*-fov ---s#;:-.'7SttiOtblEtOtt.• FY ROBERT 77Z1TE SZIEIDLETOII.I UM, I 3 aLIDa.Ia.3IU.)o "With sweetest flowers enrich'd, From varioug ,gardens coll'd with caro." FOR THE GETTYSSURGH STAR AND DANNER aztypata Suggested by a Sketch In the Star of Xov. 7 "FATHER DRINK'D AND MOTHER natmen!" The little trembler said ; And faster How'd the bitter tears That friendless orphans shed. Alas! poor little wanderer Along the world's bleak way, How many drink the bitter cup That vice bas fill'd for thee. How many a wretched little one Might tell thy critertale, As friendless, hungry., bare, and cold, They pour the unheeded wail! Come ye who boast philanthropy, Ye have no need to roam In search of wretchedness abroad— Co to the DRUNKARD'S HOME: There sits a broken-hearted one, In poor and scant attire, Toiling away the heavy hours, Beside her wasted fire. She seeks to finish all her task While yet her infant sleeps; She sings, and rooks him when he stirs, And then in silence weeps! In this dark, still, and woe-fraught hour, Her busy memory strays, Through the long vista of distress, Rack to her sunny days. Oh! who can read the bitter thoughts That crowd her burning brain, And swell her agonizing heart With suffocating pain, As the bright hopes of early days (All crush'd and broken now!) Present again the wreaths of bliss They gathered for her brew— When HE her first and only love Was one in whom the pride, And love, of woman's trembling heart Could fearlessly confide— And once how tenderly he strove To soothe her cares and pains, While cheerful health and industry Increas'd their honest gains. And then his children were his pride, And she his highest joy ; And heaven was iu her heart, and how Could aught that heaven destroy? Yes! all is changed! bleak poverty Has made that home her own ; And anguish gnaws that ruin'd heart Now desolate and lone. Her infant wakes—its little form Is to her bosom prest; It seeks in vain, with fitful moan, The cordial of the breast; Her tears fall fast upoalts face, Her bosom's fount is dry ; Hunger! ah, hunger! pinches her With haggard misery! And now she hears her husband's foot, With broken, faltering tread - His presence, once her dearest joy, Is now her deepest dread. He comes with curses on his tongue, And heart and brain on fire; While want end shame, remorse and guilt, Raise the fierce phrenzy higher. The ,malicious fiend of hell, Might blush with shame to nee flow this poor drunken, beastly man • Outdoes his cruelty. - Look at his bloated, loathsome face! His nerveless, staggering frame; And hear him vent with horrid oaths, Ills guilt and pain and shame! And.has INTEMPEIIANCE thus dcstroy'd The good and beautiful? Made the fair form a loathsome thing, And wrcck'd the manly soul? Parents, awake! To you I cry! This fiend may yet destroy The wealth, the fame, the life, and soul Of your own darling boy! And that dear little cherub girl, So innocent and gay, 'Tis not Impossible but she May be the demon's prey. Can ye endure that she should waste A loath'd and brutish life? Or weep and suffer, toil and die, A beastly drunkard's wife? While, to increase her deep despair, Around her sadly clings, A train of hungry, ragged, scorn'd, Degraded, little things? Is there a sorrow like to hers? A ruin great en his? Should not the world combine to crush An evil like to this? Christians, arise! unite! and strive! Willa heart, and hand, and voice— 'Till o'er Intemperance rooted out The eufranchis'd world rejoice! Liberty, Pa., December 22, 1836. UMIal 123TDMI-U(Dla.7-0 FROM THE BOSTON PEARL. THE BRIDAL EVIL, A 'Pale of Boston in the Olden Time -------But who art thou, With the shadowy locks o'er thy pale young brow And the world of dreamy gloom that lice lo the misty depth of thy soft, dark eyes? Thou host loved, fair girl—thou host loved too well Thou art mourning now o'er a broken spell. Thou hunt poured thy heart's rich trem.ures forth, And art unrepaid for,thy priceless worth.—BESIANS Iv a retired avenue in the rear of Washington street, and near the ever-to-be-remembered "Old South," stands a venerable pile, surmounted by the uncouth figure of a grim son of the forest, yet known as the Province House. This building was once the gay head quarters of the command er in chief of England's colonial troops. Yes, that antique relic of a departed age, where now the busy and important "cit" resorts to enjoy his "Ha vana," and recruit his temporal man with life's luxuries, was in — olden time the proud court of a Icing's military ambassador. Some six months after the incidents preceding, were seated round a table in this mansion, a few guy young officers of the English army. Mirth and hilarity seemed to reign triumphant: Among the number not the least conspicuous, sat Lord Arthur and if '"the human face divine" be an index of the heart, he would liave_beenpro notinced the happiest one of the group. “Mv Lord of 13 ------," said young Col. G. conceited and good humored officer; "what a lucky dog ore you!—and then the mortification and envy you have caused a score of others by your good fortune. Pon honor! I was just on the point of attempting an assault on her myself. A lovely wife, and what was better, a plum by the way of settlement on your marriage—a fine prospect for a king's officer in the cursed Yankee land. I wish to heaven there was another wealthy and beauti ful loyal nymph hereabouts. I would make her happy, as I live, for we have nothing else to lay siege to at present." A roar of merriment followed the Colonel's confident speech. .. My gallant colonel," said a more grave major, rI fear you will never succeed in your feminine sieges. You always get the lucre foremost in the articles of war. Believe me, you will never gain the damsel's heart by courting her daddy's breeches pocket." "Don't be too hard, my good major, my mind wanders to that which is most needed. These Yankee-sharpers can drain British purses, even though they excel in nothing else. But let us drop this, and drink to the health of the fair Miss H-, and our good Lord Arthurs, not forgetting the ap proaching festivity, which, thank Heaven, will be one bright spot in our dark career. We leave this merry company, and return ts, the quarters of Lord 13. Seated on n couch in his apartment is the youthful messenger, Eugenc.— But how changed since the eventful night of his arrival. A few months of deep, cm roiling anguish had wrought a fearful contrast in his fair form.— The jetty and short curling hair is thrown aside, and from the fair brow flow luxuriant locks of beautifully tinged auburn: The flashing, tearful eyes, the flushed cheeks, the firmly closed lips and heaving bosom, reveal to the render the ardent, de voted Lady Julia. Near et hand, stands, regard ing her with respectful look, the valet Ralph. Af ter a long and agonizing indulgence in her woe, the holy raised her head and spoke. 'For this painful confirmation of my suspicions I thank thee, my kind Ralph. Now that his fidsehood is truly unmasked—now that I feel he has tilled my cup of bitterness to the brim—l will witness with my own eyes these blasting events to my young hopes. 0, Ralph, what have I not sacrificed for this man! this base hearted monster! Have I not suffered exile from my native land, and passed even the bounds of my sox to behold his smile—to breathe the same air that is charmed by ins presence?— Have I not sacrificed home, friends, comfort— perhaps my own proud name,for this false wretch?" 'True, madam. But cannot your feigned report of loss of fortune—and your great distance—the long period since his leaving. England, be some a tonement for my masterlAinifilth?' , No,' Ralph, this will nOtatone for wrongs like mine. It was but a fOnlish; romantic whim of mine to witness its effect ori . him—for this I bore to him my own letters—and Oh the love and devotion he showered on my thursty spirit nn that night of our meeting. Little knew be who listen ed and feasted on his every word. Had the fond delusion of that night existed unbroken for one short week, how gladly would I have thrown off all disguise and surrendered myself, my fortune and my whole soul to him. But to be thus cast off, slighted and forgotten! Shall the last of my proud and ancient line be thrown aside by him who once thought, lived and breathed but in my presence, and all this for my acquaintance of an hour? No, Ralph! I have fed upon his bounty like a dog, and of late, his very brute has had more smiles and kind looks than the neglected mid despised Eugene. But I have passed the hound of maiden honor—from shame, and an insulted spirit, there is no retreat. There yet remains re vengene—revenge! such- as woman's heart can only dream. My kind Ralph, you 'Mlle been faithful to me; be silent yet and leave.' Another flood of scalding tears burst from her wild and flashing eyes, and she bent her aching head upon the couch in silent agony. Bright and joyous was the festal scene on the .night destined for the marriage of Lord Authur B. and the lovely Miss H. Her father's mansion was filled with fair ladies, and gay officers of the king. And the bright lamp shone o'er bright women and brave men. Sweet music filled the hall, and proud figures chid in scarlet and gold, blended with those of virgin whiteness, flitted through the mazy figures of the giddy dance. All present appeared joyful and light hearted sive one. In the deep recess of a window stood a pale boy. An unnatural brightness beamed from his dark eyes, yet he seemed not to note the gaiety before him. The gushing melody that floated through the brilliant apartment, and the ringing laugh of youth, fell not in gladness on his ears. There was no room for these bright joys within the bursting heart of that lone boy, The hour for the ceremony drew near; but where are the happy beings for whom this festive circle is gathered? In a secluded arbor of the garden sat a youthful couple, conversing in a low and confidential tone; and how many blissful dreams of future, and what high and happy hopes urged their delusive visions on the minds of that young pair. They are waited for at the altar.— The aged father of the young bride approached the pale Eugene—an:ll thy master that the hour is at hand." The boy started like ono awakened from a dream—he looked around with a wild a mazement—then answered in a voice of hoarse, unearthly tone, The agony expressed in those brief words rang strongly on the happy group around. The boy had vanished. Suddenly a shriek rang through the mansion that blanched the blood from many a lovely cheek. All rushed to the arbor. Tho young noblemen lay stretched upon the earth, the life blood gushing from his heart, tinging with yet deeper shade his crimson attire. Sinking by his side was the slight figure of the youth, his open garment revealing the white bosom of a female, with the undrawn dagger yet flashed within its faintly throbbing heart. With the last exertion of fleeting life, she exclaimed “This is my revenge! this the fearful" price for a blighted name, of woman's wrongs." Tho bodies of these victims of broken truth were borne to their far distant native land. The fair Emma H. has long since been laid in the family vault of ancient - I , Copp's." All has since changed save the certainty that mankind ar i grone to tidsehood, and that vows like bubbles lade as easily broken, us made. "I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF NY LIVING ACTIONS, TO REEF NINE HONOR FROM CORRUPTION."---SHARS. TitaUlWlta.V 4.71 5e.72 ZPQIO, co 9 dat UMElcti Et azth-pwarauf Having left an introductory letter at the Roman Catholic convent for the superior, who was asleep, I visited-an institution . of a similar description for cats, except that celibacy and sexual separation form no part of their statutes. It was near to the former, and the fights and flirtations of this feline community were a scandal in the eyes of tho good Franciscans, who were said to consider the cats most lax in their.discipline. They had amounted to five hundred,bnt the plague in the previous year had redticed their number to two hundred. This 'order .was endowed by some pious Mussulman,and an old mosque with its court had been given up to their use. So liberal are the provisions of the endowment, that cats, whether of Mahommedan or Christian education, are equally entitled to ad mission: neither are the benefits confined to worn out or'broken down cats; but any one who has a favorite cat, or a cat Huh steals cream, or any dying person wishing to provide for a cat, sends itto this hotel, where it is taken care of for life. Many of them were basking upon their grassy divan in the court 'when I visited them, others had gone out to promenade upon the house tops; and having de posited a small sum as ..backshechs," I took my Life and Death. BY 30112.1 QUINCY ADAMS. When the imperial despot of Persia stir veyd the myriads of his vassals, whom he had assembled for the invasion and conquest of Greece, we are told by the father of pro. lane history (Herodotus) that the monarch's heart,at first distended with pride,but imme. diately afterwards unk within hitn,and tu•- ned to tears of anguish at the thought that, within one hundred years from that day, not one of all the countless numbers of his host would remain in the land of the living. The brevity of human life had afforded a melancholy contemplation to wiser and better men than Xerxes, in ages long before that of his own existence. It is still the sub ject of philosophical reflection, or of Chris• tam resination,to the living man of the pre the race of man shall exist upon earth. sent age. It will continue such, so long as But it is the condition of our nature to look before and after. The Persian tyrant looked forward,& lamented the shortness of life; but in that century which bounded his mental vision, be. knew not what was to come to pass, for weal or woe, to the race whose transitory nature ho deplored, and his own purposes, happily baffled by the ele monis which he with absurd presumption would have chastised, were of the-most o• dious and detestable character. Reflections upon the shortness of time allotted to individual man upon this pninet may be turned to more useful account, by connecting them with• ages past, than with those that are to come. The family an= is placed upon this congregated ball to earn an improved condition hereafter by improv ing his own condition here—and this duty of improvement is not less a social than a selfish principle. We are bound to exert all the faculties bestowed upon us by our Maker, to improve our own condition, by improving that of our fellow men; and the precepts that we should love our neighbor as ourselves, and that we should do to others, as we would that they should do unto us, are but examples of that duty of co-opera tion to the improvemet.t of his kind, which is the first law of God to man, unfolded alike in the volumes of nature and of Inspiration. W.:A32U`go ACOINTICH.—Many opinions of the probability of conveying intelligible sounds to great distances h ive been nt different times entertained. Mr. Dick, of Glasgow, in his Christian Philosopher, thinks it highly probable that, by means of acoustic tunnels, a clergyman, sitting in his own room in Edinburgh, might address a congregation in Mus aelburgh, or Dalkeith, or even in Glasgow; and Mr. Curtis, to whom the public are indebted for the invention of many valuable and ingenious acoustic instruments, while speaking, in his new work on the Physiology and Diseases of the Ear, of his acoustic chair, a model of which is in the Adelaide street gallery, states that intelligence might be conveyed by it from St. James's to the Houses Lords and Commons, and from London to the castle at Windsor. On the same principle, a song sung at the Italian Opera-house might be heard at all the other theatres in London. In these days of universal improvement, might not these suggestions be turned to good account.? ECEOTE.-I went into a school of little chil dren in B . While talking to the teacher, a wicked little boy, six years old, doubled up his fist and struck his little sister, sitting by him, four years old, on her head. She, in the true spirit of war doubled up her fist to strike backs Just as she was about to give the blow, the teacher caught her eye, and said to her—"My dear you had better kiss him." In a moment, tho little girls feelings arc chang ed. She threw her little arms around her brother's neck, and began to kiss him. He began to cry, and the tears rolled down his cheeks. The little sister wiped them off and tried to comfort him, and the more she kissed him, wiped his tears, and tried to comfort him, the harder ho cried. A kiss for a blow! This is overcoming evil with 'good. The boy was cautious how he struck his sister again.—Briff. Spectator. A late Edinburgh (Scotland) paper states that a favorable and soothing effect has been produced on insane persons by preaching. And why should it not be so? A troubled mind is usually the immedi ate or remote cause of insanity. The doctrines of the gospel, in their purity and simplicity, must have a salutary influence. "Come unto me, all yo who arc heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." How different Me tinicaore now.—A young English lady visiting in the family of General Put num in 1776, thus wrote—“My am•iaemerits are few—the good Mrs. Putnam employs me and her daughters constantly to spin flax for shirts for the American soldiers, indolence in America being totally discouraged." From Nonce's Ramble in Syria. rialt to a Cat Convent at aleppo. leave, highly gratified at having witnessed so wise, pious, and useful an appropriation of property.— The superstitions esteem lavished upon cats by Mahomrnedans is derived from the partiality of the prophet for one of these creatures. They re late that it chanced, upon a day when ho Was sleepirz. his cat kittenedin the Sleeve of his abbas; and, in' order that his falMrite might not be distur bed, he cut off the sheave, and left her in positession of the bed she had chosen. Whether or not it be the Mussulman's creed that the whole species 'cat' hag imbibed some portion of the prophet's powers, from the above individual having received a frag ment of his garment, is not told, hut no stretch of credulity is beyond the reach of a Turk. The prejudice against dogs, as unclean animals, is not less extravagant among these people than their silly fondness for cats. If a dog touch a Mahon - moduli after he hail washed, he must wash again before he prays. In Egypt there is a sect called 4 , §hatti," who, if the shadow of a dog- falls upon them, are obliged to wash; and if a dog touch their garment they cut out the piece. ...mop 0 G...... "Madam," said the celebrated Jeremy Taylor to a lady of his acquainttance, who had been very neglectful of her son's educa tion —"Madam, it' you do not choose to fill your boy's head with something believe me, Satan will." The principle of the remark is universal application. The best antidote against the evils of irreligion and infidelity ; is sound religious instructions. Fill the yoithful mind with truth , and it is fortified against the assaults of. error. Impress it with the fear of God, and it.will reject with horror the' sophistries of impiety. Imbue it with sound principles, teach it to cherish holy feelings, and will turn from the pollu tion of sin. -..000.- Quite Unluelry.—Mr. Chang, one of the Siamese twins has fallen in love with a young girl at Wil mington, Delaware, who has reciprocated his pas sion so far, that she says she Ls willing to marry him; but objects to taking Eng, the other twin, into the concern. The fate of poor Chang is hard as a divorce from Enehis brother,is not to be ob tained on any terms. Affecting Ine;dent.—A Dr. Shane, of Vicks burgh, Miss. died a few weeks ago. His wife watched his dying bed till all was over—then laid down and died of a broken heart, thirty-six hours after. Oh, woman! thou only knowest the "love which is stronger than death, and which many waters cannot quench." Rum may he very harmless in a hogs.heati, but it should by all means be kept out of other people's ---wo:o:a.--- The celebrated orator Henley advertised, that, in a single lecturo,he would teach any artisan, of ordinary skill, how to make six pair of good shoes in ane day;—nay, six and-twenty pair, provided there was a suf ficiency of materials. The sons of Crispin flocked in crowds, willingly paying a shil ling at the door, to be initiated in such a lucrative art, when they beheld the orator seated at the table, on which were placed six pair of new boots. "Gentlemen!" he exclaimed, "nothing is so simple and easy, as the art which I have undertaken to teach you. Here are a new pair of boots—here a large pair of scissors; behold! 1 cut of the logs of the boots, and you have a new pair of shoes, without the smallest trouble; and thus may they be multiplied ad infini tely:, supposing always that you have a suf ficiency of materials." Slaves in the Dimond Mines.—The con dition of those slaves whose labours furnish the costly gems which sparkle on the bosom or amid the tresses of beauty, forms a strik ing contrast with that of the classes whom they enrich or adorn with their toil. A wretched species of food, scantily doled out, enables them to sustain for a few years the weight of their misery. Being forced to remain a whole sear with their feet all day in the water, living on food little strengthen ing or nutritious, and generally or badly cooked, they are subject to enfeebling disorders, arising from the debilitated state oldie alimentary canal. Frequently, more. over, - they incur the risk of being crushed by the 'lrani/ rock or avalanches of earth which suddenly detach themselves from the precipices. Neverthelese,such is the wretch edness of their condition in the domestic or particular service of their owners, such the national appetite of man for gain, such the force of the most remote expectations of liberty, that these unfortunate beings,. hard as is their labor, and badly as they are fed, exhibit a decided preference for choir species of emplyrnent. SURGICAL OPERATION.—The Wheeling Times notices a remarkable operation of Surgical skill performed in that city by Dr. Hullihen. The subject had a double hair lip, and a bone which grew from the back of the palate, and projected beyond the nose, terminating in a fleshy covering and two teeth. \ This projection was removed by the Surgeon, the cheek raised and brought for. ward,where being confined,the parts healed, forming an upperlip, and giving to the face a regular and natural appearance. A letter bearing the following inscription passed through the Mauch Chunk Post Of fice last week: "Mr. Name Forgot, Powder Maker, Near Lehighton P. 0. Lehigh Co. The Postmaster will please to forward this according to his judgment." The 'above reminds us of a letter that once went from this place, addressed as fol lows: "For Mister , Jimmy M*** liven in town ofNu' York, in a stait of the same name. If little Jimmy hint there, please Mis ter Post Master send this letter to Connecti cut when, Henry T"P's father lives." Li) DalaiY-ZTOffc,------ From the Philadelphia luquirer Br. Channing's .Letter on ABOLITION. In the Boston Centinel of the 31st a let ter is published from the pen of Dn. CitAxarso, addressed to Mr. JAMES G. Brnr xr, of Cincinnati, on the, exciting subject of Slavery Abolition. . As a reason for addressing Mr. Birney,the learn- ed Doctor says: "I feel myself attracted to the friends o humanity and freedom, however distant; and when such are exposed by their princi ples to peril and loss, bind stand firm in the evil day, I take pleasure in expressing to them my sympathy and admiration." • "I think it best, however, not, to confine myself to the outrage at Cincinnati, but to extend my remarks to the spirit of violence and persecution, which has broken out a gainst the abolitionistS,throughout the whole country. This, I know, will be more ac ceptable to you, than any expression of sym pathy with you as an individual. You look beyond yourself,, to the cause which you have adopted, and to the much injured body of men with whom you Are associated." "Had the abolitionists, (continues the Doctor) been Tell to pursue their object with the freedom which is guaranteed to them by our civil institutions; had they been re sisted only by those weapons of reason, re buke, reprobation, which the laws allow, I should have no inducement to speak of them again, either it; praise or censure. But the violence of their adversaries has driven them to a new position. Abolitionism forma an era in our history,ifwe consider the means by which it has been opposed. Deliberate, systematic efforts have been made, not once or twice, but again and again,to wrest from its adherents that liberty ofspeech and the press, which our fathers asserted unto blood, and which our national and state governments are pledged to protect as our most sacred Tight. Its most conspicuous advocates have been hunted and stoned, its meetings scat tered, its presses broken up,and nothing but the patience, constancy, and intrepidity of its members have saved it from extinction. The abolitionists then not only appear in the character of champions of the coloured race. In their persons the most sacred rights of the white man and the freeman have been assailed. They aro sufferers for the liber ty of thought, speech and the press, and in maintaining this liberty amidst insult and violence, they deserve a place among its' most honored defenders. In this chatacter I shall now speak of them." "In the name of freedom and humanity, I thank them. Through their courage, the violence,which might have furnished a pre cedent fatal to freedom,is to become,l trust a warning to the lawless, of the folly as well as crime of attempting to crush opinion by Force." "The multitudeof once allowed to dictate or proscribe subjects of discussion, would strike society with spiritual blindness and death. The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate, and would rejoice to crush. The right of free discussion is, therefore, to be guarded by the friends of mankind, with peculiar jealousy. It is at once the most sacred,and the most endangered of all our rights. He who would rob his neighbor of it, should have a mark set on him as the worst enemy of freedom." The learned writer contends that our history does not contain a page more disgraceful to us as freemen, than that which records the violence a gainst the abolitionists. After stating that a body of men and women more blameless than the abo litionists in their various relations, or more dispos ed to adopt a rigid construction of the Christian precepts, cannot be found among us, ho adds: "Of their judiciousness and wisdom, I do not speak; but I believe, they yield to no patty in moral worth. Their great crime and one which in this land ofliberty is to be punished above all crimes, is thiu,that they carry the doctrine of human equality to its full extent, that they plead vehemently for the oppressed, that they assail wrong-doing, however sanctioned by opinion,or entrench ed behind wealth and power, that their zeal for human righti, is without measure, that they associate themselves fervently with the Christians and philanthropists of other coun tries against the worst relics of barbarian "What a spectacle is presented to the world by a republic, in which sentence of proscription is passed on citizens,who labor, by addressing men's consciences to enforce the truth, that slavery is the greatest of wrongs! Through the civilized world, the best and greatest men are bearing joint wit• ness against slavery. Christians of all de nominations and conditions, rich and pour, learned and ignorant, are bound in a holy league against this most degrading form of oppression. But in free America, the lan guage which despots tolerate, must not be heard." '•lt is said, that abolitionism tends to stir up insurrection at the South, and to dissolve the Union.' Ofall pretencesfor resorting to lawless force, the most dangerous is, the tendency of measures or opinions. Almost all men see ruinous tendencies in whatever opposes their particular interests or views. All the political parties which have convul sed our country, have seen tendencies to national destruction in the principles of their opponents." "When justice and humanity cry . aloud for the removal of an enormous social evil, it is unworthy of men, and Christians,to let the imagination run riot among poseible den- gers, instead of rousing every energy of mind to study' how the evil may be taken away,and the perils which accompany bene ficial changes may be escaped." [VOL. 7--NO. 42. "As to the charge brought against the et. bolitionists of stirring, up insurrection at the south, I have never met the shadow et * proof that this nefarous project was medita ted by a single member of their body The accusation is 'repelled ,bY their characters and principles as well • as by facts ; nor can T easily conceive of a sane rnatigiving it be lief. As to the "tendency" of their "meas ures to this result, it 'sena only as , we have seen to belong to all human affaire,and such as may easily be guarded against. The • truth is, that any exposition of Slavery, no matter from whom it may come,may chamie to favor revolt. It may chance to fall into the hands of a fanatic, who may thi,;i self summoned by Heaven to remove violent= ly this great wrong; or it may happen to reach the hut of some intelligent daring slave, who may think himeelf sailed to be the avenger of his race. All , things are possible. A casual, innocent remark 'in conversation, may put wild project/11Mo the unbalanced,or disordered mind of some hea rer. Must we then livo in perpetual silence? Do such chances make it out. duty to shut our lips' on the subject of an enormous wrong, and never to send from the press a reprobation of the evil? The truth is, that the great danger to the slave-holder comes ,from slavery itself,frorn the silent innoyatjone :of time, from political , conflicts and cmivul sions,and not ['tom the writings ofstrangers." "As to the othercharge,thrit the measures of the abolitionists endanger our national union,and must-therefore be put down byany and every means, it is weaker than the for mer. Against whom has not this charge been hurled? What party among us has not been loaded with this reproachl Do we not at the North, almost unanimously believe, that the spirit and measures of Nullification have a direct and immediate tendency to dissolve • the Union? Bat are we therefore authorized to silence the nullifier by violence? Should a leader of that party travel among us,is he to be mobbed? Let me further ask, how is it, that the abolitionists endanger the Union? Tho only reply,which I have beard, is, that they exasperate the South. And is it a crime to exasperate men? Who then so criminal as the founder and pnmitive teachers of our faith!" The learned Doctor observes that the abolition ists seem particularly open to one reproach, though not in all instances. "There writings have been- blemished by a spirit of intolerance, sweeping censure, and rush injurious judgment. I should re joice to see it purified from this stain." "The abolitionist has not spoken andcan not speak against slavery too strongly. No language can exceed the enormity of the wrong. But the whole class of the slave holders often meet a treatment in anti-slave ry publications which is felt to be unjust, and is certainly unwise." "Provided slaveholders can be supported in ease and indulgence, can be pampered and enriched, they care not for the means. They care not what wrongs or stripes are inflicted, what sweat is extorted, what pow ers of the immortal soul are crushed. For such men, no rebuke can be too severe. if any vehemence of language can pierce their consciences, let it be used. The man who holds slaves for gain, is the worst of robbers, for he selfishly robs his fellow creatures not only of' their property, but of themselves.— He is the worst of tyrants; for whilst Oise - lute governments spoil men of civil; he,strips them of personal rights. But I do not, cannot believe that the majority of slaiehol ders are of the character now described.= I believe that the majority, could they be persuaded of the consistency ofemancipation with the well-being of the coloured race and with social order, would relinquish their hold on time slave, and sacifice their imagined property in him. to the claims or justice and humanity. They shrink from emancipation, because it seems to them a precipice. Having seen the coloured teen continually dependent on foreign guidance and control, they think him incapable of providing for himself. Having seen the la liouring class kept down by force, they feel as if the removal of his restraint would be a signal to universal lawlessness and crime. That such opinions absolve from all blame those who perpetuate slavery, I do not say. That they are often strengthened,• by the self-interest of the master, I cannot doubt; for we see men every where graspiug and defending doctrines which confirm their property and power." , , "In estimating men's characters,we must never forget the disadvantages under which they labour. Slavery, upheld as it *sat the South, by tho deepest prejudices of educe tion, by the sanction of laws, by the proscrip• non of ages, and by real difficulties attend ing emancipation, cannot be easily viewed in that region as it appears to more distant and impartial observers." "The abolitionists in their zeal, seem to have overlooked these truths in a great de• gree, by their intolerance towards the slave, holder, have produced towards him gym• pathy rather than indignation, and weak. ened the effect of their just invectives against the system which he upholds." "I think too that they are chargeable with a like intolerance towards those in tho free States, who oppose them, or who refuse to participate in their operations. They have been apt to set down oppositions to themselves as. equivalent to attachment ,to slavery. Reatuding their own dogmas as the only tru;faith, and making their own zeal the standard of fi true interestin the oppressed, they have been apt to cast scorn. ful looks and reproaches on those who have spoken in doubt or displeasure of the move. meats. This has made them maay kat. I do not mean in these remarks, that the abolitionists have had nothing to Wm* at their opponents. Among thew art► w{. few few deserving severe reprebsosioa, s
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