The daily union., 1854-12-29

SHALL GREE AMERICA" BECOME MORE CRUEL
AND UNJUST THAN ssDESPoTIC ENGLAND ?"

Mr.. EDITOR This may be considered AL the first view
impernent interrogaory and would all answer with
indignation Mo- Surely every who knows the hso-
ny of the counrywhose heart has been made melt at
its perusa and in whose eye the has gathered in
tempstng the long and doubtful struggle of the oppress
ed against the oppressor-will feel inclination to
established here system of injustice and wrong which
that cruel government has long abandoned repoaehul
to the British throne England, in the civil
that followed the Reformation and particularly after the
assertion of Henry VIII the extraordinary claim of the
"Dvine right of Kings rule mankind conceived and
tosered peculiar hostility to the Catholic religion whose
especial advocate Henry himself claimed be and doubt
less would have continued had he been INDUCED in his
desires But leave this subject for have desire to
dwell upon that amentahle period in the history of
kind when all the bonds of society severed and
arayed against each other gut revenge more in
saabe than the rage Of the wild beasts of the desetl
have wish CRAFTY by narratng the sad tale of de-
pravity and deluson that inspired lift their hands
against the throat of their fellows in the sacred name of
religion and of God
But would turn away from this gloomy panorama
of terror and of blood where behold nothing but sectar
anism struggling for power and for dominion where
Catholic arrayed against Protestant and Protestant against
Catholic; where behold Protestant and Catholic united
against Protestant and Protestant armed with revenge
against both! Still, It's well to dwell upon this picture
for instruction and for advice This awful frowning
ument it stands towering in history, is like beacon
light warning the world that its approach is danger that
its is death The fathers of the republic advised
and admonshed in establishing true liberty for the first
time in the world and in giving that great by which
could alone be protected and preserved postery
avoided the phlpool the "Haesomn of sectaransm into
whose vortex societies and nations had been drawn and
overwhelmed They marked the courses and the distances
to be observed by the future mariner upon the of hu
freedom and either side, in their wisdom safety was
not but danger and destruction inevitable
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those who should after them the incsmabe of
liberty that other times and other could ever assert
and advocate overthrow Of that temple whose foundation
was laid in revolution and whose arches cemened in
blood But those times and those men have come not
with peace love- liberty but with an insidous
poison fatal to every sentiment of public veal Religion
be made tes of merit capacity and the secular
is invoked to establish prescription legalize Unjust
ice and oppression England in the days of her power
her cruelty established this system and retained it long
But blind, bgoted, oppressive England after
ries of outrage upon human nature abolished it. She
learned that there in her heart yulture
her vita that day would prove her destruction and
for sefpreservaton she applied andote and broke
the chain that bound ueayiag death her institutions
She gave the Catholics liberty She passed the emanci-
patton and 1893 eventtu epoch in her history
which united ongdivded subjects in the friendly relations
of elow-citizens.
Upon that great question which gave peace and security
to England and equal liberty TO the Catholics Pitt Burke
and Gratan took leading part These the ad-
vocate of freedom to the colonies in the days of their trials
against the oppressor They all Protes,an
and could not be suspected of advocacy inconsistent
with the best interests of the Protestant religion Grattan
was member of the Presbyterian church in Ireland He
was an rishman he knew Catholics and il was his pride
to defend them and plead for their rights and the last
great of his public life for them When the eInan
cpaon blf was before Parliament in 1898 he spoke
follows:
aThe objection TO Catholic freedom under the British
constitution proceeds to state that thousand irish
Catholics fought against Great Bra in The american
"s true your tellowsubects have emgrated from poy
erty and oppression in their country and sometimes
have war and if you wish them in
in other countries your method should be to give them
better condition at home have considered your s-
alton and your arguments situation OF extraordinary
peril arguments of extraordinary weakness of monopoly
of panic of prejudice of anything but Acknowledgements
which, like the fabric they would sustain stand the
proof Of any trial the principles of morality
those of religion, those of policy those of const
tuition neither the touch of time the revolutions of
mankind Their tendency is TO make freedom monop-
oily their tendency is to make God monopoly have
heard of monopoes of salt monopoles of rice monopo-
lies of corn but here isa monopoly of the Almighty And
yet the who urge these arguments of talents
Compare compound, abstract; but, in this instance,
the sting of their madness, so strangely perplexed
in the intellectual function, should think God had
smtten the intellect of the country, well her for
tunes, with some distinguished imbeclityW
g have read of republic where the whole business of
ton. suppose more extraordinary state where the
law excluded from serving the public reefourhs of the
people unless they would give heoloqcat opinion toch
tnq Tie abstract point Of dpty and eeify that opinion
oath. have heard of Athens that cruel republic excu-
ding many of her children from the rights of citi
zenshp but she had only the wisdom of Socrates and the
light of Plato she had not like you, Revelation to in
her besides she had pressshe had the
benefits of your lesson What lesson? That TO people
not W 6m The eOado" of iring; and that % oe bound
seitho your to be stare and, therefore
satisfied in 1882 with the free exercise of
religion" What your public tracts your repeated
addresses TO the King the Speakers annual speech the
Throne what are they while the penal code remains
but many dangerous and intammaory publications fe
citang the Protesans the blessings Of the constitu
ton from whence hreetourhs Of The people ercn6dF
You struggling with difficulties, you imagine You
mistaken you struggling with impossiblitcs To
enchain the mind to in the volatile essential soul
tower dungeon, much less Parliament, be
tentve of those fires knded by yourselves in the breasts
of your fellow-subects would have you this time
disrust that religious vanity which tells you that these
unfit for freedom They have answered that
vanity in strain of oratory peculiar TO the oppressed
1t is the error of sects 10 value themselves more
upon their differences than their religion aad in these
differences, in which they forget the principles of their
regon they imagine they have discovered the mystery of
salvation And to this supposed discovery they have offered
human sacrifices What human sacrifices have offered
The dearestthe liberties Of elowsubjects Dsrust
again that aacous policy which tells you your power
advanced by their bondage il is your power but
your punishment it is liberty without energy-you know
it, 1t presents yop with monopoly and the monopoly of
others not your own 1t presents you with the image of
monster in state where the heart gives circulation
and the limbs receive life. nominal representative
and nominal people Call not this your misfortune it is
yourt is your execution. Never could law of Nature
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