Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-03-28

easily to subvcrt them to their own control.
Scientific research, reason, common sense,
and every days experience, expose their
absurdty
Thomas Paine.-The Patriots friend,
and the Christians devil. Too wise for a
saint, too honest for priest. too patriotic to
succumb to the combined power Of kings,
prets and tyrants.
The self styled AMBASSADORS Of Christ
Nav they receive their outfit and salary,
with their credentials and thus obviate the
necessity of living on the people TO whom
they are sent.
!Superstitiou and Ignorance.-The proll.
fic parents of religion.
Fear made her devil, and weak men
her gods,
Her hell was built on spite,
Her heaven on prtde.
Our Female Guests.-Their presence in
this scene Of har.y adds a social charm
unknown to us on former occasions like the
present and may our future festivals be en-
| ivened with a continual increase of their
emancipated sex, until Rhode Islands en-
lightened daughters shall hail with Joy that
eventful period which gave birht America
and mans great benefactor.
By James PhilHps.-Srayed or stolen,
the Church of Christ st.-By these signs ye
shall know those that believe in him In
his name they shall cast out devils, they
shall raise the dead, they shalllay their hands
on the sick, and they shall recover, and if
they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt
them. A liberal reward will be paid for
sight at one Of its members, by lnfdeHs.
By Daniel TVood.-Relgion.-A do
mestic article, manufactured at Protractcd
Meetings, from the ran materials, ignorance
and superstition, with the steam poper of
hell-fire and brimstone.-A fashionable
cloak for knaves and hypocrites.
By Alfred Hymes.--The Christian
Church.-A fatherless child ; she has de-
generated from her boasted miracles 10
pious falsehood, holy SANDER and blasphemy
laws salt won't save her.
By abraham Chace.-The Christians
God.-May he continue to furnish the Chris.
ians with their principal stock in nrade,-hy.
pocrisv, fraud and forgery, as long as there
is Christian to be found in the land which
is inhabited by animals.
By Benjamin Lawrence.-The pIous
Clergy of the United States.-When they
can fix on some definite point in their theo'o-
gy on which they can all agree, ue will then
give them hearing.
By George S. tcoa.-Thomas Paine
and his (ollowers.-May they triumph over
their enemies, Ike the proud eagle over his
prey.
By Horace +. Briggs.-Prayer.-A
quack medicine, recommended by religious
iuggiers and It's pcdlers 10 cure every thing,
buI it helps nothing.
After the sentiments were delivered, and
the company had partaken of the rePast
to satisfaction, they adjourned to the hall,
"Where joyous youth to muslc's mellow
STRAIN,
Twine in dance with nymphs forever far"
Some 10 mngle in the festivities of the
dance, and others TO view the hllarily ofthe
scene, as their inclinations prompted them.
And it was truly gratifying to the friends
Of the freedom of mind to see, in this priest
abounding city, after so much had been
done by the clergy and their dupes to hn.
der the people from attending this festival
by their prayers, promises and threats, about
one hundred and twenty ladies, comprising
the beauty and intelligence of the city, and
about the same number of gentlemen, here
assembled in spite ofthe bigotry ofthe place,
and almost within stones throw of a Pro-
tracted Meeting, to commemorate the Birth
Day of man whom the pious clergyot our
country have dignided with the tile of re-
probate Infdel.
Sec. Of Com. of Arrangements.