Virginia Argus

Clerical and Political insanity.

The Rev. Dr. Parish, of Massachusetts, has published a political sermon, which he delivered last July, and which is filled with falsehood, profligate falsehood, from beginning to end; with traitorous and impious sentiments, at which every good and noble feeling of the human heart shudders with astonishment and horror. This federal clergyman whose blasphemous principles cannot fail to draw upon his head the vengeance of insulted Heaven, and the curses of every honest man in Christendom : This sacrilegious preacher, whose feet pollute and whose lips prophane the Holy Temple of religion ; this impious madman in speaking of the war & of G. Britain exclaims that " her banners will come victorious, WHILE THE BLOOD OF HER ENEMIES WILL FLOW TO THE HORSES' BRIDLES, and the flesh of their vanquished kings furnish a SUPPER for all the Vultures of Heaven!" And is this the benevolent language of federal religion? Is this that language, which in the New England pulpits, and on the floor of Congress, tell us of the impiety of war, teaches us " to love our enemies,"and deprecates the efusion of human blood? Yes! this is New-England federal religion; a religion that" swells the songs of praise" to Ingland's bloody deeds, that rejoices to behold "the blood of her enemies flowing to the horses' bridles." and see the Vultures of Heaven sufficing on their lacerated, lifeless bodies! This which thirsts for the blood of the monstrous despot, weeps at the des of America—

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defend their country, to vindicate a cause than which none more just ever called forth the courage of man; he calls these patriotic heroes by the degrading appellation of drafted conscripts."-He says. "our country is now preserved like the prophet in the den of Babylon: THE ROYAL LYONS DISDAIN to devour the innocent victim.?" He asserts that "it is this moment owing to the forbearance, the cLEMENCY, the MAGNANIMITY of the ENGLISH, that our cities are not burning from Maine to Georgia ;" " that a million of people are not wandering over the ashes of their dwellings, without a home, without employment, without bread." He basely traduces our government by saying that "it can crush its SUBJECTS, but cannot afford them security." He compares the President to Nero, who set fire to Rome, merely to enjoy this spectacle of misery, and " played his harp and sung the woes of falling Troy, amid the roar of flames, the crash of falling temples and palaces, the cries of mothers calling for their children, and the shrieks of thousands expiring in the fire!" Callous to truth indeed, dead to patriotism, to reason, morality and religion, must have been that congregation, who could patiently listen to a man uttering the language and sentiments we have feebly described from the sacred pulpit. But let the reverend madman peaceably pursue his career of folly, treason, political and religious phrenzy. His sermons and his writings will open the eyes of many an honest federalist, who will quit ranks filled & headed by such impious zealots and treacherous citizens, and cleave to the standard of their country.

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