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VOLU.ME I. ' LINCOLNTON, N C.,; APRIL 10, 1849. NUMBER 18.
V"-Frfifi IawUrrirf, Til KiritU,
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tiisTRATE s and CJonstablits Blanks;;
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PO ETRY.
-, ' " For the CaroIIo Republican.
To the Catawba Hirer.
.l!ow cA aleg taX bank, fair stream,
vl've watched the fading light cf day,
And !;rred till dUj latt beam,
Had 0. before tic night away..
- Hy , y of auld Ung" ne,"
I've --u "ur cpoa thy Irtxst,
'And. c 1 'Tvd the sixAing line,
With health anC qirits ever blest.
Hw cA whTi eve. V shade came on,
And roondighi kisscu silver ahect,
1 aal in thbtfulne alone,
. Aad jcarleU tie ripples at my feet.
' Tho hear are gone! thy lank I roam
N taare, nor hear the diprang lioe,
, AtiT rrtaoffl from thee axVi Lony?,
2 J j -arr ttxb a iLi, xuine.
, Ycil-V, as here in gloomy rooJ,
1 jni and rkw ilij't Culiag Lcam,
l"cf,li loteJ it.t will uiciu'ry hrooJ,
. Acl jXx.l iae to Cu&nrfqV .miM.
7; SPEECH OF
COVEUOn .TIcDWELL,
OF VIIIGIXLA.
Am lZptmt Af j-ral fur Cv prenn wr on tXr
The nifst clracnt ih1 thrilling fpct-ch do
ttcrcti daricg lie Utc sraJon of Cungrc,
irjj lJ.ofClur. MeIXwtIlt of Virginia,
tn th? IUI to fvrji enc or taore Staica cut
f the , Urntoncs. of California aaJ New
3!cxio. Ilis arpralj far ctaaprombc atil
cjcilatjn co lL slave qoestioa eU:rIi!J
tHe Hcumt, m-I cTca dnew tcsrs frcra Duor ;
cf lie acralrr. The whIc fpocch U pul j
ILh J ia the Washington 0!l- anJ xu- i
i'ks nia aiul a ha!fcioljr jrinicJ coIuiqla. ,
tic rvrrci uoi e caTe rrra cuit ior iue
cooc;uc;n prtion,,wuKU is as lollows:
I lut. Mr. Chairman, when I pass hr
the
&Yxui4 paxti to this case, and recall te
torticuur ones: when I see that mr own
SiAiy L W-r,Ir irjt.I;-jU J m the trouLIoand
th danger cf it as any other, and larc!S to ;
the full, with all her southern cplleagxic, iu j
th m t Paiafal arrnrhensians of iu Issue,
r-wWa 1 see iM. I turn involuniarily, and .
I iuh iu5ectAl 'deferrncc of fpirir, f nd al, i
(mi ia uus eatrni matneni to irptiii.
will MxtMachcfttftf do?-that Mxswbotetts
which ia the dnrnation of our
early c-lo-
laui huiory, was am
tr.b. What will Not
L matter before u
ftaie aid ststiTf Wi
iheT M' rrwfal ia b
knovn as Northern rri-
rthern Virginia do, iu
for her southern nam
Will you too (I speak to
5fr a present in tier Jerrcscniavcsi
will vi forrtttin all tlie past, put forth
a nana to smite ncr lnommioosly upon ue l
hrk? In your own early day of deepest ;
extremity and dlstrcas the day of the 1J-
t,o Feci l.U -when your beautiful capital
in thrwntrncd with extinction, and Knbn J
waa cvUcctia,; her gigantic power to sweep
your Urtic:s away, Virginia, caring f. r no j
. dis J counu'n no cttf bravely, gene- j
roMfilj, injtantly, iterped forth for our d
i iTrri-e. , roc ntaue the uay oo whKb this
VU was executed, the 1st of June, 1774, a
ilay of hucailiaticn, fasting and prayer thtu
irsrlcring ; wih cce voice, the protection
(vn-J lh Wng'cf Heaven open yoa, and tha,
tKrcugh a religious act, the ultimate on f
Itiional distrcw, rawls up her pet-pie tn
Ti fullest and nt atortl.ng sense of the
-Citrag and the fril whlt-h awaited you.
5 Se 'called cpoo yon to st3.nd up for your
one; that it wj the true. cause the cause
cf rigbt, and frvcdcui, and justice; tliat as
i-.eh, she made it her own, and would Cght it
c-,t with yoa, blow by blow, ajid, live or die,
- ;u!d give every faculty that belonged to her
f stol a&l lTly and rotate, to make it gxJ.
, Addressing her through the jestice cf your
taaje and the agonic of your conditicn, you
Vfkrd for her heart. She gave it : with
"-nrce the reservation cf a throb, she gave it
aX , Vott called tpon her fur. her blond.
"ho t. k her children from her boni and
'cJcml them to supply it, With her spirit,
wUh her apprrciatjoa of the great principles
cd" representative and of popular g-jverument
'which your caje involved, and with her holy
rf.thusiajra in their support, Virginia would
have been utterly recreant to herself if she
Kul done anvthin else oraaything leas than
. a a a
Hat in all thu m i an 4 knew that she
. : -i:.T..t it !
rasre than your pouucai aiiy more
ihan your p
lilical
fnend.
Che foil ai
ind
that she wx3
your
near, natoral-born
t !o.:i-n oeh
ia virtue of herher attri-
luu of a congenial and kindred najore.
J not be startle! at the ideas of common
ualiUos Irtwecti the American cavalier and
rxindhead. f AW. At this
r- tnt Mr. MclVjwell'a hour had expired, he
a., calle-l Cpaa from all parts cf the Hal!,
,ri i:h string ta j haala, to goon"" g oa."
To tils request, the committee giving it
t-jaiiajtu cwn.'entt be proceeded. J Ianet
iws siart.'eJ. Mr. Chairman, at tho idea '.of a
!' - rr latinship between the impotmuj and
tv, l ctts crK-nui c jiraes-
hjL Wi-J inie.i-" innw -ry&ai bw
cr, a:
te i"
1 LI ii..Tota ta ail thai u surnng in
i.1 r.t rT I:f. ar. 1 the'stem, eoknin.
sclf-dcnjing, almost aKTtic pilgrim of Tlj-
tuootb. A prmid tut mi.-ruiucu Icgalitv
drives the defrnJers of the Stuarts to the
horca of the (Thejtcake, that there, in pri
vat ion mad in rovertj, if need be. thej might
fulknr out the impulses of their own honor
and their own free will, without let or hinde
ranee from human authority. A pure, ex-
elusive, uneompromuung snvnt of religion.
tlit rtvU not mincle with, and that vuhi
9
not lottttrolled by the corruptions of earth,
drirea a persecuted but rrveious people to
the rock f the Masachnctta l!aj, that
there whatever el- might betide them, they
could pour out their hearts as they pleased
to him whom it was the richest of all their
dcliehts to worship and to serve. A heroic
and uneouijuerable will, differently directed,
ia the pcrvairo and master element in the
character of both. Secondary differences of
culture a culture which, inihe one ca.e,
was directed to train the heart of all that
wan gay and glad aud animating in life, and
in the other, to train it for a subdued, chas
tened, concentrated opiriuiality these have
have thrown around our ancestors a various
costume, and have long exhibited them to
one another and to the world in all the glare
of a pictured and dramatic contrast. But
in that proud'and lofty spirit which claims
the human will fur itself, which iudinantly
repuhra every deairc or effort to control
it, as an unwarrantable aud impious wrong
in that they were thoroughly and iudisjo-
Iubly one. The fame m this matter quali
ty, n controling in itself of all others, it was
impossible fr them to be otherwise than blend
ed by it promptly, lianaoniously, gloriously,
at the very dawn of our national day.
Thry were the first, as a consequence, to
proclaim and to resist the aggressions of Eng
land, and never after, even in the fainting
hours of the struggle that followed, were they
abent frenrthe duty or thepot where their
Talor or their counsels were required.
2S"ouri?-hcd by the same ppirit, sharing as
twin Meters in the struggle and the heritage
of the sar.ie revolution, what is there in any
demand of national faith or of cnnstitutioual
duty, or of public inralsrwhicii thoulu sepa
rate them now? What is there in the:
ground the sound and the true grounds of
national conduct that should induce Mas
sachusetts to disavow the rijrhts. disown the
emalitT. UiMlain the remonst ,, or scorn
,1
the feelings and the honor rf her lest, her
smngt, and her earliest friend? What is
there in the prwsibilitis f sectional advan-
tare so precious to jostify her, or any other, in
ri-iing, for a rirgle moment, the danger of
incurable family
discoru m oracr
a
to obtain
it f It is not for u a a ticor.le or as .Mates,
to jitay the march of that unseen and c tenia 1
caue whkb wees over the' devices and the
trophies of man, and, crowds whole na
tions in mclanchcly procession,, to the tomb.
Hut it is f.r us, as both, to stay the very be
ginnings of that family quarrel which never
fails, whcresiever it occurs, to hurry onward
wia oownwarn in
e destiny of a people, and
which an strips tl
le ue.tiny thai it hurries
on every hope that eouut soothe, ana so sur
a .
round it with every element of utter and ap-
paljirg wee as to mark it out irom ail com-
all
artn ctircs for the shuddering, the horror,
nd the a hnoaition of man. Shrinking
from such a fate as this and from the causes
that impel to it, we cherish with tho deeper
lervrr the just ana me natural nope mat
here, in this proud and honored temple of
our common liberty, Virginiaand Massachu
setts, by whoso hands and whose wisdom in
chief it was reared into power, will sit and
worship side by side forever ; that here, in
the peace of Heaven and of each other, with
clear hands and pure hearts, they will always
minister in public thine?, doing right to all,
wrong to none; here they will carry on, to
its consummation, the illatrious career they
have begun, comforting, cherishing, support
ing one another throuch all the conflicts of
the day. and miticatinr. shoukl they ever
comv the convulsion of the last hour by the
soothing of a last embrace : thus testifying,
for the honor of nature, to a national fidelity,
which there was nothing in the temptations
of Government that could corrupt, and noth
ing bot the rower of death that could de-
o
stroy.
Gentlemen, Representatives of Masachu
tt what far your Are you airreed: l our
equals before the Revolution began your
equals w hen it did liegin confederated as
your equals in 1777 united as such in
l7S7co-operating with you as such in the
administration of our common country from
the declaration of independence to the pre
nent hour, and so confederated, united, and
co-operating with you with all the local
rights and Institutions which are objected to
us now are you agreed that what we were
are, and ought to be and must be, we shall
always continue to be, yonr equals inviola
bly your equals still f Are you agreed to
this- If so, then, in the sight of Heaven
and-f man, we shall renew this day a com
pact, riot of peace only no, no; not only of
peace, grateful as that alone would be -but
a compact of immortality fir our country.
As the powers of tb,ia Government, and,
therefore, tho great extent, the destinies of
thisVmntry are intrusted officially to our
hands, it is our duty, to give all vigilance of
car and eye and thought to everything that
can affect them. It is for us, then, to be
warned by that voice that comes toadmonish j
us, that lot republics are lost forever ; that
tlrrjh their spirit never dies, but abides
f M
upon fhe earth to enlighten, to improve, and
to blew it, yet that it never revives to rege
nerate themselves.
Ixwk at the reptile and the tiger s they
have dwelt for ages in the habitations of the
Holy City ; look at despotism, worse than
either, as it has nestled and brooded with
its raven wing upon the very bosom of buri
ed republics, and be warned of that myste
rious doom, that evident ordination from on
high, which connects in eternal fellowship,
the privelegeatwith the punishment of na
tions, and never allots the highest blessings
but side by fide with the heaviest woes. Let
us be warned by this fated conjunction to
put awy all passion, and prejudice, and par
ricide unacknowledged but latent parricide
from amongst us, to gather around and press
to the aide of our country ; to heal the cha
fings and vrounds of her spirit by the unity
aud fervor of our own ; to be ready ourselves
to sacrifice and suffer, if need be, that she
may never sorrow or perish; and if there is
a curse in all our borders, let it abide for
the overwhelming of him who comethmot
up in the hour of trouble to succor, to de
fend, and to save ; yes for the overwhel
ming of him and such as him: for where,
under Providence, but npon the heart the
constant aiuTdevoted heart where but up
on the patriotism and the virtue of her sons
is the country to rely in the moment of ad
versity or at any time to rely against the
perversion of her own elements of good into
miphty enemies of evil ?
It ive us but a part of that devotion which
glowed in the heart of the young Pitt, and
our own elder Adams, who, in the midst
of their acnies, forcrot not the countries
thiy had lived for, but mingled with the
spcs.r.s of their dying hour a last and im
plcring appeal to the Parent of all Mercies
that he would remember, in eternal bless
injrs the land of their birth: jrive us theirde-
votior. give us that of the voung enthusiast
of Paris, who, listening to Mirabeau in one
of his surpassing vindications of human
rights, and seeing him fall from his stand,
ymg, as a physician proclaimed, for the
want of blood, rushed to the spot, and as he
a. . aa
Pent over the expiring man, oared his arm
for the lancet, and ened again and again,
with imjiaspioncd voice " Here, take it
take
it oh I take it from me: let me die,
so
that Mirabeau and the liberties of my
country may not perish: Uive us some-
thing only of such a spirit as this some
thing only of such a love of country, and
we are safe, forever safe : the troubles which
shadow over and oppress ns now, will pass
away as a summer cloud. No measure of
unallowable wrong, no measure of uncon
querablc disagreement will be pressed upon
us here. The fatal element of all our dis
cord will be taken from among us. Let gentle
men be entreated to remove it,as theoneonly
aud solitary obstacle to our perfect peace
IiCt them be adjured by the weal of this and
coming ages by our own and our children's
good by all that we love, or that we look
tor in ttic progress and the gloncs ot our
land, to leave the entire subject of slavery,
with every accountability it may impose
every remedy it uiay require, every accumu
lation of difficulty or of pressure it may
reach to leave it all to the interest, to the
wisdom, and to the conscience of those upon
wt.om the providence of God and the Con
stitution of their country have castit. Leave
it to them, now nml Jbrercr, and stop, whilst
it is vet possible' to stop, tho furious and
b'iud headway of that wild and mad" philan
thropy, which is lighting up for the Nation
itself the fcrcs ot tho stake, and which is
lushing on, stride after stride, to an intestine
struggle that may Lurry us all under a liar
dcr, and wickeder and more incurable slave
rv, than any it would extinguish.
Nothing but aggravation of heart and of
lot hive been brought upon the poor slave
by the rash nd uuwarrcntctl cnorts which
have been put forth to relieve him. They
have broken down the footing he had reach
ed, crushed the sympathies he had won, cm-
harrcscd and accursed the fortunes they
were intcnted to control. The generous and
elcvatinsr inCncncc of our free institutions
was relaxing bis bondage, bettering his con
dition, lifting up his character, turning up
on him the public anxieties and the public
counsels, as a fit and deserving object of pro-
VlUODl and pUOUC proISIOll a tuaugiug,
at all points, the aspects of his fate, when
the spirit of Abolitionism, political and fa
natic, come from abroad to scourge him with
a demon visitation, to wrench him fom the
arms of his only true ani only capable bene
factors, to throw him back again upon the
earth, a thousandfold more suspected, sep
arate, and forlorn than ever; riveting upon
him ever fetter, it would loosen, poisoning
every blessing it would bestow; and so filling
his whole case i with elements of hopeless
ness, explosion", and evil, that the heart
shudders whilst it weeps to look upon it
What are they who cherish and direct this
spirit f. Friend of the slave? The are
robbing him of every vestige of liberty he
has left. Friends of humanity 7 TJjeV are
staking it, ruthlessly staking it, upon the is
sues of massacre and convulsion. Friends
of the country T. They are rapidly' becom
ing its iron homicides, cleaving down its
Constitution with murderous arm, and tear
ing it limb front limb!
Should it eve? happen as tho result of any
interference ana action'here, that some in
surgent ebullition ofcthe slave will break out .
amongst us, the blood of our people will be"
made to stream in our dwellings, and ooze
up from the bosom -of the soil that feeds, it
will cry aloud, like that of Abel,, for ven-
gence against the brothers haard that shed:
and vengence would be had, though every
arop tnat was leu should be poured out in
one anguished a!nd dying effoivto obtain it.
Nothing but Heaven could stop a people so
lashed up to phrenzy by rage and suffering
and wrong, from sending back upon the
firesides and the fields of the Jilty that
visitation of calmity and deathrhich had
first Veen sent to desolate their own.
onarc. oh snare us a curse nfHk brotow
brotherhood of a ruined, ruined,' rmnedfd(Jubt, that this man had, by "false testimo-
country. Remember that their are no,
Ktouus ii&eme groans oi expenng lU'ertv
no convulsion like those which her dyingl$mment members of the Parliament, which
agonies extort.
orvi-tntno kvfni4 I 4- A . . ! T . 1 . .
It took Home some three
hundred
years to die. With far deeper
vitality than hers, our end, when, it .comes,
will come with a far keener, crueler, and
bitterer pang. '
Give up cur common and united country
give it up at the call ot some sectional in
terest seentce it to the phrensy of fana
ticism or of passion let it go down, down,
under some nonstrious and horrible strug
gle of brothel with brother, and you will
get it back as you have it now tlie home
of happiness, he city upon a hill towering
up for the ligln and for the healing of nations
you will get it thus again when the " shad
ows shall go back again upon the dial of Ahaz"
when He who sent out the luminary of day
upon ' his march shall again put forth his
hand and stop him in his pathway of light.
It is said, sir, that at same dark hour of
our revolutionary contest, when army after
army had been lost, when dispirited, bea
ten, wreched, the heart of the boldest and
faithfulest died within them, and all, for an
instant, seemed conquered except the uncon
querable soul of our father-chief, it is said
that at that moment, rising above all the
auguries around him, and buoyed up .by the
inspiration of his immortal work for all the
trials it conld bring, he roused anew the
sunken spirits of his associates by this con
fident and daring declaration: "Strip me
(said he) of the dejected and suffering rem
nant of my array take from me all that I
have lett leave me but a banner, givev
me -but the means to plant it upon the
mountains of West Augusta, and I will yet
draw around me the men who will lift up
their bleeding country from the dust, and
set her free.""
Give to me, who am a son and represen
tative of that same West Augusta, give . to
me as a banner the propitious measure I
have endeavored .to. support, help toie to
plant it upon this mountain top of our na
tional power, and the'land of Washington,
undivided and unbroken, will be our land,
and the land of our children's chindren for
ever. So help me to do this at this hour,
and generations hence, some future son of
the South, standing where I stand, in this
same horored Hall, and in the midst of our
legitimate successors, will bless and praise
and think God that he, too, can say of them,
as I of you, and of all around me. These,
these are my brethern, and tJu's, this, oh I
thif too, is my country I
OATES.
F A KNAVE.
THE FATE
Every history of England that has thus
far been written has immortalized the bio
graphy of Titus Oatcs, a most infamous hy
pocrite and scoundrel, in the larger sense,
who during the period he flourished as a
preacher of the gospel, in the reigns of
James and Charles of England, was the
cause of the sacrifice of thousand of livJI.
Macaulay, in his "History of England,"
gives the following thrilling description of
the punishment to which Oates's infamy at
last subjected him. We copy it without
further preface. Charleston Mercury.
James, a short time before his accession,
had instituted a civil suite against Oates,
for defamatory words, and a jury had giv
en damages to the enormous amount of a
hundred thousand pounds. The defendant
bud been taken in execution, and was lying
in prison as a debtor, without hope of release.
Two bills of indictment against him for per
jury had been found by the grand jury of
Middlsex, a few weeks before the death ot
Charles. Soon after the close of the elec
tions,, the trial came up.
Among the upper and middle classes
Oates had scarcely a friend left. All intel
ligent Whigs were now convinced that, even
if his narrative had some foundation in fact,
he had erected on that foundation a vast su
perstructure of romance. A considerable
number of low fanatics, however, still regard
ed him as a public benefactor. These
people well knew that, if he were convicted,
his sentence would be one of extreme severi
ty; and were, therefore, indefatigable in
their endeavors to manage an escape. Though
as yet in confinement only for debt, ho was
put in irons, by the authorities of the King's
Bench prison; and even s he was wjth dif
ficulty kept in safe custody. The mastiff
that guarded-his oot was poisoned; and on
the very niffht preceding his trial, a ladder
of ropes were introduced into his cell.
. . - 1 1 1 i 1.1 x
Un the day in wnicn ne was orougui, w
the bar, Westminster Hall was crowded
with spectators, among whom were many
Roman Catholics, eager to see the misery
and humiliation of their persecutor, A few
years earlier, his short neck, his legs uneven
as thoSe of a badger, his forehand 1W as
that of a baboon, his purple cheeks, and
his monstrous "length of chin, had been fa
miliar to all who frequented the courts of
aw. He had been the idol of the nation.
Wherever he appeared, men had uncovered
their hands to him. The lives and the es
tates of the magnates of the realm had been
at his mercy. - Times had now changed :
and many, who had formerly regarded him as
the deliverer of his country, shundered at the
sight of those hideous features On which villai
ny seemed to be writen bv the hand of God.
- It was proved bevond all nossihilitv of
deliberately murdered several guiltless
persons. , he called m vain on t ia most.
m vain on
T I. ,T , -J .. ,T : 1 f l - , . ;T " -' I
idence in his favor, bome of. them- whom
he 'had summoned absented themselves.
None of them said anything tending to his
vindication. The Earl of "Huntingdon bit
terly reproached him with having deceived
the houses, and drawn on them the guilt
of shedding innpeont blood. The Judges
browbeat and reviled.the prisoner withan in
temperance which, even in the, most at-
trocious cases ill becomes the judicial charac
ter. He betrayed, however, no signs of fear
or shame, and faced the storm of invective
which burst upon him from bar, bench, and
witness boxj with the insolence of despair,
He was convicted on both indictments.
His offence, though, in a moral light, mur
der, of the most aggravated kind, was, in
the eye of the law, merely a misdemeanor.
Ihe tribunal, however, was desirous to
make his punishment more severe than that
of felons and traitors, and not merely put
him to death, but put him to death by
frightful torments. He was sentenced to be
stripped of his clerical habit, to be pilloried
in "Palace Yard, to be led round Westmins
ter, Hall, with an inscription declaring his
infamy over his head, to "be pilloried again
in tront or the itoyal Jbixchange, to De
whipped from Aldgate to Newgate, and, af
ter an interval of two days, to bo whipped
from Newgate to .Tybume. If, against all
probability, he should happen to survive
this horrible infliction, he was to be kept a"
close prisoner during life. Five times,
every year, he was to be brought forth from
his dungeon, and exposed on the pillory in
different parts of the capital.
This rigorous sentence was rigorously ex
scuted. On the day on which Oates was
pilloried in Palace Yard, he was mercilessly
pelted and ran some risk of being pulled to
pieces ; but in the city, his partisans muster
ed in great force, raised a riot, and upset
the pillory. They were, however, unable to
rescue their favorite. ' It was supposed that
he would try to escape the horrible doom
which awaited him, by swallowing poison.
All that he ate and drank was, therefore,
carefully inspected. On the following morn
ing, he was brought forth to undergo the
first flogging. At an early hour, an innum
erable multitude filled all the streets Iroin
Aldgate to the Bailey. The hangman laid
on the lash with such . unusual severity as
showed that he had received special instruc
tions. The blood ran down in rivulets.
For a time, the criminal showed a strange
obstinacy ; but at last his stubborn fortitude
give way. His bellowings were frightful to
hear. He swooned several times ; "but the
scourge still continued to descend. V hen
he was.unbound, it seemed that he had borne
as much as the human frame can bear with
out dissolution. James was entreated to
remit the second flogging. His answer was
short and clear, "He shall go through with
it, if he has a breath in his body." An at
tempt was made to obtain the Queen's in
tercession, but she indignantly refused to
say a word in favor of such a wretch.
After an interval of only forty-eight
hours, Oates was againr brought forth from
his dungeon. He was unable to starid, and
it was necessary to drag lnm to uyburne on
a sledge. He seemed quite insensible, and
the tories reported that he had stupified him
self with strong drink. A person who count
ed the stripes on the second day, said that
they were seventeen hundred: The bad
man escaped with life, but so narrowly that
his ignorant and bigoted admirers thought
his recovery miraculous, and appealed to it
as a proof of his innocence. The doors of
the prison closed upon him. During many
months he remained ironed in the darkest
hold of Newgate. It was said that in his
cell he give himself up to melancholy, and
sat whole days uttering deep groans! It
was not in England alone these events ex
cited strong interest. Millions of Roman
Catholics, who knew nothing of our institu
tions or of our factions, had heard that a
persecution of singular barbarity had raged
in our island against the profession of the
true faith, that many pious men had suffer
ed martyrdom, and that Titus Oates had
been the chief murderer. There was, there
fore, great joy in distant countries wljen it
was known that divine justice had overtaken
him., j Engravings of him, looking out from
the pillory," and writhing at the pat's tail
were circulated all over Europe; and, epigra
mists, in many languages, made merry with
the doctoral title .which he pretended to have
received from the University of Salamanca,
and remarked that, since his forehand could
not be made to blush, it wa3 but reasonable
that his back should do so. r :
History :orr the Sabbath
The Ureator ihas friven us nifiiwl -a' i
torativ s!viv snrl iw,...!
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fcabbath keepingrand it is ruin to dispenso
with either.: Under the i preassure of high - f
excitement, individuals have, passed weeks '
together, with but little sleep or" none; but w
when the process s long continued, the over - 5
driven powers , rebel and fever, deleriumv
and death comes on: mor 'can f the "natural s
amount be systematically; curtailed iwfthout ?
coirespondingisclnefr--The Sabbath: does -not
arrive like sleep. The day of rest does
not steal bvor us' Jike the hour of slumber X
It does not ea'trance us almost whether wo, ,
will br nots but addressing us as iaUUigent 1i
beings, our Creator assures us Jhat wo need 1 '.
it, and bids us notice its return, and court
renovation. Andiif,' going Jn; the iace.
or ineireaiorsKinduess. wetorceourselvfifl in
pay the forfeit. ; The tntal - worker, the
man of business,; or tlie man of letters,
finds his ideas Ibecominw'iiirhid vJ,w.Nr " 5
the equipoise of liiB faculties are upset; grows
"'"Jj ! tapiiuuus, JUiU. WHUniSl
mental elasticity broken, should any disaster v
occur, he subsides into habitual melaneholly, r (
or in self destruction : speeds his guilty "exit 3
from a gloomy,; world. J And the manual
workers the artisan, the engineer toiling 1
oh:. from day ; to: day, week- to week, th
bright intuition .of his eye gets blunted, and
forgetful of their cunning, hiV fingers no
longer perform their feats of twinkling agili-"
ty, j nor by a plastic and: tuneful k touch, , :;.
mould dead matter, or wield mechanic pow-
er; but mingling his , life's blood in this '
drudgery, , his locks are prematurely grey,
his genial humor j sours, and slaving it till
he has become a 'morose or reckless man for
any extra effort,, or any blink of balmy feel- ' .
ing, he must stand . indebted to opinion or
alchohol. JNorth American, Review i ;
;. - SEVERE REBUKE. . :
A French officer, quarrelh'ng with a Swiss,
reproached him with, his country's .vice for,
fighting on each side for money "whUo wd i,
Frenchmen," said he "fight for honor" . ,
e 'Yes sir," replied the Swiss," every ono
fights for that he posts wants. . - ; ',:y -
LEFT NONE IEOR HIMSELF. '
A writer in one of the Reviews, was boast-;
ing that he was in the habit of distributing
literary reputation, Yes," replied a friend o
' ' and you have done it so prof usedly, that "
you have left none: for yourself' -
" HIS LAST FOLLYI : " ; .
A volatile youfig man; whose conquests iu
the female world : were numberless, at last,'- l
married, Now, -my dear," said his spouse, '
" I hope you'llinend." " Madam," said he
" depend upon it this is, my last folly."
DEFINITION.
11 She has given him a kick," is the elegant
phrase now employed to signify that a lady
has rejected a gentleman ; or rather, that a
gentle and amiable animal has put its bony
hoof against you and moved you a few paces
towards nothingdom. - , .
Chivalry. In the year 1369, John
the Second, Duke.de Bourbon, instituted an
order of chivalry.: One of the statutes of.it
is curious, and shows the high opinion ho
entertained of the influence of the female
sex upon the virtue and happiness of jnan-
kind.
becoming to mis siacuie tne Knignts
were obliged to pay due respect to all ladies
both married" and unmarried, and never suf
fer anything derogatory to their reputation
to be said in their presence for, adds' the
statute, those whq speak ill of women have
very little honor, and (to their disgrace be
it mentioned) say : of that sex which can
not revenge itself- what they would not
dare to say of a! man: for, from woman
after God -arises a great part of the honor
that there is in the Vorld.
Time. Time is , a traveller that never
stops in his course but moves with a steady,
even and uninterrupted tread. Mindless of
our delays he hastens on. After he. has
past and gone, weIift our hands imploring
ly for his return in vain. The present mo-'
inent is all that we can call our own: if we
misimprove it, it is gone forever, it is a lost
treasure, that nothing can redeem. Let us.
then adopt the economical maxim of impro
ving present time hy present dity. ,"'
Labor, Industry, and Virtue, go hand, in
hand. Idleness and leisure lead to wicked
ness, immorality and yieej. Down with all
aristocracy and lip with the nobility of true
virtue and honest industry. :Toil either of
the brain or the hand, is the only true man
hood, and the only, true nobility. - . j -
Well J ohn, I an) going east and what sjialj
tell your folks f l
Oh, nothing; only if they say anything
about whiskers just tell them I have got
some. i - .' 1
TAYLOR-WHISKERS.. . .--
Your whiskers remind me very much of
old General Taylor;" said a gentleman tha ;
other day to a young fop who was cvltiuating .
a yery unpromising and sandy crop of hair ,
on his face. H Why j80 ?' eagerly asked the
ambitious youngster, with, a gratified tone
and air. - Because they are rorighand retl
dy," was feplyv l ' i - - - ":
A lawyer. Cud.' Lord Brougham lwik;
learned gentleman who rescues your estate,1
rom your enemies, ana Keens qjijw fi
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