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    to dissent from the Church Establishment of that country , and their attempting accordingly to hold assemblies for religious worship , in the way which to them appears most agreeable to the Holy Scriptures , and most conducive to their own moral improvement . This persecution has consisted in the disturbance of

    religious meetings * in affording countenance to assaults and cruelties inflicted by savage mobs upon innocent individuals , in the refusal of protection from such injuries when formal application has been made to the magistracy , in acts of the Government denouncing severe penalties upon all persons who may hold

    religious assemblies , however small , excepting those of the Established Communion , and in the infliction of those penalties , by fine , imprisonment , * and banishment , upon various respectable persons , among whom are ministers of unquestioned character for piety , learning , and usefulness .

    5 . That while this Body disclaims any pretence of a right to interfere in the affairs of foreign riations , it acknowledges itself bound by the obligations of humanity , to testify its sympathy with the oppressed and persecuted ; atid by the priiiles reli

    cip of > our common gion , to use every lawful and practicable effort for the relief of innocent sufferers , and to contribute towards removing the foul reproach of persecution from fellowchnstians and fellow-protestants in any part of the world .

    6 . That this Body indulges the hope that calm reflection and au experience of the mischiefs produced by intolerance will speedily lead the Government of the Canton of Vaud , to repeal the unjust and

    cruel edicts which it has issued against Dissenters , and to give effect to those principles of religious freedom which are the basis of the Protestant Religion and are a main support of the prosperity and happiness of our own country .

    7 . Finally , that we invite our fellowchristians , and especially our brethren in the holy ministry , of every denomination , to implore , in their private and public supplications at the throne of grace , the

    bestowroent of present consolation and apeedy relief upon all who , for conscience towards God , are enduring unmerited sufferings , from cruel mockings , bonds , and imprisonment , spoliation , destitution , and exile * J . P \ te Smith , Chairman .

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    pages , though it has been some time published 5 and must be well known to many of our readers . ] Fellow-Country men , We are your friends , your sincere friends , desirous to protect and to serve you ; we address you from motives of

    pure kindness and disinterested affection . Listen to us , because we are your friends > attend to us , because we are most desirous to be of use to you ; weigh well and deliberately what we offer to your consideration ; consider carefully ; we appeal to your good sense and your reason ; make use of that common sense

    which Providence has in its bounty given you , in a degree equal , and perhaps superior to any people on the face of the globe ; think coolly and dispassionately upon the advice which we give you , and you will find it consistent with good sense and honesty , and strongly recommended by every principle of morality , and by all the sacred dictates of religion .

    We advise you to refrain totally from all secret societies ; from all private combinations ; from every species of Whiteboyism , or Ribbonism , or by whatever other name any secret or private

    association may be called . We would not attempt to deceive or delude you ; we could not obtain your confidence if we were to state falsehoods ; and if we could , we would not purchase confidence at the expense of truth .

    We do not come to tell you that you have no grievances to complain of , or that there are no oppressions to be redressed ; we are sorry to be obliged to admit that you have just cause of complaint , and that there exist many and bitter grievances which ought to be redressed ; we know that these grievances

    and oppressions are the excuses which too many of the uneducated classes of our countrymen have given for turbulence , violence , and the forming of secret associations ; but we also know that , proceedings of that kind onJy aggravate the mischief , and increase the quantity of suffering which they pretend to redress .

    It is to this that we call your particular attention ; it is to this that we request your deliberate and full consideration . We most solemnly assure you , that secret and illegal societies—that Ribbonism , and Whiteboyigm , and violence , and

    outrage , and crime , have always increased the quantity of misery and oppression in Ireland , and have never produced any relief or mitigation of the sufferings of the people . Every one of you have heard of , and many of you are old enoug h to have seen , the effects of secret sccie-

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    373 Intelligence . —Address of Catholic Association to the People of Ireland .

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    Address of the Catholic Association to the People of Ireland . [ This document is so important that we think it right to register H on our

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/52/