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Show TORTUEZS INFLICTED ON PAPISTS. Gladstone told his country to study Irish history. his-tory. Some are doing so, and have had their views of English justice considerably changed. Mr. R. Gibson, a well-known Protestant, of Limerick, in the course of a letter to the 'Trish Protestant," observes: ob-serves: T sav that in spite of all the history, of all the Romish persecutions at home and abroad, the balance is terribly against the Protestants for their destruction and spoliation of Roman Catho-1 Catho-1 lies in the British Isles, from the sixteenth cen-1 cen-1 fury on to the nineteenth. The tortures of the i thumbscrew and the rack, the massacre of St. Bar-j Bar-j tholomew's, etc.. etc.. wre short tortures inflicted j bv foolish bigots. The tortures inflicted on Irish j Papists lasted for many generations and killed thousands, for the hundreds slain by Roman Cath- olics." |