and if they see a little attenuated lawyer squabbling at the head of
their opponents, let them desire him to empty his pockets, and to
pull out all the pieces of duck, fowl, and pudding which he has
filched from the public feast, to carry home to his wife and
children.

You parade a great deal upon the vast concessions made by this
country to the Irish before the Union. I deny that any voluntary
concession was ever made by England to Ireland. What did Ireland
ever ask that was granted? What did she ever demand that was not
refused? How did she get her Mutiny Bill--a limited Parliament--a
repeal of Poyning's Law--a constitution? Not by the concessions of
England, but by her fears. When Ireland asked for all these things
upon her knees, her petitions were rejected with Percevalism and
contempt; when she demanded them with the voice of 60,000 armed men,
they were granted with every mark of consternation and dismay. Ask
of Lord Auckland the fatal consequences of trifling with such a
people as the Irish. He himself was the organ of these refusals.
As secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, the insolence and the tyranny
of this country passed through his hands. Ask him if he remembers
the consequences. Ask him if he has forgotten that memorable
evening when he came down booted and mantled to the House of
Commons, when he told the House he was about to set off for Ireland
that night, and declared before God, if he did not carry with him a
compliance with all their demands, Ireland was for ever lost to this
country. The present generation have forgotten this; but I have not
forgotten it; and I know, hasty and undignified as the submission of
England then was, that Lord Auckland was right, that the delay of a
single day might very probably have separated the two peoples for
ever. The terms submission and fear are galling terms when applied