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It has often occurred to us, in looking at a ship-load of emigrants just landed from their voyage across the Atlantic, that if the individual history of each one of them could be laid before us, with the trials of the past and the incidents of the future, the mournful experiences they have undergone and the strange scenes they are yet to encounter, that we should read the fifth act of many an unwritten tragedy and laugh over many mirthful misadventures. The book before us is full of such passages, at times irresistibly comic and again possessing a melancholy interest. It purports to describe the " Wanderings and Fortunes" of a party of Germans, who came over to America in 1844, on board the good ship Hoffnung from Bremen, under a mutual contract to purchase and cultivate western lands as a social community. The party consisted of sixty-five persons, all of whom came as steerage passengers, except a committee who had been deputed to exercise a general supervision over the wants of the whole. The account of the steerage passage is at once novel and entertaining, for although the luxurious far niente of the cabin and its gilded saloons has often been described, we do not recollect ever to have met with any details of the forward deck. Debarking at New York, our emigrants meet with many impositions and, in a few days, are cheated into a purchase of 160 acres of land on the Big Hatchee River in Tennessee, which, after many perils, they reach only to find their bargain an intractable marsh. The narrative of the settlement at the Big Hatchee is highly graphic, though we suspect rather exaggerated. At this point of the "Wanderings," the parties become involved in a love-story, which progresses in due form to the marriage of the lovers in the last chapter.

With much that is improbable and incorrect, this book contains some excellent suggestions to Emigrants and very agreeable reading for all.

SOME FURTHER PORTIONS of the DIARY OF LADY WILLOUGHBY, Which do relate to her Domestic History, and to the stirring events of the latter years of the Reign of King Charles the First, the Protectorate and the Restoration. New York: John Wiley, 161 Broadway. 1848.

ness. The mention of her familiar duties, her friendly visits, the lament for the Redbreast,-all these little incidents we might suppose would scarcely find a place amid the stormy events of the Revolution, but we should recollect that, as the daisy will spring up again after being crushed beneath the wheel of the tumbrel, so the waves of popular commotion, though they may disturb for a time, can yet never obliterate the sacred delights of the domestic circle.

ROMANCE OF THE HISTORY OF LOUISIANA. A Series of
Lectures. By Charles Gayarre. Utile Dulci. New York.
D. Appleton & Co., 200 Broadway. 1848.

We welcome this volume as a graceful and valuable addition to the stores of Southern Literature. The first two Lectures of the series were delivered last year by invitation before the People's Lyceum of the City of New Or leans and were afterwards published in De Bow's Commercial Review. The favorable notice, (so well deserved which they received both from the desk and in the pages of the magazine, induced the author to continue his labors and the present volume is the fortunate result of his determination. His design has been (as indeed the title of the voi ume indicates) to gather up the romance, rather than to elecidate the philosophy, of the history of the State, and in executing it, he has made a very attractive work. Whet the statistical history of Louisiana shall be written, and it shall be necessary for the author to leave the adventures of De Soto, for figures in the cotton trade and sugar line," we trust she may be as fortunate in her prosaic, as in ber poetical historian.

HALF-HOURS WITH THE BEST AUTHORS. Selected and
Arranged, with short Biographical and Critical Notices.
By Charles Knight. Vol. II. New York. John Wiley,
161 Broadway.

An excellent compilation that we cannot too highly com
mend. It has been adopted, we learn, as a Reading Book
in some of the best Female Seminaries in the Union, and
we think it might be placed with advantage in the hands af
every young lady. If such books were read more, and
namby-pamby novels less, we might hope for the prevalence
of a better taste and better judgment. The book is divided
into papers on various subjects to be read every day in the
week, the Sunday reading being composed of selections
from Jeremy Taylor, Heber, Dr. Young, Baxter, Burtes
and other writers of similar character. The beautiful sy
of its publication, uniform with the "
Library of Choice
Reading," renders it the more acceptable as a reading con-
panion.

This Book may be found at the Store of Nash & Woodhouse.

SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE: An Illustrated Weekly
Journal of Belles-Lettres, Science and the Arts. W.C.
Richards, editor, Athens, Georgia. Nos. 2 and 3.

The quaint appearance of the Diary of Lady Willoughby in the original London Edition, with its ribbed paper and antique type, attracted great attention as a literary curiosity, while the style of the work, its curious idiom and Spenserian spelling, left the reader in doubt whether it was or not an authentic Diary of the seventeenth century, written at the time. This doubt has been dispelled at last in the preface of the present publication. It is not a relic of the times of Cromwell, and yet we could not have had a more touching and instructive narrative, had a real Lady Willoughby recorded her daily thoughts and some virtuoso brought to light the mouldering manuscript from the dusky cabinets of a castle. It is a beautiful transcript, from the pen of a woman, of the chequered nature of early married life, the gentle endearinents of home, the thousand sweet humanities that cluster around the social hearth, the prattle of children that filled her habitation with music, and the pains that must of necessity attach to the purest and most ered altogether beneath the "dignity" of the monthles tranquil of earthly enjoyments. No real diary could be For ourselves, we are proud to hail it as a promising more truthful and life-like. In the quiet, unaffected man- jutor in the field of letters, the more especially as it is the

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There prevails, among certain periodicals of our country, ridiculous practice, based upon affected superiority, af passing over sub silentio contemporary magazines, and quite disdaining to notice the first efforts of a literary enterprise With them, the attractive and neatly printed journal, we caption we have written above, would perhaps be consid

hird new southern work which we have had occasion to notice in our present number. We regret that we did not receive the first issue of the Gazette, as we could have wished to read the salutatory address of its editor. We haz-a striking resemblance. In the logical powers of analysis ard nothing, however, in declaring, from the evidences before us, in the well-filled columns of Nos. 2 and 3, that he is a man of taste and judgment, and will "walk worthily of the vocation wherewith he is called."

mentaries are wholly, and, from the nature of their plan, were intentionally excluded. In some respects, the merits of the authors, as displayed in their respective works, bear

De Bow's COMMERCIAL REVIEW of the South and West.
A monthly Journal of Trade, Commerce, Commercial
Polity, Agriculture, Manufactures, Internal Improve-
ments and General Literature. Conducted by J. D. B.
De Bow, New Orleans. April, 1848.

and definition and arrangement-in the talent of condensation--the power of compressing a vast fund of information within narrow limits, yet leaving on the mind of the reader a clear and strong impression of its import and value, they both, and perhaps equally, excel, and in these respects they both surpass all other juridical writers, that our language Can boast. I would not venture to affirm that the admirable precision, the luminous brevity, and the idiomatic ease and elegance, that distinguish the style of Blackstone, have

been reached, in the same degree, by his American rival— yet the style of the latter, although more diffuse, is just as perspicuous, and is equally pure; his diction, although not in all instances as select and appropriate, is more copious and varied, and he rises occasionally-both in sentiment and language-to a higher strain of eloquence than Blackstone, as it seems to me, has ever attained. If we compare the works in respect to the value of the information that they convey, considered in its relation to the existing state of the law, the superiority of the American Commentaries is strikingly manifest. A very large portion of the

We are persuaded that no more useful publication than his is issued from the American press. Its range of topics sindeed a wide one, but it is always filled with valuable tatistical papers, and its literary department is highly ineresting. Mr. De Bow is well known as a scholar and a arter. A recent address delivered by him before an Agrinoral Society has pleased us so much, that we could find in our heart to quarrel with him, for not contributing more frequently, in propria persona, to the pages of his mag-learning that the volumes of Blackstone contain, is, in this zine. The present number contains an excellent article Essay Writing and the Press," from the pen of the Hon. J. T. Nesbit.

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DISCOURSE on the Life, Character and Public Services
of JAMES KENT, Late Chancellor of the State of New
York; Delivered by request, before the Judiciary and
Bar of the City and State of New York, April 12, 1848.
By JOHN DUER. New York, D. Appleton & Company.

1848.

We have been accustomed to regard the late Chancellor Kent with feelings akin to veneration. We have therefore Pad Mr. Duer's Discourse with great interest. It is in eed a worthy and affecting tribute to the memory of the astrous deceased, not in a strain of undiscerning eulogy, ke "some flattering, false insculption on a tomb," but simy recording his many and valuable services, the good eeds that distinguished a long life of labor. We confess e were not prepared to learn that in early manhood, Chanellor Kent had so signally displayed his eminent talents, appears from this narrative; our acquaintance with them aving been acquired through the medium of his Commenares, the work of a serene old age.. This production, shich will be, in after times, the most splendid monument f his learning, was written, after his compulsory removal rom the bench, under the requisition of the Law of the State of New York, and Mr. Duer tells us that but for that aw, it might never have been transmitted to posterity. Mr. Duer thus draws a parallel between Kent and Blacktone as writers on jurisprudence.

country, obsolete or inapplicable; while the principles and rules of law that the American commentaries set forth and explain, are living truths of daily importance and constant application. The plan of Blackstone is indeed the most extensive, but it is imperfectly executed, and it embraces many subjects of subordinate use and value; but the American Commentaries, although more limited in their plan, contain a full and elaborate discussion of every subject that they embrace, and the knowledge that they convey, is exactly that which every lawyer, as essential to the discharge of his duties, finds it necessary to acquire. [ am very far from thinking or meaning to assert, that the labors of Kent have entirely superseded those of Blackstone, so as to render a study, in this country, of the Commentaries on the Laws of England, no longer necessary or expedient; but I do not hesitate to affirm, that the utility and value of the Commentaries on American Law, both as a work of elementary instruction, and of consultation and reference, are far more certain, and far more extensive. They contain all the learning of real and permanent importance, that is to be found in the Commentaries of Blackstone, if we except that portion of his work which relates to the English constitution and government, and they supply deficiencies that all the readers of Blackstone adinit and regret. They are indeed exactly the work that the condition of our country and of the law, and the daily wants of its students and professors, had long demanded; nor would it be easy to define the extent, or limit the duration of the benefits that have flowed, and must continue to flow, from its general reception, use and authority. It is now in the hands of every student, and of every practitioner of the law, and it ought to be in the hands of every legislator and statesman, and indeed of every man of cultiva"The similarity in their titles, naturally suggests a com- ted mind and liberal studies. I find it difficult to quit a ason, between the Commentaries on American Law, and subject that has long and frequently engaged my attention, ose of Blackstone on the Laws of England-yet, in re- but, mindful of the limits to which I am restricted, I conlity, the two works differ so widely, not only in their plan, clude with saying of the entire work, that vast, various and ut in their mode of treating the subjects which they em- complex, as are its subjects and topics, the knowledge of race, that a just comparison is difficult to be made. The the author embraced, his mind comprehended them all; his Erst, second, and third volumes of the Commentaries of masterly analysis and logical arrangement, have condensed Kent, are devoted to subjects, which although mostly inclued in the plan of Blackstone, he has either wholly failed to onsider, or has treated in a very slight and superficial manr; while on the other hand, the third and fourth volumes the Commentaries of Blackstone, and the larger portion the first, treat of subjects that from the American Com

them all into an harmonious whole, and he has illustrated and illuminated them all, by the varied graces of a pure and flowing and lucid and animated style. In the language that Paterculus applies to Cicero, "animo vidit, ingenio complexus est, eloquentia illuminavit."

"And here I close my review of the life and labors of the deceased; and I have utterly failed in its purpose, if any further observations can be requisite to convey to your minds the impressions I have desired to make. I have utterly failed, if from the facts that have been stated, you are at any loss to form your own judgment of the nature, extent and value of his public services, or of that rare union of the choicest gifts and endowments of the intellect and of the heart, of learning and of temper, by which he was enabled to render them. For myself, when his character as developed in the narrative that has now been given, rises before me, in all its integrity and truth-its nobleness and purity-and when I reflect on the magnitude of his labors and upon their vast and most beneficial results, I feel emboldened to say-and I feel assured of your sympathy in saying—that great as our country is, in all the elements of a just renown, and illustrious as its annals have become by the labors and by the exploits of statesmen and of heroes, it may yet be doubted whether, hitherto it has produced a man more worthy of its entire veneration, gratitude and love, than him, whose services to his country and to his race, we are this day met to commemorate.

In concluding his memoir, Mr. Duer says, with great plished in all the arts which can adorn the gentleman, stored simplicity and beauty, with all that classic and scientific learning that make the servant and capable of accurate discrimination, he presentscholar, bold, original and inventive, at the same time obed a rare combination of qualities which peculiarly fired him for the difficult task of arresting the current of medical science, which was then rapidly drifting along the strong tide of theory, and turning it into its proper and legitimate channel of observation. I need not tell you with what vigor and energy he set about this work; how, with all the power of his eloquence as a lecturer, of his force and bri liancy as a writer, he opposed, what was then pompously called, systematic and classical medicine, and how su02all students, that friend to all routine practitioners and opcessfully he made war against that great stumbling block to ponent to every advance in scientific medicine, medical tions from his brilliant mind, which have contributed so nosology.. I need not repeat to you all of the many emanagreatly to the elevation of our profession and to the good of mankind, and which have extracted, from his bitterest enemies, the confession that he was an honor and ornament to his country and profession, and did good service in the cause of medical science.' This is the bright side of the picture, and while, with a natural and excusable partiality, we should greatly prefer to dwell upon it, justice requires that the other, the darker side, should also be presented. While successfully battling against the medical doctrine of Cullen, and, with a masterly hand, pointing out the casenable nature of the data upon which it was based, he seemed to think that the science would call for some new expla nation of the phenomena of disease, as soon as the docinat then prevalent was exploded. Seeing most clearly the er rors of his predecessors, be could not perceive that, when he had pointed them out and left the science free from the incumbrance of all theory, he had done just what was ne cessary: but, deluded by the alluring prospect of a glorious immortality, in giving to the profession a new, and, as be vainly conceived, a true explanation of the phenomena of disease," a theory which, while supported by his eloquence, disease, he proposed his celebrated theory of "the unity of and carrying with it the almost irresistible prestige of his

"Regio."

"Rebus opima bonis, multa munita virum vi,
Nil tamen hoc habuisse viro præclarius in se,
Nec sanctum magis, et mirum carumque videtur.

An Address on the True Mode of Medical Investigation, Delivered before the Society of Alumni of the Medical Department of Hampden Sidney College. By Carter P. Johnson, M. D. Published by order of the Society. Richmond. Printed by Shepherd & Colin. 1848.

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All those who were fortunate enough to be present at the recent Commencement of our Medical College will recollect with pleasure the very finished and elegant Ad-name and wide-spread reputation, at the same time that if dresses of Professor Gibson and Dr. Johnson. We have looked with eager expectancy for the publication of ever been presented to the profession, met with the almost offered the most simple explanation of disease that bad the former, which was designed as a Valedictory to the unanimous reception of medical men in this country, and Graduating class, but, so far as we know, it has not yet made some progress on the other side of the Atlantic. But appeared. From the title page of Dr. Johnson's Address, now, that its author and his immediate pupils have passed which we have given above, the reader will see that it was from off the scene, and the positions and data called forth by the invitation of the Society of Alumni, beiore the theory was based, can be calmly and without prejudice whom it was delivered. The style of it is remarkably per-discussed and considered, the unhesitating verdict of the spicuous and attractive. Indeed we could not look for profession of his own country, pronounces it false, unph anything commonplace from Dr. Johnson who to great professional learning unites the stores of classical erudition. We regret that our limits admit of but one quotation from this address, which we would gladly notice more at length. The author is speaking of the unfortunate effects of theory in the practice of medicine, as exhibited in the career of the gifted but eccentric Brown, and proceeds,

losophical and dangerous: and while we look back with feelings of pride and gratification at the mighty genius which has shed a bright halo of glory around the medical profession of America, we cannot fail most deeply to de plore the blighting effects upon that genius, of theory, that bane of all true science, and most truly to regret, that a mind so capable of enriching the science of medicine and of extending its usefulness, should, so far, have wasted its energies in useless and unprofitable speculation."

"But, gentlemen, Scotland alone was not destined to afford illustrations of the baneful influence of theory on the minds of the most illustrious members of our profession. There is a name enrolled in the annals of fame, in characters that can never be effaced, a name, at the men. tion of which, every American heart must throb with pride. and exultation, a name of which, as citizens and as memn-are pleased to notice the 3rd Volume of Lamartine's HisAmong the recent publications of Harper & Brothers, we bers of the medical profession, we may proudly boast, for tory of the Girondists, which completes the work. Also it has reflected honor and renown upon our nation and our the 3rd number of their beautiful serial edition of the Araprofession, the name of our own immortal Rush. I need bian Nights. Several other brochures from the same pub not describe to you, gentlemen, the many admirable quali-lishers reached us too late to be noticed in our present ties of the mind of our illustrious countryman; accom- ' number.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM-JNO. R. THOMPSON, EDITOR AND PRoprietor.

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otherwise be tempted thither. The beautiful words of Pindar are impressed with a painful truth:

και πού τι και βροτῶν φρένας
ὑπὲρ τὸν ἁλαθὴ λόγον
δεδαιδάλμενοι ψεύδεσι ποικίλοις
εξαπατῶντι μύθοι.

It may seem strange, or even inconsistent, that Let it not be supposed that in our strictures on we should make these admissions after having inthe spirit and the tendency of the age, we have troduced our remarks in such a tone of reprehenhad any disposition to laud former times at the ex- sion. But the inconsistency is merely apparent, pense of the present. We have no inclination to and will disappear with the further prosecution of roll back the tides of the ocean; we would rather our inquiries. We would only premise that the follow the natural course of the stream, than fool- moral character of a work is to be estimated not ishly and vainly endeavor to force back the floods from its professed design-not from the role of its upon their sources. The law of nature is the rule personnages—not from the sentiments maladroitly of right; and progress is the great canon of the put into the mouths of the actors-nor from the world. The desire to go back is the wisdom of conclusion which winds up the plot-but from the the pedant, or the witling; far be such hallucina-impression which it leaves behind, and the effect tion from us. But every age brings with it its which it is calculated to produce. It would be difown dangers as its own benefits-and with the ficult to name a book with a better professed deseeds of every advance in civilization are mingled sign than The Monk: none can be more dangerthe seeds of new error and difficulty. The tares ous in its tendency, or more disgusting in its peruwill spring up with the wheat. We admit and ad- sal. mire the wonderful progress of the world in recent times; but while others have been gazing only on the blossoms and early fruits, we have been exam- If we had not postponed until so late a day our ning the parasites which have clustered round the notice of this novel, we should have answered this trunk and threatened its existence. We must tend inquiry at length. As, however, more than a year the tree and prune its branches, if we would long has been suffered to elapse since its publication, expect to gather from it good fruit. The dangers we shall endeavor to make our response as brief that are mixed up with the present social system as possible. It is sufficient to indicate the nature have been too little regarded by care they may of the poison, and its general mode of operation, be avoided, or rendered comparatively innocuous; without tracing it through all the vessels into which but the few to which we have adverted, and which it is infused, or investigating all the shapes in which it is Bulwer's object in Lucretia to exhibit, are cer- it acts. tainly portentous, and merit the gravest consideration of all thoughtful men.

Whence then does the pernicious influence of Lueretia proceed?

The lapse of time would have prevented us from now detaining the public with our views upon a Bulwer's ostensible object in the composition of novel, which has had its day, were it not, that in the present work, was, as he has avowed, to illus-pointing out its character, we are unveiling a distrate and set prominently before the eyes of the tinct form of literary contagion, which is diffused public those solemn phenomena in the present as- more or less through nearly the whole atmosphere pect of society, which we have just been discus- of our modern romance, and indicating a plague sing. We have no doubt that this was indeed his which may continue to infest us from other sourreal design. No aim could be more praiseworthy, ces that the single novel of Bulwer. Our text may or promise more wholesome results. He chose to possibly have been read, cast aside, and forgottenconvey his views under the form of the novel, be- the dangers we apprehend are not on that account cause fiction has for many minds a charm, which removed. The particular romance may have prothe annunciation of unadorned truth has not; and duced only a fleeting impression: this type of diswill woo to serious speculation those who could not ease has not therefore fully run its course. are investigating a permanent form of corruption, no matter how transitory may be the immediate subject which has prompted our inquiries.

Lucretia, or the Children of Night. By Sir E, Bulwer Lytton. New York. 1847.

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The real danger, then, which we apprehend from | sense from encountering this peril, yet even they Lucretia, and any similar work which might be le- cannot close their eyes to the melancholy fact that gitimately comprehended under the same category, the sources of our literature have been poisoned arises partly from the nature of the subject, but from the prevalent disposition of authors to pander principally from its mode of treatment. We have to the popular appetite. Their duty is plain: they no doubt that Bulwer regards these as the strongest proofs of the moral excellence of Lucretia. 'If,' (we may conceive him to say,) we recog'nize the truth of Pope's maxim, that

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Vice is a monster of so bateful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen.

'then the minute anatomy of crime, the curious 'investigation of the origin and remote causes of 'vice, and the accurate delineation of various and 'criminal characters, must warn men to avoid ini

quity, and excite such dread as will repel them 'from the commission of wickedness.' The argument is plausible, but it is not true.

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are bound for their own sake, and for the sake of
their fellow-men, and of coming generations, to re-
sist the progress of the pestilence: if determined
resistance when tried should prove ineffectual, they
have nothing to do except to protect themselves
against contagion, and lament for the delusion which
has exposed their fellows to the terrible shadows
of moral death. But this resistance has not been
tried: a year has passed over, and we have seen
no suitable exposition or censure of Lucretia; but
the damning stream of pollution is suffered to
sweep through our literature, and deposit its slime
sluices, or overwhelm its fountain head. What
in every house, without any attempt to fill up its
Hercules shall cleanse the Augean stables of mod-
accumulate every year at its present rate!
ern literature, if we suffer the trash and ordure to

The familiarity with vice and crime which ensuch vehicles of corruption as Lucretia, The Wansues from the publication and general circulation of

To the pure and untainted mind the naked de formity of vice would bring horror and dismay but when the wolf comes in sheep's clothing so elaborately disguised, so exquisitely concealed beneath its borrowed dress, that its features are not detected, it would not necessarily be hated until stripped of its adventitious garb. When the dan-dering Jew, The Mysteries of Paris, &c.,-nay, ger is not suspected, its approach will not be discovered until the injury may have been done. But even if there be no such concealment the constant

we might even say the familiarity with iniquity which such novels presuppose, is the first great source of their pernicious tendency. Carlyle quainttheir ruler would be naturally Bobissimus quidam: ly remarked that when the people were Bobuses may we not much more truly say that when the object of our admiration is Nequissimus quisque, the adorers must themselves become Nequiores? When a monkey is the God, what must we sup

exhibition of vice and crime will gradually paralyse the moral sense, and produce that callousness of feeling which will enable the spectator to regard with steadfast gaze that from which he would once have averted his eyes in disgust. The first exhibition of vice may indeed produce alarm: frequent acquaintance with it takes away the consciousness pose the idolaters to be who have established for of danger, and thus breaks down the natural bar-themselves such an object of adoration? “By their rier which Providence has implanted in the moral fruits ye shall know them," was the maxim given constitution of man for the protection of innocence. to us as an infallible test between good and evil.

But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

And when we notice such fruits as the present springing spontaneously from the prolific soil of modern literature-welcomed with such eager satisfaction by thousands of readers-propagated and There is a lamentable tendency in the present disseminated by sea and land over the whole face day to render our literature a literature of crime of the earth-what opinion must we form of those to seek for heroes in Newgate and heroines in the who have produced and those who have so readily stews. The lost of excitement has become so ar- received this contaminating harvest? And what dent, so corrupted and depraved, that all true feel- must we think of the condition of the society in ings of taste are utterly forgotten, and instead of which such productions are generated, or of that seeking for mental gratification in those healthy into which they are so congenially transplanted! pictures of life, which may fit us for the better dis- Since the first part of this Essay was written, the charge of our great duties to God, society, and recent Revolution in France has illustrated by its ourselves, we are driven by our morbid fancies to phenomena the tendencies of the people among welcome the more intoxicating stimulants provided whom the Littérature Extravagante principally by the chronicles of vice. Thus we seek that fa- arose; yet so largely have the communities of the miliarity with vice, which we ought most sedulous- civilized world been intoxicated and denaturalized ly to shun-we rush wildly into the atmosphere of by the copious draughts which they have drunk from infection, and expect to live unscathed in the midst these Salmacian waters, that they remain, for the of the putrefaction around us. If the better few most part, utterly blind to the solemn significance are restrained by native purity, or their own good of that tremendous event. In this case, however,

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