and 30s, hats, y fe noi
p deserves? There are, indeed, fearful
Symptoms already—a justihcation of the murderers has been
Formerly three out of four yotes\ Rates, Church Rates,” These Parsons only came dywa in
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