THE TIMES, January 13th 1819
Outrage on Quakers at Carlow
As a number of females of the Society of
Friends were lately coming out of their Meeting-house at Carlow,
they were assailed by a vial rabble, who, not content with using
such missiles as fell directly in their way, raked the very kennels
for filth and ordur to heap on the persons of these respectable
people. The Roman Catholic Priest of the town, the Rev. Wm.
Fitzgerald, addressed his parishioners next Sunday on the subject of
this outrage in the following terms:-
“My very soul is harrowed up at the
recollection of such an abomination! Some of those wretches are
said to be Catholics; but I disown them. Christianity disclaims, and
Catholicity abhors them – they are the excommunicate of civil
society. Such wretches, in Jerusalem, at the time of the persecution
of he Messiah, were the first to cry out, ‘Crucify Jesus!’ (an
exclamation of horror ran through the congregation). Such wretches
in Constantinople, would be the very dregs of Mahometan fanaticism.
I thank God their number is small, and I an sure they are the
vilest, the lowest, the foulest dregs of people.”
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