The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-01-31

ment in all the of that department. will not be ques
toned His abors and assduy have resulted in the
biq improvement of every branch of his department 1t
is pracsed only the great leading mail routes, and such
others necessary to maintain their connexions To
prevent this, would, in the opinion OF the committee, be
ducVe of immense injury, both in its commercial POLITICAL
and in IFS moral bearings.
The various departments of government require frequent
" peace always the speedest intercourse with the
reotest parts of the counry and important object of
the mail establishment is, to furnish the greatest and most
economical facilities for such intercourse The delay of the
mails whole day would require the employment
of special expresses, at great expense, and sometimes with
great uncertainty
The commercial manufacturing and agricultural interests
of our country Intimately connected to require a
constant and the most expeditions correspondence betwxt
our and bewxt them and the interior SETTLE
ments The delay of the mails during the Sunday would
give occasion the employment of private expresses, such
amount that probably ten riders would be employed where
mail stage running that day; thus dveng the
ohat department into another canne and sinking
the establishment into state of pusanimity incompatible
with the dignity of the Government of which it is depart
meht.
Passengers in the mail stages if the mails are not permit
ted proceed Sunday will be expected to spend that day
upon the road, generally under circumstances
friendly DEVOTION and at expense which many but
poorly able encounter To obyiate these difficulties many
will employ carriages for their conveyance and become
the bearers of correspondence expeditions than the
mail The ge proprietors will, themselves often furnish
the travellers with those of conyeyance that the
effect will ultimately be only stop the mail, while the
vehicle which conveys will continue, and IFS passengers be-
the special messengers for conveying considerable
of the mail.
Nor the Committee discover where the system could
consistently end If the observance of a hoyday becomes
incorporated in institutions shall forbid the move
ment of army; prohibit assault time OF war; and lay
Injunction upon naval officers to lie in the wind while
upon the that day Consistency would
qure Nor it certain that should stop here If the
principle is established that religions religious ober
vances shall be interviewer with legislative acts, must
pursue to its umatum We shall, it. consistent provide
fOf the erection of edces for the worship Of the Creator
and for the supper, of Christian minister's if believe such
measures will promote the interests Of Christianity 1t is the
settled conviction Of the Committee, that the only method of
avoiding these consequences with their attendant train of
evils adhere strictly the spirit of the Constitution,
which regards the General Government in other light than
that of civil institution wholly destitute of religious
therity.
What other nations call religious toleration call religi
Gus rights They exercised in virtue of governmental
indulgence but rights, of which Government cannot de-
prve any portion of citizens however small. Despotc pow
er may invade those rights but justice still confirms them
Let The National Legislature perform act which in
wolves the decision of religious controversy, and will have
passed its legitimate bounds The precedent will then be
established and the foundation laid for that unrpaton of the
DIVINE prerogave this country which has been the desoa
ing scorge to the faires portions of the old world. Our
constitution recognizes other than that OF persua
SON. Tor enforcing religious obsevances Let the professors
OF Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevo
lence-by Christian meekness-by lives of temperance and
holiness Let them combine their efforts instruct the gno-
ranto relieve the widow and the Orphanto promuga to
Inc world the Gospel of their Saviour recommending its pre-
eeps by their habtual example: Government will find its
legitimate object in protecting them 1t cannot oppose them
and they will not need its aid. Their moral influence will
then do infinitely to advance the true interests of
gon than any measures which they may call on Congress
TO enact.
The petitioners do NOT connlan any inrnoement