seekers, exhibit in strong colors the depravity of human nature and
teach us what dependence may justly be placed on pretensions and
professions.

To inflame the passions and to create animosity, various subjects have
been successively seized upon, and pressed into the service of the
revolutionists--Every quarrel however trivial is noticed--every seed
of discord however small is nourished to disseminate murmurs and to
further the great object.-Various classes of the community are told,
with apparent anxiety for their welfare, that they are oppressed, and
that a new order of things must arise, or that they will be enslaved.
New subjects are started as old ones cease to operate, and thus all that
ingenuity and art, industry and perseverance, can devise or effect is
accomplished. Thus, that numerous and respectably body of Christians
called Episcopalians have been told, and repeatedly told, that the more
numerous denomination were seeking to deprive them of their just and
equal rights, and to subject them to the tyranny of an overbearing
majority--These tales were reiterated till their authors found them
useless from their folly and falsehood. At another time the Baptists are
addressed by a set of men who denied the reality of any religion and the
most earnest yearnings for their welfare. They tyranny of the
Legislature was painted in horrid colors, and they were exhorted to lend
their aid to vindicate the cause of the oppressed. Those who
conscientiously believe that no taxes ought to be paid for the support
of religion, and those who wish that religion might no more infest the
residence of men, were addressed with considerations adapted to their
respective cases. At one time men destitute of property are seduced by
the alluring doctrine of universal suffrage--then the farmer is told
that taxes are too high on land, and, with the same breath, the mechanic
is sagely informed, that the poll tax should be repealed, and the burden