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FOR CONGRESS,
HON. AUGUSTUS 70 I'm G.
From the Troy Wing.
O. A. BROW SON AND HIS INTERNAL
DOCTRINES


We frequently alluded, during the last ak
months TO the person whose name stands at the
head of this article, and to his lbellous attacks
upon the great Wing party Of the country. We
have now to speak Of him as conspirator against
all the long chershed and humanizing institu-
tons Of civilized soccty-against the system of
morality which prevails among Christian nations
and what is far more to be deplored,--against
our holy religion itself
Our authority for such grave charges against
thi, individual rests upon an article written by
him for the last number of the Boston Quar-
terly Review, of which periodical he is the edi-
tor. The tenor of the article in question may
be inferred from the following extracts:
ave say frankly, that if there must always be a
iaborng population, distinct from proprctors and
ployers we regard the slave system decidedly pre-
ferable to the system of wages" =!
"Wagcs is a cunning device of the devil for the
benefit of tender conscienccs, who would retain all
the advantages of the slave system without the
pcnsc, trouble, and odum of being Shareholders"
I'VE really believe our NORTHERN system of H.
Dor more oppressive, and more nisch!cvous to morals
than the Southern"
'But having traced the inequality VIC complain Of
70 its orrin, we proceed to ask again what is the
edyl The remedy first 10 be sought in The destruc-
ton Of The Priest"
enslavcr of his brethren; and tereiorc,lt is Chris
tianity condemns him." j.!
at may be suppos d that VIC piotcstants, have no
priests: but for ourselves, we know no fundamental
difference between Catholic Priest and Protestant
Clergyman, as we know no difference of any mauni-
tudc, in relation 10 the principles on which they are
based, between Protestant Church and Catholic
Church"
"There must be no class of mon set apart and nv
thoriscd either by law or fashion. to speak 10 us in
the of God or to be interpreters of the word OF
God; 1.-THE WORD or GOD NEVER DROPS
FROM the PRIESTS LIPS"!!!
"But one might rs well undertake TO dip the ocean
dry with clam shell, to unier,akc,o cure the OWLS
ofthe social stately converting men TO the Christianity
OF the Church"
ave object not to religious instruction; We object
not to the gathering together of the People day
in seven, TO sing ana pay and to listen to discourse
Ike an OUTWARD rsitls CH.rch to erery thing that in
@'remo'est degree ro,:"Ee' eI"e Priest'"
.Taeher,ata,y DESCENT f Iroper,g !: AN ANo
MUST BE REMOVED, OR THE SYSTEM IT
SELF WILL BE DESTROYED"
"A man shall have all he honestly acquires solong NJ
he is in the world in which he acquires il: BUT HIS
POWER OVER HIS PROPERTY MUST CEASE
WITH HIS LIFE, AND HIS PROPERTY MUS
THEN BE. ONE THE PROPERTY or TIL
STATE, [!!!] TO be disposed of by equitable law
for the OF the generation Which takes his place
sit is a great measure, and startling. The rich
the business community, will never consent 10 it, AM
we think we know too much Of human nature 10 be
levc that it will ever be effected peaceabiy. 1t will
effected only by the strongarm of physical force"
ut will COME if 1t comes al al! only AT the concl
sion of war the like of which tho world hasn never vii
messed, and from which, however inevitable it ma
seem to the eye ofphilosophy, tho heart of HuMASiT
recoils with horror. ~!
The Review from which the above extract
are made, is the leading loco foco organ in Ne'
England, and its editor, Orestes A. Brotonso,
an Office holder under Van Buren,, and one
his most prominent supporters in Massachusett
The article in question, therefore, taken in col
neXion with the following from the New Yor
Evening Post of July 2lst, may be justly Coz
sidered as the first open movement on the pa
of the Loco Foco party against our glorio,
Consttutlon,the Laws of the land and the who
system of Morality ard Religion which we ha,
derived from our forela,hers:
"Our candidates" gays the editor Of the Post, I"
De successful must haze somewhat of propho
character; they mast resemble N this respect oar ca
didHc, already nominated for the PrcsidencY-t
characteristic feature OF whose present POSITIONS pre-
paration for a future series of public measures,
of which he has IS yet been able 10 give us hut an
itlatory sample, No final measure is yet c"nsuma
The year 1872 Is pregnant with important events a
consequences nothing has been or can now he do
rious constitution will undergo its hardest trial; o
sswe now well know that 50 far a. the President {
control the progress OF that trial all will be safe, II
our duty To support him, not only directly but il
rectly, by filing all subordinate and minor state
with men OF like principles and spirit himself"
Here then we have it acknowledg by
leading organs of the Van Buren, party IN n
England and New York, that the encroachme
upon the Constitution hitherto made by the p
sent administration, are nothing in compari
with those they intend to make should Van
rem be reelected. $40 .Gaal measure" E
the Post, "has yet been consunna,ed."-
Sub-Treasury, the violent ejectment of the n
Jersey members from their seats. and the mi
other audacous acts of the administrations
not then, it seems "fnal measures the n
midOns Of tyranny intend advancing to a
higher pitch Of audacity, and will unless chez