It is indeed a perfection in that kind, belonging to beings of a higher order than man, and to them we ought to leave it....

Let three millions of people but abandon all that they and their ancestors have been taught to believe sacred, and to forswear it publicly in terms the most degrading, and nothing more is required of them....

The word _Protestant_ is the charm that locks up in a dungeon of servitude three millions of people.
Every thoughtful reader of the debates in parliament on the state of Ireland, must have been struck with the difference of opinion between the Liberals and the Conservatives, as to the facts of the case.

A still more violent difference was presented in the British parliament, in the year 1797, when there were great debates in both houses on the subject, and when the facts were still more glaring, one of them being that the reign of terror established by the Irish Government prevented the press from reporting the maddening atrocities which the ruling faction was daily perpetrating against the mass of the king's subjects.

The debate arose in the Lords, on a motion by Lord Moira for an address to the king on the state of Ireland.