The Anti-Union

To the Public Source: The Anti-Union, No. 32 (Mar. 9, 1799), pp. 126-128 Published by: The Anti-Union Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30059928 . Accessed: 21/10/2013 23:50
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is hofllileto an Unithe Irifh 1Minfiler has acknowledged on, have not been fufficientto convince his underfland.. ing, or to produce a permanentinfluenceon his conScar'dwith a f6undhe did know, du&. Even when he was mortifiedand humbledby the nlot not to flay, Peace-lovingfleep dared patriotifmof his native country, while he was yet agoBut fighing for lerne's woe, nizedhbythe uprightnefsof its fenate, and flill frmarting He bent his noifelefsflight away. from the lafh of honefitand eloquentinvedive, he has, with that arro6ancewhich generally accomrpaniesinexlerne flarting, paus'da-while: to perSevere in a perience, declared his determiination Too true, the cries, ye powers above! the of he and which projct, right, wvifdom the Dread Difcord Comesfrom that fair ifle, to be 'wrong. The'vanquiihedSbhas.decided "calls :nation Where Ilill I look'd for peace and love. cretary has announced, even .at the moment when he was overthrown. that he waits only for the acquitiiion Thought-raptfhe flood in dumb amaze, of new ftrength, to repeat his attack. While the quelL on the wtflern mountain'sheight, we would WVhen Ition, of Union rwmains-.thus circiumilaneed,, To founds feraphic, rofe a blaze, bewell juffifite in continuing our exertions, which the Of' mildly-beaming, heaiv'nly light. perverfenefsof ihe Miniffer will rot permit us to termion*this ftib. nate. But knowing the general There midf,. loofe-rob'd,was feen fentimrient not to revive, the and pledged in.the. that foothes our hdlding IMinitier Sweet Hope, ev'ry ill, the pre!ent-fefflio, the difciilion of this queftije&,, duriing Beck'ning with calm ainid fmiljngmien, the ublication6f on, we deem it expedient to fufpend' Poor, fad lerne up the hillthis paper, udiil a future occafion hiab call forour fervices. If therbhe faith or truth in his Majefly'sMinifThe woe-begone thusHope addrefs'd:-ters, them people of this country will enjoy at leafdthe . " Liftup thy looks, lerne, cheer, of the agitation of repofe one.-year, from .that topic, C For know we come at'heav'n'sbeheft, of all is likely -to difttfbrtheir which, others, quiet molt "'ITo fooththy forrowi check fear, for ever. .th) Whenr tle Editors of the Anti-Unionfiwltfolicited 4CThy cares, dangers, Toon Thall ceafe-: the attention of the Public, this was threat,thy are tears gone" Thy days,of andfighs king.nm which ened the with can greatelfcalamity " Thy fouleftfeuds (hallturn to peace-befa! a coun" Thus thall the will of heav'nbe done.. try, the lofs of its independence, the aboliiion of its liberties. by thofe firong exhautifed "The public-mind, in continued a&ivity for had which feelings from Pluck been:kept yew away, ' thy'breaft.that rebellion, whidh it required " Be fleady, fix months, by a fanguinary c6ol,' collreed, calnl; of the. -country, to all the and all the " So courage foon wreath thou :.lrength. difplay fhalt a, with the Palm. called on by authority, to conft" Of Shamrocwoven fupprers,was fuddenly der of furtenderingThlat they had Ib corinfitution, iWhich indsfobland iew's dearly defended; andof fubmitting the liberties Wo0 defcending aqd to the of fa of Britifh mercy the -dependence Ireland lilly's head, CegiCLifts i&roopiiig 'lature. The people of Ireland, d1unned by a flroketb Rais'd the fair lerne bending, and c'nftebled.by the extraordinary exerFaireR flower iti Nature's bed. tions they haidma!c, in defendingtheir exifling eita.unexpected, My ferdent fhanks, high heaven, flhecries, 'blifhlments,andthe.connexion with the -fifler the monfIrouspropofition with a kind .country, Be ever, ever, given to thee; of' ilent ;heard and tears chas'd' alloniflhment,which,' tho' it. expruffedfufEcicntlv the fighs-; my forrow, Thou'it HOPE and LIZRTrY. Thou'l fentarne. 'horrorwhich. they felt, yet prornifd.to the infidious enemy, b'tl too. o'af a triuuph. It was apparent the nation was panic ftruck; it was obvious that if it were TREBOR. not roufedto thought, and excited to view with a fleady -be eye the precipice to which it was brought, all rnmu loft. Among the firfl who undertookthis arduous, but neceffary talk, were 'the Editors of this paper. Tho' TO THE PUBLIC. which eveexhaufledlike othersby thlofefevere'fervices ry loyal man in Irelandhadfelt himfelf bound to unwe at firftaffigned to our ahbours, to period'which dergo, they againrefolvedto facrificeprivateinterefit, THE Union of public duity; they came forward to.warn, to animate has not yet arrived,. An Incorporated to the the people df Ireland to refiftl a meafure,which, every Ireland with Great Britain has been -propofed and ruin of Legiflaturesof both countries by their refpelive Mi- prudent man faw., involved the degradation nifrers, and that meafureis not yet abandoned. A Par- the country. and To effet this purpofe,they confideredit the liamentarydefeat, and the opinion of the people, which rafer

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theunderfLanding, the reafon, will thewiterwayto addrefs

having in view folely this objea, commenced. Whe- have been already exerted with fuch fignal fuccefs. ther it has been carriedon during that period, with that 1That it is intended reprefs that fpirit and curb that to. be feepticifin to doubt; but regardto decorum, tcdtruth, to the honeft principles of virtux it 'would perhaps enlightened and fleady loyalty, to a love of regulated whatever means may be reflorted to for thofe.purpofes, Connexion, if 'the people' be but temperate and firm, if they carn libcrtdt,,of Britifh Conftititioniand BritHfli with it is for the public learn to' forget their divifions and cultivate in unifon out it' fet' profefling,' whieh alone tol jIdge, and to them #e appeal. their that love of independence in which muff ever confifT .Bfore the true and only fafeguard of the conflitution, thofe without we conflcious trembling, 'tribunal fhalalappear 'that if in any cafual inflance we appearto have devia- means mut tfail-for we cannot be perfuaded that the from thofe land-marks by which we endeaVouredto intellcet of Irifhmen, barbarous and uncultivated-as it 'ted our courfe, the' deviatio6 has been involuntary, has been reprefented, can ever be deceived by the feeble guide and by the liberalandcandidwill be attributedrather to fophniflrywhich reprefents an Union with Great Britain s as confifflnt with the freedom or.promotive of the inte'inadvertence: han to a.erelidion of thofe prihcipc which we have profeffedto love aridcherih ! ' Of the rcts of Ireland ;-they. cannot then become a. prey to -degreeof ability whichmay have markedtherecompofi- the ambition of any minifler until they confent to facritions, it would be flill more indelicate in to judge, flee liberty to party vengeance, or ceafe to think that us. has been liberty worth dcfending. Convinced, therefore, that 1than of the mann(r in'which the work .even To the of the decifion impartial public, there exifts no prefent danger of an Union, however, conduted.. Itherefore,we commit this quelfionaifo, declaring how- likely it may be, that the perfevering policy of the miever, that whether.in that refpec& tl e public opinion ncifer willat a futtire day again try his ffrength with the tlall be favourableor adverfe, we fhall fillIfeel pridein people of Ireland, it firikes us that the continuation of that our talents, whateverthey may be, have a exclirfively appropriated.t tothe- expofure and refluraing payer of that meafure would be to our country. 'What 'we refiflance While been devoted gratuitounily f'uperfluous. conceived the crifis called for, we have irot only the danger was imminent it was neceffary to be vigilant imawed. by the frown-of power, and un'feduced done,i by the and aCtive. 'While it appeared rather to be concealed of but court favour, unrewarded by-emo- than to have vanifhed it .was the duty of thofe who rllhurenments lumeuitof any kind. Our labours have been a fiee-will had 'flood forward to :refiil it to -continue at their off:ri.g, and whatever degree of perfornalinrorrve- pofl. But when the enemy has withdrawn from our nience we may bave fiuffered from-the feadyvand'faith- gates, though 'but to return, perhaps .with recruited viful difchlarge of ak duty which we impofet uponour- gourat a future day, it would be an idle wale of trength felves, we feel amply repaidby the flattering patronage and vigilance to harraf'sthegartifon with unremitted duty. Suchis We have already faid that the people if I"reland have with. wh ic our country has honoured us. f a we brie which to 'work of are about now hiltory the decided on this meafure,' and that 'to the decifive tone clofe--Such' are 'the impreflions with' which we in which they fpoke their reprobation of it, Ireland is are about to withdrawfrom the awful.prefenceof the now indebed for its political exiflencz. ':Corruptio!, however, has affeced -to difb.lieve, and has had the boldpublic. Having Uhusfhrotly flated our condut and our mo- nefs to deny, that 'the public fentiment on this quctfign tives, and thrown ourfelveson the juflice as well as tilhe has been declared, becaure a great portion of the peoare ple have remained filent., But ho that knew thle fitua-. indulgence of the public, we cannot 1elp advertijing , which will tion of'this country at 'he moment the Eritifh we concludeour labours, to two quetffions when. probably be put to us by our readers--The one, minifter fo cruelly forced the quclfion 'of Union on a in, what. flate we leave the great queftion of convulfcd people, could ratipnally have hoped from the Union ? The other, why we now our ILbours mail univerfal abhorrence of tihAmcafure o conchgide rootendand a after having continued thornm to the declaration have been exprefentperiod?-- guneral againfi it'? 'The two quftions are conneted, and we Thallanfwcr pcEted; that men engagecd in protecing Could.it their property t' em together:-For the prcfent feflion, then, we have and their lives againil the attack of a powerful and difalready declared,we conceive the quition of Union to guifed rnem:, in the brfiom of their country, at the very be at reft. The Parliament and the people of Ireland doors, fhould have laid-down their arms nn! afl'embnledto have fpoken fo loudly and explicitly thcir difguftof that ditoufsa political topic, which even the minififer himnfeih that even the temcrity of the Britift'Premier declarcs to be of great iatricacy and caltihg for cool, and mneasfure,

'of political truth. It is now eleven weeks fincetlhis work,

of the Iriflhpeople, by a periodi- naureated palate. But it is not long, we predit, that 'andthe hone t paftlons cal publication, confineid exclufively to this motmentous the contiitution of Ireland will be fafe from his attacks. topic, than to fpeakto them thro' thofe polltitedcandfuf- It requires nio fagacity to perceive that .a fyftematic plan piciousvehicles, the public prints, in which -too often is formed, or to forefee that attempts- will-be made, to its foul purpofe, and irfinuates into the rmerge this ill-fated country in the great mafs of the fa&ion purfueis of ffditicn, or the petfi- Britif empire.- For a defeat of rirchattempts,,whenever publhcmind, ratherth6 pooifon of than the wholeifome Icffons they fhall'be made, we look with cenfidence to that fpirit lent dofcrincs defpotifm,
and virtue in the people and their reprefentatives which

not immediately venture to'obtrude it again on their

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t it have triotifm obtained to fplendid a triiiuph ffhall livi feiiois, .'arid deliberite'confideratiion? Could been ho'pid, tha.titi counties wiheiehot only a rebel force in the memory .and gratitude of their fellow. in rate of perpetual'ativity and fubjeats and pofterity. Supekior ii talent as in kept the iiThibitants ia alarm,,but whdrethe exiftence of maitial law redecredo integrity, they difplayed powers equ4alto the occaet cry meeting of the people dangerousif not inpra&i- fron,land their eloquence, arderit and irrefiflible, was cable, the freeholdersfiffpendingtheir fears and forget- .worthy, of men engaged in 'f6 Momentous a conteftf. ting th'eir danger ffihoild have braved every obifacle The magnitudeof the queffion will perpetuate the rein orderto dedlare an opinion hoffile to the executive membranceof an incidenttrioveland unprecedentedin govern ient,; and, of courfe renderingthem itill more the 'hiftory of parliamentarydebate, anid it. may be obnoxious' to the Tevere inflition of military ?. ufeful to future times to'know that the force of governa and that Yet ei'en in this flate of the country, power convulfed, ment was unable to bear fo.unequal confliE6t, concern many of alarmed, fmiartimg,under military execution and the minifler faw with a 'melancholy dreading;every evil which an imienfe militaryforce his adherents defert even in the heat of battte to the the nation been filent? No,! From flandard of truth and reafon. Thus, the Commons couldinfli&, Thas. every proviice,. frdm a gieat proportion 'of the cotin- Houfe of. Parliament.;hasproied,itfelf to be not merely of go- what fond of reprefentng it-, a theatrefor the ties of Irelanid,froum'the smetrrpobs,the feat_ fa'tion-is 'of,a drama, the incidentsand cataftropheof yernment. anidunder the immediate and firong influ- exhibition ence of the' catfle, the'public 'detetation -of this bafe which are preconcerted, but thatit is what the founders .not vaguely or coldly, but of our conflitution: iptended, a.deliberative affembly, projet&has been decliared w ith rn expOlicit "anddefeated in which the membersregulate their condua by the energy which has appalled the m'oftbold and ehterprifinginiifiter which evei. held donviation of their underflandings. Thus, alfo, we the reins of our government. What have e -feen on the common calumny refuted, which accufes hihevfeeefn.that other hand?What'his the fophifttyof Mr. Pitt, the enor* the repyrefentative body ascarelefsof fhe welfare and retrious patronage of the caile,7 and all the aCtivity, the -ga;dlefs of-the fentiments of-the conflituent, and we .love for the ,arts, the thfeats and the promifesof"its nUimerous emiffrom obferving confli.ution, both claffes6o-operate in its faries, been ible to effet.? -'In the wide extent of the .deefivea'new prefervation, That coriflitution, we are of the number of thofe kingdoin of Ireland they have procuredone folitaty'dic s fincerely and rationally.admired-we ! Hethat in thde cir- who have alhway clar'iioiiof aflent to the'meafure to doubt whether'the ferifdof the naccunftances 'it riot only becaufe exi t is found to afferos 'loved tion:his been declared, requires to convihncehim a de.. feeure..,to man the greatefl degree"qf thofe lblefgree'of pioof whichi'theordinary courfe of human af- fings Whiichfociet.vis inflitutedto prote&t,but becaulfe fairs tanihdt afford him,. It wefe, to infult the under- alfo it appeared from its Itruture,, fromrthe' nice flandin-' t f.the phiblic to fuppofe (hat they entertained adaptation-of 'its. parts, but above. all from its in fuch a cafe. being founded. on the broad bafis .of the :. peoanyfecruples cannot with effe&t, thofe affaults Wte allow: ourfelves 'to take leave 'of, pie, to be mote likely to refillt all conflitutionshave, fooner the 'public without offering our congratulations, and. of arrbition.under vwhich edprefflig:ttie proudfdatisfationwe have felt from fome or later,, perifhed.. Recent 'events 'confirm us iri our events to 'which 'this quieftion has given birth. We. attachment, for recent events havet'aughtus,.:andwehad'beenaccutomed tob hear the corruption'pf ifarlia- fondly will convince Irifhmen,'that.even underthe n ihe influibncIof the -drowhmade cmbhmon exifting ment. ant and enormous weightof patronage-andcorrup.hope as well for the declamation of honeft but'de-. tion, the oniflitution yet lives, and lives'wiih an energy -as of for will the feditious which' long fpohiding. enfure its exiftehce. A;minifter pofcahtumny lfubjeC1s,pbliticians, and lefs principle demagogues welknew lihowfeldom'the king'sminif-( Teflingmore,'power, more oinfluence ters had been effecqulily iefifled, but we confidently than any whom, hiflory has marked as the enemy has with :that conftitution within the contained of hope grappled that'our liberty, c6nflittition Britifh cheriflied the RecentI itfelf an energy equal to its own pritfcration. the of circumrritances preffure while'labouring onder rus thait the voice of the'people inaufpicious that the imaginatiorican conceive. experience had taught mofl. it.ruccumb in the contefi ? 'No Though mana.cofi'fllitionally expreffd'is awful and commanding. Did all the functions of freeWe knew that theie was in the legiflatureinuch'rmanly cled,bylaws whi'ch fuzpeoded militarygovernment, and ihflcxible integrity, and we thought thaIteven cor- dom ; though proftrated before..a ruption itfelf"might revbltr fr6m 'the meafureof an in- which the 'melancholycircum(lancesof the times forced has our The into exitlerce ; the Genius of the event jufitified reafonroufed corporatedUniodn-. Conflitution., we to that our its paflivenefs-was the and may venture rrc'alized. *hopes; by irifolencewhich prefumed .nd kg predi&that itfhall' not be forgottei, whilethe conffitu- d&bility,and its'patiencetamenefs, rofe in its might-tion of Irelandendures, that the death-blowwhich was the conibinedforce of two. miniflerswielding the .paait2ed at its exiftence was wardedoff by the ieprefenta- tionage of. two countries, "and exerting' it' with tives of the people. Triue to theflcired truff repofedin .the mnoft unbridled:licenfe,.-was forced .-to flhrink . that body refilled the power from the cbnteft.-they retired'defeated and' difgraced thnm;,the majteflyof and. from the withilood the feduaions of the minifler. The efforts confliCt,and reludantly left to the'people that of t'lofe who filffaired the - honourablecharaCterof liberty and independence which they vainly hopedto champions of their country on the evenings when pa- extinguifh for ever. E N D. Dublin: lrfteP be 3 uwrsa o3ge1green, goorre,45E Ca

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