Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-12-21


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where the beam and gun-hooks was. A cat
couldn't been no stiller arter mouse; but my
heart thumped louder every hitch. just as it will
when man goes to do what aint right. Well,
just as had gained the right pint to look over at
'em, up tilted the pesky foor-down went, tow
shirt to gun hook-and there I hung blind-fold
like a squirrel half-skinned, right over my rival
and sweet-heart-ready for roasting,I couldn't see
em at all arter that, and twas more than ten min
minutes before the old boss awoke to tear me
loose, dangling round the fire. d What, what, said
he, got spare rib ha! Let me down said I. Il
got pretty well baked, anyhow, and hain't been
quite so raw since in love matters. Lord new
er looked Jerusha in the face from that day, nor
girl in the neghborhood, for / could swear she
told 'em all. That accident got my grit up to
make fortin. I went off a few miles and mar
ried the first chance got, just out of spite--and
Patsey is worth all on EN-, arter all--and marry
ing is lottery business. Then don't hang your
Gas did) because you can't get particular one
but recollect your heart is like rubber, it will
stretch a good ways and not break Cleo. Herald.
Civilization in Turkey and Russia.
= The apologists for the course of Russia, in the
Eastern difficulty, maintain that the subjugaton of
Turkey by that power, would tend to the advance
mentof civilization; and, consequently, that such
a result should be desired by all friends to the
progress of the human race. Russia, they say, is
moving forward rapidly in enlightenment; while
Turkey is either retrograding in this respect, or,
at best, standing still This is not so as is clear
ly shown by the following article from the Paris
Constitutionne!: . 80 ~ t2@1 - 'D'
ssTurkey has no manufactures, and has no need
of any; but she is rich enough in raw materials to
suffice for all the trade which she keeps up with
other countries. She has, besides, adopted in her
commercial relations most liberal system, all her
ports being open, and all mpediments to trade be-
ing removed. This is a striking notification
of that generous Mussulman hospitality which re-
ceives with kindness men and things Of the West,
and thus gives to the impenetrable empile of Rus
sia an example of confidence and straightforward
conduct which that power will take good care not
to initiate, This last consideration brings nat
urally to examine the moral situation of the two
nations; and we are not sorry for it, since it is,
above all, here that the Ottoman superiority is
manifest. The same liberty which Turkey ex-
hibits in her commercial transactions rerves as
the characteristic of her public tendencies and
legislation, and is, perhaps, the secret of her
strength While the Gar subjects to his iron
rule soul as we'll as body, the Sultan covers with
equal protection all creeds, and efaces the errors
of the past by the most admirable tolerance
While Russia isolates herself from the West by
an absolute Chinese wall, Turkey borrows from it
her generals, engineers, saUGns, and produce of
every kind, and thus becomes permeated with a
heaity spirit, and must, after time, lead to her
complete transformation. 15...;~. IN - q. II
.'All her institutions, besides, have their basis
in the principles of the civilized world and at Con-
stantnople, right, justice, Equality, publicity and
progress in all things are aimed at. Who will
venture to say that the same spirit presdes over
the mysterious proceedings of Russia! There is
press in each empire; but one is free, and the
other is subject to the knout; tells the truth,
even to the Sultan, while the other dsfgures his
tory, aud informs the Muscovite peasants that is
they who won the battle of the Moscowa. We
might carry this comparison much further, but
what we have said is sufficient for our own pur-
pose. Wess shall merely mention, en- passant, the
result of statistical table lately published, rela-
tive to- the state of public instruction in both
countries. There is in Turkey one pupil for ev-
ery thirty Christian inhabitants, whereas there is
only one for six hundred in Russia. When it is
bourne in mind, besides, that the mobiles, even the
6oyGrds and owners of sers, have less real liberty
than the rayas subject to the Porte, it is impossi
bic not to come to the conclusion, that for the Of
toman Empire, as for the kingdom of Poland, a
Muscovite evasion would be the signal for ret
rogade march. One word nore.- .5a1f.1 E."st
s'Much has been said of the three great plaques
of Islamism, fatalism, slavery, and poligamy. No
one deplores more than we these three negations
of moral responsibility, human dignity, and the
rights of woman. But it is certain that if the let.
ter of the Colan favors them, the completely
Christian Interpretation given to them at present
must sooner or later cause them to disappear.-
Slave markets were abolished in 1546, and polig.
amy has become in practice really an exception
The generous efforts of the whole people to raise
themselves from their abasement, show clearly
that they are freeing themselves from their old fa
talist ideas. On the other hand, their calm ant
collected attitude in face of events, their confidence
in their right and in the justice of God, their per
feet good faith in all their public and private re
latons, are the living proofs of their moral value
and of the high destines which are in store TO