ARGUMENT

FOR

INDEPENDENCE,

IN

OPPOSITION

ΤΟ ΑΝ

UNIO N.

ADDRESSED

TO ALL HIS COUNTRYMEN,

BY AN IRISH CATHOLIC.

Now I ask you, what it is that has given you every thing? Is it not time?
And as time has given you every thing, reflect that time may alio take
every thing away from you; but time is not neceffary-negotiation alone
is fufficient to undo you.

When have you demanded, that you have not fucceeded? and when have
you negotiated, that you have not been deceived ?-Flood.

-DUBLIN:-

PRINTED BY J. STOCKDALE, 62, ABBEY-STREET,

NEAR CARLISLE BRIDGE.

1799.

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AN

ARGUMENT

FOR

INDEPENDENCE,

IN

OPPOSITION

ΤΟ ΑΝ

UNION, &c.

THERE is now no affectation of denying, that

the projected Union between Ireland and Great Bri-
tain, will be fubmitted in the next feffion to the con-
fideration of Parliament; nor does any perfon who
confiders the constitution of that affembly, in the leaft
doubt, what will be the decifion of the question. But
while it is not yet treason to discuss the subject, an
Irishman may indulge the melancholy fatisfaction of
fympathizing with his countrymen upon the impend
ing calamity.

It is at least pardonable to be mistrustful of an event, avowedly brought forward to effect such a momentous and permanent change; and natural to look back to the effects of that Legislative fubjection, fo like an Union, which already fubfifted between thefe iflands until 1782; the removal of which diftrefsful conditiB

on,