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rent the neighbouring savages with justice. At present it 1851.
8 the interest of the colonists to provoke the natives into Zr. 47.
War, because it leads fo a most profitable expenditure of
British money.”
“March 15. (To Mr. B. Potter.)~—. . . As for politics,
nobody can foresee for a week what will happen. Parties
were a good deal confused before, thanks to Corn; but now
the Catholic element has made confusion worse confounded.
Of this be assured, all the embarrassments in the House, ab
Court, and in the Cabinet, have sprung out of the Papal
Question. Tt may suit the Whigs to abuse the Radicals, or
ake the Manchester school their whipping boys; but it
is Lord J ohnny’s Durham letter and his Bill that are at the
bottom of all the mischief. For the last fifteen years, ever
Since 1835, the Whigs, when in power, have depended for
their political existence upon the votes of the Irish members,
 If that support had been at any time withdrawn in
Consequence of & Durham letter, they must have gone out of
office. And they must go out now. The only thing that
keops them in, is the impossibility of finding anybody to
bake their places. In fact, it is difficult to see who is to
Bovern, Any Government that perseveres in the anti-Papal
Policy will be opposed by the Irish members on every
Subject, and if an Administration were to come in to do
Uothing agsinst the Pope, they would, I suppose, be turned
out by the English. So that we are in a rather considerable
fx.
“YT will back the Irish to win, though they have long odds
8gaingt them, because they have right and justice on their
Side. In fact, we are exhibiting ourselves in this year of
the Exhibition as the most intolerant people on earth.
Europe cries shame on us, and America laughs at us.
Our course is that of the dog in the manger. We will not
tome to an agreement with the Pope, as the Emperor of