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sists in diligent fidelity and singleness of purpose.

No man, with idle, eccentric, or vacillating habits, a ficial knowledge of his business, should be encourag tronized. There is no dependence to be placed in his stability, or capacity. Such men are presumptuous in extortionate in their prices; dishonest to the public, the way of, and discourage honest industry, talents, morals, and modest worth.

Good manners do not merely consist in amiable de and civil conversation, but involve the honest and discharge of all the personal and conventional duties expressly and impliedly assume, and are required to pe whatever we undertake to do.

Those who are too stupid, or lazy, or ignorant, or to perform these duties in good faith, always have an to screen themselves by appealing to the morbid symp the bad, with the pretext that it is uncharitable manners to be ungenerous or severe towards any one.

They live by deception and fraud, and presumptuous all the laws by which the conduct of honest men are to conceal their deceptions and treachery to the public

So that they abuse all the elements of good manners deliberate violation of them; and insolently invert t servative rules of right, to maintain their fraudulent tions on others.

It is a much greater breach of good manners to cl with bad manners for exposing hypocrisy, quackery, than it is to insult one with coarse and profane langua

It is bad manners, also, to countenance or encourag ample, pretexts for evading moral restraints, and a di for order and law, and a proper reverence for religion, these vulgarisms may be sanctioned by popular and fa toleration.

And it is, perhaps, more than bad manners to d motives, and sneer at the unostentatious labors of th by charities, schools, and religion, without reward, qu meekly strive to ameliorate and improve the physical a

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and pay armies of teachers, selected by to catch the applause of the rabble, by poor schools; and millions of debts are for public improvements, but covertly, for and embezzlements.

And when the State becomes bankrup prodigality, they impiously propose to tax God's worship, and the graves of the dead No associations should be permitted, accumulate property beyond their legitima This is a monopoly which nowhere sh all the property required for the necessa modation of charitable and religious insti empt from taxation.

Let corporation monopolies, who subs and make no pretensions of benevolence, impregnable to oppression, because thei trick and deception.

The politicians have no right to take pital, or a house raised by gratuitous co estly dedicated to the comfort of the help of knowledge, morals, or religion.

No government has the right to tax or the hungry, or touch the sacred vestmen the profane pretext that there should be lence, and that the rulers of the people s ive monopoly in charity, and that the without taxation, is a special privilege, encourage a union of church and state and a pledge of conformity to the laws established church.

The constitution of all the States, an the United States disclaim all assumption contrary, they guarantee to every one God according to the dictates of his con refuse to furnish to this object any prefe

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the range of the reserved powers of government, vileges are as sacred as the immunities of liberty and if they contribute to the general good, upon a public policy, they are entitled to, and should receiv placent and benignant patronage and encouragemen the discountenance and persecutions of, government.

Suppose that most excellent society called Quak system of police and morals is as near perfection as human contrivance can be, if we judge of it by its success could satisfy the public that they could, a cost, and free of the pay and venal contingencies duplicity, take better care of the poor, the idiots, the criminals, and the whole army of fanatics and politic that they would keep better schools and turn out m men, make wiser laws, and administer justice be quickly and quietly, than these things are now do noisy scrambling public; would it not be an obviou make a contract with them for the performance of these undertakings? And is there any pretence but that t have been everywhere more thoroughly and hones plished by unpaid and voluntary contributions, whe and politicians can be kept away from them, than cipal functionaries, with all their ostentation, page pomp, have ever been able to execute them?

Such contributions and benevolence can no more mate objects of taxation than the healing oil or the love of the good Samaritan.

That which is held for use or profit may be lawf but not that which is raised for help and light to the feeble.

It would be just as reasonable to tax the funds and the buildings and edifices constructed for, po paupers, criminals, court-houses, and legislation, and no respect contribute more to the maintenance of public security than these institutions do.

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compound taxatio ings, to gratify their sordid and venal appe Every meal and all the shelter and co hungry, the orphan, the sick and infirm, by leave that much less for the public to pay

Every person restrained from evil, and led to follow the paths of virtue and religion, thens of the depravity and crime resting u increases the industry, and strengthens the resources of society.

The wants and occasions of millions are hand of benevolence, instead of being taun by the grudging and hired minions of the

Thousands are instructed through all the and science, in the endowed colleges and s rant politicians, but by competent and refir

Is it not a false and fraudulent sophis voluntarily granted by the public, and the and contributions voluntarily bestowed by taining the health and lives, enlightening fying the hearts, of man; that the purs books of songs and music and prayers, an the churches, the altars, the tabernacles for the sepulchres of the dead, should not escap of the politician?

They insolently assume that these char objects of gratuitous and pious foundation, by the brightest and purest men that live, ameliorating and sustaining the physical a of the human race.

Whereas they are the conservative ele the entire fabric of social order and securi

If the politicians had thrown all their ex into these safe and honest channels of wis propriation, very many of the riots, con judicial, legislative, and executive outrages this country for several years past would b

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and it is amusing to see how they revel in open prof countries where all these objects are under govern vision-and it becomes the interest of the rabb them it is amusing to remark the swelling congr devout and solemn rogues.

There has never before now been so fair a chai undisguised development of the real materials which g and bad men as there is furnished by the wise dis here made between politics and religion. It has p parties, the good and the bad men, in solid colur face.

The latter resist all the arts which education can all the power which brutal force can employ, an public sympathy can furnish, and with no opposi counter, are waging the most sanguinary war upon industry, and religion of the country.

It is this latent influence, perhaps, that explains why the elder Adams remarked, after a six weeks' of the largest cities in the country, that he had not whole stay met one public man with unaffected goo

Holding an elevated office, he was, of course, sur political Shylocks, whose habits and manners are i their selfish propensities, and who are never influer purifying restraints of decorum, morals, and religion

As to graveyards, every man dies with the hop that he will be decently buried and let alone. T Convention would unanimously say amen to this, al more respect has ever been paid by the rabble to a to a living body. Everything bends to their rapa Egyptians embalmed, mummied, and carefully pa their dead, to be used in after ages for fuel and clap for the ignorant. Some have made bonfires of Perhaps this is the best way to keep them from bein politicians. The friends of the dead soon scatter a the graveyards get full, and no brimful eye or lovi left to watch them. The bailiff comes; the dead give him black mail. The tax is levied, the

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