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About The Western herald. (Auraria, Lumpkin County, Ga.) 1833-1??? | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1833)
Miscellaneous Kxlraets. 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 , - -i 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
