O'Connell, when he agitates for a repeal of the Union, if he really has no ulterior objects beyond that of an Irish Parliament, does not know what he is talking about.

If his request were granted, Ireland would become a province, and descend from being an integral part of the empire, into a dependency.

Had he ever lived in a colony, he would have known the tendencies of such a condition.
"What I desire to see, is the very reverse.

Now that steam has united the two continents of Europe and America, in such a manner that you can travel from Nova Scotia to England, in as short a time as it once required to go from Dublin to London, I should hope for a united legislature.

Recollect that the distance from New Orleans to the head of the River is greater than from Halifax N.S., to Liverpool.