1780-1789
Feindschaft
Schrift:
Letter to the Rt. Hon. Thomas Conolly, Secretary to the Whig Club. Dublin 1789:
Bei dieser Quelle handelt es sich um einen Brief an den "Secretary of the Whig Club" und Mitglied des irischen Parlaments Thomas Conolly, in der dieser dafür kritisiert wird, die Etablierung von britischen Parteien in Irland zugelassen und unterstützt zu haben.
Position zu Parteien:
Zitat:
"You assert, as a principles, that with a view to establish party power, it is allowable to invade the most sacred charters, to usurp an immense patronage, and to make a partition of the executive." (Aus: Letter to the Rt. Hon. Thomas Conolly, Secretary to the Whig Club. Dublin 1789. S. 11).
"But every thing is fair in opposition, all things are lawful to party. To decoy the servants of the crown, by every artifice and falsehood; to play upon the hopes, the fears, the wants and vanities of men [...]." (Ebd. S. 40).
Schrift:
Letter to the Rt. Hon. Thomas Conolly, Secretary to the Whig Club. Dublin 1789:
Bei dieser Quelle handelt es sich um einen Brief an den "Secretary of the Whig Club" und Mitglied des irischen Parlaments Thomas Conolly, in der dieser dafür kritisiert wird, die Etablierung von britischen Parteien in Irland zugelassen und unterstützt zu haben.
Position zu Parteien:
Zitat:
"You assert, as a principles, that with a view to establish party power, it is allowable to invade the most sacred charters, to usurp an immense patronage, and to make a partition of the executive." (Aus: Letter to the Rt. Hon. Thomas Conolly, Secretary to the Whig Club. Dublin 1789. S. 11).
"But every thing is fair in opposition, all things are lawful to party. To decoy the servants of the crown, by every artifice and falsehood; to play upon the hopes, the fears, the wants and vanities of men [...]." (Ebd. S. 40).