Now since we have them asleep, let us take our chance, and see what they are. In the first place; every action was from impulse; and consequently the governing or directing power of the mind hail been previously taken away. They were per• fectly reckless, not caring what they did; they eat, drank, clamored, jumped and kicked; because these were instinctive; and they fell down and went to sleep, be cause they could not help it. Such is the cause degredation, to which intemper. mice brings the intellectual faculties of man. The social and moral feelings have been soured and imbittered, by a continual course adds kind until they have lost all that native refinement for which they are so justly valued. They are incapable of acting, as they would, if they were per mitted to move in their intended sphere. The selfish feelings then are cultivated by intemperate habits, while every noble quality of the soul, is debased. But un happily for the intemperate man ; the as mount of selfishness implanted in the mind at its creation, is amply sufficient, for what it was intended, without cultivat ing and 'caking it stronger. Here then It. is stengthening that principle in his mind ; which if it was not checked and balanced, the gentle and benign influence of the social and moral powers, would leave him closely approximated to de mons. In this way, intemperance throws poison into all the clear fountains of the soul. All the streams which flow from them, ale so many means, of spreading the dread miasma over the community. This is the effect of disturbing that mental equilibium, without which the hutnan . mind is next to useless. It is then, like a ship let loose upon the ocean, without, either compass to point out the way ; or rudder to direct; floating wherever .the fantastic breezes please to carry it; until it founders on some rock or sand bar, or come in with some frigidly vessel, which furnishes it with a c6lnpass and repairs its rudder. But independent of the results it pro. duces on the intellectual, moral, and so cial condition of man, considered as the victim of intoxicating liquors; it also ex erts an influence fully as baneful on the happiness and comfort of the social and domestic circles. The family circle is the peculiar theatre of its Inuit degrading effects. How many thousand broken hearted wives could testify to the truth of this: how many thousands could show scars and bruises; and date the commence ment of diseases at sonic time when they were dr iven, . at dead of night, from a comfortable dwelling, into the cold and howling blasts of winter, by the irruption of a drunken husband into the housel— What an army would they present one that would make the drunken renegade tremble, that he should ever have been' the cause of so much misery and prema ture death. But look here a moment— lacing who, a little while before. possessed nothing but attractions; in his opinion, almost angelic; one •vhoin it was his joy to love and honor; at the moment he becomes intoxicated, she becomes an object of hate, and is driven from that fireside to which she hail been welcomed but a short time before. Now is there any thing better calculated to enstamp the seal of infamy upon the character of inteinpe-,' ranee than this? Tito rich the poor, and the illiterate, have all been captivated by it. Hut it is among the poor, upon whom dame fortune never showered her blessing, that we find the greatest amount of suffering. A rag ged family, shivering with the cold and snows that rush through the crevices of their lonely hat, speak in a voice directed to the heart, that it is the drunkards resi Bence. Probably he has descended from an honorable stock, but has brought him self and family to this by a course of dis sipation; or has his lather reared him in this way, and is lie following out the prin ciple. and precepts of his early education? How is it that the poor man is as pecu• liarly wretched and miserable? Have all the holy aspirations of his youth been blighted? Or has "Chill penury repressed his noble rage And froze the genial current of his soul." In conformity with the causes which have been assigned and the effects flowing from them, let us inquire a little into the remedies which must be applied, to pre vent the operation of those causes. If to seek pleasure and gratification is the ob. ject, when young men first rush into this vice, it their motives of action are wrong, as they assuredly must be, you must point out to them their real and substantial hap piness, and direct them where it may be found; you must also go about correcting those motives which have been permitted to strengthen and mature, without those salutary restrictions, which proper instruc tion might have placed upon them. But the best way is to begin in early, youth. Instil into the young mind (and let them strengthen with his strength) high minded, honorable feelings and prin ciples of action; some of that noble pride which really adorns the mind; and then the causes which we have mentioned, will miner be able to operate. I leave it for the minister, the teacher and the parent. Let them act well their part, and they will rear a moral, social and intellectual breastwork, against which the armies of elfishness shall battle in vain. For the young man v ho is just verging on the state of active lite, we would say a word. He has passed the time, when pit cept and ordinaryinstruction, is likely not to operate upon him, and has come to think for himself. His destiny is now in his own hands, and he is its at biter. His future welfare and importance depend en tircly upon his exertions now. If he will only place some noble object in view, and make all his efforts centre in it, as a grand ultimatum, he need not despair of success. Upon our young men depend the future prosperity of our country. The free in stitutions of NV bleb we are so proud, are to be perpetuated by their virtue and their 'intelligence. Let our young men, then, be made aware of their own value and political importance; the power which un- Ider the constitution, they must filially wield; and where is that one; so base, as to suffer the spirit of intoxication to pluck from its station the brightest star in the mental firmament. I have heard it said that "man might be likened to a cone, whose apex was in his person and the base in eternity;" that he was thus capable of continual and un limited improvement; forever expanding and bursting the shackles which confine his . mental energies, at every advancing moment of time, until he has arrived at the farthest boundary of immortality.— Such is the elasticity and ever increasing vigor cf the human mind, such its powers and capacities, that the more it receives, the more it is capable of receiving. Let every young man know that he possesses this principle and that application and in dustry does wonders. Ellie could only be impressed with the greatness of himself— his inherent value, he never would be sipping wine around the bacchanalian ta ble. Napoleon disdained such low pleas ures; lie looked higher. He sought pleas ure and gratification in setting kingdoms and empires on tire. lie directed all his efforts to the accomplishment of his ob ject. In this respect he is worthy of imi tation. These arc some of the motives which I would present to the young man, to win his heart and hand over to the cause of temperance. Ellie has the good of his country at heart, and the best interest of himself and his fellow man, he will lend his voice and influence to his cause. I am thus desirous that young men should engage in it; because if they are tempo rate, the next generation will need no temperance societies. To the more aged these motives are of little avail; but there is every other tno.. Live to induce them to live a temperate life. The temperance altar is i. shrine at which all ages, sexes and conditions are invited to worship. In respect to tire utility of femperance societies, a word may not be out of place. I have often heard it said, that if a man could not abandon the use of liquor, with out subscribing a temperance pledge, that he could not by subscribing such a pledge. Such objectors misapprehend, in part, the object of temperance societies. It Is true, the object is to do away drunkenness, ' and to reform drunkards; but there are two ways of doing it. The first is to in duce them to sign the pledge, which binds them in both honor and conscience to re frain from drinking as long,as their names are there; and the second is, the influence of the temperate part of the community, :onstituted as a moral force to act against it. It is a mouth from which the commu nity can utter its abhorrence of the prac tice. It has thus a direct and an indirect influence; a direct, by endeavoring to convince them of their error, and per,ua. ding them to give their convictions . e ff ect by signing the pledge; and an indirect, by laying before them an example which their own conscience must approve. Let every temperate man, then, come forward, and help to augment this moral force, this in- direct influence, by giving his name; and the time is just ahead when the drunkard' will be forced by every consideration of respectability to abandon his habits. If he has not gone too far, or has not been driven to desperation in his read career, there w;11 still be lett in his heart some glimmering. of that lc ie of approbation, which will serve as a beacon, to vide him back to that better society from which his own vices had thrown him. The Meeting. We have stated already that six fe males, rescued from the William Brown,' had arrived at Germantown, their place of destination in this neighborhood. We are told that one of the company was not of the faintly that had come to make their home in Germantown. She was a young woman whose mother fourteen years be fore had come from Scotland to this coun try, and the daughter thought she had only come to America to find her parent. Their common sufferings had attached her to the other five females, and they took up their abode in Germantown, the young woman ascertaining very soon that she was not likely to find her mother quite so readily, as she had supposed. She accordingly looked about for work to earn a living. Shortly alter her arrival, she was visited, among many others, by an elderly lady from Manayunk, who came to enquire after the rescued sufferers generally, and to hear more particulars of those who were lost with the ship and from the boat. Having heard the oft re pealed story, the old lady ventured to make one particular inquiry : Was Mary-on board the William Brown ?" Yes, she was," The next question dropt tremulously from her lips : %Vas she saved ?" " Yes, I am she." My child !" exclaimed the mother. And so the old lady supplied her daugh ter with a home,'which she was about to earn among strangers. U. S. Gazelle, TEIE JOURNAL. One country, one constitution one dettiny, Huntingdon, Aug. 11, IS4II Democratic Candidate FOR GOVERNOR, JOHN' BANKS, OF !JERKS COUNTY. A Reasonable Question. Ilard to answer. We have on more than one occasion asked ourself the question,— By what means did David H. Porter become so wealthy? and after having done so, we would argue with ourself in this way.— Twenty years ago, David H. Potter was worth twenty thousand dollars less than' nothing, else he swore a lie when he took' the Insolvent's oath ; and now to all ap pearances, he is worth a hundred thousand dollars. Well, "thinks Ito myself," that is truly wonderful. How many farmers, who began life when he did, with a tolera ble good farm, have been industrious and economical, and now have not doubled their means. Yet here is this same Por• ter, who began with nothing,—aye, worse Than nothing, and he has labored none ; and yet he has grown immensely wealthy. Again I would ask, Is it possible that he came honestly by all this property? How can a man convert nothing into such streams of wealth? Then •thinks I to myself," either he has cheated his old ere. ditors, or he has been lucky in his specu • !taint's, for a man who has so long preten• ded to hate and abuse the speculating in. atitutions, or he has been tempted by the filthy lucre, when he has been in places of trust or profit. "Thinks Ito myself," how strange for a man to begin with no thing twenty years ago—do nothing, es• cept the small business of a Justice, or county clerk, and in 20 years to clear one hundred thousand dollars, and as lie says himself, pay all his old creditors, which in a reasonable calculation must be at least a clear annual profit of t 56000.- "Thinks Ito myself," it is not true that that money could have been honestly ob tained. We now ask any hard working farmer, who commenced a life of foil when Port#r commenced a life of leisure, whether he does not think lie has by honesty and in-' dustry, made more than Porter, dom..; the same number of years; and whether he does not think that there must be not only corruption, but villainy in such sud den and astonishing leaps from porert) to, wealth? We have heard of one case, where one termer without any hesitation asked the same question we have done, and could satisfy himself in no way. Our Harrisburg papers seem strongly to qnBittivale' that the 1390,000 unaccoun ted for by the bank of the U. 5., - was the price of the bill which legalised the suspension in 1839-40. Is there not a tolerable good reason to think so, when We find that the nephew of Mr. Porter has been appointed Attorney for that Bask, and that too at the very tie that the Go vernor was in Philadelphia. NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS for once sign ing a name, makes a man rich fast. Is there any candid, hone../ man, who does not think that there is probable cause to suspect such a thing? A relation will not be very apt to expose the corruptions of his eminent uncle. Can any one answer the rpestiont-133 what means did D. It. Porter become so wealthy? Congressional Reform. The Extra Session of Congress now progressing rapidly with their busi ness. Notwithstanding the efforts made' by their opponents to clog the wheels of operation as much as possible, they have passed several important bills, and the U.S. Bank bill has passed the Senate.— We see, too, that they have adopted a' resolution restricting the time of occupy ing the floor. No member is allowed to speak more than one hour. This was a reform much seeded, and will success fully, put a stop to this speaking agains t, time. The Locos groan terribly at it; and we suppose the reason is they can not now prolong the session by making ong speeches. A Curious Fart. Number seven of the Porter committees, manifesto, is an attempted defence of the pardoning power, by their toaster. In looking over some portions of it, we were not a little astonished, to see what a large amount of labor had been expended to ascertain, how many pardons had been issued by each Governor of the state, since Gov. M Keens time. It must have cost much research, to be able to speak with so much exactness; for they set tkiwn even the ono figures, in every case except one. Now is it tot a tittle curious to see, that that one instance is Gov. Ratters admin.' istration. They make it appear by their address, that Gov. Porter has pardoned one hundred and thirty-eight HORSE PICK POCKETS and cum. mon CUT THROATS, and with exults• tiou exclaim, that that is all l'Ve care not what precedent may say, but this much we do know, that the peo ple of Pennsylvania have long exprebsed, their disapprobation of this unlimited use of this power. They know that such a course makes the applications of our laws unequal, because those only can obtain pardon, who have a friend at court, who can operate on the affections or fears of the executive. For instance there was a horse thief in Westmoreland, was par doned even before trial, because Davy R. knew the man. Then there was the FRAUDULENT INSOLVENT Dr. Dy .ott, lie was pardoned, because he was a man after Porter's own heart. Now, we wish this same committee would in their state paper, let the people know the clinics, on wick each pardoned convict, hail been charged and condemn ed, and our word for it that, Porter will have a decided superiority in numbers over the others, among the votaries of THEFT, and RAPINE; and they may as well show the people on what petition they were pardoned ; and be assured again 'hat he will again be ahead in numbers, where the petition amounts to nothing more than an application by some partis , cular friend, But we have said enough o n the subject, all we ask, is to have every man read the No. 7, and then they will see that the facts are as we have stated, and that they have not pretinded to give. t he number pardoned by Ritner, while in every other case they have been very, definite as to numbers; and all will say with us that the committee Faye been guil ty of fuLehood. The Ghost of the " iron Gray"—The Signal," Porter's organ, fur circulating hia slang and false hood, has evinced a disposition, to get us to lower ourself, down to their level. Let Mr. Porter and his able .sitiileot from Billingsgate rest assured that it is "no go," so lung as there is a decently conducted paper in the ranks, we shall not war with such arti cles as the "Signal," There are two old maxims, either of which is sufficient to deter us —"To lather an ass' head is only wasting soap"—"and he that quarrels with a chimney sweep must expect to get -toot in his face." Graham's Magazine This always beautiful, and interesting periodical, comes to us in more than its ordinary beauty fur August. It is embel limed with a Mezzotint° engraving of the "Penitant son," which is of surpassing elegauce.—The Fashion—and a piece of embroidered lace work—colored. The whole of which cost the proprietors 3130® . file magazine can be had seven copies , for one year for 315—0 r nine copies of the current half year for 310 cash. IHorrid Drutality aud Mar. tier. We learn by our New York papers, that there has been one of the most daring and brutal outrages committed, which lid s ever blackened the annals of crime. Miss Rogers, or as she was called the "beautiful cigar girl," while crossing the North river opposite to II oboken, in a pleasure boat accompanied by an only friend, who was paying her honorable at tention, when they had got near the mid dle of the river, a boat containing several " soap locked" ruffians, came upon them, took the young I itly into their own boat, and made off up the river. No trace was found of her until her dead body was found, exhibiting marks of the most bru tal violence Several persons have been arrested, but thus far they have not sues ceeded in proving any thing. Large rewards, it is said will be offered by the Governor of New Jersey, and Mayor of New York. Nothing should be left un done to ferret out the murderous ruffians. The Practice. I It was one of the precepts most dwelt upon before the Presidential elec tion, that the officers of tht Government' had not the right to use their power of office in the field of party politics,—in fact that it was not their business to in terfere in elections. IVe rejoice to see that our friends are carrying out the prin ciples. Below we publish the letter of C. Troxell, Esq. withdrawing his name from the State Committee. Mr. Troxell shows a determination to carry out the wishes of the lamented Harrison, and of the people in his election. This is what we call one step at least in the reform we pimnised, and is some evidence that the, people will contrive to sustain those who! make no promises except such as they 1 , fulfil. REAIIING, July :21, 1841. To GEO. FOND, Esq., Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee. Dear Sir:--Having been receolly ap pointed to office under the General Goy eminent, 1 consider it my duty to tender to you my resignation of the station which I hold as a member of the Central Com mittee of the Democratic Ilarr:son Party of Pennsylvania. have induced this course, will at once occur to every one acquainted with the principles of the Har rison party, and the expressed wishes of the present National Administration,— The period when the officers of the feder al government, were not only permitted, but expected to use their official influence for political purposes, is now past, and a position or course of conduct, which in a private citizen, would be entirely unex ceptionable, and even honorable, might, in a public officer—a servant of the peo ple, be far from proper. In thus retiring from a station, the du ties of which I consider incompatible with other obligations, I may be pardoned for, saying, that my attachment to the prin ciples of the Harrison Democracy is un-, changed, and that I most ardently hope,! to see those principles again triumph in I Pennsylvania, in the election of the lion.. John Banks. Without attempting to in fluence the sentiments of any one, and according to all the utmost freedom of thought and action, I do not consider that the right to a free and proper expression of my views and opinions in regard to the political interests of the country, is in any degree diminished by my present posi tion; but it shall be my aim to exercise my privileges, as a citizen, in such a way, as not to interfere with my duty to the people and the government. I have the honor to be, With great respect, your friend, II A RLES TROX ELL. ---------- Reburrectionists! Readers, we do not mean to write you a long article on those fellows who rob the grave of its putrid meal, and carry the breathless carcases of their fellow men in their arms, from the cold charnel house of all living, to the carving bench of the surgeon. No, no; we have no idea of the kind. We have only a wish to call your attention to the political resurrec tionists of the present day. We see almost every week, some ghost of the departed spirit of some eolitical falsehood, conjured from its resting place, and clothed again in the garments of life, and started out upon its mission of iniq uity. Our neighbor of the , 11 alchnian' breathes into the decayed carcase of some stale political humbug, the breath of life, almost weekly, and ushers the putrid mass of fully or falsehood anew into the world, decked in the garments of the living, n hile the sad babiliments of the. grave can be seen through the thin mantle which is cast around. In his last week's paper the old apportionment bill is waked from its long, sleep, and all the terrors of the tomb, are exhibited in the exhumed carcase of the, forgotten dead. But seriously. The Locos are out of material; they cannot say anything against, Banks ; they cannot assail their opponents for any late acts, and they consequently seek among the departed spirits of old lies, for something to keep up the materi al for assault. 'They cannot talk of any thing else except the things of other days. For instance, what has the apportionment bill to do ith Judge Banks? Yet they ,harp away on it, as if it really had been enacted by him. NV edo not want.to go so far back. Do you forget the bank toes• sage, %men Porter stood by them, "regard less of denunciations from any quarter?" Yet he was elected as an anti-bank man. Have you forgot his veto of the Lancaster Loan Company's Bill, which made the stockholders liable for their notes? Yet he was elected on that principle. Have you forgotten his opposition to shinplas ters? Yet the Borough of Harrisburg, immediately under his and his attorney's nose, now issues thousands of them,and they are undisturbed. The object of these editors is to - draw attention from their own folly and cor ruption, and then escape in the hue•ar,d cry they have raised. Encouraging to the loco locos . As we some tune since predicted, the Locos of this county have given over all hopes, of this county ever falling to their hands; and consequently, they have not nominated any ticket. This now is very encouraging to their (fiends at a distant. For many years they have always run their ticket, and as they have always said with certainty of success. But since the weight of Porter's popularity has fallen upon them, many admit that they can have no possible chance, this year, and consequently they do not run any ticket, How will their friends feel, who have seen taught to think, that Porter was not fast losinc , the con fi dence of his old fol lowers, rnd that in Huntingdon county, 'whete he was beaten 92G in 1838, and I those say they were all illegal votes., How we say will they feel, when they learn that their own friends in the county. now admit Olaf he will be beaten at home, not less than 1,000, %%Idle his opponents claim from 1500 to 2000 majority against him. How very encouraging is the prospect! . • —but they brighten it ur) by saying, that in other counties the change is equally great for them ; and they persist in their . system of lying, in or der that others will fall ell: Do they suppose that the par doning of horse thieves, before trial—the continued vetoing of one Bill after an other—his evident desertion of the very principles upon which he was elected ; and more than that, the character of the men who he clothes in power, has not had the same effict every where ? If they do, they will learn when the clay of election 'comes, that it will be to late to deceive any longer, and they will then ulso learn, (that an honest people, will not always !'submit to the tyranny of corruption, ex ercised by the officers. SLAVE CONSPIRACY! MEDITATED INSURRECTION IN LODISIA 'NA.—The New Orleans papers of the 23d ult. give accounts of a formidable conspi racy of the slaves of that State, which was to have broken out on the Ist inst., all along the Mississippi, front Bayou Sara 'to Natchez. The Commercial Bulletin gives the follw.ving particulars; Intelligence was received yesterday by the packet steamer Clipper from Bayou Sara, of a systematized plan on the part of the negroes to rise upon and murder the whites. The news, greatly exagera• ted in its reception, has created quite a sensation in town. The plain ti uth is certainly sufficient to occasion serious ap prehension. The overseer of the plantation of Robt. J. Barrow, of West Feliciana, having oc. casion to raise from his bed in one of the recent hat nights, heard what he believed to be negroes conversing in one of the quarters. On silently approaching the vicinity and listening, he overheard two of the slaves discussing the subject of a ri sing among the whites. This led to the examination the next morning of the two fellows, when they confessed the fact, and gave information that led to the arrest of several others. The alarm was imme diately spread abroad, arrests were made in various plantations, and it was found in the confessions that they all agreed in the main facts, that there was to be a general rise, and that the first of August was the day agreed upon. A white man, a carpenter, who had late. ly done a job of work fur Mr. Barrow, was also wrested on suspicion, and exam ined. He said he had nothing to do with the plot—that he hid never said any thing to the negroes on the subject, but acknow ledged that they frequently spoke to him, and informed him all about it. This white man with about 40 negroes, all of whom had confessed their know ledge of the intended rising, were in jail at St. Francisville, guarded by a company of volunteers. Their examination by a competent tribunal, was to have common ced yesterday at 10 A. M. .• At Woodville, we learn numerous slaves are confined in the jail, having con fessed to the same facts as those arrested in Feliciana. Capt. Laurent states that on stopping at Point Coupee to communicate informa tion of the situation of the affairs above, several gentlemen recollected occurren• ces of recent date which tended to con firm the suspicions that the slaves of their section were parties to the wicked plot. Duct. said he had been asked what day of the month it was, by more negroes within ten days, than in seven years be fore—and there had been unusual assem blies of the slaves, in rather bye-places, for several Sundays past. Some of the negroes have confessed that the combination was from Bayou Sara to Natchez. It may not be amiss to remark, that the plantations in Feliciana and Wilkinson county, from which the slaves are taken who are imprisoned, are owned by the met wealthy and respectable in the state, whose kind and humane treatment of their slaves is proverbial. At the time of the departure of the Clipper, the greatest consternation pre vailed at Bayou Sara and the neighbor hood, and the inhabitants were armed and a constant watch. The negroes were to 'be tried on Wednesday, and was believed
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