The State of Ireland by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2023-08-12T00:00:00+00:00

the remedy for the evils of our political state

To remedy these manifold evils, to which I have traced the miseries and sufferings of my country, it has been acknowledged by every man who is not within the pale of usurpation and corruption, that CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION, and a restoration of POPULAR REPRESENTATION, are the only efficient expedients. But if justice, which requires that no man, much less the decided majority of a nation, should be deprived of his political rights on account of his religious opinions, ordains that the Catholics should not have fewer rights than the Protestants; and if it is an incontrovertible fact, that such is the present usurpation of rights, as well Protestant as Catholic, that even though the Catholics were admitted to the fullest participation of the rights possessed by their Protestant fellow-citizens at present, both Protestant and Catholic would find, that the rights of which they were robbed, were infinitely more numerous, and more important, than those they enjoyed, even before the present annihilation of every vestige of constitutional right—it must appear manifest to [43] the most superficial observer, that Catholic exaltation to the present height of Protestant freedom only, must prove wholly inadequate to the establishment of our NATIONAL LIBERTY. Disdaining then, to add one argument more, to the thousands which remain unanswered, in favour of the emancipation of my Catholic Countrymen, letting it rest on the solid basis of justice, and blending it with the General Cause, I shall conclude this address with an investigation of our General Right.

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