Sep C&S History Lessons #24
JANUARY 3, 1812
Mr. Rhea (1) made the following report :
The Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads, to " whom were referred
the petition of the Synod of Presbyters and other citizens of
Christian denominations, residing in the western parts of the United
States, and the report of the Postmaster-General thereon, have had the
same under consideration, and do respectfully report:
That however desirable it would be to advise the adoption of such
regulations, relative to the carrying and opening of the mail, as
might meet the views of the venerable Synod of Pittsburg, and the
other petitioners, your committee cannot, at this peculiar crisis of
the United States, recommend any alterations in the law regulating
the Post-office Establishment; and do respectfully submit the
following resolution:
Resolved, That the petitioners have leave to withdraw their petitions.
The resolution was concurred in.(2)
FOOTNOTES:
(1) Chairman of the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads.
(2)This was the first of a series of adverse reports on this question
of the discontinuance of Sunday mails. As the petitions increased and
the Of demands of the clergy became more strenuous, the adverse
reports were more decided. Again and again they refused to run the
government
according to the dictates of the ecclesiastical power; and, finally,
when the question had become one of national interest, adverse
petitions also coming in, and the best statesmen of the times opposing
the " reform " movement, Senator Johnson wrote his celebrated reports
which have
received such general approbation. These reports were so well written
and treated the subject so thoroughly that the movements was checked.
Senator Johnson took pride in continuing the movement for complete
religious freedom initiated by the founders of our government. Subse-
quently his popularity made him Vice-President of the United States.
(SOURCE OF INFORMATION: 12th CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION, SUNDAY MAILS,
COMMUNICATED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JANUARY 3. 1812.
AMERICAN STATE PAPERS, Class VII, pp 45.AMERICAN STATE PAPERS Bearing
On Sunday Legislation, Revised and Enlarged Edition, Compiled and
Annotated by William Addison Blakely, Revised Edition Edited by
Willard Allen Colcord, The Religious Liberty Association, Washington
D.C. 1911, pp 180)
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The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
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American Theocrats - Past and Present
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The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
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HRSepCnS · Historical Reality SepChurch&State
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
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