The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-09-14

heads successfully thlough their conflict ior human
rights and dignity. When the waterman" the c,b-
man" the seayenger," the taxed and starving siu-
san instead Of drinking GA and utterng blasphcm,.
join temperance cites and read penny pa por aud
penny magazine - filed with useful know ledge
aud important political discussions, The proud aH3
distinguished selfrespeot, the deep thought thc h-H
resolution, the solemn determination OF The kQuhd-
head are returning, and the reign Of the TAXED
bloodfattened Cavalier is approaching It's end May
God send tso0n, but peacefully
Rejoicing IN these indications among the massrs Of
our Anglo-SaXon brethren, We would offer leN o.
marks TO our own readers upon the subject Of pro-
family. Is 1t never heard IN streets and tp'l-
along our wharyes, beneath our roofs, and board
Of our ships We should rejoice IN being aulr ,o
say that oaihs aud imprecations proanites and Do E
plemies, nerer heard m Philadelphia OF Penn.
sylvania even among those whose education ana or-
portuntes should have inspired them with ahLor
renee of this vice We may say that this vice came
from fatherland; that IT was never introduced or
adapted by Puritans or Quakers but has since been
introduced by the lower orders of En- gland auG ,
now mbst common among our foreign population
Let US examine this. The Catholic European,
among US do not swear generally, for they are rc-
strained from this vice by the clergy through altrr,-
tar confession. And if European protestant, pr4g-
tce this vice among us where is our excuse IN fol-
| lowing the example! Aud If II be Of foreign
growth, shall allow the very people 10 WHOM
we trace it 10 precede US in reformation. ii
we denounce profanity as an English habit, We
are left without excuse when IT Is banlshed from
England and if had not virtue enough to bceit
the reformation, let have the grace TO follow tie
example. We are IN deplorabe condition ii we
cannot follow examples for good as well as evil.
| But we deny that this vice is more English than
American, foreign Than native; for any listener
to the biasphemes SO frequently heard m our streets
and especially tayerns and ships, will detecl4c
much Of native as foreign accent. But, whatever
be the native land Of the vice, at home abroad It
is vice OF which humanity should be thoroughly
| ashamed. We will not was word in uttcnpln,
| 10 prove it wicked, having never yet seen mau.abo
denied, or did not feel awed by a suggestion Of s
enormity. But we may well ask if anybody csu
doubt lis mean, despcab.e, degrading character II
blasphemies mean what they import I, The b'a, IIc.
mer less than a monster If they mean moth No. IS
he mere than fool How would man sppr.r
who should intersperse his conversation It'll tLcclal
terng of monkey or the bleatng Of goat Yet
in pr, ci,ely the light does he appear who inter
IN Is his narrative with imprecatou, The clergy
mans rebuke TO Gen. Charles Ice, Of the RtyoIu.
onary army, notorious for profanity was both oppro-
PIRATE and eficacious. He ended every sentence
with bottle and longs, and said they quite sig
nlfcanl the Generals oaths If he did not jntud
10 blaspheme.