A man, or a whole people, worship God, we will assume, sincerely, according to their notions of what is right, and, I say, gentlemen, that the individual who persecutes that man, or those people, for piously worshipping their Creator, commits blasphemy against the Almighty--and stains, as it were, the mercy-seat with blood.
"Gentlemen of the jury, let me ask you what has been the state and condition of this unhappy and distracted country?
I have mentioned two opposing creeds, and consequently two opposing parties, and I have also mentioned persecution; but let me also ask you again on which side has the persecution existed?
Look at your Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, and ask yourselves to what terrible outburst of political and religious vengeance have they not been subjected?
But it is said they are not faithful and loyal subjects, and that they detest the laws.

Well, let us consider this--let us take a cursory view of all that the spirit and operation of the laws have left them to be thankful for--have brought to bear upon them for the purpose, we must suppose, of securing their attachment and their loyalty.

Let us, gentlemen, calmly and solemnly, and in a Christian temper, take a brief glance at the adventures which the free and glorious spirit of the British Constitution has held out to them, in order to secure their allegiance.

In the first place, their nobles and their gentry have been deprived of their property, and the right of tenure has been denied even to the people.

Ah, my lord, and gentlemen of the jury, what ungrateful and disloyal miscreant could avoid loving a Constitution, and hugging to his grateful heart laws which showered down such blessings upon him, and upon all those who belong to a creed so favored?
But it would seem to have been felt that these laws had still a stronger claim upon their affections.