Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-03-19

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had advanced The truth, Moses, dost thou
cast the FIRST stone Does no compunctu-
GUS yisitiEgs Of conscience rouse Up
the long forgotten blush to testify TO
this invention OF thy watery brain, and
bear witness 10 thine own dereliction
A dereliclion which il the erecrable ma
ice Of your heart, you yainly hope to
fasten on another Moses, dost thou re-
member when the "candle of the Lord
shone brightly on your head" and you
went about preaching the glad tidings OF
great Joy TO perishing sinners Alas
alas how are the mighty fallen How
does the city sit desoate that was full OF
people! And because you are lost, and
fallen, and deserted, and miserable, you
would gladly participate your wretched-
ness, and make Judge Phillips the part
ner oil your crime. Moses, in vain, like
SciaythnS, yoU la6or the stone IN The
hiH Jyoar inUenaon. 1t gyiU fell back
and roll innorious along the Path Of
truth, unless tt crush you in the descent.
w hope better things Of Judge Phillips.
We know him to be friend to the chris
tan Cause. +" We speak that we do know,
and testify that we have SEEM" but you
sfeqo forth your owa corruhtio7s, and
charge it indiscriminatcly upon him
Honesty, honesty, Old Moses. Marx
how plain tale shall put you down.
Judge Phillips was nursed in the cradle
ot piety. HIS parents from youth to age
adorned the doctrine of God their Ssg-
viour, and early imbibed into his youth
hui mind lessons ofpiety, which trough
out life have restrained his passions, and
taught him that without holiness, no man
shall see the Lord. Even at an early
period oflise he was impressed with the
necessity of a change from the love of
sin to the love Of God: And although
the varying scenes OF lie have in some
degree choaked the good seed, he has al
ways testified in lis life and conversation
that The Lord is Gracious. IL has ne
yer thrown away bis hope nor sported
with the sacred oracles OF God !! Ia
Noses Caast Iaou say as much For thy
self? We rejoice TO have it in our pow
er to rcnoTe yeurconscienfious scrufs!eS
respecting an inGde! Governor, express
ing our surprise at the same time that
you should have become SO tenacious Oh
this subject, and we equally rejoice to
haze 1t II our power to assert shat in
every situation in which we have known
Judge Phillips placed-where his rel-
gions feelings have been tested, lie has
uniiormly afforded his evidence to the
truth ct Revelation, acknowledging lis
divine origin and the necessity OF re-
generation towards the hope OF eternal
life and happiness.
And now yc thinking and judicious
part CT the community of Illinois how
are veto consider this publication against
good sense, against virtue, and our own
kncvledge Of s'uA and justice 2 Is il
not an insult offered to our understand
ing In ali nt an i...sasiti.,h af 80 hlaei-
a nature as the destruction Of the charac-
ter Of worthy and upright man (whons
we know to &c such) because his polfti-
cal success is the object ofpriyate envy's
unsatisiied revenge, orparty spirit thirst
ing FOX The ruin of an aspiraEt to public
favor! Is not the whole publication evil
IDENTITY a Fabrication ofthe basest feeling,
q Ueat 81 the mast cssassialike niallgni-
W? Not a generous warning 10 all un-
suspecting community, such warning
as yigilant public spirit gives, when ii
discovers the peace and happiness OF So
ciety about to be invaded-not that
warning which the fatriot sounds from
his watchsower when he discovers his
country's liberty endangered by ambi-
ton or menaced BY vice III is we re-,
peat, the qualification Of private hostility,
possibly engendered by disappointed
pride, unsuccessful ambition, or that
hatred arising from the contemplation
of excellence, a deceased nature hes
neither the Virtue to initiate nor the mag
szanimisy to admire. Has truth held her
sacred torch or shed one ray of her d.
vine light on the page Of Old Moses :!
On the contrary is not every thing mis-
represented, distorted, black with falls
hood, and only intended TO cslumniatc a
virtuous man, who has talents and in
tcgrity to be useful, and to adorn the sta
ton to which lie is invited by the esteem
and appreciation Of his fellow citizens.
O be not imposed upon! Strike with
loudcst indignation the scprrilous libel of
Old Moses to the earth! depised in the
councils Of hanGe monium, let it return to-
its great master and inventor fooded with
the well merited curses Of the Dirtuous
and the Mise: Assuring ourselves that
if Judge Phillips does succeed in his.
election, we shall obtain an able man
s. such an one as fears God" man Of
truth, and hating covetousness," by
these characteristics he has been emf
nently distinguished as Judge, by the