Union Pamphlets (Volume 3) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1799. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... /idered a natural ri commerce. Englis will then have whom it may devour; and if the Minister mall think. it serviceable to his views, Ireland will be facrisiced anew, to British faction or aggrandizement * Let me therefore urge, with the considence of experience, that a return to the fame, and still more a sinking into a worse state of dependence, must be attended with the like, or even greater beggary and disgrace. For as the continual wretchedness consequent upon our subjection to England, sprung from the self-interest. and domineering spirit or man, and depends therefore upon a cause as constant as his passions, no articles that shall be now settled, can by possibility have the guarantee of an equal antagonist force for their preservation, whenever with power greater than the former, inducements shall recur for their violation. Already do the partizatts of this measure insidiously lay it down as a principle, that the new Union will disser in this from the old, that England shall not in suture make laws exclusively to bind Ireland. The terms of the Union may import as much, and the' preamble of the act which shall annihilate the name, and honour, and independence of our country; which shall take from us our own, and cannot give us any other j for the broad and separating ocean proclaims we never shall be one j this shamesul deed, which by destroying our identity as a nation, must destroy all nationality of sentiment and action j which .will chill and contract all those proud and generous feelings that make patriotism no less a duty than a passion; and subtract all nutriment and soil from these disinterested charities, that expanding from kindred and self to repose upon our country, convert the best instincts of the heart into the surest handmaids of a...