Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-06-24

rysburg intend to celebrate the 4th ofJu.
ly.by launching the new schooner which
is building by Capt. David Wilkeson
An oration will be delivered on the oc,
! casion by Willard v. Way, Esq. This
is as it should be, American liberty and
American enterprise are twin children
Of the same parent, and equal honor is
due to both.
In enumerating the privileges which
are to be enjoyed in this portion of our
country, it should not be forgotten that
there are those to whom brief history
of our religious, moral and intellectual
condition, would be more interesting
than any thing that could be said about
local improvements, or business facili-
ties. The new towns which have
sprung up in the west, have suffered too
long from the opinion entertained by
our eastern brethren, that they are the
refuge Of fugitives from justice, irreli-
gious controversialsts, and all the refuse
of society. This is mistake now,
however true it might have been twenty
years ago. No part of our land con-
tains more active, enterprizing and en-
ergetic men in all matters appertaining
to the religious and moral welfare of
society than ours, and if they are fewer
in number than in many places of equal
size and growth, it is pleasant to know
that they are increasing as the country
improves, while the ranks of those who
entertain adverse sentiments are falling
away before the rapid and overwhelm-
ing current of intelligence. which al
ways follows in the track of the moral
and religious emigrant. 1t is with pride
we say that our infant city is not back
ward in these matters. Our schools are
improving. Our society is daily adding
to its present highly respectable list,
some new ornaments. Our religious
community is large, and honors the sa-
cred profession by which it is character
lied, in its united and vigorous efforts to
disseminate the truth, the advantages Of
religion, and to render pleasing and in
teresting to the unconverted mind the
important concerns of the souls saliva
tion. Fortunate, indeed, have our citi-
zens been in securing the talents of min
sters capable Of preaching from, and
the sacred gospel Of " Him
IN whom there was no guile"
Our readers, certainly will not consl-
Ter it derogatory TO our calling as the
conductors of a public journal, if we
occasionally devote,a a portion Of our col
lmns to the advocacy Of these interest
ng topics. They constitute the basis OF
good society, give us consideration a.
broad, keep us pure and unpoluted at
nome, and teach that mind which has
yielded all its vast and accumulated trea-
,ures, TO the evanescent shrine of spec
lation, or devoted them to the excita-
Die spirit of adventurous improvement.
sometimes to think of those important
trusts, which are calculated to decorate
ooth time and eternity. And surely
when we contemplate the future growth
If our city, the amount of public opin-
on which will soon concentrate here,
already, in connection with
he fact, that the materials for building
up a good society, are found only among
he religious and virtuous, and that the
principal inducements, for them to emf
CRATE here, must be Of nature coeval
with their own, we should be false to our
best interests, were we to neglect the
performance Of duty which our hap
piness, and the happiness of those who
are to succeed US through distant pos
terity, so much requires.
There are many subjects which fall
within the purview Of editorial duties, to
which bIoated and unreasonable i'm
portance is given, alike disgusting to the
reader and critic. Every editor has
some hobby which he is continually fore
ing upon the minds of the public. Even
our best political and literary journals
are not entirely free from this error OF
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