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Excerpt from The Bulwark or Reformation Journal, 1853-54, Vol. 3: In Defence of the True Interests of Man and of Society, Especially in Reference to the Religious, Social, and Political Bearings of Popery
Song Ode to Pope pius.'-rosini. His Eminence, in a few remarks, proposed The health of our gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria, ' which was received and drunk with every demonstration of loyalty. But while they thus pretend coldly to drink the Queen's health, they know she is included in an annual sweeping curse pronounced at Rome against all who dare to differ from the mystic Babylon. It is utterly preposterous to imagine that men who hold such principles can be loyal subjects of any Protestant Government, or can have any desire to promote human liberty. In their hearts they must detest it. Their chief is, in truth, the head of the Inquisi tion. The only wonder is, that Lord John Russell did not discover all this long ago. It proves that the mass of well-informed Protestants have been half a century before our Statesmen in intelligence. As to Lord Aberdeen, one is at a loss whether to put down his professed dissent from these opinions to ignorance of facts, or to an Open betrayal of principle for political purposes. Is he prepared to re-establish Popery, and to alter the entire constitution of Britain? For why, to go no farther, is the present Royal Family on the throne but because they are Protestants, and because our wiser ancestors discovered that neither liberty nor religion was safe for a moment under the government of a Papist, inasmuch as from his very creed he is forced to be the abject servant of a foreign spiritual despot? 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.
