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blted ! ( Ckters ?) ^ Etfen-religion was there perverted Id-Co a sword of persecution , a source of hatred atid contention v the divisions of ' -the'country reversed the command of O ^ d'to l <* ve their neighbours ; and he seemed to be thought to manifest the highest < ltfve of -Gcrd , who 'distinguished himself fey ftatre&of hi # brother . ( Cheers ) Yes , fee grieved * fo-say ^ tfcatdt was an afcaost universal feeling , that what was called orthodoxy in religion
was necessarily connected-with hdfttility to the caramel rights of man . He was bound to observe that ^ there were tiiany and honourable tfXGeptions -among the Calvinists / for it was they who * Bsstrttfed peculiar !)* the merit of orthodoxy . ifte was happy in knowing many individuals of that particular doctrine , who < were as ardently attached as « ny of the gentlemen who heard him to the caase of religious liberty ; feiit still the federal sentiment was what he hud Stated it to
be . And what-were to be the ultimate consequences to Ireland ? The two strongest impulses of the human mtod wore put in motion ; the passions < 6 f the people were roused by all the considerations that were involved in time and eteruity ; and they were assailed by the double persecution of religious bigotry and political intolerance . { Loud and continued Cheers . )
Some of the leading agitators , not many he rejoiced to say , but some were ministers * of religion , ( shame , shame , ) and one clergyman , as they were aware , had gone so far as to say , in anticipation of a renewal of civil conflict , - that lie trusted , > on the next occasion ^ , ' they should not be left the alternative <* f Con
naught . 'They did not understand-the import of this phrase , and he would , therefore , explain it to them . At ati unfortunate a £ ra in the history x > f their aufortunate country , when the Catholics were driven out t > f some of the counties in the north of Ireland , When their property was destroyed and their houses burnt by the fanaticism and bigotry of their neighbours , it was a common cry *' to Hell or Connaught ! " and the
clergyman whom he had mentioned meant by this allusion that they were not to be allowed the alternative of Connaught ; they were to have no shelter but in hell . The language was applied to the whole Catholic population of Ireland ; it was not to its grossness or to its bigotry that he called attention , but to the horrible inhumanity of a proposal that thus proceeded from the lips of a minister of the gospel of peace , for the total extirpation of five millions of people fshame . shame ) .
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This man , who * was living » in luxury by tfee sweat of < the > tm > 4 * of 'the Btarviug , wtfetehed people o £ Trvelanfd , trusted , that in the next commotion , out of live millions of people , there would not be as many'left as ' would requires second correction . ' ( Tlie room here resounded with expressionsof * horror wvd Indentation : )
The established clergy , ke was sorry to say , -were the fthief promoters of Brunswick clubs , arid the chief spouters ai their meetiugs , thevdiief insti gators * of the oppression a « d coercion of < % he people . B « rthis was not the universal eha ^ racter of the clergy ef the Established Church , among whom 1 there were many , a » d some , whom he had the happiness
af-koomng , Who were the steady friends ofemi attd religloas ' liberty . It was im « possible to conceive how a country , ma * naged as Ireland had been for centuries ^ could be happy . All possible modes of coercion j the seaffbld , the gaol , exile , h « 4 been ' tried ; still the people were ' wit cotitetited . ( A laugh . ) Something * how ^ ever , might at last be done ; for the
people themselves were beginning to believe thai : a 'tittle law , a little liberty , and a little justice , would have a happier effect than coercion ; perhaps the experiment would be tried ; and as it was quite newit might succeed , fCheers odd laughter ^ He really was surprised that in all the
expedients that had been resorted to ; the government had never , by any accident ^ deviated into the path of common > ustic £ bad common humanity . He would venture to assert , that if it syere at last Cried ,-Ireland would be one of the most cheerful , happy , and prosperous countries in the world .- She was bleised with
a soil Of more than ordiuary fertility , A mild climate , with kind hearts atid generous hands ; a people who would be ) grateful even for justice . That the Catholics were degraded he admitted ( he spoke of the lower ranks ); "it would be
strange , indeed , if the pains which had beeu taken to degrade them had had ntt effect ; but where you treated them witH conciliation and kindness , you were sure to meet a rich harvest of gratitude . Nothing could be easier than for a British . Statesman to secure himself such a
harvest . His Majesty's visit had been regarded - da an omen of peace , and he ha < t then an opportuoity of judging of the feelings -which kindness would elicit from the Irish people . ( "Cheers ) Those were halcyon days ; he was sorry that'their hopes had been so soon disappointed . They had' heard it reported that fchd Hoyal breast bad been changed $ he'did not wish to believe h . The esseuce of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/65/
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