The Arkansas advocate., 1830-10-27
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=. SdiaSu MT. tar sAner said, ss V object to him on sq'' a want oi religious beHef.n 1he 9os' '''s replied, siyou have your choice :, ssft N mode of Preof, but fl you enquires of h s'ls- !., you cannot prove t in any other ra' a''a
 he ze5t''ess was then saofa to d3saes ii1sfftiihci- tilei1 put the fofioWiaa ~ ton to lim. "Ho you believe 2 ia dses' .s existence Of DisiAe Providence aa5 m s''e q state el future rewards and pnsi.n. s ' nents. AasweF .ldio dio.' i,1,asa: 9i,,sls then sworn in eiief,3-and admif4ad isss q good evidence! as
 We wonder that our Courts co,.. ue to eouatenanee the impertineut 's s@s wick d custom of catechisine wjtaessaa 4a On the subject of religion. Ne lTaoI' admit thatWe do not see the prone;s.'. of swearing an atheist in the comma; ns' form; but we do not see what k tn tta gained by catechising. z
 Suppose for example a man. is ia :. ailty an atheist; and zsishes to tes.;f,. having no religious belief. The war, v of belief nulIifes his testimony. rh, was taken for granted in the beeira;aa'
 lie IS given to understand that Si' oath will go for nothing. I5eiuq an theist, he is informed that if Re viii swear to a iie, on being first sworn and questioned, that q lie will be taken as good current truth, and all he festi4ss to afterwards into the bare;siii, gain ;sA Lien asked, (haYing no religious belief9 . i1o you believe in the existence Of D.= vine Providence, and Tn a state of h. tufe rewards and puuishments2s q do. is his answer; ard his he. which mako. him competent witness as la..a;5s stsehs to it! Such eontefnpfible casuistrT IS ui3becoming an American court of law and justice! What swear a witness |, ascertain whether he be fit to sweart
 Take his word, which is good for notb- lag to ascertain whetlier his testirlonv be good. Out uPonsueh nonsenset f,et Witness's testimony Whatever liesvs ligiousv may be5 weigh just as much, as his aa.oraI V iiii,.ssss be tried bga atriet auoral fzst--hut away with the religious tor rather (iaYeAqi0ass ] tests, now, and forever.
 4 late English paper obserqes - .When that coxcomh, Captain Basil Hal, was travelling in N. America. win view to find matter for increasing tbe self-ioye of the splendid class at home. he took care not to say any thing of the United States deserving of the notice Of his eoufitrymen. The Americans have, however, made many valuable improve ments on the institutions of the rIlotllc. country, both legislative and judicial, some Of these improvements are not uB- deserving oi the attention of Parliament at time when Parliamentary business IS found So oppressive as to frighten ger. tlemen from standing tor counties and populous places. The :adefatieablc Mr. Joseph Parkes of Birmingham, the author of ''fhe History of the Courtos Chancery,' has just published an octa- 70 volume under the title of sThe Stat utes and orders ofthe Court of Chance " and the Statute Law ofreal property of the State ofNew York; recently re- vised and amended with a brief account of the Equity jurisdiction and Law Of Real Property and Registration in the United States of North America'--n the introduction to which we find very curious accounts of the means to which the Americans have had recourse ar overcoming q difficulty to which the British Legislature has heretofore pr0F- ed unequal"
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