of these fashionable moralists for unwedded indulgence ort a single emotion of charity for this impregnable im more overwhelming than avarice or the love of glory both which, but not with this, unsuccessful temptation made upon the mountain.-St. Luke, chap. iv. sumptuous, scornful, dissimulating Man and Woman e and smother down the fierce and secret glowings in th al, jealous soul, before thou condemnest even the convicted less the suspected transgressor. Do not dare to sco e benignant mercy of thy Saviour, and profanely arr to thyself an attribute He disclaimed, lest thou too b victed by thine own conscience," and forever banished fror vor by the awful and scathing condemnation he pro ed upon the guilty hypocrites in the temple at Jerusaler e that is without sin amongst ye, let him first cast a ston ·.”—St. John, ch. viii.

ach of the personal discomforts of life come from the wan appropriate spirit of thinking, discrimination, comparison enterprise. We submit to lounge life away in povert -bscurity rather than make spirited exertions.

ost men are passive, inert, neutral, stunted, or disfigured eir animal developments and mental capacities, wherein is betrayed an evident want of symmetry and harmony is more readily observed and understood than it is susble of being defined or described.

ey are creatures of mere circumstances; if naturally o propensity, they are a public nuisance, as paupers or cri ls; and if passive in their feelings, and constrained t s of labor in youth, become mere drudges.

Lose above this standard, if honest, aspire to pursuits a ¿ or distinction.

husbandmen, they squander no labor or time on barren inproductive ground, but pitch their tents upon the plain valleys of exuberant growth, where no manure or wasting t is required to fructify their crops.

their employments are in commerce, science, or the arts amalgamate with rich and prosperous communities for pa

bones have rotted there.

The mob took possession of St. Augustine's ch heart of the city of Philadelphia early in the day their determination to burn it that night. More t sand armed men were mustered to the neighborho have cleared away, and formed a cordon round the surrection in half an hour; but they received move. At nightfall, some twenty or thirty ruffian and fired this costly and splendid edifice.

The adjacent streets were crowded with thou sexes and ages. The building was wrapt in fla tottering turret, with its burning beams, like ba iron, brightened the heavens with noonday light. It craned and trembled, without a murmur from ing multitude.

What were the mental impulses of this thro souls? Where was the moral emotion to shrink v this wanton destruction of property, this savage d the public peace? Was there not an overwhelm nation in every breast of brutal and depraved pr open and violent insurrection against the laws of t not a fiend from hell sit in triumph over ever uttered shouts of joy on that awful occasion?

We do not know ourselves, and shrink from rep noxious to our vanity and pride, and affronts our

The rules of society are refinements in the a over, and omitting to notice the faults of men; ar tercourse requires literal concessions of personal

Nor are there any metaphysical elucidations stinct, the will, the desire, the motive, and upon sity and moral liberty, which can change or alt practical demonstration, that the human heart is clined to heedless, obstinate, headstrong, wilful si its manifest predominations of choice are for wick It is idle and useless to excuse it under the plea

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prompts to do an act, has knowledge enough to know e does; and, if he does a bad act, why does he do it but = love of doing it; and why love to do it if his inherent sity is not evil? Why is it that fools do no good acts, at they are always doing bad acts, but that their natural tions are evil? They know what they do; it is from ; they know it is wrong, and they do it wilfully.

bent, the leaning, the preponderating impulses of the are for evil; the actions and lives of all bad men show nd the acknowledgments and confessions of all honest onfirm it.

the concealments, covert fraud, trick, disguise, chicane; open contempt and rebellion against right and law ly so many proofs and acknowledgments that sin is by its perpetrators to be wrong; and that they do it y, and with their eyes open.

orough understanding of these fundamental obstacles to vs should be fearlessly examined, and their practical chapromptly resisted.

political and moral institutions of society cannot exist ny other basis than virtue and honor; every dishonest the public authority, and all abuses of its peace and are an open insurrection and rebellion against the people eir government.

ry one capable of choosing, and of willing to do an act, doing the act by his own free will, knows what he does. s under no necessity, but by his unrestrained liberty; for he should be promptly and sufficiently punished. To or screen him is just as bad as to justify him. He be restrained or removed if he will not let others alone; y go without redress, and he is encouraged to repeat his sions.

preservation of individual rights and public security is ential to their existence as the necessary means for the tion of life from fatal contacts; and there is the same occasion to vindicate and defend the first as there is to and protect the other.

s a question of life and death, in which no apathy or

than the burglar and murderer; neither should b spared under any subterfuge or pretext whatever.

The one attacks man's life by a natural instinc tion, the other by a wilful desire for rapine and b man brute is therefore less excusable than the du

No occasion should be omitted for exposing t pernicious propensities of the human heart; to imminent exposure and immeasurable responsi who maintain the public weal; to show how the w verse inclinations of a portion of society distu repose, and to detect and classify their leading an ious traits; to index the secret springs of their tions, and to show the utter impracticability of hearts by any of the ordinary means of reasonin admonition; to crush wrong by iron force, and to against wilful aggression without stint or false m

The wicked are becoming better educated, mo powerful; they combine more physical strength force, with more sympathy from the masses, th ever before had. They should be narrowly watc tried, and extirpated without compunction.

There is no regal or military arm to curb their efficient, judicial, or political authority, as the parties now exist, to arrest or restrain their progi

They spare no home, no name, nor sex, nor they lurk in midnight confederation, rob, burn, they conflagrate and spill blood for love of r judges, and executives screen them from pun halter should be their doom, and all honest mer bine to obliterate them and their foul confeder face of the earth.

The only remedy is for the honest and respect of society to cast off the ridiculous and unmeanir they have heretofore exhibited about public affai nal punishments; for every man to join some on cal parties; go to the primary meetings; have

to vote, or elected or appointed to office who is not competent, industrious, and responsible; and thus put and for ever keep down this rabble of depraved and ned scoundrels, who prey upon society by hypocrisy itical intrigue.

present alarming and censurable apathy with the intelind responsible portions of society upon this momentous must be cast off, the plausible absurdities of cowardly vert rogues in the guise of reformers, and the whole of political gamesters, must be for ever banished, and e and dignity of public constraint must be restored to a ome and stringent standard of necessary and primitive or the present career of crime and violence will jeopard re and noble institutions of the only free country upon e of the globe.