The National Register.
London, England, 1815-06-11 00:00:00

LTIIINAL RIP.CISTER.

serve the love of the governed
.is by shewing then, -Mit
their interest is its predominant object, and maid therm
happy. Those are the only real securities of a govern-
ment, and it is government itself gives those securities.
The fewer then of those suspicious securities the' art'
required of the Catholics, the stronger will be the real
security : the more of them that are demanded, the V.isakrr •
will be that security. If government wishes tlor its'
concessions to the Catholics should be of the greatest valor, et
to itself, that they should bring vital heat, and health and
strength into its own bosom, it will not chill them bc those -
refrigerents, by those icy restrictions, those freezing
securities. It is the greatest of all absurdities tt> thiok•
that the Catholics will be more disshtisfied and disaffected
when they shall have no cause to complain, thee they
are now when they have. That was a wise saying of the
Roman Generals, imperiunt longe. stabil s.s.itnuns
est, quo obedientes gaudent; "that is by far the most
firm government with which the governed are pleased."
Will anyone of the least reflection say, of FOUR OR FIVE
mir.t.koNs'of men, " they are very little dangeron•; while
dissatisfied; if satisfied, they would be greatly dangerous;
their discontent is our security; their content would be
our danger."
What then, will it be asked, is government to have no se-,
entity from the Catholics-for emancipation ? Yes; I answer;
the best security—love and their own interest. It wilt
also have as securities from • the Catholics the moral prie-,
ciples of their religion, the criminal laws of their country,
and their passed and present conduct. But how, if it does
not grant them this emancipation, from which instead of
anger there would result nothing but security, how call it
expect as much attachment from them as from the Pro-
testants ? Can the parent think that the ill-treated child.
will be as attached to him as the well-treated one ?
can, he is indeed the silly parent. And yet sillier is he%
if he expects to win the affections of the alienated child
by a continuation of what alienated him. When the Pro-
testants thought that James 11. intended to depress them
below the Catholics, they . drove him from the throne lit
spite ofall their oaths of allegiance. Should not goveremvot
fear that even the Protestants would attribute to NVIOIi4;
motives the witholding what there is no danger in vale-
ing ? When the Protestants see that there must be ac
ways, even in times of peace, an army of. r)0 or 60.()
men maintained in Ireland to keep i r'land down, vt hett
they see that they themselves as well as the Catholie4
must pay taxes to support this army, when they sec that
while they call on Government for Catholic oppreFsiw,
Government will be furnished both with the pretext and
power for taxing and oppressing themseves as well as f!!1
Catholics, when they see that Catholic emancipate,:!:,
• would remove all this, will they net naturally wish 107 tit.
emancipation, and imagine that the long oppositioe to
that measure proceedfli from the motive of
command.'ng, of robbing the one and cheatieg the ether„
and of extracting films both to the .last peso.), ? This is •
what the Protestants will naturally suspect, and het ~rer
groundless the suspicion, what will the Government hare
;'been to depend on ? The Protestaetc. enree'ed from think-
ing themselves so long duped ; the Catholics alienated
from feeling themselves solong oppressed. It will not have
even as much as the unfortunate James had to fly ie. But,
Sir, let us hope that the time of cperiliotion is rm. yet
passed, and that another am -in I.will ethane"... ua in 1.)
mays of safety.---_-_.(JeMC p, 16i3.) b.

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