Peter Burrowes

“ An Union must be the extinction of your hopes—Until that political death overshadows you, your pretensions as they did before, may work their own way; time must at last heal the lacerations of the public mind: the human intellect naturally advances to justice and liberality in spite of casual interruption ”

“ Whilst Ireland continues a separate kingdom, the Catholics will not drop their claims, nor the argument of numbers in their favour. So far from dropping their claims, they have already renewed them; and the Catholics of Waterford, in an address to the Lord Lieutenant, have repeated their demand for political equality, and advanced it on a plea of merit. They have still, and will ever have, electioneering partizans in parliament. and speculative advocates in England, to feed their hopes, and they will be supported by every open opposer and secret ill-wisher to the government. ”

“ He looks forward steadily to the fame object, and relies confidently for its accomplishment upon the progressive illumination of the human mind. He hopes to see his countrymen of all persuasions, one great, prosperous, happy, and loyal nation, and he trusts that the Catholics of Ireland will not contribute to its becoming a degraded and divided province. ”