M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1861-10-31

We get none. Some man can do us q
favor by startinga load. 3.
america. AND HER DESTINY !"
We have ruceived a pamphlet Of
some Is pages, Of the above title, ,pur-
pdfting TO be an ''inspirational dis,
course given extemporaneously at
Dodworth's Hall, N. Y, on Sunday
evening, Ang. 25th, 1851, through
Emma Hardinge, by the Spirits" "
The peculiar character or quality Of
"the spirits are not set forth; bpt we
presume they we're good ! She in.
Yokes @the Spirits" in a brief interrog.
atory to Old Father Adam, endeav.
oring 10 ascertain his Whereabouts,
and brings that apcient gentleman to
a strict account for the condition OF
things In America. We, too, think,
thatif the old fellow had anything to
do with the matter, he needed a se-
we're reprimand; but, we think there
are certain other "Adam's" who
should, and will, be called to an &C,
count by the American People for
this uncalled. for warfare. But to the
discourse" in question. We make
the following "highfalutin" extracts:
"AMERIoAN PEOPLE: In this cen
tury, which has bebeld your land cui &.
minating to a point Of prosperity
hitherto unknown in your history,
listen to the voice that has sounded
through your Eden, and with the
trumpet tongue OF war and the fierce
clamor Of battle, awaked thee from
thy Paradisaical rest, demanding,
"Adam! where art tbou" The ques-
tion presses home to the heart of the
nation, no less than to the individuals
that compose it."
"From the period when this vast
discovery laid Ameyea a conquered
fief at the feet of Columbus, its shores
have beckoned home the exilcs Of
every other land.
The wronged or discontented; the
hungry poor that rich oppression
starved; the aspiring minds that had
not room to think; tile souls e9chain-
ed to bigot priests authoriE tho
slave of despot, or Of circumstance I;
all sought and found a home in broad
Americas sheltering arms L
Gould you but realize the biz Pr
wool they've spun, whose feet first
traversed and mapped out your land in
sections! What lonely deaths they died,
in hunger, piercitg col q and scorchlhg
heat; by savage RrfA'e, or the fover
demon! Sometimes in little grodps
they tramped for months the length
of mighty rivers, wild, untroddenI
prairies, or awful forest depths, where
Whitening boues still tell the ghastly
record Of their despair, their suferings
and death. Oh. could you mark the
spots made hallowed by their sacred
dust, you'd find the earth on winch
yon tread 90 thickly soWn with great
soul purposes, iudomitable courage,
faith and ratience, that You would
shame to desecrate it with mean and
selfish aims.
Even the ruffian herd whom unre-
lenting law had drafted off from old.
er lands, took heart of grace in the
brave young home Of promise, made
of past sibs a sign-board to warn them
off the track cf shame, and toilipg
beneath the stimulus Of hope and
freedom, laid the foundations Of bet
ter life and nobler generation. And
thus, Aheriea, the whirlpool Of evil
which oVerburjened civilization has
disgnrged upon thy shores, has found
in thee a mother so bountful and
kind, that the hardest hearts have
melted in thy clasp, and those on
whom the proud, cold world had bran.
ded degradation, became in thy grand
rough school, the founders Of thy
strength and glory; but other and
broader purposes appear in the new
world revelation, than home for ex.
lies.
We predicate Of Divine love and
wisdom the subjugation Of the entire
earth to the rule of man, and Is ap-
plication to the highest order Of which
it is susceptible; at present, scarcely
one third OF it is fully inhabited, not
one foot Of it fully exhausted Of its
resources. Island Edens bloom in
ocean solitudes unknown to man; vast
sweeps Of deserts have yet
to be lined for travel; untrodden ran.
ges of mouEtain peaks, and deepest
valley gorges, mast open up their
stores of undiscovered use and beauty.
The wonder OF tie Arctic skies must