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government of the United States IS bound
to frame the laws to suit the people of 9TH
er countries, or to send committees there to
know of them wha, laws will suit them. or
what must be done here to induce them to
come here-Thnse foreigners who are
here, are Americans by adoption, and
should be Americans in feeling and princi-
pies. They are entitled to all the civil
rights and privileges of native born citizens
with the exceptions provided for in the
Constitution and we say, let them enjoy
those rights and privileges: we would be
the last that would wish to deprive them of
a single one of them. But ifthose who are
now in the old country, do not like our
laws as they now are. In their 'shackle-
worn condition, we dare say we can get on
tolerable we'll without them. We are
wiling 10 try it at tall events


BRIG HIT EXAMPLE TO YOUTH.


RIGHT ABOUT FAcE.-Mr. Delavan, o.
Albany, who has devoted money and tai
ent for the promotion of temperance, and
who has done as much as any one indIyid-
ual in America in giving dignity and inn
portance to this noble enterprise, was. IN
his youth. one of club of fifty, who were
In the habit of meeting ut room IN pub,
lie house, to enjoy themselves IN 'the feast
of reason and the flow Of soul. II was
not long however, tefore MIR. Delavan
was led to serious reflection upon the folly
and danger of the practice. till on certain
evening, while on his way TO the club, he
suddenly stopped and exclaimed aloud;
Rfoas a6osi facel And be did right about
face: and. said he, to the gentlemen to


4 star
first block of buildings l ever erected 10
Albany was erected on the cG.ner 0irec'iv
in front of where formed that resolution.


We have copied the above from the Bos-
ton Temperance Journal; which also says,
in reference to those fifty young men,
Ertythree of them become druakGrds, and
most of them found drunkard's DEATH


And now, what if Mr.. Delavan had not
made the noble resolve and adhered to III


What If he had net manfully resisted
those fashionable allurements and changed
his course2 What might have been his
charactcr2-what his influence on society2
and what his prospects for the coming
worldl


Apart from all pecuniary considerations,
what youth would exchange the intellectu'
al and moral worth, and the gratitude and
esteem OF the community, and OF the lem
perance world, now enjoyed by this distn-
guished phiianthropist. for all the pleasures
of convivlal intercourse. enjoyed by all the
mere votaries of fashion or ambition, from
the fatal banquet of Alexander the Great
down to the present momen2


Let every thoughtless young man now
make The estimate;-let him carefully coun
the cost of mere idle, fashionable inter
course,-the vast of precious time, the
waste of health, and the loss OF talent. char
| acter, property and soul, which it otten IN
volves-let him think that the noble eleva
ton attained by others, is within his reacf
also;-let him think of the high destiny, Il
which right reason. and true friendship
and conscience, ard his country. and God
| are inviting him,-and then let him decide
| whether il is not now time for him TO say
like Mr.. Delavan, "Right about face"


True, in this age OF reform, be may b.
| in no such imminent danger from the iniox
icating cup. But there are other destroyer
| equally insidious. There are other inf1u
encies, that may rob him of his time, tn
most precious of all talen,s,-rob ANN
his conscience, his sense OF accountability
and his self-respect, as an immortal beng
and thus rob him. ere he is awrre of hi
birih,ria ht for both worlds.


NJ Y TeIeCraDh