Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-06-11


with as iiule cailnsas did the Scoittes in the
north. But whatever may be li,e result Of the
question of property. all wiIIsec the bearing this
measure will have upon the perpetuiiy of Slavery.
Asonc of the northern delegates said in the Gen.
eral Conference "lhe word of God is not bound,
the south has once been missionary ground and
can be SO again" There will thousands of chris.
ftians throughout The south who " III adhere from
/ prIncipie TO the Northern portion of the church,
aud many not guilty of slavery will do so from
actpaf hostility thesystem whose oppression they
feel in common with the slaves. All these will
call for the labor ofthe Preachers from tine North
ern conferences. A few years will thus see con-
ference ailer conference branches Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church north, again extending
throughout the south, with still healthier and
more vigorous anti-savery sentiment aud an inf1u
ence the more deadly to this institution. 3'
In this movement slavery has dashed itself "a
ganst "fixed-fact" in public sentiment and falls
bick broken aud shattered. The difference be-
tween enduring monsirous evil and abetng 1t
is world vide. Two years ago had slave hold
ding clergyman arisen IN a northern pulpit thou
sand excuses could have been made, charity
could have pleaded Tor him thousand extenuatng
circumstances. Now they will be all cut off by
The one plain sentence. che defends ii" The
church south has siablished her missionary So
cieiy. Let missionary from the north and one
from the south meet in heather land there hre
even among lie ilben men who will ask v hat
difference exists between these men that they
are not brethren Slarery Now we wish
to ask will not the very thought. that a church is
formed Tor no other conceivable purpose but 10
support slavery, when calmly considered burn
ever; manly brow. In view Off we cannot but
congratulate the NJ. E Church on this result
Most fortunate for the vindcation of her integrity
aud conscen,io,Isness in her former course; for
tunaie for her present fame and future peace and,
disastrous only TO the cause sought TO be strength
ened, the cause of Slavery iff 2ta- '@1a'ii2
GIVE call the attention of such of our read.
ers as ieel interested in the prosperity of Michi-
gan. to pamphlet, which we publish entire, put
forth by our Immigration Agent" J.. Amy Esq.
and addressed so Emgrsnts." Accompanying
The pamphlet is map of the State, on which the
favored counties OF Kent, Ionia, and Ottawa, are
designated by "r'd lines" In common with ev-
cry citizen of the sate we desire her prosperity;
and we trust we shall not be deemed guilty Of in
suit to the aforesaid Agent, if give opinion
that, as plea for Michigan, it is contemplate. as
an index of his sectional Partially and solIctude
for the Grand River country, excellent.
-les .s .9 $50 For The Sentinel.
FIRE.-Our Journals are still filled with intel
ligence offres in all parts of the country. Ohe
thug remarkable in all these disasters is, the en-
treme rapidly the fumes, and the thornughness
of tho combasiion every particle of material being
burned up with the evolution Of most intense heat.
We have heard this remarked. not only of the
burning of buildings, but, OF the ordinary fires of
brush and timber clearlngs. Every brand
say persons engaged in Ibis labor, without being
carefully pied. is thoroughly consumed, and the
fire seems literally feed, with voracious appetite
upon every thing comhus ible. . - ...-as
There is douiless phio sophical soution oflhis
fact, which will at the same line account for the
extraordinary number and destructveness of fires
the present season. 50 Oxygen gas, constituting
large portion OF the atmosphere. II Is well known
is the grand supporter, Father Cause, OF all ordI-
nary combustion. We commonly say of smoih.
ihered fire, i! wants air. the expression is moi STRICT
ly correct: it wants Orygen, which is component
part of ar and this only: as Ntogen the other III.
gredient Is by no means supporter of combustion
In pure Oxygen Metals burn fiercey and with in
tense heat, with more violence than the light
est thread in the atmosphere. Ia proportion as
this gas is diluted with others co;Dbusl ion is slow
er aud more difficult
If then. the proporti0naie quantity of this gas
IN the atmosphere bee ONES, by any means. aug
menled, one Of the very first phenomena indicative
of such increase would be, the frequency and viz
oence of fires. But as no local cause could pro-
duce sensible effect, 1t must arise from very
general one, anu tie danger be proporonably gen
eral. The occurrence of fires awakens alarm
and inspires caution; but FIVE can be assured that
the same cause which has rendered the caressness
of neghborng cities aud villages SO fatal to them,
exists ready 10 work the same mischiefamong our
selves, We shall the iutelligeny guard against
It. If the cause at which we have limited, viz.
an undue proportion of oxygen i'll the atmosphere,
really exists aud that it does the occurrence and
phenomena of so many fires The present season. at
fords striking evidence. much more than Ordinary
caution is necessary: else fires will spring up as it
spontaneously. Falling sparks from chlmneys
and, along the railroad, from locomotives. which
would hardly be deemed worthy of note will kin
die confagralioD. In view of this, we call the
attention of bousekeepers and persons engaged on
railroads and steamboats,, hands in furnaces and
smthies, 10 their fires. No vigilance should be
thought irksome, when the lives aud properly of
ourselves and neighbors, the prosperity of our vii
lagos and towns, Of public improvement and pri-
vate enterprise, is at stake. 80 !CANEAT. /