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' '"• ^^^^^^^^^^J^^f^'HCH, 1851, . ^ ""Prwluctive, of To The di ^^^^^^^^"""^^^^^^^ ■^hn'rdsseu. ^^•'<^'s, so forcibly and ,o "«t be unpro«Juctive of DURHAM: 'hat which we have ™'' from nome-« d undivided T^" I'c times. ^^ ' this country have o;tward JtaZ" °f any successful b'f^^tP'-.Potentafe '''y vindicated its haJ/ he carefully ent assumption. 'M of a foreign Articles, and ^aKl in Jeadinff ''to saints, the the mntterine 'n of auricular 'omted out by K reprehended great power, ' "f England ^«««t from 'J''" not bate ,tjrs of the fn contempt 'ELL. A LETTER, ADDRESSED TO THE RT. HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, ON THB ^ PA PA L A\G G R E S 8 r O N . -* BY THE REV. HeWi PLAYPAIR, D.D. My Lord,— Many years have elajsed since I had the honor to address you. Yoii were then pleased to favour me with uo inconsiderable notice. Whether a similar honor awaits me now, I know not; but this I kiiow.that, in thus publicly addressiiig you, Tdp no more thaji an act of duty. For religious controveisy I have no desire, and the controversy of politics I do not belie-ve to bo in harmony \yith the office of a Clergyman of the Church of England. There are, however, times when it may be necessary to merge all individual considerations in the recognition of public good. This jxiriod has now arrived, and however com- mendable silence may be under other circumstances, I should look upon it now as a jKsitive dereliction of duty. My Lord, we are told that " the recent divisions of pngland into various districts, made by Papal authority, is subversive of the rights of Churchmen, and that in entering upu their sees, the Roman Catholic Bishops have acted in opposition to the Church of England." There" is a magic power in every mea- sure that emanates from Rome, for it awakens effectually the energies of Protestants, who look upon it as an a|gression upon their spiritual franchise. I am not, therefore, surprised that the establishment of the |iapal hierarchy should have excited the passions of those, whose promotion in the Church is not unfrequently commensurate with th*ir hostility to Popery. Nor am I more than surprised to find certain Bishops in our Church stooping from their elevated trusty ofpeace and charity, to countenance the warfareofan insolent and demoralizing bigotry. But that you, my Lord, with the memory of your illustrious ancestors fresh upon you—that you, the unwearied advocate of civil and religious liberty, who aided in the glorious work, which threw open the portals of the constitution to a proscribed race ; that you should have thus acted unrestrained alike by the responsibility of your station and the feelings of millions, is a proceeding as much above all, comprehension, as it is degrading to the character of a British statesman. If, however, there is no elevation of mind, there is, doubtless, much political tact m your Lordship's conduct. You labour, unsolicited, as the champion of the Church of England, to preserve her from the encroachments of an ancient foe, and, under this ingenious device, you endeavour to support your waning popu- larjty. This is, indeed, conduct the most ignoble, and indicates the facility with which statesmen can employ the most unworthy means to retain power. The Church of England, my Lord, requires no such subterfuge, and, as one of her ministers, I disclaim all connection between her wants, and your political tactics, Already will your Lordship have anticipated my theme, the establishment oif the R^an C athol ic Hier arohy in Eng lnnd, Sjnce the Emancipatioa Act theie fans Tbeenno'sHbject so little understood, or productive of so much polemic virulenoe. The obloquy and threats that have emanated from it, reminds us of the dark era that preceded our enactments against the Roman Catholics. If misrepresenta- tion and persecution be characteristic of the followers of Christ, most unques- tionably we cannot deny it to the Roman Catholiq Church. In •▼ery age, in ^viM ■■■(♦■ , presume toot to constitute mvJ^lf^^r^ ^^" ''"P"^^^ to her. My LoS f Moreover she requires it not iThlnaJonTK^f- ^ ^^ ""«rrn tenor of a jment, display ;nce, to which } the evidence fy and intole- 1, yon declare fetters upon a >ra of opinion^^ sm has been >t to impose a s practices of "s, my Lord, lot fasten his know of no 5le, that does t^ord, really written to the d subterfuge e Pope will '■ worse than Biota. And m Catholifcs avowed and »e cruel and ve suggests, 'e provoked, al principle, tantism has to impose a exercise of ng of what attribute to m Catholic h precisely • now their 're derived ere termed ate system >f the pre- ' Apostolio Bed by th« ■ggressors., ome forth ublic — na because it ca.S aflit he gove'^^S n/nt of'^l " nu r^"^^^ ^' ^ "^^ Roman Catholic Bishops are astr removed fnZZ^ ? Z™^'""' ^"*«''- '^^^ government of our QuSn L ui ^IW^ Tnr^vT '"'f'^^'^nce w.th the secular declaimeraJainst^LoTj'.' tlv Lord '' ^'"'f "■'^'«"« "f "" ordmary platform " examining the law " „ refefencMn thlV "^"o ^ uT^ "^•" ''"'*^"^ ^ ^^^ ^f of matter equally i^km ma ble with !^.r.^'"^" ^"i^"'"'• ^'^"^ "« ^'"'P"^^ that would LglhL "rkTof a llllT^r^^'' ""t ^^T"^^^ """^'^^ ^^^^ us they pay thf sameTat^^ 1'^^^^^ ^-J-»tly with t.on and fight the same battles Ibr itsrelermion (^ ^W n^"'^.'^"*''*"- Catholics, commingled with our oJn trr; A^ *^^ ^lood of Roman tnumphantly,thea?kof civ Z rerious ,ii't |?',^^'""^«' ^''"dly and our shores-she who nurses ho Lr^ff ^' ■ l^ f'-^"^^ were to invade lK:r defeat at Walerl J wn'dd v. II. f "^'^ ''"^ /^^ -^""^"^"S '"«™"'y of llomanCatholicsrsimrtl^vvhl .''"""« "'"S ^''f '^^^ ^" reference to ' bravery and fiSl y ha e Lt r'bin sS-d Tu 1!'^ ^" u""^ "'"'■^''' ^l'"^ solicitation of our Eugli^, S>vernmen ui^u 'r'^ >,vho«. Bishop, at the his ,.ople fromageferal disircr^'ormothe^c'oS^^^^ and ignomntly insulted t^tlTLordT S ^r "' '''^'^"ul' ''^ ^husTantonly . atrocious, as the wo k of reSot i LcuJl "t? '"™'fJ"^°H! °° ^"^°y ~ . fulfil the prophecies of thSe wl o cSunrtL fn f' ^ ^T""^ ^"""^ ^''^^^t \ with the sectarianism ofTLTe sonhSl wt J'T'^''"' 1 "^ ™T'^"^ ^^^T' flocks " committed to their Xr<^e'S^^^^^^^ /f " "^"i ^ ^ ^'^?"'"y °^' **"• into a nefarious commerce BewaVp l^l, T ^''M'""?' P^^^ of the decalogue bigotry of our Irish Sv' whn^ y°" ^'"'^ ^'^oal success to therampLit ^fth ?Ue poL of thetf S^ ^'^'y '^l^ ^«P^»» ^"d it. e^itremiC, of obsole^Actsof ParlSt overth„?V ^"^^^ ^T ^°" ^-^**'°*^ '^« P^nop'/ d«y, the Hiemrohy and pen.1 enSeSt ft ^2' abiorbing topic of tb. able to restore tranquilitv tu the roimtrv v yourae". my Lord, if you mm of a wretched Policy, agUVatedbv^^^^^ ,.J?" '^^"if "'^h^ expewn/ntaliam 1 "^y. aggravated by the positive worthlessqess of your politifMil. .,,j- ■->TW"VWWPt»^ S p"r n'"'^ '^^ ^-^ "''^ '•^•el the .reat lo*, . i„ . — "'"^ "esc or earning have these ui.icieu, VV^'fh "'""'I ^aijiolic Church fl points heeu ex.miued sfiM^'T' ""^' J" ' ^ compiled fro^th^ ItJ''' ^5'°''' s«pe,^ed"fg equally With our own Tf J'; ^^ "^"^^ tha™k the ^J.' ""'^ S'^'' ^'^d fields! without religion aZ „ ■ ^^'^^ edifice of everv ,, , ™^° Catholic Church name of itsTcM?ect^ the' ^'"^°"^ P''"«ipirbeTzS'; PT'""' °n«iSg wmembrance of tZl' ^ greatest genius of mL ^ *° ^^e ground-if tha ^Iembert!anS iiSf t°' ^'^^'''''^'^S w^h^fcl'^'r^^y' '«--« h^ ^wafc nti r /v^^^L .^-^lo^rot, we musf fhir^ur^:^^^*^ model schnh? nTTfA^r.^- rememb^^ceortr/' '^ ^^^-^^^rgSTf m'^^'^^"* ^ ^'^^ ^-^^^^^^^^ ^^Wfth ourowk""^„ !• i? ^^® "JUst fhahUhpn^ jnndel school ofTbltafw •cknowledge'it. ^" "^^-'^^Uiory is n^tot^Tb^ o^i'^i^" ^^"^^ ei^' '^ ^"'s the moral courage to _ ». ^ » J 1 ( I e t a E a e •a J' n 6 a P II tl P' ' death of Sir J huniiJiatiqg fesignate the mtimmery." ibject of the t and ])eat of have these 'agreement, difficulty in "pcrstitioiis 1 jiitlgment tribiilial of n aptitude the largest ito a copi- ire of your ' (iramatic nd in the ' not even ■ you are folument. ^lave not ps, to the ord, who hpstihty, Jeromes tiers and be, and 3viously the per- ie direct nrch of e couJd rnfidel, akness which d, that ressof otex- longst eding SeJds, lurch rning f the I the aire, lalJy fe t» fmm5.« 'r '.""^ If'^'J-^^^ ^' y"'"' ""^ y«*"' frora boyhood to manhood, Sit dfS ''"^'''"'"^ ^r r''P'r ^«"«^'''''»"^' t"^he voh,me,. written T; nS P '^^f""'*'j"|''7"' ""'"ds have iK^en filled with the stratagems and horrori of the Papacy The human mind was said to be enslaved by it and the freed35 of the gospel lo have fled at i^sapproach. And even now iH^the ra ddle of the Z:Tc^l7eTri '"/^ '""==^ °' "'^"'^^ ^"^ liter Jre--?Iio™srmonsr^us calummes are bo eved, and even amongst those who knew better, the instance. J.LfTT"" .f ''"'" "■"" --^r*""^'y "'^«- A"*^ "otwithstandi^g all thiM^ / Papacy .s on the mcrease Fr^m hor persecutions and her blood, ^missionaries And hoT?s^it?;n'r?."' ^'' doctrines,;,^, igncs et hosfles, over the whde eaZ^ nron^ri . . v 'V '? ^•1"^«^'°"' '"V Lo'd, whifth as Churchmen we should propose to ourselves, but which neither misiepresentation nor bigotry, nor intole- mnce can answer However painful may bJ the acknowledgJ,lnt.^\ is ^nly «n shamfH ft. '""^ *" t"^""^"; '^"' ^^ ^r\eniho1 departure /ro#lse great guides-if he has usurped the au- thontyof our Church.--sufely hif 6,shops art amenable to the law, who are already found obeying his behests. They are within reach, with Cardinal Wise- man a their head; and if they have violated constitutional rights, why not arrest Ihem ? Arrest them, my Lord, by all means. But they will cheerfiiUy endure it! Enact new.laws, impregnated with- the spirit of judicial murder, -and try these spiritual aggressors by then?. This also they will endure. Pack e -n jury secure a verdict, and l^t a religious Lord Jeffrys pronounce sentence. Good. my Lord, but stpp.not here. Strike down the power of a free press, choke the Channels of justice throughout the country, convert England inti) ap Aceldema. and let the atrocities of the French Revolution grow pale in the contrast of Ihe work be accomplished. an;a the spirit of the rabble, and th« pickpockets of the country, be gratified. Let the. greatest conservatism of peace and order U prostrated to the ground , and the Molobh of infidelity triumph io its ruins. But, . % it-^ii' &. "VAu Js 1 •>'■' - Jl" 1.-' ■4Sit!'aS •' 'iwpi..' •""^""fmift \ mMmmmm edifice. P„„L .. •"'^y '^'^o the ma(rr;,.i„ ./.. '^*^'^^. 'npy»*re r)erw,^.„.. '^rt' --..,„. „4„„ny ,^,j^ rtr^Tu ' '"- country whprfl #k •'^ "' '"e emnirp ^•hosenniudfolloxl!,? ^"^"^ A few Rom? P?k , ''"^ ''^"fortions^ S^^ f ' ^&fe .»--!v.v. • ' «ni, ^ \ «^BER PLAYFAIR. i^