The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-09-25

| -C0MMON-MR. WEBSTER ON ENGLlSt
FREEDoM-Hls SILENCE AS TO TIL
ENGLISH CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT
GREAT AMOUNT OF SLAVERY IN ENG
LAND.
Mr.. Webster speaks of the liberty enjoyed IN Eng
land. We agree that there is maeA liberty ." Eng
land, and more slavery Mr.. Webstsr's own speech II
| 10 proof The degradation 10 which the laborer u
there subjected 10 attributable IN great pat 10 the Con
stitution- in Church and Stseto the very system
the Government Mr.. Webster's own enumeration
of the particulars of his condition proves This Mr.
Webster does not refer to the Church establishment
| as part Of the oppression. Does he mean thai
Church establishment, connected with the State, Is
good thing; that il is not in the United States
Is in England II the latter, he differs from highly
distinguished divine of America, and one who hal
had as good opportunity of knowing as Mr. webster
and who is probably as competent Judge W.
think indeed that Doctor Coz IS judgment is too So
we're we cannot but hope that there are many more
than 500 out of $1,000 ministers in The Anglican
establishment pious men, although nothing is NOR
certain than that many enter the ministry with IN
single consideration of obtaining the rich ivings con
nected with it. The and near relations oil rcf
and influential members of Parliament and Of the no
bility have vastly dsproportionate share OF its pat
ronuge. Besides the distribution of patronage among
the holders Of il, is immensely unequal.
But let Doctor Cox speak for himself in references
to the Church of England.
"The real orthodoxy and general piety of the
whole hierarchy and by consequence the total laty
mr. af ms Inns atad
truly pious comparatively the gnoble few called
the evangelical faction, uninAuential and scarce
tolerated, not in the road to pfeferment, are
the theme and the mark of sneers and contumey,
and are like tropical plants in artificial closures Of the
north out of their proper element, Of sickly and
stunted growth and instinctvely painting for those
gardens of paradise which they are never TO revisit IN
this world"
Again, in note in the same work, he says:
The whole numerical hierarchy of the Anglican
establishment is rated by that excellent and COM
petent judge the late Leigh Richmond, an Epis-
copalian, and one of them, at $4,000; and OF
these $4,000, MIR. Richmond deliberately supposes
iha, there are perhaps 900 sincerely pous men
What ratio " and l6,4O0!" But where will they
find the l,600' 1t is entirely "too liberal allow
ance," said an excellent Lopdon pastor. As we have
already said, we cannot but hope that there are
many more than this of her ministers who are
pious men but yet il is too well known to admit of
denial that large number of them are wholly dis
qualified, from want Of pety, to oaicate in their
cred Calling and supposng the Doctors statement to
be an approximation to the truth-which is probable
we may we'll excaim with him, God protect this
country forever from the tender mercies of estab
lishment, and all that appertains to it ~
The great amount of slavery in England is truly
set forth by MIR. Webster in this same speech What
he says of the aborer in Europe includes the Brit
ish isles of course, and is emphacaly true of them
what efficiency, then, is there, there be pre-
tended, TO the declaration of the people of England
in regard to very numerous body-the most nume-
rous among themselves" that so far as their inHu
ence goes, there shall be no federation, extension
Of slavery" For look at their inevitable condi
tion ,cheh must continue uhiie the English system Of
Government continues, and Judge whether il be not sla
very. "The laborer there" says Mr.. Webster, sis
poorly paid, poorly clad he is considered degraded
being; he has participation, or but slight partc
patton, in Government; he lays up nothing, he earns
nothing, but the mere daily support of his family,
nor always that he lives poor, he dies poor and he
leaves his children to the same biography. This is
the character Of the laboring classes in the old
world"
Nor is this an overdrawn pcture-but the reverse.
II enters not into the exquisite suffering, ending
often in DEATH to which the laborng classes of the
British isles are subject 1t enters nothing into the
vivid detail Of these, OF which multi,udnous and
most decisive proofs could be brought from British
journals Of the highest celebrity, both Wing and To-
ry. Why is it that the British people have not made
their declaration efficient, that $50 far as their inHu-
ence goes there shall be toeration above all no
extension of slavery in respect to these, their fell
low subjects. And if they cannot relieve this bitter
slavery at home, what prospect is there that they
can relieve that which is abroad Thou that
,eachest another, dost thou not teach thyself"-
Thou that grindest the faces Of the poor with the
corn laws, dost thou take long pilgrimage TO Nee
ca, or some other place remote TO unbind the hea
Wy burdens and grievous to be borne Of foreigners
not Of thine kindred or naionl BY what moral title
hast thou set up myself as reformer general when
thou has, no, reformed thyselfl be it from physical
or be il from moral inability "First cast out the
beam out Of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see
clearly to cast out the mote out Of thy brothers
eye" The weight Of example will prove far more
convincing and effective than the weight of precept
without
Nov this is rksomc, and ofends me moe
Than, In a preacher, sovenly attire
And rustic coarseness would"
From n, albany Argus.