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THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE; AND REPUBLICAN TRUMPET. Vol. ll.] GEORGIA, LOUISVILLE:—PubIifhed every Tuefday, by AMBROSE DAY Sc JAMES HELY, at 3 dollars per ann. payable half yearly Where Effays, Articles of Intelligence, Advertifements, Sec. See. are thankfully received, and PRINTING in all its variety, is executed with neatnefs and difpatch. EXTRACTS from an ORA'f lON on the extent and power op poli tical DELUSION. Delivered in New-Haven on the evening preceding the commence ment September , 1800, By .Abraham Bifhop. Let me prefent to you the delufions which have attended pad clc&ions Formerly the people of this country had lenfe enough to originate and orga nize government, and by their intelligence and energies to keep it in operation : now by force of federal opiates they have juft ferfe enough tochoofcthe wifeftand greateft m<*n ; but as (non as the choice is over, they fink into a torpid (late, and thus remain for two years, till the trump of a new ele&ion wakes them to new life and energy; but even then they have been fo long dormant that fometimes the crew of a (hip mull be murder ed; this murder mud be regis tered in fertnons.for the edifi cation of political faints; the men mu ft continue bona fide dead till the cl e&ion is clofed—mira cles mu ft be wrought at the bottom of meal tubs—the In dians muft be all in motion to invade the frontiers—mighty (hips with mighty men in them muft be travelling the ocean on mighty portentious and unac countable errands; the whole political ftjigc muft be veiled in darkoefsand myftery—clouds tempefts and comfcations muft make the ftcy : and in the midfl of all this fecnery, Satan, with his infernal hoft, muft be ad vancing to take his long leafe of the earth, and to make prin ces and nobles of thofe infernal oppofers of religion and good government, whom all friends of order arc called on to keep out of place. All this, in mo dern days, is neccflary to wake the people to a recollcdlion that the men whom they choofc lad are the fitted candidates for ano ther ele&ion. But mark how ine(Fe£lu<d are all thefe caufes to produce the wiftied effeft, till joining the wonder-working hoft, the clergy t (and as Cowper to aid his verfe, fo 1, my profe, with avv c profound repeat the facred flame, the clergy) heralds of the prince of peace, ambalfadors of him, who declaimed for himfclf an d followers the honors of men ; the elergy t preachers of the word °f life, deign for fomc days to *'ave their facerdotal funflions, to defeend from their high feats Ina dc venerable by the rcfpedl °fthe people for religion, and as they advance to join and in fluence the throng, you may WEDNESDAY, November 5, 1800. LIBERTY IS OUR MOTTO 4ND TRUTH OUR GUIDE. hear a (bout from every quarter, the church is in dangeri This completes the fccncry, and le thargy darts into life and vigour. At this moment bv the light of thofe great moral luminaries Robinlon(fl and Parrucl, and by the aid of rufh-light (b) are difeovered in all their deformity* the atheiflical oppofersof fund ing fyftems, thofe delifhtful downy pillows, on which have flept in ever la fling repofe the rights of man ; the abandoned enemies offplendid American courts, of diplomatic legions, of foreign tribute. As this vifion is pafting. the people are called on to look at thofe difinterefted men, who regardlcfs of private intereft have facrificed years to their fer vice. and who wifh to ferve them again only to (hew their zeal to the death. The ele&ion being fatisfaflorily clofed, the people, like birds, whom they rcpiefent, fly to their hiding places to wait for a biennial re furrc&ion. Let no one imagine that I would reprefent the clergy as ailing out of their fphcrc in all this fcencry; for it is not faid unto them—“ go ye into all the world, and preach politics unto every creature. When men oppofe ye. call them enemies of God, and trample them under your feet. Appoint fafts unto the Lord, and when the people are affemblcd, fay to them that the Lord reigneth on the earth in the midfl of men of power and wealth ; that he delighteth in the proud, even in thofe who are lofty ; that he will exalt the vain, and lay in the duft thofe who arc humbled in his fight; that the great men are gods ; but that the little men are hke the chaff, which he drircrh be fore (he wind; that in the day of his power he will fhinc migh tily on thofe who are in power, and that he will make the peo ple under them like the hay and the ftubble, and the (weep ings of the threfhing floor." And when thofe mighty men (hall fay unto you, the church is in danger;—then fhall ye cry mightily unto the people, and fay, “ the church is in danger," (cj and when my people hear this, they fhall gird on each one his armour, and ye fhall lead my people, and ye fhall fay unto them. “ though thefe mighty men be blafphemers, and though they are often Teen in the feat where Satan dwellcth; yet for righteoufnefs fake they believe a lie. and though apparently the difciplcs of Satan, will in the end betray him," and the peo ple fhall hear you and fhall fear you, and they (ball fay unto thofe mighty men, ** ye have taken our cloaths, vet vc arc cold ; ye have taken our purles, yet ye arc poor ; ye have moit- j gaged our houfrsand our lands, yet ye aie deftitutc : behold what remains to us, take of all that which feemeth to ye meet ; for though ye be called our fer vants, yet we arc fervants unto you. and will ferve you —we and our wives, and our chil dren " Hail mighty dcluflon, thefe are thy handy woiks ! Fortunately fi r us, moft of thclc dclufions have loft, their f(Fc6l. Robinfon and Barrcul can deceive no more—'flic 17 philofophical woik-fhops of Sa turn ( d ) have found; not one illuminatus major nor minor has been difeovered in America, though their names have been puhlilhed, and tho' their exiftcnce here is as clearly proved, as was their exiftence in Europe. The Cannibal’s pro grefs and bloody buoy have dc ftroyed each other ; —the poli tical prayers fent up on (oirner occasions, have never reached the tops of the fleeples, nor have they breughtone bleffing down ; the pantomimical feimons, which graced political fabbaths, arc laughed at : The fuggeftions about | etier Ton’s atheilm are defpifed, fince many who make them are found to be men who would fell all the temple* and alters in the country fo» 12 fri gates; the monftrous noileabout ancient wickednefs and infideli ty is abated, fince mankind have reflcfled, that the fins of the antideluvians are not particular ly chargeable on democrats. fa) Thefe arc the writers who undertook to prove, that the French revolution originated in philofophifm and infidelity.— Delufion blcffed them for veiling the true caufe . which every Ame rican knew to have been the cx ceflive oppreftion of that people uuder their ancient government. (b) Peter Porcupine. (c) When the clergy are dc nouncing the infidelity of Jef ferfon and M Kean—alk them to exhibit the piety and ortho doxy of Charles Cotcfwoith Pinckney, and lames Rofs. (d) See Mr. Lewis’s Oration, delivered in New-Haven, July, 1?99i Public Opinion , ver/ns t Uncnnflitu* ticnal Laws and Corrupt MagiJ~ trates. Thurfdav laft completing the period of confinement, adjudg ed by Ciiass under the fentcnc c of a packed jury on the edirnablo and intelligent Thomas Coop er, of Northumberland; hr wa* received by the republicans of Philadelphia in a manner fuit able to the dignity ?nd cordancy of this chaia&er, and the canfo in which he has been honored by the arbitrary hand of a GOioa alike hoftile fo Uhtrty to virtue, and republican government A public entertainment was provided and mod refpeftably attended, where the hofpifah-iet of republicanifm circuited the enlivening grape accompanied by flafhes of wit and merriment, the foul awakening long, and the fpirit fpcaking fentimenf. Capf. Thomas Letper was placed at the head of one table and Dr. George Logan at the other. The following were among the toafts given— i. The I'nitcd States adtni nillcred by republicans, and as a republic forever. 2 The (late of PennfyUania, and its motto—“ vi y tue t liberty and independence ” 3 An unity of principle in the government and laws, and honefl men only to adminifter them. 4 The packers of juries un kenneled. 5. Sydney , Calas and Servelus~~ the mart) rs of corruption, tyran ny and fup< rftitious fanaticism 6. The fathers of phylofophy at the clofc of the 18th century* Franklin, LJuccana, Prieflly, Condorcet, &c. 7. John yidams and the Dcy of Algiers, long may they bo remembered in conjan£lion. 8. Didra&ion to the councils, and defeat to the arms of defpots —union and peace in the repub lics of liberty and letters 9. The date of Virginia, the foil of great talents. 10. May the impurities with which the American name has been covered by the corrupt waters of the Thames, bcwafbrd away by the united dreams o£ the Flvvana and Manhattan . 11. May republican govern ments never covet thofe infepa rable companions, princes and b'SS ari ' 12. May the American re public learn to feel the judice and importance of neutral rights. 13. May a free country never again witnefs the difgrarefu! fpe&aclc of a criminal fitting in judgment over oppreded virtue. 14. May ho who in 1798 wifhed to hang all his opponents, and in 1798 to fee their opno nerts humbled in the duft aud afhes—never meet the fatt he wifhed to either. 15. The memory of thofc £No. 92,