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The good things of Mr. Polk's administration we have spoken of and duly honored; the abomination thereof — whence came that? From the same source out of which so much evil has already come from Slavery. A nation, like a man, is amenable to the Law of God; suffers for its sin, and must suffer till it ends the sin. In the North National Unity of Action is preserved with little sacrifice of individual Variety of Action; the Union of the People and the Freedom of the Person are carefully kept secure. Hence each man has as much freedom as he can have in the present state of physical, moral, and social science. But in the South it is not so; there in a population of 7,334,431 persons, there are 2,486,326 slaves; so if the average amount of freedom in the North be represented by one, in the South it will be but about twothirds; it is doubtful that the inhabitants of any part of Europe, except Russia and Turkey have less. Think you, oh reader, while we thus trample on the rights of millions of men, we shall not suffer for the crime? No! God forbid that we should not suffer.

There are two things the nation has to fear two modes of irresponsible power. One is the POWER OF PARTY; one the POWER OF GOLD. Mr. Polk was the creature of a party; his Ideas were Party Ideas, his Measures Party Measures, his Acts Party Acts, himself a Party man. A Party can make a President, as a heathen his idol, out of any thing; no material is too vulgar; but a Party cannot make a great man out of all the little ones which can be scented out by the keenest convention which ever met. The Democratic party made Mr. Polk; sustained him; but no huzzas could make him a great man, a just man, or a fair man. No King is more tyrannical than a Party when it has the power; no despot more irresponsible. The Democrats and Whigs are proof of this. One has noble instincts and some noble ideas so had the other once; but consider the conduct of the Baltimore convention in 1844; their conduct for five years after. Consider the convention of Philadelphia in 1848, and the subsequent conduct of the Whigs! This irresponsible Power of Party has long been controlled by the South, for various reasons named before.

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is held by Individuals or Corporations. The Power of Gold when vast sums are amassed by a single individual, who owns more property than five counties of Massachusetts, is certainly dangerous, and of an evil tendency. But yet as the individual is transient, it is not presently alarming; a wise law, unwelcome often to the rich man, limits his control to a few years. His children may be fathers of poor men. But when vast sums are held by a Corporation, permanent in itself, though composed of fleeting elements, this power, which no statute of Mortmain here holds in check, becomes alarming as well as dangerous. This Power of Gold belongs to the North and is likewise irresponsible.

Sometimes the two help balance, and counteract one another. It was so in the administration of Jackson and Van Buren. Jackson set the Power of Party to smite the Power of Gold. Even Mr. Polk did so in two remarkable instances. But this is not always to be expected: the two are natural allies. The Feudalism of Birth-depending on a Caucasian descent, and the Feudalism of Gold, depending on its dollars, are of the same family, only settled in different parts of the land; they are true yoke-fellows. The Slaveocracy of the South, and the Plutocracy of the North, are born of the same mother. Now, for the first time for many years, they have stricken hands; but the Northern Power of Gold at the Philadelphia Convention was subjugated by the Southern Power of Party, and lent itself a willing tool. Together they have selected the man of their choice, confessedly ignorant of politics, of small ability, and red with war; placed him on the throne of the nation. The Slaveocracy and the Plutocracy each gave him its counsel. By his experiment he is to demonstrate his fitness, his impotence, or his crime. He is on trial before the nation. It is not ours to judge, still less to prejudge him. Let General Taylor be weighed in an even balance. We trust that some one, four years hence, will report on his administration with as much impartiality as we have aimed at, and with more power to penetrate and judge. We wish there might be a more honorable tale to tell of the first mere military chief the nation ever chose. There are great problems before the nationinvolving the welfare of millions of men. We pause, with hope and fear, for the Whigs to solve them as they can.

ART. IX. SHORT REVIEWS AND NOTICES.

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1. Ten Discourses on Orthodoxy. By JOSEPH HENRY Allen, Pastor of the Unitarian Church, Washington, D. C. Boston: Crosby & Nichols. Washington: Taylor & Maury.

THIS is a very strong book; we hardly know one so strong on the subjects which it treats. Although the community may have been well nigh surfeited, the last thirty years, with discourses longer or shorter, wise or foolish, profound or shallow, on the Trinity, Human Depravity, Atonement, Endless Punishment, and the Infallibility of the Bible, we would yet advise that Mr. Allen's volume should be read, yes, studied. It is a small book, but it will take time to peruse it thoroughly. It is full of great thoughts, of large, discriminating views of divine truth, and of the attempts that have been made to apprehend and express that truth. We cordially commend it to all who, whether orthodox or heterodox, really wish to be enlightened upon subjects of the highest moment; subjects which may have been made distasteful to many by the servile manner in which they have been too often treated.

With all his modesty, and that is apparent on every page,Mr. Allen is a courageous man. He seems to be afraid of nothing but error. He has evaded nothing that came in his way; and has exposed himself, on every hand, to the abettors of many longcherished opinions. We honor him for his frankness, as much as we love him for his kindliness. He has, in almost every instance, done strict and even justice to the opinions he has brought under examination. S. J. M.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

J. P. Romang, Der neueste Pantheismus. Berne. 1848. 8vo. Karl Eckermann, Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte und Mythologie der vorzüglicher Völker des Alterthums. Halle. 1848. 2te Auflage. 4 vols. 8vo. Chr. Keferstein, Ansichten über die Keltischen Alterthümer, &c., &c. Halle. 1846-48. 2 vols. 8vo.

W. Adolf Schmidt, Geschichte der Denk- und Glaubenfreiheit im ersten Jahrhundert des Christenthums. Berlin. 1847. 2 vols. 8vo. F. A. Staudenmaier, Die Christliche Dogmatik. Freiburg im Breisgau. 1844 -1849. 3 vols. 8vo.

Gustav Klemm, Allgemeine Cultur-Geschichte der Menscheit, Vol. VI (China und Japan) VII. (Das Morgenland.) 8vo.

J. Scheible, Das Kloster, Weltlich und Geistlich. Stuttgart. 1849. Vol. XI. and XII. 12mo.

E. J. B. Rathéry, Histoire des Etats généraux de France, &c., &c. Paris. 1847. 8vo.

William Cureton, &c., &c., Corpus Ignatianum: a Complete Collection of the Ignatian Epistles, &c., &c., in Syriac, Greek, and Latin, &c., &c., with copious notes and an Introduction. London. 1849. 1 vol. royal 8vo.

Armand Saintes, a Critical History of Rationalism in Germany, from its origin to the present time. Translated from the second edition of the French original. London. 1849. 8vo.

William Johnson Fox, M. P., On the Religious Ideas. London. 1849. 8vo. Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourses thereon. Book the Second. London. 1849. 12mo.

James John Garth Wilkinson, Emanuel Swedenborg; a Biography, &c., &c. London. 1849. 1 vol. 12mo.

Charles Bray, The Education of the Feelings. 2nd Edition. London.

1849. 12mo.

The History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent to the Organization of Government under the Federal Constitution. By Richard Hildreth. In three volumes. New York. 1849. 8vo. An article in the next Number.]

The Wrongs of Poland: a Poem in three Cantos, comprising the Siege of Vienna, with historical notes. By the author of "Parental Wisdom." Aliquando dormit jus moritur nunquam. London. 12mo.

G. C. Hebbe, LL. D., An Universal History in a Series of Letters, being a complete and impartial Narrative of the most remarkable events of all Nations, forming a complete History of the World. New York. 1848-9. Vols. I. and II. 8vo. [This is an original and valuable work. The author is a Swede, an independent and original thinker. The work will be complete in twelve or fourteen volumes. We shall speak at length of it in a future number.]

William H. Seward, Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams, &c., &c. Auburn. 1849. 12mo.

History of the French Revolution of 1848. By A. de Lamartine, Translated by Francis A. Durivage and William Chase. 1st American Edition, in two volumes. Boston. 1849. 12mo.

David Hume, The History of England, &c., &c. Boston. 1849. Vols. III. and IV.

Henry William Herbert, The Prometheus and Agamemnon of Aeschylus. Translated into English verse. Cambridge. 1849. 12mo.

C. A. Bartol, Discourses on the Christian Spirit and Life. Boston. 1850.

12mo.

E. G. Holland, Reviews and Essays. Boston. 1849. 12mo. Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with a Series of Introductory Lessons. By Richard Green Parker, &c., &c. New York. 1849. 12mo.

Charles T. Porter, Review of the Mexican War, &c., &c. Auburn. 1849. 12mo.

Angel Voices, or Words of Counsel for Overcoming the World, &c., &c. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Boston. 1849. 16mo.

PAMPHLETS.

William W. Bowditch, Slavery and the Constitution. Boston. 1849. 8vo. pp. 156. Philip Berry, A Review of the Mexican War on Christian Principles, and an Essay on the Means of Preventing War. Columbia, S C. 1849. 8vo. pp. VI. and 87. [He thinks "that our national course was morally

and politically objectionable,” but the persons "officially concerned" in mak ing or conducting it "may be acquitted of peculiar personal blame in their contribution to the national error."- p. 2. The book has some good things.]

S. E. Brownell, The Herman and Dorothea and the Alexis and Dora of Goethe, &c. New York. 1849. Svo. pp. 48. [This work is too well done to appear in such a melancholy form.]]

John Pierpont, "The Address to the People," at the Installation of Rev. H. A. Miles, &c., &c. 2nd Edition. Boston. 1849. 8vo. pp. 8.

Report of the Committee on the Library in Relation to the Donations received from the City of Paris, &c., &c. Boston. 1849. 8vo. pp. 12. Josiah Warren, Equitable Commerce: a new Development of Principles

for the Pecuniary, Intellectual, and Moral Intercourse of Mankind,as Elements of a new Society. 2nd Edition. Boston. 8vo. pp. 63. George R. Russell, The Merchant: an Oration before the R. G. Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Providence, September 4th, 1849. Boston. 1849. 8vo. pp. 60. [This is a modest, humane, and beautiful oration; giving a brief but valuable and interesting history of commerce, and showing its office in the economy of the Human Race.]

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Robert C. Winthrop, An Address before the Maine Society at Bowdoin College, on September 5th, 1849. Bos 8vo. pp. 68. [Contains an important and valuable contribution to of the Bowdoin family]

Samuel J. May. The Flood; a Sermon. Boston. 1849. 8vo. The Seventh Vial; consisting of brief comments on various Seri, &c. By the author of Millenial Iustitutions. Springfield. 8vo. and 17 with the plan of the frame of a city after Ezekiel, Chap. XI William W. Newman, Moral, Religious, and Sectarian Educatic to the Onondaga County Teachers' Institute, Octo Syracuse. 1848. 12mo. pp. 36.

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A Letter to a Young Man who has just entered College from a
who has gone through. Boston. 1849. 12mo. pp. 40.
Henry M. Field, The Good and Bad in the Roman Catholic Chur
New York. 1849. 12mo. pp. 34.

Equality. West Brookfield. 1849. 12mo. pp. 74. [This is and keen criticism on the Currency, and Institutions, and Practices with it, showing how easily Capital prevails over Labor. We regi no space for extracts.]

Charles K. Whipple. Sunday Occupations. Boston. 1849. 12m William B. Hayden, The Character and Works of Christ. Bost 12mo. pp. 84.

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