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VIOLENCE OF PARTIES.
THE IMPOLICY AND INJUSTICE OF AS
SAILING P OLITICAL OPPONENTS FOR
POLITICAL DIFFERENCE.
Party violence and persecution are
fruitful themes We might write al
most innumerable dissertations upon it,
each founded upon a distinct instance
of intolerance and injustice. And yet
no people are g intolerant of persecu
tion, so’much disposed to punish ran
cor or injustice,or to protect the ob
ject* of these vices, as the American.
A nd this amiable trait in the American
character is continually increasing; and
under this increasing influence, injus
tice or violence, that might have been
applauded in the last generation, wo’d
certainly recoil upon the heads of the
authors in the present. We may find
the cause of this improvement in more
enlarged edurition, which diffuses
more practical views of Christianity
and republicanism. The people of our
country, with few exceptions, are be
ginning to comprehend very clearly
that Christianity consists in something
more than creeds, and that republican
ism is not merely a name, or the offi
cial success of a party bearing such
name. “The masses” entertain some
verv practical opinion* about religion
and politics as things of daily use.—
They say that each is intended for ev
ery day, that one is not ’confined to
Sundays, and the other to election
days; that religion is of no practical
▼ a ue unless it teaches the people to do
as they would be done by in the affairs
of every d.iy, and that politics are not
worth attention unless they teaeh peo
ple to reaper' the rights and feelings of
their neighbors, as well as their own.
