...The work of the gentleman to which he particularly alluded, contained the following paragraph : — " The Irish people, since their first conversion to...the assent or consent of the Irish nation. They have always been at war with it, and I trust in God will never cheerfully submit to it.'1 There was also...

...rightly the gospel 'dispensation. They were always too 'rational and too acute to submit willing'Ivto an unreasonable — I might add an ' unjust — imposition...nation; ' they have been always at war with it, and '1 trust in God they will never cheerfully 1 submit to it. It was imputed to them as 'a crime by Giraldus...

...hear Dr. Doyle — " They (the people) were always too rational and too acute, to submit williugly to an unreasonable, I might add, an unjust imposition,...law of tithe, whether civil or ecclesiastical, HAS NElXIl HAD, KITHKIl IN CATHOLIC Oil I'KOTllSTANT TIMES, NO NOT TO THE rilESENT HOUR, THE ASSENT Oil...

...only Christian country which enjoyed, up to the period of the English invasion, a total exemption from tithe. I say a total exemption ; for though some attempts...hour — the assent or consent of the Irish nation." This powerful sketch of the tithe system and its effects is not from the pen of some eloquent assailant...

...letter, Bishop Doyle remarked — " The Irish people, since their first conversion to the Christain faith, always understood rightly the Gospel dispensation....the assent or consent of the Irish nation. They have always been at war with it, and I trust in God they will never cheerfully submit to it." Truly, the...