The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

THE REAL INTENTIONS OF THE IRISH-

REPEALERS

At a glorification anti soforth of " the Repealere
of the Custom-house Ward," held in the Northum-
berland-buildings, Dublin, on Sunday week, the
12th instant—Daniel O'Connell, John O'Connell,
M.P., and the rest of the tail being present—a Mr.
Carroll, P.L.G., contrasted a previous meeting in
the same place with the current one thus :

"We then met to offer our condolence to the great
father of his country—to our beloved liberator and his
fellow-martyrs in their unjust incarceration ; ar
meet to celebrate our triumph over our oppressors.
(Hear, hear)."

ld we now

" We meet," says Mr. Carroll, " to celebrate our
triumph over our oppressors"—namely, over Sir
Robert Peel and Co. This for Maynooth ; this for
the increase of the grant to the national anti-scrip-
tural system; this for Mr. Moore's serjeantcy, and
Mr. Watson's expulsion, and for a loud halloo
against the church—this, "our oppressors." Good!
But hear the great Dan himself :

" Now the Whigs had come into power—be would sup-
port them if they e:mducted themselves properly, but if
they did not, he would turn them out again. (Loud
cheers.) It was not a Whig government—we annihilated
that party. The Toties destroyed themselves, and the
-.quence is, that the present government is a mongrel
best kir 1. S, h-ve not ,d

.nt. Jun occurrences th, uappenet.
r.ure in tue history of England. Did you read Sir
Robert Peel's speeei. for equality—the man who was taken
from his father's spinning-jennyi and sent to preside over
the Orange lodges of Ireland? Why, he is taking the
gilding off my gingerbread completely. He is quoting
speeches of mine, and appropriating- to himsclf doctrines
which I have spent my life in inculcating. If the Whigs
deviate from the course they propose to pursue, I will
get some twelvepenny nails in the toe of my boot, and
kick the renegades out of office again."

Coarse, but expressive. Admirably conceived,
indeed 1 While he threatens the Whigs in fuittrum,
he spits by suggestion, in passing, on Peel, and
reminds him that he has been removed from office
by the undignified application of the toe of his
(Daniel's) well-nailed brogue. " The Liberator"
speaks as the maker and unmaker of governments..
The Kerry man rules England, thanks to '29 and
Sir Robert Peel. The ball was opened by the chair-
man, James Meade Loughnan, Esq., T. C. Speak-
ing of Ow Russell ministry, he said,—

" We may now ask what will they do with the church
property ? O'Connell, with the will of the people, shall
force on England that she has no right to hold it. Why
should we not have it appropriated to give glebe lands to
our parish priests, and make them independent to the
state r

Thanks, again, to Sir Robert Peel ! Mr. Loughnan
of course we don't know, but inasmuch as he has
merely taken up the cue given by Sir Robert, and
admitted as correct by his successor, the thought is
not despicable. Surely this language is unmis-
takeable, and these claims are put forward with
sufficient plainness. Are Englishmen prepared to
yield them ? Let every Protestant look the alterna-
tive in the face; but, in the name of common sense,
let us be one thing or the other,—let us either
maintain and extend our Protestant principles, or
turn Papists, and support the errors of that lament-
able system. But let us not be hypocrites, pro-
nouncing a thing idolatrous to-day and paying for
its maintenance and support to-morrow. Let us be
honest,—let us be Englishmen,—let us be all of a
piece, and not throughout inconsistent with our-
selves and with the professions of all our past lives.
Surely we ought now to have done with this
wretched pusillanimity; to rise up like Englishmen,
and either pronounce the Reformation a lie, the
Pope a universal Christian potentate, ourselves too
long rebels, and our countrymen all fools,—to rise
up and demand the overthrow of the Church and
of Protestantism, or else, believing as we do, act
consistently with our professions. Let us be one
thing or the other. If Peel and Russell be right,
then is Protestantism a lie, and away with it. If
Popery be an apostasy; let us manfully act accord-
ingly, and say, with M'Ghee,—" Mercy and salva-
tion to Roman Catholics, but no peace with Rome."