Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-30
GENERAL INFORMATION.

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The stage leaves every morning at o'clock. Fare
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Gordonsville and intermediate places.
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the Cd and 18th Of each month.
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AN ACT for establishing religious freedom, passed
IN the Assembly OF Virginia in the beginning Of
the year 1855:
Well aware that Almighty God hath created the
mind free; that all attempts to influence it by tenn
poral punishments or burdens, or by civil incapa-
citations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy
and meanness, and are a departure from the plan
OF the Holy Author of our religion who being Lord
both of body and Of mind, yet chose not to prop
agate by coercions on either, as was in his almighty
power to do; that the impious presumption of leg
isatures and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical
who, being themselves but fallible and unmspired
men, have assumed dominion over the faith of
Others setting up their own opinions and modes of
thinking as the only true and nfallbe and as such
endeavoring TO impose them upon others, hath es-
tablished and maintained false religions over the
greatest part Of the world, and through all time
that to compel man to furnish contributions Of
money for the propagation of opinions which he
disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical that even the
forcing him to support this or that teacher of his
own religious persuasion is depriving him of the
comfortable liberty of giving his contributions
to the particular pastor whose morals he would
make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most
persuasive to righteousness and is Withdrawing from
the ministry those temporal rewards, which, pro.
ceediag from an appreciation Of their personal con-
duct, are additional incitement to earnest and
unremtting labors for the instruction of mankind;
that our civil rights have no dependence on our re-
ligious opinions more than our opinions in physics
or geometry; that, therefore, the prescribing of
any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by
laying upon him an incapacity Of being called to
the offices OF trust and emolument unless he pro-
fess or renounce this or that religious opinion, Is
depriving him hJuriousy of those privileges and
advantages to which, in common with his fellow
citizens, he has natural right that il tends also
TO corrupt the principles of the very religion il Is
meant to encourage, by bribing, with a monopoly
of worldly honors, those who viii externally pro-
fess and conform to ii that though, indeed, those
are criminal who do not Withstand such tempta-
bait in their way; that to suffer the civil ma
gistrate to ntrude his powers into the field of opn-
ion and TO restrain the profession or propagation of
principles, on the suppoetion Of their III tendency
Is dangerous fallacy, which at once DESTROYS all
religious liberty, because, be being of course Judge
Of that tendency, viii make his opinions the rule
OF Judgment, and approve or condemn the senti-
ments Of others only as they shall square with, or
differ from, his own that It is time enough for the
of pvflf "a. m
GERS TO interfere when principles break out into
overt acts against peace and good order; and,
finally, that truth is great and win prevail flet 10
herself that she Is the proper and sufficient antag-
onist of error, and has nothing TO fear from the
conflict, unless by human nterposition disarned Of
her natural weapons, free argument and debate,
errors ceasng to be dangerous when il Is permitted
freely 10 combat them.
BE u, therefore, enacted By the General a.
senbty, That no man shall be compelled to fire.
quent or support any religious worship, place, or
ministry whatsoever, nor shall he be enforced re-
strained, moested or burdened in his body or goods
shall he otherwise suffer on account ofhis religious
opinions or belief but that all men shall be free 70
profess, and by argument TO maintain, their opin-
ions in matters Of religion, and that the same shall
in no wise diminish enlarge, or affect their civil
capacities
And though we well know this Assembly, elected
by the people for the ordinary purposes Of legis-
lation only, have power to restrain the acts Of
succeeding assemblies, constituted with powers
equal to our own and that therefore, to declare
this act irrevocabe would be of no effect in law !;
yet, free to declare, and do declare that the
rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights Of
mankind, and that IL any act shall be hereafter
passed to repeal the present, to narrow its ope-
rations, such an act win be an Infringement of
natural right.
GENTLEMENs' HAIR-DRESsING
ESTABLISHMENT.