ISELAND'S RESURRECTION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1700, 18 February 1888, Page 4

ISELAND'S RESURRECTION.

In Tuwdf.y’s issue tip pnbpthaJ tbo first ji r>, ( -n niole frcxa tho Christian World, in .’< 1 ■, xb-vr?, Xbo following is tho conob’dirg rartloa or if I .'i :v:ivO shout that Parliament that '• <’'t o)i n cir,’ pen. We Mve just; bran re. -U; g Hsnry OrattHn’s speeches m*do in if, in 1800 n -• f, the Union ; *hich Union, P,';- and iiw Tolies, by perfidy, terror, find n a ot the most unovnpuloun find profligate corruption, wore then trying to bring about. Vv' -' wieh every EaglUhmao (weuße the word in its broadest sense) would read those i;>'«eb.*s. (A copy of them or.n be gsfc- for i>. shilling ) We fear few of the voters of I-.thy know what constitutional privileges I - lard had coma to enjoy ; how dear those P'Tileg'n wore to her people; and how p’lsionc.Uly they lamented their loss. It. v■;■.« claimed by the Irish patriots of Grattan's limp ‘list, by old constitutional and imbed*V« right none but the King. Lords, and ( ■ romnnis of Ireland had right to make hwo to bind the Irish nation. la 1782 these T atriots obtained the consent of tho Rritiah Purliamsr.t to thatdoctrine, and their naiimal liberties wore by us, with nil due deliberation f d solemnity, aaturod them, Grattan said of the two countries then :

“ Onmccted by freedom »s well as by alliance tho two mtiooe —Gro.tt Britain and lie'? nd— form a coiutUuticnal confederacy, tr well r»a one empire ; the crcwn is cue link, tboccretUntlon another, and in mv mind tho lot tor is the most powerful. You can get» king anywhere, but England i« iho only country with whom you can participate a free constitution, Tbie makes Sogland your u.rture! connection, and her king your natural a>- well ai your legal sovereign.” Ag-xin he fc ja: " Tho crown of Ireland is an imperial ow-ra inseparably annexed to the crown of Grout Britain, on which connection the inter* ( f ; t »nd Ji fppiness of both nation) essentially dc yon's, But tbo kingdom of Ireland i>s a distinct kingdom, with » Parliament of her ov.n the solo legislature thereof.” Again he iir. it: ” The people of this kingdom have rirror rzprened a desire to ah are the freedom of Bn-had without cicohring adeterminvion to share her fate lik«wi««, standing and fullirg w.-th Die Brilidi rsa'iorj," Again ;'• The 0. uti; cf England came to ;n agreement wi-h tlrio country, namely, to eatisb'ish for ever the fr.-p and independent existence of the Irish Parliament, and to preserve for ever the unity of the. empire.” Thai was esiabliehed, he ted. “ tho eternal principle of tho unity of the Empire and captation of Parliament.” Grsittan, with all hi) might, protested Bgair.id tho efforts of tbs Tories to destroy tht; Ir t h Parliament by merging it in the British.

“ X*:i? doctrine of an Impanel Legislature," he “ lost Great Britain America; it has be.- r; surrendered to Ireland ; but now once more it takes its bloody station in dtfiaooc of fsilh, ar.d in contempt of experience, to derives our free constitution,” “Ireland,” hs said, 11 hears the ocean protesting against aepareiion but she hears the channel like .fisc protfftirg against union. Both situations are equally unnatural—separation and union.” Hie practical objection* to the merging of the Li?h Parli rcent in the Imperial are veil w?j{h reading dot. Speaking of the adyaßt.-gefl of a separate Irish Pjirlkmeur, he fiftTe: <• The market of St. Stephan will be open to the individual, and tha talents of the count' 7, like its property, will be dragged flora the kingdom of Ireland to bn sold in Lo;..dom From their very situation they w iH he tempted to be adventurers of tha lucrt > t ,r-etisive kind, dressed and sold, as it were in the shrouds end gr.vr-ckvthes of iho Irish Parliament, and plying for hire their tries* on her tomb.”

“Whit w proposed in tha Union is to annul the Parliament of Ireland, ard to kaußiof ‘he legislative authority to the people of unu'-her esuntry. The Union will rot he tin icentificaiiiia of tbo two nation*., if, in merely a margins' of the Parli« inert of one notion in that of the other j fclif Ixi'h legislature will bo sbrorbed, ana by tv»fc got of absorption Uw feeling of tha a»»ion will not be identified but alienated. Yon cannot identify or bind together by operation cf psrohaient or paper, ffho _wm of 'he pftrties is euentialtoxnacrieg*, national or pew.br.al. This UMoo, forced against (he fioceo of the people, by terror and by money, will be an act of oppression, ot purchase, and of cor-quest; Iho iueane taken to force the Union render ths identification of people im-

poefible.” i.y !; K (fchft Iria’i) will bs taught; by the debate* of th^l&pem l . P&riiumenf; that you Jißva grievances, and you will bs fujfchs? taught by tba abortive consequences of those dcbuteo, that you have jjo Psrliamont to radices them.”’ -‘lt will be found that to depiivc a nation of hope is not the best method to prevent her becoming desperate ; end that you least of all a; cure the peace of c country by taking array its constitutions! Ijbtrtifrf.” '* You aro to in i!:o tho iimiftor a pnstiit of the Parliament. and he vvir. retlce it by troops.” “On the whole thru ” ha tiaid, “it remains for us to rrjtct this Kuru-U!'!,! ; it is a dishonorable measure, it is an intuiting measure, it is a faithless me-'-aoro. The commercial interests cry out B g fc j s »r jt, the spirit of the country and her cor.ptitnlion err out agsicst it—sitneaa the petitions of difiarent descriptions of men of all religious who seem now to fo«ct their differences, snd only to rpmembf? their danger-” "The constitution may for a lime ho iosf, ncr, *o with the character of tho country. The Mini”* 1 era of tho Crown as.y perhaps at ijagth find that it is not so easy to put lor 'ever an undent and gallant nation by abilities however great and by power and corruption however irresistible j liberty may repViir her golden bentos, and with redoubled beat animate the country ; the cry of loyalty will not for ever continue against tho principle of liberty.” H-- corcbides his last speech thus: — “ Y:t do I not give up my country. I boo her iw a swoon, but she is not dead ; though ir the tomb she lies helpless and motionless, still there is on her lips a spirit of life and on her cheek a glow of beauty. “Thou art not conquer-dj beauty's ensign

yet In crimson on thy lips r.r,d in thy check*, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.’’ How well Grattan foresaw the hurt which the (os? of her Parliament weald do to his country. All his proaicliotis have come true. Tho awakening of Ireland from her long swoon in apparently just at hand. Nor can’we understand how any freedom-loving JEsolishman-who knows her history can do other then rijoioe at it. TJnlecs we greatly mistake the signs sf the times, the people of England will soon commission her greatest Prims Minister to say to long-prostrate I: slufid " Awake, and stand upon thy feet; taka- thy place again t.rnor.j tba f ree nations of the tariff,” For ou. owe- part we long to e- e (bat dor, 8 day which will bring to the Irish tba blessing "which th- Hebrew pr-.-phet fc-etaw for his opi remd people, when «their nobles shell he <f themselves end their Boyaruors obil! prooted twin the mid a of them,”

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