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but in contemplating the effect, (fce cause*
seemed to etude me—lt it surely ult tint we
dream of purity in earthly love, and all that
Imagination paint* or faith can promise in high- j
er or holier Intercourse. The father ** hit
face reflected in softer anJ gentler form* in Hi*
infant daughter; her expanding min i catches
it* impreosion* from It* experience; In joy,
her participation double* h.a delight; in sor
row, her sympathies and endeating fondue**
mitigate the pang. In prosperity, she sderrtt*;
in adversity, with kindly roiim;r..tinn* she
lighten* by sharing the Jwtheii ; in the eold
and bhler cup of poverty, sha tningl * Ihe in
gredients of willing o’ edicnce and growing
love.
“Such was mine—and I looked, when dei
rasccived and irtrS .gth failed, to h tte passed
away from life without * groan, pillowing mv
palsied head upon a daughter’s bosom.
‘-Out no—no j the blast that scattered branch
and fruit, speut it* force upon the upholding
prop j and no*.v the *eutU, u trunk barren ami
l-aflc*. totter* at e.cry breeze, lonely, profit
less, and unseemly.”
The old man ng tin ahook my hand with a
convulsive grasp, anti left tun 1 upon
tho grave of •**’ nnd turned my gaze
upon the fattier, a* he moved slowly from me
—ami felt that, for the morning’* experience,
for tho power* pf sympathy with the smitten
and tho lonely, it was “good for me thui I had
been afflicted.”
MEETING AT Sr. MARTS.
At s large and respectable Hireling of thn
citizens of St. Ma-ys, held in the Preshyterian
Churcli on l lie evening of the lilt Sptembcr,
1833, for t he purpose of expressing tlieir feel
ing* in relation to the death of thtnriuie fellow
citizen, Thomas R. Hardee, Esq., Arch'd Clark
E-.q., was called to tbo chair, and Dr. 11. Bn
eort, appointed Secretary. The following
preamble and resolutions were adopted.
Whereas by the verdict of the Jury of In
quest, of our late hum-tiled fellow citizen
Thomas E. Hardee, was deliberately murder
ed in the street of this place on the 3.lth if Au
gust, 1830, by Charles Ro-ngnoll, and w here
as the committing so high it crime in a peacea
ble* civil and Christian community, is an out
rug.- which requires our reprobation a* n*Fii,
and Christian.*, and should it pass unnoticed,
and the perpetrator be allowed to escape, other
of our fellow citizens may in like manner lose
their lives, and our town be again plunged into
mourning and sorrow for the loss of some of
her brightest ornaments nnd best inhabitants:
And whereas by such all id, the law sos the
land are put, at defiance ; the peace and good
order of Society contemned mid disregarded,
the best feeling of our nature trampled upon,
and life the greatest boon of Heaven sported
with and wantonly, tmd maliciously taken •,
families deprived of their head umi support,
niul they with their sympathising countrymen
celled to lament and monr over their untime
ly and unfortunate death And whereas we
consider it due tooursvi. es, to our country’s
laws, to stamp and stigmatize this great and
allocking crime w it h the seal of our condemna
tion, and if possible bring Dm offender ... Die
punisbmenyi'vatflud !<> ssueh high t.ffci, by
tite laws of the land. We therefore, tha citi
zen* of St. Mary's do hereby resolve :
Ist. That we are warranted by the verdict of
the jury of inquest to consider our into lamen
ted fellow citizen Thomas E. Hardee, to hate
been most wantonly murdered, and our com
imiltity to have been thereby deprived of one
of its most valuable and worthy members, and
thiit this unfortunate result and shocking ca
tastrophe has been brought about by the publi
cation of an tmnonymuus p.unplet entitled.
‘The Imposter,’
Hid. Tltut we highly disapprove of the prac
tice too prevalent in cut c< until,of carrying,
concealed weapons, and us citizens we will dis
courage and discountenance this dungerous
and unlawful practice,
3d. That we w ill use our best exertions and
utmost endeavors to prevent ail rencontres in
QUr streets, u hereby u fellow cieature may lie
deprived of his life, and we will uw ail right
proper and unlawful un its* to bring the viola
tor* of the good order and yeat eof society ter
Die puuhthtacntf ue thercUL^BlF
‘•ld. That tlie Intendunt be directed to offer
reward of Five llut.dr.il Fcl'nis for the up
prehension and confinement in any safe jail of
the .state, of 11re said Charles Itossignoli, tliat
In may be tried for the crime charged on hint
by the jury aforesaid.
• tit- 1 hat this meeting deeply sympathise
with the family of the deceased, for the loss
they have sustained in his unfortunate death.
(hit. That these proceedings be* gned by the
C hainnan and Secretary, tltut a copy thereof
be ftirnidled the family of the deceased, and to
His Excellency the Governor of the State, Al
so that they be published in the gazettes of Sa
varnish, with the request that the editor* of all
papers throughout the State, favorable to the
good order and peace of Society, w ill give them
an insertion in their icspectivc paper*.
ARCH. CLAIIK, Chairman.
11. Bacon, Secretary.
Singular Epidemic. —A letter from
Springfield, Vi. was ott Saturday received
at Boston, from w hirh the Mercantile Journ
al makes the following extract. Spi ingfield
is at the base of the Green Mountains, a re
inarknhly healthy situation, w e had always
supposed :
“Our town is almost a string of hospi
tals. A virulent dysentery, accompanied
with symptoms of Asiaslic cholera, has bro
ken out among us; and hardly a family
escapes. The wires of two of mv nearest
neighbors died last night, and m every di
rection seems spreading. We are not ex
empt : J and ll—have the first stage* *>f
it. <Jur ‘help’ has left us. sick, and we
are not as we were and w ish to he. No
stagnant w ater exists near. All nature is
still clothed in verdant beauty and luxuri
ant vegetation. I slay at home ou this ac
count. i have calls to visit others, when!
iny own family can spare me. One, nay, I
several of our best young men and families j
are down w ;i> this epidemic.”
; IIE II EH Ml):
rm th* bsien tmani.r.
The Temperance Cause.
Mr. Enir a :
1 statcJ I t a previous communication tbst I
Wat at a J vacate <>f tempera tire and gladly
would w ish, if I know my own heart. that
the evil of Intempersiue hou!d *pee.li y be
abolished from our community. Upon this I
•Object, I presume, ail good rilize is agree—
fur ititemper.tnc< i* sotm-iiDy an evil, that my
heart si< en within me, when I see my fellow
men yielding to tie dentiucnve influence of
i:* charms, and sinking, like the beast, into
I their own mire.
Tltere ia a do!B"*ic tyrant now traversing
the flirt it dialricts ofmir country, consuming
i it* young and vital energ es; Heading down
t she biussoms of it* hopes; undermiuit g its
free Institutions; setting at defiance all it* att
tho i'ies; multiplying etg tt sos torture ; fen
cing, ffg:a'.e yards; and breaking pe.iilence
u; on every acre ofour goodly heritage. This
van-devouring
“fftopSt may be call J wiiab s\apt* Ha non*
Di#ti • in rn*mbr join* or limb/*
*'F*rcetth Ith luriet, tumble ov
i* l\:r-tmiANcz. “Other lords have had do
i minion over us.” but berets the very Nero of j
| the horrid dynasty, and we must dethrone the
despot or we are lost. If we sit still but a lit- !
tie longer and look quietly on. while tbi*
scourge is roging li e a tempest of file lit all
our borders, the fourth of July will indeed
come; but we shall have no independence to
celebrate—Oltr liberties w ill exist only in the ‘
song of the diuiikard fail /ilium. (I hat they
wi at.) will be wntipn on all the monuments of :
our glory.
This *in fetters tho immrrtil mind n* we'l j
us the body. It not only blister* the skin but !
scorches the vitals. While it scourge* the j
flesh it tortures the conscience. While it crip j
pie* the wratch in ei * y limb, and broils away j
lit* blood, and inside i it* channels, and throw* j
every nerve into ady mg tremor, it a.-. goes j
down into the unsounded depths of human de
pravtty, und not only .j< ie- ell tl e j inn-t t.
to fierce insunection ..gainst God and man.
hut kindles a deadly civil war in the very heart
1 of their ow n empire,
. Who can enum •rate the disease w hich in
temperance generates in the brain, sum.act..
’ lung*, liver, pore*, muscles, nerves, fluids, am! ,
’ hutever tire is suspretibie of di>ea enr pain
f in the human sysn m ? How rudely does it
• abut up, one after another, all the doorsof sen
sat ion ; or lit the cupric’ of its wrath, —throw
’ them all wide open to oicry hateful intruder I
■ llow, with a refinement of cruelty almost pc
. collar to itself, dues it fly in the sac of itsvie
1 titus, and hold theirqnlv.-ring eye alls in it
‘• fitnga till they abhor th * tight an Iswim in blood!
< Maik that eobuneled. slavering doubtful
1 .out.ia.it of ain in, retching and picking tansy
’ before sunrise—loathing hub. , a .1 g ‘tnau
’ I his car bored to tile dout of a dram simp u
• hour after—dbgui.-ed b. tore ten—quarreling
’ by dinner tune, and snoring drunk bcf. r. -up
’ per. See bun next morn tin at his retching
! j mid his tansy turain ; and a* the dr. : v nr.-
, i.i couung noisy cross driveling, and tnlnxi
’ ciited. ’I bilk of this dragging out months
and years of torture, till the earth refine* any
’ longer to Lear such a wretch upon its *u f ;co,
■ and then tell me if any Barbadian slave was
1 ever so miserable.
Hut who is this that comes hobbling up,—
w ith bandaged i. gs, inflamed eyes, and a dis-
I tortedenmuemm. e I Every st. p is like the
piereji gnl u sword or the driving of u nail
nnioig terv. sand tendons. And wh.it is the
• cause I The humor* be tells us, trout.'e him;
and though lie has applied to ull Ihe doetius
far and near, lie can get no relief. Alt, these
! w icked and ini e erate humors I Every body
‘ i knows whe e they cume from. But for the
’ bottle he might have been a sound and Ileal |
j jhy tra i. |j|;
Look next at that wretched hocel, open on
| all sides to the rude and drenching infrusbm
of the elements. ‘I he polling vWeton, l\ mg
las you see, upon a !.iMe raw in the corner.
! 10 cimsuinptiou, was ome the owner
of a cotnfflrraoie mansion. It is i.iteinperance
j which has consumed his substance rioted up- j
on his l!o-h und bis Breath, und fixeJthat deep
s q n ehiul cough) in his wasting vitals.—But j
your sympathies runic ton late. Pe.hapse you
•old him the very poison which has brought
him to this—or it we it out sparkling from your
! distillery to the retailer, —and thence ii.tothe
jug, half concealed by ih ■ tatterel g irment of
the vtetiri, us he curled it home to his starving
! family.
Go next to the almn house, and tell me
whether you recognize that dropsiral figuie
lingering IVotn week to week, under the slow
torments of strangulation. How piercing are
| bis shrieks, as if he was actually drowning!— ;
He was once your neighbor thrifty, reputable
and happy—but lie yte.ded to the hlatvdish- j
luetits olthe great destiover. He drank, firsi
temperately, then freely, then to excess, ami
finally, to habitual inebriation. The conse
quences are before you. The swelling flood
in w bich he e.ches every precarious breath,
no finite power can long assuage.
Leaving him, to be cast u ivieck by the ang- ,
rv w aters upon the shore ofeleririty, enter that!
hut. towards which a solitary neighbor is ad
j vuncing w ith hurried steps. There a husband
: and a father is supposed to be dying. The
disease is delirium (rent tis. Every limb and
muscle quivers as in agonies of dissolution.
Reason, having been so often and so rudely
I driven from her seal by habitual intoxication.
. wow re fusing m return.
I have now attempted to paint to the reader
a drunkard. Will some of the members of the
Temperance Society now point out a remedy?
If action is necessary, they must adopt some
, plan toga upo . If they intend to continue
in tbe:r efforts, and let the mighty and irrestst
abir powft-of publie opinion abolish ibis hy
l dra from the soil of our young republic, I go
j heart and hand w Uli them. But if they intend
I ;o nuke i. a political question, and unite their
I¥l C SOsSTOOtT NTV H3O R/L leiP.
forturc* with n jo ttlca) party. I will opfsec,
as) hope every man will such an alliance. The
cry wou.d be ( hutch and State! “ho would
: doubt ilia t nc? The cause of Temperance
I which hat flourished likt th* fhre:i Bay tree,
and wrought a wonderful change in public
Opinion would fade, w iilu r end and e.
I trust tie more reflecting portion of the
temperance men w til ace Ihe fo’iy “f attempt
ing to have tno.e laws paaae'i upon the üb
ji-et. One ha sos those who are signing mr
meri.da are totally ignorant of the naturenf
the lawa w hiclt ure in exi*tanc. —und if they
would do their duty to ti e c< mmtmity and
I tiave ihe existing law* put in force, the evil
of which they complain ao much, would vatt
i*h a* the flux w hich fall*osundrrat the touch
of fire. But unfortunately for their cause,
they lend too deaf an ear to the vok eof re iton.
and are pushing their point with a determina
tion bordering on infatuation. The result will
be a determine 1 opposition by a powerful par
ty —and the temperance cause will sink to in
dgnificance and derision and fin,a ly (dumber
in a graie from which there will be no reaur
i rcetion.
FIDEB.
W hile- Oak Plantation.
FROM THE aaVINNAH OMHIOIAN.
AIiLANtHOLY Hill PM HI ( K.
AVe have litis uior.ii.ig to ree-ir.l the I >*s
;of the fine Ship \lUle,ige’ ille, a regular
packet between New York mid this port,
| which the veteian seaman, ("apt. I). L.
Pout er, commanded. Apprehenj ms fr
her faie have been eiiirrtuiiied in tbi*
I city ftr several days, (since the arrival of
the brig Philura ami otiier ies-ela which
encountere I the late qale.) The u nil ol
I yesterday veil lere.l ceriuia her fate, and
j ihe ilisuater is rendered mure li*tre**i.i j.
: bv the iuielligenee that seven i idivi luul*
| (whose names we are not aide to itirnti mi)
j iiave perishe !. Another ofour i e-se s, the
; 11. H. Douglass, on Iter v iiage fr on St.
Ebon to Baltimore, suffered in the gale—
’ (for tbF particulars of which we refer to our j
marine head),
Extrart of a letter from a passenger (on
j hoard the Milledgeville) to a friend in tiiis
j city, dated.
Elizabeth Citv. Sept. 5. 1913
I have had news to giie you ive were
u rr eked on theSlllh nil. oil ih<- coast of
Nortli Carolina, forty mile* North ol Cape
llalteras, after being nine days at sea. 1
j an* very near losing mv life. I via* the
!.i*t that left the vessel ;C.ip . Porter h.-.ir
l\ escaped. I have loutallniv elotliing a*
| well a* u .iiamity • fgomls, whielt i had mi
board. lam ob.i-ed to return to N York
lo lit ike other parch ihc. We have lost
! seven passengers an I one seaman.
Twelve hours after the ship struck she
, was itt a thousand pieces. All the go i.ltd*
ion hoard will he lost wi.h the ix -< p.iou of
i imii, u hirh are in good order. Tliev
w ill lie gold on the o.it 10*1. i was aim st
| naked ami w ithout iiiimi v w! <■ . I reach I
1 lie Sh ite. Thu ik God l!.e L * lge will
- it| ply me, and 11 s’ !i u.e ■ rein: nto New
j York.
Pram the fforfol H-.u'on. Ith insl.
A’, e sjiic below, ail aeeou it of the lost of
• >L.e pte.k'-t snip Milledgejrille, from New
Y ok, i> on. i to Hina.mail, with the lo*s of
n-veral | a-:l.gi'rs and .me if the er. u.
hi/ in rC’ and hiss of life —Hei eral sea
! men arrived here vestmluv aft.-ni um, who
i stiio'd that they belonged to the ship Mil
j edge Ville, C.iptaiif Porter, which sailed
Iril.u New V ork the 2lsl lift, ivitii a cargo
and tli y yo.oo, &r. and reieral passengers,
hound to Sava..mill, ami was totally lost on
Thursduy imnniug at 2 A. M. foundering,
i on Chiekamaeomie t, about twenty miles to
j the North ward of Cape H.ittenis. Eight
passengers, a whom was a female,
j mi I one of rite crew were ilrowtied.
(’apt. Porter remaiue 1 on the Iw-arb to
attend to that pugl ufthe car go which wash
ed asiiore.
U e also learn from llie rwiv of the ship
Mviledyei ille, that a iimi.her of rattle were
driven ashore on fftt fieucfc, suppose ! to
be from some \ easel bound Ua the West 1 ti
i dies.
Athens, Sept. ft.
Miraculous Escape.— Mr. Detlar, a
highly respectable citizen of Augusta, pre
| ripitnled himself, hemi foremast, from the
third story window of the Central Hotel on
Wednesday night last, an ! although he fell
“it a pile of wood, escaped uninjured, lie
was at the time lab .ring tin ler the i lea that
he lui l taken the Yellow Fever in Vugusta,
i (which place he had recently left) and
wished to destroy himself. He was taken
hock to his chami.er, Imt with that running
; so peculiar to insane persons, clu led the
vigilance of th ose place Inn otch hi n, a id
again jtnnpe I out of the sane window,
alighting on his lead; he did not escape as
before, as his head was tlrea Ifulli bruised,
an I several hones broken. It is. however,
thought that he will recover.— li list.
The Lexington. Ivy. Intelligencer states
thatu bloody affray look place at Richmond,
Ivy.on the‘Jff.h, between Mr. Muzzy, prin
cipal ol an Academy at Richmond,an I Mr.
Thomas M. Stone, a merchant of that
place, w hirh resulted in the death of the lat
ter. The parties met in the street, both
armed w ith pistols, and fired three rounds
apiece tw oof w hich, from Muzzy, took af
icet upon his niitagn..its, causing immediate
death.
*
V Beautiful Exclamation. —When the
Queen of France, consort of L mis Pliillip
pi first heard ot her late daughter Marie’s
death, she ejaculated—“ My God, 1 have a
daughter less—hut tin.u hast an angel
more.”
Society is improving in Michigan, since
its great production of grain. At a tiial be
fore a Justice in Pontiac, lately, one of the
parties spit tobacco juice in the face of the
magistrate, and threatened to flog him.
The Philadelphia “World” says that the
Spanish Consul of that city has applied to
the United Slates Government for the sur
render of the negroes raptured in the “Am
i?lad.” This is nonsense. If any one ap
plies for their surrender, it will be the
Spanish Minister, who is now residing with
Ins family a - . New Brighton.
D4K J£ N JI ; 3 -Tt A s.B -
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, n
.'uestluy Morning:, heptcmlcr IT.
|-fOn Mondny the 9tb iuat J .and -eCmaLTOM •
j r-fl <ard M jot of th* city of Savannah, by ths
Board of Aid rm'n.
Important rao.M Mi.xsco.—Bustamente,
since I.is assuming the government, ha* annul
led all the acts of Santa Ana, p irncularly the
contract at Loudon for a loan of £13.) >J J. He
ha relieved General Thomas Andrade of the
penalties incurred by him m not returning to
ilex.co within the time flxeJ by the amnesty
of 1833. He bos formed anew cabinet, w hich
is composed of the follow ing nu n : Juan de
Dio* Curnvdo, Minister of Foreign Affairs;
Luis (. Cuevas, Minister of the Interior ;
Xavier Echevcrria. Minister of Finance. Bus
latneiilr ha • u o reestablished the liberty of the
pre--., and appointed General Gaona governor
of the Castle of San Juan de L'lioa. Vera
Cruz is now commanded by the brotbern-in
luw of Santa Am, General Coro, who, when
he leirm-d that General Gaona had been ap
pointed Governor of the castle, declared that
he would uM allow him to take possession of
that fort, and that he had 2 KM men, Including
j the coitvi Is, under ills command to oppose
him.
Santa Annah id not keen assassinated as re
ported, but was still intriguing for the dicta
torship of Mexico.
Oca Cues rav—The continuance ofour B -
j publican Government depends upon the mo
rjiity anJ virtue of her citizens. Nothing, on
the contrary, will m ike it so insecure as ignor
ance ammtg them. It it this dreadful evil
j which will yield them nn easy prey to desig
ning politician*. the deluded and dangerous
victim* m tun -s of public comm .lion. Such
were the leading characters in those awful tn
surrcctions and in tssacre* in France, who. dr
tilttte of every m >ral culture, sported with the
in i .g ej bodies und Innbsof tlieir fellow citiz
ens. L .ok ul every country, and you see the
m .st ignorant and mieJuratedaluayscomposc
that class, who are the most disposed to out- i
rage and violence. Ben in these United
I.Suits, we say it with pun. that the largest
portion of subjects for punishment, in our
cri.n ..I courts, is found to consist of youth
who e e irly instruction has been neglected
who h ive bd) trained up in on Morality. The
principal 4c .gn of .Sunday Schools is to rem
c.y rucli debasing and growing evils. Their
object embraces the children of the indigent
as well us of the wealthy; h> that ail may read
and be taught those g. .-at truths upon which
and pen is the well being of community, and
tlieir ow n future welfare. No political ecou
om.-t can declare the virtue and improvement
which ibis vast engine is producing by its in
flueuce,—is the correct oducition of the young
the never-fniliug spring of national feliciiy ?
i Then more than one hutt irel thousand,chd
drett, in the United States, obtain in these
schools, the best of all kunivh*jg<—their duty
to God and nt in. We will he.o men.ton a ;
fact tliat should be gou rally known, to awa
ken the into.eu of every lover of hiscoitutiy.
It iathU— ailing the thousands ol youth m
strtteted in Sa.iday Schoo.s, of Gieat Urttain
and Amertca.'scarceiy an instance has occur
r-d of lit.- conviction of a felon. This sine <•
fact speaks vo times in sir >ng lesffiuony of a
system so e tiiaentlvc deulate I to ditfu ie th.osc
uabit*ani principles, which support the pillar
of our n ition’s fa ne, tha bulwark of our free
institution*.
To inane the mind with truth is to pns-ess
it with c irrect vie vs; ta.l to imprest these up
on the heart, is to form the proper soil for the
pteduction of- very virtue. And we have no
iiedtution in attributing the preservation ofour
civil privileges, in a great measure to the in
flu. nee of religious instruction. In this ligh
Sunday school teachers are the l est friends ot
their country their labor* are eminently
pa runic, iloiv noble! How disinterested o
‘heir conduct! Hate, while you contemplate
you cannot but love, reverence, and admir.
•he labors of the philanthropist, whithersoev
er he goes!
It was but as yesterday, that we seemed to
he no peop.e. Fifteen years ~gi, clouds atu.
commotion filled our political horizon. Wt
appear ut once to have emerged into a different
attn .sphere—” the winter is past,” and now
vvh.it cheer.ng prospect* are before us! Scarce
has the shrill clarion of battle ceased to sound,
and the soldier to lay down his helmet than the
voice of peace is h ‘ard through the lanJ. The
past short p ‘riod which has brought us to our
present condition, is only a prelude to the fu
ture splendid scene before us. It is widening
aud extending, it surpasses the widest rang
ot thought. Blessed w ith a healthy climate,
a fertile soil, an extensiv e c juntry, a moral peo
ple. a fee goverment. our situation is without
parallel on the earth. Let our population in
crease :is rapidly as it has heretofore; allow
that it will continue to double once in 22 years -
and a half, as it did previous to the last census,
and before the close of the present century, j
we shalf amount to more than Eighteen Mil
lions.’—And vve shall, with this increase, soon
become one quarter of the whole earth.
Our lofty forests will lie prostrate before the
rapid inarch of civilized man. YVhe e all was
gloom, and the stillness of nature prevailed,
there now. the echo of human speech bursts
from every grove. The seasons passing on
their solemn course, will witness this vast con
tinent one day covered with populous and
splendid cities.
Our navy 02C our 2ag altali iriunphauily .
ride upon the bosom of our most distant wa
ter*. The cloud* shall be dispersed from the
wilderness— the.* shall the Sabbath briug
round its mild und swt-et return, and the sanc
tuary unfold its inviiu-g di>cr*. Amidst the
hilt* & valleys may Sunday Schools raise ibe : r
humble roofs, filled with blooming and happy
children. Wher once was he,.rd the war
song of the cruel savape there now resound*
tl e carol of the peaceful plot.ghboy, a* he tra
ces the silent furrow. Agriculture and tnanu
factu.es ate iuctea ing and multiplying the
the sources of affluence and ease. Our com
merce spreadii g her w bi'e u ing* abroad, with
| propitious gal. *, visit* every ocean Public
i roads and canals w ill extend themselves to the
tn >t distant p .rt of the Union. Them*) stic
waters of the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Mis
souri, the Columbia covered with ie<se|s pro
pelled by the giant force of steam, will bring
the cho res productions of foreign countries
into the very centre of America.
Thus a* sticceding ages roil on, guided by
Heaven, our empite will increase—our free
dom will surviie. Y>! our children, and
ourchiidre t’s children, to the latest prosperi-
ty, shall maintain unspotted their birthright,
and perpetuate the morality, the happiness,
the power, and peace of this mighty Common
wealth I
For the Herald.
THE RETAIL LAW.
.Mg. Edi tor ;
It is a favorite maxim of the friends of
the Retail Sy-te n, “ that th'ir property is
their own. a id they hare a right to use it as
they please.” Tus sentiment, (ib*u r d as it j
win appear ) form* a pr uniue it topic tnall;
the public harangue, and pit dish -J arttc e* of
the day, against an ipphc.ition to the tegisla
iature forrenef from the u niterahle mischief* I
of ihe ic> line law. It may a s ver i'.s pn*-p >se ;
lor political effect, among a cl is* who m- er
think for themselves -but, one would think i!
j need never h ive !*en repeated among a p
pie, who pride th-m :.ves with their in e r
tuai streng h.
It is the dicta’- of co n non tense, as wail . i
the law of the land , Ih it no man may use hie
own property to the inj try of hit >r.
One in.in liai exactly tlie sun • right in his o-. ti
property, that another nun ha*, in his. But
there are limits lo the Use of it, m the rase ul
everyone. No man for example has a rig it
lo me Ins property in th • in niuf ic’.u.-e. -u
chase and sa.e ofcou tterfeit m ite,'. Itt* -t c
true then of any one, th it he ha-, u rig'L to
use his property a-he pleases. Ec-ry one hoe
the right oj using hit property for thrpro
j motion of his own ha up in ■is in a iy way lie
I chooses protiilesfohe Li-s ml so use it, as to di
minish the innocent happiness of his neigh
bor, or of the comm nuty. When he imns
gre.-eq here, the law justly lays its restraints
upon him. He may not use hi* property to
make disasterous inroads upon the families it
is in his power to destroy, lie may not do
this, though the fathers of these families are
Willing it should be done, lie may not employ
his on ti suit, to the detriment of his neighbor.
Hu mav not dig a deep pit anJ leave it unrov
ere I, without being answerable for the conse
quences. If hi* neighbor’s child, or beast fail
iqto it, und t Kille-J ur manned, on his head
will the penalty eotne. c ha* no right to re
mote from his own land, some natural em
bankment, vt hich holds back the flood, which
wou.d sp etd desolation below, lie may not
dam the stream that runs athwart his own pre
mises, and thus throw back a pond, who-e
’ putrid wa.ers wi.l diffuse a pestilence among
the dwellers on its banks at least, if such b<q
the effect of the embankment lie constructs, the
neighbors may, after a reasonable time, de
c.arc il a n lisa ice, aid the law will authorize
tt removal. Numeious and free, lire our
rights fu this emmiry. we are free “only to use
our own tilings, so as not to injure our neigh
bor.
Oovious as these princip’e* are, il is sliil
said and reiterated in the midst of an enlight
ened people, who know it is not so. that every
man has a just r, ;ht to use his property as he
pleases. A thousand examples, Mr. Editor,
in.giu be adduced to shew the absurdity ofihe
saying. But I forbear.
Allow me to make use of the above reason
ing for my own purpose. It seems to be ad
nutted on all hands, “ that the prevalence of
grog shops ut any community, is an evi! to be
deprecated—that they conduce neither to the
morality, we.fare, nor respectability of any
1 tass ol men ; that they* l *ud to the subversion
of good order, to the g.ocest immorality, and
to the loss of dom.-stic happiness.” And vet
a is maintained by the pr.uciple I am oppos
ing, that a few men in community hare a right
so to use their property, as to entail these tre
mendous evils on the many . Is it so ? The
unrighteousness of the thing, is so glaring,
.hat it is wonderful, that abused and insulted
communities, have born with it for a mom. nt.
By what right. I would ask, do the. e men, de
preciate the value ofour property, and dimin
ish the amount ofour labour, by spreading the
cause of inebriation among our negn.es ? I!y
whal right do they levy a perpetual assessment,
upon the sober civil community, to support
the paupers n.ad at their counter, and to pr./-
secute and imprison those whom rum, drawn
from their casks, has driven to deeds <f vio
lence *nd blood ? By what right do they e m
pel us, to feed from our table, to warm wiih
our fuel, and clothe from our Cocks, those.
; “ ll0:ie property and earnings are safely .odg
j 111 their till ? —Do they render back an
equivoieut, for value received 1 Its an equiv
oient. which, in thousands of instances, makes
wives widows, and clothes in rags, and de
prives of a home, children be.eft of their fa
thers. I know r etaiiersof spirits stand on the
authority of the license law.
But viewing this iaw, in the light of the
above remarks—it carries its condemnation on
its own front. The iniquity of it, stands out in
bold relief and if it shield the conscience,
it wiM not shield the soul, of the spirit vender,
i/ora Blame. I hav e ever thought and do still,
t.-t tie Legislature ia liccaing the sale of in-
toxicating drinks contradict* more than fifty
of it* own express enactment*, for the protec*
lion of our rights, and the security of our per
sons & property; and I honestly believe,that Ihe
time is not far distant when the Legislator* ol
our county will view it in the *anie light, and
make haste lo empty their hand* of the price,
and dear their skirt* of the iniquity of ihey
tem.
I atn not among the number of those, who
think the Legiriature is not to be petitioned
and lias nothing todo, with subjects connected
with the moral reformation of community. I
had supposed ihe very object of Government,
was, not lo elevate a few. an biucu* ot pt wer,
over the many—bat the good of the governed
—1 have teen taught to think that the primi
tive object of Government, was, the happiness
of human society—by eontrouting the luviees
and protecting the innocent. Moral means, are
to regulate the welldisposed—but
these will not protect society against the erile
These must be restrained by law. “Now,
every Government, has declared the traffic in
intoxicating drin s. the foul enemy of the
eommuuity-by throwing around it, the guards
ofihe license law—making it penal, lor any to
engage in the traffic but those w ho hare a spe
cial license. “
Now. if il it perfectly obvious vital this res
trictice statute, operates as a p.-rinil, to pour
out upon a:t innocent, unsuspecting communi
ty, all the causes, that would flow from the
tuo-t unrestrained indulgence, can it he other
wise than that in time, as the community shall
understand this subject, they will demand a
Legislative action, which shall grant no licen
| re* ’ a i l treat the whole, as they treat other
;mtoe ibie nuisances.
But il is i texpeJteitiopetition n >vv? ‘h
| lleCiuv public opinion is igt.it*’ it. r ’
| K.ij-v* >v ■’ i ll? Wear - aot r• t if--’. :
: tr jo ii n nil i.’.or > : e . ■ t
jnlit . p -v -J. But how ar •
|r. 1... ..lohe be . ...< r k •v. ti
a p*? i >n? If i m.j *ritj ;
Slate are op,. se Ito .iny ~.uti i “ l ’ * >
; :e th .o *p >k “.ii uv counter tn- - or
liovtji o; 4 ..lord r pui ih.-.r names to .;.e
: p.. :• ia it. ait It..i be {’>i if upon tr:.: (. • lc-
Ue,• tt vvtil fee i.i loci. ) that public opt.non is
j r,i f, r0f.!12 at asttre let lie f stature do
i |.,J|l V, iiei u r penal th” vending of ia
,t . c lii .g Jri tl. —unit! uTndu’ 1 by the cia.n
----i r .a; suih.ilaw tan.iol i.s enforced. For
j me, I am pets-cry wi .utg. ny desirous, that
j uu c-vnstituied oinhortiiesof the -*>lllll’. should
;bv u . t-d. in this in .'ter. bv the public will
! —and it ii ua f a.,d that th ,j op:e irditot yet
■ ripe. lor r form, i can wait pa’ten ly til they
: am—and then, if th- te >- found those, wh<> in
i sj.tte 01 iegin wive • 1 ,eime.it.; Will c-mttn..e to
tr.iusjre-’S; at t!.err dui.r ii-t t!tC consequences
be. REFORM.
Sep 1”
roa TUI DARIEN’ lit:; LD.
I find, M . EJiiur, upon openuig your ( apr;
of ilic la;h mat. that 1 hav. utav. u 1 , ut: 11 > >< If
the. : iiiiiiauvursM usol iwu v. rit. tt,. v b.< Ii g- -
to siiovv tint the” laliaticihiu” ot .tie ‘ietiq . r
! nn e 8 *i’ ty is not likely to pa-; 11 no..end.
1 vvonki.sir, that ihcse ‘ fe.i i,tun .a n the vv at* h
tower t.l Liberty,” were as ready 10 ‘rni.-e the
i iot'-in ot alarm” m the fanaticism of iliu>-cl
liug and rnmdrinking. Yv hen i gluiiced my
eye iwer so large a portion of your paper as is
occupied by /onr twocorrespotKieuismy heart
misgave me in review ol opposition so lormi
lubte nt (east iu appearance. 1 ba.ercaa ih. tr
itriiel.s, however, and find that I was ’more
-eared than hurl,” ami with vpWrtcave. sir, ant
vviiiiug to try again. ’ Fkli s” inuinpluin'Jy
! ask* ii t do not “know that the Leg. slat lire
. never witi ptos so ilff-gal an hci?” No. sir. Ido
iftii. nor do tnelieTe. either that Mich an act
| would te illegal, ot tliat the Legislature .**ill
i not pass 1). It I did 1 should not have wastid
t me. nor tie-pasted upon the patience of y twit
readers and yourself by ehitnig public alt. ntiott
jto the subject, lie enquires il the mail ol ar
dent spirits is un ev .1. v. by do not tin uuthoi i
: ties of Darien, put the law in lurco ? ‘ihe ”au
-1 thi.rities” imist answer for it cn.selve*. 1 ui 1 I y
1 no means a. mit that it is ”1 realise ptd.lie . pin
ion is in favor ol the retail law.” ‘1 he gross
violation of .he present law ha* Senna rtljeet
of e. mp'ai .t. and in the ex. euti. n . I it. the
”aut!>on.ie.v’ would tinqt cslii.nai iy i uve bet n
1 sustained, f have never known that they weie
jtheo.p r.s of public opinion in this matter. I
have 1. a dot.lil that if the lit. mis of the te
-1 loiin n’.ea.-uic. v iilshovv cn.y ball the zeal in. I
laining signalutes to them, nioriat that Tides’
; does in defence oftli. se nuisance*, tliat inlet
our city and .otinlry a large majority wifi be
: found upon the side of if e pelim it.
The subject lias not yet been tested, and c. n
’ sequent)) vve ate in ignorance as to what pub
j lie opinion is. except so tar as it has Wen ex
pressed in private intercourse.
‘I he cv il has t ten sc. n. and lamented, hut
from an apathy winch is ns a.-t. nishilig, as it
is inexcusable, 11 has been vv it ked at. Each
j one fu.s waned lor Ins neighbour to
m,.ke the fiist move, and so it has
passed apparently urmotic.d. “ Fide*” is
iu error when he attributes to the Tem
perance Societies the origin of the memorial.
J l think that the citizeis ol 1 oti . iii t.Li.ty
not in the capacity of a society, Lut a- aI• oy
ot eiliz. n-, brst blot ght the sot j>ct belt re ilie
public. Tt mpeiauce Si cilies have moved in
the matter, but they are united wnhn anv
vv t.o belong to no sucteiy. ’1 iiat they have
deteimined to “elret no man to the legisla
ture who indulges in the use of iiqt.< r, or v ho
wiii not advocate their cause,” i- a t.-ibvi . n
of w hich 1 never heard belnie u:d <n tie
pan of the Society cf th s e. only, I disc am
any such inteuticn. f app eln no tb< p< t e
man is mistaken here airo. l.esavs’t. ct
voca'es .f 3 eirp eraice ten uc, evi:v cm
who do* s not think t* th. y 1 1k ‘ £ . t
the h< ne.-tv of my heat, It.; > ! - > > ■• 1
cue ha’f the det.ULeiett. n fit 11, t! ■ ;; ei or < t
the cause, .hat bus nuia'iC t:.ni ’ierii!:
of the uppos.tioh. \ e are called Tanatius.”
“h’evoiutionisis.” and by this very court. < us
writer, are charg. and v. ith an • alt. tnpt to.-ap the
foundation of the Temple of Ui.ed. n.” as
through all the patrioticm of the land was to
fce found at a li,(. I.snauen t. vei. i have vet
to learn when vve have espo-ed 10 public odi
um • God’s best gift to mail.” And yet this
refined w riter who blushes not to drag fictn
I the ‘ domestic hearth these precious and deli
cate liliies” whose spotless reputation I w ould
sullv with a defence talks of proscription,
and calls upon his fellow citizen-, to “watch
wiih je-iions,eyes” our m.-ven ent? ! “If PM
lantrophv” he continues “is the object of the
Temperance Society why not turn their atten
tion to the condition of the poor and destitute ?
YY hy not establish a system of general educa
tion where, true morality and virtue will be
.taught ?” Dur attention'have beea turned to