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MISCELLANY.
[kor the independent mikss.]
from Montgomery.
Montgomery, Ala., May 2,1855.
Editors of the Press: I sit down this
hot evening to write you another letter,
Yvliich shall be the last you will receive
from me for many a day. I hope to write
Iny next, some months hence, some thousand
miles away, and that the burden of it
hiay be
r "The bnttl'.'a, sieges, dangers I have passed,
.And hair-hreadth 'seapcs in the itnmincnt deadly
breach."
I say hope, for the future is uncertain, and
though *
"Tis not in mortals to command succor,
They may do more, deserve t(."
Lest I should grow dull in the progress
of this letter, I must apologetically premise
that 1 have just returned from dinner. The
mind is the slave of the body, deriving from
n us complexion, lone anu vigor, l'nysiol?g}'
thusjar confirms the doctrine of Materialism.
I may, then, charge to the obfuscating
process of digestion any unusual
dullness I may exhibit. My frequent communications
of late may make me liable to
the charge of the "cacocthcs (correctly cocoethos)
seribendi" disease. Like the postmaster
who being removed fur "proximity,"
indignantly denied the charge, so do T. 1
do not love to write, and I will fight a duel j
wiiu anyoouy who says i do. i ablior,
loathe this thing of writing. For that
loathing I sold out chcap to you, ami quit
the abhorred business. For that loathing,
I have refused the editorship of a dozen papers,
which has been offered me. I had
rather drive a bark mill, turn a grind-stone,
or work in a tread-mill, than to be under
the compulsion to write. Write ! write !!
write!!! It used to sound to uie like tlie
unrelenting command to the Wanderinc*
O O
Jew, who, with bruised and weary feet, had
ri hundred times traversed the earth, and
was about to sink exhausted upon some
green spot to rest, when the awful sound
rang in his ear, March ! march !! march!!!
Within the last year, I have written nothing.
I say nothing, for a few articles for our city
noiw?t*u fifiA tlmca vaii linvn nn)ilScliA<l orn
the only exceptions. And hereafter I shall
be still more char}-. As for the gratification
of being lauded by the press, (not yours,
but the press in general,) it has ceased to be
an object with me. I have enjoyed flattery
in sickening profusion. It no longer soothes
my car. So you will not hear from me again
i!1 1 il . a
xiiiv11 or uiuuss uiu circumstances occur
which are indicated iu the first part of this
letter.
I was asked this morning, by a General
who did start to Cuba, if I was going there.
I told him if he had not quit taking the
Press ho would have seen that I was not.
My last letter was written to save the lives
of some of the reckless young men of the
South, who lire ready to risk them in this
fantastic adventure. Indeed most of the
letters I receive arc from young men who
think I am going to Cuba. I will give a
few extracts from some of them, merely to
show the spirit in which they are written.
Several are from Abbeville and Edgefield.
I have been surprised at the character of the
men who propose to go, some of them being
ipen of mature age, and among the first
men in those Districts:?
"Augusta, Ga.?B. L. Posey?Dear
Sir: I have just read your letter in thq
Press. Although I cannot find in the ar-,
tide any specifications of the plan, or even
an idea of the character or destination of,
the expedition; yet if it is what you declare j
if. lr> K*> fnnri T n>!v unnn vnnr iiulnrmonf\
, N j -x j ~? j
I will go with you to any country "north j
of H?11." Please give ine, as soon as
{possible, all tlie information you can.
oHrs truly, KX'i&
"S. C. College, April 24, '55.?B. L.
Vosey, E?q.?Dear Sir: Your communication
to the Press in regard to the letters
you have received, concerning the Expedition
spoken o^ is not quite satisfactory in
)ny case; (or I want to graduate here, and
. if the Company should leave before the
first of December next,' I will not bo able to
join it; and, besides, I should like: -before I
leavo to make some arrangement of my
money matters. .1 nope you > will answer
ibis as soon aa you can;*X?d>let me know
at what .time it is probablevyotji' will leave,
and, if possible, to what country you go.
MAs 1 have known you by character _for
some time, it is mpre on your account that
I go than any other, and I J^oJ>e, through
. your influence,, to obtain a. situation in
. which I may be able to do all that t Can,
for I go into-flie thing aft my hearth.
"Gb?k HBBbjloTAIa-?\V.~L, POTBti'fcggy
^.TWr Sfi? TToolnlt nntovwl !> it '
? |U,}? -JUUU1MI
p*per, copied from '0-Abbeville (S-. ft.) jv&i
per, a letter from yon, calling on the young
men of the country to engage in an enterprise
which I suppose pertains to the affairs
of Cuba with our country, and being desirous
of entering into such a scheme, I
thought it not improper to drop you a few
lines on the subject. If the project you refer
to is of this character, T would like to
enter into it, and in that case request you
to inform xne by what means we may more
fully coinmunicntc with each other. I have
for some time been desirous of aiding in
the overthrow of the power of Spain in Cuba,
and you will find me always ready- for
any enterprise that promises success.
"References can be furnished you as to
my position and character whenever it is
'.icceisary. If you have any acquaintances
in ' lis place, you can address tlicm on the
subject. I have no doubt that I can obtain
several young men in this place, if you will
give me instructions how to act about the
matter."
"Wauuentox, X. C.?13. L. Posey, Esq.
?Dear Sir: Having seen vour advertisement
for young men to go on a secret expedition,
and being desirous of engaging in
something of the sort, L address you this,
requesting tlio favor that you will give me
some little insight in regard to your proposed
Expedition. I am bv birth a Virginian,
by adoption a North Carolinian:
and having traveled nearly if not quite all
over the world, I cannot divest myself of a
disposition to go on any expedition that
may offer itself. The greater the danger,
the more anxious am I to engage in it.?
Any information you may give me will be
received as strictly confidential. Any ref-i
erence you want, 1 can give. An answer,
at your earliest convenience, is respectfully I
solicited by
"Yours, <fcc., L. U."
UFFICE OF TIIE aiEMl'HIS , JU(mj/his,
April 10,1855.?13. L. Posey?Dear
Sir: I see in the Press a letter ftom you iu
reference to an Expedition. I wish to join
an expedition. I have several times the amount
of money requisite, and can use the
influence of this paper with which I am
connected. References?James C. Jones,
U. S. Senate, F. P. Stanton, M. C., business
community of West Tennessee. I can make
some negotiations, if a good speculation offers.
Twenty-two years of age; fond of
excitement; and not afraid to light. If you
will break your rules, and answer this, you
will oblige J. S. C .
''Senator Jones is iu the oflice and tells
me to go it, lie will back me."
"Canton, Miss., April 20, 1855.?li. L.
Posey?Dear Sir: I read in the Fumiiy
Visitor flint \-nii om rv
. ??.v u.om^ a vyiiijiiiiij' IU
go to Cuba. I am very anxious to go with
you; so just sound your bugle, and I will
come to Montgomery immediately.
"Please answer this proposition immediately.
Since I wrote my last letter I have clipped
from an exchange a history of an attack on
Cuba, nearly a hundred years ago. As it
goes to illustrate my view of the subject, I
send it for publication :?
Capture o? Havana.?A writer in the
New York Mirror is showing the difference
between taking Havana on paper and
taking it vi et armis. The memories of the
filibusters are refreshed with an account of
?l.? "?
mo .IH.K.R ujiun UIU [Jintc uy Uie Jti.ll?^ll.SII Ul
1762, and its disastrous results :?"The English
fleet consisted of- nineteen ships of the
line and eighteen frigates, with various smaller
vessels of war, and some two hundred
transports, under command of Pocock, and
ten thousand soldiers, under Gen. Monckton.
The cannonade, we are told, continued
seven days: the siego had lasted twenty
days, with little hope of taking the Moro.
At this time the English received a reinforcement
of four thousand fresh troops.?
Now, inspired with new hopes, the attack
was renewed, their exertions redoubled, and
at last with success. On the twenty-second
day of this memorable siege the fort was
captured. The c;ty held out a few days,
and then surrendered, to prevent unnecessary
sacrifice of life.-?The loss sustained bv
the English army and navy was horrible.
The English historian, aware how dearly
this victory was obtained, prudently omitted
to"record the number killed and wounded.
Cotemporary writers (not English) say this
fort cost England over one thousand men."
The Moro castle is as strong now as it
was in 1762. And though the power of
Spain and the character of her soldiery have
prodigiously fallen off since then, still Havana
could not easily bo taken. Even if
the filibusters got possession of the island,
while'the Spaniards kept Havana, the conquest
of the island would be hardly begun.
CS f? 1J -*!li 1: ? ? ' ?? 1
opwii wuuiu mm ubt0 ner neet, tne Dest
harbor and strongest point in Cuba, with
the communication open, and could land
another hundred thousand men to reinforce
the garrifton, .
I waft told by a young man, the other
day, that he was invited to join an qrmy for
Ooba. He ?aid that.the force waa alfeady
;f?8ed, every offioe and the ranks filled,
eoriJ>fete and compact, of ten thousand
Weiii "" We said it wn? soon to wril.?
I disbelieve tliis tale, (not the teller,) although
I do know that one Gen. Q. is engaged
in this business. He passed here re
centlv, and dropped a hint or so.
ISut as poor Lotez said, so say I, "Adieu,
sweot Cuba!"
AVc aro in the midst of the most gloomy
circumstances. Our misfortunes come not
."An single spies, but in battalions."
Anil the cud ot' tlieni is not yet. Still there
is no rain, ami no prospect of rain. On" j
of our editors, the other day, said "it 1 .. !
forgot how to rain." The very heavens J
seem turned to brass, and the earth to ashes.
The trees are dying of the drought. The
steamboats are all stuck hard and fa?t on
(the shoals, and must stick there until it
rams. When will conic the millennium of \
j rain ? There's no joking about it?the j
times are awful. If it docs not rain soon,
| starvation will stalk like a Leviathan over
J the land. In some of the counties above
here, corn sells fur five dollars a bushel.?
Ilerc it is nominally about one dollar twenty-five,
but no body has it to sell. To add <
to our woes, the Wintkii mills, which sup-1
plied all this section, were burned down |
ni<?ht before last. This is a common calamity.
Everybody feels it. To-day meal commands
two dollars and a half a bushel, and
this morning about five bundled barrels of
flour, saved from the fire, were sold at auction
at from twelve to sixteen dollars and a
half per barrel I This is bad enough, but if
it does not rain, the thing will grow worse
everyday. Hams sell for eighteen cents;
chickens thirty-three cents. Day before
yesterdav Winter was civinir three dollars
?i bushel fur wheat. This will give you an
idea of the cost of living bore.
The loss of the Winters by the fire is
about fifty-five thousand dollars, which is
relieved to the amount of twenty-five thousand
by insurance. A part of the building,
worth one hundred thousand dollars, was
saved. They bear their loss with admirable
unconcern, and have gone undauntedly to
woik to put up the mills on a larger scale.
Whatever may be said of John G. Winter,
he has been a blessing to every place
where lie lias been, especially to this city,
llis energy, his sagacity, and the employment
of his vast fortune, have done much
for this part of Alabama. Almost at his
own exclusive expense he built, a nlnnk vr>n<1
1 1
eighty miles north of this city, reaching
nearly to Tennessee. This splendid road
the Legislature of Alabama confiscated and
took to public use, after he had spent over
two hundred thousand dollars ou it. But
for this, I do not believe lie would have allowed
the St. Mary's Batik to suspend. He
thought himself plundered by the Legislature
of Alabama, and lie knew how to get
even with them. It is true he incidentally
hurt a few bill holders out of this State, but
that was only an incident. As for the bills,
nnv^?* will lkA r<?/1nnnuMl T ocem?A
, ?< WW I VMVVII1VM* .* (kMUig liiu
holders of them they may as well burn
tbem. It cannot be denied tbat Winter
lias done much for tliis city. He has built
for it a plank road eighty miles 1 ong; he
has erected mills and manufactories worth
three hundred thousand dollars, and has increased
the population of the city two or
tlireo hundred by his employees. He has
ransacked every market for wheat and corn,
and regularly supplied the city with flour
and meal at reasonable prices, lie has kept
trie martet even and uniform, not availing
himself of occasions to extort high prices.
I heard a gentleman say that Wintkr had
saved thi$. city., one hundred thousand dollars
in.the single matter of exchanges.?
When he opened his banking house here,
exchange on New York was at 3 or 4 per
cent, premium. He reduced it to 1, and I
resisted all overtures and remonstrances!
from the other brokers to increase it. Since
. >?4- _ _ 1
then it lias remained" at or below l. He
sold in one year nineteen millions of dollars
of exchange. These are the benefits he has
done for this city, and they are worthy to
be reckoned against his faults.
When, the other tiigbt, I saw the old
man, with his whitened locks, walking amid
the ruins of hfs splendid buildings, &nd
the loss of such immense properly, unexcftod,
unmoved, and calm as a May morning,
givirtgbis well conceived orders in his clear,
emphatic tones, 1 could hot but admire the
Kakflinn*. rtf- - U/i i 'mA- 1
i/vut?f iyi vi vuv uuau* xxu to UU bUUIUIUU
man. His manners are very agreeable; Jits
conversational powers are very great, and I
have Iieard that he makes a good speech.
Hh fortune is aapposed to amount to somethingbetween
a half and ft whole million
of-dftflnnC
^ a- - %sL
I can think of nothing else to write about,
unless to attempt a description of our
town and some of its prominent mon. Our
town holds a population of about seven
thousand, and covers about as much ground
as your capital, Columbia. Iti3 built upon
a bluff of the river, and a semicircular
range of hills. Some of the streets are
high, broken, and precipitous. I think this
gives it an additional beauty. The prctt/
cottages perched upon the hill-tops, with
tlie slopes c.irpeted by a green covering of
grass, liavo a very taking look. It has less
ui mi ikiiiiuui, hi trees ana cultivated gardens,
tlian your beautiful ami pretentious
Columbia, but it lias the advantage in the
number of its elegant private mansions.?
Two of our nabobs, who were building fine
houses, made a swap, in which boot was
given to the atnouut of sixteen thousand
dollars. When that much was given as
boot, between two new unfinished buildings,
you can guess at the whole value of the
building*. This town was about five years
ia"> flif* iH'linct fmvn nr r.iftr iti
according to population. The late influx
of population lias not brought much wealth.
Tliis has reduced the average, but I have no
doubt that Montgomery is still the richest
town or city in the world. In a voting pop|
illation of six hundred, there are upwards
j of thirty persons who are worth one hundred
thousand dollars, or over one man in
! every twenty worth over one hundred thousand
dollars. Abbeville is one of the richI
est Districts in South Carolina. Just let
, <! > in.in iuis rauo 10 ins neignoorI
hood, ami see liow the account stands. It
is true, some of these fortunes were made
by "sharp transactions," and perhaps sharper
than honest. About the year of our
Lord 1839, just on the heels of "the flush
times of Alabama," everybody broke. In
1840, the Whig Congress of the United
States made up a panacea and healing plaster
for broken backs, in the shape of a bankrupt
law. These ineu took its benefits, p: id
oft' their debts at ten or tweuty cents in the
dollar, and took a new start. Now they
arc rich, and roll in magnificence.
By tho way, this place is made up of
the sharpest and shrmvdest men in the
I world. The acuminated point of a diamond
' is no sharper than their wits. Nowhere
else have I seen so much general intelligence.
Your State is nowhere in the comparison.
Our town might also have literary
pretensions, if all the talent were not ab-1
8orbed in the law. Out of that circle, however,
we have Dr. Lipscombe, who is a
match for any man. Messrs. Milliard and
Moss and Yancey have a taste for letters
not entirely drowned in the law. Mr. Milliard
unites three rather incompatible avocations?those
of lawyer, preacher, and
politician. He succeeds well in all of them.
i tt. 1 i - ?
: i_Lc uas a gooa practice at law. lluprcach^
es nearly every Sunday. lie was the niem
ber of Congress from tbis District for some
I years. Ilis present aspirations seem to be
for the next Vice Presidency, for which he
has been recommended by several papers.
Mr. Hilliaro is a very impressive and polished
rhetorician. He commenced his career
as a "saddle-bags Methodist preacher,"
and lias since been a Professor of Belles
Lettres in somo College. Some haughty
old fellow refused him his daughter when
and because ho was "saddle-bags preacher."
Parents aro not always prophets. Jeff
Davis had to run off with old Taylor's
I daughter, and Fremont with old Benton's,
simply because they were young and obscure
Lieutenauts in tho army. So the
girls arc sometimes smarter, in matrimonial
matters, than their papas. But this is off
the subject Mr. HiLLiAnb, I have no
doubt, is a devout man, yet ho has tastes
that would hardly 6uit your old-fashioned
Methodists. He has fine taste, and dresses
elegantly. To see him drive up to church
and alight from a superb carriage, behind a
flashy pair of one thousand dollar horses,
and takeout two or three pretty and showy
ladies, yon would hardly take him for the
man that was to preach. These tilings,
I howover, are only the emanations of the poetry
of his nature. Ho is no trlfler, nor
fond of levity* but is a sad, solemn; nnd
deeply contemplative man. He liasliad a
life of strange vicissitudes, nqd thfee
written a sad epic poem upon his- face. '
" I have spoken before oftho. shrewdness
onil AahMA*4M ^ -* ' * ^
>uu vajmukji ui um umouum men> as AD '
instance, ouo of them made forty thousand i
dollars U*t/year, by hisiinandild ojWratifrns;
on-hi* ctidit. His profit* tbis ,y?iir tvili
double that sum. Another, who, eighteen t
months ago, was not worth five hundred i
dollars, has, by his mere management and (
wits, made over one hundred thousand dollars,
and his fortune is increasing by an in- i
come of five hundred dollars n day. A ]
young lawyer very quietly obtained the <
management of a case, out of which he has 1
_f 1 1 ,1 < ? .t ?
signs against this government, I venture it
is to l>u found within the pale of the Romair
Catholic religion. Aud I cannot think that
<vc are true to ourselves, to our institutions,
und to our destiny, if you please, to oppose ?
party having for its principal object the deStftf
i)f Topery in the United States. It is
true, the party makes the show of a lift of
uircauy.maao iniriy^inousand dollars.
, Do'not tliese instances satisfy you of the
truth of what I have said about the sharpness
of our people ?
But this letter is already too long. In
closing it here, I bid you a long, long adieu !
Yours, truly, Ben Lane.
[kor the independent tress.]
Know Nothingism.
Sms : I know the tone and sentiuicnt of
your paper to be against most of the principles
of that party, and to demand your columns
for the publication of opinions in opposition
to that tone and sentiment, would
seem, at first glance, both arbitrary and unreasonable
; yet as a matter of pasttime,
without wishing to compromise your posi
lion or opinions, I offer you a few random
reflections, simply for what they are worth.
I am not one of the party, and lieuce
perhaps I am at liberty to discuss the thing
as it may seem commensurate with my understanding
of it. To say that it does not
merit even the most assiduous consideration
of every true citizen of this country, whose
mind is imbued with the faintest glow of
T MilnL' 4
l ?. buiun, uiijuoi) niucu llie ViUJL
number of its councils, and the almost unprecedented
increase in the list of its membership,
and that, too, in so short a time
throughout all the States of this Union. I
must repeat that it cannot bo charged with
the merit of insignificance ; but, on the other
hand, it has amongst its member a great
number of the best men of all the old political
parties of the country, to say nothing
| of those outside of the party who warmly
advocate its principles. Suffice it to say,
then, that we are not presumptuous in giving
to the subject our greatest consideration.
Well, then, what can be the great aim of the
party? What its ultimate desiderata? Is
it the overthrow of Popery and foreign influence
in the United States? To me, at
first glance, such aim seems tantamount
if not superior to all others in the manifestations
of this party, and with that aim cvt
cry truo American ought the most fully and
implicitly to agree.
j I am resolutely enthusiastic to applaud
that laudable spirit of conservatism! that recoils
at, or that would approach with extreme
caution, the sanction of so serious an
innovation upon the old established political
customs and usages of the country. For
not having peeped behind the scmin. nnr
witnessed their proceedings rosu we
arc not positively certain that there may
not lurk thero things repugnant to our republican
sentiments and fancies, and hcnce,
I say, it should be with some considerable
degree of caution, that we approach a uniform
concurrence in all the principles and
doings of that party. Its secret policy is a
radical objection, indeed the only great hobgoblin
and bugbear of the thing, whoso influence
of example, from the consideration
of its vast and rapid success, may actuate
the sudden uprising of other sects, cliques
--i ?
ciuujuni.ua, nuu luay spring upon trie country
designs inimical and even subversive of
the government But their answer to this
objection seems to be, that, as they aro battling
for the demolition of certain great influences
antagonistic of our institutions and
immunities, to forewarn would be to forearm?and
that it requires majorities to carry
any measure of legislation before the
country; and hence any sect or secret party
with designs inimical to the government
will hayc that difficulty; for it-is not rear
sonable to suppose that enough men caa.be
found, now, in the country, who would .ioin
and remain in a party having designs against
the government. I repeat that there'!are
not enough men to constitute a majority,
to be foiipd in tho country now, who would
retttaiiTiii afiy'siscret, p4Hy professing such
evil fritentioha in secret conclave. And I
presvi'melhdre is ho lione^ minded man now
intW party of Khb# Nothings, who has the
leftitibv^'of cojuhtry 1>nniing in his bosom,
.wficT^bUtd not wage a war of. exterminatioft
'against them, if "he saw in their sam**
d&t&^&opf ahy'attempt, or.even tW least,
attempt, to fasten anything
fccf-atjy inffaejioeio theUntied 8t^ q?pj?Pjict?
cvlt?r?iVe, dinbofenl?dc- '
principles ; uui when properly surveyed and!
investigated, it will be perceived that they
merely tend to subserve the one great end'
?the overthrow of tlie Roman Catholic influence
in tliis government.
Our Constitution, it is true, abjures all'religious
interference; but what if it can' be
shown that papists arc neither christians nor
citizens. The former proposition I spuriv
to debate ; but the latter, however, I will'
proceed at once to show. To become a citizen
of this republic a foreign immigrant iscompelled,
amongst other things, to swear'
his unalterable allegiance to this government,
and to be true to that oath of allegiance,
so long as he remains under it, or
l.? l.J ir ?i.~ i?i -!*i "
umvw iiv iuiiivvo uiiuevu llic IVgHl CUlZCIl OI
some other government. I say, lie must
siccur his allegiance to this government, and
in swearing that, he is in no way engaged in'
the vague fooleries of a school-boy's playBut
suppose he stands sicorn to the irrcfragible
dicta of the Pope of Romo? Of what
merit, I ask, is his oath of allegiance to our
constitution, when he can at a word be absolved
from it by the Pope? The oath of
allegiance to this government, in the requisitions
of American citizenship, is by far
above all other obligations ; but his Holi-ness,
tho Pope, has convinced his subjects
here, as elsewhere, of his utter infallibility,
and of the inviolability of the Catholic ?
oath of allegiance to the Pope, and that all
n?|l,o nni.i.l. - 1?
vm.l.o uutcius ui iiiu lkuumu v^uiuoiic religion
arc at oncc nugatory and worthless?
And I have not the least doubt, myself, if
tliey are perfectly worthless so far aaooBcorns
tlieir fealty to this gorernment.
Well, then, with what sort of face own aCatholic
immigrant take the oath of allegiance
to this government? Is it not at once
apparent that he wears upon his face ther
stain of peijury as big as the moon ? And
of what, let me ask, is such a citizen>oapable
? .
"Treason, stratagems and tpoilL"
Let us, in this connection, allow ouneIvo?
a slight squint at the Pope's last bullto tho
Bishops and Priests of the United States,
and wo can at once determine how far they
nro offo/'fft/l K?* *1?A l^ti
?mv M4?vvvvu WJ IUU lyliai IliO ui IIJ19 rupuuif
can government.?IIo says : "General'edo-cation
promotes infidelity, and checttfr the progress
of Catholicity; bible societies are
engines of mischief; the freedom)of'the
press is a most foul plague; liberty of" con~
science a prolific source of heresy and' crime-, w
Demolish these, and Catholicism has no- ^
thing to fear in the United States;" Yes, ?
demolish these, and the American' government
is demolished, and the republican
guaranties of its constitution are blown<to ^
the winds. Without making any very luminous
professions of the faculty of vatScfnaa!
T .'l
null, x win, ior tins once, oiler you* ftteprog- > ' i
nostic that, unless tho American people oppose
to the death by all and every means
in the world, not only the doctrines-contain^'
cd in that bull, but even the sect by wbfeft;
such doctrincs, in this country, are entertained,
the glories of this repubfie> in less
than fifty years, "will be seen throogh that.
medium that lends enchantment to the view"
It is curious to me that we shoald hag to
our bosoms, and endow with equaT political
privileges, a great sect who, under the
guise of a christian denomination, are secretly
striking at the very foundation of dor v. i
institutions?a sect who have sworn eternal*
nllegianco to tho most arbitrary and despbff"
io ipac dixita of'tlie Pope?who ayre 9wor*?,
and bel^ve, from Jhe very strongest prejudU * -* '
(^sofoducatiorii Cbi^tbe P?p& is tfo vic^gwgent
of God on ihfe earth/and the oi?Iy medium
through which the mandates, dccrees,
and will of high heaven can be mtetl - ' upon
any of the whole huijian race?-aseet' ' J
who, in all jiroo paat, in tbchilWry '
worldy have been mdst cruel, ntrocloiw, and
unflinching enemies to civilization;'
tiapity, and to cons^itution^rfre^om, Sire,'
the time has arrived whel^oor itspHfeHettw
ism should make the most august and
vinclng dem onstratioas of the superior aj&
tr&fo&fcfeni of wfcich 4tvi|.ooair?
fcfttie jWtfotylr* ? ?' . ^
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