The Litchfield County post., 1827-12-06

surely TIE most unOrant rights OF our isow cln1ens
are no, in dagger from man, who, upon the bench,
shall prefer the truths Of Christianity to the impous
talsehOOds Of n6deliJy, and who will not allow the
sancuy Of oath be violated by men who deny all
moral obligations to speak the truth.
The Boston papers inform the public that three Of
the French opera Dancers who have lately been
putting New-York libertines to the blush have
been engaged for evenings the fremont thea
trc, for So OOOa triAc $llO evening for each
individual. Where the champions of the poor at
the present tme that hear nothing from them rel
alive to this waste of money! Is the editor Of the Lit
Cadet asleep that he raises not his warning voice
against such extravaganza at this Of the year,
when the necessaries of life hardly be obtained
by the inhabitants of the cottages of poverty In fact,
where he and his whole tribe of kindred spirits
when the degraded and debauched Kean pocketcd, in
few months some fifteen or twenty thousand dollars
of our citizens money? Why do we not hear them
sounding the alarm against such wanton waste Of
| treasure
1.-two or three thousand people rush to a theatre to
witness the performances of prostitute French dan
ccr and spend, eacl one dollar or more, no alarm is
felt expressed but should half that number of
spectacle and useful citizens assemble the same
evening, to recount the mercies Of God and acknow
edge their obligations to the gospel and propose giving
each one dollar for the purpose ofsupplying the des
tute with the Word ofLe, these valiant knights fthe
quill take the ALARM and sound it far and wide through
the country--priestcraf bigotry, "robbery Of the
poor,", and of such like epithets are heaped
upon these "church going" people, and strong fears
A.
ped in the religious gloom and superstition of the
dark ages" Why is this? One class of men choose
to spend their money upon drunken foreigners like
Cooke and Kean---in gambling houses and at the
gronndsin theatres and brotlrels, ---anoer class
choose to devote tre oftheT substance in the
of Missionary Bible, Tract and Education societies.
While the former class attend the theatre, the latter
| attend a religious meeng,-whe the former spend
hundreds and thousands at the card table the
race course the latter give like, much less, sum
at Missionary meeting The former not accused
of "robbng the poor" squanderins their moneyto
"pamper fat priests" or fat horse-ocki while
the latter escape with barely name that they fit
to live. Surely the former greater patrons of
morality rmer disciples in the school of virtue than
the laer-their not oftener found upon the
records Of charity do they have greater number
poor Of the land rise up and call them blessed
Where one thousand dollars are expended to send to
the destitute the Light Of Salvation, five thousrnd-w
might have said five times five thousand-are expend
ed upon that which is not bread, and for pleasures
which satisfy not. The theatre in infant country
annually swallows more money than our Missionary,
Bible, and Tract societies united and yet these in
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nation are decred down the fruits of superstition
and the remains of priestcra and delusion by the
who full of their anathemas against the few who
dare repeat the words Of the lcentous Rosseau the
virtuous Kirk White, that "a theatre is stew Of H.
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Will some Of our brother editors, who have so
much to say about missions and its friends, kindly
inform whether country is impoverished, or So
ciety injured, more by mans giving few dollars
for foreign missions, than by another's giving like
sum to foreign payactors or opera dancers ;-wheth-
er the moral virtue of society receives greater inju
ry from missionary meeting than from horse-race;
whether the money lately subscribed in New-York for
foreign missions wantonly appropriated than
an almost quadruple sum which was lately pledged in
London for erecting gambling house, or like sums
recently expended in New-York and Boston for the
erection of theatres Twill they inform the public
whether the editor who spends the whole artillery Of
his satire upon the charitable institutions Of our
try and who dips his pen in gall when he finds
sion notice missionary meeting, is to be consider
ed purer patriot, and frmer friend to good order,
than one of an opposite Observation-Disclosures the late
MIR. Graham, -princpal editor of the New-York En-
quirer-who recently fell in duel upon the Hoboken
battle ground in consequence of dispute which ORR
gnated at a card-tabe-who went from the card-tabIe
to the theatre from the theatre Hoboken from Ho
boken to eternity, land whose paper never suffered
any occasion to pass by, when an attack might be
| made upon missionary and bible societies, without
showing the fulness of his zeal against them is deser-
wing of higher rank among American worthless than
the man who enros his member of a charit-
able society, and believes in the validity ofthat com
mand which says, " Thou shalt not kilt" Whether a
friendly notice of missionary operations, is greater
departure from the principles which should govern the
editor of political paper, than whole columns Of sat-
ire and invectve against these institutional Whether
infdey is more nearly allied politics in this coun-
try, than the plain and practical precepts Of christian
ity! Whether the advocates of the one are deiuded
bgots and of the other enlightened patriots and vrtu
Gus citizens?
| SaeLson Taken.--We learn from Quebec, that
SnesoB, the robber Of Petersburgh Branch Bank
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