Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1802-1803, 1803-03-21

ELm-fRsEs, III. Eb. 1903.
siR,
7 apFrehend yon arc, By ibis time,
equally weary u spintert, and ms aiic
tere, upon him; and GALL trouble
ycu 10 more wigh them hereafter. Ia
j. nor, indeed, ~ much from any III
uinfic merit | diicover il bis ccmpoG-
tons, a. from ths eainaf.a they appear
- Be held II by the rsp1ba,s4 On, il We
Taey beS-ve their own paPers. that
have been IN 3uosI 30 esanaiue q N 81
Tninrtcly. Phantoms and ihidows ID
twilight mir Is, Wheeler by night ~
day, always have the tifs9 Of fu6Gauce
and realities which ieems TO he The
ground Of ellimaion given ~ SPinte=t
by bis admirers and as poii1ie that
BY a eo1rsa ara'yGs of them even bis
dcloded euIogiGs nav f,e how much
they have been impoied upon. But
nstcfe, and certain lrong habHs, cannot
be changed and finley delieh: in error
y ba-s ao il ddkn,f, Or as Ephraim
did ii worihiPping idols, We may as
well let them alone.
Spintext Acknowledges the Age Of
8 ReAfon IS not calculated 70 advance
the happinefs of man-2nd 70 weaken
g the religion of A nation is rePrehsnh
bic - and he declares she .sgre;s il
"was ever printed " Barely 10 fay Of
the Age OF Resfon" that iyis net cal
culated to Gfvorte The hapPinefs Of man
does not al ali express the tue quality
and tendencyofthe book; boz taking this
mode Of ezprellion in connection with
his rcgtettng it was ever publhed, ma
nifslts very clearly what he thinks OF i,
aad why he regrets lis publica'ion.--
He finds there a (ome, who, tho they
have had an attachu emf TO Jefsrfon,
are YET move attached 70 the chriaian
religion, am on feeling what counte-
nance he gives 10 the tLgl5hensr and
thereby currency 10 his book, aIe daily
dropping off from the republican "a
thefe a'e cot yatJ med % IDOLS. Spin
text therefore is alarmed lett il ihall turn
ont that religion has YET hold on 70
many, that lhculd Ihey Be induced from
Iofsifon's inide ity and attachment 10
Paine, TO abandon him, bis ia WILDE
djmini( hed 70 whltir origi"a ly was a
fmall number Of etbsfrs TO The oonttitu.
tion, isyesg,ufs agnna order and good
government. VIII The MaaaEds. the
GTary .HagAri5ei. and The J7yora and
t9reb men from Europe. L is evident
from Tome late lymptoms of the jla,
they have mott Of them an aPPr-hen-
iion OF this kiud and it will not be
arrange TO fee them H,aing 10 be re
hgiaus even 10 auaelity-'Ghey have
already iileneed Pane for felion and
letters, from democrat ii Congrels,
10 chafaders ike thofe Jeroboam made
hisprieas of, are announcing that Pane
has no cartunetJ CD his nole, thar III
ERIN is growing cool towards him, ami
the 5eadJ Of dsb1rimsnh only invited him
once oiece 10 diae with them out OF
mer : .ty.
Th0.e are many actions Of individu-
ais, and even laws Of a community
that do not appear calculated to advaHre
the Happiness Of man higher Ihan the
level at which it now Glands, but they
keep It where il is, and prevenE it falling
10 4 lower degree it would therefore
be improper 70 ceniure one or the other
Of them they are The beR the circunl
harces of the agents would permit
them to execute Such cannot be 1did
10 be potitively bad, beoaule they Pro
duoe no evil but they are at ieaf
negatively good, 5ecauie they prs
vent evils. Can this be Eaid Of The
Age OF Reaion Certainly it canuot
tho Spin,ext wines TO convey luch ideas
Of it by the manner he fpeal:s Of i.
The Age Of Reafon appears to me
5oEtively bad and wicked Its tendency
is mott injurious 10 the morals and 70
ciety of chriaian people. Il is not an
+" ipjadi.i0ns CO" of good principle,
hut is plensry evidence of total want
Of good principle. Paine's obied in
publ,lhing his Age Of Realon was nor,
nor is il tie tendency OF the book, mere
iy 70 vary the combustion or general
received opinion az fome of the Princl-
pies Of the chriaian religion, which new
conGrndion might only be conGdered,
by lome. 10 weaken IFS eEea on the
minds OF its protectors but The object
aud tendency are TO deGrcy i altogeth-
sr-ro make men ahjare it with all the
natural and fpiTitual eorlequences OF
rarere belief and reliance on It's pro