The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-07-10
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Thn, there was perjury, bribery and COR
ruption from the beginning Of Averyism,
we think will yet he made manifest to
all whose minds are not clodded with
the dogmas of hirelings and the slime of
fanalicism. How much that will iorev-
er remain concealed from the publick
view, can never be kn0wB-but what has
already transpired should awaken even
the leihnIgic and sue aking lime server
to sense of their liberties and the dam
ger which threatens them from malig-
nan., infectious aud destructive horde of
sancti6ed scoundrels--"the poisonous
heads Of whose 'envenomed' hearts
shave breathed a pestilence on us ALL"
Priestcrait is the "wolf in sleeps cloth
Iing"-prowling DER the lnn1, "seeking
whom it may deyour" sermonis;ng but
few truths, though enough to conceal its
end and aim, and to hide its deformity-
to fell with surer stroke the victim ofits
wrath. This guise sufficetl, for its doks
who view things only through one vista
without regard to evidence af common
sense. The unfortunate Miss Cornell
is not the only victim whose grave has
been violated by priestly Hyenas to glut
their appetite in the most revolving can
ibalism. Has not her slumbering corbse
been visited with sins not her own =
The girl is now living in Providence of
nameless reputation, bearing the maine
of the deceased-ay, this girl was in
this town while the trial of Avery was
still pending was there not one a.
mong the whole host Of imported wit
nesses. counsellors aud priests, who had
any knowledge, in any way of the fact,
that such girl, with such name, with
bad reputation was still in existence, and
in this very town at the time Let the
whole affair be taken in connection with
the Avery plot, and the inferences drawn
accordingly. But admit that such was
not the case, still the unfortunate deceas-
ed was pursued with an utter reckless
ness OF humanity which should stamp
her pursuers with lasting infamy. She
has been morally drawn and quartcred,
and her mangled remains have been
nailed to the four quarters ofthe Globe.
And by whom by those who style
themselves and are styled the viceser-
ants of God--caliedt to the ministry by his
influence, and who, not withstanding,
do rob the needy and the destitute of
their mite under the shameless pretence
fsupplying the Lords treasury with
the means for the enlightenment of the
heafhenH The heart sickens at The re-
cilal of such horrible sickedness per-
pretrated in the face of q nation. which
boast itself free from the tramels of su-
pcrs'ltion, hypocrisy and pres,craft.
Tell us.no more Of Popery and the cor
rupiion of its priests Tell us no more
of the darkness of heathenism--whicl,
We would disperse by "lights" that blaze
in depraviiy under sanctiiied names!
Oh! credulous people do the super
stit'ons of nursery still hold your minds
:, in servi!e bondage in the belief of the ho-
illness of clerical fraudl Are yc blndfold,
that ye see not these things land your
minds shrouded in impenetrable darkness
'lat ye perceive not the imposition prac
tised upon you ?
| Well might 1t be comparatively said
that Mr.. Avery maintained an unpertur-
bed visible appearance through his trial
Yet dim must be his optics who did
not see him as the troubled ocean when
facts thickened and .blackened around
linn. He well knew that he should be
morally convicted, and he must have
known almost as well under all the cir
rcumstances Of the case that he should
not be legally convicted. Well did he
know the power Of priestly dominion
and well must he have known to what
an extent unquestioned they might use
such power. Mr.. Avery could laugh as
unconcernedly as others at times through
his trial. This would hare been termed