Personal Recollections Of The Late Daniel O Connell M P

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... case for the Repeal of the Union, and the restoration of the Irish Parliament. The people of Ireland seek to rescind a statute which was passed against the consent of the whole nation--Orangemen and all--and of which the operation was to extinguish their resident Parliament. From the earliest period of the connexion of the islands under Henry II., the King's Irish subjects enjoyed a Parliament in Ireland distinct from, and perfectly independent of, the Parliament of England.f Some efforts on the part of England to usurp jurisdiction over the Irish subjects in the reign of King Henry VI., elicited from the Irish Parliament in the thirty-eighth year of that monarch's reign, a full and unequivocal declaration of its own independence. That Parliament declared, "that Ireland is, and always has been, incorporated within itself by ancient laws and customs, and is only to be governed by such laws as by the Lords and Commons of the land in Parliament assembled, have been advised, accepted, affirmed, and proclaimed; that by custom, privilege, and franchise, there has ever been a royal seal peculiar to Ireland, to which alone the subjects are to pay obedience; that this realm hath also its constable and marshal, before whom all appeals are finally determinable; yet, as orders have of late been issued under another seal, and the subjects summoned into England to prosecute their suits before a foreign jurisdiction, to the great grievance of the people, and in violation of the rights and franchises of the land; they enact that for the future no persons shall be obliged by any commandment under any other seal but that of Ireland, to answer any appeal, or any other matter out of said land, and that no officer to whom such commandment may come shall put...