text: " It would seem that Mr O'Connell's earliest recorded manifesto on Repeal was on the 3d June 1829 previous to the Clare election on which occasion he said--"We want political excitement in order that we may insist on our rights as Irishmen but not as Catholics;" and on the 20th of the same month in the same year 1829 he predicted--listen to this ye his infatuated dupes!--"_that_ BEFORE THREE YEARS THERE WOULD BE A PARLIAMENT IN DUBLIN!!!" In the general elections of 1832 it was proclaimed by Mr O'Connell that no member should be returned unless he solemnly pledged himself to vote for the Repeal of the Union; but it was at the same time hinted that _if they would only enter the House as professed Repealers they would never be required to_ VOTE _for Repeal_