The native American., 1837-09-09


took themseIve to flight. There had been no rising
of the popuace as reported but The houses OF the rich
who had left the city, were in many cases Piliaged.
he mortality was by no means confined 10 the iower
classes, many of the nobility and rich merchants hav-
ing persisted.
The disease was also prevailing extensively in var-
parts of the East-n the ports OF the Red Sea, In
Syria, and other places. In Damascus the deaths
were forty or fifty per diem. Sanatory regulations
had been adopted al uez, and other Egyptian ports.
We make several extracts from address on the
duties Of American citizens, delivered at St. Louis, by
Charles Drake, before the Franklin Society, January
7th, 1885, and amongst other matters touching those
duties, Love Of Country and Education, we would ar
the readers attention at the first quotation, in which
he speaks Of his own society, ard which remarks
be applied TO own. The subject matter of the
oration is importantto ALL and the in which
he has treated it highly creditable to the author:
| United we have pressed on with eagerness in the
race OF usefulness and have borne the assaults of un-
toward events and causeless opposlion; and with fer
vency let hope that through every peril which can
assa us, shall stand united in devotion to
ciety and its objects. But while we invoke hope, let
us remember that upon her anchor acne cannot
rest our stay. We emust look ourselves and relying
the intrinsic merits of seek to sustain it.
by that strength and continuity of exerton, by which
only lis triumph will be ultimately and unfang
red To the continued existence and usefulness of our
association, let US look with confidence and cheer
fulness, which cannot be abashed or saddened Let
US remember that ours is the cause Of mind and
that having started in its support, to alter would be
disgrace, while every advancing step sheds new lus-
ire on our arduons bnt Illuminated pathway.
As American citizens, we bear weight of respon-
sibility unequaed in any time country;a respon-
sibilily w,ich cannot be shaken of;-which has de-
scended an inheritance; and which will descend
to those, who in after ages, to follow us. at
taches to every native OF soil at his first breath,
and time advances, adding year after year to our
national age, and mutudes to the nations numbers,
the weight Of responsibility is mt diminished by be-
ing dinsed, but increased by the augmented value OF
all with WhichiI is connected Nor isl a burden
responsibility; for it demands Iom MS no sacri-
fees, which we ought MOTTO make nficts no pains,
destroys pleasures. On the contrary, IL carries
with il pleasures and qualifications OF the highest order,
and to the true .earted it becomes more weghty,
affords exalted enjoyment.
Montesquieu m his treatise on the SPIRIT af laws,
an immortal work. and by which the Immortality of its
author is secured-lays down the principles Of the
forms of government existing among mankind;---wih
equal beauty and TRUTH declaring virtue to be the only
principle, upon which republics tan be based with
stability which shall defy the shocks of time. In his
support of the propositions he bases his views upon the
Experience Of the world pointed out in history, and
strengthens them with reasous founded on the nature
of things, at once convincing and ineontfovertlbe. IT.
indeed, needs vast powers or reason, 10 establish
the postulate, that without virtue norepublc long
exst;-it is, imagine, very difficult to demon
strate, that with virtue, other things being equal,
pubcs have al least as many elements OF durability
as any other form Of government;-nay, will say
more,-that as far as internal causes concerned,
they are imperishabe.
TO those who are familiar with the cause of educa-
tion throughout our country, it must be apparent that
too little time S devoted the extension and ncuca-
ton of that kind Of knowledge which is connected with
the nature and operation Of republican form Of gov
ernment. II more time devoted by the youth Of
the nation to the close study Of the principles of
Inph 1fs lxl-
which they impose, who does not believe that we
should he wiser and better nation! OF what avail
is il to an American czen to have acquired profound
insight into every moral and physical SCIENCE if when
called in an emergency, to American citizen,
he finds himself ignorant OF the rules which should di-
rect his course! Can he then Plead that he has 1evo-
ted his life to pursuits, which left him time for his
country, when, above all earthly things, his country
should claim his first love, his enduring devotionl
And are there not now in country, thousands of
young men, wbo, in literary and scientific requirement,
are lights in society, who have no familiarity with the
fundamental principles Of republic, and their silent
ani beautiful workings? There are, and would that
we could say there not! 1t fouws, then, that in
the present systems of education, there must be some
defect. Let u.s. in few words, inquire what it is, and
how il may be supplied. Let us see how scholastic
education may be made subservient to its great
end in republic, the cultivation Of popular virtue
The responsibility Of parents in republic is far
greater than in any other government; for the people
being the Of all power,ln fact the government,
If they be not pure the government is corrupt and
being so, Of necessity, for all beneficial pur-
poses, cease TO exist The preceps and example of
the parent, in great measure, form the character of
the child. Hence the high obligation on the parent,
so TO mould the character Of the child to suit him
for understanding and sustaining the privileges he
joys. fear that too little attention is bestowed by
parents this branch of their duties for if all elt and
practsed its requirements, country would have
mouned over degenerate sons, and blushed scenes
from the iinperishabe record of which history will
shrink disayed. Let every parent. then, reflect that
his child is one of the constituents of great republics
that circumstances may arise in which that child may
become blessing to that republics and that
upon his early education, will much depend the side
upon which he will be ranked. Let him picture to
himself such state Of circumstances, and in his inn
aginaiion contemplate his offspring, beloved, elevated,
and hcnored; graspng to his SOUL and acting through
every trial, upon virtuous princples:-then let him
change the scene, and behold his deserter from
every manly aim and aspirations, traitor to his coun-
try, recIeant honor apostate to religions; and
steeled indeed must he that fathers heart, that recos
not from the picture in horror aud desolation.
UINOCsI TUChIlR, Merchant Tailor, doors east
u of Browns Hotel, has just received his fall supply Of
CLOTHS, CASStNERES, and VESTING s, which have
selected with the utmost and be recommended