Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-06-12
FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN or JUNE 8.

"DtuS puH"-' God wills Twas the wachword and
warcy with which Pope Urban H. and the thousand attend
ing Priests and Bishops the Council Of Clement sent forth
the warrior hosts Of Chrscndom in the First Crusade to
recover the Holy Land.
horde of fanatic soldiers in sem-barbaric age, might
believe that the will of God they should reclaim the
Sepuchre from the hands of the nde who defled it, But,
in the present era, after eight centuries of advanced cuva
ton, when who attempt fathom the purposes Of the
Most High have to do with humble and
ent well rational mnd few will believe that (n
the which the Crusaders understood their
God wed that his eng should shed the blood Of
slaughter the tomb Of Him who died that peace and good
will might prevail upon Garth The Of the prophets has
been long extinct the age Of inspiration has passed
and Wo, OF men, standing between mortality and its Maker
shall affect to interpret the judgments and announce the
DEGREES of Providence Superstition is not yet banshed
anacsm st lives and but every sensible feels
the shock of mpcty when, in the grosses Of our earthly af
fairs the neposton of Heaven is asserted and the will OF
God proclaimed the sanction Of human ambition and worldly
passion.
II has become a common, a too common thing among
TO speak the supposed desnes of the American
in the New World il they had been made manifest TO
by revelation Journalists and eefwriters take
for granted, orators haangue about IT, and honorable
members the floors Of Congress have assumed that the
OF the Republic is to and the whole continent
from the Arctic Sea to the frozen limits Of Patagonia. Per-
haps should disregard these prophetic annuncatons
ing from such quarters flowers and hypeboes Of the
IMAGINATION but when the fashion extends, II has IN one
two instances done, TO the reverend clergy the evil be-
comes serious for such doctrine preached from the
pulpit is douby dangerousit dangerous TO the peace and
happiness of mankind it dangerous TO the interests OF re-
gion is known that reverend clergyman in the South
at the first sound Of the guns Of Pao Alto, abandoning his
flock, perhaps armng and leading with him. marched as
captain Of volunteers TO Matamoros where ne preached
sermon to congregation Of soldiers representing them as the
children of Israel and the land of Mexico, which they
in, the land of the Canaanites, flowing with milk and ho
ney, which the Lord gave them their spoil and,
Gently the papers have informed Of another reverend gen.
teman not however, soldier, who in pulpit address
stretched the modern Canaan the whole Mexican 18TH
and South America The Ancient Law imposed dread
u penalty upon "the prophet which shall presume speak
word in My name which have not commanded him to
speak !; and such presumption than staes the modern
Christian coming from the lips of modern Christian
divine Who taught these teachers that this destiny
Who commanded them TO announce it Who ordained
them with the ordination of the prophet, and clothed them
with the mantle Of inspiration Our destiny is the secret Of
God which has not been revealed TO and they rush
upon ground which angels might fear TO tread who connect
His name with Of conquest, and preach His will the
authority for crusade Of blood and rapneto which such
IDEAS Of destiny inevitably lead, and without which the
destiny could never be accomplished.