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CATHOLICS AND DISSENTERS.
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . XXL
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SEPTEMBER , 1828 .
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It is evident that a very considerable change , a change partly of opinion and yet more of feeling , has taken place among the Dissenters of England , upon the Catholic Question . Many who were hostile have become friendly to the full concession of political rights to Roman Catholics ; and those who are friendly have a stronger impression of the importance of the subject , and of the duty and the necessity of promoting a right view of it in the public mind ,
and a speedy and satisfactory decision of it by the Legislature . The indications of this change may be seen abundantly in the public acts and public meetings of different bodies of Dissenters : in the number of congregational petitions for the repeal of Catholic disabilities , which they have presented to Parliament during the last two or three sessions ; in the direct or implied recognition of the justice of the Catholic claims , which was included in a
very large proportion of the petitions for the removal of their own grievances by the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts ; in the resolutions passed and published in various places on the obtaining of that repeal , and of which few were silent about , and none unfriendly to , the Roman Catholics ; in yet stronger demonstrations of feeling at public meetings , as at the anniversary of the Protestant Society , when on Lord Holland ' s reminding them that he became their advocate on condition of their advocating the cause
of others involved in similar degradation , the whole assembly rose , as one man , replying to his appeal with an enthusiasm which those who witnessed will not soon forget ; and , above all , in the proceedings at the Commemorative Festival , on the eighteenth of June , when the Rite of the Dissenting body , its not unworthy representatives in station , wealth , and influence , and , what is far more important , in talent , character , and principle , became responsible to our legislative and princely advocates , to the Catholics of
Ireland , to the people of Great Britain , to the Christian and civilized world , for our consistent adherence to the cause of religious liberty , for our active promotion of it until no man is legally injured , in whatever shape the injury may be inflicted , on account of his religious creed , of whatever propositions or negations it may consist . There is enough in these occurrences to satisfy us of the general soundness of the Dissenters upon this subject , so far as Dissenters are of much importance in the State . At the same time it must be acknowledged , ana it is deeply to be regretted , that among the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1828, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2564/page/1/
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