REFORM OF MORALS.
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REFORM OF MORALS.

 The crisis has come. By the people of this generation, by ourselves probably, the amazing question is to be decided, wheth- CT the inheritance of our fathers shall be preserved or thrown away; whether our Sabbaths shall be delight or loathing ; whether the taverns, on that holy day, shall be crowded with drunkards, or the sanctuary of God with humble worship pers: whether riot and profaneness shall fill our streets, and poverty our dwellings, and convicts our jails, and violence our land; or whether industry and temper ancc, and righteousness shall be the stabl- ity of our times whether mild laws shall receive the cheerful submission of freemen, or the iron rod of tyrant compel the trembling homage of slaves. Be not de- ceived. Human nature in this State is like human nature every where. All actual difference in our favor is adventitous, and the result of our laws, institutions and hab- its. It is a moral influence, which, with the blessing of God, has formed a state of society so eminenily desirable. The same influence, which has formed it, is indispen- sable to it's preservation. The rocks and 'IS oI ASc" GHSidHu VIII IcHI"In SIH tIc last confagration. But let the Sabbath be profaned with impunity, the worship of God be abandoned, the government and religious instruction of children neglected, and the streams of intemperance permitted to flow, and her glory will depart. The wall of fire will no more surround her, and the intuition of rocks will no longer be her defence.

 If we neglect our duty, and suffer our laws and institutions to go down, we give them up forever. It is easy to relax, easy to retreat, but impossible, when the abom- ination of desolation has once passed over New England, to rear again the fragments, and build up the ruins of demolished insti- tutions. Another New England, nor wo, nor our children, shall ever see, if this be destroyed. AlIis lost, irretrievably, when the Iand-marks are once removed, and the bands which now hold us are broken. Such institutions, and such state of socie- ty, can be established only by such men as our fathers were, and in such circumstances