text:  If there be real grievances and if Mr O'Connell wished to have then redressed why not attempt to do so? The ministry are willing to assist him--the public feeling and the opinion of Parliament are decidedly in his favour; yet what measures have he or his followers proposed for the adoption of the legislature? The truth is nothing annoys him more than the desire manifested by the premier and the Parliament to remove all just grounds of complaint and therefore it is that he has fixed on "repeal of the union " which he knows to be impracticable