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7 f rrr Doll:, pc- annum Volumt X.] From the Baltimore American . * motion was made at the last session of tim legislature of North-Ca, oh net for the cap'/.’;i*n of Mr. f.ic.t>n I Hr. May a jew. an.! member 01 shat house—alledging hi: disbelief *f the divine authority of the New ‘> cstan.cut. 7o il mot in: he made zkc following speech in that bodv, biha’f of himself is? consti. ::ci:ts. Ihe speech is aikdreJ to he ft on j the imfiul: of the moment. A 1 W: c. -id argumentative ! one v:e have seldom seen. j he metis: was unanimously related 1 I Mr. lie'• y —Though I viil not ! cm i ca! the urprlfe I felt that tl.e < g r tier’ > .utd have thought pro pel yesterday to ! ve moved nr; expulsion from *! • hoiifv. on the illt deed ground; that I disbelieve in the i ivine authority of the New TANARUS lament, without co. fd< ring him felf bound hy thole tules of -lit enel.o, which, according to my sense oi propriety, should have ltd him to give me f >me previous intima ?• nos his design—yet fit tee lam btought to the difeuflior., ! feel prepated to meet the object of his ft Solution. I ctituin’v, Mr. S f . .<hary/ rot the delig’i oi the declaration o{ rights trade by the people cf thi:. .fta:.- in the year *76, and •?’}? day b ‘ore the Constitution, if it was rot to concentrate certain great nnj fundamental rights and principles, which even the Constitution could ret impair; for the -14'h feefion of the latter instrument declares that the declaration of rig.-its ought nev er to be violated on any pretence v. hatever —If there is any apparent difference between the two instru ments, they ought ; f pcfT*!>le to be reconciled. But it there is a final repugnanre between them, the dec laration of righ's rruft be cenfider ed paramount; for I believe it is to tile Constitution, as the Cor.fiitu ♦ on jc to a law ; ft control- end t!i rvets it ahloluttlv IS: exclusively. II then, a belief in the Protestant rtoglon is required by the Conftitu fi >n to quality a man for a feat in his house, and furh qualification is dispensed with by the declaration of rii'hts, the provision of the Confti tutii n must he altogether inopera tive, as the language oi the bill of rights is that all men have a natural ui. 1 unalienable right to worship Al nighty God according to the dicl atu of their own confeience. It is undoubtedly a natural right, and when it is declared to be an unalien able one by the people in tlitir orir. inal capacity, any aitempt to alien ate it either by the Constitution or by law, must he vain & fruitlefs. It ft difficult to conceive ho?.’ nich a provision crept into the Con uitution, unlcfs it was from thediffi cnitv the human mind ft els in sud- Jenly emancipating itlclf from fet ters r y which it hr; long been en • h.rined ; ’’.d hoev averse it is to the manners or the r ‘n'e of the present day, every gentle...an may fatisly himftlf bv glancing at tin: religious hf.li sos the perft-nr wlv i v*. MONITOR. WASHING I ON, ( O&oNGiA ) Printed weeklv for SARAH HILLHOUSE. rious civil offices of this state : ’ here are Presbyterians, Luther ans Calvinifls, Menonifts, Baptists, Trinitarians and Unitarians—but as far as my obfet v: ticn extends, there are fewer Proteflants in the Uriel sense of the word tiled by the convention than of any other per fuafton; for I suppose they meant by it the Protestant religion as efl nblithed by the law ol England.— Ft r other persuasions we f t houses of worship i’l almost every part of th ft ife, but very few for Pn teft art; so few th.tt ! fear the people of thi- state would remain unrepre sented in this house, if that clnuie ol the Constitution is supposed to be in force. Solar from believing in the truths of the VJ articles, 1 will venture to aflirt that a major ity of the people have never r ad them. If a man fhoulJ hold religious principles incompatible with the f’vedom and fafety of the slate, I do not hesitate to pronunce that he should be excluded from the public councils of the lame; and I truil, il I know myielf, tit; one would be more ready to aid and aftift than niyfclf. Bur I should really let? r. ir>fs to fueciiv ar.v known r !.•>’ * e cm principles which are thu- dan pen'its. Ir is finely a qtHIFn !>• - tween a man and his Maker, am! requires more than human attri butes to pronounce which rs the numerous feels prevailing in the world, is moft a'c pts.de to the I); ity. If a man fulfils the duties of that religion, which his education or his conf< iti:ce has pointed to him as the true one, no person, 1 hold, in this our land of liberty, has a right to arraign him at the bar of any inquisition—At and the day I rrult is long past, when prin ciple. merely fpecuiative were pr >- pogated by force; when the fine ere and pious were made victims, and the light minded bribed into hypo crites The proud monum: nts of libe-fy knew’ that the purest homage man coulJ render to the Almighty w'as in the facrifice of his passions and * in the performance of his duties; that the ruler of the universe would receive with equal benignity, the various offerings of man’s udora t’on, if they proceeded from an humble spirit and sincere mind ; that intnllerance in matrers of faith, had been from the earliest ages oi tlie world, thi fevered torments by which mankind could he afflided ; and that governments were only concerned about the actions and conduft of man, and not his fpecu iative notions. Who among v.s feels himfelt to exalted above his fellows, as to have a right to didate to them thi ;r mode of belief? fliall this free country set an example of perfection, which even tlie return ing rcafon of enfiaved Europe would not submit t ? Will you bind the confeience it chains, & faften con viefion upon the mind, in spite of the conclufio/.s of reason, and of tb.ofe ties and habitudes which are Mended with every puiJat : „a of SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2+, 1ß10 phe heart ? Are you prepared to plunge at once from the sublime heights of moral legislation, into the dark and gloomy caverns of super stitious ignorance ? Will you drive from your fliores & from the fhei ter of your constitutions, all who do not lay their oblations on the fame alter, observe the fame ritual, and fubferibe to the fame dogmas. If so, which atnongft the various fi£ls into which we are divided, Hull be tlie favoured one ? I should insult the undei Handing of this house to suppose it pcfiible that they could even absent to such ab surdities. For ail know that perfe- 1 r it’ion in all its fliapes and modifi atior , is cnitraiy to the genius iTt our government, and the spirit of | our laws ; and that it can never produce anv other efF.-ft, than to i render men hypocrites or martyrs. I When (lharLs the sth, emperor of Germany, tired of the cares of go vernment, r.'figned hi.; crown to his fort, he retired to a monastery . where be amused tlie evening of his life in regulating the movements of watches, endeavouring to make a rumb**r keep the fame time, but not being able to make any two go tx iCtly alike, it led hi.n to re st-is upon the folly and crimes he bad ci>! emit led, in attempting the inioofTihility of making men ti:i:.k N ‘thing i? nv-*"* caf.ly detnon fiiated than that the ci n luct alone i the fubjetf fjf fiumati laws, and that man ought to fuller civil dif quahfnarion for wh.it he does, and not ior what he thinks. The mind can ri five laws only from him of w hose divine offence it is a portion ; he alone can punish the dilbbcdient; for who elle can know it: rm ve nnnts, or estimate tin ir merits? 1 he religion I prof.'fs inculcates cv cry duty which tnan owes to his f how men; it enjoins up -n its vo taries the practice of evety virtue, anJ the detestation of every vice; it teaches them to hope for the fa vor ci licuven, exactly in propor tion as their lives are directed by just, honourable and bctiificicnt maxims—This, then, gentlemen is my creed ; it was impressed upon my infant mind, it has been the diredtor of my youth, the monitor of my manhood, and will 1 trust be the consolation of my old aj;e. At any rate Mr. Speaker, I am sure that you cannot fee any thing in this religion to deprive me of my feat in this house. So far as relates to ray life and conduct, the exami nation ofthefel submit with cheer fu'nefs to your candid and liberal conftrudion. What may be the religi m of him who made this ob jection again ft me, or uhither he has any religion or not, I am una ble to fay. I have never conferr ed it my duty to pry into the be lief of ether members of this house: if theii actions are upright and their conduct just, the rest is for their own ccr.fideration, not for mine. 1 do not seek to make converts to my < rith, whatever it may beefteem ed in the eves of tr.y officious friend. [Payable half yearly . [Number 471. nor do I expd any man from my tfteem or trienufhip, becauic lit Sc I differ in that relptft. Ihe lame charity, therefore, it is not urocaf onable to exptbt, will be cxtipued to myielf, becauie in all things that relate to the state and to the- ‘Juries of civil life, I am bound hy the lame obligations with my fill* w < itizens : nor does any man fubferibe in!-re • sincerely, than niyfelf, to the n>ax ’ im “wbatevir ye would that men should do ut.to you, do ye lo even unto them, tor such is the law and the prophet.” From the New- York Columbian . JOHN R ANTMT PH, F.q m c. I The fubjetl of tl is menmir is a defeendant of one of the an citnt families in the state of Virgin ia, an * is allied by blood to the fa-1 nious que'en Pocah< ntas. He was born about the year 1777, and re ciivtd ibe rudiments ot his educa tion at Richmond Academy, Ir m whonct he was lent with his >wo I feniot brothers to this city, t have the advantage of a college finifh. W’liilc here, he mingled Lidorp in the y luihlul fp<;rts oi his cotempo raiie.-.; and at the hours of pemit t. and and nect ffary amufemept, he was frequently to he seen as a Hte-i rnry lounger in John Reid’s book-’ ft ore, carefully ptrufiug feme f..vn. site author, or invisible to all, bting lo ked up in his favorite apartm> •t. Ibnce fie was denominated i!.e ‘ bt.t k worm,* the ‘ young pedai.t* of his class. At that time howev- ■ er, (perhaps the moft in popart ’n the life of a man ot genius) while ins though t left, class -mans and gid dy brothers wxre devoting th-.r days to dissipation, and preparing borrow as the treasure of more ati vanced y ;.rs. young Randolph u s waxing pi!< over the 1 midrii. ht lamp, am! distilling fweetn Is fr ir. tin (1 t*. k and Roman fpi'ini'. Af te; fit filing his (Indies with credit, and i btainitig 1 is degree, he reUir tud lo bis native (late, and at thel lolu itatioii of an afftftionafe an; 1 c.- - miablc father, ccn'mencei! tin flu dy of the law unfiti the care <f a maternal uncle. Naturally a hard ftudent.th diigufting and. rv r :d ----it:g ol Coke ano Lvitletoii <;io r*i? alarm him ; in a fliort period hy ptileverance he ohtaine ? a > t - found general knowledge of that important icience. His fait tit were as vc r known orfiy to the ft led few whom he accounted his friend'.— Bui alter commet cing his praftice, on the fiift favorable oppor?un : ty that offered, hi shone forth a‘ ‘ho lun after a cloud has oblcur f refulgence, and illuminated he wh.'lt hoiizoti within hi riale. Ilis fame Iprcac! like eleftricirv. & with it his practice increased ir r o portion But the d;!t?> . I his ve nerated father and his elder hi th er, which happened atom this > : me left hint more than a cemp tenry for ( tie < t his lieu i ‘it 4- ’ its ; he theres 7e t imp. ‘bed h- & as a pioiclhvii, anu, m tus courf^