Download or read book An Address to the Irish People (Classic Reprint) written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Address to the Irish People At the time of the Union Pitt and his Irish alter ego, Lord Castlereagh, were openly favourable to the Catholic claims. It was notorious that but for the well-founded expectation of the Catholics that they would be at once admitted to the Imperial Parliament, the passing of the Act of Union would have been a far more difficult and dangerous, if not an impossible under taking. Andit is probable enough thatbut for George III. Sinsane obstinacy a measure of Catholic Emancipation might have been carried almost simultaneously with the Act of Union but bigotry was unabashed and vigorous, and the modern jealousy of the direct influence of the Crown in politics, though intense where it existed, was anything but universal. Pitt' honourably strove to overcome the King's opposition failing in one serious effort, he is hardly to be blamed for' refusing to enter upon a desperate constitutional struggle at a time when the revolutionary forces in England seemed so dangerously strong, and when the aspect of foreign affairs was so threatening. Yet at Pitt's death 1a golden opportunity passed away for ever. For more than a quarter of a century no Minister was found who both could and would carry Catholic Emancipation through both Houses. And the Minister who did finally carry it adopted the measure simply as a lesser evil than insurrection, and accompanied it with circumstances of injustice and insult. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.