Litchfield enquirer., 1835-09-03


 her prosperity rushes up to such a majesty of power, while those great institutions finger which are necessary to form the mind, and the conscience, and the heart of ihat vast world. It must not be permitted. And yet what is done must be done quick ly; for population will not wait, and com merce will not cast anchor, and manufac- lures will not shut of the steam nor shut down, the gate, and agricultdre, pushed by millions of freemen on their fertile soil, will not withhold her corrupting abun- dance. fisf. ss
 We must educate! We must educate orswe must perish by our own prosperity. If we do not, short from the cradle to the grave will be ourrace. If in our haste to be rich and mighty, we out-run our literary and religious institutions, they will never 0vertake us: or only come Up after the battle of liberty is fought and lost, as spells to grace the victory, and as resources of inexplorable despoiism for the perpetuity of our bondage. And let no. man at the East, quiet himself, and dream of liberty. whatever may become 0f the Vest Our allegiance of blood, and political instite- tions, and common interests, is such, that we cannot stand aloof in the hour of her calamity, should itever come. Her desti- nv is our destiny and the day that her gale lant ship goes down. our lit,le boat sinks l ' ih the vortex !,.si, t,.f .i,...,;ee.t,1 ,}8s ss4s4i
 A nd agaln s;<,fg P lSfss' k tssI ,lt l..1f3e e7 1. i' IewDuld add, as motive immediate action, that if we do fail in our great ex-s pertinent of oselfgovernment, our destruc- ton twill be as signal as the biFth-right a. baidoned, the 'tncrcies abused and the pro- vocation offered to beneficent Heaven. -- The descent of desoiation will correspond sw,.iith, tue past eIeyaiioI. No punisbments of heaven are SO severe as those for mer- cies abused and, no ipstTumeltality. enl- ployed in their inflic,ioni is so dreadful as the wratl. of man. No spasns are like spasns of expiring liberty, and no waiiings such as her convulsions 'extort. It took Rome three hdhdred years to oedis';; and our death, if we perish, will Do as much more terrific as our intelligence and Tree lpsslt''- tions have given to us more bone. and sin CIV, and vitality. N May God hide nle from the day when oiha dying tagonies of my codntry shalt begint! daf3 aa4 .eesafisa 3 But it is not on account of the pecuniary wants set fofth in this disc0urss, that iwt wish chiefly 10 arrest the attention of the public. 1t is indeed n Plea for the West, ! bs. ;s night, with equal propriety, De cal- led q Plea for the Renmki i:;-s@ ss' Wa h,vs never read a smore powerful display of the dangers t0n which our government and all our civil, literary, and religious iinstituiiolls are exposed, nor d moro eloquent appeal 10 the good sense aud tire patriotism of the people. We know that a great portion of our ci,izens, immersed iD the calls of busi- ness or occupied with the consideration of political matters, Of more immediate and personal ,concerns view the subject treated ofIhy Dr.. Beecber with allnost sOtal indif- ference; and we know that there are ma ny persons who .look upon his notions as the bitter rawlings Of 'sectasian ansbiti6naBd prejudice: Let nll such persons read the argument--ahe aaansUsrd6se argument, in our our humble opinipn-and we think they will net be disposed ,o treat the subject with contempt,aO or the anihor, Of the book with q sneer. ,Dr. Beecher has, been ac- cused If cndeavoring to stir Up the feelings of certain religiHus stcis against the Catis- 'oiics, and the controversy between him and IUGM uuS UUGU bCptCNCutCu Uo OuO Os "
 iig;ous, or sectarian character merely. We give, him credi. for purer motives Let as take his own explanation :, I1 ss5 5,.a., si ga,, { as If, upon examination, sit should appear that ,shree-fnusths of the fareiRn smigrants whose .accnmnlaiiDg tide is rolling in upon us, .are, through, the medium of sbeis feli- zion and priesthood, as entirely accessible fo. the control .of the poieftafes of Europe as if they were an army of soldiers, enlist ed and officered, and spreading over the land then, indeed, should we have j1st occasionto apprehend danger to our liber-s ties. < It. would be, the Nniyn of church and state im tho midst ofus. The church and the state both in Europe, and the pliant;cO- lonial churcl, iIere. Hese priesthood. cd. uca,ed under tho despotic governments of Catholic Europe, ana. dependent for their office, support, and honors upon a foreign tem2 2oral primes. on whose sanction tc their laws and doings they are as dependent az the colonies were upon George ihe Third; and this prince, too, elected by Austrian iuHdeiice and sustained by Austrian bayo- nets, and of coorse subservient to Austrian policy a priesthood not elected by their people, or dependent on them during good behavior, or accountable to then for their isieeds, bat dependept on . foreign jprisdic- ton. atda n great extent on iforeign pat- rolape.s This wOuld, indeed, be church