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PUBLIC AFFAIRS Source: American Advocate of Peace (1834-1836), Vol. 1, No. 1 (JUNE, 1834), pp. 55-56 Published by: World Affairs Institute Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27886770 . Accessed: 04/10/2013 02:15
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PEACE SOCIETIES.
The American Peace Society held its sixth annual meeting in New York, last. The Report was highly interesting and proved on the sixth of May the past year most of the large eccle that the cause is advancing.?Within siastical bodies of New England have passed resolutions favorable to the ob of various denominations have en jects of the Society ; and 216 clergymen on the subject at least once a year.?A has prize of $1000 gaged to preacli on a been offered for the best Essay Congress of Nations ; the time for pre were 20th of June.?Addresses made by the senting them is extended to the of Litchfield, Conn., Rev. Dr. of Utica, Hicock, Rev. Messrs. Galusha, of and R. M. Utica, Chipman, Esq. Cogswell, of Boston, A. Stewart, Esq. of Minot, Me., was read, excusing his A letter fromWilliam Ladd, Esq. a on and account ill of absence health, year toward the sup offering $300 port of an Editor and Agent, provided the remainder of the sum requisite Ladd was chosen President of the should be subscribed by others.?Mr. Esq. resigned ; and theRev. Professor Society, in place of S. V. S. Wilder, Bush, of theNew York City University, was chosen Secretary. The Connecticut Peace Society continues its labors in printing and dis tributing tracts, and procuring the delivery and publication of addresses. annual address during the session of the legislature, was this year deliv The of Hartford, who has ered atNew Haven, by the Rev. C. C. Vanarsdalen, are County and other places.?There consented to repeat it at Norwich in every County in the State. Peace Societies It is The Massachusetts Peace Society was one of the earliest formed. is Presi The Rev. Dr. Lowell, now auxiliary to the American Society. was to in and held dent. The annual meeting February last, judge from the tone of the addresses, was attended with high interest. we next our number to communi receive of Before the publication hope and Geneva Societies. from the London, Paris, cations and intelligence The latest accounts prove that the progress of correct principles and a pa de Sellon has successfully applied cific policy, though slow, is sure.?Count the principles of the Geneva Society to the pacification of Switzerland.? list of Societies We hope in a future number to be able to give a complete in this and other countries.?Proposals have been for the promotion of Peace issued for publishing by subscription, Dymond's Essay on War, with a dedi and notes, by Thomas S. teachers and scholars, cation to Sunday School Grimke', and an appendix containing several of the writings of Mr. Grimk?. received by L. D. Dewey, 130 75 cts. Subscriptions 12 mo. 300 pages, Hartford. Nassau street, New York, andWilliam Watson,

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scene of great political country for a few years past has been the and we Some of the causes of excitement have been allayed, agitation. surveying the aspect of hope for the peaceful adjustment of the rest.?In on the attention, the licentiousness of the nation, two things force themselves the party press, and the state of suffrage. The public press is an engine of it can do tremendous power. In the hands of unprincipled demagogues, more than all other causes to corrupt themoral sense, and mislead the judg. to ment of a people, by disregard of truth, and administering provocatives The virulence of the party press in the worst passions of the populace. ** is the this country is alarming. It says Jeremy Taylor, iniquity of men" Our

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they suck up opinion, as the wild asses do the wind, without distin from the corrupted air, and then live upon it at a guishing the wholesome immense influx of foreigners, in general venture."?The ignorant, unaccus tomed to the exercise of political rights, unacquainted with the true nature of our institutions, and the interests of the country, and with little or no st^ke in its welfare, and fit subjects of corruption, certainly suggests the expedien cy of some limitation to the almost universal and immediate right of suffrage in our elections allowed them. If the violence and corruption displayed goes on increasing as it has for a few years past, there is reason to apprehend serious evils to the country. Let us recollect in the language of President : " the great comprehensive truthwritten in letters of living light on Quincy every page of our history is this ;?human happiness h as w> perfect security virtue none hut knowledge; hut freedom; freedom none hut virtue; and neither freedom, nor virtue, nor hi ow ledge has any vigor or immortal hope, faith, and in the sanctions of the except in the principles of the Christian Let the people, let statesmen, and all who influence the Christian religion." public mind, perpetually recall these high truths, so eloquently announced by this distinguished statesman and scholar. has been and still is, in many parts, a scene of confusion and Europe We have not space for a detailed account of the progress and bloodshed. present state of affairs. We hope in our next number to give a general sur In the mean time vey of the political relations and conditions of Europe. we will just indicate the principles which explain them, and give foresightof the future.?The internal agitations of Europe are, in their most general principle, a conflict between despotism and the free spirit, between govern ments and the people.?A particular aspect 19 given to this conflict by the doctrine, broached at the Congress of Laybach, and subsequently established at Vienna, in 1815, of the right of armed intervention (droit d'intervention Hence we have what is now called Propugandisrn, displaying itself arm?e.) or on the one hand, and Liberalism both as Absolutism and Legitimacy on the other. During the ministry of Cassimer Revolutionism, Perier, the and arm French government protested against the doctrine of Piopagandism ed intervention ; but the prospect now is, that Russia, Austria, and Prussia, and France oa will unite as the propagandists of Absolutism, with England the other side ; and that Spain and Portugal will be the scene of action.

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