ISBN: 9781130514117

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 34 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purc… Mehr…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 34 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: . . . it had ceased at least to be generally unpopular (vol. iii. p. 983); and he records a meeting at Galway (p. 919) at which the Archbishop of Tuam and other respectable individuals warmly declared in favour of Union; and a speech of Hely Hutchinson, in which he spoke of a similar feeling in the counties of Cork and Kerry. It is not only to such reports, or to the opinion of one historian, that we can refer in order to show that the allegations as to the universal unpopularity of the Union, so freely made by the Separatists of to-day, and so readily endorsed by Mr Gladstone, are by no means to be accepted as unquestioned facts. Common-sense tells us that it was very unlikely to be so, when one of the effects of the retention of a separate Parliament would have been the continued exclusion from political rights of the majority of the Irish people. It is doubtless correct to say that it was the Protestants rather than the Catholics from whom came the most bitter opposition to the Union, and for a very excellent reason. The Parliament which was to be taken away was composed exclusively of Protestants, and was one of the means by which Protestant ascendancy in Ireland was maintained. One of the main arguments for the abolition of that Parliament was, that in it only a minority of the Irish people was represented, and that it was impossible to expect from it any such concession to the religion of the majority as would give them a share in the representation. It required no bribe or corrupt promise to show this to the Catholics; and although Plowden states that in 1799 the great body of Roman Catholics had rather kept themselves back upon the question, he goes on to say that, somewhat later, it may, indeed, . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<