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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... often approached the Legislature for a restoration of their rights. Their petitions were sometimes unheeded, sometimes listened to, sometimes rejected with the greatest indignity; and those few privileges which they now possess were given through fear rather than a sense ojjustice Hear, hear. The expression of my friend (Wogan Browne) is justifiable when the insult he sustained is considered. I know not Lord Manners; I do not wish to know him. I do not aspire to know that man, one of whose first official acts was to remove from the Commission of the Peace one of the most enlightened, most correct, and most respectable resident magistrates in Ireland, to make room, I suppose, for what He considered genuine loyalty. I hope that my heart cannot be exceeded in that spirit of genuine loyalty. But what it now called loyalty is the seeking after place to satiate avarice, men obtaining office to tyrannize over their fellow-citizens, to pillage their neighbours, --that is loyalty. Peals of applause for several minutes. Here his lordship adverted to the recent proceedings of the Catholics, and asked--Did not the history of every country point out the policy of suffering the discontent of the people to evaporate in freedom of speech, instead of resorting to restraint, which only increased, not removed, the danger. 'I think, ' continued his lordship, 'the Government proclamation unjustifiable, and that it is only worthy of such a man as Dr. Duigenan. It certainly showed bad taste to make a Privy Doctor Patrick Duigenan was, beyond all doubt, the most ruffianly of that formidable band of no-Popery denunciators which, under the maternal wing of Castle patronage, poured forth volumes of insult and invective, when the Catholic Committee was beginning to.