The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1851-08-01

ftcre Is al aItICie Wulcn VIC 'Sou WIZ
a quickenad pulse and moist eye. The
man who writes this way must have
great big heart and a glowing sense oI
humanity and human rights. sEa
GoD Bless THE BADIEs!--Mrs- Ami
seed plucked the shawl aside, and disco
vered sleeping infant. "What hea-
venly babem she cried; and, truly, the
child in its marble Wilderness looked
beautiful--a lovely human bud-a sweet
unsuIled sojourner of earth, cradled on
the knees ofyice. a4 .f
For an instant the watchmen gaZed in
silence on The babe. Even their natures
hardened in scenes Of crime and destiiu-
lion, we're touched by the appealing in.
nocence Of the child. "Poor little heartp'
said one. "God help III" cried another
Yes, God help IL! And with such easy
adjuration do we leave thousands and tens
Of thousands of human souls to want and
ignorance; doom them, when yet sleep
ing the sleep of guitlessness, 10 future
devils--iheir own unguided passions.--
We make them outcasis, wrelches, and
an} then punish, in their wickedness, our
own selislmess our own neglect. We
cry-"God help the babies!" and-hang
the men.
Yet moment the child is still before
US. May we not see about it, contend
ing for il, the principles Of good and evil I?
contest between the angels and the
fends? Come hither, statesmen, you,
who live within party circle; you, who
nightly fight some miserable fight; con-
tinually strive in some selfish struggle
for power and place, considering men
only as tools, the mercst instruments Of
your aggrandlzement; come here in the
wintry street, and look on Gods image
in its babyhood. Consider this little man.
Arc not creatures such as these the
noblesf, grandest things on earth? Have
they not solemn natures? Are they moi
subtly touched for the highest purposes
Of human life? Come they not into this
world to dignity il? There is no spot,
no coarser stuff in the flesh before you
that indicates lower nature There is
no felon upon il; no natural formation
indicating ,he thief, in It's baby fingers; no
inevitable blasphemy upon its lips. Ii
lies befole You fair unsullied thing, fresh
from the hapd ofGod! viii you, without
an effort let the great fend stamp this
fiery brand upon it? Shall il, even in'its
sleeping innocence, be made trading
thing by misery and vice? Al creature
borne from the street, a piece of living
merchandise for mingled beggary and
crime -say. what, with its awakened soul
shall it learn? What lessons whereby TO
pass through LIFE, making an item in the
social sum? Why, cunning will be its
wisdom; hypocrisy its truth; theft its
natural law Of sclf-preseuaIion. To this
child, so nuitured, so taught, yonr whole
code Of morals, nay, your biief right and
wrong, are written in stranger figures than
Egyptian hieroglyhics-and time: passes
--and you scoufge the creature, never
Taught, for The heinous guilt of knowing
naught but i'll? The good has been
sealed book to him, and, the Ounce is
punished with the frail.
Doubtless there are great statesmen;
wizards in bullion and bank paper, think
ers profound in cotton, and every turn
and variation in the markets abrcad and
1t home. But there are statesmen yet
10 come, statesmen Of nobler air--of
more heroic action;-teachers OF the
people; indicators Of the universal dig
nifty of man; apostles of the great social
truth, that knowledge, which is The
spiritual light OF God, like bis material
light, was made to comfort and bless all
men. And when these men arise-and
il is worse than weak; it is sinful, 10
despair of them-the youngling poor
will not be bound upon the very ;hres.
,old of human life, and made BY want
md ignorance life's shame and curse.-l
There is not babe lying in the public
',reet upon its mothers lap-the uncon-
'cious mendicant, to ripen into the Grim
is not reproach 10 the State,
| scandal and crying shame upon men
Who study all politics save The politics Of
he human heart.-Douglass Jerrold.
The INFLUENCE OF GoLD.-A man
Who is furnished with argument from The
mint, will convince his antagonist much
ooner than one who draws them. from
eason and philosophy. Gold is a wonder
ul clearar Of the understanding; it dissi-
,ates every doubt and scfuple in an in
lant; accommodates itself to the meanest
capacities; silences the loud and ciamcr-
,us; and brings over the most obstinate
md infexib.e. Philip Of Macedon was
man Of most nvincibe reason this way.
lie refuted by it all the wisdom Of
Athens, confounded their statesmen,
truck their orators dumb, and at length,
rgued them out Of all their 'liberties,-
Addison. .s.,y
To PREVENT THE BUG FROM DESTROY.
Nc VINEs.-A small! striped bug in the
vest, that destroys vines, is particularly
troublesome in gardens, and but few