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popes and bishops are as loudl y and boldly attached as in any former period of their history . CLERICUS HIBERNICUS .
[ We have to apologize to our correspondent , whom we hope to meet again , for curtailing his communication to suit our limits . Wishing not to embark in a controversy on this subject , of which we do not see the utility , we have
only to observe , once for all , that we and our brother Unitarians are strangely misunderstood by our correspondent if he thinks us in danger of conversion to Catholicism , or imagines that there is any necessity to rouse our antipathies against ecclesiastical dominion of any sort . At present the persecutors are Protestants , and this leads us to have more to do with them than with the sufferers . Situated as the Catholics are , they , in fact , form a powerful body of nonconformists , and so far have an interest in common with other
dissidents , which draws them somewhat toget \ ier 9 in opposition to that kind of popery which happens to oppress both . Political proscription , moreover , has a tendency to create prepossession , on the one hand , for , and , on the other hand , against the objects of it . The No-popery party has taken great pains to confound the political rights of the Catholics with the merits of their religion , doctrinally and practically ; and it is not , perhaps , to be wondered if something of the same confusion has taken place on the other side . Penal laws disarm part of the moral resistance even to a bad system ; for a generous opponent dislikes grappling with an antagonist who is previously bound and branded . Remove the disabilities under which the Catholic labours , and
those who are now suspected of giving him a sort of countenance , will be upon principle , not from political motives , his most active opponents;—if indeed it be necessary at all , in a well regulated state of society , to be thus perpetually carrying on the war of recrimination , to which politics give the real stimulus . We do not find that Protestants in the United States ( where one party does not oppress the other ) feel any necessity for discussing with acrimony the tendencies of the religious opinions ana discipline of their Catholic fellow-citizens , and for the same reason those tendencies lose much
of their force . The friend of religious liberty is disposed to leave his neighbour and his opinions alone , as he wishes so to be treated himself , unless they can enter upon discussion fairly and on equal grounds ; but it is always his business to protest against power being called in , either on the one side or the other , to enable the disputants to do mischief and disturb the harmony of society . Edit . ]
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i 'Tw . as a soft arid sunny land To which the Conqueror came , Though now the place of the radiant strand Is a blank in the chart of fame .
It was for in the Indian regions lone The delicious land he found ;—
Oh , when shall there be of its brightness thrown A glimpse upon earthly ground ? It passed , Alexander ' s eyes before , Like a beautiful dream : —it is now no more .
r * Founded upon a story inserted in Mr . Hurwitz ' a " Hebrew Tales . "
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Alexander at Paradise . 345
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ALEXANDER AT PARADISE . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1827, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1796/page/33/
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