The Address of the Association of the Friends of the Constitution, Liberty and Peace, in Ireland. Held at the King’s Arms Tavern, Fownes’s Street, Dublin, December 21, 1792. His Grace the Duke of Leinster1 in the Chair (Dublin: Printed for James Ridgway,2 [1793])

The magnitude of the subject, not yet fully comprehended perhaps by any man, ever-powers [sic] and distracts. The tumult of intemperance may be derided and subdued by the feeblest Minister, but it is not within the limits of Ministerial daring to resist the firm and temperate demands of the Irish People. Living under a Constitution, one of whose peculiar excellencies is, that its abuses may be corrected without violating its essence, or even slighting its forms, we can have no rational temptation to encourage or encounter the evils which have flowed from a total want of constitution in a neighbouring country. That the discussions and speculations occasioned by those transactions, should operate with peculiar energy on the People of this country, is not to be wondered at; circumstanced as they are, they must be callous indeed, if they did not feel with ardour, and pursue with vehemence, every sentiment embracing the interests of freedom, and crushing the insolence of power.