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From the Both Journal of Education,
MUSIC IN THE FAMILY.
BY REV. WM. C. WHITCOMB.
Music is one of the best promoters of
domestic happiness. As an awakener of
sympathies, and a uniter of hearts a more ,
efficient agency cannot be employed, next
to the religion of the Gospel. It human- I
izes and elevates the depraved demon; dis
cord,
ftom the home circle. It is oft
times as necessary to soothe the ruffled
spirit, as David's harp was to calm the tur
bulent
breast of Saul. It lightens care,
augments joy, and increases conjugal, par
ental,filial and fraternal affection Hence,
in all families where there are individuals
who can sing, or play on instruments,
there should be a good deal of music. I
would that there were more instruments of
metals in the habitations of the people, also
much more vocal music in families. But,
especially, I would there were "singing
and a voice of melody," and praise around
every family altar, where night and morn
the members of pious households take de
light in assembling to pay their vows unto
the Most High.
"Music in the family," as one truthful
ly expresses it, "is a means of domestic
cheerfulness." A musical family will. in
spite of perplexities and trials, be habitu
ally cheerful; not gay, for there are many
points of difference between cheerfulness
and gayety; but cheerful in that sense
which implies good spirits and freedom
from corroding — care. 'You can have the
sunshine of cheerfulness in your house on
the most cheerless day, if you only have
music there; and if affliction has caused
tears to flow, music, cowing to the aid of
divine consolation, and the sympathy of
friends will be a sweet soother of pain,
and a lightener of the weight which oppres
ses the Spirit.
"Music promotes good nature in a fami
ly. And in this world, where there is so
much illhuinor manifested in a thousand
ways, anything which will increase good
nature is to be prized. Who can be angry
in the midst of music, and fret and scold
with sweet sounds falling upon his ears, or
keep up sour and sulky manners when the
very air around him is bland with soft har
monies ?"
Lot parents cultivate the power to sing,
not only the infant's soothing lullaby, but
hymns fraught with truthful, religious sen
timents, for the benefit, present and ever
lasting, of their little ones. The words of
a song may outlive the most eloquent ser
mons in the memory of the young. How
important, therefore, that memories which
commence with life be favored with songs
worthy of lasting till life's close; yea of
influencing the soul while ages on ages
roll their unceasing rounds in the endless
day of heaven! So deeply impressed was
one celebrated man of the importance of
music, that he is said to have exclaimed,
"Let who will make the laws, of the people,
but let me make their songs."
When the glorious truths of inspiration
are breathed forth in expressive melody,
they are clothed with a diviner eloquence
thou that of the preacher, or the orator.
Oh, ye upon whom is imposed the respon
sibility of imparting instruction to child
ren,
"Teach them some melodious measure,
Sung by ruptured tongues above;
Fill their souls with sacred pleasure,
While they sing redeeming love :"
• • • • • • •
Milton, in his immortal poem, Paradise
Lost, presents us with the beautiful idea
of learning lessons of praise from angelic
lips and golden harps attuned above.—
Just before their evening worship one of
them is represented as thus addressing the
other,
"How often, from the steep
Of eehoing bill, or thicket, we have heard
Celestial voices, to the midnight air
Alone, or responsive to each other's noths,
Singing their great Creator! Oft, in bands,
While they keep watch, or nightly roan ding walk,
With glorious touch of instrumental sounds,
In full harmonic numbers joined, their songs
Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven."
An Interesting Story.
'Cast thy bread upon the waters, and
after many days it will return to thee ;'
this is a scripture truth, which, like all
truth, has been verified a thousand times.
The following story may servo to illustrate
the verity of this text Allow um to promise
that my story is a true one in all par-
I ticulurs.
Some thirty years since, a lad of one of
our Eastern States, about ten years of
age, was sent by his employers to carry a
basket, heavily laden with wares, to a
purchaser. 'While staggering under its
weight up a somewhat steep hill, a gentle
man of about 30 years proffered his assist
-1 ante, and beguiled the tediousness of the
way by pleasant anecdotes, good advice,
and kind words. They parted—fifteen years
passed away—the senior of these two now
nearly fifty years of age sat in his study
with melancholy countenance and heavy
heart. Hie door opened, and hie young
HUNTINGDON, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1851.
and facinating daughter, just blooming in
to womanhood, entered to announce that a
gentleman desired to see her father.—
'Show him in my darling, and do you, my
daughter, leave us to ourselves.' She ,
obeyed—the old man entered. 'Well, sir',
was his salutation, 'have you considered
my propositionl' have, and have de
termined,
happen what may I will not
force or sway, by an act of mine, the
will of my child. She shall be left to
her own free choice.' 'Then, sir, to-mor
row, by 3 o'clock; your property must go
linto the hands of the sheriff, unless you
find some friend tb pay the $20,000.'
This he said with a sneer, and coldly bow
ing, left the house. The father's heart
was racked. am a beggar—my daught
er is homeless—l have no friend to offer
assistance in this hour of my severest
trial.'
In the midst of these bitter reflections,
again his daughter entered, introducing a
gentleman of some twenty-eight years of
age—a stranger. 'Am lin the presence
of Mr. G?' was his opening remark ; which
being affirmatively answered, be continued
by saying that he was a successful mer
chant of New York, had heard of the
misfortunes of Mr. G., and came on pur
pose to ask the amount of his liabilities,
that he might loan the necessary funds to
relieve his wants. Nor was he shocked
at the mention of the large amount of
$20,000. He handed him his check,
which was duly honored—the father was
once snore a happy man—his daughter was
not houseless—he had found some friend
to pay, despite the sneer of his hard
hearted creditor. 'But pray sir,' said the
agitated father, 'to whom am I indebted
for this munificent kindness, from an en
tire stranger?' 'Perhaps you have forgot
ten,' was the reply, 'that some eighteen
years since you aided a friendless boy, of
ten years of age, to carry his loaded bas
ket up a hill—that you gave good advice
and kindly words? 1 am that boy. I
followed your advice—l have lived hon
estly—l have gained wealth—and now,
after many years, I have come to return
to you kind sir, the bread which you then
cast so freely upon the waters.'
Speech of Kossuth in New York.
The following are the remarks of Gov.
Kossuth, in reply to the address of Mayor
Kingsland, iveleoming him to the city of
New York:
I am yet half sick, gentlemen; tossed
and twisted about by a fortnight's gale on
the Atlantic's resistless waves; my giddy
brains are still turning round as in a whirl
pool, and this gigantic continent seems yet
to tremble beneath my wavering steps.—
Let me, before I go to work, have some
hours of rest upon this soil - of freedom,
your happy home. Freedom and Home,
what heavenly music in those two words !
Alas, I have no home, and the freedom of
my people is down trodden. Young Giant
of free America, do not tell me that thy
shores are an asylum to the oppressed, and
a home to the homeless exile. An asylum
it is, but all the blessings of your glorious
country, can they drown into oblivion the
longing of the heart, and the fond desires,
for our native land ! My beloved native
land ! thy very sufferings make thee but
dearer to my heart; thy bleeding image
dwells with me when I wake, as it rests
with me in the short moments of restless
sleep. It has accompanied me over the
waves. It will accompany me when I go
back to fight over again the battle of thy
freedom once more. I have no idea but
thee; I have no feeling but thee. Even
here, with this prodigious view of great
ness, freedom, and happiness, which spreads
before my astonished eyes, my thoughts
are wandering towards home; and when I
look over these thousands of thousands be
fore me, the happy inheritance of yonder
freedom, for which your fathers fought and
bled; and when I turn to you, citzeno, to
bow before the majesty of the United
States, and to thank the people of New
York for their generous share in my liber
ation, and for the unparalleled honor of this
reception, I see, out of the very midst of
this great assemblage, rise the bleeding
image of Hungary, looking to you with
anxiety whether there be in the lustre of
your eye a ray of hope for her; whether
there be in the thunder of your hurrahs a
trumpet call of resurrection. If there
were no such ray of hope in your eyes, and
no such trumpet call in your cheers, then
wo to Europe's oppressed nations. They
will stand :done in the hour of need. Less
fortunate than you were, they will meet no
' brother's hand to help them in the ap
proaching giant struggle against the
ir
leagued despots of the world. And wo
also to me. I will feel no joy oven here,'
and the days of my stay hero will turn out
to be lost to my fatherland—lost at the
very time when every moment is teeming ,
in the decision of Europe's destiny. Citi
zens, much as I mu wanting some hours of
rest, much as I have need to become fa
miliar with the ground I will have to gaud
' upon before I enter on business matters
publicly, I took it for a duty of honor, not
to let escape even this first moment of your ' all who are o ppressed, and of all who, as
generous welcome, without stating plainly
,your elder b r other, the people of Britain,
and openly to you what sort of man I am, sympathise w ith the oppressed—my war
and what are the expectations and the rant to this capacity is written in the hopes
hopes--what are the motives which brought and expectations you have entitled the
Me now to your glorious shores. Gentle-'world, to entertain, by liberating me out of
men, I have to thank the people, Con-!any prison, and by restoring me to activity.
greys, and Government of the United !But it has pleased the Almighty to make
States for my liberation from captivity.— lout of my humble self yet another oppor-
Human tongue has no words to express l tunity for a thing which may prove a hap
the bliss which I felt when I—the down- py turning point in the destinies of the
trodden Hungary's wandering chief—saw world. I bring you a brotherly greeting
the glorious flag of the stripes and stars from the people of Great Britain. I speak
fluttering over my head—when I first bow- not in an official character, imparted by
ed before it with deep respect—when I ; diplomacy, whose secresy is the curse of
saw around me the gallant officers and the ! the world, but I am the harbinger of the
crew of the Mississippi frigate—the most ; public spirit of the people, which lies the
of them the worthiest representatives of right to impart a direction to its govera
true American principles,Awerican great- I merit, and which I witness, pronouncing
ness, American generosity—and to think ' itself in the most decided manner openly—
that it was not a mere chance which cast that the people of England, united to you
the star spangled banner around me, but with enlightened brotherly love, as it is
that it was your protecting will—to know united in blood—conscious of your strength
that the United States of America, con- as it is conscious of its own, has forever
scions of their glorious calling as well as abandoned every sentiment of irritation
of their power declared by this unparallcl- rivalry, and desires the brotherly alliance
ed act to be resolved to become the protec- of the United States to secure to every na
tors of human rights—to see a powerful tion the sovereign right of nations against
vessel of America, coming to far Asia, to, the encroaching arrogance of despots, and,
break the chains by which the mightiest , leagued to you against the league of des
despots of Europe fettered the activity of !pots, to stand together with you, god
an exiled Magyar, whose very name distur- Ifather to the approaching baptism of Eu
bed the proud security of their sleep—to ropean liberty. Now gentlemen, I have
feel restored by such a protection, and in stated my position. I am a straightfor
such a way, to freedom, and by freedom to I ward man; I am a Republican; I have
activity, you may be well aware of what I avowed it openly in the monarchical, but
have felt, and still feel, at the remem- free England; and I am happy to state
brittle° of this proud moment of my life. I that I have nothing lost by this avowal
Others spoke—you acted; and I was free ! I there. I hope I will not lose here, in
You acted; and at this act of yours tyrants Republican America, by that frankness,
trembled; humanity shouted out with joy: which must be one of the chief qualities of
the down trodden people of Magyars—the every Republican. So I beg leave, frank
down trodden, but not, broken,
raised his ly and openly, to state the following points:
head with resolution and with hope, and First, that I take it to be the duty of hon
the brilliancy of your stars was greeted by lor and principle not to meddle with what-
Europe's oppressed nations as the morning ever party question of your own domestic
star of rising liberty. Now, gentlemen, affairs. I claim for my country the right
you must be aware how boundless the graft- to dispose of itself; so I am resolved, and
tudemust be which I feel for you. You must be resolved, to respect the same
have restored nu:to life—because, restored principle here and everywhere. May oth
me to activity; and should my life, by the ors delight in the part of knight errant for
blessings of the Almighty, still prove use- theories. It is not my case. lam the
ful to icy fatherland and to humanity, it man of great principle of the sovereignty
will be your merit—it will be your work. of every people to dispose of its own do-
May ycu and your glorious country be mestic concerns, and I most solemnly deny
blessed for it. Europe is on the very eve to every foreigner, as to every foreign pow
of such immense events, that however fer- er, the right to oppose to sovereing facul
vent my gratitude be to you. I would ty.
not have felt authorized to cross the At- Secondly. I profess, highly and openly,
.
lantic at this very time, only for the pur
pose to exhibit to you my warm thanks.—
I would have thanked you by facts con
tributing to the freedom of the European
continent, and would have postponed my
visit to your glorious shores till the deci
sive battle of freedom was fought—if it
were my destiny to outlive that day.—
Then what is the motive of my being here
at this very time ? The motive, citizens,
is that your generous act of my liberation
has raised the conviction throughout the
world that this generous act of yours is but
the manifestation of your resolution to
throw your weight into the balance where
the fate of the .. .European continent is to be
weighed. You have raised the conviction
throughout the world, that by my libera
tion you were willing to say, "Ye oppress
ed nations of old Europe's continent, be of
good cheer, the young giant of America
stretches his powerful arm over the wave,
ready to give a brother's hand to your fu
ture." So is your act iuterpeted through
out the world. You in your proud securi
ty, can scarcely imagine how beneficial
this conviction has already proved to the
suffering nations of the European conti
nent. You can scarcely imagine what self
confidence you have added to the resolu
tion of the oppressed. You have knit the
tie of solidarity in the destinies of nations.
I can't doubt that you know, how I was
received by the public opinion in every
country which I touched since I am free,
and what feelings my liberation has elicit
ed in these countries which it was not my
lot to touch.
You know how I, a plain poor penniless ex
ile, have almost, become a centre of hope
and confidence to the west dude, eat nations;
and united by the tie of common suaeriug.
What is the source of this apparition un
paralleled in mankind's history Tho
source of it is, that your generous act
of my liberation is taken by the world for
the revelation of the fact that the United
States are resolved not to allow the des
pots of the world to trample ou oppressed
humanity. It is hence that my liberation
was cheered, from Sweden down to Portu
gal, as a ray of hope. It is hence that
oven those nations which most desire my
presence in Europe now, have unanimous
ly told we, “Hasten on, hasten on to the
great, free, rich and powerful people of the
United States, bring over its brotherly
aid to the cause of your country so
mutely oonneeted wiih Europeau - liberty;"
and hero I ataud to plead the cause of the
solidarity of human rights before the great
Itepublie of the United States. Humble
as I am, God, the Almighty, has selected
me to represent the cause of humanity be
fore you. My warrant to this capacity is
written in the sympathy and confidence of
co' oourntie
my admirtion for the'glorio - ns principle of
union, on which stands the mighty pyramid
of your greatness, and upon the basis of
which you have grown, in the abort period
of seventy-five years, to a prodigious giant,
the living wonder of the world. I have
the most warm wish that the star-spangled
banner of the United States may forever
be floating, united and one, the proud en
sign of mankind's divine origin; and taking
my ground on this principle of union,
which I find lawfully existing, an estab
lished Constitutional fact, it is not to a
party, but to the united people of the
United States that I confidently will ad
dress my humble requests for aid and pro
tection to oppressed humanity. I will
conscientiously respect your laws, but '
within the limits of your laws I will use
every honest exertion to gain your opera
tive sympathy and your financial, material,
and political aid for my country's freedom
and independence, and entreat the
realization of these hopes which
your generosity has raised in me and my
people's breasts, and also in the breasts of
Europe's oppressed nations. And, there
fore, thirdly, I bog leave frankly to state
that my aim is to restore my fatherland to
the full enjoyment of that act of Declara
tion of Independence, which being the on
ly rightful existing public law of my na
tion, can nothing have been lost of its
rightfulness by the violent invasion of
foreign Russian arms, and which, there
fore, is fully entitled to be recognized by
the people of the United States, whose
very resistenoe is, founded upon a similar
declaration of independence. Thus hav
in my aim, I beg leave to state
tat 1 mune not to your glorious shores to
enjoy a happy rest. I came not with the
the intention to gather triumphs of person
al distinction, or tobe the oliject of popu
lar shows; but I came ahumblo petitioner
in my country's name, us its freely chosen
constitutional chief. What can be oppo
sed to this recognition, which is a inject
necessary consequence of the principle of
your country's political existence? What
can be opposed to it? The frown of Mr
Hulsemanu—the anger of that satellite
of the Czar, called Francis Joseph of Aus
tria; and the immense danger with which
some European and American papers
threaten you, and by which, of course you
must feel extremely terrified, that your
Minister at Viena will have offered his pais
ports, and that Mr. Hulseuian kaves
Washington, should I be received and
treated in my official capacity? Now, as
,to your Minister at Vienna, how you can
combine the letting him stay there with
your opinion of the cause of Hungary, I
really don't know; but so much I do know,
that the present sivolutistical atmosphere
NUMBER 48.
of Europe is not very propitious to Ameri
oan principles. I know a man who could
tell ensue curious facts about this matter.
But as to Mr. Hulsemann, really, I don't
believe that ho would . be so ready to leave •
Washington. He has extremely well di
gested the caustic pills• which Mr. Web
ster has administered to him so gloriously;
but after all I know ezteugh of the public
spirit of the sovereign people of the United.
States, that it will never admit to what
ever responsible depository of the execu
tive power, should he even be willing to
do so, which, to be sure, your high-mind
ed government is not willing to do, to be
regulated in its policy by all the Hitlsemanns
or all the Francis Josephs in the world.--
So I confidently hope that the sovereign of
this country, the people, will make the
declaration of independence of Hungary
soon formally recognized, and that it will
care not a bit for it if Hulsemann takes to
morrow his passports—ion voyage to him.
But it is also my agreeable duty to pro
fess that I am entirely convinced that the
government of the United States shares
warmly the sentiments of the people in
that respect. It has proved it by execu
ting in a ready and dignified manner the
resolution of Congress on behalf of my lib
eration. It has proved it by calling on
the Congress to consider how I shall be
treated and received, and even this morn
ing I was honored, by the express order of
the government, by on official salute from
the batteries of the United States, in such
a manner in which, according to military
rules, only a public, high official capacity
can be greeted. Having thus expounded
my aim, I beg leave to state that I came
not to your glorious shores to enjoy a hap
py rest—l mane not with the in tention to
gather triumphs of personal distinction,
but because a humble petitioner, in my
country's name, as its freely chosen con
stitutional chief, humbly to entreat your
generous aid; every moment of my time
with the snore assiduity, the more restless
ness, as every moment may bring a report
of events which may call me to hasten to
my place on the battle field, where the
great, and I hope the last, battle will be
fought between Liberty and Despotism.—
A moment marked by the finger of God to
be so near, that every hour of delay of
your generous aid may prove fatally dis
astrous to oppressed humanity, and thus,
having stated my position to be that of a
humble petioner in the name of my op
pressed einintry, let me respectfully ask,.
do you not regret to have bestowed upon
me the high honor of this glorious recep
tion, unparalleled in • history? I say un
paralleled in history, though I know that
your fathers have welcomed Lafayette in
a similar way; but Lafayette had mighty
claims to your country's gratitude; he had
fought in your ranks for your freedom and
independence, and what still was more, in
the hour of your need. He was thee link
of your friendly conexion with France—a
connexion, the results of which wore two
French fleets of more than thirty light
men-ef-war, three thousand gallant men,
who fought side by side with you against
Cornwallis, before Yorktown; the precious
gift of twenty-four thousand muskets, a
loan of nineteen million of dollars, and
even the preiruinary treaties of you) glo
rious peace negotiated at Paris by your
immortal Franklin. 1 hope the people of
the United States, now itself in the happy
condition to aid those who are in need of
aid, as itself was once in need, will kindly
remember these facts: and you, citizens of
New York, and you will yourselves become
the Lafayette of Hungary. Lafayette
had great claims to your love and sympa
thy, but I have none. I came a humble
petitioner, with no other claims than these
which the oppressed have to the sympathy
of freemen, who have the power to help ;
with the claim which the unfortunate has
to the happy; and the downtrodden has to
the protection of eternal justice, and of hu
man rights. In a word, I have no other
than those which the opposed principle of
freedom has to the aid of victorious liber
ty. Then I would humbly ask, are these
claims sufficient to insure your generou.
protection, not to myself, but to the cam.
of my native land—not to my native land,
but to tlio principle of freedom in Europe's
continent, of which the independence of
Hungary is the indisputable key-stone?—
If you consider these claims not sufficient
to your active and operative sympathy
then let me know, at once that the high
hope's have failed with which Europe'e
oppressed nations have looked to your
great, mighty, and glorious republic
—let me know at once the failure of our
hopes, that I may hasten back and tell
Europe's oppressed nations, "Let us light
forsaken and single-handed, the battle of
Leonidas; let us trust to God, to our right,
and to our sword; there is no other help
for the oppressed nations on earth."—
But if your generous republican hearts
are animated by the high principle of
freedom and solidarity in 'he destinies of
humanity—if you have the will, as to be
sure, you have the power, to support the
cause of freedom against the eacriligious
league of despotism, the, give MS NSW