Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-04-29


there department in the State in which
Irish Genius does not support its predomi-
nance s-is there Conquest which il does
not achieve, or a dignity which it does not
adorn Az this instant there is scarce a
t1odre-ais the world TO which England has
not selected an lrishman as her Representa-.
tive. She has Lord Mnira in India. Sir C.
Ouseley at tspahap Lord Stewart at vi.
emma Lord Castlereagh at Congress Sir
Henry Wellesly at Madrid Mr.. Canning
IN Lisbon Lord Strangford IN the Bra zils !:
Lord Clancarty in Holland; Lord Weiliuc :.
ton IN Paris, all frishmen Whether it re-
suits from accident OF from merit, can .here
De a more Cutting SARCASM on the policy of
England Is it not directly saying to her
-Heie IS country, from eae-ffth Of whose
reoPie you depnte the Agents of your most
august delegations the remaining four
niths OF which, by your odious Bigotry, you
'ncal'acitate from any Office of station or of
trust Is adding all that is weak in imr
pohcy TO all that's wicked in gratitude.
What is her apologyf Will she pretend
tnat the Deity initiates her Injustice, AMI in
aapacitates the intellect as she has done
the creed After making Providence a
pretence tor her Code. will she also claim
as party other crime, and arraign the
Universal spirit of partially in his dispen.
sanons! is she not content with him as a
Protestant God, unless he conten.s to be.
come Catholic Damon !. If the charge
were true-if the Irish Catholic was i'm.
pruted and Observation-Disclosures conviction
would be Engiand's crime, and your an
swer to the Bigot's charge would be the
bIgots conduo.- What is this the result of
SIXTY Centuries of your Government Is
TINS the connection which you called be-
peht to ireland i--Have your laws SD debas-
ed them. that the very privilege of reason
IS worthless in their possession. Shame,
shame to the Government where the PEG,
pie are barbarous The day is not distant
when they made rhe education of Catlio
lic crime, and yet they arraigu the Catho
lie Tor ignorance. The day is not distant
when they proclaimed the celebration OF the
Catholic Worship felony, and yet they com
plain that the Catholic is ont moral They
hoodwink him, and complain that he sees
not! They make him mad. arc taunt him
with his insanity Is it to be expected,
that people are to emerge in moment
from the stupor of "a protracted degrada~
ton There is not, perhaps. to be traced
on the map OF national misfortunes, spot
SO truly and so tediousy deplorable as Ire.
land. Other lands, no doubt, have had
their calamities. To the horrors OF revolu>
tion-the niiseries of depotism-or the
scourges of anarchy, they have in their
turns been subject--but it has been only in
their turns the visitatians of Woo, though
severe. have not been eternal the hour of
probation or of punishment, has passed a
way, and the tempest which empiied the
walls of its wrath, has given way tethc SCI
renity of the calm, or the yicisstude of the
un'shine Has this been the case with res
IN - L.. T
save in the visionary world OF tradition-is
there, IN the progress either Of record or re-
Collection, ose yerdant spot in the desart of
our annals, where Patriotism can find re
pose. or Philanthrophy refreshments Pos,
terity will pause with wonder on the me.
lancholy page, which shall PORTRAY the
story OF people, amongst whom the policy
oil man has waged an impious warfare with
the Providence of G cd. blighting into defor.
nifty, all that was beau,eous and into ia
mine, all that was abundant / repeat,
however. the charge to be false. The Ca,
tholiC mind in Ireland, has made advances
scarcely to be hoped in the short interya, of
its partial emancipation. But what en-
enlargement has the Catholic payeut to e.
ducate his offspring Suppose he sends
his Son--tbe hope of his pride and the
wealth OF his heart into the Army The
Child justiies his parental anticipation he
is moral in his habits he is strict in his
discipline he is daring in the field, and tenn.
pcrate at the board, and patient in The
camp the first in the charge the last in
the retreat with a hand to achieve and
head to guide, and heart to conciliate he
combines the skill of Wellington with the
clemehcy of Cesar and the courage of Tu-
renne he can never rise he is Catho.
&C!
Take another instance suppose him at
the Bar: he has spent his nights at the
lamp, and his days in the Forum the rose
has withered from his cheek, mid the druid.
gerry of form the spirit has tainted in his
heart, mid the analysis OF crime. He has
foregone the pleasures of his youth, and the
associates of his heart, and the fairy en-
chantments in which fancy may have wrap.
ped him. Alas for what !----Though the
lightnings of Genius flashed from his eye.
and the thunder Of eloqrence rolled from
his lips though he spoke with the tongue
of Tully, and argued with the learning of
Coke, and thought with the purity OF Fletch-
er (; he can never rise he is a Catholic.
Mercifnl God What a state of society is
this, in which thy worship is nterposed, as a
disqualification to thy Providence and o.
bedisnce to thy will as barrier to thy
bounty ; Behold then, the Code against your
Petition it disheartens exertion, it disana.
lIfies merit (; il debiiitates the State it de-
grades the Godhead IL disobevs Christiani-