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ItairM5itHiT1emtiowhmbrooto won fsoua be idifiekraseasn V umv JU mu quujlv u«c I'M*lowing sentences from i lile eloquent writer:0 Fa toe principles do indeed often ad vane*, but their progress ia either silent nod in the duk, or else their pioneers we the tort ore nodlfte stake. There ia a 1 conscious strength belonging to truth: ind when we sm principles steadily gaining ground, by free disc nation, by (air and ho neat reasoning, we rrcogutxr their ooward march as the appointed count of the world1*. Irsioiy, There is a tide in the affaire of men/1 and quite as ccrtaihly there ia a current* It cannot retura; and: though results are strictly no criteria of with! it would be hard to maintain that that current real ihe wrong way. ■ On the very bads oT oar betid in a' superintending Providence, we recognize his hand ia the silent growth of principles; of such principles at least as flourish ia the free airof u oft tiered discussion, andI epriag upside by aide with the noble plant of evangelical zraL We watch with internal lheir present rapid development. There are, do doubt, many unfavorable signs of the time#. Tel, we do not hesitate to say, that there are only two circumstances which at all alarm us; the comparatively slow progress which we can possibly make to sabdaing the gigantic evUa which arose in the laoae of slumbering geaerat'taa^aod the infatuation which leads good men to waste their strength, and trifle with their inGuepce, at the very I He rime when the call to concentrated effort ia the loud-1 .eat, and the pjpjaiee of success the Eaireu” ..; I The sequel jfr. the above trial warn truly amusing] g and mMropjlig. - Ifftm^ijjyly yfter the business be-1 ^ fore the Court was dispww| of, a debate took place the Slavery question, one of the Kentucky gtntktarg ] for opeoing it, in which he gave a pretty good Abolition I jfix lecture, however ill bit professions suited but pjacucc. 1 coi He admitted *oxm^/iIItow ajils which its oppo~1 cy ell havp ascribed to slavery, and. only pUdthtMcnn. I ^ pfoOiiae,aipf ike coatUUlioo in its • He was I ^^rMr. Vav in a strain if pound nr-1 ^f^ith , ported irony and £ring Wb |j**ro*Iy over eddied. : On the whole* we Wlvi fw} wUTretull from the afltfr* and tot theSHe:gil4thfanHaUrnwiUi«: wMmIi stf a
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Marshall Statesman
Marshall, Michigan, US
Mon, Feb 01, 1847
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