The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1848.

Among the daily journals of London, The Sun was
the first to comment upon the flagrant bigotry of the
directors and secretary of the Scottish Central Rail-
way, in impeding the journey of the daughter of the
deceased Earl of CARLISLE, on the plea of preventing
the desecration of the Sabbath. Since then our
indignation has been re-echo€d by a large number of
our most influential contemporaries. The disgust
excited by the godly men of Perth and its vicinity
is not restricted to ourselves—it has provoked the
reprobation of a very numerous portion of the daily
end weekly organs of the metropolis, as well as of the
different provincial newspapers. The miserable act
of intolerance which prevented the Duchess of
SUTUERLAND from kneeling at the death-bed of a
beloved and venerable parent—an act which
drew from our whole soul all those feelings
of scorn and abhorrence for the representation
of which we could find any adequate terms in the
language—has subsequently elicited from our brethren
• of the press sympathetic expressions of astonishment
and indignation. And this, be it observed, not from
.env one particular section of the press, but miscel-
: eeeasly from the press as a body—Tory, Whig,
le. -lite, Radical, Conservative, all without the smal-
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stanction of political opinion, have coincided
with eta in charging these mongers of morality and
Irteleaterers of virtue with the most pitiable hypo-
crisy, coupled with the grossest inhumanity. This
sentiment has been identical, whether articulated
by ourselves, or derided by the facetious sar-
casms of the Morning Chronicle, or attacked with
scriptural arguments in all earnestness by the
v:o,..eing..l:ost, or sneered at as something inex.
Treseibly Cytemptible by the Examiner, or scorched
by the caustic irony of the Spectator. From all
Tvarters we have the satisfaction of hearing our
taunts responded to, until the hearts of the people
resound with cries for the suppression of this detest-
able system of cant, which is familiarly known as the
Sabbatarian movement.
One poor little weazel of a fanatic, writing to us
from Glasgow, is in a terrible fluster at what he very
felicitously calla our " outrageous exhibitions of
intolerance"—our intolerance being a stern and In-
exorable determination not to stand by in silence while
a petty gang of Scottish directors are violating
the holiest impulses o humanity and are trampling
under foot one of the divimst dogmas that ever
emanated from thb lip of the awful FOUNDER of
Chris'ianity ! For it was declared by the Nazarene
that " IT IS LAWFUL TO DO GOOD ON TUE SARRATIP.
DAT." Whatever may be the views entertained
upon this subject by the wretched clique designated
under a generic title as Agnewites, there the words
are in the Beek upon which. they pretend to base their
morality, being nothing more nor less than the
rhyme and reason of their brutality ! And it has
yet to be proved to ins that the journey of the Mistress
of the Robes to the death-chamber in Castle Howard
N-E`,s csy Natrinost exquisitely in accordance with all the
.rinciptees, all the revealed truths, all the in-
•romptings of a heart animated by the
ants of Religion. If to protest against
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ttieereised over a populous nation by half-
=;.e,ta-;Sktimenious and psalm-singing directors is