Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1815-04-03
-" The meeting tor balloting for Cou'l
" Treasurer stands adjourned to 10 o'clock,
COMMUNIC A1I0N.
this day.

OF mankind But their moderation was
not of long continuance Whether their
views originally extended 10 the scenes Of
blood and horror afterwards acted or
whether these enormlties were only The nat
ural fruits of that spirit which the master
maglcians excited for useful purposes, but
were unable 10 conlroul, We know not. Per
haps both. Bat The melancholy fact we do
know, and i is an eternal fixture IN the his
tory oil man that the populace, once in
famed with zeal TO correct what they sup
posed abuses in the church, soon directed
their rage against religion itself. Ffom
curtailIng the revenues of the clergy, they
proceeded step by step in regular march
thro every gradation Of folly and crime.
Despislng al first only the corrupt part Of
the prizes hood, they soon came to despise
all, good and Oad---neXt they overturned the
Altar itselt-burnt the law # God by the
hands OF the common hangman-decreed
that death was ali eternyl sleep-and cast
their allegiance in the face Of Heaven
What The French populace did The pop
u.ace Of every other nation will d. in the
like circumstances.
1t is not to b. inferred, however, that be
cause the spirit of liberty has been ab c,ed,
that therefore it should never be called forth
Nor that the errourS of Christians should
never be exposed, lest, il theaend, We be-
Come infdels- ihe sound Inference is Of
another Kind We should only be cautious
of stimulating the whole mass OF men with
hatred of any thing connecscd with religion
10 reform abuses requires nc band OF a
MASTER The woodlands axe IS surely no
proper instrument to operate on diseased
eye We should beware, las, in removing
the rubbish from the pillars OF the Temple
we sap heir foundations.
Man, in every association, mas need Of
restraint he degree fthis restraint, md
the mode of enforcing it, fixes he chatacter
of civil government. Republicanlsm gives
him as much liberty as is consistent with his
happiness as member OF Society. Fed
eral Republicanism would maintain In their
full rig our, all wholesome restraints. JIG
oblpism would break down every moral
civil and religious barrier dgluging the
laad with RIGHTEOUSNESS, and recog izing
I'D law Ou paooici ~ HOullA I~A iOOoC AuS
yhirlwiod and The flo)d
This was the spirit Of the Jaco6ins Of
France. This is the temper Of the Jacobins
of America.
Our fathers thought il necessary to enact
laws for the due maintenance of religious
teachers, Of some Sort or other The Jaco
bins of Massachusetts have virtually re-
pealed those laws, by empowering any FIVE
associates to rid themselves of al subsection
10 them O dained Clergymen, OF all de-
nominations ace the consa themes OF
Jacobinlc abuse Our fathers also thought
ha, their rulers ought TO be pious men,
fearing God Our Jacobins elected the in
Gdel Jefferson, and he Jeist Madison, and
embraced the blasphemer Paine. Bot a
little while since, the " Chronicle" eXu!ted
that Connecticut was freed from what il
called the " disgrace of having the hiluS
Deacon Ire. dwell Tor its Governor"
~ hat torrents of n umely are daily pour
ID forth from the polluted presses oil De-
,uocracy, or Caleb Strong, because he
sustains tn humble Office OF Deacon in the
churcb Of Cd
Amone tie wills which have lately swept
our land, drunkentss, proiane swea ing and
the most odious violations Of the laws for
obse wing the sabbath, were the most fla
grant These vices are known TO be parents
OF all others-Christians could hardly wor-
ship God in peace CUR children were
growing corrupt thro the influence of the
bad examples before them in the streets
InI1nts III their first essays Of speech, learn
I'd to curse the Being who made them.
10 suppress these crimes, good citizens,
in ali parts OF the country have formed as.
sociaions Now mark the true yisage OF
Jacobinsm. ! hese associations and the
individuals who compose them, are instant
ly attacked in the Democratic prints. AT
Tempt to restrain vice, and you enrage the
Whole Iacobinic phalanX--Nay, they can
not endure that public officer should OBJ
serve the sabb III Witnts, tha sneer in
late Argus OH Mr. Pickering, because ht
would net travel from n. York on that day
The editor would lnsinuate that the whole
paragraph is copied from another paper
Bur tina; paper never published boM mem
bers OF The Paragraph.
1t would be dangerous, in New England
for the Jacpbinic prints to publish all their
sub;ecls-It would render their cause more
unpopular. Hence they Print only hints,
sneers, and occasional ssIcasms /; enough