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jj* •‘What do you <\r .\'.:tha:i’s he ad.
■Doctor ■" >i a p;a::.*k>:.h.i.t Idy ik' other
!"V' to a man (t m diemt .
“I ditn t know, l*m sure,” r. pli.d the doe- ■
ctor, ** iit a ..: l uotic. dit | a.i: i■un rl .
I t>r, tor. Liio wish you'd < x.unine it, i
Fat:-! give yo;;r opinon on t .i. j.vt.”
IS at ha n, a great jtiuiji of a 1 tty, W'c adorifd-
I inglv eall.J i.i, ;,!ul and. or .! to tok• oil’ liis hat
I so that the Doctor might examine the bumps
[ 4t! his head, To tilts Nthin at lir-1 d.-mir
r.T, rf ',Ti.iii ’.here is no use m it, for he had :;ct
bumped Ins head never since moving-day,
when lr* f II against a l:uii;>;>ust —hut no tv
3 t\vas all well. However, lie was prevailed
upon by the promise of a lump of sugar to
unbare his towy sconce, and soomit it to the
inspection of the do tor. The lath r was un
fortunately no piirenoloir -t, and alter - jui.it
ing rapidly at. the sulj eel, told the mother;
’1 hat'he thouirlit her son’s liead was as round -
srs a pumpkin.
'“But tint isn't what 1 mean Doctor,” said ;
1 he mother, “1 wish you to examine the lumps, \
1 UHtps, and cireundh-xioiis, and sec what the
! oy’s made lor. I can’t lu ip thinking he’s
ii a. tic for something rothert andJ'vo tliouyht
so for a long lime-'’
“1 haven’t the least doubt in the world,
madam, but what you’re correct —but what
he’s made lor in-particular, i! is' dillictilt to
tell, l’erhaps lor a butcher, a tinker, or a
pedlar—l know not—it is out of my province
to determine.”
“But don’t you think he is cut out for
fiomi tiling great 1”
“it may b.; so, ma’am, but lie is likely to
he .spoilt in making up.”
“Ah! now you’re yoking, Doctor.”
“It’s no joke, I can assure you.”
‘•But, Doctor, you don’t examine into the
--case.”
“I can’t see into the case—it’sd lish
thick.”
“Fudge ! Doctor you wont take up the
matter seriously .”
“Oh, for that matter I’in perfectly serious
madam—hut really—”
“Come nearer, Nathan, so that the Doctor
•<*an have a fair view of your head—a little
nearer, my sen. Can you see it now, Doc
tor ?”
“Perfectly, perfectly,” said the Doctor, re
soiling a little, as the boy drew near, scratch
ing his head w ith great industry and zeal.
“What do you think of it row, Doctor,”
said the fond mother—“confess seriously,
did you ever see any body’s head so eueelon
<rf.”
“Seriously then, Madam, I never dif?
“ Aint it all kivered over, as twere—”
“1 must say I never saw a head so covered
oocr in my life,” said the doctor in a very
equivocal tone, as the boy approached still
.nearer and scratched vv.ith unabated zeal.
‘•Did you now, positively,” resumed the
iond mother,” ever see such a living speci
men?”
“1 think I never did see such live specimens
in all mv travels,” said the doctor with a sort
of shudder.”
“Come a little nearer, Nathan, so that the
■doctor con feel of your head.”
“Excuse me there, madam, I begin to feel
"very sensibly already.”
“Why don’t you stir,Nathan? why do you
oreep so.”
“There is a stirring in his very hair, that
rrtakis mine own to creep with sympathy”
iFaid the doctor, recoiling a few-steps and
growing unconsciously poetical.
“I know you must be luirly astonished on
a near view of his head,” said the mother de
lightedly.
“1 never was more so in my life,” return.
<;d tlie man of medicine—
“ Don’t you observe that his head is run
ning over with bumps?”
“It is indeed running over,” replied the
doctor, with particular emphasis on the word
Tunning.
“Well, what do you think I’d better do
tvitb uiin, Doetor?”
“A tine-toothed comb is very efficacious in
these cases,” said the doctor, as it were think
ing aloud.
“A tine-toothed comb?” ejaculated the
mother.
“Yes—that is—l mean—”
“True—true—ha, ha, ha!—truo, the boy
js a iittlo blowsy to day. (Jo and smooth
down your hair, Nathan. But tell me, Doe
tor, seiiouslv, what you’d advise me to put
the hoy to?”
“1 advise you to wash him up clean, mvk
A thorough revolution in the outward affairs
of his head, and then send him to school.”
“And what do you think he’ll make, Doc
tor? now tell me candidly.”
“Why, madam, 1 think he’s as likely to
make a blockhead as anv tiling.”
“A blockhead indeed—but I see, Doc
tor, you know nothing of phrenology. Please
florid in your bill to-morrow morning. A
Mockhea!, indeed V'^-Constellation.
‘ POrPIXG THE QUESTION.”
Th-s subject, alike interesting whether it
Ur considered retrospectively crin prospect,
Ju occupied the pens of n'.eny, as doubtless
it has at tiroes engaged the thoughts of a!!.—
lint their modes of treating of it are not less
dissimilar than, it common belief be accurate,
taeir various ways of proceeding therein.—
Vo cvii c- this let'the following example be
r near, (t,wi;h ope ■ exhibited iu a former
f oabe? of tiio Allas—[p. 41. vcl. I.] The
■ ’ harrassitK nt -rtf tiie subject appears in the
f r sent cite to-have acted on the writer, even
i.n. hs dt lib;tat, composition about it: f. g.
* M :s :.ot this either that 1 mean to express.”
—'h i we ; root oil to let him speak his own
f Util.Kills.
“ He re is tio more delicate rt p in life than
t operation designated 1.-y the elegant
J ifi.-c 1 have selected for (lie title of tnv prc
i i.t Itici.l ration. Much winding and cau
t on, and prewouS sotindipg, is ncccssurv !
1 tit you h; ve rot a favour to ask of a great j
j hi. It .is ten chances to one (hat he takes|
i , HO 1-is head to consider your request ex
t intact, rrd to make this" the pretext for
f hi' " off wfi: t he t aturally considers a
ilk r: otne Uj j t.iiage to bis steti—a man
ffcfck ' ‘'..oi c.ti his poi.d oft cts. Put !
d v *. w* : ' ■
TiiE MACON _ADVKBTMi-ill. AND AGMCtLTURAI/ AND MERCANTILE INTELLIGENCER-
risk you run in laying yours, if at (be mercy j
ol a youug gipsy, loir.lt r ot fu.i and frolic than 1
any thing in lit: . Even trough she love you I
•veil the who! -of In r little lyeurt, she po:s ss- j
es a il.iw ot spirits, and woman's ready knack I
at pres rvi.ug appearances; and though her
he.'om may heave responsive to your stain.l
in. ring talc, she will litre you cn with kind,!
complacent loo!s, until you have told ‘vour
pititul and then laugh in your face for
your pains!
It is not this cither that I mean to express.
•Men ere not cowards because th *y see dis
tinctly the danger that li .s before them.—
'Alien a person lias coolness sufficient to ap
preciate its full ext> nt, he has in general ci
ili r 11-pos.' don nough to hack out of the
snip-, or it is inevitable, to march with due
n r igi.atio.u'to meet h:s fate. In like tnanijf r,
i! i-not that poor IMlgarlxk, the lover, has
a clear notion (pt rsous in ins condition are
rarely trouble ii with < h ar notions) of what a
waits him, but he tec Is a kind of ■choking a
-1 bout the Lu ck ot Ins heart, a hong-dog inclina
j t ion to go backwards instead of forwards, a
: cheek, a sudden step in all hi - functions. He
1 knows not liovv to lock, or w hat to say. His
j plan, arranged with e.o much happy enthusi
| asm, when sitting clone in his arm-chair, af-
t r a good dinner, -and two or three glasses
ot w ine, in the uncertain glimmering of twi
light, w ith his feet upon the fender, proves
quite impracticable. Either it has escaped
liis memory altogether, or the eonver-.atkm
perversely takes a turn totally different from
that by which he hoped to lead the fair one
; from indifferent topics to thoughts of a ten
derer complexion, and tints, by line degrees
(lie watching, all the time, how she was af
-1 fee ted, in order to be sure of liis bottom, be
i tore he makes the plunge) to insinuate his.
j confi suon, just at the moment that be'knows
jit wy 1 be well received.
J The desperate struggles & flounderingsby
j which sonic endeavour to get out of their ein
i harrassment arc amusing enough. We re*
j member to have been much delighted the
j liist time we heard the history-of the weeing
of a noble lnid, now no moce, re lated. His
Lordship was a uuwi of talents and enterprise,
of stainless pedigree, and afair rent-roll, but
the veriest slave of bashfulnets. Like all
timid and quiet he was very susceptible
;.r.d very constant, as long as he was in the
habit ofsecing the object sf liis ufikctic;;:; dai
ly. lie chanced at the begin:?? of an Edin-
burg winter, to lose Ins heart to Miss ;
and as their families < re in habits of intima
cy, he had frequent opportunities of meeting
with In r. lie gazed and sighed incessantly—
a vary Dumbiodikes, but that he !.a 1 a larger
allowance of brain—be iollotvci her every
where ; he felt jealous, uncomfortable, if she
looked even civilly at another; and yet not
withstanding the encouragement, afforded him
by tiie lady, a woman of s; use, who saw what
lus lordship would be at, esteemed biscliarac- 1
ter, #■ superior to girlish affectation, & made
every advance consistent with woman’s delica
cy—the winter,'was fading ■•into spring, and
he had not vet got his month opened ! Mam
ma at last lost all patience ; and one day,
when his lordship was taking his.usual lounge
in the drawing room, silent, or uttering an
occasional monosyllabic, the .good lady ab-.i
ruptly kft the room and locked fne pair in
alone. When his lordship, on essaying to
take his leave, discovered the predicament in,
which be stood, a desperate fit of resolution
seized him. 'Miss sat bending most
assiduously over her needle, a deep blush on
her check. Ilis lordship advanced towards
her, but, loosing heart by the way, passed on
in silence to the other end of the room. He
returned to the charge, but again without ef
fect. At last, nerving himsolflike one about
to spring a powder mine, he stopped short
before her—‘Miss , will you marry
me?’—‘With the greatest pleasure, my lord,’
was the answer, given in a low, somewhat
timid, but unfaultering voice, while a deeper
crimson suffused the face of the speaker.—
And a tight good wife she made to him.
Some gentlemen, equally nervous, and un
aided by such a discriminating and ingenious
mamma, have recourse to the plan of wooing
by proxy. This is a system which l ean-by
no means recommend. * * *
Day, the philosopher, had a freak of educa
ting a wife for himself. lie got two orphan
girls intrusted to his care, on entering into
recognizances to educate and provide for
them. One proved too mulish to make any.
thing of. The other grew up every thing lie
could have wished. And yet he gave up the
idea of marrying her, because she one day
purchased a handkerchief more gaudy than
: accorded with his philosophical notions. Of
course, it never came to a declaration. I wish
it had, that one might have seen with what
degree of grace a man could divest hit? self
of the grave and commanding characters of
papa and pedagogue, to assume the insinuat
ing deportment of the lover.
There is a set of men, whose success in
wooing—and it is unfailing—l cannot com
prehend. Grave, emaciated, sallowing di
vines, who never look the person in the face
whom they address—who never speak above
their breath—who sit on the utmost edge of
thcirchairs, a full yard distance from the din
ner-table! I have never known one of these
scarecrows fail in getting a good and a rich
wife. How it is, Heaven knows ! Can it be
that the ladies ask them. One thing is cer
tain, that I myself have never been able to
‘Pop the question.’
I.OPtD TIMOTHY DEXTER.
For one to bear the title cf a Lord in these
United States is so unexpected and singular
an affair, that every reader, wo presume, will
recollect to have heard of the individual thus
designated. The causes for which lie \vns
thus “gazetted” by his neighbors, were, as is
probably known to most persons, h s great
wealth, and ostentatious display of style. His
personal history, and the strange accidents,
as they would seem, to which he was piinci
pally iudi bted for his fortune, are perhaps
less generally understood ; and to make the
rentier acquainted with these, fwc beg to
state that tor tin ir authenticity we rely on
common report and the writer about to be
quoted] and to present arspefimen of anew
work— “Haverhill,” —we now copy the prin
cipal part of the hero’s description and histo
ry of his brother-in-law.
“II" '.o° wry? a friendless boy, and made
Ins w ay to the high dignity of a -shopkeeper
solely by prudence, economy, and dexterity,
in trathe, aided perhaps a little by cunning
and overreaching. Born of parents the low -
est of the low, vulgar, ignorant, and .deprav
ed, iic h id, at a Very early age, shaken off
the clogs imposed by his parentage and pov-j
city, and stood forth conspicuous for a talent!
which hade fair to give him riches. In the
language of the country, he was known to be
a ‘right smart lad,’ ‘a keen chap,’ ‘a real sha
ver, all expression's declaring the popular
opinion of Iris thrift and sagacity. His com
mercial career may lie dated from his ninth
birth-day. The nature, quantity, and value
of the transaction w Inch developed his trading
tact is characteristic, and deserves to he re -
corded. if is first speculation was in bones
—keel-bone s ; the quantity, half a Winches
ter bushel. A year before this memorable
era in the fortunes of Air. Dexter, a button
mould maker, travelling through th a v illage
in quest of the raw tnetcrial of liis trade, em
ployed the hoy Timothy to collect i*. promis
ing to give him half a crown per Winchester
bushel for all lie; should collect. The boy in
stint!}-set about the t-wk, and uawoarediv
employed himself until he had, as he suppos
ed, acquired the: property iu half a crown.—
j But he was doomed to have his hopes pros-
I trated ; liis employer disappeared, leaving
the bones in the bands of their unreuxuncrat-
Jod collector. It was not in the; nature of the
| prudent boy to tiirow aught away, and it was
ejuite as foreign to it to give any thing away
which might, by any the remotest possibility,
become valuable, and he deposited the bones
in one of the dark nooks of hie father’s garret,
where they remained undisturbed for many
months. If so happened, in some moment of
boyish intercourse, that an act of more then
usual kindness in an associate melted liis
heart, and, to show his sense of the favour,
lie gave him his honor ! Repentance, sincere
and fervent, soon followed. The occurrence
of which 1 am about to speak was minuted
down by him as a warning against the indul
gence of grateful feelings in after years, and
was the cause, it was said, why it was the
last gccctous action he was ever known to
perform. The button-maker returned, and
renewed liis off. r. His prodigality, and the
loss he had sustained by his thoughtless grati
tude, cut him to the heart. Aft; r deliberat
ing a few minutes, lie went to the donee-and
[demanded back the bonrs. They were re
turned, an 1 Tim’nsloncd with them to the
button-maker, and r.cehc.'t liis half-crown.
This was the capital with which my broth
er-in-law commenced business, and was the
occurrence which gave him, in after-life, thee
nickname or epithet, of‘Tim Bones.’ T could
mention that Ik: had nnnt er, ‘Sorri!-,’ given
him by l!ie boys on account of his red hair.-
It was that.by which lie was always known,
until the affair of the button-maker occurred.
Indeed, it is to be doubted w hether he knew
lie had any other, for when he was asked by
his catechist ‘what was bis name,’ he answer
ed ‘Sort ii,’ and upon being asked who gave
it to him, ans.we rad •the boys in the parish.’
At least, this was the story, though some-raid
it war altogether an invention oi' that mad
creature Jack -Reeve. It served, however,
to fix-the nickname upon him, and the object
of the perpetrator was answered.
He laid out the two shillings and sixpence
received for bones in the ‘tongues and sounds, j
of cod-fish, collected lift re and there fresh,
and the refore cheap. These, when cured, lie
‘swapped’ for a keg of rum, which, with tne
aid of a cool and sweet rivulet near at hand,
be turned into a fine penny, lie went on
plodding and speculating, at-once the admi
ration and the laughingstock of the village ;
one class of inhabitants, the more aged and
reflecting, calling him that ‘smart lad, Timo
thy Dexter,’and extolling him to the skies;
another, the young and thoughtless, ridicul
ing him for the qualities which procured him
the admiration of their elders, and distinguish
ing him by the different nicknames of'Scrril,’
‘Swap,’ and ‘Bones.’ ,
But Timothy throve, notwithstanding the
jibes and sneers which were dealt out by his
neighbors. A second fortunate speculation,
quite as singular and extraordinary as the first,
put him in possession ef still larger means of
indulging his darling passion for traffic.
I have mentioned the old tar .Tack Rccyc,
and his propensity to fun and extravagance.
He became, while indulging it, the uncon
scious instrument of Timothy’s making an
other fortunate more in the game of life; as
he was wont to boast afterward, ‘he helped
poor Sorril up a— many rounds of the
ladder.’ In a moment of imsurpicious con
fidence, the latter ■confided to Jack the im
portant secret that lie had made himself mas
ter of forty crowns, ttticl asked the opinion of
the merry old sailor 'how he should employ
it to best advantage, and in what speculation
it was "likely to make the'largest return.’
jack answered, with his usual good-nature,
that ‘he’d be now, if this wasn’t the
very thing he wanted. I’m your friend, Sor
—Tim,’continued he,‘and I’ll show it, lv
the secret I’ll let out, and tiie sheet-anchor
advice I’ll give you, my boy. When I was
with old Sir Pjercy Brett, in the Cockcdoo
dledoo,—heard of the ship, say?’
‘Never,’ answered jhe boy*
‘Well, she wa.* the largest ship that over
sailed on the ocean* Once upon a time,
when she was tacking in the Channel of Eng
land, her bowsprit knocked over a liglit.hoiisd
on the coast of France, while at the same
moment her spanker-boom swept off' a flock of
sheep feeding oil Dover Cliff's.’
‘I)o you know who—bought the wool Task
ed the boy.
‘Not I, you skinkcr. There were grog
shops on the yard-arms; and she was so ‘tant,’
that a lad of fifteen who went aloft to hand
the main-royal, after using all possible des
patch, came down an old man, gray as a rat.
Well, I was with old Sir Percy—it was the
same cruize in which lie did that wonderful
feat which has been so much talked of, —
beat tip from St. Kitts fit Grenada, two hun
dred leagues, in two against tradewind'
and current —Truo as gospel, or may I never
—W i 11, we put into Montego Bay, in a hur
ricane—weather as hot as ; and if there
was—a warming-pan to'be found in.all Jim*
ake, then you are neither‘Bones’nor ‘Sorril,’
‘Swap* nor ‘Timothy.’ Gad ! how cross the
admiral was I lie threatened to hangup cvc.
ry planter, shop-keeper, overseer, negro. :
whether blacker wfiiV, blue or yellow.’
‘Did h;- >' asked the boy with extreme as
tonishment.
‘Ay, did he; English, Scotch, Irish, Yankee,!
Mandirtgo, 'Koroinanfyn, Whidah, Fidel), j
Benin, Congo, ’twos all one. ‘Look you ; ;
mc,*stiys he —he’d a reghto bad pructi.-c of j
swearing; but, though both I and the chap- j
lain tried to mend him, it v; all of no use— <
‘Look you ; mg’ says he, ‘when ir-st ! j
come this way, see that every father’.- son of j
you be furnished with a good brass warming
pan or it wilU*# the for you;* Koar I’ll
tell you u’Ti.’flram ♦iiiuki?%ef'.’
‘What V demanded the boy, eagerly,
j ‘Why, that you .shall simply the island of
Jitnake with warming-pans.’ I
‘But don’t you think somebody has supplied
them before now V
‘I c riki almost swear, and would if 1 didn’t
hate the practice, that they havn’t. Nobody
I hut a stiaip-wilted, screw-auger soil of a body
| like you and me, one who is up to snuti',
1 would ever have thought of the thing.’
; 4 Wind shall Ido !’
i ‘l)o i why, buy and ship as many warming
pans as you can pack up, with Captain Ivim
; ball, in the Sally, which goes next week to
Montego Bay—the very spot. But mum—
say nothing; if you blab there’ll be an end
of the matt; r. Crecno aud Kincpenco, or
Buckles and Bagi'er, will be snapping it up,
as one of your West India sharks does a
| Guinea nigger: keep i! to. yourself. -Good
, bye.’
And away went Jack to ecjpy a laugh at
hie joke, but without a suspicion that the-boy
would take tbe thing seriously. lie set about
it, however, af. once ; and collected with as
much privacy as jiossible, a large quantity of
warming-pans, to send to a climate when; the
coldest weathe r was almost equal to fever
heat!—-Yet this speculation, the most absurd
that ever entered into the head of a mortal,
-yielded a thousand per cent profit. The bot
toms of the pans were sold at ten times their
cost, duty, and charges, Ter sugar-ladles in
the boiling-houses; au’d the perforated covers,
or lops, were purchased tip, at an equal ad
vance, for skimmers! Even thchandlos-were
disposed of, lent I forget for what purpose, and
at a price far beyond the original cost cf the
t cnthe article. The riei;t sum obtained for
the adventure waslaid out insugar; and this
received at a fortunate moment, and turned by
the shrew, and boy in t!m most advantageous
manner, yielded also a handsome profit. To
sum up in the fewest words possible, the forty
crowns yielded four hundred and seventy. !
He presently came to be reckoned one of
those ‘whom the devil helps ;’ in other words,
vary lucky and fortunate. Greene and Nine
pence, seeing that every thing prospered un
der his care, pr oposed to him to go out m a
small sloop of theirs to .Martinique, with a car
go of hogs and deal hoards. He was to have
a small commission on the f-ale of the Limber;
dad, as there is usually a gain in the admeas- j
ure me nl, he ovas to have, besides,‘one-half of J
all lie sold more than there was !’ Sorri! made'
a fine speculation for himself, and cne which •
satisfiedche owners. j
Soon after his return-, be attempted to build j
a small vessel fora coa.it; r. When her sides!
were partly planked up, his builder went to
him, and informed him that he was in want of!
wales (planks for the bends of the ship.)— '
Dexter did not fairly understand what was j
meant; hesupposed, however, that, it was the !
bones of a whale; and, accordingly, he bought;
up all the whalebone there was in the market.
Some extraordinary event, I forget what, a few !
months after, converted this absurd specula-j
ion into one of equal profit with the last. |
Fronflhe G!obc.
GOVERNMENT AND ITS ABUSES.
Government has been called “a necessary
evil.” It has acquired this appellation from
its abuses.
The history of mankind is little else than
a history vf thr abuses of Government. Most
communities of men appear to have boon in
their origin, liflle'better than associations of
'robbers. Sueli governments as th- y had,
aimed more at aggression than protection
The members of each community were en
tirely'rf. eject to the \v T i 11 of their chief, whose
principal objects were war, conquest and
military glory. When lawgivers arose, thrv
sought more to make men brave warriors than
happy citizens.
The leading abuse cf government which
originates many othetfe, is war. There never
was a just war. One party or the other and
often both, arc in the wrong. The govern
ment which is in the wrong commits a mon
strous abuse. Instead of protecting its sub
jects or citizen in their honest purs*fs, it
compels them to abandon their homes, to
march into foreign countries and encounter
toil, danger and death in plundering, harass
ing and destroying their fellow men of other
nations. The evils of fhis-abuse are not con
fined to the regions occupied by contending
armies; but extend throughout both commu
nities. They arc filled with widows and or
phans. The industry of every class of people
is taxed for the support of armies and their
attendants. Moderate improvements in fi
nanciering have enabled government to cast
the expenses of their Own follies upon poster
ity. They carry on wars with borrowed mon
ey, and entail the burden of payment upon
generations unborn. Great Britain has pur
sued this policy, until all hope of paying her
debt has vanished, and the annual interest is
A burden almost too great for the people to
hear* It is thus that the abuses of govern
ment arc made perpetual.
Out of war have grown orders of nobility
exacting their support from the labor of the
people. 'lf the Icadqf of a conquering array
became a king, each subordinate chief must
he a Lord. He must have his domains and
his vassals, with license to take the fruits of
their labor without an equivalent, and control
them according to his will* Modern Europe
lias witnessed in the feudal system all the
evils ahd horrors of this abuse. It is ie
ceding before tjec increasing intelligence of
*he present age; but even in Great Britain, it
is yet stroiig enough to make a fearful strug
gle.
A wasteful splendor, luxurious living, cos
ly presents, us.-less parties, unbounded pro
fusion and sometimes capricious drs’ructio i
of public pruperty, are aims ; which attend
, most gov ..Turnouts of ancient and modern
times. Yvho can rad of th Easts of the;
Persians, tlte en-tertaiuneuits ol'the Romans,
er cve;n the dinners of British kings and no
bis without r.’tlectiugiwiw many of mankind
had bee n plundered and perhaps murdered to
: clothe the guests, to 1 rnrtli the table, to pro- ,
cure tlie m ats and wines, hire the music and
| prepare the shows, it is not (ot these pur
j)os that maiikind needs government.—
They are its abuses.
Perhaps the worst abuse of government is
that which attempts to trammel the mind, it
consists in church establishments supported
by tic eiii! power. Government has no cen
c. rn with men’s religious opinions. They do
not establish it to teach them religion. That
come s from another source. It should pro
tect all creeds and adopt none. But what
has government done! It has adopted systems
of religion and attempted to force them on
mankind. Those whs) have been too consci
entious io subscribe to its creed, it has ex
cluded from public employments, sent into
exile, imprisoned, hanged, burnt at the stake
and torn joint from join# iu the lioly Inquisi
tion. Than tlie abuses practised by govern
ment under the cloak of religion, there are
none more horrible in I'ie history of mankind.
It is a melancholy refl; otfon, that history
finds so little to say of the bkssings of govern
meat, and so ranch of its curses. What is
the history of the Egyptians, she Persians,
the Cartliagcnians, the Greeks nad the Ro
mans but volume ;ftcr volume of the abuses
of government, a detail of wars, oppressions,
minders, misery and crime? In this desert of
human calamity, there is scarcely an basis on
which to rest the wearied eye. - Those traits
of character which the reader is most inclined
to admire, are those which have filled the
world with misery. How few did Alexander
make happy ? llow many did lie make wretch
ed! What were Cecsar’s glories but the de
vastation and conquest of uimileiiding nations,
and the final subversion of iiis country’s insti
tutions ? Bv his laws and the impulse he gave
to mind, Napoleon did much good; but he
kept Europe in mourning. Hurricanes are
recorded; but the gentle breezes which show
er bl ossings from their wings, pass by unheeel- !
cd. So, it is the storms of desolating war
which furnish materials for history, and ure
read of with interest ami aelmirution; but
gentle peace, without which no people can be
prosperous and happy, this an unfrequent
page, which is hurried vcrwith indifference.
We admire (he master spirit of the storm ; '
but the peaceful ruler who seeks only to make !
his people happy, scarcely excites a glow of
interest.
Str.kc out ail history which records the i
abuses of government, and what should we
have left? A hundred volumes would shrink
to one, and the history of this world’s affairs,
would be soon r. tub
In no country is government yet free from
abuses. In Asia and Africa, it has scarcely
uuprovcdsincc tlie earliest ages of history.—
In Europe the human mind is making fooran
. 1 # n c
tic strides and the true principles of govern
ment begin to be understood. Deadly strug-1
gles. between abuses consecrated by ages and 1
the rising spirit cf reform, convulse ©neepun* !
♦ry after another with alternate success. But
the work will progress, as light and mind in
crease, until governments shall confine them
selves to the single duty of protection anclthe
' nations “learn war no more.” This will be |
, the blest millennium.
In our next article on this subject, we will j
| turn our attention to our own government.
From the Charleston Mercury.
At an unusual large assemblage of the
State Rights and Free Trade Party, convened
at Fayollc’s on Tuesday Evening, July 12,
1831. ‘
1 iic lion. IIuARY DEAS was called to
thef'.n.r, and Thomas Gadsden, Esq. ap*
poinsed to act aft Secretary? - I
Mr. 1) as having bHefly r< md the object
of the meeting, Henry L. Pinckney, Esq. !
moved that a. Committee be appoint* and to take
into consideration the letter of the Union
Party to General -Jackson, and kis answer
thereto, and to report thereon.
The motion having been unanimously car
ried, the following Gent.omen were appoint
ed on that Committee :
M. I. Keith, Chairman, B. E. 800, Eli is
Vanderhost, William P. Porroneau Finley,
Jacob AXSoa, Stephen Elliott, S. L- Sim
mons, Col. Cattle, Dr. T. \’. Simmons, I*. JJ.
Lining, C. M, Furnani, 11. W. Cogdell, Alex*
M izyck, B. It. Smith* Thomas Lelirc, It. Q.
Pinckney and"’. T. F. Lowndes.
'The above Committee having rotifer!, 11.
L. Pinckney, Esq. (a? Chairman of a Com
mittee,) then submitted the following Reso
lution.', which he prefaced with an address lo
the meeting explanatory of their objects :
Resolved . I hat delegates He now appoint
ed, who shall meet such other delegates, to
he appointed, by the friends of Free Trade,
as shall assemble in Philadelphia in Septem
ber next, for the purpose of adopting S uCh i
measures as may be deemed expedient to
open the eyes of the people of the U. States,,
as to the unconstitutional character and gross
injusticeU the American System, and bring
back the blessings of Free Trede. And that;
the friends Of “Free Trade” in the different
Districts and Parishes throughout the State,
he requested either to acquiesce in the selec
timi made by this Meeting, or to appoint oth
er delegates to represent them respectively.
Iwsolred, i hat a Committee lie now ap
pointed to net n<- a General committee of the
State Rights and Free Trade Party. It shall
bo the duty of this Committee to correspond
with the delegates of the State Rights and
Free Trade Parly when they shall he in at
tendance in Convention at Philadelphia, with
a view not only of obtaining from time tptimo
tteli information uf the proceedings of the'
Convention, n may be necessary for the in-1
formation of their constituents, but also to
convey totheaaid di legates such information
in regard to the views and wishes of their
constituents, as may be necessary for their
guidance in their * Hurts to promote the ob-
Jcctsoftijq Convention,
& solved l .' 'shall fori} r
of tile said EWtoßee to corn sj:*nd with (to
ling'c ril 'd imbue men, friendsofStat ■ Pi,,:,.
! th ■ S. Stat ~ v Ul aS;
oi ofjr.f r?r cirt.ttn di; V.t* *, rt oi t;,*-
"Tti S L-l OUT J>C;i*Olplc iU ci< . 'HOC if St,'ll
Right j and in opposition to tbe Restrict in
Ay stem, —not only in relation to the- (
be made by the proposeef f4c-ntion,
so lor t'.ie purpose of and Viinccr
I traiing the talents, the worth, and' tfTu, n ,.‘ f
j of the supporters of these principles, and [|g
fusing amongst the people a proper know!
i edge of the dangers to which our free ir.sti*--
! tions arc exposed, from the nrlargemonr [["
| the powers of the l edera! Government, | !
j licentious constructions of the Constitn’i,.-.
j AYso.b ft/, That it shall be the duty 0 f tlm
j said Coinniiitec to cull ;i Mei ting of ;li ; . p ,
tyat such times and places, and on such or
easi/jns, as tJiey mi ay deem expedient, ( jq it .
lorthe; pu-rjose of Jen ing information before
the Party or of receiving instructions f rrm
in relation to the j*oposcd Conventioa •
with regard to any other matter which may re
quire tin: action of the Party.
And whereas the efforts which have iafob
been made, and are now in progress, on the
part of the Tariff party at the North, to rive:
j tlie American system upon os, as the settle *”
| policy of the country, particularly the forma*
| lion of Associations, and the establishment';:
| Presses there, to be devoted to the disscnib
| nation of the pernicious- doctrines on winch
| that system is founded, renders it indisnerufi
; Idy necessary that counteracting measures
j should be resorted to. And tvhereas- tlie State
1 Rights and Free Trade Party, of South Car.
| olina, have, at all times, cherished,
! trust, have manifested, a sincere desire tone
j lighten the public mind o:i the subject of the
j unconstitutional character and fatal effects o'
[ that system, and are still unwilling, while any
! hope shall remain, to omit any means in the.r
poivcr to disseminate correct ' information or.
this subject. And whereas, from t\ ie condi
-1 ti®n of tlie public jiress in this city, tlie means
! are not sufficiently afforded of disseminating
1 the necessary information among the pco-C
therefore,
Resolved, That an evening paper ought to
lie forthwith established in this city, iu sup.
port of the just principles of Free Trade, ami
strict construction of tin; Constitution ; and
that for this purpose, it shall lie the duty of
flic said General Committee to circulate sub
scription papers, and to invite John A. Stuart
Esq. the distinguished editor of the Beaufort
Gazette, to take charge of the editorial de
partment of the same.
And be it also resolved, That this parly
will proceed to e -tahlish a State Rights am!
Free Trade Association; the annual contri
bution to which, of each member, shall not
exceed One Dollar and a Halt—And it shall
be the duty of the General Committee to pr
pare and report to an adjourned mectin? c c
rhe party, proper rules for the government <?
such ah association. That bite said Commit
tee shall also correspond with tlie friends r?
Spates Rights and Free Trade, in other part;
of the State, and of the United States, for tlie-.
purpose of procuring their co-operation iu trie
formation of similar Associations in order
that, by our united efforts, the blessings of
Free Trade and equality of Taxation, may lie
secured to our country, and the harmony of
the different sections of the Union be re
stored.
The foregoing resolutions having been se
parately considered and unanimously agreed
to, 11. L. Pinckney, Esq* then moved" that the
fallowing genth men be appointed Delegate*
to the Convention, which was carried amid
tiie acclamations of the meeting;
Langdon Choves, of St. Peters ; lion. A!
fred Huger, of St. Thomas and St. Dennis;
Hon. Judge Colcock, of Charleston;!.. 1
Holmes, of Charleston; Col. F. K. Huger, oi
Pendleton ; John Fraser, of Charleston, Cos!.
Wnddy Thompson, of Greenville ; Hon. W. J.
Grayson, of Beau orf; Col. Win. Preston cf
Columbia; James Lynah efCliarleston; Chan
cellor Harper, of Colombia; Coi. Thom; r
T. Player, of Fairfield; Col. A. P. Bull*; <
Edgefield; j. ]>. Witherspoon, of Lancast
Col* Eldrcd Simkins, of Edgefield; Col- Ni
Crager,'OfCharleston; Dr. Tydiman,of Ihuis.
George ; Col. T. P. Alston, All Saints; Col
John Cantey of Camden; Charles Macbeth o;
Charleston.
Mr. Pinckney then moved that the follow
ing gentlemen be appointed “A Genera
Committee of State Rights and Free Trade .
Patty” agreeably to the second resolution,
which was aiso tarried amidst the acclama
tions of the meeting:
Hon. Henry Deas, Chairman, Elias Horry,
M. I. Keith, U* Cunningham, R. J. Turnlml
Joiin llume, John Magrath, Charles M. Fur
man, Jacob F. Mintzing, Dr. Benjamin B-
Simmons, Janies Poyas, S. L. Simmons, Jacob
Axson, 11. W* Perroncau, Benjamin A. Mark
ley, Campbell Douglass, Thomas Lehrr, B-
E. Bee, Dr. Thomas Prioleau, Stephen Lh.
ott, Henry Itorlbeck, L. IT. Kennedy, J- h
IVzant, A. M. Hertz, Philip Cohen, Andr-if
Bay, James Robert.-on, ICcr Boyce, Ah'-
MaSyck*
The above proceedings Laving Teen £° n<
through, the committee on the subject of he
letter of the “ Union Party” to the Prosid".t
announced, through their Chairman, that tin)
were ready to report, when the following| ,rf *
amble and resolutions were read to the ro |;tv
[ ing, and unanimously adopted :
“The State Rights and Free Trade Party
have seen with deep regret the corrcspo-'
| donee which lias recently taken place D
tween a portion of our fuliotr citizens, styh't
themselves the “Union and State Right- P“
ty,” and the President of the United f*Dt']
on the occasion of their invitation to the 1 ■'
i-lent tu unite with them, in their kite
celebration oi the Anniversary uf A< i:crß
Independence. It is well known that an >•
citation had her tolbrc been < xfended tpb l ' l ]
Jackson, in behalf of the citizens ot Gliaf.'],
ton, and with the cordial concurrence
parties, inviting him to honor us with a ' "1
at his earliest convenience, ami the p rol ] li ' j
had been held out to us, that “the man "-’ ol j
the people delight ■ ! to honor” would coir*< J
luong us as a welcome guest —not for k** !'*"■
[loan of mingling in our domestic strib’** .*'■
throwing the weight of his name in* l ’ ■
seal* 1 of any party, but forth** purpose o ■
reiving the friendly tribute of oitr atfao* liM ■
afT atiqr,. I-*--*- a! of wa ha’' 1