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ST ANZ AS— fiv ca m o ens.
I saw the virtuous man contend
\\ ilh life's unnumber'il woes ;
Ami he was poor, without a triend
Press’d by a thousand foes.
I saw the passion’s pliant slave
In gallant trim, ami gay ;
II is course was pleasure s placid wave,
I its life a summer's day.
And I was caught in folly’s snare
And join’d the giddy train:
Put found her soon the nurse of care
And punishment and pain.
There surely is some guiding power
Which rightly sutlers wrong—
Gives vice to bloom its little hour,
Put virtue, late and long.
VANITY OF DRINKING.
A PARODY.
Teach me the measure of the gin,
‘I hou dealer of the dram,
1 would survey the glass within
And learn how drunk I am.
A gill is all that we can boast,
A dram or two in time
Alan is a drunken dog at most,
In all his flower and prime.
See the vain race of drunkards reel,
Like Indians o’er the plain ;
They rage, they light, they cneat and
steal,.
But all their noise is vain.
Some walk a crack to make a show,
Some roll upon the floor.
Some pay the bill, —fiicy know not how
Anil straight they see no more.
What should I wish, or wait for then,
From brandy, gin, or ruin ?
They make our expectations vain,
And plague the folks at home.
Now I forbid mv foolish hope,
My love of grog recal ;
1 give my drunken frolics up,
And make my home my all.
look over the oration of Bossuet, at
the funeral of Henrietta Maria,
Queen of Charles I. ; that most elo
quent expression of sympathy for
the sufferings of the crowned and
the canonized. We are ready to
give all praise to its high qualities,
a• a rhetorical effort; hut this can
not subdue our feelings ol indigna
tion and contempt, at the deformi
ty and weakness of the false doc
trines which are scattered over it.
We have made the following selec
tions as illustrative of what we have
just said of it.
u 1 he hand of Cod has been in
cessantly employed for ten years,
without any human consolation, in
teaching this unhappy queen its
hard but useful lessons. At last,
yielding to her vow sand her hum
ble patience, lie has restored the
royal family. Charles 11. is ac
knowledged as sovereign, and the
lnjuiiesof Kings have been aveng
ed. \\ e need not say how much
the queen was consoled by this
wonderful event; but she had learnt
In her misfortunes not to change
with so great a change, in her af
fairs : the world once banished,
could never return to her heart.—-
She saw with astonishment, that
Cod, who had rendered so many
efforts and so many enterprises use
less, because the destined hour had
not yet arrived,—at last, took the
king her son by the hand, and led
him to his throne !!!”
1 his was the language of a lfish
op of the Catholic Church, about a
King wlio was a disgrace told:; age
and nation, the most lascivious and
debauched ot men, the most un
principled and dastardly ot mon
archs, who wasted the subsidies ol
his people on his extravagancies,
and sold his nation to France for a
pension. And yet, in the language
of Bossuet, it was this wretched
creature, whom the Almighty took
hv the hand and led to his throne !!
How far is this from blasphemy,
sanctioned as it is by the consecra
ted lips from which it issued ?
How much is it like those greet
ings of the Ultras, when they saw
the hosts of heaven marshalling the
Bourbon family to the palace of
their ancestors,and cried out,“these
are the rulers whom Providence
has set over us !”
How much like the portraits of
Napoleon, which his enemies have
taken the pains to sketch for us, is
the following character of Crom
well.
“ A man appeared of an incredi
ble depth of understanding, a refi
ned hypocrite, as well as a skilful
politician, capable of undertaking
every tiling, and of concealing eve
ry thing; equally active and inde
fatigable in peace and war who left
nothing to fortune, which he could
anticipate by management and fore
sight, but at the same time so vigi
lant and so ready for every thing,
that lie was never wanting on any
occasion which presented itself ;
finally, one of those restless and da
ring spirits, who seem born only to
change the world. But how hazar
dous is the destiny of such spirits,
and how fatal their daring ! How
boundless their ambition and their
fortune, when it pleases God to
employ them for his purposes !”
\V r e have here the same forced
acknowledgement of great talents
qualified by the strong- relief of v i
ces, and the utter absence of all
principle; the same talk about the
directing hand of Providence, em
ployed in chastising the transgres
sions of Kings by the stiong arm of
usurpation ; and then, when its pur
poses are fulfilled, in leading back
those kings to the throne. We
would not he understood as ques
tioning the superintending agency
of Providence, that acts by gener
al, not by partial laws, but we
would protest against this profane
I declamation about the sanctity of
i kings, and the high interest which
■hey and their affairs awaken above
Hll others, in the councils of hca-
Hen.
■ The following extract may cause
■ smile at the self-complacent big-
Htry of the Orator:
H “ I do not undertake to tell you
Hie destiny of the heresies of the
Hresent day, nor to mark the fatal
Hmits within which God has resol-
Hed to confine their course ; but if
Ham not deceived in comparing
Hie events of ihe past with the pre-
H-nt, I can believe, and I see the
Hise concurring in this opinion,,
Hat the days of blindness have
passed away, and that, hence
forth the light shall return.”
That is, the Catholic religion
shall he established in its full au
thority. We need not say how
wretchedly Bossuet was deceived
in his expectations ; and we may he
well assured, that all the fond
dreams of bigotry, of whatever de
nomination, will meet with an equal
disappointment.
IIONEST LABOR IS HONORABLE.
Among the encouraging pros
pects, that one nation is destined
to lasting prosperity, and to the
perpetual enjoyment of iibertv and
independence, is the increasing ho
nor attached to domestic industry.
Comparatively few men are asha
med to be found occupied in any
necessary labor; and he is rather
an object of scorn, who is seen dis
dainfully directing others in the
accomplishment of his labors, than
he whose hands are employed in it.
1 hat imaginary exaltation, which
scorns honest industry, has redu
ced many families to bankruptcy
and degradation, and a train of
evils which are calculated to un
dermine the basis of our govern
ment and spread discord and mise
ry in every neighborhood and eve
ry family.
He who feels above honest labor,
ought to be considered bcloxv an
honorable station in society ; nor
ought bis misfortunes to bring him
within the circle of effectual com
misseration until they have brought
him to honest and preserving indus
try. No man has a right, or title
to comfort and respectability, with
out the sweat of his brow; nor
ought I to lift a finger for raising
a man from the troubles of an over
whelming poverty, while he is afraid
of staining his fingers with honest
labor.
When I see a lady exulting in
her freedom from domestic cares
and labors, and always ready to
run at the bidding of some idle
pleasure seeker, thus, glorying in
her shame, I know that her home
is a wretched dwelling—that al
though her tongue is smoother than
oil, her heart is full of thorns—in
her parlor, she is amiable as a god
dess, hut in her domestic relations,
she is f actious as a demon—it
would be better todweil in the cor
ner of a house top, than with her.
A lady whose home is pleasant
loves to he there : and whoever says,
that she has nothing to engage her
attention at home, most assuredly
leaves something undone there,
which ought to be done. That
child which is not trained to indus
try, is trained to guilt and wretch
edness. In the abodes of fashion
able idleness are found the most
refined and the most destructive
vices. Happy then, for America,
is that gale which begins to blow
away the airy notion of exalted idle
ness.
A WOULD-BE BIGAMIST.
Mr. Lawson, formerly minis
ter of Kirkmanhoe, (adjoining to
Dumfries,) was a most worthy and
respectable character, and very
much beloved by all the country
round, but more particularly by
his own parishioners. Once, about
a Martinmas term, a farmer’s
servant in the parish, a foolish
young fellow, called osi him, and
told him he hacl a very great wish
to lie married. ‘ Very well John,’
said he, ‘ there is nothing wrong in
that,’ who is the happy woman you
are going to make your wife ?’ ‘ Oh!
sir,’ said the 1.u1,‘1 am rather at a
loss just now, and called upon you
to give me your advice in pay pre
sent difficulty, lucre are two
young women whom I love nearly
alike , one of them I would prefer
a little, and only a very little, to
the other : now, what I would ask
of you, sir is this, * might I not
marry them both?’ ‘That,’ said
Mr. Lawson, according to the laws
of this country, is not allowable;
but do you think both of them are
willing to take vou for a husband ?’
‘ O yes, sir, said he ‘ I think I am
pretty sure of that.’ ‘ Very well,’
said the minister ‘ marry the one
vou like best as soon is convenient
and in two or three months after you
may come to me, and I will see
what can be done about getting
you the other also.’ This was
done accordingly—for a long time
afterwards there was no word from
John. At last it happened one
beautiful (lav in the month of
April following, that Mr. Lawson
metl is old acquaintance in a nar
row lane, driving a cart loaded
with hay.
The lad barely touched his hat,
and wished to push on.— ‘ Stop,
stop, John,’ said the minister”
I wish to speak with you.’ What
do you want, sir?’ said John, very
hastily. ‘ O,’ said the good man,
‘you were to speak about taking
another wife.’ ‘ Another wife, sir!’
cried he ‘ O sad ! I wish you would
rather loose me from the one you
have tied me to : will you just stop
a moment, and see what shins she
has made me with kicking,’ and
with this began to loosen down his
stockings in great haste.—‘Hout,
hout, John, 4 cried the minister,
we’ll see ‘these another time;’and
so rode off, fully satisfied that
John thought one wife was enough,
and rather too much for him.
Judge Bundle's charge to the Grand
J ur y-
All laws are laws, and every law
is law ; and laws are things made
by the lawyers, to make men live
according to the law, without re
spect to die gospel—for this is ano
ther affair, and to be considered at
another opportunity, and by anoth
er sort of men, and in another man
ner. But to the law. Now there
are some men that are good men,
and some men that are bad men ;
and the bad men are not the bad
men, but the bad men and good
men, are two different sorts of men
—this we gather from'Magna Char
ta, an old man that lived in the
reign of King John the Great
N*ow, if alt ivere good men, there
would he no need of laws, there
fore, ctg9, the laws were made lor
bad men, and the good men have
no business therewith, nor any ad
vantage to receive therefrom, con
sequently those who receive advan
tage from the last, must be bad
men; and so gemmen, call up the
prisoners and despatch them as
soon as possible, for 1 must go out
of town to-morrow.
“ Two pence for my cresses,” cried
a little boy in the streets of Phila.
delphia one day—he is now an emi
nent merchant and is worth millions
of pence—“ I.a ! pa, how mean it
looks to see that little boy crying
cresses for two pence,” said a little
gentleman whom lie passed one
day—that person died a poor crea
ture in a goal. Learn this lesson.
Twopence is hut the beginning ol
shillings—shillings of fortune—for
tune of ease and luxury. Look
well to your two pence sand fear not.
But neglect them and they will neg
lect vou—they come not like the
m * l
physician in the hour of adversity,
but w hen the sun is up and the day
of health lasts.
IIOXOR.
W hen men of ordinary minds
and of low standing in society, are
guilty of violating our laws, it is
not (infrequently the case that their
ignorance may he pleaded in pallia
tion of their offences.—But when
men of talents and respectability
willingly set at defiance, and violate
both the laws of God and of man,
we areata loss to find even the
shadow of an apology for their mis
doings. If persons of this descrip
tion quarrel, in consequence of an
occurrence which men of their at
tainments should pass over with
silent contempt, is it proper, is it
consistent with real honor, that
they should appoint a place where
they meet with a fixed determina
tion to kill each other ? This,
however, according to a false and
wicked application of the world
is called honorable !—anu vwien a
misguided man thus falls, it is said
that he was killed in an affair
of honor !” But it is never ad
ded that his honorable intentions,
at the very moment he recievedthe
mortal wound from his antagonist,
were to murder his opponent ! Very
honorable indeed to die with a bo
som filled with “ malice afore
thought,” and with the black and
unpardonable motive and desire to
murder a fellow creature in cold
blood! Is it honorable to sanction,
hv example a murderons practice
which originated in barbarity and
stands condemned ajicl abhorred by
the laws of all civilized nations,and
bv the unanimous execration of all
good and virtuous men?
But why need w T e ask these ques
tions on a subject so plain and self
evident ?—The practice of duelling
is unchristian—ungodly—and mur
derous—it is against the laws of
God—it is contrarv to human laws,
is unmanlv and ahhorent ; it is il
legal.—lt is therefore plain and
the conclusion is incontrovertible,
that so far from being honorable it
is an act as dishonorable as it is
wicked and abominable. The above
remarks are general, They are
written under the full and firm
conviction, that it is the bounden
duty of all good men, to aid by
their contempt, and the expressions
of their detestation, in abolishing a
practice which is too vile to he en
dured ina country that lays any
claims to civilization.
Baltimore Fed. Rep.
Nothing is more terrible than war,
more precious than gold, more desira
ble than friendship, more detestable
than slander. Nothing is without be
ginning or end— nothing is perfectly
happy—nothing is more agreeable to
the eve than light— nothing is more
beautiful than spring nothing is
brighter than the sun— nothing is
milder than the zephyrs. JSothing is
sacred in war, is just in peace, is se
rene in a treaty. The man who pos
sesses nothing is happy, for lie fears
neither fire nor foot pad, thief nor bai
liff. Nothing, without place or mo
tion, wanders through interminable
space— nothin g is victorious over death
—nothing is more estimable than vir
tue, nothing is more powerful than
God.
THE WORLD.
What is the world, even to those
who love it, who are intoxicated with
its pleasures, and who can live without
it ? The world ! it. is a perpt tual ser
vitude; where no one live-* for himself
alone. aul V. acre, !l we s’iiyc (■
happy, we must ki--s its fetters
iovc its bondage. The v, t!<1! p•’
a daily root a ton f events,
create iu succession, in the miiuls ,■
its p:ufizaiis, the most vieleid j i;l ,
s’. oiks hitter hatreds, odious pup!,..
ties devouring jealou-ies, and grievo'j.
chagrins. The world! it is a place i
malediction, where pleasures then
selves carry with them their troubl,,,
and afflictions. In the world therei
nothing lasting ; nor fortunes tlu* n 1() ,
affluent—■nor friendships most sincei,
—nor characters the most exalted-,
nor favours the most enviable. >] e|
pass all their lives in agitations,
jects and schemes, always ready
deceive, or trying to avoid deception
always eager and active to profit k
the retirement, disgrace or death
their competitors ; always occupied
with their fears or their hopes ; fi j.
ways discontented with the present
and anxious about the future ; neve
tranquil, doing every thing for repj>,
and removing still further front it,-.,
Vanity, ambition, vengeance, fuxat
avarice—these are the virtues whir
the world knows and esteems. In th,
world, integrity passes fur simplicity;
duplicity and dissimulation are men
torious. Interest the most vile, ann*
brother against brother, friend againsi
friend—and breaks all the ties of blood
and friendship: and it is this base mo
live which produces our hatreds and
attachments! The wants and misfor
tunes of a neighbour find only indif
ference and insensibility, when we can
neglect him without loss, or cannot be,
recompensed for our assistance. It
we could look into two different parts
ot the world—if ve could enter into
the secret detail of anxieties and in
quietudes—it we could pierce the
outward appearance which offers to
our eyes only joy, pleasure, pomp ami.
magnificence; how different should
we find it from what it appears ! We
should see it destitute of happiness—
the father at variance with his child ;
i the husband with his wife ; and the
i antipathies, the jealousies, the mur
! murs, and the eternal dissention of fa
milies. We should see friendship
ship broken by suspicions, bv inter
ests, by caprices; unions the most
endearing dissolved bv inconsistency,
relations the most tender, destroyed,
by hatred and perfulv; fortunes tho
most affluent producing more vexation
than happiness ; [daces the most hon
orable not giving satisfaction, Lv.i cre
ating desires for higher advancement;
each one complaining of his lot, and
the most elevated not die most happy.
King James I. of England, went:
out of his way to hear a noted
preacher. The clergyman seeing
the king enter, left his text to de
claim against swearing for which
the king was notorious. When
done, James thanked him for hi;
sermon ; but asked him what con
nexion swearing hacl with his text,
lie answered, “ siwee your innjestv
cair.e out of your way through curi
osity, i could not, in compliance do
less than go out of mine to meet:
you.”
AN AMERICAN BULL.
An American newspaper editor,
in giving an account ol a person who
was shot by another, in carelessly
discharging a gun, says that he was
“ killed dead, 11 Sic. This beats the
Hibernian, who, on being charged
with using a club in a riot, declared
that the only thing he had in his
hand was his Jist, and that was in
his pocket at the time. Querry.—
How far is a man from being dec)
when he is only killed.
Alexandria Herald.
In a mixed company, a gentleman
thought proper to make some remarks
on the lady next him, (who happened
to he drinking toast and water) as to
induce the affronted damsel to take out
the toast and throw it in his face.
very coolly took it up and threw it in
the face of the person the other side<'i
him, desiring that Miss—, toa d wig't
go round.
Advertisement. —The following sin*
gulitr advertisement appears in tj 1 ’
Lancaster Free Press—“ A Jlridlej r ‘
Devils,"’ being an evangelical curb to
muzzle these, w ho, having been bitten
byUlie Old Serpent, or groan under the
internal quinsey, by a lover of whole
bones, has been left at his office f ,,r
sale—price cents.
If you cannot avoid a quarrel
with a blackguard, let your lawyer
manage it, rather than voursc't*
No man sweep's his own chimney,
but employs a chimney sweeper,
u ho has nn objection to dirty work,
because it is his trade.
T imon, the Athenian, being asked
why he hated all mankind, sullei
answered, “ I hate the bad ; the r es
for not hating them.” I