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mestic Parliament, must and will result in a determined ef-
fort to drive from the soil of Ireland the present reigning
family and its parasites.
Your petitioner would further represent that previous to
the illegal absorption of the Irish domestic Parliament by
the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, Ireland was gov-
erned by her own Parliament, exercising supreme legislative
functions. The Crown of Ireland, through its vice-roy or
Lord Lieutenant possessing a simple veto power over the acts
of the Irish Parliament similar to that now exercised over the
Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, and having no more
constitutional authority from any source, veal or pretended,
to transfer the Irish Parliament to the soil of England with-
out the consent of the people of Ireland, than it would to
transfer the present Imperial Parliament of Great Britain to
the soil of France or the shores of Maryland, without the con-
sent of the people of Great Britain.
So forcible is this position of the want of authority in the
Crown of Ireland, to sanction the annihilation of the Irish
Parliament, that had this Union resulted in the same disas-
ter to England as it has been disastrous to Ireland, the un-
constitutional action of George the III, in giving his will-
ing sanction to it, would have been made a basis of impeach-
ment against him and his advising ministers, and England
would have many years since changed the executive head of
her Government, and probably purged herself of the whole
Guelph family and of Royalty.
This national independence which was annihilated by the
Union of 1800, carried with it the right to maintain an army
and navy—to coin money—punish crime, and contract loans
on the credit of the Irish Nation. It also conferred the right
to carry on the high sea, and at the head of her armies a dis-
tinct national emblem, this national emblem being well known
and acknowledged as "the national flag of the Kingdom of
Ireland." The right to use a separate and distinct "seal" was
also possessed and acted on by Her National Executive and
public functionaries.
And your petitioner would further state, that it will be
found on examination of "the Journals of the Irish Parlia-
ment of the date of the so called Union of 1800," that the
essential vote of the people of Ireland never was taken, nor or-
dered to be taken by said Parliament; and your petitioner
claims in common with hosts of more able authorities, speak-
ing and writing in denunciation of this Union from the year
1800 to the present day, that by reason of this and other de-
fects in the proceedings, the Union of Great Britain and Ire-
land never has been accomplished as a legal fact; and that
consequently the official National Flag, is carried by the
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