Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1835-01-15
ALEXANDRIA:
MORNING, JANUARY Is, 1885.

THURSDAY MORNING, JANOAkY TO- 100.
I,r,prLrY AND JAcoBSsIN.-The progress VI
In6delity, Agrarianism, and Jacoblnism' 10 u''S
country. or. more properly, in the Northern par"
If this country, is as true as II Is lamentaD'e'-
fortunately for us, the spread ofthese disorgan.
;z;no and destructive principles, does not extend
rapidly or widely in the Southern country nom
c,uses N us evident enough, but about WHICH,
-. knou there are great differences of opinion.
II reasires no argument to prove, OF 'aoo'eo
reasons TO make manifest, the eViis moving Hun
the PRONUNCIATION of the doctrines OF "hc" VIC
are speaking. History, from the oep'n o. as.''
r.;ses its solemn and warning voice against
belief which denies or blasphemes the Deny
and levels the virtue and intelligence OF man
lind nv insiduous assaults upon property ana
reputation. Speaking merely - moraiisfs pni-
lanthropists or citizens, we all have an inIefe&
in unfolding the cause of Christianity. There
is not husband, a father or brother, IN TINS OF
any other nation, who has not direct, peIson
al alI-important stake, in any contest wncn
NAV be raised, involving the maintenance OF
Christianity. No matter what mems specuIa-
tive opinions or theoretical notions may oe-no
matter what their private ideas about matters OF
belefmay be-when the question comes TO touch
the existence and continuance of the Holy and
Blessed Religion of our Fathers-the bond Of
faith among modern nations-the purest system
of Divinity and Morality the world has ever
seen-that Faith which, We know, when fully
received and acted upon, makes men all That
men can be upon earth-when the question, we
saw. comes to touch the existence Of this Reli-
gion, this Worship, this Faith, no man can De
Indifferent to the result, or hold back from the
rescue. Who, even of the most hardened and
corrupt would wish to see the beautiful institu-
tons of Christianity themselves SO affecting
" touching, and connected with all that Is dear
to us in life by the most tender associations
desecrated and destroyed? Who would Wish 10
see the Temples dedicated to the service
of the Almighty, and from which the songs OF
praise and the voice of supplication ever ascend
converted from their pious uses, and made augnt
else than what they are? Who would wish to
rob life of all its pleasures, by taking away the
Christians hope, in the hour of death! And DO
we ask who would wish and do all thisf Mourn
ful-mournful indeed, is the reflection, that there
are. even in this land of law, liberty and happl'
ness. thousands who would-led on oy wicked
knaves-seduced by Hattery, and deceived oy
their own corrupted and debased hearts!
Men. by natural and easy graduation, slide
from open, avowed Infidelity, into Agraranism
and Jacobinsm, or vice versa-from Agrarian-
ism into Infdelity. "Fdciiis descensus Arerni."
Once persuade man to insult his Maker, or
DENY his existence, and you may soon lnstll into
his mind an ardent desire for community OF
goods"-a pulling down and leveng OF Tor
tunes-an equality of character as well as wealth;
and hatred of every thing like the honorable
exertions of virtue for pre- -eminence. vice, lg-
norance and crime, are, in themselves, opposed
to, the antagonists Of virtue, intelligence and
good deeds. They are, too or can easily be
made, very belligerent antagonists; and give the
former the advantage of brute strength, num-
bers, the disposition to do wrong, and the know
ledge of not only exemption from punishment,
but security and satisfacton-and you insure
their triumph. And what triumph 1t wouId De!
What a spectacle the world would present. IN
the demolition of Churches, the razing OF court
houses and jails, the plumber Of honest mems
properly, Tue SeHcI IN oSp oh o'io'' ~ '~'-'
and the utter disuse and neglect of the courtesies
and refinements of life. 1t happens, unfortu-
nately, that the arts and tricks of design
ing demagogues, ambitious Of power and
place, find ready means in the abominable
and mschievous principles Of which we are
speaking, of furthering their own aggrandize-
ment. II has been so in all ages, and doubtless
will so continue to the end of time. In ancient
Greece and Rome and in modern France, the
popular idols sought and found in the evil pro-
pensities of the multitudes they corrupted, the
materials for their own elevation. The incen
diary cry of ''the rich against the poor" raised
year ago in New York-the daily denunciatons
vet heard against virtuous citizens, assailed be-
cause their revilers choose to call them "aristo-
Gratis" and all such like senseless appeals to the
worst passions, and most degraded feelings of
human nature, are parts and parcels Of the old
system of upturning social order and rational
liberty, in order that RIGHTEOUSNESS, misrule and