Substance of Two Speeches, Delivered in Convocation, on Thursday, February 26, 1829 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Substance of Two Speeches, Delivered in Convocation, on Thursday, February 26, 1829 Which has brought us together within these walls. The contest, let it be remembered, is not between the two individuals whose names have been now announced to us, but it is between the Roman Catholic and the Protestant religions, which have long been struggling for the mastery. It is vain and idle to conceal from our view, that if Roman Catholics are admitted to political power, the Bri tish Constitution is destroyed, and the Popish re ligion is exalted upon the ruins of the Protestant. The Established Church of Ireland will shortly be overthrown; the Ecclesiastical Property in that country will fall into the hands of the Romish priests; the Irish Members will be principally, if not wholly, Roman Catholics and the little leaven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.