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complishment of that work than I should, if I believed it 

 practicable. Being convinced that it is not so at present, 

 I wish to do the best to prepare for its accomplishment 

 at a future time, by instructing the people, and cultivating 

 relations of amity and of good understanding between 

 Protestants and Catholics. I regard the plan proposed 

 by the new Committee of Education as one of the best 

 means of attaining the first and the third of these ob- 

 jects." 



This is exactly what I have said, that the establishment 

 of the new Committee on Education was the best means 

 that could be found to extinguish gradually the Catholic 

 religion ; and this proves that I have been right in main- 

 taining that it is with this object that these liberal schools 

 have been established, and that the Protestant members 

 of the Committee " are disposed to make the greatest ef- 

 forts for the accomplishment of this work." 



We have thus the best evidence possible to show that 

 the Committee has been established ie as one of the best 

 means" of undermining our religion, for such is the decla- 

 ration of the member of this Committee the best ac- 

 quainted with the intentions of the Government. The 

 Catholics of Ireland owe no little thanks to Mr. Sadlier 

 for these honourable admissions, but I doubt whether he 

 will receive the same thanks from Lord Plunkett, Mr. 

 Blake, Mr. Stanley, &c. 



It is not superfluous to remark to our countrymen of 

 all sects of the Christian religion, that Mr. Sadlier, a mem- 

 ber of the Committee, admits, in his letter to the Rev. R. 

 G. M'Ghee, dated January 9th, that " in these schools, 







