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question impeded every attempt at improvement . If any thing could be calculated to rub off the asperities of feeling that had been contracted , it would be mingling the opposed communities together in childhood ; but by the present slate of things , the Catholic children were driven into separate schools ; and ,
from the cradle to the grave , they were brought up and lived in a state of alienation from their fellow-subjects . They were not even allowed to consign the remains of their friends to the grave of a Protestant burial-ground , without submitting to the humiliation of asking permission to offer beside that grave their prayers to their Maker .
Distinctions must be preserved even beyond the tomb , and their very bones must not be allowed to be in juxta-position with those of Protestants . Was it any wonder that the country was wretched ? It was now objected to the Roman Catholics that they were violent in demanding concession . They had tried supplication , and they had tried it in vain ; at last
they had begun to think , that there could be no very substantial reason for their suing informb pauperis for their natural rights . They had assumed a bolder stand , and he honoured them for it . ( Applause . ) He , perhaps , could not justify every particular act , or every phrase , that had fallen from them ; but these were the ebullitions of the feelings of
nature rising up against injustice . Were he , as an individual , excluded , he would be as violent , perhaps more violent , than any member of the Catholic Association . Such violence , such euergy , he held in honour—the man who would not stiuggle for hid rights did not deserve to attain them . It was said , too , by . some , that the body of Catholics felt no interest
in the question ; it might be that many did not ; und if this were the case , it was another reason for extending to them their rights ; if any Catholic were so degraded as to . feel indifferent at being debarred from his rights as a . citizen , it was necessary to elevate him to a proper sense of his own diguity by conferring those rights . ( Loud applause . ) He had detained them too long—( No ,
mo )—but he must say a few words more . He had l ) ten gratified to learn , since he came to this country , that the intelligence aud respectability of the country at least were decidedly favourable to Catholic Emancipation * , he had been much gratified by the highly satisfactory proofs he had received of this fact , because the contrary was frequently asserted in Ireland . He had a most satisfactory proof of it in
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the manner in which the toast had been received that night in that room . He might state the fact to his countrymen , that the toast had been given at that numerous and intelligent meeting , but could convey to them no idea of the benevolent enthusiasm with which it had been , received . " Oh I" exclaimed Mr . M .,
" that the plaudits with which you heard it announced , could be heard in eveiy valley and in every mountain of my native land ! Oh , how it would cheer them !*• The Rev . Gentleman proceeded to observe , that the Unitarians of Ireland , as well as of England , were favourable to emancipation . The Evangelical party , he must again say , generally were not so ; but even among them a more liberal
spirit was spriuging up , and he hoped that it was a good omen of a coming modification iu their religious spirit . He was persuaded that a man who was tolerant iu politics must be tolerant in religion also ; and that the man who was toleraut in religion , would be tolerant in politics . Mr . Montgomery , after a complimentary and humourous address to the Chairman , sat down amid long and loud cheers from every quarter of the room .
On Tuesday evening , the children of the Sunday-school connected with the chapel , to the uumber of 160 , received their annual treat . The refreshments consisted chiefly of the remains of the dinner on the preceding day . An address was delivered to the children and their teachers by the Rev . W . Hawkes ; after which , the minister of the congregation distributed the prizes which had been allotted to those children whose conduct
merited approbation . Already , much permanent good has been effected by the erection of the Salford meeting-house : great have been the advantages conferred by the Sunday - school on the poor children of the neighbourhood ; the labours of the minister have increased the congregation to at least 150 members ; and it is our fervent hope , as it is our confident expectation , that a large and highly useful society will eventually be formed .
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Dinner to the Rev . H Montgomery . The Rev . H . Montgomery having been induced to extend his visit in this country from Manchester to London , the opportunity was eagerly seized by the friends of Religious Liberty to shew , by some public testimony of respect , how highly they appreciate his character and the services which he has rendered to the cause of Truth and Freedom . It was resolved
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Intelligence . —Dinner to the Rev . H . Montgomery / . 139
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 139, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/67/
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