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Church wt then occupied, were evidences that the waodering sailor bad a friend. But the Doctor pointed out one thing still wanting Qiwleiton, to protect the poor sailor the imposition of the artful and *® e yw>ntagoo of the vicious—a boarding “tsfuse and we trust that it will not long ‘tw said that the sailors, who are provided with a church and good teachers, are com pelled to take up their lodgings among the vicious and depraved of our cit y, and min gle in society, prepared, not only to do away the effect, but to turn into ridicule the ordinances and the worship of the house of God ! This ought ntft thus to be. Provision is already made for publishing this sermon and Dr. Parson's address* as tracts. FROM THE AUGUSTA EXAMINER. Believing it will be interesting to many of the friends of religion, to heartoraething relative to the late session of the South Carolina Annual Conference #f the Metho dist Episcopal Church in this city, I take the liberty qf communicating the following particulars for insertion in the Examiner. A member ojH the-Conference. The inference commenced on Thurs day the xlst Feb. it was attended by Bish ops M’Kfendree and George, and nearly an hundred preachers, a majority of whom, were members. It continued five hours in atissian each tt*y, except tbe Sabbath, until yedferday morning, when it closed and the 1 appointments ofthe jireachefs for the pre sent year, were read out. Three sermons a d*y were preached usually, ana tour on the Lord's day, when a large number were set apart and ordained to the sacred offices of Deacon and Elders in tbe church of Christ. Six of the members of conference, from affliction, were constrained to locate, and sixteen or seventeen (many of whom prom ise much usefulness) were admitted into the itenerant connexion. Avery favourable report, relative to our Indian oiissions in the Creek nation, was made by onr esteemed missionary, appoint ed partly to that work last year. Two missionary stations dtaong the Creeks were adopted, which are styled Asbury •$* AVKen dree, to which two missionaries are appoint ed, and also a superintendent, who is like wise to act as conference miseiooayy, and use his best endeavnars to obtaio funds and necessaries for the support of those estab lishments. A missionary committee for the management of these institutions was created, which are composed of tbe follow ing persons, aDd is to meet semi-annually. Rev. Lewis Myres, Wm. M. Kennedy, Jas. Norton, Jas. O. Andrew, S. K. Hodges, i Daniel Hall, Joseph Travis, Thomas Dar-j ley, Lovick Pierce, Peter Gautier, Benj. j Blanton, Joseph Galluchat, Gen. D. Merri-, wether. Col. R. A. Blount and James Shackelford, Esq. Very favourable information from the Sa’ein and Tabernacle Academies, relative to the literary, moral and religious acquire- Tflevu-u sh"d dep**®ent of |heir teachers and students was received. These sctfooir have been formed on principles which ac cord vitb<ns econpnu wiiurcn, and >rere tendered to us for onr patronage and adoption —they were accordingly adopted, and a school committee created, whose business it is, with their respective trustees, to secure the support and form laws for the government of .said Academies. The fol lowing persons compose the committee: Rev. Samuel K. Hodges. Josiah Travis, William Capprs, Lewis Myers, and Thomas Darley. The Missionary Society of the S. Caro-1 liua Conference, held its annual meeting; the day before conference, made report, (which will appear before the pubhck,) recognized eight branches, and elected the following officers and managers for the pip-cot years Rev Lewis Miters, President. William M. Kennedy, V. P. James Norton, 2d ditto. . W Capers, corresponding sec-. John Howard, recording ditto. Whitman C. Hill, treasurer. Isaac Smith, Joseph Travis, Thomas Darley, Jas. O Andrew, Managers. S. K. Hodges, Henry Bass, Tilman Snead, The last Fridays in May and September, were set apart as days of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer; to be observed throughout the bounds specially—to pray for the divine blessings on our labours and a general revival of vital piety. Savannah was. fixed -■■•* -*b holding. onr nest conference, which is to commence 20fb of February, 1823. From tbe very large and frequently overflowing congregations that attended the ministry of the word, the seriousness of their countenances, the many who were eften bathed in tears, and the eloquent, energetiok and powerful manner in which the sermons were in the general delivered, we have much ground to hope many last ing religious impressions weTe made, and trust we shall hear of a gracious harvest ere it be long, in Augusta. Preachers stations for the year 1822. Athens district —S. K. Hodges, P. E. Appalachee —W. C. Hill, A. Ray. Broad river—R. L. Edwards, H. W. Led betler. Grove—J. B. Chappel, J. H. Robertson. Alcovia—J. Beilah ; R. Tucker, supernu merary. Sparta—T. Samford, W. Parks. Cedar creek and Milledgeville—Jesse Sin clair, John Bigby. David Hilliard, without a station. Oconee dis. —A. Turner, P. E. Washington—J. H. Tradewell. Big Ocoaulgee—J. Dun woody. Little Octnulgee—N. H. Rhodes. Oheopy—T. L. Winn, P. L. Wade. Appling—J. Freem* 0, Satiila—A Purify.. St. Marys and A*<—£Mi Ogtchge Joseph Traviss, P. E. Augusta-J. Howard. Washington— P- Darley. Louisville— G Hill. vWren J* B - Turner, N. Laney. Littfc v*r—D. Garrison, J. N. Glena. Saluda—B. English. Abbeville—B. Smith, A. P. Manly, Keowee—J. Dannelly. Edisto dw.—Lewis Myres, P. E. Savannah—J. O. Andrew, G. White. Charleston—J. Norton, D. Hall, J. Evans. Black Swamp—D. G. M'Daniel. Orangeburg —Robert Adams, J. Reynolds. Cypress—J. L. Greaves, H. Seigrist. Congoree —M. Raiford. Cooper river—E. J. Fitzgerald. Bread river dis. —H. Bass, P. E. Reedy river—Z. Dowling, M. Westmore land. Enoree—J. Taylor, Eliah Sinclair. Newberry—J. Murrow, M. M'Pherson. Sandy river— E. Callaway, Josiah Free man. Wateree—T. Owen. Santee—T. Mabrey. Camden —N. Talley. Columbia —T. Soeed. Petdee dis.— W. M. Kennedy, P. E. Lynches Creek —N. Ware. Little Peedee—J. W. Norton, M. Turren ■ ton. Black River—W- Kemredy- Brunswick—W. Haoktns, D. hiley. OldricD" —©• Belt®. Deep river—J. Dix. Georgetown—A. Morgan. Fayetteville—J. Dunwoody. Wilmington —G. Hill. Catawba dis.— D. F. Cbristenberry, P. E. Montgomery —W. Knight. Rocky river—J. Boswell, J. Covington. Sugar creek—T. A. Rosamond. Lyncoln—D. Asbury, A. Norman. Union—J. Mulliuex, J. Richardson, super- numerary. Upper—F. Broad. B. Rhodes. Black mountain—W. Warwick. Morgantoo—J. L. Jerrey. William Capers, Superintendant oflcdiao missions and conference missionary. J. Smith and A. Hamill—Missionaries at Asbnry and M’Kendree station, Indian Mis sion. C. Carlisle, missionary at Lawrens dis trict, South Carolina*. G. L. Masctn, missionary Gwinett county, Georgia. J. J. Triggs, missionary Early county, Georgia. —- I The Treasurer of the Missionary Society of the j Synod of South Carolina aßd Georgia, acknow ledges the receipt of the following sums, paid at the last session of the Synod, aud subsequently. From the Presbytery of South Carolina. From Rev. H. Dickson—his own subscrip tion §5, his donation $9, Mrs. F. Dick son $lO, a lady $3 $27 Rev. W. H. Barr, from the ladies of Upper Long Cane, S3O of which is to consti tute Eta, a life member • 35 Ditto from upper i—•— congregation * tztl Rev. Henry Reid, from Double Branch ch. Lincoln co. Georgia 32 50 Rev. James Gamble, Rocky River cong. 100 Ditto his own subscription 5 Ditto from Young Men in same church 25 Ditto from coloured members of ditto 1 Rev. Richard B. Cater,Willington ch. S.C. 28 50 Ditto for life membership 30 Ditto subscription of Andrew Norris, Esq. 5 Rev. Jame3 Hillhouse,from Carmel Church 20 75 Ditto Hopewell ditto 40 John Hams, Esq. his subscription 5 Rev. Joseph Hillhouse, from Unionville ch. 24 50 Ditto his own subscription 6 Ditto the subscription of General Means 5 Mr. Wm. H. Caldwell 5 Rev. Alex’r Kirkpatrick, his own sulTscrip- tion and that of Dr. Farrow 10 Ditto from Laurens C. H. 11 31 Ditto Warriour Creek 2 25 Ditto Liberty Springs 1 60 Michael Dickson, bis own and Dr.T. Alex ander’s subscription 10 Rev. David Humphries, bis subscription 5 Ditto from Varennes 17 Rev. John B. Kennedy, from Little River, 21 Ditto his own subscription 5 Ditto from a friend 2 Ditto from Samuel Low, jun. 23 Rev. Joseph Y. Alexander, fro* several gentlemen at Newberry Court House 28 Ditto his own subscription 5 Rev. Thos. Archibald, his two years’ sub scription •10 < Ditto from Persons in Laurens District 7 Thomas Childs, Esq. 5 John M’Bride, Esq. his subscription 5 Ditto donation 5 From Hopewell Presbytery. Rev. Francis Cummins, D. D. his subscrip. 5 Ditto from Mrs. H. Simpson 5 Ditto Salem congregation, to be appropri ated exclusively to the Chickasaw mis sion 16 ■ fci Mr . and Mrs. A- H_. Sc.nft. _ same purpose ft) . Ditto from Siloam congregation, for ditto 570 Ditto from Bethany congregation, for do. 737 Rev. Dr. Moses Waddel, from Hebron congregation 20 25 Ditto Thyafira 8 Ditto from Dr. Edwin Rees 5 Ditto from Wm. Hodge, Madison county 1 Ditto his own donation 20 Rev. N. S. S. Reman, his sub. for 3 years 15 Ditto from Mount Zion 20 From Harmony Presbytery. Rev. G. M’Whorter, Concord congreg. 7 50 Rev. George Reid, from first Presbyterian Church in Charleston 68 50 Ditto from W. Frierson Esq. 14 Ditto his own subscription 5 Rev. A. W. Ross, from the Winnsborough Female Missionary Society 26 Ditto collection in Mount Zion Church 26 37 Ditto collection by Mr. James Ellison in hisneigbbourhoed 14 Ditto Daniel Carr, Esq’s, subscription 5 Ditto his own subscription 5 Rev. Thomas Alexander, his subscription 5 Ditto from the Union Auxiliary Society Black River 90 Rev. R. W. James’ subscription 2 years 10 Rev. Wm. Moderwell, of Augusta, his sub. 5 Rev. T. Charlton Henry, from the Female Miss. Soc. and Presb. church of Colum bia, to be appropriated exclusively to missions in South Carolina* 325 _ * This limitation was made, because, at the time, all the sums which the treasurer bad re ceiled for many month*, had beeatdirected to be applied solely to tbe Chickasaw Mission, and it was feared that no funds would be collected for missions to the destitute parts of the Slate. Rev. Robot Mean*, hie subscription S Ditto the subscription of T. Means, Esq. 5 Rev. Sanuol S. Davis, his donation 5 Rev. RemSnbrance Chamberlain, his sub. 6 IWv. John Cousar, being the remainder of his life ssbsoription, s2l being paid 9 Ditto from Rev. Gahriel Capers, from the Union Auxiliary Society of Salem 10 Rev. Arteiias Boies, from the 2d Presbyte rian chuich iu Charleston 101 Mr. Thom* Flemming, his subscription 5 From the collection taken up in the ch. in Washington, during the session of the Synod 58 75 thus jsmsMtAirst. MOUNT ZION, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1822. 11 Their feet art swift to shed blood." —Paul. We have long wished to present to the publick a feiv remarks on the subject ol Duelling, but have been hitherto deterred from tbe execution of Sur purpose by more considerations than one; and among these the consciousness, that our tal ents are unequal to the magnitude of the theme, is by no means the least. The finest intellectual powers in our country, and indeed in Christen dom, have been occasionally called into action for the purpose of discountenancing this disgrace ful ami savage practice;—but it is an evil of so peitinacious and malignant a character, that it continues to exist, supported by the authority of example and oherished by the murderous spirit of fallen man, *•-- -j a — > — as demonstration, to be, in'its very nature, hostile to the law o( God, and, in its operation, subver sive of the fixidamental principles of human soci ciety. The wrath of heaven and the penal scourge of finnan justice, have been pointed in vain againstthis blood-stained moastpr. He still prosecutes his march though countries called civilized and Christian, and men who affect a su perior elevation iu society, and not unfreqoeot ly, those who ire invested in the robes and bear the sword of cidl authority, are seen mingling in his train. Thtse things ought not so to be ; and though a thousand previous and pungent warnings may nave been treated with contempt and set at detainee, it becomes every friend ofhis country and of God, to lift his voice like a trum pet against this prevailing evil —to hunt down by every lawful weapon, these men of blood, these modern Cains—to (urn, if possible, the indignant ; current of publick opinion against them—and thus to plant thorns upon their pillows, though he may not he able to rivet conviction upon their hearts. For the sake of insuring the greater distinct ness of impression, we shall consider successively, in the progress of our remarks, the following par ticulars ; the origin—the causes — the criminality —the preventives —and the apologies of Duel ling. Among the more enlightened and polished na tions of antiquity, the practice of settling contro versies by the weapons of death, in single com bat, was unknown. In those remote times, if the murderous practice existed at all, it was re stricted to those who were considered as Barbari ans. Even pagan Greece and Rome, in their bet ter days, never descended to thibase and-bloody degradation. Duelling, as it has come down to us, had its origin in a dark and superstitious age, and was often resorted to as an ulteriour appeal j in cases of civil or criminal litigation, when the magistrate, for want of legal testimony, felt any hesitation in pronouncing a final decision. At that period it was universally believed, that God,! would interpose for the protection of the inno-! cent, and the punishment of the guilty. This | opinion, though predicated upon erroneous im-1 pressions the divine government, furnished a I far mort plausible defence of the ancient combat ’ or trial by arns, than any argument which can \ be adduced in vindication of the modern duel. ! 1 he combattants who now meet upon the field of honour, make their appeal, not to God, but to the powers of powder and ball—rely for security not upon the protecting shield of heaven, but up on muscles which were never relaxed by fear, and upon nerves which cannot be unbraced by the appalling thought of purposed murder. The causes of duels are generally frivolous to a proverb, and such as cannot justify, on any principle of morals or humanity, a resort to ex tremities. They are such as hardly have the weight of a feather, or the magnitude of a mote, in the estimation of that man who looks above the world—maintains an elevation superiour to (he vulgar prejudices of the multitude—or ever glances his eye upo# the coming retributions of eternity. Duels generally respect some point of honour; and this honour which has caused so much pa rade and bustle in the world, when brought to the test of rational —— lll ,u trc no more nor less tlian a proud, vindictive and un forgiving spirit—a temper of heart that fears not God nor regards man. To a person of this squeamish and fiery temperament,a warm debate, a newspaper essay, an inadvertent and hasty re mark, an omission of some empty form or eti quette, a surly look, or a sarcastick grin, is deem ed an offence of that deep and scarlet die which nothing but the blood of the offender has power to expiate. This nice and delicate sense of hon our, which resembles the tasty humoui of an in dulged and ill-natured child t rather than the dig nified spirit of a man , is (he god of the duellist. But, to the mortification and disgrace of his wor shippers be it known, this deity is a kind of Devil. It is the heathen Moloch buptized with a Chris tiam name His altar is shrouded in black, and covered with dead men’s bones—he bears in his right hapd the instruments of death, and in his left, a banner dipped in the life-blood of butcher-, ed victims —while his common drink is mingled with the tears of widows and of orphans. Many an infatuated wrctclh, who turns, in the pride and loathing of his heart from the altar of Jehovah, proffers his devotions at the congenial shrine of this surly and malignant god. The crimisalitx of duelling is of a compli cated nature, for however the contest may ter minate, it is #|eudifctsd attempt to tafc? assay j human life, and embraces in a single act, a de liberate offence aguiust the social compact—a vi olation ofthe principle*of humanity—and an in fraction of the law of God. Let every candid reader trace, for a moment, the lltree-frld bear ing* of this enormous crime. As to the criminality of Duelling, it is in the first place a deliberate offence against the social compact. It is in a state of nature alone, that man is the arbiter of his own actions, and the avenger of his own wrongs. In civil society these prerogatives belong to the governing power which ha* been created for the mutual safety and hap piness of all. In such a state of things individuals are bound, in tho prosecution and defence of their rights, to make their appeal, not to their own personal decision or physical strength, but to the tribunal which civil government lias erected for the attainment of distributive justice; In an or ganized government—a government of laws—to become our own legislator, judge and execution er, is to subvert the vital principles of social sub ordination ; it is to forfeit our good standing and character as citizens. But all this is done by the duellist. By one daring act, he throws contempt in the face and eyes of civil law, and stands forth under tbe full gaze of his fellow citizens, upon the native ground of the unbridled savage. He re verts back to that state where not law but passion governs—where man has no rule of action but the decisions of his own mind, and no avenger but the puissance ofhis own arm. It needs but half an eye to discern the repugnance of funk an act to the first principles of social order, ana us VAgiiStjr in thft.K—• monious operations of civil gov ernment. But these remarks describe not the full extent of the crime of duelling as committed against society. In most civilized countries spe cial laws have been enacted for the counteraction of this evil, and for the protection of the mem bers of the commonwealth against its wanton rav ages ; and the ingenious subterfuges to which gentlemen often resort in giving and accepting challenges, and selecting the ground of combat, in order to elude legal detection, only exhibit the peculiar subtilty of their taieuts in the perpetra tion of mischief. The incipient steps of these dark transactions are studiously covered from the publick eye ; and when the preliminaries are fairly adjusted, and the work of pre-concerted butchery is to commence, the combattants, equipped Tor the desperate and deadly onset, cross the line of a State, or, as better befits their barbarous purpose, retire to tbe frontier of civil ization, and pass as fugitives into the great wil derness belonging to the Natives. When the latter course is pursued, the whole transaction is truly charactenstick. All the actors in this scene of blood, though once the members of an organi zed government, are now by a temporary and wilful revolt, savages on savage ground. But the guilt of the duellist is rendered still more apparent, by the additional consideration, that he coolly violates the principles of common human ity. To wish to shed the blood of a fellow being, though that being may have injured us, is to pos sess the heart of a tiger, and not of a man. “ The milk of human kindness” flows not in such a bosom. It is in every instance an act of wanton cruelty to inflict on others sufferings dispropor tionate to the injuries we have sustained—and this i9 ever done in the fatal termination of a duel. Few things in their nature or consequen ces, are to be putin competition with human life. , The infatuuted man who slays his antagonist in a duel, inflicts an injury which can never be repair ed—he hurries an immortal fellow being whose I heart beats with tbe purposes of murder, prema j turely to that Tribunal whose retribution is ever : just, and whose adjudications are irreversible and ! eternal. In this strain of argument, we hare said j nothing of the charity of the Gospel, which for ! bids the retaliation of injuries, and enjoins upon ;us to love our neighbour as ourselve,s. But the i inhumanity of the duellist is not confined to his : immediate victim ; —the tenderest ties of life are not unfrequently sundered by one cruel blow.— Were we to paint a death-scene , shaded with un wonted horrours, we would select the catastrophe of some fatal duel as the subject. The prominent object should be the Husband and the Father, i who has fallen by the weapon of an alienated friend, & around his coffin & his bier, upon which j rests the black pall of death, should be grbuped i the sorrow-stricken victims who participate most i deeply in this scene of unmingled woe—the wid ;ow bending for the last time over the cold clay ’ of him she most tenderly loved, and anointing ’ him with her tears for his burial—and the little : infant prattlers, who have learned in vain to lisp the endearing name of father , and who are now reduced to a premature and hopeless orphanage ! Behind should be seen following with the unequal and tottering step of age, the Parent who gave name and being to the self-immolated vic nm or rasfiness—bis locks which are whitened bji the snows of many winters, shaken by the pertur bations of an anguish-smitten bosom—and his almost sightless eyeballs rolled up to heaven, the , lust refuge of childless and pious decrepitude ! In the back ground, and far remote, with his face turned from this melting spectacle, should be pre sented the fell homicide, his weapon of death fal ling from his hand, fleeing from -the.legal aveng er of blood, with a viper gnawing at his heart, the brand of Cain upon his features, while a dark cloud is gathering over his head, half-illuminated hy a stream of vindictive lightning from heaven ! ’ Let the duellist contemplate this picture before , his headstrong passion impels him to the commis sion of a crime which may render him, like the , father of homicides, u a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth.” Duelling is, moreover, a palpable violation of the law of God. “ Thou shall not kill,” is one . of the plainest prohibitions of the Decalogue ; and in every duel this precept is either actually or virtually transgressed. No construction how ever ingenious, can be put upon this clause of the nrioTal law, which will, in any instance, au thorize, excuse or extenuate duelling. The only exceptions to this general rule are to be sought for in the Alible ; and this sacred volume aud writers on Jurisprudence and Moral Philosophy, ’ unite in restricting these exceptions to executions by legal authority, A to the Act* of killing in self defence when our own lives are in immincut and immediate danger. Os neither of these pleas can the duellist avail himself, for he slays his antago nist in defiance of the majesty of law, and the jeopardy of his own life involved in this act, is a voluntary and wanton exposure. There is no description of, human slaughter which ful|| more directly within the scope of the precept, or which Is attended by fewer extenuating circumstances than that which is effected in duels. It is mur der of the blackest die. Every challenge is given and accepted with the expectation of killing, or of being killed. This is the obvious and acknowl edged design of the whole transaction. The blood of the offender is publickly demanded for the real or imaginary injury which has been in flicted. The weapons which are employed, are the weapons of death ; and much time is spent in acquiring adroitness in their use, ? and this for the sole object of insuring certainty in the execu- tion of the fell purpose of murder. Nothing can be more deliberate, than the determination witft which duellists pass through the various stages of their work to the ulteriour act of slaughter. The parties take their own time for reflection. The challenger has- it within his <Jwn option, wheth er he will call his antagonist to’ the guilty field or not—and it is equally optional with the othcA, whether he will obey the call when given, or re fuse it. Both parties wilfully jeopardize their own lives and the lives of each other. As killing in a duel is the most deliberate, so it must be the moat aggravated “Species of liiurdt-r. The heat and impetuosity Cf passion cannot be pleaded, y in many cases of homicide, irs affording even shadow of extenuation. The whole business is condfioted with the coolness and regularity of system. In contempt of human justice, and in defiance of the malediction of Jehovah, the chal lenge is formally given, and as formally accepted—. the time and place are appointed, and the seconds chosen—and each party repairs to the field of contest, with the cool, remorseless temper of a professed assassin, for the purpose of exposing his own life in the attempt to take the life ofhis ad versary. Id the event of a fatal issue, the one who falls is guilty of little less than actual suicide, and the one who deals the blow of death, is a premeditated and wilful murderer. It is in vain to palliate this black and hellish crime, by de nominating it u an affair of honour.” It is an af fair which commenced in pride and stubbornness, and ended in revenge and murder; —and thus it will be found recorded, in characters as deep and indelible as the finger of God can inscribe them, in the adamantine tablets of heaven. In contemplating the evils of duelling, we are naturally led to inquire whether there are any ef fectual preventives of this barbarous custom— whether any practical remedy can be found to shield society from insult, the feelings of humani ty from outrage, and the statutes of heaven from a wanton violation. Something ought to be done, at)d that without delay, to lessen the number of murders committed in duels, and to wipe off this broadest and foulest blot from the human charac ter. In combatting the evil in question, the first appeal must be made to publicksentiment. The Ministers of the Gospel and the members of the Christian Church must lift their voice against it, and call upon the friends of virtue and humanity to unite with them in every lawful attempt Jo purge the land of so foul a mischief. The true nature of the crime must be boldly exhibited, and th? publick odium fixed, if possible, upon the bloody men who become its fearless perpetrators. When this is done it will no longer be popular to engage in duels, and one strong incentive to these deeds of blood will be removed at once. Were duellists uniformly excluded from offices of trust and honour, in our republick, this political dis. franchisement would do much towards the exter mination of so disgraceful a practice. This ex clusion from privileges so dear to-men of an am bitious and aspiring temper, might be effected either by an express statute on the subject, or by the consentaneous voice of a virtuous and indig nant publick. Such a motive would address itself j so pungently to the predominant characteristicks of duellists, that a single combat would become a moral phenomenon—less frequent than the ad f ; vent of a comet, or the concussions of an earth- J quake. Every good man must devoutly wjsh for the dawn of that day, when the blustering hero i shall not dare to hope, that he can shoot away the ! infamy of a smutty character, and thus purchase an infallible passport to office. But the most £ ! fectual method of banishing duels from the cV S * ! ized world, would be to insure the execution of j the law of God and man enacted against murder. \ In this business magistrates have an important j part to perform; and we are sorry to say, that ! they have too long winked at the prostration of law, and the prevalence of this frightful sjn. Let those who are elevated t authority “ for the pun- I ifbment of evil doerp,” tee to it, that they be not guilty of a dereliction of duty, and thus call down from heaven some signal act of national retribu tion. While murderers far less guilty than the duellist often is, are arraigned and sentenced to condign and exemplary punishment, this pb?rac r ter is permitted to trample upon the laws with impunity. No efforts are made to bring him to justice, or to consign him to the infamy of thW gallows-. Let the halter be the badge of honour i)niform(y awarded to the person who commits murder in a dpel, and few of our fine gentlemen will perpetrate an act which will insure to them this merited distinction. Let officers of justice hear the voice of God, and either obey or tremble; |—“ The murderer shall surely be’ put to death ! and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood IhaU is shed therein, but, by the blood of him that shed it But duelling has its Apologies, which we are now prepared to consider and refute. It is fre quently alleged in vindication of this savage mode of settling controversies, that the law of the land makes no provision for awarding satisfaction in peculiar cases which may sometimes occur. There art certain insults which no man of spirit can possibly bear , and the only prospect of a remedy is afforded by an appeal to the sword or the pis!oh CuJ v/hat are these mighty evils which press wi%