The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1828-08-07

Rec. Bard PSckeriRg, preacher OfUsiversalism,
and editor Of UnVe salst paper, at Providence, in
speaking Of the late decision Of the Court Of Errors
ia this county, introduces with much apparent apprO-
baton the following ahecdOte "A servant Of the
late Gen. Green, during the Revolutionary war, COM
planned to his MASTER that Of his officers was con-
stanty guilty Of the most disgusting profanity, at all
times interlarding his orders with Oaths" "What,"
says the General "has the fellow got such stuff that
in him?" ayes, your honor" said the servant.
Well then" said Gen. G. ''et him speak it out it
had much better be out than in him." This is new
view of the philosophy Of the human mind, and well
worthy of a blind leader Of Univers'!ism. The
mount of the doctrine is this-The soul of man cannot
be defed by any thing thar proceedeth out of the
mouth, as every individual is supposed to have
tain quantity of evil within him, which later
he will eject. Whether this evil is ponderabe or
measurable, we not informed bu. for convenience
sake will suppose the latter. Thus then, man has
bushe of profanity in his system ;-another BUSH
ell or two ofmaIice, with some few quarts of murder
"a third has several gallons of drunkenness inter-
mixed with quantity of lust and adultery, and
through the catalogue. Now as all these, in whomso-
ever found be elected, the the person
cages the business, and the zeal he displays in
it, the better. Thus will swear himself
out of Stock another drink himself out, and third,
after perpetrating sundry bloody MURDERS will appear
as peaceable and mild as lamb. The difficulty of
proving this theory is similar to that of the "cow
which died just after she had learnt to live without
eating'-the drunkard generally dies about the time
he has out all his internal poson-and the muir
~derer is by anti-repubcan laws, hung up by the
neck before he has had sufficient throw off all
the malice with which he unfortunately stored
Here is the neucleus of the doctrine Of "Universal
Salvation" All men are created with a certain i'm
mortal, undying spirit, which, after death, is taken
Immediately to heaven. Within the body, which this
soul now nhabits, there is a certain vessel tube,
intended receptacle for all the sin which the
snay commit, and containing it in different kinds
degrees, the may be; and the sooner the man
empties this tube vessel, by free indulgence in
whatever sins he may be prone to, the better It will
be for him. We have not learnt who claims the hon
ofinventng this code of metaphysics, but are pref
ty certain it could not have originated with such feeble
minds as Newton, Locke, and Edwards
INQUIsTToRIAL PRESCRIPTION.
'see ye not that dark portentous cloud, gathering
blackness it energies from the troubled waters of
clerical and inqusitoral proscription?"
PICKERING.
Yes! and it is nigh at hand. We have long heard
Its thunders rolling, and as we hoped, at an eternal
distance Little did the people of this age, and of
over the smoudering as,es of those fires of persecu
ton which were once lighted by the bigot worship
pers ofimages, and OF him by whose hands the hapess
Servetus was untimey butclered. Little did they
that If TWAS
meek and lowy," were hypocriticaly designing to u
surp the civil authority for the purpose of again set
ting in motion their ecclesiastical engines to enforce
the belief of their creed upon the people. The
'cloud'' is only visible but it has begun to
burst"
The text is from the Rev. David Pickering, unver =
sails, preacher editor, &c.-the context from that
champion of Etheatros and Freedom" the Providence
Cadet; the "portenous cloud" which has awful
ly ''burst" upon hapess countrymen, is the Sab
bath school institution" Another article in tbs pa
per gives little insight into the character of this
Mr.. Pickerng-and the following extract from the
Cadet of the Goth u't. will show something of the
"heart'' OF the editor of that paper. In digus,ng
= theatrical puff, we find the following sentence:-
'In the last scene, he 1.-THE representative of delu-
dcd and abandoned gamester, was all and more than
can be wished he sustained the scene to admiration,
and we who have not wept, even for our sins, since
the day that the Reverend John NeWland Mahtt ava
kened sense OF our unhallowedness, wept most
bitterly, and had
''Tears in our eyes, and nutgals incur hearts,
From|he general character of the Cadet, we are
fully persuaded that the ''nutgaIls" above spoken Of d
confessed still 10 the editors heart the prime
excellence ofhe business however, that he should be
willing acknowledge their existence in the pa
per, and the same page, which contains solid COL
umn ofvuIgar attacks upon Sabbath Schools. AS we
all know that ''nutgaIs'' exceedingly bitter,
must naturally expect that whatever flows from a
'heart' full of them, will possess much Of the
character. And wonder if he loves and cherish.
such "btter fruit" that he should dread the mild in
fuence Of Sabba,h school instruction.-Mr Pickering
probably breads the institution from principle as it
ayiii have most pernic'ous tendency, in lettering
men from empyng themselves Of the " measure of
SIM with which they stored and this tube OF
evil long pent up by moral influence, must eventu
ally burst, and possbly-unorunatei the experiment
has never been tried-wth the most tremendous con-
sequences. BY the way-here lays the secret of the
moral excellence of theatres, and their vast superb
oriy over sabbath schools and the pulpit, in ma. ng
men better. They facilitate, in an almost magical
manner, the process ofempyiDg men ofal the sin they
were heir to, while the pulpit &C. only closes up the