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‘CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING THE
_PREE EXERCISE THEREOF.—ART. I.
\
" ESTABLIS
“AMEND, CON. UNITED STATES,
HMENT. OF RELIGION, OR “PROHIBITING THE
VOL. IZ. NO. 12.)
CHARLESTON, ‘SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1829.
(TOT. NO. 298.
POPISH PAGAN
. THE FICTION OF
Aa . ‘
PROTESTANT HEATHEN.
IN A CONVERBATION BETWI xr A GENTLEMAN OF TIE
s oF TOLLAND, A T BY FROFESSION, AND
A poor R OF KEATIEN nyTioLog
. “pail translated from the voter.
—_—_—_—
Martirii gestans virgo Martina coronam,
_ Ejecto hine Martis numine, ample la tenet.
- Mars hence expell’d ; Maid,
Claims now the Workin which to him was paid. | *
DR. CONYERS MIDDLETON’s Translation. Page 169. | ‘
THUS CTED . . uf
artina Virgin, crown'd
won'd,
"Mars hence expell’d ; M
Mar tyr, names now the Temple, cov has
. sy CHaistranus,
Answer & fool according to Mas folly lest | fe 7 1. $6
a own conce: 15.
THE PREFACE.
1 had once thought pf dedicating this translation
to Dr. Conyers Middleton, author ‘of the inimitable
But alas! the unexpected news of the death of that
renowned Gentleman, Published lately in our papers,
of a* worshipful Patron ns
\
at Popery the subject of his curiosity. dev
L s for his zeal in defence of a popish Larticle; the|ing
to knew so tiuch of
Popery ; much less show so
much zeal-i
it article he would
to
vy well known a among the
Literati there are a . great ‘many Deists i in Hollund as
well as elsewhere ; many, Without doubt, hav
made it Gentleman owns of
of the sever ral. -Secta-
in little more
* tradiction whieh | prevails in all the ‘different systems
‘of the Prote: stants gave h him an aversion to all sects
‘of Christians.”
But ‘as his heart was not corrupted by the grea
‘ passions, his understanding could not relish the
‘ absurdities of atheism—So that he then thought to
‘ take ‘refuge in sober deism i though, as the event
proved, Pyrrho’s * Bolden cl hain, wae not strong
enough to bind his i
T have not related tis exuunple “with a view ofa as:
signing a cause for deism ; but as a proof, that a de-
is ip facto that he is such, is nut therefore to be
in agined “unacquainted with religions 5 and
very goo
ou
eist has given a od reason why he made
supposition is a mistake. All the zeal he shews is
in defence of his friends ho enor, by i stiling into
him, if possible,, com sen nd. persuadi
m not to embark farther i into a science, Pulte witle
out * the
“this however puts ‘ime in mind of a third difficulty
not so easily. digested— If the geutleman’s zeal to
can be persuaded that a profest Deist should pretend |
limits of his sphere, the art of demonstra: |
From the Baltimore ‘Commercial Advertiser.
ORATION. :.
DELIVERED ON THE FIRST CENTENARY CELEBRATION
- A the request of a. Committee ofthe Citizens...
Frienps ano Fertow C
" Patriotism, like Religion, es its holy ; seasons
rconsecrated to peculiar observance by the common
consent of mankind ; the snniversarics of events 8 mc-
morabie for their influence upon national happiness;
the birthdays of individuals ilusrios as exemplars
fre of public or private virtuc.
‘amiliar commemorative ‘principle has, in all
ealightened ages, been applied to eras mere compre-
hensive than the lapse ‘of a single year. Thus the
Republics of Greéce forgot their Toval animosities in
the generous rvaley of the Olympia which measured
their time. Imperial Rome unveiled her blinding
sp ‘lendor to grace “the See “The fiftieth
year was, by God's own ordinance, rproctaied with
the tr of Jub ilee among his ‘cho en people.—
And we, with sentim views not wholly dis-
similiar, celebrate the "fooling centuries of cities
states.
There is ore to recommend these institu-
tions than the ; pagennt'y which dazzles the superfi-
ial observer. We hold them not merely opportu-
nities for gorgeous festival or ‘ekitation toliday —
Tl They occasions for serious me:
vantageously turn upon the past or glance onward to
| the futu
No ordinary cause, my frionds, assembles us to-
€
n
» you are met to comme
bi of'your parent city and receive imperfect gratu-
t
pope ny nro nt oa wll na i Hanky preserve his friend's it was so ardent, how aa enemas ent in th seventh eo tu-
wn my “narrow circumstances will not allow me tol came their private Colle oqu ies to see light? It is notliy. hata feeble b her at fEnalishmen, whose attach.
throw’ awa tthe Dector's Heirs, sequainted with the likely tt that the doctor Iumself would lave published | mont ‘to the religion of Alfred hmen, the Barons of
generosity Ol | . . | 3
What therefore remain fur me only to do is, to ot say it is; and, o be sincere, the ues Bannymeaddagualifed them for-the privileges of
obviate ano! ion or two, whieh P ably may | tion is what I cannot give a “positive ans —A ft and Stuarte cast raed eyes across the oc in >
startle some into a doubt whether the persons intro- friend of mine, sensible of my misfortunes. "sont me|cearch of free al nt eaceful hom e
duced a disputants in this conversation are not fet wich copy,, thinking thatby the translation of chart ter of their fortunes w tb eld by an illustrious
ie for want of better employ, [ might make
Sin will prin sop they cant bo euch io bea bs ge Cater tne ag (eae ceninl loyal obs King,
the Title-page speaks them because it in rom’ quiring into, in iny letter of thanks: yet, if one may | gj Ve office and a title Of nobilit?
the prelude. that the Doctor is a Parso give liberty to conjecture, sumething -inay be al- aptly derived fom “the name of atown in the cou ate
sequence, should be a doctor of Divinity, “rather than leged in he Deist’s behalf. ap Cock. ‘ied by hiv sen the. A oiaid
—But if we consider that it is
ish. js also manifest, that no great knowledge of
Uiinity is required for the reading our Common.
rmo
or the making of n elegant se
PNo Rapist will deny but that this ofien happens
among e nthe m ; thougts they boast, that divinity
in their universities is a seience more ‘easi ily a attaine:
ing. and then have propane’ for them ae doctrines
of th
sete the seal
‘0 the char-
esides, if man has all his life-time heen wrapp-
p in the classes, human titeratur re and pedantic
observations ; if the of bis dies has been in
the Heathen poets, fe. c tbe much more ra-
tional to conclude him a intra Myles, ex-
excepting an error in the comm
The second objection concerns his friend—-Who
EL ible that the Doctor will have the word Wo
to impart n6 Divine adoration ; thero-
or-
d Protector, another deifying t
what he refer sucs for in his. is Epi fe Dedicatory.
“Itired, he penned down what had been said pro and
Tei is very likely that after each meeting, when re-
con ; perhaps too, he alled at his Jeisure jours such
texts as in the dispute he could s exactly
verbatim ; which “lone, the. whole might, have been
| communicated ,to a third person, and by this means
ecome public, prieter intentio:
After all, if’ hat has been alleged t to justify the
title-page is not suflicie der
it is genuine; I hope at Teast, he will not think he
has aright-to arraign the translat:
The author e Catholic christian, published
in English, may sronder perhaps no mention is
in this Cietace of his performance ; but
Noun Substa ong us, I will conclude with|)
expressing my Satfcton in "the pleasure his learn-
ed antagonist would have felt, was he alive, to find
his: glory making i its way "through the continent.
made } w!
sa
* A Greek‘ Philosopher, fat founder of the he Reeptics + $a
sect much in fashion
t was not in my i to examine all the
Te poute had it been, should I have
thous it my duty. Indeed, as-to those of the Scrip-
ture, I have been particularly careful ‘0 make use of
our Protestant translati should
mistake b am
ed the Seay pla anted the Cross on the shores of the
Potomac, nd, though the heathen had been
their allotted inheritance, shared in peace the simple .
habitation of the savage.
Tew details have “survived the loss of documents
concerning their earl ounts there
are ofdangers and inguictudes from the jealous of
their neighbours ; ; ‘but they seem upon the whole. to
fic po and énjoyed a tra
quil fortune, till their increasing | importance involved |
them in the fatal conpexions of Eur airs.-—.
‘I'wo points in the:mutilated raat ‘there are of
hich I take pride of remindin, irst, the |
purely democratic character of theis original assem:=
bly, in which every free- rman was entitled to his vote
im person o proxy, the protracted contest
between tfose primitive. re ublicans a nd the Lor
Proprietary, for the right of originating laws; ond
eae that shining ‘light i in the parkness of into-
the sanpreoede ented act 649 by which
those *ersecuted exiles 00 acted to their fellow.
Christians, of every perguasion, not merely liberty of -
n from sonnel on
'
cific polic
* [To be continued. 1
‘&
und a
| lingly covvect it the first opportunity that is offered. m
®
{asylum of Puritans and ‘Churehmen from their mutu.