VOLUME 2. THE PULPIT. ''Our Conversation Is In Heaven," A HKIMIOW BY THE Bev. Charles A. Dickey, OF THE Fonrth I nlted tcrlai. Church, Allegheny, Pa. Heaven is never more attractive than when presented under the figure of home. It is within the sacred precincts of home that the true heart fin-is its chief de light, and the world i» darkest and the heart most desolate when one feels home less. Home is 9 feeling rather than a place. The heart's home is not simply the place in which we are confined by cir cumstances or convenience, not where we eat and sleep, but our weary hearts' rest ing place; the heart'* sanctuary, where it holds communion with its kindred spir its ; our place of refuge when the storms of life bUt in upon the soi|l; the foun tain of consolation to which wc are drivep with dripping hearts by countless griefs and crushing sorrows. Christians gener ally have happy earthly homes, made es pecial ly bright and attractive by the charms of our holy religion, beautiful because God is there, blessed because of common hopes of continuance beyond the grave. Heligion so sanctifies, softens, and renews the heart that Christians necsJsarily en joy best the' relations o( life ; the tics of blood arc strongest when associated with the ties of grace. But the earthly homes of Christians arc only really attractive when graves are hidden in the light cf the glorious resurrection morning, when in faith we behold death swallowed up in victory; when the lite that now is and the life-that is to come, instead of being regarded as two days separated by anight of darkness, is by faith (fade to appear a coatinuous day, of which the fvffner is the early, dimmer dawn, the latter the bright, effulgent noon-day. These homes of earth are the playthings of the decrees of Clod, as changeable as the appearance of the sky. Often in the morning tip sun rises in beauty, drives off the glitter ing stars and bathes in golden light the cloudless sky ; but before he has risen far on his wings of' light, suddenly the lojj muttering thuwTCrs ar.e h.e*rd, huge elojds ] cover the brightness with their blackness, their blackness is girdled with fire light.- niugs, the glory of the morning goes out in the gloom of night at noon-day, and the defiant storm spends its fury op the earth. As suddenly our homes are dark ened; we often have midnight at noon day —storms tlmt mock feeble mortal re sistance conic up suddenly, hide our sun light, and drop their shadows on onr souls. Christians are frequently cautioned by a merciful God who qjjly seeks their good, whose soul purpose is to enable them to secure perfect aud enduring happiness, though His ways arc in the sea and can not be traced, and His dispensations hard j to understand and bear; though lie sometimes leads us through the lle,d Sea aud the wasted wilderness, before JJ e al lows our eyes to fall upon the land. In view of the nnd trying character of .earths experien ces, God continually /endeavors in His word to lead His people in faith to the mountain top, from which they may enjoy visions of the heavenly country, the per manent home, the sorrowless existence that is viewed and promised. While in the flesh we are so influenced by the sur roundings and relations of the flesh, and. faith by which wc can make a «jb stancc of things hoped for, and y.n evi dence of things not seen, is so interfered with in its exercise by uatural feeling aud inclination, that we are dispos ;d too much to coufine our attention to life that now is, to be too much affected by its events aud circumstances, and to take too little comfort from the pln,i# promise,* and assurances of the word of God. We are frequently reminded tiiat this is not our rest, not our home, not where we may hope to enjoy uninterrupted communion with those we love; and they alone are. happy, they alone are strengthened against earth's bereavements. they are oon>- forted in times of trial, realize the fact, and ant accordingly. It is with a" reference to tion, &c." Buch is the meaning usually attached to this word conversation, that . we are uot likely at first glam eto catch the true idea of the passage. Our woid. .citizenship or eoantry better .expresses the meaning of Paul. To have our oiti zenship in heaven, i& to have our home there, our inheritance there, our posses sions there, our friends there, and our ( cojnj|ianioD with them. It is to hare our AMERICAN CITIZEN. hopes net upon heaven, to consider it the one point which we desire to reach, to keep our faces turned towards it, and to piess towards it in all our journeyings.— Who does not love and cherish tj)e land in which they claim citizenship 112 If you have ever been separated from it for a season,-and have been cast a stranger in a strange land, you cat) better understand the love of a citizen for the land of his birth or adoption. When absent, bow cheering is news from home, how delight fuj see a face from home. Any fellow - citizen seems a kindred, but tho heart thinks most of the dear ones in the far-off land and longs most for communion with them. So the child of (iod has its citi zenship in heaven. Karth is a strange country ; here we may be left in the prov idence of (rod ; here may bo our busi ness ; here we may make friends and form attachments, but here we do not desire to linger ; here we do not desire to keep our loved ones; here is notour citizenship, nor here our home; now we are journey ing and dwell in tents, our mansions have been prepared in the Father's house by a Urothef gone before. Our great aim should be to be speedily returned to the land of ourselves and our loved ones. Why (should it matter much whether our kindred go before or follow after? The great end to be accomplish ed is to get all home ; it is ungrateful for getfulness of home to get wrapt up in the pleasures and pursuits of the land of our pilgrimage; it shows too much attach ment for a strange land, and too little jor the land of our citizenship to be afraid to die, to bq puxious to live ; lukewarm must be pur love for Christ il we are aught than happy when the time approaches in which we are to depart to be with Him; we call that love which piompts us to seize the garments of our departing Chris tian friends as they go down into the dark valley leaning on the arm of our resur rected Brother, to be taken to the man sion prepared and furnished; which prompts us to try to wake them from their sleep in Jesuss by the grief of our strick en hearts; but is it not a selfish love that would keep them back because we are not ready to depart, that would deprive t}jeui longei of their promised rest ai)d reward —that vyr.jl'l .elfishly ask thfem to stay nr i-yi in death, ajid vsit, 1 weeping ai #.• g.aves father than wn at theirs. Our Christian friends rebuke our tears and grief by calling back in their unbounded joy, "If ye loved me, &c." Surely the best boon that fondest affec tion can ask for a Christian friend is death, for it is far better to depirt and bo with Christ. Heaven is attractive in itself and in its own peculiar society as distinguished from the society of earth. Leaving out of view our relations to our kindred according tothe flesh,not taking into account the fact on .which we rest many hopes that in heaven we shall en joy in perfection much that was here only partial and incomplete, there is much in heaven ajid hew society that draws us and induces us to make it the country of our choice, and to claim there our cit izenship, All reports agree that it is an exceedingly good land that is beyond Jordan, a land flowing with milk and honey, whose attractions will surely please, and whose products will surely j-aiisfy our immortal natures, a land i# which nothing could be found that would mar the purity or disturb tjje j>eaoc of its cit izens. And it is £hc dwelling place of God—ihe home of our divine Redeemer, and around the tJjrQne, in shining circles and countess nuu,Ur». are the holy an gels. All this attracts and draws us heav enward. But it is impossible to sepa rate our thoughts of heaven and our thoughts of kindred. If it were the de. clarftd jvill of God, we should be ready to at the grave, forever the pleas-' ant relations of life; but such is not His will; the reunion of parted friends is continually presented in the scriptures for the comfort of the bereaved sorrow ful, as we journey together to our better country. So also shall we enjoy it to gether; life's relations will be recognized qnd continued; Christian society can scarcely be said to be interrupted by death; our departed Christiau friends are not associated with us in the body ; we do not stjp Jyrm that we can touch, but di»es die grave hide them, or has death removed them so far that the soul cauuot catch a precious vision for its comfort ? No audible voice falls upon our ear, and still we hear them—in solitude, in the si lent night, in the early piorning—yea, continually we hear it like a living echo in the car. ,Oh ! no, our dead are not lost, qnly gone} it is only separated. The soul is confident earth has gijr«n them VP. they are still somewhere in the uni verse of God. and calls that somewhere iy heaven, ( o#r faith finds u habitation for our sainted dead, and as one by og# they leave us Jfl take up " Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it'!--A. LINCOLN BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30,1865. their abode in the eternal city, w ore more our hearts are drawn heavenward ; more and more precious becomes our claims to citizenship in heaven. What rapturous delight it gives the soul to con template its dead—not as the tenants of cold and lonely graves, but as the sainted pitizensof Jerusalem that is above. Our dwelling place, endeared by associations, may bo laid in ruins by the devouring flames, but we will regard our loss as triv ial if our loved ones are safely rescued. So dfgth may dissolve the earthly home pf t)iose we love, but it is of little conse quence if we can only be assured that their immortal souls are safe, and that t|}ey have found a dwelling place in the building of God, an bouse not piade with hands, and that their citizenship is in haven. Surely God will not be jealous if wc love and long for heaven more be cause our beloved Christiau dead are gathered there. But heaven's chief at traction is the presence of Chri«t. Christ renders heaven attainable, and llis pres ence there makes it especially desirable. The best boon promised is to be Christ; the best condition promised is to be like Him. In the contemplation of •the heavdnly laud of his citizenship, tho Apostle's uiind seems to have been ab sorbed with thoughts of Christ. He knew He had gone beforp to the Father; that He had gone to prepare a place for His people. He beheld Him, the glori ous King of the better country, busily preparing the Jartd fort),e reception*of its citizens, and he boldly ft vows his allegi ance. But the though? that was upper most in his inind was the promised glori ous appearing of the ascended Savior " from whence !" There has been much useless speculation about the exact time of Christ's second appearance upon our earth, but there is no room to doubt the fact. We have as good reason to believe that lie will come again as wo have to be lieve that lie has ever appeared on earth. His own promise is, " I will come again !" Angels assured tho astonished disciples at his ascension t)iat " the same Jesus which was taken up from them into hea ven should so couie in like manner as they had seen Him go into heaven." The apostles believed tho truth and preached ijt unhesitatingly. ! fh,e ajcact time is one of God's secrets, which men have vainly endeavored todiscovcr. The circumstan ces and object of His coming arc hinted at in the inspired word. He will not come in humility to-suffer, but in power and glory to reign. No lone star will guide a few inquiring wise men to His humble birth place. No lone angel will whisper the pews. of His coining in the ear <.f humble shepherds in the silent night and tell them of an infant in swad dling clothes in a manger at Bethlehem. Oh, uo! He will come in His glory, with His shining retinue of holy angels with Him. He will be clothed in such bright ness that " every eye shall see Him."— Noise of trumpets and astonishing won ders will announce Him to a waiting world. He will nt come till thp world's mission is fulfilled; till God's purposes concerning it arc all accomplished, Jill God is ready to seal the world's history, to empty earth aud melt it with fervent heat, to close both heaven and hell forev er, and place the impassable gulf between. He will not come till all things are ready; till His chosen people have all bcejj horu and have fulfilled tfteir earthly mission and ar<; prepared to enter thoir hewrenly rest; ami then He will como to call slum bering dust from countless graves, to gathci tfie living and the dead, aud caught up together, the chariot of clouds shall bear all to the place of Judgment, the books shall be opened, the doctrines of eternity shall be ffiad.; those who can prove their citizenship shall enter heaven to enjoy its rest and beauty forever, while' aliens and foreigners of the blessed com-, monwealth shall be forever banished.— The mind of the Apo6tle rested upon one cheering thought in connection the expected coming of tiie l-onl, viz., that He would change the .vile body, the body of humiliation, the earthly aud fashion it like His owu glorious body.— On earth, Christ's body was like ours; in Heaven, qur body shall be like His. This desirable change shall be confer/ftd upon those jyhose citizenship is in Heaven.— This change must be produced before we C9uld be naturalized, before we would be fitted for so blessed an abode. How could we take bodies pf sin and death to a realm where sin cannot onter and where death is unknown ? How could we tajefr ,y^le. bodies that aro burnt up with passion and destructable to a land of purity, for an eternal existence ? We want to be of all mentality when the crown of immor tality ff placed upon our head. We must reepectj ypg cannot even help toying the vacant body .that lies cold in Q.u( desola ted household; \;c lift it gently, and bear it with care lest might ' disturb its peaceful slumbers.' But it iy clay; it craves companionship with kindred dust. But blessed be God, it shall be raised and changed and fitted for its heavenly citi zenship. We sow mortality, but Christ raises it in immortal beauty; we sow it distended with sin, but Christ raises it gjorious like His own ; we sow it weak, too weak to resist the blow of Jpath. but Christ raises it in powef, aud its song of triumph will bo, " 0, death, where is thy sting." The Union State Convention. The Union State Convention, which met in narrisburgon the 17tli of tho most respectable and harmonious ever assembled in the State, and its de liberations were marked by the earnest and dignified manner which becomes the loyal people of the country. Discussions were had of course upou the varjous sub jects upon which it was called to act; but the fact is almost remarkable that not the'Jeast ill feeling was manifested upon the part of any otj§. The resolu tions, which we print elsewhere, express the gratitude of the people to Almighty God, and to the heroism of our soldiers and sailors, in securing peace to the na tion, and the final and complete destruc tion of slavery ; pledge the support of the Union party to Mr. Johnson in the completion of the. weighty duty which devolved upon him by the death of his illustrious and predecessor; suggest a policy to be pursued in the treatment of the late insurrectionary States ; declare iu favor of a revision of the revenue laws in order to secure in creased protection to American industry and jn favor of discountenancing the en croschincpt of fprcign nations on this continent, (jnd recognizing the claims of our citizen soldiers on our gratitude »nd confidence. We regret exceedingly that the Con vention should have adjourned without defining the position of tho Union party on the important subject of suffrage.— It is one that must sooner or later bo ear nestly met by the country, and wc believe now as we have long believed, that this is of all others the propor time to deter mine who shall and who shall uot excr pisp the sacred right of franchise. The Convention, however, thought differently and failed to give us a basis upon which to organize our discussion. The question was canvassed by tho Committee on Bcsd-' lutions, its various forms being presnted by persons whq tali&ved with us that the opportunity should uot be lost to place the party in a proper position before the country. But each proposition was laid on the table because, in the judgment of the leading men of tho party, it was im politic to deal with the question at this time. Tho form of the subject which washy all odds tho most popular is the provision, by amendment, to the Nation al Constitution for a uniform systoui of suffrage predicated on the intelligence of the voter. But the leaders of the party, speaking for those they represented, said that the question had not boon sufficient ly canvassed to justify them in committ ing the party to any particular form of the subject, and that it would be extreme ly injudicious to agitatu matters which do not of necessity belong to tho present time. While wc have no intentions to find fault with the Convention, we cannot withhold our dissent from such opinions. We still regard the discission of this matter as belonging to the present time as much as to the future. The late war occasioned a necessity for re-organization in the North as well a? in the South, and while the work is in Jiand in one section it should be begun in the other. It is our duty to let thp Southern people know now the whole of our public policy as far as present necessity can develop it, in' order that they may be enabled to con form to it as rapidly as possible. We consider it impolitic to wait until they have manifested ap yune.st disposition to conform to what has already been presen tep to them, before wo agitate a rule of suffrage which will effect as wall as it will us. It will tend to initiate them in the new, and we need jfof, expect them to understand their duty if we announce our policy point by point throughout the future. We have an abiding confidence that at no very distant day intelligence will form the basis of our suffrage system in the North and South alike, and that our true policy should be to scud the ques tion'to the country without delay. Th£ action ot the Convention in its nominations is worthy of sincere com mendation. It redeemed the pledges made by the people during tjio war, and responded to their present desire, that the citizen soldiers shall he rewarded for their gallant deeds and faithful services in saying the liberties of the Republic. To them ye owe the wivation of quf gov- ernment redeemed from the curse of sla very, and we are glad to record the fact that the party which was inflexible in supporting them through the dark hour of the conflict is faithful to its pledges to reward and honor our brave defenders. The Convention made eminently judi cious nominations for auditor Genej-al and Surveyor General. In our last issue wc spoke oftlie at some length but some few particulars more should be added. Brevet Major General John F. Hartrauft w as Colonel of tho Fourth I'ennsyluania regiment in the throe month's service, which at the first battle of liull llun was reported as haying mar ched from the field to the music of the enemy's cannon, because theif (.ime was out, aud tlicy would not participate in the battle, although their commander ear nestly plead with them to do so. Find ing his efforts to bo in vain, Colonel Ilurt ranft told them that while their fears car ried them to the rear, lie had entered the service to fight the rebcls j and he intend ed togo to the front. Ho tendered his services as volunteer aid to Goucral Mc- Dowell, which wera accepted, and he con ducted himself with great gallantry thro'- out the battle. JI" has been in the ar my and at the front constantly since the atfack on Fort Sumter. Generrl Hart rauft is a graduate of Union College, aud is but thirty-two years of age. 11c is a man of scholarly attainments and rare ability. After leaving college he spent a few years as civil ongincer, and then ap plied himself to the legal profession, and had practiced law three years in hisnativc county, Montgomery, when he entered the army. For his ability he wag selected as the special Provost Mar shal General of the Military Commission by whom tho assassination conspirators were tried, and the manner in which he discharged tho important, delicate and painful duties of that position, was com mended by even those who sympathized with the criminals. He is in every way qualified for the office for which he has been nominated, and tho people can have confidence in extending him their sup port. fjololol Campbell is a practical printer and was a resident of this county several years ago. He moved to Cambj ia jaun ty and was engaged until the V ftr 'he manager of an iron works. What limited means he was possessed of he invested in Government securities iu order to encour age those of his friends who were not as hopeful as himself of the ability of the Government to sustain itself, and to con tribute all the aid in his power lie enter ed the army as Colonel of the 5-lth Pa. regiment, and served with much honor to himself npd credit to his regiment until the Government had no longer need of his services. Such arc the candidates of the Union party, and we predict for them a trium phant election.— Pills. Com. ME. LINCOLN AND JKKF. DAVIS.— The New York correspondent of the Lon don Spectator asks in his letter: "Was thcro ever a more striking contrast than that between the close of the public ca reers of the two foremost men in this tremendous conflict ? Ode, careless of his life, and dying upon the summit of success, mourned by a great nation, and eliciting unpreccdcnt respect aud sympa from all Christendom; the other leading his followers to destruction, arrested as he 'skedaddled acrops a cornfield, to save his neck, in His wife's petticoats." Tho Spectator adds, editorially : "This Republic which was supposed to qe absorbed in trade and agriculture, en ervated by wealth and prosperity, incapa ble of the efforts nnd sacrifices which aro required for war—this Republic has al ready shown itself ppon battlefields the rivals of the Republics of Rome and Greece. Like the Grecian Republics, it has already had its two Nervie wars— its Persian and its Peloponnesian war.— The war of to 1782, which created its nationality, and the war of 1881 to 1865, which put an end to slavery, has engraved its name iu in the first class among thp (K.pords of martial glory.— That is enough for it. God grant that it may"bc ablf to stop without going fur ther in this career of blood and danger?" —Wire is a Bwiss by birth. He mar ried in Louisiana, and before the war ow ned a large plantation atid a great number of slaves. He was in Richmond at the time our troops went up the Misissippi river and took poi6es.siou of his planta tion. In 186 She to Europe on secret mission by tho rebel authorities. After an absence of eight months he re turned, anij was appointed captain and. assigned £o duty on the staff of the rebel General Winder. Afterwards he wss placed in command of the Andorsonville prison, where his inhuman and brutal treatment of our prison is w*H known. NEWS HUMS. —The peach end grape in the neigh borhood of Cincinnati are seriously daiu agqd. —Af Wooster, Ohio, on Thursday, General Cox addressed 2'1 ( Q00 people, in cluding 2,000 soldiers. —Governor lJrough has so far improv ed iu health that piouounce him nearly out of danger. —One hundred and one rations were issued to the prisoners in Ilarrisburg jail o|j Wednesday. Verily, tlje capital has no lack of evil doers. —The long continued warm weather in Louisiana has dried up all the cisterns and wells, and the inhabitants are drink ing water from bayous which arc notori ously unhealthy. The South Uend, Indiana, Hrfftgfcr, giytig a list of the losses by the recent tolnado at that place, states that first re ports greatly exagoratcd. The entire los ses in the city will not exceed 820,000 —The Canadian public debt exceeds 875,000,000, more than three-fourths of wich, Strang tp ssjy, has been incurred within the past ten years. I'olitioal af fairs in the Provinces are represented as n a very "ticklish" condition. —A Paris correspondent Bays the (Jueen of Spain and her Prime Minister ftre not on at all good terms. A stlong Republican feeling exists among the of ficers of the army, and a revolution may be considered as eminent. —The Matamoras Monitor, ot the sth, eontains the news of several of J,hc Liberals near San Louis ajid Pueblo.— Only small bodies were engaged and re- unimportant. Many exiled confed erates in Mexico are becoming naturali zed citizens of the empire. —A writer in the Washington Chron icle understands "from valuable sources that it is the expressed opipigp of heads of "bureaus that, ag a whole, the employ ment of women in the Departmen is a failure. —Five members of a family named RidgO were murdered by rebels, near Cljatfanooga, during the war. A brother has been on the track of the murderer*, three of whom have been arrested and hung, and last week another of the gaug was arrested. That is a brother worth having. —The Ohio Democratic jijtyto Sover eighty Convcncntion assembled atColuin bus on Thursday. M. II Mitchell, of Knox county, was appointed Chairman, and W. 11. Munnell, of Highland coun ty, .Secretary. Alexander 11. Long was nominated for Governor, nnd Chilton A. White for Lieutenant Governor. Strong State Sovereignty resolutions adopt od. —ln sixty-one counties in Kentucky heard from, the "Conservative" majority on the vote for State Treasurer, is only 2,01!5. The result will be close, on the popular vote. The legiilaiure will prob ably be "Conservative," who will Jiave five of the nine Congressmen. The Dem ocratic candidate for Stata Treasurer is dead, and the Union candidate is danger ously sick. —Governor Johnson, of Georgia has issued a proolrmatiou ts the officials thro'- outths State to administer the Presi- oath of amnesty to all persons en titled to receive the same. Also, that all the civil officers of the State who have taken and subscribed to the President's Amnesty Proclamation, if not embraced | within any of its exceptions, or jrho may have received a special amnesty, shall proceed thereafter in the discharge of the duties of their sevgfjff offices, accord ing to the Jaws in existence prior to phq first of January, 1801, »o far as the same are not inconsistent with the present Con stitution of the Scale. —A Tosas correspondent describes Camp Ford, at Tyler, in that State, as a prison pcfi second only to AndersonyiUe in the barbarism and atrocities inflicted upon Union prisoners for two years. He says that sconrged, beaten and tortured, these prisoners were too far off and too closely guarded for their groans to be heard by those in the outside world.— Their cad story only became known fjom thheir shrunken lips after they had been exch an gcd. It is a stockaded inclosurc of oight or («n acres. This estimate in cludes all the adjuncts of the prison. It is situated on the side of u sandy slope, at the lower edge of which, and just within the stockade is a spring that sup plied water to tlje prisoners. The inclo surc, which seems to have have been en larged at different times to meet the re quirements of rebel captures, is filled With huts and shanties of ahnosjt every imaginable shape, and eopstructe'i of ev ery available material. NUMBER 37 Citumtioiml Jlf|)iulmfnt Intelligence the Support of Free Government. Wo are glad to pfcsgfve, as one of thq coniequeots of the war, and of the eman cipation whioh was one of its uteajtyrea, that the question of the proper qualifi cations of enfranchisement is receiving attention throughout the country. Thq high privileges connected with oitizen- ship sh:uld be diffused as widely as j| consistent with the benefit of individuals and the safety of society. Hut both theso considerations require some attention Jto the subject of qualification for using privil ges. That many the privi lege of the ballot, who lack theso quali fications, can hardly be doubted. The commcndablo liberality of our provisions has been perverted and abused, to soraq extent. Hut the questions whether thiq abusb can be corrected by restrictions, or whether it would be obviated by further extensions, are of such doubtful decision, that persons may be excusable for hold ing them tor a time in suspense. TJjose we do not discuss iu the present article. A more general but not less important subject is before us. The connection of intelligence with virtue, in the people, i$ the means of their own bepegt, aud is the strongest support of free constitu tional government. , Whatever may bo the prevalent opin ions and theories, in countries ruled by despotic or aristocratic sway, itjis sp ax iom among us. That pqpjjlar iutellegonco is not onjy conductive to the highest hap piness of society, but is even essentail it. We have another sentiment which, though often denied and scouted affjood', is olso an axiom with us, viz : That pop ular freedom is essential to the highest happiness of society. (Jndcrlying these, and supporting them, is a third sentiment, not controverted anywhore, though oftor) neglected ; which is, That popular virtuo is essential to the highest happiness of society. These, together, form a throo fold cord, not easily broken, that bind so ciety together good jojyil govern ment. Diffused among a people, they qualify them for forming good goy 7 ernmcnt, and for maintaining if. pat freedom, without intelligence and virtue, could not long subsist. The history of its wild life and ignominious death woul4 bo summed up in a few brief nnij choly sentei)bsg, dppicting in its frantic; acts of violence and misrule, its reveling* in anarchy, and i#*extinction in iron da*; potism. This renders education a necessity iq our country. And tho correctness of principles is proved by the fact, that where the facilities for cduoajjon Jjavo boon enjoyed in the highest degree, thca<> two results liavo followed : The sooial ' condition of tho people has been tho Jiafc picst, and the fidelityof tho people to the govesnment has boai) most firm. Thq late disturbance of our country's peace, by a formidable insurrection, does not of? fcr an exception to theso views. It fath er affords a strong confirmation ofthir cop rectness; for this insurrection had its inception and support in that section and from thoso classes in our oonntry, in which the privileges of education had been most Readily enjoyed, and it WM suppressed by men who had been taught in school houses, and familiar with cor rect political and njoral principles from their childhood. It is not merely the amount of scholas tic instruction, communicated in the usu al processes of education, that qualifies men lor enjoying and benefitting society. The processes themselves arc oondusivo to this onij. The elevating soofal influ ences, the subordination to au thority, the self-government, the habitual control of moral principles, insensibility! yet surely, operate to the promotion of the character of intelligent, orderly, vir tuous citizens. This is finely illustrated by those elementary and valuable schools in which no secular science is introduced in which politics is never named, in which the history or constitution, of our coun try form no part of ffig. instruction, but which embraces, as themes of thought and tuition, only moral and religious sub jects. llere we find tho character afid tone of mind formed perpetuated, will make men and women of tbs forf that free government requires. Princi ples of rigjit are inculcated, and habits of integrity are formed, which yilt sway {heir benign influence over the WKoIq ifo. llespect for the rights of others will accompany the consciousness" pf privileges, anil' while the principles im bibed will afford' happiness, they will also supply impulses for the good of society. History will fully sustain the principles we have advanced. They are illustrated . by the .contrasts in free and despotio gov- •( . in a higher and lower scale of civilization, in popi}ls.r elevation and de. basement. We iiould oita the pi-oofs by* specific reference to different countries, 1 but we forbear.— Pit i. Commercial.
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