. The Illinois farmer [microform] : a monthly agricultural journal, devoted to the interests of the farmer, gardener, fruit grower and stock raiser ... Agriculture; Agriculture -- Illinois. YOL. III. SPRINGFIELD, APRIL, 1858. NO. 4. •rf*iip THE 1% PUBLISHED MONTHLY, BY BaiHiaclie V. -i a christian people, and yet do not fc^l ihat the obligations of our religion require of us to subject public as well as private matters to a stem ordeal This may not bs done by the pulpit, for our peculiarities of condition, cur manners of life, our birth-right, heritages, and sympathies are so different, bu
. The Illinois farmer [microform] : a monthly agricultural journal, devoted to the interests of the farmer, gardener, fruit grower and stock raiser ... Agriculture; Agriculture -- Illinois. YOL. III. SPRINGFIELD, APRIL, 1858. NO. 4. •rf*iip THE 1% PUBLISHED MONTHLY, BY BaiHiaclie V. -i a christian people, and yet do not fc^l ihat the obligations of our religion require of us to subject public as well as private matters to a stem ordeal This may not bs done by the pulpit, for our peculiarities of condition, cur manners of life, our birth-right, heritages, and sympathies are so different, but ws would have the precepts and teachings of the Gos- pel so applied to our individual character and conduct as to lead us aright in all the rela- tions of life, whether they be of slaveholding or non-slaveholding, of monarchical or demo- cratic type. Our lecturer, above alluded to, said that Pe- ricles, the great Athenian statesman, thought first of his country, and then of himselfj our politicians think first of themselves, and then, of nothing. There is a saying, *^dulce et decorum est moripro patrie" "sweet and fitting is it to die for one's country," but these men would not like Regulus return to Carthage to be immolated for their own and their country's honor, but would prefer to stay at home and look out for themselves, thus showing that repuMicanism has gained nothing, has lost ground in the lapse of twenty-two hundred years. Aristides met the clown who desired his expulsion from Athens, "Why what harm has he done thee," said Aristides. "I do not know him, but I hate to hear him called the *Just,'" was the-^^ reply, and added, "do thou write his nam^> on this shell," the ballot of that day, TrMch., was done, and Aristides, as it afterwards' • proved, went into banishment. An anecdote illustrative of so niuch truthfulness, delicacy of sentiment and d >iuterestedness, would not be understood in thrse days, would not
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