Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-02-13

pursuits. why d. they not extract gcad fat
salaries icom the people ? Why do they
n I bargain for rich legacies, in rcturn for
!gfostly services, BY the promise OF the
joys CT hcaven - the troubled con-
science, why do they not procure large
earthly possessions +, l. is really incredible
that they should have such sway over
The minds OF the peop.e, and reserve it un.
til they can find an opportunity to enrich
the church while they themselves, ard
their wives and children, daily scUtsi fer
scanty living, and often suffer the bitter
g~ipe of poverty! Rely on It, Sir, there
is no danger of the Church BECOMING rich
there is no reason to apDrehend that
the good old fruit tree will be so manured
as to shoot out into Wild aud noxious luxu-
riancc--Nor do we wish it. We have for
long time part2ken of It's sound & whole.
some produce we know thatit bears well
that the fruit keeps long and produces
an excellent sprit-All that we aim at,
Is. in the same soil, and under the same
culture, to increase the stock as much as
poSsble-And We have only asked per-
mission to enclose our grounds, so as to pre-
vent the incursions and depredations of e.
wi disposed persons. Permit me 10 say
farther. thatw really think it a little hard
NhoN 'uiS 10 tC.bSu 10 US.
We see the Legisl tures Of Georgia aud
South & srolina, granting to our Baptist
brethren, charters of schools of the SINE
sort, except that they are exclusive We
see the Legislature of PENNSYLVANIA be-
slowing the Same privilege on both Bap-
lists aud Presbytcrisns f.: we cannot under.
stand that any evils have been the result
* we do not per eive why we should bear
this privaton. We could have answered
our purposes completely. by securing our
funds III the hands of the corporation of the
Presbyterian Church. in Pennsylvania-Bu
Virginia feeling prevented. We went to
our Legislature in the honest confidence
OF men, Conscious of sincere regard TO the
honor aud interests of their country-and
were repulsed. l w uld humbly and re-
specially ask. was it good policy in the
Assembly, In this way to tempt large, and
growing, and respectable class of men, to
seek from another State, that which they
expected, and as they believe, had ghr
to expect from their own
But it seems that the worthy writer of
the letter" to his friend in H county,"
voted against the petition on account of the
sensation which it excited, and the
disquiet and alarm viii, h il was
calculated to produce. What regard a
legislator ought to pay to an effsrvescence
OF feeling like that which has been wit
messed, l pretend not to know-and if
did, 1t would be indecorous in me to venture
to say. But the agitation and alarm re
minded me very strongly Of an event viii
once occurred in school with which was
very conversant. A fine sprightly little
boy was greatly amused with honest
old Bunyan's religious allegory, called the
Pilgrims Progress. Late at night, after
having read the striking description of the
Pilgrim s terrible battle with Apollyou,
1.-THE Prince of Devils,) he had occasion to
step out OF doors the moon had Just
cleared the verge of the horizon, 6 it hap
pened that the first object that caught the
little fellows eye was the prodigiously ex-
teRded shadow his teacher, VINO was at
that instant coming in. The boy, whose
mind was teeming with the images of the
battle, and whose imagination was greatly
excited, raised dismal cry of terror
"What is the reason Of that dreadful out
cry :! said the teacher thought YOU
were old Apollyon, Sir 20 replied the boy.
And think, Sir, that after the agita-
ton which had been raised by this most
SIMPLE and harmless petition. had subsidized,
even suppose the prayer of it had been
granted, instead of the heart burnings of
which the letter speaks. among the Gife-
rent sects 4; nothing would have burned
but the checks of those, who, by exciting a
clamor through the country, endeavored
to Influence the votes of such Intelligent &
ama5le men as the writer of the letter on
which have animadverted-To whom,
and to yourself, sir, present my rsspec IS,
&c. PRESBUTEROS.
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