Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-12-11

he gave him both the price of hi. pas.
/ sage, and his native freedom.
lis but step from such sale to in
discriminate traffic, and although. am
not pleased with the prospect, (isr all
negroes may not prove equally humane,
| yet 1t is but fair that blacks should have
their day. A.
! The following passage is extracted
from the interesting memoir ofthe life Of
the late DIR. l.athlop, of West Spring.
field, written by himself, and prehxed to
a posthumogs volume OF his sermons.
My steady aim in preaching has been
10 promote real religion in temper and
practice, and to state and apply the doc
trincs of the gospel in manner best
adapted to this end. Keeping this in
view, have avoided Improbable contro-
yersy. l have been careful not to awaken
disputes, which were quietly asleep, and
not to waste my own and my hearers
time by reproving imaginary faults or
Indifferent customs. Among these I
have reckoned the fashion Of dress l
was once requested to preach against
prevailing fashions. A remote inhabi-
iant ofthe parish, apparently in a serious
frame, called upon me one day, and
pressed the necessity of bearing my testi-
mony against this dangerous evil. OBJ
served to him, that as my people WIRE
generally farmers in middling cir,um-
stances, l did not think they took a lead
in fashons-ifthey followed them it was
| al an humble distance, and rather to avoid
singularity, than encourage extrava-
gance ;--that as long as people were in
the habtof wearing clothes, they must
have some fashion or other, and fash
ion that answered the ends Of dress, and
exceeded not the ability OF the wearer,I
considered as innocent and not deserving
reproof. To this he agreed but said,
what grieved him was to see people set
their hearts so much Oh fashions. Icon
cluded, that as modes Of dress were trifles
compared with our eternal concerns, to
set our hearts upon them must be a
great sin. But advised him to consider,
that to set our hearts against such trifcs
was the same sin as to- set our hearts uh-
on them and as bis fashion was different
from those OF bis neighbors, just in pro-
portion as he sci his heart against theirs,
he set bis heart ufon his ozpn. He was
therefore doubly guilty of the very sin
he imputed to others; and desired him
to correct his own faults, which he could
not but know, and to hope that his neigh
bors were less faulty than himself, and
less faulty than he had uncharitably sup
posed them to be. could not but reflect
now easily men deceive themselves, be-
holding the mole in their brothers eye,
and considering not the beam in their
own.'-p. 10, 30. Boston, d.. .9av.
There are now printed in tho state of
OHIO iorty-two newspapers. Forty-;wo
years ago there We're SC 'rceiy as many in
habitants of the territory comprised in
the state, that could read a newspaper.
The Western Farmer says that on,he
morning of the 10th inst. full suit Of
clothes was made for gentleman in
Manchester, from wool in the fleece, in
less than eight hours from the moment
it was FIRST taken in hand. The woul
was picked, carded, spun, wove, and
dressed, at the Manchester Factory.
The work was commenced at | o'clock
N the morning, and before z, the suit
was completed and worn to the Fair and
Cattle Show at Cananiaigua.
The mansion house Of Gen. James
Gordon, Of plainGold, Connecticut, vas
destroyed by fire on the 9Th October.--
The General and his wife had only time
10 save themselves from the flames.
Tie Troy Cotton and Woollen Manu-
factory was destroyed by fire on the 26th
Octobcr.-Loss 10000 dollars. ta
AT the late festival of the Saratoga
Agricultural Society, premium Of IS
vas awarded to Fyler Everett, for work.
ing 200 days the last year, without the
use of ardent shirts.
EAwavAsviNe FORUM.