a- The whole aut ok ' Government consists in the aut of beino honest. Jefferson. STROUDSBURG. MONROE COUNTY, PA., "WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1842. No. 11. VOL. 3. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE I ORE sceiocis:. -"TIM -Two dollars per annum in advance Two dollars i ouaricr, half yenrly,-nnd if not paid before the end of par Two dollars and a half. Those who receive their u- a earner or stage drivers employed by the propne vMil he chanted 7 1-2 cts. per year, extra. , n . .ers dif-coatinucd until all arrearages arc paid, except - on! ion of the Editor. V l vert moments not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) ' incrtol three weeks for one dollar : twenty-five cents ,T'.- suXetiiicnt inseition larger ones in proportion. A u hp m:idp to vcarlv advertisers. -All letters addressed to the" Editor must be post paid. POETRY. The old familiar Strain. ItY n. SIIELTON MACKENZIE, T,. L. D. Sins me that old familiar strain Which touched nvy heart in boyhood's years, Before its chords were jarred by pain, "Defoie its hopes were dimmed by tears. Time has fled fast since first I heard Its music from those lips of thine; But well remembered is each word : So sing once more, oh, Mary mine, The old famiiiar strain. Thine eyes have their soft radiance kept, That won my heart in life's young spring, And o'er thy beauty time hath swept Gentle, with light and charmed wing. Unaltered is thy graceful form, The trusting heart is the same, Keeping those true affections warm As when, before I dreamt of fame, You sang me that old strain. You, sing! as in those golden hours When life, and love, and hope were young When fancy strewed our path with flowers, Oh! sing the strain that then you sung! Your voice may have a sadder tone Than made sweet music in that time, Ere grief or trials we had known, When first you sang, in youthful prime, The cl'd familiar strain. Meihinks that on thy placid brow . So lightly touched by iurrowing years, Since first we plighted love's fond vow Tliought's graver shadow now appears ; But yet if in thy very mirth Remembrance of our Dead will come, Strong ties yet bind thee to the earth So breath once more within our home The old familiar strain. Phazma, of the New Orleans Picayune, gives in . a recent number of that paper the following ex- cuisite sonnet : HZOTHEH. Of all the words in language there's no other Lqual in .gentle influence to Mother ! It is thejfirst name that we learn to love It is the first star shining from above; It is a light that has a softer ray Than aught wc find in evening or in day ! Mother! It back to childhood brings the man, And forth to womanhood it leads the maiden, Mother! Tis with the name all things began That are with love and sympathy full laden. O ! 'tis the dearest thing in Nature's plan, That all life's cares may not affection smother, While lives within the yearning heart of man Melting remembrance of a gentle Mother! Duelling. Wc read in Swedish Historv, that Adolphus, i huvsex, and the meeting was opened wiih ; concert or correspondence or conspiracy what King of Sweden, delerminlng'to suppress these , prayer by Kev. Dr. Cox. j ever, does it not lead us to inquire by what fal-e notions of honor, issued a severe edict j The Tabernacle wa3 crowded in every part ( agency is it effected We are compelled to against the practice. Two gentlemen, however ' at an early hour, by one of the most respecta-j ask whence comes it, and 1 was going to say generals in his service, on a quarrel, agreed to ' ble assemblies we have ever seen within its -I know not,' but this may ld indulging a feol solicit the King's permission to decide their j walls. The music by the choir of the church jng'of skepticism too far for the place and the difference by the laws of honor. The King; was exceedingly happy, and added essentially j assembly. May it not be that there is an anal consented, and said, he would be present at the to the spirit of the meeting. j ()gy between tho atmosphere that surrounds the combat. He was attended by a body of guards j The Secretary, Rev. John Marsh, read an j body and the moral atmosphere that surrounds and the public executioner, and before they , abstract of the annual report, communicating : iho soul; so that as change arc produced in the proceeded to the onset, he told these gentle- ; ihe most cheering information in reference to j bodv bv the movements in the natural air, there men, that they must fight till one of them died. 1 Then turning to ihe execuiioner, he addsd, do you immediately strike off the head of the sur vivor. This had the intended effect; the difference1 between the two officers was adjusted, and no more challenges were heard of in the army of Ouslauis Adolphus Temperance. I "Mr. Snubbs, you say you are a temperance n:3n, and yet you chaw lobackor." "Hum: yss mum but mum, I dont squeeze,' my gizzard out with stays, nor stick my back t-p with bagj of meal, Mrs. Slob, I don't." Lxeunl Mrs. Slob, in a hull. 4 First class in grammar,' paid the country pedagogue, 'come put and recite. . Bobby! what is st earn ? Hoijing waiter, sir! Tlwt:i right; compare!. ... Positive boil, comparative boiler! superlative 3'ery goad; vouJH Icarno1 parse , soon; you tnay teKti your ssat. Hero. One who can.ffi'oei his ifeoj If any one can read the following remarks by the Hon. Mr. Marshall of Kentucky, without any stirring of ihc better feelings of his heart, he must be made of impenetrable stuff indeed; or his sensibilities must have been blunted by lono- habits of vice, until that which" makes the . , . .,i i ! man, the divina particula, is smomcreu uiiuei ihe rubbish of hU'oncc noble but now fallen.and ruined nature. What a definition does he give of man! And who that is man can read it with out reverencing himself; no! his "frail perishing clay" which allies him to the lower creation, and which tends earthward, but his mind and his heart, his intellectual and his moral consti tution, which links him with the higher inlelli "ences, and relates him to God. We commend the whole speech; and what a pity that we have not the whole, as it fell burning from the lrps of the eloquent speaker. With one exception, the reading of the ad dress oave us unnualified pleasure.' The re- 0 , l jmarkable coincidence between the state of his own mind on the 7th of January last, and the movement that was going on at Lexington, can 1 only be explained by a simple recognition of an 1 - ... T T all-directing and an all-wise rrovuience. l et this Mr. Marshall does not do; at least not fully and clearly. lie does indeed speak of "a se cret influence that pervades the world of mind," and this may be construed to mean Providence, but it is a vague and half-heathenish way of speaking. It would seem that our educated men, in speaking of the invisible world, are too apt to make their allusions in language sanc tioned by the classics of heathen Greece and Rome. This ought not so to be. The orators of antiquity were not ashamed of their mytholo gy they gloried in it. Should the orators of Christendom, then, be ashamed of iheir theolo- . . . . ii 1 1 ; I formed inebriate. He ascribes the wonderful . , ;ncrnmpnljl;lv fn ;fa lriln S(1Iir(. , Tr , ,r , ,, tt ! Wc hope Mr. Marshall will go on. He can- j not put in requisition his gifted mind, to a bet-; ter and more benevolent purpose. In the death j he shall earn laurels which shall be green when ; those of Cajsar and of Napoleon shall have fa-! ded; a namo that shall be ranked high among j , , . , r ii the excellent and the worthy of mankind. . From the New York Observer. Tiie American Temperance laion, The Union celebrated its fifth anniversary j the Broadway Tabernacle, on Wednesday j m tne uroauway j evening, the 4th inst In the absence of the ! President, John- H Cocke, Esq., of Va., the Chair was taken by Hon. Theodore Fueling- the glorious progress of the cause during the past year. I he number ol pledges obtained throughout the country is estimated at half a million. Of these 30,000 have been made in Kentucky; 00,000 in Ohio; in the whole West,! (200,000; and it is supposed that ol Uiese every; I seventh man js a rejormed urunKaru, ana every ! fifth man a reformed tippler. In Maine 50,000 I pledges have been gnen, and 5,000 of those are reckoned reformed men. In Boston, 20,- 000, of which 13,000 are reformed. In N. Y. city 10,000 Washingtonians are numbered; in central and western New York 50,000, in Phil- adelphia 20,000, in Pittsburgh JU.OUU. Iho Report went on to take a survey of iho various auxiliaries, among which was mentioned the Congressional Temperance Society, embracing eighty members of Congress; it spoke also of several large distilleries that had been slopped; and of the vast amount of temperance informa tion which had been diffused over the land through 120,000 "Journals," 550,000 "Advo cates," and 40,000 Almanacs, which had been printed during tlio year. The President then introduced to the assembly, Hon. Mr. Marshall, M. C, frosi-Kextuckv, who was received wiili great enthusiasm. Af gy, tne simple ana suuume, aim oniy irue ; January ,as, at nighl mving had n0 correspon tem, which fully discloses that most high God, ' dence whatever with any body at home on the "that doeth his will in the army of Heaven, and j subject, he signed iho pledge. Somebody among the inhabitants of the earth." te to Lexington, Ky., about it, and some ,?,..,.,,,, iii ! one to tne newspapers, and soon he found him- Indecd, Mr. Marshall does speak clearly seIf poaled from 1Jo5,OI1 ,0 iSToxv Orleans among enough, where he treats of the efficacy of the . ,jle honorable fraternity of reformed drunkards, pledge, when offered and advocated by the re-; But the next mail brought back to him the in- "rapple which he foresees he should stand ; left m a most com or I able inebriety. J hey had , c tt ; r ,..n- rm.,n 1 been celebrating his departure, in such a stylo among the foremost. He is every way miaii- Vf). , . . Jthat he con d on y wih great difliculty com- liea tor s;:cn a service, jjci mm uuiu uu, unu: said he had prepared himself in some measure, for the emotions which he must experience un der the circumstances with which he should find himself surrounded; but he could not help feeling that the fact of his beiug here in the month of May of this year, in the city of New York, in an assembly like this, to speak on the snbiect of Temperance, must be rewarded as j , one of the phenomena attending this most re markable moral revolution. The Secretary had iven us a sketch of what had been accomplish ed in this cause, and these facts are sufficient to satisfy any man that this reform ought to stand as an epoch in the history of man; as one of those great revolutions which sweep over the world, overwhelming barbarism, and bringing in civilization with all its attendant blessings, lie had often asked himself if (here is not some thing passing strange in the movements with which wo are surrounded. We have just heard of 30,000 pledges given in Kentucky, and he would venture to say from an intimate acquaint ance with that people, that never in the history of that State had such a movement of mind been made in a single year. Never was any thing like it known in the moral, political or religious world. He referred to the cities of Louisville and Maysville, and knowing well ihe habits of those places as to the consumption of Alcohol, he said it was a remarkable fact that a travel ler ean now scarcely find a glass of the critlur, so few are the dram-shops. Mr. M,-said that he was not fond of the mar rellous, nor was it a defect of his mind to bo credulous; indoed his temptation had always been towards skepticism but there were some facts in this movement connected with his own history, which had filled him with astonish ment, and he did not think it out of place to re fer to them. He said that four months ago, in all the land, there was not a man who knew less or cared less than he did about the Tem poral) -"sc. He had never been in a lem- pcranc mg in nis ine; ne aaiu u vum shame ami contrition,) and if he picked up a lemncrance paper, ho threw it away , it away, regarding (hp. Kiihinr.t ns iinworihv the attention of a gen-1 tleman of his vast ambition! On the seventh of v J a i iiwuiuii ti nig i tcliircncc Mat at L.cxigion, ai me very time when he was signing the pledge at Washing- ton, there was a wonderful movement there also; a Soc.Ql.. wm hc prcsident and Yice president of which but a few. months before when ho was starting for Washington, he had the iournev. leavimr them m a state of jr!Canacity' for any ?noral or physical exertion lie had a brother in an adjoining county, (who, by the way when he was at Washington, a few davs ago, wished me to draw a line between himsRjf a'nd m(J whcnercr had occasion t0 speak of him, as he did not think he was ever 1 . , .,c n , hrn.h(ir K-.npA ,hn pe(g0 on ,een jecI, ihc seventh of January, and had since lecturing very learnedly in the region around him on the subject of temperance Observing these simultaneous movements in distant niaccs and different minds, without any may be" some secret influence that thus pervades IIIC WOnU OI ISnllU, iUlU uuua3 mum; iit.ijwiiiia. which appear to us so inexplicable? May not He, who formed the human mind, hare united all minds by sonve mystic tie, and may not this cord of sympaihv., from time to time, be swept by the master hand, and corresponding tones be given forth from the whole human race. This may be mere fancy, but if 'here were ev er facts calculated to encourage such a suppo sition, they are furnished by this remarkable si 'multaneous movement. And the agency too, how simple, and how inadequate to the result; to tho eye of science, how disproportionud to the end proposed. A temperance pledge! a simple declaration to drink no more ! and the pledge offered and advo cated not by philosophers, but by those just plucked from the lowest ranks of society, out casts, without character, or learning, or wealth, or eloquence, save the most efficient of all, the eloquence of truth! these are ihc instruments which that power which has set this cause in motion, has employed in its achievement. That it will go on 1 do not doubt; Us final Iri- 'rjio RoniSrtcr Itimk? this theory nf Mr. Mnrnlwll oxoccilitif' ly fanciful, and prefers to consider the coincidence icfcrrcd to as tM roiimrknhlc peycological fiict" hich can only be cx- umph could not astonish us more than has its pasi success. He kuew the difficulties it must still encounter; not the opposition of truth, or reason or argument, but pecuniary interest and appetite and worse than all, established, invet erate fashion; and ihe death grapple with these enemies is yet to come. lie had tried to imagine what could be said in favor of intemperance; and to prepare for meeting the arguments on that side, ho had taken counsel of Cicero, who always supposed himself, in preparing a cause for trial, in the place of his adversary, and having first present ed the arguments agaist himself in the strong est possible light, proceeded to demolish them. Thus placing himself, he had tried to frame an argument in favor of intemperance, and the most plausible plea he could invent, for the life land soul of him, was this. "The appetite for Alcohol is implanted m man by nature. Alcohol exists in nature, and the ingenuity of man elicits it to gratify this natural appetite. Why was this arrangement made, if it was not designed that the appetite should be gratified with the Alcohol. Nature does nothing in vain. There is evidence of adaptation in every department of the Universe." Here the speaker drew striking illustrations from "the wisdom displayed in the construc tion of the solar system; adjusting the distance of the earth from the sun, and the size of the eanh to the nature of the plants and animals that are on its surface, and then asked why did that wisdom form this appetite and furnish the source for its gratification." In reply to this argument he might deny the fundamental assumption that the appetite is natural; he did not believe it; but admitting that it is, human reason has demonstrated that the gratification of it is injurious to man, under all circumstances; and alcohol was never furnished by nature as food for man. Nature has provi ded food to support his existence and sustain his spirits;, and Mr. M. had often contrasted I ... i i that substance which nature has provided lor the nourishment ol man in tne season oi ne.p- less infancv. with this invention. If there are two things,' of all others the most exactly tin- Iikc, they are milk and alcohol; and in the Uni verse, where, where could be found two ob jects more unlike than the mother's breast and the worm of the still: the fountain of human life and the accursed source of human wretched ness ? Bui admit '.hat the appetite is natural, what does it prove i ? Is nature unjust to man and unkinder to him than to the lower orders of the animal creation ? In them the appetite is wanting. Brutes have no appetite for alcohol. Vmi Min teach them to love it. Man is the only animal in tho broad universe that will get drunk more than once. The experiment has been tried (and here Mr. M. related an anec - dote of a monkey, which two wags made urunh., and the next lime they attempted to force him to drink he fought himself away from them and (led to the top of the house) and if the brute naturally refuses alcohol, is not nature unkind to man in endowing him with an appetite for ill But if she has given him this appetite she has also given him what no other animal has, the reason to detect and the power to avoid the con scnuences. She has armed him with a weap on sufficient to protect him from the evil, and ; j3 jt not a proof of the high estimate put upon the human mind by its Author, mat no ciotnes it with power to overcome temptation, and holds the possessor responsible, as a moral and intellectual being, for the use of his gifts? Blame not then God or nature for the evils of intemperance. Drunkenness is man's own WOrK". XI IS pccuuui lU Willi, liu Yiicii tioi. in creation can you find an animal that falls under its power. A drunkard is the hardest thing in the world for a philosopher to classify. You can't tell to what genus he belongs he ain't a maii you can't make a man of him, any way ho has not t Ia . 1 . n ii i . wv itiliatn n I pn i r the form, or feature, or jccling ol a man 1 no longer holds up his face as a man, he can't walk like a man; intemperance has fuddled his brain, bleared his eyes, deafened his ears, swelled his body, dwindled his legs, and thus destroyed his title to be classed among men.--But these are the least of its evils. Wp might foroivo intemperance if it did no more than mar our beauty, dilapidate our fortunes, waste our health, and destroy our lives. Man must die, and if death were the mere disolution of this body of ours, it would not be a matter of any great moment if the period wore precipitated for a few months or years. But what is man 1 What doas he mean when he speaks of him self? Is it this frail perishing clay? No; no. It is the divina particula, breathed into this clay by Deity himself, and given to man only of all that livo on earthit is the reason and the heart the reason that enablea him to examine and provethe heart that loves; that makes ca pable of parental affection and all those finer sensibilities that adorn human nature and dis tinguish it in the creation of God. This is the prolnciplo that makes man; this it is that is eter nal. And henco we sec the nature of that evil which works tho ruin of this immortal princi- pie. Alcohol is the only poison that, annihila tes the man. Give him arsenic, and although his physical constitution cannot resist iis efiects, yet while life lingers he is still a man he love3 his wife, his children, his country; and when he dies, he dies game, game, game. -But this poison achieves what no other can; it desroys human nature; it turns the hear! of man against weakness and helplessness, and makes him hate those who hang upon him for support. You may make a man e robber or a murderer, steep him in vice and miser, but when" li:; comes to his own heart-stone he is a man, a.ri-1 loves his wife and little ones, who cling around him in his ruin. There is a principle in man call it the chilvalry oj manhood ', that makes weakness of woman her strength and defence; nothing destroys that principle in man but alco hol; nothing else raises the arm of man against her who trusts him for protection and love; nothing else destroys that fine and universal ligament that pervades the whole animal race the parental tie discse and poverty and crime and death may press a wre'eh to the earth, and his infant child will cling to hiiri the more fondly the deeper he sinks. Nothing bu: intemperance destroys this tie, and obliterated every trace of the great orginal from which' he was formed. Mr. M. then offered some suggestions res pecting the means by which the cause of tem perance should be advanced deprecating itd connection wiih politics or socking any aid from Legislation. It is too high for law; too pure for political association. He then made an eloquent appeal to the young, the gay and the chivalric to unite in this cause, declaring that he himself was never gay er in his life than since he had joined the Tem perance Society. He would appeal to the lov ers of pleasure, to Epicurns himself, and com mend this as the source and fountain of the pu rest pleasure. He drew a vivid picture of the sensations of a man waking after a night's de bauch, unfitted to enjoy the glories of nature or any of the thousand sources of delight with which the world is filled; and following up this j thought with great beauty he closed by ex- claiming, "0 how canst thou renounce the boundless storo Of charms which Nature to her vot'ry yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of holds; All that genial ray of morning gilds, And ail that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all that dread magnificence of heaven, O! how canst thou these renounce, and hope to be forgiven." j Throughout his remarks, (of which the above" i js a meagre outline.) Mr. Marshall was con 1 stantlv cheered, and at the close ihe applause was ucatening. n was annoimceu mai uu would address other meetings in the course of the week; and the assembly broke up. TEXT, BE SHORT. My friends, I have forty reasons against long sermons but for the sake of brevity I shall, omit ail but two. y 1st. Long sermons seldom effect the object of preaching. The design of the preacher is to convince, instruct, and persuade. Now, to convince, it is not necessary to" dig a channel to the understanding as long as- the Erie Canal; and, generally, two good reasons, clearly presented, and powerfully urged," will produce more convictions than twenty. To in struct, neither a whole system of theology, nor a world of illustration, nor vocabulary of words, are necessary. Such surfeiting the mind re-' jects. To impress it is not necessary trf thun der long and loud the oak is riven by a single stroke of lightning; and to persuade the man who cannot be moved in half an hour, will not be teased into submission in an hour and a half. So that all bevond a sermon is lost, and worse I Hnd with n wnarv bodv. a isded mind, and a heavy heart, not because the preaching was not evangelical, or was inappropriate, but because of its insupportable length. 2. Long sermons drive not a fow from tho house of God. How often is the excuse made, "1 would attend church, but but who'caroeu dure an endless sermon?" Such an apology may indeed srise from an aversion of the heart to truth; but let the cause be removed, and this excuse at least will dro. Two remarks. 1. Wc seo the reason some ministers are so unsuccessful in rbm preaching. Were (hey to condense then thoughts, and urge them home briefly, vividly, and fervently, with tho blessing of God, glori ous results would follow. 2. Let not ministers complain that hearers sleep, nor of inattention, when they take the very way to produce it. Lxtth. Observer.. Anotiier Cure for Burn's. Beat the white of an egg to a froth, mixed with a tea-spoonful! of Sweet Oil apply it several times wiih a feather the pain is relieved at once, and the skin heals immediately. Bangor Whig. ter the chee'ribg had siib8i44tr-sa t'pinAcJ by i usning u?y. rorence to a s,tinunnicnme.. n
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