IRELAND.
At a meeting of the National Association, on Tuesday, a letter was read from Mr. O'Connell, in which these passages occur-
" Tranquillity can be secured otilv by the sustaining in office of the present Ads ministration— the compelling them. ii I may use the expression, t u continua To protect Ireland from a restoral•on id the honors I4 Orange r.augninary domination. It has been well said that the worst revolution is a restoration ; and it is true, sali.41 the restora- tion is one of a mitten' of c • and ty minty : such as that of the truenlein °tango faction lias ever t;een. We mist therefore restd, with all he energy that tie law au&
the constitution per . the total advent of that faction to manor mice again
" Sacred heaven I 011:11 d 1100901.01 110 1101 1110 ilourges IS Iiieli.:.::iii,!.11.:.yri:irni•ho„niuthdr.
judicial bench present to every Irish mind. What I are we onee
cial partisan sacrifice 'nape(' y, and honour, and lire, to gratify the passioits and tee- juilices of his party—ay, and of hi imcooa? Arr. we again I., S0.0011160 10.10,11-1011 I. 0 ill not name.—I war not with the dead—yet, the living caudidates ote worse, if that be in human nature, than any of the dead ; and the judges w hiell OlatigisToryista would give us would obliterate the lawny of the worst or time predecessors. ny the supe- rior dextoity of their poi Vitrify. "Let me nut be supposed to extigt,rate. no you not see even the lobherly race of Tory barristers externduating Tr.% rialls of the unhappy peasantry, by turning them adrift, househ•ss and It tttttttttttt oul the would's wide motional ?
" Enough ot this, 'there is not a single relation in public or private life tliat would not be made to feel the atrocity of the murderous Otauge faction, if that fact iou were
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once again rampant with power and motes .
"ho Ind assist yourselves, and all that is good and patriotic upon earth will uid you; and I trust I am 104 presumptuous in hopiug that Providence will crown your exertion& with success.
" I do, then, recommend an immediate aggregate meeting—a call on artery district to petition and address; and such a poldic denions*ration as silt mince our grit it ade to Lord Molgrave's goversimeut, and our couvictiou ot the fearful consequeuces of a change."
The day that would give a Tory Ministry to the empire, WOnl& SUMMOn a million of Irishmen to arms. There would be a fearful rising—a simultaneous outbreak—a terrible struggle. A rebellion in one county in Ireland cost Englund 18,000 men, and 12,000 MU of additional debt. A preedial disturbance in another took six nionths of harassing service ta 3.5,000 men, before it was even partially sup- pressed. What would it cost were all Ireland in arms ? A people with nothing to lose and every thing to hope, once committed to a conflict—our natural advantages of position—every valley a ravine— every hill a fortress—every fence a bastion—a hardy people—and the approaching season when they could bivouac in the fields—all the small military and police stations absorbed by the population—union—the courage of right and of despair animating us within, and the sympathies of' the world without. Let England pause before she will let loose Toryism in Ireland with this its inevitable result, for whutever may be the result of such a struggle, England would come out of it, even at the hest a third.rato nation.—Dabfin l'tlot. [It is stated in the Dub,in Evening Packet, that this 'paragraph from the Pilot was nOt copied into the Morning Register until the editor of that pi.; er bad re. aeived an assurance from the Castle that it would not subject the pub- lisher to a prosecution.]
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