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GIIEENSBOIIOUGII, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1838.
NEW SERIES,
VOL. II NO 9.
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Fom f Ac Portland Ttqnser ft.
TO AN LSTEMl'KUATE HUSBAND.
Oh, do not loucu tne tempting glusd,
oU lUU:;t 1.0L vTlilk it up
'i Uu.t iict!JuU.ifc eup.
iMK Jliry, on your uuleU cheek,
our eiiiiken, giatay eye
They wuru you wiUi a riojcelctss voice,
Thin, you uiufct turn ui tlie.
Why v ill you irut the c ucl smiles
OtVucli u treuch roue loc
WhM lie is iitumg ut your heart
A deep uud deadly blow.
You know the tears I've sbed for you,
And uiubt I weep m vaiu J
Will you not love your little ones,
Vour wilij ttud Ihuic again 1
You need not tear niy censure now ;
I will pot name the pntt
But always meet you with a grille,
. And love you to the hist.
Should otiicro greet you with a frown,
Ur coiu iy pass you by .
There etiil w one lone, faithful heart
On which you may rely.
Our little bubes bhall share our joy,
ijurt bieesed we ehalllbe;.
Oil, ltcur , let nie hear you bay,
1 f!ai und w ;11 be free.
LOSS OF LIFE 11Y WAR.
Only a bhwII Jrt ol lho victims in war
perish Ly the cannon- and the aword. In
Fi .ucl , ilu- mortality !uiong soldiers, geu
irdlv hi vouth or middle life, was iound
to be" even in -pc-cc marly twice as great
a :iuioiig galley -laves ! In a titne of war
ibev live an an -uvcrage aloUl iiiti:C 'car; '
UUJ even in peace their life is pfotaWy
s 1 1 o iT c 7 c d fi 1 U: e noT' t w e ii Ty " ytnrra i ton r
c.xpoMircs, hardshis and diseases olten
sweep them away like dew before, the sun,
in some eaics one half, in the others
three fouiths, in another still nearly nine
liu.v it destro.a ev n peaceful inhabi
tants! In the war of 175(5, there were in
one instance no 1- ss than twenty contigu
ous villages left without man or beast.
An ey -witness of the French butcheries
1,1 I'oriuil savs, "the ditches along the
lllie oi I.I
ti4..d. u i:.:..
w.ri ii.
:r mulch were Olteu inciam
.utt.d and copulated blood as
the ri. ail bodies of peasant,
... t:K- d.'-, w. r' lying there.
..;. ,i : li'ul- n iked infants, of
wit, touud.. b-utunearul
I ui ilu r.std, transfixed with
to i' "
inn
rr r
i 1 1
b.i.
in
wou-i.t-i; and m one instance 1
SI, ,,. I, ,ul.it:t sti.II sticking in its nec :
Look r.t 'the havoc oi single battles al
A'l -i' rl:'., -JO.OtM); at Dresden, 30,OUU ;
at Val.-rloo 40,vimi ; at Lylau, 00,000; at
Uurodmu, 0,000 still wurse ut ancient
timc-M, :it I'ss-is, 110,000; at Arbela,300,
M in Ol.o bittlu of t'a-'s ir Ulio.OOO ; and
in another iOvl.OOO of the enemy alnc ;
tn the siege of J. rusalein more than a
million; and in th.t of ancient Troy not
1. ss iha.i two millions In the .Russian
CMmi..igi""tliere perished in SIX month
more than liajfa million, and during twr Ive
s of the rernt wars hi Lurop'e no Ie?s
years
than
.r),s()t),0t)O fNNThe army of Aerxes,
pryh diiv
c d Hi le
more lllilii 'il.in'ii.inru, v.r.
. ilia:, two miis, to a b'vv ihou-
Mind; 'nhizUmi butclnrin tlie nisirici
of II. i .id l,0')0,iHiO, and iKwo cities
with their d- pemb ncies, 1,70,000 ; and
th. i lunese biVtorians' 'assure us tibl do
nmr ihe Lis! iweiitv ueveii year of hi.
ii, he massacred' an average of half a j
iiiillioii everv vear, anu.i.u
teen years.no l'.-.s than eighteen millions;
.?t,r)0(MKMi in. forty one years by a single
luntl I ! tin ciati w;ir yiicrilired l.r),0tM,-
000-Ml-io-e -of the welve Ciesirs 30,000
0(10 ; t1-.os of the Crus:ules, -lOfHIOPOO,
thw of th- S.uaeetis and lb" Tiijcks, 60,
thUtfKW' C rtcti ; - ttKe' of iitt Tjsttn'rs 0-,
000,000. Dr. Dick i. ckons tho sum total
of its v'.cii.ii-, s!ee slainat no less than
fourteen thuusand Miltiurt, eighteen iimos
as many a all tliepopulation now on the
globe; and Uiirkconjectures the number
to have bvcMfiirtyJite thousiritl millions
Tlieinrlderital losses of war are from
thnixfp live times as great' as its direct ex
peny; s ; md y t its slups, and fort i fie ttions ;
und arms, ami their engines ofdeath and
devastaiiwii; ebsi an . incredible amount of
IllOliey. " .........
Tlie exp -nseH of a. single . war ship in
nc.iiiiil i rvu'e arc- niore "thaii one thousand,
dollars dnj, and'rherc are in CMisten
dom betvee:i ivvo My ihreC thousand siich
t-'iijis. England lavished' upon Ixrd Wel
lington, for only six years' Services, near
lv S5. 01)0,000. In twenty years from 171)7,
f-he expended an average of $1,14,11
cf rv dav mart than a million of dollars
( '! "nr. fn nlnnt
arid in one. hundred
.n4,- f. - . ,1M fm.jr
1( s than finr jhillions to more than four
tltnuul millions of dollars. She spent
in our revolutionary war about ftoiR,ww,-
" , (inn ;
t'i,iv'
aiul the wars 'of Christcudom, during
twei.iv.two years from 1793, cost
ban fr their support, besides many times
morr irifirntr-i.r.if fnsCT nr-irlv tfr7'io-..:
f- mind millii.iiH of dollars'.' six
.. I II . J S.', .
OrCJ'ull ilillCS
" - es rrrrrch rs ut -th,Y ( cim in the world ft
tt Ost Jfliiiik how much good might be
; cry. ,'!;nr n p.rre. Vvtuld'not taKe'10.-
UU0,00U, a year; the expenses of a com
mon education for all the ehilldren on the
globe, would not exceed -JoO,0(')6,000 a
v ear, nor those for the higher branches,
150,000,000, ministers of tlie Gosp 1,
with an average salar. of $500 dollars eacli
couid be furnished one to every thousand
souls loi 400,000,080, in all, $SS10,000,
000; while ihe bare interest at six percent,
on the war expenses of Christendom for
only twenty-two years, would bring an an
nual income ol $900,000,000; ninety mill
ions more than would be requisite to sup
port the institutions of learning and the
Cnristian religion for the whole world !
Did you ever inquire how much we had
spent for war i In eighteen years from
1810, a period of peace, we paid for war
purposes nearly $-100,000,000, and less
than one-sixth of that sum for the peace
ful operations of Government. In forty
one years from 1701, our entire expenses
amounted to more than $842,000,000, of
which only a little more than $37,000,000,
one twenty-third part of the whole were
for civil officers. The war system cost us,
in one way and another,-not less than $00,
000,000 a year even in peace ; an average
ofuiore than 137,000 every day! All
the expanses and losses of war to our n,i
tiou siuets the beginning of our RevoJuiien
ary struggle must be more than firo thou
sand millions of dollars! the v;ry intt real
upon which, amounting at six per ceni.
to $120,000,000 a year, would more th. in
defray all our necessary expenses of edu
cation, religion, and Ciovcrnuient, without
the trar system !
Who pay all ibis ? Wh endure all th
other evils of war T Who crm, if they w ul,
put an end to this fell d. stroyqr ? t'h,
Hoyif. And will -they not do it .' L '
them all resolve to Auce il c.eae, and i
. cease . AVy. iMiA ire Wsarer. ,
IMVORTANCE OF UMUN.Vfr. Unison
1 submit to you, uy fe flow -citizens
theso ccWsid(sriuioTiS, iii "Tull eoididence thai
the gootl tenst', winch has so olteu imrke'i
yoQ'if:oa7iiri'UriSdw thcui, their da
weight and effect j and that you will never
sillier difficulties, however formidable in
apjM.ar.inee, or however fashionable ihe t r
ior on which they m;iy be founded, lo
drive von into the gUioiny and perilous
scenes, into which the advocate for disun
ion euid conduct you. H' arkeii not to
the uniiatiiral voice, w Incli lulls you I. n
ihe jieopb.- of America, knit together, a
they aie, by so mariy cords oi all' ctun,
can no lougcr live together as members oi
tb samw .-family ; can no- longer continue
the mutual guardians of their mutual haji
piti. -s ; Can no longer be fellow-citizens of
o n1 great,. resi-et..ble mid llonn-ihing eni-
pi re
11 arkeii not to the vok ', which
petulantly tells you, that th. form of gov
eronaent recommended for vour -adoption
is a novelty in the political world; that ii
has never yet had a place in the theories
of the wildest projectors ; that it rashly at
tempts whit it is impossible to accomplish.
No, my countrymen j shut your ears against
this unhallowed language. Shut your hearts
!mst the poison which it conveys; the
kindred Mood, which (tow in the veins oi
Ameripan citizens, the mingled hlooil.
which tlirv have sh d in defence of tln ir
sacred rigiils, consecrate their unionajad
excite hornn at tin; id a of their beroinrliiu
aliens, riv.ils, enemies. And if noVeln.
are to be shunned, htdieve ne , fie inn
alarming of all novelties, the nost wild ol
al L. projex ts, ..the most rah of al I rtte-mjit ,
is mat of rending us in pieces, in order to
preserve our liberties ana promote our
hayrpim s. Bttt w;hy is the experiment
anexfchrfcJf riffli'hlle.:ro"brmcrt,--iiTrtTr.-'
because it my comp' ise- what is-in w !
Is it nr)t, thn glory of the people of Ami n
ea, that, .whilst they have -paid a t.ceni
regard to th(! opinions of former times and
other nations, they have npt sufl' -r- d .
bri!Kt'veiieratio:i for antKpiity, fotcustojw.
0r1wT'-TOrnt;ti''tHMHMfitT''the ig"MTOfs
of their own good sense, the knowledge of
their own situation, and the Tpssoiis of their
own ( xperience ? To this intMi.lv spirii,
posterity will he indebted for the posses
sion, and the 'world for the example, ol the
numerous innbvationa displayed on the
Americaii theatre, in favour of private
rights and public happiness. Had no im
portant step been taken by ihe I- aders o!
the revolution, for "which a pr cdent conl.1
not be discover d ; hid no goyirntnen
!qeii est ibiisln (I, of which an exact mud. I
did not present itself, the peopb of th':
United Slates might, at I his moment, have
been numbered among the melancholy vic
tims of misguided counci Is ; must at best
have been laboring under th weight of
some of those forms, which Have crushed
ihe liberties of the rest of mankind. Hap
pily for Amend, happily, we trust, for trie
whole Human race, thry pursued a new and
more noble course. Thev accomplished a
w t ltlUhj4l Ori rj ll'nl m--lhiA-4fa-
1', 1 f I . . k 'I'k-t w m. , 1V
lialS Ol numan socieiy. hik y learcu lau-
rics of government, which have no molcl
on the face -of the globe. They formed the
design of a great eonfederac-y which U is
incumbent on their B iccessors to improve
and jjerpetuatc. If thair. works hctray im-
PCiJcctions,
wc wonder aLthe tewiicss ol
, If nr ..nS ihftol in fh.TF,r n
Uieiti. it mn " "" " im ic
of flic untonr this was the work most dillk
cult tobc cxrcutctl ; this is the work which
cQLLventipn,.aufLii is tlut ac-OX-wljuchsiiL..
nfe now to' tic-liberate and dvcidc.
EXTRACTS FROM
DR. BEECUEIi'S DISCOURSE TO THE
MECHANICS OF CINCINNATI.
I refuMtiber the time when there was no
such thing as infidelity ojMJiily advocated
in the land. It was imported from France
during the revolutumaiy struggle. After
I hat the first public assault that was made
upon the Bible Wai by Thomas Paine, in
his " Age of Reason." When it caihe, it
went like an electric shock through the
land, and for a time shook the confidence
of manyespecially of young men. An
era of diacussiou followed ami of revivals
of religion, and after while the tide of
infidelity began to ebb, so that after a time,
it scarcely apoared, and was no longer
ostentatiously displayed in high places.
Men no longer coveted the uaiue of In
fidel, as indicative of courage, knowledge,
and talent. Since then, the epidemic has
revived, and haa ertciidcd to a class of m m
not usually affected by it, a clasp among
the most useful, and usually not the least
virtuous of the cprainunity the laboring
class.
iiy circulation of tracts, irid by contin
ued declamation, the Apostles of Infidel
ity have turned their footsteps to this large
class of the human family, well knowing
iIm! if thty could mcceed m perverting
the young' mechanics of ihe land, a host
would be arrayed against Chrlliranity.
There is some dillic.ulty in meeting infir
L iny on this ground, for its effort is to im
press the minds of its votaries with a preju
lic against religion and its ministers, as
. mbiiig lo ihtm bad motives, stigmatising
!,) ir character, and holding thnn up as
conspirators against the intellect, the lib-i-rtv
ani the happiness of mankind. It is
inic that the nin isteiii of the Lord Jesus
1 "bust, during the revolutionary struggle,
were the apostles "of. liberty and preach-'
of; aW evc
;s true thit the great multitude of the pi
ous were on their knees night and day,
0 raving' for they ffeeddin, tn(lcpcn(lcnce,,atid
Inpruness ot our beloved land. But the
jens ration that know tBtalfdi goric'-oCi
i..:, -and that which has succeeded is not J
i . i e r i . : . , f
I'oorized ol tne inmietico oi cnnstianin
,n t i aelneveineiit of our viotoriee and th.
blishiueii! of our institutions.
'J'fi popular uns ttlemehl of the opin-.i.-i
o! v oting men, do s tint of course nn
so malignant prejndtco agtinsi chnsti
ui.lv, hut .objections are obtruded upo.i
ih.-in ami cavils are insitiuitcd of thvmosl
fallacious kind which they know not how
to answer. Sneers are hurled at religion,
w'lneb, likr armwsr inflict poison with the
stroke, and create too often a deadly wound
w hich they know not how lo heal,
It has therefore long been my desire, to
M id access if possible to the earn and the
,i. arts of this interesting and important
cl iss of my fellow citizens, who have not
hcc; ss to the er Khmer s of revelation, nor
the time nor the means for an extensive
investigation.
I have submitted to your consideration
in my firm lecture, the evidence of (iotFs
being, and of his character, in my siHjond,
. x plained the nature and object of Histe
ereera.id their consistency with free agen
c y a n d account a bi 1 1 ty .
V o now come to the subject of a revc
1 ition'lrom (od to man. (
If (iod made a moral government, frei
ui.t accoutitable, we shall naturally eijiect
i o fi id -somewhere the precepts and sane;
nuns of that government as the means -ot
scenrmg 10 man hrs indinual a.id ociat
well-being. And if we cannot discover it
iii the constitution of things by the lighi
of nature, wmust iook lor itlrom above.
Xuw U is c vjch?ntxto ttre sitghtest impecf
tjou, (hat man was not irade to be guided
and govt rued by his instincts; appetites
mid pasmns t a -animals are. For while
these guide animals safely to the end of
Hieir being, the instincts, and appetites ol
nan, if Jeft lo themselves, would soon be
tvm'Tmn; ;Matr "was rnadw "for Vtfrsvtuy
high nUove hat of the lower animals, for
w hich neither instinct nor reason alofic can
qualify him, and which is securfjd only by
the supervision of the revealed govcfiiinenl
of God, without winch, every where, the
result has been ignorance and debasement,
rdespotism AUd anarchy. ;
Bu where shall such guidance and cl?
v atingVfliicrtces be fou.id ? Noit't of hu
Mian origin hatf ever h en found onJcrarili
siidicirnt for' h.e perfection ofJotfr nature,
and', fur that rvationjwd; happiness of
vv fiTch ''Evidently iliiaSis capably To cul
tivate a few has always in every nation
been easy ' ' N
'Egypt advanced in civilizaiion with b;cr
massy yf.Tmids reared to the sky. But
While her kings and nobles Were rolling tu
splendor, her degraded millions toiled their
life out for the little rice which was nec
essary to sustain oppressed nature.
Millions wasted thr.d.iys, unpaid and
uwpitirrfin her liafrjeeoj': in- 4ay mg -of
those vast piles of folly, and monuments
of oppression. The nobles-f specimens of
ancient arcbitcct.ure, whose stupendous ru
ins excite our wonder, are but the memo
rials of an iron handed " despotism, which
crushed the nations that built them.
A terrific gravitation to the earth, of
mind and body, has marked the history
W man- when abandoned to hiiman- prc&er-
vation alone. And no tight of nature, no
meit n.is tiqcii apje topia nun risct : m ji'
is the matter T
Has the past history of the world been
such aa might be anticipated from the un
prvertd wisdom and goodness of God f
No. It haa been a, history of ignorance,
and dcttjiotism, and pollution, and debasc
uieut. Tho whole croation has groaned,
and travailed togcjlber in pain until now.
Six thousand years have rolled away, and
have inscribed on every page of their mel
ancholy history the insufficiency of the
light of nature, and tho necessity of a rev
elation, to secure the present and future
well-being of man.
A book has come down to us which
chums to be from God, sent to us in com
passion, for the illumination and salvation
of our race. This book contains the pre
dictions of a coming day, when the sad
history of our world shall be reversed, and
the long dreary night terminate in a day
of " Glory to God in the highest, on earth
peace and good will to man !" The truth
of this claim, as contained in tho Bible,
christians believe,-and skeptics doubt.
A principal cause of doubt, is the al
ledged sufficiency of the light of nature to
secure the well-being of man for time and
eternity. And, doubtless, if the light of
nature be sufficient, and a revelation is su
perfluous, then none has been given. For
though God is almighty, he is not wont to.
abound in vast superfluous effects.
By the light of nature are understood
that knowledge of God, and of the menus
of our present and future happiness, which
may be learned from his works ; and the
necessity of a revelation includes not only
siM'h information as could be obtained only
from (od, but a more definite knowledge J
concerning things dimly seen, attended
with more powerful sanctions, and includ
ing the im,jis of their preservation and
universal extension, and jirac'tical efficacy
in the actual reformation and elevation -of
mif Tatr ; "Wdln "t
ficiency of the light of nature7 arid the ne
cessity of a revelation are manifest.
I. Tlie light of nature has never been
sufficient to' maintain the evidence of God's
P-T(Vg''
ilei.ce of the most general and debasing
" i i
idolairv.
The heavenly bodies, and men, and dev
ils, and enimsls, n;id reptiles gods of wood
and stone, have been worshipped ; and thy
eonstitin tits of this worship have been
lust and blood. The temple a brotbef i
slaughter-house, and a sink of pollution.
The"! are the dirk shades which every
w here environ Christianity, an4 th 'gloomy
scenes which lie in amhuh to rush upon
m wh' her g-nardian roleclidn re-abartf
doucd.
I cannot go into,fhc horrid statistics of
Idolatry.- I have- not time, and were 1 to
do so, it wotibf only be to pile pollution
iioii pollution, and blood upon blood.
But hat ha the light of nature done
to re ferae this condition of the Pagan
World ? Nothing!
And yet it is h tiled as the rising of a
new sun upon the christian world. To
dispel its darkness wash away its potUi
tionj aiid em iticipate i's e nslaved deiotees
of superstition, andelevate the priest-ridden
mullitud s to intelligence and virtue.
But on what page of history are such
triumphs of nature's light recorded? In
Pag.ii. iiatio'i-, is there no priesthood there1.
no priest-ridden people. Tho priests of
the pngti w orship areMiinltitudinotu. But
it is not part of their object to enlighten,
but rather lo darken the humm mind, that
i hey may reap the harvest of duplicity.
Get rid of prtest-crft ! It is Christianity
with her ministry, and institutions, which
kt eps oif those birds of night which fill the
p igaii w orld- with far and trembling; and
restrains those floods of pollution,, which
otherwise would
. . . i
in mi imi" rivn 1 1 1 i i i 1 1 r i n m iirirtvi i ric l r itir. i
. 1 1 i - . Al r--.
..... v I u
bid wave.
2. In the absence of the Christian RnvC
laiiou, no just and cheering conceptions of
the providential government of God havo
prevailed.
Events have been ascribed fo chance, or
to fate an iinmiitable certainty in the na
ture of thiiigs, or to oHisious of two ron
Hicling divinities or to myriads of local
tiods, inhabrttng as their empire, earth, air
and sett, polluting the world by their cor
mpi 'x unple, idd agitating it with., their
i "Uila:it quarrels.
3. tin the absence of the Bible, a dark
uncertainty has prevailed resecting the
immortality .of the soul in the future state.
Thu Greeks and the Romans had their Kly-J
si an fields, where the spirits of their
ty rtoad assembler! to talk over the
ol tune ; and their lartarus, a
purushinont fpr the vulgar wicked'.
But tho whole system Was rejected by
the intelligent as the fictionof poe.ts, and
the device of priests and IcgielatortT-ttes-pised
by the inventors, and countenanced
.ouly-furg4in aaijLpopular- restraint. WheUi-
cr the soul wero immortal or not, men of
the most powerful minds and extensive ro
scarcliand jintieut thought, could not tell,
but believed and hoped -and forced with
that uncertainty which attends always opin
ions of whose truth there exist no means
of becoming sure. ;
4; 1 ue light ot naturedios ncvCT devcl-
oped and maintained an accurate auilv uni- Und in close alliance .wtthi christian insti
versal system of raorals. Ftu-tions. 4 .,: S
pcrience h tootslow;, ; and 'tht' obliquities of
out a pure and comprehensive chart of uni
versal duty.
On the contrary, though a common ne
cessity hst compelled the world in self
defence to stigmatise some actions as wrong,
scarcely a vice carl be aimed, which has
not in pagan lands been sanctioned as an
act of religion, or enrolled among the vir
tues Pride, falsehood, theft, murder, and the
most debasing in. purities, and the most un
natural crimes, have been sanctioned. The
best men in Pagan history, were with few
if any exceptions, men who in christian
lands would be regatded as stained by
practices of flagrant immorality. And yet
they shone as lights amid the despair and
darkness around them, add as examples of
purity amid the mass of deeper pollution
by which they were environed.
Beyond the pale of the christian revel
ation, the life and tho comfort of man is in
light estimation aud are sported with as
tho means of luxurious gratification.
The gladiatorial shows the treatment
of women, the abandonment of infants by
their parents, and parents ky their children
the treatment of slaves and the con
tempt and oppression of the common peo
ple by the rich and learned, are illustra
tions of this position.
5. The light of nature has no sanction
sufficient to form and sustain a pure and
hnppy state of society.
- The experience of the wholo world show
that the constitutional advantages of virtue
and evils of crime, are impotent for the
formation of moral DrinciDlcs. and a pure
and efficacious public sentiment agaiuatl
presumptuous sins ; and human laws at li-
I milted and feeble in their power torclonn
the virtues on which tbq happi,H-ess of fam
ilies and of cominunitiosVdicnds, cannot
irer proxhrcftrd bycocrcionii;and" iarge-pev-tion
of the violation of right, and 'invasion
of public and domestic purity and-peace -de
happiness cannojkbc restrained by human
laws. These cannot reach the heart, nor
:preTf!ft:; mvesfl-of --refulite-thihoiiigtiW
nor pretent the conceptions of sinful de
sire, mid a world prone to sin, and rush
ing headlong with passion and apjHtite
they can only prohibit and punish actions.
And of these, only such as can bu proved
in a court of justice, and not one pfcrbanly
of a ihousand which war upon social sale
ty and order.
There is no omnipresent JKod of purity
ever pursuing tho ways of transgressors,
and no arm of justice from which there is
no flightj and to which there is no resis
tance ; and no sanctions of God's eternal
government, to deter from presumptuous
wickedness without which, the constitu
tional penalties of crime, aud the sanctions
of human lnws are but cobwebs'to the in
undations of waters, or the sweeping des
olatiou of fire and storm.
Another defect of the light of nature is,
that it has no institutions, and no authoriz
ed teachers of piety and morals, for the
repetition of known truths,. and the stated
i nsi ruction of mankind. Suppose that we
had from nature all tho Tight that revela
tion could give us ; suppose that the light
of nature should unrplt its broad banner
athwart the sky, whereon in letters of fire
-.hould be engraved every precept of the
moral law : what would the result be ?-
We should gaze a few tunes upon its' burn
ing pige, till it became familiar, and then
neglect and disregard it. We need a
voice and institutions for our instruction,
and repetition and enforcement line upon
lino. Miracles' themselves 1 would grow
stale and familiar. Even the J3ible, 8UAr
tawacid. aaii is- by . miracles, Ifctt .tu itseif,
would not be sufficient : its truths must be
1 1 an flu u uiu uiTpyvspVA..
repeated and impressed. According to the
fw - fw. ir i imiUK imprtBWHriis want' im ii ii wi
i. j . : : j .....k
are effaced, unless often repeated. tKir
condition requires on "order of men whose
business it shall be to explain and enforce
by afgntnrnt and -persuasion," oven what
we know. We' need a day scFapart for a
universal convocation, for trie express pur
pose of receiving instruction and new im
pression. This only wjjf keep up the mor
al tone of society -inrikc the works of
God, and the lightf nature, and the truths
of revelation, arid God's eternal1 govern
ment, a reality; But the light of nature
provides noinstitutions for the religious
and morafinstruction of mankind, h pro
vides iro sabbath of rest for the body, and
rnfrysliinent for the mind. It has no au
fpTifity and up influence to convoke men
for tho Worship of God and bid them lay
aside the cares of this world for those of
the soul. '
If we had, therefore, all the precepts
decessaiy for our knowledge of duty, we
need a revelation t provide for us a Sab
bath, devoted to the sublime purpos.es of
recalling lis from The toils arid passions of
life, to the worship of God ; to provide in
sttwrter whujihalLd
talents, and energies, to the- exposrtion of
the word of God, and to infuse such a spir
it of general education through the great
mass of society,, as shall throw open the
doors of knowledge to all. It is only by
such means that mankind are ever brought
info tho best form of human society, and
this is de'vclojwd only in 'Christian ( lands,
j . i ' - - ii- .i , .
-AfrfmtrratT(
powers, might grasp a correct system ol
rclrgion nnd morals ; their discoveries
would not supersede the necessity of in
struction, and they could not give ubiquity
to their knowledge. Much ts said ol the
attainments of the ancieni jbilo!opher8.- -iSujiposc
they did attain all the wisdom und
virtue that is usenbed to them ; there were
but a few of the in in an age ; and what
could three, or four, or twenty schoolmas
ters, in a generation, do to educate the co
jde of the Uuited States T Suppose all the
mathematics of his day had been confined
to Newtou ; what would have become of
the science in the generation succeeding
him, when he had gone off the stage ? It
will not do- to talk of Socrates or Plato,
two or three dim stars that two or thrco
thousand years ago shone with a greater
brightness than the world around them, on
ly because that world lay in such total
darkness. These philosophical teachers
stood upon an eminence, and around them
might cluster a few, while all the rest of
mankind remained in the valley of tho
shadow of death. But the Christian reli
gion provides teachers for the great body of
mankind, and it is the only rtUgion that
docs. If we read history thJTact stands
out on every page. Even nthe great and
civilized Roman Empire the most jiolish
cd and wealthy at one time on earth, no
one thought of sucii a thing as education
the despised and oppressed people, whom
toey sneeriugry called the " iguobile vul
gus." It was not sujiposod that artizans,
mechanics, agriculturists and sailors
composing now that immense body of use
ful and respected citizens could be im-
jtoved in their tnoralsatid elevated m their
characters, by acquiring knowledge and by
coinprenenamg general iruins. iiiey wero
utterly left out of the question, and were
looked upon almost as ot a different race,
from the highborn and wealthy patrician.
They were cousigned over to to the ignor
ance alidade basement of ' atTiirstructuf,' ii ni
carcd-for human nature and pliilosophtrs
and satirists spoke of them and ridiciiKd
them as goilc 1 It did not come within the
campass of their thought to carry the influ-ticc''oi'leartmig'"-in
vast multitude, the heaving sea of liuman
iicings that rolled in brutal ignorance and
slavery beneath them.
But what has Christianity done f It has
done what such a religion as Christianity
alone could do" tor the great muss ol society.
It has thrown liglu abroad from the lliiono
to the cottage, il has taken the tour cor.
nurs of society and litied, it uj together.
It has laid low the inouitiains and raised
high the values. It has exalted humanity
tfbtii its lowest depths of slavery aiid igno
ranee, and is filling the earth with know
ledge and virtue. It has bid the djipress
ed go tree, and it has taught the haughty
monarch that he is but a man, and that his
meanest subject is a man. It bus united
all ihu lieatts of us true followers in one
iyi iirim in niilj.piir.... I - .-., fc. . . ..........
g iu. iuo v...vi'i., iui vaiins villain; i pu.
lion and elevation.
i am not unacquainted with the flipjwfnt
assertion ot skeptical iniilds, that Utwjcan
do by his omnipotence wiittt he pfyases,
and reelaun and save as well wruiout as'
with an atonement ; can makeimpossible
possible, wrong rignt, folly vvrsc, and con
iMiiictioii consisient. y.
it men are m.tchincs, tioulitless they can
be governed by omuijioiuiice aa muciiiues.
itut il they are treeagents, und made for
moral governmentand reward und punish
ineiit accordlinj Lu Lheir d(;SUnie4 ; . ...
might as wellassume the JossibiIity of de
sert in the cjtffjs of heaven wheeled by Um
uipoieiicem lliear circuits, us in minds jrov-
erued itresiBlibly by ihusaiiu. Omiiijoiciico.
good story is roiated of President
unipnrcj, ol Amherst College. Ouo
uioiiiing, betore recitations, some of tho
students lastcued a live goose in tho Pres.
iduut's chair. When tho President Puier
ed the room, and discovered tho new oc.
ciipaut of Ms scat, "luriied oil liis lietl
coolly observing, " gehtleinen 1 perceive,
you have a coinetenl instructor, and I will
therefore leave you to your studies !"
Mr, Ilitldle'M Letter.
TO THE HON. JOHN QUI NT Y ADAMS,
W.VSIll.VOTO.N.
My Dear Sim: 1 projiosc tp say a few
words on the question whether the banks
should resume sjiecic payments ui May
next. I do ibis because iny iiositwu seems
to justify, if not require it. For nineteen
years 1 have been connected with ihe in
stitution which caused the last resumption,
and during. all that period, my cljorts have
been directed to secure 'to the country fho
benefits of a sound currency, and to banish
frotrf CiTculation '.'every thing but the jre-
clous metals and notes always convertible
into them. I think that no ether currency.
return to t-at the first moment it can bo
done permanently. Fortius purpose the
institution to which I fcoioiig has inada
great efforts. Since fhe susijenmon m May
lust it has bought and added tp its vaults
nearly $,OtH),Otio in gold and silver, aftd
now, with acajntal of t'lirty-five millions,
its notes in circulalion.arc six iniU'ion.-",
wM-l-,U-!ti-I&6'. JLftSf. . Py.i.ng niore than
half a million to the -'Government .-of the U,
it has eight' or ten millions of fuiuLi. i Eu
rope. . Our principles, thtreforc, iuclinti
a"