The language of Miss Martineau was thought suffi- | enemies of the cause of freedom, of the peace and prosciently unjust and extravagant, when she charged the perity of our common country, and labor in that most south with having purchased Florida, because it was a destructive of all earthly missions to shake the faith of refuge for their slaves: but the native divine, as if to our people in the strength and stability of their institushow the extent of the privilege of speech in a free tions. And these boding dreams, these hallucinations country, has accused the same vilified people of seek- of minds heated with intemperate zeal, furnish a goodly ing the admission of Texas into the Union as a market and perpetual repast over which the enemies of repubfor slaves which they breed for the purpose, and as a lican establishments gloat with rancorous rapture. means of unjustly extinguishing the claim of Mexico, to lands for which they have purchased scrip from the Texan government. We have already said that we had no concern with the Texan controversy. But supposing the accusations of Dr. Channing to be strictly true, have we no cause to complain of his exclusive kindness and sympathy for the Indian, the negro, the Mexican and the Spaniard, and his deep and solemn denunciations of his Anglo-Saxon countrymen? His benevolent heart overflows with tenderness for the stranger and the savage, and seems to be sealed against the white man. His charity appears to water abundantly the sandy desert and the remote wilderness, but it stagnates into a pool of bitterness at the approach of his fellow-citizens. Are the waters of refreshment still reserved for Ishmael, the son of Hagar, the dweller in tents and the robber of the desert, whose hand is against other men to the end of time? Why not imitate the pervading love of his Master, and when his affections are thrown abroad upon the ocean of life, let the circle which they form, continue to extend its waving ripple until it is swallowed up in its immensity? He is so wholly engrossed with the real and imaginary wrongs of the dark and the red man, that he is insensible to the virtues of the whites. Did not the slaughter of the Alamo, exact retributive justice? Was there no gallantry displayed in the action of San Jacinto? Were no laurels purchased in the defeat-no magnanimity displayed in the treatment of the ruthless Santa Anna? The Mexican hordes led on by this bad man waged a war of extermination; their hands were red with the sign of death with which the compatriots in arms of the Texans, had been sealed; yet they were treated with kindness and mercy.

The policy of the government in relation to the removal of the Indians, being definitively settled, let us reflect a moment upon the fatuity of those agitators who seek to resist the action of the executive by inciting the Indian to rebellion, for such is the only result of their interference. The accumulation of Indian tribes on our southern and western frontier, where the slave population is most dense, both of which classes the northern fanatics constantly feed with discontent, concentrate a force hostile and formidable to the white man; and in the event of foreign interposition, which these enthusiasts openly invoke, the Mexican, the Indian, and the Negro, fortified with all the sympathies of their northern brethren, are prepared to assail the Anglo-Saxon of the south. Are these fit allies for the northmen? The British power is invoked. Is this allegiance to the Union, or fidelity to confederates? The great family of European nations has already been shaken to its centre, thrones subverted, and the superstitious observances of centuries dissipated by the first-breathings of free principles which our French allies of the revolution introduced among them. To weaken our institutions at home by domestic strife, to arm the cold, calculating fanatic north, against the impatient and fiery south, to repel the working of our principles abroad, is the policy of those nations; and they are not a little indebted to those churchmen who delight in evil auguries, and who exaggerate the licentiousness of our people as if it were the greatest of public virtues.* And when one so distinguished as Dr. Channing volunteers his testimony, it is seized upon with avidity, and published to the world, not as the revilings of a prejudiced foreigner, but as the impartial declaration of a native citizen, a vessel of election, an oracle of truth, one anointed of heaven.

The language of European writers in relation to our civil and political establishments, betrays that degree of ignorance which is the mother of fear. The true char

tions have never been properly understood by the people of England. Negligent to observe the progress of the human mind in the new world, the inquisitive speculations of its inhabitants upon the natural rights of man, and their extraordinary enterprise in the de

We have the greater reason to complain of Dr. Channing, because he speaks ex-cathedra,-the sanctity of his lawn is invoked to give weight to his testimony. He is an American citizen, supposed to be elevated by the character of his function above the influ-acter of the colonists and the nature of their instituence of party or local feeling; he professes to be consumed with love of country, and to be steadfast in his faith as to the stability of our institutions; and yet he mingles freely in the discussion of the most agitating political questions; he advocates schemes which have already shaken and which still endanger the Union; to check the growth of slavery in the south, he invokes the interposition of a foreign government, and he supplies the friends of "stronger governments," and the enemies of republics, with endless arguments to inveigh against the demoralizing tendency and frail texture of republican institutions. The reveries and libels of foreigners we might safely despise, though we well knew that the trumpet of Miss Martineau had been filled with the voice of the northmen, for they spoke in a tone to awaken the sleeper and to startle the deaf. Let us not conceal the humiliating truth. These men, in their mistaken zeal, become the most dangerous

*But for the unusual length to which it would have extended our article, we would have invited the attention of the public to other consequences of a serious character, which flow from these exaggerated statements of the lawlessness of our people and the weakness of our government. They have already occasioned difficulties, by many deemed insuperable, in the settlement of the outrage at Schlosser on the Canada frontier. Our own writers have so frequently published to the world the unbridled licentiousness of our people, and the inability of the civil authorities to restrain them, that foreign nations justify an invasion of our territory, and the capture and cutting out of a boat, upon the grounds assumed by Mrs. Trollope, Dr. Channing, and Miss Martineau. But a full exposure of all the consequences of these imputations upon our moral and national character would require a volume.

velopment of the plenteous resources of the country; [prehensive intellect of our revolutionary fathers was

public felicity. And they found it. Notwithstanding the vaticinations of men of evil augury and timorous apprehensions; notwithstanding the eagerness with which these sickly dreams of a distempered fancy are repeated, by those who can neither appreciate nor admire our government, as if they were the breathings of holy prophecy; we, the American people, unseduced from our allegiance, unshaken in our confidence in the excellence and permanency of our institutions, feel, and are thankful that the Ark of the Covenant is among us. If not more favored, at least more thankful than the chosen people of Jehovah, we will not proudly exult, but meekly bow down in gratefulness for bles sings, such as heaven in its mercy has seldom vouch safed to man. "Ask of the days of old," exclaimed the indignant prophet when he rebuked the repining Israelite, "ask of the days of old, that have been be fore thy time, from the day that God created man upon the face of the earth, from one end of heaven to the other end thereof, if ever there was done the like thing, or it hath been known at any time."

when the long suppressed energies of this youthful but exerted in erecting a stupendous and imperishable faadventurous people burst forth into successful action, bric, which reposing on the immutable basis of popular the disciplined European, trammelled by hereditary right and general happiness, should exclude the defects prejudices and observances, regarded it as a transient and combine the excellences of the multiplied political ebullition of feeling worthy only of derision. They establishments known to man. Antiquity could consemistook it for the mountain torrent that would pass away crate to them no rule which reason did not respect; with the storm that gave it birth: they knew not that and they shrunk from no innovation to which reason it was the stream of human opinion, which the acces-conducted. Guided by the polarity of reason, they sion of every day would swell, and which was destined stood out from the shore, and leaving the ancient landto sweep into the same oblivion the resistance of con-marks far behind them, they sought by a bolder navigaservative bigotry and powerful oppression. The un-tion to discover in unexplored regions the treasure of compromising love of freedom which induced the early colonists to abandon the homes and the graves of their fathers, and to subdue a wilderness in order to escape oppression; the dangers to which in their infancy they were exposed from the vicinage of a murderous foe, and the hardships incident to their new situation, naturally inspired them with an energy of character and a loftiness of soul, unknown to their European kindred. The restraints of the feudal tenures had been left behind them, and they were warmly attached to the soil upon which they trod; they were the "freeholders of the land, and the rent day had no terrors for them." The equality introduced by the abolition of the law of entail and primogeniture, the general diffusion of useful and practical knowledge, the deep stake each individual had in the government, could not fail to infuse into their bosoms that love of liberty, that independence and elasticity of character, that jealousy of power, which has led to the establishment of a frame of government which is at once a blessing to mankind, and the hope of the nations. If we revert to the continent of Europe, we will discover that the principles upon which our government is framed, had long been recognized, although no people had carried them into practical operation. History is an immense collection of experiments of the nature and effects of the various forms of government. Some institutions are experimentally ascertained to be beneficial, some others to be indubitably destructive to human happiness. The philosophers of Europe had, for a century There is in France a school of philosophers and politi preceding our revolution, listened intently to the testi- cians, who have been appropriately denominated THE mony of ages, and of nations, and collected from them MYSTICS; they are not unfrequently led by clergymen, the salutary principles which regulate the mechanism and constitute, in that crater of political convulsions, of society, and recognise the unalienable rights of the the MOVEMENT party. At the very head of this band citizen. The nature and excellence of free institutions of agitators is the celebrated politico-religious dema had been reduced to demonstration, yet these convincing gogue, the Abbé de la Mennais. Reformation of abuses arguments influenced the councils of no government, by the calm and peaceful agency of wholesome public and awakened to resistance no oppressed people. It opinion, has no attraction for them. The whirlwind was at this propitious period when all Europe presented of revolution is the only agent fitted to their rash dethe repulsive spectacle of a liberal theory opposed to a signs and heated imaginations. And this morbid barbarous practice, when the germs of free institutions desire for revolution does not seem to be entirely had taken root in the understanding and were entwined prompted by that love of change or excitement, or by with the affections of man, that our forefathers escaping that ambition which usually impels men to subvert from the oppressive and time-honored establishments existing establishments; no, they are FANATICS. They which pressed them to the earth, sought at the extre-anticipate stupendous results from the action of enthu mity of the ocean, a clime, in which they might substitute for established formulas the pure and voluntary worship of the Deity, and where they might erect political institutions originating in compact, springing immediately from the will of the people, and reposing upon the rights of man. Deeply impressed with the injustice and the absurdity of the various constitutions which chance had scattered over the world, the com

Let us assure Dr. Channing that we are not the depraved people he has imagined us, and that in the whole book of recorded time, he will scarcely find a people equally numerous who are less depraved. And as the British reviewer bases all his prophetic aspirations of our speedy ruin upon the unfounded charges of the learned divine, the framework of his argument falls, because the foundations are hollow and unsound.

siastic associations forcing public opinion into rapid and straitened currents, and overthrowing in its resistless progress every barrier. By an agency independent of, and transcending all law, they expect through a long chain of revolutionary convulsions to effect a certain social revolution, which is to consummate the happiness of the human race, by abolishing every ves tige of slavery, and introducing a happy millennium

and happiest, and most intelligent of the sons of the children of men. It is from publications of this kind, that the enemies of republican institutions in the old world derive those atrocious calumnies, which represent us to the nations of the earth as the most turbulent and demoralized of people. The article of Dr. Channing had

the French Academy of Moral and Political Science, the following extract from his work on the United States, to which we append a few observations by a Paris correspondent:

no other appellation. They slap them in the face,-so great is their irreverence witness the slap dealt to President Jackson, and with impunity. If a member of Congress ventures to call for laws to repress popular excesses, he only provokes new storms, this is what near Boston.' Lackanal then read details of General happened after the conflagration of the Ursuline convent Jackson's treatment of legislators and judges at New

of universal equality. Let us not incline to ridicule this fanaticism as too wild and destructive in its character to engage the attention of reflecting men. It has its attractive as well as its dark aspects; it is to all appearance a mingling of heaven and earth. There is widely disseminated among us, particularly in the northern and eastern states, a peculiarity of mental | probably reached Europe when M. Lackanal read to character, in which a strong native sentiment of religion is blended with a powerful tendency to skepticism and infidelity. In the delirium of hope, these men divert all those aspirations which properly belong to a future state, towards speculations upon the perfectibility "According to M. Lackanal, in the United States, of mankind on earth. Unbelievers of ardent and ima-nothing is easier, than divorce-nothing more secure ginative temperaments are very prone to fall into this from judicial process and social disgrace than insolvency.' His account of our negro slavery, and the condition of fanatic trance; for, when incredulity draws an impene- the free colored people, rivals at least that of Miss Martrable veil over the future, it is perfectly natural that tineau. The Central or Federal Executive power is men should become the dupes of these gross delusions. without means of enforcing the laws of Congress with the And why should this astonish reflecting men, when the States, who resist whenever they please. With every distinguished divine, who has become the apologist of American, individualism or personal independence is at its height. No American entertains the least veneraKneeland, the blasphemer, boldly sustains Tappan, tion for the law, or respect for the magistrate; he the agitator? creates both one day; he can unmake them the day We will invite public attention to a few more ex-after; he never forgets that they are his work. The tracts from Dr. Channing's libel upon our character and people literally regard the President, the members of government, and hasten to conclude. "We are a rest-Congress, the judges, as their servants, and give them less people," says Dr. Channing, "prone to encroachment, impatient of the ordinary laws of progress, less anxious to consolidate and to perfect than to extend our institutions, more ambitious of spreading ourselves over a wide space, than of diffusing beauty and fruitfulness over a narrower field. Henceforth we must cease to cry peace, peace. Our eagle will whet, not gorge its appe-Orleans, of the execution of Arbuthnot and Ambrister tite on its first victim; and will snuff a more tempting quarry, more alluring blood in every new region which opens southward. To me it seems not only the RIGHT, but the DUTY of the free states, in case of the annexation of Texas, to say to the slaveholding states, we regard this act as the dissolution of the Union. We will not become partners in your schemes of spreading and perpetuating slavery, in your hopes of conquest, in your unrighteous spoils. A PACIFIC DIVISION in the first instance seems to me to threaten less contention, than a lingering, feverish dissolution of the Union, such as must be expected under this fatal innovation. We shall expose our freedom to great peril by entering a new career of crime. We are corrupt enough already," &c. "Still I am compelled to acknowledge an extent of corruption among us, which menaces freedom, and our dearest interests. That the cause of republicanism is suffering abroad, through the defects and crimes of our countrymen, is as true as that it is regarded with increased skepticism among ourselves. Abroad, republicanism is identified with the United States, and it is certain that the American name has not risen of late in the world." Deeply as we revere the function of the priest hood in its appropriate exercise, a love for truth and justice to our common country, compels us to pronounce these extracts a gross libel on the American character and government. In the just indignation which every man who respects the national character must feel for this unwarrantable and unfounded abuse by a christian divine and native citizen, there is little inclination to complain of the Io triumphes! which the British review.tively few disorders, and the instances of Lynch justice,

er pours forth abundantly over the moral degradation of a people, who, before the publication of Dr. Channing, had persuaded themselves that they were the purest,

and similar measures-adding-tout cela pouvait avoir son utilite; mais ces faits sont peu d'accord avec le respect qu'on proffesse en France pour les guaranties de la loi.' M. Lackanal thinks that General Jackson, while President, let loose the reins of Democracy, in order to become at length a necessary dictator. In fine, the futurity of the United States is a curious and pregnant problem. Will these wild democracies ultimately fall into the track, shape and polity of the old communities of the world, or will the elements now fermenting in America, engender a new régime and a new aspect for human society?' I leave these questions to the soothsayers. With regard to the superior respect manifested in France for the guaranties of the law, let the point be examined with a little reference to the domestic history of France under the old Bourbons, during the revolution, or even since the revival or vindication of the charter in 1830. France is still under the government of state necessity; and the popular excesses are far more numerous and grave, than those which occur in the United States. The riots at Tours, Amiens, Angouleme, Bordeaux, Macon, of recent date, cost more blood than all the disorders of the kind which have occurred in the United States since the date of their constitution. Last week we had information of a female commotion on the numbers, broke down some dykes just constructed, and banks of the Rhone. The women assembled in great fought a hard battle with the soldiery called in by a sub-prefect to disperse or capture the ladies. Were it not for the military force always at hand, what would be the ostensible respect for law?-Unfortunately, owing principally to the idea of an overwhelming milithroughout Europe, the influence of law seems to be tary coercion. Law is received as the work of selfish power, not of executives and legislatures instituted and acting for the national weal. However, the compara

of which so much is made in the London and Paris

papers, together with the historical character of European democracy, have produced an almost universal impression that the American citizen is and must be

anarchical; and it is upon this supposed lawlessness | or time to abandon his appropriate functions to fan the that the writers on the Canada rebellion count as a sure and all-sufficient auxiliary for that rebellion, whatever may be the dispositions and proclamations of our General and State authorities."

That we shall ultimately attain our destiny-that our decline and fall will at some future day add another to the many lessons of experience, to instruct future generations-will only furnish another proof of the perishable nature of all human institutions. But that we shall demonstrate the great problem of the capability of man for self-government, and of the capacity of republican institutions to secure the greatest share of happiness and freedom to the greatest number, we can never doubt, so long as the past is admitted to be an index to the future. Indeed it is by no means improbable that the Union may be dissolved, and that we may be forced into new associations by the agitators of the northern states. And the blow which severs the bond will come from the south, and the northmen will be startled in the midst of their agitations, by the decisive action of a people who have long since been convinced that upon the delicate subject of slavery there is no longer any union or sympathy between the free and the slave states. That blow already impends. Indeed we have twice seen the union of these states endangered. Once by New England in the dark hour of adversity, and once by South Carolina in the floodtide of prosperity. And during the session of the present Congress, when the southern members were driven from the hall of representatives by the abolitionists of the north, the Union for the time being was virtually dissolved.

flame of political excitement, or to seek distinction by mingling in the heady current of religious or political fanaticism. When not employed in the functions of their ministry, prayer in the solitude of their chambers

would suit them far better than the publication of letcharacter and morals. They were consecrated to ministers to eminent statesmen, derogatory to the national ter to the spiritual necessities, not to pander to the intolerant feelings of men; they were set apart to bless,

and not to curse mankind.

Whether we look to the extent of our territory, em. bracing every temperate clime, and teeming with every variety of production, or to the character and promise of our free institutions, evidences of the munificence of a bountiful Creator crowd around us, and impel us to maintain that union upon which much of our happiness and security depends, and which none but ourselves can put asunder. Licentiousness and insubordination, the impatience which frets under a system of established order, and the fanaticism which would hur ry man by unnatural stimulants towards unattainable perfection, these are the restless and natural enemies of republican establishments; and the agitator and politico-religionist are the high priests of intemperance and misrule. We have opened a new volume in the book of man, more precious than the last of the Sybil's. We have collected from the wisdom and experience of departed ages a new theory of government. It is an experiment ripe with promise to unborn generations. We have no past history of our own to guide us; we stand forth before the nations of the earth bearing through a pro-wilderness the consecrated emblems of freedom, and if, after a weary pilgrimage, we shall attain the promised land, and infuse the spirit which animates us into stable and permanent institutions; if we shall kindle the divine flame of liberty upon altars surrounded and protected by a nation of invincible freemen; if we shall substitute, in the structure of governmental machinery, the controlling power of mind for absolute will, and rational equality for artificial checks and privileges; then may the governments of the old world tremble for their time-honored and crippled observances, for the ancient despotisms will be crushed beneath the vast and magnificent structure of democracy, which is already pushing its foundations far and wide, into the confidence and affections of mankind. It is this principle of democracy, now in the full sweep of successful experiment, that alarms the despotism of the old world, and induces its votaries, with thoughts that are fathers to their wishes, to found, upon such unmerited libels as those of Dr. Channing and Mrs. Trolloppe, prophetic arguments of our speedy dissolution. These are men whose thoughts, feelings, habits, associations and prejudices, are closely interwoven with things of the olden time, and have embraced with a thousand delicate tendrils which may be sundered but never disengaged, the crumbling ruins of the ancient fabric, whose mouldering condition is concealed from themselves by the luxuriance of their affections. They look upon all change as ruin, and all decay as the fruitful source of life and beauty. Although they seem to walk with eyes wilfully darkened, yet in their hearts have they trembled; for they have felt the agitations beneath and around them, and they "grope tremblingly among bristling energies of popular feeling as if they were on the crater of a volcano." They live with the past—they have no hope for the future; and the spirit which ani

But there are better days, there are brighter auspices before us. Even the reverend gentleman himself, phetic of evil as he is, is constrained to admit that among dark omens he sees favorable influences, remedial processes, counteracting agencies. And we will venture to predict, that another lustre will not have passed away before the whole band of agitators, with their clerical leaders at their head, bowing down before the indignation of a long suffering people, will be made to confess and to feel that fanaticism is not religion, that intemperate zeal is not charity, and that political religionism is only calculated for the meridian of Spain It is a melancholy but growing conviction, that a considerable portion of our clergy is falling away from the sound morality and staid sobriety of the fathers of the American church. Ambition seems still to be a weed of quick and early vegetation in the vineyard of Christ; and surpliced priests, forgetful of the sanctity of their function, and swollen beyond the girth of the canon, plunge headlong into the turbid waters of political controversy, and instead of being ministrants of peace and good will, are constantly obtruding themselves upon the public, and mingling in the most exciting and exasperating discussions. Sterne was a lewd hypocrite, and has, we believe, had no imitators in this country; but the politico-religious demagogue, Swift, has many competitors for the vile crown which he preeminently merited. It is because of our reverence for the clerical order, that we regret at all times to hear the voice of one consecrated to christian meekness and charity, lifted up amid the political clamor, where nothing pure can live and retain its purity. The forum is no place for the priest; and if he be earnestly devoted to the service of his Master, the widow and the orphan, the sick and the prisoner, the sorrowful and the dying, all the ministrations of charity will so engage his feelings and occupy his attention, that he will have little inclination

the

past. Although our peace may be fearfully disturbed for a season, and the Union seriously threatened, the influence of the clergy in this country will ultimately be restrained within its appropriate sphere; and the moment its members mingle with excited crowds of citizens, making broad their phylacteries with strange and unholy characters graven thereon, they cease to compel or to merit the reverence of reflecting men. They may bring religion into contempt with the mass of the people; but they can never shake those establishments or dissolve that Union, which were founded in a deep jealousy of their controlling influence and frightful corruption in other lands. But if, instead of inciting the angry and vengeful feelings of the weaker portion of our people, the clergy would interpose to inculcate patience, forbearance, and brotherly love; if, instead of inflaming the passions which alienate the

mates our institutions, by a single breathing would | and when the slave states themselves in their own good shiver the enchanted talisman which guards all their time, shall deem it wise and proper, then, and not betreasured wealth. But for us, we are a new people, fore, will the sons of Ham go forth from the house of springing at once into the full vigor of life, unafflicted bondage. The single enemy, the natural foe of our with the weaknesses of infancy or the palsy of age; we institutions, is licentiousness; for as all free instituhave no records of the past-no traditions of glory; we tions repose on the broad basis of morality, whatever have commenced our sublime career; our associations, tends to introduce insubordination is eminently deour hopes, our honors, are all with the future; in the structive. And whenever the fanatic, the abolitionist, past we behold nothing but the sufferings of the many the politico-religious demagogue, in a spirit of wanton and the crimes and oppressions of the few-and shrink- mischief or misguided zeal, throw their fire-brands ing from the contemplation of the dark ages of man, we among any portion of the people, and stimulate them to have opened a sealed book, a new volume, filled with rebellion, let us reflect upon the wisdom of the Romans the promise of happiness and moral excellence and in the purer days of the republic, when they representdignity to the human family, under the influence of ed LICENTIOUSNESS AS THUNDERSTRUCK BY HEAVEN AT the equality breathed forth in every lesson of that other THE MOMENT SHE STRIVES TO BREAK A TABLE OF THE book, which is called the book of life. We are in the LAW AND THE BALANCE OF JUSTICE. bud and promise of blossom and fruit; and like the rod Yet we entertain no serious apprehensions of the conof the prophet in the tabernacle, the staff upon which sequences of clerical interposition in secular and poliwe lean blooms and fructifies. Let not the monarchists tical affairs; for, however deeply enthusiasts may deof Europe, misled by the intemperate language of en-plore it, the age of crusades, like the age of chivalry, is thusiasts or agitators, hug themselves in the forlorn hope that we shall find it necessary to borrow their artificial checks upon the will of the people, and let not Dr. Channing persuade himself that we shall require a "stronger government;" our forefathers have impressed upon their descendants too lively an image of their sufferings under the oppressions of kings and nobles, to permit them to abandon their own pure faith to bow down before such idols in their western asylum. We are now the only nation in whom the vital principle is active and progressive. Other nations have been-their onward career is closed- their history is written in the fate of other empires which have preceded them in the march of ruin. But in the structure of our own beautiful edifice, it would appear that all the salutary lessons of history had been gathered and studied, and that the temple destined to flourish forevermore, had sprung up into fair and beauteous pro-northern and southern states, and coolly recommending portions, not unlike the foam-born Cytherea from amid disunion rather than the erection or admission of slave the wrecks of ages on the stormy shores of time. Our states into the confederacy, ministers of the gospel would institutions are based upon a sound morality; and the teach us how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together genius of christianity has imparted a portion of its im- in unity; if, instead of pandering to the coarse appetite mortality to the institutions which embalm it. What of monarchists, by collecting from every filthy deposit a sublime destiny is ours, and how immeasurably be- straggling instances of the profligacy of border morals neath contempt do those sink, who affect to see in or city license, and proclaiming them to the world as casual excesses that ruin which they rather desire than conclusive evidences of prevailing immorality and reanticipate. What a sublime destiny is ours? Of that publican licentiousness, they would (if indeed they Anglo-Saxon race peculiarly constituted for freedom, must transcend their sacred function,) vindicate the with political institutions admired by the world, and character of our free institutions and the morals of our only feared by its oppressors, with a prosperity like people, notwithstanding occasional outrages; if they that of the Samian prince, so startlingly stupendous as would discard from their alliance in behalf of the Into be its only evil omen; carrying civilization into the dian, the slave and the Mexican, the "friends of strongfastnesses of the forests; erecting empires and cities in er governments" in Europe, and uphold and sustain the wilderness, in one short generation of the children instead of disuniting and traducing our people and of men; with one arm stretched forth towards the government; then, would our march to eminence be abode of winter, and with the other reaching towards peaceful and prosperous, and before the curtain of time the tropics, with opposite oceans for boundaries; to shall have fallen upon another century, unborn milwhom is it given to calculate the future elevation and lions throughout the vast and untrodden regions of our moral grandeur of this people? And even while men productive soil, gathered together, the children of opof limited views discuss the excesses of the border, the pression, from the four winds of heaven, men of every frontier line has moved, and the theatre of semi-barba-tongue and clime, will exhibit to the world the sublime ric strife has already been subdued by all the refine-spectacle of a republic of boundless extent of territory ments of society. Before another century shall have and unprecedented populousness, flourishing in stable elapsed, empires will have sprung into being which security upon the broad basis of popular will. The cawill render feeble the voice of those who demand the pability of man for self-government will have ceased to abolition of slavery. When this unhappy race shall be a problem. have been fitly prepared for freedom, when their emancipation can be effected with safety to the white man,

We may be mistaken in our judgment, but we are fully persuaded that if members of the clergy had