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 addreſs affert alſo aſſembled aſſociation Belfast bind this kingdom Britain Britiſh Captain cauſe Chair Chairman Clonmel co-operate Colonel Commons of Ireland conduct confideration conſequences conſtitutional conſtitutional mode Dawſon declaration Delegates Dublin Evening Post Dungannon England Engliſh Eſq eſtabliſhed faid fame February laſt firſt following reſolutions Freeholders fuch Gentlemen grievances Henry Henry Grattan Henry II High Sheriff highly approve honour increaſed inſtructions intereſt Irish James John juſt King Kyng's land laws to bind liberty lives and fortunes Lords manufactures March meaſure meeting be given moſt muſt nation neceſſary occafion oppoſe parliament parliament of Ireland paſſed perſon pledge ourſelves Poſt Poyning's law preſent purpoſe queſtion reaſon repreſentatives reſolutions be publiſhed Reſolved unanimoufly Reſolved unanimously reſpect ſecurity ſenſe ſentiments ſeveral ſhall ſhould Signed by order ſpirit ſtand ſtate ſtatutes ſubjects ſuch ſupport thanks theſe reſolutions thoſe tion Ulſter Volunteers uſe Volunteer corps warmeſt whoſe William
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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?