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“ Struck the Add warblings of his lyre.”
EARTH AND HEAVEN.
EARTH.
There, is grief, there is grief—there is wringing of
hands,
And weeping and calling for aid;
For sorrow hath summoned her group,and it stands
Round the couch where the sufferer is laid:
And lips are all pallid, and cheeks are all cold,
And tears from the heart-springs are shed;
Yet who that looks on tire sweet saint to behold,
But would gladly lie down in her stead!
There is grief, there is grief—there is anguish and
strife;
See! the sufferer is toiling for breath;
For the spirit will cling, O how fondly to life,
And steam is the struggle with death!
But the terrible conflict grows deadlier still,
Till the last fatal symptoms have birth,
And the eye-ball is glassed, and the heart-blood
is chill —
And this is tlw portion of earth!
HEAVEN.
There in bliss, there is bliss—in the regions above
They have opened the gates of the sky;
A spirit hath soared to those mansions ol'love,
And seeks for admittance on high:
And friends long long divided are hastening to
meet
In aland where no sorrow may come;
And the seraphs are eager a sister to greet,
And to welcome the child to its home!
There is bliss, there is bliss —at the foot of the
throne
See the spirit all purified bend;
And it bceins with delight as it gazes alone
On the face of the father, a friend!
Then it joins in the anthems forever that rise,
All its faults and its follies forgiven:
It is dead to the earth and new-born to the skies:
And this is the portion of heaven !
DARKNESS.
1 had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space.
Rayless, ard pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in tlie moonless
air;
Morn came,and went —and came,and brought
no day.
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation; and all hearts
Were chill’d into a selfish prayer for light:
And they did live by watch-fires—and the
thrones,
The palaces of crowned kings—the huts
The habitations of all things which dwell,
VV ere burnt for beacons; cities were consumed
And men were gather’d round their blazing
homes
To look once moTO into each other’s face:
Happy were those who dwelt within the eye
Of the volcanos and their mountain torcli:
A fearful hope was all the world contain’d;
Forests were set on fire—but hour by hour
They fell and faded —and t he crackling trunks
Extinguished with a crash-ami all was black.
The brows of men by the despairing light
Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits
The flashes fell upon them; some lay down
And hid their eyes and wept; ands ome did
Test
Their chins upon their clenched hands, and
smiled;
And others hurried to and fro, and fed
Their funeral piles with fuel, and look’d up
With mad disquietude on the dull sky,
The pall ofapast world; and then again
With curses east them down upon the dust.
And gnash’d their teeth and howl’d: the wild
birds shriek’d,
And terrified, did flutter on the ground,
And flap their useless wings; the wildest
brutes
Came tame and tremulous; and vipers crawl’d
And twin’d themselves among the multitude,
Hissing, but stiugless—they were slain for
food:
And war, which fora moment was no more,
Hid glut himself again—a meal was bought
\V ith blood, aod each sate sullenly apart,
Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left;
All earth was but one thought—and that was
death,
Immediate and inglorious; and the pang
Of famine, fed upon all entrails—men
Died, and their bones were tombless ss their
flesh;
The meagre by the meagre were devour’d,
Even dogs assail’d their masters, all save one
And he was faithful to a corse and kept
The birds and beasts and famish’d men at bay,
Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead
Lured their lank jaws; himself sought out no
food,,
Hut with a piteous and perpetual moan
And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand
Which answer’d not with a caress—he died.
The crowd was famish’d by degrees; but
two
Of an enormous city did survive,
And they were enemies; they met beside
The dying embers of an altar-place,
W hero had been heap’d amassofholy things
Doran unholy usage; they raked up,"
And shivering Scraped with their cold skele
ton hands
The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath
Blew for a little life, ani made a flame
hich was a inockeTV ; then they lifted up
Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld
Each others’ aspects—-saw, and shriek'd,
and died —
Even of their mutual hideousness they died.
Unknowing who he was upon whose brow
Famine had writte n fiend. The world was
void,
Hie populous and the powerful was a lump,
Seas-nless, herbless, treeless, manless, life
less,
A lump ol death—a chaos of hard clay.
Th w rivers, lakes, and ocean, all stood still.
And nothing stirr’d within their silent depths;
Ship* sailerless lay Totting on the sea.
And ti cir masts fell down iiiecuine.il; as thev
dropp'd, J
They slept on the abyss without a surge
’IT "waves were dead; the tides were in
Their grave,
The mo in their mistress had expired before;
The winds were wither’d in the stagnant air.
And the clouds perish'd ; darkness had no
need
Cf aid from them—the was the universe.
THE MAt’ON ADVERTISER, AND AGRICULTURAL AND MERCANTILE INTELLIGENCER.
artraiPiKa.,
“Mirth, that wrinkled care derides,
“And Laughter, holding both his sides.”
Comical Anecdote. —We have had anec
dotes placing men in almost every situation,
from the bottom of the sea in a diving-bell, to
being confined under a bell w hile ringing—
but they all yield in point of comicality, to
the following : A ministei, on a visit to one
of his friends, begs or buys an iron pot, to
which he happened to take a great fancy, and
“oil he trudged, bearing this curious little
culinary article alternately in his hand and
under his arm, as seemed most convenient to
him. Uufortunately, the day was warm, the
way long, and the minister fat; so that he be
came heartily tired ofhis burden before he
had got halt way home. Uuder these dis
tressing circumstances, it struck him, that if,
instead of carrying the pot awkwardly at one
side of his person, he were to carry it on his
bead, the burden would be greatly lightened :
the principles of natural philosophy, which he
had learned at college, informing him, that
when a load presses directly and immediate
ly upon any object, it is far less onerous than
when it hangs at the remote end of a lever.
Accordingly, doffing his hat, which he resol
ved to carry home in his hand, and having ap
plied his handkerchief to his brow, he clap
ped the pot in inverted fashion upon his head ,
where, as the reader may suppose, it figured
much like Marnbrino’s helmet upon the cra
zed capital of Don Quixotte, only a great deal
more magnificent in shape and dimensions.—
I here was at first much relief and much com
fort in this new mode of carrying the pot : but
inarK the result. The unfortunate minister,
having taken a by-path to escape observation,
found himself, when still a good way from
homo, under the necessity of leaping over a
ditch, which interrupted him in passing from
one field to another. He jumped: but sure
ly no jump was ever taken so completely tn, or
at least into , the dark, as this. The concus
sion given to the person in descending, caus
ed the helmet to become a hood; the pot slip
ped down over his lace, and resting with its
rim upon his neck, stuck fast there, enclos
ing his whole head as completely as ever that
of anew born child was enclosed by the fil
my bag with which nature, as an indication
of future good fortune, sometimes invests the
noddles ot her favorite offspring. What was
worst, the nose, which had permitted the pot
to slide down over it, withstood every despe
rate attempt on the part of its proprietor to
make it slip back again ; the contracted part
of the neck or jiutira being of such a pecu
culiar formation as to cling fast to the base of
the nose, oltho’ it had found no difficulty itr'
gliding along its hypothenuse. Was ever
minister in a worse plight ? Was there ever
contrctems so unlucky? Did ever any man,
did ever any minister, so effectually hood
wink himself, or so thoroughly shut his eyes
to the plain light of nature ? What was to be
done ? The place was lonely : the way diffi
cult and dangerous: human relief was remote
and almost beyond reach. It was impossi
ble even to cry for help; or, if a cry could be
uttered, it might reach in deafening reverber
ation the .ear of the utterer; but it would not
travel twelve inches farther in any direction.
To add to the distress of the cas , the unhap
py sufferer soon found great difficulty in
breathing. What with the heat occasioned
by the beating of the sun on the metal, and
what with the frequent return of the same
heated air to his lungs, he was in the utmost
danger of suffocation. Every tiling consider
ed, it seemed likely that, it he did not chance
to be relieved by some accidental wayfarer,
there would soon be Death in tiie Pot.
“ 1 he instinctive love of life, however, is
oinni-pr. valent, and even very stupid people
have boon found, when put to the push bv
strong and imminent peril, to Exhibit a degree
ol presence of mind, and exert a degree of
energy, far above what might have beer,
expected from them, or what they were ever
known to exhibit or exert under ordinary cir
cumstances. So it was with the pot-enscon
ced minister of C . Pressed by the urgen
cy ol his distress, lie fortunately recollected
that there was a smith’s shop at the distance
of about a mile across the fields, where, if lie
could reach it before the period of suffoca
tion, lie might possibly find relief. Deprived
ol his eye-sight, lie could act onlv as a man of
lee ling, and went on as cautiously as he could
with his hat in his hand. Half crawling,
half sliding over ridge and furrow, ditch and
hedge, some want like Satan floundering over.
Chaos, the unhappy minister travelled, with
all possible speed, as nearly as he could guess
in the direction of the place of refuge. 1 leave
it to the reader to conceive the surprise, the
mirth, the infinite amusement of the smith
and all the hangerson of the smidtly, when, at
length, torn and worn, faint and exhausted,
blind and breathless, the unfortunate man ar
rived at the place, and let them know, (rather
by signs than by words) the circumstances of
h:s case. The merriment of the company how
ever, soon gave way to considcrctions of hu
manity. Ludicrous as was the minister, with
such an object where his head should have
been, and with the feet of the pot pointing
upwards like the horns of the Great Enemy,
it was, nevertheless necessary that he should
be speedily restored to his ordinary condi
tion, if it were for no other reason than that
iie might continue to live, lie was accor
dingly, at his own request, led into the smithy
multitudes docking to tender him their kind
j cst offices, or to witness the procress of his
release: and having laid down his head upon
j the anvil, the smith lost no time inseizing and
; poising his goodly forehamin-w. ‘Will 1 came
sair on, minister?” exclaimed the considerate
man at the brink of the pot. ‘As sair as ye
like, was the minister’s reply, ‘ better a chap
i’the chaffs than dying for want o’ breath.’
Thus permitted, the man let fall a hard blow,
which fortunately broke the pot in peices,
without hurting the head which it enclosed as
the cook-maid breaks the shells of the lob
ster, without bruising the deiioate food with
in. A few minutes of the clear air, and a
glass from the gudevvifos bottle, restored the
unfortunate man of prayer : but assuredly ,the
incident is one which will long Jive in the
memory of the parishioners of C ”
Tne Rank of the State of Georgia, has de
clared its semi-annual dividend at 3.V per
cent, or 7 per cent, per annum.
Ecclesiastical Politics.
From the Rahway f A’.. J. J Advocate.
On Sunday the inst. a preacher (or ra
ther a dcclaimer) delivered a sermon (if one it
may be called) on the subject of the very great
importance of establishing Sunday schools in
that rich and fertile district of country, called
the Valley of the Mississippi.
The most potent reason offered in support
of the project, was, “the Roman Catholics are
about establishing their religion in this Val
ley and it is therefore necessary to get up Sun
day schools to counteract their efforts,” and
money was wanted to carry the project in
to successful operation.
Now Sir, if tiie people in the valley of the
M ssissippi prefer the Catholic religion to
Presbyterianism, why should we interfere?
It is certainly not our business to enquire
vi hat religion they want, nor to dictate to
them what one they shall have; they are as
capable of judging what is best for themselves,
and much more so than we possibly can be
for them—but there is something yet untold
in this business; the people do not under
stand the grand object in view, which is to
keep up the system of begging, and not suffer
it to languish, for, (as a reverend divine re
marked)while the purse strings are loose, the
people more readily hand out the change,
from a kind of habit long established.
The old system of begging for the support
of .Missionaries to foreign countries, has be
come unpopular; the public are becoming ra
ther hike warm in the cause, and the fear is
fliat their eyes will be opened and see so far
behind the curtain, that they will discover
that the sole object is to continue the system
of begging money to support a set of idle lazy
fellows, who would grace a plow tail much
better than a pulpit.
I said that the begging to support foreign
missions was becoming unpopular: equally
so it may be said of the Bible and Tract Socie
ties. Something new then must be started,
before the purse strings are drawn; it matters
not what the object is, if these drones iu soci
ety who live ou tnc earnings of their fellow
bc'ings, can only grasp the money, they care
not from whom it comes, nor how obtained.
A plan is started to furnish t e valley of
the Mississippi with Sunday schools, (and
Sunday school teachers of course) and some
ten or twelve of these enemies of the human
race are sent out among the various congre
gations to raise thirty or forty dollars to pro
mote the “grand object.”
The manner in -which they make the at
tack upon the people is a subject which
should disgust all honourable minded men;
they do not call at owr respective dwellings,
openly, & solicit subscriptions for this object;
and the reason is very evident, because they
know it will not bear the scrutinizing eye of
investigation; whatever advantage they gain
by the excitement produced, must be follow
ed up and all consummated before the people
can have time for reflection. An appeal there
fore was made from the sacred desk, one
day too, when Christians meet lor worship,
and by it ®ur devotions are interrupted and
transferred to the Valley of the Mississippi;
our commi-sse ration is excited, andjwhile un
der this excitement, they having been prepar
ed with two or three unexpecting, though re
spectable individuals, to pounce upon us
with their slips of paper and pencils in prep
aration for the purpose, whilst in our respec
tive scats in the church, and by this manccu'.
vre, indirectly, compel the people to give,
wliat they themselves are aftewards a sham
ed to acknowledge, and what they would not
do if called on at their dwellings, many of
whom were poor, and absolutely in want of
tiia very money they have thus been compel
led to give, to imrehase the necessary urticlcs
to make their families comfortable.
1 nere were a few, and but few present
who had nerve and independence enough to
withhold tneir support from this project, bv
refusing to subscribe. But the great majori
ty present felt that the screws would be put
upon them if they refused, and the writer of
this article was one of the number. See
ing the eyes of those who have it in their
power to, indirectly, withdraw from him a
support for a family dependent upon him for
bread, he was compelled to subscribe, as
being the lesser evil, when at the same time,
his indulgent creditors should have received
the money thus thrown away upon phantoms
of the imagination of some few designing
men, who, under the sanctify of religioiT,
would thus rob the poor of their hard earned
pittance. If this is denied, 1 need only to
call to mind the circumstance of the subscrip
tion being handed to poor girls, who work out
by the week for the small sum of five or six
shillings; very little more than sufficient to
purchase their necessary clothing, and who,
il taken sick must look to some other source
than these sanctified beggars, who would
thrust them from their doors and treat them
as though the touch was pestilence.
If the people here have a surplus, let them
make a present of it to our worthy pastor, who
is labouring by day and by night for their wel
fare if he is not in want of it let thcmjlav it by us
they will most undoubtedly find use for it loog
before our contemplated brick church is fin
ished. But there arc other objects of charity
within the sound ol our church bell,much more
worthy our attention than this wild goose chase
to the valley of the Mississippi. There arc
under our own eyes poor ragged children,
growing up in ignorance and vice, for want of
means to procure even the rudiments ofeduca
tion; lot our surplus funds be appropriated at
home, w here we can have the control of it,and
where wc can see and feel the advantages
which would result from il ; and we slio”ild
find in a few years our youth, who are now the
inmates ot the very kennels of vice and dissi
pation, moving in a circle, respectable and
respected ; they would be intelligent beings,
instead of animals very little superior to the
brute creation in mental endowments.
Honk of the United States The resolu
tion declaring it the sentiment of tho Legis
latere of tho State of.\. York, that the Char
ter of the Rank of the United States might not
/) be renewed , has passed the by a
vote of 17 to 13.
The Pennsylvania Legislature passed a
resolution unanimously, at their late session,
that the Charter of the Bank ought to be re
newed.
“The price of Lirerty is eternal vigilance.”
THE CABINET.
Washington, April U, 1831.
Dear Sir: —l feel it to be my duty to re
tire from the office to which your confidence
and partiality called me. The delicacy of
this step, under the circumstances, in w hich
it is taken, will, I trust, be deemed an ample
apology for stating more at large, than might
otherwise have been necessary, the reasons by
w hich I am influenced.
From the moment of taking my seat in your
cabinet, it has been my anxious wish and
zealous endeavor to prevent a premature agi
tation of the question of your successor; and,
at all events, to discountenance, and if possi
ble to repress the disposition, at an early day
manifested, to connect my name with that dis
turbing topic. Of the sincerity and constan
cy of this disposition, no one has had a better
opportunity to judge than yourself, it has,
however, been unavailing. Circumstances,
not of my creation, and altogether beyond my
control, have given to this subject a turn which
cannot now be remodied, except by a self
disfranchisement which, even if dictated by
iny individual wishes, could hardly be recou
ciieable with propriety or self-respect.
Concerning the injurious effects which the
circumstance of a member of the Cabinet’s
occupying the relation towards the country
to which I have adverted, is calculated to
have upon the conduct of public affairs, there
cannot, I think, at this time, be room lor two
opinions. Diversities of ulterior preference
among the friends of an adminissration are un
avoidable; and even if the respective .advo
cates of those thus placed in rivalship, be pa
triotic enough to resist the temptation of cre
ating obstacles to the advancement of him to
whose elevation they are opposed, by embar
rassing the branch of public service committed
to his charge, they are, nevertheless, by their
position, exposed to the suspicion of enter
taining and encouraging such views: a suspi
cion which can seldom fail in the end, to ag
gravate into present alienation and hostility
the prospective differences which first, gave
rise to it. Thus, under the least unfavorable
consequences, individual injustice is suffered,
and the administration embarrassed and wea
kened. Whatever may have been the course
of things under the peculiar circumstances of
the earlier stage of the Republic, my experi
ence has satisfied me that, at this day, when
the field of selection has become so extended,
the circumstance referred to, by augmenting
the motives and sources of opposition to the
measures of the Executive, must unavoidably
prove the cause of injury to the public service,
for a counterpoise to which we may in vain
look to the peculiar qualifications of any indi
vidual; and even if I should in this be mista.
ken,still I cannot solar deceive myself as to
believe for a moment that I am included in
the exceptions.
These obstructions to the successful prose
cution of public affairs, w hen superadded to
that opposition which is inseparable from our
free institutions and whioh every administra
tion must expect, present a mass to which the
operations of the government should at no
time be voluntarily exposed:—the more espe
cially should this be avoidod at so eventful a
period in the affairs of the world, when our
country may particularly need the utmost har
mony in her councils.
Such being my impressions, the path of
duty is plain: and I not only submit with
cheerfulness to whatever personal sacrifices
may be involved in the surrender of the sta
tion 1 occupy; but I make it my ambition to
set an example which, should it in the pro
gress of the government be deemed, not
withstanding the humility of its origin, wor
thy of respect and observance, cannot, I think,
fail to prove essentially and permanently be
neficial.
Allow me, Sir, to present one more view of
the, subject:—You have consented to stand
before your constituents for re-election. Of
their as it does upon the un
bought suffrages of a free, numerous, and
widely extended people, it becomes no man to
speak with certainty. Judging, however,
from the past, and making a reasonable al
lowance for a fairexercise of the intelligence
and public spirit of your follow-citizens, 1
cannot hesitate in adopting the belief that the
confidence, as well in your capacity for civil
duties, as in your civic virtues, already so
spontaneously and strikingiy displayed, will
be manifested with increased energy, now,
that all candid observers must admit their ut
most expectations to bo more than realized.
If this promise, so auspicious to the best
interests of our common country, be fulfilled,
the concluding term of your administration
will, in the absence of any prominent cause
of discord among its supporters, afford a most
favorable opportunity for the full accomplish
ment of those important public objects, in the
prosecution of which I have witnessed on your
part such steady vigilance and untiring devo
tion To the unfavorable influence which my
continuance in your Cabinet, under existing
circumstances, may exercise upon this flat
teriug prospect, ! cannot, Sir, withuut a total
disregard of the lights of experience, and
without shutting my ('yes to the obvious ten
dency of things for the future, be insensible.
Haying, moreover, from a deep conviction of
its importance to the country, been among the
most urgent of your advisers to yield yourself
to the obvious wishes of the People, and
knowing the sacrifice of personal feeling
which was involved in your acquiescence, 1
cannot reconcile it to mvsclf to he in any de
gree the cause of embarrassment to you dur
ing tho period which, as it certainly will be
of deep interest to your country, is moreover
destined to bring to its close, vour patriotic
toilsome and eventful public lii'c.
From these considerations, I feel it to he!
doubly my duty to resign a post, the reten-!
tion of which is so calculated to attract as-j
saults upon your administration, to which
tncro might be otherwise no inducement
assaults, of which, whatever be their aim, the
most important, as well as most injurious of.
f ct is, upon those public interests which dq
serve and should command the support of all
good citizens. This duty, I should have dis
charged at an earlier period, but forconside
rations, partly of a public, partly of a personal
nature, co.-nccted with circumstances which
were calculated to expose its performance
than to misconstruction and misrepresenta
tion.
Having explained the motives which gov
ern me in thus severing, and with seemingab
ruptness, the official ties by which w e have
been associated, there remains but one duty
for me to perform. It is to make my pro
found and sincere acknowledgments lor that
steady support rnd cheering confidence which
in the discharge of my public duties, I have
under all circumstances, received at your
hands; as well as for the personal kindness
at all times extended to me.
Rest assured Sir, that the success of your
administration, and the happiness of your pri
vate life will ever constitute objects of the
deepest solicitude with tour sincere friend
and obedient servant.
M. VAN BUREN.
Tiie President.
Washington April 12, 1831.
De ar Sir —Your letter resigning the office
of Secretary of State was received last eve
ning. I could indeed w ish that no circum
stance had arisen to interrupt the relations
which have, for two years, subsisted between
us,and that they might have continued through
the period during which it may be my lot to
remain charged with the duties which the
partiality of my countrymen has imposed
me. But the reasons you present are so
strong, that with a proper regard for them, I
cannot ask you on my account, to remain in
the Cabinet.
I am aware of the difficulties you have had
to contend with, and of the benefits which
have resulted to the affairs of your country,
from your continued zeal in the arduous
tasks to which you have been subjected.
To say that 1 deeply regret to lose you,
is but feebly to express my feelings ou the
occasion.
M hen called by my country to the station
which I occupy, it was not without a deep
sense of its arduous responsibilities, and a
strong distrust of myself, that I obeyed the
call: but cheered by the consciousness that
no other motive actuated me, than a desire
to guard her interests, and to place her upon
the firm ground of those great principles
w hich by the wisest and purest of our patriots,
have been deemed essential to her prosperity,
I ventured upon the trust assigned me.
I did this in the confident hope of finding
the support of advisers, able and true; whig
laying aside every tiling but a desire to give
new vigor to the vital principles of our Union
would look with a single eye to the best means
of effecting this paramount object. In you,
this hope has been realised to the utmost. In
the most difficult and trying moments of my
administration, I have always found you sin
cere,. able and efficient—anxious at all times
toaflbrd me every aid. If, however from cir
cumstances in your judgment sufficient to
make it necessary, the official ties subsisting
between us must be severed, 1 can only say
that this necessity is deeply lamented by me.
1 part with you only because you yourself have
requested me to do so,and have sustained that
request by reasons strong enough to command
my assent. I cannot, however, allow the se
pt-ration to take place, without expressing the
hope, that this retirement from public affairs
is but temporary; and that if, in any other
station the govermnent should have occasion
for services the value of which has been so
sensibly felt by me, your consent will not be
wanting.
Oi the state of things to which you advert,
I can but be fully aware. I look upon it
with sorrow, and regret it the more, because
one of its first effects is to disturb the harmo
ny of my Cabinet. It is however, but an in
stance of one ol the evils to which free gov
ernments must ever he liable. The onlv re
medy for these evils, as they arise, lies in the
intelligence and public spirit of our common
constituents. They will correct them—and,
in this, there is abundant consolation. I
cannot quit this subject without adding, that
with the best opportunities for observing and
judging, I have seen in you no other desire
than to move quietly on in the path of your
duties, and to promote the liarmonious con
duct ot public affairs. It on this point you
have had to encounter detraction, it is but
another proof of the utter insufficiency of in
nocence and worth to shield from such as
saultß.
Be assured that the interest you express in
my happiness is most heartily reciprocated
th.it my most cordial feelings accompany you,
and that I am very sincerely your friend.
ANDREW JACKSON.
F. S. It is understood that yen arc to con
tinue in office until your successor is an
pointed. 1
Martin Van Keren,
Secretary of State.
Washington City, 7th April 18111.
Dkah Sin Four days ago, I communicate
o you mv desire to relinquish the duties of
the War Department, and 1 now take the lib
erty ol respecting the request that was then
made. lam not disposed, by any sudden
w ithdrawal, to interrupt or retard the business
of the office. A short time will be sufficient
1 hope, to direct your attention towards some
person, in whose capacity, and friendly dis
position you may have confidence, to assist in
the complicated and laborious duties of vour
administration. Two or three weeks per
haps less, may be sufficient for the purpose.
In coming to this conclusion, candor de
mand* of me to say, that it arises from no dis
satisfaction entertained towards vou—from no
misunderstanding between us, on anv subject
nor from any diminution on mv part.ofthat
friendship and confidence, which lias ever
been reposed in you.
I entered your (’-übinct, ns is well known to
nothin 0 " ™? -° mjr . cwn wishos and bavin
e f n \ t:,lhor :h; “'P™ l * mvsclf or
■■ friends,hate ever since cherished a detcr-
= 0 .v ai, m^0 f , hr first favorable
movement,after your administration should
he in successful operation, tor,dire. If occurs
tome that tne time is now at hand, when 1
may do so, with propriety and in proper r. s
c w,, J,,. cpr j nt S“-
Which, heina- liiiriy
the people fo r app roVH I nr condemnation I
'•annot consider the st-p I am taking a /cx_
ccptionablc, or that it is one, tiie tendency o 1
which can be to effect or injure a police
by you already advantageously commenced,
and which 1 hope will be carried out to the
benefit and advancement of the people.
Tendering my sincere wishes for your pros
perity and happiness, and for your successful
efforts in the cause of your country.
I am, very truly, your friend.
J. H. EATON.
To Andrew Jackson,
President of the United States.
Washington City, April 8,1831.
Dear Sir.— \our letter of yesterday was
received, ami I have carefully considered it;
when you conversed with me the other day
on the subject of your withdrawing from the
Cabinet, I expressed to you a sincere desire
that you would well consider of it;' for howev
er reluctant lam to be deprived of your servi
ces, 1 cannot consent to retain vou contrary to
your wishes and inclination to remain, partie
ularly as I well know that in 1*29, when I in
yitedvou to become a member of my Cab
inet, \ oil objected, and expressed a desire” to
be excused, and only gave up your objections
at my pressing solicitation.
An acquaintance with you of 20 years stan
ding, assured me that in your honesty, pru
dence, capacity, discretion and judgment,
I could safely rely and confide, I have not
been disappointed. With the performance of
our duties, since you have been with me, I
have been fully satisfied, and go where you
will, be your destiny what it may, my best
wishes will always attend you. i will avail
myself of the earliest opportunity to obtain
sonic qualified friend to succeed you, and un
til then, I must solicit that the acceptance of
your resignation be deferred.
I am, very Sincerely, and respectfully your
friend. ANDREW JACKSON.
Maj. .T. If. Eaton, See. of War.
“A gatherer of uneonsidered trifles.”
BY TO-DAY’S MAIL. ~
From the Athenian rf April 19.
M e learn from E. L. Thomas, Esq. who-,
has just returned from his surveyin'* tour
through tlic Cherokee nation, that the sec
tional surveyors are now proceeding in the
progress of their duties with rapidity. Some
have already finished, and it is thought that
in the course of two weeks the whole will be
completed. Mr. Thomas states that the con
duct of the Indians was uniformly friendly;
but a lew of (no white settlers, and some cf
the Missionaries, manifested a f ec ]j Ilir cf
hostility- although no acts of violence were.
attempted. It may be well h. re to remark
that on receiving knowledge of their MN : O --
arms having interfered with the political af.
lairs of the Nation, the Methodist Episcopal
Conference ot lennesscc immediately with,
drew them. Were the American Board of
foreign Missions,under whoso auspices we
understand those are who are now station'd
in the territory, to adopt a similar plan, we
believe the condition of the Indians would be
unproved, and the Missionary cause in gen
oral receive (as it would deserve) more eonf
denre and better success. The schools in the
nation are now but thinly attended.
In pursuance of a resolution of the last le
gislature, Commissioners have been appointed
on tiie port of Georgia to settle the disputed
line between this State and Florida. Mr.
1 nomas is appointed Surveyor, and will meet
the Commissioners at Darien by the first of
M.y. hir.otv<* J v.Micl\l"
luitrd States government will send Commis
sioners or not.
Thc Chrro7. res.~~A letter from John Ridge
one of the Cherokee delegation at Washing
ton, to Mr. Boudii.ott, dated the 11th Janua
ry last, of which the following is an extract,
was placed in our hands a day or two since fur
publication. The gentleman who presented
it is of undoubted respectability. On his
route from Tennessee to Georgia, the pamph
let alluded to below was given him for peru
s;u, on the outside sheet of which was the let
ter, which he took pains to copy. Mr. Tou
dinott is believed principal editor of the Cher
okee Plimnix:
,‘ J have written a longcrh ttertoMr. Rosscn
t.ie subject, than my U tter to vou, which I
presume you will see. Also a letter to Maj.
Ridge before this,on our prospects, which vou
would do well to publish. From public and
private sources, wo are induced to believe
that f lenrv Clay is our friend, and will enforce
the treatk s.
Hear up my friends for two years longer,
and yve are victorious—let the people under
s-and that. Tell it to them, and be not at
ease, because you have the advantage ofhear
ingwhen they have not: now is the time to
lc up and doing'. As soon as our memorial
ts printed, I will send it to you. We have
heard that New Jersey is on our side. Thi
argument of Mr. Wirt, 1 send to you, is not
perfect as n will be made, when a motion U
made for a writ of Injunction. You must then
, ,nof ,u iJi but it can be made known
to our people, all by friends. Mv heart i
with them, and it is my earnest desire to so
t.iem once more happy ; wc must be united
as brothers.”
It would seem from the above, that, flic last
hope 0i the Indians now rests on the elcctfcu
ol Ilcnry ( lay to the next Presidency, Judg
ing from present appearances, this hope mud
he a very < mit one, or Mr. Ridge is unac
quainted with the public sentiment. Tims i f
ts, t,ie Inmans are induced, hv artful and in
sidious declarations from pretended friend
abroad, or designing men among themselves,
•o hoid on a little longer to their i o* zsion.--
Ihe same cour-ohasbeen pmvncd for years
m mine false hopes have been held out, and
as often as the time has arrived for their s'-
eomplishment, they have been found illusorr.
> hat subterfuge will not bo r. sorted to. re
mams to he s en. We think, how. ver, that
the prospect of Henry Clay’s election to tin
In sideiicy wilt not take this time : and milrff
““taewneut more fluttering than this!",
held out for the;n to remain, v.-e shall soon
sec them quietly emigrating to the territory
provided for them by the bounty of the Gener
al Government—a country well adapted t®
anr pursuits, *nd the best calculated to pro
v hnpp i .ss. theoryi a Journal-.