A Short Sermon

Tkxt. - 'Mr. Clay, asevery body knows, utterlr opposcd to duelling. He 8 a kind on( benevolent man, who Iihs nothing of the spir t of murder in him. Instead of ca ever cae of dueliing a murder, we bold t wiser t believe tbe word of Ihe npost!e - "He tha ha tel h his brother is a munlerer." He tha büS no unkind feeling towards ano) her an ioes not wish lo injur him, i not a murdere Uioug.li he '8hould weakly allow a false publ opinión to control Jiis conduct in Uie matter o a duel.'' - Editor Síaíe Journal. COMMENT. "Shall we snatch fiom the dungeon an the the victims of justice, to inve them witli power, and adorn them with dig niiy and honor? I do not hesiíate to say thn every duclist is a muïderer, for he has sai so himseïf. fíe has avowed as his oion, prin dples öf muider; ht telïs yon ihat, ij' ocea siun calis, and his sJcilï he svjficicnt, he ui murder. And, when he hos stood forth hn ih field of combat, and aimed the deadly weapotfcarmd Iremhling, hos failed to prostrate hi victim. is he tlierefore not a murderer? Ia th professed rob'jor who fails in his ottemp tiiereforo not a robber? Is the assassin, be cause his tlirttst was not dcadly, therefore no an asssain1 The thief soücits in vain the public suffrage; the liighway robber can find none to palÜale his crime; and the common murtlerer might he live, would be doomec! to Ünger on a life of dÍ6giMfíg infarr.y. But the duelis who, in cold blood, or vviih bitter malice nni burningf rege, murders his neighbor, can rlnd enough to exercise charity and paJliate Jiis crime!Cut vihsl the dnelisr, frail man s overeóme by tcmpiatíon. He has peculiar sensibilices, habits of educatíon, aj)d modes of thinking-, which, n this one case, írd hm asfray. wiihout nlerring' at olí a general deficiency ol principie, rel gious or moral. Id plain lanijunge, because thc dnelist is eoucated a tlucl ist, the crime of vrilíbl murtJer in him is very smnl!, and is consistent wiih rc'isions and mor3l principie. íf men, then, nre oniy educaUd x.o tliieving-, a.'sassination and robbery - if, by hnbit and false toasoning, tbeyareso fu miliarized (o crime as to rob and sleal, and destroy Jife, without mnch consciousness of onilt, tlipn. indeed, ihey are very íionest men, and are U to superintend the afiairs of the nation!' - Lyman Beecher, D. D. Sennon. 1006.From the LomsvÜ'e Journal. Mr. Clny arrivcd here on Saturday niglil and took passage for New Orieans yeslerday.. [SUN DA Y] in the Gray Eagle. We presume tliat he will niake his promised vi.sit to Nortli Carolina before re turninjj to Kentucky.' From the New Hoven (Coiin) Register. MORE SABBATH BRGAKING. 'The Southern papers br'wg us an account of Mr. Clay's arrival at Mobila on tlic 'L5ih of February.1 The Palladiom publishes 1 fiat he was' io leave Mobile for the North on the '3d of March.' The Almanc mukes botii the.-e dates to fall on the SABBATH! So we have the electioneering progress of the 'bloody hand' - leaving Louitville on the QISABBATH, he entered New Orlesns on the SABBATH. Again, he left th latter oty so he might nrrive at Mobile on the SABBATH - and the Püadium lelld us thnt hc tnrncd towards the North on the (JJSABBATHofihiswcek?'