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year position before yfwt require us to adopt it . Recollect , too , tfcat never did persecutor arise , who insisted not ok this very plea ; who mis not actuated by this panic fear , either rfe&l or artificial . It is even " the tyrant ' s plea , " and should not be lightly used by men who are desirous of breathing" the air of Freedom . The public security and welfare , will , no doubt , require that punishment be executed
upon crime ? but where in the case before us is the crime s though the punishment is sufficiently notorious ? Independently on statute law , no modification of Nonconformity can be criminal : and statute law has pronounced it void of crime . * It has been alleged , f that the allotment of offices and honours in the State is matter of favour , of discretion . Be it so , in regard ta the selection of the individuals , on the part
of the executive government . After all , what is this allegation to the purpose ? Our present question concerns a legislative act : and substantial justice , not favour and discretion , will surely be the basis of the proceedings of a British Parliament I ** But civil ineligibilities are created by means of limitations of age , of property , of local situation . " Here , again , the eases are not analogous : and this
pka for incomplete toleration is overthrown . If unripened years , if insufficient property , if a specific residence , make me incapable of a given office , still , time , or the act of my own will , or the exertion of my own industry , may remove these obstacles . My religious sentiments are not thus under my controul . And do you ask me to sacrifice them to any earthly
considerations ? Do you punish me for refusing such a sacrifice , and leave me without hope of an amendment in my civil situation ? When the claims of Christian equity are fully understood and obeyed , no such attempts will be put forth to render men " either hypocrites or martyrs . " N .
* Furneaux ' s Letters to Blackstone , ( 2 d ed . ) pp . 277 , 278 . t Btackstone ' s Commentaries , fed . 15 5 ) W . 52 .
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Art . Hv- * Tke FMoi * of Ltos dams * and other Poems . By Emily Taylor-ISejio . pp . J 3 & Tayioi * and Hessey- 1 & 25 . 6 $ .
ADOPTING the popular opinion , sanctioned by Robertson , that Las Casas was the original proposer ofN the African Slave-Trade , from motives of humanity towards the oppressed aboriginal Americans , Miss Taylor ex ^
hibits in successive visionary scenes the principal occurrences of his eventful life , with suitable moral and Christian reflections and anticipations of the future state of the new world and the African race . The author
makes no attempt to form an interesting- story , or to create new incidents . Her power , of which she is conscious consists in easy description and the expression of intense feeling , of both which many striking examples may be selected from € t The Vision . "
The discovery of America is announced in the following stanzas : f € —There rides a bark in triumph o ' er the wave ! Her full sails catch the home-breeze
joyfully : Joy to the glorious heroes ! to the brave Who tried the perils of that unknown sea !
What though the closing waves indignantly Reject the marks of man ' s far-spreading sway , The conquest is achieved !—by thine , and thee , Dauntless Columbus ! is the dubious
way UnlockM , display'd at once—all darkness turn'd to day ! How beautiful she comes ! Her errand peace And joy , and tidings of a world newfound ! Well may the toils of wonted labour
cease ; Well may the countless thousands throng around , And Grief forget her sufferings ! — Hark ! the sound
Of hallelujahs , glorifying Him Whose hand hath framed the earth ' s extremest bound , And , as the light of ancient worlds grows dim , Bids us at other fanes the lamp of Science trim .
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Review . - ~* Mi $ 8 * Pa $ o * 8 Vision of ^ Las Casas . 685
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 685, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/45/
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