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TOOT THE TIOGA PHISEUX.
WRING.
BY LYDIA JANE PEIRSON.
The gentle voice of the beautiful spring,
It comes in music low;
Sweet as the hymn of the pure in heart,
Along the wreaths of snow.
When winter would smother her in the drift,
Loath to resign her reign; (wings
She shakes the cold flakes from her glittering
And joyously smiles again.
The sun looks bright from her azure eye,
On mountain, plain, and hill, '
And opens the gates of the castles of ice,
And forth bounds the river and rill.
The white sheets of winter she ruffles and soils,
And flings them to bleach in the sea;
The sweet little violets awake with a smile,
And opo their blue eyes on the lea.
She brings earth a garland of fragrant green leaves,
Begoin'd with sweet dow bright flowers;
Young lambs for her pastures, and fawns for her
groves
And a thousand sweet birds for her bowers,
She brings life, and gladness, and beauty,and love
Rich fragrance and melody,
And nothing on earth but the wither'd heart
Lies cold beneath her away.
love thee, Spring—but thy joyous smile,
Comes sadly sweet to me; (heart,
For tko blossoms, and song birds of my young
Cannot he restor'd by thee.
Thou canst not wake from the solemn tomb
My worship'd, and beautiful dead;
Nor restore in the bliss of their early bloom,
The frendship a►d love now fled. •
Thou bringest no balm for tLc spirits wound
No styptic for my breast;
But mementoes , sad of the season long past,
When I was amongst the blest.
Yet swdet islitypromise thou beautiful spring
Of a gloriotts spring to come;
When the sleepers of Jesus shall wake from the
dust
With joy and immortal bloom.
Ohl what to all that this earth can bestow,
Ear treasures and short liv'd bloom! (death
To the faith that leeks through the cold winter , of
To a spring that awakes from the tomb?
610011WENIORlo
Remarks or glifr. Blanchard,
ON TUB QUESTION
“Will the agititation. of 'tke Abolition Question
cause a dissolution' of the Union."
Delivered In the Court House of Adams County, Pa.
March 15, 1537.
[ruaczou sn~ -;- Ki~.~csr.
Fsztow-Crriameen—Before I knew the use
of money, my mother taught me the meaning of
..B i rduribus Unum." Before my intent under
standing could comprehend the nature of Govern
ment, I learned to repeat "United we stand, divi
ded we and to sing with my summer school
mates; the childish ditty—
" Firm united let us be,
Rallyisqv mond oar liberty."
..The Un;sol It is a concord of "sweet sounds,
that give delight and hurt not." The Union! Its
sound Mit the thought of marriage to the virtu
ous,Wheriihtienma which have beat in the harmony
of Youthful'ailliction, repose in the quiet of conju
•,-gal ~.. Our young fancies were taught to think
of tittiorr of Braras as the magic circle which
lurk 'World's last hope of Freedom:—like the
shining Wreath of promise, brightest amid clouds,
on Whielkehildren and matron's gaze
"At tYnauner Hie, when Heavens Aerial bow,
Spans with bright arch the glittering bills below."
Yes, Fellow-Uitizens: The Union is the rain
ow'b of Hope to this nation. And when clouds for
a moment obscure the twenty-six stars that clus
ter in the American constellation, her soft colors,
made mom brilliant, and her limits more clearly
defined by the darkness of •the hour, shall dispel
the gloom of the Patriot, and convert despair into
hope.
I rejoice, Gentlemen,that; according to my poor
ability, I am permitted to Speak its praises; but
above all, that, while I do it, I am permitted to
stand IWO••••413111.1S, on the very Key-Stone of the
.tacu whose beauties we admire! Aye, here in
Pennsylvania, on the tomb 'ofFRANKLIN and of
FLNII.in the niidid of institutions which were moul
ded by their hinds, and bequeathed to you their
descendants.
I go further, even beyond my eloquent antago
nists—l say, tot the hand be withered that shall
tear this Union, palsied the tongue which blasts
it, perish the ruthless one who, through wanton
ness or folly, shall attempt its annihilation!
Now, • Gentlemen, let me turn abruptly upon
you. and solemnly ask, who threaten the Unton?
Who have threatened it almost daily since its first
existence? Were these treasonable rumors brought
to your ears on the North-east wind! Were they
front the green.hills of New-England, the so-called
home of Abolition? No! Gentlemen. These
threats of treason have uniformly come from a
warmer climate, a more southern latitude!
What is the import of these threats! Suppose
the Abolitionists as wiChed as tho friends of Slava
ry represent them, what is the language of those
• who declare they will secodel Why, simply and
flatly thir “If the Abolitionists continue to speak
and write, end turn the public opinion to hatred
of Slavery, we will destroy the rTnion," i. e. by the
. decision of-President Jackson / ticommit treason!"
And mug we deliberate on the most grave subject
sour country's history furnishes, under a threat,
that if we decide contrary to the wishes of South
ern men. they will commit treason against the Gov.:
emment! The demand is insolent and impious!
But if the Abolitionists are only exercising there
Constitutional rights in a legal and Constitutional
way, the arrogance and insult of this Southern de
mand is Pan the reach of language to described—
It is as if Men, despising the Criminal Courts,
;mons, mut gibbets of the country, should coolly
teltsontiof their fellowscitizensi If you do what
the Constitution and Lameallow you to do, we
will conurdt murder, rob, or steal.
• And let me,however, relnctantly,say this threat of
dissolution of the Union comes with a peculiarly I
iU gnice from the Sotrh. Who pays fur carrying
the mails to the doors ofour Southern Gentlemen
and Dictators? The business and enterprise of
the North. The Southern mails have always
been a tax on the unexpended balance in the
Treasury Department. Nine tenths or more of
the revenue which supports Government, comes
from Northern parts. If the South were a sepa
rate Government, their civil and onerous military
establishments mutt be supported by taxes direct
and galling to the people, "wnich we nor our
fathers could bear:" and yet we are told, at every
turn, "do as we bid you, or we will secede! We
will shatter the Union." We must pay for our
own and_ their mails; support the Common Govern
ment, and cower, on all occasions, like their own
crippled and dishumanized Slaves, or they will
leave twin the enjoyment ofour wealth and quiet!
Nor does this threat of treason appear in any
better light, when they affirm that we war on their
characters by calling them "Tyrants," eman-hol
dere," -•flesh-merchants" and the like. Is vilifi
cation and abuse a justification for threatened trea
son? If so, who does not know that the South,'
by her members of Congress, has exhausted lan
guage of its odious epithets, carefully culled, selec
ted, and heaped on tho Free Labor States! Most
men would prefer being called a tyrant,sooaer than
a mean-spirited Slave and a fooL Yet from the
Convention in which the Constitution was settled
unto the present time, expressions of contempt
have been tie every-day phrases used at the South
concerning every man that labors at the North.—
Even in that Convention, one of their debators
declared that they mull early time, purchase
Northern compliance for a hogshead of tobacco!"
Are these the men to stand crs niceties of expres.
sion, and require the punctilios of etiquette, when
we speak of them? Above all, are they to justify
their threatened treason by a declaration that we
imitate their example in using harsh and ellen.
sive language?
We feel,—feel keenly, too, when our birth
spot is abused and vilified. It is true, our hills
are rugged, and the North wind chills them like a
dead lover's kiss. Brit the air ie transparent, and
the waters are pure. So, praised be God, is our
patrotism: far tob pure to admit of the ruffian doc
trine of Nullification, Lyneh Committee and trea
son-remedy for all ills of State!
But let me hasten from these painful topics of
necessary recrimination, to the argument in this
car* which, for convenience, I shall arrange un
der seven distinct heads.
I. Slavery, if Id alone, will dissolve the Union.
Few, with whom I have conversed, have even
doubted this, even of those who are wont to accuse
the Abolitionists of Union-breaking. Southern
men have all along been acting upon the suppo
sition, that if slavery stood, the South must be
ruined, and the Union must aIL Multitudes have
made investments in lands in the Free Western
States, to which they mean, shortly, to retreat...—
Multitudes have gone already, and the declaration
of G. W. P. CUSTIS is literally and strictly true:
even the Wolf, driven back long since by the ap
proach of man; now returns to howl over the des
olations of slavery."!
But we should know, without these facts, that
slavery will dissolve the Union by the sac xxxxx of
the slaves alone. This is two and :: half to one
freeman. Already the slaves number two and
a half millions, with an annual increase of seventy
jive thousand! God has so constructed nature
that her laws punish their own violation. The
toil of the slave leaves the Free population idle,
and idleness makes any people vicious, and leaves
them weak. The offspring of slave-mothers, al
ways being slaves, almost all the children raised
will be slave children. The terrors of the free
people will increase with the number the slaves,
and fear will make them crueL The chains of
the slave will be drawn tighter, by the anxiety of
the masters to keep bim down; at the same time,
they are strained to bursting by the bulk of slavery
growing larger. Thus, the slaves will be kept
more ignorant and treated more cruelly as they
grow more numerous, and every blow upon his
back renders him more desperate and more dan
gerous, by hardening his muscle and steeling his
heart. ••The end of these things is not yet," but
draweth nigh. even at the doors!" Where,
then, will be the Union? When the worn-out
threat of breaking it?
Gentlemen tell you, that the Abolitionists are
alienating the South from the North. Impudent
assertion! Slavery has long since alienated the
South from the North, if indeed we were ever
' blest with their gracious and condescending re
gard. Have not the honest laborers of Pennsyl
vania long enough been the song of their drunk
ants, and the reproach of their fools! Their by
word, to points proverb or to season a jest? What
more “edienation of affedion" remains possible,
since slave-holding has taught the South to dis
pise us in the mass?
Yes, slavery bast produced this disaffection. A
slava-holder must even look upon a laborer as a
mean-spirited slave. Not only this. but another
source of alienation is, that most of the laws which
a Slave Slate requires, bring disasters upon a
Free Stale. One wishes to make the laborer ■
brute; the other a man. Pay a laborer, and the
more he knows the better. Enslave him, the less
he knows the more quiet he will be. In a ?lave
State, of the people who beam= poor am auks-
Wens and thriving, that will hurt the interest
of the master by bringing slavery into reproach.
It is therefore the policy of a slave State to make
every laboring man on the soil, bond on free,
white or colored, as ignorant and despised as they
can•
. Directly opposite is the policy of a Free
State, where ell aro laborers. The more the chil-
Brest of the poor learn in schools and at Church,
the less the bordens of the rich. The more know
ledge and self-respect the laborer has, the more
good will he do for his employer, and the less
trouble he will occasion to community.
In these, and tea thousand ways, the interest
and policy of a slave and Free States west and
jar and clash at evay point in theirlagislation.--
Their character, their wants, their virtues, their
•ices, their fear, hopes, tastes- and inclinations
must,tlilrer just as widely as their practices; and
thew are as unlike as industry and Robbery.
Who, Len, will have the effrontery to aseert, that
Abolitionists have, or will, or can, alienate there
two antagonist masses!
But if slavery would not dissolve the Usros by
destroying the South, or by alienating the South
from the North, or by both these causes working
together, it will do it by the provoked anger of
Almighty God!
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This addrras was published in 1791, three years
after the Constitution. If any man had then in
sinuated that holding such meetings, and publish
ing such speeches, were a violation of the National
Compact, he would have been pitied as an ideot,
or laughed at as a fool!
The truth is, at the time , the Constitution was
formed, it was on all hands expected,that the down
fall 'of slavery would follow the abolition of the
slave-trade in 1808. They naturally supposed,
that when it was declared piracy to make a man a
slave, or bring him into the country, it would be
infamy to hold him after ho was thus brought in.
The wording of the Constitution itself shows
n• it both Northern and Southern members expect
ed slavery would be attacked as we attack it, and
abolished as we shall abolish it. Not one article
of the Constitution needs alteration. When men
shall cease to bold each other ''as property in the
United States, the article relating to ofugittves from
labor" will apply to paid servants and bound ap-
prentices; and the article concerning taxation and
representation will not point out, indirectly, wha
"persona" shall be voted for as human cattle, when
those cattle shall, by their present masters, be re.
cognised as men.
At the time of the Constitution, as before, and
for a time after it, the Methodist Church was al-
most one great Anti-Slavery Society. Coss and
Amiss.; successors of Wasr.zr, went to General
WasurrcoTors, to his seat at Mount Vernon, with
a petition, for the Abolition of Slavery. Wash
ington did not sign their petition, but assured them
she was with them in sentiment," and would write
to the Assembly, expressing his wish that the
measure might be carried when they took it up.
Not far from the same time, Washington wrote
his letter to Sir John Sinclair, in which he says,
the high price ;if lands in Pennsylvania and New
York are owing to the fact that "those States have
laws which are effecting thi; Abolition of their Sla,
very, which Maryland and Virginia have noi•as
yet, but which it is plain they must have, and
that et a period not greatly remote."
tilarh sentiments were spoken, printed and pub.
fished throughout the country at the North and
South, and none ever 'hinted that the Compact
was at all infringed! Jarranson's well known
letterfrom Monticello is familiar to all: "The hour
of Emancipation is advancing in the march of time.
will comer and whether brought on by the gen-
erous energy of our own minds, or by the bloody
process of Bt. Domingo, excited and conducted by
our present enemy,(Great Britain,) if once perma
nently stationed in our own country, and offering
There was never yet a den of robbers who 'did
not fall out about the spoils. Nor was there ever
a slave-holding nation where one /art did not
sooner or later fly at the throats of the other.—
Egypt had wise laws and well-planned institu
tions; but Egyptians were slave-holders. The
Republics of Greece and Romo were destroyed by
civil dissentions; i. e. quarrels between slave-hold
ing Republicans. Spain is writhing under-the
wrathful dealings of God, and every nation which
has imitated or shall imitate her slave-holding of In
diana and Negroes has suffered or shall suffer the
same prostration beneath the hand of Divine
Vengeance.
What then do our opponents gain by puttiiig
down Abolition: Have they saved the Union, or
shielded it! No, this they themselves do not pre
tend. They know this horrid catastrophe must
come, and that soon. Yet they ask to be lot alone!
Their cry, to the abolitionists is like that of the
Devils, in a like case, to the Savior of mankind:
"Then they cried out with a loud voice, saying,
let us alone, art 'thou come hither to torment us
before the time?"
11. But, Gentlemen, though Slavery will, the
agitation of the abolitionists will not dissolve the
Union. Because, the abolitionists are doing noth
ing against the Constitution or the Laws. If they
were infringing either, it would be easy to prose
cute, and fine or imprison them: for they have
always been unpopular, and juries would easily
he found to give verdict against them. What then
is this wom.out Southern threat! Why,as before
said, it is just this: If you exercise your rights—if
you do what the Constitution and Laws allow
you to do, then we will blow up•the Union! In
other words, we will commit treason! And you,
Faeguse, are asked to decide on your course of
conduct with threats of treason over you!
111. But "the compact! The compact! If obeli.
tionists go on, they will violate the compact implied
in the Constitution, and the South will secede." -
By this, our opponents mean to say, that there
was an understanding between the North and
South, in 1589, when the Constitution was ratifi
ed, that slavery should not be attacked in the way
we do it. This assertion is utterly at variance with
fact. A few years before, at the very time, and for
several years following the Constitution, Slavery
was violently assailed by individuals and societies.
The old "Pennsylvania Society for promoting the
Abolition of slavery" was reorganized in 1784, and
immediately chartered by the Legislature. It ex
cluded slave-holders, and even those who avowed
slave-holding sentiments, as unfitfor member-ship
by an article of its Constitution: thus making war
on the character of slave-holders. Dr. FRANKLIN
was then President of that society; and in 1789,
the year of the Constitution, the society sent out
an address asking funds, in which they call slave
ry "an atrocious debasement of human nature."
This address is signed "B. FRANKLIN, Pres't."-4
Their war was on Southern Slavery and South
ern Slave-holders, alit will be recollected that the
Pennsylvania Abolition act was passed in 1780,
nine years before. There wore many man then
in Pennsylvania who would net - eat with a' slave.
holder! Similar societies then existed in different
parts of the country. President En waling, (the
younger,) addressing one of these societies, at the
head of which was President STILES, of Yale Col
lege, said among other things:
"The Africans are by nature equally entitled to
Freedom as we are: therefore to enslave them, is
as really, anal!' the same sense, wrong, as to steal
from them, murder them, or rob them."
"Many, -many are knocked down; some have
their oars beaten out; some have an arm or leg
broken dr chopped off; • and many, for a very small
or for no crime at all, have been beaten to death,
merely to gratify the fury of an enraged Master
or Over-Seer!"
And again: ""Who can hrsitatc to declare this
trade, (the slave trade,) and the consequent slave
ry, to be contrary to every principle of justice and
humanity, of the law of nature and the law of
God!"
an asylum end alms to the.oppiessed, is e leaf of
our histotjr not yet turned over."
"This enterprise (i.e. Abolition)ls for the young;
for those who can follow it up and bear it through
to its consummation. It shall have my prayers,and
these are the only weapons of an old man."
From these and other witnesses, which might
be multiplied to any extent, it is plain that Slave
ry _was attaeked,and the slave-holder publicly cen
sured, before,at the time of,and after the Constitu
tion. That Northern men (ace the list of members
of the old Abolition society,) took the lead in de
netmeing EiLwery as "an atrocious debasement of
human Nature," which ought to be abolished; and
that the impression was current all over , the South,
as well as North,that the time of Emancipation
was ralqi,Viadeancing Me march of time."
Now, thv man who pretends. that there was on
compatt,"when the Constitution was ra
tified, thet *rely should be let alone, must either
bar grossly ant orwilfully,malieious. That the
Constitutiovis written, forbids our attacking sla
very, none, will be so much an idiot as to assert.
IV. ButAbelition will never cause a dissolution
of the Mill:Jo; .because, it furnishes no beginning
point, na sherting-place where disunion is to com
mence. I e had power, and should attempt to
enforce A n . .in the Southern States, they
might re - we have dune for years all we
.shall do *444 41bi. We have held meetings
for prayer lectures
.and debates; and
petitioned Onagress for the District Abolition.—
When will .the Union bo more in danger than
now? Before the abolition in the District, our
cause will have spread so far among the Southern=
ere themselves, as to have a powerful minority all
through the South in favor of immediate and eter
nal Abolition. Every day our strength increases
at the. South. If they had wished for dissolution,
their time was two or three years ago. Now it is
too late. Awl as the cause of Freedom advances,
the attempt by incendiary hands to dissolve the
Union; will become more and more desperate, and
the danger of it will hourly decrease.
V. I know, Fellow Citizens, wo are told, "If
you go on to agitate, the South will secede."
The South will never secede. First: because she
can gain nothing, either profit, comfort or safety,
by secession. On the contrary, she must lose
immensely in profit,comfort and safety. Now,her
mails are a tax on the balance in the treasury of
the post office department, and nine-tenths of the
revenue Is collected at Northern ports. If the U
nion Were, dissolved, the first token of their altered
condition the Southern Planter would receive,
would be on enormous direct tax to support the
New Government. The Southern people never
will submit to this taxation, for the sake of letting
' a foie mad leaders enjoy the horrid comforts of
Slavery.
If the Union were dissolved, the separating line
would be another Canada line,rind the slaves could
not be kept 011 the South aide of it.
And fur the safety of the South, cutting the U
nion would be the last pitch of delirium. The
alave!iwouid.kno ve the reason of thailiseolution—
that it was to mime - then otnuirw r .... r ...--4.—.J,'
goaded to Owens.) , by despair, they would leap
upon their masters like hungry wolves. If each
individual freeman. at the South should commit
voluntary suicide, the act were a sane one com
pared with their voting for a dissolution of the
Union.
Nor could the dissolution of the Union afford
the South even the Devilish consolation of revenge
upon the Abolitionists. It would not throw a straw
in their way, but aid them in theirdesigns. Were
the South to dissolve the Union, then nobody in
the North would fear a dissolution, and all would
Iv Abolitionists by interest and inclination. And
to keep us from influencing public opinion in her
midst, the South must forbid all marriages across
the line; search every mail bag or prohibit their
entrance; burn every paper, read every letter; pro
claiin non•intercourse in trade; in short, she must
make the gulf of separation between us as fathom
loss and impassable as the abyss which divides
Hell from Heaven, before she can throw one ob
stacle in our way. Not only could she not injure
us, but she would deeply disgrace herself—an in
jury which, of all others, she would most keenly
feel.
Suppose the Union dissolved, who then are the
associates of .this new Southern Empires Who
her allies and friends! Brazil excepted, there is
not another elave-holding people on this whole
continent! and the chivalrous South finds herself
in the same catalogue with the Algerine and the
Turk; and his excellency Gov. McDorm is at
once shouldering side by side with that Hairy
Sea-dog, the Sodomite Bashavv of Tripoli; the
Pirate man-catcher of Algiers, and the Knight of
the Seraglio, the turbanned Sultan! By force of
circumstances, they would be mentioned in the
same breath, and the same paragraph, and held up
together for the honest execration of the patriot
freeman and the common loathing of mankind!—
This would be revenge upon the abolitionists with
a witness! If, then, the South should go opt of
the Union,'she would go against all the motives
which have heretofore influenced mankind, except
ing only naked delirium. Her interest, her repu
tation, her safety, her revenge, her love of slavery,
and her love of Freedom, whichever way she turns,
and whatever motive be uppermost, all impel her
toward a Union with the North.
But if she is to secede, how Lilt to be donel—
Why by calling a convention, which would intro-
duce a discussion of the inerita of slavery into the
very bowels of the South! By this method,
VI. The South cannot dissolve the Union if oho
wore mad enough to attempt it. Discussion there
may destroy slavery, it cannot dissolve the Union.
Long before she could harmonize in one the perfect
Babel of opinions which prevails in the different
States; long before she could fix on a line of Sopa-
ration between us long Wore the foundation prin
ciples of this modern republic, whose corner-stone
is to be slavery l —L e. oppression, robbery and fraud
—could be settled in preliminaq debate, Me pee.
pk of the South would be awakened to their dan
ger by leaders wishing their favor, and the nal
flare themselves again be nullified! No =amen
entertain so despicable art opinion of southern fore•
sight, as to suppoae that whole people QUI be for
ced headlong into the jaws of the Abyss of dine
union, without stopping to look down the praci-
pia: and sea where they are like to land. And
that too from simple, flat, opsamodia rage.
VII. But the great argument against the posai
bility of disunion, after an, to in the plumbed Pee
tection of Gov.
When, in the history of the world, warts Nation
ever reined by one part of its cithanserying - out
for the oppressed, and "remembering the poor that
cried and him that had none to help him?" Is it
righteousness that_ ruins a nation by forfeiting
God's pmtectionl The thought is impiety! No.,
"No measures of a day,
Change the bright hopes of Empires to decay."
It is the silent creeping of vice, the aecumulat
ing wrongs of oppression, the 'poisonous progress
of luxury, and the wasting effects of idleness,which
sap the foundations of government,end bring down
the wrath of God. Ten righteous men would
have delivered Sodom; will ten times ten thousand,
who are doing the same things which . Lot (11.1 in
his country, destroy' thief Never! Never! He
who obeys the behest of the Almighty in denounc
ing acknowledged wickedness, takes part with
God against sin, and he has the oath and promise
of the moat High, that • the fruit of righteousness
shall be sown in peace."
Then, who are the Incendiaries? -In the elo
quent appeal of my antagonist, I seemed to see the
Temple of Freedom standing in the Groves of
Pence, spotted with the green leaves of intervening
olives; its white columns and graceful . minarets
in beautiful relief against the blue sky. I gazed
entranced. I saw in Golden letters stamped all
over it, "Liberty and Union; now and forever one
and inseparable." I saw the Abolitionist incen
diary approach it. My breath grew short, as I be
held the wretch, with quiet and noiseless tread
draw near and produce his torch, which, with
mulish obstinacy and marble indifference,he plung
ed into the magazine beneath the templet' My.
blocid froze and I choked with horror! But—but
no explosion followed! The temple still stood, as
fair and as firm as ever. I drew near and discover
ed to my infinite joy, that the thing which he had
thrust under the corner of the Edifice, and which
was to blow it to atoms, was a simple Nzw-Tss
ram ENT, covered with a parchment Declaration
of Independence!
My vision was righted. I saw the veal Temple
of Freedom: and through her open portals, dis
covered the sweet Infant of. Liberty rocked in
the cradle of Hope. The Black-Snake of Slavery
had slowly crawled to the place, and stealthily
wound himself around the child. His folds were
already completed, and his circles straighted. The
face of the stalling cherub already blackened, was
distorted by convulsive gasps for breath, when
the GENIUS Or EMANCIPATION approached, cut
asunder the spires of the Serpent, and the temple
rang with the chorus Jubilee,which Echo prolonged
along the far-vaulted roof, till they sunk and were
lost in the Anthem of Eternity!
NrlaMaUllil'eo
External happiness and misery are not in this
life always the consequences of virtue and vice;
this world is not the theatre of .Divine retribu
tion;' but there is a life beyond the grave, where
the good will receive their reward, and the wicked
be punished.
The want of due consiamauou t. thw. ...........r.,11
the unhappiness a man brings upon himself. Hear
much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instru
ment of the greatest good and greatest evil that is
do • ne in the world.
_ .
Our physical well-being, our moral worth, our
social happiness,our political tranquility,all depend
on that control of all our appetites and passions,
which the ancients designed by the cardinal virtue
of temperance. ,
Forget not in thy youth to be mindful of thy end;
for though the old man cannot live long, yet the
young man may die quickly.
The passions aro the gates of life, and it is re
ligion only that can prevent them from riaing into
stamped.
Some men am put into odicean the same prin
ciple that a abort piece of candle is put in a high
candlestick. ' The less they are intrinsically, the
higher they are raised in the world.
ROLLO TO as ONSLATID ON GOING INTO A
Pam-rim) OPTIC E.-4n the first place,saye honk',
knock at the door, as every person knows that no
one should enter in cacao* church, or a mill,with
out first knocking. The next thing to be done
when he is in, is to talk a while to each composi
tor. Then he must, by all means, read all the
manuscript which is in the office. And then he
should pick up a goodly number of type, and after
examining each one on the wrong end. and asking
what letter it makes, throw it into the wrong box.
Lastly, throw half a column into pi, and clear out
as quick as possible.
Parry &Boor. Tzecuses.—Parents do not
sufficiently reflect how much mischief may acdrue
to their children, by entrusting them to the care of
incompetent and injudicious school masters and
mistresses. Many of those persons who make a
trade of teaching the young idea how to shoot, ex
ercise a baleful effect upon the young end tender
mind of the pupil. The most improper notions
are often imbibed at these little education shops,
and the finest traits in the juvenile character, are
warped and ruined by the tampering of weak-mind
ed and ignorant teecbets. Parents too often im
agine that when their children are very young, it
matters little to whom they are intrusted, as a per
son with very little education is competent to teach
them the alphabet and a—b, ab. If the literary
acquirements of the' instructor were alone to be ,
considered, this would all do well enough. But
how many vulgar ideas, and how many fides opin
ions may be almost imperceptibly imbibed by the
young student, when placed in such hands. We
lately listened to, the following anecdote of a female
teacher in Worcester,which may serve io illustrate
the subject. For some trifling misdemeanor, * boy
was made to stand with his neck under a bar of
wood in such a manner that he was bent nearly
double, and had great difficulty to keep his feet.—
A little girl, about eight years old, being sensible
ofthe torment caddied by the sufferer, began to cry.
"What is the matter with you, Meryl" said the
sapient school mistress.
rellecause John is punished so bad," mild the
weeping, Vitt.
;Nary eat,' said she, Edam yoit may go and
sit down. hils74o and take fits pima. *tines you
have so much feeling for hiapyounsiy pa 'OILY
it yourself."
VOL. 8,...;N.* -._4.
Accordingly' the little gid wait
with her neck under the-fir,.og lie badt7ed‘ea
to anch a degree that the trial oat
affair may appear trilling in bask
have been the etleet on the is
What was the lesson here taught by die wiethelian
wretch who had claw of Ettk chdhland Yvt it
is to the care of such petty mad it tversi -
that parents ton often entrust thew eilivin'h - iiirar
tune when their wilds aret beghinina taste
and embryo character to shape iteelfrftwa.z ft&
the citrumstanceeby which it ieramannarktit
I:=1
The Louisville (Ay.) Journal' ilaye e vre
were infinitely amused with a sway Awe
was told us the other day—a story weipses
tionably true. All our readers Ikairw with
what extreme readiness and with how-hitie
examination She Legislature gauged &ow
tea during its late seedier'. CettahOithipi
at Frankfort, it appears, took athanta. d
this easy "disposition of the Gametal Asia*
bly, and *played nita particular jobs-Op=
that honorable body. They bandeillaAmw
application for the divorced a eartsiasse.
pie, and the bill, as usual, was psi - 14 *M
out particular enquiry. Some days after
wards, a gentleman m a &teat part the
State, having read the columns dtbe Freak
fort Commonwealth, closed the paper it
surprize and burned off to his , a_
venerable old citizen,and etrelaialed-s
neighbor, I am astonwhed; I never mania
any quarrel between yoti and-year wall -K
-am lost in amazement' "A quarrel be.
tween me and my wife!" ejaculated the old
man—"what do you mean!" "I moan nor
offence Sir," replied the. first, "hat I read
your divorce in my paper and eras peSibrd
to account fir it., I supposed (icotine that
you and Aunt Betsy bad quairrelleid,"-6-
"Hark ye, Sir," responded the old ten, "I -
am seventy years old and my wife is sixty
eight—we bare lived together FintY - aito
years and raised thirteen digitise—awl
there has never been the first dl-rmaured
word between us in all our lives. Div - eneelr
divorce? I divorced floor my eild wevatail!
Why what the devil has sent you bete with
such a story?"
The neighbor made no imply, last molly
took the paper from his hat and handed it to
the old man, who, with the aid of his epee.
tacks, then and there mad, to his utter iris
-
may, an official statement tithe actual ihs
solution of the matrimonial liondsofhiswellf
and his wife by the sovereign authority of
the State. The agonies of the poorvild
couple, at finding themselves tviro„esiti reek.
ybe imagined. That night they areptis,
separate pillows, but early Goths fulgiariele
day, the good old souls trudged off far a
marriage libense, paid the fite,, went hams
the nearest magistrate, and were daly jawed
a Second time together, each Finnneeily pay
thatibti-Lesiidature woold never apse
interfere with their commis/4- torsi: - •
SINGULAR Rsviarat.—Frets 1814 to
1148, during the hank mania in the.sigma
West,"when every village and hamlet beast
ed its littk monster, one of these parse en
comnudations sprungnp in Meant Venom.
Ohio, under the cognomen of 1 -o•l4.leek.
Bank," taking its name from ama kat
beautiful stream pawing through the va
lege, called "Owl-creek."
The affairs of the bank went ma amiss
ming!), for a , short time only--Idos all the
neighboring institutions of mow" reprint.
lotion, it was declared insolvent. A aness
' ing or two after this importers feet had
come to light, a mysterious look* prises,
wrapped up to the eyes inn cloak, penameed
himself at the counter oldie beekteadaviss ,
some of their bills, and demsefier, la a
seldom manner, its redemption so gel se
silver. lie was told that the beak bad
neither. He then demanded Easters
No Eastern funds on hand, was ties liner
reply. "Can you," Bays the saymierims
person, "given me tolerably well misented
counterfeit notes on solvent Issoluit lest
prefer them to this trash." Tiii:ll,ol:* _
home thrust, not to be MANll4lll4lllllllext
"of
the bank, y o u inallsiallPWY. l. ;, 110 i:
I may have made moan mistsdnir, eat I timblr,
in supposing myself in the arm el tbeihrll.7.,
Creek Bank?" 'Yes air." "I Win silk
my revenge for the kiwi of
have just shot your P
on the counter from under his doable huge
hostingrOws.-4. Y. Enamor.
The New York Star say that the wed
'Oseola,' to the Indian hwareatiet, sigiifea
an emetic. The chief of tbst 0111111M11 iu
certainly operated, sa a powerful asmia ow
the U. S. Treasury.—Lott.
"finnerrr Cursor /P-4A assolkiever
ted gunpowder; a bishop, hem* lasserrsc
tine, artillery; and caputhie,' , (Fedor
Josepb) first suggested the ionsketipee
ofpaid spies in the police
_and Wens &-
cachet.
A PXACEABLE Tows.--A New Angry
paper says: "In the littk but meet trews.
table township of Elias' hove: int this itemty,
where there an about 89 irekee,lllo7 Mil
neither tavern, stone, lainserjewikei WE siw
Peace, nor any thing -ebe die Nob se
disturb the quietude sad. ierketty engem
habitants.'
SHARD nrry--A cones er the
U. S. Gazette gives the fitilawiag Mast, se
a worker in marble/3o the criticisms aira war
ofklaculapilmon a job of his,thea its figmk.
"REVENGE.--A medical IhicenVihiv•
in; a marble mason Asia Ws -
Steps, dm became quite t
artisan, by Wing fault milk 1110 "Oft
saying this is a bad job, sod till isIOWA
job, and this, and tbistoo.donatii ! :'
ter losing all patienea, at itagialistAiilol
I have often covered your WI *4 atm
camber moped tuns timempostsidare.e