The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-04-08

| 50 ii" lUl. lhV!S Is Ho CNioSHic 50 puiTclb, as
/ the knowledge that is thus branded into the
soul-into memory. and conscience, and all
the lines of feeling. verify believe, there
are hundreds to whom it is not the bittcrest
consideration that the world may know their
guilt, but that they themselves .'"Si know it
! verify believe there arc hundreds who, if, bv
any possibility, they could exchange their
consciousness for that Of the public from
whom their guilt is 50 snugly hidden: if it
could be that only the multitude should know,
and they the guilty ones not know their
wrong, would make the exchange with incx-
pGcsSible joy They would go to the prison
or the scatlold. in Spitco the suffering and
the shame; but outside the priscn, safe enough
from the scailold in their own souls is worse
than the dungeons gloom or the gripe of
death. The guilty nan knows his guilt
hcfc is the sting-therc is the ineradicablc
curse. Perhaps he has deceived his bcncfac-
tor. covered up all the falschocd with bland
hypocrisy, and is as well regarded as ever.
All but lie has got that shameful conscious.
ness! the hearty cheer Ct injured friends
strikes like thunder into his soul. The trust
full smile flashes in among his convictions like
scorching fame"
The following too, contains Il momcntous
truth in ''words that burn
Here is one with The garh and tlcmcanor
ola gentleman. We see the utmost punctil-
manner. But all this can not mask the heart
Of the lilcrtinc, and some glance, some mo-
ton, will bctray the corrupt desire that flames
through all his soul. Here is another high in
responsibility, rich in friendship, distinguish
, cd in mental cndowmcnts. But in some IA
tai moment passion catches fire, an I'M
govcrnable temper sweeps away all the bar
riors Of prudence and blinds all the light of
intdligcnce and the man of unsuspcctcd hon
or and of lofty mind finds himself degraded,
stained. pluckcd ut as a criminal. Our cs-
Scntial llfc---thc real thing we are--is not in
the h,a l. or the face, but in the region of NOR
al action. 1t is from that we grayi.atc. If
that is left undisciplincd and unsanctiticd,
the evil within rs will be revealed; however
hidden by bodily or mental cultivation, it
will DC known. 1t is u sad mistake, to cdu-
cate our children only for the courtcsics of
life or for its selfish advantages, or rs beings
of mere intellect Passion is mighticr than
all these, aud without that is controlled, all
these are insufficient indeed. The source of
more than half tie crimes which are commit
ted is rassion-sutl'lcn, impctuous passion:
in this moment doing it. work with ono
plunge, and. i'll the next soaring the pcrpc-
traitor with the ruin he has wrought less upon
another than upon himself They are com
parativcy few who have deliberately planned
and executed those more dreadful atrocities
which apral us. But they are many who
havc!gonc to their daily work and to their in
tcrcoursc with their fellows, as fairly dispo-
sod, as harmless in intention, as you or ]
now. who ere night have found themselves
things which in the morning they would have
shuddered at. Moral education, religious
principle in the heart is the only real safe
guard. Without it, any man is in danger as
he goes out among the th.onginS temptations
of life We are exposed to friehiful pcrils
every day: we know not how we may STUN
bic, or into what guilty act we may be sur
priscd. This, too, is the only security for
community. If christianity has improved
socictyif humanity has advanced it, it is by
the clfcontrol, the power over passion, and
rampant evil in the soul, which it has shed
abroad. flour modern civilization consists
only of refined customs, and intellectual cul-
tnrc, it is indeed slight and uncertain. 1t
leaves unguardtd or, at least, but half-euard-
cd, the most direful elements of social evil.
1t leaves to,swell in full tide, lust and anger
and envy, and worse than all. '"onymous
with all-sclfhness. In short, without the
seycrcimcr control, the purifying spirit ofre-
ligion, our modern man with all his amenities,
is little more than disguised savage-a cul-
tivatcd Goth or Scythian. The moment sell
lishncss is touched, or good breeding unpoi-
sod, away goes the scholar and the gentle
man and out leaps the barbarian"
ould that mcn especially the teachers OF
our youth would lay to heart this truth and,
feeling the impotcncy Of all else, labor for the
establishment of moral and religious princi-
pies more earnestly and faithfully than they
now do.
We might present other chapters from Mr.
Chapin's di>courscs, illustrative of his dcscrip-
tive and other faculties, but, perhaps, We have
said enough to furnish sketch, all we attempt
of his mental and moral characteristics.
CA.IFoRNA FARMs.-Thc California Far
mer. speaking of large farms, says that Nlcssrs
}. Horncr and Beard have around their farm
more than eighty miles of wire fence, some
parts of it with iron posts: the value of the