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—!//ooiAPPENDIX.flocks. These have since been shown to be miserable sophisms.Maynooth is a thoroughly ultramontane school. We have exchangedthe French-bred priest, ill-read in Dens, with low notions of thesupremacy, and proportionally high notions of the British crown,for a race of crafty, Jesuitical, intriguing, thorough-trained priests ofthe ultramontane school, who recognise but one power in the Avorld,—the pontifical ; and who are incurably alienated from British interestsand rule. The loud and fearful curses fulminated from thealtar, -which come rolling across the Channel, mingled with thewrathful howls of a priest-ridden and maddened people, proclaimthe result. These are your Maynooth scholars and gentlemenThese are the pious flocks, tended and fed by the lettered priests ofMaynooth ! Better we had flung our money into the sea, than sentit across the Channel, to be a curse, in the first place to Ireland, anda curse, in the second place, to ourselves, by the demoralizing andanti-national sentiments it has been employed to propagate. Thebetter a priest, the worse a citizen. And Avhom has governmentfound their bitterest enemies ? Who are the parties who have invariablywithstood all their plans for civilizing Ireland ? Why,those very priests whom they have clothed, and educated, and fed.Is it to be longer borne, that the hard-earned money of a protestantpeople should be given to endow an institution which has coveredIrelandwith anti-national and dehumanizing doctrines,—which issowing the same malignant principles broadcast in our colonies,and which threatens to issue in the descent upon Britain of an avalancheof Irish savagery ? Let government also withdraw titlesof dignity and pensions from Canadian, Australian, and all othercolonial pi'iests. Of course they will raise a great outcry aboutequality of rights and toleration ; but so will they aye and mitil yougive them the right of burning all whom they call heretics.Moreover,government ought to demand of continental states, that whei'-ever there are a dozen British Protesiants,* they should have achapel for their worship, and a burial-ground for their dead. It isintolerable that British Protestants in popish countries should neitherbe allowed to worship save in a granary or hay-loft, nor evento bury their dead but in an out-field or highway. Our governmentmight go farther in princijyle, though we are not prepared to say, inpresent circumstances, in expediency.JMan has two classes of rights.See the able pamphlet, on this subject, of Dr James Thomson of Loiuloii.