Volume 2 — A LETTER TO LORD ELLENBOROUGH,
Reading edition
Occasioned by the Sentence which he passed on Mr. D. I. EATON, As Publisher of The Third part of Paine’s age of reason.
Deorum offensa, Diis curæ.
—It is contrary to the mild spirit of the Christian Religion, for no sanction can be found under that dispensation which will warrant a Government to impose disabilities and penalties upon any man, on account of his religious opinions. [Hear, Hear.]
Marquis Wellesley’s Speech. Globe, July 2.
ADVERTISEMENT.
I have waited impatiently for these last four months, in the hopes that some pen, fitter for the important task, would have spared me the perilous pleasure of becoming the champion of an innocent man.—This may serve as an excuse for delay, to those who think that I have let pass the aptest opportunity, but it is not to be supposed that in four short months the public indignation, raised by Mr. Eaton’s unmerited suffering, can have subsided.