The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-04-24
" PROVIDENTIAL DISPENSATIONS.'

"PROVIDENTIAL DISPENSATIONS"
We give up our editorial space to the follow
ing appropriate remarks upon the TRACT lately
put forth from this city, entitled "Providental
Dispensations;" many thousands of which we
learn have been scattered abroad by the Loco
foco members of Congress, who are willing to
give currency to the hypocrtical cant and pious
illusions of as arrant a knave as ever grased a
pillory or Rugged whipping post and who as
sumes the cloak Of religion to hide his moral
leprosy and political prostitution man who,
Judas-like, was bought by the party he serves, but
who, unlike Judas, prefers to live on in infamy to
give the galows its jus, DUE
Our political opponents have at length been
driven to admit that there s an overriding Prov
idence-that there is One who is King of Ma
tons as he is King of Saints. In this we agree |;
and He it is, that "speaketh concerning nation
and concerning kingdom to pluck up and TO
pull down, and to destroy it," From this it fol-
lows, that there national sins, and that these
are visited with national Judgments and that if
nation against which He has pronounced, turn
not from her evil, che will be utterly destroyed.
In these cases of his visitation, the angels of
his wrath are war, famine, pestilence, drought,
blight, murraln, halstones, and Goals of fire, and
las In the case of Babylon) desulation of pros
perity, and the like.
Up to the period of General Jackson's eleva-
ton to the Presidency, 1S29) our country, for
long series of years, CATER the scourge of the
then last wary had been most signally blessed,
and had received no severe or unusual nantes
tatlon of Divine displeasure or chastisement
Her condition was peaceful, prosperous, and
happy.
The course of our political opponents at the
present time, and partic ularly the publication
and extended circulation of their "TRACT NO.
W." on "PROVIDENTIAL DISPENSE
lloNS,' renders it fit and proper on our part
10 recur to the position of our nation under the
Twelve years administration of Jackson and Van
buren,, and expose the hypocrisy of that tract,
and OF the party who disseminating it through
our land. This shall be done with fairness and
candor, and with presentation of facts and cir
cumstances which none but the most hardened
and inconsiderate amongst them will attempt to
deny.
And let it first be noted, that in the very CON-
mencement of General Jackson's Administrations
sect of socialists, embodying the irrreligious
and obnoxious principles and doctrines of the inf
del schools of philosophy of the French Revolu-
ton, sprung up in the city of New York, under
the guidance of Fanny Wright and others, and
who las our political opponents now speak of the
sanctty of the Sabbath,) held their orgies in the
very temple of democracy Gin Tammany Hall) on
the Sabbath day, promulging there their inlidel
doctrines, and disturbing the peace of the city in
noise and tumult, and in shouting their blaspbe-
nous and infdel songs, not only in dersion of
the holy Sabbath, but also in defiance of all re-
spect tor morality or religion. This has a con-
nexlon with the sequel.
In 1857, the "pestilence which walketh in
darkness, and that destruction which wasteth at
MONDAY, (the Choera) broke from its lurking
places ID pagan and idoatrous climes, and laid
waste our dwellings and the fair places of our
land. Thousands fell by our side, and tens of
thousands by our right hand" The high and
the low, the rich and the poor, the white and the
black, made their bed together in the dust Was
there no "Providential Dispensation" in this
was there no visitation of the Most High-no
chastisement in judgment or in mercya Let
our adversaries answer.
Did not the same overlooking scourge come |
again IN 1884 she made a way to his anger, |
ne NJ, spared not their soul from death, but gave
lheir lie over to the pestilence." Was there
nought Oh Divine dispensation'' or of Judgment |
IN an THIS Let our adversaries answer.
~ was 10 this same year that the Jackson party
ehtefeu INTO solemn political league and cove
nant win that sect of socialists and granted unto
them hve OF the eleven members Of Assemble
from The city OF New York. the great commercial
emporium OF the Union. AT the ensuing session
OF the Legislature, these were the Instruments in
eJecting the ministers of the Gospel from, The 10
gIslatIve halls, and they were kept out. until re
stored under the Wing ascendancy. And tho
leading men Of that same sect were afterwards