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the patriotism which in the warm mameht of triumph looked to the moral good and future liberties of his country , which have covered him with deserved and virtuous fame : abstracted from this conduct , succens alone would have gained him little in the eyes of the impartial and the good . As to the imputation of
cowardice , which our author has attributed to the Americans in their revolution , we might answer him in his own words— " he excites our smiles . " 1 am no defender of war in any case , but acting on the degree of light and knowledge they possessed , the resolution and independence of the American character is
too well known and too highly respected in this country by all the friends of freedom and virtue , to be endangered iu its reputation by criticism such as this . As to their success being assisted by the aid of the French and the divisions of the English , we would simply ask , where is the human success which is not more or
less dependent on fortuitous circumstances ? The best-directed schemes , the most persevering endeavours , still depend for ultimate success on a variety of events over which the actors have no control ; and it is only with weak minds that to fail is to incur disgrace . It was
not because Napoleon failed , that he incurred shame aud censure ; it was because his failure stript him of the false glare thrown around his actions , and exposed them in their true light to the world ; it was because they would not bear examination . The Americans hare not
failed . They have secured their freedom ; but it is in their high character as a moral and enlightened nation ., in their political integrity , and their liberal and benevolent institutions , that they are laying the foundation of a glory more durable than any which their success alone could have given them . Any attempt on
our part to diminish the reputation they have so dearly bought , and so justly deserve , can only redound to our own disgrace ; for it would shew us to be incapable of appreciating the value of national freedom , and the exertions of a great and an improving nation . A Lover of Truth and Freedom .
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Pul p it Misrepresentation : betters to me Rev . JV . Af . Bunting-, FFesleuan Methodist Minister , Manchester . To the Editor . Sir , The two following Letters I addressed to the Rev . W . M . Bunting , Wesleyan
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Methodist Minister , Manchester . As your readers will easily perceive their object from the perusal of them , any lengthened prefatory remarks would be unnecessary .
Letter I . Manchester , Rev . Sir , Dec . 2 . 7 , 1828 . I called at your residence twice yesterday , but as you were from home , I have resolved to communicate the object I had in view , in writing . On the present occasion I deem no apology necessary , and the only justification I shall offer for this intrusion on your notice is that contained in the following words of Dr . Aikhi : " It has at all times been so common an artifice of party to stigmatize its
adversaries by some opprobrious name , that particular examples of the fact may be deemed unworthy of notice . Yet , where individuals actually suffer from the impudent licentiousness with which this ia done , and obnoxious ideas are associated in the public mind which have not the least connexion , some appeal to truth and reason , on the part of the injured , is natural , if uot necessary . "
I attended , on Thursday evening , the religious services of the Oxford Road Chapel , when I was much hurt by some remarks in your sermon relative to what you termed Socinianism . Now , Sir , it sometimes happens that we talk about what we little understand , and this is the most charitable construction I can
put on your conduct . If you had known what Socinianism really is , if you had read a single page of the writings of Socinns , you never would have ranked his followers with Sadducees , Pharisees , and Infidels . 1 was surprised , Sir , to hear you assert , after you had mentioned the Sadducees and Pharisees , and after having exposed the scepticism of the one aud the base hypocrisy of the other , that ' we have Socinians now who reject Christ and the Atonement . " This assertion was
followed by some not very charitable remarks on the dreadful consequences of such rejection , which you represented would be the everlasting wrath of the Almighty . You afterwards supposed tliat there might be some even of your own auditory who were tinctured with
Phariaeeism and ^ ocmianism , and accordingly you burst forth in the following strain of eloquence : i € O ye Socinians and Pharisees , ye rejectors of the Son of God , we warn you" &c . Your -memory , Sir , I tlare flay , will supply \ ou with what followed . Now it happens that your supposition was not wholly incorrect , and
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34 fc Miscellaneous Correspondence ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/46/
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