The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1856.

to As daisies of Ole Pop that tits sus moves rota the
sank but that they bid bees Wiled by stolidly to show
what would base beam the awn bad it bits s truth, fastest
of a &lite, that the earth wed resod the res. (Leask. I
I ter.) The wadi leashed sad horst ; the Holy Bee was
satisfied sad snout New, lot me Wiese that these erudite
Jesuits. !malted sl physical theorise, had tuned thsir Wads

to eagles, lied had isainieed, while bowies to the decrees
el Me Count of Treat, what would have bees the runt
had the Bible bees the (sly rale of faith, and all refs/eau
to tradition sad the authority of the church bad bees est
said.. (Chosen) It is ingest that ornmare, pause, sad
samision, if sot mese malamute, wend have boss
the remit. Tide iestsses beings us at as.. to use of the
great obstacles to the praetor of moral sad politisal
seinen Truth is dissevered by inquiry ; knewledm is
attained by the diffssioa at opines; goverment. have
usdertakes to suppress bermley, sad to guidet as sll
religiose aid many, nay, en may _ Lit
se iavestimte this selMet furtheniP".kstisi .
lad that
sem. of the greatest Astons' whisk beer hese leasepestel
to moral sad polities! ppereoggare those which have bees
sassed by a letup ad the funotiess, sad a oda
methadon of the pours, el shit t. Thus
fasetieme sre enemies is their legitfmst. promisee; those
powers are formidable in their proper siphon. Hut
@movements have perverted to meet ads es asithseity
whit& is season to unity le its lowest coma saes, wed
MOO le melee its poomem le the higben ennim&,
•kW Mout wales the Massa el Ike Moonlit 1
if tOli Beelestmst. These etMett are
MON sad niteseive. At home, a mumassesstsre henna
OD Iteellest life sad property. These few weeds haply
the while meetios of criminal Mw, the 'mime rear
ass of preperq, the laws et sorriego, the sham of
War and worlumes, the security of trade, the malts.
was of listened lessedlilty, the rule of all codas of nu
thelt orpoosU Whims, sad the usaplisated dispetse
erbligneefeceet of their denims with seek Ws. Let to
grass, fa pis M these, eltheugl it may be settee of
"me 11.1111ffile leteseseles el religios sad lastrratioa of
theocipart psiffie great er endowment. Bat there is
is edit sere ample* sad seen difficult.
Goversosst aural with the oaiateseate of the We-
radios" cello ratios. As Mai it awe elbow, =aka
sad diesels* Mobs mantel= UMW and sortie, rules
perhaps ostensive fonts peressiess, sad, Wither in
pesos or war, IS baud sot to seerifies say vital
interest to • fangs power. (Lad cheers.) Barely
here are funk= 'sough for a Buleigli we s
Belly—for the wisdom et Lows sad the seem
of RiUslise for the capacity of a Heavy IV. of
Franca. or a William 111. of Gnat Britain. It has been
pretended, howerte, that besides all thus fusediess it is the
right and duty of govenwate to preseribe the rule of reli-
ves' faith, and to draw a stile beyond which it shall not
be lawful to move. I propose to show yea, get, the &gra-
mma on which this pretessios is bused • seseadly, its hol-
lowness • and thirdly, the evils which this unhappy mistake
has caused. A great master of sterility and of rusts •
pions and virtuous Christies—l mesa Dr. Jobason—efier
sondes of the duty of parents towards their children, says,
" Now the vulgar are the children of the nate. If any use
attempts to teeth them doctrines eoutrary to what Ow state
approves, the magistrate mg and ought to restrain him."
On 'mother occasios Newell relates the following conver-
sation. The spoken are Dr. Johnson and Dr. Mayo:—
" I introduced the stablest of toleration." Johases—
" Bury society ban a right to preserve publie posse end
order, and there:ore bee a mod right to prohibit the pew
papaws of opinion which have a dominoes teedeney. To
say the magistrate has this right, is using as inadequate
word ; it is the society for which the magistrate is agent.
He may be morally or theologically wrest, is restraining
the propegatioe of °pintos which be thinks dangerous, bat
be is politically right." Mayo--" lea el opines, sir, that
every man is entitled to liberty of oussisese is retinas ;
and that the magistrate emu* mania that right." Jobs-
as--" Bit, I agree with you. Beery ms bee a right to
liberty of conscience. sad with that the msgistrate esamt
inserter. People confsend liberty of thistles with liberty
oftelkiagsvay, with liberty of preaching. livery man been
as physisel tto think he plusses: for it maid be diem
Igen low thinks. He has sot a moral right, Who eastht
to Worst himself, and think justly. Bat, sir, as number
of • society has a right to teeth ash denying contrary to
what the society holds to be true. The sweetest', I say,
as, be wises is what he thinks ; but while be thinks him-
self right, he may sad ought to enforce what be thinks."
Mayo—" Thee, air, we are to remain always in error, sad
teeth sever can prevail : sad the rangiest' was right in
moseesting the lint Cheistiass.' Johnsen—. Sir, the
1/1* loolkal by which teligioes truth us be established is
blmfiledom. The magistrate has • right to enforce what
be thinks; aid be who oonscime of the truth has • right
to coder. (Laughter.) lem afraid there is so other way
of emartaicing the truth bet by persecutios es the ese
heed, sad endstriag it on the other." Sash wee as tem
Meths to which • an of powerful undostesdiss end
entrain learning was drives by resting his raisins as
Wes principles. There are two of those principles involved
is the ffissourse I have minted. The first is, that a as
is at Weft to bold as °paha in his own mind, but not
to ellatilletioate it to others. It were easy to show that
seiffit a itstrine ftrl y setabliubed must prevent all morel
sag pffillisal progress. Indeed, I sight go farther,
sad soy that even progress in physical seism would
be &rutted if the magistrate were, in the none of each ty,
to stop all diffusion of each opinions as wore considered by
him adverse to religion. The opinion of Galileo that the
earth moved was condemned, not as contrary to physical
silence, bet as °posed to led doctrine. The °lonians
of it* geologists were, at the commencement of this unary,
denounced as at various with the narntive of Holy Writ.
Is every man who has made a physical discovery to ask the
civil magistrate whether his demonstration is at varianos
with some iporant interpretation of the Scriptures, before
be ventures to publish it to the world? But, to meet the
eblectins is front, is be who deems more highly of his God
than the emperor or high priest of his day, to hide his
light under a bushel, because the civil or ecelenastisal
ruler does net like to be disturbed ? Were the early CY:de-
nies sot to tell their Waken, their wive", their heaviest',
their children to forsake idolatry sod worship only one
true God ? Were the Christie* martme rightly amen-
table to the penalties of the criminal law ? Again, was
Luther, after being sooner:ad that indulger e@ and the
other abuts of the Boman catholic church were founded
on perversions of the Christian religion, as to lift up his
voice and proclaim his =Deletion ? Was the martyrdom
of Latimer and Maley the just punishment of a crime
spinet society ? There quietly:is most have proud as
the logical mud of Dr. Johnson, and accordingly they
foram him to change his ground Bet what is the oracle-
slat at which be arrives ? "The maghtrate his a right to
referee valet he thinks, sad he who is conscious of the truth
has a right to suffer. Ism afraid there is no other way
of suertabileg the truth but by pawned*s on the one
hand, and enduring it on the other." Why sot ? Why
sot permit the free circulation of truth and error—leave to
truth its own all-suillneet armour, and to mot its own
rratagese cad deleskas—(cheers)—leme argunuat to be
met by argement, arertise by inquiry ? (Cheers.) If the
jest muse suffer for a time, if human credulity embraces
Mae with ardour sad le cold as ice to troth, we
may yet rely that 'the light of free discussion will in
thee disperse the mist crd fake opinions, that, however
slow the proem, the test of free nessioatios will in time
separate the dross from the Remain ore. Here, is fact,
is the turning point of the whole mention. Dr. Jobusoe
sad others coetend that governments have the right and
duty to control their subjects as pauses 'oaten children.
The friends of voligisas liberty 'soused that goverment'
have vie seek right, and have no special seueity to lit them
for the A Homan historian speaks of the rate felicity
of his time, whoa a tau was allowed to think as he chow,
sod to speak as he tho:ght. This rare felicity is the cow
mom birthright of mashie& It is the Soarer of all know-
ledge; the privilege which elevates the nature of sae ; one
of the rust onion of the gifts of Godu.
Whet I a was
If hie Met goad, sot market of his time.
Be bet loam and lent -a bee*, so more.
Mu Ms OM mode a with seth bays diessene,
Leah, bane mil new. pee us set
tens SWUM as orate row
• rule se mess&
TM esosise ef the lassities of the hush 'dad they con-
gaed is lint step to the dhesvury ot truth. The highest
ass with the slim& whoa as.. raised, sad Min-
:regionised, s.'
twe "tokbelieve of etreties roadijwisliset wsesissers.
required to de is obediesse to His will--riegsges the most
contest thoughts eared sot wise on. Milers lid LW'
are great examples of this; bet we have higher authority
for the morels, et the right of teaching this say mere
basun dens. When Peter and Jobs were comeseaded
" Nee le speak at all, sae teach is
itshe nun of Jesus," they
assumed, sad seid. " Whether be right is the eight of
Owl to he
sale yes sere than sate God, judge ye.
AO WO swot bra steak ths things which we have wee
sad ),egad." Age* whin they were Oweatesed a woad
tlera, sea asked by the high priest, " Did met we sweetly
rawest yes that ye Wad so teen is this wee t"
etr_ ey mewed dopey, but awaked,. " We ought to obey
Ora rests them aeu." (Cheer.) New, if this wades of
Peter sal hits wee right is the sight ef Gad. It fellows
that no ma ought to be robbed Or *MAW hie religi-
ous waistless. For kb ispeollate that nia asst have •
*late do animas Mop, timed avow NOW spimisse, sad
that usher mess, tbeirraless. us have a right hsprohl Ws
esthete sose esteems wed weals. If a au, essthesed
of the truth of kis errs belief, bee a right to prepegate that
belief, • energies ter s seegistrate w hen se right to
punish him fee it. Fes this were to admit twe sestredie
tezarlirse, two t duties, is /Wades of aL our
et ileitis M besot folios (The mile keel