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VOL.I A “NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 2,:1825. NO. 1. :
at Dee the,gtate of the inhabitants of Hindostan, towards English are indebted for the trial by jury, and ,
« ADDRESS. . whose amelioration they give their’) oncy with the | many of the best privileges of their constitution
same ‘Wegree of credulity as they, asto remoye the
mist; which they are told surroynds the mental fa-| are indebted for the loss of a great part of those
the Irish People. F " ‘| privileges. © An outery was raised against the sup- -
Theré is, one thing of which, to be sure, the Peo-] posed tyranny of the Pope, and the libertiés of the cos
Th b ‘6 Prom i stead of convey teathe to while to Henry, Edward VI. and Elizabeth they.
© ng! ‘ish Press, in
MV Be
the People, to put them on their ‘guard a ue those
\ who scck their own interest at. the expe
Public, has lent itsclf to forward the view
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ple of} England cannot plead ignorance, namely,
terested, and betray the most important coricerns of
the country. ‘The principal means resorted t to has
een Rexicrous Hyrocrisy, or, in other words, a
canting pretended affection for Religion; in hich,
ifis insinuated, to give more effect, that the safety
okthe civil rights of the nation depends. Never was
pr ‘ension more shallow, nor delusion more fatal.
Fohnear three centuries have the People of Eng-
Jandbeen thus hoodwinked, and at this moment the
sam practices are carried on with'as much actiy’ ity’
raticism on the one side, ‘and supported with
‘ credulity and folly on the other as in the
days ohhe Stuarts,: when Puritanism may be said to
‘fnave bel " in the zenith of its glory. England has its
.and chuckle with the idea of havi ing
rite, Without taking’ the trouble to exa~
~Snine wheth\ their charity is productive of good, oF
attended wit\ that success which the ianagers of
those institutt); propose. The People,are annually
favoured with nttering reports of the proceedings |
of each Societ) nd an account of someset speeches | j
-made at rmacetith’ held for the purpose, and to re-
ceive these rep: ; they are inserted in the Pub-|'
‘Tic journals, and \.d with satisfaction, every thing
is believed, and m\: moncy is drawn from thepocks|
_ wets of the People, \doubt witha good intention on
. their part, ‘but cerfily without due caution and
want of judgment.
‘It is amatter of dnishment to us, that seeing,
as the English have lon, ‘the encrease of crime
Sand pauperism, a glike: of ihouglit should not
“have ‘arisen, and occadyed ‘them | to ask, how it
has happened, that witkhe encrease of Bibles in
England there has been diminution of wicked-
ness and misery, though thaanagers of the Bible
Socicties “have led the P@jo +5 believe, that the
“yeading of the Bible is the tng panacca to restore
the country to a'state of morality and undis-
turbed happiness P That uglish should be ig-
norant ef the situation, of fellow-subjects in
Ircland, who are represented |), Bitie distribu.
tors and, Baptist School supy rs as enveloped
_ in Egyptian darkness, and that t * delusion should,
_ through the means ‘of the En; Press, be ex.
tended to other countries, is not) ubject of won-
der, when we cotsider that the men have the
Press of England at their beck, @ A
pers of Ircland: have a very Tim
“has, whatever is scen- of that
_comes through a pollated source,
are as ignorant of the RUAL state of f
{| nation on the other, To their $ Sakon mea ate
that thé, People of Ireland are almost all Catholics,
or, as they: are generally called, Papists. This dis-
position of the Irish to adhere firmly to'the faith of
their forefathers is matter of notoricty to the: world,
because the Press i is daily complaining of their ob-
stinate perseverance to resist the, ieliorts of the
Bible-mongérs and School nianagers einculeate
them with the Scripture mania, of wh’ 1 too many
of the English are infected ; but they ‘are at the
same time as unacquainted with thé TRUE princi-
ples of the Religion of the Irish, as they are of
their own, (being fixed in none) because the same
Press is paid to misrepresent and slander the Ca-
tholic creed. In this work of falsehood and vilifica-
tion, she- Lonton Morning Chronicle stands fore-
most eh Ti zedes are the more dangerous, | be-
caus
and ait AS,
k Vic opinions of any set of men, but
merely to act ont ‘the defensive, by exposing the i ig-
norance or impudace, or both, of periodical wrie
ters in England, ce for pay, and not-for
the purpose of instrRdting the Public mind.
. Of what benefit would the cnjoyment of
immunities be to. th righ: Ci
gious principles ee i
and held as dagger:
‘And what. advant
is the imagined kng
to the English Pk u
when their reread ries £8 ground down
by taxation, and the civ Frights of the People frit-
tered away till nothing is left of their boasted free-
dom but the name? © We have nd hesitation in
giving it as our opinion, that the English People
would never have been so dealt with, and their rights
thus invaded, but ‘for the mixing ‘up “of religion
‘with politics, and making the firmer subservient
to the schemes of men engaged} the latter. A
few historical facts: will serve ty shew ‘the accura-
cy of our opinion,
When England received the bcht of Christianity
or Catholicism, religion, was, Abn ikistines’ from, the
state, It continued so anti} the Gh sof Hervyt
who by assuming ihe ‘op.titaal w! hh, the temporal’ aus
.| thority, made the clergy hissy, cophants, who before’
that alteration intthe const on of the, country,
stood between. the mirfiste's ind. tth: ncepleg Te-
pressing’ injdstice on th ae Sindy 9 und insiybordi-
civil
ais if their Mi i-
Bs ry. stigmatis d,
a of the state ?
glad to know,
'y of scripture
Presbyterian,
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People were surrendered by an obseguious and cor-
rupt Parliament to one of the most ierciless tyrants
that ever disgraced the sceptre. From this period
when religion was sacrificed to the lust of a king,
we may date the downfall of English liberty 5 for it
is on record in the statute book, that as the peeple
grew more enlightened (in their own imagination) in
the mysteries of the Bible, they grew less and less
free.by the restraint put upon their personsia the
multiplication of penal laws. Look at the statute
book, and there it will be found that more laws to
inflict corporeal punishment have been passed in
England since the first formation of Bible Societies «
than were enacted during the whole period the --
island was under tke infinence of the Catholic reli-
gion, embracing a space of 900 years. We are glad
to find a disposition-on the part of the People to
search a little deeper into facts than they have ~
hitherto done, and if they will examine both sices
{of the question before they come to a conciusion,
3] they will find that the Catholics of Ireland who will
not interpret the meaning of the Bible for them~ —
3 | selves, but will preserve the meaning of their churei: 7
are as weil qualificd to enjoy civil freedom an2.
make good citizens, 2s those who take upon theme
selves to explain the most difficult tenets of the
sacred word, and too often fall into the grossest
inconsistencies both with regard to religion ‘urd.
politics,
Thus for instance the Catholics’ are laugh ed and
ridiculed for believing in transubstantiation, that is +
in the real Presence of the sacrament in the Lore’s ;
supper ; itis thought against reason that the Cathe-’
lic should believe what God has revealed and all“
the world before him has believed ; but People in *
England did not think it inconsistent td believe
that a bit of rag purporting to be a. one pound note.
and a silver shilling during the war was equal to a”
guinea in: ‘gold, “though ihat’ very -piece of gold
fetched then seven shillings and a pound note—but |
the party prints assured the people cvery thing was.”
right, and:they “of course believed that such was .
the case. - Without thinking for themselves they“ «
gave implicit, credit to the statement, and. yet these
very people. charge the Catholic with relyingim-.
plicitly upon the assurance of “his Priests ¢ Thos?
Truth: however’ is, the ~Cathelic does (no -such |
thing.. The Priest is compelled (6 tell him th
which ‘is right, or he is sure te be detected 5 and
jt is-on this ground that the Catholic places. his
‘eonfidence + in the, Priest in that which voncerns
Exdlixion, It would be well for the people of Eng~
land.and their childrens’ children had they and their
fathors before them followed some such'rule. Bat
while ‘reviling the credulity of their Catholic’ neighe
ed
T they are suffering themselves to be the. apes, aa