our country, and nothing but the decided rebuke of law, sustained by a well regulated public sentiment, can effectually check its progress. The causes of this increasing spirit of misrule are numerous.

One may be found in the breaking up of permanent associations, the scattering of persons hither and thither over the whole country. A community who grow up on the soil, who are accustomed to see the same institutions from one generation to another, insensibly learn to reverence those institutions and customs, and shrink from doing any thing which may hinder the regular course of affairs. But as they scatter off, and are now here, now there, the charm is broken. They become more fickle and more liable to be swayed by impulse. The feeling of permanency and almost necessary continuance is gone. They have none of those attachments to the welfare of the community which were once felt, and its peace or prosperity is an object far less endeared to their hearts. Interests of persons, or classes of persons, seem to clash, and the need of mutual concession becomes greater. Thus is it with our country at present. The population of our cities, towns and villages, is more fluctuating a class of people is found among us who having been restrained by sheer force, have come to this country feeling, that liberty means a full permission for every one to do what is right or desirable in his own eyes. Now this rupture of old associations, and this extension of the community is the necessary result of the world's progress. But for this reason a solemn determination to uphold the majesty of the law is the more needful, that the due balance may be preserved.

Again. Another cause is a relaxation of family discipline on the principles of parental authority. An unhappy notion of the self-government of children, has crept into the minds of many. The former practice, in some respects, may have been too stern and forceful, but the present one errs on the other extreme. Well-governed families will make well-governed communities and nations. Taught to respect the laws of home and the fire-side, they will expect to obey those of the city, state, or nation. That parent who suffers his child to be wayward at home, must expect that his boy, when become a man, will be lawless and rebellious to the state. The new methods of education, in which teachers, while they disclaim the exercises of the memory, aim mainly to cultivate the reflective powers, before the pupil can profitably be set to the task, in their zeal to make young sages, whose oracular sayings and opinions may be published, lose sight of the spirit of pert selfsufficiency and pride which they foster in the infant bosom.

What has been said of families is also true of school-government. Discipline is gradually ceasing to be exerted, and the opinion is gravely advanced, that a collection of children whose minds are not yet matured, whose passions and interests often clash, are adequate to decide how the school should be regulated. The young republican must have no curb of authority laid upon him-it will break down his spirit-no chastisement must touch him, but he must be reasoned with and convinced and won. Now we are sick of this foolish affectation of regard to the right reason of the child. The fact is, there is not one out of a hundred but who when he does wrong knows it, and the true way to bring him to such a sense of it as shall be of any avail, is to show him, without passion, yet decidedly, that you know and feel it too. Children are under law, the law of parental government, and this they should be made to acknowledge by wholesome discipline; they pass forth under the law of schools, colleges, and of those who instruct them in their several trades and occupations; they are in a community regulated by laws, citizens of a state and nation, which elects its legislators and executive officers for the purpose of sustaining law, and subjects of a God, all whose actions are guided by the unerring rules of justice and love.

Another cause of the feeling of insubordination is the violence of party strife. The progress of party feeling in this country has been marked by a growing disregard for the courtesies and civilities of life. Decorum and law have been outraged, and maxims of the most corrupting and even brutalizing character have been and are openly avowed and promulgated. It has been inculcated alike by one party and by another, that the main object should be to supplant its adversaries. For this purpose no means have been spared; private character has been attacked, and principles have been acted on the tendency of which is to destroy society and endanger the peace of any community. Bitterness of denunciation, ridicule, falsehood, have been chief weapons of attack on either side, and that press is most popular which can best call names and crush its opponents. This spirit, thus engendered and kept alive, has been diffused through the great mass. The manufacture of public opinion has become a regular employment. Articles written at some central point of influence, have been sent abroad to extreme parts of the country, and when there published in certain of the numer ous newspapers, have been caught up at the place where they were first prepared, and paraded in the columns of some unscrupulous partisan paper as the expression of public opinion at

a distance. The whole process is well known, and perhaps at heart despised, but favoring as it does the interests of the party, it is passed over. Thus "conscience swings from its moorings," moral principle is destroyed, and all those feelings of party violence, which have become so habitual, are ready for their full play whenever any object shall be presented to call them forth. Scenes of strife and abuse, even in the hall of legislation, and private wrongs, real or fancied, avenged on the spot-when these are common, it is no difficult matter to excite a mob and let it spend its energies upon some hated object. In certain instances it may be deemed a good occasion to manifest the feeling of contempt for the magistrate elected by the other party, or by such an occurrence disgrace may be brought upon him which shall as well subserve party purposes.

But the grand cause, is the disregard which has been suffered to go on towards the laws and institutions of God. In a community where the Sabbath of God's appointment is disregarded, where the claims of religion are unacknowledged, there will be mobs and lawless outrages on property and life. In breaking down the power of moral feeling with regard to God's claims, in violating the obligation we are under to him, and throwing off as a nation the restraints which he imposes, we are preparing for ourselves a scourge by which we shall be taught, sooner or later, the misery of our infatuation. Scorpion like, we shall find its sting of self-destruction when surrounded by the fires of divine visitation. The unbridled passions, which have gathered strength by indulgence, will become mighty for evil, and their force will be spent in invasions of our own rights and welfare. Who does not know the history of the French revolution? Who does not know, that spirits as reckless and as daring, as infidel, as determined too in their hatred of law and religion, are abroad in our land. Should, then, any thing like sympathy be manifested towards lawless violence? Is it a time when the least palliation should be offered to justify outrages on the rights of any one. Yet who does not know, that only a timid rebuke, a ready excuse, or a virtual approbation, has found place in the columns of some of our most popular newspapers. Sometimes, too, we fear, that the press has not been wanting in direct instigations to such wicked occurrences. We have enough of combustible materials gathered in our cities, and liable to be enkindled, to cause a dreadful conflagration, without any one casting forth sparks to set it in flames. It is easier to prevent its kindling than to quench the fires when once begun. The responsibility of the

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of this work. The first of these is, "That government is instituted by God," and as such it is not to be regarded "as merely of human arrangement." The old doctrine of the social compact, which has been productive of so much evil, and which is so entirely unsupported by sound argumentation, is thus very properly exploded, and the authority of civil society, traced up to its proper source-God's will as the expressive announcement of what is right or most productive of general happiness. Every thing in the circumstances of our birth, and the need of protection and instruction in our early days-the very first elenents of our social life, indicate most clearly, that we are deigned to be amenable to the claims of law and under authorty. As a consequence of this, "Submission to government nd to law, is a duty to God." Our highest interest is God's im in planning for us here-and bearing this in mind, the comhand of God is to be considered paramount to every other, in the ind of that man, who properly regards his situation as a free oral agent, accountable at the divine tribunal. Hence, "Restance to the laws, except in matters of conscience, is resisance against God, and is a sin against him." God's claim is ver the highest; if we are required to blaspheme him or to o injustice, we have a right to resist such a command: no one 2an impose upon us an obligation to break the laws of God. Such an act in a government would be suicidal, for the Supreme Ruler must be obeyed, or there is a renunciation of all authory. The acts of a government may be such as so clearly to ontravene all its original designs, that the destruction of this overnment for the purpose of establishing another, may be early a duty. But this is the case of a revolution, and even such a case, Law in its general principles must not be vioted. The recognition of the divine claim must be kept eadily in view. We must be morally certain, that the evils of he change will be greatly counterbalanced by the good results at shall flow from it. No rash and unreasonable measures ust be resorted to. Even if the end be a legitimate one, it ust be sought by the wisest means in our power. An obligaon to refuse to perform the commanded act, has become more inding than the pretended claim for obedience, and supersedes at authority. As we were once under obligation as a duty to od, to obey the human government. we are in performance of he same obligation of ty now, to e obedience to the huan government. octrine carried out, Whether therefore, ever ye do, do all o the glory of God."