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Popery on the one hand , and by opposing Episcopacy , the Established religion on the other . ( Hear , hear . ) The petition was then brought up and read .
On the question that it do lie on the table , Mr . J . Smith said , that all the petitioners claimed was , the right of putting into the hands of their children at school such books as they considered most proper tor their understanding . This was but fair , and ought not in reason to be refused to them .
Mr . Butterworth , after repeating some of his former arguments , observed that as Jong as the great mass of the people in Ireland were allowed to remain in ignorance , the Roman Catholics were quiet , for ignorance best suited their purposes ; but the moment it was attempted to give education , the priests
rose up to oppose it , and in their efforts to follow up that opposition , they were the cause of all the mischiefs that occurred in Ireland . They intruded themselves into Bible meetings to which they were not invited , and were the occasion of much disturbance , on some occasions attended with no little danger to the
promoters of such meetings . He could give one instance in which at a public Bible meeting at Carlow , the priests attended supported by an immense mob , from whose violence some of the friends of the Bible Society were obliged to fly with their lives ; some escaped by getting over walls . ( Some cries of ** No , MO . " )
< Mr . Butterworth . —I say Yes , yes ; and I can prove the fact , if required . Sir J . Newport said it was not his intention to have offered any observation on the petition before the House , but after what had just fallen from the last speaker , he could not remain silent . The Honourable Member alluded to a Bible
meeting which was held in Carlow . Now he would state that the circumstances mentioned by the Honourable Member connected with that meeting , were wholly without foundation ( hear , hear ) ; and he was enabled to cantradict them on most
excellent authority—that of Colonel Rochford , who presided at the meeting on the occasion . That most lespectable gentleman , who was most deservedly respected by all parties , had stated in his evidence before the committee on the state of
Ireland , that the accouuis given of the proceedings at that meeting , and which the Hquou table Member ( Mr . Butterworth ) had just repeated , were misrepresentations of the real facts . So much for the accuracy of the Honourable Member ' s
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information on these subjects . As to the assertion that the Catholics excluded the reading of the Bible , he confidentl y stated from his own knowledge that it was utterly destitute of trurh . They admitted the reading of the Bible , with the addition of notes and comments ; and in this they were borne out by the opinions
of some of the most eminent dignitaries of the Established Church , who held thait the Bible ought not to be read unaccompanied with the Catechism . ( Hear , hear . ) It was extremely illiberal and an just for any individual to be attributing to the Roman Catholics principles and opinions which they had so often and so solemnly disavowed . The petition was ordered to lie on the table .
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$ 60 IfkteUigetoce . ^ ParMtoentaryi Irish Catholic Petitions .
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HOUSE OF LORDS .
April 17 , 1826 . The Marquis of LanSDowrtE rose , pursuant to the notice he had given , to present a petition from the Roman Catholics of Ireland . Although the petition whicli he then had fo as"k their Lbrdsliips * permission to lay before them , was similar
to those which had on other occasions been submitted to their consideration , lie could not propose to place it on the table without saying a few words in reference to it—not , however , with the
view of raising any controversial argument , which it was certainly far from his wish to do on a subject which had so often been , and must again soon be , discussed . But the present petition having been placed in his hands , in consequence of an event which all in that House
deplored—the loss of a Noble Lord whose services had long been devoted to the cause of the petitioners , who , from the commencement to the close of his life , had been connected v ^ ith this great question , of which he continued to the las ^ moment of his existence the able and
disinterested advocate ; their Lordships would excuse him for remindiu £ them of that circumstance . Notwithstanding that the grave had closed over that Noble Lord , and many more devoted to the support of the same cause , who had , like him , been compelled to transmit to others their unfinished task ;—as it also had closed over
millions of the people whose just claims had thus been advocated , those claims would never fail to be renewed , as long as there continued among the people of Ireland a just sense of the rights which they ought , in common with their fellow-subjects , to enjoy—as long as the Catholics continued 16 feel , and Qod for ; . -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/62/
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