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The life and speeches of Daniel O'Connell, M.P.
The life and speeches of Daniel O'Connell MP Author:Daniel O'Connell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tracts from the journals of the time, chiefly from the Freeman, showing the spirit that then was alive among all parties. We proceed, therefore, to give a bri... more »ef report of a meeting of the Dublin corporation, early in May, extracted from the Freeman's Journal of May l2, l8l0—a short statement of the steps adopted by them to procure a general meeting of citizens, extracted from the Freeman of the 25th July. The requisition for that meeting, as published in the same paper, September ll, and a report of the meeting itself with all its interesting circumstances, from the newspapers of the l9th and 22nd September, the latter having the best report of Mr. O'ConnelFs speech on that most interesting occasion. COMMON COUNCIL DUBLIN. FRIDAY, MAY 4, l8l0. " Mr. Willis said he rose under much difficulty, from the insidiou and malignant attacks on his character which the house had just listened to. He hoped it would not prejudice them against the motion he would now submit to them on the measure of the Union— a motion so interesting to every Irishman, that it stood in need of little apology. He had no doubt but Dr. 'Whitelaw's pamphlet would be again introduced, to show the prosperity of this city, but he would oppose to that the general and overwhelming bankruptcy with which this unfortunate country was inundated. He asked why Westmoreland-street, Grafton-street, and every other trading part of this city, exhibited such distress ?—why so many houses and shops were shut? It is because the men of property, the fashion of the country, were inveigled away by this measure to spend their property in another land. He considered a union of the government absolutely necessary to support our glorious constitution, and the connection between the sister islands, to render the executive strong ...« less