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latel y seat me ] by a much valued friend « tf rmn £ / - ^ fio ~ t 6 ok d prOfriinent part in the proceedings of the day , I send tfcfc same to ybu , not doubting but they sfeiH ^ e generally acceptable to your
BbBuStt rs , as a gratifying proof how ^ Warmly " the cause of universal liberty of conscience' * has been recently asserted in the sister kingdom , by per-&tixs of the most opposite sentiments on the doctrines o £ the Christian
religion . - After expressing his preference for the 5 th of those Resolutions as it was fix&t moved , my friend in a letter annexed to them makes the following pertinent observations , which you are sfcfr liberty to present to your readers .
* 'I do not , " says he , c < charge the JBritish ministers with directly promoting persecution in France , but I certainly do conceive they were less susceptible of alarms on this subject than m their zeal against liberty and revolutionary principles . They were
anxtous to place the old dynasty on the throne of France ; thus they risked the more than probable return of the bigotry which characterized many of this feeble race . In the present temper of the times , the governors intoxicated with their triumphs on the restoration of legitimate despotism , and the people rr ^ eanly crouching to them , 1 should not be much surprised , if for a season ,
arbitrary power should again come into fashion , and by the people surrendering their rights , freedom , both civil and religious , should become' Dream of a dream and shadow of a shade . * ^ I embraced the opportunity of the
persecution in France by Catholics to turrrthe '" public attention to the persecution at home of our Protestant Church and State mob against Catholics , and even against the Tiiberalamong trie Protestants . Qur domestic persecution is less jsevere than the late
at-Cacks iu France , but in the course of twenty ^ two years many have fallen victims to it , and many Catholic chapetshave been burned , as well as inntmierabLe outrages of less magnitude committed . The Orangemen have also
gone as far a $ the spirit of the times and the circumstances of the country would permit , and our Irish persecution has only differed frpm the French in Deirig more limited in extent * but tfyf , in U ? e sp irit which actuate ^ it . la ajWt , I think It would haye been hyp 6 ^ rit , ical affectation iuua to have con *
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sured the proceedings K in the "South $ i France if we had * 9 M impartiall y j * probated the conduct of otir / TtrsJi Orangemen , as being alike liostilfe w >
the principles of civil and religion liberty /' Yesterday ' s pd % t brought me t ) b ^ Belfast Commercial Chronicle of S $ , turday , Jan . 6 , J 8 l 6 from which . J send you the following interesting leu ters , and remain , sincerely yours , THOMAS FOSTER .
Friends qf Civil and Religious Ldberty . The following correspondence qjx th subject of the Resolution passed at * the Meeting held in this town on the 11 th ult , has taken place . The Resolution ran thas :
Resolved Unanimously—That the thanks of this meeting be returned to Daniel O'Connell , Esq . as being the first w Ireland to call public attention to the Perseco * tion of the Protestants in France , at a
meeting of the Catholic Association in Dubiin ; thus evincing , that in tne honourable pursuit of Catholic emancipation , and prot ^ etion from the hostility of Orange Outrages , he only sought for himself , and his felfow-Catholics , that Liberty ** hich he was equally ready to grant to others . " Li&burn , l % th Month , I 3 lfc , 1815 ,
Dear Fiuend ^ -I have great satisfaction in communicating to thee the annexed resolution of a meeting held in Belfast on the llt ; hinst . It is a just tribute to thy honourable firmness and zeal in the cause < tf
civil and religious liberty , which , aittr a close attention , I have always found to be displayed in thy public conduct , as well a « in the pr ivate correspondence with which thou hast occasionally favoured me . I am , with sincere respect , thine truly , JOHN HANCOCK , Dan . O'Conwki . ^ Dublin .
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Merrion Square , 16 th Dec . 181 ^ , My Dear Sir—The kind manner iu which yo , u have transmitted to me , the *< # «
•• of the friends oi civil and religious liberty in Belfast , " demands my sincere at thanks . I am truly proud of that vote . It is a rich reward , infinitely beyond the value of bbJ poor exertions in the sacred cause of freedom of conscience .
I have ever sought Catholic emancipatioa on principle , and as a matter of right . Th ** principle , if established , would , be equallf u ^^ iul to the Protestant in Ffrauce a » d Italy , as to the Catholic in Jreiund . It } a principle which would leave conscieft ^ free and unshackled in every country ^ a *» without which real liberty cannot , in nrf
opinion , exist in any country . As a Catholic I feel myself bound . n <* only by the genuine precepts of my rell ^ J ^ bat by the glorious example of oth ^ /\ £ tholica , t 6 be the fintin my humfrtett ** "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1816, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2451/page/18/
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