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ênemy decided and unreserved; that he voted against | her liberty,

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and voted, moreover, for an address to send four | thousand | Irish | troops | to cut the throats | of the Americans; that he called these

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butchers "armed | negotiators,' and stood with a metaphor in his

mouth and a bribe in his pócket, a châmpion against the rights of

America,-of Amèrica, the only hope of Ireland, and the only |

refuge of the liberties | of mankind. Thus defective in every | relationship, whether to constitútion, cómmerce, or tolerátion, I will 1 fROF suppose this man to have added much private | improbity to pub

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on a level with his oath. He loves to deliver panégyrics on himself. I will interrupt him, and sáy:

Sir, you are much mistaken if you think that your talents have been as great as your life has been reprehensible. You began your parliamentary career with an acrimony and personality which could

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have been justified only by a supposition of virtue; after a rank and

clamorous opposition, you became, on a sudden, | silent; you were

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silent for seven | years; you were silent on the greatest questions,

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and you were silent | for | money! You supported the unparalleled

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his anti-American prínciples,-yóu, sír, whom it pleases to chant

a hymn to the immortal Hampden;-you, sir, approved of the tyranny exercised against Amèrica,—and you, sir, voted four |

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thousand | Irish tròops to cut the throats of the Americans fighting

for their freedom, fighting for your freedom, fighting for the great |

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principle, I liberty! But you found, at last, that the Court had

bought, but would not trust you. Mortified at the discovery, you try

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the sorry game of a trimmer in your progress to the acts of an

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incendiary; and observing, with regard to Prince and People, the

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order of your fellow-subjects have a right to exclaim! The mér1 RO chant may say to you, the constitútionalist may say to you, the

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Américan may say to you,- and Î, I now say, and say to your beard,

My Lords, I do not disguise | the intense | solicitude which I feel for the event of this debate, because I know full well that the peace of the country is involved in the issue. I cannot look without dismay at the rejection of this measure of Parliamentary Reform. But, grievous as may be the consequences of a tẽmporary defeat, témpo

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helm, any one could steer you through the troubles which surround

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you, without | refòrm. But our successors would take up the task in,

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circumstances far less auspicious. Under them, you would be fain to grant a bill, compared with which, the one we now proffer you is 1 RO 1 RO

moderate indeed. Hear the parable of the Sibyl, for it conveys a

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wise and wholesome moral. She now appears at your gate, and offers you mildly the vólumes-the precious vólumes of wisdom and peace. The price she asks is reasonable; to restore the franchise, which, without any bargain, you ought voluntàrily | to give. m RC to s R C m 8 RC You refuse her terms - her moderate terms; she darkens the porch RC prone

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no longer. But sóon-for you cannot do without | her wares - you

call her back. Again she comes, but with diminished | trèasures;

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the leaves of the book are in part torn away by lawless hands, in

part defaced with characters of blood. But the prophetic maid has

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away indìgnant; and, for the sècond time, she departs. Beware

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of her third coming! for the treasure you must have; and what

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price she may next demand, who | shall tell? It may even be the

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mace which rests upon that woolsack! What may follow | your course of obstinacy, if persisted in, I cannot take upon me to pre

díct, nor do I wish to conjecture. But this I know full well; that, as sure as man is mòrtal, and to err is húman, justice | deferred ¦ enhances the price | at which you must purchase safety and pèace;

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bandry, of sowing | injustice and reaping | rebellion.

But, among the awful considerations that now bow down my mind, there is one that stands preeminent above the rest. You are

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the highest | judicature in the realm; you sit here as judges, and ROF wls R C

decide all causes, civil and criminal, without appeal. It is a judge's | first | duty never to pronounce a sentence, in the most trifling case,

without hearing. Will you make this the excéption? Are you really

prepared to determine, but not to hear, the mighty cause, upon which

a nation's hopes and fears | háng? You are? Then beware of your

decision! Rouse | not, I beseech you, a peace-loving but a rèsolute

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people! Alienate not from your body the affections of a whole | Em

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pire! As your friend, as the friend of my òrder, as the friend of my

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country, as the faithful servant of my sovereign, I counsel you to

assist, with your uttermost efforts, in preserving the peace, and uphold

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ing and perpetuating the Constitution. Therefore, I pray and exhort

you not to reject | this measure. By all you hold most dèar, by all

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the ties that bind every one of us to our common | order and our

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common country, I solemnly adjùre you, I warn you, I implòre

you,-yea, on my bended knees I supplicate you,-rejèct | nòt | this bill!

4. ON THE IRISH DISTURBANCE BILL.

5. EMPLOYMENT OF INDIANS IN THE AMERICAN WAR.
Earl of Chatham.

MY LORDS,-Who is the man that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the wár, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms the tómahawk and scalping-knife of the savage?-to call into civilized allíance the wild and inhuman inhabitant of the woods?— to delegate to the merciless Indian the defense of disputed rìghts, and to wage the horrors of his bàrbarous war against our brethren?

My Lords, these enormities cry aloud for redrèss and pùnishment.
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But, my Lords, this barbarous measure has been defended, not only

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on the principles of policy and necéssity, but also on those of mo

rality; "for it is perfectly allowable," says Lord Suffolk, "to use all

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astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confèssed; to hear them avowed in this House, or in this country!

My Lords, I did not intend to encroach so much on your attèntion; but I cannot repress my indignation; — I feel myself impèlled

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as men, as Christians, to protèst against such horrible barbàrity!—

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That God and nature | have put into our hands! What ideas of

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God and nature that noble lord may entertain, I know not; but I

know that such detestable principles are equally abhorrent to re

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lígion and humanity. Whát! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian | scálping-knife! SRO wtr C F to waist w C to SC w tr C to the cannibal savage, torturing, murdering, devouring, drinking

the blood of his mangled victims! Such notions shock every precept

of morálity, every feeling of humánity, every sentiment of honor!

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country. I call upon the bishops to interpose the unsullied sanctity br с to m of their lawn,-upon the jùdges, to interpose the purity of their

ermine, to save us from this pollution. I call upon the honor of

your lordships, to rèverence | the dìgnity | of your ancestors, and to

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maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my coun

try, to vindicate the national character. I call upon your lordships, B Ctr w to m f B C prone

and upon every order of men in the state, to stamp upon this in

famous procedure | the indelible | stigma of the public | abhorrence.

6. CONSEQUENCES OF THE AMERICAN WAR.-Earl of Chatham. (Page 165, Orator's Manual.)