Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-05-14
Fro the Virginia Gazette:
DEMOCRACY AND INF.DELITY.

mong the leading democrats hasbeen deni-
Fed by many with much warmth, while the
reality otsuch prevalence has been main-
:sined onshe other side with much cogent
leYidence. There are someof the demo-
Gratis, however, whom we have heard to
Eaci- owledge with mueh caador, that inf.
fidelity and democracy were intimately cons
-necscd. Such might net have. been the
words, but such was the meaning. asslo-
lsophy they pronounce ineonsistsas, with
Christianity. In6delity they bapsise-5phi-
losophy. Can repubicauism, thes. ask, be
consistent with that philosophy swhich is in-
consistent with christianity!
But most Of the democrats deny that
iafdelity can IN justice be applied to the
democrats Of this country nlare than to
others. Let as pay sa~iirtle. attention. to
this question: Whether the gradual .ce-
struc.ion ofthe Christian religion be orynot
one of the greatest wishes Of the leading.
democratsin America?
No one who has perused Barrnel's Me-
moirssof Jacobinism, arsRoblnsoa's Proofs
|sof a conspiracy, after making The most
ample dedu, tiobs for any pr.judices which
these writer's may have been supposed TO
possess, can hesitate moment IN the OPT.
mon that the overthrow of religion was a
work long since conceived, organized, and
in part effected in Europe. The attempt
Of the legislature of France to destroy the
Christian religion is evidence that must
produce conviction. But the original de-
sign of the .lllumInati was not}merely the
dessructionot Christianity, butof even ma
turalreligion. Of even the beli6 of the ex-
istence of Deity. What were the words
of Danton, in the national lesisIaure s----
Tear 4oua these affairs otfGod. We have
destreyedthe affairs ofdesboasn, but the
affairs Of God still REMAIN. zlNt know no
aGod but Reason. The legislature under,
took to decree, that there is no God. 81.
bies are burnt in triumphal piles churches
robbed and destroyed; the sabbath abo-
tlished ; and the mos, violen, attempt made
to wipe from then,ad every vestagc ofre-
ligion. What were the crimes OF France
that resulted from this absence of.rehgiavs
restraint? The frequent tear will dampen
the pages of that history, which, faithful
to truth, shall record the tales of crime
and cruelty that .thicken the trasactions of
the French revelation; that shaiaiepict in
suitable colors the gaastiy splend6r of this
horrid interTegnum of besotted liberty and
discarded conscience. These dreadful
outrages proceeded from the united design
OF destroying together religion and govern
ment. This atheistieal hell spirited mon
ster, the French re. olution this novel
theory of civil land religious rights, or ra.
Their of uneivii and irrelig,ous wrongs had
its origin In the same spirit which now ac-j
tuates many violent democrat in Ameri-
ca. The politics and. philosophy of Con-
dorcet, Mirabeau D'Alembers, and of
moss OF the Encyclopedias, &c. &c. were
the parents OF the French revolu.ion,--
These unwearied advocates of atheism
were necessarily employed in propagat;ng
their doctrines among all sorts Of people,
but especially among the lower and more
ignorant classes. The 'improbabllity, and
even the impossibility of a supreme intel
hgence was advocated by the leading mem.
hers OF the revolution, in comn,oa CONVEX.
sation, and in cheap books and pamphIe s,
circulated with eiiabolical industry, calcu-
lated ut onlyto catch the attention of the
ignor ant and abaudonet. but 5v sn.aisti-
cal reasoning and the show of philanthropy,
TO impose on the minds of men not altoge
ther uaenlightened. The sweets Of un..
bounded liberty were painted in glowing
colors. The cheek of lust was taught 70
burn with Innocence. DebaucI,ery and a.
dultery were considered as natural rights
plety, chastity, virtue, were ridiculed as
the wnims OF superstition, Of foolish edu-
cation. Such principles, Notwithstanding
what Mr. Jefferson may say to the contra.
ry,have broken many legs, picked many
pockets and taken off many heads. Their
horrld tendency has been exempli6ed in
the miserable ext, of their principal abe,.