ches,
in the city of brotherly love, was rising to heaven, Maria Joaquino was
sentenced to suffer death in Madeira, because she did not consent with the
doctrines received, and followed by the catholic church. The difference
between several governments of Europe, and the United States of America is
this: intolerance in Europe is in the hand of despotical power against the
many; and in America it is in the hand of the many against their very
paternal government. The european people might one of our future days cut
off the head of despotism; the american people might place a despot on the
throne. The sons of the very pilgrims who ran from the persecution of
religious rage into this country, condemned the other day a Mr. Sable
Rogers of Springfield, Massachusetts, on a charge of violating the Lord's
day in mowing and making hay. So that, while they preach tolerance, the
puritans, with no other reason but of being the most numerous, and by
consequence the strongest, they force, and condemn a jew, a catholic, a
mahomedan, a chinese; in a word, all those who have not their religion,
and do not feel inclined to do exactly what they do themselves. How can
such a despotical state, as Massachusetts, preach abolition against his
slave, brother states of the south, it is what a sound mind cannot
understand; unless we perceive in it, the blind, uncharitable language of
the self pocket interest, with which the north holds the tariff, against
the interest of the south.

The burning of the convent of those innocent Ursulines, and the little
knowledge I have of this country, caused me to foretell the last horrors
of Philadelphia. It was not a prophecy; it was but a coming event, not
different from those we read of in ancient history. If from smoke we argue
it must be some fire; from fanaticism we must expect civil wars.

If it is a fact that false religions, false politics, false pride brought
desolation into the governments of the old continent; in giving an ear to
our faults, our duty is not to be too much pleased of the praises which
strangers, or americans bestow upon us, and our government; and sleep
under the laurel of our glory. The honest lover of an innocent beauty
looks upon her with jealousy, telling to her all her faults in order to
render her perfect, without which two married beings cannot attain
heavenly, moral happiness. The seducer tells her she is pretty, and
without faults: but, after having disgraced her, he leaves w