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the following indignant effusion ; c < Ah ! doctor , if this be your Christianity , you really have no reproaches to cast on the
heathens ; their stories concerning thviv fighting , wounded ? and bleeding godsj arc not a whit more absurd than yours , concerning the mighty Creator dying for the sin of the creature I ru > r will an
impartial mind discover any thing more gross in their description of the Infant Hercules at the breast of Juno , than in ifou follewing couplet of jour ' s ;
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Mil . DILLWYN ON THE CIVILIZATION OF THE INDIANS IN KOKTII AMERICA .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Ipswich , 11 Mo . 8 , 1808 . Observing in a late number of the Repository , some strictures on the conduct of the people called Quakers , in relation to their recent endeavours for the
civilization of the Indians in North America *; imputing to them an arrogant pretension to the exclusive merit of the benevolent at-
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6 D 2 Mr . Dillvtyn on the Civilization of the Indians .
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" This Infant is the Mighty God ; Come to be suckled and ador'd . " Your ' s , &c . ANTITRIN I l A III A N ..
P . S . In case of your inserting the above , I may at a future op . portunity transmit to ) ou another lot of Trinitarian Paradoxes , collected from Hervey ' Descant uru on Creation ; but I fear that some
of your readers will be disposed to compare me to the spider that is said to collect poison from the very same flowers from which the industrious bee sucks his honey .
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tempt , I request room for the following observations , founded on a more intimate acquaintance than the author ( J . Brookes ) seems to possess , with the history of the transactions alluded to .
In offering them I should have been much assisted , had J * B * specified the particular passages f on which he grounds the charge ,
* These endeavours are the subject of two Pamphlets ; one entitled "A Brief Account of the Proceedings of the Committee , appointed in the year 1795 * by the
Yearly meeting of Friends of Pennsylvania , New Jersey , < 3 tc . for promoting the improvement and gradual civilization of the Indian natives . "—Philadelphia , printed ; JLondon , re-printed by Phillips and Fardon , George Yard , Lombard Street , 1806 : —the other , " A Brief Account of the Proceedings of the Committee , appointed by the Yearly Meeting of Friends , held in Baltimore , for promoting the improvement and civilization of the Indian Natives . " Baltimore , printed ^ X ^ ondon reprinted , as the fotmer .
-f This he has wholly neglected to do , and I am unable to discover any such passages . On > the other hand , I find that the Report of the Pennsylvania Committee opens thus : " The committee after freely conferring on the objects of their appointment , and carefully considering the means most likely to promote them , believed it proper to learn the disposition of the various tribes in the vicinity of this State , and prepare their minds for the reception of the intended
aid . With this view , circular letters from the Committee were , in 179 6 , addressed to various tribes ; accompanied with one from the Secretary of State , expressive of the appiobation of the executive government of the United States . ' j \ h this passage shews that the undertaking was not without the early countenance of th « government , so another gives due credit to the views of the President . I £ I- " ' , part of an Address from the Deputation of the Baltimore Committee to a Coins-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 602, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/26/
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