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verance, and are not these the never-failing auxiliaries to competence, to affluence, to wealth? Have you not the privilege of exercising all these faculties, and of enjoying all that their exercise produces, without the annoyances, which assail the bosom of him, who cannot invest his income so fast as it increases ? Bless God, with all your hearts, that your sleep is not disturbed by dreams of desolating tempests, that you may lie down to your rest, without dread of the midnight-robber, that you are not the prey of sharpers, -that the fall of stocks produces no loss of appetite at breakfast, that the rates of exchange affect not the flavor of your dinner, and that neither sub-treasurers, nor fiscal agents can run away with the money you have earned to purchase a supper. If you are too weak to labor, and if sickness has thrown you into a state of dependence upon the bounty of others for support, still you may thank God, that he has put it into the hearts of men to provide relief for the poor and him who hath no home. Be grateful to Him who hath moved the rich to supply your necessities, to feed you, as thousands of them will, THIS DAY, with comforts and even luxuries, and while, with ordinary words of courtesy, you thank your fellow-mortals, let the incense of a grateful heart rise up for a memorial before that throne, around which all must hereafter be gathered, when the rich and the poor, the small and the great, shall be called to give an account of their deeds.

"III. If the rich and the poor have cause for thanksgiving and praise, how much greater obligation is imposed on you, - ye on whom God hath bestowed

- Give me not

the blessing so ardently desired by the son of Jakeh 'Give me neither poverty nor riches; riches, 'lest I be full and deny thee;' - Give me not poverty, lest I steal and take the name of the Lord in vain.' If you have what content and decency require, and covet not superfluous pomp and wealth, let your thankfulness be manifested by the temperate use of the creature comforts,' and the cheerfulness which takes the buffets and rewards of fortune with equal thanks,' and that independence, which never fawns upon wealth, nor truckles to power. Thank God, heartily, that you are not a slave to the demon of the mine, nor a worshiper of the idol of ambition. Above all, thank Him that he has not abandoned you to the trade of the politician, nor, in his wrath given you up to that most despicable of all desires, the hankering for an office. Bless him that you are not the progeny of the horse-leech, whose daughters never cease to cry, Give, Give,' nor of the generation of those, (O how lofty are their eyes!) that never say, "It is enough!'

Thrice happy he,

To whom the wise indulgency of Heaven,

With sparing hand, but just enough has given.

"And now, let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter;' and it is this: — There is no sensible man who, on looking back to the incidents of the past year, the prosperous condition of the industrious classes of our citizens, and the reasonable prospects of a continuance of that prosperity, will deny that we are, as a people, highly blessed, and ought to be happy. The questions connected with our domestic politics, about which there is so much complaining and scolding,

which are used by one party or another, as the mere weapons with which to carry on a mutual political warfare, are, in truth, when compared with the general progress of improvement and increase of wealth and its advantages, very insignificant matters. The number of people who are directly affected in their property and occupations by the running away of public defaulters, the frauds of the directors of moneyed institutions, and the unsettled state of the rates of exchange, is, after all, but a very little fraction of our twenty millions. Compared with the millions, who pursue the even tenor of their way,' willing to work and contented with the reasonable profits arising from the products of their industry, the brokers who live by selling worthless stocks, and the speculators who get cheated in the purchase, form but a contemptible part of the whole. Those who have traded in the valuable commodity, called Politics, with small capitals, and have not yet been able to procure an office, are perhaps the only class of our citizens, who are really entitled to compassion, and whose right to grumble will not be disputed. We would not undertake to say that a disappointed office-seeker has any cause of thankfulness, for he does not find even commiseration. There is no one to mourn for him, and of course he receives no pity to be grateful for. But such should. form no exception to the general invitation to thanksgiving. Let men all unite this day in cheerful thankfulness, in pious gratitude, to the Giver of all Good;

For should our thanks awake the rising sun,

And lengthen as his latest shadows run,

That, though the longest day, would soon, too soon, be done." Nov. 25, 1841.

THE NEW YEAR.

"Readers! we salute you with the best wishes of our heart for your happiness, health and prosperity. Grace and remembrance to you all, and welcome to the pleasures and privileges, the satisfactions and immunities of the new-born year. May Happiness court you in her best array! Wisdom, the incorruptible Spirit of the Lover of souls, be the companion of your way! Peace and Prosperity attend upon your enterprizes!

And all the ruins of distressful times

Repaired with double riches of Content.

"The face of the New Year wears an auspicious smile. It promises a reward to industry, success to enterprize, melioration to misfortune, security to wealth, relief to poverty, peace and the 'assurance of quietness' to all. Our country, we believe, has seldom been in a more prosperous condition. With foreign nations it has no quarrel, nor any cause of dispute that may not be adjusted by fair and liberalminded negotiation. The differences among ourselves, though noisy, and sometimes pushed on to uncomfortable extremities, excite the wonder of foreigners. Europeans who visit us, and who come from scenes where poverty and destitution prevail, are astonished at the contention and clamor, which are continually kept alive, in regard to elections; and the causes, when they can be made to understand them, appear insignificant, when compared with the provocations to complaint, riot and insurrection, which are of almost

daily occurrence in the old world. Happy, indeed, are we, as a people, beyond all other nations, but how unspeakably more blessed, could we shake off the shackles of the Spirit of Party,-a tyrannical sovereign, ruling with a rod of iron its willing subjects, and pursuing the reluctant with the venom of the serpent and the ferocity of the tiger.

If the New Year affords promise of peace and prosperity to the nation, it looks with an eye not less propitious on the condition and pursuits of the various. members of the body politic. Our cities and seaports are full of life and activity. The exchange of merchandize between distant portions of our country, and between those portions and realms beyond the seas, is carried on with a rapidity, unexampled in the history of all former ages. The atmosphere of our manufacturing villages is turbulent with the buzzing of machinery; and the grounds of the husbandman bring forth plentifully. In our own beloved city, the architect, the carpenter, and the mason, are rearing almost innumerable edifices, some on spots heretofore vacant, and others in place of the decayed and incommodious, for the residences of the industrious and the wealthy, or stores and warehouses for the reception of the products of both hemispheres, while our streets are rendered almost impassable by the constant procession of wagons, trucks, and other vehicles transporting those products from one purchaser or vender to another. Surely such indications of prosperous activity may justify the belief that this New Year is a happy one, and the wish that it may continue as it is to its close.

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