Official Impudence
-Gov. Dana of Maine, in his Proclamation for Thnnksgiving, makes an mDudetit (and probably impotent) attempt to dÃctate to the clergy tfs to the topics of pulpit discussion on thai interesting festival. He says : "Let not Ihe voiceof murmuring dis;urb the songö of praiso. Lt-t party bitterness and sectarian zeal besilent. Let not ihe day be desp.cruted, or the house joGotl ue rofunej by politica! harangues assaults npon the i usliLu'.ion of oür sister Slales or deminciiation of the terms of Union.' Butlet s joir. in n general festival that another year has passed, and we are still a united, and prosperous p'eople." W'Iiic!) being interpretcd, rnean9"Let not the Minister of Clirist clare to lift his voice against .Mr. Polk's vav, nor in opposition to Slavery, the pet of Northern Democracy, on pain of being himself denounced as h meddler in politics. We shall see whether the 'Down Ensi' Clergy will submit to be gigged by His E.icellency. 'The thief,' it is said, 'doth fear each bush on officer ;' a similar instinct, we suppose, taught Governor Dana to anticÃpale a thrnshing for his parly at the
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