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will largely participate in the general progression . * Of the epithet ftadicai , it may be said that the obloquy conies harmless from men , who hi the operation of an intense selfism , seem incapable of
reflecting on the position which they occupy in the general movement wTT iciris ^ l ^^ the intellect of Europe . Sir , there are but two divisions of men who prevailingly fill the public eye in the political struggles of the age—Absolutists and Liberals . Into one or
other of these denominations all mankind are visibly merging . From the banks of the Tagus and the Potomac , they are beckoning to their followers to assume their respective stations . For my part , I have made up my mind . I will not fraternize with the slaves
and assassins of Lisbon . I will never ejaculate " amen" to a Te Deum of the Holy Alliance . And thinking a Liberal of 1832 quite as respectable as a Liberal of glorious ' 88 , I accept my share of the intended stigma , and wherever the battle of liberty may be fought , if I may not give it the best blood , will waft it the warmest wishes of my heart !
Plain it is , however , that a faction exists in Ireland , of whose predilections we can have no great difficulty in pronouncing the far different direction : and that if a choice were to be made between a Washington and a Miguel , their protestant hearts must ,
in their hatred of li liberalism ^ leap to the service of the despot ! And yet , Sir , strange it is , that those who frown upon the resisting principle which would humble the oppressors of Europe , are all enthusiasm in toasting the conquering arms of Williamand that those who would hail in their
inmost souls , and promote , if they could , a reaction in La Vende ' e , transmit to their children the-undying memory of their triumphs over the same principle at the Boyne ! ' But see even Catholicism struck down , —or reduced to its true posi 1 - tiun in the social scule , —by our
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mighty neighbour l- ^ -has liberalism here no forgiveness ? Ah , Sir , let the perpetual appeals to infidel France , and the einphatical lessons our Orange advisers educe from that event , attest the consistency with which Protestant
orators in Ireland abhor the encroachments of Popery at home , while they mourn—the—fall- —© £ -4 ts—ascendane . abroad ! But doubtless it is only for " Radicals" to rejoice in the fall of political churchmen , ' and intolerant systems everywhere .
* One other epithet in infinite favour remains . Against the government , against the board , against the supporters and Mends of both , the concentrated hate of bur ' adversaries can rarely find a more efficient expression
of its sentiment , than in trre noted title of Socinian , Sir , this is a bolt which many have , been singularly prone to shoot : and curious it is that , in all periods of our history , since the name was first invented , it has been the-favoured missile with all who were
most remarkable for discountenancing the onward movement of society ; , and most attached to the time-stricken ills and venerable mischiefs which afflict it . In the reign of the second Charles , the puritanism of the preceding era combining with the licence which the example of a profligate court diffused , had engendered a no very favourable crisis either for the inculcation of sound theology or moral
practice . ' At such a period it was ,- that Bishop Burnet informs us that certain persons " made it their study to assert , and began to examine the principles of religion and morality on clear grounds and in a philosophical method . " He tells us who those individuals were : " Whichett , Gu & worth , WiMns , More , " and others ; and he instructively adds that , 4
because they * kept a good correspondence with those who differed from them in opi ? iion , and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and divinity , —men of narrower thoughts and fiercer tempers , " ( a race" of which some specimens have corns down to
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82 tNITARIAN CHRONICLE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1832, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1717/page/2/
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