Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-05-19
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MONDAY MORNING, NAY Is, 1929.
Foreign .Hs,os.--The intelligence from England,
Claims and receives precedence in our columns. The
triumphant passage ofthe Catholic bill, after srug-
gle SO long and rnemorable--the sudden restoration
of 5000 900 people equality of constitutional
privilege and protecton--ought to be esteemed, and
really and intrinsicaliy is, OF the most benecent
events recorded III history. On the i8l March l779,
MIR. Fox, the most generous and enlightened states
that Eng land ever produced, made the first move
ment in Parliament in favor of Catholic liberation.
and on tho ia.l March 1929 exactly fifty years after
the conception worthy of Tire glorious Charles
James Fox received the sanction Of tbs British Lee
gislature. What pen tell the sH!ierilgs of the
irish, the kincst and most gallant of ratous, II the
interval Their feelings insuted by the osten lntiuus
exhibition of an imagined superiority deprived of
the rights permitted and secured TO others because
they chose to worship God their fathers had done
before the!n-unrepresented, but nude to beara fail
proportion Of all The brrt.elis Of
Ased over BY Orange cuos the flower of thciryouill
and talent driven into bapshment or gihbeted tor
asserting the fncrty Of their country-ve bea rims
al with colistancy and magnanimiiy, which
the more they were tried, tilc more irrepresiblc
and unconquerable did they become! Whether we
consider the length ard violence oflhc struggle the
Character of the principle involvedin it, the effect
ofts Particular termination upon the fortunes OF tc
greatest empire inthe world, the addition y!iic
II promises to the spva total of human prosperity, We
fancy but few unon candid comparison, Will deny it
70 be the most instrious triumph which liberty has
gained since I776 IefGry in his speech at Etlin-
burgh expressed some regret that the great victory
had not been achieved By the wings, who for half
Century had combated in favor OF ireland against ST.
Perstitio, bigotry and the combined host of state and
hierarchy bat had at last been reserved to illustrate
the history ola tory administration On tue other
hand, we feel more satisfaction, We thlk is more
honorable 10 free principles and expressive Of
their onward and aspiring march TO universal lomn-
ion that tory government has felt itself compelled
by necessity, against its wishes, gainst the pre-
JUDGES of the whole body of It's natural friend and
supporters, to make the concession to equality and
the rights of man. Having at different times, pub
lshed the speeches Of InaDy of It's eminent friends in
andou of Parliament, we re-publ!s!l to-day tie
speech of Lord Eldop, the champion OF tie Anti Ca
tholcs against nanumissiop, that the reader inay
lave fair view of both sides of the question.
In Boston, New York Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Alexandria, we observe that measures are taking to
celebrate the liberation of Ireland by public festivals
We have been requested by several invite tie con-
slderatien of Richmond 10 the same subjects and IS
ay event is worthy ofthis sort of Communications We
think that The restoration to liberty OF 100000 OF
men, SO intimately connected with us by national
feeling and consanguinitv, is such an event.
In this demonstration of satisfaction, all rartics
should unite. to prove that however torn by dones-
tic dssentioUs, the love Of liberty animates all alike
and that if We seek different methods to maintain arr,
perpetuateit at home all are equally ready, to celc=
bfate her triumphs abroad. Jacksonians ard anti
Jacksonans Conventionists and anti-Ccnventionists
Ind IN the Emancipation of Ireland the triumph Of
ure great common cause, for which they are all con-
tending by different views and opposing arguments
and if divided by domestic differences, let them meet
for once, in concord and fraternity to express their
Congratulations for the redemption Of Ireland, and
the progress of human rights.