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religion shall be tolerated.-Surely [as brethren, being the creatures of

the same heavenly father, and, having an equal right to worship God in the way they think best; and, as they bear the burdens and share the dangers of the state as well as others, it is unjust to deny them equal privileges: hence we disclaim all title or inclination to deny them the same privileges which we claim ourselves, for by attempting to do so we immediately become inconsistent; whoever would deny to the catholics such a privilege is not a genuine friend of true liberty; the catholics should be invited and welcomed to join

this liberal conduct on the part of a catholic people whose colour is as black as their religious principles are represented to be, by some of the white natives of this bragging land of freedom, will silence the foul and bloated calumnies of the latter, and induce them to adopt the example thus set them by men who but a few years ago were the slaves of a few rich European planters, by granting religious emancipation to the English and Irish bondslaves to protestantism, who are allowed by their task-masters to spill their blood in defence, and 'con-heart and hand with their brethren tribute their money to the exigencies, of the state, but are not permitted to reap the rewards due to their steady and faithful behaviour.

the protestants in their constitu tional efforts to procure an amelioration and reformation of all corruption and intolerance in the church and state, which are incompatible with the pure and primary constitution of our country; that we abhor the practices of venal and timeserving men, who, for ages past,

From the truly liberal and tolerant sentiments contained in the following resolution, agreed to at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Glasgow, convened to consider of the best means to remove the pre-prayed for the downfal of the pope; sent grievances of the country, and held on the 7th of January last, we augur the most favourable re sults, should they be generally a dopted, as nothing can tend more to the restoration of public harmony and confidence between the catholics and protestants of this country, which so happily prevails in America, as the inculcation of pure motives of charity towards each other.

and when Bonaparte achieved what their prayers could never accomplish, such was their inconsistency, that they prayed against the very man who has been instrumental in fulfiling their prayers; and, in so doing, they prayed against their own prayers. Now, that the pope is raised to his former power by the blood and treasure of our country, these temporising men remain mute. Not "That considering the many large a word against his holiness; yet still meetings which have taken place his followers are denied the same in its vicinity, at which many rabenefits that other members of the tional and able resolutions have been state enjoy, which shews the inconpassed, it would appear ostentatious sistency and hypocrisy of corrupt in this meeting to say any more up- and designing men, both in church on that subject; therefore it is re- and state. Solomon says, to respect solved that our sentiments and wish-persons is not good; yet for a piece es, having been mostly anticipated of bread men will transgress. We and expressed by the many large and trust the time is not far distant when respectable meetings in and about Scotchmen may serve their king and Glasgow, in whose resolutions we country, without the disgrace of abheartily concur: and, moreover, that juring their religion as by law esta we hold the pope and his apherents blished."

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DISGRACEFUL TRANSACTIONS OF THE termination of both clergy and peo

VETOISTS.

ple to resist the attempts now makT was my intention to have fol-ing to bring the spiritual rights of

lay dominion, and that too of an heterodox kind, would retrace their erroneous steps, in countenancing such impious designs, and renouncing their mistaken opinions, place themselves in their proper stations, at the head of the people, thus forming one united phalanx in petitioning for a restoration of those civil privileges of which our forefathers were deprived at a period of infamy and iniquity, unexampled in the annals of our

disquisitions on the subject of civil and religious liberty, which have headed the preceding numbers, but a circumstance of the utmost importance to the catholics of this kingdom has transpired since my last publica tion, which calls upon me to postpone the design, for the purpose of communicating the particulars of this event to my readers, with such accompanying remarks as the conduct of the actors therein may appear deserving. In my comments on the in-country. But, alas! the spirit of sidious report of Sir John Hippisley servility, the desire of gaining their last month, I slightly alluded to the lost inmunities, by any means whatdangerous behaviour of the vetoisti- soever, has obtained so powerful cal party, in tampering with the pre- an ascendancy over the minds of the tended friends of emancipation, and greater part of our titled members, I cautioned them of the perilous con- that no efforts, no sacrifices, on the sequences to religion which would part of the people appear to have any probably ensue from their servile force or effect upon them.-On the disposition to become the tools of contrary, they seem resolved to forefaction, as well as the hazard to go their legitimate situations, in orwhich they would expose their own der to become the panders of politisouls, by the abandonment of the most cal corruptionists. To substantiate honourable principles which bind this charge, we have only to take a man to his Maker, and fit him for brief retrospective view of the prosociety, for the purpose of gratifying ceedings of this mischief-making a selfish vanity to obtain a seat in party, since the introduction of the the senate, or the empty honour of unconstitutional clauses of the reliefsome civic title.-I did flatter my- bill of 1813 into the house of comself, that those individuals, whose mons, to the disgraceful transactions rank and influence entitle them to which took place a few day since in take a lead in the temporal affairs Dublin. First then it must be observconcerning our body, seeing the de-ed, the rejection of the before-menORTHOD. JOUR. VOL. V.

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tion to the renewal of so pernicious a measure, as should prostrate their venerated and sacred pastors at the feet of an anti-catholic ministrySo firm and general a resistance to the detested plan of vetoism we might have supposed would operate to produce conviction in the minds of those who had hitherto supported ecclesi

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to perceive their error, as well as to discover the fruitlessness of any attempt which might be made to render the scheme palatable to the body at large.—But such, it appears, was not the case. Having, if I may be allowed the expression, delivered themselves over into the hands of the enemy, they were resolved to use every means which art and perfidy could devise to betray the sacred cause of that religion, the profession of which they deemed dishonourable to renounce, but the principles of which they feared not to violate, and assist to bind their truly venerable, upright, and faithful pastors in the most odious fetters prepared for them by state-tinkers and shallow politi cians.-Would it not, however, have redounded more to their credit, if there is any credit in betraying the cause of God, to have joined at once the standard of the foe, and not con-tinue to assist him under false colours?-An open enemy may be respected, but a treacherous member must be despised and execrated.--If the vetoists are so anxious to gain ad

tioned oppressive bill, which, had it | passed into a law, would have deprived the pious guardians of our divine faith of one of the greatest blessings of the British constitution--the trial by jury, and subjected them to the penalty of transportation, at the fiat of a secretary of state, should they dare to exercise the functions conferred upon them by the Holytical restrictions, and enable them Ghost, without the approbation of a motley board of commissioners, became a subject of great lamentation and regret to this little band of placehunters, who expressed their chagrin and disappointment at the event, by attempting to degrade the most honest and zealous divine this country can boast, and stamped their own folly and dishonesty in the eyes of every independent and impartial man, by thanking those who wished to subvert their dearest and most important interests. For folly it must be in the extreme, to court and flatter statesmen who merely desired to retain them as the tools of their unjust desigus; and that man can never be considered honest, who would basely consent to deprive others of their rights, over which he has neither claim nor control, for the sake of gaining those which he and his forefathers had been iniquitously despoiled. While these things were going on here, the prelates in Ireand assembled and condemned the bill, not only as prejudicial to their characters as citizens of a free state, but also as derogatory to the princi-mittance into the temple of the constiples of their religion, and tending to tution, why not enter at once by the create a schism in the church.- gate which is open to them?—They These sentiments were received with might then view our struggles with-rapture and exultation by the great out engaging in them, and cease to mass of the catholics, both clergy add farther disgrace upon their and laity, throughout the whole guilty heads. For they may be askingdom; and Ireland,, in particu- sured, so long as they continue to lar, expressed her joy at the failure pursue that Machiavellian policy of the bill, where the people, by which they have followed for the last public declarations from one extre- twenty-five years, shame and discommity of the island to the other, fiture will be the fruit of their exereyinced the most determined oppositions as such have hitherto been the

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| who were entrusted with the care of
the missions, in the absence of the
efficient members of the propaganda,
to deliver us over to the parliament,
than he hastened in person to com-
municate the glad tidings to his em
ployers. But note the infinite care of
divine Providence.-- At the very mo-
ment the hireling priest was on his
way to London to announce the suc-
cess of his perfidious labours to his
place-hunting masters, the military
disasters of the ex-emperor of France
caused him to relent his unjust con-
duct towards the head of the church;
and before the members of the junta
had ceased congratulating them-
selves on the pleasing prospect then
before them, the unwelcome intelli-
gence suddenly burst upon their ears,
that the supreme pontiff was re-in-
stated in his high and exalted func-
tions, and the document which they
caused to be circulated with avidity
throughout the kingdom, as the hap
py omen of their triumph,
of course
became nugatory and of no significa-
tion.-Animated by a sense of duty
and truth, the prelates of Ireland
protested against these proceedings,
and the people once more proclaimed
their detestation of the measures
pursued to entrap them and the
clergy, solemnly declaring, in the
most unequivocal terms, their deter
mination not to accept of emancipa-

what has been the result of these vile proceedings? Have they accelerated the cause of emancipation ?Have they lessened the prejudices of the English people towards our faith? Have they gained one convert from the ranks of bigotry to support our petition? Are the vetoists one step nigher the attainment of their wishes, than if they had joined the great mass of the catholics, whose opposition to ecclesiastical restrictions has been strictly consistent with the genuine maxims of the British constitution, and the unbending principles of the catholic religion?-Certainly not. On the contrary, they have to sustain the reproaches of the honest part of the community, and the contempt of every unbiassed and independent mind; while the signal circumstance which more particularly frustrated the views intended by the promulgation of the aforesaid rescript, marked, in a special manner, the watch-tion, accompanied by restrictions on ful protection of the divine Founder the spiritual functions of their pas of our church over its interest and tors.-Notwithstanding this decision purity. The attempt to rob that of the people of Ireland, the class of portion of the church in this kingdom intriguers still resolved to pursue of her spiritual rights was made at a their nefarious designs, and, backed time when the supreme head was suf- by the influence of some leading fering a long and painful captivity in members in the British cabinet, they the dungeons of a despot, because he again renewed their practices at the would not concede this inalienable court of Rome, but happily with the right over the church in France into same mortifying disasters on their the hands of Napoleon, to be exer- side.-By the letter of cardinal Litta cised according to his will and ca- to Dr. Poynter, the pope signified his price. No sooner, however, had the resolve not to interfere in the matter bribed and corrupt agent of the board in dispute until emancipation was obtained the consent of those divines granted, and this too so as to be agree

who stood unconnected with party, and was governed by sincerity and integrity.

The question had hitherto been made a party question by the whigs, and the introduction of the above bill plainly discovered that they were no more averse to the ministry ob

able to the catholics; and the restrictions attempted to be made on the correspondence between the prelates here and the propaganda, were cen. sured in the strongest terms, as incompatible with the free exercise of the spiritual powers of the church, and declared to be such as the holy see could not approve without becom-taining an influence over the catholic ing criminal in the eye of God. priesthood than their opponents, the This decision of Rome, added to the tories.-It was therefore imperative voice of a whole people, ought to in the catholics to withdraw their have convinced and silenced the par confidence in either party, and conty for ever, by shewing them how sign their cause to the care of a genfutile their plans must be, when urged tleman who would advocate it upon by motives and regulated by measures the solid ground of justice and right. contrary to the dictates of an up- The reader need not be told how the right and honest mind.-But such is claims of five millions of people were the infirmity of human nature, that received in the senate in 1815; sufit is easier to commit an error, than it fice it to say, that Mr Grattan is reis to acknowledge one.-Blinded by ported in the public papers to have self-interest and ambition, and con- distinctly condemned the application tumaciously bent on attaining their of the petitioners for unqualified wishes, they refused to listen to the rights, because he knew the temper voice of honour, and preferred rather of the house to be such, that they to be the humble suitors for a boon never would be granted on those upon ignominious conditions, than terms.-Why they should not be so, the bold supporters of their clergy's the reporters did not tell us. rights and their own just claims- vious to the reign of the second Pending the last attempt to gain Charles, papists continued to sit in Rome over to sanction the contem- both houses, without any attempt plated restrictions, the catholics of being made on their part to subIreland and England presented peti-vert the established church; on the tions to the senate praying for emancipation unrestricted. But, preyious to appointing an advocate in the commons, the Irish catholics wished to be assured whether their former pleader, Mr. Grattan, would relinquish his approbation of the veto clauses in his bill of 1813, which they so much detested, and support their petition for unqualified relief. This was signified to him in very respectful terms, in the name of a nu-jury and the blackest villainy, which merous and most respectable meeting of his own constituents, but the wishes of the people were met by this whig defender of popular rights with haughtiness and contumely.The petition was therefore placed in the hands of an independent senator,

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contrary, they were always found on the side of government, voting against the puritan innovations of those days, and in support of the British constitution, which was af terwards abrogated by that turbulent faction, who subsequently contrived, on the restoration of the lawful monarch, to deprive him of the assistance of his best friends, by means of a foul conspiracy, backed by per

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led to the expulsion of the catholics from parliament, and every office of the state, Securities were not deemed necessary in those times against the loyalty of the catholics; they were in fact too loyal in the eyes of the popular leaders, and therefore

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