...the Act of Union was denied by the chief Irish lawyers. The Attorney General, SAUKIN, said : "* * * You cannot make it obligatory on conscience; it will...as long as England is strong, but resistance to it wilF be in the abstract, a duty; and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of prudence."...

...England.' The language of Saurin was still stronger. ' If a legislative Union,' he said, ' should be so forced upon this country against the will of its inhabitants...that resistance will be a mere question of prudence.' ' When I take into account,' said Burrowes, ' the hostile feelings generated by this foul attempt,...

...usurper, and the revolution was a rebellion." Mr. Saurín spoke thus : — ' ' You may make the Union binding as a law, but you cannot make it obligatory on conscience. It will be obeyed so long as England is strong ; but resistance to it will be, in the abstract, a duty, and the exhibition...

...bound to obey it." " You may," said Saurin, afterward Attorney-General for Ireland, " make the Union binding as a law, but you cannot make it obligatory...that resistance will be a mere question of prudence." Plunket and Sanriu themselves, as well as others, who, with them, thundered against the Union when...