The liberator : his life and times, political and social . but too well known for undertaking any mean office required by Government, clattered into the Royal Exchange Hall when Mr. Moore had taken the chair, and OConnell was preparing to speak. He had a look at the resolutions, which were drawn up by OConnell himself, probably his first effort in that direction, but he could not find anything in them to condemn. He dashed out as he had dashed in, and OConnell spoke : £< Counsellor OConnell rose, and in a short speech prefacedthe resolutions. He said that the question of Union was con-fesse
The liberator : his life and times, political and social . but too well known for undertaking any mean office required by Government, clattered into the Royal Exchange Hall when Mr. Moore had taken the chair, and OConnell was preparing to speak. He had a look at the resolutions, which were drawn up by OConnell himself, probably his first effort in that direction, but he could not find anything in them to condemn. He dashed out as he had dashed in, and OConnell spoke : £< Counsellor OConnell rose, and in a short speech prefacedthe resolutions. He said that the question of Union was con-fessedly one of the first importance and magnitude. Sunk,indeed, in more than criminal apathy must that Irishman be,who could feel indifferent on the subject. It was a measure,to the consideration of which we were called by every illumina- upper classes of Catholics took on themselves to be spokesmen forthe rest. They expected Emancipation, and believed the promisesof Government. The middle classes were by no means so sanguine,and judged far more Approbation. 231 tion of the understanding and every feeling of the was, therefore, no necessity to apologise for the intro-ducing the discussion of the question amongst Irishmen. Butbefore he brought forward any resolution, he craved permissionto make a few observations on the causes which produced thenecessity of meeting as Catholics—as a separate and distinctbody. In doing so, he thought, he would clearly show thatthey were justifiable in at length deviating from a resolutionwhich they had heretofore formed. The enlightened mind ofthe Catholics had taught them the impolicy, the illiberality, andthe injustice of separating themselves on any occasion from therest of the people of Ireland. The Catholics had thereforeresolved, and they had wisely resolved, never more to appearbefore the public as a distinct and separate body; but they didnot—they could not then foresee the unfortunately existingcircumstances -of
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