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PAPEUS OF )fIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE L.B[AR
The great efforts making by the Prespiterians throughout the Union, to _arm the Church with secular power certainly demands the most prompt clecisiYe opposition. The lover of civil liberty cannot but look upon thcHe efforts with abhorrence & indignation, and to remain silent & unconcerned, would be a criminal <lerelection of duty. The animal is unworthy the liberty he enjoys who has not the firmness to defend it. manfully to resist every encroachment upon it, is the most effective way of manifesting our gratitude to God who bestowed it; and the Uhurch who desires to convert our happy Govt. into an instrumt for clerical aggraudizement & domination deserves the just resentmt of his fellow citizens and without due reparation & repentence, will most unequirncally receiYe the frowns of his offended Diety. He therefore who raises his voice against him, and defends the free institutions of his count [ r lY against such unhallowed polution, will render an acceptable serv_ice to the cause of genuine religion & cannot fail to receive the lasting gratitude, both of the true christian and the real patriot. It is for the faithful performance of this high obligation to Goel & our Country that we have assembled this day. And my friends it is no small matter for rejoicing that we are yet permitted to exercise this priviledgc. Let the church party in politics,. gain the ascendency, give to them the strong arm authority to enforce their creeds, then might we find that the assembling together for the discussion & defence of our rights would brin(J' upon us all the hell of a bloody Inquisition. But this terrible engi1~e so sighed for by the Iscariots of the land, is not yet in their hands, and to save ourselves horrors, it is ouly neces- sary that we should be as vigilent of our rights & as fixed iu their maintananre as our forefathers were
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[Columbus? Georgia.? about 1S3-?] . Abel Terrell, traded along the gulf in a little sc:hooner-he came up the Sanjacinto where Mrs. Long was encamped, bring emigrants &C- Re promised Mrs L01w to ascertain if possible, the fate of her hus- band, and write to he~. He sailed to :Matamoras, and according to promise address her a letter o-h-in(J' her the first news of the death of G 1 0 0 1 . en. Long- Fntil then she had recd no tidings of him after his ennng ·Monterey for the city of Mexico.- Gen}. B. M:. Patterson Summernlle Fayett County Tennessee. Patterson sen-ed with Genl. Long. No. 1637. HISTORICAL XOTES. RICHARD R. ROYALL [Houston? Texa$, 183- ?] 20 oclc1 fights at Labahia the Republicans successful; From L11bar1lee they marchcl towel San Antonio, ancl had a battle at Salnclo- ( proml. Sa-T.ow) fN ote on marg-in:] Areondo romcl. at Salado C'ommt. Gen!. Bernardo; Kemper Co. Perr~• Lt. Col.- force 3 or 4 huntlr<'t! Aml'rl- cans: 100 ~f exicans 100 Inclinns- In that fight the Repubhl'an lu:-t "In No. 2472, page 62. All of the document with the exl't'ption of the abo\·e is in Spanish.
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