The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-21
BALTIMORE.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1853.

w ElDN ESDA VI - ASO~'
IF uCivilization, on her luminous wings" has
tokon n wider sweep in the Nineteenth century
than has been attained in the previous ages OF The
world. and if the light of truth is now shining
with an intenser and still increasing glow; yet,
,rfortunatelv experience will not permit us to be
foo sanouine in the belief that exploded errors will
retnrn to trouble us no more. Departed false
hoods NAV return again, as hoops have done; and
truths apparently as permanent as the fashion,
of mems hats, may be derided and eventually
disappear. The occult philosopher DR.. DEE,
whose chief disciple was the good Queen Bess,
solved futurty for himself about three hundred
years ago, and his dreaded powers soon came to
be cassed, by succeeding generations, with those
attributed to the luckless witches whom they had
wisely ceased to burn. But within the memory
of our fathers the successors of that renowned
stroloper are said to have been not without their
influence upon the great NAPOLEON, and the vota-
ries of the starry science are pursuing it with
considerable profit to-day. The mysteries of the
Roscrucians have like an unsubstantial pageant,
faded; but Spiritualism now claims the vacant
tripod, and summons the ETHEREAL essences of other
worlds to manifest themselves through the visible
forms of earth. The wild fanaticism of MUNSTER
had its day of power and the mailed Bishops,
who crushed and cursed it, certainly never
dreamed of its resurrection in the wilderness of
Utah
;"It is mad world, my masters"
To those who desire fully to comprehend the
spirit that animated the Missionaries of olden times,
the Illustrations which the present offers will af-
ford material assistance. The fanatical dogmatism
for instance, of the ultra Jewellers or Independents
of CRoMwELLs era, will be better understood after
n pcrusa of the proceedings, on Independence day,
of Mr.. LLOYD GARRISON and his congeners, as re-
ported in the Boston LiJerator. These men, and
masculine women, assembled on what they called
"a day of transparent Hypocrisy for the purpose
of expoundmg their own peculiar notions, which
purpose they accomplished as is usual with them,
through windy and abusive TRADES against the per-
sons and opinions of all who differ with them
They thanked Cod that the American FLAG was
not then 'waving over their heads" and this was
the only sentiment uttered on that day which any
rational man will be likely to endorse. The dead
came in on this occasion for full share of the
oboquy that was melted, without stint, to the liv-
ing. The "wickedly compromising spirit of
HANCOCK and HAMILTON was bitterly deplored and
stgmatised, and the way was pointed out in which
WASHINGTON and others should have walked, and
by so doing have escaped the "merited derision and
indignant reprobation of q witnessing universe"
The trainers of our Constitution, say these immac-
ulate reyilers substituted "a selfish expedency for
the higher law" by acquescence in which the
&C., c;r -
can never rid itself until it discovers ''thc unhal-
lowed Union" Not content with the means of
agitation of home manufacture which they are
able TO command, they would import weapons from
abroad for this internecine strife. After taking
the 'London Times' sharply to task for its ''dar-
ing defiance of the moral and religious sentiment
of the people of England" they loudly invite the
press of that country 10 demonstrate against the
fearful completely of the American church, with
the 'sum Of all yilainies,n and finally invoke the
'friends of humanity to help them by 'dircct pc
cuniary aid cast into the treasury of the Amer
lean Anti-Slavery Society" 1t will be seen
by those who trouble themselves to read
the orations and resolutions put forth at this
meeting, that instead of sane discussion or
thoughtful investigation of the subject be
fore it, or any practical suggestion i'll regard
thereto, there only frantic appeals to religion
higher law, and vehement denunciations of
all who dissent from the tenets of GARRISON and
his associates. Not only must all our courses be
directed by ecclesiastical dogmas but il is insisted
that those alone which are furnished by this infa-
bic synod are Of any worth Now these persons
insignificant as they are certainly derive subsan-
tial support from people who have somewhat more
sense than they. Their numbers, too are slowly,
but perceptibly increasing. Like all monomaniacs
they are insensibe to abuse and impervious to
ridicule 1t never occurs to their selfsatised minds
if any they have, to doubt about their theories
What matters it to them that thousands of good and
virtuous men have held as many various views upon
all the leading doctrines of morals and religion-or
have they not THEODORE PARKER for a teachcr?-
What care they whether WASHINGTON and ADAMS
could accord in the settlement oan absruse political
problem-for docs not WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, of
Boston, differ from them both? The wise and
earnest thinkers who for twenty centuries have
been struggling with the still unsettled questions
affecting our duties and our rights are all ignored
in the oracular presence of Lucy n. CoLMAN and
SARAH P. REMoND. A blind and rampant fanati-
csm like this, does not pause before the mere bar
rers of truth and justice. 1t be retarded only
where these are defended by men who willing
persistently to do battle for the right OF course,
anything that We might say would be wholly in
efectual. 1t must be attacked within the circle of
its already acquired influence. Unless this be
done, there is no prophet who can now read its
future Alright, for from still smaller beginnings the
world has often witnessed the development of mo-
mentous and sad results.