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straint around vico. For there have
always been men enough among us to,
lake advantage of this circumstance, in
order to obtain the honors and emolu
uments of office ; and such men are
ulwavs careful to weigh well the public
mind. They are seen dodging, anil
sneaking, like a man when he is trying
to shoot a due .<■-•*. behind the bashes
and then in the con o of (lie fence ; on
this side ofihe creek, and then on that;
down on their knees, and then goiri'i
half bent; wutching and scanning pub
lic feeling to sec which side of the
question they had best to lake; arid if
they perceive llie scabs to fill on the
side of self-indulgence, they do not
scruple to throw themselves into the
same scale, because they have but one
object in view, and that is self aggran
dizement, and self-pecuniary interest.
And thus it may happen, that the ma
jority of the people, leaning, as it is nat
ural for men to, on the side which seems
to promise something to silt, even /J it
be only the indulgence oj the iijipcuic,
and headed hy unprincipled leaders,
saying to the people,—you are certain-
]v ri"ht, and those me exactly my prin
ciples too,—niav violate their sacred
obligation of citizenship, hy the enact
ment of laws that <lo not contribute to
the peace and prosperity of tin society,
hut on the other hand, are positively
deleterious. Laws, made and execu
ted by good men, bring pence, happi
ness and prosperity to ti e people, but
when the wicked are in authority, the
wheels of government drag heavily;
the people mourn under oppression;;
vice, in the ascendcy, shows itself stark
naked, and virtue hides her modest f.c.
Idleness stalks übroad in search of
something with which to amuse herself,
and she finds no companion better suit
ed to her inclinations than crime ; they
go hand in hand together. Ign trance
prevails, and vice bends the mind to
whatever gives ease and gratifies the
depraved passions. I!ttl yet another:
reason :
Men ure short sighted and fallible
beings; they cannot penetrate the tu
tu re. The wieset and best are liable to!
err. What is thought to he fight, is 4
frequently found by experience lobe;
wrong ; and lienee, it is often necessa- ■
ry to undo what bud been done with
the best intentions and for the wisest
purposes. It is true, that in this day j
of light and knowledge, with the rxoe- 1
rience of ages to instruct the mind, — j
the rise and of all mighty republics;!
the wisdom thtt sustained, and the same
bar* of folly upon which they were;
wrecked; —and when reason and the 1
bible, like the king of (lav in his me
ridian splendor, are in the zenith of in I
tellect to irilighten and guide the un
derstanding; men ure hardly excusable
for the commission of great errors ; tor,
if they will open their windows und let
in the light, the wheels of reflection!
will move on the machine of mind, gent- :
ly, steadily, and surely, and there will)
be wrought, out of the rough and ill
•ltapen stones of the quarry, beautiful;
tclil jts upon which shall be inscribed, ]
evidences in man of a god-like uml im
mortal mind. Nevertheless, men are
fallible at best, and they must necessa
rily be taught many tilings by sad ex
perinoe. And thus we conclude the
last reason we oiler to'account for the
existence of such laws. VVliut has ex
perience taught on this subject ! Ex
perience has taught every body thut
the law for the retailing of ardent spir
its is just such a law. It is ami repub
lican,because it is not of general utility,
and is in direct violation of the sacred
obligation of citizen thip.
It has also, failed in its design; for
instead of adding to the revenue, it is
positively adrain upon the treasury, or
at least, a source of onerous taxation.)
The crime that has been perpetrated in
those nurseries of wickedness which)
have been established by the license
ra'.ail law all over the country, lias nos
itively been a source of taxation, costing j
the people more than what is required
of tham, for the support of their county
officers, the building of bridges, and the
education of the poor, nil put togelhei !
A certain individual, who has been in
the habit of visiting doggeries, observed ,
to a friend of mine, that be would never
drink another drop of spirits while he:
lived ; for said he, recently 1 went into
the jail of an adjoining county, and I
■aw there five or six persons all in for
murder, and the cause was doggeries;
and drunkenness ! What does it cost
the people, Revenue tiom the sale ol
license by the government! \\ but an
absurdity! Wood! human gore! is
the price of a license, an I the people
have to pay the expense! Hut, it it
has done ro good in point of revenue,
what good has it done ? lias it donel
Shame! where is thy blush? Who
can estimate the evil? who can sum it
up 1 If it were water, it would and -luge
the earth, and sweep off its foundations
at terribly n* did the Hood of ancient:
days, ll it were tire, it would burn up
the world, an i dissilvo the earth into a
chaotic mass ol blackness and min. It
it were air, its innute fury would fret
itself into a terrific whirlwind, that
wmid overcome thopowerof gravitiot,
an 1 sweep uwav all of earth’s inhabi
tant*, grandeur and beauty, leaving it a
barren waste untenautcd by living
thing! Hut, as it is sorrow, u c in he
Men and heard only in tears, tad sighs,
and groans. Woman sighing, ami
groaning, and weeping for her children,
and will not be com! )Tied because they
•ire not” Herod hath slain them! The
‘*’ ‘ “ ‘ wfeiyiyk il Aj’l U|> nut series
()K(* AN OF TIIE SONS OF TEMPERANCE AND STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.
the vortex of felly and drunkenness, and
are lost forever ir. time and in eterni'y !
Who w ill comfort the mother ? Shall
we fold our arms and sleep longer over
this thing untouched by the pathos of
actual stiff-'ing ? O, for the whirlwind
to awaken the people to a sen3e of their
dutv !
the license retail law must he re
pealed. The lip of the nation must he
curled against it, and its frown niusi
rest u-on it. Whv ? Ihe blood of
thousands of our fellow citizens who
fell ingloriously victims of intern
peranee, hut for whom the license re
tail law was n death warrant signed,
sealed, and delivered hy the authority
of the government, cries aloud fir its ,
repeal. What farther ? The tears of
the mother, and the cries nf the orphan
demand it; the wale of woe that once
filled the lund, though now in part,
hushed in the silent grave, yet falls in
dolorous accents upon the ear still de
manding its repeal. And yet what ?
The rights oflh people, and the honor
ot the nation, wisdom, moral obligation,
faith and religion, all combine, and i n
perativelv, in tones solemn and impres
sive, demand its repeal. And will the
people not I ear ? U ill the lion not
) arouse himself ftoirt his lair ? O yes,
,! he is begiuing to shake his mane,-the
■ people me now moving upon this sub
ject, ami we have some reason to hope, j
I that soon public indignation will he ful
ly kindled, to put down the doggery 1
factory and completely Hop its c-ining.
Let the people view the license r. tut.
law in the clear sun light of day. Let ‘
them see it as it is, a monster of vice ‘
spreading devastation and ruin through- 1
out the land; corrupting and destroy
mg thons mds of their heat cit zens ; ex
ertin'* a demoralizing and ! In-ring in- ‘
fluence upon every goal cause ; nip
ping with its wintry bla't the tendered! 1
plants of virtuous youth, snapping (lie ‘
foundations of pious instruction, and ini- ‘
bating their children into the disposi- 1
lions of pathway of hell ; ami with all, ’
anti-republican; and they will. —wont 1
they repeal it ?
For years, Mr. Banner, the liquor,
loving, liquor Irafficing and liquor advo
i eating party, have been in the majority,
; and we have been compelled, as the J
majority have the riglii to rule, (we do 1
not object), to submit to their laws. We
have bowed our necks like good citi- ‘ 1
’ zens, and have mildly received their j 1
i yoke. But now, we begin to feel like
there is no longer a necessity for gald- 1
ing our necks. The gigantic strides ‘
which have been made for the last ten 1
i years, in education, refinement, and re- I
i ligious knowledge, to say nothing of the J
j monumental auxiliary of every good in
stitution, —the grand temperance move- I
! ment, —have swelled our numbers to !
tens of thousands. We now begin to
j feel like we might unburden our sltouhl
; ers ; and instead of the law most filly
I unsigned by a grin, hydiu-heade 1 mon
ster perched upon u pole, and spitting ‘
out from his wide extended and filthy 1
throats, u baneful and poisonous air at
every body, enact a law whose appropri
ate ensign shall he, —a beautiful virgin
clothed in pure white, having a pot of I
incense in one hand, and an olive branch >
of peace in. the other, accompanied with 1
the words, —God speed and happiness
to the whole people! Sic evolve; and
may Georgia he the second in the proud t
gulaxv of illustrious States
U. 11. MILNER.
Sheffield, Ga. 1
I
Twenty Truths about the Drunk
ard.
I. Destruction is nil around him.
VJ. The house in which he lives, des
cends with a quicker decay.
3. The farm he manages,, forgets to
bear the life-sustaining harvest, and is
luxuriant only in briars and thorns.
4. W eeds choke out the grass in his
fields.
ft. Insects (onsuine his orchards.
(. Ilis garden is smitten with bar
renness.
7. His fences fall, and lay open his
crops to degradation.
8, His cattle become like the “lean
kine” of Pharaoh.
9. If ho is engaged in trade, his cal
culations always orr.
10. His means prove inadequate to
the execution of Ins plans.
11. lie consorts with rogues and
sharpers, who defraud him.
Id. 110 seeks to retrieve his fortunes
hv gaining or buying lottery tickets,
and that is only a shorter course to in- 1
evitable ruin.
13. If he he a maebanic, his fight
I hand forgets its cutmi ig.
14. lie frames a house whose parts
will not go together.
Ift. If a tailor, he spoils the cloth he
would cut into garments.
10. His work, of whatever kind it
may be, ceases to be inquired after,
ami bears the lowest price in the mar.
ket.
17. In fine, whatever the occupa
tion of ail intemperate man may be,
disaster attends him.
18. 11 is rashness upsets a stage.
It). Ilis negligence explodes a pou.
der-mill or a steamboat.
•20. Out of the countless millions of
’ wealth which are every year cast into
tlie ocean, a lew dollars may fall upon
the shallows or near the shore, and bo
• irelaimed; the rest sink into unlalhoma-
i hie depths, and are lost forever.
Charles Shields, formerly a servant
of President Taylor, and who saved
the life ofhis master, by receiving the
‘* burin- Mexican w ar,
Why Should the License System be
Abandoned^
1. Because it makes the State a par
;ty to nine-tenths of the crime and sor
row which cursr.s society. For t 1 e State
to give license to a liquor dealer is the
next thing to license to the robber and
liirate, to the swiii Her and rake.
Blush, laut, tiint thou (Jos; ever sav to
the drunkard-maker, “Go and do thy
work, I call it |eg*l.”
2. Beea-/ se it nukes reputable a
business which should be, and possibly
otherwise would be, so disgraceful as
to be shunned by ull those whose per
sonal influence would entice to drun
kenness.
3. Because it involves the i.o q .i
----tv so distinctly reprobated bt our i- \ .
■and contrary to all laws of right— it
ot supporting iniquity tor a re” -
It makes n barter of morality, an is
that w hich is infinitely b ’ter :io ,
for traitor’s poor reward.— Pro*'. I’ >.
What can the Law Accomplish
From the Cmcinn t i Or g is
Tnis question, kjo “ ‘
asked by the enemies of Te r a- • - :r,
bes re the practical i :: - *’: i. M
Law b- gan to unflvJ trie fix ■ - *s
it i* be- . to ‘ 1 \ . > vt .
W, .t iis not h law a'.r- xty aec ‘ -
ptishadt and wlit is it not dea
in the b% s*ng< of •- a* ?r, yet to ac
Co-n; sii? |t tias taken to e-sands of
our fe; iw-citizens fronts degrad ati-m
so !nv that not a human sympathy
c told be extended to them, anie-evj.
ted th - m to a pesition around w bich
cluster the majesty of mo m sand toe
sympathies of human nature. It has
dried up, iu a great in-asure, the foun
t-tins >t pauperism in t: -e States
where it was first enact* and. It has
taken collages filled with ttie elements
of misery, un i cause : them to overflow
widi sweet domestic comforts. it has
taken tho sundered tics and broken
vows of mm and wife, brought litem
together, and bound them fist. It has
arreste! the wanderer front God,
brought him back into virtue’s paths,
and placed him in a condition in which
h ■ could reach his Maker. It Itasa
roused whole communities from indo
lence and sensuality, demolished tlieir
disdleries and drum-shops, bauish-d al
cohol from t-heir midst, and placed them
to labor and independence.
But what has the w hiskey-traffic ac
complished/ Answer, ye rum advo
cates. It has crowded our asylums with
destitute orphans—filled our jails and
penitentiaries with criminals—the do
mestic circle with discord and misery—
the grave-yards with drunkards, and
peopled the world of despair with lost
souls! How great the contrast! Vet
there are men, und we blush to record
the fact, who profess to he friends of
I’emperance, and yet oppose the Maine
Law, on the fallacious plea that it is an
unwarrantable usurpation of human
rights.
Efficacy of Law-
If we want an illustration of this we
have it among file Choctaws. There,
temperance has made th* greatest prog,
ress. And why? Because, all agree,
of the. existence arid well enforcement
of the following law—a law which ‘con
gress would do well to enact for the
District of Columbia:
No person or persons shall be per
mitted to bring unv wliisay or ot.ior
ardent spirits into this nali o; and any
person so oliending, shall have the
whisky or otli *r ardent spirits destroy
ed by the light-horsemen or any one
ol them; and the captains and their
warriors of the several districts shall
have the power, and be bound to exer
cise the duties of the light-horsemen,
in assisting to destroy and whisky or
other* ardent spirits, w'liieh may be
biougln into the nation.
The light-horsemen of this nation ure
hen bv authorized and -empowered to
search any person’s house or dwell
ing, wagon, boat, pack-horse, or any
person’s bag, or saddle-bags, they may
have good leason or evidence to sus
pect that there is unv intoxicating whis
ky, wines, or other intoxicating li
quors; and if found, the light horsemen
shall destroy the liquor and the vessel
containing the same.
The less a man reads the more easi
ly von can read him. Blockheads are
impulsive, and can no more hide their;
feelings tnuii they can their teeth.
Gems for FArraeis.
To raise good cattle, a farm sltculd
be in such a sta'e that il would pro
duce good Corn, good cabbages, or good
clove l\
An increase of (arm products lessons
the market price, and toe consumer
is more benefited than the producer.
Therefore the encouragement of agri
culture is the interest ot the whole
people. It is the first duly ol B.ales
,io encourage agricultural improve-
ment.
The brightness of the plow.share
will prove a better security to our re
publican institutions than all the windy
patriotism ot long speeches in Con
gress.
He who encourages young uien in
the pursuit of agriculture, is doing a
: good work for the morals of society a
hundred years hence.
| All the true honor or happiness there
is ill this world follows labor. Mere
it not fir working-men, there c • lid be
i no progress in t*ith< r science <->1 iut.
Workitig-men are earth s true iiootlitv.
I'liiw.i win) live without work ure ail
Juvenile Department
BIBLICAL ENIGMA.
I am composed of 25 letters.
My 1a 18 1 13 11 22, was a distinguished
prophet.
„ 17 11 15 10 1 24, was one who rebuked
a king.
~ 7 524 13 32, was endued with much
w isdom.
„ 21 23 19 20 9, was one of the Apostles.
„ 11 9 15 1 1 23 94 20 18, was a Persian
k ing.
„ 13 25 95 3 14, was one of the Patriarchs.
„ 7 5 ti, was one of the Patriarchs.
~ 24 1 21 22 15 5 14 13, was one of the
Patriarchs
.. 117 1 12, is one who lived over nine
centuries.
~ 2t lb 1 10, was one who lived in part of i
t ■ first and second ages of the world,
a i was contemporary with Lantech, Me
t isl.ah, Jared, Mahalaleel, Cainan, and
K -id eked but two years of being !
c ‘temporary with the father of the faith
ful.
X!. w > a distinguished Statesman.
1). J. WRIGHT.
ENIGMA.
1 eon.i;’ sod of 19 letters,
M . . t 19 id 11 9U a i -u.ity in Georgia.
„ 4 >l7 iB9. is a ton n i:i Georgia.
. 1 > ! ‘ 9 i2 2 1. i. a parish i:t Louisiana.
13 5 14 15 18, is a county in Illinois.
11l 5 18 13 15 18 3, is a county in Penn.
_ Id 8 19 15 18 7, is a county in Ky.
. 6 17 2 9 K- 18. is one of the divisions of
Europe.
M . w . .* iti e name of a young lady Jiv
i g m . r Glade Division. S. of T.
PINE BOWERY.
Oglclti.orpo county, Ga.
Excellent Rules-
B-atty, in his Moral Science, gives
the following rules for writing or speak
ing “ itlt perspicuity :
1. That we perfectly know our own
meaning, which is not always so easy
a matter as one would imagine.
2. That we thoroughly understand
tfie words we make use of, with those
nice varieties of sense which often dis
tinguish words apparently synony
mous.
3. That we unfold our thoughts
gradually, and in a natural order, be
ginning w.tli the easiest and most evi
dent.
4. That we admit no words that are
uncommon, or not generally under,
stood, unless we have occasion to intro
duce new ideas that were never before
expressed in our language.
5. That we avoid digressions and
all those parentheses that do not easily
fall into the sentence.
6 That we nse no foreign phrases,
unless we write in a foreign tongue, or
have occasion toquole a foreign author
in his own words.
And lastly, that we study to he rath
er too perspicuous, than ton little so;
always bearing in mind that others
cannot expect to enter so readily into
our thoughts and views of things as we
ourselves do.
Western Etiquette. —The Chicago
Democrat says that the Yankee traveler
who saw the live Iloosier, has again
written to his mother, to tell her his ex
perience as follows :
Western people are death on eti
qnette. You can’t tell a man here
that he lies, without fighting. A few
days ago, a man was telling two of his
neigh jors in my hearng a pretty large
story-
“Stranger, that’s a whopper,” says I. i
“Lay there, stranger,” says he.
And in the twinkling of an eye 1
found myself in the ditch, a perfect |
quadruped.
Upon another occasion, says I to a :
man 1 never saw before, as a woman
passed—
“ That isn’t a specimen of your west
ern women, is it?”
“You are afraid of fever and ague,
stranger, ain’t you?” says he.
“Very much,” says 1.
“Well,” replied he, “that lady is my
wife, and if you don’t apologise in two
minutes, by the honor of a gentleman,
1 swear that these two pistols,” which
lie held cocked in his hands, “shall cure
you of that disorder entirely. Sodon’t
fear, stranger.”
fio 1 knell down, and politely apolo
gized. 1 admire this western country
much; but darn me if I can stand so
much etiquette; it always takes me un
awares.
Save Your Earnings.—The prac
tice w hich apprentices,clerks and others
have, of spending their earnings as last
as they accumulate, is one great rea- j
son why so many never attaie a position
above mediocrity in life. A person
who receives hut a small compensation j
’ for his services, with little care over his
exchequer, and a sy-tem of regularity
in his expenditures, find that at the end
of tlie year he is pivpaicd lo encounter
any emergency or mishap. Hut, as a
general thing, they manage to get rid
ol their earnings quite as quick as they ,
are due, thus leaving them wholly un- j
prepared for emergencies, by sickness;
or otherwise. A system of curtailing!
unnecessary expenses, if adopted by
our vounger folks, would In mg around
die most happy and gratifying results,
and he the means of raising to eminence,
anti standing in society many who have
now contracted the habit of parting with
their earnings so readily and foolishly
—for the habit of keeping continually
in d> b;, begets indifference and dissipa
tion, a lack of self respect, and utter
disregard for future prospects. The
real cause of a great deal oferime may
he traced to the habit of foolish expen
diture of money in early life.— Albany
Trantcrfyi.
TOTS MOTTO.
PENFIELDtiPBIL 2, INI.
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tedar Town.
Our acknowledgements are due to Rev
J. M. Wood, and the members of the Divis
ion at Cedar Town generally, for the very
handsome remittance received the past week.
If the example i- followed by our friends in
other quarters, the Banner will soon be en
abled to pay f-ff old scores, and put on a
dress that will be pleasing and profitable to
all its readers. ‘
Ciivi oB County.
The I riei ids of Reform in Carroll county,
are at work in earnest in the good cause.-
They are in motion in every quarter of the
county ; and appear to appreciate the impor
tance of “circulating the documents.”—
Scarcely a Mail arrives without an oidcr- for
several copies of the Banner to the different
Post Offices in the county. Success attend
them.
The Grand Jury of Folk county, has
made a very deoiled Presentment against!
the Liquor Traffic, and in favor of the At
lanta Resolutions. It was signed by all j
the Jury butoiie,who we learn, is engaged
in the traffic.
The Grand Jury of our own county has
unanimously condemned the Retail traffic.
Mr. Brush, the Dngut-nvnn Artist, is
again in our village, busily engaged in bis
profession. His likenesses give general
satisfaction, and'he is pntroniz-d liberally.
SotilhiM’fii Scho and Books.
We desire again to call tire attention of
our readers to brother Griffin’s series of
Apalachian Readers, and History of the Urti
ted Slates, file sale is becoming quite ex
tensive. We understand Mr. Griffin some
time since, received orders in two days,
from Richmond, Va. alone, for 1750 of the
books.
Robert and Harold; Or the young Ma*oo
ners on Ike Florida Coast.
This book comes to us from W. N.
White. It is a book of adventures ott the
Florida Coast. The young Maroaners are
several children, who, while in a boat at
Tampa Bay, are carried out to sea by a fish
that seizes the cable. They finally reach an
uainhubited island, where they undergo
many strange adventures. It is of the Rob
inson Crusoe stamp, and tire most delight
j ful of lire kind that has been issued for
years.
Merlin;; in Oglethorpe.
A meetingot the friends of tire measures
adopted by the Anti-Liquor Traffic Conven
tion at Atlanta, will be held in Lexington,
lon Tuesday 10th April. The meeting will
i be addressed by Robert lister, E-q.
The citizens of Oglethorpe county, friend
ly to the meeting, are respectfully requested
to attend.
Stopping Papers. —An exchange
says; “W lien a man gets mad and stops
his paper, lie always borrows I lie next
number of ids neighbor, to see if ihe
w ithdrawal ot his patnnagehasn’t killed
the editor, and dressed the columns in
morning. This grows out of the fact
that none try to show their spite in this
w ay hut the kind of peop'e w ho imagine
that tee world rests on their own shoul
ders.”
The First Printer. — ln examining
the old rrcotds ot Massachusetts tor
1041, the Riston Post f<aind the follow,
mg. verbatim, in a style of penmanship
very similar to the German text:
St pbci Day, 1 >cii>g Hit- first I In. I si
type upon printing, is gnu to 1 ygo
acre# of land whore it may ho coiivr.
niont without to any towno.
- “AhTok House Exchange.” —A magnifi
cent apartment has been prepared in the
area of the Astor House, passing under this
name. The structure i* built entirely of
‘glass and iron—elliptical in form, 85 by 51
feet, ill) an arched roof, elegantly embel
lished with fresco painting, and supported
by ornamental columns. Every accommo
dation i* here afforded for gentlemen to
meet, talk, smoke, drink and read newspa
pers. The apartment is encircled by :hir
j ly-three gas burners,and lighted in the cen
tre by four chandeliers having six burners
I each, in the day time it is lighted from
] side windows and from the room. It is
j heated by furnaces, and is suitably ventila
i fed. Among other conveniences,'there is a
; telegraph office, communicating with all tho
telegraph lines in the country. The whole’
j expenditure is about ten thousand dollars,
j In this enterprise, Messrs. Colemen & Stet.
I son are a little ahead of any of the hotel
! keepers in the United States.— Y.Juur.
[ oj Commerce.
< i Inis we perceive that the proprietors of
the Astor House have established the big
g- .v/ doggery in the United States. Messrs.
Coleman &. Stetson will keep “a little
ahead” ot any other hotel keepers. Two
or three years ago they contributed several
tiii'ii -run! dollars lor the establishment of*
I'ree Soil newspapper, and now ten thou
sand to establish a doggery. Doubtless
they will be patronized ; and very likely *
multitude of Southern travellers will stop
with them. V\ e trust, however, that tho
friends of sobriety who vi>it Gotham may
find better quarters.
The Reverend Theodore Par
ker.
The individual whose name and prefix
are placed at the head of this article, made
himself notorious in the riots in Boston
shortly after the passage of the fugitive
slave law. lie tln-n and there preached a
sermon! to persuade the “solid men of Bos
ton” to commit perjury in order to liberate
the fugitives. During the last fall, he ren
dered himself still more notorious by vilify
ing Daniel Webster in what lie called a/u
----nerul sermon-, breaking in upon the grief of
the nation by slandering the dead States
man for Ins fidelity to the Constitution in
regard to the. rendition < f fugitives. li
reference to these matters we say nothing ,
they are not particularly within our sphere;
and their time is past; so “let the dead bury
their dead.”
But the man, Theodore, has“reccn‘lv de
livered a lecture, before a crowded audi
ence. at the Tula-made, N. York, on the
Anylo Saxons, their origin, character and
influence.” Wc have read the report of thin
lecture as it appears in the N. Y. Herald,-
and dccin it not amiss to briefly notice it,
especially as it was received with great
applause.
1 iie design of the lecturer seems to be
the exaltation, in ihe first place, of the Ciu
easian race of men ; secondly, of the Anglo-
Saxons ; thirdly, of John Bull and that part
of Brother Jonathan which claims kindred
with New England. We have been taught
to reverence the diameter and merits of tho
Pilgrim Fathers, and as we read this lecture
ot one of th* ir descendants, the impression
was forced upon us ihut th fathers were
much better than the sous; or, at least,
than those sons ot whom 1 -icodore Parker
is the representative.
The Puritans were m-n of severe pioty
and stern integrity. Theodore, ■ s we have
seen, preaches perjury; yet lie lauds Wash
ington tor “establishing the great principle
tlrat virtue is supreme.” The rigid Calvin
istic orthodoxv ol the old Pilgrims, lias giv
en place ail over tire hills of New England
to rational (Juilarianisin, and that in the
reverend Mr. Parker, lias gone into tire
turtherest extreme of charging Jesus Christ
uitli being a man ol error, and folly and sin.
In tiic lecture before us, lie classes tire Sa
viour with ‘-Moses, Luther, Zoroaster, Uud
ha, and Pythagoras,” whom he exalts as
Caucasians. In the matter of religion and
morals we do not think that Theodore and
liis colleagues have improved even upon tiro
gloomy model of tlie Blue Laws.
Theodore says that the Anglo-Saxon isr
“a most lap-loving people but Theordore
hiutself attempts both by force, and fraud*
by mobs and perjury, to overthrow law.
Theodore Parser says that the -Anglo*
Saxon is “famous for Ids love of order,” and
cites the revolution as an instance of it.
Alas! “Order reigned” not in Boston when
-Mr. Parker and his co-workers defied ilia
constitution and laws of the country to set
tree a ruua .vay negro. The lecturer declare*
that “At Boston, when they threw the tea
overboard, it was all done in order” and not
un ounce ot it stolen by these patriots
Me apprehend the tea company would
hardly trust the “Boston pitriots,” of these
days, and it is very certain that they both,
steal negroes, and da it in a very riotous
way.
The lecturer slates that “the Anglo-Sax
ons are famous for exterminating their ene
mies. When they landed on this continent
-hey exterminated all the red men they
could find.” Now Theodore appears de
sir .ns rt <xn lit .11 til f the Negioes: for
ae te.ls tis that “the time is at hand when,
there will be but two great races in tlia
world, —the Sclavonic and the Teutonic.”
K is certain that the African race/so far
as it has been treed.is dwindling into.exter
mination and the Rev. Mr. Theodore Par
ker is anxious to elevate, forsooth, the w hole
African race to a liberty that is accompa
nied by degradation, misery and crime, arul
that terminates in annihilation.
1 he lecturer adds, “ I'lie Spaniards inter
married \vi:h the Indians; but the Anglo-
Saxons would not sloop to this. There was
j ll iliu ’ u! Massachusetts which put man,
! 10 d'-ath who married an Indian.'’'’ The Italics
are our own. Now. by the enactment of Mr.
Parker s friends, there is a law in Massa
chusetts which allow s the African to marry
the fair deli niters ot the Anglo-Saxons.—
1 astes w ili .it; r. W o suppose the rev
-1 ‘Viol lecturer aditdics tiie new statute; for