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& $ flrn t at . npori-fay , that ministers * among the Dissenters yield to no clefgiV whatever ; and as to the raiu it is the vital principle of the Dissenters to choose their teachers , of whose fitness they are v t | ie sole j udges . " To take this li-* Iberty put of their hands is to unmake them * 'l- If Lord Sidrnouth had prevail-* ed f what would have been the event with respect to
unceriificated teachers , with whom the land Would , judging fr ° all history , liave still abounded ? The goals would have been filled with them ! Arid yet we have been rebuked for asserting that trie Toleration
was in danger , and charged with calumny in representing Lord Sulmouih ' s as a persecuting measure . ^ fhfe ' first lesson of a good education is to teach us to call things by their right names ; and I must
ever reckon it a strange and mischievous blander to rank in the $ aipe class tjie Sidmouths ( if more than £ > nis of the species can be found ) and the Erskines , Stan , hopes arid Hollands of the age . VINDEX ,
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Lord $ idtnouth and the Dissenters . Sir ' , July 25 , 1812 . I perceive by the report of the proceedings in the Hou ^ e of Lords yesterday , th ^ t a Noble Lord , whose lucubrations on the
Toleration Act , attracted no small notice touring the l ^ Lst year , is again generously anxious for the reputa ! tioii o ( hon-conformist teachers ; pdffr&j ) s gra te ful for the compli-HieKts B / 6 has received from emi-1 iierit irMiyklij ^ s ; of that body , llis I 6 r ^ hib still contends that a
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prtac ^ ei shbuhT ; te ^ g fetf ) procure te ^ H monials . These are not to satisfy his hearers ' , but tie stat e * whi ^ h bestows u ^ pn him the boon of religious toleration , for religious libtrty has not yet a
chapter among the laws pf Eog . land . This Noble Lord yras ^ on <; e Speaker of the House of Corp . mons . In that capacity he liad few opportunities of d ^ cirssifig legislative measures . He h a ^ s , however , recorded the true
character of his professetiriiberality and regard For public morals , pn a great occasion . I hav ^ now b efore me " The Debate on a Motion for the Abolition of the Slave Trade , in . the House of Commons , 2 d April 179 ^ reported in detail by WoodfalL" In that
debate the late Lord Melvijle proposed his scheme of gradual abo * lition * , He was powerfully supported by Mr . AdiiWgtori , who , like Mr * Dundas ^ pro fessed abhorrence * of the ISlave Trade , as it was called , though /* he added , " it Certainly did not deserve that name . " Mr . A . then suggested that this trade might be " permitted to exist fora few years lonoer , possibly eight , ten , or twelve / ' and in the mean tjme
recommended a greater encouragement to the , importation of females thanmalts ^ by trieans of a > bounty on the former , or by sub * Jecting the latter to a heavier
duty , ( P . 113 . ) Thus humanely this jciirator of public morals ybijld . 'lfiave legislated for the most helpless portion of a race more powerless ; than even the pig-drivers and chimney * sweepers whom Lord Sjc ^ moutri would bave cpjdsigued to Vilence .
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504 Juord Siamoufh and tne Di 'ssenters
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1812, page 504, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1751/page/28/
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