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    Americans are yet ^ essentially wstocratical ; with that we have assuredly no right to be offended ; nor would it disgust but for the incongruity . Society is their idol , as it i& ourt- The difference is chiefly in the rights and Ceremonies of worship , although

    with both it includes human sacrifices . With them , as with us , the " popular will" is servility . With btft Kfctte allowance for diversities , the conclusion of the 26 th chapter is an admonition to the old as well as the net World ; and to Ettgfcrrid preeminently .

    " Here , then , we want firin and liberal Christian principle , to withstand these dangerous tendencies * We want it to enable some to set themselves firmly , whether in politics or religion , against the popular will . Yes , we want men who will sacrifice themselves—who will be martyrs—rather than sacrifice their own free and single-minded judgment , I might hold such a man to be wrong in his opinion ; but unless

    he were vety wrong indeed , I should set off his independence , in the account of social influence , as more than a balance for his error . Error can be corrected ; but mental slavery seals and locks up the very fountain of truth . We want Newspapers that shall clare to be true to individual conviction . And would that there were such a thing as an

    independent party in politics—tlhat useless , worthless , powerless , contemptible thing , as the mere politician would regard it—yet it would do a good that the politician does not think of- It would set an example worth a thousand party triumphs . And I fancy , too , that it would act as a balance Wheel , to control the violence of party movements . The old Roman virtue consisted in the devotion , the sacrifice

    of the individual to the state . The redeeming virtue of modern liberty must consist in the devotion , and if need be , the sacrifice of the individual to truth ! And let me add , that the supreme danger to apprehend , j ^ s that of losing all menta l and mora l in dependence ! '—« Vol . ii . p . 350 , 351 .

    The plague-spot of negro slavery is America ' s inheritance from Old England ; a lecjacy of evil which we have in part redeemed . And though emancipation was with us a work of trifling difficulty , compared with what it would be in the United States , still it may ward off from us some reproach . In imparting * the false mortice necessarily induced b y the feudal or aristocratical condition of society , we inoculated the new world with a deadlier virus , and

    marked it With a more accursed plague-spot . The disease is harder to get rid of than despotic powers and forms of govetfnmetat ; but the constitution or humanity will wear it out at last , and , meanwhile , we rejoice to see such alleviations proposed as those which Mr Dewey suggests , and which show him to bare studied well in the school of the good physician . "

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1836, page 607, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2662/page/19/