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

" eceu ehe Wnoie ponttcat and moral
worio shaking as with an earthquake, and
shades the most fantastic and formidable
1ho irigntfui. heaved into life by the culver.
.ings of the convulsion. The storm has mass.
ed over rs. England has survived il If
she is wise, her present prosperity win he
but the handmade of her Justice !; if she is nj.
Gus. her past perils will be but the heraids
OF her expiration.
thus much, in the way of argument. have
SAD. to the enemies Of your question +; let
ne oner my humble opinion to its friends.
ms Is indeed. rendered peculiarly necessa
~ oy the melancholy and calamitous spec-
tacie OF this day The first aud almost the
sole request an advocate would make of Won.
IS to remain united; rely or =, a divided
assault can never overcome consolidated
resistance /; an educated Aristocracy are a
head to the people, without which they
cannot think the People are as hands to
the Aristocracy, without which they cannot
act Confirm. where you agree concede,
where you differ recollect that an indiyid.
uai sacrifice ISL the uniyeral strength and
can tnere De nobler shrine than the al
Tar OF Our Country This same spirit of
cancellation should even be extended ia YOU,
enemies. If England will aot consider Ri al
brow OF suspicion is but bad accomoa.
niment to an act of grace; il she viii not Al.
low shat kindness may make those friends
whom even oppression could not make foes I.
If she vii! not confess that the best securitv
she can have from Ireland. is BY giving Ir.-
land an interest in the Constitution: sill,
since her power is the shield of her prem.
dices, you should concede where YOU can.
not Conquer It is wisdom to Weld where II
has become hopeless "a Combat.
There is but one concession which ne
yer would advise, and which, If were 8
Catholic, would never make no. nor for
all the wealth of Engand's com merce. or
all the monopoly of England's privileges.
You will perceive that aIiude TO anv in.
terference with your Clergy. That was the
crime OF Mr.. Grattan's Security Bill. It
made patronage ofyour Religion the ran
som for your Liberties. and brought the IA
vpdr nf the Crown by the surrender, of the
Church. 1t is vicious principle Il, il the
cause OF all your SORROWS; if there had no,
been State Establishment, there woula NOT
have been Catholic bondage: by tina, in
cessous compact between the Altar and
the. Throne. Inhdelity has achieved a more
extended dominion, than by all the sop,l.
'sms OF her philosophy, or all the terrors
OF her persecution itmakes Gods Apostle
Court >Appendage. and God himself a
Court PurveYor !; it carves the Cross iuto a
Sna'r OF state, where, with grace on his
prov and gold in his hand, the .ttIe perishs
able Puppct Of this worlds vanity makes
OmniPotence mental to its power, and E.
ternity pander to its profits
Man, proud man, drest In little brief autbo.
rity,
:" .Pays such fantastic tricks before high Hea.
ven,
[" As make the Angels weep"
Re not party off as you have spurned
the temporal interference of the Pope. re s;st
the spiritual jurisdiction of the crown Rea
der unto Cesar the things that are Ce sa,,s
and unto God the things that are God,s,-
they are the words of him from whom the
embroidered Mihister of this day takes his
title.
Ill does his wealth the simple tenent nrove
"Of him whose only wealth was placed above
III does his rank the holy Martyr shew.
" Whose sad, sublime distin ction was his woe,
But what pretence has England for her
interference with your religion Ii was
the religion of the most glorions era !,
was the religion of her most enobled Patri-
OTIS It was the religion of the wisdom thar
framed her Constitution It was the reliei-
on OF the valour that achieved it; it would
nave been, to this day. the religion of her
S'pPisS. hau u uDp DCStt tOr me .aWiesS Inst
OF mufderus aduiterer. VIVA right has
she to suspect your Churcl. When her
thousand sects were brandishing the frag-
ments OF their faith against each other and
Christ saw his garment, without seam, a
piece OF patchwork, for every monntebank
who figured IN the pantoaime when her
Babel Temple rocked at every breath blown
against it by the caprices of he's PriestIey's
or her Paine's Ireland proof against the
menace of her power was prof against
the perllous impiety of her example. But
H. as Catholics. you should guard It, the Pal.
ladium Of your creed. not less as Irishmen
should you prize 1t. the reflex of your coun
try. Deluge after deluge has desolated her
provinces the monuments of art which
escaped the barbarsm Of one invader, fell
oeaeath the more savage civilization of a.
mother Alone amid the ruins of the soli
tude, your temple stood, rich in the virtue
OF her saints. cemeuted by the blood of her
Martyrs. pouring forth for ages the unbro.
ken cries of her venerable Hierarchy, and
streaming the mild glories of a christian
galaxy, through the starless winter of the
national midnight. Preserve il inviolate
It's lights light from Heaven follow h
through al the perils of your Journey. and
Ike the fiery pillar of the captive Israel. il
will light the desert OF your bondage. and
guide to the land of your liberation.
WASHING TON An.u &c