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iUformatorij O' oetkX il 4 i rfc f'Vn 1 THE ABOLITION OP DEATH uiwwm 9 rom the Providence Transcript MR DISCOURSES Thia gentleman agreeably to previous notice ad dressed meetings in Hall three times yes terday the last of which we attended The hearers were few which was probably owing to the inclemen cy of the weather the continued Northeaster putting an effectual embargo throughout the day and evening on many who are accustomed to attend public ser vices in our meeting houses and halls The services of the evening commenced by the reading of a portion of the New Testament by Mr Wheeler then the speaker rose and for nearly two hours de claimed against war offensive and defensive show ing even the latter to be unscriptural and repugnant to the precepts of the Savior? His quotations from the Testament were numerous to establish this point and his arguments were ingenious and powerful The speaker had a rich flow of language at his com mand and was often impressive and eloquent dis playing through the whole range of his remarks strik ing and pertinent illustrations which could not fail to have convinced many who are advocates for bar? barons warfare and who have lent their aid to ele vate military chieftains to the pinnacle of wordly honor of the absurdity and wickedness of war He fortified his grounds by numerous references to an cient and modern history and his references and quotations were apt and to the purpose and in no instance strained or forced and displayed great fa miliarity with historical records from the earliest dates to the present time There was great depth of thought draperied in his exuberant language and those who were not convinced by his arguments or made proselytes to the doctrine of non resistance could not refuse to accord to the speaker talent extensive reading deep reflection and strong argUr mentative powers He is unquestionably an able in strument in the great work of rerorm in which so many friends of human happiness are now engaged and we regret that so few were present to be animat ed in the same cause by the rays of light emanating from the well disciplined mind A MERITED REBUKE The Boston correspondent of the New York Chris tian Inquirer in giving an account of the meeting re cently held in the Tremont Temple for the abolition of the spirit ration in the navy says Rev Mr Kirk spoke sensibly and strongly One of his good points was the tendency of the very regularity with which the allowance is served out to produce a daily and periodical thirst which must end in a habit of drunkenness He jeferred to the navy and to war as a necessary and dwelt with power upon the despotism of military rule as de stroying the man inasmuch as it destroyed his will and conscience substituting the orders of govern ment therefor We could not help wishing that he had refused to admit war to be a necessary evil Christian men and peace men should do no such thing To be sure until the principles of the Gospel prevail in the world and reach with their authority kings and cabinets fighting will continue and the peacemakers be in the minority But the very way for the minority to convert their opponents is to abide by their convictions and protest against every viola tion of the precepts All that belligerents all that the Alexanders and Napoleons all that the defenders of Mexican wars ask is the concession that their bloody their annihilation of man as a moral and accountable their scientific and gigantic is a necessary evil Make that concession and you may hold peace conventions every day in the year applauded by generals and standing armies and in the military city the blood stained Paris the Versailles water works will be played in honor of English Quakers and Amer ican non resistants The only way to bring the world into obedience to doctrines of and in this way the process will be slow is for those who vcrilv believe war is wrong and arises Boston1 October 1849 To Mrs Anne Gwynn and others relatives of Mrs Eliza Garnaut The Trustees of the Temporary Home for the Destitute impressed with the magnitude of the loss which the community generally and more particu larly the institution over which they preside have sustained in the sudden and sad death of Mrs Eliza Garnaut have requested ma to express to you the beloved sister and others to whom she was near in the ties of kindred and friendship the feeling which they in common share with all who intimately knew her upon this? afflictive bereavement which has de prived them of a most valuable co laborer in the cause of humanity and of a friend dear to them for her many virtues In doing this I am sure I shall only give utterance to the thoughts of every individual member of the Board when I state her loss to be irreparable or however much ability and worth may be found in another who shall occupy her place we can scarcely expect to find that rare union of qualities which so eminently distinguished her Active and energetic she was ever ready to move when duty called courageous she followed wherever the voice of hu manity summoned her nor was there night so dark and stormy or haunt of vice so vile as to restrain her footsteps when her attentive ear heard that voice Disinterested self sacrificing and with a heart ever glowing with love for all whom she could save she seemed absolutely to forget her own wants and her own necessities in her devotion to others Where where we may well ask can there be found one so able so gentle so dutiful so loving and so Christianlike To whom can the outcast of society come and find such sisterly sympathy and help to whom amongst us can the cry be addressed and find such ready answer in parental tenderness and care But it is not necessary to dwell upon her virtues with you the sharers of her love They are only mentioned here to show that those with whom she was associated were not unmindful of her worth that they to some extent at least appreciated the great service which she was able to render them May God help us all if the privileges we have en joyed in communing with such a spirit as hers do not enlarge our own capacities for good and make us more worthy to be called his children In conclusion I tender you in behalf of the Trus tees their deep and heart felt sympathy in the great and sad bereavement which you have been called upon to suffer trusting that you will find consolation in the thought that what is a present loss to you may be her gain remembering that it is to such as she the words of Jesus more nearly relate than to most of us when he says are the merciful for they shall obtain Blessed are the in heart for they shall see THOMAS BOUVE Committee for the Trustees rom the Kingston (Ja) Journal Oct 20 THE EMPIRE OP HAYTL All the Secretaries Commissaires Gendarmes nnd Espions of the late President Soulouque now 1 austin the irst of the Haytien have found themselves suddenly transformed into as many illustrious limbs of nobility The thing is so sub limely ridiculous that were it not for the authentic1 accounts which have reached this island of the tin deniable fact that Soulouque has abjured the repub lican form of government and has made himself Emperor we should have treated the following de cree concerning the nomination of ministers as a de signed hoax upon the public LIBERTY EMPIRE HAYTI EQUALITY Decree concerning the nomination of Ministers austin the irst by the grace of God and the constitutional law Emperor of Hayti sends greet ing to all present and to come and now resolves to name and does name: Minister of ar and Marine Lieutenant General Louis Dufrene Duke of Tiburon Grand Marshal of the Empire Grand Gross of the Imperial and Mili tary Order of St austin Grand Cordon of the Im perial Order of the Legion of Honor Minister of Justice Monsieur de Jean ran cisque Duke of Limbe Grand Cordon of the Im perial Order of the Legion of Honor Minister of Colonel Louis Ene elicite Salomon Duke of St Louis of the South Grand Cross of the Imperial and Military Order of St aus tin Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Le gion of Honor LIST CREATED PRINCES AND DUKES His Serene Highness Monseigneur de Jean Louis Pierot Prince of the Empire Grand Marshal of the Empire Grand Cross of the Imperial and Military Order of St austin Grand Cordon of Imperial the Order of the Legion of Honor His Serene Highness Monseigneur de Lazari Prince de St Yague Grand Marshal of the Empire Inspector General of the Army of the Em pire His Serene Highness Monseigneur de Bobo Prince ofCape Hayti Grand Marshal of the Empire Commander of the Province of the North His Serene Highness Monseigneur de A Sauff rant Prince of Jacmel Grand Marshal of the Empire Commander of the Province of the West dukes His Grace Monseigneur de Louis du rene Duke of Tiburon Grand Marshal of the Empire Minister of War and Marine His Grace Monseigneur de Jean Louis Bellegarde Duke of SL Louis of the North Command er of die irst Military Division of the Province of the West 1 His Grace Monseigneur de Paul Duke of Mor in Grand Chamberlain of the Emperor His Grace Monseigneur de Chas Alerte Duke of Pemenade Chief of the Staff of Honor and Master of the Pantry His Grace Monseigneur de Denis Tremere Duke of Lagaron Commissary General of the Emperor His Grace Monseigneur de Jean Ph Auguste Duke of Neybe Inspector General of the Troops of the Empire ifty tliree other Graces complate the list The Emperor has also decreed the Imperial Crown as hereditary as also all its" perquisites titles The Imperial potency ranges as far as the East for there are Dukes of places of the Dominican territory rance nust now hide her diminished head and all Europe bow in becoming homage to His Imperial Majesty of the Occident Clink clink as our hammers ring On the shining front The red iron grows beneath the blows 'V To some useful implement We make the tools for every craft And studious thoughtful men Are debtors to ns for the keen edged blade i That sharpens the mighty pen Then blow blow etc nia'y ulton and Watt and a thousand more Had studied and dream' in vain Had not our arm given shape and form To the figures of their brain Creatures of iron muscle and limbs In our glow have birth That do the work of a thousand men A And girdle with strength the earth Then blow I blow! etc A VETERAN THE PULIT Rev William Turner of Gateshead preached his first sermon in 1782 while Napoleon was yet in hist teens and the independence of the United States was yet unacknowledged The Gateshead observer says Napoleon has begun and ended his the American Republic has long ago celebrated its jubi lee the mail coach has been superseded by the rail way penny postage and the electric telegraph have come into and on Sunday the 19th day of August 1849 after a lapse of sixty seven years he ascended the pulpit which he had occupied upwards of sixty years and opening the sacred volume read without spectacles the 22d chapter of Gospel in a firm and audible voice He then took for his text the 41st and 42d verses and preach ed to a congregation not one of whom had heard his first discourse from that pulpit At the close he gave out the hymn of his friend and tutor Dr Eflfield con cluding with the Christ our pattern and our guide His imilffA mnv wa Knar ks i The Republic of Sierra New Orleans Patria asserts positively that the plan of separating from Mexico the States this side of Sierra Madre and setting up an independent republic is still prosecut ed with great zeal Some 2000 men according to this paper are to establish themselves along the southern boundary of Texas procure arms and ammunition and when the right time arrives cross the Rip Grande and raise the new standard The plan is said to be most skilfully arranged and the leaders are provided with The Patria is of 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A New York journal says the single item of cigars for the Common Council of that 1 city from May 1st 1848 to November 1st 1849 cost two thousand nine hundred and sixty two dollars 1 a i Lynch Law in A letter from San ran cisco in the Baltimore Patriot says are punished with dreadful penalties hanging shooting whipping cutting off the ears I ain told a man was the other day convicted of stealing a large quan tity of gold ($8000) found upon him Ho was sen tenced to have his head shaved both ears cut off close to his head to receive 100' lashes on the bare back and to leave the place within sixteen hours and California (never to return) within sixteen days with the addition that he be hanged by the neck until he is dead in case he fails to comply with either of the last two clauses within the time specified or in the event of his return And it is said the sentence so far as to the shaving cropping and whipping has been actually carried into effect Melancholy Affair At an early hour Sunday morning officer John Bady of the ifteenth Ward New York was attacked by a gang of rowdies one of whom struck him a violent blow on the head with a slung shot which knocked him down wheh he was kicked and beaten until he was senseless in which state he was carried home His wife was so over come with excitement on seeing his condition that she dropped down and died almost instantly She was thirty three years of age and the mother of eleven' children' On the night of the 12th ult three men lost their lives in a London sewer which they entered for the purpose of flushing They were overpowered by the gas and Mr Wells a surgeon and Mr Walsh a policeman fell victims to their efforts to rescue them making five deaths Ship Gertrude at New York from Liverpool lost fourteen of 'her passengers by cholera on the voyage Ship Elisha Dennison at New York from Rotterdam lost ten of her passengers by cholera In Garland Me a lad by the name of about fourteen years of age had loaded a pistol for the purpose of killing a dog and while fixing the lock the pistol was accidentally discharged the con tents lodged in the heart of Mrs Hatch his mother who exclaimed as she fell You have killed and immediately expired I More emale Physicians The Syracuse Star says that the Central Medical College' recently established in that city is about to share the honors with the Geneva Medical College in giving to females an op portunity of studying the profession Mrs Gleason of the Glen Haven Water Cure Mrs Davis Mt Morris and Miss Mary Taylor of Buffalojrhave made application to the Trustees and aculty for per mission to attend the course of lectures Ho be given this winter ioThe Cost of the Philadelphia It appears by a report to the County Board that nearly a quarter of a million of dollars ($238230) has been paid out of the county treasury since 1836 for the suppression of riots This sum does not include the bill which' has yet to be footed for the riot on last election night which will probably bring the amount quite up to a quarter of million 1 I Overflow of Red The Alexandria Republican states that the losses through the inundation will be immense In that parish alone if the crop of cotton be estimated at 25000 bales and of sugar at 10000 hhds with the usual quantity of molasses £he Joss will be $1700000 and the injuries done to the com crop and property generally taken into consideration it will run up to $3000000 The Red River valley instead of being 130000 bales of cotton will not yield this year more than Here is a loss of five millions of dollars rom the National Era MASSACHUSETTS BY WHITTIER The South land hath its fields of cane The Prairie boasts its heavy grain And radiant" gates unfold On crowded marts and sands of gold Rough bleak and cold our little State Is hard of soil of limits straight Her yellow sands arc sands aloneTlCr only mines arc icc and stone rom Autumn frost to April rain Too long her winter woods complain) rom budding flower to falling leaf Her summer time is all too brief 5 But on her rocks and on her sands And stormy hills the school house stands And what her rugged soil denies harvest of the mind supplies sJdi qqie trcagures of the Commonwealth Arc free strong minds and hearts of wealth And more to her than gold or grain Aro cunning hand and cultured brain 3 1 or well she keeps her ancient stock stubborn strength of Plymouth rock And still maintains with milderl aws t' And clearer light the Good Old Cause! Nbr heeds the puny While near her School the Church spire stands Xw Nor fears the blinded bigot's rule 7 yYhiio near Church spire lands the Bcboc 1 But the storm king voice wild strength doth re JO1CC "To shout through thee thou mountain tree And thou alone on thy rocky throne lake a guardian of the free i jkzj iz'V ft or from lands where ye grow amid rocks and snow Has many a patriot sprung The gallant Tell who fought so well Dwelt thy rugged haunts among And tha Pilgrim's prayer arose on the air Where thy snow clad branches hung' Then a song to thee thou unfading tree Ever glorious and green and bright Oh long in the shade by thy green boughs made May sons And still like thee may they flourish free fXVhen' the hosts of slavery quail 4 And are scattered far in holy Like sere leaves the wintry gale Parma (O) Aug 19 1849 OAST IN THY MITE He who gives little from his store st? If little be his means "Treads on as far the heavenward shore As he who gives ten times the more If ten times more his gains j'ftHe may be useful here who would walk a zone of light There is a treasury of good Cast in thy mite To bless the poor palm But angels will with joy behold If thou hast words which can be told His troubled heart to calm or kind words are as honied streams And he the walker of the sod Who gives them to his brother seems £3 messenger from God There are abuses deep and loudv Hoarse voices shrieking Bread And there are noble spirits bowed And formsthat flit among the crowd Like phantoms from the Crush but one atom of abuse Stay but a particle of sin And God will sanctify the use Of: all thy powers therein And if thy brother weaker be If folly mark his path And if thaf thou be folly free If Knowledge clingeth unto thee Give not contempt or wrath But from the garner of thy worth And from thy store of truth and light wants on earth Cast in thy mite SONG THE SMITHY TH 1 Blow blow strike strike! Sons of the glow All arts that bless helplessness To us their being owe The plough that mellows the fruitful earth 5 "Thc sickle that reaps the grain 'Neath our blows they sprang to birth 'Midst a shower of fiery rain Hammer and hatchet chisel and saw Lever and vice and sThe implements of every trade On our forge and anvil grew Then blow 1 blow! etc LETTIE IV Geneva Ohio July 21 1849 To Wendell Phillips Boston: Wendell I may be thought a fool or amadman for taking the above position but you nnd all must allow that it requires no little resolution and self sacrifice to bo willing to be counted by those whom we dearly love and respect insane and fool ish even for the sake of what we deem holy truth Hut if as I have defined it bo a violation of natural law it ought to be and will be abolished nor can man rightfully inflict it for his own protection or for the glory of God Man can never find protec tion in violations' of the just laws under which he exists nor can God be thus honored And it seems to as self evident as any truth that an all wise all powerful nnd just God could never create a race of beings put them under just and good laws and then promote his own glory or extend protection to them by requiring them to resist or violate those laws Death if it bo a violation of natural law is not of God it has no more right to be in this world than has drunkenness or slavery it is an enemy to God and man and ought to be driven from the earth and no longer be i allowed in the form of governments churches constitutions statute laws or Bibles or of warriors priests or politicians or in any form to ter rify the hearts crush the souls and destroy the hap piness of men and array brother against brother in deadly hostility If then God does not inflict death on man who does? or the fact is before us death in some form cuts down about one half of all who are born under five years of age and three fourths under twenty and the average age of man would probably be found to be less than thirty Can it be true as theology tells us that God creates human beings to kill them in infancy or in youth or in the strength of manhood Is it true that great business is to create men in order to kill them to confer human life for the pleasure of snatching it violently away making war disease famine and the elements his agents in this work? I cannot believe it but in this great human slaughter I see the agency of man and only that carelessly ignorantly or intentionally and wickedly executed It is a monstrous assumption and fraught with dire ful consequences to human virtue and happiness for man to assume the right to inflict death on a fellow being It instantly destroys all true respect for per son and property and for all the relations and obliga tions between man and man in those who assume that power and it sets those over whom we assume it on their guard against us It subjects each and every man to all the evils that flow from the posses sion and exercise of absolute irresponsible power and from being the victims of it Death in the hand of man necessarily tends to imbrute its possessor and its victims to degrade their moral nature to break the bands of affection and confidence between them and to make it impossible that they should live in love and peace How can wc respect the persons and rights of those whom we claim a right to kill when we think proper? How can we dwell in perfect love confidence and unity with those who as we know claim the right to inflict death upon us at any mo ment? Let the history of man under the reign of death in the hand of man answer these questions and decide whether a God of love and equity could ever require us to live in love and good fellowship and then empower each and every man to inflict death upon each and every other at discretion But if man cannot live in mutual love and brother hood under the dominion of death in the hands of man how can they live in perfect love and union with God while he holds over them this power How can "those who are taught to look on God as the per sonification of death watching his opportunity Jo kill them regard him with other than feelings of horror With whatever repugnance they shrink from death they must also shrink from what they conceive to be God It is impossible for inen to have true love and respect for a Being who as they believe is everwatching their steps with a view to catch them in a position in which he may hurl a thunderbolt at them let loose a tempest or pour down a flood upon them or open the earth to swallow them up or strike them down with disease To tell me to love and worship such a Being is to tell me to love honor and confide in one who is ever lying in wait to strike a dagger to my heart To cap the climax they tell me that God holds me responsible and punishes me for what my ancestors did before I had a being and that he be heads and stones to death children because their pa rents sinned and then they ask me to love and honor him with all my heart I You tell me God made me put me under certain just and good physical and so cial laws renders it impossible for me to violate them with impunity and then requires me to violate them and violates them himself by inflicting death upon me by the agency of man or of the elements and then tell me that I must honor and love him or be for ever miserable 1 I can only say I can never love and respect such a character whatever be the conse quences Until my nature is changed I cannot live in peace with him for that proclaims eternal war against injustice and cruelty so refined and so malig nant The Being whom you have me recog nize us God must be redeemed from the charge of approving slavery war or capital punishment or of inflicting death on man by human agency before I can love and respect him My reply to all your ar guments in favor of the claims of such a Being to iny homage is Your God is a chimera or a demon and I could never love and worship him as the just and loving Author of my existence That Being never claimed nor exercised the death power over me on my fellow beings He did design that all his rational offspring should pleasantly and gloriously be carried on from this state to another and then on ward and upward in an eternal progression by the agency of just and immutable laws but he never in tended that man should by a violation of those laws be cut down in childhood nor in the strength of manhood and thus become the victims of death But man usurps a power overman which God never claimed nor exercised i power to break his neck to cut off his head to cut and tear his whole body to pieces and inflict death upon him in various other forms all of which assume that man may rightfully reverse every principle of justice and cqui ty abolish the distinction between good and evil and violate the laws of our social and moral nature that wc may inflict death on our follow beings at discretion for our own benefit and without regard to their character When the Constitution says Con gress shall have power to declare war issue letters of marque and reprisal raise and support the people assume a power that God never assumed nor exercised Every voter under that Constitution votes for it and all it contains and in so doing he docs not indeed encroach upon prerogatives but he places hhnsclf above God and votes for the right to do that which God never did and never can claim power to do i to require men to violate the laws and then leave them to suffer the penally of such violations I go then for the abolition of death because (1) it brings only danger and never safety to life liberty ami property by being necessarily destructive of all respect for the human person (2) it is a violation of natural law outrage upon God and man It can never bring protection to man nor glory to God How is death to be abolished As arc other crimes i by searching out its causes' and removing them Lsi and by discovering the laws of health and life and obeying them Were the money and energy now devoted to inflicting death on men given to searching out the causes of death and the laws of life and to bringing men to obey how soon would thisgreat scourge of cease mxnvc'ivMGifr 't WESTERN PEACE SOOIETSTe To William Garrison Iho Western Peace Society held its annual meet ing at Rootstown Portage county Ohio Saturday and Sunday October 13 and 14 when the following preamble and resolutions were introduced for discus sion by II Wright Whereas God works out all his purposes touching human beings by fixed laws and never by direct in terpositions and Whereas no arbitrary commands given in drcams visions immediate revelations or inspirations can be of any authority if opposed to thoilaws of our being written by God on our physical social and moral con stitution and Whereas it is a violation of the constitutional law of human nature for man to take the life of man and Whereas the right to kill men is an essential cle ment of all war therefore Resolved That no being in the universe is compe tent to impose on us an obligation to wage war against our fellow creatures and destroy human life and it is our duty to deny the authority of any command from whomsoever it may come which would impose on us an obligation to perpetrate these unnatural deeds Resolved That fidelity to the immutable relations and duties of man to man demands that we should deny the existence and scorn the worship of any be ing as God who ever did or ever can sanction war or authorize the destruction of human life at the hand of man for any cause The sectarian and war spirit of the clergy and churches having closed the doors of the meeting houses the anniversary sessions of the Peace Socie ty were held on Saturday in a school house and on Sunday the gathering being quite large a friend ac commodated them by the use of a spacious barn On Sunday the anri slavcry ladies improved the oppor tunity of spreading a fair table of goods for the bene i fit of the slave an object which together with that of abolishing war is much more sacred than sectarian rites and sabbatical observances Wright Pillsbury and James Walker were the principal speakers friends of peace and oth ers present making frequent interlocutory remarks and asking questions The speakers were uncommon ly interesting giving a lucid expose of the nature design and extent of the Peace Reform not forgetting the 'obstacles thrown in its way by a corrupt hypo critical time serving church false theology and a bloody atheistical government They rebuked the unprincipled soulless politician charging home upon the voters as the legislative judicial and executive authority of the nation the blood of fifty thousand Mexicans and Americans This drew forth the ad vocacy of a limb of the law in defence of the minority voters and afforded Pillsbury a subject for dissec tion and demonstration as the professor of anatomy would say Pillsbury with his keen knife cut out divided and exposed the muscles arteries veins and nerves of this diabolical and bloody subject he had demonstrated to the entire understanding of the whole audience the blood guiltiness of every member of the American government The resolutions were then adopted without a dis senting voice riend Garrison At the suggestion of our mutual friend and brother I send you the resolutions and a short abstract of the proceedings at our peace meeting at Rootstown It is entirely at your pleasure We enjoin no duty or obligation on you We wish you all possible success in the glori ous enterprise of the various humanitive reform and assure you that it is the loftiest desire of our hearts to be worthy the name of coadjutors with you Yours now and ever in the bonds of Peace and Love JOHN SMITH Mecca Trumbull Co Ohio Oct 17 1849 lYdMiMWW The Great Remedy of the Age DRS CLARK PORTER'S ANTI SCROULOITS PANACEA A PREPARATION of extraordinary' power fot jft the cure of Scrofulous Affections Humors of every description secondary Syphilis ill conditioned Ulcers ever or Mercurial Sores chronic Liver and Kidney Diseases Costi vencss spitting of Blood Ery sipelas general Debility to emales1 Cold eet sluggish Circulation A rure and certain cure for Scrofulous Tumors on rthe neck which it will never fail to remove if taken according Jo fflreijtiqnSj and faithfully persevered in The proprietors after testing the virtues of this great medicine for upwards of three years in an extensive practice and with unbounded success now offer itto the public In diseases of the skin 'arising from impure circulation it is a sovereign' remedyXsIt will assuredly eradicate any kind of humor from the sya if the are strictly adhered to i Wo challenge the world to produce its equal Any one doubting its efficacy rcan satisfy themselves that is a powerful instrumentality in the cure of disease by consulting Dr patients in land the city who have taken it and can testify to its healing powers A great many have given it ai trial and we know not yet of a single person who has derived either temporary or permanent benefit' from its use: The following was handed us and we insert jt for the consideration of others who may be similarly afflicted genfteman maybejeen athis Wejce 1 2 Boston April 27 1849 Drs Clark Porter Gentlemen A little more thana year ago wa taken with pitting blood pain in my side and shoul der and strong symptoms of consumption I sought the advice of two eminent physieiah'8 of this city sounded my lungs and pronounced them badly fected oj very weak They advised jme fa go the countryas a change of air inigh) be beneficial to me I did so but with little hope of 'returning alii? While there I was taken worse than ever A physic cian was called to see me He examined my lungs and said he could give me no encouragement said I might live till all but probably no longer" My city previous to my leaving fortho'country said I never get well'4 But I was induced to try pr Clark who gave me Anti Scrofulous Pan acea and after taking it a few monthsmy health ws restored and now am able to attend to my business I think your Panacea a medicine of great efficacy 'I speak from experience RALPH HOBART MORE TESTIMONY A IN' AVOR DRS? CLARK ANTI SCROULOUS PANACEA Drs Clark Porter z' ni J' Gentlemen have Used your SqltRheum pot only on mypelf but on others axid have beep surprised at its results" Alt is in my opin ion the most efficient anti humor ever dist covered My humor has entirely disappeared on my hands and I am now entirely well MARTIN HASKINS (MD Boston 4 Drs Porter: Gentlemen I have tested the power of y6ur Pan acea in the case of my little boy whose face and arms have been entirely covered several mon ths with avery bad humor and I am happy to say it has effected a radical cure In my opinion 4 it is the best medicine for humors ever got up LAWSON HOUGHTON Messrs Clark Porter: I would cheerfully recommend your Panacea as the mbst powerful medieineto myknowledge now before the public for the cure of scrofnla and other humors It has certainly effected an im portant cure in of xny child who has for some time been afflicted with a humor? I would advise all who have humors to make a trial of it It: needs no puffing it recommendsitself Hingham June 1849 DARIUS EDDY DrsClark Porter I have used your Anti Scrofulous Panacea for swellings on my neck and to iny surprise they have entirely disappeared: consider the medicine infallible for scrofula and other humors and think it ishopRbe circulated all over the world Clark I have been afflicted for a number Of months with a scrofulous humor on myface and neck I tried several kinds of medicine but reeqivenobep'efit tj A friend recommended your Panacea which I tried and by using two bottles I am cured! I would advise'' every one afflicted With' hhmort take it for I think it a most excellent medicine PARMENTER Boston May 23 1849 Sold at No 80 Catv'ertreet BoSton Price per bottle 1 Samuel E' Kendall Nos v4 and 14 under the old State House heackof State street Boston DavldMead Jr corner Union and Silsbee "sts? Lynn a Sylvanus Dodge South Danvers' 7 i A Potter Danvers Medical and Surgical Office No '3 Bromeield Street Boston diseases affecting the system aretreatedon eclectic! principles: All systems of medicine contain invaluable but no orb system comprehends all We Jabor toaccumulate from each and all those truths which have borne the test of practical experiment We refuseto 'be cir cumscribed or limited knowing that all that" is di vine is progressive We therefore gather our infor mation of disease and treatment from all sources and use all the remedieswhich tlie Creator has 'provided for the cure of human infirmity treatmcnt is chiefly confined toCHRONIC which: have arrested all the ordi remedies as Lung Liver Stomach andJJteniw complaints Rheumatism? Scrofula 'Old Ab scesscs istulas Piles 3 Worms Dyspepsia NervousDiseases Spinal Affections CatanhDiseaseaof the I Eyes Ears Throat and every other part of thqbody internally and externally I Examinations made and advied given in 'alCases jam McAllister Prtignetors' tSr" Office a Bromfield ktt eetARo8tbnj and No 127 Chambers street New York Juno 8 Luwou wisv ubibw 4X13 Aiuuge may we Dear from bad passions and want of faith to abide Oh may wetread his holy steps Qeadily by their belief They caq do this and yet His' joy and glory ls rom the True Democrat TIVER GREEN PINE i a song to thee thou gloriou tree Thou ever green mountain pine Though the shining bay after victory may The brows entwine Yet emblem tree of Liberty A wreath from thco be mine Let others sing of tljp forest king i 1 And the linden that wiives in the bower But thou who dost Kft thy form from the cliftBraving the' power Be it mine to raise a song in thy praiseLike the streams that around thee flow When they rush in their might from cabh dizzy height And leap down to the floods below breeze that fans the trees On cich sunny southern shore And many a vine doth its tendrils twino Their mossy branches A wa not bo So fanatical as to suppose the day for the ful filment of the prophecy that swords shall be beaten into has yet dawned or rather reached its noon tide.