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IV- All Lettersand Communications addressed to the Editor by mail must be post-paid, or they swill cot be attewied to THE GARLAND. -"With sweetest flow ers e , Fives sariaas rardesis coll'd with care." The Birth Day of 111"ashington. "Ti. the natal day of Wasolsorox, to freemen ever dear; Whose hattowed fight again has dawn'd Colum bia'a sums to cheer— Hate 'tis the shout of Freemen that echoes thro the sky. Admitimg nations catch the sound, sad answer to the cry. All halt' miemding millions shout, and the deaf ening cannons roar; From rialto cliff the echo rings, and spreads from slime to shore. Then let the blue (=cave ring, and the joyous *hams prolong, All greet the day with Martial Lay and Patriotic Song. Mfioas may point to Cusses deeds and bout of Cam's funs„ Noczers filartiies mare sacrificed to gain a Tyrant's Emu- Point to Kapoaeon'e mighty name, that ones made kin' ;dome nod. Ideates abash beneath his vrittering tread, and al most thought him God. But how essay curse the day in which he saw the fight Of hearing curse him who was the blight • Olen they tamed ou earth; who caused the vvidow'a groan and orphan's cry To =eta to him orho dwells on high Bot thou„ immontal Wasatarerosehall stand from age t 3 BCCollied oa the Lists of Fame as PATRIOT and SAGE. Nci i=cll ambition prompted thee to wage unceas ing strife, Norgicuctin' g bauble lured thee on to 'sacrifice a lifo. Whets the Immortal Band life, fortune,sacred hon our pledged. their liberty to gain, Resolwed the oppremor's yoke to burst, or moulder Sii the grave, Thy glittesing sword from its scabbard sprang and toned the foe to meet, Who boldly doled the RIGUTIII or Rao to trample units feet. The contest raged, our country's hopes were few and Lazne seened to lower, Yet was thy cress soul uasw'd, and in the darkos hour, 'Wben all seezeil lost, and England's Lion co n c asir by. At thy comusuuld Columbia's Eagles pounced upon their Fey. Azad when by thy wisdom in the field, the deadly war Wall inst. On thee to guide the helm of state the nations eyes were ettsv. Wind heaven weird epon thy plans, and granted them OCIOCCSik, And thy advice continues yet our happy land to beeett. Then let lush asul law, let rich and poor, all cele brate the day, And Wasnascrem shall be the theme of every pact's lay; From east tair_«4l., , from norlh to south, the inspir ing muse shoal roll, And wafted by the etuirnour'd vrinds,be borne from psle to pole.. Tbr following beautiful lines were written im precriptia in the Album of a young lady in Mils 4 e, e rphis, by • Seneca Indian, on a late visit. Land where bright waters flow, Land mlbere loveliest forest grow, Where the 'warrior bends his bow, Native land, farewell! Here in infancy we played, • Hew oar happy wiEwains made, Where Ger father's gra-ves are laid; 31asi we leave them all! Be wbo ¢aa3e you streala and tree, llaide,the white and red ma free! Gave the Indian's borne to be la the fewest wild ! White men tell us God is nigh. Pwe and just in yonder sky. Wel net then his piercing eye See the Indian's wrongs! ?Ram GOOO.—A- western editor de. dares that some of the young women who p uss hj a village in the arks, on the rirer,are perket ifivioniea lie mean; says a nor thrin narror,, a.-k angel'. PRINTED BY GEORGE BERGNER, FOR ROBERT S. PAXTON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR LP L'/ 4.i® o From the Woodstock (Vu.) Sentinel Runner against Crocket. On Thursday night last, Mr. John Ruff- nor, who lives just at the foot of the Fort Mountain, and on the bank of the Shenando ah River, heard his dogs in pursuit of what he supposed to be a deer. He followed them to a point, not far from the river,where he supposed the game, whatever it was, would cross a small ridge on its way back to the mountain. The dogs however, con tinned running along the river bank, and at last uttered the loud sounding bark, as if they had treed. This was about 10 o'clock at night. Mr. Ruffner supposed that the deer had taken to the water, and that the dogs were baying it. He immediately cut for the river—but had no gun, nor other weapon offensive or defensive. W hen he got to the river, he saw by the light of the broad full moon, a large, dark looking ani mal, standing in the edge of the water, the dog just beyond it in the water, and two others on the beach within a few feet of it. t 1 it hout slopping a moment down the bank ho went, when the animal and dog Mime diately btruck for the other shore. They happened to he just opposite the mouth of Mill Run, and for that point the game seem ed to aim. Mr. Ruffner plunged into the river after the dogs, and with some difficul ty reached the opposite bank, and came up to them, where, as the animal made repeat ed efforts to climb the steep bank just under a high cliff rocks, the dogs would catch hold of it and they would both tumble back into the river. He now, for the first time was warned of his danger, and perceived what sort of a 'critter' he had to do Nutt). The terrible snap of his enormous jaws,and the havoc that he was making with the dogs, showed him that it was a ferocious he wolf, the largest of his tribe. Here then was a case. The dogs— though brave as lions, and the idols of their master's affections, were manifestly getting the worst of it; and must ere long, yield to the terrible gashes, which at every crash of his iron jaws, the wolf was making in their bodies. He, however, with a steady eye, watched the moment when the wolf and dogs tumbled down the bank into the river, near where ho was standing, and reaching his hand into the water, caught the wolf by the hind legs, and raised him up at arm's length. This was a moment of eminent peril. For the wolf• doubly aroused by his new enemy, and the dogs stimulated by the assistauce of their new ally, a fight took place in the water, that ut terly defies all description. As the wolf would turn to snap Mr. Ruffner, he would by raising : the hind legs, plunge his head under water—end when the wolf would raise himself to seize his arms, his faithful dogs would lay hold for a moment and pre• vent it. Thus the terrible fight went on for some minute's, till at lust Mr. Ruffner per ceived the point of a rock near the water's edge, and within a few feet of him, he then, watching the favorable moment, by one powerful muscular effort, swung the wolf entirely over, and thrashed it's head and back against the rock, with such force as to stun, if not to kill it. But to render the work complete he still held on with one hand whilst with the other he grasped a stone, with which he effectually broke his skull. r. Rubber then threw the wolf over his shoulder, and returned home with his bloody victim and wounded dogs, but without him self receiving a single scratch, in his un• heard-of, naked, hand to teeth, snap and smash wolf light. He brought tLe skin to Lurey ; the next day, where 1 saw it spread out on the floor, and heard him with hie peculiar and inimi table phrase and gesture, recount the par ticulars of that exciting scene. Gener ous, brave, and powerful as a lion—may he long live to fight his own and his country's battles; and to kill a he wolf or she•bear, whenever and wherever he can find them. A Short Story and a true one. A lovely morning in October 18—, was rendered a gloomy one to the inhabitants of Martinique. Repeated injuries inflicted by the ruling powers, coupled with a burning desire among many ambitious, and perhaps, patriotic men, to crush foreign influence on their beautiful island, and to govern them selves as a free and independent people, had long rendered a residence there preca rious. On the morning in question, the banner of revolt was aeon floating in proud defiance upon the walls of the castle of Fort Royal, and in the far distance the smoke of villages showed the track of the merciless demon of Insdrrection. Every vessel in the harbor of Fort Royal was crowded with refugees who, having hastily collected the most valuable of their effects, had fled be fore the tide of destruction, which was rol ling fearfully over that ill-fated island. Among them was a merchant of high re pute, who with his wife and daughter, a beautiful girl of about fifteen, took passage for France, whither on the following day the vessel sailed. Fair winds gave them a quick passage to the Cape de Verde, and alter a tarry of a day or two there, they weighed anchor for Havre. At dawn on the second morning of their departure,they espied a dark looking brig bearing down upon them, and as the sun rose above the horizon, it pourtrayed to them the truth that an,Algerine corsair was theirearly via itor. So much were the high seas infested at that time with pirates, that every vessel went prepared for an encounter. Immedi. ate preparation was made for a contest, should the corsair overtake them, and all sails were spread to the breeze. The pirate came up, the contest was awful, the father and mother were murder. ; iCP Fl dRI,ISS.I 1.1 FREE. ..EDI (uxulwaeeizawma. tevaazDair auazaq . -42,u a atno. ed, and the beautiful orphan was made the prize of a band of ruffians. In a few days they neared the Barbary coast, and she was sold to the Bey of Tunis, for ten thousand sequins. The prediction of a fortune tell er, years before, that she would one day wear the coronet of a queen, impressed her mind with conviction of itP truth, which spread a halo of light around her amid the darkness of the worst of slavery. Her beauty made her a favorite and about two years afterwards, Sultan Mustapha carried her in triumph to Constantinople. Her beauty, and her ample powers to please, made her the exulted favorite of the imperial seraglio, and she became the honoured Sul tana. Then, indeed were the predictions of her destiny verified, and she wore the crown of a queen of the Ottoman empire. Mahmoud 11, the present sultan of Turkey, is her son, and to her influence upon his early character, may beattributed his taste for European customs, and the frequent in novations which his will has made among the customs of his people. The last act of importance, and which seems like a great stride towards the elevation of Turkish wo men to the same station which woman hold throughout Christendom, is the opening of the doors of the seraglio, and permitting his women to go in and out at their pleasure, and enj .y themselves in rambles upon the lovely plains which stretch along the banks of the Bosphorus.—Tire number which' was confined in his seraglio was about six hur•.- dred. The fate of that young girl was similar to that of Josephine, wife of Napoleon. She too, was the subject of a similar prediction, and even when confined by prison bars, and upon the eve of conveyance to the guillotine, that prediction stood up before her with all the brightness and sacredness of truth: and when the downfall of itobespiere caused her prison to be thrown open, "There" exclaim ed alto to Madame Fontenay, a fellow priso ner,-"l told you I should yet be Queen of France." And she was indeed Queen, not only of France, but of the heart that beat in the bosom of that proud corsican. The Dead Live. I have seen one die; she was beautiful, and beautiful were the ministries of life that were given her to fulfil. Angelic loveliness enrobed, and grace as if it were caught from Heaven, breathed in every tone, and follow. ed every affection; shone in every action, in vested as a halo, her whole existence, and made it a light and blessing, a charm and a vision of gladness, to all around her; but she 'died! Friendship and love,and parental fond ness and infant weakness,stretched out their hands to save her; but they could net save. her 'and she died 1 What ! did all that loveliness die ? Is there no land of the blessed and the lovely ones, for such toilive in? Forbid it reason, religion! bereaved affection and undying love, forbid if e thought 1 It cannot be that such die in God's counsel, who live in flail human memory forever I I have seen one die, in the maturity of every power, in the earthly perfection of every facility; when many hard lessons had been learned; when many experiments had made virtue easy, and had given a facility to action, and a success to endeavor; when wisdom had been learned from many mis• takes, and a skill had been laboriously ac• quired in the use of many powers; and the being I looked upon, had just comi assed that most useful, must practical of all knowledge —bow to live, and to act well and wisely; yet I have seen such an one die! Was all this treasure gained only to be lost'? Were all these faculties trained, only to he thrown into utter disuse? Was this instrument— the intelligent soul, the noblest in the uni• verse—was it an laboriously fashioned and by the most varied and expensive apparatus, that on the vory moment of being finished, it should be cant away foieverl No; the dead, as we call them, do not so die. They carry our thoughts to another and nobler ex istence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seeming untoward cir cumstances of their departure from this life, that they, and we shall live for ever. A GRATEFUL MAN. A FRAGMENT.-BY MRS .1 TOD. * * * The steamboat was coming to her moorings at the long and beauttfu pier at Oswago. The mate was in an ani nated coversation with some one and as the strong mooring rope was flung over the post, I heard him soy, "No no, there is no such thing. I never in my life saw a grate. ful man, not even a Christian." At that moment there was a splash, and a shriek! then a man of about th►rty•6ve ran from the door of the ladies cabin,cry ing in tones which no one who heard them can forget or imitate. "it is my boy, my only boy!"— The deep green waters had already cov• ered him. But in a moment, the mate was down hanging on the end of the rope, and just as the boy, a sweet fellow of about ten years, was sinking to rise no more, he thrust down his arm, and caught him b) the hair; some two or three feet under wa ter. He drew him out, and gave him back to his anxious father who was ut- tering his entreaties, and to hie mother who was still and tittered not a word. Her countenance was more eloquent than words. Some time after this, when the feelings had subsided, I saw the father take the mate to one side.—What he said! know not; but he spoke and the tears flowed down his cheek The noble sal for refused any compensation, and after a hard shake of the hand, I once more heard the mate say, to his friend—"l was mis taken. I have seen one grateful man— and he 14 a Christian.,' Arc ODD FEAT BY A SOIFINAMMTLIBT.- We have heard and read much of the strange things performed by somnambulists, but the performance of one in this city, id the . at rangest of all. The person alludej to is a chairmaker by trade. On Saturday night he rose from his bed about two o'clock, and in his sleep, went to his shop and ob. tained an adze. He then returned home, anti going to the top of the house entered the chimney, and scraped it from the top dorm to the kitchen fire place. That joli dope, and while ho had his hand in, the/ tlatught struck him to do a neighbourly action, and he mounted to the roof again, and entered the chimney of a neighbor. H 4 had descended about halfway, when the weitchman cried the hour, and so hideous was the noise, that it awoke him. What his sensations were when he found himsrlf suspended midway between heaven and eirtth, in such a dismal place, we do not know, but lie probably had a strong suspicion from the scent of fire, and the blackness of the place, that he had accidentally slipped into regions not to be mentioned to ears polite. He was extricated without other injury than being pretty well begrimmed, and it is supposed that he is satisfied with this, his first essay in the art of chimney sweep ing. An interesting question arises wheth er the superintendent of chimney sweepers, is not entitled to be paid his fees in the same manner, as though he had performed the operation.—Baltimore Sun. MISS LANDON— PRUSSIC ACID.— In a literary notice of the lamented Miss Landon in the Philadelphia Gazette, written in the usual felicitous style of the editor when dis coursing on such themes, an expression of surprise is expressed that the Prussic Acid she is supposed to have used for cramps in the stomach should have been employed as medicine. It has long been in use as an antispasmodic, but in greatly diluted doses, as one drop of the pure acid placed on the tongue or in the eye causes instant death, winch would make it a far better drop for executing criminals than the hang-man's strangling gibbet. A few years ago, an eminent physician, Dr. F—, of one of the Paris Hospitals, left directions for ono of his pupils to administer Prussic adid to some seven patients who lay in a row in one of the wards. It proved an over dose. Be. fore he had administered to the last,the first was dead, and so on with the rest. The whole work being accomplished in ten sec onds, and nearly destroying the reputation of the doctor.—N. Y. Star. SwEastuvo.—The most prevalent vice in tt.: , community is profane swearing. Go where you will, except into t hurch or a lady's drawing-room and your ears are sure to be saluted with its sounds. Old and young, high and low, all indulge it ; just as though there were not decent, respectable, inoffeu , ive words enough in our language to express all our wants and emotions without a draft upon the black vocabularly ol pro trinity. Soma people, to be sure, have a very odd way of swearing, and others a very refined one; but swearing in any style, is a heathenism. It was no part of our lan guage originally, our primative language originally, our primeval language was taken from the whispering of nature's self ; pure, harmonious,peace.inspiring. It should never be outraged by conversationial oaths, and we trust those who have acquired the habit ; a habit which has something develiAt in it; will take our advice, and "reform it alto gether." You can't think how much better you will look and feel.—Picayune. LOVE. -A complaint of the heart, grow ing out of an inordinate longing after some thing difficult to obtain. it attacks persons of both sexes, generally between the age of fourteen and thirty ; some have boec known to have it at the age of sixty. Siturroms.—Absence of . mind; giving things wrong names; calling tears nectar, and sighs zephyrs; a great fondness for poe try and music ; gazing on the moon and stars ; tooth ache; bleeding at the nose ; loss of appetite; neglect of business; a loathing for all things, save one; blood shot eyes; and a constant desire to sigh. EFFECTS. —A strong heart-burn ; pulse high ; stupidly eloquent eyes ; sleepiness, and all that sort of thing; at times, imagi• nation bright; power of roses; winged Cu pids, and buttered peas; then, again,oceuns of despair, racks, tortures, and hair trigger ed pistols. Cure.—GET MARRIED. ACCIDENT TO A SOIINAMBULLIST.—An accident happened lh Baltimore on Thursday morning, from the habit of walking in sleep, which had nearly proved of fatal consequen ces. Patrick Lynch, a man. residing at the corner of Canal &Jefferson streets, has been for some time a somnambulist. On Wed nesday night he retired to rest in the garret of the two story house in which he lives,and towards morning he dreamt that some men were pursuing him, and he tusked in his sleep, to what appeared to him to be a door, but in reality out of the garret window, and was precipitated down upon the pavement in the street. He fell upon his left side, and the household being alarmed at his cries,he was found on examination by a physician,to have the neck of his thigh bone broken,and his arm fractured in two places, in such a manner as to render amputation necessary . . The operation was skillfully perthrmed, and the patient is in a fair way of recovery. LAST CASE OF ABSENCE or MIND.- 7 A woman living in Kentucky, put her self on it ; the fire instead of the tea-kettl and did not discover the mistake until sl began to *mg ! Sore WALKING. —Gen. Fluid, or Geor gin, who lately crossed the Okefenokee swamp in Florida,with a division of the army gives the following description of his passage through this intricate and miry swamp: "Several times I sent men on trees to look out for land, for we feltes if we were on the ocean, and at last, near sunset, we were re joiced at seeing the green tops of pine trevs, over the gloomy cypress, above five miles distant. It was long alter ,dark before we emerged from the swamp, and when we reached dry land, we were the most miser able creatures that ever walked on two legs —wet, hungry,and nearly dead from fatigue. On the march, several men were bogged so deep that it required two men to pull them out—and many, on landing, were without pantaloons and shoes,thoso articles being torn off by the briars, roots and quagmires. I marched at the head of the troops,sarrying my haversack of provisions as a common sol dier, and suffered greatly; but it is a satis faction to me to have performed what all oth er men have deemed impossible, to cross the Okefenokee with an army." We cannot account for the rise in the prico of leather.—(Lynn Record. We can. The log treasurers are using up shoe leather so fast as to keep the market in a state of almost complete exhaustion. The operations in the Okelenokeo swamp are still costing the nation at the rate" of thousands per day.—Charlottsville Adv. The swamp is sweeping the Government. If a Whig were born in the sea he would be a gudgeon.—Pa. Democrat. It a shark were born on land he would be a-subtreasuror.—Prentice. CHEAP ENOIIOII.--An editor and printer down south offers to sell his whole establish ment for a clean shirt and a meal of victuals. He says he lived on promises till his very whiskers have stopped growing. 'I wish you would give me that gold ring on your finger,' said a village dandy to a country girl, 'for it resembles the duration of my love for you—it has no end.' 'Ex. cuse me sir,' said she 'I choose to keep it, for it is likewise emblematical of mine for you—it has no beginning.' The Petersburg (Va.) Intelligencer, says that the rail road 'thence to the Roanoke, has made more money and killed more per sons than any in the IL States I BOILED TOOTH.-A boy named Havers, living at Crickowell, had a tooth extracted; he returned home, boiled it d'quarter of an hour, and replaced it. his now au useful as ever. A recipe to that effect appeared in a newspaper some time ago. • MOURNING AMONG INDIAN WOMEN.-Mr. Catlin slates that at a period of mourning among the Indians women in certain tribes, they crop their beautiful hair short off, and as it gradually grows out they gradually go out of mourning till it gets to its full length again, when they are entirely out of mourn ing. Such is one of the touching symbols of the Indian's grief. A dog in England was so mortified at be. ing kicked by his master, that he jumped into a river and drowned himself. if puppy who gets kicked here would do the same, it would improve society. The following excellent remarks are con tained in Evelyn's epitaph: "Living in an age of extraordinary events and revolutions, I have learned from thence this truth, which I desire might be commu nicated to posterity, Tl.at all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wis• dom but in real piety." A gentleman recently stopped at a tavern in New Hampshire, and, being in a hurry, ordered the hostler to give his horse some oats "as soon as he had done breathing." He remained as long as he thought necessa rr, and on going out, asked the hostler if he had given his horse oats, according to his directions? "Arrahl the divel an oat I've given him," answered Pat; "ye tould me to give thorn to him when he had done bray thin,' an' I've watched him every minute, an' faith he's braythin' yell" RELIGION.—"He is a bad citizen." said Napoleon, "who undermines the religious faith of his country. All may not, perhaps, be substantially good; but certain it is, that all come in a d of the government power, and are the essential basis of morality,in the Absence of religion, I can discover no in ducement to bo virtuous. I desire to live and \ls e in mine; nothing is more painful to me, than the hideous spectacle of an old man dying like a dog I" "Whore is the hoe?" said a gentleman to his negro. "Wid de harrow." Where is the harrow?" Wid de hoe." And where aro they both?" " Why boph togeder ; good L d do you want to create a fuss wid poor nigger die mornin?" An ingenious attorney, who always made it a point to get his case, was applied to by a fellow who had stolen some pork to defend him. Accordingly in his usual inventive way he ruined the evidence on which. the plaintiff relied; and the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty. After the verdict was declared, as the fellow was leaving the court house, he whispered to his attorney thus:—•Squire, what shall I do with the pork, for I have got it yet?" Eat it,' replied the lawyer, for the jury says you did not steal it. ' New Music.—A new march has lately bean published called ther"Sub-Treasurers' Q.sit [WHOLE NO: 466• 511BAITIME2aLUOYA DaRaIAIVM2MI AN ADDRESS Delivered at n meeting of tho Moontjoy Tempe rance Society, January 1, 1639, By C. Baker. tPublished by request of the Society.] [cnricLVDEit.] But I have perhaps already exhausted your patience, by dwelling thus long on this part of my subject; and shall therefore with out delay, proceed to the consideration 4 of my second division. Namely, The duty of government to art eV` the progress el intem perance, or in other words the practicability and propriety of legislating on the subject. I am aware that this is a point on which even the friends of temperance differ; and a doctrine at which her enemies are startled and arrayed. I am aware that some of those, who stand Nigh in the temperance ranks, allege, that lital enactment on the subject, would lessen the moral force of the temperance cause; and thereby do more harm than good. But still I think if the doctrine be exam ined with an unprejudiced mind, etch will not be found to be its tendency. It is the duty of every governmentio pro. tect itself, and each and every one of its sub• jects. In order to do this, every thing calcu lated to impair the good order and harmony of society, ought to be restrained or prohib. ited, by government in so far as it can be . done without producing a greater ainount of evil,than that whichit was intendato guard against. But that there may be no mistake on this point, allow me to give iou,the opin. ion of one deservedly eminent as a writer, on the science of human government. "It is not enough to inatruct a nation (says Vet te!) it is still more necessary, in order to cow , duct it to happiness, to inspire the love of virtue, and the abhorrence of vice. Those who have searched deeply into morality,are convinced that virtue is the only path that leads• to true felicity; so that its maxims. contain nothing less than the art of living happily; and he must be very ignorantof politics indeed, who does not know, that a virtuous nation, will be more capable than any other of forming a State, that is at once' happy, tranquil, flourishing, solid, respect.. ed by its neighbours, and formidable to its enemies." "Let the Government (continues the same author) employ all its authority in order to encourage virtue and suppress vice; let it for this purpose form public establishments; and to the same end direq its own conduct, its example, and the distribution of favours and office." sorry am Ito say, that some Of the public actions of. our governments (both State and Federal,) as well as, the pri vate walk and example of many of their mem bers,have not been in accordance with these sanitary precepts. Intemperance as I have been endeavouring to show, is the enemy of good order and good government; and the enemy of individual and social happiness.— Does it not then follow as a matter of course, that it is, the duty of government to curtail and restrain it? But some of the friends of the temperntice Reformation tell us,that like religion, its progress is only to be advanced by the force of moral suasion; and that so soon as the law interferes, this force will be lessened or destroyed; whilst its enemies seriously dispute, the right of the legislature to act upon the subject. That temperance has achieved wonders, yes! almost removed inountains,without the aid of law, no one is more willing to admit, than myself;• yet I cannot think,that she will be finally victorious so long as the law is on the side of the enemy. Did Franklin and his illustrious compeers, when they under. took the humane and philanthropic work,of abolishing slavery in Pennsylvania, content themselves with forming societies; and re. sorting to moral suasion alone? Did they content themselves with convincing,as many as would be convinced of the evils of slavery and with persuading them to abandon the iniquitous practice? Or did they not rather, like men determined to complete their work. after the public mind was prepared for such a step; ask the legislature to pass a law mak ing it criminal to hold man in bondage? Did their resorting to the law for assist ance, weaken the moral force of the Anti- Slavery cause, and render it unpopular? Let Pennsylvania speak and you will have the answer; she is now redeemed from sla very, and the doctrine of licensing the hold. ing of man in bondage is•as unpopular, as I trust, that of licensing die sale of Ardent Spirits, will be twenty years hence. But if we may not ask for legislative assistance, as the friends of temperance, let us do it as the friends of our country: as patriots, let us ask for that which her welfare demands. For be assured, that whilst a republican form of government, is best adapted to the promotion of the welfare and happiness of a sober and virtuous people, the depraved and drunken, can only be restrained by the iron curb of despotism. Let not then the fear of incurring personal odium,or the fear of rendering the cause with which we are connected unpopular, deter us, from doing that which duty to ourselves, duty to out Country, and duty to posterity, calls upon U 8 to perform. Much of the crime perpetrated in society, is the immediate or remote consequence, of licensing the sale of intoxicating drinks; and who will say, that it is not, the undoubted duty of every government,to discountenance every thing which tends to the commission of crime; and endangers th?, persons, prop. erty or lives of its subjects. . Aild have you not now 'laws, (if not statute at least these which are of equal efficiency,' for the res. trains of those things, which tend , to As commission of crime; and to the disturb/me. Arlti
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