The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

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Wo have always elusitier d R ilt. \.,.4;
berali-ur to be re ee ho the o lower ..,...
present age. Wherev,r the R,w .
typos d t , their rirAten•iimrs, there. ~e
Catholics a-e noisy r-form-.rssitul d-rnagegues. - But
wh, rover the Gover:imeot i- a dutiful sOject of the
Va,.if”in, wI, o so zeal. ,us on the side of order as the
1-),Ti-h priest',o id ? There is, however, this Wide
difference between their conduct under each. eon-
t inge !key. Democracy they hate from theirhear'3,
and only use as a toil ; despotism they lovo with
congenial warmth, and use as a trust•rd enufederate.
From one point of view we cannot blame them.
ILAtheories . f civil smvernment are naturally allied
to high th-ories of ecc!esiastical governMenV. We
mi,iht obj-ot to either or •ci both ; but as long ss
the ~illiince was openly acknowledged and vin.di-
ea' e I on hroa 1 principles the Romanist! . would :be
enUl...d to as 11111.1 ftrbearance and charity as any
o her honest mitigonist. But it is the attempt to
p rstride the people of this country that- ROM4II-
- n is som-t Ii i tig essentially different' from what it
is—s ,m ..thing which sympathizes with freeglocif
th-ught and action both in relit,zien and politics,
inste id of bei rig fundamentally hostile to both—
that i'as excited in the minis of the British people
a sehrimurt of unconque,-ahle distr nit. It has now
hee,m,) al.nost inip,s-ibl 1 to I,ersirtrie them that
wh,n the Romanist speaks on phl t;c4l questions
he has anything at 11,-Art, hut the advancement of
his re'ige•us tenet; D ,structive in one country
an I .bs'ruetive in another; here calling for reli-
gious liberty, there burning the Bible and lashing
he heretic ; now pra,ing of loyalty, and anon
whisperila rebellion, lie has created an impression
wh;ch it will take nigh a century to efface—that
will p.,litics he plays fist and loose, and will ad-
vocate pot tic il theoris a mo-t opposed to the funda-
meetal princlAs of his creed if he thinks he can
th,Tehy shake the resolution of Ministers or
entrap the sympathy of mobs. The above
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in ,rks may seem too severe for the occa-
sion, and we hasten to repeat that it is the sys-
tem we are coudeumitig more than individuals.

I:Leder-the potent influteiee of a carsitfaly-eisgassised.
system, directed by the de-pest sagacity, experi-
ence. and feresight, individals lose much of their
responsibility, and become almost unconscious
agents. We hive no desire to make any personal
reflections upon those noblemen and gentlemen
who are band d t )gether f 'l7 the purpose of repeal-
ing the s?cu•ities exact•-d from their coreligionists
in 1829. We only say that their language upon
the subject of r eligiens liberty does but show the
extraoi dietary exteet to which men can impose upon
ttiemselv,s, and th ext•aordinary confidence which
Romanisis entertain in the credulity of mankind.
if the Church of R. were as conastent as the
other toilies of English Dissenters, she would
be treated with the same consideration ,• but
we cannet alliw the great watehgvorils of civil
and relig.ous liberty to be prostituted' to the
purposes of a churl h whii•h would throw
us i•ff our guard by professions of friendship, and
when the ramparts were unminued rush on the
defence eis citadel. This language, we repeat over
and over again, is not toe strong. It is justified
by experience ; it is jteitifiel by the conduct of the
Roman C •urch in this country in 1850 it is justi-
fied by the si.ectacle of Irish and C intineutal
Popery f r mine years pa-it ; hrtri more titan all it
is justifi d by her recent exp eim nts in Belgium.
It is th -• boas of Rome that •ille never chaeges ; and
if the sp. aks fair to Li eralisua we may be cer-
tain it is with the intention of betraying it.
Granted that, the ooh itepoi.ed in 1829 leaves
ma iy Roinan Ca h lies perfectly free in cons
sci-nce to vot • as they choose, it dues not leave
•dl, and even th it is so•nething gained. But what
is more to t• ii• piiroose is this, teat a great principle
is thereby affirmed ; that the dangerous difference
between Rinuariism and every other form of dissent
is constantly kept hefo:e us; and that this un-
dou'itedly dues exerci e a certain mor.d influence
over t e whole of the community. This is the ad-
vantage of the existing st tte of -hinge, and we do
n it si-e what connteibalancin4 b ion would really
b- conferred on the Rimanists by the removal of it.
If they wish to remain good subje •ts of Queen Vic-
toria, and to abstain from interference w.th the
Church of Etigi in I, wh • e is the hards:lip I It they
don't, where is the policy of granting their request?
—The Press.

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