Litchfield enquirer., 1835-04-30

power, and suffering from theF Pesentments Had all this been told 10 the distinguished in- dividual in question, he would, doubt not. n the moment of excitement, have disregarded the admonition. His strong patriotism and the early experience of the government, misht have induced him to disregard it until
 inc close of his life. But had he lived until now, how cruelty would he have seen aI' these sinister anticiPatinns realized.
 The Place to put Librrty.-Extract from Dr.. BeechPr's Lectures on sceptlcism.
 E pwiee in France, the physical power has
 gained the aseendancy Ove: law; and by the
 last victory, the discovery has been made'
 that to patri0ts cities are fOrtresses, and pave ! Ement munitions. This is one ofthe most glO- r;ous and dreadful disco. cries nf modern days -glorous in its ultimate results, in the enaan- Ecipating of the world, but dreadful in those | intervening revolutions which power may a.
 chieve in the conquest of liberty,' without
 corresponding intelligence and virtue Tor us 1 permanent preservatlnN.
 The conquest of liberty is not dlfieuit-the
 question is, where to put it-wih whom 10
 entrustH. Hto the multitude :" n" ach'e.ed it, it be committed, 1t will perish by aDarchy. Irrational guards are employed for its flefrnce. the bayonets which protect it are at any mo
 ment Sf,Ie tO destroy it for a military sdespo'
 tism. Tito a arepublfcan King it be entrusted, 1 it will have to be regulated by state p''!icy' and fed on bread and water, until the action of her heart, and the movement OF her tongue
 and the power of her arm,,as under the dead l " incubus, shall cease. THere IS not in this
 wide seorM q sate deposit for liberty. but, the
 heorts of natriots SO enlightened as to De obLe to
 fudge ofcsrrect legislQtion, Gnds 50 patient and
 disinterested, as to practice se deniaI, aud se!f
 government, for the public good. :, But can such a state OfsOciety be found and l maintained without Bible, and the institu- lions of christianity /? Did condition of
 unperverted liberty, uninspred by christianity, ever bless the world through any considera-
 ble period of duration? The power of a fa- l yorng cline, and the force of genius, did
 thrust up from the dead level of monotonous despotisn, the republics of Greece to:a tenn
 porary liberty; but it was patent model only, compared with such a nation as this ;1
 and it was partial, and capricious, and of short
 duration, and rendered ilusirious. rather by 1 the darkness which precededa and followed, ] than by the benign influence ofits own beams Certainly it is Christianity which, in this 1 country. rocked the cradle Of our librrties' defended our youth, and brought us up 10 manhood. And it has been proved that un-
 der her auspices three millions and twelve
 millions of people may be protected and gov.
 erned! But that twenty. fifty or a hundred million oAn, without vast augmentation of her naOraf pOwtr over mi6d, has, not heen proved-<while all past analogies, andall pres
 ent circumstances OfOur nation announce that
 Christianity is our, best hope, and that with out it our destruction does not sun1her. During all pact ages, the vast majority 0f
 the human family, unblest by revelation, have been idolaters and slaves and at the present time, all nations upon whom. the sun oi | righteousness has not arisen, are crushed by
 gravnaas dsspliiassa xaa y.lis htii mi more uniformly found in the track of the sun, than civil liberty is found in the track ofChristian- Eity and despotism in its absence.
 | Children Mwdered.--On the 26ih of Feb
 ruary last, two children of MT. Thomas Mer- win, were lost in Baldwin county, Alabama, while on their return from school; and al- tho many days were spent in di!igent search, no traces of them could be discovered. Doe of the children was girl about 12 years of age, and the other a boy aged about g.. Some time in March circumstances transpired;whica led to the belief that they had been murdered by two negro men, which proved. to be the fact, as they confessed the deed on being ar
 rested. The. Mobile Advertiser says" Both
 the bodies of the children have been recover. Ted. They were found in the creek near the
 place designated blythe wretches who perpe- tratesi the horrid deed, The dreadfufd details | of the butchery. are too shocking to be rela-
 ted, or even to be conceived of. Suffice it to say,a the villains were yesterday. tried and l.convicted. They were sentencedtO be exc cuted on Thursday next. We regret being
 compelled to add. that the popular indigna- Etion could not be controlled by the ministers 1 of the law. Thc bodies of the poor innocents exhibited spectacle that beggars descrip. |-ton, and aroused the feelings of the popuiace Eto uncomfortable fury. On the moment of tpronouncing the sentence. they rushed upon the officers. rese0edethe murderers from their charge, and hurried them to the scene upon
 which they perpetrated the deed. with the a. l vowed object of putting them to death, We regret this interference with the regular ope- ration of the laws; but, if ever'a case could be imagined. that would paliiate their viola ton, it is to be found in the unspeakable de- tails attending the massacre of these helpless children"
 l Grand Junction. Canai.-The Philadelphia IU. S. Gazette says :-We congratulate our fellow ,ci,ixens Onan the ascertained certainty
 of the immediate construction ofthis impOr-
 tant work, the union of the Pennsylvania and l Ohio Canals, by the Mahoning Valley. The
 necessary charters having been obtained from
 Ahe respective legislatures of the two states. Ithe commissioners will open the books to dis
 pose of the balance of the stock, 0n Monday