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BELLEFONTE, CENTRE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, PRINTED BY THOMAS J. PETRIKIN,
Vol, V1.
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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
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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.
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CASH
—
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~ 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
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do.
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Co. new
work.
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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