The Arkansas advocate., 1831-04-20

gral'eq as mere accidentals, when tbas' as should have assumed the first nIs. , ''ey raoagst su ssa,,ttiyr powers. 5ii ifs K'ase 2. to be granted, is just as absurd and d;aed ;,t as t would be to say that tie powa''s z ,u'e establish the Holy inquisitiop m;ata "e' 10 inferred from a clause in an aft es' es De lporation allowing a religious societ ie Y build a place of worship. The mos' so this subject is examined, the more Ao'e s'' are persuaded that refecting men. ! ,,,e Ie have Goialseyeneration for parfp :, "'o will embrace correct views in rela,;sa., a'nes, it. If broad constructions are ,'oa' na 10 ted to be carried much farther rsaA'''- uh will they stop? What limits win ,h shese be to the powers of Congress? Ara 'ae'e e there be no limits to the powers of t'' 1 Il gress, if that body may undertake ,a ,',', as any act which 1t may conceive 10 be m s so tie general sreJare, wherein will onra r a0f vernment diiie: from that of the Fmee essS TOT of Russia, of Don Miguel. or M 1a Sultan, except that We shall have b''a a'e dreds of despots 10 rule over us i,.st', a', of one? Tyranny is the same l's''a tb;'' whether displayed by many or few. :rs, 'pa unjustly taking fromthe mouth of labos a the bread t has earned,i is just as mneh , robbery, if done under the forms of lsn laa enacted by an American Congress. as ,s;' ', done by any arbitrary decree of tba most absolute potentate. N
 We recommend the fol,owina ev,r,a. from an address delivered by Joseph pl,s T T Buckingham Esq, Editor of the Ras' ton Courier, before the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association on tbo 7th October last, to tbe attention of o,s readers generally, and of the Meeban ics and laboring classes of the comm. nity particularly.
 .'Give me whereupon to stand ex claimed Archimedes, and with my lever ] will move the world. The mecbas. icsof these free and independent States can do as much; they car make as proud a boast as the Grecian philosopher, and they are not, like him, without a safe no. sition on which to plant themselves while they put the power into operation. The influence they possess, as body. is daily increasing. An awakening spirits abroad among them, and stirring them up to the establishment of schools iyceums, and institutions for purposes oi education, and for oruniting and direct ing their energies 10 the advancement of literature, and arts, and sciences.-
 The highest honor of mechanic. or any other man, consists in the cultivation Iof his mind; because 1t is mind tlatcoD.
 trois and directs every thing else It's
 the mind which pnrsties. DT eserses aud enjoys happiness: is the mind alone,oi all earthly possessions, which is eternal: mind is the only attribute of cur nature which exhalts us to the likeness of our Maker-the only one in which the i'm. age of God is reflected.
 sslt is the mind which makes the bo- #dyreh. Itis wisdom ard understanding that make the man independent. Iguo. rance is, of all slavery, the most degra- ! ding. Chains and fettersmaybe be made of k gold as well as of iron, but ueitherth the E one CT the other can keep down the en- ergies of an intelligent, well-cultiyated, E independent mind--a mind trained in 2 the school of virtue, and ifnbued with principles of honesty, integrity, tirnness, . honor and that self-loye, which forms the basis of the social system. The S power of such spirit is uflcontrolabh and unlimited its elasticity can no more be subdued than that of the vital fluid, l. which sustains its physical organization Prison walls cannot, nor mountains nOs seas set bounds to its operations"
 Origin of Seq bld,,d Colon. James E Mcase, Esq. of Philadelphia, publishes letter written by Patrick Walsh dated at Havana, in 1905, in which the latter states that by his means the Sea Island Cotton was originally introduced into the United States. He says thathe sent a variety of seeds to Mir. Lovett on Sa. pelo Island, in the year l7s9, and amongst the rest three large sacks s's Fer F. nambuco Cotton Seeds. Of dlis ne made no use until the Spring, when, having occasion to fill the sacks Hll' something else, he shook their contens on the dung hill. and 1t happened toh q very wet season; in the spring, nof titudc Of plants covered the place ]; tlsss ss he drew nnt and fransnlanfed into two