Why is their even a battle to put intelligent design in the public school?  Adam and Eve, who had received God's propositional revelation about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, decided to perform the world's first scientific experiment. They were faced with conflicting hypotheses and predictions about the consequences of a certain course of action. God had told Adam, who then told Eve, that if he ate of the tree, he would surely die. The serpent told Eve, while Adam watched that they would not certainly die, but would be transformed from mere men into gods. 

Rather than accepting God's Word on its own authority, Eve, acting like a Scientist observed the fruit, noting that it was good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and desirable to make one wise. Trusting her senses rather than God, Eve ate the fruit. Adam, it seems, watched her eat, for she gave the fruit, we are told, to her husband who was with her. Since Eve did not die as God had predicted, God's hypothesis was observed as wrong, and the Devil's hypothesis was right. Adam also ate the fruit. The entire misery of the human race began with Adam and Eve not believing God's revealed Word, with Adam and Eve relying on their own scientific observations, and subjecting God's revelation to an empirical test, a scientific experiment. Our empirical theologians and apologists are doing the same still today. Their efforts to prove or render probable the existence of God or the reliability of the Bible on the basis of experience and design have no foundation.  They simply do not understand that attempting to prove God or his Word in this manner is foolishness. 

God and his Word are the highest authority; they are the basis of all proof. There can be no greater authority, no more fundamental axiom. It is impious to suppose that the evidence of one's senses is in any way superior to the propositional revelation of God Himself through His Word. 

“For when thy Judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.”  Isaiah 26:9

The judgments to which the prophet Isaiah referred are those earthly visitations of Providence which are evidently expressed by our Creator’s Divine displeasure, and because they are universally displayed as the penalties inflicted by a Judge or Ruler, they will be considered as they relate to global warming and its related “natural” effects in our modern times. 

We cannot, without employing atheism, deny that all the events which constitute the course of nature including weather patterns are the appointments of God. There are no powers, whether physical or otherwise, but those which are ordained by Him. Secondary causes or general laws are only expressions for that uniformity and order which He originally established and constantly maintains.  Motion, action, and change, are all from God. Not a sparrow falls to the ground without His will. Therefore, when an adversity such as a hurricane or a tornado overtakes us, our troubles do not spring from the dust, nor our afflictions from chance but by God’s allowance.

Believers tremble at God’s anger, and dread His justice, while those who do not recognize His Sovereignty or His Being create for themselves man-made excuses to explain His otherwise obvious judgments.  The conscience of both the good and the evil reminds each man that he is guilty, and consequently worthy of suffering; and that those divine representations of afflictive providences such as global warming, which are a result of God’s displeasure on account of mankind’s sin.  Many times they are declared through the voice of nature as we have witnessed through recent hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, earthquakes, and tornados, etc.  Their causes cannot be set aside without setting aside the belief in Providence, or setting aside a design and purpose as the characteristic of a personal God.   These judgments are just, and we must understand that their occurrence has a natural tendency to stigmatize transgression and to preserve the innocent, by a salutary fear, in their integrity.

As a Christian I understand that the Bible states that sin is the cause of all suffering and pain.  Why are people visited with natural disasters, pestilence, famine, or war? We may infer with absolute certainty that there is much sin among us. These modern scourges could not be inflicted upon the innocent. Yet it is my own belief that these judgments are designed to awaken men to a general sense of sin, and to bring us to repentance. God has purposes of mercy towards those He chastens and He makes bare His arm that wrath may be subservient to love. The causes of global warming and its effects on our world’s weather patterns may only allow us to conclude with absolute certainty the necessity for national repentance.

Judgments are a call, a loud and solemn call, to the inhabitants of the world to learn righteousness, and they are addressed to others as well as the victims themselves.  Except ye, the spectators of those woes, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. The great lesson, and it is a lesson to all alike, is that there is sin and God does hate it.

The government and many of the “churches” of this Nation, however, have sadly joined the rest of the world and unwisely attributed these severe dispensations which have wrapped so many families in mourning, and carried desolation to so many hearts, as if the earth’s own penal visitation of destruction on man for his misuse and contamination of its natural surroundings and environment is all there is to consider. Yet still, nowhere do we ever hear sin mentioned when global warming is discussed by the citizens of our “Judeo-Christian” nation. Though the product of these “natural” causes and secondary agents, ultimately proceed from God, and proceed from Him distinctly as a moral Ruler, a just and righteous Judge, instead of recognizing our sins and turning from them we are turning to science and humanistic ideas to explain away the end product of our wicked nature and depravity and nowhere is their any repenting for our evil ways.  The mountains are starting to shake!

The first step has been taken as we have heard God’s voice, yet we have not trembled at the rebukes of His providence, and we have not publicly confessed that our mourning and woe is the sad desert of our sins.

Instead our nation has been stupid and insensible— she has shut her eyes to the prime cause of this trembling earth—she has seen and refused to kiss the rod in the hands of the Almighty.  Our countrymen have not bowed before that sovereign Ruler whose favor is life, whose frown is death; she has resorted to carnal measures, to mere prudential policies as the means of averting future global warming calamities—she has consulted charlatans and atheistic scientists—she has refused to go directly to Him whose prerogative it is to kill and to make alive—she has not spread her cause before His throne, and with arrogance and shamelessness she has further enticed Him to pull out the sword from its scabbard, to further kill, ravage, and destroy the wicked.

The only true step that can stop this judgment of wrath is not more tough environmental laws, but a genuine repentance—a hearty confession and a sincere renunciation of the sins which have provoked the displeasure of God.  The true reason for these “natural” catastrophes must be removed—the cause must cease to operate, if we expect the effects to terminate.  As the judgments themselves do not specify the exact sins, and as our Savior has taught us that it is sin in general, as much as any special sins in particular, that provoke peculiar calamities, the only safe course for us is to go into the depths of our hearts, and bring out and destroy all the forms of iniquity that lurk there.  We should spare none.  Every man, and, every family, should mourn; it is our sins that have contributed altogether to provoke these judgments of the Almighty upon this nation.

You citizens of this republican homeland, are you, or are you not, an enemy to God by your allowance and participation in wicked works?  Have you kissed the Son; have you been redeemed by the blood of the cross?  Depend upon it as your only hope and so that the personal character of those who are placed in authority, have much to do, from the very nature of moral government, with the prosperity of our country.  The rulers you have appointed are the representatives of this land, and in God’s word no more tremendous judgment is threatened against any people than the sending among them of ignorant, debauched, and wicked counselors like those we continue to elect. 

No man can say to what extent his own personal transgressions enter as an ingredient into that cup of trembling which God administers to guilty nations.  The best servant of this country, is the faithful servant of God; and you would do more today, my brothers, for the prosperity and glory of this once great nation which we say we love, by consecrating each man himself upon the altar of religion with all of your eloquence, prudence and skill. 

Indeed, there is a God that judges in the earth, and He does visit a people for the sins and iniquities of their rulers. Virtue is power, and vice is weakness; every corrupt Senator, every debauched Governor, every dishonest judge, and every crooked President, is like a. crumbling stone in the foundation of an edifice.  They weaken infallibly—they readily destroy.  Therefore, in your official relation to America as well, it is a matter of great importance that you should all be friends of God.  Imagination can hardly conceive the strength and beauty and glory of a nation in which the people should all be righteous in which no rivalry should be found but the rivalry of excellence, no selfishness, ambition, or partisan zeal—no demagogues nor placemen..

 It is when righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins, that the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them; and the cow and the bear shall feed, their young ones shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and the sucking child shall play on the hold of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’s den. 

Christ said that they shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.  There is a natural and necessary tendency in holiness to bring about this delightful state of things—a corresponding tendency in sin to prevent it.  Society is the moral union of moral agents, and the strength of their union is the perfection of the moral ties which connect them.  All sin is, therefore, essentially weakness and misery—all virtue essentially power and happiness.  To make a great people, you must make a pure people, and every man must begin with himself.  To the extent of his depravity, he is an element of weakness in the State; and if all were corrupt and reprobate, there would be speedy anarchy and dissolution.  Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. 

 So what are some of the apparent sins causing global affliction from the forces of nature? These judgments of God should direct our attention to those forms of iniquity which most extensively prevail in this land today.  Perhaps murder, rape, sodomy, abortion, lying, cheating, pornography, and adultery, etc. may ring a bell! And, although, we cannot say with absolute confidence that these are the specific offenses for which the sword has been drawn from the scabbard, it is enough to know that they are sins, and wicked sins which will inevitably be punished, unless a timely repentance intervenes.

When God’s judgments are abroad in the land even in the form of a global warming effect, they put us upon general inquiry. They proclaim the fact of sin, and that sin we are to search out and expel wherever we find it, whether in our own hearts, or in the customs and usages of our people.

The magnitude of sin in our country cannot be exaggerated.  It is enough to make the blood curdle to think of the name of God bandied about as the bauble and play thing of fools, to point a jest, to season obscenity, and to garnish a tale.  This is exactly what occurs when His laws are dismissed and the hearts of our countrymen become hardened.

This offence cannot go unpunished.  If there is a God, He must vindicate His own majesty and glory.  There must be a period when all shall tremble before Him, when every knee shall bow and every heart shall give reverence.  The sword of justice cannot always be sheathed, nor the arm of vengeance slumber, and who shall say that the pestilence and atmospheric torment which has been falling from the skies upon us, and slaying its thousands upon the right hand and the left, has not received its commission on account of the abounding profaneness of our depraved land?  Who shall deny that the deep has been evoked in storm and deluge to proclaim the name of the Lord as terrible and glorious? 

In the sight of angels there can be no greater sin than that of profaneness.  They know something more then we do of what God is.  They fear that dreadful name, and their imaginations, lofty and expanded as they are, cannot measure the height and depth of those crimes which can make light of so tremendous a being.  The broken law is the very spirit and core of all evil—the heart of ungodliness.

In sin’s influence upon America the moral sensibilities of our people are hardly alive to the real character of their crimes against God. The associations which are thrown around them, and the circumstances under which the thoughtless and unsuspecting are betrayed into sin, conceal their real features, and screen them from that moral indignation which, when seen in its true light, every unsophisticated heart must otherwise reflect upon their evil ways in guilt.

Refinement proceeds upon a principle which sin directly contradicts, and, as it is the end of civilization to develop and carry out this principle, the wicked stand in the way, a monument of degradation and of barbarism.

Depravity invades the soul, and suppresses those very principles of reason and conscience on which the dignity and excellence of man depend. It is an effort to numb our moral and rational nature, to root out the very elements of responsibility, and to make man worse than the tiger or the bear. These beasts were made to obey their impulses; we were made to follow reason and law; and when we have eliminated both reason and law, we have reversed our natures, and left it a prey to impulses wilder and fiercer than any which rule the beasts that perish.

When I look at the effects of global warming in this light; when I see that sin momentarily extinguishes those very properties of our being which link us with the angels and with God, I am utterly astonished at that obtuseness of moral sentiment which hesitates to brand these wicked ways as crimes of the deepest dye.

For example, the sodomite and/or the baby murderer cannot be considered the objects of peculiar sympathy or compassion. Both are truly criminal, though they may not harbor the same appearance, as the robber or the assassin. Yet, these abominable sins will never be put down until they are placed back in the footing of other deplorable crimes, and visited according to the demands of justice. These truths may seem harsh, but they challenge scrutiny, and on a. day like this, we should forego all prejudices and customary modes of thought, and seek to look upon these crying evils in the light in which God regards them. Instead of excusing them, let us confess our own sins while calling others to do the same and humbly beg God that this prolific fountain of disease, suffering, and death named global warming by man may be closed.

Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, shall inherit the kingdom of God. The man who loves an appetite more than the improvement of his spiritual nature, who, for the sake of what is not so excellent as a mess of pottage, will sell the birthright of his moral dignity, does he not deserve to die? 

The sins which have been mentioned, which prevail to a miserable extent through the length and width of this nation, though they call for humiliation and repentance, should perhaps, be also given further scrutiny to reveal that the tendencies and workings of our current form and principles of government has allowed them to grow barren and wild.

Bear with me, while I briefly state what seems to me to be a species of idolatry which cannot fail to bring down the wrath of this country any longer or stop the righteous judgments of God.

I must allude to what may be called the modern exaltation of the American people and its lawmakers. American politicians and judges alike are frequently represented as the source of all political power and rights; the very fountain head of sovereignty. They believe that it is their will which makes law; it is their will which unmakes it.   Supremacy is ascribed to these foolish men’s wills which anyone who reads the Bible and recognizes a God that has dominion over the children of men, must feel to be utterly shocking. Legislators and judges are really treated as a species of Deity in our country today.  It is no wonder the earth grows hot in righteous anger!

This whole representation is not only inconsistent with religion; it is equally inconsistent with the philosophy upon which our popular institutions were originally founded. The government of this country does not proceed upon the maxim that the will of the people is the will of God, and its arrangements have not been made with a reference to the end, that their will may be simply ascertained. Our American legislature is not a congregation of deputies, or ministerial agents, and they have, and know that they have, higher functions to perform than merely to inquire what the voters think.

I do not devalue their opinions; they must always enter into sober and wise deliberation; but what I maintain is, that the true and legitimate end of government is not to accomplish their will, but to do and enforce what reason, conscience, and God’s truth pronounce to be right. To the eternal law of right reason, which is the law of God, all are equally subject, and forms of government are only devices instituted to reach the dictates of that law and apply it to the countless requirements of social and individual life. The civil magistrate is a Divine ordinance, a social institute, founded on the principle of justice, and it has great moral purposes to serve, in relation to which the constitution of its government may be pronounced good or bad. The will of the people should be done only when the people will what is right in accordance with God’s laws, and not because they will it, but because it is right. Great deference should be paid to their opinions, because general consent is a presumption of reason and truth.

Whatever corrupt representations diminish the authority of the Divine law as the supreme rule, and make the State the creature and organ of popular will, as if an absolute sovereignty were vested in that, are equally repugnant to religion and the true conception of our national government.

An absolute democracy is the worst of all governments, because it is judicially cursed as treason against God, and is given over to the blindness of impulse and passion.  The thunder clouds are righteously approaching!

I must mention one other instance of sin which, on this day, calls for humiliation and correction. While legislators insist on writing new environmental laws to save us all from our own ruin; it is actually the deplorable extent to which our current laws, especially in the punishment of crime, are prevented from being executed that will not quell the rising tides of the sea.  Perhaps enforcing the laws already wisely implemented hundreds of years ago might cool a bit of the heat.

It is a lesson that is emphasized often which pervades the Bible that nations and communities may be dealt with as guilty of the crimes which they refuse or neglect to punish. The sixth of the seven precepts of Noah, which enjoins government and obedience, insists particularly upon time punishment of violators, as an indispensable condition of national prosperity and honor.

When those transgressions of the law, which are the proper office of the civil arm to rebuke, are permitted to escape without punishment, the land is defiled. The magistrate is not at liberty to bear the sword in vain as he must be a terror to evil doers, as well as praise to them that do well. 

However, it is sickening to accept that while the moral sense of the community is properly shocked at the enormous wickedness of condemning the just, and dealing with him according to the deserts of injustice, there is no such disgust at the equally revolting spectacle of treating the guilty with the justice which is due only to innocence. 

In America a man may violate the law by crimes which cry to heaven for vengeance, and after the first wave of resentment has subsided, a sickly and self-pitying kindness steps in to arrest the progress of justice; a feeling of pity and of childish tenderness to the person of the criminal prevents any adequate expression, and, in many instances, any expression at all, of indignation and horror at the crime.  In such cases the community assumes the guilt.  This is regarded by God as endorsing the transgression, and in the righteous retributions of His providence, may, sooner or later, expect to reap the consequences in the judgments of His hand.  There is no principle which is more plainly stated, more clearly illustrated, more frequently exemplified in the sacred Scriptures, than that the punishment of law-breakers is a duty.  It is not discretionary; not a thing of expediency or policy; it is a duty.  God exacts and demands it, and no State or civil magistrate can disregard this high and solemn obligation, without taking the place, in the sight of God, of the criminal it protects and favors.  For example, if we refuse to shed the blood of the murderer, the blood of the murdered will be visited upon our head.  The temperature outside is rising!

There are two ways in which people are punished for unpunished crimes.  The first is by diffusing the infection of the sin.  The restraining influences of Divine grace and of human law are equally withheld, and the crimes which have been permitted to escape with impunity have become multiplied.  Witness what the sodomites have done already.  Contemplate murder in the womb! 

God permits greater numbers to fall into their debauchery.  The moral ties of the social fabric become loosened, and general insecurity is the fatal result.  Other societies look upon them as wanting in dignity of moral sentiment.  They are contemplated abroad in the light of the crimes they permit; they allow abominations among them; and this is regarded, and very justly regarded, as sufficient proof that they feel no strong resentment against them.  

From the necessary operation of moral causes, the standard of character must become extremely low among any people who have no public and national expressions of displeasure against crime, or who, having them in form, a dead letter upon the statute-book, fail to make them real and effective in practice.  Through this our nation loses its position among surrounding countries; forfeits the favor of God; contains time elements of weakness, which are inseparable from a low standard of morals; the land is defiled, and will soon be prepared to spit out its inhabitants under the curse of God.  Flee to the mountains and let the rocks fall on your heads vile countrymen!

There are specific and positive judgments which the great Disposer of events has in store for the people that despise His justice. The pestilence and earthquake, the caterpillar and palmer worm, the heaven as brass and the earth as iron, war, blood and famine—these are but samples of the scourges which God has employed in former times, which He is employing now, and which He may continue to employ to teach the nations of the earth; that it is righteousness alone which can exalt them, and that sin is a reproach to any people.

On this day, my brethren, have we not reason to apprehend that our land mourns on account of unpunished crime?  Does not the voice of innocent blood cry to us from the ground? Four thousand unborn children slaughtered a day!  Is not violence increasing in our borders?  Is it not a fatal symptom, at once the cause and the effect of evil—a pregnant sign of the increasing insecurity of life, that secret weapons can be carried without branding their possessors as sons of Belial?  No people has reached the highest stage of refinement until the authority of law and public opinion exactly coincide; and whenever this result is secured, private protection becomes unnecessary and gratuitous insult impossible. Let time law have its way; visit blood with blood; seize the murderer at the very horns of the altar, and let him not escape; and that process of deterioration, which begins in unpunished crime, will speedily be checked, and every honest man will be ashamed to be found with an implement of death about his person.  It would brand him as a murderer at heart. 

 The first step is certainly to make human life secure, by never suffering it to be taken with impunity.  But how bribed and corrupt juries are to be dealt with, except by the gradual progress of truth, civilization and religion, is a problem which I am to incompetent to solve.  It is something to know and confess the evil, and if we can do no more, we can this day cleanse our own skirts by taking shame and confusion to ourselves on account of the abounding iniquity. The repentance of the rulers may prevail on God to change the hearts of the ruled. Our earnest prayer that we and our land may be delivered from blood, guiltiness, may be heard in a blessing upon the whole United States of America.

Countrymen, my task is done.  I have endeavored to deal faithfully in showing the house of red, white, and blue their transgressions and their sin. The consequences of this day will reach forward to eternity. If we have, indeed, humbled ourselves before the Lord, and repented of our own sins and the sins of our people, He may still cool off His wrath and have mercy on us.  If we can truly say to the Lord that He is our refuge and our fortress, He will surely deliver us from the snare of the fowler and from the growing pestilence. We shall not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day, nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. It is he that gave salvation to kings—.who delivered David his servant from the hurtful sword.  Now, in the name of this nation, the common mother of us all, let us offer up our fervent and united supplications, that ours may be that happy people whose God is the Lord.  

The fictitious party branding that President Bush and his cronies sold to the American people in 2001 with the title of morality and peace was immediately replaced with a terrible reign of “religion” and war. While the union of morality and peace is congenial; the union of religion and war is a paradox, and as we have all witnessed over the last seven years the solution of it has been sheer hypocrisy.

The Bush Administration and now congress alike have displayed no sound judgment; their plans no consistency of parts; and a want of consistency is the natural consequence of a want of principles.

They have created the curious spectacle of an opposition to terror against a country without a cause against us.   If they were serving as doctors, prescribing medicine as they practice politics, they would have already poisoned their patients with destructive compounds.  My stomach and my pocketbook aches, how about yours?

There has never been two things more opposed to each other than Bush’s philosophy of war and “religion;” and yet, in the double game this leader had to play, the one is necessarily the theme of his politics, and the other the text for his poorly spoken yet crafty sermons.

Though hypocrisy can counterfeit every virtue, and become the associate of every vice, it requires a great dexterity of craft to give it the power of deceiving.  Our President, a man who trips over his own lips at every period and exclamation point has utilized the media with such mastery and illusion and must be given proper praise and recognition for at least this much brilliance, despite his obvious idiotic mastery of the English language. 

However, a painted sun may glisten, but it cannot warm. For hypocrisy to personate virtue successfully it must know and feel what virtue is, and as it cannot long do this, it cannot long deceive. When an orator foaming from the mouth for war breathes forth in another sentence a plaintive piety of words, he may as well write hypocrisy on his forehead.

The President’s most recent attempts to plunge this country into a new war with Iran, merits not only reproach but indignation. It is madness, conceived in ignorance and acted out in wickedness. Both his head and his heart are partners in this crime.

As his administration continues to neglect punctuality in the performance of a treaty, his poor planning and considerations have caused and inflamed the desire for more war by the terrorists against our unconstitutional occupation on their turf.  It is those terrorist monsters that negotiate by the sword—they seize first, and expostulate afterwards; and the President and our federal leaders have been laboring to barbarize the United States by adopting the same practice as these heathen nations, and this they call honor? Let their honor and their hypocrisy go weep together, for both have been defeated. This present Administration thinks it is too moral for hypocrites and too economical for public spendthrifts and yet they are the later of both.

A man the least acquainted with diplomatic affairs must know that to neglect punctuality is not one of the legal causes of war, unless that neglect is confirmed by a refusal to perform; and even then it depends upon the circumstances connected with it. The world would be in continual quarrels and wars, and commerce would be annihilated should other nations follow in our footsteps and act for the sake of punctuality. 

If America would rather continue taking on the characteristics of our heathen enemies, by striking first and then talking later, instead of becoming an example to the old world of good and moral government and civil manners, then her Independence, instead of being an honor and a blessing, will continue in becoming a curse upon the world and upon herself.

The conduct of these terrorists now occupying Iraq, though unjust in principle, is suited to their prejudices, situations, and circumstances.  As a people, they are neither commercial nor agricultural, they neither import nor export, have no property floating on the seas, nor ships and cargoes in the ports of foreign nations. No retaliation, therefore, can be acted upon them, and they sin secure from punishment.

But this is not the case with our United States. If she sins as the terrorists do, she must answer for it as a civilized entity. Her commerce is continually passing on the seas exposed to capture, and her ships and cargoes in foreign ports to detention and reprisal. An act of War committed by her in Iraq has produced a War against the commerce of our nation.  Oil prices continue to soar, food prices rise, and unemployment grows daily.

Therefore, in every point, in which the character and interest of the United States is considered, it would not become of her to set an example contrary to the policy and custom of civilized powers, and accept only those practiced by the terrorists, with that of striking before she expostulates.

But can any man, calling himself a legislator, and whose constituents suppose that he knows something of his duty, be so ignorant as to imagine that seizing Iraq would finish the terrorist affair or even contribute towards its end? On the contrary, it has clearly made the situation even worse!

Iraq is torn with war and chaos reigns in this state of anarchy.  The oil deposits there are of no value to us or the rest of this world because the wells are limited and/or shut off, which our occupation has neither prevented nor helped. Iraq in our possession, by an act of hostility, is consequently of no value to the western people as a place of stability.

Just because Iraq could be taken and defeated quickly required no stretch of policy to plan, nor a spirit of enterprise to effect; it was like marching behind a man just to knock him down: and the dastardly slyness of such an attack has only stained the fame of the United States. Where there is no danger cowards are bold, but now the danger has become immense the damage irreversible.

We must suppose that the people of Iraq, to whom the oil reserves serve as their chief source of commerce understand the circumstances of that commerce better than a man who is a stranger to it; and as they have shown no admiration of the war-whoop measures and military occupation instituted by our own federal President, Senators and Governors, it becomes presumptive evidence they disapprove and want us gone.

This is a new mortification for those war-hungry and money grubbing politicians and even their new “liberal” replacements now occupying congress; for the case is, that finding themselves losing ground and withering away in popularity in their own country, both parties still refuse to let go of the affair in the vain hope of rooting and reinforcing themselves in a renewed popularity; without perceiving that it was one of their own ill judged hypocritical methods in politics, that whether the war was perceived as a success or a failure the events at home would be the same.

But hypocrisy is a vice of upbeat constitution. It flatters and promises itself every thing; and it has yet to learn, with respect to moral and political reputation, it is less dangerous to offend than to deceive.

To the measures of administration, supported by the firmness and integrity of the majority in Congress, the United States owes, as far as human means are concerned, the preservation of peace, and of national honor. The lack of confidence which the people now exhibit towards their government and their representatives is only rewarded with their continued failure to act according to the wishes of these very masses.

The democrats that were reinstated into the legislature with much urgency; thought so necessary for the prosperity of the United States by its majority, which could have been redeemed some by leaving Iraq, yet their failure to act has only sown seeds of discord in its place, and hostilities and false accusations have been preferred by them now, instead of accommodating the will of the American people.

Have any of the ministers of the American churches meditated on these matters? Why have they laid aside so silently, as they should not have done, where are their electioneering and vindictive prayers and sermons.  These cries must return so that peace is preserved, and commerce, is once again without the stain of blood!

In the pleasing contemplation of this state of things the mind, by comparison, carries itself back to the early days of uproar and extravagance that mark the career of the current administration, and decides, by the well studied impulse of its own feelings, that something must have been wrong all along. Why is it that America, formed for happiness, and remote by situation and circumstances from the troubles and tumults of the world, has become plunged into the world’s vortex and contaminated with its crimes? The answer is easy.

Those who are now at the head of affairs, both democratic and “republican” are apostates from the original principles of the revolution accomplished so many years ago. Raised to an elevation they had not a right to expect, nor judgment to conduct our affairs sanely, they have become like feathers in the air, and blown about by every puff of passion and conceit.

Candor would find some apology for their current conduct if a need of better judgment was their only defect. But error and crime, though often alike in their features, are distant in their characters and in their origin. The one has its source in the weakness of the head, the other in the hardness of the heart, and the coalition of the two, describes the current Administration and Congress.

Rather, if no injurious consequences arose from the conduct of the Bush Administration, his recklessness might have passed for a minor error and been permitted to die and be forgotten. The grave is kind to an innocent offense. But even innocence, when it is a cause of injury ought to undergo an inquiry and as we have seen he and his cronies are far from innocence.

During the last seven years, our country, governed under the current administration, has been kept in continual agitation and alarm; and it has tried with all of its resources that no investigation would be made into its ill conduct, it has entrenched itself within a magic circle of power.

Violent and mysterious in its measures and arrogant in its manners, it affected to disdain information, and it has insulted the principles that raised it from obscurity.  The country has been put to a great expense. Rampant loans, taxes, and occupying armies have become the standing order of the day.

I have not entered into a discussion over these grave injustices because I want to gratify my own resentment, or encourage others to do the same. It is not in the power of man to accuse me of having a persecuting spirit. But some explanation needs to be offered. The motives and objects respecting the extraordinary and expensive measures of the current Administration must to be known. If the public have been unjustifiably imposed upon by the executive appointment of unconstitutional laws, it is proper they should know it; for where judgment is to act, or a choice is to be made, knowledge is first necessary. The conciliation of parties, if it does not grow out of explanation, partakes of the character of collusion or indifference.

There has been guilt somewhere; and it is better to fix it where it belongs, and separate the deceiver from the deceived, than that suspicion, the bane of society, should range at large, and sour the public’s mind as it already has accomplished.

The military measures that were proposed and that continue to carry on during this administration, are clearly not for the defense of our country against foreign invasion. This is a case that decides itself; for it is self evident, that while the war rages in the Middle-East, very few foreign allies have spared even one man to fight against the supposed “terrorist threats” so much closer to their own territories then our own.  The plotters themselves have gotten embroiled into confusion and have become enemies to each other.

But how can our people who, for so many years, have been fighting the battles of the rest of the world, for the liberty of foreigners, surrender their own freedom here at home.  Should our people just stand quietly by and see their own liberty undermined by apostasy and overthrown by intrigue? Let the tombs of the slain recall their recollection and the forethought of what their children are to be revived and fix in their hearts the true love of liberty.

If the Bush administration can justify its conduct, give it the opportunity. The manner in which President Bush seems to be disappearing from the government renders an inquiry that much more necessary. He has given some weak accounts of himself, lame and confused as he has been, but if he really thought that it was necessary to do this, shouldn’t he have rendered an accurate account to the public. We have a right to expect it of him. In that repeated account, he says, that the war in Iraq was a necessity in the war against terror and for our national security and foreign interests, much against the evidence now observed.

What Iraqi terrorists does Mr. Bush mean, and what was the commanding necessity to which he alludes when no weapons of mass destruction ever existed?

What do any of his dark apologies, mixed with accusation, amount to, but to increase and confirm the suspicion that something is wrong? The poor administration and approval of this war was only possessed by fantasized foreign official information, and it was only upon that information communicated by him publicly or privately, or to Congress, that Congress acted; and it is not in the power of Mr. Bush to show, from the condition of the belligerent powers, that any imperious necessity called for the war and its related expensive measures connected to his Administration.

I know that several members of both houses of Congress believe that an inquiry, with respect to the conduct of this Administration, should be readily examined. The convulsed state into which our country has been thrown would be best settled by a full and fair exposition of the conduct of this crooked Administration, and the causes and object of that conduct. To be deceived, or to remain deceived, can be the interest of no man who seeks the public good; and it is the deceiver only, or one interested in the deception, that can wish to preclude further inquiry.

The well founded suspicion against this Administration is as it should be, that it was plotting to control the Middle-east oil reserves, and that it spread alarms of terrorist invasions in our own homeland that had no foundation, as a pretence for raising and establishing an occupying military force as the means of accomplishing that object.  We were never attacked by Iraq they were not foolish enough to take such steps, we unjustly attacked them!

The crimes committed by the mad man Saddam Hussein were against a foreign entity he ruled with no ties to our own people.  But isn’t it actually a much greater crime for a President to plot against a Constitution and the liberties of the people here at home, than for an evil dictator to plot against his own people in a far off foreign land? Consequently, George Bush is accountable to the public for his deceiving conduct, as the individuals under his administration rabble-roused us into surrendering our own freedoms under the guise of a falsely created story of terror involving nuclear plum clouds rising across our nation if we refused to act.