Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1828-12-17

judges, your magistrates. yorr sLurta t,a hold yoar
Office, Sir, and have called this great assembly by
virtue OF his institutions your of Justice, your
elective system, and the grand buwark Of your bcr-
ties, the best aud most useful, well as the most
glorious of your rights, the shield Of freedom the
trial by Jury. Docs the Duho of Newcastle think
that Alfred was Protestant or that the Barons
ut Runnemede Were Pedestrians. But to touch
upon case that apDcrtnns more nearly tr his
Grace. Who was II that gave tho people tho
power of self taxuunn, aud fixed. IL he did not
create, tho representation of the people! Edward T.
On, my Lord Duke, there were no rotten borourht
ihcn. Tho House of Commons WINS rot returned BY
set of mobiles, who, talking ehout liberty cDnOS I'll
all reform. There great nicn in those times
ol Catholic slavery. who in members 60 the
House of Commons, and, when n corrupt bcronn n
was cut of, cntrvcd to get it's still u,orc rotten ,b-
stitute INTO their pockets The House OF Commons
was then perfect mirror of the people, which .:as
unstoincd by the breath of an olyarchv. Give up
Your ten members, my Lord Duke and then YOU viii
talk OF liberty with better grace, if not to more
useful purpose II was to the first Edward that En-
gland was indebted for her Parliament and her pecl,-
mary control over the and the third Edwori
gave perfection To the system by holding annuaI Par
liamens. He, too, passed the great statute aqanst
constructive treason Engllshu,2n, with these facts
before you, how can YOU listen TO the men who toll
you thut popcry and slavery arc necessarily allicd.-
Englisrnen, when you peruso the ancient chronicles
OF your glory do not your hearts beat with sense of
exultation are not your emotions deeply stirred and
are not your natures highly kndlctp Where isShc
English boy who reads the story OF his own great isl
land, whose pulse does not warmly beat at the con
temptation of all the renowned names and all the lofty
incidents, with which the early annals of his country
are sp''uddly studded? Is there one OF YOU all who
hath not almost fallen down adore the memory of
AllrcH Have YOU turned dnators in the worship of
the immortal Edwards, Whu ~ there that has not
thrilled nj the mime of Runnrrncie and whose soul
hath not swcllcd and dilucI at the remembrance III
Tho ,N,s,s. "a. -
his head cx'nrtcd from iyrani your mighty, and I
trust III God that il will prove your eternal charters
Little did yon think land yet how could yuu FORGET
when you experienced YOU must. this generous na-
uohal cNulthtlon-lttle did You think that IL vas at
the aitars OF religion which YOU are inst ructcd
TO - lsIdcr H. the Handmade of oppres>on tina; the
great ProTertrrs of liberty knet down--you NAV
write darnnation upon every grave winch bear rs date
before the year l52l but in the face of clear and in
disputn1lf evidence, with Alfred and the Edwards
with Tfillby Jury with Parliament and with Magnn
Chartn before you, do not dCncunce the rcl:rion of
v'ir forctnth the mother of slavery anu visit il
with MI IN" cXcration th1 should pursue the parent
Of So dct"stabc child. II were disposed So IN do
might not tern the leaves of history npon yor and
inter- Won had charged my creed with il, scrv, tendcn-
coS might not ask, whether the cradle Of the refor-
nation was rot rocked WI bloody & an iron hand,
w hethcr tenry did not tram le upon liberty, and
ms base Parliament made him a voluntary r.cas,.
ana surrender of the Constitution did liberty exist
~ Tie reign OF that prccocous theolngian Edward
VIZ or under the a,ispc" OF the virgin OF the rcEor
nation who took infant Professionalism under her maid
IN auspices on might say TO me, if | were sufij-
centiy hold 10 press these considerations that should
not recr To sch remote events-on the very din thu,
ord Russell parshed on the scaffold the niycrsitv
The Protestant University ~ Oxford. the sent OF no
orcn Christianity the throne of English orthodoxy
published its declaration III favour of passive obed-
rnce. Gut let travel little out of Eoulond PRO
eslansm, 1t l. said Is the iiseparablc COMMUNION OF
lorrty-th"y orc always found alking arm in arm to-
-c'hcrln their march for the Improvement ofmankind
II tins be how does = hapncn that Prussia IL Pro
estant, and Prussia is n slave. and Sweden x y pc
fcStan, and Sweden is n slave and Denmark - Pro-
tcstar, and Denmark is 4 slave; and half tho German
'tates are Professionals, and ure also siaycso Turn
now 10 Catholic Euroue Look nt Italv MT s she IA
but she long before the r--,9 of Jp,,or ,y-s
ever u.crcd-look n hc- when the Catholic N-s her
religion, ana libarty was her glorious Practice. cal
IN her crowd of republics Witnesses in ut cause
which nm thus daring CROUCH to plead Gore vou
Venice, Catholic Venice, rises UP from the ocean.
with all hcr republican glory round GDoUt her Ven
&c fell at last into oigarchv: but Venice vas for
500 years noble AMI lofty democratic government
next produce "a witnesses in my favour Genoa and
Florence and all the rest of those free states in which
Popery, liberty literature. and the arts grew up nd
tonriHhed together. Turn To SNizeria nd-ehnlI (
no, find evidence in her Alpine valleys in my favour,
Look to Francc--hns not France charter parlia-
nent, end trial by jury, IT, the strain Of ca
qnchcc he took view ofhe Penal Code and set fr, IN
The clsDs Of tho Catholics of ireland to crlancpa-
ton. lie concluded this: This is ail that ask
Leave the LEGISLATURE IL Nh" uncontrolled exercise Of
ITS discretion and 10 not tc'l the Parliament that the
letters oi your Fellow citizens must he more ironul,
boitCd On behalf ufmv country. on behalf Of unflr-
tunae Ireland conJurc, surpIicafc You not TO III
tericrc tor the lowheurtcd purposes Of oppression
II IS ungcncrous, i, is almost humanity il * unvorbv
NJ you Mon Of Kent, yon l.av" ncvcr been conquer
cd, vet Won sia no CONQUERED TO dcv but fho
shall ." obtained by Yourscivo5 C1n4ucr vour pro,,i
dces, obn'n fnasicrioiu over your antiquities be
vctors OF your passions. vonquish your anirnosities
aud put Your an:ipathios TO flight. Conquer YOUR
selves aud conquer us. This this is the way to sub
duo us-tls il tho way to obtain m empire over our
affections, aud to make our hearts vour Own. Mr..
5hiel sat down amidst tho reiterated wells of the
Brunswickcr5, and ne loud acclamatons Of their on
poncnts.