physicians, who had made a tour of the kingdom--that the inhabitants
are of a character the most industrious, and bear up under the
oppressive system which weighs upon them in a manner the most heroic.
It is to opinions from such sources as these we point, with every
degree of confidence, as they cannot be charged with being prejudiced
in our favor; and were we inclined to be more diffuse upon the
subject, we might quote author after author, and all of English
proclivities too, who bear evidence to the suggestive character of
the elements of material wealth which we possess in every relation,
and which, through the disastrous policy pursued towards us from
generation to generation, have been paralyzed and prostituted to an
extent that almost defies comprehension.

Why did England violate a solemn pledge, given in 1782, to the
effect, that she relinquished all claim to interfere in the
management of the local affairs of Ireland, and conceded to the
people of that country the undoubted and inalienable right of
conducting their own internal affairs upon any basis they thought
proper? After having experienced the beneficial results of this
policy upon the sister kingdom for a space of eighteen years, why did
she revoke the act establishing it, and force the hated Union upon a
people, a majority of whom were not free to express an opinion upon
the subject, or to resist a measure thrust upon them through perjury,
intimidation, bribery and fraud? The reason has long been quite
obvious to the world--the manufacturing interests and the trade and
commerce of Ireland have ever been and must ever remain antagonistic
to those of England. This fact has always influenced the legislation
of the latter country, and brought it to bear heavily and unjustly
upon almost every Irish project that has been undertaken for the last
three hundred years. When any particular Irish manufacture was found