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* ¦ ' ¦ . Blasphemy-Law in United States of America.
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Philadelph itt , Sir , August 28 , 1822 . IN p . 224 of the Monthly Reposi tory for this year , an article ap peared , signed " Grainaliely" contain
ing the following extract from Wm . Cobbett ' s Register for 2 nd February last : " In the year 1819 , a man was tried in New Jersey , under the act of King WilUam III ., for impugning- the
Holy Trinity , found guilty , and punished by imprisonment in the common gaol . " Assuming the fact to be as thus stated , your correspondent expresses
a wish that you may be furnished with some particulars j and makes such comments as would only be , proper were the truth of what is alleged estftblished by satisfactory evidence .
If such an occurrence had really happened , so extraordinary and unprecedented would it hare been , that it could not have failed . to curate a general and strong excitement Our newspapers would have circulated the news from one end of the United
States to the other , and comments would not have been sparingly made . Unitarians * more especially * ( of whom I am one , ) could not hatre > # ee ^ indifferent to so alarming an attack on their religious freedom . But , happily , the news comes to ua from , the other
side of the Atlantic , instead of the other side of the river Delaware , which divides the city of -Philadelphia from the state of New Jersey , ; . apd it is not a little suspicious , that neither the place where this trial was had , the
name of the offender , nor any particulars relative to the court , jury , proceedings , &c , are given Jf > y W > n . Cobbe tt , though enough is . asserted for the purpose of defamation , . * . It might be sufficient t ^ tofarm your readers * that this mw ^ inds on thfc * records of the Suprem ^ Couit of Kenftsylvania as a tiboUaJviti coiiaequence
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of the verdict of a jury , and after a fair and full investigation . But I have the pleasure to be able to inform your readers , that the 18 th and 19 th Articles of the Constitution of the Pro * - vince , now State of New Jersey , make effectual provision for the religious
liberty of all persons , and that , undeithis constitution , those of every Protestant sect , who demean themselves peaceably , are equally eligible to ounces of trust , power and authority ; whether executive , judicial or
legislative ; neither is there any law of New Jersey under which a prosecution could be maintained for denying * the Trinity , or any other supposed doctrine ot Holy Scripture . The constitution would be a dead letter cU $ it not abrogate whatever is inconsistent with its spirit and express provisions sions
. . About two or three years ago , several persons were prosecuted , convicted and punished by the Mayor ' s Court of Philadelphia , for uttering profane and contumelious language , to the gTeat annoyance of people who were returning from their place of worship ; and , on the part of the defendants , much
was said about religious liberty , the rights of conscience , piersecution , &c ; but the court very properly said , that , on their own principles , they ought to suffer , because they could not plead conscience for disturbing the peace and interfering with the rights of others . I have never heard of any
person suffering from the civil power in consequence of maintaining and ^ endeavouring to propagate his religious opinions . But , then , this license must not be abused for th ^^ feiyp ' ose of uttering profane arid iiripPpi ribaldry . JAMBS TAYLOR . • . - ¦ * ¦ . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/1/
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