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Burke : ij wa » read by Owen CTConimi ) " of Bclanagar . ]
To theJ&i&kt Honourable John Phil pot CunaAK , £# c . &c . &fc u the General Board of the Catholics of Ireland feel it their duty to address you on your resignation of the high office
tfp which your talents were called , and the duties of which you have discharged with the courtesy of a gentleman , the abilities of a lawyer , the dignity of a judge , and the characteristic integrity which has ever distinguished you .
" Taking a review of a life devoted to the service of your country , and the cause and interests of public and private liberty , we shall ever hold in proud and grateful remembrance the energy which you displayed in resisting oppression and defending the rights of the subject and
the constitution ; the independent -spirit with which you met the frowns and the seductions of power , the intrepidity with which you vindicated your insulted ; md maligned country , and the sacrifices which you made at the shrine of public virtue
... u The freedom and privileges of your profession , so closely connected with vhose of the public , you upheld both at tlie bar and . on the bench * " The first flight of your juvenile genius was a noble and generous defence » f an obscure but respectable individual against a lawless assault of tyrannical
3 > Gmr . Yon have uniformly opposed that bigotted , that baneful policy , which arnpiously tries the principles of man by 2 } is religious creed ; you have maintained the great and sound principle of religious liberiy—the proclaimed boast of one constitution , a just , a liberal , and enlightened mind abhors the pernicious
system of excluding from equal rights those who contribute equally to the support of the state with their property and their lives $ a system which sacrifices the liberty of the country , to protect the monopoly of a party , and which , by perpetuating division and discord , saps the foundation of all social
intercourse . •« You , Sir , and the otjbei : illustrious advocates of Irish prosperity , are well avy ^ rc-, that the total extinction of such a systcrn iV absolutely essential to the consolidation and permanence ol the gcntxal ( Strength of tfre empire . Permit v $ vt 1 ai * scfQsm 9 . &n t 6 indulge cmr earnest
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hope , that your splendid talents , etnerging from the eclipse of judicial station , and reviving under that name which has attached the hearts of your countrymen , will again be exercised in the service of Ireland . Mr * Gurra N * s ATtsrwer .
" Gentlemen— -Be pleased to accept my warmest acknowledgments for this flattering mark of your approbation and regard . So far as honesty of intention can hold the place of desert , I can in * dulge even a proud feeling at this proof of your good opinion— -because I have no secret consciousness that can blush while I receive it .
** I have early thought , that the mere fact of birth imposes , by the authority of God , a loyalty to country , binding the conscience of mad beyond the force of any technical allegiance , aad still more devoted and inexhaustible . *< To our unhappy country I liiov this sentiment was little better thati
Barren- —however , what I had I gave ; I might have often sold her , 1 coulcjj hJc redeem her . I gave her ' the bes £ sympathies of my heart , sometimes in tears , sometimes in indignation , sometimes in hope , but oftener in desipditficncc . < c I am repaid far beyond my claim ; for what reward can be more priepdus than the confidence and affection of those
for whom we could not think any sacrifice too great ? ** I am still farther repaid by seeing that we have arrived at a season ' that gives us so fair a prospect of better ifays than we have passed .
' « When I view these awful Scenes that are daily marking the iuterpositior of Providence in punishment' or' retribution , that teach rulers to reflect * and nations to hopa , I cannot yield to the infidelity of despair , nor bring rnv » e ) ff to Suppose that we are destined to he an
exception to the uniformity of divine justice , and that in Irelsuid alone the ways of God shall not , in his good time , be vindicated to man ; but that We arc to spend our valour and our blood in assisting to break the chains ; of . / every other nation , and in riveting lour own ; and that when the most gallant of our
countrymen return ; td us , laden with glory and with shame , we" are ifoiBchold them dragging about kn odious fettci with the cypress and the laurel Weartwined .
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3 ^ , lntelligencC i" ?— Address of Catholics to Mr * Curran *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/52/
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