Oppression, however, has its traditions, and so has revenge, and these can descend from father to son, without education.

If Roman Catholic disabilities had been removed at a proper time, they would long since have been forgotten, but they were not, and now they are remembered, and will be remembered.

The prejudices of the Roman Catholics, however, and their enmity towards those who oppressed them, increased with their numbers and their knowledge.

The religion of those who kept them down was Protestant; and think you, sir, that, be the merits of that religion what they may, these are the people to come over in large masses, without esteem for us, reflection, or any knowledge of its principles, and embrace the creed of the very men whom they look upon as their oppressors.

Sir, there is but one way of converting the Irish, and it this:--Let them find the best arguments for Protestantism in the lives of its ministers, and of all who profess it.
Let the higher Protestant clergy move more among the humbler classes even of their own flocks--let them be found more frequently where the Roman Catholic priest always is--at the sick-bed--in the house of mourning, of death, and of sin--let them abandon the unbecoming pursuits of an ungodly ambition--cast from them the crooked and dishonest manoeuvres of political negotiation and intrigue--let them live more humbly, and more in accordance with the gospel which they preach--let them not set their hearts upon the church merely because it is a wealthy corporation, calculated rather to gratify their own worldly ambition or cupidity, than the spiritual exigencies of their own flocks--let them not draw their revenues from the pockets of a poor people who disclaim their faith, whilst they denounce and revile that faith as a thing not to be tolerated.