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Emancipation, Or, Peter, Martin, and the Squire
Emancipation Or Peter Martin and the Squire Author:Thomas Kelly 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: 'Tis childhood's timid eye alone TKat fears a painted Bloody-bone. "Had the Irish Roman Catholics,-when they gained the ascendancy, debarred you of the right... more »s of property, of the benefits of education, of the enjoyment of social worship, of the security of your domestic peace, of all that makes life grateful, by making it respectable ? O ! how would you not have bewailed your unmerited suffer, ings—how would you not have adjured the detestation of God and man on such monstrous oppression! "How strangely does bigotry cramp the heart and un derstanding! Who could have thought that so obvious and splendid a proof of the original virtues of the Irish Roman Catholics as this, should have been slurred over, and almost effaced by the wilful blindness of Protestant writers! " So natural is it that lions should be always repre. rented as vanquished, when men are the painters." Parnell's Hiit. Apology, p. 42, Why talk of Rome? Feeble and old, She scarce hath breath enough to scold; The papal thunder's heard no more, Or only scorn'd: the Scarlet Whore Is grown a common drab, that none But with contempt do look upon ; That lives, but while her pious son Thinks fit, her own Napoleon. She lives no more. At the head of a French army Miollis has entered Rome, and planted his cannon against the papal palace. Unable to resist, the Pope surrendered his power without a struggle. Miollis immediately pub. lished the following order: " His Majesty the Emperor and King, Napoleon, testifies his satisfaction, with the conduct of the hitherto Papal troops. These soldiers shall not in future receive.orders either from priests or yomtn. Soldiers should only be commanded by sol. What, if misfortune's deathful stroke Her haughty spirit have not broke; What if she still aspire to reig...« less