8 The Dublin Public Dinner to Lord Morpeth. [Jan. 
sacrifice, in order, if possible, to carry the measure of emancipation. 
I did offer to give up the forty shilling freeholders, because I thought 
they belonged to the landlord ; but now that I am convinced of the con- 
trary, I would rather die than ever consent to such a measure again ! 
* Percival it was, who first raised the No-popery cry, and every man 
who supported the base, bloody, and unchristianlike Percival, is as guilty 
of the deeds he committed, as that infamous minister himself! 
«The Marquis of Anglesey came here, and preached toleration. His 
son, as gallant an officer as ever trod a ship’s deck, voted in favour of us. 
Lord Anglesey tried to satisfy us with sweet words, but did he vote for 
us?—No? And for that I denounce him ! 
We are next told, in the most unequivocal form that the English 
language can give to furious menace, the actual purposes of the 
papists, should we be blind enough to suffer a footstep of theirs within 
the legislature. Here is none of the thin hypocrisy which hoodwinks the 
Wilmot Hortons of this confiding world ; the popish proclamation scorns 
the shallow pretence of seeking only popish freedom, and haughtily 
flings off the old shifting promises of leaving the Protestant faith in pos- 
session of the rights, which it had vainly supposed to be a living part of 
the constitution. 
“« If you send me to Parliament,” says this organ of popery, “ I will 
put an end lo the horrid tax for building Protestant Churches, and provid- 
ang sacramental wine !” 
The sentiment was loudly cheered. 
“ Pll vote for a diminution of the tithes !” 
The sentiment was doubly cheered. 
“ Pl vote for a reform in Parliament!” And, finally, I'll vote for a 
re-consideration of the union !” 
The whole assembly was in an uproar of congratulation. 
If the Protestants of the British empire are not to be convinced by 
this manifesto, of the desperate hostility of popery to all that they have 
ever honoured and loved, to their religion, their church, and their laws ; 
no voice of ours, not the voice of man, none but the thunder of the moral 
earthquake that rouses men only in the midst of ruin, can rouse them to 
a sense of their sitnation, or a feeling of their duty. We have in this 
speech the broad avowal of a plan, whose inevitable results would be to 
fill the empire with convulsion. First, the Established Church is to be 
the victim. The tenantry of Ireland are to contribute no more to the 
repair of its places of worship. This contribution being, in fact, not paid 
by the popish tenantry at all, but being a regular and an extremely small 
portion of their rent, and so paid by the landlord, who also gets his land 
the cheaper for the contribution. 
Next comes the reduction of the incomes of the clergy, a contribution 
under exactly the same circumstances ; and whose decay must leave the 
measure left them without walls to worship in. The Protestant church 
being thus disposed of, popery proceeds to the disposal of the Protestant 
constitution. “I will vote for a reform,” is the comprehensive declaration. 
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ministers of the Protestant worship without bread to eat, as the former 
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We all know what this reform means, and we have seen that the governs 
ment of the mob is misery and madness. 
From England the orator reverts to Ireland, and announces that he 
will demand “a re-consideration,’ (in other words, a repeal) “ of the 
Union.” 
