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TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1841

Twenty thousand persons, we are told, obeyed the
summons of the agitator, and met him on the Curragh
of Kildare on Sunday week. Seventy thousand tee-
totallers marched in procession in Dublin on the 17th
inst. in honour of St. Patrick ; some five thousand in
Liverpool ; and further sayeth not. We have not kept
an account of the demonstrations in other places, either
in the provinces in Ireland, or in various parts of Eng-
land, where the Irish are quite in sufficient force to
make a respectable show when called out for that
purpose. The question which people who give them-
selves the trouble to think at all on the subject ask, is,
—are these exhibitions quite innocent—quite justifi-
able—quite right ; should they, in short, be permitted ?
Some put the question in wrath and indignation, bear-
ing in mind how intolerant our authorities are of all
displays of an opposite kind. But heat and passion
are out of place in the investigation of this nice, pro-
found, and delicate question. It becomes us to be
calm that we may not he ridiculous. There is no
longer the slightest appearance of nervous disturbance
on the other side. All is cool and methodized there ;
and on our part, whose business it is to reason over
the affair, a corresponding frame of mind is called for.
These .di'splays bf organized masses, then, are re-
garded by those of the adverse party as displays of
strength, and made not only to show strength,
acquire more of it. On this point we apprehend no
difference of opinion can exist. But this being so, it
is scarely more than the correlative proposition to say,
that if these displays be a proof of strength, and a
means of augmenting it on the one side, they are to
list the same extent a‘proof of weakness, and a means
of increasing that weakness, on the other. We submit
that this is good logic and a pretty fair deduction from

but to

the premises. But what next ? Nay, softly gentle
reader, not so fast ! We must go gingerly and delibe,
rately in picking, our way through this entangled

maze. We grant that it is not pleasant to see mer.,
whose politics one does not approve, vaunting their
forces, and displaying them insultingly before your
eyes, and countenanced rather than discouraged therein
by the government. This is not pleasant; still the
amount of the feeling must depend on the opinions en-
tertained of the particular views, and dispositions of
the party thus parading the organization and number
of its troops. We certainly do not consider it right
nder any circumstances that men should be allowed
to seek the attainment even of a legitimate object by
the exhibition of mere physical strength. It is not
constitutional, and is of evil example. It is a breaking
in upon those rules and laws which the constitution
has provided for the prevention of tumultuous assem-
blages, and to obviate the necessity of even an appear-
ance of resorting to, first principles in order to obtain
objects which, if of a legitimate kind, may be obtained,
or at least sought for, by other means. But our dis-
like on this head will bear some proportion to the
known character and purposes of those who resort to
this unconstitutional mode of proceeding. Therefore

it is material to ascertain as nearly as can be, who are
purpose ?
the exhibitors, and what is their

In the first place then, this party are all of one reli-

gious creed—Romanists—and this first place' is so
material and comprehensive in its kind, that it will not

be of very great moment if we should never come to a

second. Not a- single Protestant joins in the demon-
strations, or belongs in any way to the fraternity. l'he
grand cement of their union is their religion, and it

admits of no admixture. It will neither cohere nor
bind, if any foreign ingredient be introduced into it.
There is a witch's charm in the composition, and that
charm would be spoiled by the slightest deviation from
the prescription. All the mummers are Romanists—
and Romanists acting with the full consent abd appro-
bation of their priesthood. Let us bear constantly in
mind, when we contemplate one of these demonstra-
tions, that it is the church of Rome that is making it;
and with our historical and other recollections of what
that church is, we may be the better able to determine
what these pageants are for.

But the object is in a great measure declared. There
is more candour in this respect in otir day than there
was in the olden time. O'Connell repeated at Kildare
race-course, what he had frequently announced before,
that justice to Ireland includes the remaining three-
fourths of the tithes belonging to the church in Ire-
land, household suffrage, but above all, a parliament in
'College-green, Dublin

Now if England grant the parliament in College-
green, or has the most remote intention to grant it,
she may grant all the other things, and as many more
as the agitator may please to add to the list; for what
will it be to her what becomes of Ireland, if a repeal of
the union is to follow?

Let us say then, in one word, that the simple object
of all these demonstrations is the severance of the king-
dom—and if that be not TREASON, what is ? The
traitors are indeed full of exuberant loyalty to the
Queen, personally, while they are most devoutly seek-
ing to rob her of her dominions; but if her Majesty
should ever deign to cast an eye over th 9 fulsome, hy-
pocritical, and disgusting. declaration of the agitator,
O'Connell, as she may find it in some friendly journal,
we hope she is not deceived thereby. We began this
bead of remark by saying that the parties procession,
ing and parading in the manner alluded to, were Ro-
manists ; but if we were to add now that they are
rebels, as well as Romanists, should we exceed our
authority ? That wherever they are, whether in Eng-
land, Ireland, Scotland, these Romanist, and for the
most part, Irish masses, are actuated by a common

fore-armed"--.seems to have lost some portion of its
verity. Our government at least refuses to profit by

the warning, and continues resolutely deaf. to the

" voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely."
The moral of our tale would he mainly this, that we

~,uard, and that the go-
nt which is not only careless on this subject,

have much need to be on our

but in a great measure auxiliary to the existing peril.
is absolutely unfit to bold the administration of public
affairs in its hands. But we shall be glad to reduce
our moral from this vague to a more definite shape ;

and, for this purpose, not to be tedious now, shall re-

sume our theme at another opportunity

The new American President is an upholder of sla-

very, and has lately taken an opportunity to declare
himself such with a view to his greater popularity. In
our apprehension it is an index to his moral qualities of

Any man who does not lament

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e mpy be in

Men may differ as to the time and mode

the system in a country where it has

been long established, and it would be a fair subject

for the exercise of

individual opinion; but for a rr

to uphold and plead for the system itself—to boast
himself a defender of it, and a determined, unalterable

Jacques Strop.
Maria.. Mrs. Gordon. I Clementina.. Miss Browne. • proof, to our mind, that the individual championing
Louise.. Miss de Blaquiere.
. Tickets to be had and Places secured of Mr. J. Foot, at such a doctrine, has never submitted his moral feelings
strict than I the Box-office, daily, from 11 to 3, and at the usual places: to the influence of Christianity.

Now, General Harrison has made an express de-