The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-01-17

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ia ndiana-wealth and ignoranre-An
| anecdotc.
KoLLING PRAIRIE, Ind. Jan, 1855.
We recently met Mississippian di-
rect from his native State. lie was
Stakeholder. and boastcd much Of South
ern institutions and privileges We la
bored hard to convince him of his error
Truth and mldncss were our weapons
In such battles, we have lea rned to
Be calm in arguing for fereeness makes
Error a fdWh and truth diseonricsy.
Why should feel another man mistakes
More than his sickness, or his pOrcrfg
In love | should but anger is not love
Nor pisdonl neither: therefore gently move.
CdlmneSs is great advantage he that lets
Another chafe, may warm him at his fire,
Mark all his wandcrings, and enjoy his frcts:
AS cunning iencers suffer heat to tire.
After an hours candid discussion, ke
frankly owned that slavery was at fa1lt
in many ways, and we left him to digest
some wholesome truths Once, Mississ-
ippi could boast of a richer soil a more
genial climate, and larger population.
Now look at the record. Only one.
third of century has passed, and In.
diana has outstripped Mississippi She
has barely 100000 inhabitants. while
Indiana counts 100000. All the
farms in Mississippi could be bought for
$50 100000, while you could not begin
10 tempt the IIoosers withSl20 600 900.
Indiana las State school fund of S..
600 600 Mississippi has not the first
red cent There are nat n1ndana so 600
persons who cannot read and write while
in Mississippi there are more than 200
900 One third of the entire popula
tion do not know the letter b from an
ox-yokc. For every three acres Of i'm
proved land in Mississippi, there are
five in Indiana. For every church in
Mississippi, Indiana can point to six
Such i. the difference between the ''pol-
icy" of our opponent, Douglas and his
clique, and that Of Northern freemen.
Some of the Slave States are fast be-
coming dcpopulated, by the emigration
of its most enterpri sing portion to the
new states and territories. The Editor
Of the Alabama Sentinel mentions that
his State has lost. during four mouths
up to Feb, 1854, by emigration, 49,
600 souls, or over 500 per day, and s7S,-
100000 in capital She has only Is
persons to the square mile, while Mass
achusctts. with a far more sterile soil, has
1877 to the square mile. Oh slavery,
thou art verify curse.
The stronghold Of Roman Ca,holi-
cism i, iu The west. Hence here, more
especially, that unique and novel society
called Know Nothings, spreads and
fourishcs. The rapid growth Of this or
der demonstrates tue existence Of vast
amount of latent enmity, throughout so.
cicty, that seeks this method, to cmbody
itself in opposition to an evil; that threat
cns to cxtcrminate some Of our most
cherished blessings. The one attempt, 10
prevent the Bible from entering the
school-room, where Roman Catholic aud
Protestant children are taught in com
mon. not to mention other offences. is
enough to arouse the Indignation OF the
whole country. To the influence Of that
book, are W. indebted for every thing
great and glorious among Us, Blot out
the light of the Bible, and you da rkeu
the moral heavens, with worse than
Egyptian darkness The literature Of
the Bible is the most sublime, in all tho
Libraries of earth. Its history, too, is
the only authentic history in the world.
of almost half its existence. The Jew
ish people and institutions ant edate all
the literature Of Greece and Rome
those two great fountains Of European
aud American literature. More than
half of the years of the world had pass.
cd into eternity before llesiod or Homer
sung, or Plato, Socrates or Aristotle
reasoned on the works and ways of God
and man. The Jewish Scriptures were
finished, before Aristotle, Socrates or
Plato was born. and David sung in lie.
brew verse, before IIcsiod or Homer saw
the light of day. The wisdom Of its
sagcs, the sublimity of its bards, the cl-
oqucncc Of it's orators, and the rational
and heavenly inspired purity of its
Saints and Martyrs, have commanded,
and will until the last generation Of men,
command the admiration and the hom-
age of the world,
The Book of God spans the whole
arch Of time, cmblaLoned with its mo.
mentous deeds and leaning on an elcr'
nifty past, it reposes upon au eternity to
come 1t is the only Book of Life and
the only charter Of an Immortality to
come. Aud shall man, whose grand epic
it is, withhold it from his fellow man p
Shall papacy seize tue key of life and
bolt the gates of heaveus Forbid il
reason. Forbid it justice, Forbid i,
Almighty God.
lu nearly every city and village Of ,h'