Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-10-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OCT. 9, 1868.   • persecution to demand religions equality. The Irish priests only carry out faithfully the doctrines of their Church and the teaching of their superiors. Archbishop Manning tells us that, ' when properly constituted, neither the Church .-; nor the State knows anything of tolerance—in ' s word, that it is the duty of the Roman Catholics, where they are strong enough, to persecute; , and they do it systematically and vigorously. Are we, then, to strengthen them? In face of the Established Church, which provides in every parish a centre and rallying point of r Protestant organisation, Protestants are persecuted. In the workhouses they are subject to every species of annoyance and maltreatment. On the high roads they are stoned and beaten. Converts are beaten within an inch of their lifes, and no legal redress is obtained. The cold and temperate Whately pronounces their condition As helpless and wretched as that of a negro slave. Girls are insulted, hooted, and hustled; charitable ladies are threatened with filthy indignities, the priest from the altar advising and ' hounding on the attack. A dignitary of the Roman Church publicly incites his flock to ' assault Protestant missionaries, and tells jurors ' that is their duty to acquit such outrages. We ,I flee something of the same kind in England. Mr Murphy is not a wise or a temperate man; but he is wiser, more temperate, and infinitely more obedient to the law, than scores of Romish priests. No one molests the latter; they are allowed to insult and revile Protestantism as they please; but, when their creed is attacked in turn, liberty of speech is met by organised violence, and Irish mobs assemble in the streets of English towns to put down with stones and bludgeons, the public preaching of a Protestantism not one whit more violent than llte Popery that is preached with perfect 'lmmunity from interference. It has come to even in England, that Popery has more om of speech than Protestantism • that , e latter must lower its voice and moderate , language lest the priests and their people sewed should be provoked to break the peace ! In Ireland, as we have seen, Popish ascendancy is upheld not merely with stones and bludgeons, but by deliberate murder. And yet the Papists call upon us to give them "religious squality"—that, is to rob their victims of their th roperty, and tear down their last protection. e wolf complains that the lamb muddies the ' stream, and inveighs against the injustice of establishing a sheepfold 1 One word more concerning Mr Gladstone's allies. The alliance is intimate and personal; e head of the Romish Church in England was troduced by the son of the Liberal leader der the gallery, and in sight of the use of Commons they exchanged contulations on the anticipated triumph. Yet Io Mr Gladstone has been, and aspires again to be, a Minister of the Crown; while the Romish archbishop preaches open treason. That preaching ought not to pass unnoticed. When Popery was proscribed and persecuted in England (except under the Puritans) it was not on religious grounds. The mass might be hateful to the people; but Parliament and the Crown had sense enough to have tolerated the mass if it had covered no political dangers. But in those days Rome openly asserted her right to depose and dethrone kings; and Roman Catholics believed and acted upon the doctrine. They were long persecuted, and still longer subjected to political disability, not as heretics, but as traitors. When they acquired emancipation it was because they had renounced and ,jured "the damnable doctrine that princes communicated by the Bishop of Rome may wfully be deposed and murdered by their subjects." Within forty years of the empancipation Dr. Manning revives that doctrine, and r- 'n affirms that the Pope may at his pleasure *communicate the Queen, and that excom, unication absolves her Roman Catholic subjects from their allegiance. We refer our leaders to the quotations that appeared in the per numbered