Western Statesman, Volume 4, Number 10, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 17 May 1833 — Page 1

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D. S. MAJOR, Editor. Our Country, our Country's Laws, and our Law's Supremacy. C. F. CL.ARKSOIV, Priuler At Publisher. ' VOLUME IV.) L.AWRENCEBURGII, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1883. SIJ&BER JO.

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POETRY.

FROM THE CINCINNATI OAILT GAZETTE LIFE IN THE CO JNTRY contentment. Lif is -vv.-pt in the Country, in miy plare AVhere man hat the wisJom to mile on his lot; Coi,i?ntniein, sometimes, may th. Palace embrace, But ottener is it found to preside in the Cot. Fai removed from temptation it ever must feipi, And labor, sweet labor, Us food every day ; fiere Pride is t.to dear for soch toil to maintain, And hence that rtcspniler is banished an ay. And even, sometimes, though he enters unknown, In the fnnn of a harmless good saint from above; He still finds no passions to claim for his own, They are all consecrated to Friendship and Love. You pass by the Cottage at earliest dawn, Its blithe nigt d inmates are out at their toil ; The milkmaid's shrill note echoes out from the lawn, And the husbandman, sturdy, have dipt in the soil. Though wearied with toil ere their labor is done, Contentment still points to an evening of rest; And as light arc their hearts at the set of sun, For bright ij the sunshine that glows in their breast. Nor dteam that, though lowly, unletteied, obscure, Th? higher delights are to them qvite unknown; Theie still ". a pane ever open and pure,They read in the volume of Nature alouf . Oft' curious, lh"ir eyes on the brad Heavens turn, While gratitude w arm, and devotion inspire ; The m) liad of orb.: that in bright ether hum, LigV up in tl.eir bosoms celestial fires. And swe.n is this gae to the old ant! the young, Such mystical splendors above them appear: Oh.' ne'er purer hymn of devotion is s'ing. Than lltey laise in this hour to Him vbo is near. These nig-ht-bcaming glories that hang in the sky,

Are wonders to them, as to wise men of yore ; They know the God made them that liveth, but why ? They plaj not the pedant, content to adore! : i m in th Countr) in every plr Where man, blessed in wisdom, can smile on his lot . 'Tis sweet i the Palace, if God has the praise; But the hoiiie of Contentment is still in the Cut. H. J.

ferences, commingling truth with fiction, and a little just reasoning with

mucn sophistry. Job replied indignantly, enlarged upon his sufferings, vindicated his complaints, and censured the abrupt and harsh reproofs of his professed Comforters. But he set himself not up against God nor vaunted his own righteousness 'I have sinned : rchat shall I do unto

thee, 0 thou preserver of men?'' was the

exclamation of his anguish and he

adds, 'nhy dost thon not pardon my transgressions and take away mine iniuuity? And this stirred up another of the Comforters. Bildad the Shuite took up the argument against Job, with the unfounded accusation that he had arraigned the justice of God. He pro

ceeded insidiously to intimate that Job'

EASTERN AND WF.STERJf PERIODICALS.

We are not about entering upon a comparison of the general merits of these publications. Most comparisons

make a religious profession and attach i until it was ascertained that the stipuhimself to some church. He states his 1 lations of the treaty had been complied wishes to a methodist elder and he is, with by their people, and all the bad told that conversion is necessary that; feeling which had led to their bloody conversion consists of conviction of sin,!scenes on the frontiers banished.

of anguish and sorrow, of overwhelming ; The Prophet replied to the President, ; are odious; and one in tins case rn:g!it be horror, of crying-out, of repentance, j and said that they expected to be per-' partially so. We merely intend in as, sharp as piercing the joints and the mar-jmitted to return immediately to their brief a manner as possible, to invite at row: and that these are followed by an i people; that the war in which they had ', tenlion to the very great prejudice which

assurance and peace of mind given by been involved, grew out ot their attempt

to raise provisions, where they supposed they had a right to do so; that they had lost many of their people, as well as the whites that their tribes and families were now exposed to their enemies, the Siox and Menominces, and that

they hoped to be permitted to return

a w the spirit as proof that there is an acceptance with God. Conscious that he has had no such 'experience he presents himself to a preshyterian minister of the General Assembly. He is told that he mast believe that he is a sinner, that he

deserves damnation, that he must feel

willing to endure it: that inasmuch as! to take enre of them.

it would conduce to the glory of God, Black Hawk added to the remarks of he must feel that he could rejoice in 1 the Prophet, that they considered that,

children had been cut off for their sins,! it, that he must feel assured that God! like Keokuck, they had come to visit

and reiterated the charge of hvDocrisv i from all eternity elected a remnant to ! the President, and, like him, would be

against Job. The man of Uz was not salvation, and a great body to reproba- j permitted to return to their homes

exists throughout the entire

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aisconceriea. lie unreservedly acknowledged the justice of the Almighty I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with GodF A more beau

tiful, a more forcible, a more instruc

tive passage is not to be found in all the Old Testament. 'How should man be just with God?'' The impossibility of assuming this attitude is instantly asserted. 'If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. But is there no sense in which man can be just with God?

And if there is, where shall he learn the means, and how avail himself of them. Where shall HE learn them, who

tion, that he has faith that he is one of

the elect, with many other mysticisms equally unintelligible. He is bewildered his heart sickens, despair almost overwhelms him. lie next consultsanepiscopalian. Is he high churh? Then he is told that a man to be 'just with God? must be thorough persuaded there is but one true church; that there can he no true church where there is

He entered into some brief explanation

of the aggressions on the frontier. The President told them in conclusion that he was well apprized of the circumstances which led the disasters

alluded to that it was unnecessary to

West a

gainst western periodicals. That such prjudices do exist, is beyond dispute. Any one may satisfy himself of the fact, so far as this city and vicinity are concerned, (and it is the same every where,) who will take the trouble to be present at the opening of the eastern mails. Packet after pack et, of eastern dailies, weeklies, semi

monthlies, and monthlies, isopened,and distributed to persons here. There could be no reasonable objection to this state of things, did it tend to the dissemination of any useful intelligence, which could not be obtained as cheaply and easily at home. Such, however, is not the fact; for the same intelligence may be obtained through the medium of western

papers, about as cheap, nearly as early,

look back to them it was his purpose and much more certainly and easily.

now to secure the observance ot peace It may be said, mat the eastern papers to prevent the frontiers from beini are larger, and consequently contain

aortin stained with the blood of its in-

not an episcopate, with regular apostol- j habitants, the peaceful and helples

FOR AX ALBUM Br Mrs. Sarah Hall. What is an Album? 'TIs a book, Where every one may take a look, And find themselves reflected there, The gay, the grave, the bean, the fair : It is a motley mass of scribbles, Of w itlings, scholars, belles, and fribbles, All eompass'ri in a fine red cover, With lines and letters gilded over; lis belter part perchance but hold ! We w ill not cavil though we're oil ! Let the youi-. la. lies have their whims, Wisdom will come nndonbt betimes. Yet, since you ask a mulron,s mil, (It will, she knows, he poir and trite) ltereive v.iih smiles, though you and she May not at present, quite ajree. Let not this pietty bock contain Th' effusions of th p;rl and vain; Who wri'e, their fan: ied skill to show, V" its, whom ta muses never knew. Their verses freely they disperse, And Alt'Uins tell t'.ieir want of sense. il:;t Mary It-t your Album be, Of taste and truth, a treasury, lii'te Fancy, in her dancing hours, ?.tny strew a pae with glowing flower. But, let the mneal lesson yivc Ti.s worth that bids the Album live; Then, afler :nnny, many Springs, Have fled on time's all-bearing wings, Then these memorials of love You still may read, and still approve.

ic succession; then some thirty-nine articles of religion are placed before him, a eood deal obscure, abundant in mys-

more reading matter than the western

papers. Such, in the main, is the fact;

That they need feel no uneasiness about! but the loss on this account, is more

their own women and children they should not suffer from their enemie?,tn?

dwells, in a land where the bible may be read by all, and under what is denominated a gospel dispensation? Can they be learned in the elementary writings of christian theology in the creeds, the confessions of faith, the

articles of religion set forth by the dif-

lerent sects, who assume to proclaim themselves the church of God? The

subtilties, the refinements, the inconsistencies of these perplex and confound the strongest understandings. They are not food for lan.bs the v are not

food for sheep. Like the

blaJe of blasted grass, they crumble in the touch, are tasteless to the palate, noisome and destitute of any

principle ot life. As the withered blade

tification, and apparently not free from; Sioux and Menomines. lie meant to palpable contradiction;plainly the work I compel the red men to be at peace with

each other, as well as with their white

neighbors. Tthat he had taken meas

ures with this view, and when it was ns-

of men of adverse creeds, mingling re

ligion and politics, for wordly purposes, and framing a niece of patchwork.

wherein each sought to insert all he j certained that they were effectual could of his own, and keep out all he; when the tribes had learned that the could of his opponent. is the party ! power they attempted to contend with, consulted low church, or, bating the ar-j was equally able and disposed to prorozance of the assumption, evanrclicall ! tect the peaceful, and to punish the vi-

Then litdo i lifr.l ..f tho pnkr-nnurv I nlenre of a'nn-essors when his infor-

and about as little of the thirty-nine ar-j mation assured him that their people in tides. The atonement the Irinifv ! particular, were convinced of this, and

right faith sabbath observances, Sun-j were disposed quietly and in good faith day schools, bible societies, missionary I to observe the terms of peace granted

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withered ! labours, are arrayed as matters of vital to them, then they would oe restored to

interest. An implicit belief in the three! their family. He, then, gave his hand

first, a devoted observance of, and con- j to the Chiefs and dismissed them, tribution to the residue, are set forth as Black Hawk is not an ill looking man

the means whereby man may 'be iust n-ilh i His countenance is intelligent and not . . . , -. ' J . I mi Vl 1. .1 :. .1. I,..,

God.' is the inquirer more enlightened savage, me rropni, we umiK, u.is

of blasted grass, supplies matter of curi

ous speculation to the naturalist and the I than he iwis been by

chemist, so thcmKaphisical abstractions! other sources? He i

of creeds, confessions and articles, serve

to lurnish subjects of controversy for

the scholiast and the JJivine, to engen

der religious feuds to convert the pul

pit into an arena ot strite, and ministersof the Gospel into vituperative gladiators. In these the plain unlettered.

instructions from

not.

'How should ?n.';i be just with God?' God has declared how this should be; without creeds, without mystification,

without explanations. 'Thou ihalt loie

more the look of the mischief maker, and indeed he assumed to be the principal in the interview with the President, lie was, a suppose, the instigator of the massacres perpetrated on the frontier. His utterance and manner

the Lord thy God, with all thy heart and as well as his countenance, indicated a with all thy sow, and with all thyblrrngh: ! dark and ferocious character. Globe, end thy neighbor as thysrif: 'Thoushaltl ;t kIl- . hP

unsophisticated inquirer, Aoa should man dounto others as thou wouldst they should steam hoats of which we be just mlh Gorfr can learu nothing to do unto you Wo justice love mercy and havJ three t; four arrivais a day, are ennghie.i his bewildered mind. They j waik humbiy with thy God: Man is k;us wtU oaded As we have before pre-

tcmi, lu nic.iwt um meniai aamiess , wun xraa, .t3 i.u man tan oe, wno is j .. . , , HHp of emipration is creat.

faithful and obedient in the practice of j and wU continue go tbrough the season

that surrounds him.

Are the means of, 'Aoio should man bc these precepts, though he apply not his

just znth God? to be ascertained in the

services and teachings of the church upon earth? Who shall number the

finite intelligence to comprehend the

infinite works ot lnlinite wisdom, or the character and attributes of Almighty

i variety and diversity of those teachings?! existence. Would man learn how he

How shall the heresy and schism de- may be 'just 7i-ith C

uounced by one against another, be un

RCM 1UI CINCINNATI GAZKTTK JOB'S COMFORTERS. A LAY SEIt.MON, BY A LAYMAN ' knoiD it is so of a truth; but how thonld man be just with God?'' Who, that lives in a land where the bible is read, has not heard of Job and Job's Conforters? Job, though an up

right man and a patient man, was not, therefore, exempt from human infirmi

ties. W hen sore beset, by reverses of

fortune, by the loss of his children, and by the visitations of disease, though he

could not forbear all repining, he re

frained to 'sin with Ms lips. Covered

with sores, 'he sat down among the ashes

and opened not his lips, though 'his grief i

too very great. 1 hen came three friends bv way of Comforters, and eat down with him in silence. After enduring for seven days this dumb show of comfort, in addition to his nufferiugs, Job opened his mouth to bewail his misery. Sorrow made him eloquent: intensity

of bodily pain bewrayed his judgement,

jet, however passionate and absurd his complaints and imprecations, he did not curse his God. nor invoke calamity upon his fellow men. Whilst he bemoaned his own tnisenr, all his denunciations were against himself.

This furnished Eliphstz the Temanite,

the most forward of the Comforters, an sr .

argument against Job. Mis ire was

raised like that of a proserin the pulpit with a thin conerega tion before him.

His tongue was whetted for a rebuke, and his heart was full of uncharitable

derstood or reconciled. The humble

catholic, who lias chaunted his Ave comrritted his missal to memory ; made his regular confessions, and bowed devoutly before the consecrated host, is located where the catholic church has no ministrations. He had believed that so far as man could be just with God he

had been just. He presents himself in

an Episcopalian church to partake of the ordinances of religion and he is told he is a pagan idolator a papist a follower of the man of sin the strongest terms o reproach and abhorrence

are lavished upon that profession of re

ligion which he had believed, and the

purifying influence of which he con

ceived had regulated his own life. The

minister is an Eliphaz, boiling over with gall against papistry, aud covetous of an occasion to pour it out upon a sinful subject of papistical idolatiy. An episcopalian, separated from the alter at which he had offered sacrifice placed where the book of common

prayer is not, except in his own dwelling hungering to enjoy the word of life in

the administration of church ordinan

ces, finds his lot cast, in a land .there these are ministered only by covenan

ting or seceding division of the Presby

terian church. He asks to partake of

these mmisiraiions. The voices of

doaen Bildads are raised against him.

tie is a reproDHteprefatist.an heretical

readerof Watts' Psalms an offence and

a Jin in the congregation, an unenlieh

tened formalist, with the curse of God

upon him

One who has lived where the bible is

read and the Gospel preached, who has

ith God in the only sense

in which it is not blasphemy to put the

interrogatory, he may learn any thing

-if no unlooked for obstacles intervene.

Eri& Observer.

than made up by the generality of wes

tern papers; Li they usually contain

more matter that is interesting and valuable to the citizens of the west, than

the eastern papers do. It may be con

tended, likewise, that there is more talent enlisted for the eastern than for the

western papers. In some cases, this also is true; but generally it is very far from being the fact. Many of those eastern works which draw so largely upon the West for their support, instead of displaying more ability, or more originality than is to be found in the western papers, exhibit a sickly sentimentality, and melancholy dearth of intellect, together with a great penchant for small things such as stale jests, 'rebusses,' 'enigmas," 'charades,' puzzles,' and twenty-year-old anecdotes. The only talent they display which may not be

found in western publications, is that of puffing themselves and enlisting others in the same laudable and moJest employment. And here we discover the grand secret of their success. Perceiving the good naturedness of the western community, and t; eir easy credulity ia this respect, they no sooner received a few favourable notices of their work, from some friendly or good-natured editors, than they published them to the world in their own sheets, never forgetting to introduce them as being "taken from among a great number equally complimentary."

We dislike to single out individuals, for animadversion; but the importance of our subject demands that we should do

it. there are two "family papers

Otlice of the Mercury, ) Newport, Monday, April &l, ioi33. LATER FROM JKATAXZAS. The ship Boy, Capt. Pitman arrived

here yesterday, in 13 days from Ma-

l informs, that the

k.. ;T ; ,l c ' ,i tanzas. Capt

Mount, as given in the Gospel ofj Chedora was raging there to a fr.ghtiul M.u L ii a i L- i extent: the deaths were sua to be upathew. He need not perplex his un- ' ' - in . , -. , , J

imputations. He cotild not 'wiihnold himself from weakine.' He broke forth

inabrubt reproofs, ro undly charged Job sought instruction under the services of with hypocrisy, and proceeded to sup- all the different sects i It hi wiririiiv

port the charge by assumptions and in-1 becomes satisfied that it is his duty to

derstanding with learned disquisitions of Paul, or IVter, or John, or James, or

wun tne countiess and never ceasing controversies to which these disquisitions have given birth. A text from the

epistles is- generally an annunciation that one cf Job's Comforters is about to speak from the pulpit. Job's Comforters! Who was Job? Who were his

comforters? Is the book a record of

facts? This is scarcely asserted. It is an allegorical epic, intended to commu

nicate Divine' instruction to the woild?

So it is most generally received. Who

then is represented by Job? Why not the religious world. Who is represented

by his I omlorters? Most likely those,

who without the requisite qualifications,

take upon themselves the oflice of re

ligious Comforters, among whom (here

are many Eliphazvs, Bildads, and Zo

phars, for a single hlihu.

Black Hawk and his son the Proph

et and his son, and the other Indian

hostages surrendered under the late

treaty, waned on the President on In

day to receive his orders. 1 he Prtsi

dent met them kindly. He directed

the articles of dress provided for them

to be exhibited to them, and told the

prinipal chief that the whole would b delivered to him to be distributed wit

a view to their common comfort that they must repair immediately to Fort

Monroe, and remain Ihrre contented

until he gave them permission to return

to their home that the termofthei

detention depende'd upon the conduct of their respective trib?r and that they

would not be restored to their families! must run tbo plauters."

wards of 100 daily, but such was the

stale of alarm, that no accurate information could be obtained. All business

was suspended, and the communication . . .1 lY

with the country was entirely cut on.

We have received from an esteemed

friend, residing at Matanzas for the benefit of his health, the following letter,

which contains some correct aud inter-

lation as to the Cholera,

&.c. dated at

"Matanzas, April 12, 1S33. "The Cholera is raging here with

much fury; it is impost ble to form any correct opinion of its ravages, although

have endeavoured to uo so i even

question whether the Lrovernmcni it

self has returns ot the interineuts; oi the

number of cases I know it has not, for 1

heard one of the most eminent physicians say to-day, he had not had time

to report for a week past. Business is

almost paralized, and all who could

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leave the city have done sa; mere ate

some cases in the country, some plan tations havine suffered severely.

"Two carcoes of slaves, (over 1000)

arrived a few days since; one of them

landed her cargo south ot this, (Matanzas) on the other side, all of whom died, although landed it perfect health; and

the other, a few leagues to leeward of

this, the most of whom are dead, anu the residue dying. "I received a letter to-day from Ha

vana, dated the 10th inst. which states, that the number of deaths by Cholera

the day before, was only 10 but adds, that it had broken out on the estates to

the southward, and unless soon checked,

published in Philadelphia, viz: the Eve

ning Post,1' and the "Saturday courier." Thers is one "family paper" published in this city, viz: the "Cincinnati Chronicle." ISow, there is not a doubt in our mind, that if any intelligent person would take a number of copies of these pape rs, say a file of three success

ive months, and attentively and impartially examine them, the derision he would render would be, that the "Chronicle," as a "family paper," was any thing but inferior to the others, and that, as it frequently contained matters of local or sectional interest, which were not usually to be found in eastern papers, and which they could not be

expected to publish, it was vastly better entitled to the patronage of the western community. Yet either of the above named periodicals has twice, or probably even thrice as many subscribers west of the mountains alone, as the Chronicle or any other western paper has ah

torrrther. How can Mrs ne accoune-

for, otherwise than on ihe score of prejudice? Indeed there Appears to be a kind of infatuation upon this subject, abroad in this western land, engendered by the system of selfpufing adopted by most of'the eastern publishers, and kept alive by the same means. To ascend a little in the line of periodicals, let us look at the "Western

Monthly Magazine." And nrsi we

must be permitted to remarit, mat me western papers themselves are their own bad enemies, and coutnbute not a

little to the state of things upon which we are animadverting. Where do we see more than an occasional notice of the Western Magazine in a western paper? Indeed, many populous towns, whose citizens would be glad to give their mite of support to what they were led to believe a good western Magazine, are hardly aware of the existence of such a work amongst them. Whereas, we see notict ofter notice, aud adver-