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'We are summoned this . 29th`day of November, 1860 by a proclamation of the Governor of this CommonWettith to consider and acknowledge the mercies of clod toward us as a people, during the ,year that is past. He ; recommends to all the ,people of this State that setting aside oil this day all wordly pursuits they assembhtin their respective places of worship - and unite in offering, " Thanks to God for His Mani fold goodness and imploring his forgive ness and the continuence of his mercies." We observe this day day then. Not because it is commandedfdr .no one could command it but God, but because the recommendation of 'the executive meets a cordial response , from every giateful heart. We honor theetimmons. In obedience to it we are all here. We have entered these gates with thanks giving, and these courts with praise. We might on an occasion like the present, profitably advert as subjeCts of grateful thanksgiving to 'our , •per'onal mercies, such as our continuance in being, our vigor of body and soundness of mind, our restoration from sickness, our pre servation in peril, our means'ef 'instruc tion, a competent share of - the good things of this life, our home's, 'OW food, our raiment, our friends and our rest. We might advert to our family blew. sings. We might advert to, our abun dant harvests enough for.the• wants of a World to., the seasons that have ,come freighted'with unprecedented abundance, filling to overflowing our barns and crowd ing-our great thorough fares sad store houses with food for every land. g. We might advert to the fact that no pestilence has swept over the land, or fallen upon any portion of it. We might advert to our friendly relations with 'all the nations of the earth, to our peace and continued national prosperity. We might advert to our spiritual mercies, to the open Bible, free to all, "to the return ing Sabbath that weekly greets us, to the house of prayer, to which we can re sort unmolested, to the freedom of , con science that sufferk evetY man to chnose his own mode. of: worship and praise, and to all the Promises of the gospel and to the hopes of the future. These are only a few of our mercies 0, how great is the sum of them I -The Lord bath done great things for tutwhere of we are glad. True, in the midst df ell this abundance and prosperity there has arisen odcasion for anxious solicitude to every lover of his land and race. A little cloud, at'first no bigger • than a man's hand has been seen rising in the south, looming up darkly And ominously and threatenieg 'to east its baneful shad ow over the whole land. Geed men are trembling for the ark of our ti*tional saky. Whether the cloud will go on kathbring thicker and darker till it burst with overwhelming fury and disaster, or Wt)ther it will be rolled back or scat tered, and the son of our prosperity again 000 forth with its wonted brightness aunited, peaceful and prosperous nation. "No human sagacity or, wisdom can, predict. WS will hope for the best. We know that God can and will make the wrath of man to praise him so that even out of the very troubles of ''d• nation ray be ex tracted material for praise. 1,,,8ut out of all thisobundanttratherings gittrattb, to volitits, sittratort, (A g riculture, Norfitulfurt, gins arts, etntral Rau of fly ging, Nag (*forma of the year we can select but one as the theme of thanksgiving on the present occasion—"and out of them shall pro ceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry, 'and their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed From the midst of them." To understand this we must remember that the Jews, to whom the text refers were captives in a foreign land, cut off from all their former privileges, civil and religions. They had no ''voice in the election of their' rulers, or ih the affairs of the nation. Theft' time and service were at the" disposal of others. They could meet for the worship of the God of their fathers, only by permission of their rulers. The prophet Jeremiah bid predidted this state of things and had again and again warned •his countrymen to repent of the sins that were soon to bring upon them such sore and overwhelming calam ities. But the , warning was unheeded= the judgments. Came and for seventy years they were slaves under , a govern ment in the affairs of,which they had no voice no represontation, no liberty of conscience. But better times were in , store for them. They were soon to bp returned to their own hind and to a restoration of all their civil and religious privileges— 'Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents and have mercy on his dwelling Places, and the city shall be builded upon her own heap and' the palace shall remain after the manner thereof." For this he says there shall be 'a general thanksgiv ing of the people, "and out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry." And then the prophet goes on to speci fy some of the particular causes of thanks- giving. Tireir numberishould be greatly multiplied. Their children should be as theyhad been formerly;their congregation should be established ; their oppressors should be punished, and they should have the privilege of electing their own .rulers, "and their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall pro ceed from the midst of them." I. It is•a great privilege and matter of devout thanksgiving to have a voice in the election of those who are to act for us and into whose hands are entrusted great and valuable interests It is a great privilege to have a voice in the election of those who are to man ago and control our temporal affairs. In all matters in which we are, personally concerned, we claim to be heard by men of our own choice. Every member in a fire insurance com ps,ny, every stockholder in a bank, or rail road, every parent in the education of his children, every member of a church claim a voice, in the election of the, men into whose hands they entrust their chil dren, their property or.their, spiritual in terests. • The denial of this right led to the sep bosom Of the State he loved so well. his oration of the colonies from the mother voice is no longer heard in the counsels I country. The denial of this right drove of that' Pitate'or' in the counsels of the I thousands of christians of the different nation, and yet we doubt not that to-day 'countries of Europe from their homes to thongh dead, he iS SPeakinr , with a'voice this western world—they claimed„ the lohder and Dior - 43' potvefful and with more right to worship God in their own way telling influence' on'thethirids and o the and as their own conscience dictated and acts of the people of his natite'State father than surrender this right they than he ever did in the roost active and chose to surrender all that was dear in vigorous years of his life. Und. who can life. Nay life itself. measure the influence of such men as In a free government two things are Clay, Webster and Benton • over single self evident, propositions,—:the one is States, and President Jackson over the that all laws constitutionally enacted nation, impressing.upon, it ineffaceably shall be faithfully, and conscientiously and permanently .their ,own principles obeyed, and the other is that t 4,119 people and character. • by their representatives shall have a And who can measure now the mighty "voice in the enaction or those latvs., interests that stand connected with the Now in the days of . Israel no' other wisdom, prudence and virtue of ogr rte nation enjoyed this privilege. It was lers, and of men in authoritY arid intim• . peculiar to them whilst they., continued ence4n the various departmeats of this in,their land a free people; they were 1 =gbvittiment, by mild, firth dotinsels, deprived of it during their captivity in by mutual forbearance, by patient wait- Babylon, and , it was to be restored to lag; by.soft words that turn away wrath, them on their return to their 'own land, by ayoiding grievous words that stir, up "and their nobles shall be of -themselves, anger, they can calm the excited passions and their governor shall proceed. from of men, allay the rising spirit of discon the midst of them." tent and insubordination and still the Their forth of government was:at first tumult of the people. • , republican, it consisted of twelve tribes; „ But if they are ambitions, selfish •men each under its own Teader, constituting —if they are demagogues rather, than 'it little commonwealth, while all were statesmen—if they are unprincipled wick united under one great republic: When ed. men, who regard neither Clod nor t 4 thdir form of government was changed to man, they can• involve us in all the.evils monarchy it was at their own request, and horrors of civil and sectional . strife. and by their own vote. Their kings did They can array section against section; not'enter upon the functioririif; their of and brother against brother, they can flee until accepted and crivilined by the lash into fury the passions of the masses people, their laws were approved by 1 and drive them on to fraternal strife With :themselves, they were always proposed all its havoc of human life, and the havoc to the representatives of the people and of peaceful homes not only, but the havoc • received their unanimous consent. .I of virtue and morals and religion. dpen , Not a nation ~now, in Asia • or • Africa ing the flood gates of . crime and =dark I enjoys this privilege, not one, in .Europe oppression gad wrong and . violence—to to its fall extent. This is the.only gov- sweep witn appalling desolation over the errgeent on the face of the earth where land and whelm in one common rain our Marietta, Pa., Saturday Morning, December 15, 1860. rulers are invested with authority by the people, "Their nobles are of themselves." Here every man is a noble, or may be one, and should be one,—and their gov esnor proceeds'from the midst of them. He is one of their own number and in vested with authority by their consent and voice. The people hold the government in their own hands, they can control the destiny of the nation, they have a voice in every matter that concerns their pros perity or welfare. What more than this could they ask or desire ? Surely out of them should proceed thanksgiving and the voice of theni that make merry, for their rulers are of themselves and de pendent upon their will, and their gov ernor is of their own election. 11. Rulers have an amazing influence on the morals and destiny of a nation ; it is a matter of thanksgiving that their subjects can direct and control that in fluence,—this is so, or may be so, when their nobles are of themselves and their governor proceeds from the midst of them. We have no adequate conception ) we will venture to, affirm of the extent and power of this influence; it is said of Sera boem the ruler of Israel that he drove Israel from following the Lord and made them sin a great sin, for the children of Israel walLed in all the sips of Jeroboam which he ,did.' His influence was felt two hundred and fifty years after his death. He corrupted twenty kings in succession and almost all their subjects ; 'tis said of the kings Nadab, Baasha, Zimri, Omri, Ahab• Ahaziah, Jehoram t Jehu, Jehoas, and others on to twenty that they "walked in the wayofJeroboun the son of liebat and in the sin where= with he made Israel to sin." The heart sends the blood through the arteries, to every part of the human system, as the' blood at,the heart,-so is the blood in all the minute and remote ramifications of the arteries. The ocean sends its rolling, surging tide into every inlet, creek, harbor, river and sea—as the ocean so are these. And so rulers as the heart of the na tion send down their influence through the body politic, even to the most mi nute ramifications of society. The tide of their influence is - felt not only, in the gieat cities and towns but . penetrates the most remote province and district: and is felt in the most distant hamlet. Single senators have controlled for years the political destiny of whOle States. Who can dotibt that the pres ent anomalous attitude of South Carolina is ebargable to the influence of her earn- est, gifted, high-minded, but as we think mistaken statesman,. John 0. Calhoun, and that Ow destiny of that •State, whether for weel or:-woe, and the destiny of Otter Stales, and it may be the desti ny, of;th.e nation is inseperably linked with him. John - C. Calhoun' rests in quiet in the cherished and invaluahle blessings:- There can be no question that the in 4 fiance of many of ouf public men has been most aisasterous' upon the niofals of the nation—many in public life, who would scorn to rob or defraud an indi vidual will not hesitate to rob and de= fraud the government—men high in pub lic trusts have startled and ardazed the community bytheir wholesale plunders, their magnificent frauds. As the conse> quence of all this the moralsense,"of the nation is blunted, public crime has re= ceived anew name and been softened down or covered over with a kind of re spectabje garb, and as a matter of course the influence travels down from the ru lers to the ruled, from the center to the circumference, and hence the falsehoods, the breaches of trust, the acts of tress pass and bribery and corruption and fraud and flagrant - violations of law that so alarmingly and extensively abound. And upon whom, we ask, rests the re sponsibility of all this? We maY Strive to' throw it upon our rulers, but God will hold.every man responsible, who,lends a helping hand to place such men in power. There are, alas, too many men, moral men, nay christian men, who under party drill and party influence vote for corrupt and vicious men, knowing them to be such. It is a maxim in morals as well as in law that what a man does by another he does himself, and if a man yelps to elevate to oilices of responsibil ity and trust notoriously incompetent and unworthy men he is justly chwable with a share of all the mischief and guilt caused' by such rulers—such may mourn over the corruption Of the times and the degeneracy of our public men and talk of the need- of reform, but the work of reform must begin with them, for their I nobles are of themselves and their gov ernor proceeds from the midst of-them, K. ill. And then-what mighty interests, effecting not only us, but ours, not only ours, but that of this'iand, and other lands for ages to eome it may stand con= nected with those placed in' authority, by our suffrages. We are entering confessedly on stormy times, men driven on by fierce passion and blind, mad infatuation at both' ends of the Union, are toilingmight and main at their fiendish work of dismemberment. Fools in the madness .of their are heaving at the pillars of our great na tional temple. -Shall-the-good, the pm= dent, the wise of every party and every section standby and calmly look on at this work of deitruction when they hold the restraining power? It is time, high time that every lover of his country, and of his race should rise -in their majesty and strength, and hurl such mien from their.-place, and power. By the men of hand then I will go to the left.• .• : • every man to 'the highest nobility Of , , the present generation is the great ques-i If a boy .is determined to run away earth. ,It would "elevate every fallen, tion•to be settled, whether there can be from home. inspite of all entreaty and sunken man. It vrould* take him from maintained in.the midst of us artenlight: remonstrance of parents and members of the tombs and chides, like Christ took coed and tender moral sense to keep tis the family, if his remaining should cause , the demonises of, Gadara • and restore a virtuous, free and united people in • the bickering and contention and angry feel- them to their right mind, to theinhome, face of all these assaults upon the peace ing, then wauld" those parents . wisely to their gr. friends to society, to usefulness. and integrity of the nation. forgo their authority mid power and say I It. would break ,the fetter , from. every Ps By the honest men, by the moral men,: to him, go and prosper, trusting that .in ' slave of despbtism and passion -and lust by the christian men of this land is the doe time be-wOnld see his folly and come and elevate them to the dignity_of Sons great problem to be solved, whether this back and prove himself a &fad and use: of God. ~ , noble birth - - - right o r o,e fe shall be contin ful atenibeFof that family ;it was a sad - Righteousness would. stretch: cordon ued unto us and We headed down—oar day for that younger son when he felt of strength 'arbund this great nation and richest and most vn,l,ued legacy to, those that the restraints orliorne were oppres- around 'every home mightier, stronger, , , coming after us, or, whether Rsan like , sive and he - resolved to go forth free and more enduring than all the frowning, us shall tarter it away - --for that ,which unfettered, an independent yoUng.inah. bristling fortifications that thespower or in the end will cause bitter though nen - But alas fer.all,hlibright anticipations, 'wealth of the nation could . ere'ct? ''Give veiling repentance. with of thip,vast his new independence ran him very soon to this nation—and by this we ml4ll give territory filled up with a population, of into. the most degrading servitude,_ and 'to its people, to,. individuals ,rightaius so many millions, speaking the same'lan- the wisest step he could take was to return mess and you would give to iti-nri eleya-, goalie, governed liy the same laWs and to that home ; that. he had•left•- The, fa- tion and permanency such as,statesmen brbught in contact by arts and science ther acted widely in letting him go when or political men-never' dreamed of. , and commerce with every part bf the all remonstrance, and counsel and warn- 'ltis a glorious birthright. -given to globe, sending her ships and seamen and ing.a , s lost upon him.-; He did not want each man here and - for whickyOugbt to presses and' books over all seas and to a foNed,,constrained service.• And so, he show his thanirfalness by bewiangbim every continent and port and city on the divided withlaw his living." - . self a righteous man. Thegrighteousness wide, world and .whci „owl-measure the' 2., We y mity learn the duty of praying of each helps.to secure this'Land 20'de - eh extent and power •of ; that influence for for our rulers. No class of men need man is honored with e4iiiiniSsion no good or evil that is , to, bp the result:— more than they the prayers of chriatiani. less than thatorliPlPiriela exalt t and And on the other hand who can measure ' Efeace the apostle says,."l-exliertPst save this nation and thronghit-the world. the folly, the".:madness of a peci ) le of all 'that - supplications, prayers, inter- This' eing so, it is cleaethat' we thortld who, will stand quietly 14 and see the cessions-and giving of thanks, be Made - 'work put' - our greet .li-Areete in the Men of their own'election bring such for all men, for kings, and fol.all.thatare hands of religions rheMiad by Vila we a calarriity upon them, upon the nation, in authority, that we may lead quiet and' d'o net mean' of any .partitinlarsect, but upon the world.., •' ' ' .' . peaceable Wives in all kcidlitiess‘arid hull 'men whcr fear God and 'keep his nom. - .And now what lessons may be gather- esty. •. ' . mai:Mini:tuts: - ' -4 ''' ed from all this 7 ' ' A.. Who, we ask can carry {us safely - 4.•OurthanksgiVing r a6ddiAV*lis 1. And the first is, that they who are 'through:the storm but 'God Ihe .has the with a ceeerful, merry . lbeihi.l l4 .fghtlo laboring, working to tear down this great heat:ti of iaiers in his hand. ' Whillst them shall, proceed thaningising „, , all' . .. , political national fabric, know not, what 1 ;ea are crowding the sail and thus ; voice of them that mi%ket ma they do, in their blindness,, infatuation, are driving the ship on with appalling," would baa,great, ettOiment,, , fi may it be said of than' as .it was said of eWiftnees among the breakers, we can 'selves and a grit means... those maddeue - d, bigoted rulers who only'turaaWaY and - loOk to hini wholes others, if the deciples of AA* stood around the cross of their King and pov•ter,ovet the storm,and who can give . day could let the hope and . ikregiial; shouting crucify him, crucify to our, Senators wisdom and prudence in which cheers their hearts .gthili him,--".77/ey know not what they do." this the time of our, peril. ,He has car- faces also. "A mew - beart"4, a There . are evils in every` State and rieli o ns ,- through threatening dangers jai like a medicine 'but a toreken , government in our world; in the govern- ; times gone by. We can, with confidence 1 eth the bonen," . , merit of the , family there ,:are evils Mei- nc l iv implore him fortielp, - lay-zimploring I . There is-bedliiiklike &Cheat) dent.to that government, yet who would an to'guide Mad bless orirililere. '''' ' I hearto , and. 'Anneal' hethersati have it overturned. ith the.expeetatioa -, theie- is hanging a large and beautiful storinttlielionaOf botlyiketiftm that a better would be or could be, re ! I pietiire in the Rotuncheoritietkpitil `at i l;both have been overdone' The , constructed on its ruins. d e, In ate government of 'the eiatiigan church there are evils incident to its or ganization, which , no sane man would hope to remove by the destruction Of the church. , This.governmentis not a per fect one, there are evils connected with it •incident to all human institrttious, and there are evils that,by . a wise and prudent policy,would disappear, but what assurance have we,,or can , we have that if this government were sundered, broken up, we should get.s better , one instead. The men who framed lt were.rnen of sin gular, wisdom and prudence. Have we such men,new ? Men like Washington, Franklin, Henry, Efamilton, Greene, Morris, Lee, Carroll and a host of other giants in those days—would we get rid of our present . evils ? or rather is there not ground to fear, nay amoral certainty that far "greater "one's would be entailed upon us. • ' Besides we . have •th'& remedy for all our national' eVils in our hands. " Our nobles are of ourselves and our governor is of our own choice ; 'we choose the men who make or repeal our laws—time and patience and forbeirance and faith will do much. In the'mean time let es hope and pray that better' counsels will prevail—that present evils will be pa= tiently borne until they can be removed or remedied by lawful,' constitutional means-.fall remedies for national evils fancied. or real we think = that rewleed upon by a sister State as the most hope= less, bhe most- to be deprecated ; we doubt not that it will be 'a sad day for her-when in her frenzy she shall go forth to seek other alliances and confederates, yet we are free to say, that much as the act is to be deplered—sad and disaster ous as may be the influence on sister States or on the nation, we would 'not have the government ,exercrse her right and power to ,res,rein,her • against her • protest and her will. - , . • Better;far better be apart, seperate• than that there should be angry strifes and contentions and bitier feuds and an. imosities, terminating it may be in civ ildiseordsand bloodshad and desolation, the extent and end of which no one , • could predict . " The beginning of strife, says the , wise man, is like the letting out of waters. Therefore beire of conten tion he says before it be meddled with a • wise precaution surely. We would say, in the lan.uage of the good and, wise old patriarch to his kiedred Lot "Let there be no strife pray thee between me and thee for we be brethren. Is not the whole land, before thee. Sepa rate thyself I pray thee frotwme, if thou wilt take the left hand then I will •go to the right; or if thou depart-to the.right_ Ternas, C:kaae 3Dolla - r a "Year_ 4 1 • Washington. Ittis a representation of our forefathers l'eatring their native land to come over to these Western shores, on i that proud old vessel that was soon to bear them away ; they are represented to as-be engaged in prayer; parents and children together, while tkiat old minister whose name is a household word familiar to every child almost, is offering up their heartsdevotion onto God; in their midst lies an open Bible open Where the New Testament begins. Oa the4iddi3 of the pie. tura the artist represents the rain bow of promise, their guide over the waters.— They trusted their noble ship to his guidance add relied upon' the promises of his word and were carried safely over *- , -never, never can the Storms Whelm our noble ship, with its priceless 'freight so long as that epen Bible is our chart tied guide and the wise and - good who have embarked their all of earthly wealth still hope, ask the counsel and help of the God of their fathers. The bow of pir& ° O ise rests even now on those dark,, rid clouds, and they will retreat and Scatter till all is again clear—if only men by their' faith and prayers •• will ' call down the blessing of God upon their: rulers. )(41. nt But if the worst should coe'and judgements should befall us, we will hope to come out of• the trivia stronger 'and better nation, It may be that God'intends to punish tie in the line of our offences,- I have no time or heart to dwell upon oar national sins, our ingratitude as a nition, our pride, , our covetousness,. site Sabbath breaking, our fraud ' ' , oar injustice, our oppression of the defencelese Indian and slave, our practical atheism. 'We 'have been boasting of oar manifest' 6.stiny.— We have Ahab-like cast covetuons eyes Upon the little vineyard of some neigh boring Nehothito'annei it letiiiinenits Or foul to our already vast posiessions, and it may be that God-will sniter plede after piece to be 'broker' Off'that-we may be cured of our , Pride and repent of our sins. "If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and,pray and seek my face and tern , ,ppm ,their. wickedness then will I hear from heayea and will forgive their sin and 414 Beal their land." Righteousness, alone .can save and exalt this nation. Sin will prove its reproach ruitrnin. What if every man were a righteotts, pion like Wilberforce or Howard:—would there be trjail, or court house, or alnishcirise, Or house of refuge in the land r wonldthere be found it den'ef driinet Would there be an oppressor, a' robber ?lei fraud Or in. injustice? A • Righteousness exalts the Man, Makes him a better- citizen. It would ''eleVate NO. 22. =II