New-York daily tribune., 1843-08-31


cause pleasure as general and heartfelt as was the
sympathy expressed IN all quarters and by all
classes oi our community when the rumor OF }lr.
Halls sudden illness first got abroad.
Albany Journal, 29til.
The Repeal Question, IN ireland.
.iaericus' writes at much length IN reply to
our former remarks, and in the justification of the
c,act;on of Tities from Catholics in Ireland to
suppor, the Protestant Episcopal Church. He
says:
Bot 10 the Justification of the collection Of Tihes IL
J-,aad: vii, frs, premise however. tha you admit 'h
0smocrsc doctsi1- ia Democracy, the majority gov
rs> lsns mpose and collect fines and taxes, wIihon
s;og the conseat Of the ninorityha the conqueroT ha
r irh, 10 dictate laws the conqnereGthata l~etaa'
Sovereign has the sh If able 10 dave out the usnFiers OF
hs throne and country and when restored 10 h regal nights
10 impose ;ras and penalties upon all rebels and ioresr
.nrrsrs and triT a,prent who remain IN or secfte them
s4re. within his domaicus These aIepopostons ioifi
fed hy the laws Of Nature aud o Na;oas AID supported b!
history
Now !, would be idle to publish The whole o.
ms article when It's fundamental positions are sc
et-angelg erroneous We do not admit any one
of these propositions, but dissent from them al
,nost decisivey We do, indeed, admit the ne
eessi,y OF Government, and of course the ncces
sity of obedience on the part OF the whole peop'
10 the laws enacted By the governing power; bui
we dcnv the right OF majority TO govern except
IN obedience to the Constitution and by virtue o.
that Constitution. We deny the right of any
PafIamert, e,ou, re.o, tropuldl majority 10 pass
an unast law, Q? to compel citizens Of one reli,
oio,is faith TO contribute money to support and
extend another If Congress should pass law
compelling our People to support any Church.
and the Supreme Court declare ii Constitutional
4ge should deny longer Its legal validity but
rs intrinsic justice; we should obey it as law,
40 far as it did not violate our rights Of conscience
though enacted in defiance of the Constitution
but labor s,renuously for It's Repeal. No matte,
how large the majority IN favor OF such a law
snicht be, 1t would still be usurpaton and not q
INST and GOOD act Jus, SO of the IriSh Repeal
We do not contend that the Union now existing
between Great Britain and Ireland is legally in,
raGd and of no effect. but we insist that it is ini-
ou.,ous and oppressive, and therefore should be
repealed,
The right of conquerors TO dictate laws 10 the
conquered we utterly deny. It is just az strong
as the right of highway robber 10 take travel.
er's purse or his h;c, and no stronger. As TO g
.legi,inate sovereign we know none such, IN i
stect sense. but Cod though the consent of a
g,eopie may give u man the right TO rule over
xhem, so far as he rules nstly-no farther. As
20 the laws OF Nature giving right 10 intiic,
pains and penalties for real or lancicd injuries We
know no such laws. To the extent required BY
self preservation, the preservation OF Others the
bad may be constrained we recognize ne iarthe!
night IN Man 10 infict injury upon his fellows.
Americus says that Tithes were imposed on
ehe whole of Ireland by the Catholics-,hat Ire
land was gwen to a King Of England by Pops
al Rome, 700 years ago, &c. &c.-What IS al
this TO US The Pope had no more power to
give away Ireland than VIC have; his dong SC
was a sheer nuility. If Catholics have exacteo
1i,hes of Pro,es,ants or prosecuted them IN an!
way. las they doubtless have done then they die
wrong ; and their wrong is beacon TO be avoid
ed, no, al example to be initiated, \ pas; wrong
IS no sort OF excuse Tor present one
Promising that the great majority Of the Peo,
pie ot Ircllnd realty believe they belong 10 the
same C6urch tner iatilefS nave OSen members o.
ever since they embraced the Christian faith,
tthough the CAwcdes have in good part been for,
cihly taken from them, and gwen TO a Church
which has lew members among them,l we give
the following paragraph from Americos ger
Dgtim:
lf0ay portion Of the llish people wish TO gy'Fd OF pay
10, .i,hrs to iayerumen. Church which has reNI :,
no ,yo,shers e; then contorn TO The ais q ts aaa
4suouace ,heis rebellion senism and Teara 70 the wo
ship OF toe Church Of their fathers as 1t existed IN Eaiaao
d Ireland pror 70 u,arPatiop Of The Bishop OF Rene
foreign Prrcs-aad tiere Will beno Cause OF compliant
The is,>h snd the ns Dsseaters or noa'eoa'
fornis,s therefore ser7 HARDSHIP whea they are p"l
upon The footing with the spbecs Of the same Govern,
meat under whose protection they live by paying taxes
ihes 10. the support Of ,hA, Government any brsaoi q
aways keeping IL mind The aai,y ofhe State and Church
which aity ssoucat abcu, cemea,ed by the oa,
nsuspers themselves. Who now complain
Reader. could you imagine that the writer OF
the above paragraph considers himself an .i,ne,4
can, and a friend of Civil and Religious Liberty /?
THE HARslMUs ArfRAY.-Some important ad
atoasl ,es,ioay hss heea obtained in relation the Hs
sinus aasay. and duplicating person aanied Graham as
,s murderer The witnesses Michael Burke and his