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PROCESSION AMD DINNER LTO DOCTOB M'DOTJALL PROCESSION AND SINNI3R.
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SPEECH OF ARTHUR O'CONNOR, IN THE IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS, ON MONDAY, MAY 4TH > 1795, ON THE CATHOLIC BILL.
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AT ASHTON . tfNDBR . LYNE . The men of Asbton received Dr . M'Douall , on Satur » day last , in a manner -which shows that the spirit of TSartiura stfll glowB in their bosoms , andoaimates their actions . They got up a procession to escort him into the town , and gave him a dinner at fee Charlestown meeting-house , to which they had also invited those noble patriots , Messrs . Lovett and Collins The former gentleman could not attend on account of the ill-state of his Vodily health , brought on by his confinement in a "WSSg dungeon ; and itr . Collins could not be present owing , as we understood , to his previous engagements .
Previoas to the day fixed for the- worthy Doctor ' s reeepUoa , the Committee for managing it waited-en the authorities of Ashton and informed them of their intentioES respecting the procession and dinner . Subse-< I « extiy a rumour got afloat that these authorities were determined to prevent tbe -demonstration , upon which the Committee "waited ea Mr . _ lK > rd , a magistrate , to ascertain if there was wbs any truth in the report He stated he would not tell , but would consslt with the Havor and Magistrates on the subject ; and a day or twe afterwards he -wreie to the Committee = that he could not learn there was any ground for the report ; but that at the same time , he regretted the determination they had come to of having a precession , -aod expressed the determination of the Magistrates to preserve the peace of the town , jost as though there -was the slightest intention oh the pert of the Chartists to break iL
Saturday morning was rainy , and "the weather threatened to mar tie procession , but in . the afternoon it became " fine , and the people began to assemble in Henry Square , audit about six o ' clock in the evening proceeded to meet the worthy Doctor in tha following order : — THE PR 0 CE 3 SI 0 X . The two marshals ( Messrs . John Deegan and Bernard Sebastian Treancr , ) on horseback . Two garlands borne by young -women . Factory boys , three a-breast Banner , with the the inscription " Look at us , look at us ; -do we not need the Ten Hours' Bill ?" Factory girls , two a-breast Banner . Ashton eld land . Banner of the Ashton'Bolitical "Union . Trades , four a-breast Banner : inscription , " United we -stand ; divided we falL " Trades , four a-breast Earner : inscription , " One and all ; and all togetherr Six young women carrying garlands . ¦ Woodhouse band . Females , three a-breast Banner of the Ashton female Chartists Union . Females , three a-breast Banner : " The men of Dukinfield will follow fearlessly wherever freedom points the way . " Duk . enfi . eld trades , four a-breast Banner . . Other friends , four a-breast Banner : " The men of Stalybridge ¦ will follow freedom wherever freedom points the way . " " They that are slain by the sword are better than they that are slain by famine , for they pine a-svay , stricken through for ¦ want of the fruits of the field . —Lam . c . 3 2 , J ) . " Stalybriage trades , four a-t-reast
The procession marched m trus oraeT along the Manchester-road , for upwards of a mile , to the Snipe Tavern , where an immense crowd had assembled , this "being the place appointed by the committee for meeting ¦ the distinguished visitor . The worthy Dcctor had arrived there in the coarse of the day from Ramsbottom ; and on the arrival of the" procession left the Tavern , and , accompanied by two or three friends , eatered an open carriage , drawn by greys , which was in attendance , amidst the most deafening cheers from the immense -concourse assembled to do him honour . On bis entering the carriage , the young -woman carrying the garlands approached it , with the assistance of the marshals ; to ¦ whom great credit is due for the ordering of the procession ) and cordially shook hands with him .
The procession then returned tovrxrds Ashton , the carriage containing the hero of the fets following immediately after the garland bearers . The coneourse assembled on the occasion to immense . The worthy Doctor was greeted throughout the whole line with repeated cheers ; and the women -were particularly zealous on the occasion , pressing forward to shake hinds with him , and congratulate him with a zeal and earnestness which -showed their admiration of his talents and their sympathy with his Bufferings . A fine little boy , about seven . years of age , the son of Mr . Aitken , now imprisoned in Kirkdale for advocating the rislits of the people , vras
placed on the box . He corned a large garland ; and ¦ his interesting appearance also attracted considerable attention . The procession moved slowly down Stamford-street , and alcng Old-street , and the Oldham-road ; frequent stoppages taking place on account of the -density of the crowd . When the carriage arrived opposite Mr . Duke ' s , the Old Cross Inn , ( another sufferer in the cause ) the cheering was most tremendous , and responded to by the crowds at the ¦ windows , -with "waving of hats , handkerchiefs , it , and indesd the ¦ worthy doctor's reception throughout his progress must have been most rratif ying to his feelings .
When the procession arrived at the Charlestown meeting-room , where the dinner -was to take place , it wxs quite dark . The crowd "was , however , immense , sad the Doctor addressed them In a short speech , thanking them for the hearty -welcome they had given him , congratulating them on the revival of the spirit of liberty among them , exhorting them to persevere in the same course , and expressing his own determination to agitate for the Charter in despite' of every obstacle . The doctor ' s short address was received with great applause , and followed by three hearty cheers for the Charter .
In the meantime every seat at the dinner tables f-witii the exception of the cross-table ) -was occupied by impatient guests . There -were sis . tables , extending the -whole length of the room , besides two cross tables , calculated to accommodate 300 persons , the whole of the tickets having been sold some time previous , and many having been turned away , although the day waa considered very unfavourable , as hundreds feund it impossible to attend on a Saturday . The two outside tables were raised above the rest , and -were appropriated to the females , who thus obtained a better view of the proceedings .
At about a quarter to nine , the -Chairman ( Mr . B . i S . Treanor ) and other gentlemen , including Dr . ' M'Douall , entered the room , and took their seats at i the cross-table , amidst the most rapturous cheering , ' the worthy Doctor being placed on the right of the Chairman , and Mr . John Deegan , late M . C ., on his left The dinner ( a hot one > provided by the Committee and cooked by Mrs . Duke , was then served up ; and , upon the whole ( though some cemplaints were made of the scarcity of waiters , some of whom , -we believe , ne-^ ected their duties to attend the procession—a very excusable error ) gave general satisfaction , and received ample justice from those who sat down to it Many persons were admitted after dinner on the payment of threepence each . It was past ten o ' clock when the cloth was withdrawn , alter which , the trumpet having sounded for silence ,
The Chaibmak requested their attention , and said he did not doubt that they would conduct themselves tirroughwut the evening -with that propriety and order ¦ which uniformly characterised their meetings . He would now call their attention to the first toast upon the list— " The people , the only source of legitimate power , " ( Cheers . ) It was a toast which had been much drunk within the last twenty years by the party ¦ which now governed the country , as a means of obtaining power ; and now that they had obtained that power , they turned round and forgot it They despised the people ; and he 'was sure the people des pised them . ( Cheers . ) He then cave the
toast—* ' The people , the only source of legitimate power . " The toast was drank with three cheers . Mr . James Taylor , of Ashton , being called on by the Chairman , as one who had suffered in the cause of the people , rose to respond to the toast He said he came forward to address them convinced he was unable t * do jus ^ oe to the task thrown upon him . The sentiment he was called upon to respond to had been adopted by everyfaction in the state , bat their actiocshad been quite different to it It was tase , invariably true , that the people were the source of all legitimate power ¦ Whatever inequality arose in society it was through the abase of a right intended to be enjoyed by all The King who sat on the throne , by the law of nature and reason , had no authority or command is . the state over
¦ wtricbliepresided , except he derived it from the voioe of ti »' whole people . ( Hear . ) Bat a doctrine like this ¦ was not reliihed by those who called themselves the higher erders of society , who could not bear to be placed on a parallel with those the inequality of whose condition with their own consisted in their poverty . The -working ^ Wj ""*^ of i iiis country possessed- an amount of knowledge capable of -wielding the destinies of this or any other nation in the werld . The inefficiency of those who gorern this country at present was notorious ; and their power only exists in consequence of circumstances which , if removed , -would take that power away from them . It was monstrous that some persons should rule over them on account of their birthright ; as it was impossible that any party could tell whether each persona would be qualified or not for the office . No one denied the legitimate right of the people to political power ; but it was Btated that the people were too
ignorant . o be entrusted with its exercise . But if those who now exercised the power neglected to provide means for the instruction of the people , it -was their fault . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) Bat the people were not &o ignorant as these men preierxied , —( cheers . —and he -would challenge the factions to prove there was more ignorance among working men than there was among themselves . Could the people , if they obtained power ^ o-morrow , do worse than the U'Whigs or the Tories had done ? Jt was their duty to '^ jppcl aim the great principles of liberty and equality Ipibaghout the land ; and he trusted that the people ^ fpjfrl no longer submit to be ruled by the authority of Jfltftjm , —( Lead cheers . ) ? s ^ fc ^ BBAiEMi ^ said the nest toast was one which ' ^¦ jUH | Mnd dear to the hearts of the working people i ^ Bfj ^« j § tttry . It was " The Charter . " Enthusiastic . aw ^ K ^ -ihe last speaker had commented upon eduea-. tkBiJg / Bt-il ths Charter had been the h . if pi Hie land ,
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no Government would have voted £ 70 , 000 for the Queen ' s stables , ¦ wane they proposed only £ 30 , 000 for the education of the people . The toast was drank with the greatest enthusiasm . Mr . J . Deegas , of Stalybridge , responded to the toast , and was received with loud cheering . He said he felt great pleasure in being appointed at that meeting to respond to so important a toast u that of" The Charter . ' - * He felt sure there was no individual present who did not know , and feel firmly persuaded in his own mind , that the Charter was the only means by ¦ which they could obtain the rights they ought to enjoy . The Charter proclaimed tire right of every roan above twanly-one years of age , and unstained by crims to have a voice in m « . Hng the laws by ¦ which he waa no Government would have voted ; P . 70 . nnn for tho
governed— and the right of every one who paid taxes to have the disposal of those taxes in the manner mest advantageous for the people , instead of being laid out as at the pre ent time . ( Cheers . ) Those taxes were now spent , not in educating the people , but in salaries to the Queen , the bishops , and sinecurists and pen sioners of every description ; they were paid at present for the purpose ef trampling Tipou a&d crushing the people instead of advancing the « au » e of equality ; and it would be so .. till men wers aent to Parliament who would do justice to their constituents . ( Cheers . ) When the people had obtained thetTharter , they would make it a means ol getting more benefits and receiving greater advantages Stan they had « ver been enabled to enjoy before ; because they would no longer suffer a venal aad
corrupt ministry to ride rough-shod over the liberties of the people of this country . ( Loud cheering . ) Every ¦ working man Bhould have the principles of the Charter engraven on his mind ; those principles were equitable and just , and calculated to benefit the whole country , aad he trusted that they would npt only drink the toast , "but determine to act so as to compel the government to give way , and so establish the Charter as the law of the land . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Deegan then went on to allude to a circumstance which had transpired during the procession , and said he had heard different persons remark that they wondered to see him officiating as a marshal on the occasion . He did not know who or what those persons were ; but he had now to state that he had determined to come forward on every such
occasion as the present ( Cheers . ) He had been taunted , too , with pleading guilty . True , he had done so ; but was it because he had conceived the Charter to be the offspring of madness and folly ? No . He did it to escape from prison , -where he could do no good , to obtain his liberty , and to continue to advocate the cause ; and no matter to ; him whether he was hissed or applauded , hooted or cheered , he should continue to act according to the best of his judgment ( Cheers . ) The only parties who had taunted him refused to join the procession ; but he was himself willing to profit by every circumstance , until the principles of the People's Charter became the law of the country . He was also aware that many thought he should not be present at any manifestation in favour of Dr . M'Douall , on account of former
differences ; but he thought it the duty of every public man not to be swayed by peculiar and private animosity , but to come forward and take by the right hand every one who had been thrown into a dungeon by the brutal Whigs . That was the reason he had come forward upon the present occasion ; especially after the noble , eloquent , acd splendid defence which had been made by Mr . M'Douall on his trial before the judges of the land . ( Loud cheering . ) Mr . Deegan concluded by exhorting the meeting not to be any longer domineered over by the low , aristocratic factions , but to reai ember their old , just , and imprescriptible rights , and to be resolved to shew themselves freemen , and to say wo will have the Charter and nothing less ; but as much more as we can get ( Loud cheers . )
The Chairman then said he rose for the purpose of proposing the health of an individual now present—an individual -who had been suffering a glorious imprisonniei ? t fot the cause of the people . It was the health of his esteemed and respected friend , Dr . M'DuiulL ( Enthusiastic cheering . ) That gentleman had come forward , regardless of pecuniary considerations , to advocate the People ' s Charter . They had most of them been electrified by his eloquence ; and had af terwaids beheld him arrested and sent to a dungeon for advocating their cause , while bis pretended friends all forsook him . When he was cent to trial and found guilty , all must
remember the splendid defence he made on the occasion . ( Loud cheers . ) For himself he must say , that -with the single exception of the defence made by Robert Emmett , the speech of his much-respected friend excelled all he had ever read or beard of . ( Loud cheering . ) This was not flattery on his part—he spoke the honest feelings of his heart ; Dr . M'Douall did not cringe or fawn when brought before his Judges —he stuck tohis text ; and there he was , after a long imprisonment , determined to go on agitating till the People ' s Charter became the law of the land . He trusted they would all rise while they drunk the health of their distinguished friend , Dr . M'Douall .
The toast was drank with three times three and great cheering , which was renewed when the worthy Doctor rose to return thanks . Dr . M'Douall said he felt at that moment a sense of pleasure that would reach the heart of any man ; and nothing could add to his pleasure unless to know that all their imprisoned friends had bees released from their sufferings , and had become free men . He felt the highest gratification to know that what he bad suffered had not deprived him of their support and esteem , and to find that he had been again received by them with those smiles and that hospitality which had so often been shewn him in Ashton . At the same time he knew he should be making a mistake if be supposed that those smiles , and banners , and martial musk , and
long procession , were intended for him individually ; and when he saw the spirit they had that day shewn , and their determination still to go on agitating for the Char ter , it gave him a pleasure that words could not express . ( Cheers . ) He had told the Judges on the bench that he should live to see the Charter the law of the land ; but he thought , when he considered the sentence they had passed on him , and the delicate state of health in which he was at the time , that they had done their best to deprive him of that gratification . ( Laughter ) He was not going to quarrel with tho Judges , or the Whig Government , on account of his imprisonment ; he rather thanked them . In his dungeon he had had more leisure for study than he should have had , had he been at liberty , and he
trusted some day or other to afford to the Whigs the same opportunity of improvement ( Cheers ., He did not fear to meet either Whigs or Tories ; and if ever he met plain John before the people he would make him beat a more rapid retreat thin he had done at Dudley . He should not trouble his head about his imprisonment -, but as he had then passed his time in planning out schemes of future agitation , he should shortly begin to address them fully on the subject , and fully expound the principles of the great questions which so much interested them alL There was no time that evening to enter into any such exposition of principles . During his imprisonment he had seen nothing to change his mind ; or , if it had really been changed at all , it had been only confirmed in that which before
-was doubtful , as respected details rather tban principles . When he looked around him , and saw the effect of the working man ' s industry—when he saw that all which produced comfort , and happiness and wealth was produced by his hands , he was led to inquire whether his mind was as debased as his physical energies were powerful . Now he thought that the Charter itself was sufficient evidence of the power of the minds of the people ; and when he saw them peacefully and constitutionally agitating for the great principles of eternal justice , he must admit that not only their hands , but their minds also , were powerful , and emancipated from the thraldom of ignorance There was not one of the aristocracy who could be put for one moment on a level with Watt , for there was
not one of them who had made any of those discoveries which had of late produced so much change in the world , and which would ultimately be turned to the benefit of alL It might be inferred that working ! men had got quite enough to do to mind I their own business , and that they had no time to turn their attention to affairs of Government ; but they 1 had not done this till they found that the aristocracy J took all the wealth they produced from them . They ! felt convinced there was something wrong in such a . system ; and , having turned their attention to the subject , they had brought forward ., the Charter to remedy the evils they suffered from misgovernment j This showed they had minds , as well as hands . He did not wish it to be supposed that he would hold up ;
any thing as without any imperfection ; but let them ; take the Charter as a -whole , and it -would be found 1 admirably adapted for the purposes for which it was designed . It demanded that a duty should be rendered to society before a right was given in society , , for it provided that no person should profit by the , right of the Suffrage who had committed crime . This ! must make it evident to all that the working men of ! this country did not seek to obtain their rights without i at the same time being -qualified to exercise them by a j performance of their duties to society . Their tyrants ; could not , under those circumstances , say that they wished to destroy property and life ; but their greatest j enemies were compelled to acknowledge that their de-, mands were founded on justice , though it was not
expedient to grant them . Why was it expedient to j grant the Suffrage to the middle classes ? Why was it j expedient to grant it to ten-pound and not to ninepound householders ? Let them look at the Charter . as a whole , or at any of the demands made fey the people , and they would find they never thought of demanding a right without providing for the performance of their duties ; but those who exercised the Suffrage at . present , whatever crimes they had committed , were still entitled to it by the mere possession of a certain amount of property . He had studied the Charter while he was in prison , and was convinced that it was necessary for the well-being of the people that it should be boldly and fearlessly carried out : and . as he
had promised them that the mom ent he left his dungeon he would begin agitating , he had fulfilled that promise , and began agitating Chester the moment he quitted Chester <; astle . The worthy Doetor here detailed some of the particulars of his agitation in Chester , Liverpool , Manchester , and Rochdale , and which have already been narrated in this journal His visits to these various places had convinced him , he said , that the spirit of the people of this country was oace more aroused ; and if they Lad but union and organization , and a peactful and legal co-operation was established between the different bodies in various parts of ihe country , he had no doubt that the Cliarter wozi-i gradually nuie its -way Among those classes ¦ ffbich imi
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hitherto bean the moat dppofftd to it /> nd ; that they would be forced to declare that the 'Charter yns a measure of justice which must now be conceded . He also dwelt with great pleasure . on a visit he had just made to the village of Ramsbottom , where , in spite of the interference of certain individuals , who , U appeared , wished to dictate to the whole village , eighty persons sat down to a dinner which had been given him there ; and 500 attended a meeting which was held immediately afterwards . The worthy doctor then went on to say , that in the same manner that the whole country was determined to make another effort to gain the Charter , was he determined to lead them on in that effort to gain it . ( Cheers . ) He despised bot& Wniga and Tories—he despiBed both judge and jury ; and so vm . ~ . _ .. * x .. » . j i < . « ™ . j . « n—
long as he had the support of the people in his attempt to render their cause successful , he should entertain no fear of Whigs , or of Tories , or of unjust judges . ( Loud cheering . ) Until the unjust ball which they bad put upoa his shoulders was removed , he was determined to lead them on for the Charter ; and if he once turned aside , either to the right or to the left , then he trusted they -would no longer allow him to be a leader among them . Through life he should be willing to advocate the rights of labour ; but he would only do so on one condition , namely , that the people would respite to have the Charter . ( Cheers . ) If they were so resolved , he was 5 and he could assure the Whigs that , if they thought they had made him a moral force , instead of a physical-force man , they were mistaken .
He could assure them that while he saw the necessity of cautious coaduct and prudent counsels , he was no less a physical-force man than when he left Aslfion . ( Cheers . ) He would tell them why he was so . When he had seen the Government unconstitutionally attempt to put down the demand for the Charter by force , he had called upon the people to make use of the right they bad to resist them ; and he could assure them that if the Government again showed a disposition to break into a meeting , as at Birmingham , and disperse that meeting at the point of the bayonet , that instant , as a man acquainted with the law and constitution of that country , that instant he would call upon the people to resist them again . iGreat cheering . ) If , then , he was less a physical-force man than when he left Ashton , it
was because the Government was less inclined to use the physical force they had at their command ; but the moment they attempted to eradicate Chartism by violence , then , acting upon the advice of' Judge Coleridge , he would call upon the people to oppose such Government , and lead them on to resist such tyranny . ( Cheers . ) He felt that from the long time he had been imprisoned , and from the good hours he had then kept—for in prison they were all good children , and went to bed at seven o ' clock—that an inroad had been made uponhis constitution ; and that if he talked much , or remained out late at night , his liberation would be more fatal to him than Mb imprisonment . ( Laughter . ) They would therefore excuse him , if , at that late hour ( it was half-past eleven o'clock ) he cut shdrt his observations , under a promise
that at another time , and as early as he conveniently could , and lay down those just principles of Government he thought necessiiry , and lead them on to their grand union for the Charter . The Charter was firmly engraved upon his heart ; it was the only thing he wished to see established ; tho only thing he considered worth contending for ; and he heartily congratulated the men of Ashton on having come forward again to agitate for its establishment He was proud to have suffered in the noble cause of -which they were all the advocates ; and he trusted they should all show greater skill in their next agitation tban they hart done formerly , and that the next time they threatened they should first take care they were able to perform their threats . The worthy Doctor resumed his seat amidst protracted cheers , and shortly afterwards quitted the room , as did many of the company .
The Chairman then said that he hoped the company would keep their seats lor a short time longer , and he would be very brief indeed . Tlie toast he should now have the honour of proposing to the meeting claimed their utmost attention—it ought to stand at all their meetings next to the Charter itself . It was a toast upon which he felt much and warmly , and he waa convinced that upon its being carried out depended , to a great extent , the success of the Charter . It was " The speedy return of Frost , Williams , and Jones . " Frost was a man of . education and property , and as a , magistrate held a certain station in society ; and he had been ill-treated and reviled because he had dared to come forward and advocate the cause of the working classes . So had Jones and Williams . Both these men .
too , bad the means of living -well without advocating the people ' s cause ; but they were moved by the sufferings they saw around them , and were determined to do all in their power for the amelioration of the condition of the working classes . ( Tremendous cheers . ) They had been accused and found guilty of treason because they had , with many more of their countrymen , gone down to Monmouth , not to take possession . _ of it , for which they were never prejpared , and of which they were accused by spies , who afterwards gave evidence against them ; but they had merely gone down to make a demonstration in favour of Vincent and the other
imprisoned Chartists , and in favour of tho principles of the Charter . They had been accused of a wish to plunder ; but the people had passed the night previous on their way to Moninouth through a dark and dreary country , aud they had attacked the property of no man ; and when they arrived at the inn where the magistrates -were sitting , to testify in favour of Vincent , they were fired upon by the soldiers , and Frost , Williams , and Jones were afterwards transported for life . Next to "the Charter , " beheld that the toast of " Frost , Williams , and Jones" should be next to their hearts . They could do much for these unfortunate men by union : and he asked them to be determined that th «
lives of Frost , \ v llhams , and Jones should not be sacrificed by , 1 long residence on the penal settlement of Norfolk Island . " The speedy return of Frost , Williams , and Jones " was then drunk in solemn silence , all tho company standing . Mr . Gkeaves , of Austerlands , responded to the toast . He said he had taken great pleasure in the scenes he had witnessed that afternoon ; and thit pleasure had beeu heightened when ho recollected what Aahton now -was , and what it might be under the guidance of cautious leaders . At the same time he was fully convinced that unless the people thought and reflected more upon their actual position , it was no use for them to get up such processions and displays—( hear , hear )—and
he -would further say , that it waa of no use drinking toaits and applauding at public meetings , unless they were determined on carrying out their principles . With respect to the toast to which he had to respond , he would not detain them , as the Chairman had already ably treated it . He was sorry to say that he bad often observed that the people were ready enough to shout , and hold up their hands when any proposition was put to them ; but all they actually did was to go home , and sit down by the chimney corner , and smoke their pipe , or swill their ¦ glass . Now , that -was not right . ( Hear , hear . ) Ho -would ask them one question—Could frost's -wife sleep in peace and quietness ? ( Xo , no . ) Were his beautiful daughters properly provided for ? No , they were not . Frost was a kind parent , and an affectionate husband ; and the other men , Williams and Jones , had wives and families , too , and in precisely the same situation . He trusted they would never forget this ; and they ought
also to recollect that the same vessel which bore away the bodies of Frost , Williams , and Jones , also bore away the principles of the Charter . ( Hear , hear . ) He was a parent himself , and could feel for Frost Now , what could they do in this matter ? Some advised them not to petition , but he was not one of that sort of men , and he never would be . What weapons had they by means of which they would bring these men back ? The only legitimate weapon they had for that purpose was the right of petition ; but they had been too apathetic to use that -weapon , and the thing seemed to have gone dead . The people of this country , he was sorry to say , were generally too fond of novelties ; and they were constantly divided in opinion on crotchets , and things that interested nobody . ( Hear , hear . ) The moment the sentence had been pronounced on these men the people ought to have left their work , and swore never to return to it till that sentence had been repealed . ( Cheers . )
The Chairman then said he had another "toast to propose , and he waa sure it needed no eloquence of his to induce them to respond to it . The toast was— " The health of Feargus O'Connor . " The toast was drank with that enthusiasm which the bore mention of Mr . O'Connor ' s name invariably excites among the people . Mr . Deegan said that the time was bo far advanced that there was really no time to do justice to the toast . He was sure that O'Connor must know they all loved and admired him , and at the end of his eighteen months ' imprisonment they would give him the most splendid dinner ever known in Ashton , and he had no doubt other towns would do the same . ( Loud cheers . ) The Chairman then proposed the healths of Messrs Duke , Aitken , Higgins , Wilde , and other imprisoned Chartists , which was drunk with great cordiality .
Mr . Bradley , in responding to the toast , said that the hour was bo far advanced that it would be unjust in him to keep them from their beds ; but he could not avoid saying that nothing was more cheering , or more calculated to give satisfaction to those in prison , than for them to find those among whom they had been labouring in the cause supporting them in their confinement ( Cheers . ) But putting up hands at public meetings would never gain the Charter ; and if they did not net about obtaining it in right good earnest , it would never become the law of the land . A great deal had been said by various parties about the people being sufficiently prepared to exercise the francuke ; but he was of opinion that the people would be
prepared to exercise it the very moment they were prepared to take it ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . Bradley then ¦ went on to eulogise 3 Ir . Duke , one of the imprisoned Chartibta , who , he said , never spared his exertions or hia pocket when good was to be done ; and that if there vrtrtf any spinner there he could testitfy to what Mr . Duke had done for them ; and he was sure the Chartists would testify the same . He might say the same thing of of the other prisoners sent from Ashton . The people had been tho cause af taking them from their wives and families and throwing then into prison ; and if they did not now couie forward , aud keep their wives and families from starving , they did not deserve support themselves , or to enjoy those xkht « they sought to obtain . ( Hoar ,
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tear , ) ^ Thls "wast plain talk , but it was true ; and he hoped they Irould arouse themselv . ss , and come up to the mark when called upon . . .. The last toast was , " The memory of Paine ,- Emmett , Cobbett , Hunt , and . the illustrious dead of every nation , " which was drank in solemn silence . Mr . Redman apologised for not responding to the toast on account of the lateness of the hour . The Chairman theaV quitted the chair , and the company broke up . . .,:. ¦ ¦ . u— _ . . _ . ., _ . _ . «_ ... . ..
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" Mr . Speaker , —I should not have trespassed on your time , at this late hour , was it not that , aa often as this important Bubjecthas been agitated , since I have had a seat in this House , I have given silent votes for the most unqualified emancipation of my Catholic countrymen j from conviction of the justness of their claims to freedom , and of the inexpediency and folly of continuing to sacrifice the civil and political rights of
the people , for the purpose of aggrandisiDg a few families , under the mask of promoting religion . But , Sir , the times call for something more than silent votes . The situation in which we are so unaccountably placed , is so critical , and the Bill under your consideration involves such consequences in its train , that every man , who is not wholly indifferent" to the welfare of his country , must feel himself called on to lay aside every lesser consideration , and to deliver his opinion with that freedom , and that boldness , by which only the csuntry can be saved .
" What do the whole of the arguments which have been advanced on this night , against the emancipation of our Catholic countrymen , by the gentlemen of the opposite side of the House , amount to ? To a mere unsupported assertion , that it would destroy our Constitution in Church and State . This is not the only instance in this country , in which the most egregious job has been concealed under a specious phraseology . One would imagine , from the language held by the Right Hon . Gentleman ( Mr . Pelham ) , that the people of this country were in the actual enjoyment of the British Constitution in all its purity , and that it had been in this country that the experiment of that Constitution had been made , by which it had become the admiration of the world . Is it that the condition of
the people of Ireland corresponds so well ¦ with the great natural advantages of their country , that we are to infcr that their civil and political Constitution was of that immaculate nature which the Right Hon . Gentleman ( Pelhatn ) , has represented it ? Is it because we were the most wretched and most miserable nation in Europe , as long as this system of monopoly and exclusion , for which , the gentlemen on the opposite side of the House contend , under the title of Constitution in State and Church , was in its most entire state ; and that we have emerged from that wretchedness am misery in an exact proportion as we have destroyed this system of monopoly , by extending the blessings of
freedom to our Catholic countrymen , that we should now desist from our labours ? It is because we have heard those gentlemen at the opposite side of the House , year after year , ever since this question has been agitated , predict the ruin of tho country , from extending the Constitution to our Catholic countrymen , and that we have seen the country thrive in an exact proportion as it h . is been extended , that we should now stop short on their authority , and consecrate the remainder of the system of monopoly and exclusion ? Before we risk overy thing in defence of a system upon authority , which has hitherto proved so utterly fallacious , let us inquire into its merits .
" I will suppose the worst of systems ; and I will leave the advocates of this system , to show in what it iliffurs from this system of theirs , which they have consecrated under the mystical words of Constitution in Church ur . d State . I will suppose the whole representation of the people of Ireland , converted into a subject of traffic , and a monopoly of the trade given to a few families , with an exception of that small portion of freedom , which falls to tho share of the counties ; I will suppose oven this pittance assailed by these monopolists , by their profuse distributions of jobs and of patronage , and by their appointing the men of the best intereats in their several counties to Beats for theii boroughs , whom they could find mean enough to accept them , on the condition of servitude and wages in so
vile an occupation ; I will suppose these wholesale dealers in our rights and liberties , coming from their rotten boroughs , and from the counties they had debauched , with their attendant supporters of Constitution in Church and State , to discharge their cargo at the Seat of Government—at the counting-house of an English factor , bartering an unqualified sacrifice of Irish trade , of Irish industry , of Irish rights , and of Irish character , at the feet of English domination and of English avarice . For what ? What shall I suppose the price of this infernal cargo , like Pandora ' s box , a collection of every ill that can afiiiot mankind ? The wholo nation of Ireland would blush to hear it ! They would blush at their own degradation ! Nothing less than the most unqualified sacrifice of everything in this unfortunate country , that could exalt these fanners general of our rights and liberties , and of everything that could debase an injured , insulted , and impoverished
people . Here is a system by which our national character would be degraded in the eyes of surrounding nations . Here is a system by which the people of this country would be doubly impoverished , to pay for that treason which was to revile and vilify them in the Legislature of their own country , and to pay for that treason which was to sacrifice their dearest interest to the aggrandisement of another nation : I call upon the gentlemen of the opposite side of the House , to shew in what this execrable system differs from the Constitution in Church and State , for which they contend ? And yet y » u havo been told that on the continuance of this system , your lives , your liberties , your property , and your religion depend—on tho continuance of this system you have been told your Constitution depends . Nay , to fill up the measure of their effrontery , there are men who will unblushingly toll you that this system , so profitable to them , and so ruinous to the country , shall be your Constitution itself !
" Fortunately , it is no longer a subject of contention between the Protestants and the Catholics ; for every man in this country , except monopolists , and those in pay of monopolists , whether Protestants , Presbyterians or Catholics , have declared themselves equally interested in the destruction of this odious system . Fortunately the Protestants and Presbyterians of Ireland bave , at length , discovered the folly of sacrificing their own rights and the prosperity of their country , in a criminal attempt to exclude three-fourths of their countrymen from the blessings of freedom , for no other purpose than to perpetuate a system , in which a few families are unnaturally exalted , at the expense of millions of their countrymen , as unnaturally debased . But it is no longer a secret that the men who oppose the abolition of religious distinction in our civil aud political concerns , when the general voice of the nation
has concurred it so wise , bo just , and 80 politic a measure , are the men wno usurp the whole political power of the country , the men who have converted the whole representation of Ireland into family patrimony ; to the poverty , to the oppression , and to the disgrace of ttie nation , and to the monstrous aggrandizement of themselves , their relatives , and their servileadherents ; theseare the men who oppose Catholic Emancipation , and why ? because Catholic Emancipation would be incompatible with their accursed monopoly . Here lies the incapacity of the Catholics to participate in the freedom of their country : here lies the excellence of the present constitution in Church and State . la this is comprised the whole guilt of our Catholic countrymen , and in the eyes of men of this description , the same incapacity would attach itself to angels from heaven , if the abolition of their accursed monopoly was to make any part of the consequence .
" Let those men who flatter themselves that they can continue the old system of monopoly and . exclusion , by which the few have been raised on the necks of the many , risk what they please in its defence ; but let me conjure you , who are without the pale of their political communion , to consider the important change which has taken place in the public mind , to consider the language which has been spoken by all descriptions of men , from one end of the kingdom to the other . Let me conjure you to consider , that you are no longer legislating for the barbarous ignorant . ages which are gone by , but that you must now legislate for the more enlightened and more intelligent age in which you live , and for tae still more enlightened ages which are to come . It is on these safe and liberal grounds I invite
you to weigh the arguments which have been advanced on this night against the Emancipation of our Catholic countrymen . An Hon . Gentleman ( Ogle ) says , if you emancipate them , they will get the upper hand , and they will erect a Popish Government ; and a Noble Lord ( Kingsborough ) says , that Catholic Emancipation is incompatible with Protestant freedom , which assertions are founded on the supposition , that the Catholics pay such implicit obedience to their clergy in religious matters , that they will destroy our liberties by paying a like implicit obedience to the civil magistrate in political concerns . Is there any thing in the conduct of the Catholics at this day to warrant these charges ? Is it not harrowing up charges from the barbarous ages that are gone by ? Ask the Catholic Clergy , and they will tell you that their power is declined . Ask the Protestant gentry from one end of the kingdom to the other , and they will tell you that the superstitious
power of the Catholic clergy is at an end . But have you not heard the Right Hon . Gentleman ( Pelham ) on this night lament the decline of this power ? Have you not heard him in the vilest prostitution of terms , lament its decline as the decline of a wholesome controul ? But whilst it ia with joy I express my satisfaction , that all superstitious controul over the minds of my Catholic countrymen is at an end , as that circumstance , which puts the justice of their claims to freedom beyond all doubts , I cannot , nor will not , suppress my detestation and abhorrence of the Right Hon . Gentleman ' s ( Pelham ' s , ) doctrine , which would make a superstitious , a wholesome controul ; at this doctrine of passive abedience , which would revive the reign of ignorance and superstition ; at this doctrine of despots , who , having some infernal system of oppression to support , and shrinking from the light of reason , would , replunge us into that datfeaess and obscurity we have escaped .
" Backed , thai , by the authority of the Catholic Clergy , hacked by tfca authority of the Protestant gentry , and backed by 4 tfl still more general authority < rf the general oLaeivaiiQia x > f every man within and with-
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out these walls , from one end of the kingdom to the other ; I will assume it aa a fact , that the superstitious controul of the Catholic Clergy over the Catholic mind is at an end . What becomes ' of the charge of a Popish Government ? . What becomiM of the insecurity of the Protestants , from . the Catholics sacrificing your liberties , by paying ' a like inpUcit obedience to the civil magistrate ? Is there anything like this in the conduct of the'CatholicsT . Has the Hon . Gentleman and the Noble Lord wlro have made these charges , found the Catholics so criminally indifferent to the blessings of civil and political liberty ? Have those gentlemen who have left no secret means untried to defeat Catholic freedom , found them so criminally tame and submissive under the pressure of civil and political exclusion ?
Is it a fact , that the Catholic laity have been so slack , and so backward in the pnrsuit after civa and political liberty , as to require the incitement of their clergy ? Or is it the characteristic of the clergy of any religion to be very ardent in the pursuit after civil and political liberty ? I put it to the gentlemen at the opposite side of . the House , does the current of public opinion at this time in any nation of Europe , run in favour of despotism , or of Popery , or of Popish government ? But these gentlemen do not perceive the contradictory nature of the arguments they have this night advanced against Catholic freedom . At one time they represent them as men so priest-ridden , as to endanger the constitution , by erecting a Popish , slavish government ; in the same breath they represent them as overthrowing the constitution by their democratical
and republican principles , serving up at the same instant the most heterogeneous compositions that were ever offered to the human mind . But I refer those gentlemen to the history of mankind , where they will find that the men who have been really and dangerously priest-ridden , have invariably borne the yoke of despotism with patience and resignation ; but whenever they have assumed Sufficient courage to assert their civil and political rights , it was not until after they had thrown off the tyranny of the priesthood . Reasoning from this indisputable fact , instead of agreeing with the gentlemen opposite , that the firm tone in which the Catholics have demanded their freedom should be a ground for refusal , I shall ask no better proof that they are entitled to liberty , than their having had the spirit to claim it .
" But the gentlemen on the other side of the House , knowing the weakness of these contradictory-arguments , have had recourse to prophecy . They nave entrenched themselves in the fastness of futurity , and in the spirit ef divination they have accused us ,, who are advocates for Catholic freedom , with the ruin of posterity . To this prophetic accusation I answer , as , far as prophetic accusation admits of an answer , that the dark ages of ignorance and superstition have ever proved congenial to the tyranny of priests and despots ; but that the independence which has arisen from the , intercourse of nation with nation , from the invention of the mariner ' s
compass , and the knowledge which has flowed from the invention of the press , have proved fatal to its continuance . Look round the world , and you will find in those countries wliere foreign commerceisdiscouraged , and where the invention of the press is unknown , that despotism uniformly prevails over liberty : look to China and the East Indies ; look to Persia , to the Ottoman and African empires , those immense portions of the globe , where foreign commerce is discouraged , and wliere the invention of the press is either disused or unknown , and you will find the civil and political lights of the people immersed in ignorance , superstition and abject servility ; the sport of the most rapacious despotism . In these countries the ears of the governing power are never grated with tho harsh sounds of the rights of man :
no ; all is despotism on the part of the governors , all is passive obedience on the part of the people . Turn your eyes from these wretched countries to the several nations of Europe , and you will find . how uniformly civil , political , and religious liberty have taken place of civil , political , and religious " slavery , in proportion as foreign commerce has been encouraged , and the press has been protected . See these causes and effects correspond ; how ¦ uniformly aud if any one of you doubt that these great causes are at this moment operating those salutary effects , I refer him to the despots of
Europe , and this war in which they have immolated so many human sacrilices , and in which they have deluged all Europe with , such torrents of blood , and their present fears for their darling despotism , Bhall be their answer . But it is some consolation to me to reflect , that the avarice of these despots , which has tempted them to encourage foreign commerce in their dominions , and the vanity or necessity which has led them , or obliged them to give some protection to education and the press , is at this moment sowing the seeds of that independence and knowledge which will one day crush that despotism even which they and their blood-hounds havo disgraced .
"Impressed with these great and important truths , is it when our couutry is becoming commercial , under all its artificial disadvantages—is it when we have thrown off some of the shackles of our trade , and when , by passing this bill , by creating a people , we shall be enabled to restore it to perfect freedom , that we are to reject this bill , through fear of destroying posterity ? Is it when knowledge is progressive among us , when the youth * of the nation are giving such brilliant examples , that liberality of thought is the offspring of education ? Is it when our Catholic countrymen are displaying such eminent talents in the pursuit after civil and political liberty ; t talents which lam sorry to say we have had many examples this night to prove how much more easy it is to vilify , than to rival , or imitate . Is it under these circumstances that we are
to entertain fears for posterity ? Is it when our countrymen have resumed their reason in such an ' eminent degree , that we should suspect them of relapsing into ignorance and superstition ? la it when our Catholic countrymen are claiming their civil and political rightsV with the address and firmness of men of enlightened minds , that we should suspect them of relapsing into slavery and a Popish Government , basely surrendering the noblest privileges of man ? Never shall such tinsel reasonings make me see the future ruin of my country in the actual freedom of my countrymen ; never shall such weak argument dissuade me from an act of immutable justice , where the rights and liberties of millions of my countrymen were at stake upon the issue . No , on this head the prospect is a bright one , and accursed be that man who , for interested motives , would darken or obscure its lustre .
" So much for the dangers ef your Constitution in State ; but the Church is in danger . What is that part of the system to which the Protestant religion is under such obligations ? What is that part of the system with whose destruction the destruction of the Protestant religion is so closely connected ? It is simply the system of conversion ; but is it a system of conversion from conviction ? No ; it shuts every avenue leading to conviction—it closes every door by which a Catholic could enter the Protestant Church ; they have been barred by those rewards and punishments which shortsighted bigotry invented for the purpose of forcing religious opinions . By this system you have exposed the Catholic , who Is willing to follow the dictates of conviction , to the execration of his own sect , for
deserting them , because he appears to have-done so , to escape the penalties annexed to adherenco ; and you have exposed him to the contempt of the Protestants , whose tenets you wish him to embrace , by making him appear to them as a man who had sold his principles , his religion , and his God , for no other purpose than to gain the immunities you hold out to conversion . Instead of promoting your religion , you have called forth the dread of execration and contempt , to steel the Catholic mind against that conversion . you effect to promote , and to attach him to that religion from which you wish to estrange him . Thus it is that narrow * minded bigotry ever defeats its own ends by the meana it employs te attain them . You have not its heats nor its passions to excuse you , but you have had the
experience of its example to direct you . Cease , then , to prescribe to the Almighty the extent and manner of the adoration he shall receive—cease to place your rewards and punishments in competition with his ; for you cannot but observe how thoroughly the blasphemous presumption has exposed . the impotency of the attempt Act like legislators . Leave the way to conviction and conversion as free and as open as the superiority of the tenets of your religion appears to you clear and indisputable . Act like men sensible of your duty to your Creator . Presume not to meddle with opinions he has not given you faculties to understand , and which require his omniscience to controul .
Away with that system which exacts the sacrifice of the civil and political rights of the people , for the ineffectual purpose of promoting religion . We have tried it long enough in this unfortunate country to prove its inefticacy . It has had free scope amongst ua ever Bince the passing the law against recusants in the reign of Elizabeth , until those few years that we have begun on its abolition ; and if you would judge fairly of the merits of the system , and of its abolition , by their effects , I call on you on this night , to choose between centuries of disunion , of civil wars , and of wretchedness ^ v ^ -x ^ mpled in any nation on the globe , and a few years rapid progress in union , in civilization , and in the industry of the people .
" But I find it is not enough to have combatted this last objection in its own shape ; it is not enough that I have proved to you that you have not promoted your religion by this system of persecution ; for , in opposition to the professions and the tolerant principles of those gentlemen who oppose this bill , I do assert that every , the least disability on account of religious opinions , makes part of the system of persecution . The objection makes its appearance in another shape , and the dangers which were said to threaten the Protestant religion from Catholic emancipation , have been made by an Honourable Gentleman , ( Mr . Pelham , ) to re appear in the shape of dangers which he says threaten the Protestant Establishment He has confounded the Establishment with the religion , and , by an artful transmigration , he baa made the Protestant' Establishment to stand for th 9 soul of the Protestant religion ; and after we have defeated the objection under the colours of the one , he has made it rally , Antaeus like , with
An allusion to the students who preferred going to Fraucis-street chapel , where the Gatholic delegates were giving an account of their reception at St . James's , to attending Lord CamJen with an address . \ The able speeches made at Franciststreet chapel , by Messrs . Keough , M'N ' evin , Ryan , ind Lewins , were grossly abused by some of the raenibvirs . See the Debate , printed for J . Dsbrett
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additional strength , under the COlonn or fta ' with additional strength , f « I- ttn ^^' " tant Establishment is a word of that ftv ^ T ^ inthfaHotiae , tint those who would wfeh ^ 2 Sl in that state of consecration in whlehlt h « vL ^ fc by the prtarthood in the days of oar mwtSjS bigotry / have a considerable advantage overW * would examiM iteiaeaalag ^ beforeithe tribunrii ^ son . It is their interest to confound the EstabtoJ * with youTfrellgion , in order that it may derTnT ^ sanctity ot the religion itselfc It fa adte tp JS > them ; hut they may ae well attempt to amion ?* military establishment , by which the officers w ^ diers are paid , with the tactics and manccuvrfis *!? ia their duty to learn . ¦¦ . ~^ H l . ^^^** " ^^*«~ ¦
"Inorder to answer thtelast objection it ** necessary to prove , either that the Protestant EsSr ment would undergo no alteration from the em *? tion of the Catholic , or that if / it wag tounaa ? alteration , the Protestant religion , so far from ?* injured , would be highly benefited by the dm ^ S I prefer the latter , because I believe in . my 3 ^ some very material alteration be not speedily a ?* our religious Establishments , there wiHe an ^* ° - f * iS "f *«? '«>* MW » t ns , but to all rowX * ciple , without which religion is a farce As thT £ lature of this country have been mistaken UCI attempt to promote religion , by their system of S cution , so also have they been utterly mistaken ^ nature and effects ef religious Establishments . C have confounded the interest of the clergy ¦»»? interest of religion , and they bave imagined tta proportion as they enriched the Protestant denn r * were promoting the Protestant religion ; and ttfS dooming the Gatholic clergy to have no EstablS 3 whatsoever , they were consigning the Catholic ia ? to eternal oblivion . ? W
• • " Was I on a subject upon whieh I could expM . share of candour , I would rest the whole argumthe fact I would ask , has the Protestant religiSI promoted , in proportion as the Prorestant clernw been enriched ? Have the numbers- of the qZ religion diminished , according tothe views of th « u lature , who doomed their clergy to poverty , «? have no Establishment at all ? The state of tbnL lation of the two sects is sufficiently \ weil known Uk that the reverse is the fact ; and if jtou will exkmfo nature of these Establishments , you * ffl S which is the best adapted for the purpose of pmu their respective religions . From that absurd not promoting religion , by enriching fta clergy , the !*
tant Establishment has made men of fortrnw ^ clergy ; and it-has made them to live with mearf tune , and to live as men of fortune ; it has fad them to live with men of fashion , with men tfi sure , and with men of the world ; and it tel them to live as men of fashion , ' as men of pftastti as men of the world ; it has thrown them entfc * that class of . men , whose education , whose 1 M » of honour , and whose respect for the opinionof a servant world , renders the attendance of a wiafcl religion almost , unnecessary ; but it haa &faT * from the dull , but useful rounds of parochislto it has estranged them from
cultivating a frieadh intimate acquaintance wtyh the lower classes of & , pie , whose want of education , whose want of 1 > of honour , and whose ignorance of moral obEia makes the constant and friendly attendance of » aj ter of religion indispensably necessary to keatl from falling into irrefigion f to Seep them fosi 1 vice and debauchery , Which , unsupported » y antni fund than that of their labour and tfoelt info , which it must shortly consume , must make tua subjects under any government , niu ^ t leaWtha » t » feringand puni shment , perhaps to robbJryjad . der , and to a disgraceful death , ' ., - W-
" By this EstaMfcniaent you have raised ei »» hopes of prefermen ^ ln the minds of theelern fe the inequalities it has left in the provisions Trial makes for them , by whica their characters hinfe subjected to the imputation of cringing ana genfih the dispensers of preferment ; to the meaifly oto ^ their civil and political rights and opirriai m the altar of an earthly superior , by . whttflj appear , in the eyes of the people , u either disregarding or disbelieving that Ietufiug essential tenet of the Christian religion , which M the sacrifice of their duty to their worldly pwa Injurious as . these defects in this EsUalislmttt , ) which such fears are entertained , have proved tow
religion , they almost Vanish when I come towa the evils which arise from the mode of payment tS it aUnte its clergy . I snail not dwell on how i tractive this part of the Establishment has ponj the agriculture-of your country , the most imped branch of industry in which your people can lej ployed . I shall confine myself to state , that"SI sown the seeds of eternal rancour , animosity , tail gation , between the minister aad | iik parfshiowij has allied the minister of the Meek and chxril religion of Christ with the very dregs of the esti has made him one in a compairy with valuaton , proctors , with process-servers , and with civil buld nies ; it has made him the principal suitor in Uot
upon earth—the Civil Bill Court , where perjor / ii prevalent ; it has converted the minister of thedi terested religion of Christ into & ¦ - tithe-settling j tioneer , distributing htette&org , in order to intai his bidders , that they May vl » with one another f « purchase of his wares ; it has made them appw most avaricious , and the greatest persecutors , 110 , the tenets of the religion it is their duty to ioole should be the most disinterested and the least mid it has made it appear to the world as if t&ia U lisbment was instituted to make the people tad of their indigence , by a comparison with the mB their clergy—to make them sensible of their owaii
by a comparison with the abundance in the ha 4 their clergy—to make them sensible how mad their hard labour was rewarded , by a conipariMn the indolence , fcut immense and sudden fortm their clergy ; jit has made it appear to thewwHi this Establishment was instituted in this country k other purpose . than to provide exorbitantly fa families and connections of the political jobWft ! polities advocates for the Constitution in Churjki State , In its present limited condition ; and it bill ij appear to the world as if your Protestant rdijjki no other business in your country than to suppotl Establishment , and not the Establishment to snppaH religion . (
" Turn your eyes to that Establishment , or nfla Establishment , which you forced on the Catholic 1 gion , with a view to its abolition ; you have noteal itecjfergyto mock the simplicity « f tkeChristiai giowby the splendour of their equipages , by the " niqfence of their palaces , their furniture , ortt «« -bQajds ,.: by the massyness of their plate , not fri voluptuousness or lnxury of their tables ; yea fa" 1 tempted them , for you have not enabled then to * their parishes , and their religious duties , in vaA pleasure at Bath , at London , in your capital * water-drinking places , the resort of-tbe- 'ftdn' ! No ; you have apportioned their salaries to til j charge of their duty , and you . have called «" strongest incitements in man , —the proenrinf ** tence , and the hopes of bettering then- condifi * stimulate them to the most active discharge dv duty . -.- ...,.. _ .. ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ . _ . ¦ .- ¦
" I am not an advocate for either Establishmw ! am as averse to that Establishment , which , ft ** mity , sets the clergy above the discharge d ti * gious duty , as I am to that Establishment , *» obliging the clergy to humour the weakness , «¦»' courage the ignorance of their parishioners , * »» means of procuring , }* subsistence , makes it beneath a man of education . But I cannot but « g you haye an example in your country of an B *(" ment , by which a greater number than to **? Established Religion are carefully and daigeflr structed in their religious duties , by a resident of the purest morals , the most decorous nunnrt of the greatest lejurnlng , between whom and «* rishloners the greatest amity and affection * ow »< not the fifteenth- -fart so burdensome to ttfl » t >* your Protestant Establishment . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ ( To be continued next xM ? k . )
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. ~ > - ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ; , , Highgate on SusDAr ^ Sinoe ^ &mei ?^ inflicted their iron laws on thitftfe UgWulsw , become absolutely a picture of desojatioi ^ j ^ day last the scene ^ as gloomy beyond W&l About four o ' clock every place wnewte" ?! could be had was shut up , and viators fN » £ were obliged to proceed to HampsteMj 1 »** with heat and-thirst , in the hope « - " ^ 5 ji thing like civilisation and hospitality . . " " ^ Li boats are carrvinc thousands up and dotra **
without any restrictions of this sort , tne ^ peaceable villages of Hampstea'd and HiFPT , have already suffered bo much by tW-H ^ jw of steam conveyance , are now all but rg " . ? Pharisaical mode of keeping w /* " % turning a day of joy and rest into" * . ^^ and gloom , and inflicting on the w > rKin » lw , Bufferings infinitely more harassing wfrL hard daily labour , None but knaves and VT and fools could have the hardihood m & £ say that such a perversion of w »^ J « M pure religion is sanction by the Girer 01 : w
Execution at Norwich . —On Sato ** , cisely at twelve o ' clock , John ¦ Bwjggj executed for the murder of his wife , tno tf * the Castle-hill . An immense conco urse ^ were present to witness the & ^ J % fad * withstanding all remonstrances hunorew ^ and children of all ages were speeg ton ^ j wretched culprit appeared to be an ^ SO ^ l or physical exhaustion , and w » 8 O 1 2 e 5 * # ported by two attendants on the && ° zZjt the drop fell . The executioner was 1 verys „ skilful m his arrangements , and WJZ *
was speedily swinging in the air a « " £$ * i thrill of horror , and partly suppressedi jgjp accompanied by a start , per ™ r ^ IsIU % tude when the drop fell Kto P « "fg > prime of life the unhappy man , MgJgS ^ # murderer of a defenceless wife . w «»« j ^ the general effects produced on the ^ «^ t « tors at public executions , it ^^ tiW * that upon this awful occasion }™ £ A \ ifx ducted themselves in a verf . qnwjj f ^ and there appeared to me to be ""^ i . »] of manner than is generall y witee ^ J yet paWicly known that he has mauew
Procession Amd Dinner Lto Doctob M'Dotjall Procession And Sinni3r.
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Speech Of Arthur O'Connor, In The Irish House Of Commons, On Monday, May 4th ≫ 1795, On The Catholic Bill.
SPEECH OF ARTHUR O'CONNOR , IN THE IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS , ON MONDAY , MAY 4 TH > 1795 , ON THE CATHOLIC BILL .
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