Litchfield enquirer., 1841-06-03

It affords copy for q king, and rule for n
 subject; It gives instruction and counsel to a
 senate, authority and direction to a mapis-
 trate; 1t cautions witness, requiresan im-
 partial jury, and furnishes judge with his
 sentence; it sets the husband as lord of the
 household, and his wife as mistress of the ta-
 ble; tells him how to rule, and how to man.
 age. It entails honor to parents, and enjons
 obedience upon children; it prcscribes and
 limits the sway of sovereigns, the rule of the
 ruler. and authority of the master; com-
 mands the subject to honor, and the servant
 to obey; and promises the protection of it's
 author to all who walk by its rules. It gives
 directions for weddings and for burials; it
 promises food and raiment, and limits the
 use of both; it points out faithful and eter-
 nal guardian to the departing husband and | father; tells him with whom to leave his fa-
 therless children. and in whom his widow is l to trust and promises father to the former and husband to the latter. It teaches a man how he ought to set his house in order and how to make his will it appoints dow. ry for the wife, and curteils . right If fife first born; and shows how the younger
 branches shall be left. It defends the right of all and reveals vengeance to the defraud- CT, overreacher and oppressor. It is the first book and the oldest book in the world. It contains the choicest matter, gives the best instruction, and affords the greatest pleasure and satisfaction that ever were revealed. It contains the best laws and profoundest mys- teries that ever were penned. It brings the best tidings, and affords the best comforts to. the inquiring and disconsolate. It exhibits life and immortality, and shows the way to everlasting glory. It is brief recital of all that IS 10 come. It settles all matters in de- bate, resolves all doubts, and eases the mind and conscience of all their scrupes. It re- veals the only living and true God, and shows the way to him; and sets aside ali other Gods, and describes the vanity of :.,,,r m and ot all that put their trust :u nirn.
 A Freebooter took an evening walk on a. highway in Scotland, overlook and robbed n wealthy merchant traveller. His purpose was not achieved without severe struggle, Tn which the thief lost his bonnet, and was obliged to escape. leaving it on the road. A respectable farmer happened to be the next it up,. and rather imprudently put it on his own head. At this instant, the robbed man came up with some assistance, and recogni- zed the bonnet, charged the farmer with having robbed him, and took him into custo- dy. There being some likeness between the parties, the merchant persisted in the charge, and though the responsibility of the farmer was admitted, he was indicted and placed at the bar of the Supreme Court for trial. The government witness, the merchant, swore positively as to the identity of his bonnet, anu deposed likewise as to the identity of tRss tfha Ssiffor gRf YRsa taaas est bx the prisoner -ButtheYe was man in court who we'll knew both who did aud who did not commit the crime.
 This was the real robber, who suddenly advanced from the crowd, and seizing the fatal bonnet which laid on the table before the witness. placed it on his own head, and looking him full in the face, said to him in a voice of thunder, Look at me, sir, and tell me on the oath you have sworn, am not the man who robbed you or the highway D. The merchant replied in very great astonish-- mcnt-"By heaven! you are the very man." "You see," said the robber, "what sort of memory the gentleman had-he swears to the bonnet, whatever features are under it. If the Hon. Judge were to put it on his own head. dare say he would testify that he robbed him." The innocent prison- CT was on this evidence at once acquitted, because no reliance could be placed on such testimony and yet it was positive. Thus the robber had the merit of saving the gailt- less, and himself escaping detection.
 Beautiful Ertract-Go beneath the archei heaven in nights profound gloom, and say, if you can, "There is no God" Pronounce that dread blaSphemy, and each star above will reprOve you for your unbroken dark ness of intellect-every voice that floats up- on the night winds will bewail your utter hope!essness and despair. Is there no God4 Who then unrolled tbe blue scroll and threw upon its high frontispiece the legible gleam- ings of immortality! Who fashioned the green earth-With it's perpetual rolling wa ters and it's expanse of Island and main !-
 Who settled the foundation off the mountains! Who paved the heavens with clouds, and unclaimed the lightnings that finger and turk, and flash their gloom! Who gave to the eagle Q safe eyrie where the tempests dwell and beat strongest, and to the dove tranquil abode amid the forests that ever echo to the minstrelsy of her moan? Who made thee, oh man, with thy perfect elegance of intellect and form! Who made light pleasant to thee, and the darkness covering and herald to the first flashes of the morn- ing! Who gave that matchless symmetry of sinews and of limb! That regular flow of bloodf The irrepressible and daring passion of ambition and love? And yet the | thunders of heaven and the waters of earth are calmed! Are there no floods. that man is not swept under deluge? They remain% but the bow of reconciliation hangs out above and beneath them. And 1t were bet- | fer that limitless waters and the strong moun- | tains convulsed and commingled together | if were better the very stars were connngra-
 fed bv fire. or should be lost, while Mercy
 kneels and pleads for it beneath the Altar of
 Intercession.
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