The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-04-11
PROvDENTIAL DIsPENsATIoNs.


satiOns of an oveHuling Providence what ismay,
can peruse the following chapter of strange and
mysterious condolences, which we copy from
one of our exchange papers, without being struck
with awe at the evidences it presents of the in
terpostion of that divine and supernatural agen-
cy which prospers or thwarts all and every action
of individuals, States or Kingdoms. We earn
esty recommended it to the solemn and atten-
tive pertisal of ALL
OMENS-RESULTS OF 1910.
It is sometimes impossible for the most infdel
mind TO resist the impression that there is mys-
terious connection between mind and matter, be-
tween the moral character and conduct Of man
and the material creation around him, which eau
ses them TO act and react upon each other, pro-
ducing concord and peace or discord and war.
In other words, when the mind of man runs riot,
and immortality and crime overspread the earth.
Nature herself seems to imbbe the demoraliza-
ton, and in storms and earthquakes, portents and
wonders overleaps. the laws which regulate her
operations, and partakes of the disorders which
afflct the moral world. twas mans fall, as we
are taught in the Scriptures, which brought pain
and death, disorder and confusion into the natu-
of wicked men, was attended by darkness and
earthquakes; and may not the Christian and the
Philosopher, even of our day, without the impu-
taton of superstition, believe that, through some
invisible and inscrutabe connection between the
moral conduct of man and the creation around
him, his gross and general departure from truth,
honesty and order, throws nature herself into con-
fusion, and produces apparent distress in all her
members.
But, as relates to the object we have in view, il
is quite immaterial whether this notorious coin
cidence between the disorders of the moral and
physical world spring from general law which
makes it impossible that one portion of our Ma.
ker's kingdom can be convulsed without distur-
bng the other, or be referred to special Provi-
dence. Unnatural convulsons and extraordinary
portents, regularly or usually, follow departures
from the principles of morality by masses of man.
kind, it is immaterial whether they spring from
the Law of God or the WILL of God-whethel
they be the result of an unchangeable rule, or Of
special dispensations-To the offender, man, il
is all the same. 1t is enough for him to know
that he cannot violate the moral law without oc-
casoning pain and suffering, and convulsions no
to himself only, but to his family, his fellow man
and the world around him.
the intemperance, the debaucheries, the shows
the mummeries, and the general decentralization
in the whig campaign of lS40 and then turn his
eyes to the events which followed without men
tally exclamng, it is Gods aw-it is Gods will
1t is Gods JUSTICE! If the judgments upon
the Egyptians for the oppression ofthe Israelites
were more terrible than those which have over
taken our whig brethren, they were scarcely less
rl-aII Nbo l.1 ,1ol ,,h,o
these almost supernatural demonstrations began
To welcome the arrival of General Harrison a
GAINESVILLE, Ohio on an electoneering tour, be-
fore the election, the flag of the United States
inscribed with the word "Tippecanoe," was dis
played upon alofty pole, Its echoes had hardl,
died away, when an express arrived, informing
the General of the death of beloved son.
Upon the front Of the portico of the Capitol
above the pillars which sustain it, is a statute o
Justice, formerly holding in her right hand
scroll, labelled "Constituton."' Prior to the in
auguration of Gen. Harrison, the right arm of the
Statute broke, and with the scroll Of the Consti
tuition, fell 10 her feet, where it now lies.
Over the chair of the President of the Senate
is Spread Eagle, which held in his peak la
bel, inscribed with the words ''E Plurbus Unum.'
This label, bearing the motto of our Union, abou
the same time fell from its position, and has ney
er been replaced.
About the same time, picture Of Presiden
Harrison, in an elegant frame, had been procu
red and hung up with great care in the Congress
Library. One evening, when all persons had re
tired except two gentlemen therein employed
when there was nothing to produce shake or
jar, it fell from its position the frame was dashet
in many pieces, and the picture left standing a
gainst the wall Of the room.
While President Harrison was on his way tc
the city Of Washington, the Bank of the Unitet
States, which for years had been the source o
more moral if not physical disease than Pando
ra's box Of old, stopped payment for the last tm
sinking under the weight ofthe corruptons it ha'
practiced in battle with General Jackson TO sc
cure power to the Wing party and a new charte
to itself The banks in Baltimore followed thu
example almost at the moment of his arrival il
that city.
In the city of Washington, fire after fire, b
night and by day had kept the people in constan
agitation; storms of unusual violence ravage
city and country, land and sea; the night prece
ding his arrival, three alarms Of fire had broke
their slumbers ;he entered the city amid violer
snow storm, and was scarcely in his quarters be
fore another alarm Of fire rang thro' the streets
Office-seekers, numerous as the frogs of EgyI
beset him in his walks and his house, by day an
by night; his cabinet, heartless and ungratefu
commenced the work of prescription in direct v
olation of his public pledges and private wishes
and, in one short month, the kind-hearted oil
man, worn down by numberless excitements an
vexations, sunk into the arms of death, with h
last words, as ifin dim and delrious recollectio
ofsome real scene, admonishng his erring FRIEND
to "carry out the true principles of the Cover
ment"
The steamer President had sailed for Englan
with news of Harrison's Inauguration, having tn
elonuent Conkmnn ON hoard whose last sermn