you teach your children that there is no guilt in murder? -Will you instruct them to think lightly of duelling, and train them up to destroy or be destroyed in the bloody field? Will you bestow your suffrage, when you know that by withholding it you may arrest this deadly evil-when this too is the only way in which it can be done, and when the present is perhaps the only period in which resistance can avail-when the remedy is so easy, so entirely in your power; and when God, if you do not punish these guilty men, will most inevitably punish you?

If the widows and the orphans, which this wasting evil has created and is yearly multiplying, might all stand before you, could you witness their tears; listen to their details of anguish? Should they point to the murderers of their fathers, their husbands, and their children, and lift up their voice and implore your aid to arrest an evil which had made them desolate-could you disregard their cry? Before their eyes could you approach the poll and patronize by your vote the destroyers of their peace? Had you beheld a dying father, conveyed bleeding and agonizing to his distracted family; had you heard their piercing shrieks, and witnessed their frantic agony-would you reward the savage man who had plunged them in distress? Had the duellist destroyed your neighbour-had your own father been killed by the man who solicits your suffrage-had your son been brought to your door, pale in death, and weltering in blood, laid low by his hand-would you then think the crime a small one? Would you honour with your confidence, and elevate to power by your vote, the guilty monster? And what would you think of your neighbours, if, regardless of your agony, they should reward him? And yet, such scenes of unutterable anguish, are multiplied every year. Every year the duellist is cutting down the neighbour of somebody. Every year, and many times in the year, a father is brought dead or dying to his family, or a son laid breathless at the feet of his parents. And every year you are patronizing, by your votes, the men who commit these crimes, and looking with cold indifference upon, and even mocking the sorrows

of your neighbour.-Beware-I admonish you solemnly to beware, and especially such of you as have promising sons preparing for active life, lest, having no feeling for the sorrows of another, you be called to weep for your own sorrow; lest your sons fall by the hand of the very murderer you vote for, or by the hand of some one whom his example has trained to the work of blood.

With such considerations before you, why, in the name of heaven, do you wish to vote for such men? What have they done for you-what can they do, that better men cannot as happily accomplish? And will you incur all this guilt and hazard all these consequences for nothing? Have you no religion-no conscience-no love to your country? No attachment to liberty-no humanity-no sympathy-no regard to your own welfare in this life; and no fear of consequences in the life to come?

Oh, my countrymen, awake! Awake to crimes which are your disgrace-to miseries which know not a limit-to judgments which will make you desolate.

I shall close, by an address to professing Christians of all denominations.

My brethren, for what purpose are you placed in this world? Why do you sustain the character, and enjoy the privileges, and anticipate the rewards of the children of God? Is it that you may stand idle spectators of the sins and miseries of mankind. "Holy and beloved," have you no" bowels of compassion?" And are tears, and sympathy, and prayers, the only labour of love which can be rendered, and which you are bound to bestow, to limit the prevalence of crimes, and mitigate the miseries of man? Is no intelligence to be exercised? Are no plans to be adopted? Is no concert of influence and labour to exist among those who are denominated the light of the world and the salt of the earth? Can the world be enlightened and the earth preserved, while Christians whirl away life in noise and bustle, or dose away their days in sloth? Or, divided and subdivided, exert the little influence they possess in watching one the other, and counteracting each other's designs?

Is there no common enemy to combat? and are there not points enough of common interest and common sentiment, to unite us in one great and vigorous attack?

Too long has the world polluted us by its maxims, and occupied us in its worldly schemes. It is high time to awake out of sleep; and, waving things in which we do not agree, to contribute our whole influence to promote those great objects in which we are all united.

It is the gospel which must heal the nations; and the more the spirit of the gospel can be diffused, and be made to express itself in the arrangement of society, the more will the world recover from its deadly wound. But, brethren, by our indolence and our divisions, we have lost that influence to bless the world which we might have had, and which we are bound to exert, and for the loss of which we must give account to God. "Divide and conquer," has ever been the maxim of the Devil in warring against the saints. He avails himself fully of the influence of his servants. The influence of the world is always equal to its numbers. It is Christ only who has cause to complain," why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" It is Christians alone who throw away their influence.

While this state of things remains, the church will continue feeble, and the world miserable. It is by concert only that she can become terrible as an army with banners.

Who then is on the Lord's side? Arise and stand forth, my brethren, as one man. The object to which your attention is called in this discourse, is one in which you can all unite, and in which, by solemn obligations, you are bound to unite.

The laws of God and man are violated. The spirit of the gospel is supplanted by the haughty and ferocious spirit of Devils. For years, it hath carried desolation in its course and for years, we have suffered the devouring scourge to pass through our land unobstructed; have even facilitated its progress, and multiplied its evils, by bestowing our suffrage upon the authors of our calamity. The God of heaven is offended. His ears are open to the cry of

blood and his judgments have come down, and his wrath has begun to wax hot against us. Nations shall be punished in this world; they have no existence in the other, and whatever precautions you may use, repentance and reformation can alone avert the chastising rod. So long as you concur with the world in tolerating the duellist,“ your hands are full of blood." "Wash you then, my brethren, and make you clean." Have mercy upon the nation, and "put away the evil of your doings-cease to do evil, learn to do well-seek judgment—relieve the oppressed-judge the fatherless-plead for the widow." But if you persist in your neglect of duty, and rebel, remember that the retribution of nations will not supersede the condemnation of individuals. The time draws near, when all of you must die and stand before the judgment seat of Christ, and givẹ an account of all that you have done which you ought not, and of all you have neglected to do, which you ought to have done. Inquisition will be made for blood; and wo to the man whose hands are stained with it! and wo to him, who, by helping the wicked, shall be found to have tempted his God!

Could all the miserable men whom you might have reolaimed by due exertion, but whom you will have encouraged to sin, stand around your dying bed with their weapons of death, could you look upon them with complaceney; or remember, without alarm, your fellowship in their erimes? Are such men the companions, with whom you would choose to go to judgment? the friends with whom you would spend the ages of eternity? Come out then from among them, that ye be not partakers of their plagues. Refrain from them, pass by them, and turn away; for he that walketh with the wise, shall be wiser; but the com panion of fools, shall be destroyed.

ANTI-DUELLING ASSOCIATION.

New-York, Aug. 8, 1809.

AGREEABLY to public notice, a large number of res pectable citizens met at the North Dutch Church, this day, to receive the report of a committee appointed at a former meeting, relative to the adoption of measures for the sup pression of duelling.

Hon. JOHN BROOME, Esq. in the Chair.
Col. LEBBEUS LOOMIS, Secretary.

The following plan was reported by the committee, and unanimously adopted, viz.

"WE, whose names are hereunto subscribed, viewing, with alarm, the increase of the practice of Duelling; desirous of opposing to its further prevalence the strongest lawful resistance; and persuaded that a proper use of the Right of Suffrage will have a powerful effect in discountenancing and banishing it; do hereby unite ourselves in an Associa tion, to be called the

ANTI-DUELLING ASSOCIATION OF NEW-YORK: And do, by our signatures hereunto annexed, solemnly pledge ourselves to each other, not to vote at any Election for any man, who, from current fame, or our own private conviction, we shall believe to have sent, accepted, or carried a Challenge to fight a Duel; or to have been in any wise concerned in promoting a Duel, or acting as Second or Surgeon therein, after the date hereof.

"For the better attaining the object of this Association, the affairs thereof shall be conducted by a Committee of -; with a President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Se cretary, chosen by themselves, out of their own number. -members shall form a quorum.

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