Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-05-18
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FIre'g" NtlOs.-The intelligence from England
claims and receives precedence in our colums. Tn,
triumphant passage ofthe Catholic bill, after a strug.
gle so long aud memora5le-the sudden restoration
OF goo, 900 Of people to an equality Of constitutions
privilege and protection-ougit TO be esteemed, aud
really and intriHsically is, one of the most b~enefcen,
events recorded in history. On the 18Th March 1879
Mr.. ToX, the most generous aud enlightened states
man that Engiand ever produced, made the first move
ment i'll Parliament in favor Of Catholic liberation,
andon the 18th March 1929, exactly fifty years after
the conception so worthy O. tie glorious Charles
James Fox, received the sanction OF the British Lee
%gislatuse. What pen can tell the suft7ings OF the
Irish, the kindest and most gail7ut of nations, in TIE
interval! Their feelings insultcd by he osten;atious
exhibition Of an imagined Observation-Disclosures OF
the rights permitted and secured 20 Others, because
they chose TO worship God as their fathers had done
before thcm-unrepreseRtcd, but made to bear q full
proportion OF all the burthens Of Observation-Disclosures
nizcd over by Orange clubs, the flower of their youth
and talent driven into Punishment or gibbeted Tor
asserting the liberty Of their country-yet bearing
all with a c%onstancy and mag~nanumity, which
the more they were tried, tho more irrcpresiblc
and unconquerable did they become! Whether VIC
''cle vic Ntt.tN hlh Nlp4tuIt % INC ftFNUNlr. Tnc
character of the principle involved in it. the effect
otits particular termination upon the fortunes of the
greatest empire IN the world, or the addition which
1t promises to the sum total oi human prosperity, we
fancy but few upon n candid comparison, will DENY il
70 be tho most illlstrious triumph which liberty has
;aincd since i77G. JciTcry in his speech at Edin-
burgh, expressed souc regret that the great victory
lad not been achieved by the wings, who for half q
century had combated in favor Of ireland, against SUI
pc%rstition, bigotry and the combined host Of state and
hierarchy, but had at last been reserved 20 illustrate
the history ola tory administration. On the other
hand, VIC feel more satisfaction, VIC think II is moro
honorable 10 free principles, and more expressive Of
their onward and aspiring march 20 universal doniu.
ion. that a tory government has felt itself compelled
by necessity, against its own wishes, against the pre-.
JUDGES Of the whole body Of it's natural fric nds aud
supporters, to make The concession TO ecvqAiy and
the rights Of man. Having at different limos, pub
hshcd the speeches OF many Of It's eminent friends IN
and out Of Parliament, VIC r%c-publisll to-day the
speech Of Lord Eldon, the champion Of the Anti-Ca-
tholics, against manumissiou, that the reader may
have a loir view Of both sides Of the question.
In Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltim ore and
Alexandra, VIC obscr We that measures are tax inr to
celebrate the liberation ofIreland by public festivals.
We have been requested NY several to invite the con-
sidcrution Of Richmond 10 tho same subject; and il
any event is worthy Of this sort of commentator we
think that tho restoration of G 900. 600 Of mon, so in.
timatcly connected with us by national feeling and
consunguinity, is such an event.
In this demonstration Of satisfaction, al parties
should unite, 70 prove that however torn BY dones.