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Voten in the Several States.
The follow i.g hi !if le, copied from
the Mtaoton. ( V i.) Spectator, may
be useful for tqie< ial reference, Ml the
jvo ,*nt sea-on of elections.
Right of voting us Exercised in the
Several States.
The.re is no political subject which
outfit to engage the minds of the p<*o
jde of Virginia more at this time than
the amendment *<f their constitution.
They have Haiti a convention shall as
h< mhh for that purpose, and they will
H i long he called upon to select there
from, suitable representatives. It has
occurntl to ns that as the e|e five
privilege is the grand conservator of
the right of all, it might he well to
prepare a brief view if the qualifica
tions n w r qoir and for voters in the
several slates f the union, in order
that our < itiz'-ns generally may better
avail themselves of the opportunity
wln li experience effbrds, in the f.r
tnaiioti of their opi loos on this head,
and we have accordingly done so. |f
Will be seen that Virginia stands alone
With her freehold q lalifi ation.
In New II nipshire—every male
inhahitant 21 years us age, three
months in tin- state—students, pan
pees. .ex epted.
In Mass a huselts—every male cit
izen, (paupers and persons uinfer
goanleatiNhip excepted,) one year in
the state and six mouths in the town
or township where he offers to vote,
having p'id tax within two years, un
less exempted therefrom by law*.
!•’ Il'iode M iml—No constitution
—By charter of Charles 11. all free
men vote.
In Connecticut—every white male
citizen having a legal residence for
six months with a freehold of seven
dollars per annum and every white
male enrolled on the militia one y ear,
or being exempted from military duty
by law, having paid a state fax within
the y ear, aud of good moral charac
ter.
In Vermont—every man of quiet
And |u-w< >ui.|u behavior, one year in
the slate.
In New Jersey—All persons 12
■fiofi'h** residence, worth a clear es
tufe of 50ll>. proclamation money.
In lVosy Ivmiia—every freeman
who has resided two years in the
state, a>d paii a tax; and the sons of
*ii. h between 21 and 22 without thu
p y rnent of a tax.
In Maryland—All free white males
fit years of gr, having resided one
year in the state, and six months in
tin county.
In North Carolina—Ml freemen
wilt a freehold of 50 acres. And a
rest of one year fo|* senators: and
and all freemen resident 12 m nths,
having p id taxes for members of the
house of commons.
In S U'h Car lioa—every freeci'i
zer, having r< sided two years in the
state, with a freehold of 50 acres, or
a town lot possessed for six months;
or not having such freehold of lot, a
r sidence of six months in the election
district where he offers to vote, and
the payment of a tax within the year
of three shilling sterling towards the
support ot the state government,
‘ll Georgia—All ritizens and in
habitants who have paid the taxes re
quired otthem, and resided six months
where they vote.
In Louisiana— every free white
male citizen, residing then in one
ytvr, and having paid a tax or being
a freehold* c.
In Kentucky—All free white male
citizens, two yeai s in the state, aud
one in the county where they vote.
In Ohio—every white male inhabi
taut, one year therein, and having
paid a state or county tax.
In Tennessee—every freeman and
inhabitant of the state, if a freeholder,
in iy vote in the county where the
freehold lies without being thereof
il not possessed o| a Ireehold lie must
reside six months w here he offers to
vote.
In Mississippi—every free white
male person, one year in the state,
! and six months in the county, serrintr
in tin* militior pay iug a t *x.
In Illinois—NVriise male inhabi
Rants, tix months in the state.
In Missouri—All free white m*h
* iliz'Mis, one year in th * state, are’
three months in the county.
In Allabama—every white inale of
lawful age having resided one year i
the state aud three months ill th
county.
In Indiana—All white male
one year in th** si ate.
In New York—every ma|p ritize
of the ag* of 2 1 y ears, one y ear ill tin
state, and six months in the town oi
county where lie off. rs io vote, havjnc
paid a tax wi hin tin* year, or leg .lly
jserved as a militiaman or fireman—
!or labored upon the public highways
In Maine—every freeman havine
his r< iideiine established three months
j before the election—students, pau
pers, K . excepted.
In Virginia--Fifty acres of unim
proved land io the county, orlwenty
fi *c hi res of land with a house on it,
hold for life or in fee simple, qualify
a man to vote in the county where
the land lies—provided said land has
been owned by him six m tilths be tori
election or has descended to him, or
come by marriage or gift.—An im
proved I>t in any corporate town,
w ith ail welling of a certain size there
on. A pm son owning land as above,
in diff rent counties, may vote in each
county fr delegates, but ran only
give one vote fir a senator, dr for a
memer of congress, in the same dis
trict.
ETln every ease voters are re
quired to be citiz us of the United
Stotts, hv • i**tt* <>r naturalization.
Vj A33LWr.
n JURE'TON. SEPT 6, 1828.
I his p. per (lotn a the senes of
Tub VBsprtß. VVe tend rour thanks
to tingemo. for the H titering terms in
which lie rnminuut ates to us, what
we know will be to many of our rea
dears unwelcome int lligonce. Eu
genio. we fl itter ourselves, will, e’er
long, redeem his pledge, and make the
Cabinkt again the medium of dis
seminating his chaste and sentimen
tal lucubrations.
Our county men will observe the
request made in this days paper bv
the | ts ri >r Court relative to the pre
sentments of the Grand Jury of Chat
ham.
(c MWf UNICATED )
Mr. Editor ,
VV ill y oi have th * goodness to in
sort in your p p r th * f II wing tick**
vt; It will be run by the R publicans
of Columbia C‘>nn f y.
tor Senate.
PETER VRAWEORB. Esq.
House of Representatives.
JOH V (ART LEDGE Esq .
ltr. NATHAN i HAH FORD.
JAMES HAMILTON* Esq.
And as a Y’oier, in tin* lasi Courier
informs •• the people of G -orgie, .that
they can choose but seven out of thir
teen (bow tliAtikful we should be t<*r
tins information) candidates who offer
for seats in congress, permit me to”
correct his ticket by striking out
( uthber, l r:plett and Lumpkin, aid
insert Gilmer, Haynes and Brails
f ‘t*d, I therefore <* recommend tin
f Rowing ticket as combining!* inp.ni
tety •• more talents than any other se
led ion that could be made’ from the
list.”
RICHARD H. WFF,DE.
CEOROK 11. GII.MKR,
OH \RI ES K. H AYNES.
W| EY THOMPSON.
DANIEL H. BR VII.SFORD.
JAMES M. WAYNE.
THOMAS F. FOSI ER.
.1 SUJiSCBIBER.
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For the CABINET.
THE VESPER No. XU.
AM ESSAY o.\ FEMALE CHARACTER AND
TA Li.NT.
( Written for a lady's Album.)
Woman tnou solace w fieri oppression low
ers,
Thou comfort in our days of misery;
!'n >u healer of the broken heart—tiie
hour*
Dearest to memory have a tale of thee,
When riian’a proud spirit neath unslor
lur.e rowers,
1’ .ou u t near him with thy fond tidili
ty.
In cot or pit ice, hut orlofty and une,
VVnere’er thy heart dwells is my happy
home.
In eon mg the page of history there
s nothing width so readily att'acts our
attention in trair.g tlr* progress f ivii
->c a 4 * the u inu* stage* in wiucii die
i in le character ha* hero lr id irotn the
•ailost ages : VVe find woman in the
*nuling bowers ol Eden the companion
•aid equal of man * Heaven in her eye.
in every ges’ure, and gnuy.-and Live
I'h companion ot oer par tier’.- waliis and
the sharer ot id’ jiltasurt-s: When sin
yielded to tne temptation of the wily -er
pent, and they w**re > xpelh’d the smiling
walks and gay bower* t the lively gar
den. we find them togrther, trending the
‘h irny pa’h of life ahk*- >hnrers of the
<ui se of disobedience and the wrath of
God. For main centuries after thi-, his
tory affords but little matter in elucidate
the -unject, until the period of the more
enlightened ages, when proud R -me rose
to her zenith, woman seems to have been
the sharer of mans toils ami doin’ -tic la
bors ; Then she arose to a high and proud
stand in society : In the Augustan age,
the Roman matrons taught their chddren
in the nursery to revere the mime of
honor and to make fame their highest dis
tinction ; The names of Tiberia of
Virginia and of Lucretia, still hold a
higi rank in Homan history, and the
pages of Heathen anthology have
• x Ited to the rank of i efr-tial pu
rity, the vest'd* who wat'hed the
gates . f Buna’s ’l’emple, In the rud-*:
and barbarous ages which followed the i
overthrow and trial extinction of the Ro
ma i Kinpoe. we again lose sight of tin*
fe*nal’ ch ■ acter, w th the extinction of
iotelleetual refinement, she -.g in he< omes
the of man, wh<i, wi’h the univleiit
iog severity of a haughty task master,
and ive- her to the sr-vore toils of his do
mestic labors.* But this dark age of bar
barism was fated so*n to change, as one
exitem follows another, the age of Chi
valry soon succeeded, ami woman wa*
fifed to lead the p’-nud sprit of man
through deeds of ueisonal prowess, a'.d
the highest sense of emulation and hono
rable feelings ; With bur the nod of lusi
Inly low, the K .ight Errant tiaveiled
the ext nt of k’ g l ims and c- u/itrtes,!
su-m.tund >g everv peril an l engig ng,.;
ndisr.i iminately m persoual combat, eve-1
ry one who dares gaio-ay the superiority
of her beauty.
This age of bigotry and fanaticism was
succeeded bv one of more r itional and
lasting principles. T e nod of beauty
before which man bad b- nt in -uch hum
b e adoration, so -n sett * and into thr more
rational charms f i< telleciu I refinement
—tie cultivation of l-ttors which hid
b-'ro lo't and iri'ig ihe dark ages again re
vived atol literature became the surer
’ rdeal ot
Until this period, the female character
had never taken that stand in society to
” Inch the ex mples of the r reseot age has
fund it eininen'ly equal. Confined with
in the pale *f dotuestic avocations, we
find onlv now and then a star of that bi il-!
I ant constellation where light was to as
to. i*h the world. Most of those who had
wriiren on this subject, in the earliest
ages of mod *rn li>e r ature, considered a
distinction to have b en learly ma-k and
in the original genius of the sexes, giving
vigor and strength of genius to the one
and delicary and softness of expression to
the other, yet happily we now find the!
most abu* dant efforts of female genius!
before us, to explode *oab-urd a doctrine:!
Elizabeth swayed with unexampl<d p r u-i
Hence and foresight, the destinies of a
mighty nation. ‘1 he eloquent writings
and sound, moral and political reasoning*
of Miss Owenson have been long justlv
admired: The style and energy of Mrs.
Hannah More has no supe ior among the
othersex: Miss L. E. Landon authoress
ot the Improvisatrice Troubadour and
other poems, in who*e enchanting strains
are to be found the true soul of poetry,
stands an almuat unrivalled genius : Tlie
elegant Mrs Homans the amiable author
ess of maoy pi*etic iff'.-ions winch
have a* extensively cir* ulated
as nniversal'v admired, stands un quailed
.imo'ig the fail poets of the present day :
Madam D. Arbly, the accomplished an
th >ess f F,v lina, Cecilia, and other
truly drawn pictures of society. should be
plaid amot ghe first writers of ai-y age.
T i record here all ho*e brilliant stars
of female genius which have illuminated
this and the last age, brief as our notice
is. woo'd more than fill this little volume,
Siiffi. e it that we have placed but a small
few where the eye of beauty may bright
er and the lip sinde over the names of
tiio-e wh > have entwined in the wreath of
female excellence, a fame which can ne
ver die. They are n imes which the most
favored on T Jenm* need never b'ush
to see associated with hi- own. The
- line mu-** which diet t* and Ch'dde Harolds
j Pdg image and Lalla Rnnkh may ue
found i. the el-glint il scnptmn :nd h**a.u
tv of i dorii'g of the Improvisatrice of
Miss handuri, th” Voi e . f Sp iog< f VJ s.
leniaos. and in he numberKss *tra.n of
the*e contemporary poets • h > -o fe iing
ly pou t>ay tlie glo-ving language of oa
tire, in numbers which gladden th hevt
T affection and liglit the ethereal spark
if love; a! that is romantic and lovely
mingle in their chaste lines—the tender
ness f heavenly benevolence are the pe
uiiar attribute —are tlie female tmagma’
(ion ttie true impulse of h r heart aud
th* pinnacle of her ambition.
But while w<>m tn thu* becomes a sur
•e- lul votary at ihe shrine of the mu e ;
while she reasons with the calmnes-’ <T
Philosophy on the proud < Hurts of world
ly amb.tion, there are other stations m
-ociety where she reigns unequalled.
The Svlph like form of beauty mav pass
for a da\ through the giddy m-.ze* of p ea
sure, enjoying the enrap'ured admirati ui
of every behu'der, but it is in the reti ed
and social duties of h r dome-tic circle
that she excites the most lasting admira
tion. In fuming, wi'h warm solicitude,
the germing disposition of her tender off
spring, and vn here, mu has we must
admire, she is Is lovely than when bend
ing, bke a go udi in angle, over the couch
*>f rfflivti ti and cheering with the tender
u >tiun., ha oj of ass ction the hrd .-f
desth ; VV like her rail siuttbp the an
guish of the I .st nmm< nt nr Iih ♦ the ruy
of hope in the bosom ot despairing sor
row,
“* *"•* *•*"* ft is but p r ide wherewith
I • hi* ta'r sep the fi h- rs eye and til tun
VV atehiog his growth : aye on the boy he
Io k*.
The hr giit gad creature springing in his
p<h
But a- tie- heir of his great name—the
voung
And stately tree where rising strength ere
to g
Shall bear his trophies well. And this is
love,
I his is man’s love—what marvel you
neVr made
Yi"r b eat the pillow of his infancy,
VV mle to the fulness of your hearts glad
heavings
H.s fair cheek rose and fell, and his bright
hair
Waved softly on your breath, you ne’er
k pt watch
Beside him till the last pale star had set.,
And morn all dazzling as in triumph
broke
On yon dim weary eye : Not yours tlje
face
Which early faded through fond care for
him,
Hung o’er his sleep and duly as heaven’s
light
Wan there to greet his waking . You ne’er
smoothed
His couch, nor sung him to his roy rest,
Caught his last whisper when his voice
from yours
Had learned soft utterance, pressed your
lip to his
When fe* er parihed it. Hushed hi 9 way
ward crie*
With patient, vigilant ne’er wearied love.
No these are wouiaus
her youth
And bloom of cheek and buoyancy of
heart
Steal from her all unmarked *•***’>
EUGENIO.
From the Newark, Ohio, Gazette.
WESTERN CjJLCUL i TIOX9.
Fifty years ago there were no Eng
lish west of the mountains. In 1790
the who! population in the Western
States and Ten Kories, was less than