oh TWlatchman, P. GRAY MEEK, BELLEFONTE, PA. Friday Morning, March 27, 1863. Puritanism. The frst indications of a punttanical feel- ing existing upon the part of the people of England, occurred, we belicve, during the reign of Edward VI: but, as a sect, the Pu- ritans vid net acquire any corsiderable im. portance until about the year 1508, when looper refused to be conscerated in the Fpiscopal Labit, and determined rather to refuse the bishopric. The energy of Eliza- beth however, in compelling the observance of the lawns regarding worship, forced the Puritans to remain within the pale of the “chuich of England, bat they uevecthelers cherished theie religious principles more than ever, aud the severity of the Queen, which was tended to restrain them, seemed to conduce to their growth, for they increased © very rapidly during the remainder of her re'gn and that of her immediate successors. 1t would be d ficult in a newspaper arti- cle to trace the cuuse of ihe rise, progress and peculiarities of this sect. It cannot Le denied, that to them, in port, we are indebt- ed, for the liberty of which we have all tast- ed, but there ure a thousand other influen- cus, of which we have not now time or space to speak, which has had more agency in the spread of civil and religious liberty, than Puritanism. The principle characteristics of this pee- ple were the aflec ation of a rare and pure holiness which beionged to them aloe by Gods special dispensation, a belief that al who did not agree with them were sors or daughters of the devil, and unfit to live, a violent spirit of egotism, fanaticism, bigotry aud the persecution of all who differed with thew in opinion. It was said of them by Sir John Lamb that, * they were a people who would not swear or be diuck, but they would lie, cozen and deceive, and hear two surawons a day and repeat them too.” An eminent historian says of them that ¢ this sect was wore averse to such irregularities a% proceeds from the excess of gaiety and pleasure, than to those enormities which are the most destructive to society ; a disposition to intermeddle with the aflairs of others, to inculcate their doctrines and to enforce the intrusion of them upon persons unwilling to believe them ever. belonged, and does still, to these same bigots and fanatcs. They also Lold that their ** doctrines and opinions ought to be established by law and none others telerated.” Strange as it may §:cm these sentunents, of a people, aimost, if not altogether vicious, have been preserved and transmitted from generation to generation through centuries and we find to-day their embodiment in the veritable New England ¢ Yankee,” which is but another term for a person who will “ lie, cozen and deceive.” The whole force of all these characteris- tios of the Puritan or Yankee have been at last concentrated upon one idea, one wish, oae desire, one object,—t/e abolition of Ne- Rro servitude or ** slavery” in the southern States. Every intelligent man knows and feels that abolitionism is but a name for the distillation, the quintessence of New Eng- land fanaticism, bigotry and intolerance, and the acme of anti-slavery its Lopes and long cherished desires. Had it not been for the al ominable fanaticism and im- prudent intermeddling of the abolitionists of Eastern, and their proselytes of the Middle and Western States, the present wicked civil war would never have been dreamed of. Many of our oldest readers ean doubt- less remember when these northern philan- thropists, owned and sold ** slaves” to south- ern plaaters for money, (the “price of hu- man blood” as they say now) and how soon after ridding them: elves uf th {blacks, hega to advocate the abolition of “slavery” in the South—the d-straction of the identical proporty which they sold and got the mon- ey for—the over turning of the social condi tion existing between the white and black races, and which we hold to be normal and therefore just, and with which the idiotic aboliiicnists of the North have no earthly concern or right to interfere in any way. The measures employed (o succeed in car- rying on their unholy crusade against the Conciitutional rights of the South, were as vast in conception as there cfficts have proved terrible. The pecple of the whole country were to be taught that “to hold *' slaves” was a sn in the sight of God and an abomination of the I'evil,” that a mau who held ¢ slaves’ was a ¢ barbarian” and could never enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that * slavery” was the * sum of alt villainies.”” School books from the prim- wer up, containg stories about the *¢ poor, poor lave” were scattered broadcast by Yankee ingenuity, all over the land —news- papers, with thousands of dollars to sup port them, were published to insidaously wstill into the minds of the people that «‘sla- very” was a sin’'—monthly pericdicals hav- ing for editors their best writers, were estab- lished so as 10 give a higher tone to the re- spectability to there doctrines, ministeres uot of the Gospel, but of the devil were gm- ployed to belch forth their wicked fanati- cism in desecration of places dedicated to Gods holy worship—Lectarers traveled over the country delivering, frequently eloquent harangues “pon the enormity of * slavery” and school teachers were employed to in- sill into the tender and impressible minds ol their pupils the idea that 1t was wrong to kl a negro a8 a servant or * slave.” Find- ing at length that the hetter postion of uy northern people conld not be led to believe their horrid and blasphemous doctrines, by these means and that the South rejected them with scorn and contempt, they: con- cjuded to employ a mightier engine of pow- er, which was party spirit, wild fanaticism amd sectional strife: In furtherance of this object a purely sectional party, having abo- litionism for the sum total of its principles was organized in Pittsburg a few years apo, and the wheel of sectional strife put in mo- tion, which the anti-slaveryites, or what is the same thing, the abolitionists, hoped would never stop until ‘< slavery” should be + wiped out of existence,” or the country involved in total ruin. The catch word by which they were so successful in deceiving the people was ** no more slave territory,” well knowing that it would be very easy for them to shde off into denunciations of *: sla- very in the states; This they did, and the whole substace of hepublican stump speech- es and newspaper articles, was abolitionism. Resistance to the fugitive slave law, author- z:d by Abolition State Legislatures, whe cared nether for the Bill ner the Constitu- tion, was resorted to. Thousands of ‘slaves’ were stolen, and when one happened to be captured, mobs were raised and the slave forcibly taken from the Federal Authorities. The South bore this for years, never once asking. to our knewledge, the Federal Gov- ernment to send an army North to *“ put down resistence and enforce the laws.” They bore taunts and insults of such crazed fr0ls as Sumner, Wade, Wilson, Burlingame and others, in the halls of the Federal Leg~ islature. When the statesman of the Sputh told them in solemn, earnest, warnings that they could not remain ina Union where their Constitutional rights were not observed and regarded, they were told thu if they went out, they would be ¢ whipped back again like dogs to their kenncis.” The abolition- ists, feeling strong in their imaginary su riority of prowess, concluded, in the fac®of the warnings of all good mer to elect an ab- olition President, pledged to carry out the principles of their platform,. and they suc- ceeded in the criminal design. They well krew tl at under the circumstaces, the South would secede, and they believed that act would give them the powers of the Federal Government, to overrun the South and free the Negroes: ¢ Down with slavery’’ and “no union with slave-holders’” was their cry during the campaign of 1860, A frenzied fanati- cal hate of the South and soathern institu- tiuns was the main spring —the great lever of abolition success in that fight. After they succeeded in inaugurating civil war, their howl was again changed, to deceive the peo- ple into the support of a war which was never intended to ‘restore the Union” as it was, but to destroy the Constitution, abolish slavery, and to hold the southern states as conquered provinces by means of a strong centralized despotic Government, such as we have now in Washington. Abolitionism, the legitimate offspring of Puritanism was the sole cause of secession and the present inhuman civil war, waged | to tnrn loose upon the country 3,000,000 negro servants which are the property of the South, their title to which is as good, and Constitutional, as ours to our horses gc. The results of the war we not only know, but fee', instead of being the happy prosper- ous people we once were we sre loaded down an enormous debt, and impoverished ty high taxes upon every thing but the pure air of heaven. We must pay five times the former cost of all we eat, wea: or use, in any way. We have to mourn the untimely death of fathers, brothers and sons whose lives have been sacrificed upon the altar of war to the black God of Abolition brutes, and will doubtless be compelled to. mourn for our friends about to be forced from us at the point of the bayonet and driven like cattle to the butcher shops prepared for them by Lincoln and his cowardly minions. What a spectacle for the American people to gaze upon ! To CORRESPONDENTS. W. S. P.—Your name has heen added to our subscrition list as desired. We are noder many obligations for your kind wish- es and hope the democricy everywhere will prove as staunch as you are. X.—Go and tell her yourself, we have other business to attend to. THEOPHILUS.--If you are a Democrat ou principle, you will not heed the sayings of a few cowardly wuoltroons. There are rogues in politics as well as hypocrites in 1e igion. ; 777 We have very little news from the army, East or West. A few raids, of mi- nor importance have taken place during the past couple of weeks, but no particular movements of the *‘ grand Army,” have been made, and we suppose will not until the roads dry up in the Spring. What will be accomplished then we know not, but if the %Yistory of the past is to be taken as a preeursor for the future, we can well imag- ine. Coming Dowx.—A oumber of Aboli- Gonists who a short time ago were bigh up for mobbing, hanging, &ec., vow declare they were always opposed to such things.— They have discovered that the Democracy are 10 efirnest, that they are determined to protect themselves against outrages and that they will stand by each other in doing $0 to the bitter end. 77 We notice that the disunionists are to hold a meeting in the Arbitration Room to- night. Persons having the good of the country at heart will stay at home, it is tut a new method of bolstering up the ab olitionists in their atiempt to tax and en- slave the working classes of the commuai- w- en——— MDA i er dr oe I" The petition, published in last week's Watchman requesting the 1esignation of Jas. T. Hale Esq., is being signed we sre informed, by almost every one ‘thai®voted, for hima in the localities where they have been circulated. ; | ee ee ——— JWirse—some of the Boys ghoul this town. i - A Wi'h but few and short interruptions What We Want. Within the last two months we have told the Abolitionists deliberately, distictly and plainly, —roughly, some may think,—what the inevitable consequences woul] be if they did not desist from their threatencd course of mob-law ahd violence, We did not speak rashly nor unadvisedly ; and in looking over the files of the Waichman, we see nothing’ to retract or moaify, Our object has not been to stir up bitter feelings nor incite any one to acts of violence ; but, en the contra-. sy, to warn those who were apparently de- termined to inaugurate such a condition of things in our midst, what the results would be to themselves, if they persevered in that line «of policy. From innumerable letters we have received from all parts of the Coun- ty, and the constant and rapid increase of our subscription lit, we feel wall assurea that our course has been fully spproved by the great mass of the Democracy in old Centre and the adjoining countics. The commendations we have received from our most influential exchanges in the State is conclusive to our mind that we have only been speaking the sentiments of our party throughout the commonwealth. There may be occasionally one, who heretofore has pre- tended to be a Democrat, that affects oppo: sition to our principles. They are, however, of that class, who, from fear of conseqien- ces or hope of gain, would, - at any time, adopt policy at the expense of principle, and such we cannot hope to please. We have been frequently asked of late: What do you want? What dues the Demo. cratic Party propose? We will answer; and we believe every Democrat in the County will endorse the answer. We simply want a fair opportunity of contesting the proprie- ty of the course pursued by this Admivis- tration, before the American people. We believe that this Administration is not the Government. We believe that every citizen who disapproves of the policy of the party in power, has the constitulsonal right to op pose the Administration by arguments, by remonstrances, by petitions and at the bal- lot-box, without justly incurring the penalty of being denounced as traitors, disloyal to the Government. We believe that no Pres- ident, no Cabinet, no Congress, and no offi- cer of any grade or rank, civil or military, is sovercign or supreme in this country; but that the people are tke source and foun- tain of all power and of all government; and that every officer is but their servant, bound to do their bidding. Therefore, we claim for the people the right to discuss freely every measure of any admirfistration and if upon a full discussion of the merits of these measures, ‘they are disapproved of, then the people at the ballot-box, have the right to depose such administration and sub- stitute another which will execute the pop- ular will. We do not believe that anything done or proposed by President Lincoln or the last Congress is so sacred as to be above the animnadversion of the people. We know of no arcana imperu, to inquire concerning which, is a crime. We furthermore believe that the principles of the old republican party were all wrong; their continued agitation of, and intermed- dling with the subject of negro slavery in the Southern States being calculated to alienate the affections of the Southern people ; their purpose to deny the people of the South any rights in the common territory being selfish, unjust and uncons itutional ; the contempt they exhibit for, anc their opposition to, the decisions of the Federal judiciary, being revolutionary in their “tendencies. We be- lieve that the result of the elections m 1860 was not the calm, deliberate and final judg- ment of the Northern people upon these va- rious issues ; that this result was obtained by a combination of circumstances, which never again could be made to co-operate in favor of these fanatical ideas ; and that the people of these States would gladly reverse the decision then made, and on the first op- portunity restore the Den.ocratic party to power. We believe, moreover, that the pol- icy of Lincoln’s administration has been ex- tremely bad from the beginning, tending di- rectly (whether so intended or not), to pre- vent a settlement of pur existing difficulties with the South, and rendering a restoration of the Union upon the old basis, impossible, "We believe all this can be demonstrated before the people, and that they will reverse their own act of putting the republicans in- to power, and demand that the admwistra- tion of both Federal and State governments be restored to the old channels marked out for them by the Democracy in the palmy days of the Republic. We believe the pres- ent course of the Administration at Wash- ington is utterly destroying all prospects of a re-union of the States under one replbli- can form of government, is breaking the con. stitution into fragments and putting in jeop- ardy our public liberties. We ask, not as a favor, but asa right in- herent in a free people, and carefully guar- anteed to us by our fundamental law, the Constitution, that we are not interfered with in our discussion of these questions before the people. We invite republicans, eman- cipationists or abolitiouists, whatever they are called, to the arena of debate and dis- cussion. We appeal to the tribunal of the people, As long as the supporters of this Administration content themselves with facts, arguments or persuasions, we will use nothing else. But when they attempt to suppress discussion by brute force, when they attempt to substitute violenze for reas- on, wheu they denounce all Democrats who do not support their policy, as * Butter- nuts ” “Copperheads,’” “sympathizers with rebellion,” *Traitor,”* and every other op- probrious epithet, when they threaten to hang aud shoot peaceable and quiet men for disbelieving in abolition proclamations as’ the universal panacea for rebellion and all other political troubles, we think it time to remind these men that they are only our :servants and not our masters, and unless they desist the consequences will be upon their own heads. : Liucolnites, we have now told you what we wan!, is there anything unreasonable in Mons the democracy controlled this government for the sixty years prior to March 4th, 1861. Did we ever deny to you or any of our po-, litical opponents any of these rights. You were always unreasonable and ever malig: nant in your abuse of every President or Governor we have elected. You assaulted with unmitigated - severity every party measure we evet proposed. You vilified and slandered every~prominent man we ever had in . You at afi ticies at- tempted 0 0 an contro! of the government -by every species of demagogueism you could invent., You filled the public ear with your denunciations of our measures, you blinded thé public mind with your specious arguments and . fallacious reasoning, you ‘warped the public judgement and gained the public confidence ty delusive hopes and nollow promises of great things in the fu- ture. Yet the democracy never complained never attempted to stifle public investiga- tion, never altempted by means of actual violence to preveat open and fall discussion, never desired to apply any gag-laws to you, but relying upon the “sober second thought” of the masses, confiding in the real intelli- gence of the people, successfully rencwed their appeal to the popular will, after the temporary frenzy and hallucinations ‘which you had excited had passed away. Ta an appeal to the people for a justifica- tion of your peliey and an approval of your cause, you had every adavntage, that could be used in a political canvass, excepting the principles. You started with a large major- ity of the people of the Northern States ap- proving your pretended principles, You had the entire patronage of the Federal gov- ernment increased more than ten fold over what it had ever been before, and that pat- ronage {o be distributed to the people of but one half the old union.—In the public offi- ces, the army and navy, you gave direct em- ployment fo over ounce million of men, and made it the'r interest to support your policy You had more and larger contracts to award to your friends and supporters than any ten previous administrations possessed You had the sympathies of the whole peo- ple av the commencement of the war, and all the advantagesiof the sectional feelings you had engendered during the past _ cight years, You made use of the universal pat- riotism of the people, by pretending to fight for the restoration of the Union, and the preservation of the government. You made capital out of the cry of “liberty.” “the star spangled banner,” “the good old flag and every oer rallying cry the American people ever had. In opposition to all these advantages and influences, the democracy had nothing to urge save the correctness of their principles and the evils of your admin- istration. We contrasted the condition of the country under demecratic and abolition rule. We exhibited to the people the evil tendencies of your principles and the dangers to pubic liberty from your practices, Sure- ly your cause must be weak when you are anable successfully to defend your party under such circumstances, without resort- ing to menaces and actual violence, Your very course demonstrates to the people the rottenness of your cause. And for thatrea- son they are determined no longer to sub- mit to any innovation upon their rights.— You will do well to heed this disposition of the masses, for the public mind 1s fully aroused. } The Right to Speak. “It is the ancient and undoubted pre- rogative of his people to canvass public measures and the merit of public men.—It is a ‘home’ bread right, a fireside privilige. 1t hath ever been enjoyed in in every house cottage and cabin in the nation Itis not to be drawn nto controvercy. It is as un- doubted as the right of breathing the air, or walking on thé earth, Belonging to the pri- vate lifeas a fight, {t belongs to public life asa duty, and it is the last duty which these whose representatives I am shall find me to abandon* Aiming at all times to be courteous and temperate in its use, except- ing when the fight itself is questioned, I shall Iplace myselfon the extreme boune dary of my right, and bid defiance to an army that would move me from my ground. “This high constitutional privilege I shall defend and exercise, within this house, and in all places, in time of peace, and at all times. | Living I shall assert it ; and should I leave no other inheratance to my children by the blessing of God I wilt leave them the inheritance 'of tree principles, and the example of a manly, independant and constitutional defense of them.— Daniel Webster. . f ¢ KNickrRBOCKER MAGAZINE.—Our choice of all the literary periodicals, published in the country, independent in everything, yet neutral in nothing, sound to the core in political matters, and filled to overflowing with articles from the very best writers.— We advise our readers to serd for a *copy. Address Kinnahan Cornwallis 37 Park Row New York. Terms, $3. per year. rn el A Apne Harper's MoxtHLy.—This valuable Monthly is again upon our table. How any family can get alon, without *¢ Harper,” we cannot see. [tis better than all the costly “nick nacks? consumed about a house in & year. Terms, single subscribers #3. Address Harper Brothers, Franklin Square, New York. Gopry’s Laoy Book, for April has been received, its well filled pages, and beautiful engravings Speak for themselyes. No lady should be without it, the patterns alone giv- enare worth ten times the price of the book. Enclose $3, to L. A, Godey, Phila, and you receive it for one year. You will not rue it. 05 A nigger recruiting officer was in town last week. . He was dressed mn regi- meatals, and put onall the airs of a «free born American citizen of African descent,” He didn’t get toy recruits here, we believe, and left, we presume, disgusted with the unappreciativeness and doubtful patriotism of his fellow darks of Bsllefonte. * Hear, 0! Abram.” t properly represented in oftieers, both y op repr We generally have to do the work," and others reap the benefits of our labors. We caution all concerned to look out for squalls, 7 Our country. is their tactics are not soon ged. e cannot afford to be filendly and be laughed at for our pains. Weask nothing that is wrong, bat the sooner our rights are respec- ted, the better will it be {or interested par- ties.—Central Press A warning t) the powers that be, heed it Of Abram the first, heed it U © Andy, the conqueror or ye may rue it, for ‘if your tactics are not soon changed look out for '8qualls”” The Press has at last become indignant and complains bitterly at the] wrongs you are inflicting, not so much upon the people, as upon the Proprietors, Editors and devils of that establishment.— Take warning in time all ye * interested parties,” for the Editors and devils of the Press ** cannot afford to be frienaly aud be laughed at for their pains.” The honors and profits of a Majorship and a Quartermaster- ship already granted to the Junior and Sen- ior edito:s is not sullicient consideration for the dirty political services rendered. Abram, Abram, Andy, Andy, you must do something more, the big devil and the little devil of that icfluential(?) sheet have aided to the extent of their ability in screen- ing you from the righteous indignation of an outraged people. Your many usur- pations and unconstitutional acts they have endeavored to convice their readers, were “ military necessities.” Your despotism and tyranies they have told the people were the standard of patriotism and every person who in the exercise of freedom of speech or of thought, differed with you, they have de- nounced ag “ traitors ”’ and whenever your oppressions became too heavy for the peop- le to bear and the people would murmer and complain at your course they would prompt- ly come to your rescue, and silence all op- position by instigating their and your par- tizans to congregate into mobs, destroy your oppcser’s property, or beat and abuse them into submission. Truly Abram, these men have been of service to you. They have eat and drank in thy name, and cast out devils 1n thy name and they have lied for you and swore for you, and done their best to invest you with the powers of a Monarch, and we fear have destroyed forever their peace of conscience by the many unholy things they have done for your sake. Sure. ly Abe, you owe them something more, — Can't you make a **(igadier Brindle” out Major, and a Coionel out of the Quarter- master, and promote the devils of the office to clerkships under your deg Furney. They deserve 1t, because they say so themselves, they notify you that their *‘ claims must be respected.” Heed their warning O, Abra- ham for if you don’t “ look out for squalls.” What the Letters are written for. A long letter madeits appearance in last week's Press, signed by A. B. Hutchison, and purporting to be signed by quite a num- ber of his company, in which he labors strenuously to convince the people of this county that the soldiers are still in favor of a further paosecution of this war. He presumes a great deal upon the igno- rance of the people if he thinks they by such epistles, can be persuaded that such is the case. . There are many brave boys in the army fran this county who are not in Captain Hutchison’s company, that write home to their friends here avery different tale; to letters unsolicited as ther are people are more disposed to give credence, than to this one coming as it does from the strap and button gentleman that heads the list of signers and whose ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DOLLARS PER MONTH DEPENDS ON A CONTINUANCE OF THE ‘WAR. The public fully understand too, how such letters as the one referred to are gotten up and for what purpose. Several cases of the same kind haye recently occur- red in the West, in which afterwards a ma- jority of those whose names were among the signers, in letters to their friends deny that they ever signed any such papefs or ever uttered any such sentiments. The shoulder strap aud gilt button portion of the Army get up these letters for particular effect, and holding the poor priyates in mili- tary obedience to their will take the liberty of signing their names to such egistles as the one to which we refer. These Patri- ots(?) who belong to the anti-slavery school of politicians when at home seek by this means to aid their partizans that they thereby securc to themselves a continuance of tLeir high salaries, of course they desire that the war shall continue, no matter at what cost to the hard working tax-paying people, only so that they feed and fatten at the public crib. But ask the privates the men who do the fighting for thirteen dollars per month, who live on poor rations, and then only get their small pittance of pay about once a year, and they will tell you they are tired of the war—that they want Paace and that they do not endorse the abo- ition policy of the Lincoln Administration, Capt. A. Boyd Hutchison notwithstanding. = “Copperheads. % » The Abolitionests are SEosedingly wrathy because every name which they derisively give the Democrats. the latter adopt, and make party capitalof it. Thisis true of every name the Democracy ever bore. On- ly a few months ago, they dubbed us ‘But- ternuts,’ and we immediately proceeded to the name. The present term employ ed by these gentlemen is * ds.” We must admit that we like this name better thanany of the rest—it is so signifi- cant. The copperhead is a small snake, seldom e ing two feet in length, 1nhab- iting mountanous regions, A peculiarity of this snake is the fact that it never bites until has received injury —every person who has lived in the « rhead regions” knows this to be true ; —but when it does bite, the victim's time has come. The Copperhead party, therejore has for manv years allowed the abolition party to have .¢; own way--at a respectful distance,—but when the latter pasty seeks to tread upon the Constitution, which the Copperheads have slways sacredly guarded, it is the own faalt if they are bitten.—Akron Dein- ocrdt. tp the contrary, 0 Man, Who Art Thou? OR . REFLECTIONS ON PRACE A™D WAR. = BY JUSTICE ( Contsnued from last Number.) Shall the Sword devcur forever ? Shalija custom so opposed to reason and philoso- phy, so muchat variance with the benizn spirit of the gospel, continue. to be upheld by rational beings ? Shall mankind con- tinue to act as though they believed that God created the present race cf Intelligent creatures for the purpose of butchering and destroying each other ? lias the enact- ments of the late Congress, or the proclama- tion of othe President repealed: the great command ** Thou shalt noc kill !”’ certainly not, nor can they be. Show me where or when this command was changed by any act of Deity. This you cannot do. Nor is there and provision m the application of this command it applies equally the same to man of high degree as well as the man of low degree, and man clothed in power of man changes not the mandate of high Heav- en. «Thou shalt not kill,” is a plain in- junction and means simply that we bavs no right under any pretext or circumstance whatever to take the life of any fellow man. We are shocked when a single murder 1s committed among us ; we pursue the mur-. derer to the ends of the Earth, and by the laws of the ladd he is made to expiate his guilty deed at the cost of his life, he is found guilty by a court and jury, he was truly a murderer, no one doubts this, he 1s condemned, and by the officer of the law led out and executed, hung by the neck un- til he is dead? 1 do not wish to convey the idea that the murderer should go unpunish- ed, no certainly not, but have we a right to take his life ¢ and if so, from whence was this authority derived. No we have no such authority from the mandates of Deity, for if such was the case how stands the above command with all the other mandates precepts and éxamples of Christ? would it not be rendering them a novelty, go to show that deity was the violater of the great command ** Thou shalt not kill.”” If the midnight robber enters a dwelling and des, troys the lives of its innocent and unsus- pecting inmates, it is considered one of the highest crimes that can be committed against God or man, But when thousands upon thousands of human beings are to be indiscrimina‘cly butchered by war, what becomes of this seeming insensibility to the destruction of human life? When men tiained to the work of destruction enter a city, put men ‘women avd children to the sword, set fire to their dwellings and con- sume their half dead bodies in the smoking ruins, is it not murder and robbery in their most terrific forms. The guilt of it eannot be removed by a declaration or war, which is falsely considered a kind of indulgence to commit their crimes with impunity. Men make wrong distinctions between the deeds of the midnight assassin, and the conduct of the man who enters the battle field with the intention of killing, but the sight of the just Judge of all the Earth how can there be a difference, The only difference that exists is that ome is whole- sale murder, the other retail, deny this if you can. *‘God is not mocked, such as wen sow such shall they reap.’ War is a system of legalized brutality, robbery and murder, and if robbery and murder are decds that are offensive in the divine sight when committed on a small scale as in the case of a single murder, how much more offensive mast they be when tens of thous- ands become their victims ? Truth is more powerful than error, and it will finally triumph, man may oppose its progress and retard the period when the principles of peace will alone be cultivated, when wars shall cease—but as «christianity comes to be understood and practised, the clouds which obscure his moral vision will be dispelled, he will discover that the olject of his creation is every way worthy of his Divine Author, who called him into existence and endowed him with intellectu- al and spiritual powers of enjoyment capa- ble of inconceivable improvement. When the holy Jesus stated the sublime reality of the Divine character, he appealed to a fact in creation which has always been as con- spicuous as it is now, and always the same. Ye have heard that it hath been said “Thou shalt love thy friend and hate thy enemy, but I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, and pray for them that despitefully use yoa, and persecute you, that you may be the children of your Father who 1s in Heaven; for he maketh his sun’ io rise on the evil and on the good, and send- eth vain on the just and unjust.” Such. is the inimitable nature of the Sovereign of the Umverse, bat it is not so with man, (nor any man.) He is changeable, he cometh forth as the flower, and is cut down he fleeth as the shadow, and continueth not The beginning of his career is in ignorance and weakness, and the estimates which he forms of all things, are modified by his own state or condition. When therefore we no- tice the great discrepancies in human char- acter, and sentiment, and conduct, in the different stages of existence, and knowledge and virtue, (especially as it regards his ap- prehensions of Divine requisttions) would it be reasonable or just to ascribe these muta. tions to changes or fluctuations in the Deity rather than to the changeable nature of the creature ? No, I think right reason will compell us to say with the apostle ‘Let God be true, and every man a har.” That men under the influence of ignorance, preju- dice, or vitiated affections, may and do come to believe that they ought to do things totally repugnant to the the Divine will is abunaantly declared in history, and mani- fested to daily observation. The eminent Paul declared before Agrippa, that he veri. ly thought he ought to do many things Christ. And Jesus himself testified to his disci- pies, ** The time cometh that whosoever illeth you will think that he doeth God Service. And these things they will do uu- to you, because they have not known the Father nor me.” EE aaa i * God has made ampla provision for the against or contrary to the will of Jesus } te ee ee eae happiness of man ; the great characterisii® of his anchangable wisdom and wisdom and geodness are everywhere exhibited in the beautiful order and laws that govern the material world, Eternal nature proclaims the unbounded benevolence of its author. The contemplation of this benevolence prompts to the ¢entiment of devotion.— The study of his works opens to man a wide field of intellectual enjoyment ; it spreads a bountiful hai vest before him and promises to reward is labors with the treasures of knowledge. The peaceful sciences disclose the order and harmony of the universe, the laws which govern it, and the materials of which it is composed. In such a world, adapted to the wan's ot intelligent beings, man may ever find employment wisely suit- ed to his progress, where the turbulence of passion and the din of war is' not heard — Let us therefore follow after the things wherewith one may cdify another.— Ro- MAN'S, xiv. 19th. verse, (TO BE CONTINUED.) mec of dpe Abolition Civilization in Washington. One of the mos* prominent of the results of the “new civilization" introduced under the Abolition dynasty in Washngton is that hideous ulcer of our northern cities, pros- titution and street walking. Pennsylvania Avenue is full of these unhappy cr/atures, day and night ; and at all hours of the lac- ter, drunken :0'dicrs and the lowest of th se street-walkers may be heard wrangling and fighting on the Avenue. ‘The * Christian ” delegations that visit the President to hold up his hands quicken his zeal in the ¢ cause of humanity ” are not, it is presumed;~gtar- tled at this spectacle, for it is to familiar to their habiis to excite surprise. Indeed, it is quite likely that they are encouraged by it, for what better proof could thers be of northern progress southward than this evi- dence of northern * civilizaton,® But a ve- ry large majority of these wretched beings are mulattoes and mongrels, or colored wo- men, as they would call them, and there fore the Beechers and Tyngs, etc., who have no feeling or sympathy for their own desecrated white sisters should feel some- thing, one would think, for their ** colored friends.” Butitis not so They pass them by with utter indiflere ce. They can imagine a “slave woman ”' living without egal mar- riage in South Carolina as an awful sin. though this ‘slave’, woman is married, and live a pertectly pure life according o the instincts and lights with which God has en- dowed her. But if she were made *‘frec’’ and came to Washington she might walk its streets and sell her filthy and diseased person until death rescued her from miser— ies, and these ‘‘Christain’’friends of hu- manity would pass on their way, undisturb- ed in their “heavenly mission” of blood, murder, and -‘crushiog out rebels.” Of all the four millions of ‘-slaves” in the South there is not a single prostitute. No- where on this earth, or in all time, have there been four millions of human creatures who have lived so natural, moral or pure life as these imaginary slaves, and one lu single lost and desecrated woman who walk the streets of New York, embodies more sin, and wrong, and (e ecrated won a hood, than all the ‘ “slave” negro women of the South together. But God having made a mistake, having. in His Infinite wisdom en- dowed these negroes wi ha difipent nature and different wants from those of Tyne Bellows and cte., Co. they have sot to work to rectify the error of Omnipotence and to re-create them in their OWN LIKENESS. — — Well, they are quite successfu in Washing ton* They aebauch and desecra‘e ‘heir own white sisters into this hideons prosii- tution, and sending out their mission eq to Washington, Port Roya' and viii con quered localities, they ‘convert the natives’ transform and deform the simple. innocent “slave” women into the horrid likeness of their own wronged and desecrated sis ers— the white prostitutes of the North. Indeed if the war be successful, Beecher, Cheever &Co. may congratulate themselves an their work, and vast multitudes of pure, simple and happy “slave women” may becom: as free,” hideous, and develish us the hun- dred thousand lost women now traversing the paves of nor bern cities. Several scores of these “free” mulatto girls, now on the sreets of Washington. "wereonly a few months ago, purr and happy beengs, pro- tected and cared for by their mistresses, — God made them so, and the local law and social regulations c-nfuormed to the will of the Eternal, but tie hideous *philantrophy’ of the North half trans ormed them into dev- is and walking pestilences. - Alas! alas! where will all this lucacy. impiety und blo - dy all-devouring madnessend ? "Has God abandoned us to our sins, aad given us ov- er, bound hand and foot, to the wvilest, most besotted, impious, bloody, and devilish, yet meanest madness that has ever disgraced the race since time began '— Caucasian. - Which Shall We Follow. The Republican press says it is treason to Advocate tho cause of peace. Even prea- chers continue to preach war, and yet Christ in His Sermon on the Mount, tells us that “Blessed are the peaco makers: for they shall be called the children of God,” and in Romans ‘we are further told: “How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace.’, Which is safer. ther- fore, to follow —the war preacher, and the Devil, or the teachings of the Bible and the Son ot God. has given to us in his word.— Chilscothe Advertiser. Bad—The Roads. THE COMMERCIAL LIST LETTER