The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-27 00:00:00

and bigoted passions is the surest way not to make a
convert. If I wanted a receipt to prevent any Protes-
tant friend from becoming a Catholic, I would find it
in putting him into a passion, and calumniating his
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I have made several eatracte from the London peess,
and I have brought them here. It is a disgrecabie mole
of addressing a public meeting to read extracts, but I
carinot help reading one or two of them from the Times.
--(Groans). In order to describe this newspaper as it
should be described, I take a poetic kind of view of it,
and I put my thoughts in six lines. Let me give you
a specimen of my poetry (laughter) :
Vile press, without a parallel,
Organ fit for fiends of Hell—,
. LIES thy trade—thy master-sense,
BRIBED and BRUTAL INSOLENCE.
From Puddledock to either sea,
Toryism stinks of thee.
(Cheers and laughter). The Learned Gentleman then
proceeded to read passages which appeared in the
Times :—The following is one as a specimen : 0
" It is, we repeat, notorious that a large section of )
the Romish priesthood. instead of behaving themselves
like peaceful ministers of the Gospel, have been, in fact,
' since the year 1829, the most open, audacious, and un-
grateful—the most inveterate and irreclaimable de-
structors of the peace and the security of Ireland—the
loudest trumpeters of disaffection against the British
monarchy, defined and represented by the Protestant
Constitution of 1668."—Dec. 21, 1839.
If ever there was a gross and malignant calumesy upon
the Catholic priesthood it was that—it was the vilest that
could be set forth even by the Times, that miscreant or-
gan of the Tory party in England.---( Hear, hear.) it.
was quite evident when the Tory press use such means
as those to calumniate Roman Catholics that the Tory
party would put them down if they could—(Cheers)—
yes, they would crush them if they got into power, and
when they made such virulent attacks as those through
the medium of their press, they could not be supposed to
act otherwise than crush the Roman Catholic priesthood
and the Liberal party under their feet.—(Cries of
" They shall not—never!") Did they ever hear of the Rev.
Hugh Nl`Neile, who preached at Manchester the
other day ?—(Hear, hear.) Was he a minister of peace
like the Roman Catholic priesthood?—(Hear, and
cries of " No, no.") No ;be certainly was not, for
that man had the hardihood to say, some days ago, in
his sermon at Manchester, that there were no such
words as the " minister of peace" in the Scriptures.—
(" Shame.") Oh !he shuddered at the hardihood of
the wretch. He (Mr. M'Neile) preached in favour of
Chartism, and of planting the sword in the land, but the
Roman Catholic priesthood preached against it.—
(Cheers.) The Chartists' language was, that he who
had not a sword should sell his coat and buy one.—
(Hear, hear,) That was the language of Mr. APNeill
too.—(Hear.) He told the people of Manchester t.:lere
could not be peace in England so long as the women
Jezebel lived—(Groans)—and the loyal English cheered
that expression, which he was proud to hear that meet-
ing groan at so heartily. The stupid men of the English
newspapers did not know what woman he meant.—
(Laughter.) S irely he could only mean one—{Hear,
hear)—and that was " the Queen, God bless her." ---e,
(Loud and long continued cheering.) If a Catholics'
priest had uttered these words in reference to her
Majesty, in any part of the globe, where, he would ask,
would end the expression of well-merited indigna-
tion which the Protestant party of England would pour r
out ?—( Hear, hear.) He adverted to another passage,
and then continued :—The Catholic Clergy, preaching
fire and bloodshed to the people of Ireland ! Was there
ever, I ask you, a more atrocious calumny uttered
against any body of men ?—(Cries of " No, no.") No ;
they have not been guilty of such conduct—but still I
they are thus brutahy assailed and misrepresented by a
paper having the most extensive circulation in England;
a paper that circulates most widely amongst the people of
England of every class ; a paper that is to be found on
the breakfast tables of every noble family in England ; a 1
paper that is to be found on the ladies' tea table, and )
from thence descending to the servants in the kitchen, i
and is there read by them—a paper that is to be found
in every public house, tavern, club house, and mansion,
and it is an organ that has been made one of the greatest
properties in England that utters these calumnies of the
Irish priests.—(Hear, and cries of" Oh!") Why, atone of
their meetings, some scoundrel, named Smith, and I
proclaim him to be Irish, dared to assert that the Irish
Catholics had knives to the throats of every Protes-
tant in this country. Is it, I ask you, for nothing this 1
is done ? is it done for only mere ordinary party pur-
poses ? have not the persons who use such language,
some ulterior objects in view ? I tell you they have.
They are the instruments of the oligarchy ; and those '
are the weapons they use to effect their base purposes.
—(Hear, hear.) Oh, what a base set of miscreants
they must be.—( Hear, hear.) We seldom see the
Times in Ireland ; the Irish people have a natural re-
pugnance to it, and small blame to them : for from what
I state of it here to-day, I am sure that every man and
woman in Ireland will read it, and that those statements,
foul and atrocious as they are, will receive an indig-
nant response from Cape Clear to the Giants' Causeway,
and from Cunnetnara to the Hill of Howth.—(Cbeers.)
And it is this party, headed by Wellington and' Peel,
that would set themselves up against 'eight millions of
the Queen's subjects ; for the Catholics of England,
Ireland, and Scotland, art. more than eight millions—
(Cries of " Oh, oh")—and those statesmen would indulge
their base passion of avarice, and gratify their unworthy
ambition, by endeavouring to obtain power by those
dishonourable means. Oh ! shame on them, it was a
disgrace to England, and enough to tarnish the English
name—(Cheers)—and this puts me in mind of the lan-
guage used by that villain—that ruffian Bradshaw, at
the meeting at Canterbury.—(Groans.) I will read one
passage from it for you, and then be done with those
vile statements and calumnies.—(Hear, hear.) Oh !
there is another extract I shall read in the first
instance. He then read a resolution agreed to
at a county meeting in Berwickshire, deprecating
Catholic appointments, and then turned to Bradshaw.
I perceive where that miscreant attacks the Queen, he
introduces his treason by saying :—" I wish, in a very
few words, to point out to you what I conceive to be
the dangers and difficulties of our present position, and
first I shall direct your attention to the fearful growth
of Popery, allied as it is with atheism, infidelity, and the
voluntary or anything-arian principle. (Hear.) Her
Majesty's Ministers have recognised this medley as their
rule of faith, as exemplified in their precious scheme of
education without religion ; and I grieve to say that her
Majesty herself has shown too much countenance to the
enemies of the Protestant Church." He then audacious-
ly utters the following language :—" Brought up under
the auspices of the Citizen King of the Belgians, the serf
of France, and guided by his influence, the Queen thinks
that if the monarchy lasts her time it is enough." He
lies, the villain ! these are not the feelings of her Ma-
jesty, for she knows that the safety of her subjects con-
sists in the safety of the throne. That statement of Brad-
shaves is a foul lie, and if there was any chivalrous
spirit present he would have struck the audacious
ruffian to the earth.—(Cheers.) There were certainly
English officers and parsons present who listened in
silence to this foul language uttered against their Sei-
vereign, and that Sovereign, too, a young and interest-
ing woman—(Hear, hear)—but chivalrous feeling had
no more hold on them than the greased foot would
have on the slippery ice that covered a stagnant pool.
—(Hear, hear.) There is a Member of Parliament
for you! speaking that speech in the archiepiscopal city
of England, and speaking it .before a number of par-
sons and English officers !—(Hear.) More shame to
hem : the English uniform was never before disgraced
until it was disgraced by tbem.—(Hear.) But those
men cannot degrade the British soldiery ; for the 1
bravest army in the world cannot be disgraced by the '
dishonourable acts of a few persons.—(Cheers.) They
would deprive you of the Queen's protection ; they
would put down the people of Ireland. Will you
submit to it ?—(Cries of " No.") Is not the time come
for you eto speak, and say, we will not submit to it ?
(Loud cheers, and cries of "We will not.") It is said
they conceded rights to us in 1829, when they passed
the Emancipation Act. I deny it. They stripped us
of our rights in 1692 and 1693, and also in the reign of 1
Queen Anne ; they deprived us of our inherent rights i
and liberties by the perpetration of the treaty of Lime-
rick. Our rights are not founded in the statute of
1829 at all, but on the common law rights taken from
us by injustice, and afterwards extorted back by us in
1829 by peaceful violence.—(Cheers.) And having a
regard for those rights, do they think we will allow
those men to take them away again ?—(Cries of " We
will not".) I am a man of peace, approaching old age— ?
(Cries of "Long may you live ! ')—l havemy children
grown up men and women, and grand-children to the ,
number of more than twenty. I have always declared that
not one drop of blood should be shed in the assertion of our
liberties. I have struggled through many contests
firmly fixed in the; resolution ; but I tell you what it is,
Irishmen, that I for one am now determined to die in
the field rather than submit to Tory domination.—(Loud
cheering.) Let others act as they like ; I ens determined
not to submit to it, if I should stand alone, and I am
certain I shall not, stand alone, for I will be supported
by millions in that determination.—(Cheers.) I tell
Wellington that if the hateful Tory faction are to be
forced upon Ireland we will not have a petite guerre,
as he calls it, but he and they will have to contend
against the united population of Ireland.—(Cheers.) I
tell Peel that that constitutional authority. does not
exist which can filch from us those constitutional libel.. i
tics which belong to us as well as to him and his party.
No ; we are as ore man resolved to preserve them,
and to prevent his return, and that of the faction he
heads, into power. But to avoid such infliction, we
must speak up.—(Cheers.) Need I remind you of the
last sth of November, which has been called Cecil's
holiday, because Cecil, with fifteen or seventeen others,
managed the entire plot ? That passage of history,
so well understood, was taken advaqtage of; to send
men of peace, as they called them, into the pulpits,
throughout England. \Vas it to preach the prin-
ciples of charity and peace ? No, but to create