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Gogmngog en the Clergy , Himself \ and the Press . 493
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
sir , London , Sept . 3 , I 808 . I think it a duty to make my earliest acknowledgments to your
correspondent Mr . Wright , for his information concerning the reported " horrid clerical farce , " and particularly for the obliging manner in which it is
communicated . It is the habit of my country * to feel grateful for favours as well as to r sist injuries . A&d . favours are to me doubly valuable at the hands of an order of men ( to which I presume Mt . Wright belongs ) whose sacred function commonly elevates them
above a regard to the homely duties of civility and courtesy . I have often wondered that the chrg i / i and especially the dissenting clergy ( as I , a layman , nuibt
* I have before confessed myself a Cambro-Briton .
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say with all due respect , ) have never seen that tiie true way to gain the sway over men ' s minds is to treat them with kindness : however , for ray part , I owe them ( as far as I have known
them , ) thanks for their haughti * ness and tyranny , for had I ex * perienced from them candour and condescension I should have been melted into obsequiousness , and should probably have been priestridderi } the whole of my days .
1 was much amused with the remarks made by my acquaints ancvs on my last letter , few of them having any suspicion of my bvin" t ' xe aulhor , for I have made all my friends readers of your Repository , and . some who at first thought it a heavy work are now
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Delaware Indians ; and I understood from them that the Quakers had had a legacy left them of the sum of 5000 L to be applied towards civilizing the Indians , and that contributions had been made among them to extend and increase this useful work .
1 believe that the conduct of the United States in this matter is independent of the Quakers , and that it was contemplated by Congress before they began to do
any thing therein , for we see Washington recommended it to their attention as far back as 1791 ; and it is usual to refer every part of the President ' s
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speech , to a committee , who re . ports thereon to mthe house : but as I am not in possession of the Journals of the house , I cannot state what reports were made from 1791 to 17 96 .
With this view of the subject , I think the writer in the Monthl y Repository , vol . iii , p . 287 is under a uistake , in saying , that the government has granted an aid
for this purpose ^ which it has committed to the same benevolent society , which has so judiciously led the zcay in this interesting work . I remain your well-wisher , JOSHUA BROOKES .
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GOGMA 6 OG Otf THE CLERGY , HIMSELF , AND THE PRESS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 493, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/37/
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