is, that it is an indisputable historical fact, that these opinions _then_ prevailed in all Christian countries, and that they prevailed in England, for at least nine hundred years, for England was, at the very least, nine hundred years a Catholic nation. During the prevalence of these opinions in England, arose churches, parishes, cathedrals, and bishops' sees, monasteries, and many of our universities, and colleges, _then_ Catholic, but _now_ Protestant. Now, it is an historical fact recorded in the English Statute Book, that your Protestant ancestors took from the Pope, his spiritual power in England (for he never had any temporal power here, as these pages will shortly prove to you), and your Protestant ancestors took from the Catholics all the rich possessions which belonged, in their estimation, by the strongest titles, to the Catholic Church; and, _mind_, they did this after the Pope had exercised his spiritual power in England, for at least nine hundred years, and after the Catholics had held this church property for at least nine hundred years. But, oh, you will reply, our Protestant ancestors did this by Act of Parliament! I grant it, and surely you will not think it unjust in me, to judge you now by your own acknowledgments. Now, your Protestant ancestors did this _justly_, or _unjustly_. If they did it _justly_, by act of Parliament, why cannot the same thing be done again _justly_, by Act of Parliament? Divide the population of England into two parts, and if you number accurately, you will find, that the Catholics and the Dissenters form, in my humble opinion, the greater half. Should, therefore, the Catholics and Dissenters, obtain an Act of Parliament, to take this church property from you Protestants, what reasonable arguments could you advance against it? Turn the question up, or down, you could not possibly escape. If you allege that you have had possession for three hundred years, the Catholics and Dissenters will reply, the Catholics had held it for at least nine hundred years. If you argue it was given by Act of Parliament to your Protestant Church, the Catholics and Dissenters will reply, the Catholics held it, by the sanction of Government, for nine hundred years at least. In short, turn the argument as you please, you are in a _regular fix_. Oh, what a powerful, and unanswerable argument, have you forced me to put into the mouths of the Dissenters, against _your_ church property, even if you got it justly! Allow me then to ask you, why all this tirade and fury about the _mere fancy_ of a thing being done to you, which you assert, your ancestors did _justly_ to the Catholics. But if you took this property _unjustly_ from the Catholics, then it is as plain as the noon-day sun, that the Protestant Church, was first founded upon acts of _injustice_.