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0 r .... '.2f. 1 t ! I.. I LIFE IS ONLY TO BE VALUER AS IT IS USEFULLY EMPLOYED. VOLUME I. ASIIEVILLE, NORTH : CAROLINAr FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1811. NUMBER 43. ,;.. J- - ' ' . : ? 1 7 v f- JJ. S. B'AAALLY k i. ROBERTS, EDITORS. MfXTrll AND ri'SLIHHEIJ ItVrilT FRIDAY, III JT. II. C1IIIISTY. ' Ti The Mmrbmok" is published at Two Dollar and Fifty Cent per annum, in advance, or Three Dollar at Um end of Uie year. No subscription discontinued, (except at the op. tion of tlte publisher) until all arrearages are paid. AoraaTiaiMtirra will be inserted at One Dollar per (qua re for tlte first, and Twentj-Five CenU for each subsequent insertion. . All eotninunicatioM murt 'be (net paid. MISCELLANEOUS. The Krrptlral janf Officer. rr mi furs B4..I. . siasos, or s. tork. Vjxvrj one ha remarked the mixed, and often ill-assorted company which meets in a . public packet or stage-coach.- 1 ho convcr Nation with all its variety, U commonly in sipid, frequently disgusting and insufferable, There aro exceptions. - An opportunity iow and then occurs of spending an hour Jn a manner not unworthy "of rational be. frigs;) and the, incidents of a stage-coach produce or promote salutary impressions, A few7yearsr"ngo7pno"of "these- stages which ply between our two principal cities, - was filled w ith a group which could never have been drawn together by mutual choice. yla the company was a voung man of so. cial temper, aflablainntinerr, andconsid.' craule information. His accent was bare "Iy sufficient to show that the English was not his nativcNto.nguc, and a very slight pe. culiarity in the pronunciation of the th as certained him to bo a Hollander. He had early entered into a militaryjifc : had borne both a Dutch and (french commission; had seen real service, had travelled .Nvas mas ter of the English language: and evinced, by his deportment, that ho was no strangprl to the society of gentlemen, J le. had, however, in a. very high degree, a fault too qonimon among military men, and too nl nurd to find an advocate among men f sense, ; he sworo profanely and incessantly . V lulu the horses wcru changing, a gen tlcman who sat on the same scut with him took him by the arm, and requested the fa vor of his company in a short walk. When they were so fur retired as not to ho over heard, the former observed, 14 Although I ""hawnonhc hanortiiryour acquaintance-;! perceive, sir. that vour habits and feelings are those of a gentleman, and that nothing can bo more repugnant to your wishes than giymg unnecessary pain to any ot your company." Ilestarted, and replied, "most certainly, sir! I hope I have committed "no ofleneeof that sort." - " ;'"ou will pardon me," replied the oth cr for pointing out an instance in which you . 1. .1 f 1 1 navenoi nuogemer avomcu 11. . Sir, said he, "I shall be mucli your debtor for so Iriemlly an act; "for, upon my honorv I cannot conjecture in what I hoou is infinitely more incredible than any I not be as conclusive as a mathematical ffi vation through the Redemption of the Son of I these laws aro to be, found in that which I mate inferencesiTrom the clearest and most one mystery in the volume of revelation. I eument is now : and that tho principles' off God: the religion which will 'sweeten your 'I pfescribes, defines anil regulates bur OToraNunQucstionableidata'. The inrrineementbrt or even-tlian all their mysteries put together I moral and relicious science would not com. 1 pleasures, and soften your sorrows, which liberty, whichetfnsists simply in doine what f" riuhts and " liberties.M is on their nart. i lour inquiries, sir, appear to have been I mand au a.fnt as infanta ncous and per-1 win give peace to your conscience, ana joy is compatible with tlie will ofuod. IinsrlneY mako inroads on the peicc, quietness unhappily directedbut what sort of proof emptory ns tharwliich is commanded by to your heart which "will bear you up un. SV'indebd, all the liberty that any man has., and good order of society, and are dp you desire, and what would satisfy you!" mathematical axiomW" der the pressure of evils here, and shed the The" will of God, Is the foundation of all stantfy engaged in a course directly at "Such proofs as accompany physical sci After a sliurt pause, in which no reply light of immortality on tho gloom of the, moral obligation. He wills that onlyWhich' with tho civil and jnoral iutcrcsts of was made bv the olHcer. iind the looks of grave. This religion, I1 believe sir, the company revealed their sentiments, the haye yet to study." enco. ihis I .have always loved; for I never find it deceive me. I rest upon it with entire :on viction, There is no mis take, and can be no dispute in mathematics. And if a revelation-comes from God. why I deavor to turn the tables upon you, by show nave we not such evidence for it as mathc ing that tho evidence ot your pnysicm sci you clernvfnun nrocecded. " Cut what will vou sav'.sir. hould I en; & 4 r r matical demonstration ?" "Sir, you are too good a philosopher not to know- that the nature of its object ; that if you break in upon rts adaptation, you have no evidence at all; seeing thit evi dence is no more interchangeable than ob jects. If you ask for mathematical evi dence, you must confine yourself to m.athe. matical disquisitions. Your subject must be quantity. . If you wish to pursuo a mbr a! investigation, you must quit your mathe mat ics, and confine yourself to moral evi dence. Your subject must bo the relation enre. st not without its difficulties : aol that objections can bo urged against matlumati cal demonstration mpro puzzling aid un. answerable thanany objections againrt nior- al evidence T .. "I sha vield the Cause: but 1 an sure that tho condition- is impossible." "Let us try." said the other. . Tho officer put his hands upon his face 5 then languidly clasping Jth&in, let them fall down : forced a smite, and snld with a We must .follow what we think best," His bchaV'iour afterward was per fectly decorous. Nothing further is known ot him. Reader have yon " studied the religion is compatible with the good of thorwhole; and the good of the community, as such, is tho good of each individual who compos es it. x ' m We have bcenJod to these remarks by the fact that one of 'tho most common oh-1 jections urged against the temperance refor. (nationals upon the ground that it is sup- posed- to be infavorable to our indivi dual I It is amusing, not to ! of rights and privileges con. War tho country. - ,. The various excuses offered by the ma kers and venders . of ardent spirits, for con tinuing their business, we will notice" here, after; for the present, we drop the subject, but we arc by no means done with it. From "Chronicles of Life," by Mrs. C. 8. Wilson. "TTif Truant "ttnsbaiidrH "The painful vigil may I never know That anxious watches o'er a wandering heart." Mas. T'uuav (V I 11.1 (.1 1 .. n.a 1 .4. i or saivanon tnrougn tna redemption ot the say ridiculous, to hear tho vnporins Son of God 7 If so, you must have,hen some anti-tcmperance men about their be deeply convinced of the necessity of salva- ing a " freeman," having a " right to do as tion of the utter impossibitityof obtain, they please." and their determination not "I begin with a common cas& I lie ing it by yoyr own exertio-ns; r by thoso4to " give up their liberties." They become dull ticking of tlm French clock thnt stood ?ur . ? ' r t ! 1 - I r . , . 1 . i ... I i .... , . r- l . . o . ixewionian system 01 ino wonu ll su iicr- ui any uuiercrfuiure Ol us ucina OIHV Ul excccainciy nairiOUC WllCn IIUS SUUICCl IS rtn fli mhrh n rliiinnrv.ni(C(. nH PVnranH p .1 ..I 1 .1 .1 I.. . v .!. I.I L I '.!.'!. Iff ...I il l .... 1 f .1 . . . . . I . J I . iecny seuiea mat noscnoiar pre6unit;! iu uu wunn inrougn nuui in mni wnom vou ngnaieu, irom uie same cause mat a certain anon lifting her weary eye to its dial to 1 . ' t .A n ). I hno ... tnH K.. ,1 k.' . . 7 . . . . - I I T J- I I.. I .. 1 ...1 C5. .1 , r . ' V. never heard of Newton nor Copcrfiicua, nor and of its befhg not only fully adequate j Paul preached there : If these men prevail, It was past midnight, and she s-.t leaning , her pale cheek on her hand, counting tho wluch subsist between intelligent beings. It the solar system, and tell him that the earth to the wants of the most needy of the hu- our era fl is in danger! From thesamecause would bo quite" as wiseTo anblv a rule in I njfl.ve round its axis and rouni the sun. man family, but also perfectly free to the that influenced certain men once at Philin ethics to the calculation of an eclipse, as I tie will stare at you to see whe:lier you be mostvile and worthless. Have you ob- pi who had a servant "'possessed of the to call for Euclid when we want to know our j not jeering him ;. and whenhesecs ybuare Joined" an interest in this precious salva. spirit of divination," and " brought her duty, or to submit the question, "whether I in earnest he will laugh at you for a fool, tion T You arc a debtor to sovereign grace, master much gain by sooth saying;" When God has spoken J' to the test of a problem in Ply him, now, with yyur mathematical and j Flesh and, blood have not imparted it to the apostle in tho name of Christ, cast the the conic sections. How would you nvove astronomical reasoning, lie will .answer VoU, out' the" life-giving "Spirit" of Godr devil out of her; far'tfi&itefoTflkal iki i matnematicauy that bread nourishes men, and that fevers kill them ? Yet you and both are as firmly convinced of tho truth of these propositions, as of-any nvuhemnt icnl demonstration whatever : and should I call them In question, my neighbors would cither pity me as rn idiot, or shut me up as madman- .It is, therelore. a creat-mis- you that he believes his own eyesight that tells him' the sun moves round the earth. And as for the earth's turning roujid upoa j her axis, he will say that " he has often hung a kettle over the kitchen fire at night. and when he camo back in the morning, it was hangins there still, but had the earth turned round, the kettle would have botsn Hold f;ist-rSJrow w- grace endure to the end ; for in duo tune you shall reap if you taint not.' . . ; But are you ignorant of this great salva tion T do you neiHect it ? do . you dospisc mark tho lapsb of another hour. It was past midnight, and yet he returned not! She arose, and taking up the lamp, whose pale rays alone illuminated the solitary chamber, proceeded with noiseless step to a small inner apartment. The curtains of his little bed were drawn aside, and the young mother gazed on her sleeping child! check and smiling brow present, as ho lay take t- suppose, there is no" satisfactory or I turned over, and the mush spilled over the those w lo ileoiMseit aha!! bo lightly esteem certain evidence but what is reducible to floor." You are aniused with the peasant's ed if uninterested therein, you perish i i lf-ott, sir ," x,co'rtimieI thefortnerr hsd-arrcry detrf frieffd to "wtiom you wero under unsjwiikablu obligation, should you not bo deeply won ui led by-anydisrcspcct to hurt, or even by hearing his nanio intro (luccd and used with a frequency of repe-tition-and u levity of air incompatible with a regard due to his diameter t" - - " Undoubtedly, arid I should not permit itT butl know not that I "am chargeable with an indecorum to any of your friends." " Sir, my God is my best friend, to whom I am under infinite obligations. I think .you must recollect that you havo very fre quently, since wo havo commenced our journey, taken In's name in vain. This has given to me and toothers of my company excruciating pain." "Sir," answered he, with ingenuous cm phasis, " I have done: wrong. I confess the impropriety. I am ashamed of a prac tice which f am sensible has no excuse; but I swear without. being conscious that I do so, and, as you are next me in tho scat, I shall thank yoifto touch my elbow as often ns I trespass." Thia was agreed upon; the v Jhom sounded, .and the travellers resumed their placus. "vr:" i "In thospaco of four or five miles the of. - licer sclbow was jogged every lew. seconds hwtthematics." simplicity, but you cannof convince him. This train of reflection appeared new to l lis objection is, in lu.i own eyes, insur. lim. Yet.; though staggered, he made an mountable ; he will tell 'e afliiir to his ffort to maintain hisgmund, and lamented neighbors as a good storv, and they t ill that tho "objections toother modes of rea agree that hb fairly shut tlio philoiophr soning aro numerousind perplexing, while mouth. You may reply, that "the pea, tho mathematical conclusion puts all scepti- ant was introduced into tho middle of a cism m aenance. maiurca science, una inai noi nnving icarn. " Sir,", rejoined theclergj'rilap, "objee- ed its element, he was unsupplied with the tions against a thmg fairly provedvaro of principles of correct judgment." True : nb weight. The proof rests unonour but your solution has overthrown yourself. of their gain was emw .and fmmediately rais- ed the hub and cry i behalf of' Caar. in rosy slumber, to the faded, yet beautiful The truth is, that they wish to continue their face that hunar over him in tears! " Will practices of making, vending and drinking' h0 resemble hisfathcr I was the thought that ardent spirits ; and wish to do it under the passed for a moment through her devoted it T It is made kaown with great plainness sanction of public opinion; and any efforts jieart, and a sigh was the only answer! in the S-riptures bo assured that its im- which' may be likely to turn public opinion Tis his well known knock and tho portanre slmll one day be felt; and that ngajnst them" will be met witi all tho ener- steps of the drowsy porter echoed through gies they arc capable of mastering. , the lofty hall, ns with a murmur on his hps, Under a "proper construction of moral he drew the massy bolts and admitted his ibcrty, (die only liberty man has) no one thoughtless master. Four o'clock, WiU has a right to do what is in itself wrong, or lis, is it not '." and he sprang up tho stair, what would in anywitfctend to tho injury of case ranothcr moment lie is in tho cham' others; and as the friends of the temper- bcr in her arms! ., '' anco reformation have often been accused , No reproaches nict the truant husband. of intentions unfavorable to the rights and nonc- save those sho could not Uit spare liberties jof the country, it may not be hiin, in her Iicavy eye, and faded chcek- ctertnttv. Fr ua t Wwr-raXariia Teuip. Advocato. I4b-rt). " .. ' x Ther hp t" w words of oommbn us in tl. lin-rUsh hmguags k.fM underntood as U llhir Bfraning. or more vaguely interprfisl ly Uie m of mankind, tlian amiss to take briefly, into consideration, yet these spoke to ftis heart. khowTedgbrandr norance. It is tjuc that moral demonstra tions and religious doctrines may be attack ed in a very ingenious and plausible man. ncr , because they involve questions on which our ignorance is greater than our knowl edge but still our knowledge is knowl: edge, or in other words,' our certainly is certainty. In mathematical reaaonir , our knowledge is greater than our ign ranee. When you have proved that the three ttn. gels of, every triangle are equal to two right A frce-ihinkerrwhen he hearoiomff -grpat doctrine of Christianity, lets of a small ob. jection and runs away laughing at the lolly, or railing at the imposture of all who ven ture to defend a Divine revelation ; ' ho gathers his brother unbelievers, and they unite with him in wandering at the weak ness or. the impudence of Christians. lie Is in tho vcrv situation of tiio Deaaant. Ho bolts into the heart of a grand religious system ; he has never adverted fots. first principles, and then he complains thai mc the ow it lie he4 of this article. Liberty, in its most indefinite and cxten ded sen U kn jwn only in namo ; exists, rfar as rteoncrms iMortak horer only-in, the imagination : a subject of tho poets been a' wandering hus " Julia, l have band." " But you aro come now, Charles, and And all was well, for, from that hour. the course of the maker and vender of ardent spirits, andsee if tho infringement on rights, be not on their part, instead of oursr And -firsU Thowakcr and vender, j all is-well," nrn fnvnrnhln to the common llso of snirit.q. song a hobby fortlic'fanaticaldemagogue, and knowingly, take measures .to, secure Charles Danvers became an altered man. or a kind of ignus Jatuus for tho fabulist their consumption. But, sccohdjy," they Had his wife met him with frowns and suU ad psuedo philanthrophist, but no where is know that, the common use of spirits is len tears, ho had become "a hardened liber it to be found in reality. This will readily most generally, if not invariably, followed tine ; but her affectionate caresses, the joy be conceded so lar ns it relates to noeny as by intemperance. 1 herelorc, the maker that danced in her sunken eye, tho hectid and vendor of ardent spirits, arc, on the synonymous with freedom, "considered in opposition to necessity. That, there are irreversible laws binding us down to cgr tain courses, and restricting our operations, none will deny ; and While these laws tmrrth. them is nn end of doubt hoc.nusn evidence is bad But the fault in neither whether they belong to our physical or mor. - . , . ., . '.;-.-... i;l fU nuiures, cuiiuuuu iir uci upon us, ouriiu- ertfcis restrained and wearo freeIL wc consider tho -wort! -as-irm i work there a re no materials for ignorance to up into phantoms ; but voufr-knowled; really more certain than your knowledgeoh any other subject. - "There is also a deception in this mat ter. The defect complained of is supposed to exist in the : nature of the proof ; whereas it exists, for the most part, in the mini of the inquirer. It is impossible tatcll how far case lies in die evidence : it lies in the norance or obstinacy, of aho objector The peasant's ground is-aafirra as the infidel's. The proof of the Newtonian system is to the former as distant, subtle, and cloudy, as tho proof of revelation can be o the lat ter ; and tho objection of the one is as good as the objection of the. other. If tho de- pravity of niell'had as much interest in per- plying-frcedom in opposition to slavery," it then becomes a question how far our na. tures under the irrevocable laws which gov era them are susccptibhvof discnthralment? In all cases, then, when wausc the word liberty, we use in a comparative and re thelnflueneeniu that the earth is no globularrlstrieted sense, Full-ana- perfect Hbejty4:considc rcja3 clU,,si etdwaysloirtot-berar ed the hint withouL the least" symptom of displeasure: and in a few miles more, so nronensity to swearing, that not an oath was heard fro'm his lips lor tho rest, which was- tho greatest part of tho oarriey He was evidently more grave : and hav ing ruminated some time, after surveying first ono and then another of the-eompany, turrrcdtcHiisdmonishervnd-addivssed him thus: " You aro a clergj-man, I presume.sir." " I am considered as such." He paus ed ; and then with a smile, indicated his disbelief ioJjivineiievelation,.. inn way which invited (conversation on that subject; "I have never been ablo to convince my self of the truth of revelation.' PossiWy not. But what is your 4ifli. cultyl" r . " I dislike tho nature of its proofs. Tliey ' are so subtle; so distant; so wrapt up in mystery ; so metaphysical, tha I get lost, andTan arrrveat o certain conclusion." '' I jcannot admit the fact to be as ybu re present it. : My impressions are altogether different. Nothing seems to me more plain and popular ; more level to every common . understanding more remote from all cloudy speculation, or teasing subtleties than some of the principal proofs of Divine revelation. They are drawn from great and incontest.1 ible facts ; :hey aro accumulatingevery hour They have grown into such a mass j ; of evidence that the supposition of its false-; the light of human reason At the mention of "depravity, -the of ficer smiled, and seemed inclined to jest: probably suspecting, as is common with men of that class, that his antagonist was going to retreat into his creed, and intrench limself behind a technical term, instead of an argument, ' The triumph 'was prema. ture. " " You donot imngmc,sir,"sai(l he, con- tinning his discourse to the officer, "you lo not ijnagine that a man who has been ong addicted to stealing, feels the force of reasoning against theft as strongly as a man of tried honesty If you hesitate, proceed a step furthert i ou do not imagine that an habituated thief Tecls as much abhorrence of his own trade and character, ns a man who never committed an act of theft in his wholo life And you will not deny that the practice of any crime gradually weak and docs not move round the sun, as it has in persuading them that the Bible is not true, a mathematical, demonstration would fail of converting them although the demon strator were nn angel of God ! " But with respect to the other point, viz : that there are omections to matncmai- ical evidence more puzzling and unanswer able, take the-two following instances : "It is mathematically demonstrated that space is infinitely divisible : that is, has an infinite number of parts; a line, then, of half an inch long, has an infinite number f parts. Who does not see the osurdity of this? Try the difficulty anther way. It requires some portion of time to pass any portion of space.. Then a.iyour half J public welfare inch has an infinite number of parts, . it re- natural liberty quires an infinite number of portions of time for a moving point to pass by the in finite number of parts : consequently it re ens , and rVequontlydostroya liesonsttlquirev n temi ty sonMithiBg liko it , to as a philosopher, you jire bound to explain. To mo it is clear as day, that his vic8 has dehnnched his intellect ; tnr it iq in"fljipinri - ye . m tneotneer, "you do not deny the accuracy of the demonstra tjnn ihnt apnrji in infinitely divisible. !" oic, inai me considerations wnicn once nil- iot in the leastsir ; l perceive no ed him with horror, produce now no more -flaw in the chain of demonstration, and impression npoB -lwn than they would upon J yetT perceive -tho result to he infinitely ab- a noMfl. y nv f iiaa um vice cnnncreii r i omi " 1 -j - j - . - - r i owiv.. ( No. The vice is as pernicious, and the considerations are as strong as ever.' But Again : it is mathematically demonstra ted that a straight lightcallled hvasymp hlspowerof peTccivtnjtruthis diminishetl; f tote of hyperbola, may eteniaily au- liberty would-be-fef jess than if the whole eommunity wcre-unucr u; uouiniion 01 juhi- and equitablq laws. I he benefits to be de rived from an organized state of civil socic. ty are incalculable. To enjoy these bene fits it becomes necessary for us to rclin- quish on our part, those natural rights which wero required to be given up in order to form such a state of society in the firsf, instance. Strictly speaking, therefore, no man has any right to dowhat Is in any way "and "diminished by- his "vice ; for, liad- he4proach-theeurve-of the-hyperbplay-andyet not lallen into it, the considerations would can never jneet it Wow; all demonstra have remained ; and-(should lie bo saved tions are buHT upon axioms, an axiom must from it,) they would resume their original always Tbe plainer than i a "demonstration ; force upon his mind.f Permit yourself, for land to myjudgmetat isns plain, that if two one moment to rellect how hard it is to per- hues continually approach, they shall meet, suade men of Uie virtues of others against as that the, wholo is "greater than its whom.i they . are prejudicrid ! Vou shall part Here, therefore, lam fixed. I have bring no proof of the virtues which the pre. a demonstration directly in the teeth of 1an judlep shall not resist or evade. Remove axiom, and am equally incapable of deny. the prejudice and the proof appears inyinci- ing either side of the contradiction. ble. Why?, Have the virtues changed? , " Sir'' exclaimed the officer, clapping has the proof been strengthened?' Na bis harwis together, M I own I am beat. But the power of perceiving truth 'is in. I completely beat- J hate nothing more' to creased; or whfchisthe"8amelhing,.thejsay." v 'rr " V -impediment to perceiving is taken away. If I A silencc.of somo minutes succeeded ; tberi, there are bad passions among men; when the young military traveller said to and if the object of Divine revelation js to bis theological fricndJil haveatudied ' all control and rectify them ; it follows, that a religions, and' hare not been; able to satisfy man to whom the irevcTatibn-is.. proposed, myself." ' . ' -j '. v' will be blind to its evidence, in exact pro- r.:; iJNo, sir," answered he, "there is one portion to tho perverting influence of those religion hicfi'voa havo not yet "studied." passkmsLl And were the human mind free J "Pray. sir," cried the ofSccrxousdjaiid from ieorTHDtion. there is no reason what- leiifpr. "what is that?" T ever to thini that a moraUrgument would ' The religion,1 replied1 tW other, 'of sel- belongs only to Omnipotence. Amon men, there arc no operations whatever,' but such as aro restrained by some law ; and whether that law exists ex necessitate rei, or whether it exists in reference to certain cir. cumstaiKOS growing out of, and dependent upon the different relations of society, it not only restrairis,tut classifies our opera, tions, so that we have as principal divisions, natural, civil and moral liberty. Natural liberty consists simply in not being restrain ed in any way from doing whatever we have a will and power to do. Civil liberty is well defined to consist "in not being restrained by any law but what conduces in a greater degree to the To do what wo will, is And todo only what is conducive to the public good,iscivil liberty, which is indeed the enly liberty that can reasonably be-dcf-ired in civil society I There is, necessarily.. Relinquishment of - a wtfoquf imtaraT-rigKt': aridrjertleir before a state of civil and social society can be formed. A man may doubtless wish to dp as he, pleases, but he must remember that flash that lit up her pallid check at his ap proach were arguments lie could not with stand. Married in early Iif, while he felt all the ardor, but not tho cr teem of love i possessed of a splendid fortune, and ha v. ing hitherto had the entire command of his ownjplcasurcs Danvers fell into that com- o sav-ihaUliib maker and ven- mon error, of. newly married men tho- " . T . . . . J .) .1 11 I . whole, favorablo lo intemperance, and knowingly, take measures laproduce it! .Our first and second propositions will not be seriously denied ; nnd if they bo admit ted, orcan be proved true, tho corollary will follow ns a matter ot course. We do der of ardent spirits arc favorable to intem perance in the abstract, but wo do say thnt they are favorablo to the common use of the article with a perfect knowledge of its cf fuets, and when men choose nr anj which they know had to certain ends, and to be mseperably connected with those ends, they ids alsq. In this way are we to understand tho doc trine of tho Bible, that men chooso death in llie errors of their trays. They aro not sunnosed to choose death nbstractlvconsid. ered, but they choose the mean-) w hich lead ded life had passcd-fo him in fevered and dread of being controlled. In vain did his parents who beheld "with sorrow tho re. iroachcs'and misery he was heaping up for limself in after life, remonstrate 5 Charles Danvers turned a deaf car to advice, and pursued, with companions every way un. , worthy of his" society, the path of folly if not absolute guilt' The tavern r-tlio-club room, the race course, too often left his " r wife a solitary mourner, or a midnight ' watcher. ' . . Thus the first three years of their wed to death, knowing that the means and end are insepcrable. Vb hold, therefore, tho maker and vender, as not only on the whole favorable to intemperance, nnd knowingly, taking measures to produce itr but as ac cessary to the multiplied crimes committed under its influence. I o be an accessary to a crime, according to Walker, is one " thnt not being principal, contributes to- it It may, perhaps, however, be best explained by the language of the law, as laid down by some eminent jurists. Blacksto.ne, if wc recollect rightly, de. fines it somehow in this way i" An acccs. saryi, is ho" who is notjthc chicr actor in thc ofTence, nor pr&cnt at its performance, but IOOojM way connected the rein , , cither beforo or after tho act commitled." restless pleasure, to her irt blighted hopo ot murmuring regret But this night crown ed the patient forbearance of tho neglected Julia with its just reward, and cave lira death blow to folly in the bosom of Danvers. ! Returning wij.li disgust from the losses of the hazard table, her meekness and long- suffering touched him to tho soul ; the filnlj fell from his eyvs,'and Vice, in her ownv hideous deformity, stood unmasked before him. - . - . ' f t " - Ten years have pascd.since" that solita. ry midnight, when the yOufig matron bent in tears over her sleeping boy. ?- Behold her nowl Still in the pride of Womanhood, surrounded by tlicir cherub faces, who are listening ere thev go tojcstlb her swect volceriiislrpoararforxli to tho nccompani? mcnt of her harp an evening song of joy ' J . 1 I l . 1 -i . .. e f t t every other man has the same natural rights and perhaps in tins particular the same wish with himself, and forall tb attemputo do as they please,' would throw so milch oppo sitioh. and so many hindrances in tho way breach individunlxtharhishnppfness apd hkv in wliich he lives. An act is not civilly right merely because tho civil law does not condemn it. All human Jaws Jronl the source Trom whence they emanate, are ne. cessariljr imperfect; besides, they are main ly enacted upon, a previous knowledge 'of what is good or 111 fora community. -The imperfections arid weakness connected with, and characterizing all human institutions, hen orooerlv-considered. show most con. clusively, the necessity of having a codegC laws pure r of higlicr orjgin, and more di rectly adai.tcd to tne varied exigencies "of jniEkind than what earth can dense. - And LHITTT, wno3B auuioniy is nine, 11 any, A .iiWi' . n 7r,rm i. nA. inferior to Blackstonc, is more srxicific He 1 .m '-r-nrfr.T.i- - .1 . .;. - . 1 aijir ij v 1 : 1 Li 11 : iiiii.-ii 11.11 TT'.m luuu .iiu .(uia - o . I rt.--:i--i - - 7 rr-- I C .1 1... ! V- says, - ah ry .0 u.e .act, i 0f happiness and triumph that springs from that being absent at the time of the actual ti: i. ul ,.'i..V- .i, perpctrationf the felonyAprocKrc. coun sels, commands, incites, or abets another to commit it." , And again he rcrnarks, that " whoever procures a felony to be committed, though ihroJig!Ljlif.ntervcnlirn of a third person, without any personal communication with the principal, is an accessary before the fact' " ,: Sir Mathew'IIalh, defines it wulistan- ftially the same 01 do Blackston and Chltty. Fosjcr in his " thrown Law," says, that the best writers agree 'tiliat persons procuring or even consenting beforehand arc acces saries before the fact" ' a swelling bosom, ns ho contemplates tho interesting group, Youtliful matrons ! yo wliowatcover-awaflderirig, perhaps 7 erring -heart wf?en a reproach tremble upon your hps towards a truant husband, imitate - Julia 1 Dvers, and. remember, : though hymen has chains, like the sword of . Ilarmodius they may be covered witll flow, ers, that unkindncss and irritability-do bill " liardcn, if not wholly-estrang'e the heart--while on theontrary patience andcntl ncss of manner (o water dropping on tho flinty rock will in timo wear into softness) seldom fail to reclaim to happiness and vir tue the Truant Husband. . incompatible with the good of the commu-i Now in the light of these plain law max- Death ot k Dhms aid. 'Tlio Boston Journal gives an account of a man named ims, we ask what relation, do tho makers and venders of ardent spirits sustain to the trains of dire. "cyD which aro constantly flowing out from t lie common use . of the article ? "Are they-not - in somo way con. oected T JJo they not " procure," " incite,' and "labet" in these evils?- Do thev not Kelscy, who had been missinglourtocn days, and was finally found with tjtigif : brandf' by his head! I lei had been covered witlv snow. . ' r Mai BctiwoHAJi. lrl- Bucklngliam rr-aA'Av furnish the means with a rlir un. I who resided forarverel vcars in the United" derstanding of the use that is to. be made of I States and wm popular as a lecturer, on it. and with perfect knowledge of its ef- fects ? Most assuredly they do ; and if they fire no( on ".the whole favbraWo to intern. perancc, and accessary to the Crimea pro. duced by it, w are nnabla to draw Wri. his return'loLoridon.'wM cordially greet ed at a public meeting of tha diflerenl tem perance societies of tlie 4K2trxfjf"o'j to w tiom he gate an ir.tcrestls-; JCojt of tiie pro- ghs3 cf tcr.rsfrtace iat United SkXf$. 1 : r i -A t A 7 ' 1
Highland Messenger (Asheville, N.C.)
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April 9, 1841, edition 1
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