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America Owes Most Of Its Social Prejudices To The Exaggerated Religious Opinions Of The Different Sects Which Were So Instrumental In Establishing The Colonies.

In America The Taint Of Sectarianism Lies Broad Upon The Land. Not Content With Acknowledging The Supremacy As The Diety, And With Erecting Temples In His Honor, Where All Can Bow Down With Reverence, The Pride And Vanity Of Human Reason Enter Into And Pollute Our Worship, And The Houses That Should Be Of God And For God, Alone, Where He Is To Be Honored With Submissive Faith, Are Too Often Merely Schools Of Metaphysical And Useless Distinctions. The Nation Is Sectarian, Rather Than Christian.

No One, Who Is Familiar With The Bustle And Activity Of An American Commercial Town, Would Recognise, In The Repose Which Now Reigns In The Ancient Mart Of Rhode Island, A Place That, In Its Day, Has Been Ranked Amongst The Most Important Ports Along The Whole Line Of Our Extended Coast.

Should We Distrust The Man Because His Manners Are Not Our Manners, And That His Skin Is Dark?

The Disposition Of All Power Is To Abuses, Nor Does It At All Mend The Matter That Its Possessors Are A Majority.