The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-11 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

We had several communications ready for insertion, but
are obliged to postpone them in consequence of the ad-
journed council meetings, and the proceedings at the
commercial associations, on the subject of the Fire
mu.

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Orangeman," upon the subjeu, .
the Mercury upon that loyal body. Our --
temporary's heciy wit is not worth thi notice of qny
Orangeman. " Let the galled jade wince:" It will, he
long before the Mercury's pet boys—the ribbonmen
dt
Liverpool—dare give to the world a record of the say-
ings and doings of any of their conclaves. Loyalty is
at all events better in our eyes than sympathy with re-
bellion, whatever our brother of the Mercury may
think about the subject ; and it is better, too, in the
eyes of the respectable portion of the people of Liver-
pool, whatever may be the feeling in those localities
where our contemporary is most industriously spelled
over.

Ebe Etherpoot &tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORN/NG, JULY 11, 1813.

Amongst the remedies proposed for the present
disaffected state of Ireland, concession to the de. Ii
mands of agitation is the most prominent, because
the most ready of suggestion and the most produc-
tive of• present ease. To oppose a headlong torrent,
or even to dam up a gentle streamlet, requires an
effort, both of the will and of the body ; whilst to
yield to their influence, it only requires that we
should close our eyes from the view of that gulf to
which they are surely and rapidly bearing us.
" Strive to remove the grievances of the Irish
people !" is, therefore, the cry of the timid and
lethargic Protestant—who would be puzzled to de-
scribe in what those grievances consist. " Put
down the nuisance of an established church !"
shouts a demagogue of the Roebuck school.
" Take away only her surplus (I) revenues," ejacu-
lates an admirer of Lord John Russell. " Give
Ireland a Whig ministry," lisps out the faded beau
who lately protocolled in the Foreign-office. The
4burden of the song is still concession ; whilst if any
loyal Englishmen, a little bolder than his fellows,
dares to look one step beyond present expediency,
and to ask the question, " Why yield up one out-
work of that constitution—why yield up one stone
of the buttresses of those walls, upon which we
must ultimately stand, to battle for our liberties and
for the integrity of the empire ?" he is straightway
denounced as a fanatic, an intolerant, and an enemy
of the Irish people !

ll'e care not for such denunciations. We detest
that cowardly expediency which, to ward off the
hour of struggle—to buy a treacherous and hollow
peace—would negociate terms of submission to
armed and menacing rebellion. We would concede
to justice freely, and all that Ireland can claim.
We would concede to menace, NOTHING ! With
the result of such concessions in past years before
us, how can we, as men resolved to maintain the in-
stitutions of our country, pursue a different course ?
The history of the struggle with popery for the last
fifty years has been one of concession after conces-
sion ; and have those concessions purchased for
Protestantism peace or security ? No ! Only a
few days ago, in the House of Commons, we were
reminded by an Irish member, Mr. Wyse, an advo-
cate of popish claims, and the would-be supporter
of popish supremacy in Ireland and throughout the
world, that, " from 1793 to 1829, concession had
followed concession; England had passed from
necessity to necessity. She must go on." And
again : " Let no man suppose that Catholic eman-
cipation was a final act ; it was the last of a series,
but it was also the beginning of another series" !
This is THE TRUTH. Disguise the fact as we
may, we are embarked upon the waters of a torrent,
which are bearing us over fall after fall, still in-
creasing in depth, until at length we are approach-
ing a " lower deep," upon the brink of which we
must nause—if pause we can—for the chasm is 1
it contains the elements of our ruin as a Protestant
nation ! The act of 1829 was " the last of a series."
We were promised, as its result, PEACE ; the ces-
sation of agitation ; the quiet submission of, the
Roman Catholic Church in Ireland to the supre-
macy of the British Crown ; the blending of the
Roman Catholic people of Ireland into the mass of
loyalty and devotedness which are the characteris-
tics of the Protestant people of Great Britain, and
of Ireland as well. Have these promises been kept ?
Have the hopes with which we regarded them been
realised? They have not; and we are reminded
that if the agitation which preceded the act of
1829 was the last of one series, it was also
" the beginning of another" ! And that other,
provided by the Jesuit faith of Rome as a lash for
our past credulity,—withheld from our gaze for a
while, and now paraded, in insulting mockery, be-
fore our eyes,—is this agitation for the objects which
are comprised in the term " repeal of the union" !
And yet we are urged, even by Protestants, to
concede to that agitation. Even now, when its
leaders stand up, with arms in their hands and
ARMIES within their control,—when we have ring-
ing in our ears the boast of a traitor that he wields
" more physical force than ever monarch com-
manded or general led,"—we are urged to go on in
that fatal course which has already brought the
empire to the verge of dismemberment ! Do the
advocates of such a cowardly policy really imagine
that any concession—that even the sacrifice of the
Protestant Church of Ireland, and the setting up of
Rome upon its ruins—would purchase for them any
greater amount of quiet than past concessions have
secured ? We give them, for their information, the
declaration, as to the result of such concession, of
the arch-apostle of treason—the leader of the phy-
sical force of Ireland—Daniel O'Connell himself!
" I had a conversation," exclaimed this incen-
diary, at the meeting of the Repeal Association on
Tuesday last, at the Dublin Corn Exchange,—"
had a conversation lately, with gentlemen whose
names I will not mention, but wbose ooinione pro
vonsutered to be adverse to repeat; anot what did
they advise me to do ? ' Accept of no compromise,'
said they. (Loud cheers.) You will perhaps be
offered THE SACRIFICE OF THE ESTABLISHED
CHURCH, and an appropriation of the ecclesiastical
revenues to the purposes of the state ; so take all
that you can get, but don't promise to give up any-
thing'! I WILL TAKE CARE TO FOLLOW SUCH
ADVICE" !

Is this not warning sufficient ? Can the blindest
or the maddest, after such a declaration, advise the
concession of an inch of ground to the demands of
a traitor, so daring in his designs, and so insolent in
his menaces ?

In the report of the Council meeting of Wednes-
day last, under the head of " Dock Committee," we
find the following conversation. We may premise
that we take it from the Mercury, because it is a
source not generally supposed to he favourable to
our views of the question to which it refers :