Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-09-24

so outrageous. but you cs'itohS '
Lie OPINION. Yor PopuH as your hngo mas II,
Tor Del. What do you mean ny tnat phrase.
The voice of the public is the voice OF uod: IN
TURKEYS it. in China-isi ts in the Sandwich
Isles-is it: Av, if we adopt your doctrine
where the majority are cannibals, then we have
a RIGHT to deyour our fellow-beings! Where the
majority think it right TO burn the WIDOW on the
funeral pile of the husband. we ought 10 sanc'ioh
il! ought we? Where the multitude worship the
sun. the moon, or crocodiies, we must cry the
voice of the People is the voice OF Goa: truce
TO such doctrines. You make the voice OF 600
IN one place to be the alteration OF rats cats ana
kittens: in another to be the worship OF DOCKS OF
wood painted up and strung with earrings IN an
other to be the worship Of all invisible spirit
And all of these contradictions as you contend are
the voice of anal!-wise God, aud yet you perse.
cute men who think differently from yourselves.
have 10 patience with your creed. Inc voice
in one country is to slaughter every opponent, as
in the DAYS Of Robespiere: the voice IN another
country is TO burn prisoner at the stake:-ali,
all The voice of God! consummate nonsense. -
You are worse than the iniidels in your biasphe-
nv. You have no idea Of the character OF the
deity, if YOU attribute to him so many different
opinions. The Public have voice OF their own,
and they are accountable for If. There IS tree
agency in the multitude as we'll as in the indi-
viduai. When the whole people are III commo-
ton. and thrones ard dynasties are rocked as IN
a cradle, they have thcir own voice, and arc bound
for their own acts. have often thought of the
beauty of theory, which supposes the earth to
be one huge animal, as much larger than a
whale, a Mammoth. or a Befemoth, or Levia-
than. as these animals are larger than the mi
nutest aoimalcula Mountains and hills are
but pimples. Its betsy is full of fire and lava:
Volcanoes are eruptions on its skin from which
Virgil had the idea, eractans rasCsra cum GEM
hi,) are issued the elements of disease. Symm's
theory is.correct in part. Its mouth at the pole,
the north pole. say. Earthquakes are spasms
(who has not had them?) Ram and fog is per-
spiratiOn. Clouds. you have seen the like on a
smaller scale on the brow of every man who has
abored at midsummer. Oxen. men. cows,women,
and sheep are little creatures buZZlng over the sur
face: who has not seen them about himself, in the
circumambient air, teeming with myrlads OF AMI
mNlcuk!
Now suppose yourself standing on the topnost
heavens, with telescope of sufficient power not
only to view the mighty monsters swinging through
space. tossing all inpnity, among the mon
sters about him like the Sea-serpent on the ocean:
outsailing the storms. and out gatOpiug the thun-
der claps, but the little men that are gathering
on the surface. You nincompOops talk of philo-
sophy! oh fudge, fudge! | am delighted with your
system You talk Of storms going away, when
the earth goes away from the storms! You talk
of the sun being hot. when the nearer you APP
proach it. the colder is the air, and every high
mountain is covered with snow! Why man, I
can destroy in atwinkling Sir Isaac Newton's the
DRY Of attraction, yea the attraction of gravita-
ton ofitself. lean go up as well as down-and
shall bounce to the moon. or dig through into
Symmzonia. Az the last is the place for
me. You will hear from o. mex, if YOU
-, -. 80 belly OF l.. the o EARN, ~
will drop you hpe by him. g
Yale. rae, my ds,ar fellow. Vale. pardon my
philosophy: you shall have no more Of it. In the
mean time recolect that | am " the ego sun,
Turcus, or Turkistus." the real the genuine
ABDALLAH MAHOMMED.