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At the close , his strain reverts to the solemn thoughts with which it commenced ; they are introduced afresh , with greater depth and intensity ; and a reference to the sufferings and resurrection of the Saviour introduces his farewell exhortation to the reader : " Are thy locks white with many long-past years ? One more is dawning which thy last may be . Art thou in middle age , by worldly fears And hopes surrounded ? Set thy spirit free , More awful fears , more glorious hopes to see . Art thou in blooming youth ? Thyself engage To serve and honour Him , who unto thee Would be a guide and guard through life ' s first stage , Wisdom in manhood ' s strength , and greenness in old age . "
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The controversy on the Catholic question , so far at least as concerns Ireland , has now reached a new and very important stage , in which it seems likely that if the opposing parties were a little cooler , they might find that in many principal points they approximate to a considerable extent * It is now at once avowed by the Emancipists , ( as common sense and plain dealing had always required , though policy had kept it in the back ground , ) that Emancipation would do very little unless accompanied by much other reform ; and
the opposite party , being obliged to confess that things cannot rfest as they are , are beginning to contend ,- —not , as they used to do , that change is unnecessary , and that Emancipation should be opposed because it would lead to such change , —but that great and important alterations ought and might be effected without conceding the repeal of the proscribing laws . They now effected without conceding the repeal of the proscribing laws . They now
concede that two such trifles as bread and justice never were fairly within the people ' s reach . If both parties are agreed that some attention ought to be paid to the wants of the community in these and similar respects , the question of Emancipation becomes one rather of means than of ends , and the whole subject has a chance of being considered without mystification from either side .
It is surely important that the English should , now that the subject is , it appears , to be fully discussed , begin to look , and insist on looking , at the whole of it ; and that , considering the relief from the exclusive laws rather as an emollient preparative , as a means of strengthening the government for good , by putting it for once in the right , they should calmly but resolutely consider the entire grievance , and the remedies which must be concurrent in
order to effect a real cure . If any thing is to be done , let all unite in urging that it be done well and thoroughly ; and for this purpose it is now more than ever expedient to consider what is wanted , what are the true remedies for the existing evils , and how far each party should abate somewhat of prejudice or prepossession for the sake of consolidating the work . As far as I can judge of the evils affecting the frame of society in Ireland , and of their probable remedies , I should say , that at least the following measures are of absolute necessity :
1 . The first step , no doubt , is the abolition of all religious distinctions in civil affairs , and the most perfect blindness on the part of government to all partialities founded on such grounds . 2 . The * organization of the immediate executive on principles of the strict-
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IRELAND *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1829, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2568/page/4/
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