Immediately after the close of the State trials, as well as I can remember, Mr.O'Connell proposed the dissolution of the Association, with a view of establishing a new body, from which should be excluded all the "illegal" attributes and accidents of the old.

The suggestion was resisted by Mr.O'Brien, and all those understood to belong to what was called the Young Ireland Party.

They protested against such a course as false, craven and fatal, and Mr.
O'Connell at once yielded to their vehement remonstrances.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 4: Doctor Cantwell to Mr.O'Connell.

Given in the _Nation_, Vol.III., No.

119.].