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VOL. XV. NEW-YOrK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1839. NO. 35,
_ ingenious device’ (tremendous cheering.)
> & DREAM ON FRIDAY NIGILT, June Lath,
“Thada dream,'which was not all a dream.”
“After hearing, (of course: with due delight.) me
Btanley’s flourish the other night, ~
I dreamt a dream—being sent to sleep
By matter so very profound and deep;
hen many dark images met my eye,
Shadows all of time gone by. ok
I saw over England a mighty storm, »
‘And a spirit was roaring “ Reform, Reform!”
“When rose a man on the tempest’s wing
With a firebrand power, as fierce as ** Swing;”
Moreover, there grinn’d behind his back
‘A certain personage painted black,
-Shoving him on to the stere attack
Of gentlemen—all in a shoval bat—
Looking exceedingly sleek and fat.
Now in Erin, it seemed, the battle rag’d,
« ‘And slaughter was rife where his war he wag'd,
For amid the slain on one dreadful day
A heap of Bishops—some dozen—lay.
Then, as this ** Thalaba” play’d his part,
Came sighs from. many atender heart; .
There was Shaw in tears, for his friend Jay low,
. There was Goulburn sat with his tale of woe,
~ While Philpotts trembled, dismay’d and vex'd,
-\. Asif thinking his turn would perhaps come next.
k
. For this fell destroyer few dar’d resist him,
Such a dab he reém’d’at the levelling system:
As with Wantley’s dragon, “ houses and churches,”
At that time, “ with him were geese and turkeys.”
"But, behold, after thinning these rconkish ranks,
+», He took to playing some madder pranke—
"Turning to fight ‘on the Bishops’ side,- > 20.
With a bot zeal, and as fierce a pride ;. :
... Swearing, in future, his sword sheuld be drawn ~
"In defence of aprons and sleeves of lawn
While freedom’s name, in the rudest manner,
‘Was torn at once from his bigot banner.
I recollect nothing which followed after f
But a chucklé from Pee}, and O’Connell’s laughter,
Which woke me at once, but not before
I distinguish’d the face which this figure bore.
It was Stanley, Stanley himself I saw, .
‘With all mankind in their turn at war;
And I think the personage painted black
Wad of Graham's features rather a smack. +
Now, however horrid all this may seem,
Remember, I only recount my dream.
- YRELAND.,
EDUCATION—GREAT CATHOLIC MEETING,
oe! IN LONDON.
co [Coneluded.)
: i : :
See how the emancipation has been dealt with in this country.
Mas it put an end to bigotry? No, it has increased it. Even
in our own instance, look at the treatment we received respecting
our application for Exeter Hall. Although we offered to pay
461., the usual charge for a day’s hire of it, our letter remained
without an answer. They could not condescend to hold even
80 much correspondence with Catholicity as civility demanded
(loud cheers.) How different their conduct on other occasions.
ppose sore itinerant forger—a calumpiator—one who weat
about using forged documents, and when found out calls it an
i * Suppose such a man
‘were to come here, would Exeter Hall be refused to him? No,
its portals would be opened wide, members of parliament would
vie with each otber for the honor of presiding; and would nobles
and earls stay away? Oh, no, they would be there in profusion ;
they wou!d honor the calumniator and forger, because he would
abuse and vilify the Catholics (cheers.) Yes, the use of the
oom where we have been so often foully and faleely stigma-
tised, was refused us, even though we offered to pay for it be-
cause we wanted to vindicate ourselves from the foulcalumnies
heaped upon us. I will ask the Earl of Winchilsea whether
this is fair? Ig it English? (cheers-) They say the ballot is
un-English; ‘but what is conduct such as 1 have described?
Ttis bigoted, unfair, and unjust., Will the Catholics treat the
Protestants of Hungary in the same way? No, they have bet-
ter feelings. Nor should I forget to tell you that the Catholics
of Bavaria acted in a similar spirit with their brethren of Hun-
gary? Now looking at the books even of our opponents, and
tontrasting the eonduct of the Catholics in power with the man-
~|the church, and while
ner in which we are used, I ask every honest. maa to judge be-
tween us (cheers.) On the one haad, a feeling of honesty and
coneiliation, on the other the extremity of suffering under barba-
- |rous laws, all that was persecutijg and: tyrannical remained
not removed because they, were found to be repugnant to the
rights of conscience. No;. neither Peel'nor Wellington ever
said so—thay only said they gave it because there were distur-
bers in Ireland (cheers and laughter.) ~ They did not say it was
wrong—they said it was important/and expedient that persecu-
tion should eease because there were agitators in Ireland who
‘would not be quiet. They did notook at the book of life for its
peace-inspiring wisdom—they looked at the military book, and
there they found that two-thirds of }he soldiery were Catholics.
Yes, the hero of a hundred fights; amd the most crafty of states-
men, gave way before the Pats of the county Clare (loud cheer-
ing) as Pat himself would say, ‘ fo} a raison he had’ (laugbter.)
In former times to which I have glluded, there were the thou-
sand ministers and their thousand sthools of Catholics, encourag-
even on the statute beok till rs hon and then they were
:| ing and teaching religion, and leariing, and knowledge of every
kind—it was persecuted antil Cathplicity was almost frightened
from the land. Oh those who lived in those days deserved
eternal praise (loud cheers.) as he trusted they were, now in
glory. , Your family, Sir,’ was-a Jenowned family before the
time of the famed conqueror (cheer3.) Talk to me of your Pitt
nobility as before the. Catholic gertry to England! . They are
as mushrooms, bred in the counting-house, or purchasing their
nobility, which degrades them by: venality. When I look
around me and see intellect and genius returning tothe old altar,
Tam filled with gratitmde—they were increasing the glory of
I have foithful Ireland backing me
(cheers) why should I fall before the Methodists of John Wes-
ley ? (tremendous cheering.) _Why should I fall before bigotr:
and intolerance?’ It may be thought that I have been egotistical,
~ | but in my conscience I believe that my religion deserves praise,
-| and let the God who sits above judge of my sincerity. . Let me
call upon our opporrents 0 Tuo!
to" honié,as they often taunt’ us sith.
question between us. « Morality, it wae. jp alwraye accom ~
panied Protestantism. I utterly deny that Protestant morality
is better than that of Catholicity, and in proof of it J am furnish-
ed with the evidence of Mr. Lang, a stern Scotch Presbyterian,
who wrote a book of his travels in Norway,.oaly lately. In
Norway the Reformation took most speedily—in Norway, where
the clergy have the sole direction of the education of the people,
k-abroad, and then turn their eyes
Let that decide-the
Ay al.
4 only one-third of the mothers are married, and one out of every
1 was convicted of crime. .The French papers of Saturday
last brought me an article, a translation of which I shall read to
you. We. hear of Protestant missionaries armed with guns,
and carrying out their wives and families, but here is an account
from the neighborhood of Tongking in China— ef
Caruourd Missionaries. ‘Since the horrible persecution
in Japan there has been seen nothing equal to that which actually
rages against the Christians in Tongki The reigning prince
has resolved to extirpate Christianily altogether from his state.
A decree of death has been published against all the missionaries.
Eighteen have already perished, the greater part having been
decapitated ; and among others two Hstepe, natives of Spain—the
one, vicar apostolic, and the other cokdjutor bishop of the Eastern
‘ongking. T'wo missionaries have did of famineand fatigue in the
woods where they laid hid. The Rev, Mr. Harard, a Frenchman,
who was bishop and vicar apostolid of Eastern Tongking ‘has
perished of a sickness brought on by the violent persecution
which he went through. Desolation reigns amongs the unbap-
py Christians of Tonking. There has already arrived the first
list of martyrs. In that list we find—*1st. The three bishops
above named. 2d. Three priests natives of Spain. n
priest, a native of France. 4th./ Nine priests, native of Tong-
king. »5th. The Abbe Jacard, a native of Savoy, put todeath
after an imprisonment of five years.: 6th. A young student of
divinity. 7th. A French Missionary, who died endeavouring
to escape to Cochin China.’ Only think of the melancholy
catalogue, when you hear so much of Protestant missionary
zeal. There are nine native’ priests—they must have been
educated and instructed in the Latin langeage, as well as the-
ology, before they were ordained. *: But they bave sealed their
faith with their bloed ; and as the blood of the martyrs, in for-
mer times, was the seed of the yew in Europe, itis not pre-
sumptuous to hope that those saints who have raised their bloody
and blessed hands to the God of glory, and laid down their lives
in his honor, may conduce to the spreading of Christianity,
even in that remote and benighted land [loud cheers.]
shown you , that ‘in this country the Catholics founded colleges
and halls, andschools and hospitals, but that zeal and devotion
was not confined tothe male sex. Females of the highest rank
devoted themselves to the charitable task of educating the poor,
and when the convent doors were opened, and the nuns had to
come forth to the world, England presented a spectacle the most
extraordinary and admirable. Not one of even the youngest
or loveliest of that devoted body would forsake the vows she bad
pledged to God on entering these sacred walls. These wer
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women of your own family, and even jn: these daysthey baye e 3
devoted ihemselves as the daughters and sisters of your ances-
tors, and offered themselves to God as a pu
and charity [great cheering.}* It was a siiighty example; but
on the other side, tell me a, single crimg jhat was not perpetrat-
ed---robbery, peculation, svoilation, assessination, murder, the
scaffold---the blood of one wife followed by that of another--- '
crime of the most obnoxious nature, every thing dsgrading and
disgusting to, human nature.” Doel calumniate.it? No; for ~
did the mere ‘reading of Halen’s + History of the Reformation’:
induce the Protestant daughter of Chancellor Hyde to become a
Catholic? - Need I remind you of theclosing scenes of perse->
cation of the horrible Titus Oates’ plot---a thing the most ex-
travagant, the most incredible, and the most impossible but be-
cause two or three miscreants swore to what was utterly absurd
and impossible, the leading men of the day were slaughtered.
And when the ancestor of Lord Ashley, Lord Shafisbury, was
asked, :* How can you insist upon such cruelty and .injustice 2”
his reply was, ‘Oh, if we cannot make the people of England
belive greater nonsense than that, there is no use in governing.
‘Two parliaments were induced to declare that the plot was true.
It was an absurd lie, and every man now admits that to be the
case. -Two Houses of Commons and the [louse of Lords be-
j lieved it—be city of London actually raised barricades with
wooden posts and iron chains;. and Sir Thomas Player, when
urging upon them the importance of preparing to resist it, said,
who knows but we may go to bed some night, and awake ia the
morning with all our throats cut [great ]aughter.] And ofthis ,
Titus Oates’ plot—of this horrible conspiracy—seventeen per-
sons, including an Irish archbishop and an English peer, Lord
lafford, were the victims, the King himself being afraid to rés-
cuethem. Whodid this? Notthe low and the vulgar, as they °
are called, but the Lords and Commons, the judges of the land,
who wiped their blood-stained hands in the ermine. The wit-
nesses were assassins, who did not use the dagger, but the testa-
ments of God, and human blood flowed on this occasion of false-
hood, and “folly, and crime. -Ob, 1 ask you of the Wesleyan
Methodists could accuse the Catholics of such a crime—if they
say that in Catholic Frauce, or in Catholic Spain, that there-
‘was not a popular outbreak, but with a judicial proceeding... In
re sacrifice of fidelity” **
the former country, indeed, there was the horrible massacre in -
the time of Charles the Ninth, but they mast not forget thot
there were previons to it three pretestant massacres, which the
people thus basely and brutally retaliated. Butlet them show
me any instance in which there was soinfameus and villainous
accnspiracy got up under the semblance of ajudicial proceed-
ing. There was perjury before the magistrates, perjury beforo
the grand jury; and the judge, the sheriff, and all were pur-
jured, and the sin: of perjury: was followed by the sin of the
murder and blood of the innecent victims. No country on the
face of the earth has ever been so stained and stigmatisec, and «
when the Wesleyan Methodists come out upon me, can I taunt
them with the very first point in their history, in 1780, when
John Wesley, their founder, attempted to get up another Titus
Oates’ plot; when the Catholic Chapels and the houses of se-
yeral Catholics were burned, and we have seen here to-day the
grand-children of .some of the persons whose pro]
burned on the dccasion. They r'so destroyed a quantity of Pro-
testant property—the burned the King’s Bench, they burned
Newgate, and they were right [a laugh.] They were going to »
seize and plunder the Bank, when some one at length awoke,
and the first Wesleyan blow’ at Catholicity was extinguished in |
the blood of its victims.” They are ready to be at us again—
they want to keep the tories in power, and they have denounced
the reasonable and rational determination which was come to
by the Queen’s ministers ea the subject of education, and for
which the deserve our eternal gratitudes (loud cheers.) When
Ihave |]
they found that the amiable and excellent young person, who
now tothe pride of her sex and the glory of her country fills the
throne of these extensive realms—and may she long and hapi-~
ly live to fill that throne (loud and continued sheers.) When
they found tbat she in her gentleness and goodness leant to what
she herself had proclaimed the principle of freedom of con-
science, they again came out and sent their circulars all over
the country to rouse up the opposition of their patty to it—
The have arganized a million of property, and they have or-
ganized a despotism in-religion; but 1 don’t care for that, it is”
no concern of mine a They are not able to repeat the Titus
Oates’ plot, nor the burnings of 17803 bat. they do all the mis-
chief they can—they calumuiate, they libel, ey attack, they
assai] usin our creed, and they ¢all on parliament not to do us
justice. They stir up against us every organ of iniquity and
injustice, but I will meet them in the erena of justice and trath
and principle, and I tell them, blessed be God, the time is come
when they.can no longer be powerful (cheers.) Ihave done,
and it is high time for me. I only beg of You in conclusion not
todespair. Look abroad. Look to America. There was only
one Catholic Bishop in America when the revolution was over $
there are at the present moment twenty-three bishops, and one
archbishop (cheers.) Look at Protestant Germany. Read
¢ | Mr. Gleig’s account of the Protestant religion in that country,
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