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tic then announced that Mr. Samuel Holme
announcement which

would next address the meet

was received with great cheeirin.z4

have been requested by your
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nion that no man ought to

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bsoluiely forbid, yet I have pleasure in ac-
est, and assisting in the best way I can the

ana Protestant principles which
h the prosperity of the country.

large as-

.unerence to Protestant principle, and to
their attachment to our national institutions, cannot
out be satisfactory and betoken good to our cause. Our na-
tional blessings demand our national gratitude. Few leave
the shores of England, for a residence abroad, who do not
return home with increased reverence for the excellence of
our laws and the freedom of our constitution. We know
not, or do not appreciate fully the extent of our privileges till
t, Although I have taken
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to sociation, yet 1 do not hesi-
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a combining to destroy, it is the duty of every
erotestant who values our national privileges to
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i join you as sincerely
-, Allan in the sentiment Nula pax cum Roma—l desire
to be distinctly understood on this point—it is against the
'eciples and the practices of that church which I protest,
e she is the enemy of all liberty, both civil and reli-
gious, and she is attempting to destroy the institutions
under which England has risen to greatness. it is against
popery then, and not against Roman Catholics that we
wage war. Many of the Catholics are no doubt sincere
and conscientious in their belief, and to them we roust
display kindness, for we are the subjects of one monarch,
and our own lives ought to exhibit the fruits of that Pro-
testant faith which we are united to defend. Our opposition,
then, to the system of popery ought not to be mixed up with
zny unkind feelings to the professors of those principles.
But, sir, there are many things against which, as a member
of this Association, I protest, as well as popery. I protest
against that system of education sought to be Made national,
and I hope the people of England will never become luke-
warm on this important topic. It is called by the fashion-
able term liberal; but, being a plain man, I like to call
things by their right names. I designate it a system op-
posed to Scripture—a truckling to the infidel spirit .of the
age. God is not recognised in it at all ; and we find in
Scripture that woe is denounced, not only against the actual
transgressor, but against all people that forget God. I hope
the united voice of Protestantism will be raised, so as to
compel any and every ministry to place the education of the
people on a religious basis. But, sir, I would not close my
-yes against any errors even in our own venerable establish-
'ult. I am willing to admit that the Oxford divines have
`he world much. valuable matter ; but some of the
opinions which have emanated from Oxford I do not agree
with. (Hear.) 1 think they savour too much of popery,
cannot be defended from Scripture, and are calculated to do
much injury to the Church of England. Whilst, therefore,
I protest against popery, I protest against that which is assi.
milated with it. There are, no doubt, some defects in our
church, and those are to be expected—there is defect in
every human establishment; there are spots even on the face
of the great luminary of day ; but I would gladly see them
carefully removed by her friends, and not have them left to
be rudely dealt with by her enemies : I would not, if possible,
have one spot or defect about her to mar her beauty. I
protest, too,
against the prime minister of England intro-
ducing to our young and gracious Queen such an apostle of
indecency as Robert Owen. Why, if any minister had pre-
sumed to introduce such a man, who delivers lectures on the
absurdities.of the Bible, and the curses which marriare en-
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given to

..ieorge the
Third would have driven him from his presence—(Loud
cheers drowned the remainder of the sentence.) I venture
to say that, although Lord Melbourne had the hardihood to
introduce him to the Quev, he would not have the audacity
to introduce him at this moment into the travellers' room of
any respectable hotel in the kingdom. (Cheering.) 1 pro-
test too against the continuance in office of a ministry con-
trary to the national voice, and who, if a report which I
observe in the London naners be correct. hnla _

oonus to
crime, and offer a bribe for treason. It is there asserted that
Frost, the convicted traitor, for' whom a gallows had been
prepared, but whom the government dared not execute, has
been appointed a clerk in the commissariat department of
Port Arthur. (Loud cries of " Hear," intermingled with
hisses.) I protest too against the massacre of defenceless
women and innocent children which has taken place in Syria.
The blood which has there been shed calls for retribution,
and must be accounted for. (Hear.)