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" THE NORTHERNSTAR,
‘AND FARMERS AND MECHANICS' JAD VOOATE.
. VOI. IX. NO. 23,
"’ NORTHERN STAR.
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WARREN. .
FOR THE STAR.
MORAL INFLUENCE OF EDUCATION.
NUMBER THREE.
Not only has education exerted an‘influence far
less decided in favor of religion, than it should
have done ; but whatever influence it has exerted
has often been disregarded or undervalued. Sev~
oral causes have tended to produce this effect.
1. SBcience hag, in some instances been unduly
exalted, and a place has been claimed for her équal
to that held by religion. The frignds of religion
w duty to resist such
to regard science as oppused to religion.—
Thaes, when the aciions, if not the words, of a
Jarge part of the community proclaimed that they |
considered learning to be equally important with,
piety in & minister of Christ, those wiro knew the
power of religion could not but be sensible that
this wasan attempt to muke science usurp thei
rightful place of religion. Under these circur~
stanuces, it was not strange that they should regard
learning in the same light in which the friends of |
the rightful occupant of a throne would regard one
who should attempt to usurp that throne; in other '
words, that they should regard science as an ene-|
my to religion. "
2. Some occupants of the pulpit have seemed
more anxious to display their learning than to save
souls. Hence, instead of preaching ** Christ an?
him crucified,’'they have given their hearers learne ‘
disquisitions on the philosophy of mind, the science
of interpretation, &c. As a natural result of this,
those, who came secking spiritual nourishment,
have gone away wishing that their minister would
have less science and more religion in his discours
es. When those who gccupy. the sacred desk
thus forget or neglectthe 'great object, for which
«/ {he ministry of reconeilidfion’’ was ap‘pg,inted,
and substitute literary lore for ** the truth as it is
in Jesus,’’ it is not surprising that whatever is, in
any way, connected with & change so lamenable,
should be regarded with suspicion.
8. 'The few names of literary men belonging to
the ranks of infidelity, and the few instances, in
which science has seemed to aid the opponents of
religion, have been proclaimed far and wide; while
of the far greater array on the side of christianity
litle comparatively has been said. ~ The inveter
ate malice of the enemies of the gospel has prompt
ed them boastfully to exhibit every advantage
which they supposed they had gained without wait
ing to see whether time would prove it to be real-
Iy favorable to their cause or not. But the friends
of the gospel have not been thus obtrusive. They
‘have not sought to make the utmost display possi
ble of every learned man who embraced religion,
sod every scientific discovery which tended to con
firm the inspiration of the Bible. A fair investiga
tion would show that the great names and the dis
eoveries in science, of which iufidelity can boast,
are few and of small account compared with those
which may justly be claimed by the friends of
ebristianity.
‘4. 'Thedefection of some learned men among
the professed friends of the gospel has produced in
spme miods a prejudico against learning, as it
has in others a prejudice against religion. The
departare of such individuale from the faith is un
justly imputed to their learning, instead of being,
attributed, ae it should be, to the incorrectness of
their reassoning, or the depravity of their hearts.—
It is true that talents and knowledge misimproved
have become a curse to their professor and to the
world. But this does not prove that knowledge is
useless ; else would the defectior. of Satan prove
that the knowledge of angels is useless. In ren-}
soning upon this sabject we should take into view
not only the instances of literary men who have
apostatized from the truth, but also thosa (not a
few of which are on record) of men who hlve‘
been led Ly scientific researches to embruce the I
truth.
It S not easy to eontdmplate a subject in which
wa fecl a deep intarest without allowing some one
ol its parte or relations 10 oceapy a more import
ant place in our thoughts than it deserves. T'his
is one great cause of the wide diversity of views
that exists even among men Of sound judgement
ard gxtensive information. But, inorder to take
a correct vicw of uny subject, we should examine
it in all its bearings, and impartially contemplate
all it parts aid relations. ‘That science and re
ligion sustain nun erous and important relations to
each other, may be inferred from the fuct, that
they act on the two great divisions of our immertal
part, namely the intollectual and the moral pow
em. Lot these relutions be fuirly and fully inves
tigated. Lot the claims of science to be regarded
ok a fiiend of religion, and the charges which have
bown brought agninst her as an enemy be im partially
examined, and her frionds need not fear the result.
‘The damages sustained in the city of
N. Y. by the firing of Chinese crackers,
by children, is cstimated at 50,000 dollars
& year.
Mz. Ravpirr—Please publish the
following from the New York Cousjer
and Enquirer, and oblige A Frrenp.
4 proper Rebuke.—We lésrn from a
New Hampshire paper that Stewart, the
Englishman'lately imported by the Abo
lition Saciety to itinerate through our
country on a mission of mischief in rela
tion to the slave question, lately collected
an assemblage at €dncord, and there har
rangued the multitude upon the enormi
ties of slavery, and fet off a good deal of
his British impudence touching the cruel
ties of our soathern slaveholders.—Sever
al abolition "questions were put to the
meeting : The first, being the abstiact
questiou of the prop'riely of abolishing
slavery, was carried in the affirmative ;
the second, telating to the Colonization
)Sociely, was indefimtely postponed ; and
the third and last, betug in these words,
“ 1s the Anti-slavery Society (immediate
abolition) deserving the patronage and
support of the Chiistian community ?”
‘was negalived by an overwhelming mejor
ity. ;
The followingz resolutions were then
introduced by Joseph Robinsun, E«q.
deputy secretary of stale, which passed
by a majepity of more than thiee to
one :
Resolved, That the agitation of the
subject of slavery at this time, is both
unnecessary and inexpedient—that the
doctrine of immediate abolition, as now
advocated by a few individuals in New
England, is impracticable in its pature,
and dangcrous in its tendency—that while
it serves 40 engender strife and discord
between different sections of the Union,
and infringes upon the rights and jros
pcrity of the white population of the
South—it promises no permanent good to
the blacks themselves.
“Resolved, That all ferther discussion
of this subject vught to be, and hereby. is,
indefinitely postponed.”
These -disturbers of the public peace
and quiet of the community not resting
quite satis(ied with this decided expres
sion of public apinion, a cull was made
for a general meeting of citizens at the
town hall. At the hour appointed a very
numerous body, consisting of members
of the legislature and others, assembled
and called the hon, mr. Cushmen of the
Council to the chiir, mr. Barton ofthé
Senate acting as sccretary. The Rev,
T. Fisk then introduced a series of res
olutions, which were adopted without a
dissenting voice.
The resclutions are of a strong and de
cided character, and do great honor as
well to the reverend gentleman who mov
ed, as to the highly respectable body that
adorted them with such entire unanimity,
They are all of them so good, and breathe
a spirit so much in coincidence with our
views on this eXciting subject, thaut we
are very desi ous of giving them in exten
so. We can (ind room, however, but for
a part of them : -
Resclved, That we deeply sympathize
with our southern brethren in the evils of
slavery, which have been eutailed upon
them without their knowledge or con
sent.
Resolved, That we consider the in
cendiary attempts of certain restless indi
viduals, in forming ‘“‘anti-slavery socie
ties’’ at the north, where the evil does
not exist, a 8 tending to destroy the pence
of society, dangerous to the prosperity
of the country, calculated to foment riots
and insurrections, to distract our public
councils, palsey our public administra
tions, and plunge us into all the horrore
of civil war.
Resolved, That, in our opinion, to a
bolish slavery at the the south “immedi
alely ,” would be to let loose upon the
community a dangerous band of unciviliz
edbeings, who would not be satisfied with
fréedom simply, but who would *“‘rule or
ruin ;7 that the annale of that -period
would be written in blood, and ite horrors
traced in deserts of everlasting desola
tion.
Resolved, That we view the conduct
of professed ministers of the gospel, in
thus throwing the firebrands of discotd
among vur citizens, as a departure from
that religion whi¢h breathes ‘“‘peace on
earth und good will to all men ;”” and that
it merits the warmest disapprobation of
the christain community.
Resolved, That in the doctrines of the
immediate abelitionists we 'discover that
spirit of political and religious fanatcism
which hne been stalking over our land
years past in various shapes and disguis
es, leaving mildew and blight upon its
path—a spirit of ecclesiastical and polit
ical despotism.
Resolved, That our attachment to the
National Union is unshaken and immov
able—that we estimate its value above
all price, both ag it relates to individual
and collective happines—that we consider
it the “Palladiom of our political safety
and prosperity "’~<that its perpetuation
being all important to our felicity as a
people, we do, in naccordance with the
farewell advice of Washington, frown in
dignantly upon the attempts now making
te #lienate one portion of vur country
from the rest, and to enfeeble the sacred
WARREN, R. L. SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1834
ties which now link togetehr its var
RKS OF MR. ROBBINS,
. OMRHODE-ISLAND.
On presenting certain Rosolutions from the
people of Kent County in R. 1.
I am charged with, and rise to present,
certain recoTutio,nn on the subject on
which so many resolutions and memori
als to Congress have been presented at
the present session ; and which, as ic now
appears, might as well have been addres~
sed to the dull cold eur of dedth,
Theee resolutions come from the
pele of Rhode Island, inhabitants of the
county of Kent, in-that State ; a county
that hus connected with it many interest-
ing associations ; among others that aris
ing from its being the birth place and
residence of that Revolutionary hero,
who stood, in the mind of his country, as
heir apparent to the Communderzin-Chiel
of her Revolutionary armies, had it been
ordained by Providence t(hat the war
should outlast the life of her Washington,
(blessed be God, it was not so ordained!)
1 allude to Gen. Greene, a name that
throws-an iuterest overthe place of bhis
nativity, and those estly scenes, where
that great mind, in the shade of retire
ment, and in the modesty of unconscious
genius, by his own culture, grew up to
those capacities which fitted him for
those brilliant parts which he afterwards
enacted on the theatre of the revolutiona
ry war, An interest not unlike,though
less intense, yet not unlike that connect:
ed with Mount Vernon, which no Ameri
can beholds without emotion, without-say
ing in his sccret thoughts and in his pride
of heart, this was the home of Washing
ton, my countryman and fellow citizen ;
a name that but another name for all that
is great and sublime in human character ;
whose- fame, from the moment it first
broke upon the world, to the end of his
glorious carcer therein, was so elevatod]
as to be above the reach of envy—a feli
city peculiar to Washington in all the
history of human greatnéss. For who
else in that immortal roll but -
““Comperit nriduam supremo fine doma
ri?? Not onae.
This interesting county is but of small
extent, containing only four towns, and
these only übout Lwelve thousand inbabi
flunlfl. I'ms people are almost exclu
sively engaged in the business of agri
culture and manufacturers ; and their pur
suits, animated as they have been by the
spirit of enterprise, and guided by the
lights of intelligence, have been attended
with great success. T'hey have over
thirty diflerent manufacturing establish
ments within their narrow limits, and a
bout two millions of fixed capitul invest
ed in them ; they were moving about
eighty thousand cotton spindles, and were
expending in the wages of manual labor‘
about four hundred thousand dollars an
nually., But now, more than one third
of these works are suspected, and that
proportion of laborers dismissed from
employment ; the residue, though contin
ued, are continued at a loss, and their
progress is from bad to worse. This is
their conditicn, their present condition,
as they tell us themselves. But the hon
orable gentlemen from Missouri, who, it
seems, hnows their situation better lhun‘
they do themselves, tells them in his placui
here, that they are under a great mis
t.ke in this matter ; that, compared with
the average of late years, they nevori
were in a more prosperous condition
than they now are. Indeed! Thenit
must be that these capitalists, who reallyl
believed that they had suspended their
operations, and had dismissed their labor
ers, were in a state of hallcination ; no
such thing had taken place ; cvery apin-‘
dle was in motion as before. And these
poor laborers who really believed that
thev were out of employ, and that in
consequence thereof, their families were
suffering the privation of the necessarics
of life, were in no such condition ; they
were still in full employ, at full wages ;
and their families were still fed, well
clothed, and enjoying all the comforts ol
life they had ever known. They saw,
ns they believed, their water-wheels at
the falls, on their water courses, stopping
here, and there, and every where ; and
their establishments silent and deserted ;
but it was all an optical illusion. But
this mama, this astonishing mania, that
has produced these delasive phantoms,
these optical illusions, how is that to be
nccounted for 7 Why the same Hon.
Senator tells us, it is to be accounted for
by a panic speech, made here upon the
floor of this Senate. T'hen no conjurer,
no sorcercr, no magician, that never was,
can compete with your panic speech.—
The enchanter’s rod operates only by
coutact ; the patient must be present, for
the exhibition of the specious miracle to
be wrought upon him ; but the potent
spell of the panic speech, though pro
nounced here in this Capitol, is felt to
the extremities of this Union ; at the
sound thercof, every where the whole
country is struck aghast with imagineary
distresses. And the magical effect is no
less astonishing, by the lenrgth of its du
ration, than by the extent of its epera-
1 tic i now six mooths since this
Wiing Dées Spali-bopad by it agd
tkept this strange and miser
delusion. 3 ‘
But irony apart ; that honorable gen
tlcml&elln this eountry, and with a nola
bene, that it is not lightly said—but upon
his dignity as a Senator, and his honor
as a private ;:ontlumn—thot their dis
tre whether real or imaginary, or
part.lfibno and partly the other, have all
passed away ; and that the fprosperity of
the country cempared with the nveingo:
of late years, was ncver greater than it
‘now The country, no doubt, has
“for that r-\l- s'.bull|
doubt whether they will give him entire
credit for the correctness of this state
ment, contiadicted as it is by the evi
dence of their own senses ; and by the
still better evidence of their own bitter
experience, : et J
They will tell him that they have seen
with their own eyes, and lelt by lhtfll“
own experience, the currency of the
veuntry o be deranged, totally derunged‘
by the arbitrary act of ‘the Executive
thereon ; aod all its attendant evnls—-lhe(
counfidence of the capital of the country |
|t ba. theisby destroyed.;. ui,uhuu\
confidence, the credit, and with the cred
!it, the business, and with the business,
the prosperity of the country,to be de-,
stroyed. And that these disastrous con
sequences of that arbitrary act of power!
still remain upon the country ; and must |
remain, unabated and unmitigated, while [
the cause remains as it does unremoved |
‘and usremedied. ‘
It seems now to be finally settled, that |
the cause is not to be removed ; and that [
the ceuntry is notto be relicved, either
by the action of the Executive, or ot
"(Jongmu. The country must now be!
gwareyof this fuct ; and they will now no '
longer feed themselves with delusive
hopes from that quarter. They must |
now see that the only remedy for their '
grievances is to be found in thcmselves ; |
aud to be applied by themselves, 3
WK a o
To Mecuanics.—Of all pursuits of
life none more certainly ensures comlort
and respectabillity,-than that of a mechan-
Lic. ‘The man who understands a useful
tredeyend blessed with health, need nev
er want food, or clothing, or shciter, pro
vided he be industrious and prudent.—
So well have the Jews understood this,
that every Jew, whatever his rank, in all
ages, has been required to learn some
useful trade. . |
Why is it then that so many skilful
men ol this class, have never more than
the bare ‘neccessaries of life ? their fami
iies scantly supplied with' food ; nothing
laid up ; and when death comes perhaps
a wife and children are lelt destitute and
helpless ? T'he simple reason in nine ca
ses out of ten, is this: they indulge in
the useless, pernicious, destroying prac
tice of drinking spirits.” Usecless, as is
proved by the testimony of medical men
and all who nbstain from it; pernicious,
from its invariahle effects on the health,
disposition and morals ; waisting for it
leads most generally to poverty aund want ;
destroying, for réspectability, poverty and
lite fall a sacrifice before it.
A mechanic who is 40 years of age,
and who has expended 12 1-2 cents a
day for spirits, who is feeling the bitter
ness of poverty ; by suving this sum, he
might since he was 21 years of age, have
accumulated about 1000 dollars—it he is
50 years of age, 2,000 dollars—6o yecars
of age 3,700 dollars.
A young lady in the last stage of con
sumption, was lately restored to health by
the following extraordinary and acciden
tal remedy. She had long been attended
by the faculty, but derived no benefit
from their prescriptions, and considered
herself*verging to the end ol existance,
wheu she retired during the summer to a
vale in the country, with the intention to
wait in solitude the hour of approaching
disolution. While in that situation it was
her custom to rise as early as her malady
would permit, and contemplate the beau
ties of nature, and the wonderful works
of God from her c¢hamber window, [rom
which she observed a dog belonging to
the house, with scarcely any flesh on his
bones, constantly go and lick the dew off
a camomilé bed in the garden ; in doing
which the animal was noticed to alter his
appearance, te receive strength, and final
ly looking plump and well. = The singu
larity of the circumstance, was impressed
strongly on the lady’s mind, and induced
her to try what effect might be produced
from following the dog’s example. She
aceordingly procured the dew from the
same bed of camomile, drank a small
quantity each morning, and after continu
ing it some time, experienced some re
hel ; her appetita became regular, she
found a return of spirits, and in the end
was completely cured. |
William Wilkins will depart on his mis
sion to Rusein, by the middle of August.
Sosay the New York papers.
“To your Tents, then, O lsrael!”’
CONSUMPTION.
ey e e
lomac, on a cruse among the “fresh wa
ter lubbers,” came vp in the steambont
Heruld yesterday and ‘made his appear
‘ance at the Rev. mr. Gage’s church.—
| With a curious leer of his eye and a twist
(of his quid, he took his seat upon the
threshold of the door. During the ser
\mon, Jack gave sundry tokens of a pro
val ; and when it was nearly endof, he
arose, walked deliberately up to the desk,
'and deposited before the astonished
preacher, a (iua.ler of a dollar ! adding in
‘& whisper, “1 can’t stop any longer!"—
\He then turncd to the audieace, bowed
‘repeatedly, and left the' house.. -
f [Dunstable, N. H, Telegfaph.
Philosophical Facts.—The explosive
force of gnnpowder as compareq with the
pressure of the atmosphere, is estimated
at from 1000 to 2000 atmospheres, )
Ten parts of “tin and 1000 of copper
make gun metal for brass gins.
Four grains of opium are equivalent to
100 drops of laudanum,
Opodeldoe is a solution of soap in al
cohol, with camphor and velatile oil.
Soda-water i§ made by combining eight
times its bulk of carbonic acid gas, formn
ed in the process, from a carbonate of
lime and dituted sulphuric acid, to which
is added some carbonate of soda,
Starch becomes sugar, by being boiled
for 48 hours in 100 parts of water, and
one of sulpheric acid.
A Bread Hint.—'T'he editor of the Lyan
Recorder, has written a very appropriate
article on Mutrimony, which concludes
with the following very senmsible direc
tion =
. “ When a couple have passed a state
‘of single blessedness into that of holy
wedlock, as 1t is sometimes called, that is,
baving taken each other for better or
worse, and wish to have it made public
(as they alway should) in order to have
the business done correctly, it is deemed
'necessary to accompany the notice with
'a slice of cake,—and as there is often
some mistake in this respect, we would
offer the following directions :—Cut from
the loal a modest shice, about six or eight
inches long, two-thirds as wide, and two
,inches thick. KEnclose it neatly in white
| naper, and direct it to the Epitor.”
Cuatam STREeT CHAPEL, AND THE
ABOLITIONISTS, Another scene of con
fusion, which may be properly called a
riot, took place at this establishment last
evening. It appears that the Sacred
Musick Society, have the right by lease,
to occupy the church on Monday eve
nings. Mr. Lowndes, the Secretary of
this Socicty, end under Sheriff of the city,
was applied to yesterday, by an officer ol
the church, on behalf of Mr, Tappan, for
the use of the large rooum last evening for
church purposes. '
Mr. L. granted the request, saying that
the attendance of the members of the So
ciety was small at this season of the year,
and that those who should come forward
would occupy one of the side rooms.—
When the members of the Society came
to the gate, they found the entrance was
occupied by blacks, some of them armed
with clubs, and wers insulied by them.—
The ladies of the Society then retired.—
The male members on being thus treated
by them, took possession ol the orchestra,
and requested the blacks to retire,
One of the latter, whose name wae
Wright, recommended to his brethren to
comply with their request, but others a
rose and insisted on keeping possession.
Upon that, a general attack was made
upon the whitea ; benches were torn up,
and various weapons were resorted to,
but no one, that we have heard ef, was
seriously wounded. A
A great number of watchmen and po
lice officers appeared, who finaliy put a
stop to the fight, ana dispersed the blacks,
after arresting several of them. None of
the white abolitionists made their appear
ance during this extraordinary scene.—
Most of the blacks appeared to be of the
lower order. [N. Y. Mercantile.
Rowraxp Hite. When notices were
given to him he used generally to read
them aloud ; and once an impudent fellow
placed a piece of paper on the reading
desk, just before he was going to read
prayers. He took it, and began—* the
prayers of this congregation are desired
—umph—for, um{»h-—wefl, I suppose 1
must finish what T huve begun—ior the
Rev. Rowland Hill, that he will not go
riding about in his carriage on a Sun
day ! This would have discoucerted
almost any other man ; but he looked uvp
as coolly as possible, and said—'* If the
writer of thie piece of folly and imperti
nence is inthe congregation, and wirl' go
into the vestry after service, and let ‘me
Kut a saddle on his back, 1 will ride him
ome instead of going in my carriage,”—
He then went on with the seivice.~Life
of Rev. Rowland Hill.
The President of the United States, it
is snid, has left Washington, on a visit to
the Hermitage.
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; Whildo the .ou}nlbwellin is the m
aim and object of the American plemof -
| government, most of the ‘governmenty of*
|the old world are constructed and operate’
| for the benefit of the few, st the « '
|of all the rest, mflwfi iple of
political society has been set entirely at'
nought ; and you will see & despot w{o.
remote aneester was elected to the head’
of'a state, on account of his valor and g«
chieyements, now claiming to rule over.
their descendants by divine right, and to
exclude them from political privileges.—=
The effect of this kind of government and °
of the artificial conditian of socisty con
nected with it, is to place all the wealth*
and power of the country in the hmdn"
the intelligent few ; m beyond the’
| middie classes, st the exicemety of
the body politic, to create a mass of pova
erty, ignorance and degradation, which is
incapacitated to' participate, to its own
good, iu the government of the country,
and unfit to acc?( of a better government
if it should be offered. This is the mode
dreadful effect of a long-standing despot
ism. In such a state of society, where
the vast majority are taught to regard the
few who rule them as a higher order of
beings—are imbued with a feeling of en~
tire servility, and have lost that of persons
al worth and independence, a true lover
of his fellow men may well hesitate about
the propriety and the wafety of suddenly
introducing a Republican system, and
making them voters all at once, without
the preparatory process of education ;
since the good of the whole, including the
oppreseed themaelves, might require their
exclusion. Such a man, if in his heart a
Republican, would, notwithstandirig his
heeitation about immediate emancipation,
still acknowledge their natural rights,—
He would feel that the poorest ‘and most
degraded subjeet of the 'most despotio
monarch is yeka brother of the human
race, and has within him the capacity
of better thinge ;—that all who wea: the
form of humanity are entitled to tboho;;:
and privileges of human nature.
would therefore be anxious to qualify the
oppressed as soon as possible, and te
raise them to the privilege of self-govern
ment. But whatever course a true pate
riot might feel himself bound to adopt, in
one of the corrupt monarchies of the old"
world, no such reason can be given for
a postponement of political rights in our
own country. No privileged orders®
have ever.existed in it, to create the vast
inequality which prevails elsewhere be
tween the many and the few. A spirit
of freedom: was brought with them by oue
ancestors, acd has ever subsisted among
us. There isa vcry’Feneul diffusion of
useful knowledge. he great majori
ty, aleo, in this country are’interested in
property of some sort or other ; and are
thus strictly bound together in interest to
support the government. The only ex~
ception to this general equality is in the
Slave States, where a large part of the
population 13 in a still lower condition,
than the degraded populace to which we
have alluded.. But be the case as it may
in those States, there is no pretence of
any such marked inequality among the
citizens of New England as to designate
}any particular class of them, for exclu<
sion from the benefit of political rights,~=
The true American doctrine is that the
majority not only have a right to govern,
but that they are sufficiently mtgllz:
and honest to govern ; and that, if
be any doubt about thie sufficiency, we
ought immediately to set to work and
build more schools. Men in Europe who
are opposed to any farther im:'om
in government may talk about the .neces
sity of “‘barring out the people,” and of
‘“ defending themselves against the peo~
ple.” But this will not do here. He:
therefora who contends in Nowi"nghl‘-
for any limitation of political 'Prm eges
that excludes a majority of his fellow-cit
izens from voting, whatever may be his
party, or professions, or depunciation of
other men on the score ¢f Republicanism,
tella you in effeet, startled though he may
be at the sound of the werde; that he dis«
truste and is unfavoralble to a Republicon
form of government—that he wishes “to
mnke it vafe’’ by confining all power to tle
minority, who will thus be able to;::eet
themselves agoninst the people. ec
tion againet the people in th e eovutry =
Any man strenuous for the preseul ryw
tem, and who calls himself friendly «iso
to popular rights, would do well to inquire
for the definition of the word people. Tt
includes besides landholders, many more’
who are getting impatient for a new defi
nition of the word, however ite meaning
may have been settled by loo’ neage in,
this State. Depend upon it, '""a"
zens, that if the People of thie
become ignorant and corrupt, our furm of