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To moo the Man you !into Ride on triumphantly, Thron'tl in the henrts of Ifonesi Men Move your calumny And thou art hissing now Against the Wise, and Good, Because they felt their Country's wrongs And for her champion stood. Thou'st spoken bitter words, And in thy runeour given Foul slang, and worthless epithets To Ministers of Heaven. Yet they aro of Cho wise, Tho noble on the earth, Leani'd men, of tried integrity, Men of exalted worth ! No one who has a soul Will call these persons knaves; Or for a moment fancy thorn Vile party tools, or slaves. Thou'st blindly plac'd a plume In Thaddeus Steven's crest, Such us might swell with honest pride Even TUADDRUS STEVEN'S breast( For every voto of ihcirs Is an imperial gem; Meet to adorn that noblest crown The Patriots diadem. THE REPOSITORY. From the London Metropolitan for June A VIS11"1 0 E 'l' NA . The ascent was rapid, and we toiled along up the ashy surface, which became more and more difficult as we ascended. We found the climb, however, by no means so fatiguing as that to the summit of Vesuvius, the ashes being here mixed with huge stones, that afforded us at intervals tolerably firm footing, while at Vesuvius the smooth cone has the uniform steep inclination of dry sand poured out in a heap, and the soil has a want of consistence which gives no resting•place to the tread, hut slips from the weary step, and leaves you nt each stride but an inch or two in advance beyond the proceeding one. Even the present ascent, however, was toilsome enough. The ram faction of the air began to be oppressive to our lungs, and the difficulty of breathing was aggravated by the sulphur fumes that began to gush in great abundance from the trevices around us. It was, as Dawson, said, the unkindest cot of all, when having taken a step or two by way of a finish after your breath was fairly gone, you stopped and gasped to recover it, when, lo ! a whiff of brimstone, gushing into yonr mouth, threatened what the doctor called asphyxia and produced a most disagreeable cessation of respiration just at the moment wh©n you were most in want of it. On we went up the ascent, the sulphur fumes becoming thicker and thicker as we preceded, and the thunder of the frequent explosions sounding .. louder and louder in our letter part of our climb, howevei,: was particulary slow and tiresome. Every few paces we had to stop and gasp for breath, and poor Dunks was almost hors de combat altogether. At length we reach ed, reclining on the slope of valantie a4hes, R huge square block of stone, a terrific evi dence of I ho violent explosion that had sof- Cired to throw it beyoz.d the mouth or the crater,' and behind this we had a short R. durum, sheltered from the wind that came sweeping round the tnountain with an edge like a razor. The sky was sttli bright over head,, but, notwihstanding the east was dappled with approaching day, the view towards the west gave us the prospect only of a dark abyss, in which the view was lost, a blackness palpable, over which the eye wandered in a kind of awe, as if gazing at something supernatural. Refreshed by our short rest, we once more toiled onward. The increasing roar of the volcano now sounded eo close, that a feeling of some insecurity began to mingle itself with the excitement of the scene. Giovanni was consulted as to the prudence of our nearer approach, and ho gave it as his opinion, with the air of a man whose opinion is worth something, that we might venture so far as to take a peep into the crater, qualifying his permis. sion, however, with the information that a Signor Frnncheso had his leg broken by a red•hot stone the week before, and was now awaiting his cure at Catania. Another struggle or two towards the summit, and lo l in the midst of a terrific explosion that seemed to make the mountain reel, wo reached the edge, and looked down through the gray mist of the sulphur smoke into the fearful Gehenna that glowed beneath our feet. It was a spectacle well worth the climb. The crater was a huge irregular basin, its walls split and riven, and shattered by the convulsive throes of the subterranean fire, and at ono spot cleft almost to the base, ns if some Titanic mace had swept its way through the dark and rocky wall. Within its gulf the stifling clouds were rolling hither and thither, dimly seen between us and the central aperture below, from which, at intervals, a blinding light shot up, giving a ruddy glare to the smoke that rolled forth from it. From the side of the conical hill, of which this formed the summit, a small stream of lava was flowing towards the surrounding wall, giving forth a scorching glow from its fiery waves, that rolled over one another with a slow and lazy motion. At short intervals, the bellowing beneath our feet gave notice of a corning explosion, and the next instant, far up into tho (talk sky, as if but flue sparks of a furnace, flew the huge blocks of rock, white at first, less brilliant when they reached the highest point of their flight, and falling hack a deep red into the abyss from which they had emerged. At 'these moments the whole circumference of the crater was one blaze of light, contrasting strongly with the com• parative darkness in which it remained during the intervals between the explosions, and turning ono giddy with its glare, while the projected stones, as they rushed past us at no very great distance, increased the tor• ror of the scene. The day began to dawn, and straining on r eyes towards the east, we could discern the outline of the coast called out into dark re lief by the brightening sky reflected in the water. The morning, however, was dim and lowering, and, we began to fear, gave little promise of an extensive prospect. We descended the cone a short way, so as to be in some degree sheltered from the tempest that raged at the extreme summit, and waited for the developement of the panorama which was to be unrolled beneath" our feet. Object after object became slowly visible —the sea between us and (tally—the coast of Calabria, dimly shadowed forth liko a dark bank of clouds upon the horizon. Then began the scenery around the base of the mountain slowly to put out its daylight tints ; here a tract of black ashes—there a stream of rugged lava, winding its course seaward, the dark ground of the vineyard speckled with the bright leaf of the spring ing vine, city and village, forest and sea, stretching out before us until they were lost in the dim horizon, while more immediately around us clustered the little mountains, ',molehills as they seemed to us,) that, bear ing on their brows the traces of every gra dation of ago, some green and waving, some ashy and arid, was each the self erec ted monument of one of those eruptions which had spread desolation over this para dise through all epochs, up to times beyond any record but themselves. Such was the prospect to the mist and south, the point from which the wind was blowing, and we could trace, as on a chart, the outline from the coast from Messina and Scylla down to Syracuse. We ran over the route which we had passed, and dotted down our journeys for two days to come. Nicolosi, Catania, Giarra, Taormona, Mes ma, Calabria, like some dimly seen land of promise, with its Philistinish brigands —all these became brighter and brighter with the rising sun that came walking up the sky, as Dawson said, with his handmaids scattering rubies on his path, until he raised his rudy face pier the horizon, bestowing a steady and loving look upon us, his lonely worshippers i before he condescended to glance upon the common herd of mortals who slumbered in the valleys below, un conscious of his coining. Towards the west our view was more limited, but equally picturesque. A heavy mass of clouds had gathered in the lee of the mountain, hiding from us the Liparis, the northern coast of the island, and all hilt the summits wild and broken as they were, of the Atitifoci mountains, that here form the central chain of Sicily, and rise to a bight sufficient to adorn; but trot to rival, their mighty king. These clouds seemed agitated by a Nina stron g er than that which we experienced, and which 'was perhaps rendered irregular and gusty by the eddies that swept rotmd the sunffnit. They rolled, an d twined, and writhed over each other seething like the vapor of some huge (oil dren—noW whirling its eddies, now shoot tug up in wild and torn flakes that melted away and vanished. It was a bodily re• . presentation of 0111t09, and coma as near as GLORIA. ROBERT S. P.IXTOsiI EDITOR .I.7rD PROPRIETOR. el&wuixwipuctietewLetaiDaix avaa tub s aaap. that of Milton, Dawson alledged, as fact could come to poetry. Satiated with our contemplation of the view around the mountain, we turned to take another look at the crater. It seemed even more terrific by the light of day than it did in the darkness. The sun-light faint ly struggling through the sulphur mist, fell upon the dark scoriae below with a yellowish gray light, giving the whole amphitheatre an unearthly tinge, such as I had never seen before, and never saw painting imitate, except in Danby's " Valley of the Upae." SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATIONS. The following extracts are made from a work recently published in London, entitled Illustrations of Science, by the Rev. H. OSEIX : "Musk.—lt is said that n grain of music is capable of pei fuming fZir several years, a chamber 12 feet square, without sustaining any sensible diminution of its volume or it• weight. But such a chamber contains I ,9‘ 4 ,5,994 cubic inches, and each cubic inch contains 1,000 cubic tenths of inches, making in all, near three billions of cubic tenth, of an inch. Now it is probable, in• deed almost certain, th.it each such cubic tenth of an inch of the air of the room. contains one or more of the particles of the music, and that this air has been changed many thousand of times. Imagination re. coils below a compatation of the number of particles thus Mused and expended. Yet have they altogether, no appreciable weight or magnitude. THE ATTENUATION OF GOLD LEAF. An ounce of gold, is equal in bulk to a cube, each of whose edges is five.twellths of an inch, or nearly half an inch. in lenuth, so that, placed upon a ta'de, it would cover nearly one quarter of a square inch of its surface, standing nearly half an in inch m height. This cube of !yold, the gold•beater extends, until it covers 146 square beet ; and it may readily be calculated that to be thus extort Jed from the surface of A—) 2ths of an inch square, to one of 146 square feet its thickness must have been reduced from half an inch to the 290,6:36th part of an inch.—Fifteen hun dred such leaves of gold, placed upon one another, would riot equal the thickneSS of the paper upon which this (hook) was grin• led. SINGULAR GAMBLING MACHINE In rem eating a house on Camp c fr e e t yesterday, a curious contrivance was dis covered for cheating at cards. In a had ; room in the second story was a round table . fixed in iron shoes so as to he immovable. Two of the legs of this table were hollow. Down the hollow legs wires were run to the floor, and along the floor, in grooves made for the purpose, to the wall, then up the wall to the third story, thence to a point immediately to the centre of the table. The wires were communicated from the point above in the manner used in ly , ll hanging. The grooves through which they run were inlaid with the softest bock skin, so as to prevent a noise in pulling them ; the grooves were then covered over with thin copper, and a carpet screened all from view—the grooves in the wall were pa. pered over so as to prevent detection. Ira mediately above the card table the ceiling was ornamented with a circular painting, after the fashion of some parlors. In the centre of the painting was a hook as if to lamp. Small holes were cut in the ceiling, which could not ho detected from below, be cause they : represented certain portions of the figures of the painting When a party were engaged at play, a person above could look down upon the hands, and by pulling the wires give his partner at the enble any intimatton as to the strength of the oppo sing hands which an agreed signal might indicate. The room above was kept dark, which also prevented the players from ascertaining the cheat, particularly at night. The house was fomorly occupied by a person who professed to be a commission merchant. The clerks in the establish ment, we understand, were not allowed ac cess to the card room or the room above. The former proprietor left the city some time since, and so cunningly was the whole contrived, that tt was not Until the house' was overhauled for repair; that this Ingeni ous device for swindling was discovered.— New Orleans Bee. The unwritten *Music of Spring. How sonorous the voices of spring; pro seeding from every living thing in the reeds of the brook. Just listen There's an old bull frog on the margin of the stream with one leg in the water by way of a cooler. How he thrums on his brass viol—"thong —thong thong thong poutchitig !" That little frogress opposite plays the treble to a charm without scarce opening her Mouth—"te weet—te-weet hirr.irr•ir gosh ; 1 ' and down she darts into the water— her great too awfully mangled with a stope from some cruel boy. Then there the old leader, that "green-eved monster," dressed in yellow bieeehes and a white sash around him. Hoar him as he stands up so majes tically against that reed " Paddy-got dronnk—paddy got droonk—got dreonk— mak—ante—and down he went to wet his whistle. Then flutters a chattering choris ter over head, calling upon his tribe to and watch with their sick mates—ttboblink —boblink —stingy—go and see Miss Phi. !easy Philessy—pshaw—chuk"—thrills the trashes. ‘qliew—mires—ruiew—pluenkt CIO-FEARLESS AND FREE. 4.1, the cat-bird. Who•whip- poor-will" cries one,—"Katy.did—linty•did, thrills an other. "I'll come and see-1 will-1 will I'll come and see-1 will"—sings the yellow bird. And so sung they all in their un written music, without a discordant note, unless perhaps from some hoarse unsoaken bull-frog, who had caught a wheezing cold from lying too long on the ground.- A lean mare who was rubbing near and listening to the chorus, who have shaken her sides and ventured three or four salutary horselaughs, if it had not been such confounded hot weather.—Ciairmount Eagle. A Nrtw IDEA.—"Halls, Michael, is it yourself I see before me 1" said one [rich man to another on the evening of the fourth." "'Froth, then, and myself." "And how are you now 1 and how have you spirit our national birthday 1" "Haven't I been dhrinkin' and rejoicing the intire day, and marching about in a BIM , hot enough to roast potatoes. Have you been doing the same, Jimmy ?" I have. The remembrance o what our forefathers—those gintlemen that signed the declaration—have done for us, Nlichnelcomhined with a few dhrops of the 'crethur," has kept me as dhrunk and us joyfal as a piper the day long, I say, Michdel, isn't it a remarkable fact they don't have any of the Fourth of July cute. 'nation in ould Ireland 1" "Rut do, to be sure." "D- 1 / 4 the bit. When does the Foarth of July cotno in Tipperary 7 Tell me that with your ug:y mouth." "W by, on the irrintyfourth nj June, you spalpeen. Don't you recollect the frolicks, bonfire; and rejoicings we, used to have on that (lay. The twinty-fourth of Jlllld, is the fourth of July in Ireland, to be sure I" N. O. l'ic. EPIIIIAISI PRATT lived in Shutosbury, Mass., many years, and died there in 1804, aged 116 years. He married at the age of 21, and could couut 1500 descendants. He was a very temperate man. For forty years he took no animal food. He was a limner, and his health. was so uniformly good that he was able to mow a good swarth 101 years in succession. He was born in Sudbury, 1087.—New Englund Gazette. 4 , 11 7 ba t is a rebus ?" innocently asked a lovely miss of a black•eyed lad. Imprin ting a smart kiss on her breathing lips he replied, "If you will now return the compli inent that will he are bus !" Sho was sat. i-bed with the information. Not withstanding our often declared skep ticism regarding any visitation of earth by the disembodied spirit, the following rela tion, coming to us from a source truly res pectable, and so eilliolitened by liberal edti• cation ns to defy all suspicion of her being the slave of nursery tales or popular super titions, we insert it without further com ment. Last Tuesday night, as Mrs. —, Ca lady of literary taste and rather studious habits) sat reading in her drawing roorn,the clock on the mantle piece struck twelve; as the last stroke reverberated through the apartment, its doors were suddenly flung open. In the act of raising her head to re prove the intrusion (unrung for) of her ser vant, her eye rested on the form of her late husband ; she screamed and fell senseless on the carpet. Thts brought Up such members of the family as had not yet reti red to rest—restoratives were administered and when Mrs.—--had regained possession of her suspended faculties; and being a wo man of strong mind and highly cultivated intellect, she felt disposed to consider the whole of the distress she had undergone as the result of certain aseociation3 between the melancholy tale she had been perusing, and her late loss i operating on a partially deranged nervous system. She however considered tt advisable that her female ser vants should repose in her chamber; lest any return of what she had determined to consider d nervous affection; should dis tress herself and alarm the family. Last Tuesday night, feeling stronger and in better spirits than she bad enjoyed for several months past; Mrs. dispensed with the presence of her attendant, return mg alone to her chamber, and went to bed a little before 10 o'clock. Exactly as the clock struck 12, she was awakened from sleep; and distinctly beheld the apparition she had before seen, advancing from the ta. ble (on which stood her night lamp) till it stood opposite to and drew aside the curtain of her bed. A sense of suffocating oppres sion depriied her of all power to scream aloud. She describes her very blood retreat ing With icy chillness to her very heart from every vein: The countenance of her beloved in life wore not its benevolent as pect; the eyes, once beaming with affection were now fixed in stern regard on the trembling half dissolved being who with the courage of deperation thus adjured him— " Charles ! dear Charles F why are you come again I" "Jesse," slowly and solemn ly aspirated the shadowy form; waving in his hand a• small roll of written paper, "Jesse, pay my newspaper account; and let . me rest in peace! " i INDEPENDENCE. -A beggar, while drink ing some cider at a farmer's house down 9ast, which, by the way, wns hard enough to Make n pig squeal— was asked if he would accept of a little bread and cheese. "No, E thank you," said the codger, "it's as much as can do to drink your cider—leting alone your victuals."—Dedham: Patriot. IRISH FUN. •IppClrilion4 Toth LATEST CASE OF FORGETVULNESS. The greatest piece of forgetfulness we have ever heard of, recently occurred on one of the western canals. An emigrating Yarn lice, with his wife, child, and other "house• hold plunder" was making his way "out west" on hoard a canal boat. On arriving at the end of the canal, ho moved his bed and bedding; tables, chairs, and pans on board some other conveyance: He looked over every thing to see that all was right. Something was missing. He scratched hi , head, thought the matter over, but still could not make out what he had 1011. Back to the boat he went, and meeting the cap. lain on the wharf, he enquired ; "1 say, you, capting. haint 1 left some. thing aboard your boat?" "Not that I know of ; do you miss any thing 7" "Yes, I do. I miss sum of my things; but I'm darn'd if I can make out what they are " "Have you looked over every thing V' "Every bag and bundle—overhauled my dude twice—now there's something mi9sin' just as easy as nothin,' and here the other craft is about a star tin,' and I've got to go off and leave it 7 It's to darn'd bad, I snum it is." "Well, there'n not n thing abonrd the boat to my knowledge, except your wife and child." "Them's um—they aro what 1 minpd," said the Yankee., jumping for jay. Now who'd a thought it? Here. I was goin' off leavin' the old woman and Silly Ann be. hind. I 'spect I should a missed um afore 1 got to my journey's end, but I'll be con sarned if 1 could make out what I left. 'Mould been a good joke, wouldn't if I'd gone clean out to the far west and forget them entirely." So saying, the Yankee, "packed off" with his wife and Sally Ann rejoicing. There are a good many men who would not mind about leaving such trifles as it wife and chil dren behind, but this forgetful Yankee was too honest.—lV. 0. Pic. THOMAS JIPFP.R9OPI'S . OPINION or FAR IIITUS--"Thoso who labor in the earth," he early declared "are the chosen people of God, tf ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he madaThis peculiar depos it°, for substantial and genuine . virtue. It is the focus in which ho keeps alive that sa cred fire which otherwise might escape from the surface of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon in which no one nation has yet found an example. It is the mark set do those, whose toil aid industry depend on !he casualities and caprice of customers.— Dependence begets subserviance, and gen erally Pilfrira tog the germ of virtue, and pre pares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thus the natural progress and consequence of the accidental circti nstances: but gener ally speaking, the proportion which the ag gregate of other citizens bear irt the state, to that of the htisbandmeni is the proportion of its ,mound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to meas ure its degree of corruption." Good flit\ 'Why, neighbor Simple,' said Mr. Far sight, one bright July morning ; when Mr. Simple was mowing. in a lot, where the grass stood so thinly that the spires looked lonesome ; 'why, neighbor Simple, you had a fine lot here, with a strong soil; but your blades of grass are so fat apart, that they might grow into hoop poles and not crowd each other.' Yesi' said Mr. Simple, 'l've been thinking I was almost a fool, for I ought to have sowed a bushel of hay seed upon this piece, but the trath is, 1 bought only a peck, and so I scattered It about so much the thinner; and no I see I've lost a ton or two of hay by it. "Well,' said Mr. Farsight; 'don't you think you was a bout as near being a tool, when you voted last town meeting, against granting any more sdluioi money fur souring the seed of knowledge in the minds of the children, as you Was when you scattered a peek of hay seed, when you ought to have sowed a bushel Now remember, rieighbot Simple, what I tell you ;; next year, wherever there is not grass in this lot; there'll be weeds ' There are many Mr. Simple's in this State who practice to an alarming extent the maxim of "penny wise and pound fool ish," in reterence to the education of their children. Their miserly economy prompts them to seek things that are Cheap—and they buy a poor education like they would coarse muslin, because "comes /oui." They get one peck of bad intelligence for theii children where they should have pro. cured a bushel of the premium article, and, ns is to be ekpected, thistles, burdocks, mullion; Cheat, jamestown weed, cockle, and other kinds of noxious plants abundantly grow, where Found and weighty grain should have been sowni and floutishtng. They plant thistle's and hope to gethet figs: they leave the minds of their children ster ile and uncultivated and when the clouds of ignorance of the poison of bud habits or vicious principles debase the characters of their offpring, the parents mourn over the innate depravity of human nature and Goblet) themselves with having .done their duty but they should Consider that it is not the nature of the soil that prodtices the fail ure of the crop- 7 i( is the qUality and Quail . - tity of seed sown: AN OLD FAilaY.—Out or eiz brothers and todr sisters named Rogers, at Mansfield Mass , seven reached 100 years, and three of - them respectively 104,105 and 07.- rWHOLJH NO: 4804 TEIIPERANCI43. ADDRESS Td the "Pailfield TiAperance Socute r do the 4th of July, 1.889; BY DR, JOHN P.LOLTONd Concluded from our lest A strictly temperate drinker is not a pro. rooter of temperance. if he were success ful in eventually preserving his own sobrie. ty, his very success would injure the cause for others would be ii.duced to follow hts example, and having probably lees self con trol, would soon become intemperate' or at best he would be leading them id a danger -0119 path: Who could follow a practised sailor over the rigging Of a ship, in a storm withopt incurring a charge of folly 7 or who would imitate the fool•hardy explo its of a Sam Patch, because "some things might be done as well as others" The second doctrine ; *it. "that totat ab stinence from distilled spirits, with the tem perate use ofwine, Sze. is true teniperante," is also true in the abstract. But do those who thus abstain promote the cause 7 They certainly HAVE done so; for this was the original pledge of all, or almost all, temperance societies for several years of the 'reformation, and very great good was efrected4 The discussion of this doctrine involves= the question, whether all intoxicating li-' quorssliould be included in the temperance pledge. And this depends; in some ma- - sure, on the question of the moral oblige- - lion which may be supposed to•exist in re- - quiring abstinence from alcohol, either id a mixed or unmixed state. All men now admit a moral obligation to be temperate,- but differ as to what constitutes temperance and on what the moral obligation rests.- I trust I have shown that the use of al: cohol is not sinful because it is a po;son,r and that if there is a moral obligation to oh- - stain from it, it must rest tm other princi.- pies. At the time the Bible was Written there was no such thing as distilled spirits; and al. though there are many & plain precepts orr tho subject of temperance, with severe and heavy judgments denounced against the intemperate, yet I believe there is no pre- - cept in that holy rule of conduct, which de: dares, even impliedly, that the temperate use of intoxicating wine is sinful: But it must be remembered that Bible times and our times axe vastly different, as regarda intemperance. And there is enough in the precepts which the Bible contains, to' render our duty on this subject clear. A great and growing evil is seen to exist in dm COmittinity; and all ordinary means for its removal have been resorted to with= out effect: Med !intro drunk temperately( and continued sober men during their lives` and their example of sobriety has been ef pealed to. The wretchedness attendant en, and following drunkenness t has often been portrayed ; the pulpit, the bench, and the desk of the moralist, have all been brought , to bear on the subject—yet all have been= unavailing At last, a remedy was proposed, was tried, and found successful- It consit , ted simply; in a few men uniting together' and tendering to each other the pledge r never to drink ardent spirits. Here then was a great evil to be re.: moved, and a simple means of doing it; and it certainly is the duty of all to engage id it—fur the obligation rests on eters , than to do good as he may have opportunity ; and it becomes still stronger; When the good is great and the means easy. The Chrietiad will dot hesitate to acittiew. ledge the obligation whit,' rests on hitt to love his neighbor; and surely the enlighten ed Christian, who has Made a good use of the information ore the subject of temper ance, which is now within the reach of ev ery man, will not fail to eldmit, that much good has been done, and much more may yet he done, by the simple means already stated ; and his conscience cannot remain at base, when "he knows to do good and does it not." The Philanthropist and the Patriot also acknowledge a moral obligstien resting on them, to ptomote ay the best means in their power, tho welfare of mankind and their country: And they must also be satisfied,. unless they would oppose conVittion, that temperance societies, and abstinence from ardent spirits, have afibcted much for our country and the world at large ; and WE). then they, too; are under the same obliga tion, and through their own admission. And if it be the duty of the Christian, the philan thropist, and the patriot, to become temper ance men—;by what strange logic can it he proved, that those who do not acknowledge the obligation to do good, are therefore ab•• solved from it I No one will be so absurd as to contend, that became he deities the claimq of law upon him, he is therefore not bound to obey. The legitimate,tenciastiii, then is this that it is the dutyiifeiety man who'knowe e or who easily may know, the miseries ari- sing Item intemperance; its wide eitent,and i the great benefit which hae resulted from , and still attend the Operation of temperance' Men, to himself to beeome such,-nnti thereby' assist in the great scheme of lieneVolence.• And the converse of the prePOition - iii elitut- - iy true that the neglect of doty is sinful:: and therofOre it is an immorality to' use ard . i dent spirits as a drink. , From the foregoing aigurneiie it . Will er.w rieni,t hat the use of wineScotlirt inioxittOog? drinks,. may or may net be virong,aecOiifing; to Circumstances.. A prudent Oneraf, in etit'Oing 00'0 campaign - , will always' attempt the ettilnc.- Lion of those' planetlfirst, which annoY bine the most, or stand mast in the way or Wu.- flint° gueve.,. if
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