6* Priests duly educated and compensated. 



as was the case in Ireland, without furthering 

 the cause of protestantism. 



If emancipation be a question of political 

 influence only, connected with the ambition of 

 a few individuals, and unimportant to the great 

 bulk of the people, it is truly insignificant but, 

 can any measures be considered as of trivial 

 consequence to the happiness of a people, which, 

 in its concession, would allay the heart burn- 

 ings, and feverish disgusts of a whole nation 

 that would restore unanimity and order, where 

 enmity and turbulence destroy private security 

 and public confidence? Can a restoration of 

 the full enjoyment of civil rights to seven 

 tenths of the people, be a matter of no serious 

 moment ? Is a participation in the employ- 

 ments and protection of the government of no 

 consequence ? Jealousy, distrust, and hatred, 

 are the necessary consequences of religious per- 

 secutions. Intolerance has to answer for the 

 bigotry and ignorance, which so long has in- 

 flicted misery on Ireland. Were the priests 

 well educated themselves, and liberally com- 

 pensated for instructing the people, over whose 

 minds they possess so much influence, most of 

 the objections which at present apply to their 

 religious ceremonials would cease to exist. The 

 miserable pittance of their pastors, mean as it 



