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pcrerof )! ori fy dentcM tb at shar € 6 f distributive justice , which apportions reward as well as punishment according to the deserls of each member of the community : to
find cIojsedfagainst him every path , which , his ambition , his courage , his genjus , or his industry might prompt him to explore . —Let him imagine himself to be so taxed , so teazed , so worried , and so contemned in his country , as to feel his situation more vile , in
many ^ respects , than that of the € i outcast Je ^ w . " — Let him see himself shunned in private society as a degraded being , daily sinking in self-estimation , yet indignant at the scorn , attached to his lot , and vainly looking around him for the succour and smiles of those
laws and that constitution , which exalt his fellow-citizens upon his mortification and < misery . ' Then let liim , indeed , , consult those eloquent panegyrists of the British constitution , the Montesquieus , the Blackstones ^ nd De Loimes , who
have pourtrayed its blessings in such fascinating colours ; and let him ask them , whether he partakes of those inestimable blessings , or shares in tjbat cC Poxiticai , Liberty , " which they h . ave pro * nounced to be the very end and purpose of that admired
constitution ? Let him interrogate his own heart : does he enjoy Liberty of Conscience ; ? Is he perfectly free to - follow , ijt 3 pure and harmless dictates i Is he , or are his chtid *
re a state of servitude or o £ emancipation f The answers will
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readily be ^ found . Th # y are ' graven upon every true and honourable heart . So mpch for the present condition of the Catholics of Ireland *
From this condition they seek , to be fully extricated : not through the wilderness of gradual ^ mancipation , but by the broad avenues of right and justice : and upon the great principle of religiousjikerty »
They bujld their hopes upon no > narrow or jealous policy . —They would cheerfully concede the enjoyment of ; civil and religious frfeedom to all mankind : they ask no nwrefor the < qi $ elve $ . —To expunge from the Statute . Book every line of angry feeling , every memorial of rancour , and every remn&nt , of proscription : tq efface every clause , provision and phrase , that gives , nerve to bigotry ,, sanction to
intolerance , or preference ( in temporals ) to the professors of one faith over those of any other , in any df par ^ ment of the state , or in any part of the empire : —These noble objects comprize * the entire
policy of the Iri > h Catholics—engross their , anxious thoughts , and constitute the scope and pu ; rpo § e of ail their remonstrances and petitions to every branch of the legislature i . ,
Ea enim presidio . Libertatts petnnt , m Non licentice adoppugnandos aUos * [ We have received , through a frtrnd , theSECON b ^ ART of ih I t * "Stittmetii ;" from Ireland ; and intend to give art abstract of it in our succeeding numbers .
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Penal Laws which aggrieve the Catholics of Ireland 549
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 549, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/17/
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