Daniel O'Connell and the revival of national life in Ireland . vig-orous attempt to procure the repeal of the Act ofUnion. In regard to law reform, he professed him-self a * thorough Benthamite. I truly believe,he wrote, ** that there is not in Turkey anythingmore radically despotic towards the poor than thepresent system of magisterial law. Once more hecalled on the Protestants to join with the Catholicsin trying to obtain justice for their common country. Join with us, he wrote, to serve that country;join with us to lessen burthens, to diminish irresponsiblepower, to increase commerce and ma
Daniel O'Connell and the revival of national life in Ireland . vig-orous attempt to procure the repeal of the Act ofUnion. In regard to law reform, he professed him-self a * thorough Benthamite. I truly believe,he wrote, ** that there is not in Turkey anythingmore radically despotic towards the poor than thepresent system of magisterial law. Once more hecalled on the Protestants to join with the Catholicsin trying to obtain justice for their common country. Join with us, he wrote, to serve that country;join with us to lessen burthens, to diminish irresponsiblepower, to increase commerce and manufactures ; toestablish popular rights, to crush aristocratical monopoly,and to build up a system of peaceable, rational freedom,which shall exterminate grand-jury jobbing, which shallannihilate corporation plunder, which shall secure forevery man his right to select his representative, and pro-tect him, by the secrecy of a ballot, in the exercise ofthat selection, and which, in fine, shall give to Irishmena name, and make Ireland great, glorious, and CHAPTER XL PARLIAMENTARY REFORM AND ON 4th February, 1830, the first day of the ses-sion, OConnell took his seat, without re-mark, in the House of Commons. He wasverging on fifty-five — an age at which most menfind it difficult to adapt themselves to new condi-tions of activity. True, Grattan had been even olderwhen he entered the English Parliament, in 1805 ; buthe had enjoyed what OConnell never had—the ben-efit of a parliamentary training ; and over against hissuccess there was Floods failure to set. Twenty-fiveyears had elapsed since OConnell entered public life ;for twenty years he had been the actual, if not al-ways the acknowledged, leader of the Irish Catholics ;for the last five years he had been the most importantfactor in the political life of Ireland, and his influencewas not confined to Ireland alone. In England hisutterances attracted almost as much notice as thoseof the Prime Minister.
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