American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-04-12
REASONS FOR TOLERATION.
FROM A SERMON OF J. W. FOX.

\ In every department of science and history, ant
where neither the love of virtue nor of vice coulc
be gralihed by the conclusion, there have been msr
who could not yield credence without greater de
gree OF evidence than sufced TO produce conviction
in Others Amongst those who alike admit the au
thority of the scriptures, there is a graduation o
4 creeds Indicative of variety of estimates Of the
evidence requisite to prove doctrine scrpural.--
Even the most orthodox leave some few points on
which it is allowed to believe or tsbeieye without
the imputation Of moral turpude, and thus in fact
admit the principle that the concusiveness Of evil
dence may be modified by causes for which are
responsible. To call this human fraty is saying
nothing ; for who is irail, he who requires the
greater or the lesser quantum OF proofs each, the
other being made standard; both, compared with
third; all equally, then in judgment OF him who,
tracing variety in all the other works of God, be
lieves its natural existence in the mental constitution
Iof man. This diversity EXISTS amongst the believers
in christianity, 10 the proofs on which they
admit the divinity of heir religion. Suppose these
proofs could b. represented by given NUMBER
say Fifty. That which produces conviction in one
may be represented by ten another requires 90 ];
a third 40 another satisfied with not less than 60,
remains an unbeIiever. More evidence would have
included some who are unbeievers; less would
have excluded some who are christians.
But whether Providence has seen fl to give more
or less, their moral characters would have been pre-
cisey the same the christian who on the one sup.
position would have been a deist would not have
been less me ritorons the dest who on the other
supposition whoiwould have been christian would
not have been less deprayed. could easily fndl
among you two firm christians, OF whom the one
had required twice as much evidence for his faith
as the other. Does the latter attribute the tot 4
rejection Of christianity to depravily Of heart! Hell
IS equally liable 10 the same charge tom the more
lacile believer
No man can indicate for another the mathemati
cal point at which culpable credulily ends and cul
Fable sceptcism begins. He might as well profess
10 tell the depth to which ball, with any gwen
would penetrate Tito any substance.
without knowing the power Of resistance which ma
ture has impaired to that substance.
SLAVE TRADE.
BY file of Gazeltes received from Sierra Leone
10 the l4th October, we are informed that the Slave
rade, the abolished" slave trade was at no peloa
20 extensive and SO prosperous as it is now neye
50 productive OF human misery or so branded by tbs
rapacry and cruelty of its practitioners. The re-
ports of that brave officer, sir George Collier, Z
short time ago, brought to light what the pubic
had hardly been prepared for--the immense magnl.
ude OF this terrible traffic and the nveterate effron
cry with which II was carried on by the subjects
# other self called christian powers In the pre-.
UT oiilFai " iIGOHe NIdZelteS is COntlane0I
list OF upwards Of forty slave shipl, examined by
" known to the British cruisers on one par only
IT the coast OF Africa in the course of the montbsl
y July. August and September. Of these vesse 81
hirty one are described to We cap lole oil stowing-
as the unhappy creatures are al present sowed)l
rom eleven to twelve thousand victims. They arel
1t all christian nations bearing undisguisedly thel
Tags OF their respective governments; and few Of
hem indeed from the restrictions imposed by treaty
ha latvC IL
,es But II is not enough that such traffic should
'xst how and under what regulations is it conduct.
q take this Tor sample "A French schooner
aely sailed from the coast of Africa with two hun
lred slaves Tor Cayenne and this naval engine OIL
orture was SO constructed, that as provision for
Zach slave IN voyage across tht Atlantic and be.
ween the tropics, she could hold no more than nine
gallons OF water 1t is stated that in the river ,
~alanar there were recently several vessels muoreu
ogether, with springs on their cables, in such a .
'osiuon as to present at short notice half moon
battery and they we're determined, as they said
o support each other to the last. They went to I
quarters every night, and had guard boats for some
miles down the river, in communication with each
oth.r.
These papers inform us the settlement on the
lIold Coast had been unusually unhealthy this wear
among the deaths are those of the governor gene
raj OF the Dutch settlements at Elwina, the govern
~ - 6N'NS' " VIZ DuteH settlements al ACefa and
Mr.. Gordon, governor Of the English settlements
Of the same place.
From The Boston Palladium, .4yra
OF SPAIN
Gibraltar papers to Feb. IA, have been received.
The disturbances in Spain continued. There have
been riots at Madrid, and Members of the Corte,
have been nsulted, and the life of one Attempted Ii
committee OF the Cortes was appointed on the sub
Ject-Proclamatlon was issued-and military orde
gwen he mob sought Court Toreno' life, entered
his house, and wounded several of his servants. Ii
seems there riots on the 3D. Sd and 4th, of Feb
The aggregate value ofreal and personal estate in
the state OF New York according to the returns Of