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•7, - r *> r * THE JJ IS G. PUI.UILL, JGDITOR. MILLCDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSOAF, APRIL 14, 1831. VOLUME f. iNOMDEk 40. r r p THE FEDERAL UNION *s published n hi Tunes d*< i.aks i> : uiti.in, in an- cver !f *r FoeR if nut paid bef.»ce the end of ?hc veer. t‘:To15 :s is no U r «yuc Mreot opiMMte McCob* s T* DVE&TisEMBNTS poblnhul at the usual rates. -., ac , Cit>ti>>n ny the Clerks of the Covets of Or- dinj > Hat application has hecn mati.ifir Letters of Ad mrm cation mad he published Thibtt days at least. N dice by Executors and VlmiuLlratois fur Debtors «n I J-editors to render in their accounts must be publish ed ix ver*9. S ii :s of a ;?coes bv Exce itors and Vhnin'strators must be aivertised -histt dat» b f »r« the day of s de. •Sales of personal property (xe.pt negroes) of testate an! intestate esl>tesbv Exciins and Ad<muistr itiors n» .-it be advertised Forty daTs. sale from day to da. is valid, unless so expressed in the advertiscinr.nl -Vplicadons by Et cuUri Vlmimstrators, ami Uiiitr- div.14, to the Court of ‘irlioar? f ir leave to sell Land m • be published roua m >nths. \pplic tiions ferfomdits ir ? of 'Jorigojes on It—.l Es- ht 1 * mu»t be advertised unci a month f»> six months. Sites of Heal Estate by Execut ns, %<i minis) r<j tors and Guardians must bp published sixty days before the day of sale. These sal s must he made al'iie Court House door between the hours of 10 in tht morning and 4 in the afternoon. Orders *f Courtof Ordinary, (accompanied with ac«»- py f the bond, or agreement) to make titles to Land, inist ieadvertised Three months ui least. 'Sheriffs sales under executiniis regularly granted by 4he courts, must be advertised Thirty days Sheriff’s sales under mortguue executions meat lead* vertised Sixty days before Ike day of so le. Sh'iritF’s sales of perishable property undei orderof Court must be advertised generally 1 i n pays Ad • Iroers for Adicrtisemeiiti will be functvalh at tended to. •** AM Letters Jirectrd to the office, or the Editor, must bt-post paid entitle their to unmt*' • ►'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-