Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-08-20

anu 70 create proscriphve and enthusiascai spirit
cmshu who have been and the principal actors
IN these dark and malignant designs OF plotting ouas res
men demand OF Moderation 10 inform US, mean the
WHO'RE puohc so distinctly clearly, and fully, tina,
w .e" maze no mistake what IL is he designs by the
word party There is our country and i'm all other
countless countless variety in the parties aud par
purposes 10 give lew there In our country ma.
son aud anii- ason horse.ra wing hank
lottery cock-bghng, ganderpuiliug grog- drinking the
atiical exhihions &c: OF the Political and anti,
bank, internsimprovcinen aud anti internal
proclamation and anti proclamation jackson aud ani. ck
son. nuIlying and an'i-uull lug Clay, Webster Va,
buren, tns aud outs &c: ami OF the Relations
copoan Methodist, Baptist, Congregational Preshvte
ria", &c wish farther 20 kmowwhst Modera,on' in.
tends by the prose- ptive. In history signifies the
s%"g ont o certain iod, lduals by naue, 10 he murder
Gu ny an appointed handful suppose that " Moderpon
moderate enough to design the word in highly fgua-
I'VE sense. ihfcgSrd 10 the word enthusiastically, which
"u''ne'" sayE h"s no meaniug shall refer TO Rice's
philosophical &c. consde OH religion a.! TO DR.
ofown'ee last letter to the priests. Tor deiiui ION
0ain'iy aud seriously Jver that IL is the iiyh, of the
religious community 10 know Whether ihe whole public
are TO understand him as Issuing his bull Of
against Bible Societies, Education Soccti's S,,,I,,
Schools Union, Missionary Societies Trace Societies Nj
dalcn Societies and Colonization Societies tlus ri.
method OF controlling public opinion by voluntary
"'os mas w'in lew years been much rcsor,cd TO-
ana The tendency Of such associations rugeuder p,y
ieehng 10 snbsere party views and 10 create a
I'VE ana enihuastcal spiii, has become apparent that
ih'"l goOd an" Intelligent men becoming doubtful
as' OF the policy OF such institutions" Again: Ger.
tam 1t Is that at some period OF licir existence tie great
er number OF such Institutions have f.lien into q and
idruous eAcesscs, become engines OF political OF ecre.
l"scai oppression, and have ultimately proved luxurious
TO the cause they set our 10 mai,n.in hu, ,i,. ,ni
tude voccsaicd, Great il Diana OF the Enhcsans gre al
alcohol great is HOUSEKEEPING, great j. card plS
great - ktrrng children in ignorance o the Bible of the
iFgua"s! Such n1Si9fiOHS" siiniio,- o ie like
'ot Or resembling these institutions in Virginia. aud m
oier parts OF the Uued States Very re.prctimy ~,
AK OF Moi"ru,nn to give the Amciicau puliic tue
history oil the Institutions TO which h. Sudrs having
done wonderful mischief in other countries; apd ,ru,
detailed history OF the similar institutions in the United
States, from which lac breads the like wonderful nil.
"a dTlll liza p
Institutions with thc hoiHc aud Institutions u.s. witl
our CLOS, or any variation from the real existence Of
thugS, 10 make The resemblance of one to the o,Ler
evidently 10 aPpesi; and thus very paiiiocay TO give
INC warning u their danger 10 the American people. IL
hs picture should require This De's goose al the
oouoh, 10 make us understand Tor what drawn
WI no do and II might induce BE- guilty Of the sar
easls ""Iure OF making an invdiou' appica ion the
nen, the very general ipse txI of Am
anonymous writer, Is nothing worth
In this Communication we have not room, nor do we
expect, that you, gentlemen would your counns pc
mt us TO 90 into the discussion Of the expedency of Tenn
pe"nce Societies IL we permitted fully TO discuss
The subject in your columns think, that we should
nave no reason to lear even more nmuderate antagonist
Than Moderation In the great and glorious Cause OF
Temperance, The most redoubabe champions with which
we meet, are the love OF rum, the love money the
love OF popuarityand, you gentlemen sometime ngo
noticed, dow urght living.
In regard to the of the National Temperance
society, that II is morally wrong trade in spirit
or TO use II drink fully pared adopt IT,
Moderation" himself acknowledges that the men wh
various denomina IONS and many intelligent Laymen -
Then, remark-lt That there could have been no aim
TO unite Church aud State the Virginia deiss greatest
dread from the religious. 2. That they were neither en-
thusiasical nor ana;cal (ee Rice and Brownlee0 bu,
that they were "coo The seed of cucumber"
may be certainly inferred from the facts that MANY dit
ierent denominations OF Christians harnloniosy 10
work Ia tic great cause oil Temperance; that so many
learned aud plous Clergy, and many egpn aud nj.
Gus aity (Physiciaus, doubt among the rest) con
Cured in the resolution l remark iarhcr--3 Tia, the
Rev John Wesley founder OF the Methodist Epispoca
Church, discovered he thought, about hundred wears
ego, that 1T is morally wrong drink spirit rs
beverage ana thcreupon totally inhibited the use OF il in
this way 10 the members OF his commuuon; and this in
hibon still stands recorded rule, in The Book of Dis
cipine L. That the members OF the Methodist Epsco-
pal Church, have oil along deportcd themselves and do
now depot themselves peaceabe citizens, with ex
cmplaiy soiriety | rvmak-5. Even if il is morally
right, to drink any ardent spirit beverage that il l.
utterly Impossible for any indiN dua determine the
else quantity that he may drink and be innocent That
IN man can prove from The Bible, that God autorises him
to drink ardent spirit beverage. T. There is it e
doubt, that the smallest quantity drunk rs bevrr
age, exerts some bad influence The brain, iuox
Gates IN rome degree. The remarks which bear uppn
some OF the most respectable officers of The Geuers Co
venmeni, are ungencrous, grOundless, and unbecoig
The remarks about bacon coffee, tea aud tobacco ped 10
reply. hillary