would
be finding its way back, and briskly circulating there, by reason of
the thousand sources of employment that would arise around the restored
residence of the large proprietor. Irish money would thus stay at home
to create and increase Irish wealth, and to support Irish poverty; and
the grudging doles of an alien parliament would never more be needed in
the land.

"Fellow-countrymen, for such results the association has been
struggling--for such objects you are now called upon to work. By all
that this wretched land has yet endured from English misrule,--by the
accumulated and aggravated suffering of the last disastrous forty-seven
years, with their fell climax in this year of death,--by the myriads
of fresh graves, the fearful husbandry of death, that are ridging your
fields and even your humble homesteads,--by the holy and most adorable
name of the Deity, who chasteneth whom He loveth,--we entreat, we
implore, we exhort, we adjure you to stand true to Ireland at these
elections; to spurn Whig and Tory, and to prove yourselves worthy of
your rights by returning none but those who will unflinchingly assert
them;--and foremost amongst those rights, before all and above all, the
right to make your own laws in your own parliament at home."

The elections issued in a triumph for which the Repeal Committee itself
was hardly prepared. There was a great increase in "repeal members."
This arose from a variety of causes. The Conservatives had lost heart
in connection with the expenses which the famine had imposed upon
their estates. The people universally attributed their distress to the
government, and to their connection with heretic England. The priests
made great exertions throughout the country. Fearful scenes of violence
took place, "the moral-force repealers," lay and clerical, inciting
the people to these outrages by the most inflammatory appeals to their
fanaticism, and by examples which were calculated to encourage them.
The most awful denunciations were heaped upon the heads of "all bad
Catholics who should vote against their religion and country." These
denunciations came from sacerdotal lips, and from the altar as well as
the pulpit. The popular press rivalled the priests in anathemas against
all who were not willing "to vote for Ireland against the Saxon." Public
placards might be seen in town and country, headed, like the address
of the Repeal Committee to the electors, with inflammatory poetry: a
favourit