Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1802-1803, 1803-03-07


volulssHa Lls6ing toihs country.
lheie are fcme Of lie leading frrvices
'ol lie dergs, IS agents II bringing
shopt lie cvoiuti1u, md which wi
iiuglyoPpoie IN po.af Of gtEe4ey ~ tie pro-
du6,ian Of Common S4eie ~ Thomas
Pane.
IVi(h not to dfminilh an ista Of The sf-
fcAcy. whatever !, was, o. Ccm'eoa Sers
IN aiti-g The gloriou, eauie-l Only feel
engasti ihar ltice be done clafs of
a Cd, whom 5biafexL ani The agmiajara
rsE offAe gaEsrai g9-syEhsri arr endeav
.oTirg % rob Of their fhare Of newt as
fellow lAbourers il the common csufeY
From the fourth of July, 1916, We
may begin anew 10 exam ne the fsrvices
.ol Re olsrgy ard Paine towards earry-
ing On the war, 10 the final eltablilhment
.cf The greaI caufe of eiul and TsEgi9af
Liberty.
10 do The clergy any thing ike jaf
tee through his period, would require
volumes Of hilosy aid we may con
Ga-nt'y call upon Sbirtexf, or any othlr
10! d aiaiaifra1ien, u fhsw what they
did not 40, that il could be expected for
men 10 perform. or what fees they
did not make. On the other haed il IS
not difficult 70 point out the l9sejfc arr,
and the any ais, that Paine reformed
through the whole remainder oithe war.
lie wrote, and publilhed, in the newt
papers, dozen or thirteen pieces called
theCRIsrs; about two yeAr-This is all
be pertormed-Give bin all the merit
any one Pleales. They had iome eHe4
there il no douot bur whatever II was,
it NUT, from the naturs OF the human
P4hions, and the great obje6S conlantly
inculcated from the pulpit, and very
properly afocia,ed with the principles
OF the revolution, fall infinitely lhorr OF
the influence produced on the public
mind by the labours Of the mininer. Of
religion, TO dcihs, the prayers and
celebrations 81 clergymen have no merit
as religious exerciies, yet as motives on
the mind they are very important in this
eRimate, aud cannot BE let TOO high.
| will now cheerfully accompany
S3hf,Si b'ck 10 the commencement
[" Of the revolutionary waf-when our
4" dearea rights and mott Acred p'ivi
Z" leges were violated by the hands Of
=" rapin= and lawlefs oPprsfion--Nhen
= our cities were reduced 10 sfh-s-
I" when lie temples cf the MOE high
= were prophaned BY hifaling troops,
" aided by their chriaian king and par
Y" llament-when he whole body OF our
= nation was hck. &C." And pray
Mr.. Spintext what have you feen in this
tragic retrofPea?-" Every where Zee
/" the clergy doing Offices Of kiodnefs
I" and charity. Zee them making the
II created lacridces Of any in The { m
h: nunity, and from which they have
Y" not recovered-I fee them. in town
" meetings, as we'll as fnaler focieties
4" of whigs-I fee them il county con
/" ventions-in Rate conventions and
\" Legislatures, and always with the fore
mott TO opPofe the CLAIMS Of Britain
8 The firing at Lexington was no foon
e er heard than the clergy rallied uOder
+" the ftandard of liberty-I fee them il
q the armies administering temporal
4" relief and iPiritu2l comiort-they en-
/" courage the folders and leac them to
+" battle-the high and dangerous pia
" ces every where wltnels their fotti
" tude, their patience 5. Their courage. "
And where is Tom Paine Was be feen
at lexington, at Concord, or in the
dreadful carnagc at Bunker Hill I?
Where was he when the temples Of the
mott high az Cbarleaown, at Falmouth
and Danbury were ia flames by The
hireling troops Of Britain Fin the very
appropriate language Of Spiotext, the
esrete6, the midi, he niEreaEt Of the
republican iss, was then leeretly imagiR-
ing vain things agzina lie Lord's
anointed-He was preparing himlelt 70
'b-com. J00a companion for wicked
administration.
Spintsxt fays, " the quelion with the
g federalias, is not what is Paine's reil
g gion, but what are his politics. Had
.ss he returned TO America with as mary
t" fms as ManaDsb-with as many devils
" as MG,y MagdaFne-if be had landed
/" with fword in one hand and torch
g in the other TO overturn The Preient
Sc ana introduce the old administration,
I" he would have been carefed by the
t" federalias and ca1onized as a faint"
1'he behaviour Of 1e9gyjoH and Dir tsa