The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-04-23

by the Bible as the foundation of the Jewish and
Christian religion, is, that all the disorder and
confusion, privaton and pain, misery and death,
which make the world hospital, racked with
storms and resounding with groans, are attribu-
table to mans transgressions; and he then
quotes from " the Good Book" various passages
to show, what no one denies, that the sins of
nation may be visited upon those who are person
ally innocent of crimes He then recounts var-
Gus dispensations of Providence, the death of
General Harrison, of General Macomb, of Mr..
Southard of Mr. Upshur, Mr.. Gilmer, and otherf,
on board the Princeton; the drowning of several
sailors on board the steamer Missouri, her con-
agration, &c. and declares, or rather insinuates,
that they are the evidences of Gods displeasure
at the Wing party! "Will not these things"
he says, arrest the course Of prohigacy which
signalized the canvass of lS40!" He could nor
help wrapping up a talsehood in his cant, for with
out that it would be pontless "Shall they go
or" he continues, until, throughout our land,
there shall be not a house aohere there is not one
dead 2"
Is it possible that such production can infu-
ence the minds of any portion of our citizens
otherwise than by exciting scorn for the writer!
If so, we have overrated the intelligence of the
American people, and must admit that the writer
has more just appreciation of them than we
have. He in the first place assumes base tulse-
hood an admitted truth, namely, that the Wings
were guilty of moral delinquencies in 1910, which
he knows to be false, and then lnpiously declares
the deaths of certain individuals to be evidences
of the wrath Of God on account of those assumed
moral deinquencies or transgressons. We
night turn around and ask why he is apparently
the object of Gods displeasure! For what moral
delinquency has he been marked by disease, and
bankrupted in fortune? Why leprous in body
as we'll as in mind! Has the angel Of death
spared every Locofoco in the land I? If not, for
what sin were they stricken down! Since he
undertakes to interpret the inscrutable ways of
God, and to act the part of a prophet and teacher
will he not tell U.S. poor blind mortals, to whom
the ways of God are past finding out" what
offences brought those judgments upon them, and
upon himself!
We recommend TO the writer the following
passage, from the truly pious and humble chris
tian, Jeremy Taylor; which we hope he will
read before he writes any more b|asphemous
tracts:
I'll have conversed wth~some men who rejoiced
in the death or calamity of others, and accounted
it as Judgment upon them for being on the other
side, and against them in the contention; but
within the revolution of few months, the same
man met with more uneasy and nnhandsome
death: which, when | saw, went, and was
afraid for knew that it must be SO with all
men; for we also shall die, and end our quarrels
and contentious by passing to final sentence"
Reader what would you think of the heart, or
the religion, of that man, who, while you were
mourning the death of beloved husband, wife,
parent child, brother, sister, all these-Whle
your heart was still bleeding from the wounds
death had nfcted--should put forth tract de-
claring your bereavement to be evidence of the
wrath of God for your entertaining different re-
gious or political opinions from him, or for your
| having INDUCED in the pastme of playing on
some musical instrument, or in the amusement
of dancing, or of having given party, which he
| might, as others do, deem sinful And in what
| light would he be looked upon by the humane
and the good everywhere! We leave you to
answer. The writer of this tract stands in the
shoes of him who would thus inhumanly, bru-
tally, and basphemousy insult, and endeavor to
make you an object of adherence.
THE VOTE ON THE TARIFF.
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