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TERMS OF THE COMPILER,
G,.,;3 -The Republican Compiler is' piiblisiit'd
over, Monday morning, by liEsitY J. Sr.kin.E.
a t ,i,L.75 per annum if paid in advance—:•"42.oo
ppr annunt if not paid in advance. No st)b
v,cri nion discontinued, - unless at the o tin of
th e pu ) a, ler. mita a arrearages are paid . .
Am - EirrisEmExrs, inserted at the usual raies—
jou Wow: done, neatly, eheraply, and Ivith
lispatch.
etro—Offiee on South Baltimore street, direct
]}' Opposite Wampler's Tinning Establishment,
one and a half squares froin the Court house. -
.C)oics poctril.
REMEDY.
I was drooping, I was grieving,
O'er life's ills, a hideous train ;
All, I said, is but bereaving ;
All is loss ithout- a gain!
There is not )ie stable blessing
For our weak and sinful clay :
In the moment of possessing
Every joy is snatched'away.
--Suddenly there` comes a splendoi
Richly gu4)ing _from the skies ;
As a maiden, blight yet tender,
Streamed upon tny -womlering..eycs.
•Cease," she said,."thystrain -of sorrow !
Mortal, turn thy looks on me !,
I am daughter of To-morrow,
And my name is Remedy.
"Nothing is, that is without i me ;
I was present at the birth' ' -
Of the Universe' about me ;
Mine is heaven ; mine is earth !"
"Sphere," I cried, "sublime of action !
Yet a doubt suspends my breath :
For disgrace, despair, distraction,
What thyture!" lie answered, 'Death!"
"That," 1 cried, with bitter feeling,
"Is from woe to woe to lice—
Say, fur death' itself what healing !"
She replied—" Eternity !"
[Household Words.
Zcicrt
Selling Dry Goods.
_ .
People generally think that it is a very easy
matter to stand behind a counter and retail
dry goods t but a week's experience m that
business would convince the cleverest man that
it is much more difficult and laborious than the
task of turning a grindstone twelve hours per
diem. The office of salesman embodies, in its
duties, necessity for the shrewdness of a politi
cian,' the persuasion of a lover, the politeness
of-a Chesterfield, the patience of Job, and the
' impudence of a pickpocket. There arc sales
men who make it a point never-to lose a cus
tomer. One of the gentlemen who is in a store
in.Chathatn street; not long since, .was called
to show a very fastidious and fashionable lady.
who "dropped in while going to Stewart's,"
some rich silk cloaking. 'Every article of the
kind vAas exwsed to her view = the whole store
was ransacked—nothing suited. The costly
was stigmatized as trash—everything was coin
men and not fit for a lady. She guessed she
would go to Stewart's. The salesman pre :
tendedsito be indignant.
"Madam," said he in a tone of injured inno
cence. "I have a very beautiful and rare piece
of goods—a case which I divided wi th Mr. Stew
art; who is my brother-in-law, but it would be
useless to show it to you; it is the only piece
in the city."
- "Oh, allow me to see it," she asked, in an
anxious tone, and continued, had no inten
tion of annoying- you.: - or of disparagiug„.the
merits of your wares."
The saliisman. who was watched in breath
less silence by his fellow clerks, proceeded, as
if with much reluctance, and with expression
of fear that it would be injured by getting
jumbled, to display an ancient piede of vesting,
wfiich had Leen lying in the store fin• five years,
and . was considered unsali•able. The lady ex
amined and liked it much. That was a piece
of goods that was worthy to be won. Dow
much was it a yard ?
•• "T wenty•two shillings."
"Oh! that very is high."
"There," exclaimed he. beginning to fold it
up, "I knew you-would say that."
"Stay ! stay ! don't be in so great a hurry !•'
she cried, "I'll give you twenty shillings." •
"Madam, you insult me agalli."
'•Cut rue of yards, and you can make up
the deduction on some velvet which I require
for trimmings," almost entreated the fair shop
per.
• The salesman, after melt persuacion, sold
the lady the vesting, for which they had in
vain sought to gf,t, five shillings per y.ard, at
the price above Unheated. The profits of the
sale on vesting and vuicet amounta to thirty
three dollars ! out of which the clerks were
permitted to pay for a supper of oysters. The
best or this brief tale of dry goods is to, be
told. The lady had her cloak made. and one
or two ()Cher friends, delighted with it, boug,lit
the rest of the vesting at the same price.
There is a moral to this anecdote, winch we
leave to be discovered by- the ingenuity ()four
lady readers who occa.siunal4 gr.) a shopping.
—.You!" cr2.;cr.
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.rttußaprr----Ttlruntrh tu Rgrifulturr..
Anecdote of General Putnam.
Among the wOrthies who flourished dtiring
the era of the American revolution, perhaps
there was none possessing more originality of
character than that of Gen. Putnam, who was
eccentric and fearless,,blunt in his manners,
the daring soldier withoUt the polish of a gen
-dem-am—lle-might - well be called--the -Marion
of the north. though• he disliked dkguise, prob
ably from the fact of his lisping, which was very
apt to overthrow any trickery he might have
in view.
At this time a strong hold called 11orseneck,
some miles from New York, was in the hands
of the British. Putnam,. with a few sturdy
Patriots was lurking in the vicinity, bent on
driving them from the place. Tired of Lying 'in
ambush, the men became impatient, and im
portuntd the general with questions as to when
they were going to have a bout with the foe.
One morning he made a^ speech something to
the following effect, which convinced theta
that something was in the wind
"Fellows, you hare been idle too long, and
so have I. I'm going to Bush's at Horseneck,
in an hour, With an ox team and a load Of corn.
if I come back I will let you know the partie- -
ulars, if I - should not, let them have it, by
He sliortly - tifterwards-mounted----hisox-cart-,H
dressed as one of the commonest order of Yan
kees, and was soon at Bush's tavern, which was .
in possession of the British troops. No sooner
did the officers espy him than they began to '
question him as to his whereabouts, and find
ing him a complete simpleton as they thought,
they began to quiz him, and threatened to seize
the corn and fodder.
-How much do you - ask for your whole con
cern ?" asked they.
'Tor mercy sake, gentlemen," replied the
mock clodhopper, with the most deplorable
look of entreaty, "only let nic °Wand, you shall
have my hull team and load for nothing, and if
that won't dew, I'll give you my word re
turn to-morrow, and pay you heartily for your
kindness and condecension."
said they, '•we'll take you at your
word; leave the team and provender With us,
and we won't require bail for your appear-
ance."
Putnam gave up the team, and sauntered
about_for-an,hour or so, gaining all the infor
mation be wished: he then retuyned to his men
and'iold them of the foe, and his plan::; of at
tack. .
The morning came and with it sallied out'
the gallant band. The British were handled
With rough hands, and when . they surrendered
to Putnam, the clod hopper, he sarcastically re
marked—
"Gentlemen, I have kept my word. I told
you I would call and pay you fur your kindness
and condecension."
Race for a Husband.-
There lived in Gloucester County, New jer
sey, an old widower, named Paer, who was
an odd compound of whim and caprice—his
circumstances were not affluent nor yet indi
gent, but was considered "comfortable." At
no great distance from his farm. resided a
buxom widow, about four feet' in-height. and it
was said that her altitude wai near the true
guage of the circumference of her \waist. in the
same direction, though further from the resi
dence of 'Peter, lived another widow, named
Amoy. These ladies were'competitors for the
favorable regard of the widower. Peter's mind
was long undecided which of the two widows
should have the preference ; Awry was beyond
do'ubt the most beautiful., but then Christina
was corpulent,. - and of course there was "more
of her." He at last hit upon an expedient to
bring the affair to. a conclusion--he wrote a
billet to each, purporting that he had also sent
for her competitor, and was resolved to marry
the one who should firs/ arrive at his house :
lad was despatched with the pair of billets.
and first delivered the one addressed to Ainey,
whose residence was most remote from that of
the love-sick swain. She immediately ordered
her fleetest horse to be saddled. while she ar
rayed herself in her best attire. By lucky
chance a horse stood saddled at the gate of
Christina, who was ready dressed to pay a
visit to a neighbor when the 'lnesc,ettger de -
live: ed Peter's billet : she quickly mounted her
cow ser but no sooner had she got into the
road. that led to Peter's house. and cast lesr
eyes in a direction toward; resideti - ce,
than she saw her rival rushing after her
the swiftness of the wind : and away went
Christina and ; Atney, whipping - for dear life.
with their bonnets gracefullyilanging on their
backs. Both ladies being equally well mount
ed, Christina preserved the lead, and after a
race of a quarter, she bounced into Peter's
door, e.xclailuing—"Well, here I am,"Peter
eot hereyir4 . 1 " The old ;;entl.2man express
ed hisliappmes:; by a phlegmatic -alas-a day I''
- "1)o you drink hale in America f" asked
an Engli•li cockney.
No, we drink thunder and lightning," said
the Yankee.
rarely foo:id:—Next to a
police;oz.n. tlicre so al_the'fft, a-, pre:,
once of
E. - 7'ft is rumored that one of die ; 4 rnith fam
ily is about to ! - ret married. We don't want
to appear inquisitive. but we would lihc to
know which Smith it is.
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E"rTYSBUIZ(.. l'A.:
31. IV. Baldwin, Ez.q., of Oxford' town
ship, 23(tward of Philadelphia, raised oil - of a
measured acre of ground, this season. one hun
dred and four bushels and two quarts of shell
ed corn. A selected acre in the field; he be-
Heves would hare yielded 'l2O bushels. It
was-Gourd and Oregon - variety mixed. This,
remarks the Germantown Telegraph, will do,
for 1854, +•hen the cry of half a crop is sound
ing in our ears.
=D. J. Fisher. Esq., raised. I (t)0 bushels of
corn on a sixteen acre lot, near Battle Swamp,
in Lancaster county, which two years ago was
sedge field. The lot has had_guano applied
tb it dime tittles in that period ; the first appli
cation was 200 lbs., the second 100, and the
third 400 lbs. to the acre ; making in all 700
-pounds.
The Californians boast largely of their
1.) . e turnips and potatoes. Two turnips are
mentioned, weighing 29 and'bt; Ih.S. each, and
a sweet potato weighing 9 pounds.
The editors of the Blackburn Sentinel had
recently handed to them an ear of oats, grown
by Mr. Cronkshaw, of Belthorn, which con
tained two hundred grains'
There - has been gathered from a single
apple tree, upon the farm of Mr. Nehemiah
P er kins, n - LlAlpsfield__Mass : ,,, the extraordinary
quantity of one hundred bushels (forty barrels)
of apples. The tree has always been a great
bearer, frequently producing from fifty to six
ty bushels. The tree is about fifty yea - rs old.
The Hereford Times mentions a farmer
who took up a fence after . it had been standing
fourte - and found some of the pasts
nearly and others rotted off at the bot
tom. for the cause, he discovered
that tl. which had been inverted from
the way they grew were solid, and those which
had been set as they grew were rotted off.—
This is certainly an incident worthy of being
noted by our farmers.
Virginian has beaten the Yankees at
their ownweapons. John J. Itollow, of Fred
ericksburz, Va., has invented a machine which
will husk and shell corn at one operation.—
The ear with husk is thrown in its mouth, and
in the tWinkling of an eye the corn falls at one
point, the clean cob coming out at the other,
Its capacity is aliout four hundred barrels per
day.—[We should like to have a glimpse of
this machine, as seeing would be believing
-one way or-die -otirm--:-There- is—no htimblig
greater than .that in farm machinery, says the
Gerinantown Telegraph.
The Maine Farmer felicitously says:—
“When farmers see the crows pulling up and
carrying off their corn, or the rats get in and
destroy their grain or potatoes, they at once
realize their loss, and immediately take meas
ures to stop and prevent it. glut many Of them
lose more corn, more grKin and potatoes, by
neglecting to, pronct and preserve their barn
yard and compost heaps, than is annually de-.
stroyed by all the crows, and rats, and other
varmints in the Si ate.''
Smu - r,‘a. OccultunNcr..--In Louisville, Ken
tucky, a couple of foolish fellows having a lot
of knotty sa.gs, butts of trees, &c., which
they could not chop, saw, nor split apart, got
them together in a pile, on Thin sday evening
last, at the corner of Twelfth and Main streets,
bored a hole in the largest log, filled it ,with
powder, and blew up the whole lot with an
explosion %%inch caused the splinters to fly in
all (jirections. One chunk went through a wa
gon standing on Main street, killing two men
who were standing on the .sidewalk, one of
whom wa. much bruised and his clothes near
ly) tornfrom him. The same splinter also
kn,cked a hole in the door of a house, and
of nother fi agment demolished a window on each
_
side of the hoo,e.
M. de Balzac was lying awake in bed
when hesaw a man enter his room cautiously.
and attempt to pick the lock of his writing-desk.
Time rogue- was not a little disconcerted at hear
ing a loud laugh - from the occupant of the
apartment, whom he supposed asleep. "Why
do you laugh ?" asked the thief. "I am laugh
ing, my dear fellow," said M. de Pialzac, "to
think what pains you are taking, and what a
risk you run, in the hope of finding money by
urght in a teak there the lawful owner can
never find any by day." The thief •-evacua
ted Flanders.". at once.
r" -- _,,- - Dohbs says he would have d'ed of the
cholera, in August, if it had not been for one
thing—"the doctors gave him lip."' Two days
71fterwards he says he was a \car man, indulg-
ing in succota;ll
'"l'ltase, mister, give tue a bunflle
hay." "Yes, my son. :... , :xpenny or shilling
Isundle ?" it fur your fatherf"
—No, gue:is 'taint—it's - for the hoss.'.'
r,..77 - ',l fellow in jail wishes he had the small
pox - , so he could "break out." Ile has tried
everything eke.
bust defence of lvin— is (lark.,
Latnh's mil:ark, as related b2,,' Leigh Emit. that.
—Truth is peciuus and not to be was',ed on
every body."
,-- The great race between the night-mare
and the eloti,e,horse (distance from pole to
vole). came 01! yesterday, the two parties corn
upg in neck and neck:
1, - - - -Pollock'i Course of T: um:"
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IBIEM
Titrrit Ii MP MTV, AND Wll.l, PREY All:"
Great Yields, &e,
Funirstir flub furrign
lIONDAY. NOVEMBER 27, 1851.
IN - Q . take the G llmt ink (Cc IR , a recipe, f k ‘r
tnakitv nn excellent, 14• t-quality, Inn=rnit
quart of Indian meal ; a pint of sifted
v: lu at flour : a'very small tenspoonful . of salt ;
dace pints of milk : four eggs.
tint t tc nt ian am w teat meal into a pan.
and add the salt. Mi them N‘ ell. Alt ;at' the
whites and yolks of the eggs st parately.
y o lk s in - u 4 he beaten until very thick and
smooth ; the whites to' a stilt froth that will
stand alone of itself. Then stir the yolks
gradually, (a little at a time.) into the milk.—
Add ,
bydegrees the meal. T.astly, stir in the
beaten white of egg. and-give the whole a long
and hatdstirring,. Butter a sufficient number
of cups, or small deep tine—n , arly till th'em
with batter.-- Set them immediately in a hot
oven, and hake them fast. Turn them out of
the cups. Send them warm to the-table, pull
them out, and eat them with butter.
They will putt up finely, if, at the last, you
stir in alevel tea-spoonful of soda, melted in a
little .warm water.
A WINTER —Take'half a cup of butter,
two of sugar, three of flour, and one of thick,
sour cream, `(instead of eggs,) get ready for the
oven in the usual way, then sprinkle and stir
in alea-spoonful of soda—Lake it slOw.
Rain: Marti I)AYs.-15nder tins caption the
I'ortsmouth Journal recently chronicled the
- death of an esteemed citizen of that place, who
was born on the 2Yth .of February, 1780, and
consequently had but eighteen returns of his
birthday in his long life. The publication of
this fact has elicited many curious circumstan
ces of a similar character. A venerable man
is on 'Change in this city every day who was
born in 1770, and yet he had but nineteen re
turns of his birth day. — Two public officers of
this city, whose duties are the same, were
. both born on the 29th of February. One of
our friends, the President of an Insurance COM
pany in State street, was born on the 20th of
February, and his eldest. grandchild was born
on the same date. Why rot call a meeting , on
the 20th of February, the next leap year,_ and
invite the attendance of those whose birthdays
are not an annual occurrence.—Boston 'Fran
script.
:117 — Day begins in d
a 1%, ness, grows bright.
strong and glorious, and; in darkness closes ;
and so man begins life childhood, at
tains to the meriqian of manhood,, and secolid
childhood ends his day career.
- The man who - got into a train of thought
was taken into custody at the first station for
travelling without_ a ticket„ and sentenced to
three day's :ml)-isonment in a brown study.
rr7 - \u man can avoid Ins own company—so
he had best make it its good as possible. •
Front the Debti,itto Ile..o+ter.
Know Nothingism—Letter from a Metho
dist Clergyman. -
Wn.ns or Clim.‘uilcn, lown Oct. 7, '5l
MY VERY DEAR FRIEND : Before I left Dubu-
Tie, yourself and several other gentlemen of
various Christian churches, regiiestol the
publication of my sermon delivered on the 4th
inst. A long habit of sneaking extemporane
ously has made me careless of the preservation
of either sermons or sPeeebes whit it T am call
ed upon to 'Make from time to time. There
fore, to give yon my language or to transfer to
paper my allusions to civil and religious liber
ty would he impossible. But with every
possible des - ire to be brief, I shall give my opin
ionv to yourself in regard to the right of every
man worshipping God according to the dictates
of /Hs own, conscience, and just as freely ex
press my fears of, and opposition to, every
organization, either secret or open, which
looks to the abridgment of this great prim•iple
which is essential to the very existen,„e, or re
`publican government and, the uncorrupted
won-hip of the living God. -
'You, sir, are a Catholic; I am a Methodist.
Your faith I believe to he the result of a delib
erate judgment formed after a careful inv . t s
ligation. Your convictions :nil devotion-: are
conscientious. Just such. are my faith and.
my devoticns, and the faith and devotion of
every true Christian everywhere. I suppose
you could not forsake your' mligion and re
main an honest roan': I am equally clear that
could not abandon my principl , s and retain
10;' It IllOtnellt my M.:11 re.,peCt mid enjoy tilt
approving smile of my Ifoly 1 Jahr; awl Jutlge,
who kindly regards the intirmitiei of his crea
tures; and scrupulously abb,rts pretence or
deceit. Then my dear friend, what are we
try lr~ ? (h i the d f .tail., of our reitt cfive. reli
gious creed; we can never agree. von,
therefore, destroy rue ? or sh4ll I, with a sa pc:
ri , a- charily and enlighltrird your
annihilation, because we difkr ceneerning
matter which none lAut the wise and eteinal
God can corr.- , .!11y determine? Is it an injury
t o e ither o f us that the other, standing tipon
hi reTom.iltility to the Supreme Jud- , eor the
universe, chop-es to consult - him alone, trill
dk rec r . „„l t h e opinion~ (P 1 men, v rein
to th!tf,?, not of this•world It would in s ult
vour good sense to trunf-iy - an;wcr thes e
in the negative, for you have anticipated
them all. There is only one answer which,
has been conclusive to every reasonable %vol.-
shipper of florin "L. , A. every nina -be fully
pert-ualled in his owl) ritual. 4 :
Tice coui tttu
lion of the pr , ividing for the
agrt,ement ut at Aultifaritiu,
-.1!) , ,ut
Something Gpod.
,ctltirt,l 'lt, in guitritittic4l to (I*cry 1113titr-rutht 1
to Worship i according to the dictates 411 his
own conscience - . And. 101 the very first time
in the history ormodern civilization. our na
tional .z,oveinnient has not only permit I ea, tint
11115'ene . ourage , l, by her lihcral legislatiini, the
growl tol every snicere y prot.et toi y o act I,) • tis e: pen nett upon le e tot is
l'hristiaret, irri. ,, ,teaivd of their nameo:fo - F - ; churches: which, like l'ittlioliechttrelles i t.j_tyt
ulas. It is ith regret that I see an attempt be devoured by flames. But the dwellings of
matteiu vat tons portions of the country 1. „1 priests and the houses of Methodist preachers
create midnight consorships anti star chats hers, I may endure a similar fate, as they .become
subject to the overruling mandates of Icing
Mob. Indeed, the forebodings to one aCcus-•
towed to melancholy feelings are truly fright
ful. To the sober-minded the tearful results
of such organizations promise no less than the
overthiow of free government. It was their
serret pilifFeal reformalion which' preceded the
ihtench Bevotution,• and contributed in the
trophies of Murat and Robespierre. • .
The results are plain and•natural, and it. t'e
quires far more of fortitude than wisdom to
foresee a nation of Christian republicans
ing way tovandalism until she is overcome
with a pure barbarism, and seeks protection,
and plea is for quarters beneath the hospitable
throne of an absolute despotism. It surely
requires no vast stretch of imagination 'to
travel beck to the reign of atti,Catholic and
Protestant Enelish'Ki lige and Queens,who have
for the avowed object of disfranchising the
population of the country, and waging
warfare of all other.; the most fearful and
vindictive—a w a rfare against religion. In the
whole history of the world there never has
been a time when such secret organizations as
tlie Know-Nothings were left with so shallow a
.... -
pretence for their combination as at the pre.
sent ; never a time when 'so little has been
threatened by any organized form of Chriatian-
ity as now.
In the first place, there is not a majority in
the United States in 'ciumnunion with any
church. There is a very clear majority . vt ho
are not members of any religions body. and
this majority would resist to the death the
least squinting at-an encroachment upon their
right of opinion. In the second place, -the
_goYerutitentdoes_not,directly or
__i rect y ,
support by gifts or fees any one denotnimition
of Christians, and of 4.!ourse-ean. have -no-pre
ference in her choice among them. Moreover,
the numerical strength' of the ceentnimicents
of the several denominations is very nearly
the same, and kept in awe by mutual watch
fulness. A mutual forbearance, continued
since the organization of our government, has
created a Christian fraternity of feelings among
conflicting opinions unknown before in the
history of Christianity.
The population of the United States wile in
1 8511-23,1 1,91 8, and is now •about
000, of this number about 1.600,000 are
'Methodists of every order, 1,200,000 tiro
Baptists.
Who, then, that is not afflicted with a an
perstitious monomania; can offer a reasonable
pretence for a formidable organization of re
ligious power in the United States? Indeed,
sir, if there ever has been a time when infidel
ity end contempt for all religion had an as
'eendancr, that time is now.
But ; should a time ever come when a religious
iiitWrance threatens - the existence - of -free-in
stitu Lions, and resistance to ecclesiastical power
becomes necessary, even then Know-Nothing
ism, or any other secret political organization;
ought not to receive the countenance . of any
lover of free government. Secrecy and . by
p ocricy are the favorite instruments of kings
and despots. No country can long remain free
after its great principles are abandoned, and
the government itself becomes the spoils of the
tricky, .skulking politician, I couceivo the
Know-Nothing organization of this character,
or why the organization at all in a country like
ours, where every man has a voice in the legis f,
lation of the land ? Where no privileged order'
is established or countenanced by law, I 'can
not conceive,pf, a single thing; affectilig these
gentlemen as citizens which does Hilt in the
same some affect every other man in the coun
try. If' their &Signs are, just and patriotic,
they are surely sustained by reason ; and I
think the same reasons which have convinced
them will also convince us of the sanitrilliwgs-l
and there can be no necessity for secrecy in the
prosecution of honorable purposes.
Tut there are evils resulting from such as
sociation,: which ought not to be overlooked.
Ina republican government the basis of our
secitrity 1.1 public, toyidence. Whatever strikes
at politic confidence, strikes at republicanism.
When the Whig party beats the Democratic
party upon an issue made the defeated
party gives up the coolest as honorably set
tled. lit turn he openly gains for his own
party au (( E nid triumph, and the opposition as
quietly acquiesce ill their overthrow. It was
A lone opeuly : they saw how it was done and
were satisfied.
Ent in the snccess of mrcret political societies
public confidence is undermined: it gives way :
A reign or 1( n'or COlllinenCeS.; souther scerel
or , anizal know-sdoethin- • are organ
ize,l : an 1 they; too, may triumph, and the dis
piayed Kitow-Nothings may not, so tamely sub
mit. They. in revenge. apply the munitions
of secret warfare. Long before the charter
was granted to any of the , :e orgwlizations,
midnight was 'teemed an auspicious time fur
s e e ; et depredati o ns, and no more powerful
means than the, spark of fire. or the simpler
Incident illyen! ion called lucifur mat oh es,
would be needed to assist in ate, e&resistance to
the superior trick of the victorious party.
- to less sacred a citadel than the temple of
worship amid family altar will he lighted op and
-
rlluiuine
the earth with their fires. Aye, sir,
already has thir; infeinal week begun. limier
the ausi,ices of this modem institution of re
form—all eady have Calle , lic chinches bee!!
burly( to ground or bat'..erefl down by the
hands of ' the lawless, irresponsihte mob,
patronized by those graceless de:nagougeS who
would 'Vero, the world and niamtain the super
exeellent ' chaiacter of Chi ',thin gentlemen,
a hilst., they use for most elm onus c: itnes
minion.; le - ated hy mad fatiati - eisin, the Worst
and leisc:l of the hoL• family of n:':11.
11;!,.ze i : i .e 11.avib.,7 ti tini,
Ccf - v - 11' , .s it all eV,el-1,.. 1, he
Munrinnit, i':r.
ful, and ,:441(1 heartle.4s lrin t l ? All of your
churches may lie in' ruin;, upon the earth.
Then may your monasterie , l share the same
fate. fly this time elmreh , burning may;
llecome fashiOnable, and the haitil . long
trained to inGvudiarism may with the-same.
left, nothing to posterity but a loathsome nicm
_ory_of_t heir 'persean tionsinfl ir fed Oulu:co&
, - .
scientions -men fin' no -other- crime than ;thiti •
voluntary worship of the living 11;iid. Indeed,
sir, the memory of the illustrious Cal vin•hrts
been soiled by the reflection of persecutions
inflicted upon his dissenting contemporary,
Servetus. New England, both the cradle and
the grave of true liberty, destroyed 'the 'por; ,
trait of her Plymnuih landing by interposing
the frightful spectacle of hanging Quakers and
Baptists for their opinions and who that - has
had absolute power has not thus appropriated
-it ? and with a generous folgotfulnes.s these_our
mutual wrongs and mutual a/florins are con
signed to oblivion.
What high-minded, intelligent Catholic or
Protestant, would sec there scenes re-enacted
upon •the continent of America, though they
were regultited . by law Who, in the name of
liberty, would seek 'their introduction by Mob
violence, under: the sacred garb .of
wearing the sacerdotal robes of the .temple of
Chid ? There maybe wrongs in every ecclosi
naicalstrga T 1 they_ conflict'tvith the
rights of citizens, the law under our iNmstitu
don is abundantly able to correct the evil ; if
they do not conflict with those rights, it re
mains a question with man and his Maker
without an* intervening power.
There may be a wrong in our laws which is
not sufficiently scrutinizing, and.,severe in the
prohibition of the emigration of foreign`pfstsecri
and foreign Crinaituds —if that be so, let those
laws be amended, and every honorable foreign=
er will_ rejoice in the distinction which is rni►d©
between virtue and vice. Tiiiit . WoUld
iii d.lel►-
ening , blow:, indeed; which at one :114itiolia
struck dOWn the good with the - evil; . 'the'iiisei
with the foolish, ind6cyhniriately". AlkiSuCh
is Know-&othingism - irf its incepfion. — 9Od
only knows the end;'iniUtnaY He in inereY
forefend us thy' worst !
I am, my very'dear sir, your sincere friend
and fellow-citizen, bound by the fraternal rfeel,'
ings °fa holy and liberal Christianity.
A. P. C•regoire, Esq.
We have no disposition to exult over a fallen
enemy., nor stir the embers of a supposed firnfor
the poor purpose of burning an edifice already
half-consumed. The Democratic party in the
State was defeated at the late election, but wo
have no sympathy with those who now find
themselves in an unpleasant predicament, from
having contributed to produce that resift: All
men of mature ng,e are responsible for their
acts, and it is no excuse that traitors plead pro
vocation for their treachery. X° :true :party
man will allow his feelings te'spntrol his ao - -
tions in the support of candidates selected' in
accordance with usage. And there . islo.nother
rule which must be applied to partisins. The
higher a man ascends in the confidence of- his
party, and the more honors he is made to bear,
to a stricter accountability should he be held.
It sometimes happens that those who receive
the most favors fall' the easiest into temptation,
and apparently sink from their -high estate
without a struggle. Every man of this class
is false at heart, and might have betrayed his
party in any moment of peril. We have soy ! .
cral such imour mind's eye, and while we pity
their weakness, we have little compassion for
the braggarts who profess to love the party,
and yet strike down its candidates:',4o gratify
either their malice, jealousy or ambition. The
practical knave is never at a loss to explain his
:tenons. While he is liable to change sides
every day, both in regard to men and measures,
he declares withAlicsatictimony of a saint that
his political opinions never alter. The late
election afforded gentry of this sort a fair op
portunity to'play off their tricks : and now,
when the game is ended, their friends go about
whining, and wincing because public opinion
places them where they properly belong. A
politician who is silly enough to quarrel with
his party in consevenoe of his, ike of men,
tna r be rorri - 11,t criongl/ to quarrel with the oh•
j‘ his liatred in order to betray ,Lis par
ty. -4'
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR.
liiil4 - 11 - Y CLAY-Dtlitlfi-
Fallen Greatness,
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9.