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unvaried tone—that such or such a particular measure
might be very good for England, but that it would not be
good for Ireland. The calamities by which Ireland had
been most deeply afflicted, were to be mainly ascribed to
their constant recourse to extraordinary measures. To
them was to be traced the too general abandonment, by
the Majistrates of Ireland, of their proper functions, and
the consequent destruction of the mutual relations of dependence
and support between them and the people. If the
laws of a country did not restrain alike the rich and the
poor—if they were rendered applicable to one class and not
to the other—how was it possible to suppose that majistrates
would be found capable and willing as in England
to discharge with cruelness all the high dates entrusted to them? Buth if such was the effect of the system to which
he alluded, on the Majistracy, what effect had it on the
great mass of the people of Ireland? With what aspect
had the constitution been always shown to them? Angry
and vindictive. It had been exhibited, not as the medium
of doing justice but as affording the means of gratifying
resentment. It was the expence of all good government
that the excess of the people should be resisted
by steady and constitutional and not by extraordinary
measures. More especially was it expedient
that the people of Ireland should find that their crimes
and excesses were met, not by extraordinary measures
but by the established laws, and by the constitution, in
the common and daily exercise of its powers. He would
again appeal to those Honourable Gentlemen who were
connected with Ireland—he would again call on them
to consider whether it would not be very practicable by
local exertion to do away with the necessity of a recourse
to any such measure as the Insurrection Act. He entreated
those who came to that House for stronger
powers to protect them from the people, to consider if
in the districts in which they resided the local causes
of the evil might not be so softened as to supersede
such a fatal necessity—fatal not merely because it
was in itself a violation of the Constitution, but because
it naturally led to greater violations of the
Constitution. He did not say that it was practicable
immediately

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings	Parliamentary Reform
Folio number	171	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C10
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