The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-12-15
From The .New Englnmd Weeku Rep;ew.

From the .Mew England Weekiy Reriew
BEAUTIFUL ExrRAcT. *** War NAV
stride over the land with the crushing step
of a giant-Pestilence may steal over it like
an invisible eurse-reaching its victims ST.
lently and unseen-unpeopling here a vii
lage and there rity-until every dwelling
is sepulchre: Famine may brood over it
with II long and weary visitation, until the
/ sky itself is brazen. and the beautiful green
ness gives place to parched desert-a
wide waste of unproductive desolation But
these are only physical evils. The wild
/ flower will bloom in peace on the field of
battle and above the crushed skeleton. The
destroying angel of the pesiilence will re-
tire when his GRAND is done, and the ma
ton will again breathe freely-and the
harrenness Of famine will cease at last
the cloud will he prodigal of its boarded
rhln-and the wilderness will blossom. But
for moral desolation there is no reviving
spring. Let the moral and republican prin-
cIples OF our country he abandoned-our
representatives bow in conditional obsequi-
BUSINESS TO individual dctation-Let impu-
dence and intrigue and corruption triumph
over honesty and intellect, and our liberties
and strength will depart for ever. OF these
there can be no resuscitation. The "abo-
mination of desolation" will lie fixed and
perpetual; and us the mighty fabric of our
glory totters into RUNS, the nations of the
earth will mock us in our overthrow, like
the powers Of darkness, when the throned
one OF Babylon became even as themselves
and the GLORY of the Chaldee's excel
lency" had gone down for ever.
CONSEQUENCES OF ATHEISM. Few men
suspect, perhaps no man comprehends, the
extent of the supports given hy religion to
every virtue. No man perhaps is aware,
how much our moral and social sentiments
are led from this fountain; how powerless
conscience would become without the be-
hefof God; how palsied would be human be-
nevoience, to quicken and snstainit; how sud-
denly the whole social fabric would quake,
and with what fearful crash it would sink
into hopeless ruin, were the ideas Of a su-
preme Being, of accountableness, and of
future life to he utterly erased from every
mind. Once let men believe thoroughly
that they are the work and sport of chance
that no superior intelligence concerns itself
with human affairs that all their improve
ments perish for ever at death; that the
weak have no guar dian, and the injured no
avenger; that there is no recompence for
sacrifices to uprghtness and the public
good that no oath is heard in Heaven
that secret crimes have no witness but the
perpetrator; that human existence has no
purpose, and death is total, everlasting ex-
hnction-once let them thoroughly abandon
religion. and who can conceive or describe
the extent of the desolation which would
follow.
We hope, perhaps, That human laws and
natural sympathy would hold society to-
gether. As reasonably might we believe,
Tint, were the sun quenched in the heavens,
our torches would illuminate, and our fires
quicken and fertiiize creation. What is
there in human nature to awaken respect
and tenderness, if man is the unprotected
insect of a day? and what is he more, if
Atheism he true Erase all thought and
fear of God from community, and selfish
ness and sensuality would absolve the whole
man. Appetite, knowing no restraint, and
poverty and suffering, having no solace or
hope, would trample in scorn on the re-
stralnt of human laws. Virtue, duty, prin-
ciple, would he Knocked and spurned as
unmeaning sounds. A sordid self-interest
wonld snpplant every other feeling, and
man would become in fact what the theory
OF Atheism declares him TO be, o companion
for hrutes.
Love AND RE FAT. There is a curious
case IF. Campbell, and Elizabeth and Alex
ander Honyman and Tutors, pursuers and
respondents; and Sir r. B. J. Honyman,
Bart, defender and advocator,) going on in
the Srotch courts just now. A Miss Camp
bell was governess in the Honyman fami-
y, and according to her own account, was
privately married to Sir R. B. J. Honyman,
who denies it. The other pursuers Ii. c.
plaintiffs) are children Ivy this marriage.
We shall not go into the merits of the case.
hut cannot refrain from publishing one of
tlonvman's letters to the lady:-
"You must come directly Il must be with
yon to comfort and soothe YOU. and to partake
of the JOY such an event will excite. You can
easily manage to leave Smyllum, by as
signing the excuse which you mentioned
to me. How is your health, my beloved
wife Take care of it, and pray do not, as
You are too apt. tritie with that which so
ultimately constitutes your own happiness
and mine; n y0a are not rery fat, ,chen
zoe meet, / shall be much mortified. If uou
tooe me- dedTeSt, Set .JW III is the only
! thing wanting to make you all can WISH
dread the discovery of this epistle. Write
me the family movements, and inform me
when they return. o! how much long to
be with you 1t is the only thing have to
look forward to that cheers my forlorn heart.
FAREWELL every blessing be with you my
dearest affectionate, your ever unalterable,
sincerely attached. and affertonate.'
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bending thy body; ifnot stop thy hand
Dai'oyn.
There is no policy like politeness-and a
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