Such a
conduct of the ascendent ranks would, in this nation at least,
secure that, as long as the world lasts, there never would be any
formidable commotion, or violent sudden changes. All those
modifications of the national economy to which an improving people
would aspire, and would deserve to obtain, would be gradually
accomplished, in a manner by which no party would be wronged, and
all would be the happier."[1]
I not only read this for the excellence of its sentiments and their
application to the subject, but because they are the results of the
profound meditations of a man who is dealing with popular ignorance.
Desirous of, and expecting, a great change in the social system of the
Old World, he is anxious to discover that conservative principle by
which society can be kept together when crowns and mitres shall have no
more influence. And he says that the only conservative principle must
be, and is, RELIGION! the authority of God! his revealed will! and the
influence of the teaching of the ministers of Christianity!
Mr. Webster here stated that he would, on Monday, bring forward
certain references and legal points bearing on this view of the
case.
The court then adjourned.
SECOND DAY.
The seven judges all took their seats at eleven o'clock, and the
court was opened.
Mr. Binney observed to the court, that he had omitted to notice, in
his argument, that, in regard to the statutes of Uniformity and
Toleration in England, whilst the Jewish Talmuds for the
propagation of Judaism alone were not sustained by those statutes,
yet the Jewish Talmuds for the maintenance of the poor were
sustained thereby.
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