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MISOKLliiAl Kors-
THK LATE JEREMIAH EJTARTS,
ESq.
Ip “a tribute to the memory of dm
tali Je-.’t -xjv-b Ft arts. Esq:, deliver
ed and published at the request of
tht l.*-- lUliw Committee of the
Auiiitirji i Missionary Society
«i New lurk aiul Brooklyn, by the
Rev. Dr. Spring,” «e find the fol
lowing record* of the principal inri-
dents in the life of that excellent man.
JV*. ¥. Observer.
. Mr. Evarts was bsrn of respecta
ble, but humble parentage, in the
town of Sunderland, Vermont, on the
3d of February, 1781. At the age
of ten yeats, lie removed with his
father to Georgia, in the same state,
where he completed the usual English
education, and entered upon the study
et the- Latin lauguage. lu January
1798, he was sent to East Guilford,
in the state of Connecticut, with the
view tff preparing for college, under
the tuition of the Rev. Mr. Elliot
the mimster of the place; and in Oc
tober of the same year, lie entered
Yale t oltege, then under the super
intendence of the late President
Dwight. His journal at this period,
though very.brief, exhibits many in
dications of'a thinkiug, independent
mind, that felt the responsibility of
guiding and forming itself upon a
high standa d of excellence. His
coitversoin took place during a re
markable outpourins of the Spirit of
God upon the College, during his
senior year, in the winter of 1801 2;
and in the April following, lie made
a public profession of religion, ant!
united Itimstlf with the church in
the college. At the same time Ins
class graduated, in 1802, he united
with those of his c
relaxation aod a warm climate, he
.'nntinued his labors
rooms till about the
moans of restoring his health.
at the missionary ibis he cheerfully equieseed; and iu
te 1st of Aprilj.au interview with his associates, in
In be flogged with the utmost severity. ,ry of God and the promotion of the i
— “ ■ 'interests of mankind, will render
when be repared again to the city wU ^ i™ 1 leaderoess aod al-
-pi , oti*ssi*rt
eorenants
ff icli
lassmatcs who were
gion, in a mulxml
a copy of which has been
found taion« his private papers, to
pray for each oilier, to learn one
»
another's circumstances, and to cor
respond with, and counsel one anoth
er, in subsequent life. After leav
ing college, lie engaged in no settled
employment till April, 1803. when
We became the instructor of an acad
amy, in the town of IVacham. in his
native, state, and continued in this
charge till near the close of March,
1801. Shortly subsequent to ibis,
and after a short visit to fits father's
faintly, he returned to New Haven
and entered himself as a student at
Jaw in the office of the late Judge
Gtiawncy. Early in the summer of
1806, he took „the oath of adrnissiou
to tiie bar, and opened an office for
the practice of his proiession in the
city of Netv Haven. In May. 1810,
he removed to Boston, for the doub
le purpose of taking the editorial
charge of a literary and religious
publication, and pursuing the duties
oi tils profession. He continued in
the editorial department of the Fan
oplist till the work was discontinued
in 1820, and vva himself the author
of a large part of the origi -a! articles
and reviews in that highly resectable
work. Every one who is acquainted
with the religious and ecclesiastical
controversies of Massachusetts, knows
with what ability that work was ed
ited;-|jotv rapidly it rose in charac
ter and extent tbf circulation; and how
important an agency it exerted, in
•lemming the tide of error, and in
restoring an enlightened, scriptural,
and active piety to many of the de
clining churches. At the third annu
al meeting of the American Board <>f
Commissioners for Foreign Missions,
Mr. Evarts was elected a member
of that bndv, and at the same meet
ing was chosen for their treasurer,
and a member of their executive
In September, 1821,
appointed their cot res-
Washington. The debate eu the
dian bill was just commencing. The
Excitement and labor of the months
of April and May were intense; and
he returned to Boston, with his health
little, if at all, improved. During
the summer and early part ef the
autvmn, he was laboriously employ
ed in preparing the annual report of
the board, publishing the speeches
ou the Indian bill, writing on the
question, and attending to the com
mon business at the missionary rooms.
After the annual meeting of the
Board, these, or similar labors, con
tinued; and added to tlisee, he spent
a fortnight at New Bedford, super
intending the embarkation ef a rein
forcement to the Sandwich Islands
mission. Here he was exposed ti
c-old and storms, and exerted hiuiself
in writing and addressing public as
semblies in the vicinity on the subject
of missions. He returned from New
Bedford, December 29th, much de
bilitated, and could labor only at
inletvals afterwards. He, however,
wrote the memoyal of the board to
Congress, in behalf of the Indians,
while he was so weak, as every hout
or two to be obliged to lie down to
rest. He wrote, also, a number of
iniport*<int letters. His last letter,
as corresponding secretary of the
Board, was written to the missiona
ries in the Cherokee nation, relative
to their removing, or remaining, and
exposing themselves to the penalty
ol the laws of Georgia. The part
he took in behalf of the Indians, was
such as might be expected from such
a man. He was early applied to, to
sreoud the effort that was about to
be made to effect their removal be
yond the Mississippi, but he saw no
good to come from it to them, and he
abhorred and detested the means used
to speure it. He was present when
the bill to effect their removal passed
the House of Representatives—a bill
that marks this republic fiathless
towards its dependents. And when
the vote was passed, Mr. Eva ts re
marked to a member of Congress who
sai near him “My comfort is, th.-t
God governs the world, & my hope is,
that when the people of the United
States came to understand the subject,
there will a rede n i ig spirit ante;
for 1 will not believe that the nation
is yet lost to truth and honor.”
The unhappv offender differed that 1 {«**"*«• °L mankind, will render e
ho Itud written (Ke offwSVe word.. ly 1 ** 1 ' ** J "tSf *» “W*
lection, told then to proceed in their
work without reference to him —
Tbit, to bit own feelings, wat proba
bly the most trying moment of hit
life. But lie did not faiot m the day
of adversity. God was with him.
Before bis embarkation, he was, to
au uncommon degree, even for him,
calm, serious, and affectionate. A
cheerful 1 acquiescence iu the will of
God, au entire and joyful trust in him,
a bidding adieu to the solicitude of
time, and a tenderness iu his inter
course with his family and friends
which cannot be described, -md that
were painfully foreboding, seemed
to say he should see them no mure.
Vni had he been assured of jt, his
parting from them could not luve
been more appropriate. He took
passage for the Island of Cuba, on the
lath of February, and reached Ha-
vanua, after a favorable voyage, on
the 2d of March. But his health was
not improved. After spending so.i.e
lime at Havanna and Matauzas, and
the interior of the islands, eujoytng
every advantage of climate, exercise,
and kind attention of friends, he took
passage for Savannah, and arrived
there on the 24th of April, much ex
hausted by the voyage. In a few
days his symptoms became alarming,
and he proceeded to Charleston,
where he arrived on the third day,
much exhausted by disease and pain
Up to this time, both he himself and
his physicians had mistaken the na
ture of his disease. There Were
now evident indications of his being
iu the last stages of a consumption.
While in Charleston, he received
every possible attention from eminent
physicians, and numerous friends.
He contii-ued steadily to grow weak
er, oneii enduring gre-t bodily pain,
till 1! o'clock on the lOlb ol May,
when his spirit was permitted to
leave her frail, earthly, dissolved
tabernacle, and enter Ou a building
of God, a house not made with'bands,
eternal in the heavons.
The Grand Duke condemned him lo j To the lesfling objects of this public*.
be a soldier for life, incapable of ad- tioir the subscrib r Is willing to' devote
vancement in the army; and when his - allthe experience he may have gained i n
mother threw herself before his car- * pn k.bofs, and humbly
riage to implore forgiveness for her
wretched child, he spurned her like a
dog with his foot.
“Shaving the heads df ladies of
rauk who displeased him was a. com
mon occurrence; and on one occasion
four soldiers were hanged, because
they abstained from carrying such an
order into effect, as they found it im
possible to do so without using per
sonal violence. Tarring and feather
ing the shaved heads of the offenders
was also a favorite recreation of the
commander in chief!”
JV*. ¥. JMirrior.
com mil
be wi
ponding secretary, in which office
be remained tg the time of bit death
In the discharge of the duties Isf this
office, he visited the Cherokee and
Choctaw nations, in 1824, and the
Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw
.nations, again in 1826. I» the duties
of this office, also, he spent three or
lour winters in the' eity of Washing
ton. daring the session of Congress,
where his njptcipa! object was to
exert an itffiqpoee in favor of the ed-
oralioo and civilization of the Indians,
and especially thoif protection from
Oppressive legislamn.
The health of Mr. Evarts had been
- dnrfioiag hr more than a year pre-
v:«N to Ms disease. Daring the
Winter «fI829 SO, I'vmsA treble, aod
evidently »eeding _ the benefit of
His anxiety and labors un this ques
tion, the distress he felt in view of
the violation of the good faith of the
nation, and of the rights of the Cher-
okees, bis apprehensions of the suf
fering which would come on the In-
di-tu tribes, and of the judgements of
Heaven which would visit the coun
try for treachery, kept his mind
in a state of exhausting excitement
for the last year and a half of his life,
which, together with the accumula
ted labors which he sustained in con
sequence of this great effort, with
out doubt sunk him to las grave.
These, with previous trials not a
few, had exerted a powerful influence
iu (he formation of a character every
day becoming more meet for the rest
and joy of a higher world. God had
chosen him in the furnace of afflic
tion. He possessed a muturity of
personal religion, a meet ness for
heaven, which was the result of long
moral training, and by which the
Spirit of God preparing him for an
inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled,
and that fadetb not away As his
strength declined, and be became
entirely unable to attend to business,
he seemed to possess a mind remark
ably detached from earth, and to
eryoy peculiar fellowship with God.
He spent much time in reading Bax
ter’s Saints’ Rest, and in contem
plating that “exceeding and eternal
weight of glory” on which lie often
used to dwell with delighted inter
est, and for which his light affliction,
which was comparatively but lor a
moment, was preparing him. He
himself had made a rraugeuients for a
journey of land, with some hope of
recovering his health, at least for a
season, and with this view, attended
minutely to bia secular affairs. HU
own plan was to proceed to Wash
ington, and endeavor to exeft his in
fluence in favor of the Indians till
congress should rise, and then go on
an agency for the board in the midole
or southern stairs. This expectation
be routined to eherish, till advised
by his physician that a voyage to a
warm cUmale was the only probable
GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE
We select a brief account of this
personage from CompbelPs new jour
nal, the ‘Melrupditin.’ This cele
brated poet has abandoned the ‘New
Monthly Magazine.’ It is said that
his independence of opinon upon lilera
ry matters was displeasing to his pub
lisher; but the author of the ‘Pleas
ures of Hope’ and ‘Gertrude of Wy
oming* needs no praise at tbia time
and it would be almost su|ieifluous to
wish his periodical success.
“The Grand Duke Constantine
who has played so conspicuous a part
in the affairs of Poland, is worthy of
something more than a mere passing
notice. Though possessed of very
considerable talents, he is in fact an
untamed tiger, giving way on all oc
casions to the most violent paroxysms
of temper. He has a deep sense
the rights of his order, and holds the
feelings of every other class of human
beings as absolutely naught. So
soon, therefore, as he found that his
imperial brother was no longer the
liberal patron of constitutional rights
lie gave the most unrestrained license
to his capricious and violent injustice
A few instances are better than gen
eral assertion; a most opulent and re
spectabic man, named Woloski, the
principal brewer of Warsaw, had
through some of his people w ithout
his own knowledge, hired as a servant
in bis establishment a Russian desert
er. The offender was detected, and
proof of innocence of the part of his
employer being disallowed, the Grand
Duke, by his individual decree, or
dered this respectable individui I to
be fettered, and in that condition he
was compelled to work with a wheel
barrow in the public streets! His
daughter, an amiable young lady, ven
tured to appeal to the mercy of the
Grand Duke in behalf of her parent;
and the unmanly monster kicked her
down stairs, using at the same time
the most abusive language.
“A boy of nine years of age, a son
of Count Plater, had, io the playful
ness of childhood, written in chalk on
one of the forms, ‘The third of May
forever!’ that being the anniversary
of Kosciusko’s constitution. The
fact was discovered by oome of the
innumerable spies, employed even
among these infants, to Nowozilyoff,
who iosUtuted an inquiry among the
boys, not one jof wbom would betray
poor Plater; they were all ordered to
hopes that his enterprise, an far as it
worthily promotes the holy cause of Chris.
tian unii
with t!
Wined
erowni.4
i
'From the A illedgeviile (Geo.) Recor
der.] i
THE END OF GREAT MEN.”
Happening to cast my eyes upon a
printed, page of miniature portraits, I
perceived that four personages who
occupied the most conspicuous
places, were Alexander, Hannibal,
Ccesar and Honopart*. 1 had seen the
same unnumbered times before, but
never did the same sensations arise in
my bosom, as my mind histily glanc
ed over i heir several histories.
Alexander, after having climbed
the dizzy heights of his ambition, and
with ins temples bound with chaplets
dipped in (he blood of countless na
tions, looked down upon a conquered
world, and wept that there was not
another world for him to conquer—
set » city on fire, and died in a scene
oi ••e iauch.
Hannibal, after having to the aston
ishmenl and consternation of Rome,
parsed the Alps—after having put to
^ _ t the armies of this “mistress of
the world,” and stripped three bushels
of gold rings from Ibe fingers of their
slaughtered knights, and inado her
very foundation quake—Aed from his
country, being hated by those who
once exultiogly united his name to
that of their god, calling him Hanni
bal, and died, at last, by poison ad
ministered by his own hands, uula-
mooted and unwept in a foreign
land.
Caesar, after having conquered
eight hundred cities, and dyed his
garments in the blood of one million
ofhis foes—after having pursued to
death the only rival he b|»d on earth—
was miserably assassinated by those
he considered as his nearest friends,
and in that very plat>e the attainment
of which had been.his greatest ambi
tion.
Bonaparte, Whose mandate kings
and princes obeyed, after having fill
ed the earth With the terror of his
name—after having deluged Europe
with tears and blood, and clothed the
World in sackcloth—closed hi* days in
lonely banishment, almost literally
exiled from the world, yet where he
could sometimes see bis country’s
banner waving o’er the deep, but
which would not or could hot bring
him aid!
Thus those four men, who from the
peculiar situations of their portraits
seemed to stand as the representatives
of all those whom the world calls
great—those four who each in turn
made the earth tremble te its very
centre by their simple tread, sever
ally died—one by intoxication, or as
some suppose, by poison mingled in
bis wine—one a suicide—one murder
ed by his friends—and one in lonely
exile! “How are the mighty fall
en!” #
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