The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

Priests, who, in the name of any, even the worst
religion that ever scourged humanity, has brought
the minds and bodies of men under the influence
of their unholy tyranny. Men who directly—or by
indirect means, more exciting and effectual, perhaps,
than the most direct and immediate—cause and pro-
cure others to defy and break the laws of the land,
are rebels and traitors. Why should we mince the
matter ! Why should we not declare, what all the
calm and important observers of passing events are
obliged to believe, that, in some cases to the very
letter of the law, and in many cases to its spirit,
the political Priests of Ireland have recently been
rebels and traitors to the Government under which
they live, and to which:they owe the privilege they
are so unworthy to possess, and so determined to
abuse. The brutal ferocity of the mob at Six-mile-
bridge, in the county Clare, which led to the loss of
six lives by the fire of the military in self-defence,
after great suffering and forbearance on their parts,
was clearly attributable to sacerdotal influence.
Had there previously been any doubt upon the sub-
ject, it must have been removed by the address of
Rev. Mr. QUADE, P.P., at the official declaration
at Ennis, some time after the occurrence of the sad
tragedy by which the cause of law and order was
vindicated at Six-mile-bridge. We cannot forbear
from giving an extract from the report of this
speech, since it is admirably adapted to illustrate

the meekness, forbearance, wisdom, knowledge, and
charity of those saintly men who " direct" the souls,
and tyrannise over the minds and bodies of our
Roman Catholic brethren in Ireland :
"The rev, gentleman proceeded to say that, if any
landlord should attempt to persecute any of the electors
for the manner in whi Ai they voted, he (to wit, the afore-
said Mr. Quade) would use every exertion to raise a per-
secution against those landlords such as they would feel.
He also recommended Colonel ITANDELEUR (the Conser-
vative candidate) not to try a petition." [Oh ! reverend
SWING !] " 1 regret to find, continued the reverend
orator, soaring at once to the congenial high latitudes of
vulL'ar Hibernian rhetoric, " that in rotten Kilrush—rot-
ten heart and soul—rotten body and bones—rotten in every
grade (?) in it—the only black spot 'in the county of
Clare ;—rotten as Kilrush is, root and branch, I regret
that Orangeism has attempted to raise its monster head
in it ; and as it did, I say, Orange, lie down !' (Cheers.)
I say, [here the rev. gentleman trampled on the platform]
Orange, keep down .' (Loud cheers.) And more than
that, [our readers will mark the climax] I say, Orange,
you must keep down ! (Vociferous cheering.) And now
I make—what do you call those animals that can live both
on land and in water ?—(a voice, " amphibious")—aye,
I make the amphibious Colonel and Admiral a present of
rotten Kilrush—rotten body and bones—church and
state—aye, even to the chapel of it. Let him have them
all—body and bones ! It has been suggested to me that
it would be better, in future, to add Kilrush as a polling
place for New York, as being the next town west of it, in
order that such a black damnable spot may be wiped from
the map of our country."

If BEDLAMITES may not elect members of par-
liament, should Father QUADES be allowed to
mount the hustings ? If Irish-Roman Priests be
ever sane, election times don't seem to be their
lucid intervals.

Would it not be charitable towards those unhappy
men, as well as a necessary and wise precaution for
the safety and welfare of the body politic, if the
Legislature should direct that all Roman Catholic
Priests, who cannot refrain from interfering in mat-
ters political, should be obliged, during the con-
tinuance of political contests, to pay cooling visits
to the monasteries of LA TRAPPE ?