New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-19
MASSACHUSETTS, KNOW NOrmIyGIsM.

Not long since The Boston Transcript ventured
upon some structures on intolerance. Two re-
cent instances of it were st'gmatized-0ne in the
case of Mr. Calvert, of Newport, the other at
Woburn a village near Boston, where the Rev.
Theodore Parker was prohibited from featuring
before the LyceUm Oa the ground Of his unortho-
dox theological opinions. Had the journal re-
ferIei to thong prudent safe, il might have
struck at much higher game than Newport or
WOburn; bat newspapers of limited and local
circulation must, of course, often fnd discretion
the better part Of valor, and be content to lash
ert at offenders, if they lash them at all, over the
shoulders of small ones.
While writing against intolerance The Tran
script must DO doubt have been aware that nobody
can attain to Prof ssorshp at Harvard Uniyer-
siiy or be allowed to lecture before the Lowell
Institute Of BostoD, without first putting his
haud to profession Of faith. We are not able at
this moment to give the precise words of the
creed thus imposed; bat the purpose of those
who devised it was essentially the same as that
of the gentleman who lately rejected an eminent
candidate for the Professorship of Chemistry in
Columbia College on purely sectarian grounds.
OF course no man OF different opinions conld either
be a Professor at Cambridge, or a lecturer be-
fore the Lowell Institute, unless, indeed besides
turning ~ COP liant to the appointing authorities,
be were also to adopt that view Of the nature OF
,uch tets by which Arcbdescon Paley Justihed
the signing Of the thirty nine articles OF the
Church of England BY persons, who like himself
did not believe them-a view, under cover oil
which az it would seem, more than one Cam
bridge Profe,s and more than one Lowell lee
turer could alone have qualified himself for
those positions.
The truth is--for we may venture to state
fac, which no Boston paper could safely proclaim
that our excellent Massnchasetts brethren
however they mhy have taken the bit into thcif
mouth, broken the relns Of ecclesiasticnl author
Ity. and plunged heaiiong into all sorts OF thso'
logical ysgnrics are not upon that evidence alone
10 be set down an liberal minded AMI tolerant
| Their GOOD iofsfatbcrs the first settlers at Salem
and "tbe bay ne Boston and the early settlements
about IL ussd 10 be called Eudicot: Winthrop.
Dudley ard tho rest Il them though rebels agains.
church sutbsrity. did not hold themselves at Ill
eyt Of by that Circumstance from prescribing
their own confession Of faith, 10 all who settled
within their patent. OF sven In its nsighborhood.
And good portion Of this spirit has been trans
titt4d ~ their descendants because hsssa'
eLuse,ts nan 10 q Unitarian or Univrfsaliss you
arc not. therefore. 10 sst him down and IL you
do Jea viii be very spt 10 find yourself 'nisia
Lsn--ss Al all Lees ssslasvs and intolsfsht in bis
particular ,isws than II be had been msmber Of
i'm
ONE "ssii,ss" sf Massachusetts, that is 10
ear. Ne Assle Essss asii,s.. bis"t'y is hs'sd
ils,y tsist hers Ia ME Constitution. aud Just ~
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