The Portable Edmund Burke (Portable Library)
“Repeated efforts were made during the last three decades of the eighteenth century to remedy these disabilities, and frequently Burke spoke in these debates. They were often difficult occasions, for he was forced to weigh his sympathy for Catholics with his growing fear of the Dissenters’ political radicalism. The three speeches on church-state relations included here are from 1772, 1773, and 1792.
SPEECH ON THE ACTS OF UNIFORMITY MR. SPEAKER,-I should not trouble the House upon this question, ...if I could at all acquiesce in many of the arguments, or justify the vote I shall give upon several of the reasons which have been urged in favor of it. I should, indeed, be very much concerned, if I were thought to be influenced to that vote by those arguments.
In particular, I do most exceedingly condemn all such arguments as involve any kind of reflection on the personal character of the gentlemen who have brought in a petition so decent in the style of it, and so constitutional in the mode.MoreLess
SPEECH ON THE ACTS OF UNIFORMITY MR. SPEAKER,-I should not trouble the House upon this question, ...if I could at all acquiesce in many of the arguments, or justify the vote I shall give upon several of the reasons which have been urged in favor of it. I should, indeed, be very much concerned, if I were thought to be influenced to that vote by those arguments.
In particular, I do most exceedingly condemn all such arguments as involve any kind of reflection on the personal character of the gentlemen who have brought in a petition so decent in the style of it, and so constitutional in the mode.MoreLess
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