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Eiattrbap illontinn, QNtobct 7, 1831,
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THE 'PARTING OF SUMMER.
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Thon'rt bearing hertee thy roses,
Glad bummer -fore thee well,
Tliou'rt singing tty last melodies
In every wood and dell.
But ere the golden sunset
Of thy latest lingering day,
Qh ! tell me o'er this chequered earth,
F' How halt thou passed away.
Brightly, sweet Summer, brightly!
Thine hours have tioat , ,,l by,
To joyous birds of woodland boughS,
To rangers of the sky.
And brightly in the furestq,
Tu the wild deer wandering free,
And brightly 'nird.t the garden flowers,
To the happy humming bee.
But how human bosoms,
With all their hopes and fears,
And thoughts that make them eagle Win:44,
To pierce the unborn year !
Sweet &nmet! to the captive
Thou hast flown in burning dreams
Of the goods, with ell their whispering !eaves
And the blue fejoi6ng .itreanas.
Tu the wa.ted and -the weary,
tlu Ilre bed of sickneas bound,
In ;writ delirious lantasres,
That cytanged,n•uh every sound
The sail,,r ou the hilluws,
I. longing wild and vain.
Fur the gushing fount.; and breezy hills
And the homes of earth again.
And unto me, glad summer!
Huse !last thou flown to me
My chainless footsteps nought has kept
Fran thy haunts ut sung and glee.
Thou has flown in wayward VISIOIIi
In memories of the dead, .
In ,hatiows, Ituln a troubled heart,
O'er thy sunny pathiQay
In brief and aunty strivin?;'i
T. ihug a weight as ide—
'3l last thet , e thy includtes hare ceased
And all thy rubes died.
But tlh ! thou geutie summer!
I east thy flowers once more,
Vrtri..4 me-agate the buoyancy
herewith my soul .hould soar.
Give me to hail thy sunshine,
%VIM swig and spirit free,
Or in a vurer air than this,
NI,Cy _that a it meeti g be!
1:L-! OF -; .711F. nvArtt —The \ortk rrrh..h Re•
speakipf the ',bye:it:al s.ece-Lwy of the Sabbath
;IN hlthkvv:..— , Die s Crea:ot has g Ve 11 UF
rostorative—sleep ; and a moral restorative—Sab
bath keepe,g ; and it is ruin-to dispense with ei
Circler the pre,,ure of high excrement, individuals ,
have pa-sed ei•Ls wl.ll little sleep or none
hen the pricess is long countrucil, the cirri'
driven powers rebel. at d fever, delnauni 'and death
mie 0:1. Nor can the natural 3nidmrt be curtailed
I . ln , iit correspond ing iseli wt. The Sabbath does
arrive like sleep. The day of rest does not
ealover U. like the hour of slumber It does riot
e.rtrance us almost whether we will or not; but,
'„lie•,ing us as ii ielbgeto beings, our Creator as
that we need it, and bids us notice its re
tu.a aird'court its renovation. And it, going in the
!ice ,he Creator's kindness, we :force oterses
i work all days al,ke, it is not long until we pay
ttie fufett. The menial winker—the : man of bust
tress or the matt or letters, findsKliiii ideas coming
rut bid and slow ; lie equipoise of his faculties is
up-et, he grows moody, fitful and capricious; and
with his mental elasticity broken, should any disas
ter occur, lie subsides into habitual melfincliOly, or
in self destruction speeds his guilty ekit horn a
gloomy werld. And the manual worker—the arti
.'an, the engineer, by toiling on from day to lay,
and week, the bright intuition of his eyes gets blunt.
cd : and, forgetful of their cunning. his lingers no
lungeLpeiforin their feats of twinkling agility, nor
by a plastic. touch mould dead matter, or wield-me
chanic power; but mingling his life'A blood an his
daily drudgery, his locks become prematurely gray,
!Cul general humor sours, and slaving it until lie has
become a morose or reckless man, for an extra ef•
fort, or any blink tit balmy feelings, lie must stand
indebted to opium or alcohol."
DIED er I Nene.; —A most extraordinary account
has reached us in a privadelenter from Vienna, says
the Brinish Notri unit Qucrics, to a high personage
mere, that has been the talk of Our saimits fur the
iast few days. It appears that the circurnstatu:erloi
lie death of General Ilaynau presented a phenome-
Lao of the most awful k ind on record. Fin many
.tags at•er death, Me warmth of life yet lingered in
tae right arm and leg of the corpse which remain
ed limped a n al moist, even- bleedicg„slightly when
pricked. No delusion, notwithmandilig, could. bet,
maintained as to the reality of death, for the other
parts of the body were completely mortified, and
be.:anie necessary before the two hull* ,
above men mooed had become either stiff or cold.
Tile writer of the letter mentioned that, this strange
c , im. , la:.Ce has produced the greatest axte in the
inwds ui those who w.lnessed and that the 'Om-
Pt!rot had Leen so impressed will) it r that his phy•
iallS had forbidden the subject to be alluded to
ra his presenze.
Mori WersT.—g• Philuar, dear," said a loyal
Toose," who was several, years his junior, " what
Jo You say to Inoviti west?'
Oh,4'm .delighted math the idea-4,-I'mi recol
lect wlien Morgan moved out there, he was as poor
as we are, and he died in three years worth. a hun-
Ilioasa‘d dollars."
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COil. WRI. BICLER
To if, poll; of l'amspqr,l4.
1i.1.1.0w GnuErts:—lt is-now nearly three years
since you entrusted me with the discharge of the
duties of the office of•Governot • • I. have endeavor
ed, to the extent ol my feeble abilities, to perform
the trust in such a manner as toJevelope_ the re•
sourced of the State, promelte a just public
and advance the welfare of the people. flow far
I have succeeded in this work is for you to deter
mine.
A Democratic State Convention, in March last,
presented_ me for your suffrages for a second term.
In accordance with what appeared to be a recog
nixed custom, I left the seat of government, near
the close of last month, for the purpose of meeting
the peopte.in the several count res,of the State, and
in perscfn accounting tokhern for my stewardship;
arid declaring to them my views and inientier'is on
all imblic quesilons of Slate policy. A painlul and
danerous illness has deprived me or this pleasure.
For inkftly three weeks I have been confined to
the room in which I write, during all of which time
as I ! l earn, the canvass has been actively pursued
by my opponent. It is now impossible for me to
visit more than a few 1 any of the counties prior to
the electron, and I ran see no muds of reaching
you.with my vrews , ekcept through the medium of
the press.
In my present enfeebled state of health, and in
this without access to the hooks and do.
cuments which I ordinarily re ter to. I shall limit,
what I shalt herein discuss to those questions which
legitimately bear upon our State policy, or which
are in some degree involved in the present canvass,
and in reference to which I may, in the event of
my re election, be called upon to act in my official
capacity.
IViiak I have June, and what I would wieli to do
if re-elected, it la your right to know.
I toui,t, in the tirrt place, congratulate you un the
the thiuribliitig condition ()tall tliB great interests
of the S ate, excepting only the agricnbural, which
has Buttered triatelially by the drought of the sea-
SOU.
The finances of the S ate were never in amoria
wholesome condition. Our resources are equal to
all ordinary demands, with an annual surplus of
about three quarters of,a million of dollars, which
is applicable to ihe payment of the public debt.—
Fur three past years, this surplus has been absorbed
in tl
Ire consumma iomtof schemes of improvement
commenced prior to my induction into :office--
These underiak rugs will cost the State, in all, over
four million and a half of dollars. But for these,
very large reductions in the State debt would have
Liken place during the term ol my service. No
new schemes of cApenditure have been comment.
ed under my adMinistration, save only a small ap
propr smolt to "eirolose the public grounds and a
nie.Lre sum to sustain an idiotic school. II I
should be re-elected Governor, I shall employ the
power of the Executive' department to arrest all
new schemes of improvement at the expense of
the treasury. "
I have always regarded the proposition to sell
the public works as a business question. The pol
icy of the measure depending largely upon the price
to be obtained and the conditions cn which pos.
session of the work may be granted. If a sale be
made for an aggregate sum, less than the amount
on which the net profits would pay the interest,
then it would trot be economy to sell; such a
measure would increase and not lesson the burdens
of the people. Should die Volley of selling meet
the approbation of the representatives bf the peo
ple hereafter, the utmost care should be taken to
becure a fdll compensation . rtd.__M make the condi
tions such as Most certainly guard the rights and
interest of the public in the use of these great high
ways. lam sure all will agree that no corporation
should have the improvements on such terms as
would enable it to impose unjust burdens on the
internal ;lade of the State, or encroach upon the
rights of the people. No such measure can ever
receive my sanction.
I have Token on this branch of public affairs
with delicacy, because its management and control
have been confided to agents selected by the peo
ple themselves; and accountable only to them.—
The Executive having no power to direct in what
manner the public works shall be managed.
As indicated in my last annual message, you
are aware that I regarded the State's system of
managing the public works, as susceptible of great
improvement. I then expressed the opinion, which
I stilt sustain, that the management should be bas
ed on plain business principles.
The currency of the State seems to be in a whole
some condition. When I assumed the Executive
office, a strong sentiment in favor of what is called
the fee banking system, instigated 'mainly by the
influence of the preceding administration, evident
ly prevaded the minds of many good citizens. I
felt required to interpose the influenee of my posi.
tion against this scheme. Subsequent events must
ceitainly satisfy all that such a step would have
been disastrous to the true interests of the Srate,
and especial'y to our own cherished commercial
metropolis. also telt required,dbring the session
of 1052, to interpose the , Eseemive prerogative
against a dangerous expansibn of our present bank.
ing system. l think there are few who
. will now
doubt the correctness of this step. Had those
schemes for the expansion of paper' money pre
vailed, the consequenees would harm heiin more
disastrous than the most sagacious could have
foreseen. Oar commercial metropolis, instead of
standing as she has stood, impregnable against the
financial storm which has been felt so seriously in
other cities and States, might herself bare fallen a
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PUBLISIIED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD •VOUNTY PA BY E O'MEA-Rt-GOODRIG.,-;
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victim to the lolly; Instead of boasting a proud
fidelity and punctuality as she now can, she might
have been humbled and dishonored. Sensible of the
defects of the syslehf Vve• have, I still regard Was
safer and better than those of most of the eurroand•
jug States. • Whilst there May be localities where
a growing and enlarged business 'would seem to
demand the, , convenience of .banking_capital, no
consideration can induce me to sanction any con•
siderable extension of shah ea pital•of the State t am
e firm believer in The policy
a f dispensing with the
use of•paper money so' far arrthatean be done with.
out giving too sudden a shock to the business re
tations oldie people. Such policy, lam confident,
is best calculated to promote the success of the
manufacturer,' the" miner, the agriculturist, snd
above all io %Mire to the laborer a just reward for
his toil.
A loose slid unguardeJ system of granth# cot
porate privileges obtained favor under the adminis
tration of my predecessor. Corporations were cre
ated to engage in mere ordinary business enterpris
es, clothed with 'extraordinary powers, and upon
the principle of a liniited liability dale corporators
—thus giving the capitalist undue advantages. I
deemed this spitem unwise and unjust I could
see no reason why those who sought to enjoy all
the profits of an ordinary enteipilse, clothed with
the convenience of a corporate seal, in competition
with individuals, should not bear the entire respon
sibilities and pay their debts to the last farthing as
individuals are required to do. The use of the ve
to power soon succeeded in arresting this system,
and the principle of individual liability in corpora
tions of this kind is now the settled policy of the
State, and shall be maintained so long as 1 have the
power to do so.
A number of general laws have been adopted to
supersede the necessity for special legislation, and
much good has bee? accomplished, but there is
still on this„point, rig,reat work to perform.
The offensive system of omnibus legislation, by
which good and bad measures are piled together
under the same common title, arid which has cost
the Commonwealth so !natty millions Of
.prodigal
expenditure in times past, was duringlhe last Fes
sion, for the first time, completely broken down ;
and ;lie laws of 1854' have been presented to this
people, each separate, resting on its own merits.—
II I be re elected, the whole power of the Execu.
hire department 'shall be wielded to maintain this
wholesome system. '
The policy of municipal subscriptions to public
works, 'Sanctioned by my predecessors, never did,
as you will remember, meet the entire approval of
my \judgment. I felt required at an early day, to
adrebnish the people and their representatives
agtdert the insidious mode of creating debt ; but as
thetie measures were generally presented in the
shape of a local question, affecting the interest of
parliciilar localities, I did not feel required to in•
terpose my jedgment against that of the people im
mediately interested, and their representatives.—
Time and experience have convinced me that th is
was an unwise delicacy. If re-elected Governor.
I shall unhesitatingly employ the veto power
against all and every such schemes.
I had not supposed, prior to the commencement
of this canvass, that it would be necessary - for me
to declare to any citizen my views in rekrence to
our common school system. I had cherished the
beliei that my career as a citizen, as a Senator, and
as a Governor had given ample evidence el my
strong attachment to this most sacred of our institu
tions. As in boyhood l was the recipient of the
blessings of that system, so in manhood shall I
maintain it to the fullest extent. I have resisted by
the veto power, as the public records show, all at
tempts at innovation upon the system. Those en•
grafted on it by our political oppenente, when in
post er—the endowment feature aqd the sectarian
feature—have been stricken from the system. Nor
could I ever sanction a division of the fund for any
purpose. Whatever means be raised for educe
tional purposes by the government should be ex
pended under the school organization. It would
seem quite unnecessary and impolitic to collect
money from the people, in a public way, to be ex
pended under private directions. There is ample
roam for the,use of private . means for theipromotion
of education, without interfering with the general
system. It shall be my pride and pleasure at all
times to endeavor to perfect, extend and strengthen
our common school system. Indeed, I anticipate
with pleasure the day when the coffers of the State
will be able to bear the' expense of a far more en.
larged and liberal system of education : one which
shall teach the higher branches of science and lit•
erature, as well as the rudiments of a common ed
ucation. No higher or nobler duty could occupy
the energies of a government. Education in all its
phases is the 'great helpmeet of civilization and
Christianity. ft to the most potent means of prevent
ing crime ; the greatest leverage in elevating so
ciety. It is the means of the largest degree of
dividual happiness and the highest grade of nation
al dignity. Transcendently important in all, coun
tries and among every people; but no where more
peculiarly so than in - America. Here public will
directs the policy of the govern - mew; here, indeed ,
the-very foundationrof the government rests on the
sovereign thoughts of masses. How important
then lt becomes that that will should emanate born
a highly cultivated judgment. This is the very pa
tedium of our liberties. It is the sheet-anchor of
our republican institutions. I believe that so long
as the people are made inte'l:igent by education
and elevated in the scale of morality by its influ
ces, so long will our civil and religious liberties be
safe against internal strife and external aggression.
It is the preparation for the exercise of the elective
franchise, through which we are a sell-goierned
people—by nieelts of which the voice of the hum
blest citj7en IS equal to that of the most prominent
arnl weal4hy—through which all enjoy equal digni
ty and poise' as citizens What statesman can be
indifferent to such a system as this? \ithoever
could be, deserves not the name of an American.
I couid not greet him as a hue Penosylvanian.
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ME
On the great moral queitiiari 6f prithibition, the
Making andselling of intoxicating liquors, exirept
for particular purposes, haxe but little to sai• in
addition to the contents of my letter to the Tempe.
ranee Convention of June last. In that communi
cationl expressed the opinion that the legislature
was possesseJ of - constitutional power to control and
regulate the subject; but at the lame lime remark
ed• that in the exercise of that power, a la* might
be passed which in its details would be obviously
unconstitutional and unjust: I said then, as I re
peat now,
, that I sincerely deprecate the vice of
intemperande, and am 'prepared to sanction any
proper measure to mitigate, and as' far as possible
to extirpare the vise; but 1 cannot be regarded as
pledged to sustain a proposed law, the details of
tehich I have not seen. The obligation of my oa.h
under the Constitution forbids this. The Executive
departinent of the government is a Jeocrdinate and
concurrent branch of the lawmaking power Vest
ed as.T have been with its functions, for the time
being, I should do you injustice anti dishonor my•
self, as an officer, were I to surrender those func
tions to any other branch of the government, or as•
ociatett power, lor'arlx reason whatever. They
must be retained in the Executive, whete the Con
sti:ution has placed them, and freely, intelligently,
and independently exercised on each proposition
of law or policy as they may arise —
The expediency and policy of a prohibitory law
has been by an act of the last legislature submitted
to the judgment of the whole people. Their senti•
metes for and against the measure are to be ascer
tained at the ballot box in October next. Should
they demand such a measure, their will should be
carried into effect in a jit't efficient and constitu
tional ffirm.
~ Complaint has been made in certain quarters
that I have nit sanctioned a new license law which
passed the lee,istature on the niwte of the final ad•
journment. I have not sanctioned it, nor do I in
tend to do so. It has been filed away in the office
of the Secretary ot the Commonwealth, to be re
turned to the next General Assembly with my ob
jecticeis.
This measure is a fair specineti of hasty and in•
considerate legislation ; and is so confused and ob
scure in its purpose, that its administration, when
'taken in connection with the other license laws of
the State, would baffle the most astute legal mind.
Alter a deliberate examination of its provisions I
came to the concinsion that it might do cinch harm
and could do 110 good. My reasons against it, and
which arc too long to tya inserted here, I am confi•
dent, will prove satisfactory to you. Certain I am,
that no real friend of temperance reform', with a
full comprehension of the manifest tendencies of
this system, will be willing to make himself the
advocate of such a license system.
Certain strange political dogmas have recently
been presented for public consideration, and which
would seem to demand more than a passing no
tice. I mean the doctrine of the recently elected
Mayor of the city of Philadelphia, that a citizen
born out of the country should not be trusted with
civic office;'and the still more extraordinary tenets
of political faith held by Weertain secret organiza
tion, which,it is said, materially aided in elevating
this fuhctionkry to power.
I am opposed to all secret societies to accomplish
political eraht. I believe, in the language of
Wasumuros, that all such associations "are likely
in the course 'of time and things to become potent en
gines tnj which cunning, ambitimm and cr»prinri i , lr.!
men tall bc'enabledto subrot the potecr of the peo
ple, and to usurp for themselves the runs of go.
vernment, destroying aftei wards the very envinci
which lifted them to. unjust dominion"
I believe in the wisdom and justice of the lan
guage of the Constitution of the United States, that
declares 4 ,_no religious test stud! ever be required us
a qualification to any ()AT or public tract under the
United States;" and in (he declaration of the bill of
rights of co own Commonwealth, that "rill Inca
lucre a natural and indefeasible right to worship
Almighty God according to the dictates ,f their own
conscience." That "no human authority can, in any
case whatever, control m interfere with the rights Q I
conscience, and no preference Ann ever be given by
law to any religions establishment or modN' rf wor
ship ;" and in the further declaration that, "no per.
son who acknowledges the being of a C nl, and a
future state of remands and pienishmimt, skill t•n
account of his religious sentiments, he disq•Mlifled
hold any 0,94ec or place of trust or prtfi , t undo this
Commonwealth."
I believe these intacirmetits of fundamental law,
as they are, should be maintained and justly a d.
ministered by all men in civil authority. Indeed,
it i 4 difficult to imagine how any one sworn to ad
minister these paramount laws, could (eel warrant.
ed in stepping oven the bounds of their distinct
terms, and establishing rules oh action in direct
violation of the guarantees and immunities which
they secure to every- citizen. Citizens, according
to the terms of the Constitution, are all alike—they
are entitled to equal protection—to equal righ's—
to equal immunities, and no man who pretends to
a just administration of the laws should attempt the
high handed usurpation of constituting citizens to
suit his own caprice, and to lay down as a' rule of
action, that the accident,of birth sliould deprive an
American citizen of the enjoyment of the lull im
munities: and privileges guaranteed him by the
Constitution. A more unjustifiable idea never en
tered the mind of any American statesman. I
would not say this because I believe any class of
people, wherever born, or whatever their religion
have any Tight, as a class, 'or religious denomina
tion, to demand office or honor,cr distinction in the
civil government. The Democracy of this country
never have, nor never will recognize any such de
mand./ But taking the Constitution as a guide and
a rule of =On, they will maintain the just rights
of all citizeni, learning each' to depend upon his
own merits and Clualincations 'for office, emolu
ments and hOner. This f hold to be the true doc
trine on this kinestion.
If the coalitions upon which the people of othet
conntriesccon becomeeifiZenstirthe tfi'ired
and enjoy the benefits of our free institmems he
wrong, that lion' ss ; is'dol the GeJ ll l4l'
the IVelchman, the Englishman, the Irishman et
the Polander, who made these conditions The)
are the work of American statesmen. They stand
sanctioned by George Washington, Thomas Jeffer.
son, and other illustrious lathers ot:oor Republic.—
We /OW: 910,140. inY ll . l ' ion . . 1 0 . 11, 0' Pao i 'ld
of other countries to con -here, accept our condi
tions and become American citizens Nor were
we sloar to impress upon the world the peittlitri
benefits of oar institutions. Indeed we boasted of
our land of civil and teligimislitierty—of iin‘r asy
lum for the oppressed,'wheree!ery men corrlA en
joy the high dig,iilty of self-government, and the-in
estimable privilege of wOntltipring God r agreeably
to the dictates of conscience. tlins.itivited . ' many
came of all conntriee, and of all s-, t, uI pt ofossieg
christrans. Some have bereft W r ith us since the
days of the Revolution ; some for hart a century ;
some for half that time, and others for a stherte.r
period They have contributed by their little - guy
to k l skill to the development of
,the resources of
our common country, - and have assisted in. its de
fence; others have felled the'. forest and cid nvated
the soil and have added to the general prosperity
of the country; others have PdViltreed the commer
cial, manufacturing, minitig;and meehanicarinter
ests of the nation, and others have ad.o . rneil the
pulpit and the liar. They have assisted to pay the
taxes, and to cht our banles';,.and shall the sacred
covenant is hieli was thus ma.t ) e witti these people
be violated by the power of a secret and insidrous
combination that override the Constitution t Shall
the kith ut our fathers, as pli.zlited in th, g.ea:
strument, he thus disregarde 11 , ghimititled men
of all parties must-tespond no! No sueli immorali
ty and political wrong should tw permitted to tarn
ish the frame of America. Eon) ilie past
days of the revolution there is a rerniiii-cence that
speaks in elotpterit tones against this proposed er
ror. Fiore the shales of Mount Vermin—from the
grave of La Fayette+-truss the liet,;lits where
Montgomery tell—horn the once bloody field,
where Pula-ki and lie Kalb gave up tlicit lives,
there comes up a 14010M11 remonstrance against this
proposed wrong. I would me this, nor tilt
weakest seinallellt of it, for the mete malted' of
office to this class of citizens. The value of office'
to them is of small importance.; but it is the deep
dishonor that such a violent measure would inflict
upon our country, that induces me thus to speak
It would n t be the loss of civil place shit w. 111.1
most afflict our adopted eitizems, but it would be
buiroliatkki oh beitt designated as a class, of whom
it shouldTe said, they are not to be trusted with
civil plat Phis is the idea that would most
wound then ride and excite their indignation.—
There are amongst them tlu.se who in the want of
a full appreciation of our institutions and customs,
so deport themsthes as to give reason Mr cum
plaint 'Mt these facts atford no sutrivieni gdound
6.r violating the institutoins of the country. It Is . ,
simply cowardly to acknowledge dancer from such
a source, and tile' avowal or it is a pans v o r np! irnetit
o the strength of our government
,
I repeal, that I am oppo , e,l to all oath -tiourid so•
cienes or association , to lecorripli•li political ends,
and to all obligations which etril , a;ra. , the free ex
exise of the elective trancl,:set n t ilia' vary be cal
culated to prejudice the .iacctity I/I the jar) bttN. I
deprecate as Most mischievous those political tenets
which in their illiberal and intolerant spiat, would
gu behind the swail.lici.g clothes of the iiilatit, and
pry into the cinisetence.s ul leell to hr tire teal for
el VII office.
Ilas it ever occurred to those who have thought•
lessly expound this ❑env doctrine, that the practical
application of it must be toot at the fiery ihreshhold
by itisurmentitable ilitlic.ul tut. Is this attempt to
exette one class of professing etiff,ll3ll6 against
another a mere expedient of wily ptiliti . cans to ac
complish their own selfish ends, or is ir intended as
a great radical change iu the itionstitutions of our
country ! latter be the real idea, it will be
perceived that the first step mast be a unity °I
Chitelt-and State. liow else trail these new dog
mas be reduced to practice Then advocates must
get possession of the civil government—must chart.
ge the fundamental laws of the loud, artil then
Wing the power of the government in bstet out mat
ters of religious belief arid eliurek organization; and
when one denomination rut professing Cliiistians
shall havelicert penished into purity, aecording to
the tio.ions of this new power, then :another, the
most nothing eurreetion would be taken up, and vu
on until all religious denominations would be made
to accord in a lived staitilaril by the force of law.
In toy opieirm by the time this 5mik,..1,102 shonhl
have passed all denominations in review, the
Christian spirit of the nation would be proatrated
and the infidel spirit he predominating.
IVIio will have the boldness to undertake a work
of this magnitude T No one, l venture to say, of
all the men, who in an evil hour have 'embraced
this heresy, can be found who will assumes•° great
responsibility. Stich an attempt, could it be made,
would be well calculated . to awaken a dread nt the
scenes of the seventeenth century, at. enacted in
Europe. We should not be deal to the voi c e of
history uponithis subject; !tor should ire forget,that
our ancestorri, from whatever country they may
have come, and wherever lantliton thi.cnn u nrnt,
whether at Ily:non'h Rock nr J'atnesiowe, were
refugees IroM religieni persecution escaping Gann
the bloo ly stiener; which mall; the darkest lu ng es in
modern histetry. Nor should we ((Ogre iliat when
Wm. Penn, Roger Williams nnd,Lord litstornore,
a Quaker, a Rapiiit, and a Catholic, agreed upon
terms of perfect religious tolerance, that it was. a
second era o "good will to matt on eat th." It
was the greatest triumph of Chre nanny since the
days of Constantine. It has been the source of the
greatest good to mankind. Its influences have
been world Wide, and it has strengthened the cause
' of civil liberty and christianity in all countries
liras it occurred to those who %V niild eclipse this
great claracteriht:c of tnetir3:l in:dole! that
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the direful influence of a retrograde-on ihis,snbjedi
conlil• n.. 1 he rorifined to the limits abet mitirery -1
th.it as i.s advocates the)i'iSould not be juitiifietllot
, i temporai!, ilwori%ensence or selfish end, in en.
lathe.; so urea! an evil in the cause of ehristis fly
and civil liberty in otherrountries.
Tiiii'principle of Christianity, berievol_m:o pm)
iurii for the rights of man, knows no geographienl
Inuits. It is as wide spread_ as the human face.
The chrisliarts in heathen hinds point to Arneriean
iniiiilin ions as-in argument in favor of liberal views.
The nil vrxiate of the civil rights of man under tyr
rantnual arid oppressive forms of government elan
draws his argnmenta hem ntir ea;mpte. The Am
erican eicarriple•hail been'the beacon', light which
has guided the. Tpolitimal mariner .whefever sung
gling-against -she -waves ,of oppression.. To• the
Christian in heathen .land,, and the Protestants in
-C f atholic ciuntries, it has furnifribed the largest share
of their arn , 'merits and their hopes,
But to sopose--which is simply an absurd idea
i tt
--that there , e reason to apprehend encroachments
upon our civitr.sritutions by any class or sect of
citizens, where ,woald all good citizens rally lot
protection against such an evil! They would be
found' to cluster around the constitution ; they wankd
gather about 1 , like the faithful at Mecca, and hold
it up as an impassable barrier to such encroach
ment. There 1 should be: in such event to main•
lain :his instillment for the b.-netit of allelaases anti
all ilenom mations cif Christian. Rut how idle it is
in those who pretend that there may be danger to
the civil insiiiirions of tire crinntry, to announce as
a remedy, the destruction of the .7reatest Rafegt.tild
which our institutions afford. So long as the peg.
ple have conlidence in the paramount law of the
land and reverence its principles, so long will it
atfoul ample protection for all; but if that instru
ment he overridden by the power of combination
—if it bo thus demoralized and weakened - and the
conlidei,ce of the people alienated from it, and
c-em tchrnents should then be attempted, there
mi...1,t be cause for alarm. lor those resisting snch
invasions would be in the attitude of an army with
the fuitiess torn down and the oriluande disinati•
;led. Put enough of this. I trust that I have sue.
seeded in making my views known to you upon
this grave sut,je,..t
I I are said none of these things from prejudice, .
'tat I am myself a Pennsylvanian by birth, and a 7 .
Prutesiant by relpilons belief, as were my parents
before me. but I have simply ifeclared principles \
winch I believe are consistent with the best inter
ests, the Jeale, , Oiigios, and the highest hopes of
the people of my native State. Nor do I mean to
speak unkindly af indivldual citizens, who for any
leasons . may have coneec•ed thent•elves with the
association to which I have been referring I can
readaly receive how, clothed with novelty and se- .
creey the approaches of such an institution would
be insidious and seductive ; and how a 'citizen of
the best intentions might be drawn within its mesh- .
es. But all such have a plain duty to perform, and
Mat is, to wittalraw from the order—to renew their
allegiance to the Constitution, and to assert the die.
oily of free and independent voters, and vote for
whomsoever they please for political office.
I have now, fellow citriens, said all that the lim
ot a communication ul this kind will permit, and
mist I have made myself understood on all sub
jects relating to my official dulls*. The Issue most
be with yon. 1 urn confident that in passing upon
my acts, yon will not lest them by a standard of
perfectiou, for that is what humanity cannot attain.
In conclusion, let me assure you that whatever
your decision may he. it shall not weaken my at
tachment to the principles I have declared, nor les
sen my zeal ler the welfare of my native State, nor
my admiration (or you as a people.
Very respectfully, your fellow eitiien,
WS! BIGLER.
CISTERNI.--1, , x4: well to your cistern. To any
one who has examined the contents of a cistern, it
is evident that the water & dirt at the bottom often
have a strong stench in them, while the water in
the•upper part of it was comparatively sweet and
pure. This is owing to the animal matter that set
tles at the bottom, formitt; a mass of putrid cattion.
In all rain, liver or sea water, Mere are immense
numbers ut 31111106 so entail as re be invisible to
the naked eye. More a little pepper inn, it, to
giveiac:ivityp them, andt then place Wunder a
tuieroscopW;and it will be ;dive atilt animals.—
They are called Lificsoria. They are short lived,
and from their immense numbers, often form one
fourth of our rivers go with the mod in ?he hot
toots of our cistents IL is cansca, principally, by
the deposit of this animal matter, aid undergoes
decomposition, putridity, and 'nuances stench, the
same as any o.licr atitnial matter
l'uless it is eleatical uut at /east once a year, the
water becomes the essenee of canton. Tosay noth
ing it the tinribilasuill smell, its use, undoubtedly is
cause of sickness arid death —Ohl) Fanner.
A Coot. Cc,Thmi:s.—An old chap residua; near
here, who niikr,ht be classed us of he genus "Aor/o-
Ta 7," who was Too lazy To Vl 01 but picLed up a
living by pe:tilog4iP . 4, and other means more or
egnivoc.,l, was caught by a neighbor wilt a
raTf on hi. bard, vvlich he had just appropriated
hunt said ricOitsii's fence for tile wood. !
you oIJ PCOUllal !—what are you sleeting my
fence for ' was the t.aluixion he received horn
ihe owner. The old fellow turned round, rested
one end Of the tail upon the ground, and replied,
ivithout are least embarrassment; " 1 ailit'such an
airniglvy si. hl skier than you are. you meddling
old fool ! ' Then deliberately shouldering the rail,
he Cdlue,l n home
(1,7 - y.uni; awn an..l lernale once upon a
lune ,lop l ie.l at a colio:1 tavern. Their 3twkwant
appealance ekl lied the attention of mime of the farm
ty, who rornmerwed a contverAation wiih the fta:" .•-
niale by hlcon,ty, hcw tar ehe had travelled that
Jay !
• • I . l,tvelted ! J iiie btranget botnew lug
" ravel' tvu iid
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