[Charles Kendal Bushe], The Union. Cease Your Funning (Dublin: Printed by James Moore, 1798)

The same positions, the same inferences, are to be found faintly visible in the speeches of all the Opposition members in England and Ireland, and glaringly conspicuous in every number of the Press, and Union Star; avowing themselves in the confessions of Doctor M’Nevin, proclaiming themselves in the manifestos of Arthur O’Connor. Mark the vile and profligate insinuation, that the consequence of our Union must be an absolute dependence of Ireland upon the will of England, whereas, every unprejudiced man knows, an Union is the only thing which can secure the independence of Ireland, and ensure the salvation of the country. Every body knows that one of the strongest and most unanswerable arguments in favour of an Union is that it must of necessity extinguish all religious animosities, and for ever silence the discordance of sectarious [sic] conflicts.