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278 THE TOMAHA WK. {June 26, 1869.
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THE PEACEMAKERS AJVD THE CRISIS.
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Convocation We are always , on their gla...
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who are the holders of land , not by the invidious favour of the Imperial Government , but by long prescription and right , and who of themselves , unaided by the State , bear the losses incidental to their possession , and out of their own funds expend much on the improvement of the land and the relief of the tenant . For , whereas the Protestant clergy have furnished very few victims to the Ribbon Societies—doubtless on account of their high moral character and great charity—yet the unfortunate landlords have never been able by any amount of benevolence or uprightness , by any amount of self-denial , or devotion to the interests of their tenants , to secure immunity from the assassin ' s bullet . The best have been sacrificed equally with the worst . It seems to us that the consideration shown towards the Protestant clergy shows that murder in Ireland is the result of a conscience diseased in one particular point , rather than of a wholly corrupt nature . As to the boasted loyalty of the Irish Protestants , it would be strange indeed if they should rise against that Government which has so long- secured them in exceptional privileges . But there are two sorts of loyalty , —one that requires to be paid—and beforehand ; the other , that is founded on a high sense of patriotism , and which induces the subject not only to which give in his ght adhesion excite to angry the Imperial feelings in rule his , but fellow to avoid -subjects anything who differ from him ; and , above all , to submit to the decrees of the Government when constitutionally passed and carried out . Whether the Orangemen have evinced this sort of loyalty we leave to the logical mind of Dr . Magee to decide .
Useless were it , even if space allowed us , to follow step by step the whole of this showy speech . That it would have done more credit to an ambitious barrister at common law , than it does to a Christian Bishop , is a circumstance which only enhances Dr . Magee ' s merit , probably , in his own eyes at least . There is the eloquence of an . injured sinecurist and an unscrupulous partisan in every sentence of the oration . There is not the slightest trace of any elevation of soul , of any power of looking at a proposed measure from the majestic height of pure justice , but only from the ordinary level of selfishness and sectarianism . Bishop Magee is but a brilliant specimen of the paste which passes for a diamond among the narrow-minded and the oligarchical . He is , as are all who think with him , utterly unable to conceive that passionate love of truth and justice which are the noblest endowments of the human soul . He cannot see that in order to perform the work of pacification in Ireland , it behoves us above all to come before that nation with clean hands , to remove what has been felt for ages by those on whom it weighs as a gross injustice , as a monument of ancient hostility , as a record of a blood-stained conquest . Before we take the noble prisoner , whom the fate of war has placed in our power , to sit on the seat by our side , we strike off the chains that are the ' symbol of his defeat . We do not dangle the fetters before his sight , or wave in his face the sword that is stained with his blood . Grant that this measure , which the resolute conscience of England has decided on , may not * conclliate the extreme faction that confronts us at every turnj in Ireland ; grant that the time-hardened misrepresentations , the ill-concealed sneers , the rancorous animosity with which the Roman Catholic religion has ^ been ] alluded to by nearly every speaker in . these debates may cause them to feel that this is an act of strict justice , not of generous conciliation ; still our hands will be now free to deal with the other pressing evils of Ireland ; one reproach , and that a great one , will no longer meet us at every turn . The moderate will be wooed to our side ; the
disloyal will be sifted from the reformers ; the hearts , long galled by an ever-present symbol of arrogant ascendancy , will be healed of this wound which poisoned their whole nature ; and with new and vigorous recruits , with wavering allies confirmed , freed above all from the hateful aid of those traitors who sought their own interest at the nation ' s cost , we shall be able to engage with that host of dangers and difficulties which has long baffled the efforts of succeeding governments , we shall be able to complete the work of which the foundation-stone has now been laid , —the long neglected work of justice to Ireland .
278 The Tomaha Wk. {June 26, 1869.
278 THE TOMAHA WK . { June 26 , 1869 .
The Peacemakers Ajvd The Crisis.
THE PEACEMAKERS AJVD THE CRISIS .
Convocation We Are Always , On Their Gla...
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), June 26, 1869, page 278, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_26061869/page/4/
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