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game is now up ; the struggle is commenced , which , we trust , will never be relaxed in , until entire reli g ious liberty and universal national education shall be established in thi& country on the ruins of sectarian ascendency and monopoly . At Ashtonunder-Lyne the commencement has been made of associations , consisting of Dissenters and Churchmen conjointly , for effecting the separation of Church and State . We subjoin their resolutions also , from the ' Manchester Times / of March 8 . * They contain a very intelligible hint to His Majesty ' s Ministers .
not only unnecessarily complicated in its details , but in principle totally at variance with the just rights of Dissenters . 9 . That this Meeting regards with unmingled satisfaction , the early , disinterested , and persevering efforts of the Voluntary Church Associations in Scotland ; the correct principles and manly resolutions of the Nottingham Dissenters ; and that the secretaries be requested to communicate copies of these resolutions to the Rev . Dr . He ugh , ol Glasgow ; and to Messrs . Samuel Fox , William Hoiritt , Benjamin Boothby , jun ., and George Gill , of Nottingham , whose names , on behalf of two thousand Dissenters of all denominations in Nottingham , are attached to the printed ' Appeal of the Nottingham Dissenters to the Dissenters of England V
• CHURCH-SEPARATION SOCIETY , FOR ASHTON-X 7 NDER-LYNE AND DISTRICT . At a Meeting of the above Society , held on Monday , March 3 d , 1834 , it was resolved—1 . That this Association be called the Church-Separation Society , for Ashtonimder-Lyne , and the Neighbouring District , to consist of all persons , whether Churchmen , or Dissenters , who are friendly to the Voluntary Support of Religion . kl . That the object of this Association shall be the employment of all lawful and Christian means , to obtain the immediate and total separation of the Church from the
State , throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , and the Colonies , so that all penal statutes affecting religious opinions , and all compulsory payments for religious purposes , shall for ever cease in his Majesty ' s dominions . 3 . That books be opened , forthwith , for the enrolment of all who wish to become members of the Association , and that such enrolment shall specify the business or profession , religious denomination , and residence of each member ; that it may at once be seen what is the number and character of those who co-operate in this design .
4 . That at this important crisis the Association feels the necessity of using the most active exertions , in consequence of the introduction into Parliament , by Lord John Russell , of a most paltry , inefficient , and unsatisfactory Bill for the relief of Dissenters ; and , also , the Bill of Mr . Littleton , for the commutation of tithes in Ireland ; and in conformity with its avowed principles , shall feel it to be a duty to recommend to the friends of religious liberty , the withdrawal of their support from the present Administration , unless measures of a more liberal character be brought forward .
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Defence of the Church Establishment . 263
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1834, page 263, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2632/page/31/
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