text:  Where men like Mr O' Connell _can_ arise it is clear that the social condition of Ireland is not healthy; that as a country she is not fused into a common substance with the rest of the empire; that she is not fully to be trusted; and that the road to a more effectual union lies not through stricter coercion but through a system of instant defence making itself apparent to the people as a means of provisional or potential coercion in the proper case arising