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suggests a doubt whether it s not they alone that can help themselves — whether they do not make their own worst difficulty—are not themselves "their own fever and pain." They are not for Repeal of the Union, as in truth it would be destruction to them. They must, therefore, obtain their ends through England. Yet it is not apparent what transfer of political power in ]England would benefit them. They, as well as the Repealers, seem unable to understand the drift and present condition of politics in England : if they did understand, they would perceive what we have before pointed out, that whereas the Orangemen of Ireland are still Tories unchanged but only unarmed, in England the old Tory part; has been superseded by the new Conservatives, with a policy not adverse to the spirit of movement that characterizes the acre, but only bent to control and moderate it. The Irish Tories age, suffered their English alliance to slip by them. Nevertheless, they have among them men of sufficient intelligence and generosity, if they had but the common sense or the influence, to work that change in the leaven and substance of the Irish Tory party which would fit it to the change that has taken place here, and would restore the English alliance : and such a change, we believe, would powerfully con- duce to peace in Ireland.
