and tyranny, which it at present exhibits, may in time be removed
from the eyes of Europe.

There are two eminent Irishmen now in the House of Commons--Lord
Castlereagh and Mr. Canning--who will subscribe to the justness of
every syllable we have said upon this subject, and who have it in
their power, by making it the condition of their remaining in
office, to liberate their native country, and raise it to its just
rank among the nations of the earth. Yet the Court buys them over,
year after year, by the pomp and perquisites of office; and year
after year they come into the House of Commons, feeling deeply, and
describing powerfully, the injuries of five millions of their
countrymen--and CONTINUE members of a government that inflicts those
evils, under the pitiful delusion that it is not a Cabinet Question,
as if the scratchings and quarrellings of Kings and Queens could
alone cement politicians together in indissoluble unity, while the
fate and torture of one-third of the empire might be complimented
away from one minister to another, without the smallest breach in
their Cabinet alliance. Politicians, at least honest politicians,
should be very flexible and accommodating in little things, very
rigid and inflexible in great things. And is this NOT a great
thing? Who has painted it in finer and more commanding eloquence
than Mr. Canning? Who has taken a more sensible and statesmanlike
view of our miserable and cruel policy than Lord Castlereagh? You
would think, to hear them, that the same planet could not contain
them and the oppressors of their country--perhaps not the same solar
system. Yet for money, claret, and patronage, they lend their
countenance, assistance, and friendship to the Ministers who are the
stern and inflexible enemies to the emancipation of Ireland!