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 SETTLED IN 
 
 
 Friends AND Fellow Subjects, 
 
 You have lately been addressed, as Irishmen oi^, 
 without distinction of religious belief, by " A True 
 friend,"— to put you on your guard against designing 
 men, who for personal objects and party purposes, 
 wish to excite your naturally vehement feelings, and to 
 draw you in to make common cause with them in 
 pursuing those objects : I wish to warn you agafnst a 
 particular class of these agitators, who wickedl^ppeal 
 to your religious feelings and principles, and e^eayour 
 to make you believe that your religion is ii^dcfitger, 
 and that it is your duty to support it by votmg ^^ainst 
 Protestant candidates, at this election. ^cj ^ 
 
 They tell yon that the Governmeht^tSJliaS) 4§fgn3 
 against your religion, and that yoii~^8l%il^li^tore 
 oppose any candidate who has ever s\tpf;^rU^ Govern- 
 ment (or is likely to support it), on o/Sjf^r^u^tions : 
 They seek in short to nmke yoiih tlK^infllrii|lents of 
 'jlishing here those religious /radcls nni^ ammosities 
 \. ich distract our unhappy mblftift^Cmin^ ; 1 will 
 in a few plain words, and by simple n!bl(||jfBhew you 
 how little reason there is, in this country, for any com- 
 plaint on (he score ok' religious intolerance nr persecu- 
 tion; and how impossible it is that that unhappy state 
 of things which exists in Ireland can ever, in any dc' 
 gree, exist heie ; and you will then see through the 
 tiilse pretences and • mischievous artifices of these men 
 who thus wantonly mislead you ; . • -^ 
 
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 What were tho Imrdships you suffered in Ireland, on 
 account of your religiou ? and what U yoar condition 
 liere^ in tliat respect ? 
 
 1. In Ireland, no Catholic Peer op Commoner^ caiv sit, 
 or vote, in either House of Paiiiamcnt. 
 
 In this Province, though wc have not a House of 
 Jjords, we have, what corresponds to it, a Legislative 
 Council, and we have a Commons House of Assembly ? 
 Catholics may, by law, sit in both Houses: In the 
 Council, there are now eight of them : The late Ca- 
 tholic Bishop sat there in his lifetime : He was one of 
 14 new members whom the King appointed in one 
 year ; seven of whom were Catholics. 
 
 The majority of the House of Assembly are and 
 always will be Catholics, 
 
 Is this like Ireland ? 
 
 2. In Ireland, no Catholic can be chosen a member 
 of tho Privy Council, or bo made a Judge, or hold 
 an office in the Courts of law, or in a Corporation, or 
 be one of the King's Counsel in the law. — Here, we 
 have no Privy Council, but we have an Executive 
 Council, which is the same thing ; and Catholics are, 
 and have been, members of the Executive Council, 
 equally with Protestants. They may be, and are, 
 appointed Judges, and may, and do hold any office 
 about tho Courts of law : Not many years ago, the 
 ISolicitor Cjeneral was a Catholic ; the Advocate Ge* 
 neral and two out of three King's Council in the law 
 are now Catholics ; and every existing Corporation in 
 the Province (except perhaps one), consists wholly, 
 or in part, of Catholics. , 
 
 Is this like Ireland ? 
 
 3. In Ireland, no Catholic Marriage is legal, unless 
 the ceremony is also peiibrincd by a Pvoteiitant Clergy- 
 man. 
 
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 In tills province, marriages by yonr Priests, Are a» 
 valid and good as those perlormed by Protestant Cler- 
 gymen. 
 
 Is this like Ireland ? 
 
 4. In Ireland, you were not, by law, allowed to 
 settle your properly on Catholic Schools or Churches, 
 or for any Catholic purposes ; you could not vote at 
 vestries, though you were obliged to pay ihe assess^ 
 ments made by them ; and above all you were com- 
 pelled to pay tithes, which went to the support of a 
 Protestant Clergy. 
 
 Here, the Catholics may give any land or property 
 to their Churches or Schools, us freely as they could 
 have done when the Country was governed by a 
 Catholic King : — An act was passed by the Provincial 
 Legislature a few years ag-o, tor the express purpose of 
 making it more easy, both lor Catholics and Protestants, 
 to endow Elementary Schools in the Parishes, either 
 with money or land ; and as to Tithe?, your Clergy have 
 the right, by a law made in the British Parliament, in 
 1774, to exact their Tithes and Dues from their 
 Parishioners. But the Protestant Clergy cannot re- 
 ceive Tithes ; tliey are obliged to be supported by the 
 money of the British Government, or by charitable 
 religious Societies ; and finally, your Bishop receives 
 from that same Government a salary of J^ 1000 per 
 annum. 
 
 Is all or any of this like jlreland ? 
 
 Answer me like true hearted Irishmen ; do these 
 facts, which cannot be denied, look like a design on 
 the part of Government to injure your religion, or to 
 oppress you because cf it ? And whatever may have 
 been your condition in Ireland as to religious disabili- 
 ties, can you deny that you stand here on a level with 
 your Protestant brethren ? Or can you as Irishmen, as 
 men possessing a spark of generosity, good feeling or 
 gratitude, refuse to give the Government credit and 
 support for its justice aad liberality ? 
 
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 But there is yet more : 
 
 To crown and preserve to you that happy state of 
 perfect equality and toleration which I have been 
 showing iluit you enjoy, the British Parliament has 
 declared that the Provincial Legislature shall not have 
 power to pass any act affecting or altering your reli- 
 gious privileges, or laying any sort of new buillieni 
 upon you for the support of religion ; or in any way 
 connected with the exercise of religious worship, with* 
 out first obtaining the consent of the Kings, Lords, 
 and Commons of Great Britain, to such act. So that, 
 even if it were possible, which it is not, that the Ma- 
 jority of the House of Assembly and Council, here, 
 shouhl ever be Protestants, or that they, being Ca- 
 tholics, should wish to alter the present constitution 
 such as I nave described it to you, in matters of 
 religion, they cannot do so ; the Governor cannot 
 assent to an act for doing so. 
 
 But it must be finally sanctioned and approved by 
 that body, — the Parliament of Great Britain, which 
 has established your Religion hi/ laiv in this Country, 
 and which will probably, before another twelve- 
 month. Emancipate it by law, in the Country which 
 you have left. ' . . ., 
 
 My friends, I might go on and appeal to such of 
 you as have suffered poverty and distress since you 
 landed on these shores, to say who they are that 
 have done most for your relief in sickness and want ^ 
 w^as it the persons who are now stirring up a spirit of 
 discontent and opposition to Government among you, 
 or was it the Government itself, and that class of 
 society among which the principal supporters of 
 Government are found ? If any of you have occasion- 
 ally at the outset, been relieved in money, I might 
 ask you from whom you received pencc^ and from 
 whom you received jwo2»i(/^. - * ^ ^ .. , . ..i> 
 
 But, though others seek to move your more vio- 
 lent passions or prejudices, I will ' not seek to move 
 
you even to gratitude by considerations of tliis sort : 
 I appeal to you on broader grounds, as men who 
 ought to shew your confidence to, and contentment 
 with the Government that has, as you must feel, 
 dealt more liberally and kindly with you here than 
 in your Mother Land ; and I cannot do better than 
 close with two extracts from a pamphlet published 
 lately by Lord Nugent^ (one of the most staunch 
 supporters of Catholic emancipation, and a plain 
 honest upright and high principled man : First he 
 truly says, "On subjects like these,'* (religious per- 
 secution and intolerance "silence on all sides, and 
 a mutual interchange of forgiveness, repentance, 
 and oblivion is wisdom ; but to quote grievances only 
 on one side is not honesty ;'* And again, (and this 
 is more to my present purpose) " To the imputation'* 
 (that the allegiance of Catholics is a divided alle- 
 giance, and tliat therefore Catholic Emancipation 
 would endanger the Church and State of England) 
 —" The full, sufficient and incontestable answer is 
 CANADA, (See Note at the end.) 
 
 My fi'iends, these things deserve your considera- 
 tion ; weigh them well and act for yourselves. — Shun 
 combination with the men who are seeking to in- 
 flame you : When they endeavour to excite your 
 feelings and turn you to the bitter recollection of 
 the past, suspect and avoid them : they are eo friends 
 to your peace or to the peace and good C' :!i r of so- 
 ciety. Distrust their motives and designs , for be 
 assured, those who are thus working upon your feel- 
 ings for their own purposes, wdl cast you aside as 
 blunt and useless tools, when those purposes are by 
 yoiu* assistance ticcempiislicd, they will leave you 
 tlien to wander where you please, and starve, or 
 deride your want and nakedness, as they have hither- 
 to done, by nicknaming you *^^Basde Soie d'lrlande^** 
 or the "«S?7A- Staching Beggars, from Ireland,'* 
 
 I have only one word more ; it will bring to your 
 recollection, as it does to mine, that lovely land 
 which I liav« trod from one end to the other^ with 
 
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 those mingled feelings of admiration, delight and 
 pain, which every man of Irish blood and extraction 
 must experience tliere, but whicli at this distance are 
 softened down to affectionate regret for " the land 
 of our forefathers, 
 
 ERIN GO BRAGH/' 
 
 Note — On your conquest of Cnn-idaiynu fniind it Roman Catholic | 
 you bad to rliuse for her n CoDBftiiHion in Chinch and State: yoii were 
 wise enoujrh not to thwart public opinion :~In Canada, you eitlablish* 
 ed and endowed the It'-ligion of the people: Canada was your only 
 Roman Catholic Colony: >our other Colonies revolted ;— and they 
 achieved tiieir independence t Catholic Canada, with what Lord Liver« 
 pool would call her half allegiance, atone stood by you : to reward 
 and encourage her loyally, you endowed in Canada, Ui8ho|)S to say 
 Mass, and to oidain oiliem lo say Mass, whom at that very time your 
 laws would have hanged for sa>ing Massi in England :--When yoa 
 allow to the Catholics their religion, undisturbed, illia> proved iiteff t« 
 b9 cumpatible niUi Uio nutt uiibful alte^iiace* 
 
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