of them were English generals on the staff, without a foot of ground in
Ireland, and completely dependent on government." "Let us reflect upon
the arts made use of since the last session of the Irish Parliament to
pack a majority, for Union, in the House of Commons. All persons holding
offices under government, if they hesitated to vote as directed, were
stripped of all their employments. A bill framed for preserving the
purity of Parliament was likewise abused, and no less than 63 seats were
vacated by their holders having received nominal offices."

The signs of the times are most favorable to the success of the Irish
Liberator. The tremendous power of the English political unions is
beginning to develop itself in favor of Ireland. A deep sympathy is
evinced for her sufferings, and a general determination to espouse her
cause. Brute force cannot put down the peaceable and legal agitation of
the question of her rights and interests. The spirit of the age forbids
it. The agitation will go on, for it is spreading among men who, to use
the words of the eloquent Shiel, while looking out upon the ocean, and
gazing upon the shore, which Nature has guarded with so many of her
bulwarks, can hear the language of Repeal muttered in the dashing of the
very waves which separate them from Great Britain by a barrier of God's
own creation. Another bloodless victory, we trust, awaits O'Connell,--a
victory worthy of his heart and intellect, unstained by one drop of human
blood, unmoistened by a solitary tear.

Ireland will be redeemed and disenthralled, not perhaps by a repeal of
the Union, but by the accomplishment of such a thorough reform in the
government and policy of Great Britain as shall render a repeal
unnecessary and impolitic.

The sentiments of O'Connell in regard to the means of effecting his