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Title: The history and topography of the United States of America
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Hinton, John Howard, 1791-1873
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Publisher: London and New York : J. Tallis and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ndwealthy priesthood, and of an imposing public ritual: released on the other handfrom all which might tend to fetter the free exercise of the understanding, and per-mitted, not only to choose for themselves in the first instance, but to make what-ever alterations their experience might suggest, they may be regarded as having, forthe first time, put to the test of common sense and practical utility, the forms both ofreligious sentiment and religious worship so long established—and because esta-blished, revered—by the parent nations. The issue to which the question of anational church establishment has thus been brought is of great importance; andnot less so is the aspect which the progress of religion has assumed, in the mul-tiplication and extension of what has for some time been well known under the nameof a revival. , It will, of course, be recollected by the reader, that the religious aspect of theUnited States is very far from being uniform. Diiferent portions of the republic
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THE UNITED STATES. 36) are characterized, not merely by less or greater degrees of religion, but by theprevalence of different religious sects. This has arisen principally from themanner in Mhich the colonies, which are now cemented under the general title oftlie United States, were formed. Little or no progress was made in cultivatingthe transatlantic wilderness, until it became a refuge from persecution. It wasnatural that the first parties who went over on this ground sh uld consist of persons ofsimilar religious sentiments—of those, namely, which at that particular period exposedthe holders of them to suffering; and when persons of a different creed became thevictims of similar bigotry, in its capricious waywardn.ss, they, in similar bodies,sought an asylum, not in the arms of those already banished, (where, indeed, it mustbe confessed, it would not then have been found,) but in some distant and unoccupiedportion of the far-spreading shore. In this manner the states of Massachus

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