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Farmers and Office.— There ft so much good
sense Hi Ihc article, written bv Judge
Mud, es Albany, that, though not as practical as
we could desire for our editorial page, we have j
Thought t>ur readers would be pleased with it.
No man is a better judge than Judge Buel, of
-the evil tendency of a thirst for otiice, especial
ly among farmers.
Hints to Farmers —Offices are created for
the public, not for the incumbents. They nev
ertheless constitute fruitful rewards to merit;
-tnd, when spontaneously conferred, are among
the highest honors that a free people can bestow.
To deserve them is worthy of youi ambition: out
to depend upon them, as a means ol liveViQood,
would be unreasonable and unwise, *.V not dan
gerous. A thirst for office is almost as bad as
u thirst fur ruin The more either are indulged,
die more craving they become. Every repeti
tion of the potion but begets new desires, until,
finally, the passion, in one case, terminates in
deHramn tremens , and, in. the other, in delirium
. ajniidttlitm. I have b.itciwn many a worthy man
ruined in his usefulness and in’ his fortune, by
this latter disease, and ultimately terminate his
career unJ'_r the complicated horrors of both
maladt?' - .
l'\ selecting your public agents, adopt the
Same caution that prudence would suggest in
vour private atfiirs: choose those who are ac
quainted with the business in which you mean
to employ them —who have an established rep
utation for integrity, and who have shown an
ability to manage a public trust, by having con
ducted creditably and successfully their private
affairs. Such men possess civil virtues, and
merit civil rewards. But distrust the man who
reiterates his importunities tor your vote or your
influence, as w anting either good habits or good
principles. The first should render him inde
pendent of public aid, and the last shoulJ make
Lim ashamed to ask for it.
Are we then to reject, as the bane of our hap
- iness, the honors and emulations of office !
No; accept them, when proffered, as a mandate
of dutv, not as a source of wealth; as a compli
ment to your merit and as the requital ot an
obligation which you owe to society.j
Accepted in this spirit, the duties will not
scoai onerous, not the emoluments worthy
your exclusive regard. And when you have
enjoyed the honors, and fulfilled the duties,
abandon neither your politics nor your religion,
because your fellow-citizens happen to discover
ill your neighbor, qualities and merits equal or
superior to yours. The spoil ol a tree govern
ment forbids monopoly. W hether tn^j - impose
a duty, or confer honor or profit, offices shoulo
be -hared by those who are worthy; and 1 do
not know a more salutary provision which could
he engrailed on our constitution, than that
which has been thrice forcibly recommended
by our illustrious President, to limit the tenure
of offices to some definite period of time.
I will also close this number with the historv
of a schoolmaster ; Job Atlerton commenced’
life under the most flattering auspices. His
farm was a pattern of neatness —fields well cul
tivated, cattle in fine order, and fences and
buildings in good order. Job owed no man, and
had accumulated a fine sum at interest. His
children were growing up under their parents
example in habits of industry, and promised to
become respectable in society. Every thing
thruve under his care, and he was pointed to by
all as the best farmer in the town of S. His
good qualities, and the influence which these
urocured him, at length brought him into politi
cal notice, and he became a successful candi
date; very much against his will for the Assem
bly. He returned from Albany in the spring,
with some new notions, but the habit of the far
mer still predominated. To a second nomina
tion, Job had less objection, nay, he secretly
intrigued for it; for he thought, as he remarked,
he was then qualified to some good. The se-
cond triumph, and the consequence it gave him,
at the dinners and parties in the renowned capi
tal turned his head, and he came home quite an
altered man. It was no longer “Cos me boys ”
with him. Politics engrossed his whole atten
tion. He became a standing candidate for ev
ery office that presented; and was in succession
—sheriff, senator and member of Congress.
In the mean time the farm began to shew the
absence of the master; the fences were prostrate
the cattle neglected, and the buildings verging
to ruins. The boys too, as boys ever will,
aped the father, began to strut the gentleman,
and look up for office and dignities. As indus
try departed, prodigality entered; and soon was
ted the frugal earnings of former years. At
length the illusion vanished. Allerton found
himself deeply in debt, without means and with
out office, with an indolent, extravagant family
to support. Offices had ruined him. In his
distress, he mustered resolution enough to do
-.vha'. hundreds have failed to do, and who have
done worse. With the wreck of a former com
petence, he pulled up stakes, and leaving behind
him his official habits and official pride, fled to
the wilds of Indiana, where I am happy to say,
he has resumed again, the habliments of the
farmer, and is profiting by the lessons of expe
rience.
Who is there that among his acquaintances
does not recognize a Job Allerton American
Farmer.
Letter from Maj. Jack Downing. —We feel
ourselves highly honored with the following
*rom so celebrated a character as Major Down
ing, and shall certainly expect a visit irom him
on his arrival in this city.
.Vero York Gazette,
Washington, Thursday Morning, June 6.
Dear Sir —As the President gets me to
read all the newspapers to him, being consider
able sirk at the business, I most always take
the Now York Gazette first; and I and he have
both come to the conclusion, seeing you have
printed all my letters, to write you a line re
specting our eastern tower. Both of 11s have j
been as bees packing up for Downings
ville foi a week back. The president waked
me up this morning before day light, and asked
xno what I thought of the weather. Says I,
I General, its going to rain. Says ha., what doj
you think 1 Had we better start f \cs, says, I;
we dident mind the weather in New Orleans,;
and a ducken should never frighten a soldier, i
Well says he, if you aint atra'.d I aint—so be
fore we eat our breakfast, you sit down and
i write a line to Mr. Lang, and tell hitn he may
expect us this day wee*,,, and ask him to engage
us rooms at the largest house in New 1 ork. I •
wanted to go to foe city hotel, but the President
thinks Holt’s “nouse the best. However says
he, we woTit quirel about it—let Air. Lang de
cide the question. If you engage Holt’s, tell
him to get his blacking machine in order, for
me President makes a terrible rumpus about his
boots.
The President asked me the other day how
I should like to go up in Mr. Durant’s baloon.
Ca’ch a weasel asleep, says I; General—sup
pose I should break my neck, what would be
come of vou l O, says he, Major, there’s Mr-
Van Buren at hand. That cock won’t fight says
I; one Yankee is worth two Dutchmen any day.
Well, says he, just as you please about that:’
but Mr. Van Buren, you know, is going to
Downingsville with us—th>.t was agreed on
long ago. The Ginoral got a little touched at
what I said about Air. Aan Buren, but I stop
ped his mouth pretty quick. Says I, Gineral,
; hav’nt I done you more service than he? Didnt
I stand by you through thick and thin, when you
got into that scrape with the C abinet, did nt Air.
Van Buren throw up his commission, and leave
you in the lurch. And did’nt I recommend
Air. Livingston, and Mr. Kendall and general
t ass, and Isaac Hill, to take the places of those
who abused you like a pick pocke‘, as soon as
their backs were turned ! And did’nt I put
down the nullifiers ? and did’nt I write your pro
clamation and Air. W ebsters speech? Too Gin
eral aint anv hand at an argument, and I had
the weather gage of him. Well, says he, Ala
jor; have jour own way—there’s no doing any
thing without you. When I found how the
wind blew, think’s I, now’s my time. Gineral,
says I, if Mr. Van Buren goes to Downings
villo, he’ll take the shine ofi’both of us, and we
inay as well hang up our fiddle. Do you think
so ? says he. Yes I do, says I. Then we’ll
go without him, says the Gineral, for I don’t al
low no man to take the rag otfol you or me. So
you see Mr. Lang, I can do pretty much as I
please with the President, and we aie to have
the ride to ourselves As it grows late, and we
are to set off as soon as breakfast is cleared
away, I must concjudc at present, with request
ing you to make all necessary preparations for
us, and I shall call with the President, and make
you a visit as soon as we land at the Battery.
If our time is not too much taken up, I shall
tvniv you further when we arrive in Philadel
phia.
I have directed Mr. Barry, Postmaster
General, to send this letter by thd/ms/ mniV.
Your friend, JACK DOb MNG.
To John Lang, Esq. New York.
I —V-ifc ...A. . r
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THE WESI’ER.V HERALD.
AURARIA, GEORGIA, Ji LY 23, 1833.
[CJ*’ v • are authorized to anounce the name of .uaj
JOEL CRA VVFORD, ofHancock county, for Governor
at the ensuing Election.
—: 72027. :
Erratum, —In J. J. Hutchinson’s Toast, given at
Lumpkin Court-House, and published in our last, for‘per
petrate,’ read ‘ perpetuate.’ The mistake was ours.
—: 72027 •
Cur County Town is iir.prcveing with unparelled ra
pidity, the Shcrifl Sales and other business of the county.
will hereatter he done atthat place, in lueofthis.aa former
ly-
—• 2
The weather has been excessively warm for several
days. The seasons thus far have been favorable, and
com crops are unusually promising, we have green com
in abundance in our market.
—• 72021 ‘•—
The principles necessary to be preserved, in order to
perpetuate our liberty, freedom, and independence as a
nation, under our form of Govemment,miist be sustained at
the ballot box, if sustained at all. Every thing essential
to us, as a state or a nation, is so fully and completely un
der the dir chon and controul of the people; that they are
made- the umpires between those who sacrifice principles
for self-promotion; and those who support principles at all
hazards, wit bout regard to who steps forward in their advo
cacy or who condemns them,because they do not advance
their interest as individuals, as respects the rights of the
people in their sovereign capacity. There are separate
and distinct branches of government, which are alike en
titled to privileges seperate and distinct from each other,
nnd which must be preserved. The General Govern
ment has its powers clearly marked out and delineated,be
yond which,it cannot transcend without the peoples assent
The states have certain reserved rights, which were hand
ed down to us from the fathers of liberty, the untarnished
preservation of which, is as sacred to the continuance
of the cause of freedom, as any of those blessings are,
which ever have, or ever can flow from the pure, the pa
triotic, and generous fount of Republicanism And are
those rights to be given up by the people of Georgia; are
we to bear the name of Republicans, and wear the yoke
of aristocracy; are we the people of a sovereign state,
completely shielded and protected in our rights as such,
under the constitution of the United States, to have doc
trines established among us, at war with the form of go- ‘
vernment under which we live? Are we to be denied the
right of state govemmsnt; the right of making laws for
our own municipal, internal regulations, or the right of
resisting encroachments or defending, and sustaining
unimpaired, our institutions from federal usurpations,and
aristocratic innovations, tending by degrees to exhaust our
1 local resources, and our rights, longsince guaranteed to us,
and cowardly to consent, that these states shull be consol
j idatcd,witha ruler at the head (though misnamed President)
who will have all the powersclaimed on the part of those
who rule with the gigantic strength of a monarch, and
who knows nosu, • not .ocorrect his error, and who denies
the right of the sovereign people, to censure or reprove his
courao 1 If we ate, farewell liberty, farewell to the spirit
that prompted ourfatlura, who made the pledge for free
dom, and which was redeemed by their valor, and sealed
with the best blood that ever flowed from the human heart.
But you “ i/e peopUhave the power.” In your hands is pla
ced the power to correct the impending danger, which is
now lowering w ith furious frowns over our Republic and
threatning to stab, the cause of Freedom to the heart, and
i rear a monument of slavish survility, upon the recked ru
ins of American Liberty, Support measures w hich are
pure, patriotic and generous in their bearings, lay aside
your own selfish views of aggrandizement, and promo
tion, whenever they come in contact with the interest of
the country in which you live. Arrogate not to yourselves
in your sovereign capacity, rights to encroach upon oth
ers, contrary to the laws and constitution of your country;
permit not others, by intrigue and management, to open
avenues of oppression to your domiciles of freedom, and
when you sec men endeavoring to force themselves into :
office, by sounding their own fame, and telling what ex
ploits they have done, to sustain the rights of the “ poor-
always take care to seo the fruits of their merit
before you listen to their sophistry. Whenever you see 1
principle gotten up, every way derogatory to the true in
terests of the country, intended alone, like the proceedings
of the late Convention, to further the views of a few de
signing politicians, who aro continually strugling for
office, in order to promote the ascendancy of a restless
and factious party, without any ngard to principle, but
- are the bantlings of aspiring domagogues, who can
change with the tide of popular opinion, no matter how
corrupt the motives thatcauscd the strength of the cur
rent, or how far beneath the common level of political de
pravity they must descend, in order to effect their purpose,
in cramming Ratification upon your tickets at the Octo
ber election.
Think well upon this subject; and should it be impress
ed upon your minds, that more evil than good may result
from it, resist the adoption of the proceedings, with manly
firmness, as you cannot yet be denied the right of resistance
at the ballot Box; although itisheld forth by the new Union
party, as they call thamselvcs, that it is treasonable for
the people to resist any tiling.
-■72027
An Appeal. —It was with much pain we learn
ed a few days since, from a source to he relied
upon—from one who professes to be in the con
fidence of the nullifiers of Georgia, that that
party, or a few of the leading men who profess
io belong to it, had determined to bring out a
candidate in opposition to Alaj. Crawford. On
this subject we have a word to say to those of
that party, who are from principle attached to
the doctrine.-, of State Rights. For such men
as Newnan, Pemberton and others, who we
believe at the bottom of the project, we have
not a wot and to spare- but to those of the good
old republican party who have adopted the doc
trines of S. Carolina, we make this a;>pcal, con
fidedtly hoping that they will attribute good in
tentions to our motives, if nothing else. We,
then, call upon you as the friends of the repub
lican State Rights Party of Georgia, to pause
before you arc led into the ruinous measure in
contemplation. If you are really the friends of
that party, j'ou will look before you leap—you
will weigh well the consequences, and if you
nijd the inevitable result will be destructive to
the party, you will not only pause, but you will
frown indignantly upon any scheme calculated
to produce it. Con you for a moment hesitate
between the party wi'h whom you have acted
I•” i~.-= m,mo kv —a party which has supported
m ua,. one - . the consolidation
you—and your old eu*._ , .
ists ? Are you willing that the seep,.. , s 01l f
depart from Judah? that it should be wielded
hereafter by your enemies for your own des
truction ? These questions you have to decide
—upon your heads rest the consequences ! For
disguise it as you will, the late of the Troup
Republican Party is sealed forever, if you bring
out an opposition candidate at the present cri
sis.—Southern Banner.
The above extract, from the Southern Banner, of the
20th Inst, is the first intimation we have liad through the
public Journals, that the “Nullifiers of .Georgia” as, the
Banner pleases to term them, were stall disposed at this
time to bring a third Candidate before the people, for the
office of Governor.
We know not from what Bourcc the Editor rcecived his
information, though we hope that it is incorrect, and feel
thatour hopes are well founded, when we reflect upon the
course taken by the Banner, upon this all important sub.
ject, which has of late, so much distracted, and deranged,
the hitherto organized, and well disciplined parties in
Georgia. To speak in plain English upon the subject we
cannot for a moment believe, that if such a thing was
contemplated by the State Rights, and free trade, party;
that Mr. Chase or Mr. Nesbit either, would be made ac
quainted with the matter at this early day. by any one en
titled to the confidence of that party, when there are so
many papers in Georgia, advocating the principles,
which the Southern Banner has laboured so incessantly
to condemn.
We do not believe that it is the intention of the party
knowingly, to take any course which would ensure the
success of the present incumbent, for that office, it may be
the wish of a few who profess to be state rights men, Mr.
Pemberton, and General Newnan, arc both capable, and
independent enough to speak for themselves upon the
subject. But for ourselves, we disclaim any such inten
tion, and pledge ourselves to go against any such meas
ure, letit hail from whatever source it may, unless we are
fairly convinced by Mr. Crawford himself, that he is as
much opposed to the principles of State rights, as he is rep
resented to be, to the name of Notification.
We will be candid enough to acknowledge for our
selves, that under all the circumstances, we should have
been glad forGeneialNewnan, to have been nominated;
if the old Troup party would have gone in for him gene
rally, for we not only consider him deserving, and every
wav competent, but we also consider him a persecuted
and an injured man, and it will be a pleasure to us at any
time, to further his views, whenever circumstances de
mand it, or prudence will Justify it; neither of which ex
-1 ists on the present occasion.
AN ORA 1 ION.
Delivered at Salty Hughe's Spring , in Cass
county, on the 4th July 1833, by
ACHILLES D. SHACKLEFORD , Esq.
Fellow Citizens —Convened together to
perpetuate, the remembrance of the brightest
event that adorns the page of American history,
the record of which has just been read in your .
hearing; let our first impulse, admonish us of the !
deep obligation, we owe to the Divine Author,
of all our mercier - , and let our humble petitions
ascend to a throne of grace, for the continuance ,
of his lavors. ,
So wll is the h .ry of our wrongs known,
and so intimately n ociated with, it is the lofty
patriotism that achieved a nations independence,
that the ardent youth, has often felt his bosom |
burn with impetuous indignation, when he lan-,
cied he heard the clanking of the 1 yrants chains, |
or his generous soul, has glowed with virtuous
emulation to be, like Washington, the Saviour
of his country. ..... ,
As she has shunned the evils that have been
thecufse of other governments, discarding King
ly potvers, and established Religions, and more
than all, as the right and the capability of a free (
People, to govern themselves, has been recog
nized, our young republic, has risen rapidly to
that eminent distinction, to which the liberality
of her institutions, enitled her. No favors of a
j Crowned mortal; no shining titles of nobiiity,
tempted the dependant, or glittered in the fancy
of those who continually flocked to our coun
! try —Oppression drove, Liberty wooed them.
Forced by the same causes, that rtist kindled in
the bosoms of American Citizens, the love ot
liberty, they came to seek an assylum here, and
found the plentious productions of virtuous in
dusty, and the freedom of conscience extended
: beyond their farthest hopes. Still they came
j impressed with that dark reverence for mortal
majesty, which is the twin sister, of Ignorance,
and legitimate offspring of Despotism. How
fervent must have been their devotion to the
Genius of liberty, when experience first dispel
led their last doubt, and her genial rays, entwin
ed the soul, that had felt the curly blight of op
pression.
And if we examine the history of the former
days of Republican simplicity, we find that nei
ther the emoluments of office, ortho rankling
poison of sectional bin;; allured Ihe cupidity of
our own citizens, or encoura ed the false pre
tentions of the demagogue —Then the general
good, found a home in each individual’s heart,
and privatejoy- cotningled with public felicity.
If there were some exceptions. If some fac
tions raged how promptly were these slight in
vasions of our peace repelled? The recollec
tion of our common sufferings, was then too
strong, the unity of feeling by w hich we were
held was too dear to permit the groundless niur- j
murings of a discontented faction, or to rear up
and strengthen the mammoth faction to trample ,
under foot the rights of the few. I
If mad Ambition plotted the destruction of
earthly peace, and wildly grasped at the sceptre
over a free nation; still then was democratic j
virtue, enough left to quench her unholy desires,
and the force of public opinion, consigned to
everlasting infamy, the scheme. It was not the
fiery edge of a conquerers sword, or any right
of power that then held together this Union—
Ours is emphatically “ a government f consent ,”
when private interests should accord with the
general good.
Formerly, when the father rehearsed Io the
son, the hardships, of a protracted war, and with
the true zeal of a veteran soldier, vividly depic
ted the morning incidents of the battle field, and
told of bitter cruelties that stain the character of
human nature, the love of freedom, natural of
spring of the soul of man, was gradually nur
tured to the full growth, and veneration for her
worthy champions, extended through the sire to ;
all his compatriots in arms. Nor did the kindly
, inuuenCC aloD heie. That brotherly love which
, ‘ sos American citizens,
long pervadeu..e hem- bond of
and formed, while I lost J 1 lhe remem .
Union, formed its strongest tio . .
brance that our fathers fought together - n l “
war, of the Revolution.
Has that mutual love declined? H here shall
we seek the cause ? Surely not in forgetfulness
of the events that first created the hallowed
flame. O whisper it not in the ear of one sur
viving son, of the conflict, that wrought out our
liberties, that before they have rested from their
earthly toils, their children are ready to fight
over the spoils of their victory. Let it not be
told that the prize they have gained has tempted
the early avarice of” their sons, and that base
cupidity has hastened to supplant the bitter prin
ciple of affection, and broken with sacrilegious
hands, the bond oflove.
While an American people were impressed
with the purest of sentiments, and the noble
ardour of patriotism was yet undamped; the
pleasing hope that mutual interests and mutual
love, would make the bond of our Union per
petual, might be fondly, confidently, indulged.
Do we not indulge it yet? Yes, that hope will
never abandon the breast of a true born Ameri
can, until he shall see the last pillar of the gov
ernment demolished, and the last check of the
coustitution broken? The quiet citizen: the af
fectionate father, would feel all the horrors of
premature dessolation, if he could believe that
before the next fifty years shall have passed
away, h s peaceful fields will he dessolated by
the tide of booties war, or his childten meet
their countrymen in unholy conflict.
It is the province of man to learn from expe
rience, and one of the highest sources of human
gratification, exists in the capability to improve
upon the past, by the aid of this good monitor.
Have the firebrands of civil war been already
lighted, and dread destruction threatened her
march through the land? Yes, we have heard
the din of military preparation, from one end of
the Union to the other —Pale suspense has held
us while we momently expected, the sacking of
our towns, and the massacre of our citizens; by
whose hands we need not now to say; by whose
agency we feel too bitterly. Black Dessolation
has hovered around; and courted excuse to
blast at once, our hopes and our rights, and
with her malignant breath, to poison all afteren
joyment. And for what? Was‘it to satisfy the
insatiable desire of gain, or to sustain the pride
of bloated authority.
It is a melancholly truth that man is so blind
to his true interests, that he consults the transi
tory good of the present moment, often to the
loss of permanent happiness. He snatches
with greedy haste those pleasures that allure his
senses, and embitters his after life with the
. sweet indulgence.
The same common interest that united our
ancestors in the revo’utionary war, exists now;
| the same reasons why brotherly love should be
, extended, still remain. But eiafed with p tfe | j
| pertty, we have departed from their origijwl’
I simplicity, and learned to revel in the lnxuri@l|
perhaps leagued ourselves with some of the .B
ces of monarchies.
j Our capital has become like the metropoljjjjß
j a great empire, corrupt itself and corrupting
j its influence, our public officers consort the-li
I selves with all the pomp of princely
while hireling editors trumpet the fame of
. patrons, and would cast over the deformity jB
vice the bright robe of virtue,
no limit to their zeal but the amount of th e
vor that may be extended. Once it was
truly we have been attracted by the gaudy
ter of that pomp which we once detested agjß
blindly led by the fallacy of human passing ■
have proudly grasped at the grandeur of potegß
tentates while we hoped to escape their vkejß
And have we while we snatched at the gildejH
gauge, last the former cable of national peats
and quiet! j
These things are facts that we cannot ccr,H
ceal from ourselves, if we would; truths fluißjj
claim the most earnest attention and deman&Bj
the strictest though painful, investigation of mEj
American people. Not that we may moimßl
over the past, but that we may if possible, stoß
the wild current of public vice and avoid ijß
threatened danger.
Civil war no longer threaten a to devastate tin ■
land. Political Liberty still retains her empnEj
but she tottered on the painful eminence. Tlei|
foundation of her throne is undermined. (V.-.K
ruption stdl lurks in the heart of the Republic. E
Do we hope that the tempest, which lately agi-if
tated the political atmosphere, will have left itH
pure and healthful? The treacherous cal®B
cannot last; remove the cause, and the infliction | ’
ceases to rage. Where shall we find a curtlj
for the ‘isease of our country? When shall well
seek an antidote against the canker worm, thus I ;
wastes our institutions? One hope, a lonely B
distant hope appears Public Virtue, mangled Is
and disgraced by her pretended friends, has noil;
yet deported; she still lingers, both to have haK
J ancient abode and claims, by every fond re.l
membranee, a place in our hearts. Propel ha I’
not? She brings national peace; The courts*
not an ill gotten unsubstantional fame, help
steadily pursues her high end, the good of beiH
country and the permanence of her institutions! B
Under her holy protection, science extends her I,
vast dominion, and soars to purer regions oiß
philosophy yet undiscovered, withering before |
the true majesty of her presence, hateful discord |
shall hide her head, and brutal Ambition shall*
seek the land of ignorance to exercise her dait|
dominion.
Governed by her pure dictates, let us hasten |
to peur the oil of reconciliation into our country's B
bleeding wounds, guided by this spirit, we will K
say to our fellow-citizens of every section, while I
you touch not the Constitution of our country, ■
vve will not dispute about the premises. Griping I
avarice never characterized the South. Restore ■
us back the Government our fathers gave us and ■
we will meet j-ou annually, and lay upon I
the altar of peace the offering of brotherly lore.
Human powers may continually approach In
perfection ; they have never yet arrived at it.-
In the science of Government, much yet remains
unrevealed. Alightv improvements may slillbc
| hidden under the rubbish of ancient superstition,
|or wilful bigotry. Yet much has been revealed,
much lo gladden the heart of the patriot, and to
engage the meditations of the sage, and mote
than all, to point tlk way to future acquisi
tions.
If emerging from the recesses of ancient ig
--'ranee, vve have seen our own Constitution,
shedding a .iC'v light over all the science of go
vernment, discovering to art admiring world s
principle almost unknown beipi’Oi consistent mill
social order and the high intelligence of mati
what may we not hope for ? Os what despair!
No days were darker than those of 1776, Yet
out of these dark times, did this monument o!
human wisdom spring. ,
If an American will not consult their true in
terests, let them stop now and turn one thought
to this venerable instrument and calmly leflect
upon the result to themselves, and to the world
before they consign it to everlasting oblivion. Ai
to oblivion it can never be consigned. It lb |3
Republic shall crumble and bury itself beneath
its own ruins, it will still live in the heart of the
philanthropist while the world holds such a being.
Is there a man so blind to his own interest ttat
he does not love the Union of these States, h
there one so base that he would wilfully dived
that union from its true end,and make it a bond
of oppression and Union of force, and place in
the hands of a semi-imperial dictator, the sworn
of compulsion ? Let his hopes be blasted, an
the bright vision of his madness be turned to bit
ter mourning.
Will the future historian write that the U. Stales
of America flourished until the close ofthesecon
war with Great Britain, and will he date ©
zenith of our prosperity then, and say that peace
brought on the too deceitful calm luxuries,encr
vated vices insinuated themselves into her in-
and the Republic rapidly
Shall he tell to future ages that now, “The ta
of the Free, and the home of the Brave,” “live*
only in song.” The picture is dark yet n()
darker than the omens portend. Still the e’
may be averted. May Heaven grant it.
As an American people, let us improve on w
we have already done, not vainly supposing
all that may be, has been done. If in some j,
pects the Constitution of our country has taiiw.
tno matter what cause,) to preserve the u 1
of feeling and secure equality of lights; it $
ter for ourselves, and more consistent with
character of patriots, that we should meet in
spirit of mutual forbearance and restored ny
honesty of our councils that, equality, wh‘ cn
intended to preserve, than that we should se
upon these slight giounds of difference to des J
our own harmony,to serve the mad ends ofp
perhaps to elev \te the worthless to distinction"’
better far than to construe away our own rig
than to attempt to stifle the love of liberty,ne
enough extinct already. . n
“The price of liberty is perpetual vigil# ’
and the good citizens will watch with Off*
anxiety,the slightest innovation upon “ ,S P _ f
ges. No love of office will persuade, no tew
