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Clay County Reformer. H. R. WEAVEl!) Editor. VOLUME I. IMPURE DEMOCRACY following the trail of the CONSPIRATORS. TIIK HANK KltS AtiltEK TO HKI.P CT.KVKI.ANO AND CARLISLE , WVK THIS COUNTRY AN OBJECT LESSON. Cleveland Calls Congress Together, and Tells It What to Do—T w«m%-SIx S outhern Democrats Acc«uto to tlio i Bankers’ Demands. -M- * Congress on My Hands. ”1 expect to have n session of con (rreBH on my hands at tnat time”— Cleveland’s letter of June 25, 1 hu:i, ac¬ cepting an invitation to attend Wili¬ ams c ollegc. Will Ul«e the Country an Object Lesson. “No. I shall not call an extra ses¬ sion of congress. My only object in convening that body would be to re¬ peal the silver purchasing act, and that can not be effected this year. is my opinion that we shall experi¬ ence close times in money during tho year, and when congress gets together next December it will be more reasonable, more tractable. It sometimes takes hard times to bring n people to rcalizo their condition. When the squeeze comes the mon stand in tho way of legislation tended to j reserve public will lose sight of local theories and sentiment and will bo willing to the majority and general of those who know best what should be done. I propose to give tho coun¬ try an object lesson.”—Grover Cleve¬ land, Thnes-Star interview, March 11, 1893. KvhloiiCng tlio ( o.>N|ilrary. “Secretary Carlisle this A number of bankers at tho resi¬ dence of George L. Williams, president of tho Chemical bank. The conference lasted over an hour There was the utmost good feeling displayed and the secretary said he was there to make a frank open state¬ ment of what he believed to bo tho financial policy of tho government ■ Thero is a determina¬ tion also to show tlio miners of silver the evils of the Nliermau 1 iw on their fortunes. President Cleveland’s ad risers have told him that the only way to induce tho western and south¬ western e.^MBrrcssinon and senators to consent to a repeal of the Sherman law is to demonstrate to their con¬ stituents that they are losing every day this law remains in effect. This work in that direction has been started by a number of tho bankers in tho solid communities of the east|| They are daily refusing credits to the south, southwest and west M ho Chicago banks, it is said, are carrying out the same lino of policy. “Secretary Carllslo, in his talk with the bankers, niado his stand very clear. It is to bo heroic treatment all the way through of the Sherman law, and possibly by the next session of congress the silver mine owners and adherents of silver in tho senate and house will be ready to consent to a re¬ peal of the law. The bank presidents, replying to Secretary Carlisle, cor d ally informed him that they would be ready at all times to eo-operato with him. Everybody shook hands and there was harmony all round. There was perhaps no organized con¬ spiracy against tho west in the great financial centers of the east, but there so a general understanding all along the\ine that the west should be forced into ftim to help the east accomplish v „ hat it it had i, 0 .i long desired. * * * * * Polities and finance were combined in the scheme The great money powers of the eA'-t had secured the election of Mr. Cleve'aml. They first spent a large sum to secure his nomination, and seeoni?. a much larger sum to se cure his election. They knew he was in . full . sympathy .. with ..• their views and , they felt that now, if ever, they must &*%ke the fight for gold raouometal lUm. Knowing; that Cleveland was lMMUrtily . . ... w ... t i them, .. they .. desired , . , to ereate such ; public sentiment as would make his triumph with con gross easy. First they were to press the west for a settlement of indebted ne&s, and next they were to start the •care over the export of gold. The movement in gold began early in the year. It was undoubtedly accelor Ated, and every effort made to mag nify its importance by New York financiers The telegraph wires were •ail, u,dea. not merely with the various amounts that were going abroad, but with interviews with New York men as to what the effect would be, and as to what was the cause, •to.”-—N. Y. Sun il>«m.) April 27. Tlie Proclamation. Executive Mansion, 1 Washington, D. C , June 30, ’93. Whereas, The distrust and appre¬ hension concerning the financial sit¬ uation which pervade all the business circles have already caused great loss and damage to our peop’e, and threaten to cripple our merchants, stop the wheels of manufacture, bring distress aud privation to one farmers, and withhold from our workmen the wage of labor, and Whereaa, The present perilous con¬ dition is largely the result of a finan¬ cial policy which the executive branch ^fjfre government finds embodied in unwise laws which must be executed until repealed by congress. Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, in per¬ formance of a constitutional duty, do by this proclamation declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the convening of both houses of the con¬ gress of the United States at the capi tol in the city of Washington, on the 7th day of August next, at 12 o’clock noon, to the end that the people may be relieved through legislation from present and impending danger and distress. All those entitled to act as members of the Fifty-third congress aro required to -take notice of this proclamation and attend at the time and place above stated. Given under my hand and seal of the United States, at the city of Wash¬ ington, on the 30th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1893, and of the independence of the United States the 117th. [BEAL.] Gkovkb Cleveland. By the 1'resident. Alvey A. A DEE, Acting Secretary of State. The Montage to the Kxtra Beaslon 'To the Uongro-s of tho United States: The exi.-deuce of an alarming, an extraordinary business situation, involving the welfare and prosperity of all our people, has constrained me to call together m extra session the people end s representatives in congress to the that through a wise and pa¬ triotic ox rcise of the legislative duty with which they are solely charged, present evils may be mitigated and dangers threatening the luture may be averted. Our unfortunate financial plight is not the result of untoward events or of conditions related to our national resourct s; nor is it traceable to any of the afflictions which frequently check national growth and prosperity. With plenteous crops, withabuudant prom¬ ise of remunerative production and manufacture, with unusual invitation to safe investment and with satisfac¬ tory assurance to business enterprise, sudden financial distrust and fear have sprung up on every side. Nu¬ merous moneyed institutions have suspended because abundant assets were the not demands immediately available to meet of frightened de¬ positors, surviving corporations and individuals are content to keep in hand the money they are usually anx¬ ious to loan, and those engaged in legitimate business are surprised to find that the securities they offer for loans, though heretofore satisfactory, aro no longer accepted. Values sup¬ posed to be fixed are fast becoming conjectural and loss and failure have invaded every branch of business. The Sherman Aet the Cause. I believe these things aro principally chargeable to congressional legisla¬ tion touching the purchase and coin¬ age of silver by the general govern¬ ment. This legislation is embodied in a statute passed on the 14th day of .Inly, 1890, which was the culmination of much agitation of the subject in¬ volved and which may be considered a truce after the long struggle between the advocates of free silver coinage and those intending to be more con¬ servative. Undoubtedly the monthly pur¬ chases by the government of 4,500,00,9 ounces of silver, forced under that statute, were regarded by those inter¬ ested in silver production as a certain guarantee of its increase in price. The result, however, has been entirely dif¬ ferent, for immediately following a spa modic and slight rise the price of silver began to fall after the passage of the act and has since reached the lowest, point ever known. This dis¬ appointing result has led to renewed and free persistent silver effort in the direction of coinage. Meanwhile, not only are the evil effects of the operation of the present law constantly accumulating but the result to which its execution must in¬ evitably lead, is becoming palpable to all who give the least heed to finan¬ cial subjects. Effefct* of the Law. This law provides that in payment for tho 4,500,Out) ounces of silver bullion which the secretary of the treasury is commanded to purchase monthly, there shall be issued treas ury notes redeemable on demand in gold or silver coin, at the discretion of the secretary of the treasury, aud that the said notes may be reissued. It is, however, declared in the act to lu , “the established policy of the United .States to maintain the two metails upon a parity with each other u P<? n the P r e se »t legal ratio or such ratio as may be provided bv law.” This declaration so controls the actions of the secretary of the treasury as to prevent his ex excising the discretion nominally vested in him if by such action the parity between gold and silver may be disturbed. Manifestly, a re fusal by the secretary to pay these treasury notes in gold if demanded would neecssarily result in their dis¬ credit and depreciation, as obligations payable only in silver, and would de stroy the parity between the two metals by establishing a discrimina J Up to the 15th day of July, 1893, these notes had been issued in pav ment of silver bullion purchased to ^ amo " n l t of mor6 than $17 4.000,00o. without usefulness in the treasury, many of the cotes given in its pur ? base have been paid in go d. This is illustrated by the statement that le tween the 1st day of May, 1892, and the 13th day of July, 1893, the notes of this kind issued in payment for silver bullion amounted to a little more than $54,000,000, and that during the same period about $49,000,000 were paid by the treasury in gold for the redemption of such notes. D«pi«tion of the Gold Koterv®. The policy necessarily adopted of paying these notes in gold has not spared the gold reserve of 8100,000,000, long ago set aside by the government for the redemption of other notes, for this fund has already been subjected to the payment of new obligations amounting to about $150,000,000 on account of silver purchases, and has as a consequence, for the first time since its creation, been encroached upon. • We have thus made the depletion ol our gold easy and have tempted “The Voice of the People is the Voice of God.” FORT GAINES. GA.. FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1894. m 5k WmWtm =&$**** rv*4* Li > si ,/i, / ..VO *• * tV i i- —• l aoND5 !• •r' Once there was an old “Blind’* hen who kept scratching “worms and slch,” but hardly ever got any of them In her own “craw,” for a hen that could “See • got fat on them and only left enough to keep the “scratclier” alive. other and more appreciative nations to add it to their stock. That the opi been ortumty we have offered lias not neglected is shown by the large amounts of gold which have been re cently drawn from our treasury and foreign nations^^'he^ exces^of^'ex £Pri ' > * 10 £° d d coin an( | bill 1 inn in <?, Jreasury dccreased , morn So lb , n : > ^ ^ ’ hnHi^n sam* tbT*° d ® ? l l verco * na '“ d ft ' 7 ,, .o“?o‘ ’ r o CaSOry ’ ,DCreaSCd ” 0 ” T1nl „ , , V?¥ . , Si^hUM Apparent r 1 is that law now a ‘n°force UarUinthe SirecUou of the entire substitution of silver for and g t°hat ISis'mu?tTe7o ‘TTh1, e r. C g eto>dandail,er m n, t part company and established the government must fail in its policy to maintain the two metals on a parity 1 J with each other. Hungers of Depreciated Currency. Given over to the exclusive ,use of currency ing the greatly depreciated, accord¬ to standard of the commercial world, we could no longer claim a place among the nations of the first class, nor could our government claim a performance of its obligation, so far as such an obligation has been im¬ posed upon it, to provide for the use of i|tfie people the best and safest monoy. If, as many of its friends claim, silver ought to occupy a large place in our currency and the currency, of the world through general inter¬ national co-operation and agreement, it is obvious that the United Slates will not be in a position to gain a hearing in favor of such an arrange¬ ment so long as we are willing to con¬ tinue our attempt to accomplish the result single handed. The knowledge in business circles among our oivn people that our gov¬ ernment can not make its fiat equiva¬ lent to intrinsic values nor keep in¬ ferior money on a parity with superior efforts, money has by its own independent resulted in sueli a lack of confidence at home in the stability of currency values that capital refuses its aid to new enterprises, while mill¬ ions are actually withdrawn from tho channels of trade and commerce to be¬ come idle and unproductive in the hands of timid owners Foreign in¬ vestors. equally alert, not only decline to purchase American securities, but make baste to sacrifice those which they already have. Sound and Stable Currency Wanted. It does not meet the situation to say that apprehension in regard to the future of our finances is groundless and that there is no reason for lack of confidence in the purposes or power of the government in the premises. The very existence of this apprehen¬ sion and lack of confidence, however caused, is a menace which ought not for a moment to be disregarded. Possibly if the undertaking we have in hand were the maintenance of a specific known quantity of silver at a parity with gold, our ability to do so might be estimated and guaged, and perhaps, in view of our unparalleled growth and resources, might be favor¬ ably passed upon. But when our avowed endeavor is to maintain such parity in regard to an amount of silver increasing at the rate of £ 50 , 000,000 yearly, with no fixed termina¬ tion to such increase, it can hardly be said that a problem is presented whose solution is free from doubt. The people of the United States are entitled to a sound and stable cur¬ rency and to money recognized as such on every exchange and in every market of the world. Their govern¬ ment has no right to injure them by financial experiments opposed to the policy and practice of other civilized states. Nor is it justified in permit¬ ting an exaggerated and unreasonable reliance on our national strength and ability to jeopardize the soundness of the people's money, This matter rises above the plane of party politics. It vitally concerns every business and calling and enters every household in the land. Th® Wage Earner Suffers Most. There is one important aspect of the subject which especially should never be overlooked. At times like the pres¬ ent, when the evils of unsound fiuance threaten us, the speculator may an¬ ticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortunes of others: the capitalist may protect himself by boarding or may even find profit in the fluctuation of values: but the wage earner, the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction, is practically defenseless. He relies for work upon the ventures of confident and con¬ tented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey upon the misfor tions of others nor hoard his labor. One of the greatest statesmen our country has known, speakiDg more than fifty years ago, when a derange ment of the currency had caused com mercial distress, said: “The very man of all others who has the deepest in terest in sound currency and who suffers by mischievous legislation in monetary matters is the man who earns his words daily bread by hisd&ily toiL” These are as pertinent now as on the day they w«*e uttered and ought to impressively in remind us that a failure the discharge of our duty at this time must especially injure those of our countrymen who labor and who because of their number and condition are entitled to the most watchful care of their government. Speedy Belief Desired. It is of the utmost importance that ca Vlef ”u may be^’ true* that *the^em barrassments from which the country is6utreri arise ag nuch from evils apprehended as f o t those actually existing. We „r.J hop too, that calm l counts Win that neither the capitalists nor ? wage earners 1 Their £ ^ pJtbR.™ ^7pHnein”a?’‘"a^sea°of' the tb^ r W*• »•« - to expect from congress, they may certainly demand T S con< ^. ned b y the °rdeal of ib three years’ disastrous f ex perience shall be removed from the statute books as soon as their repre¬ sentatives can legitimately deal with it. Tariff Revision Must Walt. It was my purpose to summon con¬ gress in special session early in the coining September that we might enter promptly upon the work of tariff reform, which the true interests of the country clearly demand, which so large a majority of the people, as shown by their suffrages, desire and expect, and to the accomplishment of which every effort of the present ad¬ ministration is pledged. But while tariff reform has lost nothing of its immediate and permanent importance, and must in the near future engage the attention of congress, it has seemed to me that the financial con¬ dition of the country should at once and before all other subjects be con¬ sidered by your honorable body. Immediate Repeal Recommended. I earnestly recommend the prompt repeal of the provisions of the act passed July 14. 1890, authorizing tho purchase of silver bullion, and that other legislative action may put be¬ yond all doubt or mistake the inten¬ tion and the ability of the government to fu'fill its pecuniary obligations in money civilized universally recognized by all countries. Grover Cleveland, F.xecutive Mansion, Aug. 7, 1891. “We commend the patriotism, in¬ tegrity, ability and courage of Grover Cleveland.”—Missouri State Demo¬ cratic Convention. Vote On Repeal. The vote on unconditional repeal as recommended by C.eveland and the banks tvas as follows: For unconditional repeal........ 239 Against unconditional repeal.... 108 Democrats for repeal.... 139 Democrats against repeal 74 Republicans for repeal.... loo Republicans against repeal 23 Populists for repeal....... none Populists against repeal... 10 The southern democrats who voted for unconditional repeal, and to carry out the conspiracy of Cleveland and the banks Were: Anderson, W. Va. Caruth, Ky. Berry, Ky. Patchings, Miss. Black, Ga. Clarke, Ala. Brattan, Md. Compton, Md. Brawley, S. C. Cooper, Fla. Breckinridge, Ark. Crain, Texas. Breckinridge, Ky. Davey, La. Bunn, N. C. Edmonds, Va. Cabauiss, Ga. Gresham, Texas. Wise, Va. Lawson, Ga. Lester, Ga. Marshall, Va. McCreary. Ky. M C:\aiyr, Md. McMillin, 'lean. Meredith, Va. Meyer, La. Montgomery, Ky. Oates, Ala. O’Ferrall, Va. Paschal, Texas. Patterson, Tenn. Paynter, Ky. Pendleton, Texas Pendleton, W. Va. Rayner. McL Settle, N. C. Stone, Ky. Swanson, Va. Talbot, Md. Tucker, Va. Turner, Ga Turpin, Ala. Tyler, Va. Washington,Tenn. Wilson, W. Va.—46. “Tell it not in Gath ncr publish it in the streets of Askelon’.” Fortv six southern democrats voted with the republicins to let go before they got another hold,and now they are wring¬ ing their hands because they can’t This vote is taken from the Congres. sional Record, Vol. 25, No, 19, pages 801 and 802, for the extra session of congress. Keep the records before the people! More to come! Just got started! “Let no guilty man escape.” It is said that J. Sterling Morton, Mr. Cleveland’s secretary ' of agricult ure *’ in view f of f thp th d de P re sin£r con pnn * di of . the , larmcrs, hasrecommend ‘ion ed that farmers who keep bees cross them with the common lightning bufc they can work at night Bright idea thi^of Mr. Morton’s.—People * Advocate. PURE DEMOCRACY. WHAT THOMAS JEFFERSON SAYS OF PAPER MONEY AND OF BANKS. The Stone Which the Modern Demo¬ cratic Builders Rejected Ha* Been Made the Bead of the Corner by the 1’opntlsta—Compare This with Impure Democracy. We give below some extracts from Thomas Jefferson’s writings winch may prove instructive to our demo¬ cratic friends, and show them that the Populists of to-day stand where the founder of their party stood nearly a century ago. Jefferson on Money. The following are some of the many declarations of Mr. Jefferson on the question of money: ,,a nd the na,inn mow ^ continue tn issue its bills as far as its wants re¬ quire and the limit of its circulation will admit. Those limits understood to extend with us at present to $200, WhiCh f0Vernment could command with certainty, the states have unfortunately fooled away, Day, corruptly alienated to swindlers and shavers, under the cover of private banks. Say. too, as an additional evil, that the disposable funds of individuals to this great amount have thus been withdrawn from improvement and use¬ ful enterprise, and employed in the useless, usurious, and demoralizing practices of bank directors and their accomplices. In the war of 1755 our state availed itself of this fund by is¬ suing a paper money bottomed on a specific tax for its redemption, and to insure its credit, bearing an of 5 per cent. Within a very short time not a bill of this emission was to be found in circulation. It was locked up in the chests of executors, guard¬ ians, widows, farmers, etc. We then issued bills bottomed on a redeeming tax, but bearing no interest. These were readily received and never de¬ preciated a single farthing.”—Opinions of Thomas Jefferson in 1813, his let¬ ters to John W. Epps, June 24, 1813; Jefferson’s Works, volume 6, pages 139, 140. “The question will be asked, and ought to be looked at, what is to be the course if loans cannot be obtained? There is but one—‘Carthago delenda est.’ Bank paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it be¬ longs. It is the only fund on which they can rely for loans; it is the only recourse which can never fail them, and it is an abundant one for every necessary purpose, Treasury bills, bottomed on taxei, bearing or not bearing interest, as may be found necessary, thrown into circulation will take the place of so much gold and silver, which last, when crowded, will find an efflux into other countries, and thus keep the quantum of medium at its salutary level. Let the banks continue, if they please, but let them discount for cash alone or for treasury notes.”—Letter Sept. 11, 1813, Vol. 0, page 194. Jefferson on Banks. “I have ever opposed money of banks; not of those discounting for cash, but of those foisting their own paper in circulation, and thus banish¬ ing our cash. My zeal against those institutions was so warm and open at the establishment of the bank of the United States that I was derided as a maniac by the tribe of bank mongers who were seeking to filch from the public, thus swindling on barren grains. But the errors of that day can not be recalled. The evils they have engendered are now upon us, and how are we to get out of them? Shall we build an altar to the old paper money of the revolution, which ruined individuals but saved the re¬ public, and burn on that all the bank charters, present and future, and their notes with them? For these are to ruin both republic and individuals.”. Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Presi dent Adams, Jan. 24, 1834 In a letter to John Taylor, May 28, 1816, he said (Jefferson’s Works, vol¬ ume 6, pages 605-9): “The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which if not sev¬ ered, will end in their destructions, which is already hit by the gamblers in corporation, ond is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and mor als of our citizens Funding. I con- 8 »der, as limited rightfully to a re demption of the debt within the lives a majority of the generation con tracting it; every generation coming equally by the laws of.the Creator of the world to the free possession of the earth he made for their subsist enee, unencumbered by their prede¬ cessors. And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by pos¬ terity under the name of funding, but swindling futurity on a large scale.” Mr. Jefferson further said: “Let us found a government where there shall be no extremely rich men and no abjectly poor ones. Let us found a government upon the intelli¬ gence of the people and the equitable distribution of property. Let os make ONE DOLLAR PER where there shall he no govern¬ partnership with favored Let us protect all, in life, and property, and then say to American citizen, with the gift. God has given you, your brain brawn and energy, work out 3 vour fortunes , . under , just . government a an equal jurisprudence.” As far back as Dee. 15, I80 3, he wrote Albert Gallatin (Jefferson's Works, 4, pages 515-520): term- l nis institution • (national / a, , , bank) , is of the most deadly hostilities ex against the principle, and form our constitution. * * * Ought we then to give further growth to an nstitution so powerful, so hostile? safety of our constitution to bring this powerful enemy 3 to a Derfect perit ci su sub ordination .... under its , authorities. The first measure would be to reduce them to to an an n„„„i equal footing with ... other banks, , , as to the favors of the government. 11 The bank, have diacontinued them selves. We are now without auy me dium, and necessity as well as 1 na triotism and „„ , confidence „ ,,, will ... make , us all eager to receive treasury notes if founded iounded on on specific snenifio towac taxes. n Congress may now borrow of the public, and without interest, all the money 3 tliev ine y iay want. , I t Providence seems, indeed by a special for dispensation, Without to have pn't down us a struggle, that very paper enemy, which the interest of our citizens long since required our selves to put down at whatever risk. 1 he work is done. The moment is pregnant with futurity, and if not at once by congress I know not on what shoal our bark is next to be stranded.” —Jefferson’s Works, volume G, page 382; letter to Thomas Cooper, Sept. 10, 1814. OUR EXCHANGES. John Sherman has about gone demo¬ cratic and David 11. Hill has almost gone republican, but Grover Cleve¬ land still covers the whole nest.— Thornton Monitor. How many dollars have you in your pocket? Oh, but “it’s an awful good dollar!” You bet, but it takes most people a long time to get one.—Harvey (Kan.) News. It is a little difficult for this editor to understand why protection, as the republicans call the tariff, needs so much assistance from the militia.— David City (Neb.) JBannor. The difference between the republi¬ cans and democrats, the republicans advertise their shortcomings while the democrats try to cover theirs.—Arkan¬ sas Farmer. If you are not satisfied with the promises already made and broken by the old parties, just hold on a little; they’ve got plenty more as good as those already broken.—Ozark (Ark.) Farmer. While republican papers are charg¬ ing that the Populists are a danger¬ ous element, we should like to know what these people were before they became Populists.—Mapleton (Iowa) Advocate. The millionaire sets his own limit to the amount of taxes he pavs and the government accepts it. The gov¬ ernment sets the amount for the poor man and he must pay it.—Record, Marshall, Mo. - The Topeka Press says editorially: "The proud crest of the republican party of Kansas has fallen. Its spirit is broken. Its ranks waver in the face of certain defeat.”—Yates Center (Kan.) Advocate. The democrats of Henry county have indorsed the entire ticket nom inated by the Populist county conven tion. The combination makes the success of a part of the ticket almost assured.—News, Princeton, Ill. A “crank” ordinarily is the person who has taken a step forward in the onward march of evolution, and is beckoning those who are standing in the way of progress to come on.—Clay Center (Kan.) Dispatch. lhe Washington Post is authority for the statement that the majority of the senators are bald-headed. How¬ ever, as the Spanish proverb has it, they are not so bald that we can see their brains.—Denver News. Living Issues asks if it is any more paternalism for farmers to obtain money from the government for the purpose of farming than it is for bankers to obtain money for the pur¬ pose of banking. If it is, why is it? The democrats are looking for a man that can write a platform that be construed as denouncing Cleve¬ and indorsing him. In other words, one that can give the eastern h—1 in a harmonious way. It is a fraternity of fiends that per¬ the starving of multitudes of men, delicate women and help children when foodissonbnndant it will not bring to the producer cost of production.—Garnet (Kan.) Old Abe Lincoln republicanism and democracy is what this needs. The Pops favor those The demo-reps oppose Take your choice. Will you the doctrines of the fathers, will you go off and worship the calf?—Farmer, Bloomfield, III NUMBER 8. RELIGIOUS READING. now TO MARK THINGS KASV. There a „ „ m „, tUl „ l0 hew axul old, and plenty of people to take Jfiy nostrum anybody may set afloat, to gee other things to bo easy. But wo foil in with one the day, widely differing from most of the counsels of our day on this point. Rutit pleased Z^jSS2SS8&EX& thus:—“When I can find my heart in frame and liberty for prayer, everything else is comparatively easy.' 1 Some' people, who have glanced at the heading of this article nm - v llot us much for llshing up out of thousand times fieyhJS'hSrh.W Uf! hear something likely, and they wanted to new. H «,l han „, trM Newton had, and found it a capital remedy any afflicted let him pray,’ is a proscription f iv ®“ to ,h ® ": , ' r,d without a fee, near upon twenty centuries ago. And more people than we have time to tell of have ased it, and it bftS doll ° its work without a single failure, Devout prayer makes the heart and con science easy. These are (he principal wheels, Get these right and keep them so, and the without ?£ 2 j M “^Kh^ .Mj cSSy d prayer—it is very hard to start them, a ” when they go at all they are in danger of breaking or arc sure to go creaking and painfully Much on their way. prayer put us at ease with God. It is obediente to his will, it is the way of nc C css to him. Wo then get under the shadow Ids wiugs. We coino over to liis side, and there K°t harmony of soul with him. And then is such peace, joy in the heart, that it takes a very stiff breeze of worldly adversity to trouble us much; and when there is such a of finding hSI? which tK assurance that consolation, th ° 80verest hurricanes of life can never sweep away. itshould And once more bo said, that pray¬ er makes one easy in circumstances most liable of all others to produce uneasiness. Thero is nothing that so effectually stirs tho depths of the soul,and rouses hateful passions, and makes the blood hot as the unprovoked ill-treatment of others. It is hard for a man to be easy when scoffed at, ridiculed, or not tually injured for those about you. But wo have an arrow for this mark. “Pray for them that dlspitefuliy uso you and persecute you.” ters. Prayer is the oil cast upon the troubled wa¬ kind They cannot-rage and foam with this ol pressure upon them. Prayer will bring one so nigh the infinitely benevolent God that it will make one ashamed to be seen having any,such vile drapery about him as any of the malignant passions. Nearness to so kind a being as God, will cause such pas¬ sions to appear so hateful that tho soul will turn them out of doors In the greatest haste possiblo. GETTING GOOD BY DOING GZOD. Benevolence is a fundamental law of our moral being; and the man who labors for his. fellow men secures thereby the gratification of his most commanding principles of ac¬ tion ; but he who labors for himself alone, stirs up against his own peace some of tho most operative elements of nature. The Deity knew well that a disposition to labor for selfish ends is destruction of man’s true interests; and that a disposition to labor for common good, is the only sure way of secur ing good for seif, therefore has he devolved on us many acts of beneficence which He might himself have performed as easily as omitted. He might speak aslngle word to the Hindoo widow as she ascends tho funeral pile of her husband,and she would go down again In her right mind; but he chooses to set the spec¬ tacle before our own eyes, and to let us hear the shrieks of the self-immolating woman, so that our compassion may be moved and our energies enlisted in her service. He calls us to the banks of the Ganges and bids us look upon the mother, forcing from her breast the child that weeps and struggles to remain with her, throwing it into the stream where tho eager alligators aro garaobling for their prev. lie could easily robuko the frantic m other, and she would press the loved one closer to her bosom; but he chooses to touch our pity, and appeal to our benevoience, aud to com¬ mand us, Bend my gospel into all the world, that it may cast out the demons ol supersti¬ tion and may let the bond slaves of heathen¬ ism go free. Ho bid us walk in our imagina¬ tions over the dolorous way travelled by the car of Jugeraaut, and walled on either side with the bones of crushed Vic¬ tims; he sets before our eyes, hun¬ dreds and thousands of living men hanging from transverse beams upon hooks that have perforated their muscles, and swinging round and round in torture; He places all these barbarous scenes before the heart, our vision,-so that the eye may affect be roused to a holy purpose, and the purpose may move us to pray for the conversion of the Gentiles, and not only to pray; for how shall they be converted unless they hear the gospel, and how shall one preach except bo be sent; and who shall send the missionary if we remain supine? For us to do the work is left; for our good it is that we address ourselves to tho work in earnest; for the highest benevolence good of our whole character, philanthropy the good of developed, encour¬ spirit¬ aged, of of a ual temper cherished and strengthened, a good purchased at great expense, even the miseries of our fellow-men, they suffering so that we may be made more compassionate: a good, therefore, which for left their unaccomplished. sakes and for our sakes, must not be —Professor Park. PABTICUEAB jPBOVIDENCES. The doctrine of a particular Providence la a doctrine fraught with the greatest consola¬ tion to mankind, who are born to sorrow. Not only is it that nothing can happen but what God permits—nothing can happen shouffi but what he enjoins. The notion of God not be that he has lit up the sun. and given the but winds rather power that his to roam through the world ; glance is in e\*ry beam, and his breath in every breeze. The idea shall not be entertained,that after giving life to men, God concerns himself no more with his creatures but rather that through his special interference is that breath follows breath, and pulse succeeds joy—in pulse; so that hope in every trouble and in every every which rises to cheer,and in every doubt which darkens, the hand of God may be discerned, producing out of a thou¬ sand seeming file, and a thousand apparent dividual discrepancies, not only a general, but an in¬ good. And how much of consolation is there to a heart when deeply stricken with sorrow, to be able to feel that ail afflictions are sent for a wise purpose, and that there is a bright kingdom hereafter, where pain shall have no entrance. It would go far to dry a mother’s tears, which the death of herchild has caused to flow, if she could be thus persuaded to re¬ gard the dealings of God. It would lie to take half the bitterness from sorrow, if she could be made to feel that in allowing death to take herchild, God has heart was innocent, and pain andT sorrow Bcarcel y known,—Dr. Gregory. THE MOTHER'S GIIT. ‘Tlacethis in your trunk, my son,” said a pious mother to her boy, handing him a Bible, as be was about leaving home for college; “place this in your trunk v and when away from the parental roof, read it, and doem it precious; it Is the book; your mother has tried it, and what she has found good to her own soul, she would have her Francis also know, tn his blessed experience,” ’ own