SAVING EFFECTS OF VACCINATION.

As the preservation of human life is one great object of this work, it is proper to excite attention to such means as experience has shown to be conducive to that end. It is less than 30 years since the small pox was the terror of every country. About 27 years ago, Dr. Jenner, of England, made the discovery that Vaccination was a preventive of that loathsome and fatal disease. Like other saving discoveries, this had to encounter strong opposition; but success gave it popularity, and caused it to be spread in each quarter of the world.

That an antidote for such a terrible disease, which may be so easily obtained, and at so little expense and danger, should be treated with indifference or neglect, is surely to be lamented. Both in England and in this country several populous cities have paid dearly for such negligence.

That vaccination, in every instance, affords infallible security against the small pox, is not pretended by writers on the subject; and experience has shown that some persons are liable to have the small pox a second time. But that our readers may be informed respecting the probable degree of security which vaccination affords against the small pox, some striking facts will be copied from the 66th No. of the Quarterly Review, lately republished in Boston. The facts to be mentioned occurred in Britain

"The small pox had been extinct in Norwich from 1813 to June 1818, when a country girl, travelling from Yorkshire, caught it in a market town through which she passed, and was taken ill soon after her arrival at Norwich. This girl was the innocent cause of the death of more than 500 persons. More than 3000 persons caught the disease. It proved fatal to 530. Now there was in Norwich about 10,000 vaccinated persons exposed to the full rage of this very contagious and malignant small pox."

"The result of this Norwich epidemic was as follows: Of those persons who had neither had cow pox nor small pox, about 3000 caught the disease, and 530 died, that is more than one in six died;-of those who had been vaccinated, amounting to 10,000, rather more than two in every hundred were affected by the small pox contagion, but it almost invariably produced a short and trifling disease. In only six instances did it occasion the full length small pox, and in two only did it terminate fatally."

It is remarkable that in the same paragraph it is stated-" Of those who had previously had the small pox, many caught it again, as severely as if they never had had it before, and one died."

From these facts it appears that although vaccination does not in every case afford security against the small pox, yet such cases are few in number; and that the few persons who have had the small pox after vaccination have almost invariably had it in a modified and mild form. Who then that has a proper regard to his own life and the lives of others, will remain exposed to the small pox, while a remedy so nearly infallible is within his reach, and may be easily applied? The Reviewer, who furnished the foregoing facts, blames the people of England for

their negligence, while in other countries of Europe "general vaccination was ordered by government." In those countries he says, "no one who had had neither the cow pox nor the small pox could be confirmed, apprenticed, or married."

Lest some should suppose that this article is foreign from the main object of the work, a few remarks by way of analogy may be added. As multiplying the number of vaccinated persons diminishes the probability of deaths by the small pox; so multiplying the number of pacific men diminishes the probability of death by violence and war. Though vaccination may not in all cases be a security against the small pox, yet, in these cases, if the small pox does occur, it assumes a milder form; so the diffusion of pacific principles may not in all cases prevent war,until all men imbibe these principles, yet in the cases in which war may occur, it will assume a milder character, and be less ferocious and destructive in proportion as pacific sentiments shall have been disseminated.

If all mankind should be properly vaccinated, the small pox would soon be unknown; so if all men should become truly pacific, the nations would learn war no more. But, in both cases, while men refuse or neglect the proper remedies or antidotes, they may reasonably expect to suffer for their imprudence and folly.

These several considerations are sufficient to justify great exertions, to extend vaccination and pacific principles throughout the abodes of mankind. No man who is liable to the small pox and neglects vaccination can be sure that he will not be the instrument of filling some city with disease and death, like the girl who visited Norwich; and who can endure the thought of causing by his own negligence the death of 530 people? In like manner we may reason with regard to those who neglect to imbue their minds with the principles of peace. By this neglect they may become promoters of war and murderers of their brethren.

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS, or beneficenT INSTITUTIONS.

EDMUND BURKE first visited London in 1750. After his arrival he wrote to his friend Shackleton the following account of the city. "The buildings are very fine; it may be called a sink of vice; but its Hospitals and Charitable Institutions, whose turrets pierce the skies, like so many electrical conductors, avert the wrath of Heaven."-This remark of Mr Burke occasioned the following lines

In this vast Capital of buildings fine,

A sink of vice calls loud for wrath Divine;
But even here-to save from wo and guilt,
Godlike BENEFICENCE has mansions built,

Whose numerous turrets like conductors rise,
All pointing upwards to the threatening skies,
To turn aside electric streams of wrath,

And bring their thunders harmless down to earth!

An age of seventy-five has passed away,

Since Burke perceived this happy dawn of day.-
Had his half prescient eye the whole descried,
Of Saving Institutions multiplied

A hundred fold, in less than four-score years,
As to our favored vision now appears,-

How would his heart in rapturous strains have sung,
A theme which well becomes a Seraph's tongue!

The joy and safeguard of the British Isle,
These Institutions shall for ages smile,-
Relieving wants, preventing crimes and woes,
Rejoicing friends, conciliating foes;-
From this Metropolis, on every hand,

Their influence shall extend to every land,

To bless our race-to teach that Christian "leaven"
Makes man the friend of man, and earth like heaven!

A. P.

For the Friend of Peace.

THE GROUND OF HOPE.

Firm ground is sought on which to place

The Fulcrum of the Lever,

To move the world of man's disgrace,

. And banish war forever.

The WORD OF GOD, that wars shall cease,

Is a secure foundation;

Come forward then, each friend of peace,
And take your proper station.

Exert your powers,-ply all your weight-
Enlist your friends and neighbors;
The cause is good-the work is great,
And God wil! bless your labors.

ELIEL.

AUSPICIOUS OCCURRENCES.

I. AT Demarara, an ordinance has been issued favorable to the slaves."Religious instruction is to be provided, and Sunday markets abolished. The whip is no longer to be carried as a badge of authority or as a stimulus to labor. Offences are not to be punished till the day after their commission, to pre

vent the indulgence of passion. No female slave is to be flogged, under a penalty of 1400 guilders." These regulations are humane, and if observed, will greatly meliorate the condition of

the slaves.

II. Great exertions are made in England to effect a gradual and ultimately a total abolition of slavery in her colonies.

III. The Legislature of Louisiana has prohibited any further introduction of slaves into that State for sale. This closes one of the principal markets for the sale of human flesh in the land of freedom and equal rights. The Georgia Courier highly applauds this law of Louisiana, and urges the Legislature of Georgia to follow this example. He commends the law of the United States by which the foreign Slave Trade is declared to be Piracy, and then asks "whether the traffic in slaves, now subsisting between the Middle and Southern States, is more consistent with humanity, than that which our laws have proclaimed Piracy, with unanimous approbation?"

IV. "An expedition of 119 men, women, and children, liberated by the Society of Friends in North Carolina, sailed from Beaufort for Hayti, on the eleventh of June."

On seeing this account in the newspapers we were at a loss to account for the facts implied, having supposed that the Society of Friends had a number of years ago, throughout the country, freed themselves from the reproach of slave-holding. But another account since received explains the affair. This last account states, that at "the Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends for New-England at Newport, R. I. one thousand dollars were raised by subscription to aid in colonizing the slaves who have fallen, by inheritance, into the hands of members of the Society in North Carolina, where the manumission of slaves is prohibited, unless they are sent out of the State."-Here we have an example worthy to be imitated by all denominations of Christians. The Friends at the South were disposed to free their slaves, and their brethren at the North were disposed to aid them in the benevolent work, by bearing a share of the burden.

V. By a letter from the Secretary of the Peace Society recently revived in Portsmouth, N. H. it appears that the Society has 35 subscribers-" 18 gentlemen and 17 ladies." This is an example worthy of imitation throughout the country.

N. B. The Peace Societies of Rhode Island and Maine have had their Annual Meetings; and it was intended to notice their Reports in this Number. But the Report from Rhode Island has not been received; and so much of the Report from Maine as was received in the Christian Mirror, has, by accident, been sent with other papers to do good in Ohio.

NOTICES.

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The subscriptions in each year to be paid on or before the first day of Feb. ruary; and one half of the subscription is refunded in Peace Tracts, at the wholesale price, the Friend of Peace at ten cents a copy.

The numbers of the Friend of Peace prior to the present year, may also be had by subscribers, of the Editor, at ten cents a copy, or ten dollars a hundred.

The several Numbers of the Friend of Peace are also for sale at the Boston Bookstore, Cummings, Hilliard, & Co. No. 134 Washington Street, and at the Bookstore of J. W. Burditt, No. 94 Court Street.

Any member who shall fail of otherwise receiving his copy at any quar. terly distribution, may obtain it by applying to Mr. Burditt.

N. B. The Treasurer of M. P. S., Mr. David Reed, will receive subscriptions, at No. 81 Washington Street, Boston. All who can do it with convenience are desired to make their payments to him; those who cannot without expense settle with the Treasurer, may send their subscriptions inclosed to the Corresponding Secretary, as Postmaster in Brighton, and he will return receipts.

OBITUARY.

Died at Portsmouth, N. H. June 3d, NATHANIEL APPLETON. HAVEN, Jun. Esq. the worthy President of the Portsmouth Peace Society, aged 36.

At Monticello, Va. the Hon. THOMAS JEFFERSON, an Honorary Member of the Massachusetts Peace Society, aged 83.

At Quincy, Mass. the Hon. JOHN ADAMS, aged 90.

It is remarkable and worthy of record, that Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson were both Members of the Continental Congressboth of the Committee which reported the Declaration of Independence--both were afterwards sent as Ministers to the Court of France,--under the Federal Constitution each in his turn was VICE PRESIDENT and PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES-they both lived to advanced age, to witness the prosperity of their country, and on the Fiftieth Anniversary of our National Independence, while the people in all the United States were celebrating the event, and pronouncing their names with respect, they both bade adieu to terrestrial scenes, and closed their eyes in death! These distinguished individuals were of like passions with other men; for a number of years they were opposed to each other in politics, and were regarded as leaders of the two parties which then divided the nation. In later years, they cor responded with each other as friends. In their graves, let the remaining prejudices of the two parties be buried, and sleep forever.