The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA'&'

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,of doubt. Were Roman Catholics admitted to the
Housc of Commons from influence less cogent,- or mo-
tives less stern than necessity ; were their admission
granted at the suggestions of patriotism or of justice,
they would not now have to contend for municipal en-
franchise.ment ; after having been admitted to the
Senate, they would not be excluded from the local cor-
porations. Yet, even these 44 rebellious Papists" are
dissatisfied ; and the Times indignantly exclaims,
" Where is Concession to end ?" ~ If we be thus
called upon to surrender one after another the several
outposts of the constitution—the bulwarks of the State
and, of the Church—had we not better make a stand
and fight it out at once ?" The affirmative is of course
implied, and the suggestion would not be mote valorous
than judicious for Tory purposes, did circumstances afford
the slightest prospect of acting upon it with success ;
but, alas ! the days of ruling with the sword, that fa-
vourite weapon of Tory Governments, like those
of chivalry, are passed, and those glorious spirits that
delight in internecine practices must content themselves
with sanguinary declamation at their Bacchanalian fes-
tivals, or making a bloodless, though brutal, display
in a Newspaper, of forces which it would be impos-
sible to muster in the field. This stand ought to have
been made before admitting " Papists" to a single
right which has been conceded to them---aye, before
they were allowed to keep a horse beyond the value of
251., a privilege which the Times unaccountably omits
in its enumeration of the " boons" bestowed upon
them ; but this omission is, perhaps, owing to the law
which provided that no Papist should possess a horse
beyond the value of 251., but should be compelled to
surrender any horse in his possession to any Pro-
testant who might tender that sum for its pur-
chase, being, we believe, still unrepealed—though
not in active operation. Oh ! ye ungrateful Pa-
pists ! Will you never be satisfied ? Is it not suf-
ficient that your tyrants should " cease to do evil,"
without your insisting that they shall " learn to do
well ?" But for the enormous extent of your former
sufferings, how would the Tories ever had the oppor-
tunity of showing kindness to you in mitigating them ?
But you hearts are callous, and nothing will persuade
you that it is but just and right you should hold your
possessions and your lives at the mercy of your Orange
fellow-countrymen. No instalment will satisfy you—
you will not compromise the felonies which have been
committed upon you, but insist upon full restitution.
Consider, we intreat of you, the consequences of your
perseverance in such odiously just claims. You will
remove all those abuses in which faction so pro-
lifically germinates. You will al:ow no premium on
Orangeism. You will afford no inducement to secta-
rian strife ; and even the Protestant religion you would
strip of those auxiliaries, which those best acquainted
with its necessities declare to be essential to its main-
tenance and preservation ; you would take from it
what its disciples declare to 'be its chief attraction—
its superfluous wealth— and leave it no support but
the purity of its doctrines and the efficiency of their
ministry—again and again declared by the partizans
of the established religion to be utterly inadequate to
protract its existence. Thus you would remove the
great cause of contention, and strife, and persecution
from the land, and leave none of those distinctive
barriers which divide the people into the two great
classes—the oppressors and the oppressed. No won-
der those who profit by popular dissension and calamity
should denounce your designs. You would rob them
of their livelihood. Why should they not calumniate
' you ? Why should they not make all manner of false
accusations against you ? Has it not ever been the
custom for the injured to be vilified by the injurer—
the oppressed to be abused by the oppressor ? Is not
injury and oppression your inheritance ? Why then
complain of the insult and abuse which are their usual
concomitants ? While you leave a particle of your
rights unachieved, until you establish for yourselves
full and perfect equality with England as a people, and
with Protestants as citizens—you deserve every con-
tumely, every abuse, every insult that can be thin..
upon you. Go, then, suffer in silence, or learn to be
' free.—Morning Advertiser.

The system of government which the Whigs pursue
in Ireland, if continued much longer, must lead to
the concession of every demand which the wildest and
most extravagant of the promoters of seditious agita-
tion choose to prefer, until the whole Protestant con-
stitution shall have been surrendered to the Popish
priesthood, and the ferocious rabble whom they in-
struct in the work of religious persecution. If the
Whigs attempted to tranquillize Lower Canada in the
same way that they attempt to tranquillize Ireland--
viz., by truckling to and pampering the disturbers
of the public peace, and the enemies of British
connection, they would make the pestilent agitator
' Papineau what they have made O'Connell in Ire-
land, the virtual dictator and irresponsible go_
vernor of the country. We believe they would do
so if Papineau, like O'Connell, could give them
the support of " a Parliamentary tail" in the
House of Commons. But Papineau cannot assist
them as O'Connell can, and therefore they adopt a rule
of policy in Canada the very opposite to that which
they act upon in Ireland—they oppose the Popish
agitators in the one country, while they encourage,
pamper, and reward them in the other. Yet, if
cowardly concession to the insolent demands of an
anti-English faction be the best mode of governing
Ireland, no good reason can be given why the same
mode of Government should not be applied to Canada ;
or if, on the other hand, the policy which coerces se-
dition and restrains the demagogues in Canada be the
true and sound policy—the policy which is ultimately
to prove beneficial to that part of theßritish dominions,
no sufficient cause can be shown why that policy should
not he applied to Ireland. The Canadians can make
quite as strong a " list of grivances" as the Irish, but
they cannot enforce that list in the House of Commons,
by means of an O'Connell, with a " tail" still longer
than the " grievances," and which tail enable Ministers
to keep a degrading hold of power. Hence it is that
" justice to Canada" is upon the very opposite prin-
ciple to " justice to Ireland." The one means resist-
ance to faction—the other submission ; the ona answers
the demands of seditious agitators by coercion—the
other by concession ! If it be the ultimate object of
Papineau and his co-adjutors, or rather co-agitators,
to get rid, according to Mr. Huine's advice, of " the
baleful domination of the mother country," it is O'Con-
nell's object, as he has repeatedly avowed, to dismem-
ber the empire by severing the legislative connection
between Great Britain and Ireland. The treaty of
Lichfield House and all the degrading concessions
that have flowed from it have not altered O'Connell's ulte-
rior views, if we may believe himself. In his very latest
manifesto from Darrynane, he took care to remove all
mistake upon this subject. He showed that the gra-
cious and profitable interchance of mutual kindness and
compliments between "the denounced" of Lord Grey's
administration, and the" base, bloody, and brutal Whigs,"
had not caused the " Ethiopian to change his skin or
the leopard his spots." In that manifesto O'Connell
emphatically says " Renieinber lam a Repealer—re-
member I tell you it is my belief that justice will never
be done to you until you have once again a parliament
resident in College-green, and every fact that arises
proves more and more strongly the utter hopelessness of
relieffrom the British Parliament." He takes care
to add the portentous words, " the Queen's, Ministers
are our decided friends." That is—the Queen's Mi-
nisters are the decided friends of us repealers—of us,
who take all we can get at present from those Minis-
ters, knowing that every new concession advances us a
step towards the attainment of our ultimate object—
the dismemberment of the empire! O'Connell pours
upon the young Queen the most fulsome flattery, while
he endeavours to break the sceptre of the United King-
dom ; but secretly despising the Whigs, as he does,
for their incapacity and meanness, !ie disdains to con-
ceal the state of thraldom in which lie holds them,
He feels that their dependence for official existence is
upon liiipsef alone, and he treats them accordingly ;
and this they must bear without murmur or wincing,
as put and parcel of the pnoislunPnt inflicted upon
them for holding office under more humiliating circUrn.,
stances than ever before disgraced a British 'Ministry,

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