a no � hang it there i must stop i was about to say bishop but not being an englishman you cannot tliat dish dick never mind � you can feed upon a fat living � or if one wont do � why we must see and get you a pair of them bill but this my dear is not all you will be when i tell you that there is no m system of education necessary for entering into orders no system i repeat � properly so � either or some few divinity lectures are to be attended which in general are neither well attended � nor worth attending � and that i is all one thing is certain that the getting of attendance for these lectures is a mere form as is the examination for orders the consequence is that a young candidate for a living goes into the church with very little of that lore which might spoil his appetite for its enjoyment so does every thing here work together for the good of the at the expense of the people i think i have shown you that there is little in the church of ireland that is likely to or the spirit of when coming in contact with itself that it had little to gain from the church in a spiritual way and that the church is not the ends of her establishment here in any sense is evident from the report in the little work from which i have taken these in that passage it would appear that the very existence of a church is forgotten altogether for is termed an institution whose chief object � whatever political shape it may assume � is to preserve the the irish agent religion i will now before i close this direct your attention to one or two passages that prove most distinctly the fact that there stand clear in the oath of an principles founded on and conclusions which never should have existence in a country so situated as this is the for instance in the paper headed their general declaration say we the defence of our persons and properties and to maintain the peace of the country and for these purposes we will be at all times ready to the civil and military powers in the just and lawful discharge of their duty this now is all very plausible but perhaps by looking a little more closely into the circumstances of the case we may be able to perceive that in this passage and one or two others of a similar character the most objectionable part of the system disguised � if one can say disguised because to me my dear the matter seems obvious enough who then are these men that come forward with arms in their hands to aid to the civil and military powers in the discharge of their duty a self constituted body without authority who have certainly proved themselves to be men and vol ii u m rendered most important to the state at a time when such were no doubt both necessary and acceptable the crisis however in which this aid was given and received being but of brief duration soon passed away leaving the party opposed to government � the � broken punished banished hanged in fact completely subdued beaten down in other words the rebellion of having been thoroughly suppressed this self elected body of men the sweets of authority retain under different circumstances these obligations which we admit the previous situation of the country had rendered necessary they retain them in times of peace and bring into operation against men who were no longer either in a disposition or capacity to resist those strong prejudices and that fierce spirit which originated in tumult and civil war why nobody of the conduct of as a body in it is of their since that the country and such as were opposed to them have a right to complain in another passage the declaration is still stronger and more significant we further declare say they that we are exclusively a association yet as we do any spirit we solemnly pledge ourselves to each other the irish agent that we will not injure nor any person on account of his religious opinions provided the same be not hostile to the state that is to say they will injure or such persons only whose religious opinions are hostile to the state but now let me ask any one man of common sense if he could for a moment hesitate to declare on oath what religion they have alluded to as being hostile to the state there is in truth but one answer to be given � the roman what else then is this excessive loyalty to the state but a of justification for their own committed in the name and on the behalf of religion itself did they not also constitute themselves the judges who were first to determine the nature of these opinions and afterwards the authorities who should punish them here is one triumphant party with arms in their hands who have only if they wish to mark out a victim and declare his religion and principles as hostile to the state and lo i they are at liberty by their own to him in the th secret article there occurs the following � we are not to carry away money goods or any thing from any person whatever except arms and and these only from an enemy m this certainly shows the nature of the cruel and tyranny which they subsequently to carried to such excess in different parts of the country and here as in the other instance what was there to guide them in the crime which constituted an enemy why their own fierce prejudices alone here then we find a body and self constituted together and trained in the use of arms but unknown to the 