he page of history, for it discloses the spirit and
temper of the repeal party, and of the Roman Catholic electors who
responded practically to such an appeal. The repealers, as has been
already shown, were not confined to Roman Catholics, nor were all
that communion repealers; but, on the whole, the religious division of
Protestant and Romanist defined the boundary between anti-repealers and
repealers.

The following is copied from _Saunders' News Letter_ of the 12th of
June:--

_Address of the Loyal National Repeal Association to the Electors of
Ireland._

"'God prosper the cause!--oh! it cannot but thrive, While the pulse of
one patriot heart is alive. How sainted by sorrow its martyrs have died!
Far, far, from the footprint of coward or slave, The young spirit of
freedom shall shelter their grave!"

"On you--fellow-countrymen--electors--at this moment devolves the good
and holy task of protecting the graves of the sorrow-sainted martyrs of
Ireland from the polluting tread of coward or of slave. None such will
be found amongst you--none such will dare to show themselves if you be
true.

"In this year of death, our country still survives! Weeping, fainting,
bleeding, yet she lives; and lives to claim, aye, and to have--the
services of her true children.

"Yes! although from him whose life's devotion to Ireland was repaid by
her confidence and her love, and from those without whose potent aid his
labours had been vain--the beloved clergy of the people--down throughout
all ranks and orders of the national organisation, Death has been busy,
still enough remain of devoted, determined, patriot hearts, to carry out
the good work he began, and to make it, with the blessing of a merciful
God, speedily triumphant!

"Rally, then--rally, electors of Ireland--your country calls! Your dead
brethren, even from their graves, invoke you. Drive from your hustings
the men who shall have dared to think you cowards--who shall dare to ask
you to continue slaves! And there are those who will so dare;--mark
you not the exulting tone of Whig and Tory, and every other class of
panderers to English passions and prejudices:--'Repeal,' they say, 'is
gone!' 'Ireland is at last subdued--she begs for bread, and is fearful
to demand her rights lest we withhold our alms!' It is false; how foully
false you know, and at the elections you will prove. Deep as is the
baseness of those who build their party hopes upon a nation's
misery, deeper st