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—o———p——~i— .. AUGUSTA ‘ CP||?6tlfflf’ AND GEORGIA I gHfefrtf*tr« ; .. _ a BY T. S. HANNON. p TERMS. ) lor the City paper, (thrice a week,) Six Dalian- b lire annum, payable in advance, or Seven Dollars J tl not paid Itefore tlic end of the year. For the Country paper, (on e ft week.) Three Dot tars per annuni, payable In advance, or I'oar Dol- h larv, if not paid before the end of the year. J Any order front u responsible subscriber to dis- # continue bis paper will be complied Willi on a set tlement of dues, and not before. Advertisements will be inserted at the following ( rates: For the first insertion, per square, Sixty- . ♦wo and a h.df cents; for each subsequent, luccet- J 1 rive, Insertion, Forty three nndtiiree quarter cents: |i In idl other cases 62 1-2 cents per square. c When an ndvertlsemcm is sent, without n speci fication In writing of the number of insertions, it 1 Will lie published until ordered out, unit charged t accordingly. / LET rl:(l8, (on business) umst be post-paid—or s they may not meet with attention. U TT In lids paper the laws of the United States t «tfe published. | |MI : ■ i t TT.DM THE PROVIDENCE JOUP.NAL. I I COUSIN LUCY. I (TUP PER vu. 1. Hut, to our narrative—About a year After b:iin loft us all he sent a letter; And from his manner, it was very cl ar That the poor fellow’s spirits were no better, He wrote to Ootuln Lucy also; (near Five sheets.) I thought it would have overset her. It pierced her soul; ’twas easy to discover it; Out, woman-like, she pretty soon got over it. 11. Thus matters stood; another year passed by, And Sum returned; but oh, bow {hanged from him Whom oucc I knew ; That bright and sparkling eye Is deep and sunken; and Us glance Is dim. The smile is sadness, and the slow reply, The hectic Hush, the WCitli and trembling limb, Proclaim that life is wasting; nnd declare, The scat nf death—a broken heart is there. 111. In fact, friend Sum was fur from convalescent, His health was lit u very fast declension.— But I umst leave these people for the present: And say a few words o» the new invention Os wings for men. I've heard of no contention Having arisen, here, nor In tha Senate, Upon the inject.—As for Mister Bennett, IV. Had he but lived, when people died fur dealing In the Black Art, (and what Is surely stranger, TV lien many were made martyrs, for revealing That truth, to Man from which he was a ranger; And witches died like rogues who hang fur stealing;) 1 : ing Ar would have been In little danger Os being burnt for witchcraft; —for, no jury Hud found him guilty of It, I assure ye.— V, Suppose his plan were possible. The thing Into no little trouble soon would get us. ’Twould tie a favorite mode of travelling With lieu-pecked husbands,poets, bankrupt debtors And all such people; nnd perhaps the king Os Abyssinia might soon beset us- Or we might rend, perhaps, nf some such copers As these which follow; in our public papers. VI. Oh, these new human wings Are exactly the tilings For such a bright fellow ns 1 am. 1 can find no enjoyment In cart lily employ ment, And fully determined to rty, am. Krom each distant planet, As soon as 1 span it, And give its good people conviction; I’ll pet a sole patent, (They’ll make no debate on’t;) Bor tlyinlg, In tliulr Jurisdisliun. I’ll laugh at poor Min e, While I pell him with stars; Then, put half creation between us.— Then, oIT, In a crack, ’ .ouTiJ the whole Zodiaok; I’ll dame “ Fisher’s Hornpipe," with I emu/ Next old Saturn, I'll take, By the nape of Ids neck. And tumble him down, as hr sits there, Direct through the hole la the world,at the pole; To light Colonel Sytumes,—w hen he gets there. As 1 pass by the moon, I Intend to send down A few mounltes to earth, for dissection; With a piece of the clay From the w hite milky way, For our great Doctor Mitchell's collection. When my day's work is o\ cr; And what I discover That’s curious, to earth, I have flung ye With my wings in my pocket, IB slide down like a rocket, Dn the ridge of a rainbow, among ye! * * * * • ’ * , VIT. Oh, gracious Heaven,—a swift deliverance send us, And strike, from our long catalogue of ill*, All these shaved monkeys, and these peddling ven -4 ders Os Un.ware, hooka, and never-Cdling pills W&e-n.Vtx devUs, and wax w itch of Eudors, Hand organs, learned goai.Tiid fiaclc mllls’- So ends this chapter Next time, I intend ,ou •TT* 1 “**■ ,hc *••} one I mean to send you. LUCY'S COUSIN. AN ACCOUNT 'Z OF THE j t) intended VnaviYirection J A MOMC ! m A I’ORTION OF THE BLACKS itr IN CHARLESTON. I PUBLISHED ! tr Bu the author lit) of the Corporation of ' Charleston. il f CONCLUDED.! * C (F.) t( of Harry Haig, ‘ Julius Forrest, and myself, always worked together. Gullali Jack t ails “ hiiusetl a negro doctor, he induced J u!i- 1 us and myself to join at last, but at first j wc refused ; before the 16th June, Jacicl • appointed to meet us at Bulkley’s Farm ; |" u when we got there, Jack was not there, i :l but Peter Poyas came, wc broke up at | ■*' Jay light. Not quite a month before the )’ 10th June, Jack met me, and talked a- j* r anut war. I asked Jack, how he would J lo for arms ? Bye and bye, said Jack, 1 we will have arms ; he said, he would J 1 have somejunnsjtnade at the blacksmith's. J] Jack was going to give * *' » * , ■ # * * ■ # » * * * * Until Jack was: e taken up and condemned to death, 1 was j r just like I was bound up, and h id not the 1 1 power to apeak one word about it. Jack i v charmed Julius and myself at liul, and we ; v then consented to join. Torn Russell, the blacksmith and Jack are partners, js’ (in conjuring) Jack learnt him to heal'] doctor. Tom talked to Jade about the | fighting, and agreed to join, and those j l ' two brought Julius and myself tsflMpro 111 to it- Jack said, Torn was hist sroond, | 1 and “ when you don’t see ne ( “and sec jj l Tom, you see one.” Jack said, Tout was; ' making arms tor the black people ; Jack j j 1 said he would i ol bo killed, nor could a | " while man take him. (II.) “ Cun fission of Jess®!, the slave nfTlwmos j •' Blackwood, Kstjr, ; furnished to the 1' Court by the. firv. Dr. I>. Ham,. 1 was invited to Denmark ' Vesey’s 0 house, and when I went, 1 found several r men met together, among whom was Ned : liemictt, Peter Poyas, and others, whom v 1 did not know. Denmark opened tin meeting by saying, he had an important j ■' secret to communicate to us, which we 8 must not disclose In any or.e, and if wi * did, we should bo pul to irtstant death. * lie said, we were deprived ol our rights and privileges by the white people, and * that our church was shut up, so that we ! could not use il; and that it was high lime • for us to seek for our rights, and that wc were fully aide to conquer (lie whites, if we wore only unanimous and courage ous, as the St. Domingo people wete. ■ He then proceeded to explain his plan, by ‘ saying, Flint they intended to make the at tack by setting the governor’s mills on fire, and also on some houses near the water, ami as soon as the bells began to * ring for fire, that they should kill every 1 man, as lie came out of his door, and that S tho servants in the yard should do it, and that it should be done w,th axes and clubs, * and afterwards they should murder the ' women and children, for he said, Clod ■ had so commanded il in the Scriptures. * At another meeting at Denmark’s Ned * B ■nne.tt and Peter Poyas-, and several r others were present in conversation, some said, they thought it was cruel to 1 kill tho ministers, ami the women and t children, but Denmark Vesey said, lie 1 thought it was for our safety, not to spare s one while skin alive, for this was the plan ' they pursued in St. Domingo. Ho then said to me, Jesse, 1 want you to go into ’ the country, to enlist sis many of the ' country negroes as possible, to be in read- ' iuess to come down to assist us. 1 told ' him, 1 had no horse, and no money lo hire ' one; he the i lookout two dollars, and ' gave them lo me to hire a horse, and told 1 mo to enlist as many as possible. 1 got the horse tho next Sabbath, and started, : but tho guard was so strict, 1 could not : pass them without being taken up; so 1 returned, and told Denmark, at which ho expressed his sorrow, ai d said, the business was urgent, for they wanted the country ptoplo to be armed, that they might attack the Forts at the same time, and also to take every vessel and ship in the harbor, and lo put every man to death, except tho captains. For, said lu it will not be safe to stay in Cha lesion, (bras soon as they had got all (he money out of the banks, and the goods out of the stores on board, (hey intended to sail fib- St. Domingo ; lor he had a promise, that they ould receive and protect them. This Jesse asserted to me, was tho truth, whih tho tears were running down his cheeks, and he appeared truly penitent; and I have reason to hope, that he obtain ed pardon from God, through the merits of Christ, and was prepared to meet his late with confidence, and that he was ac cepted ot God. At 4 o’clock on the morning of the execution, 1 visited all the prisoner! condemned and found Jesse at prayers. He told me. bis mind was pla cid and calm ; bo then assured me, that what he had told me was the truth, and that he was prepared lo meet his Gcd. (K.) CONFESSION OF MONDAY OI’LL. I conic out as a man who knows lie is about to die—some time after Christmas Vesoy passed my door, he called in and said to me, that he was trying to gather the blacks to try and see if any thing could be done to overcome the w hites ; he asked me to join; 1 asked him his plan ami his numbers ; he said he had Peter Poyas, Ned Bennett and Jack Purcell; he asked me to join ; 1 said no; he left tie and 1 saw him not for some time. A bout four or five weeks ago as I n cut up W entworth street, Frank Ferguson met me, and said he had four plantations of . people who he was logo lor on Saturday, loth June. How, said I, will you bring them down ; he said, through the woods ; Ire asked mo if I was going towards Ve sey a to ask Vcsey lo be at home that eve ning, and he would be there lo tell him , hi? success. 1 asked Jack Purcell to car iry this message, he said he would; that same evening at my house I met Vesey’s I mulatto boy, he tol jme Vesey wished to see me, I went with him ; when I went into Vescy’s I met Ned Bennett, Peter I oyas, nnd Frank Ferguson, and Adam, and Gullafi Jack; they were consulting about the plan ; Frank-told Vesey on Sa turday. Islh, he would go and bring down the people and lodge them near town in the woods; tho plan was to arm themselves by breaking open the stores villi arms. 1 then told Vesey. I-would r oin them, after some time I told them 1 f tad some business of my own and asked \ hem to excuse me, 1 went away, and on- \ y then was 1 ever there. One evening, J t'erault, Slrohecker, and Bacchus Ham- r nett brought to my shop a keg, and asked ( nc to let it stay there till they sent for it; t said yes but did not know the contents; \ he next evening Gullah Jack came and e .ook away the keg, this was before the c ICth June; since 1 have been in prison 1 i earut that the keg contained powder. ' Pharo Thompson is concerned, and he ( old me, a day or two alter Ned and Pe- i er wore taken up, if he could get a fifty | lollar bill, lie would run away ; about I wo Sundays before 1 was brought here, c it- asked me, in Archdale street, when t hall we be like those while people in the t hurch; I said when it pleaseil God; I Sunday before I was taken up, lie met me s is 1 was coming out of Archdalc Church, t ind look me into a stable in said street, < tnd told me he had fold his master, who t tad asked him, that he had nothing to do i n this affair ; which was a lie. William i Colcoc k came to my shop once and said a i mother to d him that five hundred men ; i were making up for the same purpose. | Prank said he was to send to Hell-Hole t Swamp to get men. ; Porault Slrohecker is engaged ;he us- i od to go of a Sunday on horseback up the i road to a mini he knows on the same er- ! rand. One Sunday he asked me logo I with him; I went, and Smart Anderson; I wc wont to a small house a little- way c from the road after yon turn into the ship < yard road, on its left hand; they too went into the (aide with au old man that i lived there, 1 remained in Hir v-.u-d ; 1 they remained in the stable about hal/a.i.i i hour ; us soon a», they came out, f and]; Perault started to town to go to chinch, i and left Smart there. 1 was told by Hen-! bow Martin, who has a wife in Mr. j i Smith’s bouse, that Stephen Smith he--j; longed to some of the gang. Saby Gaillard is concerned; he met i I me on the Bay before the loth of June I] and gave me a. piece of paper from hi' i pocket ; this paper was about the cattle that Boyer had in St. Domingo ; In u day ■ or two he called on roe and nskt-ibii I hud . read it, and said, ii he had as unnv men lie would do the spine too, us lie- could’ whip t -n white rn.m himself; he frequent- ■ ly came to roe to speak about this matter, 1 and at last 1 hud to instill him o il of the shop ; ho and Paris Ball was oft m t. ge thf-.r, A work before 1 was taken up, Pans told me that my, name was culled. Billy Palmer and Vescy'were con stantly. together ; there was oik c in my shop a long talk between them about this same matter; 1 begged (hem to stop it; Vesey told him to try to gel as many as he could ; he said he would. John Vincent told me that lilward Johnson, a tree man, had said, as he was a free man he would havo nothing (o do with slaves, but the night they begun ia would join them. I told Charles Drayton what uproar there was about this business, and since we have been here wo have talked to gether. Albert Inglis came to me and asked if! 1 knew any thing about it; I said ye>:. He asked me if 1 had joined; I said yes; he 1 said he was one also; he said Adam, a free man wanted to see mo, I went with him one night: Adam asked me how ma ny men had joined ; I told him what. Frank Ferguson had said ; he asked me if I be lieved it; I said yes ;he said if he could only find men behind him he would go before. Previous to the 10th, Albert said tome quit the business; I told him 1 was 100 far into it, so 1 must stick to it. 1 never wrote, to St. Domingo* or any whore else on this subject, nor kept a list, or books, nor saw any such things, but heard that Paul’s William, h.ura list, nor did 1 hear any thing ar out arms being in possession ol the hi;. ks. 1 don’t know that Tom Russel made piko?, nor that Gullah Jack had any of them. Lewis Renioussio called at my shed and asked me to call at his house ; he had something to tell me, hut I did not go; Jack Glen told me he was engaged. I met Scipio Sims one Sunday, coming from the country, who said he had been near the Savannahs to Mr. Middleton’s place ; 1 heart! afterwards that his errand was on this business. Iknow John the cooper, who said he was engaged too in this business. William Garner said he was engaged in it and had got twelve or thirteen dray men to join. Sandy Vesey told me he belonged to it too. At Vesey’? house, Frank told Gullah Jack, to put one hall and three buck shot in each cartridge. Mingo Harth acknowledged tome that he had joined, and Peter Poyas told nu so too ; he, Mingo, told me so several times; Mingo said lie was to have Ins master’s horse on the night of the ICth. Lot Forrester told me frequently that he was one ol the company, and 1 know that he had joined in the business myself. 1 aac Harth told me our a that he had joined, he knew 1 was in the business. Morris Brown knew nothing of if, and we agreed not to let him, Harry Dray ton, or Chares Corr, know any thing about it. told me in my store that he was to get some powder from his mas ter and give it to Peter Poyas; he seemed to have been a long time engaged iu it, and to know a great deal. Joe Jore ac knowledged to me once or twice that he had joined, he said he knew some of the Frenchmen concerned; he knew 1 was iu it, rri , , (L.) / hr. Confession of Jack Purcell. li it had not been for the cunning of that old villain Jack Vesey, I should not row he in my present situation. He. em ployed every stratagem (o induce me to join him. He was in the habit of read ing to me all the passages in the newspa- that related to St. Domingo, and ap parently every pamphlet he could lay his bands on, that had any connexion with slavery. He one day brought me a speech which he told me had been delivered in Congress by a Mr. King, on the subject of slavery; he (old me that Mr King was the black man’s friend, that he Mr. King had declared he would continue to speak, write and publish pamphlets against slav ery the longest day he lived, until the Southern Stales consented to emancipate their slaves, for that slavery was a dis grace to the country. (M.) Confession of John -Endow. Monday Cell led me in it and took me t* Vesey’s ; there Was a large . _ .# tjft ’ .' ,yq • i' ... , meeting; V esey told Hie meeting the people was to rise up anil light the white people for (heir liberty ; we al ways went to Monday’s house afterwards; Monday did all the writing ; 1 heard they were trying all round the country to Georgetown, Santee and round to Com baljee, fee. about to get people ; Peter was also there, ho was ore ; Peter nam ed Poyas’ (Mutilation, where he went to meet; Bellisle Yales 1 have seen at the meetings, and Adam Yates, Naphur Yales, Dean Mitchell,’Caesar Smith and George (a Stevidore,) at Vesey’s iliey wanted to make a collection to make pikes for the country people, but the men had no money! Monday Cell said Pur cell was one to get horses to send men in to the country ; I heard a blacksmith was to make piker. Jack McNeil is engaged ; I have seen them all at Monday’s; Jack said he was one and would try to get men; the plan was to take the Arsenals and \ Guard Ileuses for arms-and to fire tire-j towns unless they failed; Monday was writing a letter to St. Domingo, to go by ( a vessel lying at Gibb’s and Harper’s! wirin' r the letter v.as about the sutler-! i.igi of the blacks, and to know if the people of St. Domingo 'would help them if they made an effort to free thorns selves; he was writing this letter in March, 1 am not certain of the time; Pe rault was present when Monday wrote the letter, and also a painter, named Prince Lighten; I have seen Pornpey Haig at Monday’s, hut he never assented or dissented; Jerry Cohen was at Vesey’s, anid said to me hu va- one ; 1 heard from Vosey am! Monday lliul they had engaged men from the country ; Peter Poyas said Pc had sent into die country to his bro ther to engage men. v. i-o would send him an answer; a party was to attack the Guard House and Arsenal ; another the Arsenal on the Neck; another the Naval Slopes on the Mey’s wharf; another to attack the Magazine ; another to meet at. LighKvooAlley and then fry to i utolf the coin panics from meeting at their places of rondosvans; 1 belong to the Af rican Congregation; on Saturday the 15th June, an was to be sent into the country to hying down the people, and and Holla was to command the country people from Ashley River at the Bridge; Nod Bonnet and John Horry to meet at Mr. Horry’s comer, and Battcau’ to cumc down with Ve-sv’s party. , RF.CAITf’ULATION. Number of Prisoners executed SS “ re-rued midi the 25»,!i October, 1822, i v ! b n view to the commutation of > 12 l heir j -.nishiaem ) 11 scnli ’i a-.; to be n ar-oorted by their I e.i ,-is under ci: i.Ctiou of the City V 21 i o meiJ ) “ sertenr ■ to i-. n-.j' rled beyond I the ihi.rti if tlie.-u, ■■ s 1 11 ar .oiite,pi. vd ,nos ti;n:s;ioi 1 1‘ion ) mi;;.. -1.*.! to .lii'.r owners, and l those o tiose ir niters bate agreed > 9 to tran-j!Qi'l vv I the at trial S " acquiuedanddisctiar; eubvtbeOomt 27 “ u -• by Committee of Vigilance 25 Whole number arrested 131 Respectfully xubr.iitt..:' hy Ml El). WESNEH, TitG [t. CON-) Committee UV, Till). KAI’IEK, SAMUEL > of BUHGEIi, EI)WAt!!> I*. SIMONS, ) Vigilance. * Perault unhesitatingly stinted to Mon day's face, that he had writ ten ttvu letters , to 111. Domingo, ond that he ( Perault) had gone Iu Pander ho si's wharf with him, in April er May lust, to girt them in charge of u black took on b»n,d if a schooner bound to that Isiund. Astir Monday was so charg ed, he confessed that the fact vm so, and that he ■ d been induced to conceal it un der nn apprehension Iho I if it were known he hod been guilty of such an act all chance of mercy would he denied hint, I*rom the Louisville (Ky.) Public Advertiser* The President, U is undeniable, that a party has been organized against Mr. Monroe and his administration, with intent to have an in flat ncc anti effect on the next presidential election. It is believed and considered equally true F t Mr. Crawford, who is one of the e’irubers, of the cabinet, and of the administration, is tl - head and leader ol that party, li this be he fact, we think, and we believe, that the notion will also think, that Mr. Crawford ought to resign his place in the cabinet, and not employ the opportunities and influence which his station gives him, to thwart the measures of the administration, and op pose the best interests of his country. Mr. Crawford was the opponent of Mr. ''l iroe, for the presidency ; and was called by the latter to the head of the Treasury Department, to be one of Ins advisers, and to assist him in Hie adminis tration of tlie Government. This was a liberal act of Mr. Monroe, and should have laid Mr. Crawford, as a virtuous and high minded man, under the strongest obligations, honestly and saiths ully to co operate with the president, and the other members of his cabinet, in all just and proper measures for the promotion of the public good.—ln the first lour years ol Mr. Monroe’s ad ninistration, there was no schism in the cabinet, and parly-spirit, the bane and ruin of all ancient free go vernments, had almost ceased iu this na tion. The people believed that Mr. Monroe was blessed with an honest and aide cabinet, who was, and would be uni ted in favor of all important national measures; and that the next president would be freely chosen for his integrity, or disinterested patriotism, and talents and experience. It cannot be concealed or denied, that Mr. Crawford, and his friends, are op posed to Mr. Monroe, and the leading measures of his administration. The friends of Mr. Crawford have made at tacks iu the newspapers on Mr. Monroe and tli efriends of the government, and have united in congress, and have made war on him and the other mem oers of the Executive Department. If Mr. Crawford cannot accord with Mr. Monroe, and the other members of his cabinet, in the public measures pro posed, it is the duty of Mr. Crawford, as a Aigh minded and honorable officer of the government, to resign, and abandon his station and it lie approves ol the views and measures of (he administration, but op|K>ses them in order to open his way to the presidential choir, Mr. Monroe ought to dismiss him from office without delay. Mr. Monroe is responsible to the people of the United States, and to posterity, for the justice and wisdom ol his administra tion, and the purity, safety and pennanen -17/ of our Republican Institutions. He should not, therefore, lor a moment, sof fer an enemy to he one of the cabinet and thus afford him opportunities to em barrass him, and Ip array his parly in A congress, and lln'ougliout the nation, in t opposition to every executive measure. 6 Mr. Crawford may endeavor to cajole c and blind the nation with letters which t can be easily written, of a friendly nature 1 <1 to the president, but he will nut be be- t Ueved whilst he is at the head of a tarty j, which acts upon a system of opposition , j. and lakes every opportunity, most vio- 8 lenlly to assail the president, and all his f measures, and to pour out their gall a- 1 gainst his administration. In order to c prove his fidelity and friendship to the president, and to the nation, let Mr. c Crawford publicly disavow and abandon a t party which is boldly and bitterly as- i sailing the administration at every step, t This, .Mr. Crawford, as a man of honor i and patriotism, owes to Mr. Monroe ants c to their common country. He is hound, 1 by every honorable obligation, to sustain c the administration, or resign hia station in > \ the cabinet, which was conferre.d upon i j him, to aid in managing the Executive branch of the government. He will find 1 j that he cannot, by intrigue and opposition , t i make his place in the cabinet a Ladder to c ! climb to the presidential chair, lie who i shall reach that exalted station must 1 come in “at the door,” and not “ climb i over the wall.” 1 Hitherto the presidential chair has been' 1 filled by the patriots and sages of the Re- ( volution, and all sound statesmen have t looked with apprehension to the time and ] the contests which w ould arise about the I presidency after the good antrgreat men would be no more, who estaOTished the ' liberties and independence of their coun- j j try. Mr. Monroe is the last of those heroes who will fill the chair of slate, ! and the safety and happiness of the Ame ! rlcan people and the duration of their I | government, depend upon the proper i j choice of a successor to Mr. Monroe. j | II the successor of Mr. Monroe shall* | he ushered into office by intrigue , party > spirit and violence , assisted by sectional j ’ \feelings and pride, ail will be lost ; and ■ corruption, which will follow such event, i will undermine the government and over- ; turn the liberties of the nation. We ( : now have a virtuous, wise and Republi can administration, amt it is no. only the . duty and interest of the people to sus ; lain it against the rude and unjustifiable j attacks of tarty, but to elect asucces- ( i ?or who will aduii.lister the government ( on the same principles, and who is bold, candid, virtuous, independent and sin- ! ; cercly devoted to the liberties and pros- ' peiity of his country. 1 iVlr. Monroe shed his blood, when but 1 a youth, in the action at Trenton, j 1 where General Washington defeated the . British force, and captured a large bedy i of Hessians, which event, from its then intrinsic importune ■, and consequences, 1 1 has been rendered so memorable in (he > annals of the nation, and recollection of i j the people, lie fought the enemies of . liberty throughout the whole war, and ; 1 has ever since been bc/oie the public, and has filled, with integrity amiability, " and a zealous devotion to the good of his . country, the highest offices under the . state and general governments. , In the early part of his political life* I with Zealand ability, Mr. Monroe assert ied the national right to tlie free naviga f tion of the Mississippi river, to the Gulf ! of Mexico—a right opposed by Spain, ■ and which was essential to the prosperity / of the Western Slates. As the Minister -of the United States, Mr. Monroe nc-go i dated the-treaty with France, by which I Louisiana was ceded to this Union, while Air. Jefferson, cue amongst Hie greatest and best men that ever adorned any country, was our president. This was one of tne great events which marked the progress and power of our govern ment of freemen ; and for which, the present generation, and posterity, will i record their gratitude on (ho tomb of s that great man and distinguished patriot. Since Mr. Monroe has been the presi -1 dent of the United Stales, treaties ofcom i merceand limits, and in relation to the s Fisheries, have been entered into with t Great Britain, of groat importance to this r nation, A treaty has been negotiated t and ratified with Spain, by which we 1 have acquired the Florida?, and the great t country ou the Pacific ocean, north of the t 4-’d degree of north latitude, and by e which, our territory extends from the b Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This - treaty has extended the territory of the United States to the Gulf and Ocean, . from the Sabine to the St. Mary’s rivers ; s and not only silence all disputes with 2 Spain, in relation to Louisiana and West s Florida , hut gives us the port and har - bourol Pen.-acola and other ports in the i Gulf and on the Atlantic, the acquisition i of which, are necessary to the naval s power and commerce of the United States. I The Florida treaty has also given peace - and security to the Southern States—and r iu connexion with the Louisiana treaty, .1 has placed this bepublic upon pillars c which cannot be shaken, and will endure if forever, if the rEon.E of the nation shall s be faithful to themselves. I, During the late war Mr. Monroe stood -by his country, and performed his public - duties with energy and ability; and the ■■ people of this nation have twice thought J that his long services, patriotism and tal ents, entitled him to fill the presidential 1 chair. At the last session of congress, t Mr. Monroe recommended the atknowl , edgemenl oi the independence of the s Mexican and Sontli American govern ments, which was done almost without ( dissent. This measure, it is believed, - will be followed by great political and X commercial advantages, and may proba j bly add the Island of Cuba, as a state, to - the North American Union. Mr. Monroe 3 was urged by ids enemies to make the 1 recognition at a time when those suthern j governments were divided by factions, and 3 had not established their independence, and before our differences had been' set i tied withJSpain. If the recognition had f preceded the Florida treaty, it is certain, - thit those differences would never have ; s been settled by amicable negotiation: But , 3 he resisted the party measures of his in- ' s teresled enemies, and his course has been s marked by the soundest policy and wis t dom, and like Mr. Jefferson, the people 3 will cherish his high reputation, and t gratefully remember his disinterested . and distinguished services. He has de ! voted his whole life to the service of his r country, and has always been poor, whilst - his enemies hate attended to and wor- i - shipped the ‘‘loaves and fishes,” and 3 have made their offices the means of en - lithing themselves— and those money put t riots have united into a party to oppose - his administration, sink the resources of 1 j the Union, to create patronage, violate the constitution and laws of the Unit - States, and defeat measure? the best culated lo advance the interest and main tain the honor of the nation. All thi? done to force a particular individual \Z the presidential chair; and those mod, T patriots who /ore the pkople for the' purses, say, that Mr. Monroe “is sun e ” anuated, and wants energy.” But th* fact is, that he has too much energy honesty for them ; to be used asa rr- t chine in'their hands. Mr. Monroe is the idol of the Amen can people, and will bo supported U them, and will trample their mutual en * mies in the dust. The party c rP o se J to him merits, the indignation and piui ' ishment of the peopx.e, and will [ , crushed by them. ■ The people will wp/’ hold their trust and confidence from all candidates of the opposition party, and will maintain Mr. Monroe and his admin istration. * The high station of president of tie - United States, is an object of honon v U ( emulation; but it is a disgrace to ruly candidate who will, by intrigue, form ’ party and oppose the lest interest? nj bis country lo attain it. Every candi date lor office, and particularly for th t . presidency, should give his sincere ai, faithful support to the president and i,, ■ cabinet, in all necessary and proper i., tional measures, and not for sinister pu' poses throw their whole wfeighl and in. fluence against them. Bishop IVa! son on the Doctrines of Chris tianity. When we speak concerning t he truth of revealed religion, we include not only the certainty of tlie divine mission of Moses and of Jesus, but the nature of the several doctrines promulgated by them to mankind.— Now you may ask me, what these doctrines are ? 1 know what they are to me ; but pretending to no degree of infallibility, I think it safer to tell you where they are contained, than what they are. They arc contained in the Bible; and if, in the reading of that book, your sentiments con cerning the doctrines of Christianity should be different from those of your neighbor, or from those of the church, be persuaded on your part, that infal libility appertains as little to you, as it does to the church of which you are a member, or to any individual who differs from you. Towards the church, you ought to preserve rever ence and respect; and In your pub lic teaching, you ought not, whilsf you continue a minister in it, to dis turb the public peace by opposition to its doctrines; and towards indivi duals, of whatever denomination of Christians they may be, who differ from you, you ought to preserve charity of thought, and courtesy of conduct; and if you do this, your discordance of opinion will be attend ed with no mischief, public or pri vate. Many learned men have bestowed much useless labor in defining what are the fundamental verities of the Christian religion; useless I esteem it because the same things are not fundamental to all men, and there is no infallible judge of controversy to settle the dispute which may arise.— A papist believes the doctrines of transubstantiaticn, of worshipping of images, of invocation of saints, of purgatory, of the insalvability (if the word may be admitted) of heretics, and of the infallibility of popes, coun cils and churches, to be fundamental doctrines; a protestant does not be lieve any of these doctrines to be fundamental. Protestants differ from each other in their sentiments con cerning the eucharist, concerning the trinity, concerning satisfaction, ori ginal sin, and personal predestina tion ; but the wisest amongst them do not esteem any particular opinion concerning any of these points, to be so fundamentally right, that salvation will not belong to those who think otherwise. Personal predestination appears to many to be a doctrine full of impiety and despair. They think it impious, as it represents God to be a blind or malignant being; blind, if he dooms a man to eternal destruction, without knowing whether he will do good or evil; and malignant, if, knowing he makes no distinction in his decrees, between them who obey and them who disobey him.—They think it a doctrine pregnant with despair; lor now to be persuaded that you are in- ( evitably doomed to everlasting pun ishment, that no future rectitude ct conduct, no penitence for what is past, no supplication, no intercession, nothing which can be done by your self, or by any other for you, can in the least avail to the altering of your fate; what is this, say they, but to overwhelm the soul with the black ness of despondent horror r Is it not, they ask, a more impious doctrine than that of Epicurus ? For that re presented God as not troubling him self in the government of the world, ( as making no distinction between the righteous and the wicked, as suffer ing both to die and become extinct: but this represents him as consigning to everlasting torments, those whom he had from all eternity determined to condemn. This doctrine, which St. Chrysos tom amongst the ancients, and Ar minius amongst the moderns repro bate as unworthy of God, has been zealously maintained by Calvin and St. Austin. In my humble judg ment, they have r done great service to