Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1805-03-23


; as 4 shall shew) having read this extract,
. proceeds witl, his remarks thereon:
I" rs this. said lac the language of cold
g iniif7erence3 Sit the language of ordi-
% nary civiii,y? No, (said hc) il IS the arr
s. dent expression of high esteem and at
g fectiona,e attachment to one Of the .,uosf
Z" zn,srlneihied and abandoned. Of fse human
6 race. Well done lhoA herald Of old Sa.
tan--,hou shalt SIT at bis right hand.
In the next paragraphs our legislator
goes step further, for lying has no limit.
hhas been said. continues Hubert, that
the writings of Thomas Paine were use.
ful to this country at the commencement
OF our revolution so, said he, were The
exersions Of Benedict Arnold. Both were
once useful men. Bofh turaed traitors 20
their country.
As u Is totally unnecessary 10 contra
dict that which all the world knows TO be a
lie, l repubIish it 10 proclaim the ingra,i-
tudc and baseness of its inventor,
In the volcano Of his abuse ne next in
wolves France, without knowing any thing
OF the subject he speak, of, except. what
one lying impostor Of his own class had
told to another.
at is true, said he (he ought TO have
"said it is lie) that by !. national decree.
6 ali religion had been banished in France
1.-The idea OF God discarded-and il
had been, said he, impiously inscribed
over the entrance Of all the buryine p;a-
"ces in France, fhaf deafa syas an eternal
6 steeh."
IL would, perhaps, be happy for such
unprinciplrd irnposlors as Hubert, if il
was true, that death yvas an eternal sleeh.
for he has much to answer for. But il is
false to say, that such an inscription. was
put up by ana.ionai decree, or by any o.
Their decree or order whatever, or that il
was put up any where.
tits also false that all religion in France
was abolished by adecree. The national
assembly passed decree to Danish the
refractory priests, those who took the
oath OF fidelityto the republic, performed
their worship as before. except that they
were prohibited making public processi-
ons in the streets With their crucit;xes.
images of the Virgin Mary, saints, Sc.
and as to the Protestant church in the Rue
St. Thomas, at Paris, the service in II was
never interrupted.
q was discarded bya decree or by any autho-
rity whatever. The only decree tha, was
passed by the convention, on the subject Of
crecds,is directIy the reverse ofwhat this
iiupostor says. The decree was, ssfhe
, French heotlle recognize HE Sufresie Be-
, iag," that is, acknowledge and declare
their belief in him ; and this decree was
{ inserted in the French language. on Sc.
o versl of The churches where the contdltu.
a tionai priests oifscia5ed.
+ There was also another inscription pu
Il up in the lime Of Robespierre in front o
IF the building where the national convent
ir on sal, which, though itdoes honor TO ths
: French with respect to humanity, stand:
I asa contradiction to this licentious libsIler
= The Inscription was. ,ss The Drvimfy can
/ deDans grants tie French heeiis execute.
{ "Ae decree"
!, The religious society OF the Theophiian.
thropisss, word compounded of three
= Cfeek words, and meaning, adorrrs ofGad
and lopers Of man, was established in tn.
Tune OF the directory, and RavelIiere Ia
d Peavg, one OF The Ave directors. was on-
> OF ITS principal founders. Ii professed
p Two srucies asits creed, Lhe belefofa God.
: !, aaa a sfafe 5fut"re e,riateace. It's moral
. doginas were exceedingly good.
% Having now detected Hubert in his
Z ialsehoods not by mere assertion, as he
deals IN, bn, BY the evidence offaa, 90
q to shew tina, he is an impostor and a hy.
. rocr'te Tor Notwithstanding his Glamour :.
/ boutreiigion, he does not believe the chris
: tan religion himself, nor holds i, to n.
: true.
IL IS neither his belief nor hts disbel;,e
} that trouble myself about. Every r,,n
}. must answer for the truth or falsehnod af
{ his creed at the tribunal Of HE ereefor. ana
: not TO that of nam, nor of one man 70 sno.
y ther. Iii Hulbert's hypocrisy onIv Tia,
II expose. ''a'
: II MT. Hubert, or the speaker of tho
h0ltne nj - viz