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TALE OF A CONJURER.
For persons who are pleased wish the supernatu
ral, we add the following front “ Oonagh Lynch,” a
new London publication.
“ Sir Patrick presented some jewels of value to
his bride; and when she had admired them and
thanked him, he drew’ forth a small flat ebony case,
and said, ‘ I have yet another gift to make you, of
more value, which I would not conibund with the
trifles you have received: it has been the most es
teemed of our possessions for some generations
back. It has been given always by the head of our
house to his bride, and preserved with the utmost
c ire. There is, added he, smiling, ‘some supersti
tious tale, which I forget, attached tott. I give it
you, and shall be really grieved if you lose it.’—
The case contained a most curious and magnificent
rosary of gold and enamel, with precious stones and
large pearls interpersed; the workmanship w'as beau
tiful as the materials were precious. Anastasia
readily promised to preserve it jail her Lie, and caus
ed a cabinet to be constructed, three sides of which
were glass, on the fourth the rosary and all the jew
els of value she possessed were susjiended, and
visible though locked up. This cabinet accompa
nied her in alllier journeys. Sir Patrick, previous
to the Revolution, had sometimes been •intrusted
with secret missions to the court of France, where
he was always well received, and Lady Lynch,
who was very beautiful, much admired. On the
last of these occasions they remained some months
at Paris; and among the persons who frequented
their hotel was a young Italian abbe, who was re
markably clever and agreeable, and made himself
extremely useful. He knew where every tiling was
to be found, and its price ; where every body lived,
and who they were. lie particularly shone when
a fete was to be given; he planned the preparations,
and saw to their execution,—in short, he began by
pleasing, and ended by being necessary. One day
Lady Lynch accosted him with an air of anxiety,
very unusual to her fair face. ‘Ah, Mr. I’ahbe.’
said she, ‘ I must confide a circumstance* to you
which distresses me more than I can describe. My
beautiful rosary has bfcen stolen from my cabinet,
—see the glass in that side has been broken, and it
is gone ! I have looked every where, and so has
my maid ; 1 cannot learn how it has gone ; —and
how can I look Sir Patrick in the face f he will be
so angry ! lie returns from Versailles the day after
to-morrow. \V bat shall ldo? Ido not like to
tirodaiin my loss and apply to the police, in the
lope l may find it without Sir Patrick knowing tl at
it ever was missing. What shall Ido P The abbe
expressed his satisfaction at her having had recourse
to him, and undertook the affair with great readi
ness, though he had only two days to dedicate to
the search; on the third he was to proceed to Italy
on affairs of the greatest moment. He assured
Lady Lynch that, if her jewels were still in Paris,
he thought he should succeed. Meantime Lady
Lynch frequently expressed *.o her maid the anxiety
she felt that the rosary might be recovered. The
maid, after many ol those broken hints with which
jiersons who are eager yet fear to make a disclosure
lirccede it, at length confessed she knew a man who
tad on similar occasions served persons in such
circumstances, and proposed Lady Lynch should
consult him. Anastasia, who was naturally nervous,
timid, and imaginative, though fearful, was curious,
and resolved to consult the conjuror, if it could be
done privately, for she feared the ridicule of her
husband and friends. Her inaid made the necessary
arrangements ; and late in the evening Anastasia,
dressed in the clothes of her attendant, who accom
panied her, proceeded in a hackney coach, through
a number of dirty and distant streets, to an obscure
house, in a quarter with the appearance of which
she was entirely unacquainted. At length they
descended from the carriage, which was desired to
wait; and the maid guided Lady Lynch through a
long narrow alley, terminated by a door, where,
after ringing, they waited some time for admission.
An aged negro asked whom they wanted; and on
the maid replying that they came to speak to Mr.
ilontemps, tiie negro rang another bell, and leaving
them for a few moments, returned with a small brass
lamp, and preceded them up a gloomy •tone stair
case, w’licre the dust of ages seemed to have accu
mulated. Anastasia, as she followed, almost repent
ed her curiosity. They arrived at another door, at
which the negro knocked, and they were immediate
ly admitted by a tall man, who asked their com
mands. There was nothing very remarkable in
the appearance of Mr. Bontempts: he was tall
and sallow, with a keen bold eye, about fifty years ol
age, expressing himself in a slow distinct manner,
civil and calm. The maid assumed the office ol
explanation, and told him her friend had lost a
rosary of value, and W'islied him to tell her where
to seek it. Mr. Bontcmps replied, he should have
pleasure in doing so, but there was a preliminary
condition to be observed. Anastasia drew forth her
purse, and presented him w ith five louis-d’ors. —
• Though I accept your ladyship’s gift, I shall expect
a similar sum if I have the good fortune to serve
you upon this occasion,’ replied Mr. Bontcmps.—
* This is not all I exact; you must swear never to
reveal to any human being your visit to me, and its
result.’’ Lady Lynch, though rather alarmed and
surprised at being called by her title,readily promised
never to reveal her visit, and what she should then
toe, to any human bieng. ‘ Though I make no doubt
of your sincerity and resolution, madam,’ said the
conjuror, * your fidelity to the engagement is of so
much importance to me, that I am obliged to.make
it your interest to preserve your promise inviolate.
Should you betray me, eight days and eight uights
from the time you do so, you will pay with your
life for the indiscretion.’ Anastasia willingly, though
not without perturbation, agreed to the justice of a
punishment which she resolved not to incur. Mr.
Bontcmps then drew from a small shagreen case a
lancet, with which he slightly touched Lady Lynch’s
hand, and extracted a drop of blood, into which he
dipped a pen, and requested she would write the
first letter of iier baptismal name on a slip of parch
ment he presented. She did so. lie then desired
the maid to wait for them, and led Anastasia through
a long gloomy passage, hung with spiders’ webs ol
extraordinary dimensions, and only lighted by the
lamp he bore, to a very large room. On one side
hung a large dark curtain of brown stuff. There
w T as no furniture except a w ooden stool, on which
he requested tltc trembling inquirer to scat herself
opposite but at some distance from the curtain. She
obeyed; and he then threw some powder and gums
on a small brasier of charcoal that was near, bill
which she had not till then observed. A blue light
spread around the apartment, the bruiser burnt witl
a hissing noise, and Mr. Bop tamps flourished a lone
ebony round ins head, uttering many words it
some unknown language. 11c then drew aside tlu
curtain ; and the smoko irom the hrasiet beginning
* suhsnk, Lady Lynch beheld, in (lie mirror, at
apartment represented, which contained an Indian
cabinet with folding-doors; that on the right hand
was open, and she beheld her rosary within it; and
her friend the abbe writing at a table, on which
were many parcels ! She contemplated the scene
for several minutes, when the sorcerer again threw
some gums on the braiser, and, when the smoke
was dissipated, the curtain had fallen. Some mo
ments of silence ensued, when Mr. Ilontemps said,
‘ You have seen, I doubt not, madam, the jewel you
seek. I know not the person who sat by, but de
pend upon my assurance that it is in his possession.
You have also seen the place where he has deposit
ed his prize. You must do th’c rest; and above all,
remember yourpromise ; if you fail in your part o!
the engagement, he certain I shall not fo/get mine.’
As lie pronounced these words, the countenance of
Mr. Bontcmps assumed an expression so sinister,
and his voice sounded so hoarse and sepulchral, that
Lady Lynch, in much perturbation, reiterated her
promise, and departed, alter having munificently
recoi i! tin: sorcerer, kvliose presence she re
joiced to quit. She directly, ordered the coachman
to proceed to the abode of the abbe, which she
knew from having frequently addressed notes of in
vitation, or containing commissions for his perform
ance. On arriving there, she would not suffer her
self to be announced, but ran up the stairs, closely
following the servant. On the door of the abbe’s
apartment being opened, she found his chamber pre
cisely similar to that represented by the mirror of
Mr. Bontemps ! The abbe was sitting at a table
covered with packets, and between the windows
stood a black Indian cabinet. He rose in some
confusion at the unexpected visit with which lie w as
honoured, and with which, at that moment, perhaps
he would willingly have dispensed. Lady Lynch,
said, that having business in that part of the city,
and not choosing to be seen, she had gone out in a
hackney coach, which had broken down opposite
his door; and that, knowing he lived there, she had
determined to come in to ask for a glass of water,
and to recover her alarm. There is no knowing
what construction the abbo might have put upon
this extraordinary proceeding of Lady Lynch, had
he not been, from the moment of her entrance, so
pre occupied and embarrassed, that he could with
difficulty recollect himself enough to call for water,
and offer‘it with an attempt to express - concern for
her alarm. Anastasia Seated herself on a stool
near the cabinet, qnd after speaking some few mo
ments on indifferent subjects, admired his apart
ments ; and, affecting to laugh, said, looking at the
cabinet—‘ This is, no doubt, the repository for your
billets : I shall look at itd The abbe started, and
said the cabinet contained letters only; and was
rising from Ins seat, when Lady Lynch suddenly
opened the door, and discovered her rosary in the
spot corresponding with that represented in the
conjuror’s mirror ! She took it up, saying—‘ Oh !
what a trick 1 I susjiccted you had a mind to
frighten me, and really you succeeded. In another
day I should have been quite ill with vexation. It
was too mischievous of of you! She continued to
laugh and reproach him.”
Sir Patrick returns home, hears of her mysterious
absence, becomes jealous, and she reveals the secret,
but with great misgivings.
“ In order to distract her attention, lie insisted on
her accompanying him to a great entertainment,
which was to take place that evening at the hotel of
the English Ambassador, and she unwillingly pre
pared to accompany him. In spite of her anxiety,
she had never looked more beautiful than when she
prepared to descend to her carriage; and Sir
Patrick could not resist an exclamation of admira
tion as he surveyed her appearance, while she paused
to open a letter which the servant had just present
ed. Lady Lynch suddenly uttered a loud shriek,
and fainted. In the confusion -that ensued, and dur
ing the convulsions which she underwent for some
hours afterwards, the attendants knew not to what
to attribute her strange disorder. Sir Patrick
sought fur the letter which she had received at the
time, and found only a blank cover, containing a
small strip of parchment, on which Anastasia had
written the first letter of her baptismal name at the
request of the sorcerer ! Lady Lynch’s complaints
did not decrease, though her senses ret trued. The
attendance of the most skilful physicians was of no
avail ; and though when her agitation subsided, a
quickened pulse and feverish excitement were the
only symptoms of malady that could be detected,
she gradually sank, and on the Pth evening from
that on which the explanation took place with Sir
Patrick, she raised her head from the pillow, and
pointing to the dial of a clock which stood opposite
' to the foot of her bed, she.sank back and expired !”
THE SPANISH BRIGAND.
A short time after the French war anil the restoration
of Ferdinand Ylt, whose conduct nmdc many of the
ioose guerrilla parties continue out in the country as
brigands, an English merchant arrived one evening at a
small town, at the foot of tlie Sierra Morena. in the
passado of the place where ho took up his lodgings
for the night, he met a Spaniard of a commanding figure,
and of a sharp intelligent, hut amiable countenance.
Much struck with his appearance, the Englishman en
tered into conversation with him, and was still more
delighted bv his frank, spirited style of address aud
talking. IS* fore supper was ready, the two had estab
lished that sort of travelling intimacy which is not per
haps, the Jess delightful because it must finish in a few
hours, and the parties, iri al! probability, never meet a
gain—and when meat was served, tliqy sat down togeth
er, each, apparently anxious to know more of the other.
conversed together during ti c progress of the sup
per and long after it was over, until the singing and
flickering lamps on the table, warned the Englishman it
must be time to retire to rest. As be arose to do so, the
Spaniard with all his former frankness and gentlemanly
manner, asked him which way his road lay on the mor
row. The Englishman replied across the .Sierra .More
na, and indicated the road lie meant to take. The Span
iard, shaking his head, said he was sorry for this, as he
had reasons to suspect that this very road at that very
moment was beset with robbers, from whose numbers
and activity there was no escape. The Englishman con
fessed that this was very unpleasant news, particularly
as the affairs that called him towards .Madrid were ur
gent. “But can’t you stay where you arc a day or two,”
replied the Spaniard; “by that time they may have shif
ted their ground, and you may pass the mountains with
out meeting them.” The Englishman Tcpcatcd that his
business was Urgent, said lie was no coward, that he
had hitherto travelled in Spain, without any misadven
ture, and hoped still to do so. “But my pood Seror,”
replica the Spaniard, you will not cross the mountains
to-morrow without being robbed, lake my word for that!”
“Well, if it must he so, let them rob me,” said the En
glish merchant ; “I have little money to lose, and they
wiH hardly take the life of an unarmed man.” “Thcv
have never been accustomed to act so—let it be said to
the honor of the band, they are not such cowardly assas
sins,” replied the Spaniard, who was then silent, and
s.'cmed to be musing to himself.
’('lie Englishman was beginning to call up one of the
servants of the posado to show him to his resting place,
when his companion, raising his hand, said, ‘Not vet,
Rcnor, not yet! listen!' and he continued in an under
tone: ‘lt was ray fortune, sofhetime since, to hive to
cross the Sierra Morena, alone, like you ;it was occu
pied then as now,, by the Saltradore s ; but I met a
man also alone, as you have met me, who said he had
rendered the captain of the band some service, and that
he could give me a pass which should cause my person
and properly to be respected by the robbers, and enable
me to cross the tnouniains with perfect safety.’ ‘A
much better thing this than a king’s passport,’ said the
astonished man.—‘Pray, what is it? and did it succcd?”
‘lt was only a button,’ replied the Spaniard; ‘it did all
that had been promised ; and perhaps it has not yet lost
its charm ; 1 will trivc it to you, here it is.’ After
starching in his pocket, the Spaniard produced a very
curious fillagreed silver button, and placing It in the
hands of the Englishman, begged him to be careful of it
and to present it to any robbers that might attack him on
the Sierra. ‘But were you really attacked on your
journey V inquired the merchant. The button was res
pected by ah the robbers I met, and I believe 1 saw
tliem all” said tiie Spaniaid, ‘but a3k no more questions,
and lake carcof the ‘/ iutton .’ To-Morrow you will see
whether it has lost its rhiimi —Wit many thanks the
Englishman took his leave and went to bed. On the
following morning, when he continued his journey, the
silver button ran in his head lor *nme time.—But it was
not until noon, as lie was toiling up oJ'c of the most rug
ged of of the mountain paths, that lu? bad an opportuni
ty of trying its value. There his guide, who rode be
fore him, was knocked oil his mule by a blow from the
butt end of a musket, and the next instant three otln'r
guns were levelled at the Englishman’s breast by men
who stepped from behind a rock. 'The attack was so
sudden, that his ideas and recollections were disturbed,
and he put his hand in bis pocket, brought out his purse,
and delivered it to the robbers, who were callingnim all
sorts of opprohious names, before he thought of his sil
ver button, but w hen the recollection came to his mind
and he produced it, much doubting of its efficacy, the
Sul trad ores were stopped at once, as though a sacred
relic had been held before their eyes ; they returned bis
purse, earnestly entreated his pardon for all that bad
happened, and informed him that it was their bounden
duty to see the bearer of that button safe across the moun
tain. Accordingly'on went the brigands for bis guards,
lie blessing tiie silver button, and they showing him ev
ery possible attention and respect. On their wav they
met with other robbers, which proved how formidable
was the band, and how inqiossible it would have been
to escajic them w ithout the charmed button.
At length they came to alow solitaiy house in a wide
dell, far away from tins beaten path across the Sierra,
which they had abandoned for rocks that seemed never
to have been trodden. Here the merchant was told
that he might stop and refresh himself. Not loth he
dismounted, and turned to the door, when his companion
with whom he had been at the posado on the previous
evening—the donor of the magical button, met him on
the threshold, w ith the words and gestures es an hospi
table welcome. Ilis drees was changed—lie now wore
a splendid kind of uniform, the jacket of which was of
velvet embroidered with gold, but tho Englishman re
cognized his commanding figure and impressive counte
nance in an instant, and gave him his hand as a friend.
‘I got here before you,’ said the captain of banditti, for
such in fact was the donor of the button, ‘and have pre
pared a good dinner for you, being very certain that
uliat I gave you last night would bring you safe under
my roof.’ The Englishman expressed liis gratitude,and
they set down to dine. The bandit’s dishes were savou
ry and good, and his wine better. As the wine warmed
the Englishman, |ie again expressed his gratitude, and
then ventured to say how astonished he was that a per
son of iiis manners, and one capable of such kind and
generous feelings and action, could lead such a kind
of life. The robber drew his hand across his dark brow
and fiery eyes, and said,‘These are times when thieves
and trditurs in the royal court, and the officers of Gov*
eminent, and honest patriots, arc driven tollic highways.
Asa guerrilla, I shed tny blood for my country—for my
king, who when he returned, would have left me to
starve or to L>eg! But no business of yours. 1 met you,
liked your manners and have saved you! that is enough!
say no more! The Englishman, of course, desisted,
and soon after rose to take hia leave. The captain, who
recovered his good humor, told him he should have an
escort yet a little further, and be put into the route he
wished to follow. The merchant would then have re
turned the silver button, but the robber insisted on his
keeping it. ‘You, or some friend of yours, may have to
pass this way aga.n;’ said he, ‘and whoever has the but
ton to produce will he respected! Go with God! and
say nothing as to what happened between you and ine,
and mine! Adieu!’ The merchant’s farewell was an
earnest and cordial one. Guided by the brigands, he
soon reached the road on the opposite side of the tnoun*
tains, and would there have given them some money for
the trouble he had caused. They said they had their
captain’s strict commands against this—they would not
accept a real, hut left him, w ishing him a happy jour
ncv.
Rome time—l believe some years after this adventure,
the English merchant heard with deep regret that the
Spanish robber chief, whom he described as one of the
handsomest men he ever beheld, had been betrayed into
the hands of government and put to a cruel and igno
minious death.
IIIGII LIFE, OR TRUE ETIQUETTE.
In associating with individuals who might be supposed
by some too inferior, it is exceedingly difficult to draw
the line. On principle, it would he with those who
excel in intellectual, moral, or religious attainments
But in practice, these are not the criteria. When inter
est or convenience influence, even a Peer may associate
with a hanker if he will allow him to overdraw his ac
count —of even with a tradesman who will discount his
hill. When neither improvement nouintesest would
influence, it itas been difficult to demde. We have,
however, at length, just discovered that the only true
distinction is between wholesale and retail. H’e affirm
this on the authority of a much admired Dowager Duch
ess, who, in general, moves only in the highest circles,
whose ’conduct, on these occasions, constitutes law. The
daughter recently completccT her education at a very
superior establishment, nota mile distant from Portland
place, where she became intimately acquainted with the
daughter of Sir G ,an eminent brewer, and Ma
gistrate at a borough town not a hundred mile from the
metrapolis ; though his occupation in trade was un
known to iter ladyship, and who, therefore, allowed her
daughter to accept a very pressing invitation from
her civedant acJrool fellow. After about a week’s ab
sence, mamma received a letter from iter lively sprig of
title, giving a narrative of her proceedings, and, especial
ly, of a dance given by SirG. the night before, adding,
“and what do you think, mamma, —I (landed with a wool
lendraper!!” The Duchess exclaiming, ‘Good Heavens,
my daughter’s ruined, and myself eternally disgraced,”
went off into hysterics, aind, when recovering, ordered
four horses immediately to ,to rescue her daugh
ter from such impending ruin; when arrived, the as
tonished Sir G. rushed to the door, and conducted the
scornful Duchess to a sofa, where, half choakrd with in
dignation aud excitement, she exclaimed,‘l must in
sist on my daughter immediately leaving; I never
thought your assumed friendship would come to this,"
pointiug to the hist words of her daughter’s letter. Up
on winch, Sir G. began explaining; that, in the country,
i specially in a borough town, we should be without so
ciety, if we confined our visiting to titled acquaintance;
and that, besides, the gentleman alluded to was highly
respected, opulent, and even likely to be tire borough
member. Ducbces—“Oh, Sir G. hut s woolendraper,
a woollcndrapcr!!'' Sir O. resuming, assured her Lady,
ship, that he was not a petty retail Healer, hot a manu
facturer—a wholesale dealer, and contractor with Gov.
eminent. “Oh, Sir 0.” exclaimed the Duchess, “if
you will pledge your honrur, that he does not cut, I will
be friends again.” Sir G. plighted his faith—hends
were shaken—and the Duchess, herself, actually danced
the next night with this self sarnw wholesale woollendra
per.—London Town.
Life and Adventures of Col. David Crockett, of
West Tennessee.—' This is a rigmarole of more than
200 pages, duodecimo, made up principally of the an
ecdotes and tales of the redoubtable Colonel Crockett,
that have been going the rounds of the newspapers for
several years past.
The annexed is illustrative of the Colonel’s elec
tioneering tact.
In the canvass of the congressional election of 18—,
Mr. *** was the Colonel’s opponent—a gentleman of
the most pleasing and conciliating manners—who sel
dom addressed a person or a company without wearing
upon his countenance a peculiarly good humored smile.
The Colonel to counteract the influence of this winning
attribute, thus alluded to it, in a stump speech:
“ Yes, gentlemen, he may get some votes by grinning.
for he can out-grin me, and you know 1 unt’t slow—and
to prove to you that 1 am not, will tell you an anecdote.
I was concerned myself, and 1 was fouled a little of the
d—dest. You all know I love hunting. Well 1 dis
covered a long tinw ago that a coon couldn’t stand my
grin. 1 could bring one tumbling down from the high
est tree. 1 never wasted powder and lead when I want
ed one of the creatures. Well, as I walked out one
|nf*bt, a few hundred yards from my house looking care
lessly .’bout me, 1 saw a’coon planted on one of the
highest limbs of an old tree. The night was very
moony and dear, and old Ratler was with ine ; but Rat
ler won’t bark ai a coon—he’s a queer dog in that way.
So 1 thought I’d hrii.'g the lark down, in the usual way,
by a grin 7 I set myself', fliH after grinning at the coon
a reasonable time, found that Jie did’nt come down. 1
wondered what was the reason, i took another steady
grin at him. Still he was there. Itwoi?' s me a little
mad; so I felt round, and got an old limb; about five
feet long—and planting one end upon the gipeud, 1
placed my chin upon the other, and took a test. I then'
grinned my best for about five minutes, but the <1 and
coon hung on. So, finding I could not bring him down
by grinning, I determined to have him, for I tho’t he
must he a droll chap. 1 went over to the house, got my
axe, returned to the tree, saw the ’coon still there, and
began to cut away. Down it came, and I run forward :
hut and and the ’coon was there to be seen, i found
that what i had taken for one, was a large knot upon a
branch of the tree, and upon looking at it closely, I saw
that I had grinned all the bark off, and left the knot
perfectly smooth.
“ Now, fellow-citizens,” continued the Colonel, “ you
must he convinced, that in the grinning line, I myself
am not slow—yet, when 1 look upon my opponent’s
countenance, I must admit he is my superior, You
must all admit it. Therefore, be wide §wade, look sharp,
and not let him grin you out of your votes.”
‘Our ambition is, to live under equal laws.”
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ASD STATE RIGHT’S ADVOCATE.
AIII.Li:i)GEV’LLK~ MAY 15, 1833.
w e are authoris'd to Announce
JOEL CRAWFORD,
OF HANCOCK COUNTY,
A candidate (or Governor, at the ensuing
election. We heartily respond Amen !
Convention.
The proceedings of the Convention will be found
in our columns. Our readers will procure for them
selves the selfish policy perceive by the majority in
preferring party ascendancy to the general welfare.
Perhaps these reverend seigniors under whose
auspices this faction was organized have the modes
ty to presume that they are the rede ming spirits,
the only conservative leaven, by which the great
mass of the people are to lie saved from peril and
ruin. We have the misfortune to differ with them.
The day of retribution however, we hope is at hand;
and in the words of Dr. Comas —“we shall see what
•we shall see."
We have been compelled to omit the yeas and
nays, and the remainder of the proceedings for want
of room. We will give the whole in our next.
The Volunteer’.
Our town is now enlivened by the music of the
“spirit-stirring drum and the ear-piercing fife” The
Macon Volunteers and Washington Guards, togeth
er with the Georgia Guards have formed an encamp
ment in our vicinity.' Their soldier-like appearance
and orderly deportment, reflect great credit on them
selves, and present to the people a noole exa vtple of
what an efficient body of citizen-soldiers should be.
We hope it will have the effect of reinstating the
military spirit of our ancestors, which appears to be
fast departing from the bosoms of their descendants.
Union Caucus.
A meeting of the dominant members of the Con
vention was held last night. Wc were not at it but
learn, that Nullification was reprobated—the prin
ciples, as advocated by Mr. Madison adopted—the
measures of the administration of the general gov
ernment approved—and the course of Messrs. For
syth and Wavnc applauded. “ Good Lord deliver
us!”
The efficacy of State Interposition—The
necessity of a resort to it—The Federal par
ty compared with the Jesuits.
No. 3.
In our last paper we closed with the promise, to
shew to our readers that the political Jesuits of the
present day in the Southern country were in
fluenced by the same unhallowed purposes—were
moving “ both Heaven and Earth” in their opposi
tion to those who tried in every peaceable way to
relieve the Southern jieople from “the oppressions,
woes and pains” under which they so long groaned*
and from which they are not yet entirely relieved,
for the same selfish and aggrandizing views which
swayed the Jesuits of the sixteenth century. In
thus instituting a comparison between the two
parties, wc beg not in be understood as attributing!
the same degree of corruption, of cruelty and nf|
inhumanity which polluted the annals of the si,on
but fearful and destructive reign of the Jesuits in
Europe, to those of the present day in the Southern
country. We trust we have a better opinion of
mankind and of the state of morals in our govern
ment than to charge such cruelties home to anv
party, however intolerant in the United States Z.
What we intend to say is, that the objects of the
Jesuits of the sixteenth century and the Jesuits
(for such we will prove tliem by shewing that they
are pursuing the same line of conduct with that
sect,) now in our midst, is veri-similar, but the
means, we will do both them and humanity the
justice to acknowledge, must necessarily be more
mild and admissible.
We will now proceed to point out some of the
features in which this resemblance is the most re
markable. Ihe Jesuits, of whom we gave a brief
history in our last paper, undertaking to blind and
deceive the people of Europe, and to hold them in
religious bondage, put forth, certain heretical reli
gious opinions, to which they required the acquies
cence of a certain celebrated'society of Doctors, of
which a certain Arnauld, was one, in order to
give their opinions the greater weight and influence,
but this learned, upright and independent man, be
ing the leader of a large and respectable minori
ty of the Sorbounc, refused such acquiescence, be.
cause he and his friends yet hold in high cstima*
tion, the piivilege of thinking for themselves and of
worshipping God after their own manner and “un
der their own vine and figtree.”
We have got thus fir with the first establish
rnentof the order of religious Jesuits of Europe—
we will now say something of the origin and pro
gress of political Jesuitism in this country. In one
of the years of the short-lived reign of old John Ad
ams, the defender of Kings and the Ignatius Lcva
la in American politicks, the people, deeming them
selves free and independent, possessed of the full
and undoubted right to think and to speak what
i‘hey thought, censured the royal tendency of Mr
Adams’ administration ; at the manifestation of
which dissatisfaction, Mr. Adams became so res
tive and Mihgiiant, that lie determined to solicit
Congress (his political Pope Paul III.) to establish
and legalize an order of political Jesuits, of which lie
was to he the head or general. This political Pope
listened to this political I.o) ala’s advice and created
said order in obedience, and after the plan of said
Loyala. Among the rules ot this Society, as estab
lished by this political Pope, was one declaring that
all aliens and other persons of this free republican
country, who should raise their voice in the tone of
censure and condemnation of the motives or con
duct of the political Loyala, should he transported,
gagged or imprisoned.
Tins buli or rescript, or whatever else it may be
termed, excited the free spirit of Thomas Jefferson
(the political Arnauld of this country) who declared
that he could not find in the Constitution what our
political Pope and his coadjutor, Loyala, had de
clared to lie there, to wit: the right to establish up
on its authority a political heresy, which would de
prive the good people of the United States of Amer
ica, of the liberty r of speech, and the libeity of the
press. The political Jesuits of that day at bnce ex
polled by the unanimous suffrage of their order, our
political Arnauld from the society of political doc
toas. In this attempt to crush our political Arnauld
the political Jesuits failed, and many people, who
loved liberty, arrayed themselves under his banner,'
who may be justly likened to the Janscnists or the
adherents to orthodoxy, the opponents of the Jesuits,
and we shall therefore call them “political Janscn
ists.'' The parts of the creed of the political Jaa
senists, which were and are still the most obnoxious
to the Jesuits, were the words in our political
Arnauld’s Kentucky Resolutions referred to.
[Wehere designed to insert the Kentucky resolutions,bnt
hare to omit them this week, for want of room.]
At the time that this creed was advanced by the
political Jansenists, a great out-cry was raised
against them by the political Jesuits ;but the large
body of the people, who weighed the matter well,
joined in with the political Jansenists and kept the
political Jesuits under water, by exposing their
heretical opinions and the enormities they had
committed against the true faith, until our political
Jansenian Pope (a succeeding Congress.) abolished
the order, as did Pope Clement XIY that of the
politico-religious Jesuits of Europe, for the same
reasons. After the extinction of the order of the
politico-religious Jesuits of Europe by Clement,
Pope Pius (a Fesuit,) re-established the Society, as
likewise did our politico-Jesuitical Pope (Congress)
re-ordain the political order of Jesuits at its last an
nual sitting.
Thus our readers will see, how nearly the rise
and fall of the order of our political Jesuits resem
ble the fate of the society of Religious Jesuits of
Europe. They are both now in existence and both
are laboring to re-acquire their lost and once ruined
influence. We are not sufficiently acquainted with
the condition of eitheir to inform our readers
whether they are in a state of equal prosperity and
advancement or whether they arc likely to share
the same fate as formerly. This is a question which
time alone can determine. We fervently hoja
however, as a well-wisher and humble member of
our political Jansenian Church that the political
hcreticks may yet be rooted out from among us,
and our good old republican doctrines restored in
all their primary beauty and purity.
If we may be allowed an opinion, wc should un
questionably say that the true political faith is rapid
ly spreading and that its followers are daily increas
ing. The letter of our political Pascal (Jno. b.
Calhoun, “ that prodigy of parts”) has given tho
worlds entire new lights, calculated to strengthen
us in the good, true and everlasting faith. He is
a worthy successor in the political Jansenian Church
of that great, eloquent and cvcr-to-bc-admircd
Pascal of the religious Jansenian Church, who, bv
the power of his genius, scattered and demolished
the most famous asxd influential Junta that ever ex
isted. What a mighty, engine is the human mind -
One powerful and pervading intellect can destroy
the absurdities, that have been accumulating m r
ages, with a few dashes of the pen ! Such was the
effect of Pascal’s provincial letters! May such a
result be brought about by the letters of John C-
Calhoun ! us lay aside our prejudices against
the man and accept the great truths in government
which his powerful genius has brought to light. H»
can not and does not claim to be the discoverer«
these great truths. He only appears as the
der of the discoveries of that great apostle of L>i
ertv, Thomas Jefferson. We must sooner or la<*>
adopt them. Upon their acknowledgment
practise depend the political freedom and ciistcnc
of the Southern States. If wc renounce them, *
shall be in the same condition in respect to
Northern States that the Grecian Republic**
cupied towards the Roman Empire —most 8
slaves and dependents. We shall conclude a
have to aay farther upon this subject jn otirn.
