Mr. Webster's Speech in Defence of the Christian Ministry, and in Favor of the Religious Instruction of the Young: Delivered in the Supreme Court of the United States, February 10, 1844, in the Case of Stephen Girard's Will (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Mr. Webster's Speech in Defence of the Christian Ministry, and in Favor of the Religious Instruction of the Young: Delivered in the Supreme Court of the United States, February 10, 1844, in the Case of Stephen Girard's Will

Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a part of the com mon law of Pennsylvania; Christianity, without the spiritual artillery of European countries for this Christianity was one of, the considerations. Of the royal charter. And the ve1y basispf its great founder, William, Penn; not Christianity founded on any particular religious tenets; not Christianity with an established church; 'and tithes, and spiritual courts; but Christianity'with liberty of conscience to all men. Wil liam Penn and Lord Baltimore were the first 'legislators who passed laws in favor of liberty of conscience: for before that period the principle of liberty of conscience appeared m the laws of no people, the axiom of no government, the institutes of no society, and scarcely in the temper of 'any man. Even the reformers were ms furious against contumacious errors as they were loud in asserting the liberty of conscience. And to the wilds of America, peopled by a stock' cut offby pereceu tion from a Christian society, 'does Christianity owe true freedom of religious hpiu ion, and religious worship.

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