The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-09-01

leave but portion Of il to their heirs, Che does not
give ~ his ratio or pro rata, that our system will
tanly be destroyed And, unless this be effected,
and wages abolished, that there will certainly occur
such ss the world never witnessed and from which
humanity rrcos ! entertain no such apprehensions
as those which Brownson expresses. Whatever great
and serious may yet shake the word-and there
may be Of that descriptiont will never on
ginatc IN the cause assigned by Mr. Brownsons phi
losophy lie and his coadjutors may possibly push
their principles far and obtain their dissemination
TO such an extent, 10 excite instruction But we
tell him on the strength Of our philosophy, which we
are certain is deep his, that any which he
and his abettors may provoke, viii be Of brief
FINANCE, If originated in an effort for the abolition Of
wages, and an attempt for the destruction of men :
legal rights, TO bestow their gains upon their children
Such would have the same effect, in par
iicular, the occasioncd by the folly of the
French rcyouoniss, but its duration would be great,
ly inferior IL would quickly send him and his coad
tutors bowling out Of time together with the body OF
the bandit train they could muster, the frenzy OF
the French atheists and deiss did with them Ii he
thinks this good certify him in time that this is
good which it will surely effect
Christianity is the great conservative principle OF
republicanism But the Christianity Of Messrs Brown
son 4 Co. is the Christianity Of Jesus than
the doctrines of Apollonus Tyanneus the system
of Christian doctrine Mr. Brownson's Christianity,
far as can gather it, resembles the Christianity OF
Mr. Lexminler, system absolutely absurd can
well be conceived and which one would think il re-
qured something like meanness 10 induce TO
IInxyaysr thpre has haen rlasa AZ
moral fools the French revolution proved, and other
ages have also attested and the yet extinct
Finding that though they succeeded in oyerhrowing
the breviary in one great kingdom that the Bible u
very different text book, has become potent and
generally dihused than before their attacks upon
it, they pretend now to receive and adopt the prnci-
plies of the Bible in certain sense, and to be exceed
ingly friendly TO them but when their system is ana
lyzed appears clear tlat it contains but small por-
ton of scriptural truth and that prominently
conspicuous in their lectures, and covered and
lost in the addenda comments which they heap upon
it, that the quantity of truth which they embody in
their writings is very nconsiderabe. Differing by
various shades among misunderstanding different
DISCUSSES to suit themselves TO different states of so
cety and degrees OF information among men they are
in all essentially alien from Christian truth In one
thing they exhibit unity of hearty concurrence
they entirely hostile to the preaching of the Cos
pei as much so as old Rome when Jupiter and Juno,
and Venus, and other gods and goddesses en-
throned as the beloved idols, like Fanny Wright in
the heart OF him who proclaimed her stupidity the
"brigh, Venus of Democracy, who was much en-
titled to that epithe the prostitute worshpped in
France at one time, in the called Temple of reason
was to the character of the goddess of reason,
PHyLALETHEs