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deoee , good treatment at inns recently erected . " After all , Mr . Editor , emigration to America is such a serious matter , that a man should well examine himself respecting the turn of his own mind ,
his temper , disposition and circumstances , and obtain the best information respecting the precise spot he has in view . The correspondent of I . W . sets out with a sensible remark on this
subject , which , had he kept in mind , would have prevented him from writing tome of the mis-statements oh which I have thought it my duty to animadvert . After stating— " America is not what the publications of England made ine suppose it to be , and still less does the Western country answer my
expectations , " he adds , " perhaps , the error was not theirs who wrote , but in my keeping English scenery , English manners and English society too much _ -m Mi ¦ » w » ^ L La ^ BV V « mI « 4 » J- » J M I " J ^ fc . ^ L Lk j + * M s ^ WA . rf ^ fc - ^ a ^ rf ^ . - * -rfJ in thoughts To this add
* * * my . * ' I may , there are persons who have emigrated to America , who find that they are as unhappy there as they were in their own country . Some who are averse to labour , and fond of a luxurious life , have found to their cost , that America
is not the country for them . Of persons of this description , one of the principal settlers at the Illinois lately exclaimed , " What are these people come here for } " They remind one of Dr .
Franklin ' s emigrants , who expected to find " America the land of promise , in which the streetB are paved with peck loaves , and the fowls , ready roasted , flying about , crying , Pray eat me I "
Ihe letters from three apparently respectable persons of the Society of Friends , from the Illinois , inserted in your last , already referred to , rendef * ' assurance" respecting the general correctness of the statements of Mr .
B . and my ^ brother , € f doubly sure . " How superior do those writers appear to their friend , who so charitably dooms B . and hid writings to the flames , and who doubtless would throw
my brother , who is certainl y chargeable with the same crime or giving a favourable account of the Illinois , with his writings , into the same fire , to increase the blaze ! It is well I . W .
has kept the name of this inflammatory Quaker a secret , as he may rest assured the whole fraternity would be ashamed to own him . In the communication of 11 . F .. in *
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serted in your last , he observes , " I have not written many letters to my friends in England , because I was determined not to state any thing on presumption , or of mere opinion , but only matters of fact , which must stand uncontradicted , and bear the test of
examination / ' It is to be regretted that there are others who have pursued a different course . I hope , however , they will in future be more cautious ; but if they are determined to libel persons whose characters for veracity
are yet unimpeached , they will at least affix their names to their libels ; and I further hope , that persons of respectability in this country , will be equally cautious of circulating incorrect or calumnious effusions , which reflect disgrace on the writer , and no great honour on the circulator .
As truth , fairness and impartiality are the only objects I have in view in this communication , I will not detain your readers by offering any apology for what I have written .
BENJ . FLOWER . P . S . I wish I . W . had informed us of the publication in which the account of the " three cases of Hindoo conversion is lately given in all the pomp of language and all the littleness of zeal . " I perfectly agree with him in
his remark respecting our missionary schemes , most of which have been marked with bigotry , folly , mismanagement and deception . Partial good may have been done by Missionary Societiesbut 1 that the
, can scarcely hope great Governor of the world will honour the professing Christians of this country as his instruments in accomp lishing the grand event predicted by inspired prophets in language the most sublime—the conversion of the
Heathen wor ^ d—till they understand and practise Christianity much better themselves ; although I confess that from what is now passing before us—when Queens are made the instruments of reviving the spirit of libert y , and standing armies , of restoring the rights of man—that the same sovereignty appears in the dispensations of Providence as of Grace !
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Sir , JTHHE writer of the essay , entitled JL " An Attempt to distinguish between Genuine and Spurious Christianity , " [ pp . 448—452 aiut 525—
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666 The Canonical Gospels the support of Unitdrian Christianity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 666, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/38/
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