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which has been proved ( as the Morning Chronicle showed the other day ) to have diminished its own religious adherents in the country from one-third to one-tenth , in the course of the
last seventy years . Ill-treatment has been adding to Catholicism in Ireland , while good treatment has been decreasing it over the rest of Christendom . A gentleman in Ireland sticks ostensibly to the letter of his creed , because his creed is ill-used , and it becomes a
generous man to stand by its poorer professors . In France and Italy he can waive the manifestation , and liberalize upon his creed , as gentlemen
in other countries do upon theirs ; that is to say , he can merge it into the most general and benevolent Christianity , - — work out the intentions
of its divine Founder in the true Catholicism of charity , or universal brotherly love Yet even Ireland has produced many a Priest—some eminent instances are living — whom no ill-treatment could
deprive of the nobleness of their own natures , or render unchristian denouncers of their worst enemies . What right have the Tories to assume , that
the lively , good-natured , and Qt credulous " Irish people , who took George the Fourth at his word , after all his broken promi se ^ , merejy because he came to see them and break them
again , would not kiss their own hands to-morrow with tears of gratitude , if they would say something handsome of them in
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Parliament , and promise to give them an equal chance of education ? We have unchristian leaven enough remaining in us , to say , that we fear they would .
The truth is , that a Tory does not hate Popery at all , any more than he hates any species of despotism , or the " laying a little blood with dust ; " and for this short and simple reason , —that modern
Toryism , as far as the spirit can exist in compatibility with modern advancement , is old JPopery ; that is to say , it is the assumption of infallibility and the spirit of dictation , making a penalty of difference of opinion . It therefore believes all the ill
of others , the existence of which it is compelled to feel in itself . It thinks that others will wrong it , because it has wronged them ; and it endeavours to keep its own wrong in perpetual ascendancy and in a
false sense of right , by the trick common to all tyranny when opposed , —that of adding complaint to injustice J , and as-• m ^ resuming , with a stare or imperious and indignant astonishment
at our thinking otherwise , that the injustice itself is the justest thing in the world , and full of right reason ; a thing , which the ancient philosopher declared to be the most irritating and intolerable of all impudencies . 6 t
New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large , " said Milton , when he saw what the Presbyterians were doing towards restoring the old corruptions . New anti-Catholic , in like
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354 ? Guy Fawhes and Modern Catholicism .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/58/
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