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Watch & pray, lest ye enter into tentptatkna.
thimatelLitial..igiiy=tratLaurent_not,
Huw near thine hour may be;
can'St not know how soon the bell
Nlay toll its s notes for thee:
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Death's thousand snared beset thy way,
Frail child of dust-.--Oh watch - 1731U pray !
Fond von :it—as yet untouched by care, •
Does thy young pulse boat high?
Do hope's gay visions;bright and fair,
Dilate betbre thine eyo?
Know, those must change, must pass away=
Fond trusting youth—Oh watch and pray
Thou mw—life's wintry storm
flath soared thy vernal bloom;
With trembling stop, and bending form,
Thou art tottering to the tomb, • -
And can vain hopes load thee astray?
Wateh, weary Ailgrim—watch and pray
Amerriox—stop thy panting,breath,
PiunE—sink thy lilted ese ;
Behold the dawning gates of death
Before thee open lie;
•
Olt hear the counsel, and obey—
Pride and Ambition—'watch and pray I
Oh watch and may—the paths we tread
_ _ Lead onward to the:grave;
-Go to-the-tombs_aild_46_the dead,— ~"
;Ye on life's stormy 3vuse—
And they shall tell you—even they,
From their dark chambers—wlrcit AND PRAY?
'ION. RICHARD RUSIL - OF PA.
He is thelqeeman whom the Truth makes Free
altr;'lllisles Second Letter.
YORK; Pa: June 30, 1831.
)lenten:---.Y our comnamication, dated
tr- -of May, and bearing the Boston
. poS.-ti;. A of the 21st of thisinonth, reached
,4itte on the 26th instant, which I mention, as
it will account _for what- might otherwise
seem a Fong interval between its date and
this Eidknowledgment.
The favourable sentiments which; as Dele
gates of a Convention lately assembled in
Boston from various parts of the , Common
wealth of Massachusetts to adppL,measures
for the suppression of Freemasenry,you have
been pleased to express of the views which I
have given to the public upon this subject,
yield me a very solid satisfaction... They
naturally_ and_powerfulty_tend to cot of
an y own mind the soundness - of those views.
They demand all my acknowledgments,
'which I beg leave to tender to you, fully and
sincerely. You have yourselves presented.
views of the subject, other than those which
I took, that are full .of importance. The
subject indeed is of great extent, and may be
usefully discussed under a variety of aspects,
as ditFerent minds may be differently &Met
ed towards it; and thus the aggregate of sep
tirate—contrihutions will i - VgoOd lime make
up the entire volume of light with which it
ought to be encompassed.
In the letter which has drawn forth your
obliging communication to me,' it wag my
Object to hold up the dangerapf Masonry as
skn,in-tfie contest° it has •wa;ged with the
Mormtn's cane, aniHite-vietorv-it
has woe That part of the subject, and, in
direct connexion - With it, - the - enslavement of
so great, apoTtiotrorour -- iiiewspaper - pw - Rg
by .Masonry, were those upon which alone I
• O_LIWAIJ_t h )it theqp i.oints-plah
-
-and practical, and the ground under each so
strong, that it was impossible not to shard
firmly upon it. As further reflection leads
the to think it still stronger then at first, and
as I have now,• is addition, your valued ap
probationi-besides-that-ofothemofipy fellow
649100190 e ;.P.Pflrelx4ion...cannot...but_bc
flattering, 1 will slain' your indulgence whilst
I throw out a few more ideas under the same
heads, and perhaps incidentally upon some
Others. It is of the Law of which I chiefly
desire to speak, in its col inex ion with Mason
ry, because it is of the utmost moment that
its true doctrines should be ttialerstood.--,-
Not only do all our civil rights depend upon
the true understanding of them, lent also our
public liberty. - Pii:st however, of the Ness.
The . thraldom of the press was evinced
by its general: silence under the foul deed of
Morpn's abduction and murder - or by flue
llbsenco of that decided indignation with
which it:ought to have followed it up, such
as the press issure to manifest in other eases,
where great crimes are perpetrated; Or, what
was More disreputable still, by not male
quently treating the whole subject with levi;
ty, making it the occasion of coarse ribaldry
and unseemly merriment. The friends o
the press will have cause to blush, as etleji
as _this part of its history. in our country is'
recalled.. They will feel shame. in retollfict
ing, that wlyen the' liberty and life or a
zen were struck down by a conspiracy'of
extraordinary boldness and malignity, an
immense Majority of the A mericarkpress, as
far as I . had any means of knowing to repeat
the expression of my former, letter,lfit spoke
at ttll,..would not -speak out; that AgtOrtst - all
its nature and habiti. it grew tame; or eien
If: at first,' to save appearances, it did 'make
wine demOnstrations, and stow a 'guarded
inclign!ttion, that it soon .d rew in, becoming
indifferent, becoming blind, to .an .unspeaka
e ontrap, that it knew to bestill imaveng
:Nl',
la. tact., that dawn .its Vigilance,
its filfellicience and its - spiiit at the footstool
;
,f t
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DUCIT AMOR PATRIX PRODESSE CIVIBUS-"THE LOVE
of Freemasonry. More reprellettsible than
all: that, reversing its true duties it Aso
! lately exerted its spirit tigainst those who
embarked in the pursuit - of justice - , - by brand;
ing that pursuit its an unnecessary "exeite
ment;" and that finally, in eflixt, it passed
' over—the necessary •consequences, of its
measured step against the crime in the be
gitining—to the - side - of - the ollbirding
where now it is seen in full juxtapoSitioni'ad
ministering to nasonry the condlirt which it
needs in this remarkable fellowship. Such,
in a word, has }wen the course of the press,
Often, in other times and countries, it has
been silenced by arbitrary will, or bought up
by corrupting gold; but in this country, it
has been bestrodden' by Masonry. Servi
tude under any dircuinstanceS, is hin»ilia
tivin; but in the lowest depth, there is a low
eMlecp; And that our press
_should have
bowed down in worship to this: idol, is the
step into that deep. A late writer on the.
"Principles of Morality," Dymond, whose
early death those who Stand high in letters
in Britain, deplore as, a public loss, whilst
discussing the subject, of neWsrlpers, utters
this striking opinion; '"that there' are sonic
creditable editors who do harm in the world,
to an extent, incomparison with which, rob
beries and treason are as nothing." I give
thisage - in own emphatic words. If
this swelling writer, as he has been called,
he was of the society of Friends, and an
honor to that Society, could have witnessed
iiilliiitrirriffifSliites the subjection of a large
baud of editors to Masonry, he would not
.surely, have revoked his opinion, On 'the
contrary, astonishment and disgust , must
haVit taken possession of his bosom, at per
ceiiing how the press, in a cowl; ry proud of
its freedom, could have come under such a
yoke; and, -beingunder it, how it could pass
from absurdity to absurdity,' at one time
Jositpr itself in a confusion of the under
standing,. at another in a tornado of passion,
in attempts to excuse itself tbr not doing . its
duty 'to the public, wider an event as au
thentic as ever arose in any country,- for
drawing out all its honest and most unconi
promising indignation.. - .
The National Intelligencer of the 11th of
this month, now lies befbre me. This news.
paper has long been published in the capital
of the Union. For high and various merit,
I do not: lA:Hove that it is exceeded by any
journal in this, or in any country. Its con
e tors_dohonar_to_ a profession as noble
i and useful in its honorable exercise, as it is
mischievous and unworthy in its abuse.--
Elevated in mind they never, whatever their.,
own views of subjects, fail to state fairly the
views of those front whom they differ, and
never, to my remembrance have they, in the
whole course of their career, soiled their
columns with personal indee,ortuns. Yet
what do my eyes behold? This paper, can
did-as it is, faithfully as it disseminates all
other information, aptly as it dissusses all
other questions, will not touch that of Anti
masonry. It will not permit itself "to be
instrumental in fomenting an excitement,
which, prevailing extensively in some parts
of the country, had its origin'in the indig
nation justly excited by the abduction some
years-ugo l if a'person - by the name of Mor
gan!" A pEllsoN WS' Tun NAME , or Mon-
GAN !! ,l Thus do these experienced editors
speak of the c tse ii - s - ifit were still new to a
large part of their nuineroiii . ..rs; which
probablyi-was-the-titM--It-scems - trrharc
been the first time that they had meddled
with - it, - and it is intimated that their press
will. Meddle with it-M3 more. Is not this
eni:nigh / to shod( u51....,Wi1l more proof bh
called tor; except -by the infatuated, of the
- bowing down of the - press Wore the unseen,
wide-sweeping greo 445-of the Masonic-insti
tution? 'The estimable citizens tie less than
accomplished editors, tg.whogn, and to whose
press, I hem,:venttim to allude in ftirtherance
of theprinciple I haVesin hand, may be well
assured, that it is done in not the slightest
spirit °f i xers ;sal tthlidd'&ein.. They are
themselvM: , iry,jjt;O: say, unaware of the
contrellingqi 6**6 l 4b.der which they la
,
hour; they t . , not perceiver'how they breathe
them in with die social atmosphere; how
they are dripping with the deleteious damps
ormasonfy,without knowing how they come,'
'any more than the damps of the night.
nation
was- As to the LAW, never in any age dr
was it more completely laid prestrate by
any''power, titan, masonry, has done it in „the
case of Morgan. If this be not enough to
consign it„ to•reprobation in a freestate, there
is nothing els'e, that will. lire have been
went_ to tallea the law being SOVEREIGN
with, us; a but it is MAsngitv that is sovereign
as.things now stand., This is no unconsid
ered assertion. I shall proceed to the proof,
With a confidence than which the human
mind never would be justified in feeling more
on. any moral - proposition. It rests on evi
dence strong as adamant, though it be notall
technical evidence. It rests on principles
co:extensiye with the civilized world; -prin
ciples out of which empires have arisen, and
will -ariiie" again. Did - our fathers of '76
consult 'Gilbert's law of evidence, or the
I chapter in Hawkins, to knowif evOy, act i of
oppression. against them could helechnical
-ly pi'oved in court?, Did the English ofl 666
,or the. French of Ituitjuly, stand upon siich
-doctrine? '.'he public safety is not Owe
he cavilled away.. kis not,-as Lord Chath
am said, to depend upon boOkti - I'vith
. the :
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leaves turned down in dogs ears. Every
uccessive day, that finds the murder of Mor
gan unavengedi 'Marks tt yontinuation of the
outrage winch Ake ifirigCT - eiii-^tence of Ma
sonryiti Our country, carries`witli itl'4iS the
Masons who committed it, or.who kmew of
it, still elude punishment by clinging to
their masonic obligations, which they hold
- tote; -- s4F - e - riiir - ilitbn -- Though it . ..
even admitteil, that this arises from falla.ti:
eisin i n theta, w hich perverts the true inten
tion of the masonic obligation, society equal
ly suffers and is equally outraged. When
the 'institution, affecting to complain of"per
secution" exclaims, "punish the guilty but
not the innocent," it falls into a mockery,
which affronts society . anew; for if is the
very masonic oblig,ation itself, which never
would have place but fin: the Instittition,that
enables the guilty'to elude the law. When,
too, the institution, rearing its presumptions
i crest to a.parallel with Christianity, tells us
i that c r a nes committed in the name of the
latter are not allowed to recoil upon religion.,
and claims for masonry the same indulgence
, it advances '
~ claim more audacious than ah
-1 surd; a claim that no unbiassed mind will
notice, unless to remark upon its greater
sacrilege than sophistry ; as if the oaths;
and (Trips, and mysteries, and titles, and,the
- whol%Trirth ofindickS; in alliance with which
..
masonry finds it indispensable to perform
the charities, were all of sacred origin; all
.jure dirino, like the,claim of monarchs of
Old to their throne-3. -The thoughts of such
a parallel, make masonry doubly nauti l i,
showing:that it is blown up by impious in
flation; that hot content with causing mur
der upon earth, it is for mounting_up after
wards into heaven: ,
But its pretensions to religiOn form a
branch of the discussion into which I did not
(To nor do I desire.. to go. The only con
o I n thnt . '
masonry politically, is on the ground of its
_doing a_ positive injury to soe,icty. What
its predilections'rna3 incite it to _cherish in
theory or enact in practice, within its. own
walls, those outside need not „care about.—
Let it employ itself as any other benevolent;
or festive, or theological brotherhood, if any
or all such it. constitutes, with its own duties
and pastimes, as long as it keeps within its
own limits. Itut the line must never be
passed. It exists permissively, under the
license of society. The continuance of its
chador,- depends,upon, its itm!xentitonduct.:
This must be unequivocal and invariable.
There must be no exception collaterally, any
More than directly., The moment it is dis
covered that persons belonging to this bro
therhood can conspire against the liberty
and life of a citizen who had broken no law
of the land, but merely some ofits own edicts
and when these persons can escape detection
by persuading themselves that the volunta
ry oaths and other self-assumed obligations
which bind them to the brotherhood are of
higher authority than the laws, no matter
- under what mistaken notions of those oaths
and obligations they act, front that moment
the whole Institution, from which such rank
delusions and tremendous . perils proceed,
assumes a new relation to society. It is
placed in attitude of nn aggressor. It
rides over the laws. It is guilty; construe- _J
tivelv if VOU %liLbiit übvionsly,_and lap,affr
pay. It stands responsible for the blood
of a citizen. In vain it may:allege that its
- preceptk — hiculeiffe - obedience to
whilst its, ignorant or wicked niemliers•vi6:
late them through° a feeling Which the Insti
stitution generine4M, their minds at least.
The cry that it. is-"persccuted," is a contra
, diction to common sense. It can no longer
claim protection like other bodies of men,
imitedfor their own plirposes. Society and
such an Institution ctuniot exist itrszOtv to,
gether, and the latter must k,irtt;e iva;4:
"first principles of society, all the securities
that, keeps it fromasunder, stamp this
reasoniag with truth. t 'lt springs from the
first impulses of t lie . mind, and is ratified by
the covenants of every Code. No lawyer,
no judge, no pnbliciSt, in iiiititeVer clime
he nuiy•live, unless his understanding be
subdued by masonry, can gainsay its three.
The master is answerable for the servant,
the superior -for the inferior, the pithy para
mount, for lino who acts under influenee.
The very dog unchained;- who does injury
in (lie streets, fixes liability 'iipon the owner.
TKse are primordial maxims ofjurisprn
deuce,. locally and universally. They lie at
the foundation of individual, social, and po
litical safety. • No gpvernmenfs, no commu
nities, none; of the links of civilized In, could
hold together a. day without their shield.—
They are the cement ()leach- within
And of all to each other. Let it not Ire! - said
that the respensibility is for civil• condlict,
not crime. This is a distinction that can
avail- Masonry nothing'. Nobody dreams of
indicting.innOCent Masons for the murder Of
Morgan; but only of putting an end-to the
Institution flir the 'sufficient reason It
guilty Masons took hislife4rough an igno
rant misunderstanffing or cortupt perversion
of their ties to that la! , tittition. 'lt is Olio
that brings legal guilt home to the Instit i ntion
en the,Vistionotiow raised a§ beseen itself
and. society, - Yt shows the Institution
. to
'have been 'the moving 'spring to the crime;
the. influence paramount...that instigated . it;
the aigie'fiot power, I do ,notsay, that coin
marakid—tifis is not, tiece'ssary to.tfi e . nvitu
MY COUNTRY LEADS ME TO RE OF ADVANTAGISTO Elia.,LOW-CITIZKNO."
item.- 7 bar that caused the crime. ljere is
enough, (unless indeed this fungus of human
device, this mere mull of man, is to go on
With - its clitimto — eo-equality with Christiani
ty,) quiite enough, to Nil* it tmth.t the
broad conservative maxim of the law to
which I appeal. We must look at the: max
im in its highest reason; not merely as one
4111 . 64W - itiliciconrc - iiinniijii Nit
designed, in the for wid9r range of its digni
ty and justice, to t hrow
• protert ion over
mankind. We make masovy amenable to
it, in the only way in which the American
people in their collective capacity, can ap
ply its saving efficacy; viz: hr insisting that
the Institution which caused the crime, be
dissolved. The great coroner of the nation
—such would the press have been on this
emergency jilt had not shanietidly deserted
its post—holding an inquest over the dead
body of Morgan, could render no other ver
dict, if the verdict covered the whole ground
than that he came, to his. death by Masons,
and through mosonry 4 lithe verdict were
qualified by•saying the Pod spirit of mason
ry, notkoits good, what difference would this
make to the nation, seeing that masonry, in
some form or other, was the source of the
whole transaction; To the nation therefore.
is masonry, upon the soundest principles of
law, accountable for his de:ttlo The safety
of the people is 1114.1:11EMN taw, which
will disdii,in all shadewy distinction in a case
orthis magnitude and concern. It is from
masonry than. the Commonwealth has re
ceived detriMents in the (lest ruction of a cit
izen; and the old custom of Rote should be
revived: the people Must take cure that it
receives no More. ,
This conservative maxim of jurisprudence
is seen in its broadest application when in
force between nation and'nation, The en
tire family of independent nations, acknowl
edge its indisputable
t. , . tly nations, are I
eld responsible _for a Illetddilike . giltileired-
to the person of a citizen of another nation,
I "'though the nation, collectively, within
whose limits the indignity may have been
ommitted, be free from all imputation (If an
• ntetitiot gd guilt. History abounds with such
acts; and with accounts of wars, followed up
the overthrow of nations growing out of
them. I might mention, as a - very fresh il
lustration of the general doctrine, the course
just pi rsued by France in despatelting a
squadron -to -the Taus,-to avenge the - de
dradino• t' treatment shown to a French sub
•ect in Lisbon, although it would appear to
lave been denied that the POrtuguese King
Don Miguel) had given any sanction to the
sutrage; for the French Minister's note of
•eclamation, does not undertake positively
o say that it had his sanction. Had Lisbon
yen been bombarded and its innocent inhab
tants suffered, it would be nothing more
ban we have seen, ineact, in analagous ca-_
s among inclepeiplent nations. Yet-mason
rv, in defiance of all this, in defiance of the
iisorbing and t ranscendant nature of public
rights, whether as claimed and exer ised so
'nvariably by states within themselves, or
nternationally, affects to think that it is not
o answer for an offence committed by the
immediate Members of its own body acting
from a spirit iiffused intoikemby.titat body.
he lattet• inoTedhaa trtsl
.troaorr tlianihe one just cited, or any other
likely to occur bet Ween the Stittes pot.ti.
mention other enormitiestn the case of-Mor
;an that recoil de jurf,, and,-.as we shall see
presently,: de facto too, upon the-Lodge.- 7 ..
But what am I saying? W„ ... b . ydO ITo - r*
myself? With governments niasimry W .
hold no pitrallel; with nations-it will-hold -no
parallel; nothing but Christianity is its cora-,
peer!- The Lodge and the Church, are ever
in celestial glory coupled. Christianity- is
not answerable fiir the bad deeds of Christ lam
—therefoie, masonry must not be answera
bk. for the heal deeds of Masons! Suchol%
the consumniated blasphemy of Masonic lo
gic, Sometimes, inde4d, it will stoop, a
little. /t will transciently condescend to
comp4re itselfwitilte Senate of the Um
States; or being fond of old things, to the old
Revolutionary Congress. It is in the mat
ter of. secrecy, that - it .thus . cona?ii below its
heavenly aspirations. • The comparison pur
ports, thatlis nations sometimes transact their
allitirs with eloSed doors, the nation of Free
masons have also good right -to close theirs
eteniir ly, with the superaddition,en bagatelle
of eternt 1 oaths, and penalties, lest they conic
.
to be ppeneck •
Let us look into the moving - spring of all
this self exaltation. It may not lie so much
below. the surface as that common penetra
tion cannot easily get , to it, if it will but be
exerted. I am unwilling to transgress upon
your kindness byhaking my letter too long;
but the subject isfulLof interest..
The: publie)kaVe so long been familiariz
ed to the name, 'of Freemasonry, and it ur,
ges,its Claiths upon theimblic so imperious.
ty,, that we have not yet <learned to tr4at it
;as it deserves to he treated; that is with no
thing more tier less than justice. Through
the.same cause:' its liwt - i_ sensibilities have
got intd the worst stale 91 morbidn so
.as to he-.vulnerable to the "slightest h.
Wrapping itself up in 'its.exClusiv.en ,it
_fins no ear for the trot' of the- werld. : ,It
seems as if neither its turderstticling nor its
meral-facultN i cntifd be, i
rear bA . I them.
It asks, a_standard hy 'which to he judged.
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applicable is notassriciation ,
of individuala- .
of subordinate mid, secular or g anization, in
existence..
_lf Allis staialar_d_it.___
puts firth complaints of hardship,and-anon
falls into paroxysms of fury, as if the faun.
dations of the world wore struck,/at; • • .
Assumes the God,
_______A iflicis_. to no l,
.. .
And seems to shake the spheres. . .
This is e - e - r its magisterial port. Re ,
mote ages are invoked, and names of ye ,
frown among the quick . and. the dead; the
cardinal virtues are marshalled tie' tertian> , -
nials, beaminrr like the fires of_ Elusis, to . . -
overpower the scepticism or silence the
contumitcY of.all who presume to breathe a
doubt against its purity or raise - a finger - a ,
gainst its sway. It is fit, says Bacon, that
we sometimes burn incense where bad or
doors have been raised. • So it is with OUP •
Hoary. ' , Thousands who join it by Crossing
the threshold of a lodge but once in their
lives, because they find that once enough, " .
know no more of what passes there after
wards, than of what is going on in there.
giens to which Ulysses descended. But by
setting out these names, by dwelling upon
by-gone centuries r and unrolling. the laded
catalogue of its other meritS, which the un
initiated are-to- take-upon 'the credit • Ari -- 1 . 11;
own - knights - ill budder; it - a - e - b - kaltiArtiW
side the understanding from-a scrutiny into
its more recent achievements, and all hit
•. i-stit js tlehert.,. It may - be - profi ble te• ,
detach ourselves, fora moment, from these
demands upon our reverence and look at
ii
the case before •iii under a change in the ' ,
outward circumstances, but of hone .whate.
ver in the real substance. This mode of
viewing it, may open f an avenue through
which the judgment Can pass, witholit the
common hindrances, -right conclaskies obit .
the character and dee - di - of Masonry. ,
e it s -stilifieS e -,l * -n, that anew society
had been formed in the -U. States about five
years ago,unde - fa name before OliknOWEl to . .
us, and modelled, we will also say, 'after --
one abroad; for example, in Constantinople.- - '
For convenience, we will ' give it a name,
—We will suppose it to have been called,
'the Brethren of the Sun and Moon, coin-
Ix .1 'dons of the Stars, and Knighti of at '
crimson turban." Let us suppose that some
gf-the-rnernbelli-of thii society, a dozen - we
will say, had, with the aid of certain signe
known among _themselves, and.toall4nos.-
* hems, but of which others knew .nothing f .
laid a conspiracy against the liberty and
life of one of our people and destroyed both,
for breaking. some of its own self reated
rules; c.3 o*.supposition includes the idea . or
secre ,as fundamental te'their rules; and
it regards the society as composed of Anis.-
ricans as well as foreigners. Let us farth
er and lastly suppose, that, these :titled and
turbaned associators had then, by virtue of
certain ealialisticar vows that bound thew
to their society and each other with an en- ,
ergy as if inscribed on the banner of the ,
prophet, continued to defy, for fell . .
years out of the five of the society' exis
tence, all out courts - and juries ,t Convict
r
them of this conspiracy an urder, al. , .
though - their - guilt - wag - S6 grant rtlitit - no
intelligent mind would t nk of douibting it:
what would notre been the feeluAr 44,
Th - e - people every ,w r---.° - --- ' ' , ..h -
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:op e every iere against sum. a to
ciety, and wh - lawful - means - Would - - have. -
- beenieft - riedtbr its - suppressionT. Now,.
here is e case of Morgaii and
.hitisonry,.
gimp but substantially - stated: - Theonly
d, ,.,
efect is, that, for brevity'esak4; 1 tonrlde -
Ito much to Masonry m the case assumed.
Aig ir l, is there - any thiog.2in the _matvniq._-__.
•Socie thi t liforda exempt. it iVoitiTithiF
.to •whir.h - such a new-born scialety - iVtallii '
have Wen exposed? What is it that gives
to the tbrikeri'privileges beyond any ether
assOriatian of men, that we should not hon..
estly and fearlessly denotince it, aaite own.
culherents-tralople upon the law? Whet iri:
the meaning of the statutes ogivagranite., ..
.ofywri tbe l liont-books of the lctw gottera. to,
ailagebni. . Do we not know , that the' eit. , ' ."
sena ofthe offence at which•they were lev;..
elled, consisted in , introducing into the bob !
a power above the law; something pre
vented
its fair execution? And notnut-•
sonny done this very thing irrhforgari's - ettset.
Who will say that prohibitory statutesmighe ~
not, be enacted against Ale- Iliecitution in'
NPW York? 'el; re would have teen little.
. •
.
hesitation, we m be assurecf,, I
ifa- bringing - ;
the Turkish soeity, the ease. of which
tr l,
have put, under th k , sharpest penal regisla-
..
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tido, it' it bad not en made to disappear
wider more itinnedia bleats of poblie.gle-- : .
• testation. And on : t
plea should'naeon
ry escape? - Its antiquity?.., This ippreeise
ly the strongest reason for'Outting 4, flealiv
Ancient abuse's are sure to be the moat fbr , --
_..--
1, nudable, in every commttoity disfigured by '
thfir existenee; They make re claim too •
1 sanctity on this groom', like the English!
I rotten borouglrsystem, !Ai work evil the
more fatally under every Crrrr. Time' io
power which th'artful plaretf iponthetres• _
dulity of mankind,. Do' e require theprooll
How else cpuld it have happenedythat, ma, .
sonry has.stood erverttolhisdayinseold* ' .
like
. ours, whilst ingulgingitsetfin.- '
tries' and . taking, teritselrtitles,, that. hare IK)t v .
only been baiished from EprOptuuto3ll4frier t 1, c
but - tharstirptists' all Aritatis eicagsetatinbl i i
and haVe been treed to seek, refuge ht. the, . .
uncivilized -o x neon taskell.ofi t' c p is tar
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