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readers to the French Revolution, as being the cause of 

 so much blood being shed, being brought on as he says 

 by Republicans and Infidels, which is not true, The 

 cause was, the people groaning under the oppression of 

 government and priests. 1 wish Grant to read the his- 

 tory of king and priestcraft, and compare the numbers 

 murdered by fanatics professing the Christian religion 

 with those of all governments, and he will find the ba- 

 lance against kings and Priests to be enormous. 

 Grant is greatly mistaken in many particulars ; he says 

 I took my children to Long Island and the Jerseys on 

 Sundays instead of going to church. This I positively 

 deny; I never took my children on Long Island but 

 once, and that was not on a Sunday, and never did I 

 take them to the Jersies at all ; if I had done so, it would 

 be no crime. Thomas Paine said everyday was the 

 Lord's day, and that he showed his grand works on all 

 days, and I hold all days alike. 



If the public and myself could believe all that Grant 

 has said concerning his reception in England, and 

 Scotland, we should suppose that great part of both 

 countries spent great part of their time to congratulate 

 him on his visiting of them, and likewise it must occupy 

 a great part of his time to read the numerous cards pre- 

 sented to him, and particularly those sent by the ladies; 

 it is probable he, like myself, considers them the only 

 angels God ever made. I think it a fortunate circum- 

 stance that John Knox's stone pulpit was in existence 

 when he was there, and he had the honour to mount 

 thatold rostrum, but we are not told whether or not he 



jSSSi ture in it to P 1 ^ 61 ^^??'^^ (large 

 audience, or whether he was dressed in the Romish 



