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The precise contrary of this doctrine is maintained by the Orange Lodges and the Inquisition . Every honest man ought equally to abhor both—and 1 think I cannot better repay your kindness , than by giving you an opportunity of expressing that sentiment . I beg , therefore , to propose as a toast
" * The speedy abolition of the Inquisition and the Orange Lodges I' *' " This sentiment was then given from the Chair , and received with great applause by the entire company . " ( Morning Chronicle for Sept . 20 ^ 1814 . )
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\ Judge Fletcher ' s Charge . { Concludedfrom p . 588 . ) But , Gentlemen , is there no method of allaying those discontents of the people , and preventing them from flying in the face of the laws ? Is ( here no remedy but act of parliament after
act of parliament , in quick succession , framed for coercing and punishing ? Is there no corrective , hut the rope and the gibbet ? Yes , gentlemen , the removal of those causes of disturbance , which I have mentioned to you , will operate us the remedy . I should imagine that the permanent absentees ought to see the policy ( if no better motive can
influence them ) of appropriating , liberally , some part of those splendid revenues , which they draw from this country—which pay no land tax or poor ' s rate—and of which not a shilling is expended in this country ! Is it not hi gh time for those permanent absentees to offer some assistance , originating from themselves , out of their own
private- purses , towards improving and ameliorating the condition of the lower orders of the peasantry upon their great doma ins , and rendering their lives more comfortable . Indeed , I believe that some of them do not set up their lands to
auction . I know that the Earl Fitz-JJ miarn , in one county ( Wicklow ) , and « te Marquis of Hertford , in another [ Antrim ) , act upon enlightened and » oeral principles- for , although their leases generall y , are only leases for ° ne life and twentyrooc years , the tenant " * possession well knows , ( hat upon a ^ as ° nat > l e advance ( merely proportiqnc to the general rise of the times ) ,
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will get his farm without rack rent or extortion . But , I say that the permanent absentees ought to know that it is their interest ' to contribute every thing in their power , and within the sphere of their extensive influence towards the improvement of a country , from whence they derive such ample revenue and solid benefits . Instead of
doing so , how do many of them act ? They often depute -heir managers upon the grand jury of the county . 1 his manager gets- hi : s jobs done without question or interruption ; liis roads and his bridges , and his park wails—all are conceded
For my part , I am wholly at a loss to conceive how those permanent absentees can reconcile it fo their feelings or their interests to remain silent spectators of such a stace of things—or how they can forbear to raise their voices in behalf of their unhappy country , and attempt to open the eyes of our English
neighbours ; who , generally speaking , know about as much of the hish , as they do of the Hindoos . Does a visitor come to Ireland , to compile a book of travels , what is his course f He is handed about from one country gentleman to another , all interested iia
concealing from him the true state of the country ; he passes from Squire to Squire , each rivalling the other in entertaining their guest all busy in pouring falsehoods into his ears , touchingthe disturbed state of the country , and the vicious habits of the people .
Such is the crusade of information upon which the English traveller sets forward r and he returns to his own country with all his unfortunate prejudices doubled and confirmed—in a kind of moral despair of the welfare of such a wicked race , having made up his mind that nothing ought to be done for this
lawless and degraded country . And , indeed , such an extravagant excess have those intolerant opinions of the state of Ireland attained , tbutt I shall not be surprised to hear of some political projector coming forward , and renovating the obsolete ignorance and the
prejudices of a Harrington , who , in his Oceana , calls the people of Ireland an un tameable race ; declaring , that rhey ought to he exterminated * and the country colonized hy Jews ^ that thus the state of this island would be bettered * and the commerce of fcngland extended and improved ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/65/
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