The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-03-21

| There is one thing, of which Iir. Huber.
may be atiursd, which is, that it is impotlible
tor airy man, whether proficient or private, to
write f'ch letter to him, without telling a lie
in every line.
| Our legillator, (who was now acting the part
OLA ilanderer and aIio of a hypccrite as iiiall
lhew) having read this extract, proceeds with
| his remarks therson:
Is this, fad he, the language of cold indif-
g ference? sit the langusge of ordinary ci-
Witty? No. (faid he) it is the ardent expref
" hon of high efteem and affeetionate attachment
" to one of'tbe meR np,ineibled and abandoned
" Of the human race"----Weftd done thou herald
of old Satan---thou ;hat fit at his right hand.
In the next paragraph our legillator goes a
itep further, for lying has no limit.
1t has been faid, continues Hubert, that the
writings OF Thomas Paine were uieful to this
country ~ the commencement Of our revolu-
ton 70, iaid he, were the exertions Of Bene-
dict Arnold. Both were once uilful men, BO.b
| turned traitors to their country.
| AS it is totally unneceiiary TO contradict that
which all the world knows to be lie, repub-
| Iiih 1t 20 proclaim the ngratituGe and bafenefs
of its inventor.
In tile volcano of his abufe he next involves
France, witho ut knowing any thing of the fab
jet he ipeaks of, except what one lying impof-
tor of his own clafs had told to another.
" 1t is true, faid he (he ought to have faid it
&c is lie) that by national! decree, all religion
{" had been baniihed in FrAnce-the idea of A
=" God diicarded-and 1t mad been, fad he, i'm
&c piouily nicribed over the entrance of all the
{" burying places in France, thai deatb zvas an
eternal Recp."
1t would, perhaps, be happy for fuch unprin-
cipled Importers as Hubert, if il was true, that
death qvos an eternai.R eep, for he has much to
aniwer for. But it isfalie to fay, tina, fuch an in
fcription was put up by national decree, or
Thy any other decree or order whatever, or that
it was put up any where.
Il is ALTO falr: that al religion in France was
abolilhed by decree. The national aflemblv
pafed decree to baniih the refr Glory priens.
Thofe who took the oath of fidelity TO the re-
public, performed their worhip as before, ex-
cept that they were prohibited making public
Iprocellons in the ftreets with their cruciixes.
Images ofthe Virgin Mary, faints, &c. and as TO
the Protefant church in the Rue ST. Thomas.
at Paris the fervce in il was never INTERRUPTED.
1t is alto falfe, that all idea of a God was dif-
Icarded by decree or by any authority whate-
yer. The only decree thai was psf1ed bv the
convention, on the fnhiett of creeds, is directly
the reverie of what this impoltor fays. The de-
cree was, THE French beobie recognize tie ST.
Ipreme Being" that is, acknowledge and declare
their beliefin him; AID this decree was inherited
in the French Language, on feveral of the chur-
ches where the constitutional Drefts oficiated
There was alto another interruption put up in
time of Robefpierre in front of the building
wherethe national convention fat, which, though
it does honor to the French with refpecf TO hu.
mainly, fands as a contradiction to this licenti-
ous fbeller. The interruption was, g The Di4,in.
=" ity CONDEMNS trraRtS ; te French People executes
GO The decree"
The religious fociety of the 1'heophilanthro-
pitts, aword compounded ofthree Greek words,
and meaning, aGorerJ 1T Cad and LozjerJ of man,
was efahlilhed in the time of the directory, and
| Rlveere Ia Peaux, enc of the Ave directors.
was OF it's principal founders. It profsncd
two articles as its creed, the belief ofa GoH ami
! a Fate a. future exifwce. Its moral dogmas
were exceedingly good.
! Having now dete6ted Hubert in his falho IDS
MOI By mere afertea, IS he.a -als in. hSt by the
evidence of fact, ! 90 TO ilrlw that he Is an i'm
poitor and = hypocrite, for notwithstanding his
Glamour about religion, he does not believe the
chrltian religion himfelf, nor holds it TO be true.
IT is neither his belief nor his diibelief that
trouble myfelf about. Every man NUT 7nf,ver
for the truth or falfhood of his creed at the fri
bunal of bis creator, and not to that OF man. nor
of one man to another. It is Hulbert's hyDo-
Gritty only that expofc.
| If Mr.. Hubert, or the fpeaker of the houfs
of representatives, who heard his nonfenfe. will
write to MIR. John Fellows, Water Areet, New
York, he will be informed of the evidence that
will Prove the hypocrty of Hubert.
SANDER and hypoCrify are clais mates in the
fcho9l Of vice. They are the necenary aids of
each other. The fame cowardly depravitv of
heart that leads to the one conducts TO the other.
and Hubert has made the tour of both.
Had not Hubert prophaned the {snctuarv of
legifation, and covered himfrlf with the priv.
l"ge Of eGinator, to pour forth his abure. his
! flandcr and his fallhood, he would have drawn
no reply from me. lhould have let him pats.
unnoticed, among the group OF namelefs and in.
diicrimnate libeliers who have waited their We
nom and their invention in vain.
THOMAS PAINE.