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together fo in doctrine. Jefuits indeed 
they are, for they live in the practice of 
that rightful equality which Jelus was 
fent to inculcate by his doftrine and ex- 
‘ample-an equality not merely a fiftion in 
the ceremonial of public worfhip,- but 
which goes abroad and mixes with the 
duties and relations of life—an equality 
built upon this truth, that my rights are 
your duties, and your duties are my 
rights ; and thus it being impoffible to 
take away aright from another withouc 
the violation of a duty, the vice and mi- 
fery of mankind muft proceed from the 
uneqgnal diftribution confequent upon one 
part having loft their rights, and therefore, 
of neceflity, another part having forgotten 
their duties. Without diftinétions of 
rank, of order—without fupporting any 
priefthood, the Quakers prove their vital 
Chriftianity in their deportment—in their 
temperance, regularity, clednlinefs (the 
Virtue of the bedy, as virtue is the clean- 
linefs of the foul)—in their ferene chear- 
fulnefs, in their domeftic economy, in 
their maintenance of their own poor, in 
their parental care and attention to cha- 
rities, in their bounty to the honeft and 
unfortunate bankrupt, in their proper 
fenfe of the precarioufnefs of life, by ad- 
monifliing and enforcing the feafonable 
fettlement of their property, in collecting 
together, at ftated times, with the fami- 
liarity of friendfhip and the brotherhood 
ef humanity, and, flowing from a long 
confiftency of fuch moral habits, a cha- 
racter of countenance, a kind of reflected 
glory from the face of their Divine Maiter, 
which beautifies the external vifage, and 
makes fuch men equally refpected by the 
refined politician and the ferocious favage. 
Mirabeau bowed to them from the Chair 
of the Convention, ; and when the Indians 
mect them in the defert, the cry of battle 
ceafes, the tomahawk drops out of the 
hand, and they fay to one another— 
‘© Thefe arethe men of PEACE!” 
As an inftance of that inverted educa- 
tion, which in procefs of years has influ- 
enced the animal conftitution, I would 
mention the Jews, in whole gloomy and 
anti-focial vifage, fufpicious look, timid 
air, general diminutivenefs, and mean 
phyfiognomy,.I fee the degradation of na- 
ture, and aninftinét of fervitude. Recol- 
jeGing that I once was an Irifhman, I 
contemplate with difguft and horror what 
humiliating effets may be produced by 
the lofs of oUR COUNTRY, until at 
length we reluétantly caft our eyes on t!¢ 
place of our nativiry, and difperfe our- 
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felves into every cornet of the globe, to 
be tolerated only. by the contempt of all 
nations. If the native Irifh have been 
bred downward into a ftate of bigotry and 
barbarifm, it is becaufe, through the con- 
tinued agency. ot a miferable maxim of 
government, they have been politically 
infulated in the ifland they inhabit, and 
expatriated in their own country. Their 
religious fyftem has been (ttrange as it 
may found) endeared to them by perfe~ 
cution, and the crimes of our anceftors in 
their mifrule of Ireland are puniflied in 
the epidemical moral maladies—in the 
hereditary conititutional bias to riot and 
rebellion—which has been for fo many 
years the political education of the country. 
The Jews may be faid to remain, even 
in their difperfion, ftillinfulated, by their 
manners, and their prejudices, buf more 
than all by conneéting, like the Mahome- 
tans, all knowledge, or every thing wor- 
thy to be known or regarded, with their 
religious fynem. | While the Koran, the 
‘Talmud, or the Vedas, are fuppofed, in 
the eftimation of their refpective followers, 
to include not only the religious, but the 
civil and municipal Jaw; all innovation 
muft appear an impiety, and ignorance, 
credulity, with excefiive proud predileétion, 
will be the conftant concomitants of cha- 
racter, and will have even a hereditary 
influence, noxious to,pofterity. This 
identity of the civil and religious code is 
in other countries only an alliance of 
church and ftate; but this fyftem has been 
attended, in a great degree, with the fame 
effect of throwing a fort of religious hor- 
ror upon all political innovation, and 
making the Reformer be deemed an atheit 
as afluredly as he is accounted a rebel. 
It is this commixture of religious and po. 
-litical interefts which has initilled into this 
war the venom of perfecution; and while 
I in part .agreé with the writer who 
affigns the barbarities committed by the 
lower Catholics, in the late rebellion, to 
the ferocious bigotry of religion (the na- 
tural and neceffary difeate flowing tromig- 
norance and political incarceration), I 
might afk, whether the peculiar exafpera- 
tida of this war is not, in the frft in- 
ftance, afcribable to that /peaific rancour 
infufed by another order of men, who have 
put whole claffes of the people under the 
anathema of impiety and atheifm. I[ 
might afk, whether there can be, in its ef. 
feéts on the manners of every rank, fo 
truly an Anti-chriftian and Anti-focial 
con{piracy, as that ef an exelu/iwe religi- 
on, whatever be its name, either that which 
«denounces 
