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ticj&l reading . Let those teach them who are qualified , but who will not descend to illegality , and who have neither wealth enough to become proprietors , nor servility enough to be the agents , of a trading speculation in public instruction . One of the nappiest results of the proposed repeal would be the establishment of journals devoted to the dissemination of knowledge and of principles . The French newspapers have much more of this character than ours possess , chiefly because the taxation upon them is comparatively light . Most of the ablest and best public men of France &re or have been connected with newspapers . The advantage to trade and commerce of a repeal of the advertisement duty is vet more obvious than that to literature . In America ^
business advertisements are in the proportion of forty to one to what they are in England . Announcements are made for a few pounds , which here cost hundreds . The direct good , in the promotion of religion and morality , would be incalculable . Ignorance and crime have always been associated , and always will . And while the general influence of knowledge upon the manners and enjoyments of the people is undeniable , why should not the advocates of theological truth and moral principle be allowed to £ V&il themselves of such powerful machinery as that of a newspaper to second the efforts made from the pulpit , and to promote the same objects in many ways which , in the pulpit , cannot be employed at all ? In America all religious bodies , Episcopalians , Presbyterians , ' Catholics , Independents , Methodists , Baptists ; Unitarians , have their newspapers ; some have several ; none we believe fewer than two . Here the attempt has been made , but with very unpromising success ; nor can anything effectual be done till at least the stamp be taken off . Then they would immediately appear ; and can there be a doubt of their great utility ? :
A plan has been submitted to his Majesty ' s government for allowing the transmission of printed papers by post at the rate of one halfpenny for a sheet of printing demy paper , accompanied with calculations tending to show that , at least so far as the stamp is concerned , a much larger revenue might be realized than would be relinquished . We trust it will receive their immediate attention w hen the necessary means shall have been resorted to for securing the Reform Bill . In the disposition of some members of the Cabinet we have the firmest confidence . But We cannot rely on their power even in so simple , expedient , and righteous a measure as this . It ought not to be a question of revenue at all . There is unhappily too much reason ^ in the history of these taxes , for the inference , that raising the revenue was not so much in the hearts of the imposers as restricting the information . And in their dread of the extension of political information , the repression of knowledge connected with art , science , and religion passec } unheeded ) There is yet enbugh of { hat bad spirit left in high
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 270, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/54/
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