Most sincerely.


ZEBULON BUTLER.
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Fztract from sermon deliUered in the Prestyte-


rian Church, Port Gibson, on the LOrd's-day,


Feb. 5th, I843, by The Pastor, Ze5ulon Butler.


..The heart of the nation yet vibrates with the
shock inflicted by the report of the execu-
ton Of the mutineers on one Of our National
vessels. One was the favorite son of a promi-
nent officer Of the Federal Government. Mo-
ther! once babe like your infant boy, the EN-
bodment of lovcliness and innocence, he repos-
ed in his mothers arms How brief, yet how
baleful was his travil through life! How inglo.
rious, how gloomy his era! A neglected educa-
ton, and the perusal of the fctions Of Bulwer,
Cooper and Maryatt, were the fatal causes Of
his mad career and his wretched DEATH Leave
your boy with an unsueordinated will and un-
governed passion, without schooling him to yir-
tue or impressing the Gospel on his heart, allow
him to revel in the gilded falsities and sweet
ened impurities of the novelst-permit him to
take his lessons of morality at the dancing
school-the play.house-the biIliard-roonl, or
the card-table, and he mag become as distin-
gushed as Murrel, whose mother taught him to
lie and steal--or Courvoirier, who vas excited
to murder Lord Russell by reading Jack shep-
pard--or Oxford,n who attempted to take the
life Of England's youthful Queen, after witnes.
sing the performance of the Bravo of Venice
or like Spencer, expiate at the yard.arm, or die
by his own hands, as Colt died, in the gloomy
cell OF prison."