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mitlixru “The ferment of a free, is preferable lo the torpor of a despotic, Government.” VOL. I. AT HE VS, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 2, 1832. VO. 33. t£. THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. “To every thing there is a season." « Flowers for iho gay—let them wreathe their hair With the blossoms of nature, ever fair— With the gorgeous births of the morning prime, And the products of every sunfelt clime— With the lily's smile, and the tulip's glow, And the rose’s blush in its early blow. Flowers for Ihe gay. Mirth for the young—aye, laughter and glee Are the life and soul of the young and free, When the mind is pure as the air of God, And the heart has not yet wandered abroad. Oh! Ihe young should be joyous when youth is green, For joy is but rare ever after, 1 ween. Mirth for the young. Music for friendsthero is that in its power To lull the soul in its stormiest hour. When its silver tones come stealing along, Enwove with the circlet of mellow song— It is then that the troubles of earth seem fled From the throbbing brow and the aching head. Music for friends. Moonlight for lovers. The silent eve la the time for Ihe young their love to weave; With the graceful moon, from her throne on high, Robing the earth in her drapeiy; And never a aotind but their young heart’s beat— Is Ihere fairer hour for loveis to ineel ? Moonlight for lovers. But what for the dead ?—Ia it hallsofstatc, Willi a liveried crew on their nod to wait ? Is it troops of friends and smiles of pride, And all that Ihe ransack of art can provide 1 Or is it the lone and Ihe silent cell, Where nought but the worm and corruptinn dwell. What for the dead ? The grave for the dead. How short the stage Allotted to man for his pilgrimage! To-day he is, and lo morrow he's gone, Like a flower of the spring which the sun shines on ; But should chilling blasts assail it ever, It falls—it withers—and arises never!” ergy and industry lo perform ; bin. so nlily did lie discharge his duties, that both bodies were satisfied with his attention to each. In I77S, be left congress ; (and dovoted himself to the councils of his native stale) but always with an eye to the great interests of the nation. When the constitution of ihe United States went into operation. Mr. Carroll was elected a Senator from Maryland, and took his seal in Ihe City of New York at the organization of 'he government, on the 13th of April, 1789. He was elected a second time lo tilts situ ation. He was never an office seeker, nor ever from caution or timidity flinched from anv honest responsibility, in the darkest hour of the republic. In Ihe year 1801, he quitted public life, as such a man could do so. He had leached his grand climacteric, and was willing and desi rous that younger men should take the field of politics, hnrdly dreaming that he was to enjoy another age of man, in the fullness of intellec tual vigor. These last thirty year- of life have passed away in screnilv and hppiness, almost unparalleled in the history of man. He has enjoyed as it were, an Indian summer of exis tence, a tranquil and lovely period, when the leaves of the forest are richly variegated, but not yet seared; when the parent-bird and the spring nestling nro of the same flock, and From llit Lynchburg Virginian. Gallery of Portraitt.—Richard II. Wilde, Esq. a member of Congress from Georgia, has long been known to the literary public as ty Ims since made Ihe fruilfu! topic of un measured panegyric and detraction. Of san guine Icinprnmcnl, and impetuous character, his declamaiion was impassioned, Ills reloris a poet of no ordinary pretensions, as ’veil ns i were acrimonious. Deficient in refinement move on equal wing; when the day of increasei dleman from 8. Carolina, now no more; the SHtoceUauQ. CHARLES CARROLL. Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, was born on tho iwentioth of September, 1737, at Annapo lis, in the State of Maryland. He decended from a highly respectable Irish family who had emigrated to this country in the reign of Wil linm and Mary, and were distinguished as pa triots in the troubles of the colony, which soon after that period sprung up. For awhile the cnlhol'cs, were persecuted, and deprived of the right of suffmge ; but by a manly rests, tnneo to tyranny, they were restored to the privileges granted to them by charter. At a very early age Charles Carroll, of Car rollton, was sent to St. Omers to he educated ; from thence, after a short time, he was remo ved to Rcltcims, to tho college of Louis Le Grand; and from thence to one of the best institutions in Franco for tho study of civil law After becoming well versed in this science, more calculated than any other to expand the mind for the reception and discussion of great political truths, he passed over lo London, and commenced his term at the Temple for the study of common law. This study sharpens tho wits, and opens the great fountain of An glo Saxon liberty to tho patient investigator or English history. After finishing his studies and his travels, ha returned to his native land at the ripe age of twenty-seven, and was hail ed ivy tho host judges ns a well read scholar and an accompli-lied gentleman, Foreign courts had not damned his love of liberty. At this period the discussions with tho mother country and the colonies, upon great points of national law, had commenced : and soon were carried on with great warmth and pertinacity by both parties. Mr. CVrolldid not lie-hate for n moment but took side with 'he lovers oflilicrty. He wielded a ready pen, and it was soon en gaged in the glnrioua cause. Like others, he for some time did not wish to be known; but his writings were so satisfactory to his country men, that his secret could not long be kept.— Some of his political antagonists were among the first men of Maryland. He foresaw that an appeal must he made to arms, and he bold ly advanced his sentiments on this head, and recommended due preparations for such an event. At this time but few voices had been raised to this in any part of Ihe ronnlry. Ear- ly in 1770, ho was sent as one of n commission to Canada, to induce tho people of that prov ince to join us in opposing the mother country, The disasters which had previously befallen our arms in that quarter rendered the mission ineffectual. Mr. Carroll returned in June, 1776, and instantly repaired to the convention of Maryland, of which he was a member; and thence urged them to withdraw the in structions that body had given thnir delegates in congress, not to vote for independence, and at length found his exertions crowned with sorcess. Mr. Carroll »ns now apnointed n delegate lo congress, and, wiili his colleagues, was free to act upon the great question os they pleased. On the ISth of July, he presented his credentials to the continental Congress at Philadelphia, and on the second day ol August following subscribed his name to the immortal instrument. He was considered now as one of the most fearless men of the age; for he had more to risk in point of property, than any other man in tho whole community, Hancock not excepted. On the first day he entered Congress he was appointed to (he board of war, of which he was an efficient member. During the whole of the perilous conflict he bore his part with unabated ardour, often be ing at the tame time a member of the conven tion of his native state and a member of con gress ; a double duty, which required great en and the day of the necessity of provisions are gone; when the (ruits of the earth are abun dant, and iho lakes of the woods arc smooth and joyous as if reflecting tho bowers of Eden. Such an Indian summer has this patriot enjoy ed ; his life has been thrice, yea, four times blessed; in his birth and education, in his health, in his basket and in his store ; blessed in his numerous and honorable progeny, which extend lo several generations ; blessed in the protracted measure of days, in which havo been crowded Iho events of many centuries ; and blessed in the wonderful prosperity of his country, whose population has since his birth increased from nine hundred thousand souls to more than twelve millions, enjoying the blessings of freemen. It is, perhaps, from the fact, that the world thinks it quite enough for one mortal tlint he should be virtuous, pros perous and enjoy a gree n old age. that an analy sis of his intellectual powers, or a description of his rare atlainments, bus seldom been ntemp- ted ; but talents and attainments he had, that made him one of the most successful of the business men, of tho momentous period in which he lived—a period when that which the head conceived the hand was ready to execute. There were too few at that time, and those too zealous, to make Iho proper division of la bour. The senator armed for tile field, and the soldier met with tho Conscript Fathers. Mr. Carroll was an orator. His eloquence was of Ihe smooth, gentle, satisfactory kind, delighting all and convincing many. It is not pretended that, like John Adams, he came down upon his hearers us with tho iliunder- blust from Sinai, ruising the tables of indepen dence on high, and threatening in his wrath to break them if they were not received by ihe people; nor that like Dirkinson, exhausted rhetoric and metaphysics to gain his end. and was forever striving to bn heard ; hot Carroll came to his subject well informed, throughly imbued with us spirit, and with happy concep tions, and gruceful delivery, and with chaste and delecate language, lie, wuhnut violence, conquered ihe undurainnding-;, and led captive the senses of his hearers. All was natural, yet sweet and polished as education could ipake it. He never seemed fa igued with his labours, or faint with his exertions. His blood nnd judgement were so well commingled, tuat his lighast efforts were as easy and ns naturnl as if he ha I been engaged in the eourse of or dinary duties. This happy faculty still con tinued with the patriarch, for his conversation has now that elegant vivacity and delecacy that characterized ihe sage Nestor of elder limes, whose words fell like vernal snows as he spake to the people. His serenity, and in no small degree, per- linps, his longevity, may be owing lo the per manency, of lus principles. In early life he founded his paliliral creed on the rights of man, and reposing his faith in iho religion of Ins fnlhers, lie has foil none of those vascilln- nn orator of commanding powers of eloquence. In one of his speeches, during the Inst ses sion of Congress, he exhibited high facullies as an inlo'leetual anatomist nnd limner, by sketching briefly, vet comprehensively nnd graphically, the prominent characteristics of some of our leading Statesmen. ** I had Ihe honor (says he) to be n member of the 14th Congress. It was an honor then what it is note, 1 shall not say. ll is what Ihe 22d Congress have been pleased lo make hnvo neither time, nor strength, nor ability, to speak of the legislators of (list dnv as they deserve ; nor is inis the fit occasion. Yet the coldest or most cnreless nature cannot recur lo such associates without sumo touch of generous feelings, which, in quicker spirits, would kindle into high and almost holy enthu siasm.” Mr Wilde then proceeds to speak of several “eminent pnrliamentaiv characters.” in the subjoined eloquent and striking passages. And first, William Lowndes, of South Carolina. “ Pre-rnm.enl—yet not more proudly than humldy pre-eminent—among them was a gen- purest, the calmest, the most philosophical of our country’s modern statesmen. Ouo no less remarkable for gentleness of manners, and kindness of heart, than for that passion less, unclouded inlelloct, which rendered him deserving of the praise—if ever man deserved it—of merely standing by, and lelting reason argue for him. The true patriot, incapable of all selfish ambition, who shunned office and distinclion, yet served his country faithfully, because he loved her. He, I mean who con secrated by his cxnmplc, the noble precept, so entirely his own, that the first station in the republic was neither to ho sought after nor declined—a sentiment so just and so happily expressed, that it continues to be repeated, be cause it rannot he improved.” William Pinkney, of Maryland. “ There was also, a gcn'lcman from Mary land, whose nBlies now slumber in yourccmc- try. It is not long since l stood by his tomb, and recalled linn, as he was then, in all the pride and power of his genius. Among the first of his countrymen and contemporaries, as n jurist and statesman, first as nn orator, he was, if not truly eloquent, tho prince of rhet oricians. Nor did the soundness of his logic suffer any thing liy a comparison with the richness and classical purity of the lungu.igo in which lie copiously poured forth those figurn' live illustrations of his argument, which en forced while they adorned it. But let others pronounce his eulogy. I must not. I feel ns if Ins mighty spirit still haunted the scene of its triumphs, and when I dared lo wrong them, iiuhgn wily rebuked me. " These names have become historical — There were others of whom it is more difficult to speak, because yet within the leach of praise or envy. For one who was nr aspired lo be a politican, it would lie prudent, perhaps wise, to avoid all mention of these inen. Their acts, their words, their thoughts, their very looks havo become subjects ofcontrover sy. But lie whose ambition is of a higher or a lower order, has no need of such reserve. Talent is of no party exclusively ; nor is jus- ralher than in strength, Ins style was less cle gain and correct than animated nnd impres sive. But ii swept away your feelings with il like a mountain torrent, and the force of the stream IpIi you lillln leisure lo remark upon its clearness. His estimate of human nature was, probably, not very high. It may ho that his past associations had not tended to exalt il. Unhappily, it is, perhaps, more likely to Itnve been lowered than raised by his subse quent experience. Ycl then, nud even since, except when tbnt imprudence, so natural to genius, prevailed over his better judgment, lie had, generally, (he good sense, or good taste, to adopt a lofty tone of senlimcnt, whether he spoko of measures or of men, of friend or adversary. On many occasions ho was noble and captivating. One, I can never forgot. Ii wns the fino burst of indignant elo quonce with which he replied lo the taunting question, 11 what havo wo gamed by the war ?” Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts. “ Nor mny I pass over in silence a repre sentative from New Hampshire, who has al most obliterated all memory of that distinc tion, by the superior fama he has nllnined ns •Senator from Massachusetts. Though then but in ihe hud of his political lifo, and hnrdly concious, perhaps, of Ins own oxlrnnrdinnry powers, he gave promise of tho greatness he tins since achieved. Tho same vigor o( thought; the same expression; Ihe short sentences; tho calm, cold, collected manner; tho air of solemn dignity ; and deep sepulchral unimpnssioned voice ; all hnvo been develo ped only not changed, even lo tho intense bitterness of his frigid irony. Tho piercing coldness of his sarcasms was indeed peculiar lohim; they seemed lo ho emanntions from the spirit of ihe icy ocean. Nothing could he at once so novel nnd so powerful—it wns fro zen mercury becoming as causiic as red hot iron.” lions and changes so common in times of po lineal or religious agitations. It were good for the nation that he should long continue amongst us, for in his presence all party feuds are hushed ; and the demagogue, accustom ed io vociferate elsewhere, in Ins vanity lo he heard, talks not above his breath when the aged patriot is near. In a republic where li lies, are unknown, we ought to make peerage of talents, virtuous patriotism, and age, that eve ry youth may learn to admire, respect, and im- tate the wise and good. With all our wishes and our prayers (or Ilia st-.y here on earth, the the patriarch must soon he gathered to Ins la thers and his name given lo the historian and the poet. The bard shall then strike his harp and sing, “ in strains nor light nor mchincho- ly," lourhed with religious hope, Full of years and honours, through the gate Ol'painless slumber he retired, And as a river pure Meets in ita course a subterranean void, Then dips his silver head, again to rise, And rising glides through fields and meadows new; So hath Oileus llinae happy climea, Where neither gloom nor sorrow shades the mind; Where joys ne’er fade; nor the souls power decay; But youth and spring, eternal bloom.” lire. John Randolph, of Roanoke. “ Among them, but not of them, in the fonr- ful and solitary sublimity of genius, stood a gentleman from Virginia—w hom it were su perfluous to designate. Whoso speeches were universally read 1 Whosesa'ire was tini- ver-ally feared? Upon whose accents did this habitually listless and unlistcning House linng so frequently, with w rapt attention ? Whose fume was indentified with that hndv for so long a period? Who was a more dexterous debater? a riper scholar ? hotter versed in 'he politics of our own country? or deeper read in ihe history of others ? Above all, who was more thoroughly imbued with the idiom of Iho Eng lish language ; tnoro completely master of its sterngth, and henuly, and delicacy ? or more capable of breathing thoughts ofllatne in words of magic and tones of silver!” John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina. “ Thero wns also n son of South Carolina, still in iho republic, then, undoubtedly, the most influential member of this House. Willi a genius eminently metaphysical, he applied to polities Ins hnhils of analysis, abstraction, nnd condensation, and thus gave to the pro blems of Government something of that grand eur which the higher mathematics have bor rowed from astronomy. The wings of his mind were rapid, but cnprtcious, and there were times when the light which flashed from them as they passed, glanced like a mirror in iho sun. only to dazzlo the beholder. En grossed with his subject—earless of his words —his loftiest flights of eloquence were some times followed by colloquial or provincial bar barisms. But, though often incorrect, he was always fascinating. Language with him. was merely the scaffolding of thought—employed to raise a dome, which, like Angelo’s, he sus pended in tho heavens.” Henry Clay, of Kentucky. ‘It is equally impossible to forget or to omit, a gentleman from Kentucky, whom par- Frnm the Dreames and Reveries ofa quiet man. A Tragical Story.—Charles had been ab sent two days. Poor Julia had been wishing and wishing for him. His well known slop sounded in tho entry; tho door opened, and she met him with n heightened colour in her cheek, and her blue eyes flashing from be ncath their long lashes with sparkles of tin wonted pleasure. Shall I mention pnriicn lars ? It is scarcely necessary. He who pnnnot imagino how a warm-hearted young wife in the honey-moon, would meet her idol after nhsencc of two whole dnys, is no reader for me. “ Oh, she exclaimed, after the first Iran*' port had a little subsided, “ I am glad you havo relumed, dear, dear Charles ! I was afraid you would not como—thill yon were sick, or some nccident Imd occurred. But here you are. And now, have yon had n pleasant lime ? and how do they all do—and whom did you see !—and ’ I « hose contents tremble and overflow, whon shaken et er so lightly. Thero was, therefore, in these enthusiastic praises of another, some thing strange nnd even cruel. Still she could not believe itml he wns serious ; and forcing ■ smile, and struggling to keep down her rising emotion, she listened to him in silenco as he rattled nn. ‘ Our meeting wns marked with uncommon interest. Old Mr. Peterson introduced ms to l l,tr - "fter having previously hinted that, before I was married, sliu had regarded mo with more than common complacency,’ ‘ Charles!' ' Well, we met, I addressed her by nafflo ; she a,ml nothing—hut, oh I those eyes of hers wero fixed on me with n gaze that reached ins to the innermost recesses of my heaft, and seemed to touch all those chords of feeling which nature hndstrung for joy. Wherever I went I found her eyes still turned towards me. nnd an nrch sinilo just played around her sau cy lips, and spoke all the fine, fancies and half- hidden meanings that woman will often look, hut not always trust lo the clumsy vehicle of words. I could restrain myself no longer —but, forgetting all but those heavenly lips, I approached, nnd Poor .Julia—she thought she heard tho knell or her young dreams. Tho huo of her cheek, nnd tho sparkle of her azuro eye, were gofto long before ; nnd ns lie painted in such glow- ing colors the picture of his feelings, her lip quivered, nnd lenrs swelled up and dimmed tho hluo light of eyes beautiful ns day. ‘ I will never speak lo you again, Charles,' sobbed she, 1 if this he Iruo.’ ‘It is true,’ he exclaimed, ‘only not half like the reality. It was your own PietUri my sweet girl, that I kissed again and again. She looked nt him n moment, and buried bef wet eyes in his bosom. As she lifted her head, nnd slinking hack tho clustering ringlets Hint fell around her brow, displayed her face smiling through lenrs, his nim softly found ita way around hor waist, and—but 1 am at Iho end of my sheet. DolWral. Charles stopped hor mouth. “ Yes, hero I um safe and sound, nnd foil of news; but you huddle question upon question with such volubility that I shall never got o chance to answer them, nnd your mouth hero wide open to ask I dont know how many morn. ’ Well then” answered she, flinging herself, into nn ntiitudo of nllenlion, and folding her arms like n judge upon a bench, * there, I am dumb and ready In listen to iho news—I wont speak another word till you have done.’ And with considerable apparent difficulty she loscd her lips. “ Now then’ said Charles, ‘ mark me.’ • I will said Julia. • Well, then, continued her husband, laugh ing, ‘ in the first place they nro all well; in the next I havo had a very pleasant lime ; and lastly I have seen old Mr. Peterson, nnd aunt Sarnh, and Mr. nud Mrs. Vandcrdykc nnd lit tle Bob, Ilenrv, nnd Maria.’ • And ibis’ inquired Julia, * is the iicwh that you nro to tell ? nud these are all you saw? ‘ Oh, no,’ replied Charles, mysteriously; ‘ far from it, Julia. I hnve inel one more— ooe nmsl beautiful, bewitching being more— the very counterpart of Venus. Socl, com plexion—such ringlets, long nnd glossy—and ehreks, roses and lilies are nothing lo lliern. There is nothing in all nature sweeter than her lips, nnd her eves are bright dangers no man should rashlv encounter. They were soft, melting liquid, henvnnly blue—full of the light of iutellerV, and tremulous every beam of them with a tenderness ibal makes the hearl-neho.’ You are only jesting with ine,’ said Julia, endeavoring, but in vain, to check the change that came over her face, as tho shadow ofa loud flits across a stream. * This is some stupid Dutch beauty, and von can scarcely de scribe her without laughing. Come, now, toll the truth.’ ‘ You may believe it or not, just ns you plcaso, said Charles ; ‘ hut I assure you, ihe whnlo account is as true as Ihe enjoyment of il wns enrapturing, and the memory is deli* cions.’ Julia was sensitive and artless. She loved her husband with that deep tenderness which knew all the thrills of loVcs hopes and fear*. Her heuri was like a goblet filled to the brim, Reply of Marlin Van Itnren to a letter from a commit tee of the citizens of Sliocco Springs, N, C. Owasco, Cayuga Co., Oct. 4, 1832. Gentlemen,—Your letter of the 25lh Au gust found me nt this place. I regret extreme ly that tho delay in its reception, occasioned by my absence, has prevented nn earlier at tention to its contents. By tho resolutions which you have been ap pointed to communicate lo me, I am advised that those by whom they were adopted, do- siro to lie informed of my sentiments, “ on the subjects of the Protective System nnd ita proper adjustment, Internal Improvement, the Bank of Hie United Stales, and Nullification.” The right of those you represent, to be in formed of my opinions upon those interesting subjects, ns derived from tho position in which the favor of my follow citizens has placed roe, is undoubted; nnd in cheerfully complying with their request, I have only to regret, that the inconvenience of Ihe situation in which it finds me, consequent upon Ihe hurry and con* fusion attending the further prosecution of my journey, and tho importance, to the fulfilment of the objects ol your constituents, of aa litllo delay as possible in Iho transmission of the communication, preclude any thing like an elaborate discussion of the subjects under con sideration, if indeed such n course would, un der more favorable circumstances, bo deairo- hlo to you. The regret, however, which I might otherwise experience on this account, ia relieved by the hope, that my follow citizens of North Carohnn, preparing, with character istic good sense, results to speculations, will ho ns well sutisfied, and os effectually nidedin the intelligent hestowment of their suffrage, by a hriel hut explicit avowal of my opinion*, as they would he by nn elaborate dissertation upon subjects which have been ho thoroughly and d.ffusively debated. Allhough my official nets in relation to tho Protective System, might well he regarded as rendering Hie avowal unnecessary, I think it, nevertheless, proper to say, that I believe thn establishment of commercial regulations, with a view to the encouragement of domestic pro ducts, to ho within the constitutional power >f Congress. Whilst, however, I have en- lemoned this opinion, it has never been my ish to sep the power in question exercised iih un oppressive inequality upon any por tion of our citizens, nr for tho odvantago of one section of llie Union at iho expense of mother. On Hie contrary, I have at all times believed it to be Ihe sacred duly of Ihoae who ro entrusted with the administration of the li-deral government, to duecl it* operations in the ninnner best calculated to distribute aa qoally as possible its tiurtheits and blessings mongst the several Stales and the people.— I v views upon ibis subject were several yearn go spread before the people of this State, and have since been widely diffused through the medium of the public press. My object at Hint tune was to invite the attention of my im mediate constituents to n dispassionate consi deration of the subject in it* various bearings ; being well assured, that such an investigation would bring them lo a standard, which, froni its moderation and justice, would furnish Ihe host guarantee for the true interest* of all. |f, as has been supposed, those views have con-