The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-26 00:00:00

.Kerry papers, TILAT THERE WAS NOT A DEMON IN HELL
.MORE RASE THAN THE CATHOLIC WHO 81101jED VOTE FOR
THE KNIGHT OF KERRY,' AND THEN THESE WORDS WERE
REPEATED, • I WILL HAVE A DEATH'S HEAD AND CROSS

BONES PAINTED OR PRINTED ON A PLACARD, AND POSTED

ON THE DOOR OF ANY CATHOLIC WHO VOTES FOR HIM
HEARD THOSE WORDS USED IN SUBSTANCE BY MR. O'CONNELL

" Did you hear the first part, 'that there was no demon in
hell snore base than the catholic who should vote fur the Knight
of Kerry?"—l DID.
"Do not you think that this speech, taken in connection
with the public speech made at Dublin, was celculated to alarm
any catholic of the lower orders if he voted fsr the Knight of
Kerry 1-1 think so.
" Is not there every reason to believe that ho would be in-
sulted and beaten, and that he would be liable to be injured in
his trade, to have his property injured, and perhaps his life
placed in danger ?-1 would not, perhaps, go the whole length
as to his life being endangered, because I have never heard any
person express it so far as that; BUT I no BELIEVE, THAT THE
CATHOLICS IN GENERAL CONSIDERED THAT IF THEY VOTED
CONTRARY To THE WISHES OF MR. O'CONNELL, THEY WOULD
BE INJURED IN THEIR TRADE.

" Are they not liable to have their property injured by voting
against Mr. O'Connell ?—CERTAINLY.
" you know a case in which au outhouse was burned down
in consequence of the individual having the day before voted
against Mr. O'Connell?—Yes, I have received a report to that
effect.

" have you any doubt us to the fact?—No, I HAVE NONE,

whatever.

This is the O'CONNELL by whose- presence the town Of
Liverpool is to be polluted ; and this is the evidence of
a gentleman who, in swearing has no equivocation, no
mental reservation, and no jesuistical sophisms to govern
or explain the force of his words. Whether the loyal
protestants of Liverpool will suffer this man to appear
and depart from among them uurebuked remains to be
seen.

At a late hour, and after the foregoing remarks were
written, we received the subjoined epistle, which we pub-
lish verbatim et literatim. The original may be seen by
applying to our publisher.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAII"D,I

" Liverpool, January 23d, 183 G.

" Stn,---Having seen your paper of yesterday, in which you
speak so abominably of my country, (Ireland,) I take the liberty
of telling you that, if you don't retract your words and make a
full confession that what you had written in your last was a per-
feet falsehood, I beg leave to tell you that the first time I meet
you'l will exercise such a share of that barbarity of which you
tax my nation on your infernal carcase that I will, in one in-
stance at least, prove your words to be true. Now, sir, not
wishing you to suppose that this is merely a foolish effusion,
allow me to tell you that you will find it quite the contrary, if
what I have suggested will not be attended to.

" I remain, sir, yours,
" J. D. D,

" P.S.--I am not the only one of my country who feel indig-
nant at what you please to call it, the most ignorant and bar-
barous country in Europe, so take a fool's advice and do what
von are ordered, or you will (take my word for it) feel very
sorry. Not wishing to shine as a literary character, I merely
write this to let you know what is intended for you. J. D. D.

The singular alliance, offensive and defensive, formed
of late years between the great body of the dissenters and
the papists, who are now united by a sort of Siamese
bond, is an anomaly of a striking and instructive charac-
ter. In speaking of the dissenters we especially exclude
the great and influential body of the Weslevans, who,
indeed, can hardly be called dissenters, but who may,
with great propriety, be designated the auxiliaries of the
Church of England. And we may also exclude great
numbers of excellent men who dissent from the discipline
of the establishment on principle, but who repudiate the
tierce and unchristian attacks made upon her by the
Tatosses EASTS and other noisy republicans of the pre-
sent day. We do not use the term papist in an offensive
sense, but we use it because we deny the term catholic
to the Romish Church is not a Catholic Church, and
the exclusive arrogation of the name is an assumption
to which she has no right, and is an insult to other
churches. But we use it to designate that abominable
system Ivhich acknowledges the Pope as its head, and
holds in unwarrantable thraldom the consciences and
dsstinies of millions. it is systems, not individuals, we
war against. It is principles we contend for, and our
language must be intelligible.
Convinced, from mature observation, that tha whole
tbp,,asva.o-.,-ranrcuinirkgmiiiiierreti"ovrer"iiM
country, and once more to wield the', sceptre of England,
it is with feelings of dismay that we see so many of the
dissenting bodies-springing forward to do her bidding.
Proselyting in her spirit; bold and fearless in the pur-
suit of secular power ; energetic, yet subtile ; apparently
frank, yet insinuating; wielding a secret power over the
human mind, by oral confession, and arrogating to itself
the eternal destinies of the immortal soul;—this system
of iniquity is spreading far and wide, is-taking advantage
of the divisions among protestants, and, with Herculian
step, is steadily advancing in power and influence.
On every side. mass-houses are springing up, and the
decrees of the propaganda are furthered by the mistaken
liberality of nominal protestants, or, as the papal church
designates them heretics. The papacy can accommodate
itself to every form of government under heaven. In
America we find it submissive, because there it has to
deal with a republic; in Pdrtugal, Italy, Ireland, and
Spain it is tyrannical, because in those places it has to
deal with bigotry and ignorance ; in England it assumes
the character of mildness and liberality, and its priests
attend public dinners and whine about civil and religious
liberty their civil liberty would, however, be the
thumb-screw, and their religious liberty would be the j
dungeons of the inquisition, were she again triumphant
in merry England. Where was the liberty, civil or ec-
clesiastical during the middle ages, until a Luther, a
Melancthon, a Wickliffe, and a Knox protested against
the soul-destroying doctrines of popery, and held up its
crying abominations to the, world ? Of course these
noble-minded champions were illiberal, to use the cant
of the day, but they broke the iron fetters with which
popery had so long bound the nations of Europe, and
from that day to the present Rome has been striving
with all her might to regain the splendid and prolific em-
pire then wrested from her grasp. Men say that popery
is changed. They know not the secrets of the system;
they take their impresspsni from many estimable and
respectable persOns they see around them, who are mem-
bers of that church, and who; probably, know not the
depths of iniquity which abound in her system. While
we must not. on the one hand neglect the lessons of his-
tory, we must on the other hand remember the assump-
tion of infallibility which this church makes: We must
recollect that the decrees of her councils of Trent, and
Florence, and Constance, and..the
,creed of her Pope,
Pius Iv., are declared to be unalterable, and let any can-
did protestant search the doctrines of those councils,
which every priest and bishop is sworn to believe, and he
will then find how heretics are to be dealt with, and 110 W
men, who spout about civil and religious liberty, where
the papacy is rampant, can very easily be quieted.
Whatever may be the assertions of individual papists to
the contrary, we assert from her own standards, without
even consulting the far-famed PETER DENS, that the
Church of Rome would again trample all civil and reli-
gious liberty into the dust if she had the opportunity.
And now that the protestant institutions of England
are attacked by popery on the one hand, and infidelity on
the other, what are the tactics of the great body of the
dissenters of the present day ?—Loyalty to the King,
attachment to a scriptural church, sympathy for her suf-
fering clergy, veneration for the form of government un-
der which they flourish. Were we to answer these ques-
tions a thousand tongues would indignantly exclaim,
What insolence, and what unmerited reproaches are cast

upon the dissenting bodies. Well, then, let a dissenter

answer them, one who is too excellent a man to say what
is not true, and one who is too courageous not to speak
the whole truth. The Rev. Mr. IRONS, of Grove Chapel,
Camberwell, has promoted a collection for the suffering
Irish clergy, and has added nearly £6O to the general

'und. Mr. laoNs having been attacked by sonic of his

dissenting brethren for aiding this holy cause—the cause
of protestantisni against popery—has written a letter of
justification to the London Standard, in which occurs the

following. passage
" You will perhaps wonder when I tell you that I have been
censured for this expression of brotherly love by some of those

sseuters why set themselves in array against the el:is( opal