Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 21, Vincennes, Knox County, 30 June 1827 — Page 4

Poetical.

J have never seen the righteous fornaken. David. I've seen the heir of giiilt and" wo, And niarkedhis wandering eye ; I've seen the tear of r.nuish flow, And heard the mournful sigh. I've seen the victim cf despair, A pray to want and sin ; I've watch'd his brow, when sternly there Was stamp'd the curse within. k I've seen the lordlins roll in state, And swell with bloating pride ; I've seen tvken at the poor man's gate, j The wretched outcast died. I've seen the youth, whom pleasure's round Had early taught astray ; And those that by Intemperance fvund The flowery, fatal way These I have seen, but never yet Have marked the child of prayer Abandoned by his God, to eat The bitter bread of care. T Religion, Morality and the Press.

We have heretofore noticed the

prospectus for the publication of

a new daily paper in iNew 1 01 u, not a religious paper but a paper devoted to wordly pursuit and the making of money ; to be patroned

by moral and religious people

only, and to be under the special

protection of certain tract and

other societies. This making a

trade of religion is a shocking evil.

We find hospitals established

charitable institutions set on foot

new plans devised to meliorate

our condition new buildings

erected new laws devised new improvements suggested ; and when we follow them up and sec them organized, we shall find the humane and charitable projectors filling the lucrative places of governors, scribes, agents, keepers, printers, porters, &c. Sec a son

here, a brother there, and charity is made to answer the double purpose of private gain and public good On every side we per jeive new schemes to obtain money for religious purposes ; converting the Jews- and the Heathens sending missionaries

family Was stirring, suddenly

stopped.

Upon this the dial plate, ( if we may credit the fable,) changed

countenance with alarm ; the

hands made an inefficient effort to continue their course : the wheels remained motionless with surprise : the weights hung speechless ; each member felt disposed to lay the blame on others. At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation ; when hands, wheels,

weights, with one voice protested their innocence. J)ut now a faint tick was heard below, from the pendulum, who thus spoke : " I confess myself to be the sole cause of the present stoppage; c am willing, for the general satisfaction, to assign my reasons. The truth in, that I am tired of ticking," Upon hearing this, the old clock became so enraged that it was on the point of Striking. u Lazy wire.'", exclaimed the dial plate, holding up its hands. " Very good !" replied the pendulum. " it is vastly easy for you Mistress Dial, who "have always as every body knows, set yourself up above mc.it is vastly easy for you. I say, to accuse Other people of laziness ! You who have had nothing to do all the days of your life but to stare people in the face and amuse

yourself with watching all that goes nn in the kitchen ! Think. I besech you, how you would like to be hut up for life in this dark closet, and wap; backwards and forwards year after year, as do.M u As to that." said the dial, i.s there nut. a window in your house, on purpo-e for you to loo!; through ? "? For all that." maimed the

pendulum. it is vn y da here : ; and although there i a window, dare not stp. even for mi ioUol. to look out. preside-, I am ready i- I ! i" t .

Hiuv cm m y mc ; anu. it you please, M tell you how I took this disgust at my employment. This

mon.mg 1 happened to be cal

culating how manyYimes I should

have to t;ck in the course only of

the next twenty four hours ; per-

haps some ot you above there can

give me the exact sum."

The minute hand, being quick

at figures, shortly replied, - eighty

six thousand tone vimiu'd

times. " u Exactly so," replied the pendulum well, I appeal to you all.it the thought of this was not enough to fatigue one ? and when 1 began to multiply the strokes of one day by those of months and years , really it is no wonder if I

felt discouraged at the prospects

mi uuer a great ueal ol reasoning and hesitation, thinks I to myself,' I'll stop " The dial could scarcely keep its countenance during this harangue ; but, resuming its gravity, thus replied; 4V Dear Mr. Pendulum, I am really astonished that such a useful industiious person as yourself should have been overcome by this sudden suggestion. It is true

you have done a great deal of

work in your time. So we have all, and are likely to do ; and, al

though this may fatigue us tf?

think ot, the question is. whether

The Discontented Pendulum. it will latigue us to do: would

An old clock that had stood for you, now, do me the favor to give

fifty Years in a farmer's kitchen about a half a dozen strokes, to

without giving its owner any illustrate my argument ? "

cause of complaint, early one The pendulum complied, and

summers morning, before the ticked six times at its usual pace;

"Novv," resumed the dial, may I be allowed to inquire, if that exertion was at all fatiguing or disagreeable to you ?" Not in the least," replied the pendulum ; " it isnot of six strokes that I complain, nor of sixty, but of irtillions. " Very good," replied the dial, " but recollect that although you may think ol a million strokes in an instant you are required to execute but one ; and that however often yoii may hereafter have

to swing, a moment will always be given you to swing in." That consideration staggers me I confess," said the nendulum. " Then I hope," resumed the dial plate,' we shall all immediately return to our duty; for maids will lie in bed till noon if we stand idling thus." 41 Upon this the weights, who Had never been Accused of light conduct, used all their influence in urging him to proceed ; when as with one concent the wheels began to turn, the hands began to move, the pendulum began to wag, and, to its credit ticked as loud as ever: while a beam of the rising sun that streamed through a hole in the kitchen shutter shining full upon the dial plate, it brightened up as if nothing had been the matter. When the farmereame down to breakfast that morning, upon looking at f.he clock he declared that his watch had gained half an hour in the ni'ht.

U PS AND DOWNS. Ttlr. Editor 1 am an up and down fellow as you do know, full of life, and up to any thing Last u'!;;ht, thinking of the misfortune ol hing a good horse, 1 began to

abroad educating the Indians. & establishing pious newspapers Those sums which should be converted to objects of charity, to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, are taken from those who cannot afford them to constitute a fund which is to be expended un der the superinteudance of certain pious men The annual amount raided for such purposes in this country is immense, and we are feeling the force of it, not in sub stantial and wholesome reforms, but in the meddling interference in private concerns, in invading the sanctity of domestic retire merit, and attempting to hold public opinion and public will in a thraldom as oppressive as the inquisition itself. We are told that this is all for the sake of reli

gion, and he who objects to it i no friend of religion. Let us ben are of fanaticism, of bigotrv and intolerance : they are the curses of hu 7 .

man society, and always assume

some plausible shape to deceive

and beguile Men do not always

practise as they preach, and when

we see profit introduced under

the panoply of spiritual guides, we

feel a pang tor the abuses of that

mild and happy faith which en courages no hypocrisy Sat. E Statesman.

ree

kon up and set down the vi

cissitudes ,f life. Up and down mean in many cases the same tiling, and frequently when you see a man up he is in fact down For instance, neighbor A tells me he is up and about a little, but quite down with a cold. A man barrels up and salts down his href or pork he cuts up a thing and it goes down I letdown my bars

and put up my cattle a man trips another up or he trips him down and so we go up and down continually. I have seen many a young lady that was called up to the notch, set down for a dunce, and rightly, and many an one who was up till eleven in the evening, and down till ten in the morning for fashion's sake. There are too many young fellows, who, with haughty airs, are knocking down all opposition, " so as to be called

up to the lite "Down with your dust says one, and heads up that's your sort ; while another class sit

up and keep housed up to read t 1 .

anil obtain knowledge, so they

may at last settle down upon some foundation. When 1 see a ladyshow the modesty of her sex, and not as she walks "the streets flirt and swing with her head up, I set her down for something but when 1 see one up to all kind of monkey shines," as the saying is, creating a good deal of surf as she passes, I can't help saying to myself" down with her house.' Lately I have read many accounts of failures in our cities. If the merchants are breaking down so. I am thinking the business is breaking up In fact, such is the world and human nature, that we can't tell who is up or down. A man will appear to be well up on the ladder of fortune, when the

fact is he is just beginning to tumble down; a pretended friend may stand at your shoulder to boast you up as you think, when he is only there to pull you down ; and one will praise you up where he thinks you will hear of it, and run you down where he thinks his interest is a little served by it ; & if you trade with some, they will, lawyer like, stuff you up, that they are giving you a bargain, and 'if possible shave you down to the last copper. And now, Mr. Printer, as you have set yourself up as a kind of monitor over the public to put down every thing of an unjust nature, and to waicluhe morals of society, I shall give up the rest of this to you. 1 want to sec good men held up and bad men put down and you must be right up and down in these things. Every man should look well to himself I am coming down in a few days to pay you up for your pa;:er, and mean to have it sent uo

to me until I run down Lastly, peace be to all, and as the " mortal foe" death, will soon turn us all upside down, may every one have something laid up when he is laid down ; at least have an assurance, that thoogb his body goes down, his soul gues up. What -are call duties. Every man ought to pay hh debts if he. can Every man ought to help hie neigh bor ' he can. Every young man ought to getmarried .iftiui! can. Every Representative in Congress and the Legislature, ought to inform their constituents what they are doing iflhcy can. Every man should do bis work to please his customers if he can. Every man should piease his wife if he can Every w ife should " submit herself unto the will of her husband 9 if she can. Every lawyer should tell the truth if he can Every preacher of the gospel should be a christian if he can. And finally every reader may

aua to mc anove ij nc can.

Halley and Sir Isaac Nezcton Ilalley the great Mathematician dabbled not a little in infidelity ; he was rather too fond of introducing this subject ; and once when he had descanted somev hat freely on it, in the presence of his friend sir Isaac Newton, the latter cut him short with this observation. " I always attend to you. I)i Halley, with the greatest deference when you do us the honor to converse on astronomy or the mathematics, because these are subjects you have industriously investiga

ted, and which you well understand but Religion is a subject on which I always hear you with pain, because it is one which yoii have not seriously examined, and therefore do not comprehend ; you dispise it because you have not studied it, and you will not study it because you dispise it." Lord and Lady E were enjoying one of their ordinary very pleasant (etc a fete discussions the other day, about settlements See. 'When I die.' said her ladyship, at last quite provoked with the obstacles he threw in the way of her various requests, you should marry the Devils daughter., said his lordship, bowing, , by the laws of England no man can marry faro sisters.