But the effect of such a state of things on the morality of the nation was incalculably injurious.

The most solemn resolution was openly violated, and that by the very men who were foremost in recommending the national vow.

Nor would its tendency be less fatal, assuming that Mr.O'Connell was correct in supposing that the experiment would be vain, and that its failure could not fail to supply new and more urgent reasons for the nation's independence.

The compact, if even entered into with that view, would shake all faith in public men; because it would only change the parties with whom a false obligation was contracted, leaving the obligation itself and its violation exactly where they were.
Mr.O'Connell's support was doomed to be as fatal to the Whigs as his opposition.

He unhappily assisted them during his period to carry one measure, against which they had recorded several solemn decisions in Parliament, namely, the Tithe Bill, without an appropriation clause, which was a direct falsification of their own resolution, whereby they defeated Sir Robert Peel's short-lived administration, in 1835.