The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1839-08-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ATROCITY OF THE POLITICAL PRINCIPLES OF ROMISH BISHOPS AND PRIESTS, BY WHICH THEY INFLAME THE POOR ROMAN CATHOLICS OF IRELAND. 29th. Resolved—That the laws for violating all contracts with heretics, and reclaiming the forfeited estates in Ireland, are laid down in the volume of Papal laws set up by the Popish Bishops in 1832, by which the priests are to direct the consciences of the people, and by which the Popish •Bishops are to rule the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and that this is quite sufficient to account for the restitution of this property forming part of the oath of the unfortunate Ribbonmen, as proved before the committee of the Lords. 30th. Resolved—That the laws for excommunicating the Protestant Sovereign, and all authorities under the Sovereign, in church and state, being Protestants, and generally all Protestants of all classes, are laid down in the same volume of Papal laws by the Popish Bishops, by which the priests are to be drilled to direct the consciences of the people, and by which the people are to be governed, and that this is quite sufficient to amount for the oath for overturning the British Government in this country, and for all.the sedition and disaffection that can be found among the poor Ribbonmen of Ireland. 31st. Resolved—That the atrocious principles of persecution and blood laid down in the standards of the priests by their bishops, whereby they are to direct the consciences of the people—that the same atrocious principles laid down in the Rhemish notes which have been circulated by the Popish bishops among the people as the infallible commentary on the Scriptures—that the still more directly atrocious lawslaid down by the Romish bishops in 1832, whereby it is expressly stated to be the duty of these bishops to exterminate heretics out of their diocess ; and this on the authority of that statute of murder and treason under which the Albigenses and Waldenses were slaughtered in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—that these are quite sufficient to account for the oath of the poor Ribbonmen for the ex:..:.ion of the Protestants of Ireland, and sufficient to acc....ant for the murder of the Protestant clergy, of Lord Norbury, and of all Protestants who had fallen victims to the hand of the assassin in this country. 32d. Resolved That the inculcation, by the Popish bishops and priests, of their infernal principles into the poor Roman Catholics, under pretence of religion, is quite sufficient to account for all the guilt and misery of this wretched country—for all the crimes and cruelties that disgrace it— for all the heartburnings and party spirit that separate the cordial warm hearts of Irishmen from each.other, and make the inhabitants of Ireland more like the basest, darkest Pagans than like men professing Christianity—that this is sufficient to account for any bloody insurrection or rebellion that such principles of Popish bishops and priests could excite, and to account for all the various pretences by which a paid tool of the bishops and priests, like Daniel O'Connell, contrives for ever-to keep the poor people in a state of insur rectionary ferment and organization, till it might seem expedient for the Pope to give command to the bishops to execute the law of extermination which they have laid down.