The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-15 00:00:00

doing.

Waste not your strength in mere party ebullition, but
show that Orangeism is essentially religious in its prin-
ciples and influence. Reserve your strength for great
occasions ; the country demands your best and wisest ex-
ertions to protect the Church and Constitution from the
insidious attempts of traitors within, and the open assaults
of enemies without. Take care, then, lest by one rash
step your influence may be materially lessened, if not
wholly lost.

Orangemen—remember that one of your fundamental
principles is " to maintain peace amongst all men."
Your faithful Friend and Brother,
W. F. TAYLOR, D.P.G.C.
Liverpool, June 14, 1852.

DR. M'NEILE AND HIS DEFAMERS.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Srn,—l am glad when they abuse me, said Doctor
Hugh Latimer long ago, " I am glad when my adver-
saries abuse me, because it is proof that they cannot
refute me." Doctor Hugh 111'Neile may now participate
in the satisfaction of the old Reformer. His adversaries
have abused him abundantly, but I have looked in vain
for any refutation of his arguments. Mr. Wylie at the
Music-hall, Catholicus in the Mercury, Mr. Brown
at the Amphitheatre, and Dicky Sam in the Journal,
have all charged and discharged their envenomed pop
guns, but they have in no way disturbed the telling re-
port made by our Canon on Monday night.
Their stock in trade seems to be that Protestants have
persecuted as well as Catholics, but they seem to forget
that Doctor M'Neile was beforehand with them. He ad-
mitted that Protestants had persecuted ; but he said, and
said truly, that when they did so, it was in defiance of, and
not in accordance with their avowed and recorded prin-
ciples; while he showed that not the practices only but
the principles also of Popery, deliberately adopted and
systematically defended, were persecuting and intolerant
even to extermination. These principles are still de-
fended. Catholic writers tell us now that their system
is intolerance itself. Hero is a specimen from The
Rambler :

" Believe us not, Protestants of England and Ireland 1
for an instant when you hear us pouring fourth our libe-
ralisms. When you hear a Catholic orator at some public
assemblage declaring solemnly ' that this is the most
humiliating day of his life, when he is called upon to
defend once more the glorious principle of religious free-
dom,'—be not too simple in your credulity. These are
brave words, but they mean nothing; no, nothing more
than the promises of a Parliamentary candidate on the
hustings. He is not talking Catholicism, but Protest-
antism and nonsense; and he will no more act on these
notions in different circumstances than you now act upon
them yourselves in your treatment of him. You ask if he
were lord in the land, and you were in a minority if not
in numbers yet in power, what would he do to you? That,
we say, would depend entirely upon circumstances. If it
would benefit the cause of Catholicism, he would tolerate
you ; if expedient be would imprison you, banish you, fine
you ; possibly, even, he might hang you. But be assured
of one thing, he would never tolerate you for the sake of
' the glorious principles of civil and religious liberty.' "
By fixing attention on this point, as distinct from reli-
gious opinions of any kind, Doctor M'Neile has done
good service. Occupying the firm ground on which
Locke and Milton stood when they penned their celebrated
exceptions against Popery, he has given an argument to
the public which may, indeed, be overlaid by the revival
of oft-refuted calumnies, but which cannot be refuted by
fair and scholar-like argument. lam not surprised, Mr.
Editor, at the impression Doctor M'Neile's lecture has
made. It was in every respect admirable. His choice of
topic was happy, his management in detail equally so.
His logic gave precision to his rhetoric, his rhetoric gave
animation to his logic, while the gracefulness and power
of his delivery, combined, gave a resistless charm to the
whole. He has proved, not asserted only, but proved.
that intolerance, even to destruction, is as absolutely and
essentially inseparable from Popery as it will and must be
from the day of judgment. He showed, also, that against
false religion, or for the propagation of the truth, we want
in-
tolerance which would not leave. us liberty to argue, we
defences. The distinction will commend
nothing but argument and evidence;
do want legal
itself to every intelligent man in the kingdom.
T am, Sir, one of your constant readers,
Liverpool, 14th June, 1852. but against the
PROTESTANS.

THE EARL OF ROSS,
ciety, gave his fourth soirt.
last. A large number of per
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President of the Royal So-

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