A compleat collection of the resolutions of the volunteers, grand juries, &c. of Ireland, with the history of volunteering |
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15th of February affert affociation againſt bind this kingdom Britain Britiſh Captain caufe Chair Chairman Clonmel co-operate Colonel Commons of Ireland conduct confequences confideration conftitutional conftitutional mode declaration Delegates Dublin Evening Poft Dungannon England Engliſh eſtabliſhment faid fame February laft fecurity feffion fentiments feveral fhall fhould firſt following refolutions fome fpirit Freeholders ftatutes fubjects fuch fupport Gentlemen grievances Henry Henry Grattan Henry II High Sheriff highly approve honour houfe Houſe of Commons intereft Iriſh James John juftice King kingdom of Ireland Kyng's land laws to bind liberty lives and fortunes Lords Majefty's manufactures March meaſure meeting be given moft moſt muſt nation neceffary occafion parliament parliament of Ireland perfons pledge ourſelves Poyning's law prefent purpoſe reafon refolutions be publiſhed Refolved unanimoufly Refolved unanimously refpectable reprefentatives ſhall Signed by order ſtate thanks thefe themſelves theſe refolutions thofe thoſe tion Ulfter Volunteers uſe utmoſt Volunteer corps Waterford whofe
Populaire passages
Pagina 38 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Pagina 28 - ... cause will live; and though the public speaker should die, yet the immortal fire shall outlast the organ which conveyed it, and the breath of liberty, like the word of the holy man, will not die with the prophet, but survive him. I shall move you, " That the King's most excellent Majesty, and the Lords and Commons of Ireland, are the only power competent to make laws to bind Ireland.
Pagina cxlviii - ... whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.
Pagina 4 - The almost unanimous voice of the people is with you ; and in a, free country the voice of the people must prevail. We know our duty to our sovereign, and are loyal. We know our duty to ourselves, and are resolved to be free. We seek for our rights, and no more than our rights ; and, in so just a pursuit, we should doubt the being of a Providence if we doubted of success.
Pagina 3 - That as men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the penal laws against our Roman catholic fellow-subjects...
Pagina lxvi - Britain, as being inseparably united thereto; and that the king's majesty, with the consent of the lords and commons of Great Britain in parliament, hath power to make laws to bind the people of Ireland.
Pagina xxvi - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Pagina cxlix - For the people, having reserved to themselves the choice of their representatives, as the fence to their properties, could do it for no other end but that they might always be freely chosen, and, so chosen, freely act and advise as the necessity of the commonwealth and the public good should upon examination and mature debate be judged to require.
Pagina cvi - England; a writ of error (in the nature of an appeal) lying from the King's Bench in Ireland to the King's Bench in England...
Pagina cxlix - Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security?