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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. LONDON: ? 1828. On leaving London, I feel it a duty again to address the people of England, and to call their attention in the most solemn manner to the very peculiar, and I may say alarming, circumstances in which the whole kingdom (and especially that part of it in which I am most immediately interested) is placed. I certainly should not again have obtruded myself on the British public, but as his Grace, the responsible Premier of the Crown, has declared in his place in Parliament on Thursday night, 'that it was not the intention of the Cabinet to propose any measure for the relief of the Catholics, I hope I am justified in making a second appeal, connected as I conceive their question to be with the tranquillity of Ireland. The declaration of the Prime Minister is of the last importance, not only to Ireland but to England. It tells Ireland she is to remain a victim: it tells England that she must continue to feed the thousands of Irish who annually cast themselves on her shores: nay, more, ?it tells the friends of civil and religious liberty everywhere what they have to expect, ?whether Protestants or Catholics, what they are to expect?advocates of liberty or advocates of tranquillity, that the period of happiness is at all events postponed; that they have one cause and one opponent: who that opponent is, they can now no longer doubt. I proved elsewhere, and that proof has not been refuted, or even denied, that England is most materially injured by the continuance of Ireland in her present condition. I wish now to do more?I wish to show that England has common cause with Ireland, to a greater extent than even her pacification or prosperity?that she has common cause with Ireland in preserving the laws and the liberties of the whole ..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217100755 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217100759 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 In |
| List Price | $32.75 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 318 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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