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Penitentiary, Dec. 23, 1826.
An Election will be held by tliz Inspectors
of this Institution, on Saturday 30th Inst,
it 10 o’clock A. M. for four Assistant
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COAL WANTING.
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THOMAfs 11. KENAN,
WILLIAM GREEN.
51—lt_
TOWN COMMON
TO BE LEASED.
ON the first day of Jauuury next, the
cleared Common of the Town of Mill
ejyvillc, will be leased at the Court-House
hr Five years.
Persons holding Leases which will expire,
ja the last day of this month, may have them
mewed for live years, on the same Terms,
let r.ow hold them, on application to the
bwctsry previous to the first of January,
and giving Bond to return the premises, in
lit same repair they may he, at the time of
Bilking the last Crop thereon.
By order of the Board,
R. B. Washington, Sec.
Dec. 26th, 1526. 51—It
33T AUTHORITY.
AN ACT.
’i’o amend an Act entitled an Act amendato
ry of an Act passed the ninth day of June’
:ightecn hundred and twenty-five, to dis
pose of and distribute the lands lately ac
quirirj by the United States for the use of
Georgia of the Creek Nation of Indians,
by a Treaty made and concluded at the In
fill! Springs on the twelfth day of Febru
ary, eighteen hundred and twenty-five.
Be it tnactid by the Senate and House of
Jtepmentativcs of the State of Georgia in.
(ieiurd Assembly met. That the words
'iir>t day of September, one thousand right
lUiidrtd and twenty-six” in the said Act, be
aid the same are hereby repealed, and the
irst day of January, eighteen hundred and
rarity-seven he adopted in lieu thereof.
S r. 2. Ami be it further enacted, That it
till be the duty of the Justices ofthelnfc
nrCourt of the respective counties of this
'■it, ora majority of the same, to cause the
Kie section to lie carried into efitret.
'tc. .lad be it further enacted, That
k persons appointed by the Inferior Court
srry into effect the provisions of the Act to
fes hie above recited Act was amendatory
ados this Act, shall insert in tiie oaths laid
■ i*i '.he Act, to which the before recited
l!| is amendatory, the words the first day of
;K - ry, eighteen hundred and tsveaty-sevi n,
ist' iii of the words, the first day ofScptem-
Ufa eu hundred and twenty-six, wlicr
itr fa latter occurs.
b'c--1. And be it furl'll enacted, That all
”s.n; who shall have resided in this State
lrCl ' .wars before the said first day of Janu
r) next, and who have served a tour of duty
J rthree mou'.ks or more in the service of
bisStato, in the late war with Great Britian
twill'! Indians, shall be entitled to one draw
' addition to those which they arc entitled
J the before recited Acts, notwithstanding
*) may have drawn a lot or lots in any pre-
Ba ’ fab ry; and the persons appointed to
;| r ' this Act into effect, shall administer the
“Wing oath in lieu of the oath prescribed
■9* recited Acts—viz:
■ fao solemnly swear or affirm, that I ser
of duty for three months or more
service of this State, in the late wars
■®t’n.at Britian and the Indians, and that
* ,c resided three years within this Stale,
e. 5. And be it further enacted, That all
ns who have given in their names for
■"raw, agreeable to the provisions of the
‘° "Rich the before receited Act was a
■ ' n '' a, ;ty, and who since giving in their
have by marriage entitled tin m
fording to the provisions of said
t,T ” draws, shall be permitted to give
' n: [ mes f° r another draw, on their muk
hereto before the persons appointed
cflcct tlie of said Act:
or i ’ suc ** P crson has not married a wid
■ „ “T han "ho has given in tor a draw in
■w p nl conte mplated Land Lottery.”
be it further enacted, That all
■V ha are idiots, lunatics, or insane, or
dumb, or deaf or dumb, or
of J ° tna ' * JC tcn years old on the first
anoar J r > eighteen hundred and twen-
■ i id' | and under tlie age of eighteen years
“ avc resided in this State three
arnediately before the first day of Jan
. eeen hundred and twenty-seven,
■ |( .,„. e i" t,tlc d lo one draw, and all unmar
■eoi. ""’ho are idiots, lunatics, or in
.■ ’I" 0 urc deaf and dumb, or deaf, or
K’.. r .i ln s "ho may be ten years old or
“ ,r,t hey of January, eighteen
■Bii! St-,, t J' ( ‘ nt y- scvcn » and have resided
vML * ’‘‘ roe years immediately preced-
f lr,t da y of January, eighteen
■' r nty stven > shall be entitled to
-^■'Jiut' \ a< * ■ f uar hinn or next friend to
’■or, ’. uuatlc > or insane person, or any
O'- t ? m i > y h° deaf and dumb, ordeal or
K’. , shall take the following oath,
Hin In So,Cmn| y swear] that the person
n o, | is eentitled to a draw ii»
, Und Lottery, to the best of
Bill anv'"i ftt belief—So help me God.”
•»«i* r. drawn h >' a,, y ‘unaite,
• ■ , or ,1?°"’ or “"y rerson deaf and
pf® issiir* in.,’ " r dllml, or blind, tlie 'grunt
etfl’i.i of the drawer on puy
[K'’-r'uh J ! ,,it f urli ‘ tr enacted, That all
■ dmivn in the present content-
plated Land Lottery by fictitious names, may
be returned as fraudulent draws, and subject
ed to be condemned as in other cases of fraud.
Sec. 8. And be it fierther enacted, That the
persons appointed by the Inferior Courts to
carry into effect the provisions of this act, shall
have until the fifteenth day of Fobuary 1827,
to make their final returns to the executive
provided however that all returns made pre
vious to the commencemen t of the draw ing,
shall be put into the wheel.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That his
Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby
authorised to issue grants to all fortunate
drawers who may apply for the same, as soon
as the Lottery commences, on their paying
the lawful fees, and obtaining a certificate
from the Commissioners of tlie Lotteries, that
thev have drawn such lot or lots.
see. 10. And be it further enacted, That in
every instance where land shall be drawn by
a defendant in execution, and the grant shall
be taken out by the plaintiff in execution, his
agent or attorney, the amount of the grant
fees sha’l be refunded and paid to such plain
tiff, his agent or attorney, out of the money
raised by the sale of such land, in preference
to any other lien whatever ; and in all such
cases, the certificate or receipt of the Treasu
rer shall be taken and considered as sufficient
evidence of the fact of said fees having been
paid by such plaintiff, agent or attorney.
IRBY HUDSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS STOCKS,
President of the Senate.
Approved—December 14, 1826.
G. M. TROUP, Governor.
CAUTION.
A LI, persons are hereby cautioned against
tresspassing on the lot number twelve in
the third district of Henry County drawn by
Robert Grant Jun. of Glynn county and now
owned by Robert Grant Senr. (the father of
his deceased son) and all persons are further
cautioned against trading or otherwise involv
ing themselves by trading for the same from
a Mr. Beard of Morgan county who I under
stand has offered the same for sale and pre
tended he hath (or will make titles) as I now
have the letter of Mr. Grant declaring such
sales fraudulent and unauthorized and for
terms of sale of said lot persons may apply to
the subscriber living in Henry county or to
Robert Grant sen. living in Glynn couuty.
JAMES SELLERS-
Dec. 18th, 182 C. 513 t.
GEORGIA, ) Personally came before me
Butts County. ) John M. Pearson one of the
Justices of the peace For cant Kellys dist.
David Andrews, and Told Before me on oath,
28th day of November Last, one Chesnut
Sorrell Mare, about four feet, and seven in
ches High and about seven years old, brand
ed with Two J’s on her left shoulder, and
her two hind feet white, one to the foot lock
and the other ulittle higher. Appraised by
Frances Power, and Daiuel M. Pearson to
Forty-five dollars.
ABEL L. ROBINSON, and. c. i. c.
Nov. 28th 1826, 51—tds
GEORGIA, > James Kelly of Captain
Butts County. ) Johnsons District, toled be
fore me one sorrel mare fourteen or fourteen
and a half hands high supposed to be cio-ht
years old, botii hind feet white up to the pas
ter joint, a lew white hairs under the Brow
hand. Not branded. Appraized by John
Castleberry and Robert Brown, to forty dol
lars.
SAM UAL BILL AH .1. P.
ABEL L. ROBINSON and. r. i. e.
Sept. stb, 1826, 51 —tds
GEORGIA, ( Janie White of Capt. Os-
Biitls County. ) lins District, tolcs before
W iiley Stricklin, Esq. one bay mare supposed
to be ten or eleven years old, nearly blind,
nearly five feet high, a small white spot on
her forehead, a small scar on her est shoulder,
appraized by John Sellers and Thomas
Simmons thirty five dollars.
WM. HARDIN c. i. c.
Nov. 21st, 1826 51—3 t
r HUE MASONIC FRATENITY gencral
-1- ly, aro invited to attend a Meet ing of the
Lodges, at their Hall in this place at 9 o’clock,
A. M. on Wednesday 271 h inst, whence they
will proceed at 12 o’clock, in procession, to
the Representative Chamber, whore the con
secration of Benevolent and Fraternal Lodges,
and the Instolntion of the Officers tlierof, take
place.
GEORGE W. MURRAY,
JACOB FOGLE,
THOMAS F. GRFEN,
WILLIAM GREEN,
RICHARD K. HINES,
PR YOU WRIGHT,
Committee of Arrangement.
THF. approaching Festival of St. John the
Evangelist, will be celebrated by the
Fraternity in this place, at which time there
will be a public Installation of the officers of
Benevolent and Fraternal Lodges, by worship
ful Samuel Rockwell.
GEORGE IV. MURRAY > » O
JACOB FOGLE \ 3 ,© S
THOMAS F. GRF.EN, S
Dec. 19th, 1826. ’ 50-ts
Medical Notice.
JDoCTOR a. B. POPE, having perma
nently located himself in Jackson Butts coun
ty, tenders his professional services in all its
various branches to tlie citizens of said coun
ty-
Dec. lltli, 152 G. 59-1 m
A TEACHER wants a situation for the
ensuing year in the fourth Congress
ional District or some of the adjoining coun
ties. He can come recommended liy his
present employers a3 a Teacher of Arithme-
English Grammar, and Geography, to
gether with the lower branches commonly
taught.
Letters addressed to X. Y. Z. social circle
Walton county Georgia will be punctually
attended to.
December 2d. 1826. 49—3 t
NEW GOODS
S. P. STUBBS.
At his old stand on thecorner ot
Green and Wayne Streets, opposite the Mar
ket, hasßeccived anew Supyly of,
WINTER HOODS.
AMONG which arc an rlfg.int assortment
ol Cloths, Blankets, Shoes ol .ill Kinds, Ne
gro Cloathiug, l’each Brandy, Sugar, Collie,
Pea, Best Chewing Tobacco, Ac. Kr. all of
1 "hieh he offers for sale on nr.ommodating
terms.
Milledgevilfe Nor. 13, 1926.
Hae tibierunt artes, pacisq ie imponere morew, parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.—Virgil.
MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, JANUARY, 2, 1827.
Windsor Hill Female
Academy.
T HIS School will commence on the first
Monday in Jnnuary next, under the instruc
tion of Miss Adelade M'Kinzic, formerly as
sistant tutoress at Cherokee Comer. Miss
M'Kenzie will teach, Rhetoric, History, an
cient and modern, Philosophy, Geography,
English Grammar, and other branches usual
ly taught in female academics. Lessons in
Music and Painting will also lie given. Tho
experience of several years, during which a
schoolh as continued here proves the site to be
healthy, and it bus the advantage of being
private and retire. The price of board and
tuition will be fifty dollars for a term of five
months. For forther particulars apply to
Henry Gibson, Wrightsborough Columbia
County.
Dec. 6th, 1826. 49-4 t
SCHLEY’S DIGEST.
OF the English Statutes of force in the
State of Georgia’ for sale by A. B. Davis
at the Branch of the State Bank—subscribers
to the work will please call and get their co
pies.
Dec. 2d. 1826. 49—4 t.
LAW NOTICE.
THEODORE NIMS having located as an
Attorney at Law, at Hillsboro,’ Jasper
county, tenders his professional services to al
who are disposed to confide their business to
him.
Nov. 7, 1826. 45- 3 m
——»«—w«b»-rw——
The profound defections of liadore,
upon the Philosophy of luternnl
Improvement.
Chapter, 11.
The Argument.
The author abandons part of his
plan—origin of man—was never an
insect—the negro formclv a winged
animal—manufactured by the Creeks
—Gymnosophists—Pouts unfaithful
—Hierocles—mathematical instru*
merits —the great principle of physi
cal reproduction—Spalanzani —Mon-
boddo—quadrupedal philosophers—
origin of civilization—Frogs from
Sulph. acid—Dr. Franklin—pro
jects with a chamber pot —his want
of philosophy—his shamelessness—
his cruelty—his portrait—makes a
speech—its profound reflections on
the dead—their state —their appe
tites —their connection with the liv
ing through the secret energies of
nature —difference between the liv
ing and the dead and, their worlds—
the dead, a philosophical world—
They hate corporiality—the State-
House—Money impregnated with
navigation—great men, had made—
Canals <s-c. in the state house—a
story—Tree of good and evil—its
beauty—Dr. Johnson—students hate
Latin—The Greeks—the Trojan
horse—gold combustible—the coun
try sick—lsadorc displays gieat
authorship in getting upon fresh trail
—the power of eloquence—the Wa
bash —the Indian—How crows fly
before a storm—the golden age —
genealogy of—how children become
great men—ancient mineralogy—
planets, grandfathers of the ages—
modern chemistry—all things produc
tive—diflercnco between calomel
and murcury—Medical Board—ls
adorc becomes mclancholy-moralises
outhe vanity of life—on man—on the
dead —on the sympathy and connec
tion between the living and the dead
—philosophises on the excellence
and activity of matter, on mind—oh
the origin of matter—its qualities
and productiveness—qualities and
productiveness of mind—their com
parative activity and productiveness
—the fate of man—his connection
with matter—his discoveries—his
expansibility—his future organisa
btlity—and closes the chapter in a
high and exalted strain of metaphy
sics, landing his readers beyond all
bounds of space and time.
Put on your night-caps, all yc rural groves,
Dance la cotillion,with your linger’d gloves •
The coockoo cackles in thesiher moon,
And fair Amanda weds beiorc ’tis noon.
Upon the northwind’s purple n ing shall sail
Italian alps, as letters go by mail;
The rocky sky, shall streams wind deep and
bold,
And ships shall ride, where on the stars have
roll’d;
The roseid air shall let drop clotted blood,
Old time shall come with rosy cheek* bey ond
the Hood.
Tlie war-horse prances on the aerca! plain,
Struck with th’ shafty lightning, shakes bis
red main,
Nips with his teeth the clouds, as on they
pass
Like brawny oxen nip the humid grass,
Neighs as he flies, and ’Eries’ waters shake,
Obedient floods thro’ rooky mountains break,
Pound-cake from weeds, and milk from stones
shall come,
Our fields of honey, di’monds for our home
Wtfll labor for the wise, the great and good,
And ‘ fatten padlocks’pon antarctic food.’
It was the authors’ intention as
announced in the precceding chapter
to have taken a geological peep at
the countries of the other division:
of the globe hut finding «o much
valuable and interesting occupation
at home, and the corner of a News
paper rather small for the profile of
so many vast countries, he has deter
mined to alter this part of his plan,
which the reader will please to no
tice. v
Having had time since our last to
pass through the barber’s hands, and
recruit our lagging spirits, we again
•mbark in our traveling machine like
the aeronaut in this balloon, without
knowing which way the wind may
blow, or where we may land. I pro
ceed directly to the
Origin
of man, and his Relations zviih the earth.
We have seen how the globe was
first evolved in a fluid shape, by the
union of oxygon and hydrogen from
the matrix of primaeval fire, and how
the solid land arose from the opera
tions of animalcular life. A darker
vail is thrown over the origin of man.
According to Cuvier and others, he
did not commence existence with
the bnllance of things, the world hav
ing had the start of him, at least a
hundred thousand million of years.
His explanation, it is plain, w'ere even
easier had he begun being earlier;
for then lie would have bad time.
-o the rest of tlie liiammdary, as
well ns the non-mammilary animals,to
have begun an insect, and grown and
improved to his present shape and
perfection. There arc even some
however, Darwin amongthe rest, who
have had the daring boldness and
hardihood to teach mankind this
doctrine. But Isadore protests it as
unlogical, unsound and unphilosoph
ic ; and proclaims boldly and openly
in the face of day and of the world,
that man was never a mite, nor an
earth-worm, nor a polypus, neither
was he ever * a living fibre, or a
living spiral tube ; while he readily
admits that the negro variety of him,
has actually had wings, like a bat or
a peafowl, and flown through the li
quid air—probably emigrated from
some conflagrated planet or some
comet, as their broad flat feet, slen
der legs, large pectoral muscles,
huge latissimus dorsi, and other pro
portions of their body all strongly
indicate.
The Gymnosophists, and Eastern
philosophers generally speak of man,
as having arisen, and come up among
tygers, lions, &c., out of the waters
of their great rivers, engendered and
matured by the prolific heat of ti e
sun. The greek mythology does
not teach us of his beginning, but
that he was ingeniously and success
fully manufactured. The Poets have
explained the whole affair at great
length and with a great deal of pains,
but as they appear to have taken
unusual privileges with his fprma
tion and displayed culpable partiali
ty, I shall not record their opinions.
‘ The earth in her primitive fecun
dity,’ saj’s Hierocles, * gave birth to
man,’ but we discover its modern
fecundity better adapted to that of
cabagcs, parsnips, potatoes, and the
like. We, therefore, conclude all
that human philosophy, after all its
efforts and experiments with all its
crucildes, cucurbits, alembics and
other pyrotochuic apparatus, thcr
mometers, barometers, pyrometers,
udiometors, photometers, with all
their scopes; tellescopes, microspes
and their compounds, can possibily
and certainly discover, is, that as the
globe sprung in a fluid shape, which
is easy enough understood, from the
chemical union of oxygen and hy
drogen, so man continually springs
in a more or less solid shape, from
the physical union of male and female,
which is still incomprehensible, after
all the great and learned labors of
Luenhoek, Spallanzani and the like
—that from their union have eman
ated all the dwarfs of Egypt and the
giants of Patagonia and all the men
and women, who have overrun
and filled all countries to the extir
pation of wild beasts and the forests
which they inhabited, who have
built cities, created treasuries, open
ed canals, laid rail-wavs—that this
union is the solo hope and depend
ance of the future world, and the
only chink or opening to it, through
which will pass in crowds undistin
guished till the end of time, as they
have done from its beginning, Doc
tors, Lawyers, Parsons, Governors,
Kings, Queens, Grasshoppers,—in a
word, till that inhabit the three great
elements or apartments of our planet.
Such are the sublime lessons,
which experience and reflection, in
tho shape of philosophy, teach us.
YV hat then shall we say to Mon
boddo, who assures us there are
men and women, discovered by
some ship-wrecked Sailors, now
inhabiting tho Cape of Good
hope, that have long red harry tails
to switch the fly? Do we not
know that monkeys will always have
tails? Let us not listen to Mon
boitdo though a lord, and an clo
quo lit and profouud philosopher: For
he teaches u« a? all the world
kuows, Man for many generations
went upon his allfours, and was a
real quadruped. At length a four
footed philosopher arose, who from
the capaciousness of his cranium,
which nature had made a little lar
ger than usual, discovered tho se
cret, and taught his countrymeu to
elevate the vertebral column, and
walk erect on two feet. This he
declars to be the greatest art man
ever learnt or taught, which pro
duced an epoch in his history, from
which dates his civilization.
And what are we to think of Spal
anznni, who declares he procreated
a trillion of tadpoles with a few
drops of diluted Sulphuric acid by
applying them to the virgin ova of a
virgin frog. And if experience uni
formly has taught us that aH life
must invariably from this
Union of male and female, and that
it has always done so, what, my fel
low citizens, are we to think too of
the reputed good and wise Dr.
Franklin, our countrymen, who
Alihi frigidus horror membra quatit,
gelidusque coit formidine sangiiis, in
a civilized country hallowed by
religion and enlightened by philoso
phy, before the presence ..(’ingeni
ous though shameless men in open
day, offered, horrendum illuctablilc,
to commit treason against nature,
and violate her immutable laws, by
mechanically attempting, with much
care and pa.ns, to produce and ush
er into existence a human being
without this Union, and that too in
a cold earthen vessel, a lady’s, common
chamber ** ** I Write what is up
on record, for he had the shameless
ness which is equally bad to write
down, and publish what he did. It
were bad, and wicked, and cruel
enough, like Spalauzani, to thus
have procreated frogs, but a human
being with an immortal soul! —O
shame! shame!! Where were the
graces, that they did not veil and
weep themselves to death: Where
was nature, that she did not protect
her rights: where reposed her guard
ian powers: in what dense cloud lay
her unkindled thunders, the light
ning’s red shaft, her combustible
sulphurs 1
It is this same Dr. Franklin, my
fellow citizens, reflected on canvass,
who, now in the company ofrespec-,
table ghosts, ornaments one of the
halls of our capital, where tho wears
and tears ofgovernment are annual
ly stiched up and mended in his pre
sence. But he hears not the huge
tide of political logic, spiced with
eloquence, as it chates along tho
walls, and echoes from the dome.—
He osiers no resolulion-»-what shape
would he, give a bill, who could
think of shaping a man? Do yo
know? But what is worse than all
he is hero too upon public expense,
and is fed out of the treasury, as
aro the ballancc of the members to
the great impoverishment of the
country—purchased a slave to wait
on their eyes, and to whet up their
geniuses, as we arc informed, for a
thousand dollars from his ideo-nte
chanical father, the father of mutt
shadows now fain died in the capitol,
who produced him. not in a cold
earthen vessel, but upon flax, oosed
from the womb of fancy, particle at
a time, and who is in the habit of
dealing in the ghosts of dead men,
and that too in a civilized and rth
giousCountry. lioid up your wolly
heads, ye negro, ye are only Mer
chandize in your lifetimes, your
master’s soft skins are tanned in the
paint pot and for sale afterwards.—
But is lie worth the money, and is
he a legitimate ghost? Look down
ye spirts of other days, and of Os
sian from the clouds of Crowla, and
judge for yourselves, and jndge ye
people whose property he is. The
open throated type will tell you he
is yours, and what will ye r ply.—
“Oh these days of dogwood blos
soms, of hore hound, and of garlic!
the sweet rose and thyme of the
country have ceased to shed their
fragrance! Is our representative
nation, who lately teased and crarn
ed us at the banquet, and set before
us the strong goblet, a little fanciful
girl, who wants dolls and lifeless al
abasters, and shades and playthings
in the costly toy shop of men, to a
muse and beguile the hours of tier
childhood, which, when she is older,
and thinks of a husband, she will
neglect and dipise!”
Had this new toy man a tongue,
and could he speak, in what lan
guage wot ye, would he address
you. his masters and purchasers?
Would he say “I am a dweller be
hind tho grav , which i> between
me and you; I cannot benefit you,
and ‘yon have paid too much, for the
whistle." —W by drag me from my
repose thither to your capitol, and
expose my naked incorporeality t
the gaze anil curiousity of living
men? I was in your world, wi.iti
lias ceased to nourish me, hut now
am far off; m« robes of flesh In
long since mildewed arid dcrtiym
[OR S4 IF NOT PAID IN SIX MONTHS.
NO. 5?.. ..V0L. I*
I have not wherewith to cover my r
self fitting to be your guest, and yc
cannot cover me. Beside peace
and tranquility and harmony are the
sun shine to the dead which suit
their occupations and appetites, and
lrame ot mind, while the noise and
tumult and whirl ol life are diatast
tul to them, like food to the fever
ed men. Deatli entirely revolution
ises the intellectual fabric and sets
it to the harmony ol a netv order
ot things. All the recollections and
associations of life aro here absor
bed and assimilated to this new or
der, and the thought never looks
back toward the world, where it first
vegitated. This world is painful to
the mind, like the sun to an infl.ini<
edeyo Nature has linked together
all worlds, and so arranged tho Af
finities and sensibilities of her beings
as to adapt them severally to their
own, whose harmonies thev can feel
and influences, enjoy. There is,
then, a communication between the
living and the dead, which the liv
ing Jo not’know, which they cannot
feci. It is tlirough the hidden pow
ers of nature, to which all good phi
losophers trace her p> eno . mi. but
uo turther—through the powers,
which energises in light, shoot for
ward in the planet, are active in
minerals, [bants, and man, nail mate- •
rial and intelligent existence, and
indissolubly connect them with tho
first great Cause.
The dead simply cease to live the
liie ot flesh and blood, and with tho
loss ot it they only loost your world,
and find another, from which yours
vegifnte?—which is the matrix to it.
The dead, therefore still inhabit na
ture, that part of her beautiful em
pire, which stretches purifierously
away to be connected with the Dei
ty for support, as with a great pa
ronchcmy or nutritive fountain, and
in some sort envelopes Him. Theirs,
theu, is a world ot more activity and
vigor, than your coporeal one, which
is rendered torpid find heavy bv be
ing farther removed from the foun
tain of those energies, which support
it. Matter, in the shape, which it
appears here, is both u-.ichemicaland
immechanical, it is nearly alii and to
the nature of intelligence, and the
impressions, which it makes upon
mind here are easily comprehended.
This is not the case in your world,
where it assumes and appears in the
shape of body. What your philoso
phers look for in vain—the causes
of the gravitation of the planets and
suns, ot chemical affinity, of aggre
gation, &c., we see with our naked
eyes, and touch with our dimention
less fingers, because they tire tho
constituents of our world, and w- in
habit and are nourished by them, as
you are nourished by their effects.
Ours is strictly a philosophical coun
try, yours, ol theory, conjecture and
doubt.
Such is the true topography of tho
grave, which I inhabit, which is si
tuated at one extr mity of your
world, and may be considered, as tho
root from which it springs up ■ and
we are connected with you by the
powers which nourish it.
When you sent your messonger,
with his paint brush here for me, pro
mising him a reward, I refused to
have put on me again the trammels
of flesh ; 1 did not wi-h to revisit tho
yellow sandy bottom of the Ocean of
time, nor struggle in its strong cur
rent. With much perplexity and
trouble he threatened m long with
corporeality, but I disdained to bo
exhibited for inspection .in a mock
being, where 1 was not—in the be
ing and life of vegetable oil and pul
verized mineral—the flesh and blood
of fancy’s bastardisiugs lie urged
me with the eagerness of money,
whose power is irresistablc, and at
length seized all that was worldald©
oftne, brought me up out of tho
grave merchandise, confused and
scarred, such as you now behold me.
The womb and parturition of fancy
are painful and odious to the dead
Act worthy id your trust and your
wisdom, dismiss me to my light aery
realms, the realms of pure idea.- on
excited by corporial impulse, and
cease to render me obnoxious to my
compatriots by daubing me with
earthly matters, and holding me up
in the mock image of life The cur
tain drops upon the shade of Frank
lin.
In this same capital, where a few
years ago a certain river became
suddenly navigable, almost to its
very source, by simply slipping -ixty
thousand dollars already impregna
ted with navigation, into the pock
ets ot some private citizens, who
stood by lor the purpose, and on
the occasion—when the government
has been worn out and patched up
gain in repairs, until, like the ship
i a celebrated navigator, scarcely
ne thread or patch remains of its
■ ruier structure —where marriages
vo been made and dissolved again,
me out of mind—where rests tho
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