volting does the whole business of war appear! One part of a family rising up to murder another! one class trained up for the very trade of human slaughter! Is this the profession or the business to which men have attached the word GLORY? What a perversion and prostitution of reason and language!

It has been reported of some ancient barbarians, that they were in the habit of preserving young females taken in war, for the purpose of raising children by them, to fat and butcher for food. Let this horrible practise be compared with the christian practice of raising and training sons to be employed as man-butchers! and then say which of the two practices is the most inhuman and detestable.

REVIEW OF A PLAN FOR A PEACE OFFICE.

Dr. Benjamin Rush, the Author of the "Plan for a Peace Office in the United States," was an eminent philanthropist. He was also a man of good talents as a writer, and not afraid to attack pernicious practical errors, whatever might be their popularity. Many of his writings have been highly esteemed; but others, equally valuable, have been less popular, and perhaps merely because they were half a century in advance of the light which prevailed when they were written. In a note the Doctor informs us, that at the time of writing his plan for a Peace Office, "there existed wars between the United States and the American Indians, between the British nation and Tippóo Saib, between the planters of St. Domingo and their African Slaves, and between the French nation and the Emperor of Germany.”

The proposed object of the Plan was, "An Office for promoting and preserving perpetual peace in our country." "It is hoped, says the Doctor, that no objection will be made to the establishment of such an office while we are engaged in a war with the Indians; for as the War-Office was established in time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in time of war."

An abstract of the Plan will now be given in the Doctor's own language.

"Let a Secretary of the Peace be appointed to preside in this office, who shall be perfectly free from all the absurd and vulgar European prejudices upon the subject of government; let him be a genuine republican and a sincere Christian.

"Let a power be given to the Secretary to establish and maintain free-schools in every city, village and township of the United States; and let him be responsible for the talents, principles and morals of all such schoolmasters.

"Let every family in the United States be furnished at the public expense, by the Secretary of this office with a copy of an American edition of the Bible."

"Let the following sentence be inscribed in letters of gold over the doors of every State and Court house in the United States:

THE SON OF MAN CAME NOT TO DESTROY MEN'S LIVES BUT TO

SAVE THEM.

"To inspire a veneration for human life and a horror at the shedding of human blood," the Doctor proposed a reformation in the penal code of laws, and the abolition of capital punish

ments.

"To subdue that passion for war which education, added to human depravity, has made universal, a familiarity with the instruments of death, as well as all military shows, should be carefully avoided.

"In the last place, let a large room, adjoining the Federal Hall, be appropriated for transacting the buisness and preserving the records of this office. Over the door of this room let there be a sign, on which the figures of a LAMB, a DOVE and an OLIVE BRANCH should be painted, together with the following inscription in letters of gold :

PEACE ON EARTH-GOOD WILL TO MAN.

AH! WHY WILL MEN FORGET THAT THEY ARE BRETHREN. "Within this apartment let there be a collection of plough shares and pruning-hooks made of swords and spears; and on each of the walls of the apartment, the following pictures as large as the life:

the lips of the child.

"An Indian boiling venison in the same pot with a citizen of Kentucky.

"Lord Cornwallis and Tippoo Saib, under the shade of a Sycamore in the East Indies, drinking Madeira wine out of the same decanter.

"A group of French and Austrian Soldiers dancing arm in arm, under a bower in the neighbourhood of Mons.

"A St. Domingo planter, a man of colour, and a native of Africa, legislating together in the same colonial assembly:

"To complete the entertainment of this delightful department, let a group of young ladies, clad in white robes, assemble every day at a certain hour in a gallery to be erected for the purpose, and sing odes and hymns and anthems in praise of the blessings of peace. One of these songs should consist. of the following lines..

"Peace o'er the world her olive wand extends,

And white rob'd innocence from heaven descends;

All crimes shall cease, and ancient frauds shall fail,
Returning justice mounts aloft her scale.

"In order more deeply to affect the minds of the citizens of the United States with the blessings of peace, by contrasting them with the evils of war, let the following inscriptions be painted on the sign, which is placed over the door of the War Office.

"An office for butchering the human species.

"A widow and orphan making office.

"A broken bone making office.

"A wooden leg making office.

"An office for creating public and private vices.

"An office for creating public debt.

"An office for creating speculators, stock-jobbers and bank

rupts.

"An office for creating famine.

"An office for creating pestilential diseases.

"An office for creating poverty-and for the destruction of liberty and national happiness.

"In the lobby of the office let there be painted representa

tions of the common military instruments of death, also human skulls, broken bones, unburied and putrefying dead bodies, hospitals crowded with sick and wounded soldiers, villages on fire, mothers in besieged cities eating the flesh of their own children, ships sinking in the ocean, rivers died with blood, and extensive plains without a tree or fence, or any other object but the ruins of deserted farm houses.

"Above this group of woful figures, let the following words be inserted in red characters to represent human blood,

NATIONAL GLORY."

Such is the Plan of Dr. Rush. It appears to have been his opinion—and it is the opinion of many others, that a War Office operates as a War Manufactory-that it produces and multiplies the very evils which it was professedly designed to prevent. May not this opinion be amply supported by the history of every country in which such an office has been established? Perhaps no enlightened American will deny that such has been the effect in Europe; and what but a bewildering partiality can lead any one to suppose, that the same cause. should have a different effect in our country? It is true that our government is termed republican, while the governments of Europe are chiefly monarchical; but so far as any government establishes a military system, despotism is established. For martial laws are ever of a despotic character, and in a greater or less degree subversive of liberty.

The Plan proposed by Dr. Rush is capable of amendment ; some things might be omitted, and others substituted. The business of supplying every family with a Bible may now be referred to the Bible Societies. But the Secretary of Peace might be authorised to encourage the establishment of Peace Societies in every town, and to promote the distribution of Books and Tracts adapted to the diffusion of pacific principles and a pacific spirit. It might also be made his duty to correspond with the governments of other countries, to call

their attention to the great object of the Peace Office, to solicit the establishment of similar offices in other nations, and to employ a portion of the public revenues of our government in works of beneficence, for relieving the distresses and improving the condition of fellow beings in different parts of the

world, but especially the condition of the Africans and Indians of our own country. Suppose that for ten years to come there should be a judicious appropriation of a tenth part of as much money for these benevolent objects as has been expended by eur government for military purposes in the last ten years; what a change of opinion and feeling might be effected, in our country and throughout the civilized world!-Where is the man, who has reflected on the subject, that does not believe that 20 millions expended in this manner would afford a better protection and more ample security than 200 millions employed under the direction of a War Office? For myself, I would rather risk my property, my liberty, my life, and all I hold dear on earth, under the protection of such a Peace Office with 20 millions expense to the nation in ten years, than under the protection of a War Office, with an expense of 200 millions annually.

THOMAS PAINE'S ACCOUNT OF THE OBJECT OF WAR.

WHATEVER may have been the character of Thomas Paineor however incorrect his opinions on religious subjects, it will not be denied by persons of candor that he was a writer of considerable talents, and that in some instances he wrote with great propriety and force. The following extracts from the "Rights of Man," are, it is believed, worthy of the serious consideration of all classes of people :

"War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditures of public money in all countries. It is the art of conquering at home."

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"It is attributed to Henry IV. of France, a larged and benevolent heart, that he proposed, about the year 1610, a plan for abolishing war in Europe. The plan consist ed in constituting a European congress, or, as the French authors style it, a pacific republic, by appointing delegates from the several nations, who were to act as a court of arbitration, in any disputes that might arise between nation and nation.

"Had such a plan been adopted at the time it was proposed, the taxes of England and France, as two of the parties, would