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Date Posted: 06:46:08 09/02/02 Mon
Author: English Earl
Subject: Pacification?


Subject :
John, Earl of Shrewsbury



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The following document can be found at Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA, under the library call numbers:
I

5425

.256

No. 37

The following excerpts could have been written during Oliver Cromwell’s rampage through Ireland, or even today in Northern Ireland. They happen to have been spoken in parliament in 1844 by John, Earl of Shrewsbury. Rw

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Hints Towards
THE PACIFICATION OF IRELAND

Addressed More Particularly to

THE RULING POWERS OF THE DAY

By: John, Earl of Shrewsbury

London, 1844


p.1 “It is too well established upon indisputable evidence, that England has ever, since her first occupation of Ireland, placed herself in an antagonist position toward that country; her domination, alas! is to be traced to one continued course of blood, spoilation, perfidy, and injustice. The most minute research can discover no lucid intervals of a better feeling – the whole track is dark and gloomy, without one ray of light to cheer it – not one act of grace is upon record…to cite the proofs, would only be wading through too revolting a mass of evidence.”



p. 48, 49, 50. “To maintain a Church which was planted amidst blood, confiscation, and ruin; which has lived upon plunder, and thriven on oppression, filled the land with wailing and desolation, and sending generation after generation to the grave with a hatred of England because she would not release them from her iron grasp; a Church which has ever ruled with the Sword instead of the Crozier; known only to the poor by its rapacity; and to the wealthy by its avarice.”



“It is a Church which has never fulfilled any one object of the religion of a God of Charity and Justice. From the beginning she strove to persecute into compliance; but this failing, she endeavored to exterminate those whom she came to convert. But even this was no protection to her; for from the remnants which escaped the slaughter…she has seen them rise again as the multiplied grain from the seed, that seed being the blood of the Martyrs whom she immolated, that she might fill their place and hold their station.”



“Of course, I speak of the English Church in Ireland…in these observations, I have not hesitated to identify the Church with the State, because, by her Representatives, she was party to every penal enactment against the Catholics, and because the declared object of these enactments was…the extirpation of Catholicity.”



John, Earl of Shrewsbury, 1844 (Cont.)



p.56. "The comparative enumeration of the various religionists in Ireland, made by the Public Instruction in 1834, stood thus:



Members of the Established Church 852,064

Presbyterians 642,356

Other Dissenters 21,808

Catholics 6,427,712

Total 7,943,940



This enumeration was always esteemed as considerably over-rated for Protestants and under-rated for Catholics under the Census of 1841; leaving 1,200,000 Anglicans and the Presbyterians, however, though they generally supported the Conservatives at the last election, are now in open arms against the Government, on their marriage grievance...so that the Established Church has no more claim to number them amongst its adherents that it has the singularly small band of 20,000 dissenters. Thus, we have 7,000.00 of Catholics contending for their rights against 700,000 Anglicans; with further auxiliary force, equal to the whole amount of those in possession of the Ecclesiastical Temporalities of Ireland, to back them in the contest; - 7,700,00 against 700,000! The odds are startling...TYRANNY IS NOT GOVERNMENT, AND ALLEGIANCE IS DUE ONLY TO PROTECTION."



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