The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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Where unfed thousands wear the priesthood's chains;
And poverty to all but Vice, is blind?
We groan for Spain—for India's harness'd slaves,
But slight the fellow land, where famine raves!
Attributing the distresses of Ireland to the “slavery of the Roman Catholics,” is another of the artful resources of the worshippers of the “Great Whore.” This is not the proper place to enter into the question; but, has not the late conduct of O'Connell and Shiel, been enough of itself to testify the lurking villainy of their distorted minds? What opinion are we to form of that man whose tongue is forked with unceasing forgeries, lampooning spite, and envy?—of the man, who, dressed in green, went round the country to excite rebellion among his ignorant countrymen? Shiel is a more decent, mealy-mouthed demagogue than O'Connell; but even he, flowery and fluent as he is in eloquising to port wine, was audacious enough to traduce, slander, and blacken with his perfidious slaver, the late brother of our reigning King, while racked with the agonies of disease! This is an introductory specimen of what we may expect hereafter, I suppose. And yet, O'Connell and Shiel are the two pillars of Catholic Intrigue. No one can deny they are quite worthy of the situation. A bigotted system of Humbug will stand the better for being propped by congenial rogues.
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