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Excerpt from Remarks on the Moral and Religious Character of the United States of America, Supported by Numerous Extracts From the Best Authorities: Addressed to the Author of a Reply to the Charge Lately Delivered by the Archdeacon of Colchester
A tract, professing to represent the opinions of the Dis senters, has lately been distributed at the cottages of the Poor in this neighbourhood, the direct tendency of which is to hold forth the clergy of the Establishment as unworthy of their situation, and the revenues of the Church as a fit object of robbery. The principal argument made use of is, that, as there was no Church Establishment when Christianity was so far from being the established religion of any nation on earth, that it was only professed by a few humble individuals, scorned and persecuted by the rest of mankind, that therefore there ought to be no such Establishment now. There was a time when the inhabitants of this country used to go naked, and paint their bodies in such fantastic forms as savage caprice might suggest: why not follow their example, and return to this primitive state of things? There would be as much sense in the one as in the other, and a great deal more honesty in the latter.
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