He exhausted all his eloquence in warning the people against it, but in vain.

The people continued to insist on it in return for their subscriptions.

Accordingly, on the 10th of August, a resolution was proposed to the effect that no money subscribed for Repeal Purposes should be allocated to the payment of a subscription for the _Nation_, on the sole ground that, in 1843, it inculcated doctrines which were in their tendency treasonable.

Mr.O'Connell said, after the resolution was passed, that he did not wish to injure the paper in a pecuniary point of view; and on the next day of meeting, he brought down to the Association some twenty law authorities, which he read, to prove that treason had actually been committed; and thus stamped the conduct of the Attorney-General as not alone justifiable, but lenient to excess.
The seceders determined to abide the issue.

They had the fullest confidence that the insensate cry raised against them would eventually subside, and that truth would again prevail.