Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 11, Richmond, Wayne County, 22 May 1824 — Page 4

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"iniate'cr the mead or flotrery field, The grotto, grove, or garden yield, Of useful, fragrant, choice, and rare, We still select."

FOR THE ri'BLIC LEGER. What is it that constitutes griefs deepest anguish; Which fills to the brim bitter miscrj's cup; Causes life's vernal flower to wither and languish, And dries every fountain nf happiness up? It is not when adversity triumphs in ruin,

When poverty threatens starvation and death; When detraction and calumny round u are brewing, And slander emits her pestiferous breath: Nor is it when linsrerinc health has departed, And left us to strutrnle with pain and disease; Nor the loss of a friend or a brother true-hearted : No, pangs it inflicts still m re poignant than these. But it is, when the heart that abhor all deception, Devotes to so.ue object it? love most since re; Unreserv'dly bestows it unboundrd alTt-rtion, Enraptur'd to find it reciprocal there: But ah! while fond hope is embracinr fruition Am! joy's bnchtot viions c hetr svveetly the mind, No language can paint it i!'?;-,:ur-fr;tujht coi dition The dupe of a love, fickle, false and unkind. Tis this can impart that superlative sorrow, Whoe sad desolation time cannot repair; Which to-day finds its victim in bliss ; but to-morrow Brines nothing but wretchedness, erief and dt-s-

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vance or rejection of particular rights and forms, which a man may use or disuse w ithout prejudice to real virtue in himself or others; nor in a zealous attachment to or angry abhorance of this sect, or that church, in which, as in most other fields there are some tares and some wheat; but in something more excellent and divine. That in a word, is true Religion, which

I makes a good man which renders one i pious towards God conformed to the pati tern of his Saviour benevolent to his fellow men humble in his temper and man

ners -peaceable in society just in his treatment of all condescending in cases of difference strict in the government of himself patient in adversity and attentive to his duty in all conditions and relations of life. When vou find this to be vour character, you may believe that wisdom has entered into your heart. Dr. Lalhrop.

! The general depravation of morals is the last calamity which can befal a state. When the whole mass i corrupted, no excellence of political institutions, no wisdom of the legislator, no in justice of the ruler, can be of any avail. The influence of law is always less powerful than the restraints of conscience ; and how indeed, shall the laws of man be enforced in a community where the laws of God are set at defiance? Such a state may for a time be distinguished by every external mark of prosperity; extended dominion, accumulated wealth, and successful cultivation of the arts but its prosperity is not happiness; its magnificence and luxury, however imposing, are a poor and inadequate compensation for the absence of mutual confidence and mutual kindness and contentment, of the dignity of virtue and tlie consolations of religion.

Striking Instance f Impartial Justice in a popular asst mhli, or QUAKER JURISPRUDENCE. About -4 years past, Hannah Barnard an acknowledged minister of the Society of

wJU l W Jw . - )t m 0 COMMl'MCATFD FOR THE LfGFR. 'The mourners in Ziun, and heavy hearted in Jerusalem eomfurtt d. As your lot is peculiarly trying, being left destitute of the comfort of soe hdv, I wuid recommend you to the consolation th-rived from an inward acquaintance with the spirit of grace, or in other word-, commune with thy heart and know it to he cleansed from its dctiIements.so shall peace return as a might v stream to the satMv ing

of thy soul. The advantage dciived from j Quakers, in the State of New York, travsolitude are many. In a state of mm dtision, j lied by their permission, to England. In the objects of temptation pass hv unohscrv- j the course of her travels and sermons there, ed ami frequently spares u the pain-that I it was disco ere d that she preached a numothers experience, of t ither, e xpe tation or I brr of doctrines which were equally at didisappointment. In this vale it mav he j rect variance with those of the society of your happy lot to enjoy the pleasure of par- ! which she professed to be a minister.and to ticipating in the choicest delicacies which ! man), if not woif, ofthe recorded facts of an all-wise Fving vouchsafes to confer on ' Scripture History ? Whatever may be those who fear and love him. fkVhile j said with justice oMhe right of private

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on ;ic urit of their deviation from the path j they are bound either in justice and honor, ed" ree titu and order. These, in the ! to preach consistenly with its principles, hour of trial, which awaits all ilcsh would ! or reliiujuisli its profession. This point of rejob e could they oa hange- their situation consistency appeared so just and indispenfor vours; but it is through the same chart- sable, that the meetings or ministers, and ti, .t li'i-.. ..., .a l .... ill t it'r in T ni(1iiti ntv tl.. - c .-,,. 1

i i i i.it i f it I f . i r ii.ir ii. iii.ii t i viii v i vi tv ill A ' fit vi I i i r u I if i i I - i i I j

wlif app. ir in easier or morjenvia-j judgment, while individuals continue to nations ft el tbo most poignant rain! act as the ministers of a particular se.cietv.

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rCome to exporir nr.; the en o rnent n oti are in posps-ion of. Isiteveti desirable to the Considerate mind to be placed on an eminence, amidst storms and tempest., w la-re the bane e3 to tail are s,, manv ? Many indeed .are the ditfn ultb-s ei'.r ountered bv those who are aspiring after gieatne ss in this world, and what is their worth compared with those you have espoused, and for which you have sacrificed our show y

after very properly pointing out the evil of protesting to be a minister of a people who wa re ki ( wn to believe one thing, w hile she was proac hing another, they niildlv recommended her to return h me. Being a woman of some talents, though greatly overrated, and of at b ast as mm h spirit as tongue, yhe refused to return, and this gave birth to a curious and interesting ease of what would be generally called

interest in this. Do not envy the situation J quaker jurisprudence; a case so singular

of the-e, it is enough to know outse ls justified in what yen have dor .. There is a time for all things, and the time will come if you are steadfast that vou will rejoice with joy unspeakable. With such a prospect before vou. persevere to the end tor the object of your solie itude is not ed a mutable, nature' but is durable and permanently fixed as the bars ofthe earth or the pillars of Heaven. While those who seem to he in the onjov ment of social pleasures ar d are participating jM the good of this mutable world, are neglecting the preparations inseparably enjoined on those who wish to enjoy that w hich is to come. So that from the above reasons there is abundant cause to rejoice, that ) our are acknowledged sons and abide the chastening hand of Divine goodness for your int-truo

and valuable, that it ought to be known,

not from any estimation of the talent or pretensions of the inconsistent preacher, or to bring into notice a name, which however worthy of blessings for individual benevolence, merits chiefly the blessing of forgetfulness but for the sake of exhibiting to all (bristain churches an honorable example ed impartial justice, "and of candor, in the iii(de of administering it, which must be prai-e worthy wherever follow ed. The jealously of every thing like, inquisition, priestly tower, or -ecclesiastical courts induced the society of which she was a member, to allow po pozver beyond advice; or admonition of their meetings of ministers and elders. So, finding their advic e re jected, that body complained to the monthly meeting ed Devonshire 1I use,

in the. I)itrict of which the disorderly

tion and furtherance in the way of hnlines:

Rut should it he the lot ofanv to be brought preacher resided, and they having the

into distress and suffering for transgression, ! discipline regularly in their bands, adv islet such make acknow ledgment thereof, e ed her to return hornr. Rut being a woman which will greatly assist in satisfying the ; d a very high spirit, she appealed against disple ure of eternal justice and restore j' their advice to the. quartoily meeting of the bles-dng of pear- to the t roubb d soul. !, Loudon ; and here, a committee was -

But if there is a partialis to self, ju-tif ing l point, d, but not one? person from the month-

and supporting our course before men while we are jnwardU c onvbted for the same deplorable indeed is the condition of such, and long will they feel the rod of

ly mee ting, whoso judgment was appealed

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diyin justice on th leir obdurate; hearts. RELIGION. "You must always remember that Religion is a benevolent and useful thing ; and that w herever it takes place, it makes men bitter than they we re before. It consists pot in empty ahou; but in solid virtue and in substantial goodness. It does not essentiallr consist in niceties and hilling distentions, which neither influence the he art or concern the practice; nor in the obser-

commitlee, or to give a voice in tho meeting and we re told flu y v t ,e patties. A respectable committee was appointed, and alter hearing both parties, the de legate d respondents from the monthly inecting.and the appellant, till lhe both acknowledged they had been fully and fairly heard: tho committee continued the original advice by report, to the general meeting, about loOO person being assembled to re ceive it. Rut, being a w etnan of more spirit than humility, she exercised her l ight in its fullest extent, and appealed against that jud"ment to the uarlv meeting. r i " " Ine early meeting is a representative

body, consisting of deputies from all the quarterly meetings in England. Ry addenda to this constitution, members ofthe meetings of suffering, and ministers and edders, are united with it, and by prescriptive right, every member ofthe society who may happen to be in London at the time of yearly meeting, has the privilege of sitting and occasionally exercises that of speakin g in it. It is then, nominally, a representative body, but substantially a popular assembly, though without much of the enthusiasm which often marks, and sometimes blinds popular assemblies. In this case, impartial justice held the scales everv minister and elder, and

member of the meeting ef sufferings, (a l large standing committee) were silenced ! as parties, they were aeensers, and had 'given all the vedce they had any just right j to give, in the eiecusation. The monthly 'meeting of Devonshire House was silenc

ed; a member of it not being even allowjed to speak to a point of common order. The quarterly meeting of London was siilenced as having also become a party, ;md its members constituted a majority of the yearly meeting itself. Then the large com

mittee of appeals had no right to judge in

theirown cause, nor were they allowed to use that vile, cowardly plea, which some e ry base minds might be inclined to use: that

in the monthly mecting,they exercised the ! right of monthly meeting 'members; and in the superior meeting spoke .and acted as quarterly and vearlv mee ting members. .V), they zeere parties: the casei was opened in the committer the parties being fairlv heard, as appe II ant and respondents they w ere then sit'eni rd altogether, while others

judged and the advice originally given was confirmed. j Rut so far from receiving this advice, . she exercised her right, and appealed to the wdiole body, and pleaded her cause before them with a courage worthy a better ( cause, for on that of c vnisttwy, she had not i the shallow of a pb a. On the appeal being carried to this meeting, a large: number, which consisted of about one third ofthe representative portion ofthe meeting, were silenced. Ry ' tin ir report, they had become parties, and .having once given their judgment, were .' little disposeel, and not in the least permitted to realize the proverb, ''Juols it ill be meddling by taking any share in the detis- , ion. Eii.alU , this disposition to do justice, to secure an impartial decision, having been carried so far, that perhaps nol Jiffy persons in the whole meeting were lelt, who had the right of decision. They heard the case in common with all others, and, after the respondents and appellant had : acknowledged that they both had been ful- , ly and fairly beard in the face ofthe whole me eting, be fore whom thev pleaded their c ause, thesey w ith whom the dec ision re sted, rese up, one -by oite, and gave? their individual judgment with deliberation, canehair, perspicuity, and wisdom, -and the c hi k, as the organ ofthe meeting, confinn-c-d the original judgment and advice. Questions of pnpt tty have been decided by this immense c ourt in the like speedy .manner, and one year ends all differences. j Peirtii s cannot he judge: -parties can- ; not he clerks parties cannot giv e a Jd decision on any subject w ithout violating the principle of friends all "protracted discusision is prevented by this a case cannot last as long, under discussion, as the Siege j of Troy, (12 years) without the society ! and its leading members becoming renei gadoes to their own principles, and being degraded in public: esteem, as all men of business would be, who should assume the iVight of being plaintiff, judge and jury, or 'complainant and arbitrator in their own cause. The principles of justice; are imi partial, immut.ble, and eternal, nor can ! the cash, the starch, or the quality ofthe criminal lessen the crime, or brighten its

complexion. It is not assumed, that the yearly meeting of London is infallible:; but cases have oc curred, in w hich, with equal propriety, it has reversed, in toto, the judgment of very respectable quarterly moetings,and never allowed the same person-to act ih-a double, or triple capacity, to sing the old song over again, being esteemed by them as worse than singing psalms to a dead horse. It is an honorable example; it ought to be made known, and it ought to be followed, tor such an example atiords a sure recipe, if the prescription is taken, to prevent breils and contentions, and te rminate differences among fellow prolessoKs, as speedily as they arise. This is the public, inde pendent testimony of one who is not the dupe, the toed, enslave of any party or .sect in the world, and who speaks the; truth honorably and openly, of the parties concerned, from whom he see ks neither favor i.er patronage, nor fi iei elship, but w In in he w ishe may ever be dignified by universal justice, works of mercy and brotherly love. JOSUUi LANCASTER.

N. R. The number of persons who , the case opened in the yearly nV ?- were at least 1600. The" number S lor the sake of justice, MaO!! The ' ing bouse was crowded. Jt SllPlM-efc''; U'X.I.. oaaa 3JI,it-tuu.j.

uuius ww peiaoiis.

Mr. Mitchell, dyer, Rort street s-. ling, has been in the practice, for't years, of having the operation cf crindl

nis indigo pertormeel hv a clog. n1P

chine is extremely simple, and seems fui'i! ; adeepiate to the purpose intended. I consists of a large wheed about 24 ft.-t ; ' ' circumference and 1 o ine lies broad, 'fi V" wheel is connected with a metal vei ' in w hich thejndigo is placed, and thre,; j; pound shots all of which the dog p-.ts jJ motion when necessary. This is pref :'i ed by his entering the; wheel, the hre iM.

j of which, 15 inches, gives him ample ;

lie commences slowly at hist, by thrown his feet forward as in the. act of runrnr His weightin this -manner acts as u k- " on the axle ef the w lifed, and the ncti, of going round having or.ce commence-! 7 which is soon done, he incre at. ;, iu u! pidity to an astonishing extent, by incrcasing the quickness of his pace, wine, at ' times is carried so far as to exhibit him m if at bis utmost speeel. In this way he ", has much more command over the: vvheel than the stoutest man could by mean of i handle attached to the axle in the orciit nrv ' way. It is a curious fact, that in his uij mode of working he has a regular p.ue, which he maintain? with ease; but . ' sooner does he see a stranger look on, than

as if desirous of exc iting admiration, h increases his exertions to sue:h a degree tnat j it woubl be iuq)osa!d for him to continue I them at the same rate for any length of time. Uon, the present workman, is a 'stout and handsome hg, and commenced, his labours about a yoarago, w hen it was found necessary to place IVntch. his pn cessor, on the retired list ; that f.iithful .e jvant having performed the duties of hia tf ! fice for 12 years. Caledonian Mcr.

From the Montreal lb ral.l, M.irch 1.. Fidk lit v of a Doo. On Thursday ht some persons in the village of La Pi. tine observed a dog on the ice, in the river, curiosity was e xcited, and two or three men putoll from the shore in a canoe; on approaching the animal, he was found te ? guarding a man's hat, and hag, which weic

i lying near a hole in the ice: nil attempts ! to draw otl'the dog from those; relics we re vain, neither would he suffe r any one t ! come near him. The nartv returned ta

the shore, shortly after which, the tag v. as no longer visible. On Friday that purt ofthe ice, on which the dog was, ' t.ira-

; ted from the main body, and on its f catrg : down the river the hat was discen ai

j but the faithful animal could no longer ! e i seen! The probalitv is that seme' man, acjcompanied by his dog, w as on his way to i the city, and unfortunatedv fell through the ice; and that his trusty friend, afte r Mill- r- ( ing from hunger and cob 1 became unable to ! retain his situation after the s paration r.f the ic e and shared the same preinatu;c

late of his master.

Domf stic Lii K. No man ever profpe reel in the world without the consent and co-operation of his wife. If she unites in mutual endeavors, or rewaid bis labors, with what perseverance does he apply to his vocation; with what confidence will he resort to hi merchandize or farm; l!y overland; sail upon the seas ; meet difficulty and encounter danger if he know s lie is not spending his strength in vain, but that his labor will be rewarded with the sweets of 1 ionic! Solitude and disappointment enter into the history of every man's life; and that he is but half provided for his voyage, who finds but an associate for happy hours, w hile for his months of darkne.-s and distress no sympathising partner is prepa red ! Faded ideas float in the fancy like half forgotten dreams and imagination, in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious oi its offspring and doubts whether it has created or adopted. Kf.volutions ok Likf. Obscurity and indigence are the parents of vigilance ard economy; vigilance and economy of 1 ie b s and honor; riches and honored pride aid luxury; pride arwl luxury of impurity ard idleness; and impurity and idleness again produce indigence and obscurity. Emtatio:;. In reading the life of a man highly distinguished for his b an ii and talent, but w hocxhihitcd a me lane l.eiy example of misdirected e clue at'mr, 1 w;i forc ibly struck with an obsei vation to ti .: e ffect: That he owed all the impe tue sitv and obstinacy ed" bis c haracter, whith b -d him to reject the -prudent adv ice ef bi friends, and to rush upon his own destruction, to a single imprudent remark m. c!o to him when a hoy. The main ohje-ct, therefore, in forming the character d" the ri-ii gene ration, is b we ll directeel u stiuedi";.

ard persevcrii g efforts, to ende a cr io gvc i a proper bias, to the mind.