The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1855-08-31

! tr;,'h walked through our island with In,
ih'"ht ana progress OF conqucror, So soo,
as Pr"p;cd bv the authority Of the State
The ar:nor OF Intolerance WAS given To her
the brilliant career Of her victories was end,
cd 1t was when she. took up the carna
! and laid down the spiritual wcaron--it was
then that strength went out OF her-She
was struck with impotency OH the instan,
'hat from a warfare OF principle it became
warfare O! politics. There are gentlemen
opposed to lis profound in the documents Of
! history; but she has really nothing to offer
nan 50 instructive as the living history that
IS now before our cvcs. With the paius
and Penalties TO fight against, the cause
oi R"'orina'iou did almost every thing in
l'rIialn; with the PAINS and penalties ON
us >:'e, !; has done nothing, and worse than
nothing, i'll ireland.
''l''lt after all it Is Il question which does
not require the evidence. Of history for elu
"'datlon. There shines upon it an inrmedi
ate hight from the known laws and princi-
pies OF human nature. When truth and
'aSc:'"od enter into collision upon equal
ter'ns, and do so with their own appropriate
weapons, the rcsnIt is infalliLlc. Name
est rcritoS Ct prcraicbi. But if to strenr,h
eli the cause Of truth you put the forces of
the Statutc-I5ooE under her command, there
instantly starts up on the side of faIschooL
m auxiliary far more formidable. You may
lay an incapacitv on the persons. or vou may
put restraint and limitation on the property
'"t Catholics; but the Catholic mnl be-
comes 'cntold more impregnahle than before.
We know the purpose Of these disabilities.
lhrv We're mean, TO serve as a barrier Of
defence for Irotcstan,s ugainst the eucroach.
mcnts Of P"perv and they have turned
out a barrier Of defence TO-" Parists against
the cncroac!mcnts Of Professionalism. They
were intended rs lire of crcumvallation
around the Strongholls Of tic Catholic faith.
II Is to force those now difficult a,:,l i,:acccs
sb!e strou9holIs that want this wall of
separation taken down. When sp,;.k of
force, :, is tho combined force Of truth and
cha'lty that mean and it is precisely be-
ca'Isc | believe Il TO bc. .omnipotcnt that \
am an Emancirasienist. 1t is preuis..!y be
cause l,aSrcc with the Duke Of Wellington
in thinking ll,sstsssaahe political distinction
We're done away, the result would be the
spread of Professionalism in Ireland. Had
we been suffered to lnin"le more extensively
with orr Catholic fellow subjects, and TO
company with them in the walks of civil
ana political business there would, ut this
day, have been the TRANSMISSION of another
feeling, the breath o.! another spirit among
tl'rin :: nor should we have bchcld as nov
the lmpracticab!c countc,ancc, the rcsolute
and unyisding attitude q! III aygricvcd and
on;caSt population.
Il an sensible Of one advantage which
our opponents have against rs, and that
is Il certain command over the religious feel
lnSs Of the population: and yet | AM not
aware ofany public topic OH which the pop
u'ar and prevailing cry ever ran so counter rs
It does at present to the whole drift aud
spirit Of Christianity. What other irs,ru-
mcnt do we read of in the New Testaulent
Tor the defence and propagation of the faith,
but the Word of God aud the spirit of God
How does the Apostle explain the prin-
c'pcs OF It's triuInphs in that when the
truth was SO mighty to the pulling down
OF strongho'ds! It WAS because the wca-
pons OF his warfare were not carlal. lie
confined himself to the use OF spiritual wca-
pons, the only ones by which to assail the
stronglolds, either of Popcry or Paganisln
The kingdom of God, which is not Of this
world, refuses TO he indebted for its advance
mcnt to any other. Reason, and Scripturs1
and Praycr-these compose or ought to
compose, tho army of Professionalism andl
tits by e::esc alone that the battles ofthe faith
can be successfully fought. It is sinccsthc
of intolerance, that unseemly rs
sociate within our camp, that the cause
of the Reformation has come down from
its vantage ground and from the moment
1t wested this engine from the hands Of
its adversaries and begun 10 WELD and
brandish it itself, from that moment it has
been at a dead stand. We want to be
discncumbcred of this weight, and to be
restored thereby to our own free and proper
energies. We want truth and force to be
discovered 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 Ire
land, till our cause be delivered from the
outrage and the contamination of so unholy
an alliance.
ut is not because hold Popery to be
innocent, that want the removal of those
disabilities: but because hold that if these
were taken out Of the way, she would be
tenfold more assailable. 1t is not because
! am ipdifferentto the elgood of Protestant
ISM that want to displace these artificial
:ctutcles from under her; but because r
= want that, freed from every symptom Of do:
Isrsptads aud decay, shsasbould stand in.
Her Own native strength, and mai manifest
20 OIL men. how firm a support; she sas on.