text:  But against that disturbance and in defiance of the unexampled liberality shown to Papists upon _every_ mode of national competition there is still in action (_and judging by the condition of the Irish bar in undiminished action_) the old spontaneous tendency of Protestantism to 'go ahead;' the fact being that the original independency and freedom of the Protestant principle not only create this tendency but also meet and favour it wherever nature has already created it so as to operate in the way of a perpetual bounty upon Protestant leanings