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LD--* Ca -A ?--,8OE CO.9 Prpitr.-GEI G 6 E oLD AN'S REVERY. BY C. U. AiMOND. The sunlight gleamed en his silvery hair, As the old man sat in hs oaken chair By theicottage door one day, r< his grey old pipe, as he sat, smoked he, -. Andlooked through curling smoke to see -Some children blithe at play. Their ringing laugh was a mournful chime, For it seemed to speak of the olden time, "Now dim and far away; And he thought of the joyous hours and free That dawned on his sunny home, when he Was a little boy at play. 4 And hie roamed o'er the grassy hills again, the pensive vale, on the blooming plain, Aid through the woodland gray ; ".And to memory's tones then murmured lie, - TYo golden scenes come back to me, And chase this dream away." And the fleecy smoke in graceful wreathes, As it rose aloft, by a pe tceful breeze Was softly borne away; And he gazed as it waved by the old elm tree: "Alas, on-the wings of time," sighed he, ."Thus fled my ybuthful day. Laugh on, ye young, ere the dew of youth With its tender hopes and earnest truth Is sipped by strife's fierce ray; For soon shall the waves of reality's sea Effhce these traces of innocent glee, And dash thy hopes away. "Like fragrance brought on the gale from afar, I Is the memory of early days; but ah, How dim life's morning ray Compared with the glory that soon shall be When youth is renewed, and the soul may see The light of lieavei's noonday. t The sunlight gleamed on his silvery hair, As the old man sat in his oaken chair -- By the cottage door one day; But only awhile did the sunbeams smile, Fox they went to rest in the golden west; And thus lie passed away. /( iifig EXTRACTS FROM A MASONIC ADDRESS, E.B. JoHNsoN, r LowNDEs ABBEVILLE DISTnIcT, S. C., ON THE - 24= TqE LAsT. t "The mission of Freemasonry! A subject i1 embracing all that is profound in philosophy, i beautiful in poetry and valuable in moral., baf- t fling research by its very magnitude and sub- L limity, how shall I justify the presumption of v thus hastily approaching it.* Suffer me to ex- t plain my arrogance, and fore-stall your criticism 1 by an Eastern Apologue. In the baths of the : East perfumed clay is used for purification. A c poet is represented on one occasion, as czpre, sing enthusiastic admiration at the odor of a t lump of this clay. Alas! answers the clay, I am but a piece of ordinary earth, but I happen- i ed to come in contact with the rose, and I have ; borrowed a little of its fragrance. Thus, ire i have come in contact with Freemasonry, and L though but ordinary earth, would gratefully i breathe forth to-day, according to the humble . measure of our attainment, the fragrant spirit t of our beautiful order." c * * * * * * * c a " Masonry has been defined to be " the sci- a once of morality veiled in allegory and illustra ted by symbols." This has been its mission, whether under the system of nature, under the r Mosaic dispensation, or now under Christianity, - viz: by symbolical instruction to impress mor- .1 al truth upon the minds of men-it is a science a of morality, that morality which springs from 1 love or charity and manifests itself in peace and righteousness, for all else is an empltyniess and a delusion. The language in which she dlelivers 1 her oracles, is that most ancient of all known * language-symbols. In these, the first learn- I ing of mankind was couched. These the an cient philosophers used to reprerent truths and to veil the profound speculations. For as "eve- t rything that strikes the eye mnore immediately engages the attention, anid imprints on the memory serious and solen truthi', Masons have I therefore universally adopted this plan of incul- I e ating the tenets of the order by typical fig- 1 ures."t So under the Jewish economy, types I and figures were used to denote intellectual things and moral duties. And this manner ofa teaching by signs and symbols, exhibiting I thoughts to the eye and raising corresponding ideas to the mind, distinguishes especially the I Prophetic writings of~ Scripture. tAnd perhaps I no book of Scripture iurnishes a more imnpres- I sive example than the Book of Revelation. " The whole machinery of the Apocalypse (says < FaDEI) is evidently borrowed f rom the mia chinery of the ancient mysteries." And above' all-lie " wLo spake as never man .epake," ack nowledged the value of this impriessive lan guage in commnunicating muoira truth. The con struction and pireservation of the symbolic lan guage of Masonry, is in itself a noble achieve ment, a res.ult worthy of all the exp~ enditure of its perpietuaition ; a language, througir which, des.pite the endless dliversities' of tongues. mem bers of every portion of our race, maay and do hold fraternal conununion with each otie'r. " The celebrrated John Locke (biefore .':us in itiation) recorded this important opinion. " An -universa. language has been much desire d by the learned of many ages. It is a thiung r~ithmem to be wished than hoped for. iUut, it se emsI, Masons pretend to have such a thing amonoig thema.- A man who has all these arts amid ad vantages is certainly to be envied. Ilut we ar-e told, this is not the case with aul Masons ; fohrI though these arts are among them, and all hir-ve a right and an opportnmity to know them, y et some want industry and others capacity to ae quire them." True, but Mascary no where un dertakes to furnish eraini.x, atnd religion itself~ often hilijs to overconme this wretched indlolece of our~ fhllen natture. But the page reflection or te great p1hiosopher is si,,ply Jici. This is the gemums of Masonry, that her laingag, like her hufe, is something ap1art from, abte, the arti ficial distinctions-anid independant of the di - versified forms of thought and expresionm which distinguish and divide mankind. She has a * It is due to the author to state that this a dress was hastily thrown together, upon a brief notice, and under the pressure or extraordinary: duti a in his sacred p~rofe.ssion. 1 t PRns-roN. +The Prophet EzEKIEL abounds in the most striking symbtolismi. And thus JERin!Anl foeretells th: complete destruction of hisa people, by -break ing in pieces a Potter's vessel, (Ch. nix.) ad wears a ye, to symbolize their approaching bandag. (Oh. xxvlii 2.) vocabulary of her. own through which s speak- to every human heart and human mind wherever under the broad canopy of heavet her votaries are found; and well may we as with the shipwrecked Trogan of old, " Qu< regio in terris non plena nostri laboris." Yes Freemansonry possesses this-a language throug which the tender voice of charity may reac the heasit, and want and sorrow plead in ever :lime for love and sympathy; a language if which at all times, brethren ! we may hold elc luent and profitable communion, (for "ther s no subject within the range and grasp of th iuman mind, be it the most subtle and various se it high as the heavens above or deep as th arth beneath-no secret of creation, into whic he science of Freemasonry does not enter i: he pursuit of wisdom, knowledge and virtue." tnd the practical advantages of such a syster f symbolic intercommuion are self-evident We learn from the travels of Anarcharsis, tha me of the fraternity in ancient times travellin, in foot lost his way, and arriving exhauste< vith fatigue at an inn, fell seriously indisposed When at the point of death, unable to recoin ense the care and kindness of his host, h raced some symbolical marks, with a tremblinc and, upon a tablet, which he directed.to be xposed to view on the public road. A long :ime after, chance brought to these remote pla :es a disciple of Pythagoros, who reading th migmatical characters, learned the misfortune if his brother, stopped, paid the inn-keeper hi ixpenses with interest, and continued his jour iey. So potent the language in which Mason y writes her laws of love and justice upon th< tearts of her votaries, Potent indeed! a lan ;uage that may be heard above all the conflict f human passion, yea! the tempest of battli tself! .The noble Russian heard it, as amid the earful storming of the Redan, he stretched orth his hand to rescue his imperilled Britisl iother, generously bearing him into an ea: aptivity, to rescue him from impending destruc ion. Oh! did mankind hear universally its tterances of peace and love, nation no mor rould lift up sword against nation; and anarch. oe impossible. During the revolutionary com notions in Greece, a distinguished French offi ial expressed the deliberato opinion, thal wenty Masonic Lodges in that distracted ountry, would do mc re to restore peace and armnony than fifty thousand soldiers. Thus ay friends, while other associations indicate by heir very existence, divided sentiments an< varring opinions-while national prejudice an< ectional jealousy have separated the familie if mankind irreconcileably from each other rhile even the seamless robe of Christ's blessed eligion has been torn by the blind and unholy assions of men; Mdasonry, inculcating a benevo ence as expansive as the blue vault of heaver self, and furnishing a beautiful languane foi s expression, employs these varying shades o uman passion and human opinion only to reave across the angry elements of contentior er sublime Arch of Peace. Thus furnished he executes her mission. "The refuge o breatened fidelity, the mediator of offended ocence,-the recompanser.of unrewarded love be regulates the mingled rites of life, punishes be prejudiced judgments of pas!ion, cools th< ot fires of anger, and covers misrepresentation ,ith her shiel of merey. She throws dowr lie barriers which the prejudice of mankimt as erected between man and man. She tears way the gilded garment which covers the body f nature, and arraigns heart against heart, and -irit :eainst spirit, and gives to the worthiest he prize."* -- %.uch be the mission of Freemasonry, i Ja just matter of astonishment, that it has urvived the ravages of so many ages-thal ie, who walks with remorseless :read througl ibe ruins of Empires; who tramples in his ath, the proudest monuments of hmnian wis. omn and power, has only multiplied tihe holnor pon her brow, and deepened the spring of harity in her heart, and lengthened that goldei hamin of love, which binds us tc-day upon this uient festival, in mystic unity." But now, brethren of thme Mystic Tie, w< lust turn aside, to defend our noble order fron amne popular misconceptions, and repel the uin ist aspersions of its enemies. For like th< rtificers of the second temple, when hiarassec 'y the fanatical Samaritans, we must bear th< word for defeance, as well as the implements o ur sacred and peaceful art.tj But we are surn rethren, our most formidable enemy is igno nce, not so much in those without, who blind y defame our character and misrepresent oa tentions, as among ourselces, of the true spmn d genius of our ancient system. Take awaj hs obstacle of our oren inappreciation of Ma onry, and all others will speedily vanish. T1lmi rchives of our order are rich, as the mines o olconda, in the mo-t precious stores of know edge. arch theCm, read, mark, learn, diges hese memorials of Masonic wisdom. Let eve v Mason and every Lodge before me, adop Iae ?otto of old Clinton Loei?-" Let there b Gih and prejudice will shrink from it nani fetation. " But it is seriously objected to Freemasonry hat it usurps the preogatives of religion, am tims to supplant it. This a grave :accusatioa ndeed. Did I believe it ; did I even suspc ts truth; as a Minister of Christ, I should te-m dir these sacred symbols of our order, and triun de thema under nay feet. But, my friends, ,urely argues a weak faith in our glorou .hnrstianty, to suppose that any thing can be: ,ubstitute. for it. Is it urged, that individual Masons rely up m Masonry to sar ?lh'r muss ? Thien [ asl .vhat upon earth, do men not rely upon for th<i ame ,prpo '? The temperanee man, imagin all needful reformation at an end in his ease *vhen he ceases to he a drunkard. Thme ric nan presume~s that his opuience may be a pase tort to heaven! The mnoralist drieamus that nnm .ure' vrtue may pas the juadg:aient oif Glod dr di.putes the. very necessity of. renaewini trace. Men stop to tru., in the Church it~sel ough like the Baptist in thme wihlerness, it >erpt~ually pointing away fronm itself, to Cisrist B~ut aball we puroseribe the good course of tern >crance, preach a crusade against all wvorll ossessions, denounce morality, and clo-e th hurch of Godl, because so many pervert tihes ro their legitimate uses? " Masonry, we submit, cannot reasonably b meld to account for such a gross misconception < ts aims and intentions, it everywhere repudil ts the idea, and I need not surely remind th nil;nt craftsnman, howv utterly| nmnasonic mel a moral positioni. Thea very lag/b/han whic riothles the humnble-.t Entered A pp~eitice, inor mncient thanm the golden fleece, mowre htonorabi indeed thanu star or. gartLer, trnD fronn the /dees ing bod f an innocent rietmi, to corer the~ guti 2nd impetfcion of naure; how strikingly dot ,t teach the necessity of' thme sacrificial mnr md substituted righteousness of t/me Lamb God, for human salvation. And beginning fror Masonry's first lesson, when rouiched lor bi nuother, the candidate knocks for admission, vt nature's blinadness and imperfection tamugh urmd confessed, at every step ? while this greti * Landmarks of Freemasonry, 105th p~age. t Neheiah, iv. cha., 17tha ' erse. $ Each Lodate shaouhl subscribe for theo Univer mal Masonic Library" published by Jos. WV. LEO) em ~ Com New-York. a i principle of moral substitution .alone insm I, acceptance, prepares for all instruction, and I, rects the reflecting mind continually to the o; k divine source of light and salvation. And hi r solemnly does Masonry itself teach us, that. are dead morally, spiritually, and that there but one mighty to save, who can go down i the grave of the human soul and raise it to l r rity, life and glorf-the lion of the tribe L Judah, Jesus Christ the Righteous. . The IN - son, who substitutes its teachings for religit a is embracing but the symbol of that tru a which alone gan save him. * * * * * * * - "But once more: objection is made to c i secrecy; and in an age like ours "more curio than derout," and with our fair hearers especi ) ly, this is an unpardonable sin. "Well, we can plead for this the sanction . the most venerable antiquity. The anciet t seemed to regard silence as a divine virtue. Th 5 deified and worshipped it. Plutarch says I "Men are our masters to teach us to speak, b we learn silence from the gods." Why silen< -my friends, is the sublimest language in t universe. " The greatest objects in creation v the stillest. The ocean has a voice, but t sun is silent. The forests murmur, but t constellations speak not. Sweetly might t High Priest discourse, but the Urim and Thui mim, the blazing stones upon his breast, ga i forth a meaning deeper and diviner far."* E crets! nature is full of them. Yon tremblii leaf has its sccrets, and refuses to give them 1 to your scrutiny. "The ocean locks up b jewels in her treasure house," giving them 1 but sparingly to man's adventurous search. The brightest gems that pave the deep Have never left its dark abyss; The noblest thoughts that fill the soul Are those we never can express. "Nay, Heaven itself is a secret; God ha spread yon intercepting veil upon it. Eve ha not seen, nor ear neard, nor heart conceived, t wondrous secrets of its glory, and fith is cot pelled to sit content upon its threshold, wi this assurance, " what thou knowest not noi thou shalt know hereafter." God's naiture is secret, sublime, unfathomable; What know i of God? though all things speak of Him! TI starry squadrons of night are but the outpos of his celestial army! Yea, all the collecti glories of the universe are but the hem of h garment, the fringe upon his robe of wondrol majesty! And truth, which represents Go which speaks of God-whose office it is to ma manifest the will and mind of God, is but bcaen of his essential glory, conducted down I mercy to give light. unto the world. " No n hath seen God at any-tine." Much hath I revealed of his nature and his plans, but ht muitch more hath he concealed. " Encirling shades attend his awful itronc. And veil his face, and keep him st.11 unknown It is then but in perfect analogy with his wo and works and character, in: conformity-wil the common experience of mankind, and keeping with the scope and grandeur of oi institution, that we practice-this reseide; - lru is ever rnodesV anrd d charms, only when patiently wooed and won. "But our fair hearers themselves are fond secrets, and if the history of a certain tend passion be correct, are most pertinaciously 31 sonic in keeping them. Shakespeare tells us one, at least, " Who never told her love, But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud Prey on her damask cheek." If such be the effect of female taciturnity. such the result of keeping one secret, then, ft ladies, you mziust excuse us, the custodians your charms, from committing to your keepir the weightier secrets of Freemiasonry. W prize too much the witchery of femalk beaut thus to jeopardize the rose upon your cheel Not, therefore, that we suppose vou iicalable the taciturnity inculculated by our order, we deny the privilege of iembership to yo sex. W'uman is already a Mason by natou She needs no obligations to make her faithful benevolent. 11er charity needls no trainin The beautiful proportions of her muoral char: tor defy the sculptor's .wrt, or the mason's rul It needls no srjiar to try it, no chiet to car and hew it wit~h synnnetry. She is already frc the hand of the great architect, as the polish: corners of the temple. " When has woman's heart denied its sympr th otesuffering, or her hand withheld:i charty ?Whenhasit ever required tec straint of human obligations to impel her to t -relief of the sorrowimng and the afflicted. 0 no! as well might we talk of training the riv let to flow on withm its gladdening music, as wv of teaching the stars to shed down theitr tend rays upon01 the dlarknless of night. IHer life [love, her nature charity, her mission benev lence. rTe obligations of MIasonry would f1 stratngely indeed upon her ear. The secrets - M1asonry, she has them already enshrined in t s:scred depths of her own loving nature. S is our model, how can she be our dis;cipdes ? N Slet moan submit his soul to these artificial I straints, nd square away the rudeness of I ,character by Masonic dis;cipinie. R.oughe ashla iof the quarry, we nt-ed this hewing and squ: Sing; yeaandm often the hardest blowvs of igaci,to break <fl our irep'l'tie.w, and wa: -of us (we ajppre2hend) will naerer get srqnar - Let man call in the plastic influence of. our a1 cienit art to mould and shape his character, ti: he many better support his part upon the arc of life. But with iromian, the work is dot Nature has already initiated, pa:;std, raiscd, e ailed her, when it kindled the beamis of lI loving eye, amid made it the mirror oh her sy: pathetic heart. And when to the graces of ture nas been superadded the inspiration of ligion, then does she become a pillar of beau m nore e~ehellet than any wvhica Masonry 1 'erected. Yes! as the Sun at IHigh Tuvelve -the glory and beauty of the day, so stanads ii ,man, the pillalr of beauty in the temnple of I :uierse. And we, in our rounds of duty, n 'pause to acknowledge her authority and se the pa~pr ol her fauvor. We ask her not !desicendl from her post of honor, to shamre -heavier toils ; be hers the gentler office to c iiu. off' from our labor to the sweet reireshim of her smiles and her love! S"And ye, brethren of the Mystic Tfie, torthi to your work; be as true, as generous, ,faithful as woman. Oh, noble mission ! to ra f the orphan's drooping bead, and present 1 . ambrosia of~ Iope to the wveeping children sorrow ! Th~lat Society needs no human apou s gist, which is thus fulfilling God's own wor-k merey. Go on! ye sons of' Peace anid Conco with'united banids and loving hearts. Abc you lats that banner once unfurled by heav< hy lands, anid upon its shining folds ye m ~read thne mneaisure of your duty, the sublii itent of your Order: " Glory to Cod on 1111 t peace oni Earth, good will towards men." A - if, as, the E1astern proverb teaches, one benci lent tear is of more worth than the diamor of India-for with it the recording angel wri (ur names iln the Book of Life; if, as Divi Wisdom teaches, the cup which ministered: t freshment to the thirsty child of sorrow he shall be lilled in return with the nectar oft skies for the soul of Charity, then sure and the recompense which awvaits you. Go ! A TniE sPIRiT OF THlE Winow'sSO NBE IN vO'.' I*Qpn~,-5 a rrs of thn Bible. ~O~tI~nJC~IONS. e 110 PI C ATNI I DIH 10N9ACADEY- ON is . 29184TH to Mn. EDio (lr know how t< u jstice to asi occaic hi iflorded such [a- ple-scope foi te.je peop in, this..cordial; harmoioa ani.iappy mee th After-a ogdrought, te iarth had just gladdened and the fields refreshed* by. plent showers...The airhad been rendered more as cing tthe body and n-rves and the brig: 11- ing prospects of bountiul crops had made hearts if the cItizens mPerry, joyous and Of with cheering hope. y Nearly the whole 'eighborhood, both 1 - and fernali, hid met together at an early b and iad betaken themselves to the neces Spreparations for te accommodation of t re guests.' By.twelve oAcock, an assemblage,] 2e for the state Sf-the -eather, had-coine o greet ono Wthe-, an to discusssuch w some topics as-inght either .improve the in re and heartsr resat h od6cheer of frie e- Many very heautiful ;lwd Iovly omen sparkled like ggs amd the tharong of fat rand moth grave; and haidsone,accoimplis ip and dashing gallants.. 4.A.cloudy as was aspect aboie us, Theliere,.that there was E single article, nor a ma nor a woman wan to make our satisfactioi complete. About twelve o' lock., -o-SEPH ABNEY,] th who had been requested, by the Committe e Arrangements, to addres the people, was ir - duced to the audience b -Mr. KNIGHT, and f h up the interval between tht t me and dir with a grure, se>ious, ad logical discourse o political condion.of th.ic tjits great e and its destiny. tS In his rdmarks, whici- were characterizei -d . force,' earnestness; anditi4intrepid- direct s aind frinkness, he paid nflattering tribut L, the imaginations of th. too hopeful and e guine, but presented facimd~principles, inlt a naked reality as they 4d occur, and'are n veloped in our midst.. ie . The polwer, and weith, and glory of government and peopl ecouldot b spagn by language. They eel, even norw the bri est dreams of our ilhistrous and patriotic. d cestors Bit truth'.detrands the avowal I I our lips, that'all-the present tendencies of n nation, betoken c6*n'e contentions and : s+.erPest trials of . endurance and:m otiefedIbbiis met anid quished-violations of the Constitution mus rebuked and corrected-the proclivity of commonwealth to anarchy on the one hand, of to despotism on the other must be arrested stayed-and the edge of the blade should I keen to smite the demagogue and agrarian the aristocrat, monopolist, and despot. - wild and lawless factions that assail our libei ir must be crushed out and subdued-anati Uf engendered by ignorance, false religion, morality, and false security, must be alla y, and tempered, and eradicated, by educating .. great, body of the people, and by enlighte (f their understandings with trud knowledge wisdom; and, a thorough and radical rel -e. must be instituted and carried out every wl ,r or we are a nation doomed to behold the fi Stemple ever erected to the freedom of mank despoiled of her images and sacred symbol cdesecrated by ruthless gothic hi .inds. ma United States is now the only, the last hoj ,d genuine liberty among men, and oh, God Inot the rashness and selfishness of some, sI the cruel indifference of others permit so br n-I and so lovely a vision to be dissipated in its e 2est dawn. Let not the shrine of the God hof this Republic, whose effulgent image is enl zoned upon all our ensigns be polluted by er own devout worshippers. But rather let e is Iman consider himself one of the pillars of 0State, let him consider it his religious dut ouphold and defend the laws and the Constitu e of the land, to disseminate the principles of e ernent, for whichi his fathers rebelled struggled and bled, to scatter abroad the Ii of learning and philosophy, so that every rszen may read his rights, and be prepared t< -; pel and confound the knave or the trading: 5tician, that would cheat him of his birth-rij ijand above all, let every one be firm in thc .vocacy of tiuthi, and fixed and unflinchini at thme discharge of his duty to himself, to his I i ly and his fellow man, and we may then ex .e raie ranticipations of the famie and .life of the Republic, for our liberties will I a- eternal as the everlasting fruits of knowle a- or as the perpetual rock that breasts the occ -e- direst rage. as The Speaker proceeded. All good citizert is this land have a duty to fulfil, requirinmg lai he- consistency, pertinacity, and courage. It is lto inistruct themnselves, and properly train kown inzds for teachers, and then to inist to the people around them, and to teach them urthat they inmy iiot Only be learned, in a hite lsense, but that they may be truly informti to our Republican system of goverinment, go the principles upon which its action is b: as and as to the true end and aim of all free Swholsome governments. I have long been of Ivinced, I can read it as the fiatof Omnipot< to- that there is no hope for this great nation u: of~ the voters be instructed-well informed s te bcists, for which they are called upc n exriethe right of suffrage. Where the yph. are the rulers, how in the name of ecan the Government be wise and benefic unless' they-the law-makers have intelligi ..wisdom and virtue. Can good come out of ds: Can fire be struck from an icicle, or can a'a es ton be the representative and embodimem ne chastity and decorum? If none of these tI rcan be, then, an ignorant people can never e ie a prosperous and salutary Republican syste uI which they themselves enact the laws. SThose splendid republics of Greece and R which we read of with thrilling delight, pai *e .,f but fi g ofhe qualities of our magnif experiment. Our country extends through ab thirty degress of latitude, from North to Sot and in longitude, from ocean to ocean, prest TIE ing a surface and soil, for grandeur, beauty, tility, and adaptedness for the habitation of m do. unequaled by any other portion of the gre am- earth. Hence the United States, in a century as or two, may possess a population of two hundi ting. millions of men, all having an equal share in g )een ernment, equal privileges, and an equal right eous make laws for the whole. Where there m bra- arise so many conflicting interests and pursu ten- how can such a mass of human beings-hum the legislators, carry on even a tolerable governme late unless learning and knowledge shall flow throt the land like the innumerable and majestic i nale ers placed here by God, to invigorate the plan our, to fructify the earth and to give productiven sry to a soil, that would otherwise be parched a heir blighted by the sun of Heaven. The examp arge furnished us in Greece and Rome are not app Lt to priate, and are only calculated to mislead. ole- those so called Republics, all the legislation v inds conducted by the inhabitants of the cities nds. Rome proper, and of Athens and Sparta, and also- only a few otheprincely men of fortune in i hers surrounding country. These people dailylister lied, to the harrangues of the orators, philosophe the lawyers, consuls, and other great men in the ot a rums, the senate halls, and the market plao ting and they were enlightened by all the learning their day and generation. Besides, these vot only numbered a few thousand, and these f 4's thousand monopolized the business, and the of sponsibility, if not the benefits of Governme tro- in their respective Republics, for many long a lied prosperous ages. These Republics too, rul ner, many millions of souls, and drew their reven a and their riches, from hundreds of down-trodd es": Kingdoms and nations. Why, in Great Briti itself, which is sometimes referred to, the exa ,by ple is just as incomplete, and inappropos, ness those I have been criticising. There, a Cabil e to of Queen's counsellors, a House of Lords o Ian- hereditary nobility, chosen and patented ori heir nally by the monarch and her prime minist de- and other constitutional' advisers of the cro and a House of Commons selected only b; this few thousind voters, govern and control, Y. fied absolute sway,.pot only the British Isles tern ght-: Great Britain, but provinces, colonies, and e an quered empires, amounting in the aggregate, more: than two hundred millions of souls. 'I the dependences of G eat Britain, have nothing the do in the Government of the Kingdom, exc l to contribute largely 'toits treasury, and to sw the wealth of .the entry and aristociacy. A t b e t ie' iiclfhbatedAiiheofiuageii the mated, is only granted to a very few of the and habitants of England, Scotland and Irela: and The qualifications of voters for members of P e as liament are so high and stringent, tlat we n as conclude that the great mass of Englishmen h nhe nothing at all to do in making the laws t1 - bind them, and that regulate the property tb ties ea:n with unremitting tuil, and with an ent a prise and perseverance unexampled in Euro e, It is well to state, moreover, that in reci the and Rome referred to, during the proudest di t of their triumphs and grandeur, and whilst t and law commanded the profoundest respect of 1 arn populace, slavery was an institution inore ext sive than it is now in the Southern United Stat cre, :nd no slave was allowed a single privilege ,- citizenship. Hence it was, that the laws w( nd enacted by the more reputable and well ,ad fbymed of the population, and hence their e .h.cacy' and popular'ity, and the certainty w e of which they were universally enforced. and In this connection I do not hesitate to dechim ight in the presence of this concourse of intellig tri- citizens, andl in the presence of my Maker zi dess Judge, that the much decried Institution of F bla- very is the saife guard and very bulwark of I her publicanmismn. I am, almost ready to say n< rerv what time will inevitably bring to pas tl the without slavery or a general acquisition y to knowledge never yet attained, a Demoera tion llepublie cannot exist among men. In all la ;ov- settled countries, there will be as surely as in and lives, various classes of society. To particul ;hts ize no further, there will be the provident, r citi- the improvident-the rich and the poor, and re- ignorant. and the wise, the high and the li o-Turn and twist the matter as you will, you c ht-not bring all mankind on the same level. 'l a-powerful and the wealthy, every where, will ci in or buy or co-erce' servants and mnials to I: i-forum labors, that in some respects, arc conside: peet degrading to the mind, the manners and lgheart-labors and offices that unfit a man to eng a law maker fur his fellows. Who cand ea this ? Who can dispute, that the man, yi a's sweeps your chamber, who habitually groo your horses, and drives your carriage, and elei the nursery of your children, and in tall respei s of discharges the ahject olliecs of your body bor', vanit, is unfit to be your ruler, or to have is~t, feeblest voice in the Govcrnment of a great E heir pitre? That clas's of men, to an unusual extc ruct will be low, will be v'enal, will be degraded,a i so be hying, wiill be thievish, and will be treac rary rous alt over thme world. it is the Decree of C d as nipoten cc that they should be so. Their dest is to as bccn scaled, anid they cannot alter it. I ed, impossible too, except, in rare instances, to rr and and improveC these people, and wvherc you elev con- one from his vile condition, there are ever to ee, found, others to take his place, and to assu des his state. Ini countries, where men of this ci to actor, are allowed to vote at elections, noth to but ruin and disaster can result from it. 'J pencm not, of the natural equality of our race, il iod, arc naturally unequal, and unlike, in ev'ery pic Lent, of view. What is it, that gives rise to the m nec, Iand violence at the polls, in the Northern Stat vil? 'What is it, that constitutes that fierce elemen van- change and disorder, which pervades the wli it pf1 Union North of Mason's and Dixon's lii igs What is it, that has given birth to Mormoni: nj.T to Spiritual Rapping, and to Free-love societ min i and that has sanctioned and encouraged delic women, mothers and their fair daughters in :>me, sexing themselves, in setting at tefience the hi 'took established usages of society, in laughing at ent tradition of... ags in cntemning the mosti mut fined sentiments of civilization, and by exhin th, ting themselves, as public speakers, and disp at- tants, and as contestants in arenas, fit only er- evoke the vulgar prowess of the gladiator,' i in, usurping the place of the lords of creation, an en in recklessly going counter to the laws of natui or and of God, which were ordained for the go ed ernance of men on the first day that Adam an ov- Eve walked erect in the bowers of Eden. Whi to is it, that has enkindled and fanned the fires ( ust Abolitionims, into a baneful flame, which thres ts, ens to devour the Constitution,to rend the Unic an into dishonored fragments, and to plunge us a: nt, into the yawning gulph of ruin? It is the I gh cence and foul disorder engendered at the Nortd iv- from the exercise of power and the sacred pri1 ts, lege of voting, by men disqualified for the trws ss by all that characterizes, ignorance, infamy, co nd ruption, licentiousness and treason-by met les without interest in the commonwealth, withou ro- any worthy calling, without property, withot In honor, and without a home ; and by men read -as to enlist under any black banner, that promise of to its lawless and wicked followers, in considert by tion of their fidelity to its cause, equality wit he the good, position without merit, riches withot ed labor, and the spoils of unprotected virtue, i rs, appease their greedy maws. fu- The slave holding States have been delivere s, from this dreadful curse. Our negroes occui of the place here, which is filled at the North, by .r vulgar howling Democracy, by a set of knavis .w agrarians, and by a hungry swarm of menial re infinitely more abased than the vilest African nt that breathe the pestilent air of our swamps an ad lagoons. And our slaves are instruments in ti: ed hands of God to defend the purity of the elei es tive franchise; or to stand between the ball en box and those ruffian traitors and blackguard sin who, in all New England, and the whole popt m. lous North,.pollute the fountain% of law by the as odious presence, sell their suffrages, the birtl et right of freemen, for " a mess of pottage," asi a betray their country for pieces of silver. Ti gi- negro population at the South, lay no claim I rs citizenship. exercise no act whatever of law-m n king, and as before said, happily fill the place r a which alone, are occupied in other parts of tI ith Republicby the most worthless and vicious c ed the whole race of mankind; and who, only b )n- cause they are whitemen-according to the pol to. ey of our government, must be permitted to vot he and to contribute an equal share with devote to patriots, in making laws for a noble commor pt wealth, and for the government of -the brave elI and miost generous nation on earth.. They mn nd be felons escaped from the Jails, brigands ais in- assassins and banditti expelled from all ti id. kingdoms of Europe, and the refuse populatic ar- of every dark corner of the globe, nevertheles ay they have hardly exchanged their prison clothe ,ve or cicatrized the wounds of deserved fettters, o it effaced the marks of the brands from their cheek ev and the scars of the pillory, before they are hot e. eyed and caressed by most condescending cat pe. didates for ollice, and suffered, nay, bought t ce vote for the legislators of the land, and thus, i y part, to ordain laws, to tyranize over you, i he ~ellow-citizens, and your children, to perhaps, ti he third and fourth generation. J. S. K n- Concluded next week. es, '0* of TuE FivE Poirs.-The following paragra from the New York Express, gives an idea ( F the fearful accretion of vice and squalor in tl i- field of labor occupied by the Five Points Mi flu- sion: *th " In attending to his duties recently, M Pease found a dying woman in a foul apartmei in Cow Bay, occupied also by eight other wome re, and one man, all drunken and debased, and i ,~ famnous in the last extreme. In the upper eri rof the same pestilent cour: or close were fount "in fifteen r'oomis, twenty-three families, makir I- an aggregate of one hundred and seventy-nit te- pesos or twelve to a room ! in five of thei - ifteen rooms intoxicating liquors were kept fi asale ! indescribable filth, privation, disease as indeenc reigned throughout themi all. Yi o sevnteenchildren from these rooms attend ti tic schools of the Ilouse of Industry. In eleve n other rooms were eighteen families, and in nea " ly half of these rooms ardent spirits were sol' ain one of the garrets lived two negroes wit ar- eleven abandoned white women. In tweh~ d other rooms were founid twenty--four familie he consisting of one hundred and twenty-f.>ur pe y. sons. Ilero were two blind women, two jur in past the peril of child-birth, and seventy-ot n- ere children, only eight of whom attended ari 'he school." r- is TOBACeCO Ur~woLzsoME?--Beyond ed doubt it is, when used excessively-when smol he ed and chewed in such prodigiously unchristia be quantities as are used by some men who wvoul aippear to think that the whole businie's of a " individual's life is to till the air with as muc 'ho smoke as he cans, and to spit at, into, over, upo ns under and around, every object that comesi S his way. But is it injurious to health whe used moderately ?--that is the question. :t' The Cincinnati Academy of Medicine ha Cr- the subject under consideration a few days ag he when an interesting essay was read by Dr., m- P. White. The essayist took the ground th: the deep and deadly hostility to the use of st n'bacco by certain stony-souled philanthiropis land reformers of the present day, is partiall [e- gronidless. It assumed that the smoking n- good tobacco in judicious quantities, not oni .n igvht be harmless, but might ev-en be actuall . beneticial. In the course of the discussion tlu is ensued on the subject among the members I is the Academy, the evils of excessive chewir ate were acknowledged by all; but no one attemp be ed to refute toe assertion that a moderate ud eof thme weed might be attended by a decids mbenefit. Tobacco is a narcotic-the fact th: ar- those w-ho smoke it de.-ive considerable comfo: ug fr-om the practice, cannot be denied. It is a di el infectant, and often affectually counteracts ti deleterious influence of contagious disease.. cy is a gentle stimulant, and may preserv-e the ti na sues from that wear and tear which the fieri >bs pursuig of men at the present day cause. L es? the arguments against the use of tobacco be d tof. rected against its abu.'e, and they may be moi efectual.-St. Louis News. e ?' Nothing was so much dreaded in our scho m days as to be punis.:ed by sitting between tv es, girls. Ah, the force of education. In afta ate years we learned to submit to such indigniti without shedding a tear. "ng Never marry until you can face the music the the butcher, grocer, dress-maker, twenty-thr re cousin and several babies. TIa1AJES1 TWIIp. 1- The editor of the Soith Weern Baap o lished in Tuskegee, Ala., recently paid aVitk a 'Surry county in North Carolina, aid amOWgt 1, pleasant reminiscences of the tripve d 'e following account of. his visit to r- Siamese Twins. d "They live within three .iiles, ofMq t Airy, and are among the best citizens ) community. We visited, and.spentab hours in conversation with them. .. 'Me t kindly received, and can add to the . n testimony of their neighbors'. that they 11 much of gentlemen. They xje abour. gi i. very fluently, and are very mnelligt We are sorry that we cannot gvou I more infurnation concerning them;. they i- often troubled by questions of ryin t, and we, out of respect for their feelg4 t . question them, hence we may be inco gard to some of our statements.Te w 'born in Siam in 1811, and came to thiscout - it in their 18th year. For many years theyQ(W it ited themselves in various parts eof-tbe. y States, and finally married'two sisters-in-Wk1 Co. N. Carolina, lived abfew':yesh in*Ahxt2. 4 county, then removed and'settled-inSuMR ty, were they now reside. They-aremml h with Eastern complexion, and are co it a ligature from the body sufiient 0 0 them to stand:-with some convenience side, and something like th 'n'ces sufficient number of physid -ave d a that death would ensure upon ctting thislig y ment to prevent the attempt, hence-they1 are_ a doomed to inseperable companionship. - h They own two farms, plentifully stckedwt everything that pertains to Sonh - " Then farms join, and one of their wiveslit s each farm. They spend three'dafs' .a -A f d atone farm and the same time at the otherfpun tual to an hour. In each family there'are seven e or eight handsome children, to whom they ar giving a good education. They are very indis t trious, and do a good portion of the, labor on - , their farms. They are punctual; honest men - themselves, they have no use for a man that fofi - feits their confidence, either by evasion, or di. honesty. - When they settled in North Carolina, they d petitioned the Lgislature that they might e adopt .the name of B e after a speia a' e friend of theirs, which was granted. T Chang and Eng before, they are now Chang - Bunker and 'Eng Bunkr. They ropey strong partisans, and'almost invariblsyvtet e Whig.ticket." Luc .-A young lady, posseifsed f uty acco lishments, -and. having 4000 in RA - at St. Louis, started recently on a tri t New. York, in compan with her i t ok a passa on the TenieAseBelld frinKokik t . Cincinati. On'thesanfe baatt'*ss afddn man who ey ii Af p& ' U on ihe hid p'rtun d er ' itho i Yhsdetcourtliblp!..gaW d ladf'loe M r e e .r. . .,. e c aunt concluded to take a stroll on theshore ;is she was going down the gangway-plank it tilted, i, and the lady fell into the water; she was drawn by the current under the wharf-boat ; the'sui tor jumped in, went under the boat after her, r and finally rescued her In two hours she was i perfectly restored, and sending for her deliverer I- and a clergyman being on board, they were i- married forthwith.-Si. Louis RepuMican. 0 WATER PRooF GIUE.-A perfectly water n proof and exceedingly adhesive glue may be Y obtained by immersing common glue in cold e water until it becomes perfectly soft, but yet retaining its original form; after which, it is to be dissolved in common raw linseed oil, assisted by a gentle heat, until it becomes entirely taken up by the latter, after which it may be applied h to substances for adhesion to each other, in the >f way common glue is applied. It dries immedi e ately, and water will exert no action upon it. I- It is unnecessary to say-for how many valuable purposes in the arts this application may' be r used. For cabinet makers it is important, as t mahogany veeners, when glued by thiesubstaace, n will never fall off by exposure to the atmos -phere. In ship building it will probably answer d a valuable purpose as it i isnfinitely more tena I, cious than common glue, and becomes impervi g ous to water. *RICHEs NOT HAPPINEs.-ThelateMr. Girard, r of Philadelphia, when surrounded by immense d wealth, and supposed to be taking supreme de t light in its accumulation, wrote thus to a friend: e " As to myself, I live like a galley slave, con i stantly occupied, and often passing the night .without sleeping. I am wrped in a labyrinth of affairs, and worn out with care. I do not h' value fortune. The love of labor is my highest e emotion. When I rise in the morning, my only effort is to labor so hard during the day, that .when the night comes, I may be enabled to sleep soundly." FIRE CRACEERs RENDERED UsEFUL.--These Chinese explosives, for which no useful service greater than producing noise on the 4th of July. has heretofore been discovered, have at last been a applied to practical account. In some of the New England States caterpillars are destroyed n with them. The way is to place one on the d end of a split pole, thrust it into the nest and n knock them all to flinders. It will take some h tes two or three crackers to destroy a large 1. nest ; though (or smnall collections a single ex n plosion is suflicient. The boys don't consider this work, but go.at it with a gusto. Capital idea; set the young ones after the d caterpillars. -. MoN-r TERtCON.--The Richmond Despatch tsays: " One or more of the Masonic Lodges of Ri'chmond have organized a plan to purchase. s Mount Vernon. It is to get the subordinate lodges to contribute S1 for each member. The fprice asked for the Mount Vernon Estate is two y hndrcd thousand dollars, and the Masonic sta y tistics shoiw the order numbers three hun~dred t thousa'nd; so that if all the Lodges in the Union f accede to the proposition-and the probabilityis g that they will-the purchase of M~unt Vernon may be looked upon as a ;fixed fact. The aug. e gestion, as given out does not stop here. Wheu d the land is possessed by the Masons, they pro it pose to present it to the State of Virginia, only t reserving to their order the right to meet around i- the tomb of their deceased bi-other once eveqy e year, to celebrate his imperishable deeds, and to [t keep alive his great name. 2 R. Peters & Co.'s Flour Mills, in Atlanta, now tturn out two hundred and eighty barrels of flour i- daily. FAR PLA.-Patrick went out to shoot an owl, but returned minus the bird. l" Why didn't you shoot him, Pat 1" "Fair, how cud I'? Ivery time IPd goto slip. ,up behind him, his eyes 'ud follow adniver a r bit cud I git to his back. .The snaik take~the' baste ; I believe his eysgo clean through i.' head like glass windy!" Why is a pair .of spectacles placed on tlis nose like a ship going outlBcas theya9