The liberator : his life and times, political and social . r of violatingyour oaths ? Be ye hypocrites, or does genuine religion in-spire ye ? If you be sincere, if you have conscience, if youroaths can control your interests—then Mr. Magee confidentlyexpects an acquittal. If amongst you there be cherished one ray of pure re-ligion, if amongst you there glow a single spark of liberty, if Ihave alarmed religion or roused the spirit of freedom in onebreast amongst you, Mr. Magee is safe—and his country isserved; but if there be none—if you be slaves and hypocrites,he will await your verdict, and
The liberator : his life and times, political and social . r of violatingyour oaths ? Be ye hypocrites, or does genuine religion in-spire ye ? If you be sincere, if you have conscience, if youroaths can control your interests—then Mr. Magee confidentlyexpects an acquittal. If amongst you there be cherished one ray of pure re-ligion, if amongst you there glow a single spark of liberty, if Ihave alarmed religion or roused the spirit of freedom in onebreast amongst you, Mr. Magee is safe—and his country isserved; but if there be none—if you be slaves and hypocrites,he will await your verdict, and despise it. The verdict, of course, was for the Crown. V9L. II. 5 (Lbaptcr Hintlj. COURAGE AND —1819. The English Catholics: The Duke of Norfolk andDr. Milncr: Castle-Browne and the Jesuits:Peel and Dr. Kenny: Public Honours: Duel-ling and Duellists: The Irish Catholic Aris-tocracy : DEsterre, his Challenge and FatalDuel: Agrarian Outrages: Rev. John Hamil-ton, his Plots and Tools: Affair of Honourwith Peel: PeeVs Gift to BXTTgOWEVER much OConnellsmemory is revered in Ireland,feS^ssa it ought to be revered through-out the whole Catholic, or weshould rather say, Christianworld, since by far the greaternumber of Christians are Ca-tholics. It certainly requires a verycareful study of his life to know theobstacles with which he had to con-tend, and which he overcame. It is not, we think, saying too much/> \\ to assert that OConnell was mainly instru-mental in saving the Catholic Church fromthe terrible consequences which would have fol-lowed the acceptance of the Veto. It required an 424 English Catholics. intelligence and a mind like his to grasp the bearingsof the whole case, and to sacrifice the present apparentgood in order to avert the future corresponding evil. We have already said something of the politicalopinions of English Catholics. They made then, wemuch fear that some few make still, the fatal mistakeof dissociating themselves from
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