Literary Cadet And Rhode Island Statesman

We copy from the Kennebeck Gazette, the following article, which relates to as great a vagabond and infamous impostor, as ever offended decent society with his presence. The fellow, is pretty well known, and it is not a little strange, that the proper authorities of Maine, do not put an end to the machinations of so great a vagabond:

"Ordination Extra.—Ordained in this town on Monday, 4th inst, the "notorious Hull Barton, as pastor over the church and society recently gathered by the Rev. Jacob Cochrane. The services were performed by a few of the deluded followers of Cochrane.

Since the above sham or mock ordination, Barton has baptised some twenty or thirty persons, principally young girls and some of them without the knowledge or consent of their parents, although they lived in the immediate vicinity. The plan devised to frighten them into the water was as follows: Barton made what he called a prophesy, saying to his converts, that unless they were baptized by a given time they would never more enjoy religion, nevertheless the man still continues to baptize those that were converted previous to his notable prophesy, not probably aware of the plain contradiction between his prophesy and practice. He has also administered (not like his predecessor the passover) but what he calls the Lord's Supper.

This fanatical manner of treating religion may seem to some truly surprising; but those who are acquainted with the fascinating power of Cochranism will not expect any thing different from its votaries.

The ordaining elders were Stephen Mitchell, Jacob Towne, and Bracy Curtis."

The doctrine, which this infamous wretch professes to promulgate, is of too odious and offensive a nature to be recited in the columns of a public newspaper, and therefore we shall spare ourselves the recital of a thing so disgusting. Barton's principal associate, is the infamous Jacob Cochrane, who a few years since, was sentenced to perform a purgation at the Massachusetts States Prison, for the perpetration of one of the most revolting crimes. These two base wretches, and loathsome creatures, have since Jacob's emancipation, co-operated, and are endeavoring to establish a church, founded on the creed they advocate, and have already partly succeeded. Although the constitution of the United States, guarantee to every man the privilege of worshipping God according to the dictates of his conscience, still it does not justify him in getting up a mock-mode of worship, which is destructive to the morals of society, calculated to corrupt the age, and to destroy every thing that is connected with true religion and exemplary piety.