Martinsburgh Gazette

Religion in America—Another new work on North America has appeared—the "Letters of Adam Hodgson," the Scotsman informs us, is a respectable Liverpool merchant, who unites philanthropy and literature with business. He was sixteen months in America, and in that time travelled about 3000 miles, partly through districts never traversed before by an English traveller. Being a zealous Englishman, (the same Journal continues) and a zealous and pious Episcopalian, the very favorable account he gives of the religious, moral, and political state of the North American Republic, will help to cure the Tories and High Churchmen. Though starting from different points, and seeing, we may add, through a different medium, his conclusions correspond very closely with those of Mr. Duncan, whose work he repeatedly refers to in terms of praise. The statements of those two travellers, who are both men of sound understanding, and acutely sensitive, as everything affecting Christianity, must, in our opinion, be held completely conclusive respecting the state of morals and religion in the United States. It is gratifying, indeed, to find that, while worldly-minded persons, who identify Christianity with fat benefices, sinecures, and antiquated forms, affect to see nothing in America but moral darkness and disorder, men of true seriousness and piety candidly declare that religion is in a more flourishing condition in that country, where there are neither tithes nor test acts, than in England, where it is "part and parcel" of the law of the land,— Lond. Exam.