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JTE.IJry CHiRLTOtf.
From the Obsevfr or Nov. 2G.
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£ Delivered at the Anual Meet! nr of
the London Hibernian School So
ciety, held at Sligo.}
Sir—l have very threat pleasure in
ac ceding to the request ofyour zeal
ous S-vretary, and proposing a reso
lution of congratulation on the suc
cess of this institution, and of appro
bation of the the sacred principles on
which it has been founded. 1 con
fess, that until I perused the report
with which he was so polite as to
furnish me, I had a very imperfect i
f. a of the value of this institution, or
nf tie great gratitude which we owe
to our generous English brethren,
who have so nob.y and disinterest
ed ly established it amongst us. 11
is an emanation of that glorious spir
it which has spread their name am
ong the nation of the earth,and made
that na ae synonymous with every
virtue. I had no idea tint no less a
number than 50,000 of the infant
population of this kingdom, inclu
ding two thousand children of our
own country, who now crowd this
hall with pious gratitude, who were
thus gratuitously receiving from
them tae blessed fruits of education
ami religion. How gratifying it is
to turn |Voin the abominable and infer
nal perjuries by which the public
in.ml i- now hourly polluted, and the
public heart alli.cted and the public
moral* insulted, to the contem|ilati»/i
of such a subject! Fifty-eight thou
sand children, raised from the mire
of ignorance and superstition - redee
med from a state of utmost brutal
barbarism, and led through the temple
t.f knwoledge, even to tne very altar
of God is i spectacle which I envy
not the man who can behold i; with
out entliu liasm. in tins country it
ho: rows from circumstances even an
adventitious interest, for surely there
never was a country more ripe for
its exhibition—never was there a
land more full of fine intelligence,
Ob-.curetl and darkened, or for nobler
impulse, more miserably perverted.
T ie mind of Irek >d baa oy no means
hitherto lud fair development. Acute
but inactive—magnificent but unrul
tiv itcd, the passing stranger toeholds
the people us he docs their country,
With admiration u is true, but stni
with mournful admiration, at ttieu
liegiected grandeur and their unpro
ductive loveliness ! It lias been to lit
tie purpose that the genius of the na
lion has occasionally burst the bond
nge that enthral led it; tout Nature as
it were to vindicate lier»elf, has s.iot
some spirit ol light athwart thegloom,
iu vhosc lustre the land became for
a moment visible —it was bat lor a
i.mii-nt, and the cloud it touche
he rcely ret lined a tinge of the profit
less piieronvinnn. I’fiere was n>-
permanent source whence its ratli
vacr could e fed; and the mere
glimmerings of nnassisted natu.
struggled but faintl | thro’ the dense
ness of tne atmosphere. To rescue
the country from <his foul disgrace -
to dispel the mist of barbarism and
ignorance, with their attendant tram
of vi es and of crimes—to elevate
the peasantry from vice and super
s'ition, to a moral practice and an
holy c miempUtian, your institution
has been founded. A glorious work,
mid worthy of a Christian! A ioik
charade"ix dby the glowing benev
.olein e, and not less replete, even in ..
worldlv sense, with the wisest and
the soundest policy, for you may de
pend upm it that, sooner or later,
nuHonui good cannot fail to flow from
a moral regeneration. The sobriety,
the temperance; the good faith, the
in lustry, mlurally consequent upon
early culture, Will, in time, “like a
rich stream, run uack and hide their
fountain. ” The principles of Tec
dotn, by being better understood, will
become, of course, more iundfy cher
ished; the impolicy, as w. II as the
impiety of crime, by being more
dearly proved, wid be, of course,
more sedulously avoided An edu
cated slave—an educated criminal,
are moral contradictions. In the ve
ry dawn of knowledge, the phantoms
that ass igld,and the vices that des
poil us,gradually disappear; and it
fso.dv hen its light has vanished,
that you will find ignorance and su
perstifon r.iawiing from their cavern,
and amid spectral shapes and horned
apparitions, taking their incubus sta
tion upon the bosom of society. If
truth- tike these needed an example,
ail History is eloquent on the subject.
No peasantry ever yet became edu
rated without becoming compara
tively virtuous —the spirit of inquiry
consequent upon literature, and the
spirit of genuine freedom, have been
iu gene: a co ext tent, and flourished
ami decayed together. Turn your
eysto Athens in the ancient t me—
tlr temple ty and letters—
the sml of the arts the mount of the
mis- —dm , u irtal shrine of all hui
cbuid constitute the heathens immor-
tality, where even battle smoothed
his rugged front, and the warrior’s
I sword was garlanded with roses!
Behold her now ! her sages silent,
and her temples fallen—an Ottoman
slave enthroned amid her ruins, and
adeg#it|hite people crouching to the
|Tnt ks even, oh shame! even within
-ight of Marathon! Yet there, where
Mahomet now revels in contended
ignorance, Socrates was heard and
Solon legislated, and echo listened to
the thunder of Demosthenes. Look
in our own day to a part of our own
empire, the once neglected Scotland
—the country from whose lake and
moor and mountain the imperial c-m
--quorer strode without a thought.
What is she at this day ? A land of
less crime, because of more intelli
gence, than any in the world; wher
ever her name is mentioned, litera
ture hails it; wherever her people
tread, temperance and industry at
test their presence; a primeval piety
consecrates her church; peace and
plenty meet upon her plains, and the
laurel, which her genius and her he
roism has won, is intertwined with
the palm leaf of an imaculate moral
ity. Let Scotland then, even if she
stood alone, prove the advantage of
an educated peasantry; and should
the sceptic awake not at her voice,
m.y the spirit of Burns pass across
his slumber, and burst upon him in
the blaze of its refutation.
But 1 feel I am injuring the cause
of this institution when 1 view it
either in the light of temporal pol
licy, or the temporal fame. Ves,
though 1 am conviheed that the
most permanent found tions of a
peoples’ prosperity are « ly to be
I .id in the popular civilization—
though I am convinced that crime
decreases, and industry advances
in exact proportion to the progress
ofwMWkledge, still 1 acknowledge
in y'iu r ambition a much noble ob
ject, in comparison of which the
fame ami wealth and dignities of
this world are but as (he rain
bow’s gem th M sparkles and disap
pears. Oh! you are right when
lighti ig up the torch of knowledge,
to invoke no flame but that of hea
ven in illumine it. The lights ol
earth are transient and uncertain
—vapours «hit only dazzle, to mis
lead and shine the brightest on the
eve of their extinction; but the beam
of heav. n is steady and eternal—it.
entTS the soul—it extamls and rat
ifies. and I fts it to the region where
ha. a vanity has no voice, and hu
man splendours are but darkness.
You are fight in making the Bible
d<e primer of the infant—place it .n
ids hand by day—p.ace it on his
pillow by night Full of glorious
thoughts and glowing images it will
inspire the fancy— full of noble sen
timentaud virtuous precept, it will
form the principles—full of holy zeal
uid heavenly inspiration, it wilt
exault. and purify the faith; ao it is a
ise philosophy which as oclates it
" ith the season wh se impression fade
ut even in nature’s winter. When
.the darling infidel interposes its mys
teries, in order to rob those children
‘fit- morals, ask him. What is >hits
world utamistery? Who can tell
how nature performs her simplest
operations? Ask him to tell you
how the flower acquires its perfume,
the eagle Ins vision, <»r toe comet
its resplendence ? \sk him to td!
vou how those glorious planets roil
around us in their lucid circle, or
how that miraculous order is m ini
tested which holds throughout creat
ion ■ ven for the minutes worm that
grovels in the dost, up to the pinion
that plays amid the lightening! These
are misteries, and y t we sec them;
and suiely we m.v trust the word
of him a ho, in his own good time,
will (eacii us their solution. Mean
while, amid the Ingot’s cant, and
and the polemiok’s railing, sulfr
these little children to come unto the
Lord. Ttiey will bless you with
tips, ard in their deaths—the God
to who o you have turned them will
bless you -the country to which you
have restored them will less you;
and should vou own little ones ever
mouni a parent, ‘he Grand Spirit will
recollect the dead, and surely save
them from the perils of their or
phanage. In the discharge then of
this sacred duty which you have
thus voluntarily undertaken, listen
not to the imputation of any unwor
thy motive ; remember that caluini
nv is the shadow of merit, and that
though it ever follows, it near over
, takes it. Were the solitary charge
which hospitality has flung on, even
, true, it is. in inv mind, under your
1 circumstances, not a crime hut a
> virtue. You use no weapon but the
f 'o dless gospel—you assume no ar
, mour hut the nakedness of truth;
. and in a good cause, and with an
earnest conviction, 1 would rather
■ court than avoid this accusation of
proselytism. The foreign and pious
i potentate who made the charge
i should be the very last to utter it;
I for debased, as I admit and deplore,
that the Iri -li peasa t politically is.
- still h> and has predecessors, as far
- as in they lay, have left him illit
ierat«*. imbnited, and d based fal
len in his mental debasem nt even
below the level of his political de
» L f
gradation. But the accusation is un
true. You have not borrowed even
a raz from the establishment—the
word ascendantly is not heard with*
in jour walls. You have rejected
no one on account of his creed, and
you have invited every scrutiny of
every pastor of every persuasion—
you have introduced the Bible un
spotted by a single pen ofthis world.
You have allowed the saints, the
sages, and the martyrs of Christian
ity, to unrol with their own hands
the records of their wisdom; their
sanctity, and their fortitude. Yoa
have expunged the commcmt whether
of council or synod, o conclave, or
convocation, and left the sacred
historians to tell, in the phrase of an
inspirated simplicity, the miracles,
the sufferings, and the triumphs of
the gospel, from the conception to
the Cross ! Sir, If this produce pro
selytes, such convertian can have its
„rigin only in the truth. In one
sense, indeed, you do profess to
proselytize, but it is from ignorance
to knowledge, from sin to salvation.
Go on then, and may prosperity at
tend you, and when your enemies
are clamorous, be your only answer
this ; “Behold—fifty-eight thou
sand subjects restated to the state
- behold sis s y-thousand souls intro
duced to their redeemer!!” Fro
ceed and prosper* Let the sacred
stream ofyour benevolence flow on,
an 1 through momentary impediments
may oppose its progres, depend up
on it, it will soon surmount them—-
the mountain rill and the rivers of the
valey will in time and in their turn
become tributary—the rose of Sha
ron will bloom upon its bank—the
maid of Sion will not weep by its
waters—the soil it has fertilized will
he reflected on its surface, and as it
glides along in the glory of the sun
beam, the sins of the people will be
come regenerate in its baptism.
From the Philadelphia Union.
ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY OFFI
CErt GONE.
DlfllD—At his seat, at Bowman’s
Folly’s in \ccomack county, Va. at
16 m nutes past 2 o’clock, on the
morning of Monday 15th January,
1821, General JOHN CROPPER,
In the 66 year of his age, after an
illness of eleven days, fie embark
cd early in the cause of his country,
and was e msen a captain in the 9ih
Virginia Regiment, on continental
establishment, when only 19 or 20
years of age. and marched in Dec
1776, to the north, to join the army
under the command of the illustri
ous Washington. Gen. Croppt r
was promot'd from a captaincy in
t’.eDthtoa major in the stb Virginia
Regiment, He was at the battle of
Brandywine, when the sth Virginia
Regiment was nearly cut to pieces,
and from which du.inz the action,
his col and lieut. col. both ran off*.
He retreated with the remaindei of
the regiment, and lay concealed in
some bushes on the field of battle,
until near dav of the same night of
the engagement, and then stole away
and marched to Chester with a re*'
handkerchief lashed to a ramrod for
colors. On Chester bridge, he was
met by the illustrious George Wash •
ington and general Woodford; the
.latter alighted from his horse, em
braced him. and pressed him to his
bosom and exclaimed ‘he whom we
thought was 'ost is found.’ General
Cropper was then promoted to a
liv'Ut. colonel, in the 7lh Virginia
Regiment,and was at the battles of
Germantown and Monmouth Court
house. From the 7th Virginia re
giment, he was promoted to the
command of the llth regiment, by
the Marquis de la Fayette, which
regiment he commanded until his re
turn to Virginia, on the 30th da>
of Nov 1782, the day on which the
preliminary articles of peace where
signed at Paris. General Cropper
was engaged with commodore Wha
ley. in the barge victory in the Ches
apeake Bay, agifnstS British Barges,
under the command of commodore
Perry. At the commencement of the
engagement, there were attached to
commodore Whaley’s squadron,
three other American barges, all of
which escaped as soon as the engage
ment began, and left commodore
Whaley to contend alone with five
British barges, full manned. Com
modore \\ holey had on board his
barge, 69 men, principally citizens
of Accomick and Northampton.
About the middle of the engagement,
commodore Whaley’s Magazine took
fire, at which time several of the
men were overboard, hanging by the
rigging. Twentv nine men o«t of
sixty-nine, were killed onboard com
modore Whaley’s barge, together
with the commodore himself. In
this engagement. Gen. Cropper had
to contend with two white men and
one negro, all armed with cutlasses
and boarding pikes, and defended
himself with a musket and bayonet.
One of the general’s antagoists struck
him with a cutlass on the head, which
nearly brought him do" , n. In the
middle of this individual conflict,
the negro discovered his young mas
ter to be the pprson with whom he
nd the other (two men wereengaged,
crying out, ‘save him he is m j mas
ter’ The general afterwards set
his faithful negro free, and settled
him in the city of Baltimore. Gen.
Cropper was in the service of his
country about 45 years. Those
who were acquainted with him,
know how he discharged his duty in
every station in which he was placed.
He retained to thd last hour of his
life, the love and veneration he bore
for gen. Washington, the saviour of
his country. He tried to imitate him
in his conduct as a soldier and citi
zen. The deeds of this great, good
tnd illustrious American, were the
theme of Gen. Cropper at all times.
He could not bear to hear the least
whisper derogatory to the character
of the best of men, and more than
once has Gen. Cropper been per
sonally engaged to defend his fame.
Gen. Cropper had the honor to die
possessed of a written document
from the pen of this beloved person
age, which evidenced the high opin
ion he entertained of the worth of
the deceased us an officer. During
the life time of Gen. Cropper, the
document was treasured up as a mis
er would Ids gold, and hut lew per
sons were ever permitted to read it,
or hear it read. It was the more
highly prized by Gen. Cropper be
cause this illustrious general and
statesman, was cautious in discover
ing bis opinions or shewing his at
tachmentto individuals, least it might
produce a jealousy or uneasiness in
others, who might consider them
selves entitled to equal or superior
claims to Ids favors. Gen, Cropper
has left a widow, 7 children and 10
grand children, to deplore his loss.
The writer of this was well acquain
ted with the deceased.
May the warrior whose spirit has fled,
Reach the mansions prepar’d for the blest,
For his country he suffer’d and hied,
Heaven’s Angles conduct him to rest.
United States and Spain*
From the National Register.
We have at length received the King’s
Message closing the first session of the
Cortes of Spain It was commenced on
the 9th of July last, ;md ought to have
terminated on the 9th October. The
constitution requires that the Cortes
shall assemble once every year, for three
months. It provides, however, for its
continuance for one month longer at
most: —First, if the King shall desire it;
secondly, if the Cortes deem it necessa
>y, and two-thirds of the members con.
cur in the resolution. The King did re
quest, as he states in his message, its con.
rinuance, and it was on the9th November
that the session closed. The King’s mes
sage, (a copy of which has been publish
cd,) is dated from St. Lorenzo, common
ly called the Escuriat, a royal residence
annexed to the famous convent of Jero
mite monks, established by Philip the 3d,
who founded the convent in celebration
of a vow made by him on the day of the
battle of St. Quintin, (Saint Lawrence's
festival,) falling on that day
This convent is situated in the-moun
tains of Guadarama, about twelve or four
teen leagues from Madrid, and is the
depot of the Royal Family at their de
cease.
The result of this first session of the
Cortes, as relates to the United States of
America, is most important, and well de
serves the attention of the people and
Congress of these slates. Spain has es
tablished a regular navigation act, taking
for its basis that of Great Britain; and it
becomes a subject of serious meditation,
how far this measure can be met by a cor
responding on the part of the United
Stales, to prevent the total destruction of
our commerce.
Spain, by her acts, and we have them
officially before us, has, in the first place,
precluded us fram carrying to her Euro
pean dominions, as also to her colonies,
all goods of every description, that are
not the produce of our own soil; and even
of these products, so carried, which it
will be seen presently is impossible, they
are to pay a duty of one third more in A
merican than in Spanish vessels. But the
regulations do not stop here—almost eve
ry article of our staple commodities are
prohibited in toto, or placed* under such
restrictions as amount to prohibition. For
example: wheat can only be imported
into Spain when the price of afanega in
that country exceeds four dollars; five
fanegas make eight bushels; of course
when the bushel exceeds two dollars and
a half: the barrel of flour can only be im
ported when its price exceeds twelve dol
lars. Rice, Indian corn, and pulse of
every descriptiou, is under equal restric
tions; and cotton, though allowed to be
imported from Pernambocco and the East
Indies, is prohibited in toto from the U.
States.
On a thorough investigation of the re
gulations adopted by Spain, it will be
found i that our commerce is reduced to
two articles—staves, which they cannot
do without, for preserving and shipping
their wines: and tobacco, which is admit
ted under a duty of twenty cents per lb.
weight, and which privilege will exist only
so long as will enable the planters inth?
islands of Cuba and Porto Rico to furnish
the quantity necessary to supply the mo
ther country, and which, as they declar
ed the cultivation of it free in those is
lands, must and will be the case befon
two years*
Thus, we may truly cay, that we are
•ut off from all commerce with this na
tion. We have perhaps no right to com
nlain, inasmuch as any and every country
possesses the right to make its own laws
and regulations for commerce, but does
it not become a most serious and impor
tant question for Congress to consider,
how far it is the interest of the United
States to stand by passively, and permit
Spain to reassume an authority over co
lonies with whom we have been so long
struggling for liberty & independence, &
who have, in fact, in one province, ob
tained it, even by the public acknowledg
ment of one of the most blood-thirsty
royal tyrants who ever held a command
there? f* *l!dde to Mor'ilV* late treaty
with the President Bolivar, in which he
acknowledges the Republic of Colom
bia. *
Is it for the Republic tjje United
States to look on with qj|ppjl iudiffer
ence, and see the efforts Tifmose brave
men not only neglected, but treated with
contempt? And for what? That Spian
m;.y reassume its ascendancy and shut out
our citizens from all commerce and ccm
munication with those extensive regions,
so much the more important and interest
ing to our country as we have now had
for many years a free intercourse with
their inhabitants—have formal relations
of commerce and friendship equally be
neficial and pleasing to our citizens, as
they have been advantageous to our coun
try.
We talk and boast of our sympathies
towards those men who are situated pre
cisely as we once were ourselves, with re
gard to Great Britain We talk of hu
manity, and we shudder at the horrid de
tails so frequently detailed in our public
papers, of the cruelties practised by the
royal commanders and armies employed
in those countries; but is it sympathetic
or humane to remain any longer idle spec
tators in a cause which is, in fact, as much
our own as theirs? I say no. Spain has
drawn the veil; Spain never was ‘a friend
to the United States; and Spain, free and
independent herself, will still continue
as great a tyrant as ever, as regards Ame
rica. She will, in fact, be more rigor
ous than ever she was. She has told us
so herself, Read her decrees passed by
the Cortes. What do they say? “ You
shall have no commerce, not only with
the Spanish colonies, but you shall have
none with Spain herself."
Spanish America has long looted for
ward to the United States as to a govern
ment in which they hoped and expected
to find reciprocal feelings They have
extended their arms towards us as bro
thers. They have offered, and still offer,
to make with us any and every treaty we
may wish for as to our commerce. They
asfr nothing from us hut to be friends
and shall we refuse to admit them as such?
Spanish America dots not wqnire from us
to ent< V into her quarrels. She is anle,
thank God, and of which she has given
ample proof, (notwithstanding the ridicul
ous stories fabricated by the agents of
old Spain, and published in our papers,
to the contrary,) to defend and etahlish
her independence. She asks and re
quires no more than to be an
independent nation, and to be placed on
the same footing as others.
The time has arrived when it is all im
portant that this serious question should
be examined with more reflection than
we have heretofore given to it. A mo
men ary spirit, which has given employ
ment to some few of our vessels, to visit
the port of Lima, and extract from thence
th* property of some royalist officers, and
persons addicted to their party, who
dread the issue of the contest—covering
the property under false oaths and affir
mations, may, possibly, draw forth obser
vations from those few roncerned in this
illicit commerce, from one or two ports
of the northward of our country; but I
would ask, what would have been the
opinions of the establishes of our Inde
pendence, with regard to those persons
who wouid hare assited the British in
carrying away property at the evacuation
or surrender of our own town, during our
conflict? Would they not have beer
looked on, and, in fact, if met with, beer,
treated, as enemies to our noble cause?
And is the situation of those who hav.;
been, or may yet be, employed in cove..
ing properly from Lima to Old Spair,
different in any respect? No; there is n
difterence, and no defence can or -will h'-
attempted,i-except by those most interest
ed with them in that unjust and illici;
commerce, as regards the Independents
of America.
Have we not also to apprehend that the
Independents of South America, who
find all their endeavours to be friends with
us unavailing, and treated with indiffer
ence—have we not, 1 say, to fear, that
they will make arrangements with other
nations, and eventually with Spain hep
self and form treaties, excluding us from
all the benefits to be derived from their
commerce?
I consider this latter measure as high
ly probable, if we remain much longer
as we have been, idle & indifferent spec
tutors. I have heard; from good authori
ty, that it is the opinioa of some of the
wisest men of Old Spain, that they ought
to recognize the independence of their
colonies, and form with them treaties of
commerce, which, being free and recipro
cal, would be more binding; and I am
convinced that the day is not far distant
when that event will take place, and that
it will be hastened if we obstinately shut
our eyes to our own situation. And then
what can we hope for or expect? Who
can we blame for our own folly in refus
ing what was tendered to us, and which
we rejected?
To the Representatives of the nation I
address myself. Reflect well on the pe
culiar situation of our country; its distress
at this moment proceeding precisely from
the measures adopted by Spain, and other
countries in Europe, to curtail our com
merce. The door is open to yon to be
come the warmest, first, and best of
friends with our own continent; and do
not, I pray you cast from you the golden
pportunity, which, if lost, is lost, in all
probability, forever.
AN AMERICAN.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Ha« opened an office in Washington
Street, midway between Ellis and
Oieen Streets.
Augusta Feb. s——-1 m
810 Reward.
ANAWAY from the house of Mrs
Sandwich, in Augusta, about two months
since, an African negro woman named
NANCY. She is about 30 years of age
five feet, three or four inches high, am.
has the marks of her country on her face
and bosom. She it very talkative and
impudent, but speaka the English lan
guage very indistinctly. The above re
ward with all reasonable expenses will be
paid for her delivery to the subscriber in
Augusta.
J JE Kean.
February C 5 ts
11 > r
We
pressed with
'■id proeessloT^” P
always , *■
ral obsequies 'll en,n >f JIB
worldly tbollpfc*,
«y. Ruti,
the ceremonies were peculiarK N
It was a (» ie ». ■' , s ’4i(
whose remains
attention was first invited W 1)11
roll of the muffled
for the purpose of viewing th.?**
as it passed down Broad ~S
scene presented itself, whirh
at the time, almost prevents
The ~lem V Cw»
therhood, in a long ex*endprt i e^ro
burning tnpert, lighting J n *
companion to the grave—thl Z ' ,hei
;he..crc,i (,«*.
her—together with the tieet ii.fl?"
ganf ornaments and dresses of th, 1
altogether so H
we concluded to follow ii, e "f! thl
the place appointed Z
if our attention was attracted byVo
der of procession—the silent’
march—how much mor* an
atthegtw.e.
ed the tapers burnt no more-- dU.
calm as .f the hand of death had.uil
fallen upon those around us—we were In
in reflection. Our attention washov/»vi
not permitted to rest here-the
broke .hr .Hence with .I.L Jnp “
here behold
stance of the uncertainty of life, M( i ,1
vanity of all human pursuits. The Is
offices paid to the dead are only iissful
lectures to the living.- He continued!
some time, in a very impressive manner
when he made an invocation, to which ti
brethren responded. The march ro«
♦h» grave, with masonic formalities
not so immediately strike our atten’tlc
until we perceived the etergretn castiij
the open grave, and the look (uiwlitje
ven, as if they said—fresh be thy memo:
for ever, in the breasts of thy brethra
Tlie master then continued his addrcssi
some length, when his voice sudden
changed, and he pronounced in the mi
feeling manner—- Unto the grave we i
sign the body of onr deceased frier
there to remain until the general rest
rection, in favorable expectation that I
immortal soul may (hen partake of jo
which have been preparing for the right
ous from the. beginning of the world,"-
The deputy grand master then east ontl
first earth, and our minds had become!
full of the subject, that we could netsvo
mentally saying—
Requiescat in pace.
The joining of hands round the pin
concluded a ceremony the most impre
sive in all .U parts that we have ever*i
nessed. If.WCo.
The committee to which the Minon
subject was referred, has not vet made
report. The committee has had sever
meetings, and, having obtained leavet
hold its sittings during the sessions of tl
House, it remained rlosetted yestni
until a late hour, but. we understu
■ ithout agreeing definitively on the hs
of any report. The committee wil i
s me its deliberation* this morning, si
from its assiduity, we may anticipate i
"mrly term to them.
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On Wednesday next, will take pb
he ceremony of counting over the vot
">f the Electors of President and Vj
President of the United Slates. A jni
committee of both House* has been s
pointed to devise the proper regulatio
for conducting it. The constitute
provision on the subject is in the Win
ing words : “The President of the Sena
“shall, in the presence of the Senate >'
“of the House of Representatives, nh'
“all the certificates, and the votes s™
“then be counted.” The practice' no®
this provision, has not been uniform. -
the last election, the Senate came, o'
body, into the Representatives’ Cham (
the House being in session: fc, the. ?oes
er presiding jointly with him, the Pre
dent of the Senate opened the w
There is some diversity of opinion, *
ther, as the President of the
the Officiating Officer, be ought nn ( i
to be the sole Presidium Officer
will be said, is a mere point of etiqne
We grant that it is little more than n
but whatever one does,
properly, and even gracefully. «* f
admit of it. Beside*, though it |
fortn now, perchance it may be r<s
hereafter.
We have a singular illustration
consideration which is dim. fVC ..
publican governments, to matters o, ■
in the present situation of Missouri,
act dectering the admission of a rc ,
into the Union it is said was 0 £
but nn (ffleial and solemn a ” m " irl ‘ ,
nfaetf insomuch that the Sen*■ ,
Representatives of some states j
mitted to their seats, and to tie ■ ■
of their various functions, ‘ JP ‘ nP
sage of such declaratory aCt5 '~ A
absence of rich an act is
denial of the admission of
the confederacy. Wedono- ’
ever, to meddle with that B'i I*.
than to shew, by illustration,
are occasionally of some >mpo
-■
The r Tnm and Meant. -rT
us the House of Representatives,
has charge of this subject, '
which there has been sue p C
calculation, yeaterdav made a" rs ,
in compliance with the reap
...b.
resolutions required of th
enquire and report wheth . „,!
are necessary to increase i
and if so, to report thwe ® pro
to enquire into the ex PfA j duties
biting or imposing aHd’tionftl °
the importation of foreign P
On the first
as their opinion, that the govc
adequate to the expenses r hsn jffb«
ment; and further,• stl f pfe<i
pen, it will be sufficient,
vears, fully to repay, h« jut ye
planuary, 1825, the oa " nee
and any loan which may be ,
i ng the preset /
i k .