The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-08-04
God xrTHE WORD OF GOD NEVER DROPS
FROM the PRIESTS IIpSntii

God xTTHE WORD OF GOD NEVER DROPS
FROM the PRIESTS LIPS."i!l
But one might well undertake TO dip the ocean
dry with clam she'll to undertake to cure the evils
OF The social state by converting men TO the chrstian
~ Of the Church
We object not To religious instruction object
not to the gathering together of the People day
seven to sing and pray, and TO listen TO discourse
from religious teacher but object TO every thing
like an outward visible Church 10 every thing that
IN the remotest degree Partakes Of the Priest /!
!" The hereditary descent Of property is AN ANO-
molly IN OUR AMERICAN SYSTEM,
WHICH MUST BE REMOVED, OR THE
SYSTEM ITSELF WILL BE DESTROYED"
man shall have all he honestly acquires so long
as he himself belongs TO the world in which he ac-
quires il. BUT HIS POWER OVER HIS PRO
PERTY MUST CEASE WITH HIS LIFE,
THE PROPERTY OF THE STATE, RI to be
disposed of by equitable law for the of the
generation which takes his place"
/" 1t is great measure, and startling. The rich,
the business community will never consent to it, and
we think we know too much Of human nature 10 be-
heve that il will ever be effected peaceaby II will be
effected only by the strong Of physical force"
II will come If it at all, only at the conclu-
sion Of war, the like Of which, the world yet, has
never witnessed, and from which, however inevitable
II may seem to the eye Of philosophy, the heart OF
HUMANITY recoils with horror" y
These atrocious doctrines have been dimly
Swallowed out before; but as was the case with
the grand scheme for Standing Army of two
hundred thousand men, they were disavowed
for time from apprehension of the odium and
Indignation which they excited every where
Now, however, the Destructiyes, embeldened
10Y the passage Of the Sub-treasury, exultingly
proclaim them anew and should they be able
TO maintain their power in the National Admi-
nlstration, they will rush headlong to their prac-
teal adoption. We need only present these
revolutionary theories to the public in order to
call down the most decisive and indignant re-
probation. We appeal to the good sense, the
public virtue. the religion, and patriotism Of the
country against their authors and supporters
Every lover Of his country, and Of our dearly
bought constitutional republican, american
liberty, will cordially respond 10 the remarks Of
the Roxbury Democrat
"The head of the serpent should be crushed in it,
infancy, befole it acquires vgor and strength II il
time for every man, who has in his bosom grain Of
reverence Tor law, morality religionwho inhers
spark of that virtue which shone so brightly in til,
character OF our Fathers, to forward boldly anc
rebuke from the rostrum, from the PRESS, from the
PULPIT, these abominable doctrines doctrine,
which are adapted to root up the foundation of ou
political social and domestic institutions
which while they pretend respect for religion woul,
annihilac IT, il Observation-Disclosures which, by being
mile more speclous than those avowed by Tom Pain,
and Fanny Wright, ten thousand times mor
dangcIous-doctrines which, under the guse Of Lber
i y and Equality fraught with all the horrors
Jacobinism and which, instead Of elevating the poo
man TO dignity influence, worth, and happiness will
Il acted on, sink him into the lowest pit Of degrade
ton and misery