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and of dooming Negroes , once enslaved , to hopeless bondage ; and this " system" he vowshis determination to defend to the end of life , against the damnable and cursed doctrine of Wilberforce and his hypocritical allies ; " and he expresses a firm hope
that " his birth in Heaven would be as exalted as his j" meaning the gentleman just mentioned . This is the substance of the letter ; and you will not fail to
notice its profaneness and malignancy . But on these points it would be painful'to dwell , and they should never have been even alluded to by me , had not the author been so publicly and officiously represented , not only as u the greatest of THeroes , " ( an honour which I readily concede to him , ) but also as " the . best of Christians . " This is the very language of a
poetical satynst whose work is just come wet into my hands * ; and you cannot have forgotten that it was also the language of most of the divines who published their Thanksgiving Sermons on Dec . 5 , 1805 ; the language particularly of our Dissenting Minister S ) whose discourses on that occasion , I shall
preserve for my children ' s children , as a proof of the degeneracy of those times , and ( to use the language of Junius ) as a salutary negative instruction for them and their posterity . One of these war-loving orators expressed himself unable to reconcile it to the goodness of God that so much piety joined to so much bravery should be suffered to perish .
I will allow , Sir , the possibility of these divines being in absolute ignorance of the character of the man whose virtues they panegyrised in terms which must have been displeasing to Heaven if those virtues had been real ; I will allow that in their abstraction from the world , they might never have heard the history of the Neapolitan Revolution ; I will allow that their ears might have been always closed to tales of gallantry ^ as the world denominates a loose intercourse with the sex : I wil !
allow all this ., and what is the amount of the concession , but that we must hold them to have been ignorant , even beyond the common measure of ignorance , in order to admit them to have been honest ? To relieve their discourses from the odious charge <> f hypocrisy , we are reduced to the sad necessity of branding them with the mortifying reproach of folly .
I feel , Sir , that ihis \ s , as I remarked , a painful subject ; but who occasions this uneasiness ; the authors of these wretched flatteries , or I , who have pointed out their baseness , in order to prevent the rcpet . ition of them , and to bring if possible these « khiding , and I would hope deluded , teachers to a better * ' -All the Talents . "
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Gogmagogyon Lord Nelsons Piety , He . 203
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/35/
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