Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-06-03
VOL. u.-NO. 81.

I a IlT DIly Elt
me spiHdi obedience to the Pope operate against
their allegiance the Sovereign His own wo,ts a,c
after distinct dsavowal of the contrary Inference, "Thefe
was an objection taken, that promise of
though camoncay made Pope, intcs fecd with our
allegiance To lawful Sovereign; and, therefore there WAS
clause inserted which removed hat objection
fell, III the my reading the Other ,av on an
extraordinary Instance nton of the Sam. opio,,
Mir. Pope, the distinguished poet was ,s Won, an L, -
Roman Catholic, and Bishop Attebuly at one time .n,r,
voured To convert him to the Church of England Az,
rope stated in his reply the Bishops letter. hope all
churches and all Governments God as th-
ore rightly understood, and rightly administered: aud
"here they are or may be wrong leave it to Codglone
memo or reform them which, whenever lac does, it must
oe oy greater instruments than am not a Papst
o e'ouhce the temporal invasions of the Papa Power
anu ueest their arrogated authority Princes and
States; am Catholic in stricest sense of the voI
lhs contend, Sir, is confirmation the evidence a,
Dr. Doyle agrees with ii spirit, almost in word
Is addressed IN The confidence of private friendship to
frelate OF the Established Church. it is letter of
mere sen eence, and showing to the Bishop that differ
enceS OF their religion thar they are
supposed to he-tns accidental testimony given 100 wears
ago. TALES exactly with the testimony which has been
recently gwen in the House Lords nd in discussing which
some Honorable Members have argued that il is an absr
my " attempt To distinguish between spiritual tempo
raj authority. II is absurdity of which Popc wa.
su''ty-it was absurdy, the reasoning Of which
Atterbury, whose Intellect was of the highest order Wa
sa1sied (Cheers) Another charge, si, has been made
against the bill, which partly political and partly of
religious naure.-Tha the Roman Catholics have i'll
ndvlsedy given themselves guidance of set NJ
mem that they have made tyrans their priests and
mat they looked them for support not to the Con-
1D OF l,yt I
gut at the door OF the Chahnc; if they iioiaters ia
politics, who but ourselves have made them so Let s
therefore now call them ri" from their woshp-let us lift
up 10 teii misguided eyes the pale OF the Sancuaryet
us EXHIBIT to them the image the Constitutions et rs
invoke them tn fall before The shrine and wean
them for from crimes of ioatry readily ,,i,
hat am not so fond Of change be easily reconriled
To II, even where It'll proved unexcc uonable T,
are many considerations arising Iom state of public
"p'hon which might possibly render alterations
n"W' "u u"' Is mol the case IN the present Instance
OPINION has Sow arrived that crisis, with rescct to this
great ation" question: that if you not anticiuate
chdh5e' change will over master you. CLEAR, hear Is
MOI grievance that millions Uf people should suffer is.,
pes merely ON account OF relgiYn? Is it grievance
mar me choIce oil the Crown should be in the
selection of ITS advisers and in the its
Is not grievance that people should wear badp
marking them the rest of them fellow s,,.c, e.
objects "t suspicion and dtust damping their homes Of
industry and honou and meeting at eyelv turn vim
exclusions nom which other have long seeveds
No man Will deny that there grievance ia ali this If II
was losSipe +" nave "Vor'e" II without danger. do
say that the grievance is great The Constitution
should fly before II, but am uipsed hear the question
discussed, "i"' reference TO such considerations, upon
cool and calculating c"mparisonsThe Member for Deuv
has said that aIe In situation which leaves us only u
choce OF Hhhcultles, and that whatever conclusion
come TO he cannot be fully satisfied This unfortunately
our Sitnaon but the misfortune would still greater If
we had made them The fact however, is other
wise. We have made difficulties We have
inherited tem but good have the means
OF curing them-A the time, il 10 charge
our ancestors who passed those enactment with baya
PsSeh them without excuse OF apology There dis
pued SUGGESTIONS; there between the
hir,
mad an interest III resisting 1t was III vain think of put
ting down the disturbances of time without ,,,tiin
down the religion, which formed part in the cause Of
"ee disturbances They should, therefore. be forgiven it,
III moment of victory, they reortcd upon their adyesars
what their adversaries victory visited uon then,
But thrIc is another claim which our ancestors have ON our
Justice They saw that reconcilement mpIactcabe;
that enmy between them Jacobites must he uern
nent aud lasting They determined that as they could MOI
convert they would punish and they took were
wen calculated to carry Their designs effect The system
which they adopted was an admirable one, and conlr
ed t"efect the obJect-the rack was horrible, b was
beautiful piece of Notwithstanding penaI Iav arts ltuo
bot they admirable contrivance the punishment and
degradation OF man they well adapted so ttle
purpose tor which they devised Thcy yese fitted to
set the wife against the husbandthe chilli Ssanst the
paTent-the against his master-to destroy the
confidence, ppness aud the virtue Of sor.,yI,
SOW fear in house, and between relations and
to reduce The population state of misery (wlrn they
had perhaps scrupes of TO the prope
OF discriminating them Of misery and degrade
uUh mat placed them almost on level with the brute.
clear, hcar0 The Penal Laws were, consequently an
admirable invention, when consider the purpose they
were intended To- But just ali done
and when the last about to be given to the ma
chine, the English legislature grew ashamed of its own
work aud shu"k back from the prospect which had
taken so much pains in preparing. say this conf
dence for II would be folly deny, that policy this
country changed from that moment If not the laws
OF 1873 mistaken; but, fact there was no mistake
you TePcnt'd and You reiaxed policy ctaugcj
how but them and the task you invited to perform is
to persist in the policy which you thS adopted. aad
winch not only the friends, but the adveTsarics OF the bill
approved ana rejolced in II is consolation reflect,
that though we did not remedy the niis
tice and erocity Of penal code have often hoo,
struck, ON looking those euactmens with the bier
ingenuity with which they conceived; it would seem
as Inc Legislature had directed the whole its
mind to select the tenderes points uouu, could he
inflicted and disgust combined with suffering. rejoice
oinnb no" long took to reduce tine Catholic state
| of bondage:
by what compusive and la5orious flight
We sunk thus low"
How difficult found abandon the office Of protec-
ion and become prosecutors, and with what rapidy
advanced from that condition and that character ID ritt-
gate the SYSTEM Hear, hear, icar.)
/ I'm proper motion ascend
Il Up 10 native scat: descend aud fail
\ To Is adverse (Checrs.)
What TO do' No man vii advise that uc shall
go back: forward the question. and that rs
ion may be answered ia the negative, when hear that we
can stand where are Iear, near. hesr1 No man
will advise that wc shall go back On the contrary vc see
how far the opposite opinion Is orkug-W referring
to the speeches in debate, bat merely taking them ipd-
cations Of the growing spirit NJ the times IS impossible
for any man to have listened speech of an Hon
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