The details then came under discussion, and, paragraph by paragraph, alterations were proposed and adopted.

The discussion on these matters was still more prolonged and vehement.

The principle of the entire was questioned indirectly by various amendments of form; but it was always affirmed by a majority.
The report had, however, undergone such modifications and alterations that its original promoters lost all interest in its passing; and at the final stage, it was rejected, as well as I remember, without a division.
At all events, it was rejected, and, I believe, with the concurrence of Mr.Duffy, who afterwards published the original draft in the _Nation_.
It was on that occasion the celebrated resolutions, afterwards the subject of the three nights' discussion at the Rotunda, were drafted and proposed by Mr.O'Brien.

They were at once adopted, Mr.Mitchel alone dissenting.

This may be the fittest opportunity distinctly and definitely to settle the question, which has recently arisen, in reference to these resolutions.