Letters Addressed to Several Members of the British Cabinet, and Speeches on Various Subjects; Delivered in Several Towns and Cities in England, Irela (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... by truth, kindness, toleration, and national honour, may very soon, as your lordship has predicted, be ignited by your injured, insulted, and powerful enemies, and, in a moment of unexpected fate, like your overthrow in America, shiver to atoms the entire fabric of your national greatness. In referring to the second point of this letter, I have already proved that the Madiai were not condemned for "reading the Bible." The statement put forth in the public prints is utterly false. Their crime was "holding unlawful meetings with closed doors, contrary to the laws of the Tuscan Conventicle Act," in which unlawful meetings, held without even demanding a license, a band of foreign conspirators, by bribery, by ridicule of the clergy, by caricaturing the Catholic religion, by reviling the laws, by distributing inflammatory fly sheets, encouraged sedition, violated the public peace, and laid the foundation, as far as lay in their power, of these sudden and disastrous revolutions which convulsed all the neighbouring states, and had nearly crumbled five ancient thrones. And while discussing this part of my subject, I shall take leave to remind your lordship of the standing, imperishable, eternal lie which the Protestant Church has stereotyped in all her books, lectures, sermons, letters, speeches, through every part of the world where her literature is cultivated, where her power is felt and her voice heard. This enormous, unfading lie, my lord, is, "that the Catholic Church will not permit the reading of the Word of God." Our Church declares the contrary; our bishops write it, our priests preach it, our pamphlets publish it, our writers promulgate it, our booksellers print it over their doors, in their bills, their...