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MILLCDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSOAF, APRIL 14, 1831.
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►'ROM THE CHARLESTON OBSERVER
Mr. Editor,—I send you, for publication, a
few strictures on a certain pamphlet which fur
nisi.eJ tin* subject of »h- recent correspon lence
between General Blair anil Dr (yooper The
document itself is of a peculiar character, and
us its spirit and tendency cannot be well under
Utood. from any description, or even from copi
ous extracis, 4 would request you to give it a
place entire in your (inper. The strictures you
wdl be good enough to su'joiu.
“TO ANY MEM BE It OF CONGRESS”
*' Y«u will have pet ii tons again about stop
plug the mail on a Sabbath Jay because the
Clinslidin rcl'gion ordains the Sabbath day lo
J>9 kept holy Tuat is, because the priest-
nvali permit notw’dy to m.i^o bay when llie sun
shines on a Sabbath, bui, themselves. Tliev
claim the ilay a» ih< ir own day oi ifc ,r t and
will suffer nuuo.ly but a parson to work on that
they,; add they lake care, ibai H it be to thetn
I a d;ry of godliuess, it shall also bo of great
ff»n
“ A l«w questions, if you please—not that I
am very anxious to please yon, noT would I
wili.ngly ■ ffMid You are Welcome, hoivirver,
to be dupleased, it you are determined lo be so
and to barn this paper; but some of you will
re id it
• W net her the observance of our Sunday as
a Sabbath dav is of religious obligation among
Ofirishaiis, is a disputed question, for which wt
must appeal to the Cnristain scriptures.—
What part of the constitution has authorized
Congress to decide a theological question ? I.*
it be expedient as a civil, municipal ordinance,
to appoint a day of relaxation from labour, is
uot oacii state a< competent fur this purpose
;i« you are ? What have you to do with it ?
Van have quarrelsome questions enough before
)e—fot .r*digii>n alone
‘•‘Oh! but the laws of Congress must-be
conformable tel be divine commands ’ This is
a Christian c<»uotry, and ilie observation of the
Sabbath is of divine ordinance!’ Is it so ?—
Who says this is a Christian country ? N >t
the constitution- for that embraces under one
system of equal rights. Jew, Turk, Intide!, and
Heretic. Nut old Mr John Adams, who, as
President of tire United States, assured the
of A'giers, * that the constitution of the
United States was in no sense founded on the
Christian religion.’ The base lie of the law
judges, that Christianity is part A parcel of the
•common law. has been so completely put dowi.
by Mr J ffi-rson, that it Can never be repeated,
.except for purposes of fraud.
“ That head repository of antiquated deci
sions, (Judge Story’s head) has lately sent
forth a contrary doctrine, on the authority ot
Justice Park ; (Smith and Sparrow, 4th Bingh.
64, 88 ) Did this m *n never read the Year
book cited by Mr. Jeff rson, which shows the
.barefaced, wilful ignorance of the English
Bench, and of Judge Storv ? This Judge ei
ther has read Prisot's opinion, or he has not
Jf not. he is grossly ignorant; if he has, he has
asserted what he knows is not law 1 give h ; m
notice; the Year book is before me, (34 II
6 fit 33—40,) and 1 know he dare not meet
4ba discussion Is he prepared to allow what
Jie cannot deny, that the Christianity of Prisot’s
•day was the grossest form of Popery? Is this
the religion which is part and parcel of the
common law, or w it Judge Story s Unitarian
isunl Or is it that paragon of Christian-meek-
ness and mildness, John Calvin’s “sweet and
*omfbrtahie doctrine” (17th art. of the .39) o!
predestination to eternal damnation, and eter
nal broiling* on Satan’s gridironl God forgive
these ignorant and rancorous bigots, who form
God after man’s imaare. am! choose the very
wurst model they can find, themselves!
“This base subserviency of the judges to
the priests, is most degrading But supposing
Christianity is part and parcel of the law of
England, does it follow that it is law here ?
Sir, you are a Papist; what is Christianity/
Sir, you are a Calvinist; what is Christianity?
Sir, you are an Arminian; what is Christianity?
Sir, you are an Uuitarian, an Universalist, an
Arian, a Sublapsarian, a Superlapsarian. a R ip
tist, an Hopkinsian, a Quaker, a Shaker, a Har
xnonist, a Moravian, aSwedenborgian. a Hutch-
insonian, a Muggletonian, a Wtlkiasonian;
wbat is Christianity ?
“Judge Story f fancy is Unitarian; he stops
at the half way house; he is wise; he may go
farther and fare worse, as the Catholic said to
the Protestant, who disliked the purgatory. I
fmow no* an historical fact »o disgraceful to the
pre tended knowledge and pretended honesty
ot the bench, English and American, as thi
wilfal per version aud mistfattslal ion of PrisolV
expressions. It is evidence how ready ever-
judges are to connive at forgery, (for such th<-
translation is,y rather than give up their obse
quiniousnt-s* to the Priesthood. I wonder
Judge Story did not cite The People v Bug
gies in his favor
“ ‘ But the Sabbath is of divine autharitv
and obligation ’ It i.s so. Who made it so 1
Assuredly not Christ, nor hi? apostles. Let us
see. To the law and to the testimony.
"* Christ was opposed to the Sabbath by pre
cept; by pract ic<-.
‘ Bi precept. 2 Mark, 27 “ The Sabbath
was made for man; not man for the Sabbath,”
2 Mark, 28 Luke, ch. 6, v. 5 The son of
man L->rd also of the Sabbath ’ Luke, 13, v.
15. ‘Thou hypocrite 1 do»h not each one of
you,, on the Sabhalh day, loose his ox or his
ass from die stall? and lifts adversaries were
ashamed.’ 12 Malt 11. ‘Which of you, if a
sheep (all into a pit, wiU not lift him out on the
Sahhath day V See also 14 Luke, 5.
“B practice See tlie last mentioned pas
sage. Ai-o, 5 John, 16,18 'Therefore the
J ws sought loslay him, because he had done
these tiungs on the Sabbath day, and had bro-
kou the Sabbath ’ Christ, then, never acknowl
edged the divine ifrigm of the Jewish Sabbath,
which w«s the last day of the week ? Did he
-ovct ordain the Ciiii-lian Sahbato, lUejirst day
O' the w< «*k? No, he did nut N *t a text
can be produced in its favour Produce it if
you can D.d ‘he apostles sanction a Sabbath
of any kind? We know they were Jew?; that
they observed the Jewish Sabbath, as weil as
other Jewish rites, that they scolded St Paul
ior n giect of them; but they did not impose
them on their iollowers. When they met to
gether for trie purpose of determining what part
ot the Jewish law the G -mile ought to observe
(15 Act-, 25 29.) they omitted the Sabbath,
aii»l rocouiuiernled no subdiluie. St Puut
treated it very uncerem uioiisly. 2 (Jol. 16
‘Let mi man jmige you then, m meat or m drink,
or in respect oi a holy day. or ol the Sabbath
days’ 5 Gal. 1. ‘Stand last in the liberty
tviicrewith Christ has made you free.”
' D os any parson say the apostles ordained
the Christian Sabbath, the first dav? Let him
st ow his tcx.; his authority The ilimeaoes
uot contain it. If it tie sanctioned, therefore,
it her lj y Christ or his ap uslies, can the com
in and mult's Cl men cooler <bvmc authority ?
Who ordained Sabbath? Those avaricious,
ambitious, fraudulent and impudent impostors,
the Christian priests. For w»iai nurpoar? i u
create tiusmess tor themselves; to obiRitt iufi«*
once; to gel money; to make their scivices
necessary to the ignorant; and hy the bigoaeti
violeuce of the block leads, to terrify and t<
iUle the vvisc—and well have they succeeded
But free discussion, holding in tier hand tot
spear Oi itnuriet, is aoroaU
“Ail public fraver i» forbidden by Christ;
expressly, m worus, as well as by ins uudorm
anil regular practice 1 am obliged to give y «»u
the trouble of reading the passages here, be
cause I know you are loo indolent to look then,
out. Here they are; and it you are a Chris
tian, say rt you can, that public worst.ip is o*
divine appointment. The Irauduleut priests,
indeed, say so; Christ says otherwise. Wuefe
he sets an example, Christian* are bound by ii.
1 Pet. cb,2 v. 24 6 Matt. 5, 6, 7. 6. When
thou pray est thou snail ool be as the hypocu'c ,
fur they luveto pray standing m thesynagogues,
and in the corner ot ttie sir ets, that they may
oe seen of men Verily 1 »ay unto you, they
shali have tti ir reward But thou, when thou
prayest, ent. r into thy closet, and when thou
bast shut tne door, pray to thy lather which i-
i i secret, and thy fatiier which seeth in secret'
shall reward thee openly.’
* Is it possible Jur commend to be more
plain, direct, and unequivocal? We shall n >w
see that his practice uniformly coincided with
his precept. 14 Malt. 23. ‘And when he had
a-ent tne -multitude away, he wen. up into n
mountain apart to pray.’ 23 Matt. 14 ‘W*
uuto you scribes and pharisees, hypocrites;—
who for a pretence make long pruyei'-1’ 26
Malt. 36 ‘ And he saith unto his disciple.-,
Sit ye here while I go and pray yon tier. • 6
Mark, 46; 47 ‘And when he had sent them
away, ne departed mUi a mountain to pray ’-
14 Maik, 32 ‘And he saith to his disciple
sit ye here while 1 pray* ^ Luke, 16. ‘Ann
ue withdrew hiuiseil into a wilderness, and
prayed.’ 9 Luke, 29. “And he went up into
a mountain to pray.’ 22 Luke, 41 * And
when he was withdrawn from them about
stooes cast, he kneeled down and prayed.’
“ Such are the precepts and the practice o1
Christ. He never practiced; he expressly for’
bade all pvblic prayer lie preach-d, indeed,
and taught in me Synagogue; he never prayed
there. All prayer is ordered to be private; end
he who orders it to be public, is no Christian,
ii Hie command of Christ, the example o f
Christ, and the directions of the Scripture,
have any authority. Public prayer ami Sun
day preaching, are the inventions of the cl* r-
gy; they are no part of Christianity. They
were brought into vogue lo enable the clergy
to find profitable employment for themselves
and a plausible pretence fur swindling the peo>
pie out of their money. The necessity for
preaching is superceded by the gospels. Show,
as 1 have now shown, that the Christian Sun
day is a clergicat imposition, uot countenanced
hy any part of Scrip ure; show, that among
Christians who reverence the precepts and ex
ample of Christ, public prayer is inconsistent
with that humble, unpretending, devotional
spirit which Christ requires—show tins, and
where is the use for the order.©4 men called
the clergy? An order of men raised up by
money-making speculations, self created, who
take up religion as a trade, who dispense it for
pay, and to which tho history and the precepts
of the Nt*w Testaaaeot, afford no countenance,
but otherwise. Christianity is a very doubt
ful religion at the bestj as these squtbblcrsteach
and preach it, and they disqualify themsolve^
from being competent witnesses in its favour,
by hiring themselves out for ruoncy to give tes
timony
fhe clergy are a class of men. who in di
rer! contradiction to their master Christ, ordain
»be observance of forbidden practices, that
they may live in ease and luxury by this gross,
and manifest imposition. Sunday is their day
of labor ; of earning money ; but thfty forbid
any one else to do so. This is harsh language,
hut why is imposture, and avarice, and false
hood. End fraud, to be treated with respectful
deference? *
“You employ chaplains to pray for you du
ring the session ; a practice which nine-tenths
ot ve believe to be farcical, useless, and know
to be a mere popularity-hunting ceremony —
Few of you attend it; none of you care foe it.
Why do ye not pray silently, seriously, and
shortly, each for himself! Is God Almighty
>uch a proud and overbearing despot, that he
must nut be addressed unless by mcaas oi
some third person, some official and accredited
agent hired and well paid for, being theg»»
between ? Is not this another barefaced, cler
ical pretension, for swindling the people out «>f
their money ; which you their representative,
dishonestly countenance and support ?
“But if you must intermix religion with poli
tics ; it the peoples understanding must be
gulled and cheated ; why pick their pockets ?
Ii you will have same hired prayer-monger, to
do for you that duty which you ought to do for
yourselves, why do ye not hire and pay him at
your own expense for doing your duty ? Why
rob tho public treasury ? Do you suppose
God Aimighty will be pleased at this act ol
tolly and ot fraud ! Is not this a shameful
misapplication of the public funds, levied on
the people lor far different purposes ? By
what authority in this country of religious free
‘lorn, do you intermix religion with politics, or
tax the man who is not a Christain, in support
ol any sect.or form of Christianity ? A*pre-
cious set of representatives you are, who ac
knowledge the necessity ol having your memo*
ries jugged every morniug before you are abb*
to do yous tiu:y ; and of hiring a parson to ilu
this, in some sort of theology fashmu! While he
good man, always takes care to foist in soim-
petition lor ‘the good of the church;” although
he knows you have nothing to do with any
-uch topic But the whole ceremony is a
i tree, and you know it. The ignorance, the
folly, and the credulity of the peopl , tempt
vou thus to impose upoo their understandings
and pick their pockets. Methinks you ought
;o he satisfied with the wanton waste commit-
ud upon time and upon money by talking by
day iq and day out upon exhausted subjects
uid draining the cup of wordiness to the v*-ry
Iregs. To thi* source of enormous expense,
n printing speeches spoken to blind your coil-
ntuents by a semblance of btf'ioes*. the pay of
yuOr chaplains is comparatively nothing; uu<
both the one and trie other are indefensible If
tne people were wi-e, which Heaven knows is
very far fr>>m b-nig t >e env, they Wuuid allow
you no pay a al, au*i t en h if au hour’s go. d
ense would be the leugih of tether allowed to
ui your *vomauly propensity for incessant
chait ring* It will route to this at last.
“I weli ku.tw that talking spins out the day,
withou spmn ng out the period oi final ad
journment z that 13 settled on other principle*.
i5 ck country members are too fond of $8 a
•lav to give it up. till they can find no excuse
lor receiving it The day ol breaking up there
tore, is protracted as far as possible, and set
tled at the beginning of the sessions, which no
talking extends or hastens Talking is desr
rable; it fills up the hours of the day and pre
vent* too early an adjournment to dinner —
No one is compelled to listen. Nothing but do
i»ay, or a fixed -alary or jp4#j^iir .i*lj .urnment
fixed by law, wdl remedy tins evil. The talk
i>ig answers no purpose but lo please the cun
-titu -nts The members care nothing what
i- said, or what says it
•*it is high time tor men of talent and men
of honffsty, to renounce tins playing into tin-
hands of a wifi n priesthood The conven
toual simulation and dissimulation, involved in
the usual shallow pretences to religion, do lit
:!e credit to your moral honesty, or your moiat
courage. It is a disgrace for you lo be aclua
ted either by fear of the clergy or fear of the
ignorance of the people Your high station
ught to put you upoo high ground, and to
r sist in Vi ry case, these persevering never
< nding encroachments of the clergy on political
r.ghis
“After all, what is prayer ? what does il
amount b* ? what does it imply ? Y*>u pretend
trial the God you worship is all good, ail know *
mg, ail foreseeing, all wise, all powerful Y >u
approach him and you say, “It is true O Lord
God, thou art infinite in wisdom and kuowesi
all things ; thou art all bountiful and ail good,
and desirous of supplying all our wants; but
thy memory is apt to be deficient occasionally,
aud thou forgettest what a set of poor miscra
hie wretches we are, the work of thine At
mighty hand, formed in thy own iikeuess, but
perpetually in need of thy assistance. We are
ill fassiooed, imperfect, and ill ^oing machinery
needing thy perpetual interposition. We ac
knowledge thou knowest every thing but after
all we know our own wants best. Permit us
therefore, to refresh thy memory as to the ft»1
lowing particulars, which we have hired and
paid one of thine own appointed servants to lay j
before thee in due form, lest in the multiplici
ty of business that presses on thee, we may
chance to be forgotten. Such is all prayer <
in substance; but the be$t of it is. that the
clergy cajole u* with the expectation that
prayer, offered up by their intervention, will
induce the Almighty to chaoge his purposes
and predeterminations; to interfere miracu
lously in our petty concerns; to become of our
party in all our mad disputes; and be influ
enced by these our inconsistent ravings.
“At any rate, I hope I bare proved, 1st,
Thu oo clergyman, no conscientious christain,
can countenance public prayer, because *t
positively prohibited by Jesus Christ, 2u
That although oral-preaetfing was necessary in
the very early times of Christianity, before any- they be printers or editors; which is not tto
accounts of Christ were published, it cannot case with one m a thousand—npr with b*if a
be necessary since, the universal publication
and wide diffusion of the gospels, unless the
preacher can correct the maccuracie* k mis
takes, and add something to the omissions of
which the Evangelists were guilly, or explain
wbat those inspired writers were too iguorant
to dictate intelligibly.
“It the clergy are not wanted for preaching
or for praying, for what purpose are they wan
ted ? A clergyman to each 1000 persons will
amount to 13 000 for the United Slates. At
$1000 a year on the average, these men tax
tbc people $13,000,000 a year. This is a
great deal of money, and it will double every
22 years For 1850 it will be 20 millions at
least. Is not this great sum obtained under
false pretences ? It so what is the legal nam
appropriated to this conduct ? Can this ar
my of expounders be really necessary to the
word ol God ?
“Gentlemen of the Bible Society ; You say
the scriptures are the infallible dictate of di
vine inspiration, given for the instruction ot
mankind. Be t so. If these scriptures con-
utn iu plain aud intelligible language, all that
is necessary to laith and practice here, and to
salvation hereafter, where is the use of 20 000
parsons, members of the church militant, pai i
at the expense of $20,000,000 a year, to ex
plain these dictate* ol divine inspiration ?
“If these pious commentators are n^essary
"hat becomes of inspiration? Why do you
propagate this book, which is so pbscure and
unintelligible, t hat a thousand quarrelsome com
mentators, aud a thousand conflicting coni
ments, are needed to m ike it stiii tn«re unm
telligibie ? Obscurutn per obscurius. The
only true answer is, that you are ttie villing
tools and dupes of the clergy, whose real mo
tive is to gull the people anil pick their pock
ets
“The parson* will cry out against this as an
attack upon religion. This is their u^ual sub
erluge. They palm upon us their doctrine*
fur God’s doctrines, and tlveir cause lor God’s
> ause, and their treasury, for the Lord’s treas
ury. Their good friend, the D vil, stands hy
and laughs in his sleeve, at the dexterity with
which they per*uad their credulous followers,
that all men who tell the truth are God’s ene
mies ! This i« not an attack upon, but a de
fence of scriptural Christianity, I appeal to
the gospels ! and I call upon ye to examine for
yourselves. I'kere is not a text which coun
tenances the clergy, as a separate order of men,
necessary to Christianity
“The clergy, more especially the Presbyte
rian clergy, lor these last 50 years, have been
aiming, by all methods, direct and indirect, to
acquire political -- *»--• —
»** Lv- «-nic me necessity of a provision ibr me
priesthood, independent of the people; prin
cipally by insisting on their favorite doctrine,
ihe divine obligation of tythes. Over and
over have they been checked, but they perse
vere with an obstinacy worthy of a better
cause ; and th*yare now accumulating tm
m nse funds to bribe popular opinion, when
they cannot gain il over to tlieir purpose in a
ny oth ;r way All this is well known to eve
ry member of Congress, with disgraceful timid
tty, yields to their insol nee and their popular-
influence and adopts that prudent, time serv
ing hypoertcy, which is the besetting sin ot
the day ; thus sacrificing bis own honest opin
ion, the inter st of his constituents, and the
good of his country, to the insinuated but in
solent threats of an avaricious, an ambitious,
and a daring condonation. A class and order
of men, w ho-e character from the earliest
l»i«tory iothe present moment, is that of sub-
jugaungth? minds, and preying upon (ho «ut>.
siairce of the people ; who govern m each fum
iiy, hy their influence over the females ; and
w ho govern m society, by employing the igno
ianl and the bigot, il to threaten, to worry, and
subjugate the wise. Such in sum and sub-
-lance, has ever been, and still is, the charac
i er of a hired and paid priesthood. Has not
Dr. Ely very lately recommended his sect to
unite and turn out every political candidate,
from the President downward, who was not
•an orthodox communicant ; so as to force
themselves on the public as a political sect ?
‘1 shall be abused for an impud nt, inter
meddling blockhead ; perhaps justly. But I
have not picked your pocket, as you and the
parsons pick the peoph ’s. These few pages
cost you little ot nothing; burn them if you
please. I have not told you lies ; 1 have not
taxed you, cither in money or time. Y»u
need not buy this : you need not read it —
But I live in hopes—Truth never takes a
walk, without meeting and making some
friends. It «s possible, if 1 should be encour
aged, that 1 may repeat this offence next year.
Pray order your Chaplain to reply to these
observations. Mark ine ; he will say it is not
worth any one’s while to reply to such infidel
trash. (N B Every objection the clergy are
unable to answer, they call infidelity.) This
inay serve his purpose for the present—the
t*me is coining when something more will he
expected. A LAYMAN ”
“P S. To the Chaplaiu—Revereud Sir: If
a man be hired, and paid, xnd bribed to teach
and preach certain facts and doctrines, is he
an independent, unimpeachable witness in - up
port of these facts and doctrines; iu support ot
wbat you call go*pel truths ? Would any wit
ness in a court of justice, be beard for a mo
ment, if he should declare upon his voir dire,
that he was hired to appear and to give ICsti
reputation ? Do they acquire Trends and *n|>-
porters by their unpopular opm ns? 1 P
-any pecuniary gain to them ? unless indeed
d zenm the whole United States Am they
not exposed to the oblq**y and reproach of ail
the time serving, worldly minded, hypocritical
members of society—of all ths ignorant aud ihe
bigoted, set onto ahu-e them hy the odium
fheoiogicum of the cforgy whose craft is eu-
dargered by these opponents ?
“On what pretence can a hired Rnd paid
priest put himself oo au equality with the bold
and fearless honesty of the men whom he a-
buses as infidels ? Can you lell ns. ?
A LAYMAN ”
PROM THE (GEORGETOWN 3 C.) UNION.
A* much may he said iu praise of our Nation
al Constitution, ami n*. one bolds it in gre tec
veneration than we do, ire have often been in
clined to believe that to other circumstances
besides tSi-so vt ito rme « r- in
debted for the ext-Hfciice of thai Uuion whoso
strength and perpetuity ought io b;* the objects
of our unceasicg care Mutual inlt re-t, anted
by the strong characteristic traits of congenial
manners ami feelings, which give to the A-
mericdti people a tamiiy likeness, is the great
cementing tie which bind , ha-^ bound, anti we
trust will continue to bind us together. We
were a united people long before we formed a
written compact Mutual interests, Mjfformgs
and design* planted our forefathers on these
.-bores: under their influence their descendants
were drawn still cio**r to each other, hey
sprang from the same original stuck; they a-
dopted the same laws and regulations; they
spoke the same language, and when, hke the
Israelite* of old, tluv had grown to be a pow
erful nat ton a d “e e no fo-’g-r willing t/re
main under the dominion ot oi hers they fo*o
as wjth one nnn i, cast off the r voke and a-
chieved their freedom. What but the same
determined purpose actuating the breast- <f
the American people from one end of the coq<
tmeut to the other, could ever have emancipa
ted them from -the authority of the mother
country? Wbtit but the satu* habitual love of
order, the same veneration for the institutions
which had been previously the guarantees of
privileges could have kept them still as one
.body alter the termination of the conflict had
left them with no buml of Union save that of
the most deeply rooted fraternity of interest
and common feeling? And what now iri --pile
of political dissensions, the jarring of private
ambition and the merging of' the pub ic good in
the views, passions and designs of part y keeps
up that holy that ever to be cberi-hnd regard
for the Union which is rerogn sed throughout
Ihe land as the ark of our safety? It i* a writ
ten compact? Is 4 any conventional agree-
1 * L rf x— - ““ ‘ ‘ -• ~ —um- —
the ..b/i.-.g i«w? &httJi«u>v onuenciurag* the
belief that when once, by the adoption of un
wise, pamnl and impolitic measures, the mu
tual benefit of the Union can no longer ho
rceived, that it will be indissolubly held to*
gciht-r by a piece ofparchmen ? Nothing can
tie more dangerou* • han tampering wuh the
feelings of 4 free peopl*; feeling- which will al
ways. be enhsted on the side of' justice and
truth, and rr -consdeahly opposed to every s* rt
of oppression and had faith.
No Cou-fitutioo could lie devised to unite u
people whose interests and prejudices Are at
war wrth .it, and it is cunou- to see how under
their influence how long cherished sentiments
give way. But a tew years since and the bare
thought of (bsui’ion, was too painful to be en
tertained No one ever dreamed of it- posst*
biiily. -No one wouid verdure so much his
popularity as ever to hint at it. Bui how is it
now The union has already been weighed in
the balance, ifoaigujated” and found waiding.
It has been called a “IpTeTWffiT laiture;. sw tX-
miliar have we grown with, the monster disu
nion that we have began to dandle and play w ith
it as with a pet lamb
If the vir'ue and intelligencu of the peop!c
are uot equal to (hemachiu..tions and ambitious
schemes of ihe lovers of power, no one can say
how durable the Union may be. Its perjiciui*
ty rests entirely on tlieir good sense, upon the
discrimination they exercise in regard to those
whom they place in office. That pure patriot
ism and more than Roman virtue which char
acterized the founder of our Republic are on
the wane. The vast him) rapid changes iu tho
condition of our Country have generated a
new race of politicians upon whom hopes
of distinction work mere powerfully than ti e
love of Country. These are the woives* in
sheeps clothing against which the people must
be warned.
mooy in a certain way t What right has a
clergyman to ask for credence, who is hired
H ud paid for asserting what be asserts ?
“Fray tell us, R"v. Sir, what worldly mo
tives the persons called sceptics arid inadels,
can have to profess their opinions'; unless i'
be the claims of truth, and the honest dictates
of an unbending conscience ? Du they gain m
New York, March 27.
ROBBER OF THE CITY B AN* TAKEN.
The mystery whicu bas ti«u.g over th- rob
bery of the City Bank for a week past and ex
cited so much ot ihe public attention is at Iasi
solved.
On Saturday night about twelve o’clock,
Justice Hopson, Huh constable H ys w i sed
by some police officers, arrested a man named
Edward Smith, at a boarding house corner of
Broome and Elm streets, m whose possession
was discovered a email travelling trunk fitted
with bank notes, which on examination, was
found to contain $185 738, arid proved to ho
the identical money stolen lr«m (he City Ba - k.
The balance 63,203, including the doubloons,
i« yet missing.
Smith is the very man who was suspected
by the police officers from the very first, and
they were actually on the look ut for him.—
Some of this man’s previous acts have render
ed his character notorious. He is said to be
the individual who some years ago committed
the great robbery of 131,000 sterling, hrom a
small coach in England, and, compromised
with the Bank for /9.000 with which dJ-gotten
gaiirbe arrived inthis country some si* or eight
years ago. He is believed to bo tboxume JW-