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1820 Feb 13
Radicalism not dangerous
III Experience
II Ireland
Succeed misrule & misery
United Irishmen deserve
prosperity &
Plowd: ++ 448. 451 1794 June 7 29 on Information filed 8 June 1793
Title The Society of United Irishmen at Dublin to the Volunteers of Ireland.
William Drennan chairman Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Secretary
"Liberty and Equality" (are) "words which we use for an opportunity
"of repelling , and of saying, that by liberty we understood
"unlimited freedom, and nor by equality the levelling of property,
"or the dislocation of subordination: this is a calumny invented by
"that faction, the or that gang, which misrepresents the king to the people
"liberty is the exercise of all our rights natural and political, secured
"to us and our posterity by a real representation of the people: and equality
"is the of the constituent in the fullest dominion of the
"constitution, of the elective franchise to the whole body of the people , to
"the end that government which is collective power may be guided
"by collective will, and that legislation may originate from public
"reason, keep pace with public improvement, and terminate
"in public happiness."
We wish for Catholic emancipation without any condition . . . but
as merely the portal to the people of general freedom . . . in ad to
party but to the whole people.
"For both purposes . . . should . . provincial conversations
assemble preparation to the ation of the Protestant People
"Of the Catholic body' (for reason given) an assembly of a sinister
nature and organization is necessary to establish in of
sentiments, an uniformity of conduct . . .
"Let each parish send rel delegates, let the sense of Ulster be agree-
declared from Dungannon.
"The civil assemble ought to the ass attendance
of the military associations."
"In 1782 did you in imagine that in 1792 the nation would
still remain unrepresented?
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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