NNT mR i “pounce us Sree. “ . conferred upon us, and secured to us, % through tbe instrumentality of the'sa- aes rE our children a veneration for, and an » BELLEFONTE, CENTRE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, PRINTED BY THOMAS J. PETRIKIN, Vol, V1. inl MONDAY, July 19, 1824. ert CAO ~ their hard earned subsistence was,lbrethren, snhpasses all-others ; ioas- The Committee of arrangement of the JFARMERS & MECHANICS INFANTRY vole 0 1) haying received instruc. re sa ra Rar Mr. Steen and request him to furnish the Company with a copy of the sermon delivered by him on Saturday the 3d instant, did so; and after some hesitation on his pas, he complied, with their request. STRIMVION Delivred by the Rev, Mr. Steel, to the FARMERS 0 MECHANICS INFANTRY Volunteer Company, at the Methodist Churchy in the Borough of Bellefonte, on Saturday the 3d instant, in commemoration of the 48¢h year of American Indefiendences GarLaTiANS v.13. For Brethren ye have been called unto Liberty, only use not liberty for an gccasion to the flesh ; but by love serve one another. This day, my Brethren, is the proud. est epoch in the liistory of our country —the time from which we may with great propriety date our existence as a people~—our admission to the rank ef a nation among the kingdoms of tie pantie Lama We have met to celebrate an act) which for patriotism and true courage, js without a parallel in the history of nations. On this day ¥ our fathers of seventy-six’ dared to shake cff the trammel of British tyranny, and pro- On this day, we might say, was first heard the funda- mental truth, indeed self evident, bu for a lang time obscured by the ambi tion of tyrants, that «all men are born free and equal.” We do well, Brethren, to cherish the remembrance of that eventful pe riod. We do well to impress upon > imitation of, those who under Gob have been, in truth, the deliverers of] our country. We do well to repair to the safctuay cf the Lord to tender ration, to coffer oar devotion, and to express our warmest gratitude iphty God, for the blessings ges and worthics of our infant repub- lic. : : At this time you will pardon me if Idonot precisely pursue the spirit of the Apostle in the text, but associate therewith views which the occasion may suggest. We shall therefore beg and yet is, extoried from them ort, in. many Instances, a wort and profligate clergy: ~The groan 10 Sup- s of Puritans, Brownites and Q:akers, bad scarcely ceased to flow. The rights of conscience were but very impe tectly understood, and we had no security for them. From this species of sla- very we are called. 3d. Weare also called itual Slavery—a slavery much more alarming and dreadful than those to which we have rcferred—a slavery common to ail who have not sought redemption and emancipation through the atoning blood of Christ. Yes, my brethren, we are by nature in oondage to the greatest of tyrants. Oar na- ture is inherantly impare. There is the malignity of the fall which adheres to us—there is a power of corruption is a mighty influence abroad upon the world, with which the Prince of the power of the air keeps his thousands, and his tens of thousands under bim; and by which he leads them captive at dreadful, as its consequences and io- fluences extend beyond time, and in- volve our eternal interests. From this slavery we are also called. Secondly, Consider the Liberty to which we are called. 1st. To civii Liberty. By civil liberty, we mean the not being requir ed to yicld submission to any law but secure possession of those inherent, unalicnable rights, individeal and so-32n Infant King cial, guaranteed unto us by the God of Empire in hiss nature 3 among which may be ranked, farce ; the silly the right of acquiriag and property—the right of prote unjust violence, and injury—the right of suffrage, or 0 in person, or by representation, in the securing our rights and privileg prises, in addition, the proper securit and protection of those rights, by con- stitutional interdicts, restriciions, pro- visions, &c. To the erjoyment of this liberty we are called. We also enjoy a high degree of Political Freedom. The sovereignty leave to call your attention First, To the Slavery from which we have been or may be called. Ist. We have been called from civil Slavery. ‘'I'here was a period, and that period is fresh in our re membrance, when the tyrannical doc trine of Taxation without Refres entation, must needs be enforced wpov our weak and wavering faith with fire aud sword--when a submission to the . . * 1 doctrine of ¢ passive obedience, and noaresistance” to arbitrary power, the very life-blood of despotism was ask ed from us, and ipsisted on; and by whom brethren ! By a Britsa Par: LIAMENT~ by the boasted advocates of liberty, and the rights of man !' We were denominated rebel-curs, convicts, out laws, and wherefore? For .no other reason but because we would not submit to the slavish doctrine of « taxation without representation’ — because we wonid not submit to the Stamp act, the Glags act, the Tea act because we would not buy tea and drink it, that our oppressors, in selling it to us, might bave the pleasure o imposing an unjust duly vpon us We were slaves indeed—we had no security for our rights—we were lia- ble to-every species of oppression, to every kind of tyraony. we not slaves now ! Because our va- lorous and patriotic forefathers, aided by Him who has decreed that the op- pressed shall go free, successfully re- sisted those iniquitous claims upon us; and thus have we been called into lib- erty. 2nd, We have been called from Religious Slavery. True, my breth- ren, the grand quesiion of religious toleration—the question which has produced so much civil discord, and blood shed, in Europe, and throughout the World, did not directly -enter into our revolutionary con We did tocs LCS. for our religious liberty ; but no doubt this slavery was held in reservation for us. We were liable to, and had And why are! rests in the people. To them every officer, what ever may be his rank, is responsible. If they are agrieved, with them are the means of redress. If abuses exist—ifan officer, through weakness, or wickedness, fails in the performance of his duty, the remedy is at band. But were not those rights secured to us, we could not be said to be rrEE. If our Chief Magistrate had the power of assuming the charac- ter of dictator, or of enacting laws, io- dependent of the Legislative authori. ties of our country, our liberty, al- though that power might never be €x- ercised, would be entirely Jost—our security would be gone; and though things should remain as they are, our condition would be changed from FREEMEN to that of sLaves. From any such invasion of our liberties, our constitutiona! compacts secure us. Ve are called 2nd. To the enjoyment of Religious { Liberty. By religious liberty, we here mean lberty of conscience—the free exercise of our judgment in re- ligions maiters—the right, in short, of choosing our own religion—of forming our own creed—of supporting whatev- er brasch of the christian church we may see proper; and of claiming pro- ‘tection from the civil authorities, in {the performance of our religious du- ties. To this liberty we are called. {We epjoy it. We are not bound to ‘support any religious establishment. No system of priestcra{t rears its ghostly head, in our free and happy country, to shackle conscience, ov threaten our liberties. No inquisito- rial tribanal exists, a* which we are re- ‘quired to answer for our heterodoxy. No Infallible head, to whose decisions ‘we are required to sacrifice our judg: “ment, our conscience, and our hopes. We are religiousiy free. Under cur own vine and fig tree, we are privileg- o and no one dare make us afraid. 3d. ery. hless the persecuted had scarcely died upon the ear—the blood ofthe uniortunate) ) : 'permost scale in this sacred gradation. jen much as it ape degree comprises all others. AK is thot Which gives zes: to all other gifts of heaven.—It caps the climax of civil and religious liber- ties.—~It 1s the lighest step, the up- Without it every other species of en- joyment is insipid and unsatisfying. — Without it,indeed,all other blessings will afford us but trifling advantages, self Reason therefore pronounces us RELIGIOUSLY FREE ; and on this im: portant. question Providence has loo since decided. ie i "To. Spiritual Liberty we are called by the the woice of mercy. —~Ol the mercy of God in Cheist Jesus. Tv nim all the Father's kindness is shown, His sufferings proclaim = his willingness—his wiumphant resurrec tion from the dead, his power to make and will be of a duration the most notice, | Thirdly. By what and by whom we are calied to the enjoyment of this LIBERTY. We are called by the voice of reason the enjoyment of cIviL LIBERTY. It is a sacred dictate of unbiased reason, a fundamental and self evident truth, that whatever difference fortune or merit may make between men, in to hold.—That however differently they their career, whether ‘tay terminate in a palace or a cottage, whether a gly sno 4a obscure peas- ant, in the begining they were all his will. This slavery is the more equal ; all commenced their journey unfettered through every prov upon a common {evel. Nature’s God never intended that the one should be Master and the other the Slave. In ‘ure abberate from her common lcourse ? From the cradle! From birth exalt to the high Kings and Qugelss Princes and Prin- cesses, a patticular family or families What, my brethren, e sovereign of an adle ! able partiality ? The inheriters of royal blood, the no- ction from (bility, the privileged gentry, are the ers, privileges, or pests of any country ; who appear to f having a voice, either consider themselves born for no other low citizcu d than to consume the produce cf formation of those laws which affect the soil, and enjoy the earnings of the the gravification of voluptuous frassions. es, It com-|poor maa’s toil abd sweat. IHleredit- {It is a shame for a free man to be a yiary honors, titles, and prerogatives are ‘not only pernicious but preposterous. ‘The nation that confers them seems to take it for granted, etiber, that because a father bas been a wise or a goed man his son must be such; or, thatit is right we should be governed by a fool, an imbecile, or something worse. Reason then has seconded our efforts, and pronounced us FREE. By the Voice of Providence we have been called to this LiBERTY. And was not Providence on our side bretheren ? Behold the astonish ipg struggle of apparent weakness. with gigantic strength—of an infant republic with the mighticst nation on the globe—of inexperienced militia, with the best disciplined trcops of Euro pe—of, in shorty JAundreds, al- most without arms or amunition, against thousands, whose [ront was rendered impevetrable by British steel, and numerous parks of artillery. Already the blood flows many a crimson torrent—already a Montgonsery, a Warren, and many Island are drenched with the blood of Columbia’s valiant sons—\Washing- ton is beaten—the retreat is sounded, nd they retire before their proud bursuers—first to New York, thence across the Hudson to New Jersey, and thence across the Delaware to Pennsylvania. All behird 1s given up \0 a numerous and victorious ememy ~all before 1s little else than unin. hebite? forests, and almost inaccessi- bie mountains—while the whole army of \Vashington does not exceed three thousand men. Who would not have been tempted to pronounce our cause desperate? Who would not bave was about to set forever 2 But how contrary to all human calculation was ithe event. Providence interposes in our behalf ; for what, my brethren, but an efficient Providence could have retrieved our affairs. is turned in our favor, and, after a declares in our favor, and we are pro- nounced FREE & INDEPENDENT. “ By the same Voice we are called to $ aire [tis unreasonable to suppose that aoy down faction—you shall be invinci- We are called to Spiriteal Lib-iman can assume the place of, and an- nre.—Union is strength. Be patriot By spiritual liberty, we mean iswer for another, in religions matters.lic and pious, and sour frowns shall 17 or NORE } : . . « . no kind of securnty against, all the un-iemancipation from the guilt, polution,{And it is just as much so, ta Suppose just oppression ofan ecciesiastical es- domination, and penal consequences of tablishment—a national church—the unjust oppression of the tything sys- tem, under which our brethren of the | sin 3 and from the bondage of its au- thor.—The recovery of aur fallen na- ture to {that any man has a right to choose for anather bis religion. It being ob- vious that if I have to answer ior my. | pect of eternal day! and blindness beyond the compass of thelr progress through life, into lifz|my brethren, may you aspire.—For it human means to overthrow——there they all sep from one common thresh- may you resolve to sacrifice all tha! dignity of . { more bave falien—the plains of Long | us free—his tears, his agonies, bi: < from Spir- temporary and uncertain. We are tojilowing blood, his dying groans, a. speak with an eloquence not easil ‘resisted. They all proclaim to a: ‘enslaved world LIBERTY —A liberty lindeed—the price of blood ; not mere ly the blood of Patiiots or Hero's, bu lthe precious blood of Christ. OQ) pre- lcious Liberty of God’s freemen.— Freedom from sin ; a participation In that defies all contradiction,jall the transforming influence of the grace of Jesus; a triumphant pros To this Eberty, ‘offends your God. Thus called from labove, may you arise and wash away your sins—may you labor for that lib lerty, secured by the spirit of God to jail its possessors—liberty to rang: ince of ‘the kingdom of grace here, and to as- ‘pire to an eternal crown in the Kking- ‘dom of glory hereafter: We will no We will, what instance, my brethren, did nat- tice, Fourthly, The use we are to make of the LiBerTY thus secured to us. We are not to abuse it. for an occasion to the flesh. the less grat njoy- 1 ed such distingnis! heaven. Render it not subservient (« It is an ideal an improper @ambition—ts an ambiticn nt of crowned heads. that would prove subversive of its ve-| ry existence—that would grasp pow: rogatives, Im ‘compatible with ihe rights of your fel ey, or the wellbeing of you Render it not subservient Ir yi country. epicure or a sot. ambition and luxury, with their con the republics that have ever existed Neither are you to render it subservi ent to the purposes. ol sordid avarice You are not permitted to live merely for yourself, but for the general goed You arc a member of an extensive ]fS 20 who have rights and interests in com mon with yourself, These you are sacredly to respect. In comsulting your own happiness you are to consul theirs. You are required to be patri otic and public spirited. You are re. quired, in love, to serve one another. These social virtues it was that 1en dered your fathers ixvincisLE. Fo will be beld in 4emembrance, wher the names of many other great men of ihe earth will be immelated on the al war of liberty. but one of the cardinal virtues of the (New Testament, the LUVE OF OUR NETGHBOUR., We should not lose sight of the connexion between socia and christian virtues—we should not PATRIOT who is not endeavoring to be good—that «a foe to GOD was ne’er a true friend to MAN’ ~—that in order to secure our liberties, we mus ne christians —¢ Righteousness EXALT- ETH a nation, but sin is a REPROACH to any people.” It is the favour of | slave a FREE indeed.” with Christ bas made us FRE” It has been observed by the great Dr. Beatie, that if men were what they should be, a republican government would be preferable to 'morarchists themselves, being government to be the best, and prosper you as a nation. | shake the distant thrones of tyranny lloinus mother country groaned. A tythe of God Tis} nd {ne ppprobatian of self 0 God, ! hive the voguestionable Honour God, and he will honour you, short tine since, and ‘he s : A) : Is Invaluable bles ing, mylright of judging. and choosing for my- with peculiar honour—-he will perpet- killed by the explosion, Use it not Be not elul, the less temperate, what conduces to the general good of Of the human race l—where is the the less pious, for having been great the community—the undisturbed and preoff of this herstrange and unreason- blessed of the Lord —Ior having € The slave of fiassion, comitant evils, have ruined nearly all brotherhood ; of a large community. having possessed these, their names But what is patriotism ini& a truc love of country, my brethren. forget that no man can be a GENUINE heaven, alone, which can secure to us lasting FREEDOM—% Grace makes the MAN"=—% If the sox makes you FREE, you shall be ¥reE Here then is true L1peRTY —liberty worth enjoying—worth con- supposed that thesuxy of our liberty tending for—« The rLiBerTY where- all others. The tide ot'war L.et us be such, my brethren, and the long and sanguinary struggle, victory judges, will be compelled to 2dmit our Be chris-| tians, and God will delight to honor . Be pat- not conce ‘re ro ling as werpalv ah : : os ; P ncetve that we were struggling ed to worship the ETERNAL I AM, lthe enjoyment of RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. Tiotic and virtuous, and sou shail put {Blush not at the thoughts of being re- Yonr 1mmortar WASH} INGTON was not ashamed to pray.bama river, burst one of her boilers 3 ‘uate your existence as a republic u ul Gabriel’s trump shall sound- shall ooly dissolve «amidst. thes of elé¢ments, the wreck of mature the crash of worlds”—which may God grant—Amen. ] ; 30 Phe ; . FROM THE VILLAGE REZORD. We are mdebted to Dawid owns. wad, Hsq. Cashier ot the bank of his ounly, for the following iist of Coutts wrifzit notes in circalation, to decep tion from which our citizens are most expesed. Letevery receiver of mon- ¢v keep a good lock out, and every ‘uspicions person be arresred, ; 10s* Philadelphia Bank letter 10 Easton Bank oft Peun. 10 Backs county A. Declaware U.&V,. Far’s and Mechanics Phila. B. Gettysburg t Tad Stephen Girard GC. Harrisburg DJ State bar Morrisville, N. J. E. State bank New Brunswick do. do. do. do, C. C. OW w\ CASH — ir O Ww LO) Gn ~ Bank of Pennsylvania 1 & 2s State Bank at Trenton’ © 5 United States Ad None of the above are of Murray | 5 engraving of circular die = do. : Co. new work. Rb Gren WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, June 19, 1824, Additional Regulations in regard to the Payment of Penswners by the Agents. No payment will in future be made to any Pensioner, either in person or ly by attorney, who has not applied fon this pension for one year or more, ed bLonours fiom|without the production of evidence of | hie identity ; the proof will consist of the certificate of a magistrate in the county in which the pensioner resides, setting forth, either that he knows the ipplicant to be the identical pensioner named ia the original pension certifi cate which he must exhibit to the mas aistrate, or, that it has been satis{ace orily proved befare him that be is such pensioner. The signature of the! magistrate to be cerificd, under se by the Clerk of the Court of the County. EE ay. Lexington, (Ky. ) June 15. MOREE MURDER. : A most shocking murder was coms mitted on the pight of the 29th Mag ast, in Henderson county, on the bod of Mr. ELIJAH WALTON. On the day preceeding he was bhesst by cight men calling themselves regula- tors, while working in his field not fap from the Knote Lick. He was knocks ed down, bound hand and foot and car ried to the house of Mr. Simon Suge (one of the party) where be remained antl) night, when he was taken to the woods, tied to a tree, his clothes cat off with a knife, and scourged in the most inhuman manner ; finally, to con clude the dreadiul scene, these horrid fiends ended the bloody tragedy by cutting his throat to the bone and exe tending to each ear ; they dragged the hody a few steps and covered it wi leaves. The neighbors sounded the alarm on the next day and found the body in this situation, The (ree where they bad bound him was bloody five feet up ityand the ground litterally drenched with gore, The pames of six of the persons concerned in this bloody zffair have been ascertained and some of them taken.—~They arg Simon Sugg, Calvin Sugg, Samue Guiler, Gilbert Christy, Jas. R, La and Abraham Clay. What a state's things are we to bave ? Is every man to be the avenger of his own wrong and shed the blood of his fellow man with impunity ! And is he permitted to slay his encmy if heis in his way or gives him the slightest Provocas tion! such a state of society is of all others the most to be deprecated 3 and yet it seems we are hasiening to it, Monitor, — Or 4 FROM THE NEW YORE GAZETTE. We have received Orleans hy by the Lavina, to the 20th ultimo Intelligence bad been received at New Orleans that robbers bad introduced themselves in the night belween Sung day and Monday, the 5th and 6th uli mo, to the room of the cashier of ¢ bank of Baton Rouge, whilst that ge tleman was absent, and stole there. from a box containing 25,060 dollarg in bank notes. y i is The steam boat Balize, on the Ala teward wa
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