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no ‘ll” fond-ifon of many generations*—
anti the.r followers are obliged to re fpond,
x ‘ L t h m be accused’— but anew order of
h is embodied many exiting exorc frr.s,
to loch into the myfleriows antiquities, to rend
the unconsecrated veil, to (hew the people
that the holv of holies is not local, at that the
day has palled hv, when he, who touched the
mountain, {hould be (lone. Among these I
have sfluxed the task of speaking to you de
finitively of the union ot church and (late in
our country.
“ The great events of a few past years have
gradually introduced the light neCeffiary to
this portraiture. The pa (Eons, engendered
in darkness, and which seek concealment ti’ii
they can come forward with efiech, liave (low
ly and tmfufpeTingly met this light, not aware
that toroc were witching the moment, when
thev could be di(Vm<Tly leen.
Page 7— (t Ncw-England federalifm ap
peared to b e prutefr ant, and to wish the down
fui of hierarchies, till the church of Rome
be tan to totter: then it began to pray for
her n-eftmbhfhment, ardently as faints for re
buddir, - the v fils of jcrufalem. The French,
vho nii tfiat time had been our pood friends
and nliirs, were called a set of atheists and
anareffifts. No curi s were roo five re to
implore on them for abolishing hierarchies
and for fuftxrrding the oblcrvance ot that day,
which had been before devoted to the difho
nour of Go \ y and the ruin of man. No pity
for oppre/Tcd humanity red s ained the rage of.
our church and (late men. No cries afeenoed
to hea\en for relief of freemen. With joy
the combined troops of the throne and the al
tar were announced no hurling their thunders
on ievoted France. The paflions were grad
ually rail ‘. The cries of infidelity and mo
dem rd. io'opby were founded through the
counny, and the rage of holy church and (late
n ep w <s uiredleO aja.’nft infidel France.—
Even the loyahft Barrucl, a papist, became a
lavori t, although at the e a pence of our pro
testant anceflors,-he /Mbigculcs and Wald
enks, he criminated France. Every little
ftihjeft of a political prelate took in charge
the caule of God and fettled in his narrow
n ini aqueftion mighty enough for the great
est tafoms of the two contending worlds A
little cumberer of the ground, a miserable (
portion of dud and ashes, o which rhe worms
are heirs apparent, decides on the counfcls©*
his M t!:er, anil decrees in his behalf that the
holv father had been wrongfully dtilurbed— i
that the king of France (hould be refrored—
t;vir the throne and the akin (hould be more
c> deiv united, and that the old order of things
Inouhi be revived. To express these mighty
decrees anew vocabulary is invented to abide
the friends of civil and religious liberty, and
to compliment the tyrants and murderers of!
the world. —Was this the fp-iric of ohrifti.ini-;
ty, or of church and (bate ?
a New- England federalifm appeared to be
cbrifiian> till by irritation of the public mind,
and falJe alarms, federal power was able to
lail'e an armv and and to create exten
sive eftabiiflvmer.is of wealth and grandeur,
perficllv confident with church and date uni
on, bur actually armaments and batteries
.igjir.lt the peaceable kingdom of a humble,
I 1 e.icenicr.
u Nevv-EnHand federalif.n appeared to be
federal, till a change of adminiftnuisn def
trovrd ih? grand object of church and (hue,
v/Kch always was, power to the leaders- tie
lufion to the followers, and ruin ;o opposition.
ft sen this feci•.•raiifm cried out tor dismember
inent of the fur- s—the dcadiof tederaliim.”
P.i e 9 — v; While bufietings and perlecth
tiors were the lot of chriftims, the knowing
ones avoided prokdTion; but when it was dif
covrred that this religion could be made am
engine of irate, and that civilians and eccle
liallies could fufiaineach other,it became fa Al
ien “6k to proScis. ‘'The firjl union of church
cc dflate in Chijiendom was the corner ftene cn
bit hJatav was to build his fabric cf infidelity
ITgh priells prayed for kings ; kings fur
ihiked laws to ficpporc religion ; the Saviour’s
pro.; life to iu.ft.r.n bus church was forgot ton,
or his i o.ver to fulfil the prom lie was doubt
el. Fl.s piblme decorated the walls cf
church s ; but the knee was bent and the rye
>fte i io his holinds, t ie fountain of all f.fi
ritual power, and to his majesty, who kept
that fountain ovei flowing with the wealth of a
iubiu ga t v and wor 1 and.
* f This magnificent tir.kn having for cen
turies overipread Qiriftciidom, and having
humbled by perlccutions and cruelties every
ilicceeding cials oi reed chriftia-ns, was at
length abridged by the reformation, in rhe
couri'e cf a (ingle century, among the church
es called refer vied, that of England became
ir.cit conspicuous (or the lame union, widen
m its turn v. ..s abridged by the puritans, who
ft. :t fettled this couture, and New-England,
can claim die uninterrupted iucceihon or tliis
cticrch vine! litre power.
<c The evidence and uetef.ab’e charafler ot
tl.ree of thde unions will never be doubted.
It is my province to coniidcr the tnuth, and
ds the piety oi our anccdois lias formed ti:e
basis of our thuich and tlur vive.g, and ftivx
much ofpaflion, fallehood and superstition
have been impreved :n the hifiory and appli
cation of this pietv, 1 lhall proceed in the
next number to speak of our anceflors in such
terms as mv fublecl requi r es, and with the cx
prefi, intent of (hewing that our church and
flute unionifl*, claim to be heirs of the
blefidm?, have actually ir.herited fome con It*-
turn: parts of their religion, and that this re
ligion is not chr.flianity.
” Pjcre i 2 — <f let ire now call you to look
at our ancestors jufl as you would at a cials
of men, coming here at this time, and con
ducting as they clid. Dkl they r.y from per
secution, beeaufc they hated it in principle,
or was it because it was directed againfl tt.em ?
At their firft eftnbhfoment here, they perle
cuted with more violence than they had fuf
fered. Did they leave their homes to find a
little retired fpoc in the v/ildernefs, where they
might enyjy the little, wmch man wants here
belov/, and from which might afeend daily,
and uninterrupted afoirations to heaven P
Their firfl objeCT was extent of territory, and
they combated (or it with a zeal and perfe
verancc werthy of a better cause. Did they
!cve humanity and peace ? But they were in
constant wais with their tawny bretnren, chil
dren of the fame universal Father. Did they
love toleration ? But they denied it to Qua
kers and Adamites, like then* had ilea
to the fame country. If they loved civil and
religious liberty, why was every exertion made
to defuoy them? Expressly becauie they were
fubitcL to p)aflions, like to those men, whom
they had left. They fought, quarrelled, fin
ned and ptuniihed, as often in proportion to
their numbers as their poflerity,! except that
the vices, wdiich arise from luxuries, could
not attach to them/ 5
-f See die b’e laws ami T-urn bulks hiflory for
fafts ro luftain tr.is lumber ; a recital of the cruelty
of their* wars, the .bitterness of their difp .t.r, the mu!-
t tude a :d severity of their pun’;(bincuts, the d-f<-c
tion of iheir zealots, See. would tedious. It is natu
ral, in turning those page*, leaf by leafi to obierve
how rapidly the paflions gained a gain ft the religion
of that age, and how these paflions bu; ft forth with
an impctuciitv, proportioned to ti-e reUraint. 1 hose
who wifli to citabhlh the (uperior piety ct enr an
ceflors, mufl guard a 1 access to their hiflory cfreedu
ailv, as Eden guarded, after the expuifion of
Adam.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May to. _
The plague continues its ravages in
Smyrna ; it has began also to mafiifefi itfeii
in this city. According to the last intciigence
from Egypt, that country is infected also.
In regard to the political ft tuition of Egypt,
it appears to be ftiii the fame. Two flags of
truce, which were employed in carring home
French pritoners of war, arrived at Smyrna—
they have brought back rich cargoes. A
S wed;lit frigate is expected also m that port.
MILAN, JUNE 14.
, The Courier of Milan announces this day,
that the king cf Sardinia has abdicated his
crown in favor of his son the Duke or Aorta.
VIENNA, June tc.
In consequence of a notification made to
the court by the French ambassador, that tilt
firft consul Buonaparte, will be immediately
ciedled to the confiilare for life, his majesty
the Emperor has charged is is ambafiador to the
French republic, Count Cobentzel, to con
ra till ate the firft consul by anticipation in
his rnrne, and to declare to him, that his im
portant event is so much the more agreeable
ro his ma.jcfly’s wifiaes, as he is purluaded t hit
i: will have a great influence? on the duration
of the general peace.
FRANKFORT, june 10.
Several waggons, laden with valuable fur
niture, have set out from this city ro Oranjen
fiein. The caftlc of Siegen, which will be
occupied by the Prince of Orange, is now
furniihing also. The magnificent armswluch
his son, the hereditary Prince, received as a
present from the French republic, are estimated
at 30,000 -florins.
HAGUE, June 56.
Government has canted to be fea’ed up
fcveral predes, fro.n which have ifined nume
rous libels, multiplied by an abufl* of tr;e li
berty of the press, and in which many calum
nies'were thrown out again ft fcveral eminent
public funaior.a ies of cite republic, and a
uainft difierent foreign dowcts
HAMBURGH, j t jne 14.
The imperial Ruffian councilor cf flute
and phyfiGjn, Von Boeder, lias inoculated
pi it.ee Paul Freileriv.k, ion id nis fe. ene h:u;h
nefs the heieditary prince of Mecklenburg
Schev/erin, with the cow pox. The re (tut
has been favourable. The fiipreme college
cf physic and i.ealih at ELr! o, have now aim
declared rhrmieiv es in favoi or the inoculation
ofthe va ‘e:ne, and uub!:;!• a0 a circoiar icttc
in which they recamm nd ir. rhe
.1 it ner the genera’ ir.t.vduflian :-f it, adduc
ing rhe rcjions an:: un wh ;n theh’ rc
c>:i’ mrndation is rounded.
ALBANY, ArcVfr 2*.
A number of the principal facherns, Chiefs
and Warriors of the Seneca Nation of Indians,
from Bull aloe Creek, have visited this ci ty
last week •, and we are informed luve con
cluded a ueatv with this flare, bv which thry
cede their title to ail the lands reserved alang
the Niagara river from Burr aloe creek to
Steedman’s farm, including Black Rock,—
This is doubtless a great acquititicn to this
Rate, as well as to the United States,mot on
ly on account of me value of lands, but alfu
as it fccures the carrying place at the Niagara
Falls, and the mofi advantageous fituatioia for
eflabiifhirg a military poll to guard that im
portant pals.
Another objeefl in the chiefs in vifiring our
feat of government, we are informed, Was to
intercede for one of their friends, an Irtdian,
who it is alledged has unfortunately killed a
whue man, and which has produced lo ne
agitation in that quarter —these Indians (late,
that five inltanccs have happened since the
peace, where Indians of their nation have
been inhumanly murdered by the white peo
ple, and tfiat in no infiance have the perpetra
tors been puniihed for these crimes, and that
this is the firfl infiance on their part. The
f-.ct is undoubtedly true. The/ fay they
have been afliduous in cautioning their voum r
waniors to guard aqaintl evils of this kind,
and they (hould therefore think it cruel if
their brother (hould fuff.-r for this affi,
especially as it is laid to have been done un-j
: u tentionaliy under the influence of intoxica-j
t'on and paiiion. r i ..cy vvilh.d if polfible’
that lie might be admitted to bail, flat us that
imprisonment to an Indian is worfethat dea h.
They cunfidered this as a re a (bn able requefl,
and which they had been induced to believe
might be granted confifient with our laws.—
Fids however could not be done. They ’nave
certainly a tied with great candour and mag
nanimity in delivering up the accused, who is
a near reU ion of one of the principal chiefs,
and belongs to one of the firfl families in the
nation, *
Although these Chiefs con’d not obtain the
full object of their wishes in the preier.t L
ftonce, we ar told they have returned to their
nation perfectly fuisfied with the treatment
which they received from our executive, and
with Ihe a durances he gave them that their
unfortunate brother wool i be treated with
every degree of lenity an \ humanity which
the mildness of our laws admit.
W ASHING rOM, August 3 0.
O F F I CI A L.
Under the infitudtions of he Secretary of
the Navy, com mo lore Morris will employ
conftantiv one frigate in convoying our out
ward bound merchantmen from Cadis thro’
the Streighis, and another in convoying our
homewa-d bound merehun:men from Malaga;
and every convoy, v;lien in the Gut, vviil have
an additional protection. The diftrihution
of che other frgates wdl, from time to time
be luch, as in the judgment of the commo
dore, will a (Ford the best protection to our
commerce, and as will mofte fie Finally repress
j the predatory difpofttions of its nemies.
RICHMOND, August 25.
Extract of a Utter firm Cab ski Indiana Ter
ritory, dated fitly 31.
c< The Portawatamie nation of Indians,
who reiort a coot the Illinois river, have so re
cently as the 1 6th inst. opened hoftiiities against
our cnizer.s, by killing two Americans about
five leagues from our town. The chief mur
derers are Furkey-F- -o', a notorious villain
and chief; and the Manned-Hand, and ano •
ther chief, with five other men. One of the
men they killed is an old letder of this coun
try, and the other a young 4 man.”
Ex trail of a letter Tom IVafbiugt on, dated 26 ih
August, 1 lio 2.
ff The New-York will fail on Sunday, and
the John Adams, being put in commission,
will fail ui two weeks.”
CINCINNATI, July 3 r.
A letter dated Natchez, the nth of June
last. from a gentleman who lately defeemied
the river, contains the following interesting
inteiii u-nce.
“ We were attacked by robbers, near die
mouth of white river, and a breeze springing
up, prevented us from being boarded by two
perogues, having in each fix men,vvell armed
They hailed us from the fiiore, telling us they
v.iffied to purchale fome trifles, and on our re
refufunu to land they commenced the purfu.r.
They originally confiftcdof three companies,
and weie commanded by a person named
Via son, who has kit the camp at White River,
and scours the road through the \vildernefs. —
About two weeks, ago they attacked a mer
chant boat, and took pofieffion of her, after
navung kiiied one of the people on board.”
Lexington, August 13.
Extract of a Utter acted St. Vincennes, July 27.
<< dkl Monday week, the Indians killed two
men in the facdement 61 Kahokia.”
7b tic editors of the Georgia Republican* Q
Gentlemen, 1
THROUGH the politeness of a friend, 1
I have jufi had a fight ot th.* firfi number of 1
the Georgia Republican. The eflablilhmerit 4
of a paper o:i the principles of yours, in thij M
extremity of the Union, where truth andgbyf
information have been so long concealed from j
the people, was a thing earnefily wiflied
by the enlightened part of your Republican J
fri ends. They however expeefi, and have no J
doubt, but that the mofi ftrenuotis exertions 1
will be made by the adverie parcy for the I
difco.ntinuance, if not the total defiruflion of I
a press so incongruous to their interefis and 1
views. Nevertheless their machinations I
dare venture to affirm will not avail .* for j
however tc imposing an attitude” your political
opponents in Savannah may have a (Turned by \
the support of newly created citizens and
men di fa fie died to the present happy admin
ifiration, you will be shielded fro m the ma
lignancy of their enveno.ned efi\>rts by a par- 1
ty more numerous, not less refpefbable, and :
po fie fling talents not inferior to theirs.
Certain printers gentlemen, the agents of J
an arifiocratical faelion, have in fome of their
publications a (Ter ted that the present admin- ]
ifiration countenances the licentiousness of *
the preis :So true is it, that were they turn y|
to their own career, they would easily per- m
ceive, and fnould be happy, that Mr. Jefier-■
son and his illuflrious colleagues efieem ic 1
more honorable to futfer the opprobrious epi-
tuecs, Icurrihty and calumny of many of the
public prints to pafis unnoticed, rather than
ms admmiflration fnould be (ullied by such a
Taw as adorned that of his predecefibr’s. )
mean the ever memorable Sedition AT.
They also fay <l the press exciufively in file
hands of a party will ever be efieemed fire 1
bane of civil liberty”: permit me to tell them ]
that (entiment is much too democratic for’
j men of their politics. It is but lately that \
they thought io ; and I conjeclure they ima
gine it to he the bane, only, when not mk
fiveiy their o wn.
i beg to trc-fpifs on you for a moment
wniift 1 offer thole gentlemen a few republi
can re dons why the £f present admimilrarioa j
encourages the 1 centioufnefs of the prefsd’ ■
I wii! not detain you with any umrecefffary
declamation on the inestimable value of outX
: liberty j whose fountain has* been diflr.urbed,!
OLU bhe muddy particles precipitated by
; v '*fe and patriotic Jefferfon : a liberty which
is our boalt, the envy of our neighbours, and
the source of virtue, Wherein is k more
conspicuous than in the freedom of the press? I '*
bor, unavved by the. debafirrg dread of arbitra
ry p uni foment we examine the virtues, the vi
ces, the prudence, and imprudence, of those
who have hem and arj em ruffed with the le
gislative and executive power of these (fates: -
and whild vve inveftiqrate the importance of
scientific inventions or weigh the comparative
merit oc the religious, the moral, poetic, and
hiltoric writers of antiquity, or of the present
■ age , —whiiff we are employed in enquiring,
j comparing, farming of opinions, and defend
ing those opinions, the public gains a DafSoiu
for truth . \
But thefe’ ftsperior talents for abdrufe and?
contemplative fubjeffs are adventitious ac
quirements, derived from that freedom of en~
| quiry we now enjoy : Its influence is more
jextenuve and momentous. This free aif—
icutfion of all fubjefts whatever, uncontrouledi
| only by equitable laws, f<> far from being the
“ bane’* is that which conffitutes the very’
quintefiericc* of civil liberty ; it is its diftirr
| guifiling character, and the mod efncacioust
; means of rendering it perpetual. Were the
I freedom of examination into the public con
duct or our servants prohibited by any one’
man, or any fiction of men, could; we nor
then be fa;d to be at their mercy? When our
opinions are by these means in their cullodv,
ana under their absolute controul, ho.v ihaulT
we make efforts for redress ? How (hould we
address our representatives againlt me afu res
we may’ think pernicious, if we were not per
mitted to be inilrufted in the nature of the n*
until we feei rlieir oppreflive effects ? Or how
mould we be enabled to redtify the choice we
j may have made of corrupt repnrfentatives if
j it :s in the power of their friends to suppress
I any account of their conduct,, except such as is.
j bell calculated to deceive us?
The omnipotent and omnifclent author of
j nature has, in h; s wisdom, formed an igneous
bail whole rays cherish this Globe, and has
provided us with a lucid and fluid body for
our convenience and relief; yet fire frequent
ly proves deftrudtive, and the Sun is ‘often:
times the lource of pcftilence : Ought v.~*
then ro prohibit fire, or be diiTatisfied because
the Sun cxiils ? Certainly no: I Nor ouoht ve
to murmur at the liberty of the press in order
to defiroy its licentioufncls.
Since existing laws are lufficient ro ftioprefii
immoral and licentious writings, all abridge
ments and restrictions must necefTarily tend fo
diminiih that freedom of enquiry on which
our exigence as a free Republic depends.
> Finally, our present admindlratbn Rands
