Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-05-18

! by the Hon. Mr.. Marshall ol henlucky, WITHOUT
any stirring Of the better feelings of his heart,
he must be made Of impene!rable stuff indeed;
or his sensibiIities must have been blunted by
long habits of vice, until that which makes the
man. the div!aa particula, is smothered under
the rubbish of hiS'once noble but now faenand
ruined nature. What definition does he give
out reverencing himself; not his "frail perishlng
| clay" which allies him 10 the lower creation,
and which tends earhward, but his mind and
his heart. his intellectual and his moral cCnsl-
tuition, which links him with the higher intell-
gences. and relates him 10 God We commend
the whole speech; and what pity that we
have not the uhole, as it fell burning from the
lips Of the eloquent speaker.
With one exception, the reading of the ad-
dress gave us unqualified pleasure. The re-
markabe coincidence between the state of his
own mind on The 9Th of January last. and the
movement that was going on at Lexington, can
only be explained by simple recognition of an
| all-direcling and an all. wise Providence. Yet
this Mr. Marshall does not do; al least not fully
and clearly lie does indeed speak Of ga Sc
cret influence that psryades the world of mind"
and this may be construed 10 mean Providence,
but it is vague and half-healhenish way of
speaking 1t would seem that our educated
men, in speaking Of the invisible world, are TOO
apt 10 make their illusions in language sane
TONED by the classics Of heather Greece and
Rome. This ought not so to be. The orators
of antiquity were not ashamed of their myttolO-
/ Igy-they gloried in it. Should the orators of
| Chrisiendom, then, be ashamed of their the0l0-
gy, the simple and sublime, and only true sys-
TEN, which fully discloses that most high God,
"that doelh his will in the army of Heaven, and
among the inhabitants of the earth"
Indeed, Mr. Marshall does speak clearly
enough, where he treats of the efficacy of the
pledge, when offered and advocated by the re-
formed inebria,e II ascribcs the wonderful
power Of this instrunen!alitv 10 its true source.
We hope Mr.. Marshall will 60 on. He can
not put in requislion his gifted mind, TO a bel
ter and more benevolent purpose. In the death
grapple which he loresees lie should stand
among the foremost. lie is every way quail
fed for such service. Let him hold on, and
he shall earn laurels which shall be green when
those Of Cesar and of Napoleon shall have IA
ded; a name that shall be ranked high among
the excellent and the worthy Of mankind.
From the New York Observer.
The American Temperance Union.
The Union celebrated It's FIFTH anniversary
in The Broadway Tabernacle, on Wednesday
evening, the 9Th inst. In the absence Of the
President, JoHN II COOKE, Esq, of Va, the
Chair was taken by Hon. THEODORE FRELING-
HUYsEN, and the meeting was opened with
prayer by Rev. DR.. Cox.
The Tabernacle was crowded in every part
at an early hour, by one Of the most resPccta-
BILE assemblies we have ever seen within lis
walls. The music by The choir of the church
{ was exceedingly happy, and added essentially
10 the spirit of the meeting.
|, The Secretary, Rev. john MARSH, read an
: abstract of the annual report, communicating
the most cheering information iii reference to
the glorious progress Of the cause during the
past year The numBer of pledges obtained
throughout the country is estimated at half a
million. Ofthese 10000 have been made in
Kentucky; 10000 IN Ohio; in the whole West,
100000; and it is supposed that Of these every
seuenM man is reformed drunkard, and every
Ifffh man reformed tippler In Maine $4,000
pledges have been gi,en and 5000 of these
are reckoned reformed men In Boston, 90
coo, of which 1900 are reformed. In II. Y.
city 10000 Washingtonians are numbered; IN
central and western New York 50,0G0, in Phil
adeIphia 10000, in Pittsburgh 10000. The
Report went on to take survey of tie various
auxliaries, among which was mentioned the
Congressional Temperance Society, embracing
eighty members of Congress; II spoke also OF
several large distilIeres that had been stopped;
and of the vast amount of temperance nforma-
ton which had been diffused over the land
through 10000 "JournaIs," $4,000 "Adyo-
Gates" and 10000 Almanacs, which had been
printed during the year. The President then
introduced TO the assembly,
IN ~ T.