Here was a
monstrous indignity to a Protestant child! The account was at
once printed, together with a verbatim report of the application
to the magistrate as well as one of "a conversation held with the
mother by an agent of the Association." Board-men paraded the
great thoroughfares carrying this appeal:--
PROTESTANT DETECTORAL ASSOCIATION.
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NO POPERY!
Abduction Of an Infant!
Assault on the Liberty of the Subject!
Mysterious and Awful Proceedings!
Baptism of a Protestant Child in a Convent!
OUTRAGE
Upon the Nation by Foreign Mercenaries!
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Every Father and Mother is Invited to Co-operate in
Maintaining the
PROTESTANT RELIGION,
The Sanctity of Home, and the Inviolability of
BRITISH FREEDOM!
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NO SURRENDER!
If there was no coherency in this production, it should be noted
how little that is of the essence of popular appeal. The
metropolis was in an uproar. Meetings were held, subscriptions
poured in, dangerous crowds collected in Winkle Street. When Mr.
Dignam Bailey, Q. C., went down to Westminster, to move the Court
of Queen's Bench, multitudes besieged it. Protestant champions
and Papal ecclesiastics vied in their efforts to get seats.
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