predominance of the most industrious, the most insinuating, the most ambitious, and the most hypocritical.

Let us

now see the manner in which the principle of Dr. Ely is to be reduced to practice. The principle is, that by training up the children in Sabbath schools, such an influence can be created upon their minds as will necessarily operate at the ballot-boxes. They are not to be trained up to any special modification of Federalism or Democracy, but they are to be a "Christian party in politics." Their teachers are to be Christians; the lessons, the expositions, the whole system of instruction, is to be under the guidance of a board of "saints." The only principle upon which the voters, as they grow up, are to be united is uniformly to support "Christians," and to oppose profane and ungodly candidates. The "Christian" is not a Papist, is not an infidel, is not an anti-Christian -any man against whom there exists the suspicion of being suspected of anything condemned by the "saints," is one of the ungodly. The board of local directors, and that of general directors, can easily testify for or against the "Christianity" of candidates. But who are to sustain their nominations? The candidate has necessarily some private and some political friends; then add to these the whole host of the children trained up at Sabbath schools, now become men capable of voting, and you see the "Christian party in politics." party in politics." But observe how industriously the agents are engaged. Thirty-eight thousand dollars were expended last year, in exploring the valley of the Mississippi, merely preparatory to the introduction of their system. One of their collectors told a respectable gentleman in Georgia, who hesitated to subscribe, that the true object was to "destroy the power of Popery "in the great regions of the West, so as to "deprive it of any political influence." Already in successful operation in various other quarters, the grand directors of the scheme saw that the West was not sufficiently organized; taking advantage of the religious feeling of the community, when they found themselves foiled in their premature efforts to

seize upon the capital, they are so far from abandoning their plans that they have only retired to render them more effectual, and now, under the pretext of religion, they organize an extensive politico-religious association. And they are likely to succeed to the extent of their wishes; at least they have every reasonable prospect of

success.

The political press has not as yet been fully enlisted in their cause, and of this they piteously complain. Yet already they have in the various sections of the Union, a vast number of their own presses. And the great bulk of the political press is favorable to their Sunday school schemes, their Bible schemes, their missionary schemes, their colonization schemes, their temperance schemes, and their emancipation and education schemes-which are all the various branches of the great "Christian party in politics;" and yet that press is accused, as "it is well known that too many of the conductors of the political press, instead of informing the people, as watchmen ought, of the dangers which threaten the republic, are wholly engaged in promoting the supposed interests of their favorite candidates;" and they add, "It would not be difficult to show by facts, that the evils of this course are incalculable." The object of this party is to procure the election of "men of good principles "-and yet the political press is accused of deserting its post by advocating the election of favorite candidates. How shall we understand this? There is but one explanation. The political press has not yet taken its lessons respecting candidates from the "Christian party in politics." When it shall have done this it will have performed its duty.

I have done with this writer. I am an enemy to intemperance, but I am also an enemy to Pharisaical restraint. I am a friend to the bringing children together for religious instruction on Sunday; but I am an enemy to organizing them into political factions to promote ambition under the guise of piety. I am a friend to the liberal and pious education of a respectable ministry, and to

their being sent to cultivate the desert places of our land; but I am an enemy to training up youth in ferocious hatred. to a portion of their fellow-citizens, whose tenets they are taught to misrepresent; and thus unfitted for the work of peace, are sent to brandish swords of devastation and to apply torches of incendiarism. I am a friend to the diffusion of the Gospel; but an enemy to the vilifying of those who preserved it through the vicissitudes of ages, of revolutions, of barbarism, of philosophy, of infidelity, of crime, and of corruption. I am an ardent admirer, a devoted enthusiast, and a sworn friend to the liberties and the constitutions of our American confederation; and therefore I am irreconcilably inimical to every effort whether of fraud or of folly to violate their principles by disfranchising any portion of our citizens under the pretext of their religious mistakes.

I have exhibited the malignity and rancor which pervade the article that called me forth. I have shown how it exhibits the settled design of degrading and disfranchising, not only the Roman Catholics of these United States, but also a vast multitude of their fellow-citizens. I have shown that the "Christian party in politics," not only has not ceased to exist, but is strong, active, compact, powerful, extensive, industrious, prudent, wealthy and ambitious. The means which it has selected have been judiciously chosen, and are likely to insure its predominance. It calls upon the people not only to tax themselves for its support, but also to pray for its success; and like its precursor in England, it is careful whilst they pray to take such steps as will conduce to the efficacy of the appeal. Whilst Aaron and Hur sustain the hands of Moses upon the mountain, the sword of Josue smites powerfully upon the plain. It is for Americans to say whether our civil and religious rights are to share the fate of Amelec.

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