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Speaking" of Mr . Ghrattan , he says—« I do not forget how associated trith " that man ( pointing to Mr . Currau ) , when the screech-owl of intoleranee was yelling , and the night of bigotry was brooding on the land , he came Sbrth , with the heart of a hero
and the tongue of an angel , till , at his bidding , the spectre vanished—the colour of our fields revived , and Ireland , poor Ireland , glittered for a moment in the light of his eloquence , and gloried in the prowess of his victory . Do you not remember , in 1782 ,
how his heart toiled , and his eye flamed , and his tongue thundered , till our whole horizon became enriched with his splendour , and every peasant dn our mountains shouted liberty ! Do not you remember , in that
dreadful death-day of our hopes , when power weilded the thunder-bolt to affright , and treason emptied the treasury to corrupt ; how , with the ardour of youth and the wisdom of age , he rushed like Chatham from the
corich of sickness , awing , animating , exhorting , convincing ; till our very sorrows were mitigated by the sweetness of his advocacy ; and even the extent of our loss was for a season forgotten in the splendours of the conflagration 1 No , Grattan ; we never can forget that those things were , and " were most dear to us . " We love
you much , but it is because you taught « s to love Ireland more . We give you our esteem , we give you our respect , we give you our love , our gratitude , our admiration— -we give you every thing and any thing , except our country . ' * Charles Fox .
" As he was a great man , I respect him- ^ as he Mras a good man , I Jove him . He had &s wise a head as cy paused to deliberate : he had as weet a toi % ue a& eve * gfcve the words « wisdom utterance : and he had a h * art so stamped Ttrith * he immediate of
P ^ nt / the- Divinity ; tha * its verjr ^ om might be tracedto the excess *»» benevdlen . ee . He was a man of ^ V of course , he was poor , Poert y Js a reproach to no man ; to such fe ^ i ? Fox » l think it : was a P ride > «* >• * he chose tb traffic with his prin-W **? 4 t he chose to gamble with i ^ ^^ euce , how easily might Ire
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Twili . " Truth is omnipotent , and must prevail ! It forces its way with the fire and precision of the morning sunbeam . Vapours may surround , prejudices may impede the infancy of its progress ; but tbe very resistance that would check , only condenses and
concentrates it 3 until at length it goes forth in the fulness of its meridian , all life and light and lustre : the whole amphitheatre of nature glowing in its smile , and her minutest objects gilt and glittering in the grandeur of its eternity !" Bigotry .
" She has no head , and cannot think— -she has no heart , and cannot feel— -when she moves , it is in wrath - —when she pauses , it is amir ! ruinher prayers are curses—her god is a demon—her communion is death— .
her vengeance is eternity ! - —her decalogue is written in the blood of her victims !—and , if she stoops a moment from her infernal flight , it is upon some kindred rock , to whet her vulture fang for keener rapine , and replume her wing for a more sanguinary desolation !"
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4 Candidns , in Reply to Mr . B . Flower , on the " Treatment of Infidels" 351
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Sik , June 3 , 1815 . AS I think your pages can scarcely be occupied with a subject of more importance than the rights of conscience , the right of every individual to publish his religious opinions , I shall be glad to take up some more
room in your Repository on a question of such moment ; particularly as I have regretted not having been mor £ explicit in my last cornmunic ; jfrion ( p . 220 ) , which , if I had , perhaps ' JNfr . Flower would not have ( answered it ( pp . 299—SO !) with quite so miteS
haughtiness land contempt ; but " it wa » owing to my desire of compressttfcjf what I had to say into as short a spaceas possible . - 1 have suffered , SiiV a , good de&J of persecution myself , for joining tfee sect io which Mr . Flow ' er b * lotigir *
and when a minister of that perauafc-, sion appeared to me to make tight o £ fine , imprisonment and pillory , andf in part to justify it by S ! jinj £ tHejr were only the worst cases , and hap * pened but seldom , to two or three mi ^ serabje individuals , 1 thought it my duty to protest against uny jiailiatio of wwdi proceedings , a * Well a » tfcfe ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/23/
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