Some of the Irish Clergy intend to attempt the collection
of tithes. Undeterred by the recollection of Rathcormac arid the execration which his proceedings last year drew down upon him from all but
Orange-Tories, Mr. Ryder, the "hero of Gortroe," has already com- menced operations. Ile caused notices to be posted on the chapel gates of Batheormac and Gortroe, on Sunday week, calling on his parish- ioners to come in without loss of time and pay him the tithes of 1834; and intimating that, after the 1st Not-ember next, immediate pro- ceedings would be taken by him for the tithe falling due on that day. The peasantry, in the mean while, arc determined on resistance. The Limerick Times says, that,
On Monday last, it Veing the intention of the Reverend C. P. Conte to col- lect the tithes due to him in the parish of Doan, in Limerick, about 4,000 men, several of them armed, assembled with the intention, as appeared from their re- peated cries for the reverend gentleman or his proctor, to frustrate his design. At night, the parishes of Dunn and Cappatnore were illuminated with fires, While the neighbourhood was disturbed by the keel:lent firing of slots and blowing of horns.
A meeting has been held at Claremorris in county Limerick, at which the following resolutions were adopted-
" That the y en of tithes for the support of indivatals from whom we reecho no religious benefit is contrary to every principle of justice and equity ; awl that, therefore, we will continuo every opposition which the law of the land and the spirit of theeonatitution can warrant, uuta we are totally relieved from the load which haa
so heavily pressed on the hales- ey of Vie People, ant has been Oat greatest rarge that ever afflicted this heretofore misgoverned count, y. " Resolved, therefore, that to neither parson, nor landlord, nor agent, nor driver sem any other menial, shall we make a voluntary lender of this hateful impost; and should any of the above classes attempt to appropriate to the account of tithe what is pail in the shape nf red (as we are informed is the poetics of some), we will invaria...y Insist upon an aelas+zetedgment uuf inn' money ,f,r ren,, conformably to our cspret:sed reso- lution.; and that, should our money be detained and such acknowledgment refusea ts., we will consider such persons as swindlers, ;end proeeml against them acc_mlingly." The redoubtable Ebenezer Jacob has advertised his resolution am to pay " ministers' money" in the following letter to the Dublin Morn-
ing Register.
" On nay arrival from Eneland this morning, I was met, in my hall, ty three of the harpies of that established nuisance the Established Church.
" I learned front toy servant, that eluting my absence those legalized iraposs tors had applied for payment er the ministers' money ; a tax which I never have paid, and which I am religiaudt, resolved never to pay, for the following rea- sons: " 1st. Because I object to the system adopted by which pews in parish- churches are bought, sold, or hired, and thud rendered private property. 1 have myself, when attending divine service in Thomas's Church, been refused admission into a pew in which there was not a single soul at the time, on the ground, forsooth, of its being private property. " 2d. Because I conceive the rectorial revenues of the Church in Treisesel would, if honestly, prudently, and charitably allotted and administered, be than amply sufficient to support the requisite number of Protestant ekrgymeti in decent comfort and modest independence.
" ad. Because I object to the system of a compulsory payment for clergo- men, as having orighoted in that adulterous connexion between Church endl State which has Mil:teed on every country cursed by its existence the severest injuries on public liheity oral private morals, which has given tepeated shocks to civilization and :atmanity, and has occasioned in this unhappy country [OGEE heartrending and disatisting scenes and cons-apienees than agcs of the operahoss of a responsible and beniosn system of government can obliterate or atone for. " For these reasons I have declined to pay this odious impost. The officer* of the law—that infamous late—have seized upon a portion of my property, and for the sum of ede. they luve, in perfect unison with the whole system of Church plunder, seized wpir an article tvorth ten time as much.
" I lung since ni isle 11!: my mind not to pay this tax. The objection to the payment of tithes 11Ids good against the payment of ministers' money. and if every one were of my way of thinking, there would soon bc the sante u:it5eulty in • :lecting the one in tlar towns as there now is, thank heaven, in the col- lection of the other in the country."
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