The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-03-15

New Testament for the defence and propaga-
ton of the faith but the Word of God and the
spirit of God? How does the Apostle explain
the principle of its triumphs in that age when
the truth so mighty to the pulling down OF
strongholds? 1t was because the weapons of
his warfare were not carnal he confined
himself to the use of spiritual weapons, the on
ly ones by which to assail the strongholds either
of Popery or Paganism. The kingdom Of God,
which is not of this world, refuses to be indebted
for its advancement to any other Reason, and
Scripture, and prayer-these compose, or ought
to compose, the whole army of Professionalism !;
and it is by these alone that the battles of the
faith can be successfully fought. 1t is since the
admission of intolerance, that unseemly as
sociate within our camp, that the cause of the
Reformation has come down from its vantage
ground; and from the moment it wrested this
engine from the hands of its adversaries, and
began to WELD and brandish it itself, from that
moment it has been at dead stand. We want
to be disencumbered of this weight, and to be
restored thereby to our own free and proper
energies We want truth and force to be dis
severed from each other, the moral and spiritual
to be no longer implicated with the grossly
physical; for never shall we prosper and never
shall we prevail in Ireland, till our cause be
delivered from the outrage and the contamina-
ton of SO unholy an alliance.
" 1t is not because | hold Popery to be in
nocent that want the removal of these dsabil-
tiles; but because / hold that if these were
taken ont OF the way, she would be tenfold more
assailabie. 1t is not because | am Indifferent
to the good of Professionalism that want to dis
place these artificial crutches from under her :;
but because want that, freed from every symp-
| tom of decrepitude and decay, she should stand
forth in her own native strength, and make
manifest to all men how firm a support she has
| on the goodness of her cause and on the basis
of her orderly and welllaid arguments It is
because l count so much-and will any Prot
eStant here present say that l count too
much ?-on her Bible, and her evidences, and
the blessing OF God upon her Churches, and
the force of her resistless appeals to the con-
science and the understandings of men, it is
because of her strength and suffciency in these
that l would discaim the aids of the statute
book, and own no independence or obligation
| whatever on a system of intolerance. These
| were enough for her in the days of her suffer-
| ing, and should be more than enough for her in
the days of her comparative safety. 1t is not
| by our fears and our false alarms that we do
honor to Professionalism. A far more BETTING
honor to the great cause is the homage of our
confidence; for what Sheridan said of the liber
| ty OF the press, admits Of most emphatic appli-
cation to this religion of truth and liberty
| Give, says the great orator, give to Ministers
corrupt House of Commons; give them
plant and servile House of Lords give them
the keys OF the Treasury and the patronage of
the Crown; and give me the liberty of the press,
and with this mighty engine l will overthrow
| the fabric of corruption, and establish upon its
ruinsl the rights and privileges of the people,
| In lire manner, give the Catholics of Ireland
their emancipation; give them a seat in the
Parliament of their country; give them free
and equal participation in the politics of the
realm give them place at the right ear of
majesty, and a voice in his counsels and give
me the circulation of the Bible, and with this
mighty engine | will overthrow the tyranny of
Antichrist, and establish the fair and original
form of Christianity on its runs.*
"The politics of the question | have left to
other and ADLER hands. l view it only in it's re-
| ligious bearings; and give it as my honest
conviction, and believe the conviction of every
| true-hearted Protestant who knows wherein it
is that the great strength of his cause lies, that
we have everything to hope from this proposed
emancipation, and that we have nothing to
fear."+
*"rhe delivery of this splendid passage. which was
gwen with progOus force ehcied burst applause
ueaeg ana enthusiastic that the effect altogt te
sublime. The shouts and huZzas thrice renewed
and IT was with difficulty the speaker could proceed"
Caledonidn Mercury, March, 1sa9.
The conclusion of the reverend Doctors speech was
received with renewed shouts and huzzas the whole a-
dience standing and waving their hats the air This
continued several minutes without difficulty
that the tunul OF admiration was