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ARGUMENT

FOR

INDEPENDENCE,

IN

OPPOSITION

ΤΟ ΑΝ

UNION.

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.

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THERE is now no affectation of denying, that

the projected Union between Ireland and Great Britain, will be fubmitted in the next feffion to the confideration of Parliament; nor does any perfon who confiders the constitution of that affembly, in the least 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 impending calamity.

It is at least pardonable to be miftruftful of an event, avowedly brought forward to effect fuch 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 distressful conditiB

on,

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