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LOVE THE OLD.
BY L. VIRGINIA FRENCH.
i love tlie old, to lean beside
Tlie antique, easy ebair,
And pass my fingers softly o'er
A wreath of silvered luiir;
To pro's my glowing lip upon
The furrowed brow, and gaze
Within the sunken eye, whore dwells
The “light of other days.”
To fold the pale and feehle hand
That on my youthful head,
Has lain so tenderly, the while
The evening prayer was said.
To nestle down close to the heart,
Ami marvel how it held
Such terms of legendary lore,
The chronicles of Eld.
Oh ! Youth, thou hast so much of joy,
So much of life, and love.
So many hopes—Age has but one,
The hope of bliss jthove.
Turn awhile from these away
To cheer the old, and bless
The wasted heart-strings with a stream
Of gushing tenderness.
Thou freadest now a patli of bloom.
And thine exulting soul
Springs proudly on, as tho" it mock'd
At Time's unfelt control.
l’.ut they have marched a weary way,
Upon a thorny road •
Then soothe the toil-worn spirits, ere
They pass away to God.
Yes, love the aged—bow before
The venerable form,
So soon to seek beyond the sky
A shelter from the storm.
Aye. love them ; let thy silent heart
With reverence untold:
As pilgrims very near to heaven,
Regard and love the old.
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THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENS.
lfon. Jeremiah S. Black on Military .
Trials of Civilians.
The Memphis Appeal says, wc extract
the following important passage from the
able argument of Hon. Jeremiah 3*13lack.
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before the United States supreme court in
the ease ot the “Indiana conspirators:”
1 do not assert that the jury trial is an
infallible mode of ascertaining the truth.
Like everything human, it has imperfec
tions. I only say that it is the best pro
tection for innocence and the surest mode I
of punishing guilt that lias yet been dis
covered. It has borne the test of a longer
experience, and borne it better than any ,
other legal institution that ever existed
among men England owes more of her
freedom, her grandeur and her prosperity
to that, than to all other causes put to
gether. It has had the approbation not j
not only of those who lived tinder it, but
of great thinkers who looked at it calmly ;
from a distance. Montesquieu and l)o
tocqucvillc speak of it with an admiration
as rapturous as Coke and Blackstoue.
Within the present century the most en
lightened states of eshhnental Europe have
transplanted it into their countries; and
no people ever adopted it once and were
afterwards willing to part with it It was
only in 13J30 that an interference with it!
in Belgium provoked a successful insurrec
tion which permanently divided one king
dom into two. In the same year, the rev
olution of the Barricades gave the right of j
ini by juty to every Frenchman.
Those colonics of this country who
came from the British Islands brought
this institution with them, and they re-1
gard it as the most precious part of their
inheritance. The immigrants from other I
places where trial by jury did not exist
became'equally attached to it as soon as j
they understood what it was. There was j
no subject upon which aH the inhabitants
of the country were more perfectly unan
imous than they were in their deteruiwia
In inn’intaiii tii 10 osnni I'livkt mi till.
1 No ex post facto law shall be passed.
No man shall be answerable criminally
for any act which was not defined and
made punishable as crime by some law in
force at tlie time whcu the act was done
2. For an act which is criminal he can
not be arrested without a judicial warrant
founded on proof of probable cause. He
shall not be kidrfapped and shut up on the
mere report of some base spy who gathers
the materials of a false accusation by
crawling into his house and listening at
the keyhole of his chamber doer.
3. Ho shall not be compelled to testify
against himself. He may be examined
before he is committed, and tell bis own
story if he pleases: but the .ck shall be
put out of sight., and even his conscience
shall not be tortured; nor shall his unpub
lished papers be used against him, as was
done most wrongfully in the case of Alger
non Sydney.
4. lie.shall be entitled to a speedy trial;
not kept in prison for an indefinite time
without the opportunity of vindicating his
innocence.
5. lie shall be informed of the accusa
tion. its nature and grounds. The public
accuser must put the charge into the form
of a legal indictment, so that the party
can meet it full iu the face.
6. Even to the indictment he need not
answer unless a grand jury, alter hearing
the evidence, shall say upon their oaths
that they believe it to be true.
7 Then conies the trial, and it must be
before a regular court, of competent juris
d ction, ordained and established for the
state ami district in which the crime was
committed; and this shall not be evaded
by a legislative change in the district after
the crime is alleged to be done.
8. ills guilt or innocence shall be de
termined by an impartial jury. These
English words are to bo understood in
their English sense, as they mean that the
jurors shall he fairly selected by a sworn
officer from among the peers of the party,
residing within the Ideal jurisdiction of the
court. When they are called in to the box
he can purge the panel of all dishonesty,
prejudice, personal enmity anti ignorance
by a certain number of peremtory chal
lenges, and as many more challenges as he
can sustain by showing reasonable cause.
9. The trial shall he public and open,
that no underhand advantage might he ta
ken. The party shall be confronted with
the witnesses against him, have compulso
ry process for his ow'n witnesses, and be
entitled to the assistance of counsel in his
defense.
10. After the evidence is heard and dis
cussed, unless the jury shall, upon their
oaths, unanimously agree to surrender him
up into the hands of the court as a guilty
man, not a hair of his head can be touched
by way of punishment.
11 After a verdict of guilty he is still
protected No cruel or unusual punish
ment shall be inflicted, nor any punish
ment at all, except ivliat is annexed by the
law to his offense. It cannot be doubted
for a moment that if a person convicted of
an offense not capital were to be hung on
the order of a judge, such judge would be
guilty of murder as plainly as if lie should
come down from the bench, tuck up the
sleeves of his gown, and let out the prison
er’s blood with his own hand.
12. After all is over, the law continues 1
to spread its guardianship around him —
Whether lie is acquitted or condemned, he [
shall never again be molested for that of- j
fense. No man shall be twice put in jeo
nnrdv of life or limb for the same cause
These rules apply to all criminal prose
cutions. But, in addition to these, certain
special regulations.jYtsjo. required for trea
son—the one great political charge under
which more innocent men have fallen than
any other. A tyrannical government calls
everybody a traitor who shows the least
unwillingness to be a slave. The party in
power never fails, when it can, to stretch
the law on that subject by construction, so !
as to cover its honest and conscientious op
ponent In the absence of a constitution
al provision it was justly feared that stat- j
utes might he passed which would put the
lives'of the most patriotic citizens at the
mercy of the basest minions that skulk un
der the pay of the executive. Therefore
a definition to treason was given iu the
fundamental law, and the legislative au
thority could not enlarge it to serve the
purpose of partisan malice. The crime
was also described, so that prejudice and .
enmity might have no share in the convic
tion. And lastly, the punishment was so
limited that the property of the party could
not be confiscated and used to reward the
agents and persecutors, or strip his family
of their substance.
If these provisions exist in full force,
unchangeable and irrepealable, then we
are not hereditary bondsmen. Every citi
zen may safely pursue his lawful calling in
the open day; and at night, if he is con
scious of innocence, he may lie down in
security and sleep the sound sleep of a tree
man.
I say they arc in force, and they will re
main iu force. We have not surrendered
them, and we never will. If the worst
comes to the worst we will look to the liv
ing God for his His help, and defend our
rights and the rights of our children to
the last extremity. Those men who think
we can be subjugated and abjeeted to the
condition of mere slaves are wholly mista
ken. The great race to which we belong
has not degenerated so fatally,
paired. An attempt was made to set it
aside and sqfcstitute military trials iu its
place, uy ijoru lmnmore or vtrginia, ana
General Gage, in Massachusetts, accompa
nied with the excuse which has been re
peated so often in late days, namely, that
rebellion had made it necessary; but it
excited intense anger, and every colony
from New Hampshire to Georgia made
common cause with the two whose rights
had been especially invaded. Subsequent
ly the continental congress thundered it
into the ear of the world, as an eud arable
outrage, sufficient to justify uni 'orsal in
surrection against the authority of the
government which hal allowed it to be
done.
If the men who had fought out our
revolutionary contest, when they came to
frame a government for themselves and
their posterity, had failed to insert a pro
vision making the trial by jury perpetual
and universal, they would have covered
themselves all over with infamy as with a
garment; for they would have proved
themselves basely recreant to the princi
ples of that very liberty of which they pro
fessed to be the special champions. But
they were guilty of no such treachery.
They not only took care of the trial by
jury, hut they regulated every step to be
taken in a criminal trial. They knew
very well that no people could he free un
der a government which had the power to
punish without restraint. Hamilton ex
pressed in the Federalist the universal
sentiment of his time, when he said that
the arbitary power of conviction and pun
ishment for pretended offenses had been
the great engine of despotism in all ages
and all countries. The existence of such
a power is utterly incompatible with free
dom. The difference between a master
and Ills slave consists only in this: that
the master holds the lash in his hands, and
he may use it without legal restraint, while
the naked back of the slave is bound to
take whatever is laid on it.
But our fathers were not absurd enough
to put unlimited power in the hands of the
ruler and take away the protection of law
from the rights of individuals. It was not
thus that they meant l<to secure the bless
ings of liberty to themselves and their
posterity.” They determined that not one
drop of the blood which has been shed on
the other side of the Atlantic, during sev-!
on centuries of contest with arbitrary pow
er, should sink into the ground; but the'
fruits of every popular victory should be
garncrod up in this new government. Of
all the great rights already won they threw
not anatom away. They went over mag-1
mi eharta, the petition of right, the bill of1
rights, uud the rules of common law, and
whatever was found there to favor individ
ual liberty they carefully inserted in their
own system, improved by clearer expres
sion, strengthened by heavier sanctions}
and extended by a more universal applica
tion. They put all those provisions into
the organic law, so that neither tyranny in
the executive, nor party rage in the legis
lature pould change them without destroy
ing the government itself.
Look for a moment at the particulars
and sec how carefully everything connect
ed with the administration of punitive jus
tice is guarded.
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The Founder of Methodism in
America.—The year 18GG marks an im
portant epoch in the history of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church in America; for it
looks back upog the first centnry of its ex
istence in this country—a century of ex is
innnA rwl fnkm> llllViniV nrh’/tll fllllO t Vi A !
congregation of live persons, whom Philip
Embury, an Irishman, its founder, gather- j
od in his own house in New York, 17GG.
has grow n to an aggregate numbered by
hundreds of thousands, scattered over the
whole of North America; and the first, con
ference, of 1773, with its ten preachers,
has multiplied to sixty conferences, with
6841 itinerant and 8405 ’local preachers.
After a life of severe labor as a preach
er, Embury, who was born in Limerick,
Ireland, in 1748, died suddenly in 1775,
and was hurried at Ashgrove, Washington
county, New York, where ho then resided.
It was arranged some time ago that dur
ing the recent session of Troy Methodist
Episcopal Conference, the remains of Em
bury should be transferred from the ob
scure location whero they have lain and
peposited in the new Woodland cemetery,
recently opened in the town of Cambridge,
Washington county. Last Friday after
noon witnessed this ceremony, and two
hundred ministers in attendance at the
conference, with a large number of villa
gers, followed to a new grave the relics of
their great pioneer, and with solemn rites
recommitted them to mother earth. Rev.
Bishops Janes officiated, assisted by several
prominent clergymen of the denomination.
NEW rUEYT SERMON.
Of all the rich p,.oes of absurdity which
have ever come under our notice, the following
is the cap-sheaf:
ity Hearers: 1 shall draw forth the horns of
my argument from the following hymn:
This world is all a fleetin’ show,
To man’s illusion given ;
Never aspire where you can’t set,
Or to the airth you’ll fall.
I agree with the tavern keeper, who said,
when the circus company sloped without pay
ing him for grub and grog, “this world is all
a fleetin’ show,” and i also side with the hun
gry man, who cried out in the bustin agony of
his heart, when he saw a cooked pig’s head
aninlrin in mfl.«*in ln.nlorn tlmf it. i« for
“man’s illusion given!'’ My friends, you
wrap your feelins around the rotten things of
this world, even as monkey’s do their tails
around the unsound limbs of old trees. Wheu
you got high up, you find your honey beo hol
ler, turns out to be a hornets nest, and when
those little Hyin Helzobubs commence pokiu
their sharp pinted snouts deep into your car
cass, you wriggle about like an cel in a t'ryin
, pan, your tail gets untwisted, or the limb
breaks, that you have grabbed as tight as a
leather sucker does a brickbat, and you fall,
eowhallop, upon the broken glass bottles,
which are always strewed under the pi sen
Upas tree of pleasure! Oh, the vanity’ of de
sirin the slippery’paths of this aivth!—You
run after eta, you pant, you blow, the parspi
ratiou runs down you like soapsuds in a wash
iu machine, your body is covered over with
the prickly heat of anxiety, and your feet
with the soft corns of cure and disappoint
ment. And what are all these sutferius for ?
What makes your nose bleed, and what makes
your blood bile like hot pitch at a tar gather
iu? Why, you’ve been running after thegreat
shoat of Mammon ! His tail lias been clipped
in Satan's lard kittle, and wheu you think
you've got him foul—when you’ve poured the
ashes of vexation on your palms, when you’ve
dipped your fingers into t' o saucl and glue of
experience and wisdom, so that they'll stick
fast and no mistake, the cussed critter gives a
grunt, like the bustin of a bladder, and his tail
slips through your paws like geese-greased
lightnin 1 Oh, my beloved hearers ! how aw
ful is your situation in that pertiekuler time !
You see the hog you’ve been runnin after all
your born days way on ever so far ahead, and
y ou’re ever so ditto behind. All your precau
tions have come to what hickory wood will in
the winter time, smoke! Your trousers are
split, your shirt’s dirty, and your oyes are
streaming liko two lie-hoppers on a rainy day!
Your head aches-and you feel the sea-turtles
and canvas-barks rootin straight into your
skull.—The lleas of despondency bite you
through the day, nnd bed bugs of conscience,
ns big ns sheep, keep you front sleep at night.
You’re worse than a man with his hands tied
lyin naked in a bayou, without a musketo
bar! Out of remorse springs just about ten
millions of musketocs, with comic stookins on
their legs, and augurs in their mouths, all bu
rin strait through and through your body and
fillin up the holes with cow-itch nnd skunk's
cologne Your-situation is too numerous to
mention. The molasses hogsheads of gener
osity and good feeliu is staved in, nnd ther
sweet stream of kindness and humanity in
nilxin with the tar, dead dogs add drunketr
niggers, lyln about on the street of vice and
immorality. The Mississippi of love is nt low
water, the steamboat of prayer and tbe broad
horn of faith, both laden with a rich cargo for
the country above, git oritelly snagged on the
logs of despair, and both sink deep into the
yaller mud of sin I The catfishcs of hell,
which are born in the bilin spring of intem
peranoo, float round your brains, and tho
screech owls of sorrow act ‘hoohooing’ in the
henroost of your hearts. You're deserted and
despised—you’re-no more use to the world
than n pair of goggles are to ft stone blind
man, and you’re no more use to yourselves
than a problem of Euclid is to a nigger baby!
And now, my brethren, I'll take a drink,
(for my throat is as dry as a wet chemise
which has boen in a hot sun for three days.)
and then I'll tell you how you can turn the mill
stream of this world right slap on the wheel
of life, so as to grind the grain of the spirit so
fine, that, it’ll make dough nuts fit for angels
to cli.aw!
My Iamb-like hearers ’ I will now tell you
how you con come in at the groat shoep-shcar
iti oti the judgement day, how you can sleep
in peace and quietness on tbo cloan straw of
the grave, ana how yon can fill your stomach
through life with the tender young grass of
joy, nnd tho cool silver water'of thankfulness.
In the first place ncyor put out your arms fur
ther than you can draw (hem In again without
getting scorched. If you do, Jtidkin’s burn
ointment won t save you ! Be content, with
the fodder you have gathered in the field of
honesty, nnd never try to steal your neighbor’s,
because his eyes ain’t quite as sharp as yourn.
I don’t, mean to say that you must let his hogs
root into your worldly interest—no, no, drive
them out quietly but let him see that there’s
no hole in your fence of common sense,
through winch they may creep. Never aspire
to things above your reach, apil if you’re livin
on the first floor of poverty, don’t try to dan
gle your shanks out of the third story window,
of pride. There’s a good deal of happiness in:
this world, but, like picked blackberries, you
must be careful not to get the thorns into your
hand whilo gatherin them. Like young
squirrels, always lay up nuts in the summer
and autumn of plenty, for tho season when:
you find icicles cloggin around yourheart, and
on your unprotected sealp. Don’t be so stin
gy that, you’re afeard to breathe, because it
wears out, your lungs; but roeolleet that mon
ey is like umbrellas, it always comes in use
pa ii rainy day. This earth is as lovely as a
clean shaved Mart, or a newly painted cluirch,
and its your own fault if the razor is full of
gaps, or the whitewash ditto of dirt and
horsehair. It’s like a stone pavement cov
ered with sleet ;.3 also, you must put the hob
nails of prudence, and the carpet tacks 6f ob
servation, with the oonds downwards, in the
illicit hoots of y6ur conduct, in order to pro
vent your getting your heads bumped, and
your shins .bruised upon the frozen earth.
My hearers, don't go to sleep yet—a little
more and l shall have done, as the boy said
to his mother.
Conform to all that I have said, and you'll
be ns happy as pigs while eating rum cher
ries. Your hearts will bo as clean as ababy's
head, after it has been washed in warm water
and castile soap, and your eyes will glisten
with gladness, like tin pans in the sunshine.
If the storm of affliction comes and wets your
heart through and through, why you can put
it out agin upon tho rainbow of your promise,
and when all's over—when you shake off the
fleas of mortality from your hides, you'll find
a bran now crown, made just to your size,
hanging up on a peg, in the hat shop of
lu avoti!
BUStlN BAIH3BONES.
Tki-liwo Motukh.—A cluster of young
girls stood about the door of the school-room
one afternoon, engaged in close conversation,
when a little ^irl joined them and asked what
they were doing. ‘I am telling the girls it
secret, Kate, and we will let you jtnow, if you
will promise not to tell any one as long as
you live, was the reply.’
‘I wont tell any one but my mother,’' rv
plied Kate, ‘I tell her everything, for situ
is my best friend.’
•So not even your mother, no one in tho
world.’
Well, (lien 1 can t hear it; tor what ?! can t
tell mother, is not fit for me to know.’ ^
After speaking the wonU, Kato walked
away slowly, and perhaps sadly, yet with a
quiet conscience, while her companions went
on with their seoret conversation.
I am sure if Kale continued to act on that
principle, she became a virtuous,useful woman.
No child will be likely to take a sinful courses
if Kate’s reply is taken for a rule of conduct.
Mmtert or Women'.—An exchange says
there is a feature in young ladies’ dress that
has pu/./,led mans—what is the sigpificuntc of
wearing long ends of ribbon round the neck?
When they wear ends hanging in front, it
means that “the lady is marrried;” over the
right shoulder, that “she is engaged;” over
the left shoulder, “that she has a fellow coin
ing to see her, but is not engaged;” down tho
back, means, “boys, come on, I want a beau !”
If she does not wear any, it means “she is en
gaged,” and don’t want to have anything to
do with any other fellow.
Modesty.—There is a resistless charm in a
modest demeanor, which is worth more than
all the arts with which designing women seek
to captivate tho opposite sex. Meretricious
attractions may chance to please to-day, but
native excellence, with the simple setting of
modesty will delight to-morrow and next day,
and so on, without interruption. Moreover,
the pleasure which we derive from spurious
or shallow charms is almost certainly follewed
by disgust when we come to see that wo have
been imposed upon. It is not agreeable to us
to know and feel that we have been cheated.
The old paradox about “beauty unadorned”
has much truth in it,
-If you want an ignoramus to respect
| you, “dress to death,” and wear watch-seals
i about the size of a brickbat,