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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.