text:  So far then as relates to the laws regulating the elective franchise if they are to be judged of by the results which they produced the Liberal party have nothing to complain of and the Roman Catholics still less; of the Radical majority they numbered thirty-five or nearly one-half; and if eligible men could be had of their body or if their leaders wished it undoubtedly persons of their profession might have been returned in every instance in which liberal Protestants were seated