Excerpt from The Repealer Repulsed: A Correct Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Repeal Invasion of Ulster: Dr. Cooke's Challenge and Mr. O'connell's Declinature, Tactics, and Flight With Appropriate Poetical and Pictorial Illustrations, Also, an Authentic Report of the Great Conserv

Catholics; and though it would have been difficult for them to find, amongst their whole body, so many individuals of respectability as would have been equal to the number of posts demanded, yet even a Hercules-street flesher must not be refused, should his election be necessary to the completion of the list selected by the Priests. These, and similar indications of an aggressive spirit, quickly awakened the slumbering faculties of all classes of Protestant society. It was instantly seen, that, unless the insolent intolerance of the Maynooth upstarts were checked with some effect, the worst feelings of sectarian animosity would be aroused, and that our peaceable community must soon pre sent the appearance of that most lamentable of all judicial inflictions, under which every man's hand is set against his neighbour.

But our readers are not to suppose that political aggression was the attempt primarily made. N o the direct inculcation of Popery, as a system of orthodox infallibility, and the denunciation of Protestantism, as the foulest of heresies, were the precursors, both of the municipal sectarianism first propounded, and of the Repeal agitation by which it was subsequently, but for a time hesitatingly followed. O'connell, in his letter to the Wesleyan Methodists, adopted about the same time a new character, and, concurrently with the Vindicator, appeared as a virulent assailant of Protestantism in general. At this period he was in London, and must have been acting under the spiritual control of Dr. Wiseman, the Vicar Apostolic; and hence we infer, that the sec tarian crusade adverted to, must have been part and parcel of a general system, though its working may, in particular districts, have fallen into the hands of persons, who, like their Scriptural class-fellow, cast about only firebrands, arrows, and death, to themselves as well as their neighbours, while they imagine that they are only indulging in apiece of harmless, and possibly beneficial sport to their ecclesiastical mother.

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