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From the Philadelphia Herald.
AROWTIONWM.
. The subject of the Negro race and their
preseol poaition, is one of importance ; the
question of abolition connected with it, and
the insane conduct of abolitionists, are alike
matters for the consideration of all thinking
men. They strike at the root of all the laws
of God and man ; they would upset the con
stitulion itself, and have, by their acts, pro
dueed more evil among the poor negroes
than any good they ever could effect by
attempting to put down slavery. We are
not the advocate of the principle but it ex
ists. and is a part and portion of the great
moral laws of the universe, as it is of our
own government. The Bible authority is
found in the following passage;
"And the Lord spake unto Moses in Mount
Sinai, saying: Speak unto the children of
Israel, aoU say unto litem, both thy bondmen
and bondmaids, whioh thou shall have, shall
•bo of the heathen that ate around you ; of
them shall ye 6uy bondmen and bondmaids.
Moreover, of the children of the strangers
that do so adjourn among you, of them shall
ye buy, and of their families that are with you,
which they begat in your land; and they shall
be your possession ; and ye snail take them
as an inheritance for your children after you to
inherit them for a possession ; they shall be
your bondmen forever. But over your breth
ren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule
one above another with rigor."
Abolitionists are the foes of he black
man. One glance at the wretched condition
of those who are free, and of course the e
quals of their brethren in every respect, will
show in what light these vile hypocrites
hold the poor African race. They are vil
lains of the blackest dye—trom Theodore
Parker down to the miserable wretches who
dare up under the fugitive law in our city.
To show their vile cant and shallow pretence
of being • """ i"
our city will plainly prove. A slave, who
was claimed by her master after an absence
of twenty years, was recently brought be
fore the Court by the Commissionarr, under
the fugitive slave law. In the minds of all
the claims ot the master could not be sus
tained. The length of time, difficulty of
identifying her, want of sufficient evidence
—in fact, every thing was in her favor, and
* no one imagined for a moment she ever
would go back again into slavery. This
was a olear oase. The would be Howards,
the men who have a respect for law and or
der—and it was wonhy of them, if it had
been real, and not mockery—actually step
ped torth and oflered the counsel, David
Paul Brown, Esq., their checks for thousands
of dollars 10 buy her, in case she was—
maik—in case she was convicted! Our rea
ders are aware that abolitionists teach their
tools to rob and plunder the southerner of
his property—not buy nor purchase ; they
are hypocrites toward raan, law, God and
Goapel. The money, the intelligent lawyer
told thot*, was not wanted; the woman was
cleared. %
Now, mark I Two weeks afterward an
other slave—a female, one who had boen
absent only a twelvemonth—was claimed
under the law. She was encienle at the lime,
and her husband was a free roan! This was
a painful, melancholy case ; it was one cal
culated to awaken sympathy in the breasts \
even of abolitionists, for there were numer
ous witnesses to prove her identity- Slavery
was her portion—nothing but a few hundred
dollars oould save her. Even the rich blacke,
they who thronged around the court-house,
• saw the utter impossibility of her being
freed. New, where were the Howards—
where were these rich men, who, in
a case ot doublf"! offered their
tljoqsMde—'wfcew were they ! Afooog the
missing. The poor woman, with an unborn !
babe, was carried into slavery, which they j
seem to abhor, and not a pocket was opened
to relieve her wants! What ia all thia bnt
jrtnb, vile hypoeiicy, sotting an example to
the Vflrfd of lying and fraud—another and a
glaring prelude h crime ami its eonsoqUOn
pes.
The great arras in the calciß"' lo " abo
litionists consists in their persisting in a no
tion that the negro is capable of mental and
physical improvement. They do nol > *•
think, believe it; for if they do, why not
make the attempt, even at this Jate period,
to effect it 1 If The African possess,™ 'hose
attributes ef the purer race of mankind,
j. and which make, form and constitute the
characteristics of the whites evan among u l )*
heathen, no obsins, no bondage, no slavery
weald ever have existed. Incapable of self
government, not called into action in time
of wer, or in council, nor even hinted at ia
f onr Declaration of Independence as being
a part and portion of tha "people who fight
"for WheTty," they have, evar since God spoke
** to Moses on the Mount, been uqdui the
; guardianship end dontiol of thhe white men. j
S. v. These am historic' facts, whieh even the
WWW Wachguxrfi of the pulpit, Theodore
Parker, cannot deny 1 . Crime, therefore—the
crime of tguo;ance, riiMs atoong the lower
*- Wmptffe FIFE* "* FTFLA jgSjSESff . .. J/
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 15. 1851.
order of the blacks, and is only chriijced
among slaves by-just laws. That very free
dom, the use of whioh is a misnomer, to
' them is of no earthly use ; it is their abuse
of it which drags in and around them all
( those eyiis, miseries and human degrada
tions which ignorance and crime ever pro*
[ duce. There are a few whose habits and
I associations are with the whites, and, alas !
what are the results ! Go ask the blind al
leys of the southern section of the city ; go
ask the thousand and one groggeries, rum
•hops, and low dens of infamy in and
around us. See the consequences of suoh
associations; see the beauties of abolition
ism, and then oenlrest that miserable state
of existence, ye straight coated hypocrite*, j
who prate about the suffering slaves, with |
those in bondage, who are really happy ,
compared to those we have described. ,
Look, to, at that class who take no in- ,
terest in things around them, and who live ]
out a dreamy sort of existence under the (
influence of that vile eoropoand of dirf and ,
poison, lager beer—worse, far worse, than I
rye whiskey ;•* mixture to madden and des- '
troy. Thus the mind and body, congenial ,
in all things, find in such haunts the means i
of gratifying low desires, beasliality, and |
sink at once into that degradation which be- |
comes, in the eyes of man and the law, a i
nuisance. There is, however, OJI -' JAGS 0 J |,
blacks who aspire io a certain degree of re
ipjp'e.b.l.iy; it is that class who eschew, as
they would a fiend, a pale faced, canting,
abolitionist. These are the industrious
blacks, the workers of the earth; men
whose habits are formed by association and
ape ing the whites in all things; this gives
them a certain air of civilised life; they are
more domesticated in their habits, and their
dwellings present the appearance of imita
tive aptitude to real comforts of life.
As before remarked, we are not the ad
vocates ot slavery, that is its extension I
with its present history and intimate con*
nection with our constitution, and to protect
sTare holders, every good citizen -has much
to do. We hare travelled much among the
states where slavery exists, but we never
witnessed half that misery and wretched
ness, drunkeness and beastiality in a slave
state that we have witnessed in l! large
cities of the north. If we propose to do
something for the blacks, let us commence
the work at once; not by mixing them up
with the whiles, but by reclaiming and
dragging them from filth and dirt into Which {
hv injudicious ad-. .
vice, and examples set by others. LSI its
raise them up gently, kindly, and talk reas
onably and mildly with them, end endeavor
to make them, their families and their {
houses comfortable. Let our missionaries
attend to the heathen here, and let the really ,
happy Hindoo alone. Let us endeavor to ]
make the negro happy, by weaning him
from the vices of his nature and those of
association.
We have alluded to Theodore Parker, a
man calling himself a minister of the Gos
pel, a man of God. What he is, who he
is, we neither know noroare; bnt the man
who could utter from the pulpit such stuff as
the following, to the enlightened as well as
to the ignorant, should have been hooteJ
Irom the building and branded as a liar and
X scoundrel. Such a man would, if he had
power and influence, revolutionise the
land and establish the worst of governments,
that of abolitionism, fanaticism and beasti
ality. His mind and body are alike, both
full of all sorts of vile weeds, which should
only be permitted to grow in the jungles on
the border of the Ganges. Hear what be
says:
'' Last Thanksgiving day 1 said it Would
be difficult to find a magistrate in Boston to
take the odium of sending a fugitive back to
slavery. 1 believed, after all, men had Borne
conscience, although they talked about' its
being a duty to deliver up a man to bondage.
\ Pardon me, my countryman, that I rated you
too high ! Pardon me, town of Boston, that
1 thought you had boen all bom of mothers I
Pardon me, ruffian* who kill for hire, I
thought you had some animal nature left,
even in your bosoms ! Pardon me, United
States Commissioners, Marshals, and the
like, I thought you all had some sham*!
Pardon me, my hearer*, for suoh a mistake!
(Me Commissioner was found to furnish the
warrant! Pardon me, I did not know he
was a Commissioner; if I had I never would
have said it.
" Spirits of Tyrants, I look down,lo yon!
Shade Of Gain, thou first groat murderer,
forgive me that I have forgotten your power,
and did not remember that yon were parent
of so lone a lino And you my brethren, if
hereafter I tell you that there is any nmit of
' meaneas or wickedness which a Yankee
: will not jump over, distrust me, and remind
. me of this (lay, and T will take it back !"
And what does he say t He very forcibly
quotes, although he does not give his au
thority, from one of our old dramatists.—
I I Parker says, he " thought the lawyers had
, all been bom of mothers." The drametis! al
t luded to says, "we have no mothers, we
are all ■" Is not this forci
'} ble 1 And yet the Bostonians claimed kin
dred lo a feminine beast, and permitted the
| insult. Perhaps, after all, the reverend gen
, tleman was correct. He persist* in it, how
ever, and really thought they had some
" animal virtue left." The whole artiole is
rio.h in logic, as the language is. refined,
mora.', religious solemn! Great country
thiel
i. Some old bachelor thus <W*ieribes matri
monial travelling : If you see a gentleman
and a lady in the eaiqo coach, in profound
silence, the one looking out at one side, and
the other at the other side, neyer imagine
they mean any harm to one another -hey
are already honestly married "
- shifting the Responsibility.
A BARD SHELL STORY.
We clip the following from the Chambers
(Ala.) Tribune. It is one of the last of the
wag Hooper's stories, aud to our thinking
one of the richest
While attending court, recently, tn the
adjoining county of Randolph, a iriend who
is fond of jokes of all sorts, and who re
lates them almost as humourously as " his
Honor," gave us the following vouching for
the substantial, sub-lunar existence ot the
parties and their present residence in the
the county aforesaid."
Brethren Crump and Noel were both
members of the Primitive Baptist Church,
and both clever honest men who paid their
texes and debts as the same annually ac
crued, with a regularity et once Christian
and commendable. If, when settling day
came round, Brother Noel was "short,"
Brother Crump was sure to be in funds , and
on the other hand, it almost seemed provi
dential how, if Brother Crump fell " be*
bind," Brother Noel always had a surplus.
Thus, borrowing from and lending to each
other, worshipping at the same time in chureh)
and living only a mile apart, an intimacy
gradually ripened between them; sc ,' na | at
last they did not hesitate to apeak in the
freest Unil most familiar manner to each
C'.hit, even in regard to heir respective
foibles.
Now it came to pass that Brother Crump,
daring the liveliest period of the coUou sea'
son, drove imo Wetuir.pka and disposed of
his "crap" of ten bales, at the very fair
price of 124 cents per pound. It was more
tban he expected, and as the world was
easy with him, he determined to invest, and
did actually invdt a portion of the proceeds
of the rale of his cotton in a barrel of
Western whiskey; paying therefore at the 1
rate of precisely two pounds of middling
cotton for one gallon of "ditto" whiskey.
Of course it was "noiated in the settle
ment" that old Crump had bought a whole
battel, and after a lew weeks people began
to observe that hit nose grew redder and
his eye more moist. The idea that Brother
Crump was "drinking too much" diffused
itself in the neighborhood, until, ae one
might say, it became epidemical People
talked and talked—more especially "what
few" of other denominations of Cbrietians
dwelt thereabouts.
Brother Noel waa "sore troubled" at
the scandal which ciiculated about his
* —*l- nasi o*rmsvi a 1 ly rfiiCfP* f *f i
the injury it Drought To tnd at
Sharen. So one morning he stepped over to
Brother Crump's and found the old man in
a half doze in bis little porch.
" Won't you take a dram!" asked Brother
Crump, as soon as he was aware of the
presence of his neighbor.
"Why, yes, I'm not agin a dram when a
body wants it."
Brother Crump got his bottle, and the
friends took a dram apiece.
"Don't you think, Brother Noel," said
Crump, " that sperits is a blessin."
"Y-e-s!" responded Noel, "sperits is a
blessin,' but accordin' to my notion, its a !
blessin' that some of us abuses."
"Well now, Brother Noel, who de you
thipk abuses the blessin !"
"Well, its hard to aay—but people talk—
don't you think you drink too much, Brother
Crump!"
"It's hard to say—it's hard to say," re
turned Crump. '■Sometimes I've thought I
was a drinkin' too mych—then agin, I'd
think may be not. What is man! A weak
i ewrtum of the dust! What the Lord saith,
that shall be done ! So 1 left it to the Lord
to say whether 1 waa goiu' too fur in spirits,
f put the whole 'sponsibility on him; I prayed
to him, ef I was drinkin' too much, to take
away my appetite for sperits."
Hem Brother Noel groaned piously, and
asked, "What thee, Brother Crump!"
"And," replied Crump, 'l've prayed that
prayer three times, and HE HAIN'T DOME IT '•
So I'm clear of the 'sponsibility, any way."
"The Lord's will be done!" ejaculated
Noel, and after taking another dram be wet:!
home, thinking ail the way, how cleverly
Brother Crump had shifted the responsibility!
A LADY PLEADWG HER OWN CAUSE.—In
the Dublin Encumbered Estates' Court late
ly, a lady, Mrs. Catharine Winter, appeared
to plead her own cause. She sat at the ta
ble where her Majesty's counsel and doctors
learned in the law usually sit and producing
* bundle of papers, large enough to excite
the jealousy of achanoery practitioner, pro*
seeeded to outis *pd arrange them with com
pbfcure and expertnese. On one of the beh
ches immediately behind, sat her brother Mr.
N. D.. Maillard, who seemed content to per
form the subordinate duty ef junior counsel,
surrendering the more complicated and tech
nical portions of the oase to the superior
management of the advocate who acted as
his senior, and who it must be confessed,
discharged the self imposed task with a col
lected aud consecutive fluency, and a rheto
ical lact and foree, whieh would not have
disgraced any "gentleman of the long robe."
It is difficult to oonceive anything more
beautiful than the reply gisen by one in
aißiction, when he was asked how he bore
it so well. "It iigbteDs the stroke" said 'he
"to'draw hear Rim who handles the rod."
A lady being about to marry a man who
was small in stature was told that he was a
very bad fellow.
"Well," said she "if he is bad, there is
one comfort—there is but very little of him."
tram ud Right—Rod <gl oar coaMrjr*
Never too OM to loia.
The following well authenticated facts
s will illustrate the principle that man is never
s too old toleam:
F SOCRATES, at an extreme old age, leamt to
' play on musical instruments. This would
, look ridiculous for some of the rioh old men
, in our city, especially if they should take it
into their heads to thfum a guitar under a
} lady's window, whieh Socrates did not do,
f but only learnt to play on sofas instrument
( of this time, not a guitar, for \be purpose of
t resisting the wear and tear of old age.
CATO, at eighty years of age, thought
| proper to learn tha Greek language. Many
of our young men at thirty and forty, have
' forgotten even the alphabet of a language,
the knowledge of which wae necessary to
enter college. AJkto ooggoent on the love
of !•., utfy/Ja - %
Pi.uTAßcrt, when betwe&i seventy and
eighty, commenced the study of Latin
Many of our young lawyers, not thirty
years of age, thiuk that nisi prius, scire
faeias, fiw., are English expressions; and if
you tell them that a knowledge of the Latin
would make them appear a little more res
pectable in their profession, they will reply
, that they are too old to think of learning
Latin.
BOCCACIO was thirty-five years of age
when he commenced his studies in polite
literature. Yet be became one of the three
great masters of the Tuscan dialect. Dante
and Pelrach being tire other two. There
. are many among ns ten years yonnger than
Boccacio, who are dying ol ennui, and re
gret that they were ritt educated to a taste
for literature, but now they are too old.
SIR HEMRT SPELMAN neglected the soiences
in his youth, bnt commenced the study of
. thttn when he was between fifty and sixty
years of age. time he became
the moat learned antiquarian and lawyer.
Our young men begin to think of laying
their seniors on the shelf when they have
reached sixty yean of age. How different
the present estimate put upon experience
from that wltich characterised a certain pe
riod of the Grecian republic, when a man
was not allowed to open his mouth in cau
cuses or political meetings, who was under
forty years 1
COLBERT, the famous French Minister, at
sixty years of age, returned to his Latin anil
law studies. How many of our college
learnt men have ever looked into their clas
sios since their graduation 1
Dr. JOHNSON applied hinWlf to the Dutch
Most orour merchantsanaEtwyeriToFlwefr
ty five, thirty, and forty years of age, are
obliged to apply to a teacher to translate a
business letter written in the French lan
guage, which might be learned in the tenth
part of the lime required for the study of the
Dutch; and all because.they are too old to
learn.
LUDOVICO MONALDKSCO, at the great age of
one hundred and fifteen, wrote the memoirs
of his own tiroes—a singular exertion, no
ticed by Voltaire, who was of himself one
of the most remarkable instances of the
progress of age in new studies.
OOILBT, the translator of Homer and Virgil
was unacquainted with Latin and Greek till
he was past fifty.
FRANKLIN did not fully commence his
philosophical pumuit* .1A be had reached
his fiftieth year. How many among us of
thirty, forty, and fifty, who read nothing but
; newspapers for the want of a taste for natu
-1 ralph ilosophy 1 But they are to old to learn.
' ACCORSO, a great lawyer, being asked why
: he began the study of law so late, answered
' that iudeed he began it late', but he should
therefore master it the sooner. This agrees
j with our theory, that healthy old age gives a
man the power of acoomp&shing a difficult
1 study in much lsss time than would be ne
, ceesary to ooe of half his years.
DRTDEN, in his sixty eighth year, com
( menced the translation of the Iliad; and his
t moat pleasing productions were written m
, his old age.
I We could go on and cite thousands of
examples of men who commenced a new
study and fituok out into an entirely new
' pursuit, either for livelihood or amazement,
and at an advanced jtgp. But every one
i familiar with the biography of distinguished
. men, will recollect individual cases enough
1 to convinoe him that none but the sick and
. indolent will ever say, lam too old to study.
I ■ ■■ r
I POOR TOH ! —They say "Tom Hyer" the
pugilifi, don't know what to do with himself.
- He's getting so pugnacious, as the weather
• gets warmer, that he has lot nimseif out for
- a battering ram, to drive piles and split
• rocks. His friends fear, that unless some
• body accommodate him with a fight, they'l l
, have to put him in iron*! For the present,
• he is fed on pickles and kept in a salt bin
r over night, and amuses himself by slinging
• a bull by the tail—around the battery. An
, awful situation for a man, truly 1
A QUAKER* LETTER.
• Friend John, I desire thee to be so kind
a* to go to oao of thAe sinful men in the
flesh, called aHomeyes and let him take out
9 an instrument thereunto; by means whereof
9 we may seize the outward tabernaola of
9 George Green, and bring him dofore the
lamb Skin men at Westminister, and teach
fjm to do as he would be done by.—Thy
, friend, R. C.-
i ~
The body is the shell of the auul, an-i
s dress is the husk or that shell; 'q\\\ the huek
' often t#Hs what the. kernel is,
"
From tht Albany Dutchman.
Yellow Dogs and Blind Fiddlers.
The tastes of Nations change as frequent
ly as the ideas of individuals. Tn (be good
old days of our forefathers, gloty consisted
in building pyramids, burning cities, and de
populating empire*- At the present time,
to be considered truly great, you must be
greatly good. Formerly men based their
claims to immortality on the quantity of des
olation which they had spread through the
laud, while the extent of the glorification
was only limited to the number of wooden
legged citizens which their heroism was
oertain to atobk the land with. As we said
before, these things have "experienced a
change." Humanity has taken the place oL
ambition—conquest* o( kingdoms are being
superseded by wars against misery and pri
vation. Major Generals wili soon be abp
planted by the General Good, while the 'on
ly gunpowder that the next century will
tnake use of will be gunpowder tea.
Those who doubt this sunshiney view on
human nature, should "go the rounds''
whieh the Legislature oi this State have
just gone, and their doubts will be doubts
no longer. No one ean look at the .noble
charities whioh the N. Yorkers havt erected
as so many necessary fortificatious to fight
misery, without being early convinced that
the world is gelling to be not only a wiser
but a better world. Of the iuterasting inci
dents connected with that visit, the Dutch
man will say but littla, as the whole field
has been already most thoroughly gleaned
by our ootemporaries. Instead, therefore,
of revamping old matter, we will take a
brief view of the rise and progress oi those
noble institution*.
The first establishment we called at, was
the Asylum for the Blind, an institution for
the instruction of the sightless. The idea
that the blind man might be instructed—that
those in outer darkness might be illuminated
from within—was an idea that only reached
the surface within the last half century.
Within that period fingers have been com
pelled to take the place of optio net ves, and
with such success that the blind actually en
joy aome advantages over such of their
brethren as have not been thus afflicted.
The blind oan read in the midst of Egyptian
darkness. People with eyes have to use
oondles. A hal f century since, the compan
ions of the blind were limited to a trust
worthy dog and a superanuted violin.
While the former has given place to the in
atr.iqHtt.j,ha J litnf bps hepn suoDltmted 1 bv
The intellectual giants that we associate
with, the blind associate with.—Books are
no longer "sealed books" to them ; while
the sciences which ware once hidden mys
teries, are as easily mastered by the sight
less as by those whose vision has never been
impaired.
IT A Dutch widower, out west, whose
better half departed on the long journey to
the spirit land soma twelve months ago, de
termined, the other day, to consult the 'Rap
pers,' and endeavor to obtain a spiritual
communication, feeling anxious respecting
the future State ofhis wife. These 'rappers,'
be it known, were not the'genuine mediums,
. but of a bogus kind—adventurers endeavor
ing to reapa harvest out of lite late mysteri
■ OUS devetopemsnts. After the usual cere
! monies, the soirit of 'Mrs. Hauntz' manifes
ted by raps its willingness to oouverse with
her disconsolate spouse.
'lsh dat you, Mrs. Hanntz!' inquired tha
I Dutchman.
'Yes, dearest, it is your own wife, who
t 'You lie, you turn tevil a ghost,' intenup
t ted Hauaiz, starting from his seat, "mine frau
spunk Dotting but Deitoh, and she never
said 'tearest' in her life! It was always
'Hauntz, you tief!' or, 'Hauntz, you tirty
sbkamp !' and the Dutchman hobbled from
the room well satisfied that the 'rapping spi
vk' wore all humbug, and that be was safe
lfom any foethsr oemmtmicauon with bis
Ahtewish frau ott' this earth.
r
t "
DON'T YOU DO IT. —When you are offered
J a great bargain, the value of which you
I knew nothing about, but whioh you are to
, get at half prioe, 'being it's you,' don't you
} do it-
When a clique of warm friends wants
' you to start a paper to forward a particular
sot of views, and promise you a large quan
-5 lity of fortune, and fame, to bo gained in
' the undertaking, don't you do it.
r When a youhg lady oatehas you alone,
! lays violent eyes upon you, expressing 'pop'
in every glance, don't you do do it.
I When a petulant individual politely ob
serve* to yon' You had better eat me up,
' hadn't you V don't you do it.
1 When a horse kieke yon, and you feel a
' strong disposition to kick the horse in return,
1 don't you do it.
When you are shinning it very expediti
ously round town, in search of somebody
with something over, who can assist you
1 with atostn, fend yon are sudddenly auticipa
* ted by somebody who wants to borrow from
it you, doa'lyou do it. t
,f Should you happen tocatcb yourself whis
lf tling in a printing office, and the compositors
® tell you to whittle louder, don't you do it.
h If ou sti odd oocasion your wife should
Y exclaim to you—'Now, tumble over the cra
dle and break your neek, do ! don't you do
A.) | T> V'
,j when you hve any business to transact
k with a modern financier, and ho asks you to
i qn and dine with htm, don't yeu do it
A New Test of Fallh.
Not long since—no matter where—there
was a great reviral among the colored poo-
I pie—at least I have bean told so—the work
I went bravelr on—many, it was Doped, bad
been snatched like brands, from the burning
pile; nevertheless, tt was very apparent to
| some of the more experienced, although
, much bad been done—raueh remained
to do—that whilst many, very ma
ny, were acknowledging the truth with
their lips, there was reason to snspeel
unbelief "was sitting very heavy at their
hearts." One of the most zealous and in
fluential of the negro Preachers at work on
the occasion to which I refer, felt it hie duty
(b test how far this dreadful impiety extend
-1 ed, ana he soon seised a favorable opportu
nity for doing so.
He publicly announced, that as want of
Fhith was one of tbe most common, and at
the same time dangerous failings that could
possess the human mind, a sir. that did most
easily beset, and retard the progress of many
"an anxious seeker," he would take occasion
that evening to exhort his dear heorem on
that important subject.
He proposed a test of this kind—to refer
to a few of those instances ic the scriptures,
which were most hard to be credited by the
unregenemte mind, and, as he went along
with bis discousse, he wiahed it to be dis
tidcliy understood by all who heard him,
that whomsoever did not believe, must as a
penalty for their obduracy, and as the only
reasonable hope of being pardoned, drop a
something in Poor Box.
Silence gives consent—so taking it for
granted, as none objected, that all present
acquiesced, the Preacher first called atten
tion to the history of Jonah—how he was
skrallowed by a whale—how he was chawed
up, like a piece of tobacco—how long he
lay in the whale's belly—and then, how he
was spit up again, whole as ever—taking
care whenever he came to any startling por
tion of the narrative, to stop and ask the
question, " Oh, do you believe my dear
Broders, Ok, do you believe V
Those whom he addressed, remembering
the penalty agreed upon, responded very
promptly, "Ok, yes my dear Brother, tee all
believe, we all believe."
Finding nothing was to be made by this
taok, he tried another, and yet another with
no better success—he could not beat to
windward, any way he could trim iiis sails,
the poor box was a boor box still, as empty as
ever.
mftfseit tlp ror mrftdfait? ittf lliiuv uirf'wnule-r
soul into one last grand effort, bawling with
stentorian voice, in broken sobs, the big
tears meanwhile coursing each other down
his cheeks, "Oh my black Bredren—it is my
duty to tell you after all you cau do, you is
berry unprofitable servant, berry black in
side, as well as out—oh how heavy is the
burthen of your sins, my spirit grieves for
you, my bowels of compassion groan for
you ; so much so, that I frequently tink of
you, when yon don't take de trouble to tink
of yourself—berry often at midnight, on
berry cold nights, when you all got you eye
ahut under your blanket, " sleeping berry
loud," tiut neber dreaming you may neber
wake up to see de next day, den am f, on
my knees OQ de hard floor, cold and shiver
ing, praying far you, praying for you, praying
far you t Ob, do ybu believe, Broder Sinner
• —do sou believe f"
' At this moment a voice was heard issuing
(rem the remotest corner of the room, meek
ly replylhg,
" Hand round de box, Bra, (an abbrevia
tion of brother,) I must trow in something,
for I don't believe, I don't believe, I don't be
lieve I"—Charleston Courier.
The Bight of Divorce*
> This question ts urging itself upon the
pubhc attention in all shapes. It is a very
obstceporoos question, and one that wilt be
- discussed, and will at length be decided.—
i The conservative side rests strongly on the
i text," whom God hath joined together let
not man put assunder. " But then comes the
peser, "whom hath God joined together?"
I Hath God joined together two people who
fights like cats and dogs I tisth God joined
those who are not joined, but,only tied by
legal bands 1 God don't handcuff people
together. If they are at variance, it proves
not only (hat God never united them, but
that they never where united. Men, hus
bands and wives are like Whitfield's convert.
A poor drunken vagabond came to Whitfield
one day and claimed his acquaintance—
" Dcn't you know me?" said'he; in a drunk,
en wonder; "why, you convened me!"
"Did I?" aaid the meek apostle of metho
dism, "well, I daresay I did. You look
like some of my bungling work, for it i*
evident that God never converted you, poor
soul." It is much the same with many
marriages. If they were made in heaven
there is qo earthly evidence e# it.
This matter, much as it is befogged, it
very simple. Marriage is a fact, not a form;
marriage is the union of two persons in mu
tual love and fidelity. Tbe question is not
whether they have at some time pretended
or professed to be married by priest or mag
istrate, but whether they are now actualy
husband and wife. If they are lat no nan
put them asunder. If they are net, they are
not, they are already asunder, end no act of
' divorce can do no more than to record end
* settle the terms of their separation.—2Y T.
J Mercury.
t "You look as if you were bsside yeuselt,"
o at the wg Said to a (SHow who stood beside
la donkey.
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NUMBER 16-
SPIRITUAL RAPPING*.
A poetical poem after Pat, wriKen away out in
Arkansaw with a sharp stick. ' ■■■' .
"Once upon a midnight stormy a ion*
bachelor Attorney pondered many a. curious
volume of bis heart's forgotten lore; white
he nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there
came a tapping, as ot some one gently rap
ping—rapping at his chamber doo£ "71k
the spirits!' and he started, 'rapping at my
chamber door. Oh! for help ! I'm frighten
ed sore!'
"Than into bis champer flitting, (not even
once permitting him to fly into the closet, or
to get behind the door) came the ghosts of
fond hearts broken, (with many a ring and
other token,) and they sat them down bs
side him on the dusty, book-strewn floor,—
sat them down amid the volumes of most
venerable lore. Quoth the lawyer—'What
a bore !'
"It must be something serious; this is
certainly mysterious, quite an advert of the
Spirit—resurrection con amors. But I under
stand thein mostly !'—here there came a rap
so ghostly that he could no more dissemble
as he has done heretofore, and his face grew
pale and paler as he started for the door,—
down'he fell upon the dooc!'
"Then there came a clatter, clatter, . and
his teeth began to chatter, as the spirits gath
ered round him, and accused him very sore ;
how, wifh handsome face all smiling, and
with winning words beguiling, he had char
med away the senses of fair maidens by the
score! and each lass had fondly fancied
'twas her he did adore." Quoth the lawyer
—'Nevermore !
"Startled' at tho stillness broken by reply
so aptly spoken, for the answer, strands
enough, quire a relevency bore ; they began
a noisy tapping—sort of spiritual clapping,
which the lawyer thought could be but a
fashionable eneore—and again, at if his soul
in that word he would outpour, did he groau
out 'Nevermore!'
Presently his soul grew stronger; hesi
tating then- PO longer—'Oh !' said he, 'sweet
spirits your forgiveness.l implore! on my
knees, to every gboetesa who to love has
play ed the hostess, I will promise to recant
the many faithless things I swore ! Will
you promise then to leave me ?" hire he
pointed to the door- Rapped the spirits
"Nevermore!" _
" 'Be that word our sign of parting/ said
the hapless wight, upstarting; 'hie ye hence
I into the darkness, seek ye out some distant
■dm™.— In the moisv camp or forum, in the
gainly guests were never seen DOtire. Leave
my loneliness unbroken'—here he opened
wide the door.—Rapped tho spurts Never
more !"
"So these vixen guests of evil—spirits
still tho' most uncivil—ibey will never leave
the lawyer, tho' in tears he may implore. At
his false heart they are tapping, they are rap
pihg, rapping, rapping, and he wishes, oh
bow vainly ! that hie haunted, life were o'er;
and be often sighs—'Oh ? could Ibu t recall
the days of yore, I would XLlHT— novermote.
WHAT'S THE MATTER ?■—Under the head
of 'Sketches of characters in the Piney
Woods of Florida,' a correspondent furnish
es the New York Spirit of the times with
some exceedingly rich anecdotes. Here's
one :
A gentleman was once travelling through.
Alabama, when water was not the most
abundant article, when he discovered a epe
uitaen of a one-mule cart—sutSi as some of
the good citizens of North Carolina use for
purposes of emigration, when they are ne
cessitated to seek a new location, in conse
quence ot the supply of material for tho
manufacture of tar failing iu the old home
stead. Every appearance indicated a oamp
for the night> though the only peison moving
was a "right smart chunk of a boy," who
was evidently to trouble. The insMe of the
cart gave a constant strain of baby muaic.
and a aucceasion of groans, indicating deep
distress. This, and the grief of the boy,
aroused, tho kind sympathy of the traveller,
and he rode up, and inquired i( anything
was the matter.
•la anything the matter, replied the boy—
'l should think there was. Do you see that
old fellow lying there, drunk at- thunder?—
that'a dad. Do vou hear them groaning* ?
'.hat's the old woman; got the ague like
blazes! Brother John he's gone off into the
woods to play poker for the mute, with an
entire atranger. Sister Sal has gone scooting
through the vushes with a half bred login,
arid if I know what they are up to ; and
do you hoar that baby ? don't he go it with
a looseness ?—well he does that—and he in
in a bad fix at that, and it ia a mile to water,
and there isn't the first drop of licker in the
jog; ain't that matter enough f Won't you .
light, stranger?— Dad 'll get sober, and Sol
will bo baek. arter a bit. D4rn'd if ihtefin't
moving, though. Is anything the matter i— .
shouldn't think there was much, no how. s
Give no achaw of terbaclcer, willye atran
ger?'
••• • *
Ho who knows the world, will Beyer bp
too baebibl) aud her who knows himself, will
neve* bo impudent.
It is said that Batnum is ia fnll chase of a
chap who helped his own wife at the dinner
table, in preference to another lady. '-WW
. , , Q M.T ■
Batnum ha* among axs
with which the rnau spirt the difference
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ttP Avarice starves its keeper, to surfed,
ttjpte who wish him daat^