Alr.Colquhoun, of Killermont, ALP. for Kilmarnock, lately thought fit to
attack Mr. O'Connell, and the religion be professes, in a speech published in the ..4pe ..-Ideerti,”..r. The attack has drawn forth a pun.. gent reply from O'Connell, in the form of a letter to Mr. Coleuhoun. Some passages of it will entertain our readers, aeon ii ill, pleasure, by deciariac that there are. ....nu valjects on is InLtn us ea: tirely agree. " 1st. You have, it seems, Ii, rn not to sit ay my side in t!..e II, use it Commons.
" Agreed, Sir. agreed. 1 in irdoed knou that ou would do nie any Larin if yont
did sit by Inc ; but of tints 1 am qaite sone, you would ute do any grod. Asmm our sitting part, therefore. Sir, uti 0i.:eii sum, rmumnnnsn'u S dis lay such sircisa, inc aro heartily agreed. Sit is bele 011 )olt re1111,10 front sic. -.‘2`11!" "ill, a cmi.low tint Loia a iiatuiii.!.titir itimisepiejuilice% admit-and I heal lily thauk y. that I hme, fr)qa the time I first started inn life. 110.11 to the resent do. ste.hiil■ :ma :Ahmed the LAell Celine Sail tenor or loy %Ito.; " Yes, Sir, you are t)Ilee again tilt : quite right. I Lase folhasol. as you state, 'as st early , Ow salt impeachmout, un.,1 recue uite the beeettio.,s of 1144.11. e, v... is',', n.,11:11g (loin "hirut, ill WIWI' S:11111,4, ■ our a is quite lime. I ilret started in life as Mt advocate of ei%il 1ud religious 111,,nn -uot cemiued to arm's ono et.uutry or section, but to th. ativ• fatal.- of reenkind—liberty for every CASt1.4, and mete]. and • -deteoereti•I wont,: minziittn with every human tow aution—fresslcm of eon. science n.r all profeseere of (!liri•niauity. The mistakes or conetim co are ror God to (Recover arid In e..rreet. It ie not for poor weak man to dare to interfere, by force or fraud. het wren liii fellow.crseture awl his conscientious worship of his God. "These ere the principles with which I started in life ; these are the principles to which I have devoted the veers of my youth and my manic tot; these are the principles to which my heart sod judgment sling to my atatursr age,wdlt an energy and nifection not twereded by the strongest throbbing of my warmer and mote glowing because
younger pulse." •
Next, as to the points of difference-
" Isl. You say that I ant • a keen Roman Catholic,' and that you are 'a sincere Protestant! . Sir. I deny both branches of the proposition. I am not a' keen Roman Catholic I aut. on the contrary c plain, blunt, unaffected, and mast thoroughly convinced Catholic—perfectly sttlimisstve to the decisions of that chutch which Christ instituted to decide controversies and preserve union. " You, on the other hand. are not a • sincere Protestant.' I underteke, before I close this letler, to demonstrate that you are not sincere as a Protestant. If you were, you would oultiere to the Protestant principle, ns the Protestant Dissenters do. You are an Estelolishoel Churchman. Of this more hereafter. " 2d1v. You say that I em • motions for the exaltation' of tny church ; that you are 'equally anxious for the preservation or yours.' The first part of the proposition may create a verbal diepule. 111 OUP sense I am anxious for the exaltation of my church : I am anxious for its exaltation • in usefulness, in learning. and :those all and before all, in pity.' Relieving with the certitude of faith, that it is the true church of God, I wish it to exult itself every tlar more end more in the diffusion of religion, and the promotion of divine and universal charity amongst men. " Rut if by • exaltation of my church,' You mean that to which you seem to be sin- cerely attadied —the accumulation of worldly wealth or temporal power—the coalition with or support ofthe state—you are. Sir, permit me to tell you, grievously and entirely mistaken. Yeti misrepresent—I hope it is because you mistake—my sentiments. do tint wish for any temporal wealth or power for my church. I do not wish for any state provision fnr my church, These ate the things which already veiled and obscured her sanctity—which provoked, and to a certain extent palliated, ihe horrors or the So. called Reformation. These are the curses, and not bleesings ; and I say it in the line sence of that God heron. whom both you And I shall stand, to I■e jedged for an eternity of weal or of untaterabls WO—I say it with all the solemnity, but I trust wititoot any or the profaneness, or au oath—you would not be more deterrniced to resist the 'east. tation ' ormy church in teteporef power of state tielowmenls. I bltotilli he and am ; nor could you be, as I believe, half so sincerely opposed ton.i.h It tedieernination uf evil as I am."
It was not the preservation of the Protestant Church, or the spread of Protestantism, about which Mr. Colquhoun wits allXiOttS- " It is not the things of God you desire to preserve, for these cao le- in no danger. It is the tithes. the oblations., the extensive glebes, the temporal pone... the inn.. leneo of authority, which yonr vain pride delights to see possessed try Ciiti‘tians pur- porting to believe se you do. " If you e ere sincerely desirous to preserve your cherch. would t not, iii the first instan•;e, see!: to strip her of those incurnhrances and tiv:ilements ninth we:vier her odious to the Irish people? Would you not seek to tretomt her to the pte,ple of Ito. 'Rod in the nttitude or Imentv and bleesing, ant not of robbery and legal vexatien? Is it Meticoiu. red whit the i ltaxl of tlm cheerfol child, s.,,,t 10 the araat of le'r tidal i Ur:Ina:sire. as she pionsly lel him to enjoy the sunny air I hit: t• si tit u,pr a id, you woild --tal,/i4h your altar? or tlo us desire to strenetlam her hy a iOrt1iit`a..;•,1 SsI,11 iu that if Itathcormac, stressed will' human carcass's, at ti wit with tle. Lean's blood of the witlow's some:est son—all—all shut to drat:, ti,,. ,• i.; sit:I- I:13g, tie I ronrpence chum:, tummy ! " If y,..1 were sitteerely allIi01147. to prtwerve yOtir :LI SACYCII Protestants' rites vita for attic Protestant money ; jolt rcim,terred is Prieestatt. y ; nod tor (Mt z r you siert: N,111•titIltf• etral4e0ee of Protestant betiet :11■.; 41. 171' No. Sir, I10—you •re im; sincere in the smelt of Ric, t•!. y.,1 are for money —for tithes—for church rat...—for compulsory payments t 1. ate deed, helve I, my good Sr. o,;RT, to■I viticett. in your h. sc It was a bad exciciege that tile people of KO eseeeiaa vlien
they took Mr. Culp:hour, for Dr. Ilowring-
" It ;ets tito•Tetlittectt• to ;le cleetors of the Kilts k i • to Ts.- }MAI,' 1.r41,11.114.r.! '.f. Whet ale vt it • !.. II • /1 41t14. OW us 114 al.!, 'tin; "r a mati e. let has dm, :Ott t0 11,1110i0 the dey01,.. • •
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