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— ~7~^-aiiable lainp-post was covered by people 



I£j£S •"* cheered "incessantly. Mr. O'Connell 



i^hed Merrion-quare at balf-past five, where he was 



I!I?JeJ * .vith several rounds of enthusiastic appliuse. 



^in* amended to the balcony, he proceeded to address 



•i nortion of the procession as occupied the space in 



W of ^ouse. Ke began by saying that this was 



T J. a r civ for Ireland, and a day of justice. All the people 



, irSSd ever desired was justice, and they had now got an 



o{ ,_!-.* ,,f it The plans of the wicked, and the conspiracy 



52S7o»r2io"r, the foul mismanagement of the jury l.st, the 



k ^.^iracv against the lives, the liberties and the con- 



S: , so°f the public, had all, blessed bo God, been 



5523 Justice had thus fas been obtained, and Ireland 



• kT if' she deserved it be free. From north to south, and 



"itr. wtst they had met in myriads— heard the wrongs 



•Jfrlwnd described, knew that they were described without 



SliSood oi exaggeration, knew that they had been a 



Hon and determined that they would be a nation again. 



5w > r'ontarf meeting had not taken place as yet, but it would 



k far 'he Repeal Association, who had the confidence of the 



I ii people to determine whether it might not be necessary 



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ccss.in , but if the 

 there •leaccably and unarmed, and return with an increased de- 

 termination that Ireland should be a nation. His own opinion 

 was that it wouid not be necessary to hold the Ciontarf meet- 

 ing because he thought that the principle which would call for 

 it had been abundantly vindicated already. Even the State 

 Trials had vindicated it. Then if they did not take that step what 

 they to do ? Why, everything that could be necessary to 

 re Repeal. They said he was guilty of a conspiracy ! His 

 iuswer was they lied. It was not he alone who said that, 

 it was Lord Chief Justice Denman of the House of Peers who 

 said it If he (Mr. O'Connell) had wished his vanity to be in- 

 dulged, and to prove his skill as a lawyer, he could not have 

 devised a plan better calculated to effect his object than the 

 events which had occurred. He went on to say, that he should 

 on Monday be at the Conciliation-hall, when he would put forth 

 his pi ma for the future, especially apian for holding county 

 rneeimps, to petition for the impeachment of the judges, the 

 Attnrney-Gen., and others concerned in the late prosecution. 



Mr. O'Connell, in the course of his address, forbade 

 illuminations, or any mode of testifying exultation that 

 might be taken as offensive by opponents, and in this pa; - 

 ticular his orders were very generally, if not universally 

 complied with. Before his final departure from prison, 

 he desired the governor to furnish him with a list of all 

 the prisoners of good character confined there, whose 

 imprisonment depended on fines, and gave orders to 

 have them paid. Tiie-sum amounted, it is said, to nearly 

 70/. On Sunday morning Mr. O'Connell proceeded to 

 Marlborough-str^et Chapel, accompanied by his son 

 John, where a grand high mass, in thanksgiving for his 

 liberation, was performed by Archbishop Murray, Roman 

 Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, who had never before 

 taken any part in the Repeal movement. The Lord 

 Mayor was present in state, and the building was crowded 

 to suffocation. The sermon was delivered by the Rev. 

 Dc. Miley, one of the most distinguished preachers of 

 the city. 



In the course of his address, he referred to that day as being 

 a gre;it festival io the Catholic church, that of " the Nativity of 

 the Blessed Virgin : " coincident with its celebration this re 

 markable incident had occurred with Mr. O'Connell, ami those 

 members of ins family, as well as of tho other prisoners who 

 were in communion with the Catholic church, viz., that when 

 all hope from human aid had appeared to be vain— when all 

 succour from ram might well be despaired of— ic had been sug- 

 gested to them, by a pious Catholic clergyman, to pray to. 

 Heaven, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, for 

 that justice v -h it seemed that man was determined to deny 

 to them. The devotion was begun, and the last day upon which 

 it was tot rminate was completed, when Mr. O'Connell and the. 

 othe-s were free, but not until then. It was to say the last 

 prayers of thanksgiving— the last prayers appointed by the 

 church— that Mr. O'Connell had returned to the prison, to 

 pass from thence to the car of triumph. He did not call 

 tins a miracle ; but it was an incident so far beyond hu- 

 man calculation, that one of the solicitors engaged in tl. 

 cause had said to him, that though he had heard 

 the judgment reversed, had seen men congratulate themselves 

 on the event, and was himself the bearer of the official docu- 

 ment, still he could not believe it to be true. The idea of having 

 those peculiar prayers for the intercession of the Virgin was 

 ■oggested tothe mind of the priest who conducted the devotion 

 ny observing that Mr. O'Connell had, in the speech at Tara, 



th J ? 1 U ' at the uay was commemorative of " the Assumption," 

 inat he begged fox the prayers of the Virgin to protect the 



irjL° S K- ln vrnich ne was engaged, that bciiiir one which had for 

 and°rh eCt an im W° ve »nent in the condition of the helpless poor, 

 77^ that used as its only means those that were free from crime 

 W>? ry , de r Cl " l Pt>on, whilst it inculcated respect far the law and 

 evVTt « s °vereign. The preacher then adverted to other 



Sn!2!i Were nr, turious in history, to show, as he said, the 

 fllmi-nh/X bet '' veen prayers to the blessed Virgin and the ful- 

 *"="£ 0I tne m, contrary to all human probability. 



Those portions of the sermon referring to Mr. O'Con- 

 nell and the state of Ireland produced a great sensation 

 "*tue church. The religious ceremonies were not ter- 



TfMh Until two °' clock - At that iiniti Mr - O'Connell 

 * the chum, and wa« accompanied by hundreds on his 

 Tjy.home, all testifying by their cheers the delight they 

 j~ l m seein g him once more restored to liberty. The 

 ^»ae enthusiasm prevails in all parts of the couutry. In 

 t e ... own8 a °d cities the event has been commemorated 

 trLt U , mmatiou8 and processions, while in the rural dis- 

 «s bonfires have blazed on the mountains from one 

 lrpn 0l Ire !and to the other. The entire island is one 

 ■cene of excitement and rejoicing. 



tioiii i? >OC ' a/io ' l, "~ OQ Monday morning Concilia- 

 a ".Presented within and without such an appear- 



irnmV,- " , never vet exhibited since it was first opened, 

 last y afterthe suppression of the Ciontarf meeting 



of nl Car " ^ fctwe eu eight and nine o'clock large crowds 

 persons, f whom the majority were well-dressed 

 werTt!' ai * embIed a ")und the doors, which after awhile 

 atantlJ t l' v '"' 1 °P en t0 tll e accumulating masses, and in- 

 b y the 1 ga,,erU8 and body of the hall were thronged 

 buildin *f st assemblage ever witnessed within any 

 nnt.i * . ^ Ir - O'Connell did not make his apnearanc 



from e« St Wijen he was rc eeived with a storm of cheers 

 crowds P*^ ° f U,e hal1 ' which was echoed by the vase 

 aearlv t Wli!OUt who could not S et admittance. For. 

 J ten minutes cheering and applause, which was not } 



surpassed in intensity cither at Tara or Mullaghmast, 

 continued to peal through the hall. Mr. O'Connell ac- 

 knowledged it by repeatedly bowing around him, kissing 

 his hands to the ladies in the gallery, and placing the 

 crown of his hat on his heart. As he was thus engaged, 

 Mr. Smith O'Brien rushed to the front of the platform, 

 causing if possible an increase in the clamour, and 

 s zing Mr. O'Connell's hand shook it vigorously for 

 some moments. Mr. O'Connell then caught Mr. 

 O'Brien's hand, and placed it on his heart, whereat 

 the very building trembled beneath the cheering and 

 stamping. At last Mr. O'Connell seemed to get tired. 

 He opened his lips again and again to speak, but his 

 words were inaudible, until a number of uplifted hands 

 and voices from the platform stilled the storm. Mr. 

 O'Connell was at length heard to say that he claimed it 

 as a privilege to be allowed to move that the Right Hon. 

 the Lord Mayor of Dublin do take the chair. The Lord 

 Mayor then took the chair, and after a brief speech from 

 his Lordship, Mr. Ray came forward with the minute 

 book of the Association, and said he had the greatest 

 delight in resuming the honourable office of Secretary 

 for Ireland. On the motion of Mr. O'Connell, Mr. 

 Somerset Butler, M.P. for Kilkenny, was admitted a 

 Member of the Association ; on the motion of Mr. S. 

 O'Brien the Hon. Geo. Hely Hutchinson, brother of 

 Lord Donoughmore, and a Protestant, was admitted a 

 member; and on the motion of Mr. Grattau, M.P., 

 Capt. Mockler, of Meath, an Orangeman, was admitted. 



Mr. O'Conxei.l having risen to hand in some money, pro- 

 ceeded to .say—" As I am upon my legs, I believe I may as well 

 proceed at once to address you. . It would be utterly impossible 

 for me to find language adequate to describe tiie sensations ot de- 

 light with which I once again address this assembly. I had ima- 

 gined that my voice was to have been suspended at least until 

 the month of May uexr, but the ' merry month of May' has 

 come upon us eight months too soon, and we cm now rejoice 

 as merry as May birds. But, seriously speaking, we have the 

 most important reasons for rejoicing. A victory was never yet 

 more worthily won— a triumph was never yet more honestly 

 earned. We have had a triumph over combination aud foul 

 conspiracy— we have had a triumph over the crime ol packing of 

 juries— we have had a triumph of the constitution, and we are 

 tuerefore entitled to enjoy the pleasure and satisfaction of that 

 triumph. I am, as I have stated, utterly unable to describe the 

 sensations that overpower my mind. The first thing that comes 

 upon me with all the force of an absolute certainty is, that repeal 

 mu;,t be carried— that nothing can impede repeal but misconduct 

 on our parts— that recent events prove that repeal is in its pro- 

 gress too awful and important to be retarded by any means but 

 our own misconduct alone. It is not by man's effort that we 



ire achieved this victory over fraud, and conspiracy, and in- 

 justice. It is nut by man's means that so great a change has 

 taken place in one week. The judges refused everything that 

 we demanded for conducting our defence. Every motion that 

 was made on our part was sure to be negatived by the bench. 

 Every attempt that we made fur our defence was counteracted 

 by the judges. Every right given to us to insure an acquittal was 

 taken away by the selected jury. We appealed to the House of 

 Lords, but even there we found the same unfavourable 

 auspices. We found seven out of the nine English judges 

 giving the most astoundingly absurd opinions that ever were 

 pronounced by mortal man ; but they were not the less against 

 us for being absurd. Yes. 1 repeat it is not the work of man. 

 It is a blessing bestowed by Providence on the faithful people 

 of Ireland. There is no superstition iu representing it as the 

 gift of Providence ; no submission iu bowing before the throne 

 of God and accepting it as His act. I would not introduce such 

 a topic here if it were contrary to the principles or doctrine of 

 any religious sect represented here. But it is not. It is the 

 doctrine of the Protestant Church, as well as of the Catholic 

 Church, that God interferes with the concerns of man. As 

 Christians they all believe that; and the Book of Commori 

 Prayer contains, in every part, proofs that it is one of the tenets 

 of Protestantism, for it contains prayers for heat in time of 

 rain, and tor other variations in the se ns, as well as for 

 every temporal advantage. I canno*, therefore, hurt an indi- 

 vidual prejudice by referring to this subject; and I would not 

 do so, if it were possible thai any such prejudice could erfist. 

 What I have been describing is clearly the doctrine of the 

 Catholic Church also. Aud let us recollect that millions of the 

 faithful people of Ireland had lifted a v their hands to God— that 

 the priests of God offered up the holy sacrifice of the mass— that 

 the holy secluded Sister* ot Charity united their prayers with 

 those of the priests at the altars. Tne Catholics of England 

 joined with us on the occasion. The entire Catholic population 

 of Belgium offered up similar prayers, and along the shores of 

 the Rhine, the same voice of supplication has been heard. Oh 

 yes, it has been heard, and we stand free before you, thankful 

 to God, and blessing all good men. It is a glorious triumph, 

 aud it is fitting that such a cause should have had such a 

 triumph." What were they prosecuted for? Why, for holding 

 the most orderly and peaceful meetings, to ex-.r. ise the right of 

 petition, when it might be truly said that the voice of the 

 people was the voice of God. He trusted that the Minister who 

 had advised this proceeding would be impeached. They w« 

 now triumphant over tnose who had thought to overturn the 

 trial by jury. Thev had saved that important tribunal to the 

 constitution. Thev would this day also proclaim that Repeal 

 w ibolutely necessary to Ireland. They would persevere in 



seeking it constitutionally. They would break down the table 

 of the House ot Commons with petitions, and in every way they 

 would preserve and exercise their lawful and peaceable organisa- 

 tion. The 6rli and 7th counts were for hohiing meetings to 

 intimidate. Those counts were declared to be good by every 

 one of the Judges here— even by Judge Perrin. Judgment was 

 pronouueed upon them, declariug that they contained criminal 

 matter. The Judges of England were of opinion that they were 

 bad. There was no differe- ce of opinion among them, yet it 

 was sought to punish him and others for the offence bud in 

 those counts. The seven Judges of England— those wiseacres 

 in law— said some of the counts were good and some bad, but 

 they would presume that the Irish Judges did not give judg- 

 ment on the bad counts. Why, their judgment was published— 

 everybody could read them, and had been reading them— it 

 was publiclv auuounced that t Irish Judges had passed sen- 

 tence especially on those counts. It was, in point of fact, as 

 clear as the sun at noon day that judgment had been passt'O on 

 the bad counts. The decision of the Judges in ^ngl^aawm 

 therefore lounded on a lie. They called it a presumption at law, 

 but he would call it a lie. Lord Lyndhurst affirmed that mug* 

 ment, and that indescribable wretch, Brougnam, did the same. 

 He voted that the lie d be true in c ..ntradiction °« ™« '"- l 



set U on the record. The reel* told the ^nS^vSSk 



said it lied, in order to punish the defendants. Then, b t en 

 be He ■», three men were honest enough to attend i to f 

 truth, and not mind the lie. They looked to the fac., and ^i 

 not mind the presumption. The tact was J^^^^JKHf 

 justice was with them; the truth was with t hem and the> 

 ould make the Guvcrnment a compliment of ^the ^ ^ r 



position. He was going to make ■*2^wM~r7wS^ir! 

 i.ad often assailed. He then contrasted Un jger £ lor J- 

 ism, and insisted that Whiggery was uinm.U) pretciaole. a* 



should not have ueeu blamed for supporting e 



compared Brady with Pennefather, and the Judges aud other 

 official persons promoted by the W s with tho»e advanced by 

 the Tories, and said if the Wings had been in power there wouid 

 have been no monster trial. He then spoke of the Chief Justice 

 of England. had prououncea that trial by Jury, as managed 



by the Tories, wasa " delusion, a mockc anda S'-.are." Mark 

 that, Mr. Attorney- General Sm.th j write that down Mr. Justice 

 Crampton, and use it as a mark in your prayer-book. He next 

 praised Lords Campbell and Cottenham, and said it wouid be a 

 long tim ill he should again say a word against the Whigs. 

 He would now advert to the future. How should they now 

 carry on their operations? They would proceed as they had 

 heretofore done, in a spirit of conciliation. He had more power 

 this moment than any monarch in Europe. How did he ac- 

 quire it ? By abstaining from every sort of crime. He cer- 

 tainly never would have obtained it without the Catholic 

 ciergy. They and he were the apostles of a revolution without 

 blood-of change* without doing injury or Inju uce to any 

 man. Did not Dr. Murray yesterday offer up his thanks. ugs 

 for their release, and thus give his sanction to the proceedings, 

 and attest that their conduct was moral and pure ? He next 

 adverted to the Ciontarf proclamation, and then u d the 



lestion whether they should again essay a meeting tt 

 Ciontarf. He did not himself think it was necees; ; but 

 he would refer it to a committee to determine. The next 

 thing he wished to bring forward was a project which had 

 been in his mind last year, but lie had not I ught it 

 forward, as it had not been completely matured. He 

 meant the collection of a Preservative Assembly in Ireland. 

 Tnis subject was surrounded with legal difficulties winch 

 must be approached by degrees. Tanjr had been prevented 

 from considering it by the proclamation and the subsequent 

 proceedings. He was of opinion that three hundred g. 

 should meet in Dublin, aud that the title to meet should con- 

 sist in each gentleman handing in 100i. They should appoint 

 a treasurer for themselves, and be the sole guard oi their 

 money, but it was rccessary that each gentleman should hand 

 in 100/. to show that thev had an interest in the cause. He 

 proposed that they should initiate nothing, but com and 

 control everything. That the Repeal Ass 

 no step without the sanction aud confirmation of tl tle- 



mon, who would point out what they thought the m ul 



method for proceeding for repeal. A body of that kind would 

 combine so many of the wealthy in Irei I, that it would m 

 a drag upon the wheel, and prevent revolutionary vio.ence. 

 Those gentlemen would be of that beariiig and station in 

 society that they could enter into treaty with Government— 

 arrange their own plans with Ministers, and stipulate terms. 

 " And here let me say that 1 quite agree in making the experi- 

 ment of a federal Parliament. I want any Parliament which 

 will protect Irel aid, and ask for no more. If we arm the 



period of repeal without Somebody ot this description, Govern- 

 ment may dictate* plan to you, perhaps, which may fall short 

 of justice, though it satisfy some of you. They can never do 

 so with this Preservative Society of 300.'' As theie might be 

 legal difficulties in the way of the formation of such a body, he 

 should name this day week for a committee to Inquire into 

 the propriety of forming this body, to draw out ti nan, and 

 lay it before the most eminent lawyers in England and In .d, 

 that there may be nothing illegal in it. Three hundred wealtay 

 merchants and country gentlemen of Ireland would prove a 

 most influential body in procuring the repeal of the Union. 

 He then said-" 1 have addressed you long-but I owed you 

 three months* rcnt-and, like an honest man, I am paying my 

 debts. And now I come to my third plan, and it is one to which 

 I am greatly attached. I want to procure impeachments of the 

 Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench and of He Majesty's 

 Attorney-General in this country; ou these grounds- ^great 

 applause for some moments;— on these grounds, I repeat, 

 which 1 shall set before you, as briefly as I can, con ently 

 with clearness. The first ground is that of the monster indict- 

 ment which was preferred against me-:i6 yards of an indict- 

 ment ! (Cheers and laughter.) Lord Denman has well 

 described it as a document calculated to prevent a man from 

 delending himself. Such an indictment no poor man could 

 escape from. We were backed by tho repeal rent, but if such 

 an indictment were preferred against a poor man, where could 

 he get a brief of it for his counsel ? Why. It would cost him 10 

 times more money than ever he saw, to do so. My excellent 

 fr .end Richard O'Gorman (the dissentient grand juror; ought 

 to be a proud man this day. He alone was right as to 

 this unjust indictment, and had the manliness and honesty 

 to maintain his opinions in open court. He said, 'We have 

 spent fii-e davs over this bill, and not one of us can under- 

 stand it.' To be sure they did not care much ior that. 

 Thev found it a true bill. 1 am much obliged to them. (Cneers 

 ^nd laughter.) Now, this is uo idle act of the Attorney General. 

 Suedeu planned it-Peel has adopted it. Impeachment, I say, 

 then is our only remedy. (Loud cheers.) No man is safe trora 

 such a monster indictment. What ought the Curt to have 

 done with it? i say au honest Court should have quashed it 

 again and again, if necessary, and have said to tie Attorney- 

 General in the words of Lord Denman, ' Pick out your counts, 

 and do not suffocate them beneath the number of your accu- 

 sations.' (Cheers.) The Judges of the Court of Queen's 

 Beach did not refuse to receive it; nay, more they counte- 

 nanced it; and, proceeding as they commenced, refused us 

 copies of the witnesses' names, tne caption of the indictment, 

 and other privileges which we should have rece d as a matter 

 of course in England. By their conduct they made this monsier 

 Indictment a babe of their own luck, and I say th is no use 

 whatever in the doctrine of impeachments if we have not the 

 JuT^s of tne Queen's Bench brought before a proper tribunal 

 m answer for their conduct. (Cheers.) I assert : .audi 

 shall be able to prove it by competent witne s, t the Lord 

 cXef Jus7ice7groa^s> had the air of a counsel lor the prosecu- 

 unier justice vg™»« ' , mieht have been taken tor such 



tak-.nr this up A!i ! I do not fear their prisons. (Tremendous 



c ne lam a freeborn British subject standing in this 



HlLnt mv rights, and I do accuse tho* men of m- 



j; ^ce ' (^new"r a fplause.) I am here to call upon the 



■ eonte of England to aid me m impeaching those men. (Cheer- 



Sflhavc to complain too of their manner towards me. 



vff Justice Crampton used to squeeze up his face at me, as if 



to strike me with terror at his lion aspect. ( Roars of hiu-hter.) 



v„w 1 ask you all, did it ever occur at any trial beiure this, 



Sat 'the Chief Justice borrowed the Attorney-General's brief 



to make out his case and charge from? (Cries of " No," and 



eroans.) You saw him do so > (Loud cries of M We did," and 



groaning.) Now, I do say that this is a fact which mu~t and 



shall be Heard. (Cheers.) I care not— not I— for the authority 



of the Lord Chief Justice. (Loud cheers.) I call upon the 



English people to join with me and Ireland, and drag him 



before a proper tribunal and ascertain whether such conduct 



as this is to be tolerated. (Loud cheers). My next ground 



of impeachment against him in particular is bis iacaou*. 



his indecent charge. (Cheers.; It was one-sided and nn- 



jusc. In the House of Lords, in the H * of c °*"""3 



l w.mt to know, does it not deserve impeacn«i«"v ^. A ' 

 Who is safe from such a charge ? We have no « m «/ "** " "^ 

 injustice of such a charge^ it « .not upon g»23£— 

 so we were deprived ot the advantage «• 



,al. (Cheer*,. There o, » ott>«r ■* o^ ^ 



this wrong but impeachment. He n *a u «.c , di For 



R* but had the Pj--"^t^mpanmi^ n t.he world. ^ 



the imprisonment ^^"fJ^Sirf having satisfaction :■ r 

 cerned, but he , -ted nevertl. s - ^.^ had u0 right 



[ au unjust imprisonment. *" c AUUluv; 



