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VOL. IX. . '
‘pass without uttering one word on their concerns, |
seven in the way-of the gentlest remonstrance. At
Jength Mr. Plunkett submitted his propositions to the
Courier d
the
-eribed as’ the: strangling’? of the question. Mr. |
Plunkett moved only: fora Committee, though
efore.—
an ajqusneient was]
-prayed: by the mover. roment of the de-
bate was negatived by 292 to 134, and subsequently
an adjournmeet of the House,. Without ony decision
atall on Mr. Plunkett's ion, was carrie
‘still greater majority— —313 ‘0 Vi.
was called a * strangling” of the question.
rangemen openly boasted that there was not, ev
in the second year after he ‘ ecstacies,” a division
merits,”” and th outly | maintained that
ifthere, had been such a division, th hey were certain
of. mustering, at very least, a majority of 60 a.
y a
‘This'was what
The
gainst the Cros in the largest House that could ode
then be assem
w the Catholics for the first time pened their
‘ eyes and bestirred themselves. - They assembled o
me 25th of April, at t Demy 3, in Sackville- street 5
sed e Meeting, and com d
the organization “ol ‘the Catholic ‘Associa tion. There
3 much to be dune for the rights and. liber-
any time since 1793.
'a
3
3c
e hopes of the new reign, and the “new
a” thereof, were blasted.: Ther jwasa struggle
‘between Liberalism and intoler: n the Gov
ment itself, in much the latter was ne altogether vieto-
rious. If ever there was a time in Catholic politics,
which was ‘that of total and. "unmitigated despair,
this was the period. -
The ** stran, ngling.” had certainly a mosts timate.
ting eflect. Itdrew men of all parties to Demse:
and though many had gone away before the requisi.|
tion for the Aggregate was up, it received |
"| They turned the parting injunction into
UNITED STATES CATHOLIC “MISCELLANY.
served the country in sloiost uninterrupted ‘rinquil-
lity. t
The act of omancipation : was’ that: of the King’ 's
It- was unexpected at the time it was
The chief agents in the
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Lord ijieutenant to.conquer:in.a fortnight—and
this
must be always the case where the great majority
are for peace, and the-interested: and monopolizing
few, who derive their authority from the Govern-
P
old, and as: it was thou mi igi-|t
self, are the: mye encouragers of —
ion
e
» enemies of the Catholics. What conduct be-
ame the Catholics, when the object. ‘oftheir labour S
ut tu be accomplished ? ‘Shey -were bound
to co-operate with the pacificator, and shew a tran-|t
quil and unostentatious thankfulness, forthe good to
heir long-sutfering country, of which he was the
author. ‘This is exactly what they did.
cess was only probable, they. srolantaily dissolved
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2
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th
sasioin in the amalgamation of parties, and avoid-
all occasions of g giving. offence ‘to the vanquish-| |
What has been the conduct ofthe opposite party ? 2
They affronted the King almost in his Presenice.—
bye-word. med made, and still c continue | to make,
an open mockery of * conciliation, ” though, from|
the date oft the Barone tey ol! John Kingston |
Janes “to the Cappontinet of Mr. Saurin’s
son, they have been the exclusive objects of govern-|'
They assailed Lord
I
Ic
with the Administration in the Law
"tthe Houses o! of Parliaine als en proc ur
ssious
in the North, which ‘arose all the dis turbance to
the public tranguilit that occurred in that quarter
and in the very times in which we write they havea
‘Gpen correspondence with the most promi-
ent factioniste in 1
ployi nga
Pp
sixty signatures in the course ofa very few minutes}
at Demsey’s alone. , A document, strikingly indica-
tive of the state of feeling at the period, and
tive, also, of the hopes that animated the ‘Catholics
he demeanour-tiey in-
since the Royal visit. and the de
flexibly pursued, was drawn up by one ofthe moder- |
ate men of the body—Mr. Woul It was an ad-
othe King. . which was proposed and passed
without a dissentient voice, at the Aggregate Meet-
ing. We wish we had room for all of int but it is}
impossible to omit the following passage
since your Majesty's
it of you
to us as
frained from the soul assemblies we wer
r-the discussion of our grievance, ae our
prospects of their redress. We have passed over in
silence many occu es which at other periods}
would have excited and ined Poneman and si
nto a
| sentation, and for o
1
departire, st.
veati
into public hatred and contem
ry member of the government
mpt, personal as well a:
| political, ° From the diplomacy of the Duke of Vel- t
lingt on own to t nin e pins” c the head ,
of the Irish gove ernment, every act and ‘deed is
turned i ridicu Mey ‘tor misrepre-| W
m
occasion for
bloquy.
Vhat affords a hope that this faction ’will be turn-
ed from. their ways, aud the ® count ry be allowed to
|have come interval of repose ? ‘Fhe inost instructive
nformation ou this head seeing
oard or Association in existence, aud the voice ofjt
‘the Catholic was no jpeard through the iui
to Parlia ord}
of a nent.
| Well had com nnoveed “his ‘Administratic on by ar
t of gratuitous bom oa meinber of the fra:
ternity § he fo owed the, up by a ‘series of couste-
s and fe favours to their body—while he conteited
Catholics, with a declar-| ¢,
ation, t inister the laws
not chan
the famous incident at the theatre. This event for
a tine seemed io alter ihe policy of the Lord Lieu-
tenant. He nenaces in a language that
spoke his determination to truckle no longer to an
address on the occurre
=S
3.2
s ces at the
party, An
theatre wa a propos osed, and we will never
urget ne rivalship that existed amongst the most
iments. and di
upon principles of hostility 1 to the great ma-
people, have openly arrayed them-
pr
of justice to the purposes 0
nt and so frequent, that when
sand religious vnimosities are involved, we no lon,
:
place confidence in the sanctity of
Jabours.of the newly organized Assncia-
om the time of its formation to the day of real]
ent!
tion,
justice, we shall only say that they were, as the ev
and| Every one
e! thrown
{ceedings i in- Dublin, that there was anode e of intimi-
was the time to crush party spirit in lreland.—
the ¢our: nol erme!
| of Skinners-alley oozing out of their “fa ers, "All
ited w;
This
Alter the “first burst of indignation,
+I however, he way observed to waver, dnd soon Jit be-| co
caine too Demo shat he was -tnaited to forgive.|ie
forget, and tem e. Hen r afterwards regai
ed the’ suo, “thus needlessly 1 and: most unwisely
aia proof, however, was exhibited
plainly enough to every one who watched the pro-
vy
au
ating faction and reducing erfect subording-
ion are probably “lificulties now to be en-
countered which did not exist then—but there” are
0. obstacles which a little resolution, and the leave
proved, well adapted to their ond, and that they pre:
lof the Duke of Cumberland, would not enable any
conduct of their chosen agen nat,
i
r
whether friend or foe, will, hesitate t to ackno
the intensity of your zeal,.and yo
votion to your duties ;_ that you were alway:
permite ‘to say, genera
votes his t
ole
ed zeal, for
that object is attained, to ample
id.
of which they. were possessed
| Continually’ improved this gr
fect. spirit of praye er
aught’ to obey, and thi
purged from sensual and nora ‘ailachments, “be
imperfect, is it in ‘our souls, if'it ‘is there at all tan
tf.
ns,
eadiness and consistency in] gig
Cross.
suffering for‘us ; -and itis
Hence afflictions are part o! c
gether with the hundréd-fold of his consolations, he: t
has promised | to. his moat beloved servants Ibid
MR.. ENEAS ‘MACDONNEI La
Itc t fail to gratify the Catholics ‘of lon,
bat the following testimony: sk onl be borne to the
minently qualified by exalted, cma and political
|intercourse and official information, to ascertain:and’
express the feelings of the British community on the
the Association: and when. the victory was com-|subject. We advert tu a letter. written ‘by Edward
plete, they: resolved to’ abstain from all pu ublie de. Blount, Esq., Secretary, for man ny. years, to the
monstrati ion o ir joy on the declared ground of| ¢|Roman Catholics of Great Britain, dated September
3d, and addressed to Eneas Macdonnell, Esq.
‘The.estimable and patriotic writer,-after rlerring ,
o Mr. Macdonnell’s address, proceeds: —-
n bea better judge « of the fact {pan
am, for [ was “daily, ayé; hourly i
tion with: ‘you, and truth bids me Necla are, ti nat
ing could exceed the persevering,
talented, a
Soho ot ae, manner in w
of mission. i am sure that n
¢ or. “Proweta t who contact
ur never: fling de
yays at your
ost; and that your whole soul was in the cause.
and I dare say’ you know I-
“tw d,
vost “that you were acting hostile tawards me, but
u-do me the justic e
u never varied..
to says my ‘conduct to
On ® the “question of remuneration, I may be
ally, that a gentleman by
rth, by education, and by h is profession, who de-
alents, his": 2eauirements and his time,
ly and-perseverii ingly to one objéct, with unaba-
years, is undou' ubtediy, entitled, when
remuneration and
unbounded, gratitude.” —Dbi ce
a
‘ REFLECTIONS,
We admire i in the saiuts the riches and happiness
in me inestimable
They. ai to, and
‘ace in their ‘souls by. the .
contemplation, din a per-
d laid the foundation of this
eusure of the divine love.
of heavenly
red: ho Orangemen. to know who should a his fore it can be moulded an endered Spirit itual,.
name first upon the it of cian wal In the race] and inflamed with the histo affections of p nd. .
for‘priority one nearly walked over “the perfect ove, This e great work ‘of divine pana
prostrate bodies of te other." "The con niention must] in weak impure creatures: but the conditions are.
b n Colonel Blacker was the se- that perfect humility and pe mince prepare. the way,
venth at the | pols “and. Sir George’ Hill the eighth !|and be the constant attendants of this love. IIow
di
and the pvisonous "stench of self love: nots cul. :
eniual nian cann not.
neeive those things whieh ‘lon to God. —But.
? & Lives of Sa nints Se
‘Tho spirit of Christianity i is “the spirit of tia ‘Crass.
‘0 attain to, and to’ live by pure love; we must live
nd die upon the’ cross, or at least in the spirit « of the.”
Jestis merited all the gr races we rece! ive by |
by sufferi
e best prepared to be'énriched
ing with him that»