ses, the public good requires, that great men should rise. above themselves and above the laws, and take summary and speedy vengeance on those, who, like "this fellow" "pervert the people."

Levite. Rabbi, be so kind as to inform me on what grounds the Nazarene is to be treated as an outlaw. I hate him heartily enough, but I know little of his history. I have a general impression, that he goes about "turning the world upside down;" and I always abhorred a Radical.

Priest. A radical he is, of the worst stamp. "In the earlier stages of his efforts, he was seen groping after some simple, unqualified principles, on which his own mind could rest, and by which he could act upon the public." Some of these, "equally unlimited, clear and captivating," I happen to remember. "God is a spirit; and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." "Not that which goeth into the mouth, defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man." "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." "I will have mercy and not sacrifice." "That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." "A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things that he possesseth." "It is more blessed to give than to receive." "Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake; for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven." "Fear not them that kill the body." "Whosoever putteth away his wife and marrieth another commiteth adultery." "The true bounds of such principles, how far they apply, and why and where the application of them fails, he has not the sagacity to discern." "For want of knowing what others have done before him"-for he despises the traditions of the elders" he has no standard, to which he may refer." To the claims of prescriptive authority "he pays no due respect," and has little "deference to age, office, or other titles to regard." "Putting on the airs of a Dictator in the moral kingdom," he sets himself to oppose what "has been said by them of old." He is remarkable for "sternness, rigor, and rudeness of demeanor towards even the slightest delinquency." "I have heard him declare, without any qualification, that "he who looketh on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery already with her in his heart." The greatest and best men among us he calls "serpents"

"a generation of vipers," and tauntingly asks them "how they can escape the damnation of hell"! I shudder to remember what I once heard break like a thunder-clap from his lips; "Woe unto you Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites; which devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; therefore, ye shall receive greater damnation"! Thus, "not content with relieving, he would also avenge the oppressed; not content with restraining, he would also doom the oppressor. You know, my dear son, how often and how earnestly, I have urged upon you such sentiments as the following; Let me advise you to walk EVER in the beaten road of the Church; not to run into single paradoxes. And if you meet at any time with private conceits, that seem more probable, suspect them and yourself; and if they can win you to assent,† yet smother them in your breast, and do not dare to vent them out, either by your hand or tongue, to trouble the common peace." But this "pestilent fellow," far from modestly yielding his own principles to the "general voice," even for the sake of preventing "disturbance," boldly declares, that he came not to send peace on the earth but a sword. I once heard him even say, that "he came to send fire on the earth." He intends to set all men a quarreling with each other; to break up the peace of every family, to which he has access; to dissolve the "glorious union" with the people, under whose protection we are so safe and

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* Quoted from BISHOP Hall, by Mr. W. with apparent approbation. + This most beautiful, impressive, and instructive quotation, which old Moneylove himself could not equal, enables us to understand on what ground such men as Mr. W. resist all arguments, which are adapted to bring them to espouse the cause of the oppressed. If we could "win their assent," their respect to the general voice" would constrain them to "SMOTHER it in their breast ;" they would not "dare to vent it out either by their hands or tongue." Now in the language of that "gentle spirit," the "venerable Money-love," this complying temper gueth:

1. That they are of a self-denying temper;

2. Of a sweet and winning deportment; And,

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3. So more fit for the ministerial function," of course, whether as preachers, reviewers, or professors. What a crop of John Baptists, Simon Peters, Pauls, Luthers, Calvins, and Knox's; Baxters, Wesleys, and Whitefields; Edwards', and Tenants, must not the hand of such "nursing-fathers" produce! Stick to the breasts of "Mother-church," though sprinkled with plague-spots; though covered with ulcers-though with every breath, you should suck in, not milk, but purulent filth. Never be convinced of any error as long as you can helpit; and when conviction is forced upon you, hold your breath till your face gathers blackness. Here we have Protestantism with a witness;-such Protestantism as would go bare-toot to Rome for the pious purpose of kissing the great toe of the pope!

happy; so "that, if we let him alone, "the Romans will come and take away our place and nation," surely, "it is EXPEDIENT for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not."

Levite. Enough, reverend father, I can hear no more, I burn to join in the loud shouts of the multitude, he has so often insulted and outraged by his incendiary doctrines, and imflammatory appeals; "crucify him, crucify him! His blood be on us and on our children!"

Mr. W. knows, that from the hour of the crucifixion to the present, all true reformers have been regarded, by courtly conservatists, as perverters of the people; pestilent fellows; the turners of the world upside down; ultraists and radicals. And all, for the same reasons. They have all been engaged with warm hearts and strong hands in drawing forth from the dust, where they had long been concealed, each in his time and place, some elementary truth-some fundamental principle in ethics and religion, which they have made it their business to explain and propagate. For this, the "general voice" has for a time been "given against them" in reproaches and execrations, but ultimately-on to the present generation-for them, as the benefactors of mankind. We must here be permitted to repeat a paragraph from Coleridge; "Still, however, there are truths so selfevident, or so immediately and palpably deduced from those that are, or are acknowledged for such, that they are at once intelligible to all men who possess the common advantages of the social state; although by sophistry, by evil habit, by the neglect, false persuasions and impostures of an AntiChristian priesthood joined in one CONSPIRACY with the violence of tyrannical governors, the understanding of men may have become so darkened and their consciences so lethargic, that there may arise a necessity for the re-publication of these truths, and this too with a voice of loud alarm, and impassioned warning. Such were the doctrines proclaimed by the first christians to the pagan world; such were the lightnings flashed by Wickliff, Huss,' Luther, Calvin, Zuinglius, Latimer, &c. across the papal darkness, and such in our own times the truths with which Thomas Clarkson, and his excellent confederates, the Quakers, fought and conquered the LEGALIZED BANDITTI of

men-stealers, the numerous and powerful perpetrators and advocates of rapine and murder, and (of BLACKER GUILT than either) SLAVERY. Truths of this kind being indispensable to man, considered as a moral being, are above all EXPEDIENCY, all accidental consequences; for as sure as God is holy, and man immortal, there can be no evil so great as the ignorance or disregard of them. It is the very madness of mock prudence to oppose the removal of a poisonous dish on account of the pleasant sauces or nutritious viands which would be lost with it! The dish contains destruction to that, for which alone we wish the palate to be gratified or the body to be nourished." The Friend, pp. 49, 50.

We could easily prove even by the testimony of our adversaries, that the Anti-Slavery societies in this country are engaged in the same war, on the same principles, with the same weapons, against the same sort of enemies, as Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, George Stephen, and the Quakers in England, carried on with so much ardor, and with such glorious success. The same reproach and opposition befel them, as assails us. Trusting in the same Savior, we dare hope for the same glorious consummation of our labors and sufferings as crowned theirs.

We shall venture, in conclusion, to commend to Mr. W. a task, which well performed, would do more towards putting down the radicals, whose movements so "heave his placid nature into tumult," than a thousand volumes of such dark and misty matter, as in his article on Radicalism, he has thrown before the eyes of his readers. Let him mend his pen, and clearly and certainly demonstrate for the benefit of the ultra advocates of Temperance:

1. That well instructed and faithfully warned, we may gratify a factitious appetite with a substance, which is naturally and necessarily injurious to the constitution, God has given us, without sin.

2. That to obtain such a substance, we may expend any part of that property which we had solemnly dedicated to God our Savior, without sin.

3. That in so doing, we may tempt our weaker brethren to go beyond ourselves in such animal indulgences-to the manifest peril of their present virtue and future peace, without sin.

For the benefit of the ultra advocates of human freedom, let him prove with like certainty and clearness:

1. That the negro is not a man.

2. That we may hold him, innocent of crime, in subserviency to our will, as a piece of property, without sin.

3. That we may lend an influence to support an extended and complicated system of theft, adultery, and murder, without sin.

The performance of this task, and this alone, can shut the mouths of the so called radicals, whom he is so anxious to reduce to silence. The performance of this task, and this alone, can set him free from the charge, which we now solemnly bring against him--the charge of being a calumniator of his brethren.

A REVIEW.-LEGISLATION AGAINST LIBERTY.ANTI-REPUBLICAN EDUCATION.

BY WILLIAM GOODELL.

1. "LETTERS against the immediate Abolition of Slavery, addressed to the Free Blacks of the non Slaveholding States. By T.R. SULLIVAN. Comprising a legal opinion on the powers of legislatures in non slaveholding States, to prevent measures tending to general and immediate emancipation, in a Letter to the Author, from WILLIAM SULLIVAN, L. L. D. Published with his permission. [The whole printed in the Boston Courier.] Boston. Hilliard, Gray & Co. 1835." II. "THE POLITICAL CLASS BOOK, intended to instruct the higher classes in schools, in the origin, nature and use of political power. By WILLIAM SULLIVAN, Counsellor at Law, &c. &c. Boston. [Second edition.] Richardson, Lord, and

Holbrook. 1831."

I. We shall begin with the work first mentioned, though its publication is last in the order of time.-The author informs us in his preface, that "the work was suggested by the writer's perception, of the want of some means to counteract the impressions which anti-slavery orators were attempting to make among the general population of the northern States."-" The opinions of citizens of Boston, at meetings called in contravention of those increasing influences," he observes, "did not necessarily represent those of the village and country inhabitants, were not distinctly indicative of the feelings of the people at large," &c.

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