Memoirs of the Rev Ammi Rogers, a M

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO THE READER. WHEN a citizen, by groundless prejudice, by false representations and by palpable perjuries, has been made a victim to ecclesiastical denunciations and civil prosecutions when (he privileges arising from civil liberty and religious freedom have been wrested from him, he till has one...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO THE READER. WHEN a citizen, by groundless prejudice, by false representations and by palpable perjuries, has been made a victim to ecclesiastical denunciations and civil prosecutions when (he privileges arising from civil liberty and religious freedom have been wrested from him, he till has one privilege left, the privilege of complaining. A statemei.t of his case, ainl an appeal to the public, is the dernier resort of an injured man; such an appeal, supporter by satisfactory evidence, secures a sentence in favour of tht oppres ed. To disregard such a sentence would not be just, and even if it were just, it would not be passible. There has been, for ycars past, much animadversion on the union of Church and State. I have practically felt the operation of this two fold cord which is now happily broken in Connecticut, and which has almost prostrated me in the destruction of it. But I still survive, and a- midst the heavy artillery of a departed Bishop, and the artful machinations and cruel batteries of a Connecticut State's Attorney, I have been sustained by a consciousness of my innocence, an;) by the blessing of that merciful Being roA tempers the wind to the shorn /w6. I live to make this my last effort through the press, which, Heaven be praised, is still untrammelled, to evince iny innocence and .ny integrity.? Equal justice is due to all men, and the lovers of truth are so far the lovers of God. I cannot therefore but indulge the hope, that an enlightened and compassionate public will give the fllowing pages an attentive reading, and an impartial consideration. To render railing for railing is no part of my profession, and to expose the real fiults of my fellow citizens is no pleasure to me, and I intend not to do it, any further forth, than a teligious regaid to dit...