From the issue of the Cambrian:
The Rebeccaites.
The following Address has been issued by the “London Peace Society” to that
portion of the Welsh people known by the name of the Rebeccaites:–
Brethren,
It is with serious concern that we have heard of recent acts of violence
perpetrated in Wales, and it is now in a Christian spirit of affection and
of sorrow that we venture to address you. — We inquire not here into the
causes that may have led to those acts; we do not here seek to point out the
penalties of the law to which you are exposing yourselves, but we appeal to
you on a higher principle, and would place before you the spiritual, the
eternal, dangers you incur by such conduct. — You, in common with ourselves,
profess to be followers of the Prince of Peace: but how can the work of
violence and destruction be reconciled with the meek, gentle, and peaceable
spirit of Christianity? No two things can be more opposed. You have set at
defiance the laws, by obedience to which social peace and order are
preserved — you have forcibly opposed yourselves to the constituted
authorities — you have violated the laws of God. — Whatever the end may be
that you propose to yourselves, know you not that we are forbidden to do evil
that good may come? The moral power with which men have been endowed may be
exerted in strict conformity with the Christian religion; and if it be
directed to a true and good object, it will, by the blessing of God,
ultimately prevail. — Pause and reflect, we beseech of you — “Consider your
ways” — Remember that in an attempt to gain the things of a day, you are
risking the welfare of eternity.
