The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1833-06-08

SETH LUTHER,
WILLIAM MILLER,
DAVID BRows,
t3e Providence r. I.
sre For the purpose Of Informing ou
readers more particularly concerning th'
views Of those who now agitate this ques
iion, we copy from the pamphlet, the tol
lowing concluding remarks
As the subject of Free Suffrage Il
misreprssented by its enemies, and mis-
understood by the wilfally ignorant, the
author OF this work deems il necessary Il
state what the Free Suffrage party il
Providence understand, and intend to
have understood, by the term. The Ke-
port Of tho Committee refers to the Mas
snchusctts mode Of suffrage, and they
wish that mode adopted in this state.--
Thus, every citizen ofthe United States
who resides in Massachusetts for the
space of ono year previous to any elect
ION, and who shall have resided in the
town where he shall wish to vote, six cal
endar months previous to any election,
and shall have paid State or county tax
within two years, shall have right to
vote in all cases. Ifhe pays no tax, he
cannot vote and if he has or has not 9th
er property, POLL TAX is assessed upon
him, not exceeding one dollar and fifty
cents, generally ono dollar and he is a
voter to ell intents and purposes. This is
what We understand by Free Suffrage, to
wit, to bear all our proportion of the pub
]ic bufthens, and enjoy all the privileges
offree citizens Of fthcss United States, and
Of the several States"
Selected for The Star-by Correspondent.
In an intellectual nature framed for
progress and higher modes ofbsing, there
must be creative energies, lpowers Of o.
yiginal and ever-growing thought /; and
poetry is the form in which these energies
are chiefly manifested. 1t is the glorious
prerogative Of this art, that it makes all
things new for the qualification of a divine
interest It indeed binds it's elements in
what il actually sees and experiences, in
ahe worlds Of matter and mind but it
combines and blends these into new forms
and according to new afinities breaks
down, II we may so say, the distinctions
and bounds Of nature |; imparts to materi-
al objects life, and sentiment, and emo
iion, and invests the mind with the pow
ers and splendours ofthe outward crea-
aion describes the surrounding universe
in the colours which the passionsi throw
over It, and depicts the soul in those
modes of repese or agitation, Of tender
meas or sublime emotion, which manifest
its thirst for more powerful and joyful
existence.
To man Of literal or prosaIc charac-
ter, the mind may seem lawless in
these workings but it observes higher
laws than it transgresses; the laws OF the
immortal intellect it is trying and de-
veloping its best faculties and in the OBJ
iects which it describes, or in the emo
iions which it awakens, anticipates those
states Of progressive power, sPlendour,
beauty, and happiness, for which It was
created.
We accordingly believe that poetry, far
from injuring society, is one Of the great
est instruments Of IT'S refinement and ex-
ultation. 1t Lifts the mind above ordina-
sy life, gives it a respite from depressing
cares, and awakens the consciousness Of
its affinity with what is pure and NOBLE
In its legitimate and highest efforts, il has
the same tendency and aim with christ
ianlty, that 10, to spiritualize our nature.
True, poetry has been made the instru-
ment Of vice, the pander of bad passions
but whea genius thus stoops, it di,ns its
fires, and parts with much Of its power i
and even when poetry is enslaved to H.
centio~sness or misanthropy, she cannot
wholly forget her true vocation. Strains
of pure feeling, touches oftenderness, i'm
nges! Of innocent haPpiocss, sympathies
with suffering virtue, bursts Of scorn or
indignation at the hollowness ofthe world,
passages true TO our moral nature, often
escape in an immoral work, end show US
how hard Il Is for gifted spirit to divorce
itself wholly from what Is good.
Poetry has q natural alliance with our
best affections. h delights in the beauty |
and sublimity Of the outward creation and
Of The soul. Il indeed pourtrsys, with
terrible energy, the excess ofthe passions;
bot they ere passions which show weigh
ay nature, which ere fuli Of power, which
command awe, and excite deep though
shuddsring sympathy.
Its great tendency and purpose 10 to
carry the mind beyond and above the
bestcu, duSty, weary walks of ordinary
fife; "a lin IL into purer element and 10
bsssihs into il more profound and ycner-i