An Appeal to the People of Ireland: First partprinted [by W. P. Carey] at no. 29, Anglesea-Street, 1794 - 196 pages |
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Page 34 - Irish nation in parliament; and as a means of absolute and immediate necessity in the establishment of this chief good of Ireland, I will endeavour as much as lies in my ability to forward a brotherhood of affection, an identity of interests, a communion of rights and an union of power among Irishmen of all religious...
Page 34 - AE in the prefence of God, do pledge myfelf to my country, that I will ufe all my abilities and influence in the attainment of an impartial and adequate reprefentation of the Irifh nation in Parliament ; and as a means of abfolute and immediate neceffity in the...
Page 142 - ... abroad, her thousand eyes shut against the truth at home ; worked up by false suggestions and artful insinuations to such a madness of suspicion, as makes her mistake her dearest friends for her deadliest foes, and revile the only society which ever pursued her welfare with spirit and perseverance, as attempting at her life with the torch of an incendiary and the dagger of an assassin.
Page 124 - We esteem and we respect you. We pay merited honour to a Nation in general well educated and well informed...
Page 39 - The Society of United Irishmen at Dublin, to the Volunteers of Ireland. William Drennan, chairman; Archibald Hamilton Rowan, secretary. "' CITIZEN SOLDIERS—You first took up arms to protect your country from foreign enemies and from domestic disturbance; for the same purposes it now becomes necessary that you should resume them.
Page 180 - ... to direft an apology, and to fine refractory members in any fum not above one crown; if the member refufe to pay the fine, or make the apology, he is thereupon expelled from the fociety. There (hall be a committee of constitution, of finance, of correfpondcnce, and of accpmmodation.
Page 128 - ... separates in this island the ranks of social life, makes labour ineffectual, taxation unproductive, and divides the nation into petty despotism and public misery. We call upon their tutelar genius to remember, that government is instituted to remedy, not to render more grievous, the natural inequality of mankind, and that unless the rights of the whole community be asserted, anarchy (we cannot call it government) must continue to prevail, when the strong tyrannize, the rich oppress, and the mass...
Page 127 - ... tyrannize, the rich oppress, and the mass are brayed in a mortar. We call upon them, therefore, to build their arguments and their actions on the broad platform of general good. Let not the rights of nature be enjoyed merely by connivance, and the rights of conscience merely by toleration. If you raise up a prone people, let it not be merely to their knees : let the nation stand. Then will it cast away the bad habit of servitude which has brought with it indolence, ignorance, an extinction of...
Page 142 - Ihe will either fympathife with what you have fuffered, or partake in our heartfelt joy at your enlargement. Indeed you will fcarcely now know your country, in a few months fo much altered.