New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-19

hands TO kin the living principle from which their own
vitality was derived.
Episccpalisn CLAyrRHousE harnesses the Covenant
ers in the Scotch mosrs and the brave hearts take
the lonely glen for their tsmple OF worship ard knee
ing on the hezrher with their hands their elsymore
his put their trust in God, and keep their powder
dry.
Whist terrible necessity drives that weary ship
across the wntry ocean, with It's freight Of anxious
hearts steering for an unknown landi Why do their
souls rejoice Of the first sight Of that bleak nhosptsbe
shore lifting its bosom of from the black waves
On that ship were the Pilgrim Fathers, flying from he
intolerance that would not allow them free asrs in
their own England; and when they set foo, on Ply
mouth Rock they knew that they were saved. Censa'
RES of penal laws could not out from the hearts
of our Irish people the love of their prosecuted creed
That barbarous code of barbsrous age robbed Us OF
goods of land of civil rights of education ofpower, or
hope Of advancement Il ingenious torture that
checked every aspiration of genius, and stopped the
pulse of national e and ye. the Irish people drew TO
their hearts with closer love- the wronged and nsuted
faith They loved It all the better because Il was
wronged and insulted For there is generous instinct
that EXISTS mans sympathies for what Is oppressed
there in him force Of resistance that leaps to de-
fend from aggression bis dearest right there Is an eter
nal resolve that no earthly shall be thrust between
his sdoring soul ard God.
In the days OF these penal laws my fathers suffered
grevous wrong. Twas yet child, when the last fet
tiers fell from the limbs OF my Roman Catholic coun-
trymen The first political effort which can remem.
Der was for Catholic Emancipation. The phrase re
heious liberty" was familiar to my before was old
enough to comprehend its meaning. Since then have
learnt that it is principle of universal applicability
not true in one Of the earth sone or at one
time but always and everywhere. That man hiss an
inherent right believe that creed he thinks tuesta and
hoHest-to worship he deems most pleasing TO God.
and to teach preach and to propagate his opinions
among others by all peaceful and moral means. That
this right Ia hs not because he Ia Catholic or Protest
ant but because he Is man and that all human laws or
edicts that under any pretex whatever. restrain or
restrict its full and free exercise absurd, unjust
ard cruel, whether in Rome or in Englnd-in Tus
csny or in sweden-in Russia or in New Hampshire
utterly incapable of defense excuse.
Sir believe the days Of fsnstacism drawing to
clo.e Intolerance is not yet dead indeed but it ia
ncursbly disabled The will to persecute mag linger
for awhile but the power passing away forever |.
cannot stand before discussion The Pressthe great
nquisitor Of the day - has its spies abroad, and
wrong can 60 long undetected unwbipped of justice
The cause Of intolerance is lost and hopeless cause
Taught By all history have begun TO acknowledge
that to enforce identity of opinion BY law is as wild an
attempt as to establish pattern Of limb or compel
uniformity of feature.
We have had enough of penal laws-enough Of mar
yrs-euough of the faggot and the sske-too much OF
hatred II surely time to try what liberation, what
Christianity can do 1t has done much 1t has mtgaed
the cruelty laws and by its gentle influence restrained
even some of the ferocity Of war. Against religious
intolerance the stronghold of bsrbarisn, it must IN
the end prevail.
Men will learn to estimate the worth OF dogmas by
the conduct Of those who profess them, and to make
converts not by the importantly of fanatic ZEAL bat by
de exercise of such acts of benevolence as prove,
whatever be the form of worship that the spirit of Re-
ligion is there.
For a tina, and a that.
Tie coming for that
That the world Der
shall brothers be for that