Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-15

appoiuted from the beginning. He is
TOO insidious ever to be hindered by
barriers set mp to prevent his egress and
inpress where BE listeth. Pfoteau iu
shane, when prohibited in one form, he
assumes a mors-nnsHspeeted aHd dam
gerous counterfeit gpresentment Let
aim have his say as God and nature
means he shall, aud he will defeat his |
own ends as OF old in Eden, when man |
became "as one of US knowing good |
and evil through his Vaccinations. |
Deny him his legitimate freedom, and |
the inevitable Consequences is untold ca
lamity, commissions, distractions and I
revolutions We have no fears of the |
destiny and choice of mankind, when !
and astolerant freedom be- !
comes the rule and not the exception;
and God saw what he had ma lie, and de-
clared "it was very good" Are our
worthy friends disposed to contradict
him2 Was not the Devil one OF. the
existences created in the beginning.
and was he not included in the expires
siens Every good 2" We read of no
exception to the sweeping commends,
don. But man began. toleutorce Proyi-
Dental arrangements of his own inyen 4
ton, which he yet continues, and the ma
tions still constantly suffer the lsmenta
Bile consequences.
As much as possible, crimes against
the person, possessions and individual,
should be the only objects of law and
punishment on mr.
All that governments or societies have
to do is to afford facilities for obtaining
the requisite knowledge for the capacity
Of choosing. Thenleav the result to
God. Nature affords the meaus of grati-
flying every propensity. She provides
pitfalls for those who are determined to
jump into them Who shall say, who
has the privilege of saying, he knows it
is not ths method appointed to extin-
guish unfsvorable influences, that the
destru ction of individuals is not essen
tial to harmonious development? It. is
so in the inaDimate and insensate creal
ton. Who has sufficiently intimate
acquaintance With the designs of Provi
dence, as to presume to say it is not
the order of nature towards mankind2
History, the laws of nature, and of the
Word, are all opposed to the proposition
that it 10 not.
From anything we have said, certain
ly no one can Justly accuse US of advo-
eating that every one should pluck the
forbidden fruits for themselves. God
forbid We only contend that unlimited
access should be afforded to ell opin-
ions, to everything that can determine,
chd individuals may learn from the
resulsg end records of Others plucking.
But it seems as if communities and ma
tions cannot learn in any other manner
than by their own bitter experience
Certainly, If exam pies were sufficient,
an abundance of these are before them,
of contemporary and in he records of
past, ages. The pages of history are
but the records of ~
ssSuch waste and havoc as tbs idoIAters, .,.- .4f
Which from the low lights OF mortality
Shot up their shadows TO the heaven OF beavers,
nd worship their own darkness an the high 81
Gash myself, priest, and honor the brute, Baal,
Ana to thy worst self saoriice thyseIE
For with thy worat self thou hast clothed thy
God" ~ ssHM az k##Nfe 8eFe "a
The true believer in nature aud the.
Word cannot think otherwise than as q
freeman, and 90 the advocate of free-.
dom. Tyraanical institutions are the
breeders of general despotism. They
cannot exist long in the n1idst of a really
free people, frae in opinion, expression
and political action. The genial prin-
ciples of the revelation of naturalalaw
generates charity, fraternity and every
Christian virtue. Free and tolerant in.
terchaDge of investigation. is iujmical
to bigotry, cruelty and all uncharitabie-
ness. a people intelligent, and ed
ucated under laws based on these
| principles, cannot be intolerant and
tyrannical, or they could not
be the principles of nature and its reve-
lation. However, it is still true of as,
as .ot-all Others in greater degree, thai
many of our ideas and habits of thought,
as well as institutions, are derived from
osher systems and ages, and are quiteins
consistent with our declaration and con-
stitntion. Many sections. ot. our COM
munities could, therefore, yet be cruel
shigots, unfair dispensers of justice aud
liberty of acquisition, but it is to be an
ticipated they shall yet be .assimilated,
should we continue to perfect our system
and habits towards a direct derivation
fromthese original and only true theories.
None of the ancient Republics or De
mocracies understood them. Not one.
They were classic Democracies, class
ic Republics. Fables of versi6ers tell
US tales, but their freedom was not.
Scepicism need not boast. Neither it
nor any form of paganism ever under
stood the principles Of freedom, or ever
/ produced nation of freemen-neyer.
Let them remember, also, that they are
Christian skeptics. Perhaps it would
be more proper to say that theirs is the
| nnbeiief of Christians. The Bible has
been open to them, and they. have been
in contact with every advance and every
thought of biblical nations Their only
positive principles are found in the
book, while their negative notions may
have been engendered by corrupted in.
| depreciation aud the melancholy history
of its consequences.s~ Believers should
also remember that charitable construc-
tions and feelings are not designed to
be confined to their peculiar brethren.
1t is meant to be as wide in its scope as
the world, and to enfold mankind They
have not more warrant, for instance. to
question the honest intentions, the ear
nest good will to mankind of Paine in
his opposition to revelation, than to
doubt the earnestness of his determined,
efficient and sunequivocal advocacy of
equal rights. He was no monster, a,
-hypoerite, an Intentional rascal in reli-
gion, and an honorable man in politics
and all other relations to his fellow-man.
Let them not ignore thef facts of history,
sanT that the records of erroneous faith
are quite sufficient to beget doubt and
unbelief of the truth ofrthe source of
their assumed derivation. Char
sity covereth a. multitude of sins"
and should not with selfish bieot.
~, be reserved for the brethren; neither
must our in6del friends forget that they
have exhibited as hstle true comprehen.
sion in practice of reward and natural
principles of freedom in the only in
stance OF their accession to power, as
ever did churchmen. They we're as in
tolerant, as cruel and tyrannicsl. We
kDow tho rririk fhov ore vof nf Thav4