[Roger O’Connor], An Address to the People of Ireland; Shewing them Why they Ought to Submit to an Union (Dublin, 1799)

In this chapter, the author aims to seen with an indignation, suspended by astonishment, the efforts which have been made use of to raise an opposition to the intended measure of an Union. He aims to attended with anxiety to what might be the result of this opposition, and have been convinced that on reader part it will be impotent and injurious. Is Parliament aware of the point on which it has fixed the attention of the country? Does it know to what it leads the minds of Irishmen? and that while by the great majority, Union is unthought of, their power of opposing the measure is an object of serious import. But author deny that Cork will obtain any durable accession of wealth from the Union, commerce may animate that city, but the wealth which results from that, will not remain in the bosom of Ireland, it will be poured in the lap of Britain.