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have the time to defend himself, though he could j

readily have done so. His indictment was vague

and general: and the tribunal which condemned

him was made up of his most bitter enemies.

Well, the evil is done. This blood was necessary,

it appears, to appease the wrath of; i

heaven, and render its shedding propitious to

Hayti.

THE IRISH E4*l> Q1EM IO V

i

In the approaching session of Parliament,

the most important questions before that body

since the Keform Bill of LSfT will come up.

England is making more rapid progress

towards true democratic institutions than

we are apt to give her credit for. Household j

suffrage is but the step before manhood suffrage.

The important measure introduced during

the last session by the Government was j

the act tor the disestablishment ot the Irish

church, u beam always in the eyes of the Cath-

olie portion of Ireland, and an useless and ex-j

pensive piece of Government machinery.

It has been swept away, however, and by a

minister who warmly defended it in his youth

but who, in uiaturer manhood, believing

justice to be the due of an oppressed people, to

be of more importance than an unjust consis- j

tency on the part of one man. has dared to eon- j

fess his error.

Few measures have swept through Parlia- I

nient with the velocity of the church bill.

Rarely has the uncertainty of doubtful things, j

such as majorities, been turned to account,

better than in the passage of that bill.

But, as distasteful as the Irish church was

to the Catholics, it provoked no such general

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

New era. (1870). Washington, D.C., 1870-02-17. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024437/1870-02-17/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New era, 1870-02-17.