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VOL. 1.
THE SWEDISH GIRL.
Previous? to the departure of Baron de Stael from Swe’
don, lie was enamored of his second cousin, a beautiful?
girl, whom lid promised to marry: but after the o tiers
received by him from the Necknr family, he wrote to in
form her of the peculiar circumstances in which he was
placed, and that his union with a lady whom ho did not
levg, would be the means of raising his family from pov
erty and obscurity. His cousin, without any answer, re
turned him his marriage promise, stained with her tears,
and in seven weeks she was a corpse.—Cincinnati Chron,
Even to pause on such a thought i
Uow could it cross liis mind !
Vain honors traffick’d for and bought
With happiness resigned!
And love like mine cast meekly by,
At cold ambition’s call!
My heart, be calm! —why should I sing?
Trs, tears, why will ye fall ?
The Swedish girl should scorn to stand
’Tween him and his adopted land.
For lum what could I not have bo^ce,
Wi lat vo or poverty l
And-rich in love, have smiled in scorn,
When heartless wealth rolled by.
1 would have urged him up the steep,
Where hangs the noblest crown
Honor may gain, or virtue keep.
An honest man’s renown ;
Soothed him when yielding to his toils,
And brightened each success with smiles.
Yet why thus linger o’er a dream
That iny fond spirit hound,
But lent my soul no cheering beam
To light the darkness round!
Well, be it so; —I may not speak
WliatMin? within my heart;
The fettered spirit soon will break
Through all things, and depart;
Yet’twould be sweet again to bless
The object of past tenderness !
Ay, take thy bride, and gifted one,
• And glory in her fame !
And when paraded in the sun,
Her genius lights thy name,
Ferget, amid its dazzling rays,
llovv dim thine own appears;
Nor think upon the heartfelt praisa
Was thine in former years,
When mingling love, and hope, and pride,
With her now coldly thrown aside.
Ay, wed another—wed the great!
Yiain wealth, hut with it care!
Soon Strait thou feci the galling weight,
And mourn each glittering snare,
That wiled thee from thy plighted vow,
From first aflfid unfeigned love; ‘
And bade thee to a stranger boVv,
A stranger’s bounty prove!
Madness! that one so loved hy me,
Should ever so degraded he.
It may not be! I con not ask
Earth’s happiness for one-
Who hath imposed the hittrest task,
That woman’s pride has gone.
I’ll curse not, though I may not bless
The idol of my youth ;
But in my wreck of happiness
I’ll prove unfaltering truth;
And, blotted thus with tears, return
The pledge I would but cannot-spurn.
From the New York Mirror.
ADAM A;\D EVE.
ItY J. K. PAULDING.
TVhen, by the-just wrath of offended heaven,
our first parents were driven from the beautiful
garden of Eden, they wandered in guilt and
shame from the seat of their innocence and hap
piness. Eve lingered behind, afraid to look
her companion in the face, and Adam cast on
her a glance of mingled tenderness and reproach
from time to time. They walked wearily along,
and through the air was sweet and balmy, the
flowers as fair, the grass as green, and the birds
#unar merrily as in the paradise from which they,
bad just been expelled, the sense oHheir trans
gression took from them all heart to enjoy the
beauties of nature. They remembered their
disobedience and wept.
Thus sprinkling the grass and flowers with
their tears, they came at length to a little niur
mering stream that danced along merrily among
the moss-grown rocks, shaded by a whispering
grove, among whose branches the birds were
hearing their little clamorous brood, whose chir
pings were ever and anon heard over their heads.
“ I am tired,’* said Eve, and they sat down
by the side of a stream. For the first time since
thev yielded to the|templation of the serpent,
they looked each other in the face, and were
struck with the changes they observed. The
cheek of Eve had lost its bloom, and the care
less, sprigtly vivacity that always accompanies
the consciousness of innocence, had given place
to sunken eyes, dishevelled hair, apd a brow
contracted with the furrows of a guilty, con
*ci: nee. ~
“ Thou art sadly changed, rny love, said
Adam ; and pity gave place to resentment at the
Curse she had brought upon his head. He took
her in his arms, kissed her cheek, and laid her
head in his bosom. .
Eve looked up in his face, and through the
tangled locks that hung over her eyes, and the
tears that streamed from them, observed the
changes a few hours of guilt and misery had
planted on his open, manly brow.
*• Wilt thou ever forgive me, Adam ?” said she,
in a voice tremulous with emotion. “ I have
lost thee paradise.”
“ But though hast given me another,” cried
Adam, while he pressed her closer to his bosom.
At that moment, a bird which Jiad been in
Search of food for its young, after fluttering a
ittle while over their heads to look at the intru
ders, dropped into its nest, and they heard the
gay humming of the little callow brood, rejoic
ing in the bounty of their parent.
“Shall we ever enjoy the delights of provid
ing for a little brood like this!’, said Eve, look
ing up in his face tenderly. ,
THE HICKORY NIJT
AND EPSON VIGIL.
“ Why should we not, my love !” he replied.
“ Then—even then we shall yet be happy !
Love shall make us amends for t|ie loss of par
adise, and the anger of the angel of the flaming
sword ; and the virtues of our children shall atone
for the transgressions of the parent. We shall
yet be happy ; look not so pale and sad, my be
loved ! See how bright the great light shines
yonder in the blue world! bark how the young
birds twitter, and the old ones sing to them!
So will it be with us. I will watch over our lit
tle ones, and chase away the flies, and sing them
to sleep, while thou shalt go and bring them
food. Cheer up, my beloved ; come, kiss my
lips, and once more bless me.”
Adam was for a moment beguiled of bis sor
rows, and the recollection of his guilt was lost in
the delights of love. But as they sat thus de
ceiving themselves with the hope that worldly
pleasures can supply the absence of innocence,
or oveipower, save for a single moment, the
stingings of conscious guilt, on a sudden, the
serpent that had beguiled Eve, crawled quietly
from some unseen haunt where he had hid him
self and listened. His scales of a thousand
changeable lustres, glowed and glittered as he
woun himself gracefully along, and there was
a fascination in his eye that riveted whoever
looked upon it. Eve shrunk from his approach;
though she epujd not help admiring the beauti
ful seducer. But Adam turned from him, and
bade him begone.
“ Why should I begone !” he answered, in a
voice of ineffable sweetness. “ What have I
done to thee, that thou shouldst drive me away?”
“ Thoil hast lost us our happy home, and cal
led down upon our heads the anger of heaven,”
said Adam, and he was about to stamp on the
serpent with his foot, but Eve interposed, ex*
claiming,
“ Forbear, my beloved ! Didst thon not just
now say, that for the paradise thou hast lost, thy
poor handmaid had given to thee another quite
as fair! Remember, too, the cheerful birds and
their tender young. We have opened new
sources of happiness, for which we are indebted
to the serpent, thou won hist trample upon.”
The eyes of the tempter glistened with trium
phant exultation, and became a thousand times
brighter than before; while his scaly armor thril
led with innumerable and ever-changing dyes.
“ There are yet other gratifications in store
for thee, thou happy mother of mankind,” said
the beguiler. 44 Behold ! look to.the left, yon
der where the plain stretches towards.thc setting
sun.”
They looked, and saw two beautiful youths
attempting to light the fires on two rustic alters,
erected at a little distance from each other.—
The one succeeded, the other failed, and seem
ed to address him in anger. Presently h raised
a great club in his hand, and dashed out his
braines. Eve turned away lier head in horror-;
hut that curiosity which had lost her paradise,
promted her to look again, and she saw a man
and woman of a middle age, standing over the
dead body ; the one is speechless grief, the other
shrieking and tearing her hair. At a distance
shebeheld the murderer fleeing away, but ever
and anon looking back, as if fearful of being
pursued. On his forehead she observed, as he
turned towards her, a mark which looked as if
a piece of red hot iron had imbedded itself there.
“ Who are these ?” cried Adam.
The serpent answered in his usual sweet tones:
“ The two youths are brothers: the man thou
seest bending in silence over the dead body, and
the woman shrieking and tearing her hair, are
the parents of both. The two young fools quar
reled about worshipping their Maker. It is
thus he rewards his votaries ; one by an early
death, the other by a life of guilt and remorse.!’
“ Alas !” murmered Eve, “ what a wretchetf
family ! cansl thou tell me their names 1”
“ Thou shalt know hereafter when thou hast
seen farther. Behold 1”
The first pair cast their eyes apprehensively
towards the plain, and saw a poor wretch fas
tened to a stake with a quantity of light Wood’
piled around him. The pile was surrounded by
armed men of furious aspect; and a little be
yond, stood a person in a white surplice, with
a great book in his hand, apparently praying
with fervency. At his feet were a woman, and
eight or ten little children, kissing his robe and
embracing his knees, while they seemed half
dead with suffering. Presently the man in the
white surplice shut his book: a firebrand was
applied to the pile of wood, and the poor wretch
was slowly consumed, while his soul triumphed
even in the agonies of death, as lie sung halle
lujahs to the living God. The man in the white
surphee then gave out a hymn, and the soldiers
heat the poor woman and children away for in
terrupting the music with their graphs.
“Dreadful Idreadful!” exclaimed Eve, “what
does all this mean?”
“ It is nothing but a favorite mode of worship
ping their maker,” replied the serpent.
1 “ And who, and what is this wretched race of
beings?”
“ Thou shalt know too soon.”
Thus, oue at a time, he exhibited to their
view a succession of scenes, portraying the worst
effects of the vices of mankind. The wild ex
cesses of guilty love ; the barbarities of unfeel
ing bigotry; the cold malignity of unbelief; the
iron inflexity of avarice ; the obliquities of envy;
the madness of jealousy; the bloody triumphs of
ambition ; and the reckless outpourings of re
venge, were all exemplified by scenes of the
most extreme violence and atrocity, and with
out the relief of a single solitary act of virtue.
CRACK IT WHO MAY, IT WILL BE DISCOVERED TO BE SOUND TO THE KERNEL.
THOM AST ON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1834.
The innocent pair—for they were stil inno
cent of all transgressions, save one
and turned away, and gazed and shut their eyes
alternately at this appalling succession ot unmi
tigated horrors. ‘ /
“ Father of mercies !” at length cried Eve,
** who and what are this wretched rape of rob
bers, tyrants and murderers?”
** Thy children !” hissed the serpent, “ from
whose birth thou art vainly anticipating happi
ness. They are paying the penalties of thy
transgressions—they are thy victims. ’I he
murdered youth and the murderer are thy sons,
and the wretched parents, thou and thy guilty
partner ; the scenes thou hast just witnessed,
are suoh as will every day and every hour of all
future time pollute the surface of this beautiful
earth, and all for thy sake —yes! thine , wretch
ed Eve! and yet thou has just been flattering
thyself and thy partner in guilt, that it is given
to mortals to he happy under the anger of their
Creator ! Go, fools! and enjoy yourselves in the
bliss of multiplying misery, guilt and despair.”
The serpent crawled away, hissing in scorn,
while Eve threw herself fainting on the bosom
of her beloved, exclaimed m the agonies of re-’
morse,
“ We are punished, Adam !”
Progress of the State Rights Cause in Gsor-
is scarcely a day passes that we do
not receive one or more letters from Georgia, in
which State, the Semi-monthly Examiner has a
wide circulation, distributed through 203 post
offices, out of less than 300 ; and we can assure
our friends, that from every quarter we receive
the most cheering intelligence as to the progress
of the principles of constitutional liberty. One
-of our correspondents says:—“ln relation to
my own-county, where, six months ago, there
was scarcely a Nullifier, we have six hundred
who openly avow it.” That the Stale Rights
party, which, at the General election in Octo
ber last, was defeated by less than 2,£>00 votes,
has now Abe majority, cannot he doubted, and
if the exertions now making, shall bff persever
ed in, the Ctate will assume the orthodox ground,
from which she was seduced by some of her in
fluential politicians, who were more devoted to
their own advancement, than to the interests of
the country.
This great change is to be mainly ascrihed to
the establishment of Slate Rights Associations,
which are now spreading throughout the coun
try, and which cannot fail to be the means of
disseminating that political light, which is daily
increasing in effulgence and power, and which
will untimely enable the people to see that
without State Remedies there can be no State
Rights. —Philadelphia Examiner.
The Cause of State RightsYn Ohio. —We
find the following cheering intelligence in the
Columbus (Ohio) Sentinel, of 21st January. In
speaking of parties, that paper says:
In connexion with the above topic, we should
also state, that a “ State Rights party, formed
on the Virginia and Kentucky sehool of’9B and
’99, has for some time been forming in various
sections of this Stale, and is already organized,
we are Jed to believe, in considerable strength.
Gilder tliis. name, many of the old democrats,
distrustful of the times, it would appear, arei
uniting together on the landmark of principles,
and uncommitted for the present with regard
to men.
L. Vimont, Efcq. who has held the office of
Post Master at Millersburg, K.y. for the last 30
years, and against whom there was not a sha
dow of complaint, has been turned out to make
rpom for a Mr. Talbott, who had stronger claims
to the ” of the party.:
This is Kvtpman’s case over again, changing
only the names. The process seems to be go
ing bravely on. We have lately heard of two
new cases in our own State, since Kopiuan’s.
T{je Postmasters in Gainsville imd Covington,
we understand, have both received marching
orders for no fault but being ntubborn State
Rights* men.— Journal.
Another. broke* Bank. —The last Macon
Messenger eontains the report at large of the
investigation, which affords a full expose of the
late Magnolia Bank. When the Bank stop
ped payment, its notes in circulation amounted
to $65,618. The amount due the bank by
three persons, Messrs. Gordon, Pace and Pat
ton, was $72,896 36 : by all
Their report last November stated $19,929
specie on hand: but it now appears that $lO,-
500 of this, was in the checks of Thomas Pace
on banks in Georgia. The Committee say in
conclusion, that “if Gordon, Pace and Pattou
pay the amounts of their several liabilities, the
Bank will be amply able to redeem its circula
tion ; if they do not, it will be an entire loss to
a confining and unsuspecting community.”
“These are hr Jewels ’’—The Roman
Cornelia made the above remark, but modern
times are likely to plagiarize it away, inconti
nently, aud place it to the credit of an Ameri
can lady. The wife of Cape. G. W. Jewell, of
Johnstown, (N. Y.) —a women onlv four feet
high, has recently presented her husband with
three bright little Jewels, as pledges of her af
fection. “ Let population tlmve!”
An Eastern editor says that his subscribers
are wheel horses—-they hold back so well.
From tho Columbus Enquirer.
There can be no doubt, that ambition and
cupidity have guided the policy of a large por
tion of that party, which has ever been so rea
.dy to sustain the acts of federal usurpation ; for
in almost every instance where the constitution
has been disregarded hy any of the departments
of Government, the violations have operated
beneficially to the either
in enriching their coffers, effl&rging their pow
er, or aggrandizing their section of country.
But itmlist also lie admitted, that the party has
ever had many in its ranks sincerely attached to
liberty, who unreflectingly favored these usurpa
tions, from a belief that no danger was appre
hended ; and that the officers of government,
whether Legislative, Executive *or Judicial
would never so far discard the obligations of
their oaths, and forget their fidelity to freedom
as to assume authority for unworthy purposes,
or to exercise it detrimentally to individual rights
or public welfare. Having never experienced
the evils of usurpation, but being always the
beneficiaries of whatever of good resulted, their
minds were seldom favorably situated for the
reception of truth, or for properly appreciating
the principle and policy of the republicans, who
have so long labored unwaveringly for the ar
resting of arrogated power. Recently, hoivev
;er they begin to perceive the danger of usurpa
tion, having been made to feel some of its con
sequences by a late high handed movement of
the chief Executive. Tire removal of the de
posits hy the-President, is an act of such gross
assumption of power—a violation of the laws
so daring and audacious —committed, too, from
motives so unworthy, as could not fail to awa
ken the apprehensions of eyeiy lover of liberty,
who values justice, integrity, and security, in
government, above ihe base and venial rewards
of ambition and corruption. It has very justly
excited the indignation of the honest of every
party—federal as well as republican—who all
unite in execrating a measure too insulting to
freemen and subversive of every thing in the
nature cf constitutional protection of rights, to
be defended by any hut the sycophants of pow
er, the expectants of office, or the hired retain
ers of despotism. That a superanuated chief
tain, whose baleful passions seem to strengthen
as his intellect declines, should be able hy the
mere magic of his name, to introduce into tlie
administration of civil affairs, the same absolute
and tyranic sway that disgraced his military ca
reer, is truly disheartening to the friends of
constitutional government; and argues a la
mentable declension of those high and elevated’
feelings of patriotism—that keen sense of right,
and hatred of wrong—which are. eGential to
the purity, as well as perpetuity of any republic.
But with whatever ruthelessness, he may ’ram
pie GpiWt j+HOieo, and set at nottgbA iW H+etrttr
tions of his country, wo shall not complain of
lus escape from condign punishment, if the law
lessness of h s course shall operate as a saluta
ry warning to the people—stimulating the luke
warm into more active vigilance—reclaiming
such as have, from mistaken views, wandered
from ihe true principles of our government into
the advocacy of uiidclegated authority—arid
convince the prejudiced aod blinded of all par
ties, of the hign and imperious necessity of de
fendingtherightsof the States, and confining the
government within the limits of-the Constitution.
That it will have this effect upon the minds of
many, we have not tho least doubt—that it may
operate conviction upon nil, we most sincerely
desire; for we feel confident that it would be
the means of preserving the States from consol
idation or dissolution, arid of consequence, the
people from the yoke of despotism.
From the Standard of the Union.
THE NEXT PRESIDENCY.
We see no good cause why we should longer
keep silence upon this subject.
There are those who may consider it prema
ture to agitate the question now, hut we have
forebodings, which warn us of the importance
of bringing it at once before Die people.
A great and a bitter struggle may be looked
for, when we consider the elements of tha t com
bination which is preparing itself for the onset.
Among all those who have been spoken of
from time to timo, as likely to enter the lists, it
has been our uniform opinion that the contest
would ultimately settle down between Mr. Van
Buren and Mr. Clay—that Mr. Van Buren
would be supported by the sound old Jeffersonian
republicans, and that Mr. Clay would be sup
ported by the- old Federalists, with Mr. Web
ster at their head—by the main body of the
nullifies, with Mr. Calhoun at their head,; and
by all the odds and ends of all parties and in
terests hostile to strict construction of the
Federal Constitution.
How far the signs of the times sustain us in
these opinions, let us briefly inquire.
It is now manifest that Messrs. Clay and Cal
houn, so long and so deadly hostile to each
other ; whose opinions upon the subject of the
tariff were at the extremes of opposition ; we
say, it is manifest, that their strifes have ceased,
and that they are now marching side by in a
crusade against General Jacksou and his ad
ministration ; and it is equally well known,
that Mr. Webster is sustaining their measures
with his utmost zeal and ability.
Such a combination forebodes no good to the
country, and if a successor to Gen. Jackson is
to be chosen under the influence of this trio,
then may we bid a long farewell to all those
great republican laud marks, by which alone
i our liberties are to be preserved.
! Are the people of Georgia, prepared to sup
jport Mr.” Clay for the Presidency ? Are they
I ready to abandon all their principles of siate
i sovereignty, for a President, who will give them
the tariff in fee simple—who will give them “ a
government without limitation of powers?”
We repeat, is there one solitary man in Georgia,
so lost to the rights of lus. own state and tho
welfare of the natiorf*at large, as to support H.
Clay for the Presidency ?
This question will doubtless be parried for a
time; but unless we base lost our reckoning, it
must come ; and we deem i* a ed duty to
prepare the public mind for
For ourselves, we feel ntntl jjßjiesitataUon nor
fear in speaking out our pretfßhce; Mr. Van
Burcn is our choice.
The nomination which Upa received a few
years since, from the convention at Baltimore,
for the Vice Presidency, met our cordial appro
bation, and we'have seen nothing in the subse
quent course of Mr. Van Buren to lessen him
in our estimation ; nor do we bulieve there can
be found one individual member of that con
vention, who can this day offer a satisfactory
reason for abandoning lus cause.
They cannot go beyond that period to find
excuses for their present hostility, because such
a course would very naturally and Very properly
subject them to suspicions wholly discredita
ble to their own integrity. Since that period,
Mr. Van Buren has committed no act, and ex
pressed no opinion, within our knowledge, at
variance with those, well known to the conven
tion at’ the time of his nomination.
Why then the present opposition in Georgia
and South Carolina? There lies the.rub. Be
cause lie stood in the way of Mr. Calhoun.
The disclosure of Mr. Calhoun’s conduct to
wards Gen. Jackson, while i. member of Mr.
Monroe’s cabinet, and thr, blacker arid baser
crime of charging his own act upon another
member of that cabinet (Mr. Crawford,) had so
degraded him in the eyes of C-r; Jackson nnd
the nation, that from IhaMnoioes t ho iesf. sight
of the Presidency, and immediately set himself
to work for the purpose of destroy ng Gerr. .Tank
son’s influence with the people— overthrow
his administration with the people—‘StirYip new
themes of strife and discord, ami if lie con’d
not rule, to ruin.
These views may not, amid the jarring ele
ments of the times, be duly regarded, but sober
history will write them down.
It is therefore our object, to warn all those
who are opposed to Henry Clay lbr the Presi
dency, against the danger of following the foot
steps of those who are denouncing Gen. Jack
son, because that parly stands opposed to Mr.
Van Buren, and in a contest between him and
Mr. Clay we camwt doubt its course. We-tell
the people of Georgia, that ihe first movement
of the Calhoun party is to break down General
Jackson and his friends, and if they accomplish
this object, then you may look out for Clay ism,
VVebsterism, and Calhounism.
In the great scrapihlo for the Presidency,
there seems to l>e no excitement about the Vico
Presidency. Tliis is perhaps n stroke of poli
cy ; to arrange the first to their satisfaction,
and the second maybe easily managed.
In this too we have a choice ; but preferring
principles to men, and the good of the whole to
individual promotion, with due respect { • the
opinions of our friends in every quarter >• the
Union, there is no man in our judgment better
qualified by talents, or more deserving on the
score of public service and patriotic devotion to
his country, than our distinguished Senator
John Forsyth,
Cherokee Sovereignty vs. State Sovereignty.
—The aspect of affairs in the Cherokee country,
is assuming a character and complexion, de
manding not only the vigilance of the govern
ment, hut the sober consideration of every cit
izen who regards the sovereignty of the Stave or
the rights of the people.
The State of Georgia, a few years since, act
ing upon her own constitutional sovereignty,
determined to distribute that portion of her ter
ritory then occupied by the Cherokee Indians;
and accordingly it was surveyed, thrown into
the wheels of the lotteries—drawn out, and there
by beame the property of individuals.
The opposition to this measure, both in and
out of Georgia, and the various arguments
brought forward to defeat it, are very familiar
to the waiter, and may be spoken of more at
large, “ at a more cbnvenent season.”
The measures, however, met the public ap
probation by an overwhelming majority in the
state, and was fully sustained by that gallant
and patriotic old citizen, who sits at the head of
our General Government.
Thus sustained in her policy, the state pro
ceeded to organize the country, by laying out a
number of counties, and a judicial circuit, and
to appoint the proper officers for executing the
laws sis the state.
The counties have elected their officers, and
sent their representatives to the Legislature,
who have taken their full share in legislating
for the state. A Judge of the superior court
was appointed, who has been for more than a
year, exercising jurisdiction over the people by
state authority, and who is sworn to execute the
laws of the state, within his jurisdiction.
Thus organized", we had hoped that the hand
ful of Cherokees who still lingered upon our
soil, would either submit quietly to our laws, or
accept the boon offered by the General Govern*
NO. 43.