184 Siz Words on the late Election in Ireland. [ Aveust, 
The multitude in Ireland will receive the boon which may be called 
«© Emancipation,” or any other boon which may be offered to them by 
this country, as their leaders may direct ; and it is clear that, if all that 
the most liberal portion of the English legislature ever thought of granting 
were conceded to them, it is not intended that they should be content 
with it. This is no matter of belief or inference: it is a conviction 
to which those who have been the supporters of concession have come 
with regret. It is openly, and ostentatiously announced, by those in 
whom the deluded people are trusting, that the terms which have been 
discussed in England under the title of “ Emancipation” will not do. 
«The church establishment of Ireland must be changed. The act of 
union must be repealed. The Parliament of Britain must be reformed ; 
and her governors and ministers taught how detestable their names are 
to the whole world, before the ‘ Liberators’ of Ireland will be satisfied.” 
And to back these pretensions, we are told “that the Catholics are banded: 
that they have friends, leaders, funds, and communications ; that it is 
in the weakness and the fears of England that they must put their trust ; 
and that the justice which she has insolently denied, she will now find 
can, and shall be compelled from her.” 
Now, these are words and demonstrations which can be attended with 
but one effect: they will lead the thinking part of the English nation to 
pause ; and to recollect that there are other means than those of con- 
cession, by which to deal with presumption and seditious insolence. 
They will begin to perceive that the Protestant party in Ireland, is that— 
and that alone—upon which this country, in emergency, could rely ; and 
to doubt of the expediency of granting additional power to those, whose 
ambition or brawling violence is not to be appeased, and who are making 
so dangerous a use of the power which they possess already. This is the 
conclusion to which the conduct of the Catholic body is bringing those 
even who have been the most anxious to avoid it. The argument which 
has triumphed over the Irish landowner on the late occasion has been too 
strong a one: it recoils and does mischief to the Catholic cause itself. 
The reliance has been—and this every Englishman feels—upon the 
lawless habits of the country. The fear of ejectment would never have 
been met—even where the disposition to treachery existed, by the 
tenantry ; but the answer was—“ They (your landlords) dare not eject 
you to-day, for fear you should fire their houses in their sleep, or shoot 
them from behind a hedge to-morrow.” Of all errors else, the promul- 
gation of this doctrine has been the most mischievous! The inculcation 
of a breach of faith upon the lower orders, is the last into which the 
Catholic divines should (openly) have fallen... They must be aware, that 
the faith which they profess is distristeld as well as disliked in Eng- 
land ; and, that the trust of those who supported their cause, was, in the 
conviction of its powerlessness, not in any supposition of its change. 
The dangerous principle, that “ Truth may be dispensed with, where 
important objects are concerned,” has long been asserted to be an article 
of their creed; but, it was short-sighted policy in themselves to make 
the justice of that charge so unequivocally apparent. 
We have only space farther to say, that it can scarcely be doubted, 
that the Catholic cause has suffered considerably by the events of the 
last month. Their electioneering exertions, carried to the utmost, will 
never gain them ten additional votes in Ireland; and, if by any 
accident, a general election was to take place, twenty new members 
would come in upon the Anti-Catholic interest in England. 
