Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-01-01


tal yeomanry Of the country who are willing to la
Dor for living, and who expect prizes in fibusterBg
otteries that portion Of the population of this country
who are now doing we and have expectation Of sud-
denly jumping into large fortune by any revolution
whatever unless misudge them very much are not will
ling to be taxed to increase armies and navies
speculate in new acquisitions.
have thus given you my ideas in reference that po-
hey which will best promote the upward physical and in
telectua progress Of and other nations which
we may desire to mould into our likeness. have few
remarks now to make in relation to moral and gous
progress
The Christian religion has been some eighteen hundred
and fytwo years in the world Its progress has not
been what its friends desired it TO be- It has accom-
pshed in that time the regeneration of half perhaps
not one twentieth Of the human but its progress Of
late years forward and onward with acceleratng
locty In the commercial connexions which are formed
and forming all the world the doors opened for
wider and more rapid advancement of the Christian
lgion than has existed at any former period. The
Churches have awaited themselves of those facilities and
through their every direction invading
the pagan world
The churches send armed crusades, such as those
which originated with that zeaot Peter the Hermit and
which the providence Of God suffered perish in disaster
"a salutary warning to all progresses Of the Kinke and
Kossuth schools gentlemen who believe in the efficacy Of
gunpowder and intervention The churches quietly and
calmly raise their hundreds of thousands of dollars an
nuay for missions Kinkel after numerous appeals to
indignant and excited progressives got about SIS 00O
or twenty dollars of it in London and the residue from
humbugged Americans How much Kossuth got for the
Iteration OF Hungary has not been reported Knkel has
offered to return to his deluded contributors the
after deductng expenses, provided they will apply for it.
kossuth Is as silent the grave in respect conrbu
lions IN his pockets and suppose they will 60 pretty
much as the sums went that raised the instance
Of Daniel Council and other agtators some years before
for the liberation Of Irelandthey will go where they viii
no more be heard Of tftf
the Gospel and Christian principles the EARTH and
those contributed Hbcrnte oppressed people IL esrE
ngy enormous and it proves how great the faith in
those who work for the Gospel and how insignificant the
ing their noisy yocferations rejoice at the difference.
Religion riumphs in the competition
entertain the opinion Mr. President, that our Gov
eminent may aid, properly and constitutionay, the
progress Of Christianity. How can it be dones
The Government help il through the treaty making
power Let possible, stpulate in treaties that
citizens when residing abroad shall be allowed the
liberty Of assembling and worshippng God according to
the dictates Of their conscences Such privilege would
be esteemed one of great value to people, Its
else would attract the attention of the and
cities in which their public worship Nigh take place.
The consequence would be inquiry the diffusion Of know
LEDGE and ultimately the adoption of Christianity in its
purity The missionary would feel safer when his right
to worship publicly was guaranteed by treaty.
am glad that petitions have already been presented
asking Congress to adopt by which free religious
worship may be secured people wherever they may
be located on the faco Of the globe.
Freedom of conscience is essential the freedom of
the md ana Inc great progress which has been made
since the American Revolution has been the result of the
combined freedom OF the mind and soul The untram-
meed operations OF the mind and the undsguised publ
cation OF the sentiments Of the soul the great levers of
human progress every where We give free and full
scope to the intellect and the affections order to de-
velop and improve nature Such freedom is the crea
tive laboratory IDEAS the fire to kinde new thoughts
and the power to spread abroad principles for
raj examination and adoption if true rejection false.
No danger can finally result from attempts propagate
false theories and doctrines long the admirable and
hope the eternal maxim of Jefferson prevails that err
ror may be tolerated when left free to combat
SIR IL Is the slavery of reason and conscience the
compusion which drives them along the beaten track
which prevents and hnders mankind in building up the
temples Of liberty and peace throughout the world De-
merlus who makes shrnes for DIANA stands in the way
Of reform. But emancipted and conscience win
push him aside and triumph in the end Such at least
is my faith All that this Government do for the pre-
SENT in regard to Christian progress look the con-
don of our people scattered the world and endea
vor, posbe to to them the right Of open public
worship and thereby gradually emapcipate the intellect
and soul of the heather from the slavery of superstition
and pagan idolatry. also wish in all countries
protesting christianity each have equal right with
every other address the of the people in
to their respective creeds Our best beginning to accom-
psh this by treaty stpuatons secure the freedom
Of public worship TO our citizens abroad.
have presented ideas Of progress of that ascend
ing progress which will conduct TO the summit of hu
man perfectibity. With these opinions in regard TO
the elements Of true progress to the declaration
in the message that this is age Of progress" We
indebted for this ascending progress to the giant in
telects Of the past and the present We owe them all
grateful remembrance The heroes and sages of our re-
voluton stand at the head Of the list ms having csab
shed the absolute freedom Of the mind and conscience
and invented system of government by the division of
political power, which enables people with safety and
justice and peace to govern themselves Bacon Locke
and Newton were pre-emen in tho intellectual and phi
losophca departments Of science Rumsey an unknown
name, OF brilliant genius without fortune who died of an
apopectic fit In Europe, and who, at Shepherdstown
Virginia, first propelled boat by the application Of
steam, and who predicted in the last century that
ships would cross the Atlantic in twelve days and Fitch
who took up the idea of navigation little subse
quent TO Rumsey and Fulton who after having had all
the instruction which Rumsey impaired to him in Lon
don ultimately succeeded in New York-hese are three
American pioneers in steam navigation who deserve to
i've In our memories forever. Their inventive talents
were OF ncalcuiabe value in aid of the ascending pro-
gress Of the world. And to come down to living men,
there is Mr. Morse who taught to control and use the
electricity OF heaven in carrying messages for man
There are hundreds Of inventors memorials Of whose use
iu abors IN every department Of life may be found in
our ra'en. Umce These are the living men, who, with
Arkwright Whitney, and Faust and Others who by their
inventions when living gave being and impulse TO the
useful mechanic arts These are the men who should be
remembered and honored through oil ages The divinity
OF true progress inspired them and the world will never
cease 10 rejoice In their revelations They have done
more Tor the elevation and happiness Of mankind than oil
the warriors that have exulted in the rapture Of the
strife and the conquest of nations from the defeat Of
the kings Of Sodom and Gomorrah to the overthrow OF
Napoleon at Waterloo.
There is Mr. President spirit abroad in the world
oenominated by some the spirit Of genuine progress 1t
omenS revolutions IL hunts up pretexts for aggression
IL IS the busy-body in the neghborhood and State ne
gectng his own business and going about from place to
place. advising and Intervening and intermeddnq In eye-
~ bodys aairs telling the farmer how 10 and