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_ , mia us, Os srtfch is his kingdom above ? in thy innocence then may He mould us, Thou oniblem of heavenly love. No wonder the mansions of bliss Are peopled with infants like thee, For nothing is plainer than this, Fiom guilt thou art perfectly free. Sweot infant, I know by thy smile, That passions disturb not thy breast ; Thy mind is so free from all guile, That peace is forever its guest. H. From the new Novel of Sydney Clifton. A SERENADE. Wake ! lady, wake ! the crescent moon Crowns Ida’s regal brow, And Hudson’s mirrored breast is batlred In liquid radi .nee now ! O’er giant Catskill’s throne of clouds The stars their vigils keep— Then, lady, lift the envious veil That shrouds thine eyes in sleep. Rise ! lady, rise ! night’s sombre train At thy approach will flee ; But moonbeam’s smile and planets ray Are darkne s without thee. My voiceless lute in vain essays To trill love’s honey’d words, If from thy lips no answering tone Is breathed among the chords. I view thy lattice-bars unfold— Thy footstep lingers near; Fond trembler lull those feverish throbs— No ill can reach thee here. My shallop boun Is upon the wave — Its light sail woos the wind ; Rest! lady, rest! thy lover’s arms Are round thy form entwined. ORATION Delivered at the democratic republican cele bration of the sixty-second anniversary of the independence of the United States, in the city of New York, 4th July, 1838, by Edwin Forrest, Esq. Fellow citizens —We are met this day to celebrate the most august event which ever constituted an epoch in the political annals of mankind. The ordinary occasions of public* festivals and rejoicings lie at an infinite depth below that which convenes us here. We the crimson field of war ; not to triumph in the acquisitions of rapine; nor to commemo rate the accomplishment of a vain revolution, which but substituted one dynasty ot tyrants lor another. No glittering display of military pomp and pride, no empty pageant of regal • grandeur, allures us hither. We come, not to daze our eyes with the lustre of a diadem, placed, with all its attributes of tremendous power,on the head ofa being as weak, as blind, as mortal as ourselves. We come, not to cele brate the birthday of a despot, but the birth day ot a nation ; not to how down in sense less homage before a throne founded on the prostrate rights of man ; but to stand up ereqt, in the conscious dignity of equal free dom, and join our voices in the loud acclaim, now swelling from the grateful hearts of sis- teen millions of fellow men. in deep acknow ledgement (or the glorious charter ol liberty our fathers this day proclaimed to the world. How simple, how sublime, is the occasion of our meeting! This vast assemblage is drawn together to solemnize the anniversary of an event which appeals, not to their senses nor to their passions, but to their reason; to triumph at a victory, not ot might, but of right; to rejoice in the establishment, not of physical dominion, but of an abstract propo sition. W e are met to celebrate the declara tion of the great principle of human freedom —that inestimable principle which asserts the political equality of mankind. We are met in honor of the promulgation of that charter, bv which we are recognised as joint sovereigns of an empire of freemen ; holding our sove reignty by a right indeed divine—by the im mutable, eternal, irresistible right of self-evi dent truth. We are met, fellow citizens, to commemorate the laying of the corner stone of democratic liberty. Threescore years and two have now elaps ed since our fathers ventured on the grand experiment of freedom ! The nations of the earth heard with wonder the startling no velty of the principle they asserted, and watched the progress of their enterprise with doubt and apprehension. The heart of the political philanthropist throbbed with anxiety for the result: the down-trod Jen victims of oppression scarce dared to lift their eyes in hope of a successful termination, while they kuew that failure would more strongly rivet their chains ; and the despots of the old world, from their ‘ bad eminences,’ gloomily looked on, aghast with rage and terror, and felt that a blow had been struck which loos ened the foundation gj their throtfes. lhe event illustrates what ample cause ‘uere was for the prophetic tremors which thrilled to the soul of arbitrary power. Time lias stamped the attestation of its signet on the success of the experiment, and the fabric then erected now stands on the strong basis of established truth, the mark and modeled the world. The vicissitudes of threescore ! years, while they have shaken to the centre ■ the artificial foundations of other Govern-1 meats, have but demonstrated the solidity of! the simple and natural structure of demo cratic freedom. The lapse of time, while it j dims the light of false systems, has continu-1 ally augmented the brightness of that which ; shines with the inherent and eternal lustre of; reason and justice. New stars, from year to j year, emerging with perlect radiance in the i western horizon, have increased the benig nant splendor of that constellation which now j shines the political guiding light of the world, j How grand in their simplicity are the ele mentary propositions on which our edifice of freedom is erected! A few brief, self-evident axioms, furnish the enduring basis of political ! institutions, which harmoniously accomplish 1 all the legitimate purposes of government to fifteen millions of people. The natural equa lity of man; the right of a majority to go- j veVn; their dirty so to govern as to preserve j inviolate the sacred obligations of equal ;us-’ ew but the protection social order, leaving | which bio’.vet h where e plain, eternal princi ;rs reared that temple whose dome their chil lav, to pour out their • the precious legacy, ing rock of truth the 2 we worship freedom; ting storm of time o’er the ruined sanes mighty fiend honors, and the blood, and there, has floated down , unshaken bv the beat j and only washed to the deluge that over ical fabrics. ty of those maxims on : proud arch of our confe s, embracing a hemis ives signal assurance of ility, which can withstand conflicts of opinion, and of time. Simplicity is the eristic of troth. Error r deformity in cumbrous iplicated envelopments, to ties in mazy labyrinths ol guise her purposes in oracu- | . But truth is open atf the j ct is radiant with candor; her ;ct and plain; her precepls ad -eauty, irresistible in force. The hentary principles of whatever is uabie to man are distinguished by ty. If we follow nature to her hiding , and wring from her the secret by Ji she conducts her stupendous operu .■ollß, we shall find that a few simple truths constitute the foundation of all her vast de- signs. If tve roam abroad into the fields of science, the same discovery will reward our investigations. Behold, for example, on what a few self-evident axioms is roared that sub lime and irrefragable system of mathematical reasoning, by means of which tnan propor tions the grandest forms of art. directs his course through the pathless wastes of ocean, or,ascending into the boundless fields of space,! tracks the comet in ils fiery path, and ‘ un winds the eternal dances of tiie sky.’ We are apt, in political applications, to con- j found simplicity with barbarism; but there is the simplicity of intelligence and refine ment, as well as the simplicity of ignorance and brutality. Simplicity is the end, as it is the origin, of social effort: it is the goal, as well as the starting post, on the course of na tions. Who that reads the lessons of history, or surveys the actual condition of mankind, with thoughtful eyes, does not perceive that, in religion and morals, in science and art, in taste, fashion, manners, every thing, simpli city and true refinement go forward hand in hand. As civilization advances, the gorgeous rites of an idolatrous faith, performed with pompous ceremonial before altars smoking with hecatombs of human victims, are suc ceeded by the simple and refined worship of a sublimer creed. The dogmas of an arro gant philosophy, full of crude arid contradic tory assumptions, are followed by the harmo nious discoveries of inductive reason. The grotesque and cumbrous forms of architec ture, glittering with barbaric pomp and gold, give place to the structures of a simpler and severer taste. Literature strips off’ her taw dry trappings of superfluous ornament, and rejecting the quaint conceits of cloistered rhetoricians, and their elaborate contortions of phrase, speaks to the heart in words that breathe the sweet simplicity of nature. Sim plicity is indeed the last achievement in the power of man. It is the ultimate lesson to he acquired before he can reach that state of millennial equality and brotherhood, which the inspiring precepts of democratic p’ iloso phy, not less than the sublime ethics of the Christian faith, teach us 1o hope may vet conclude, with an unsullied page, the crimv- To the genius of Bacon the world is in debted for emancipating philosophy from the subtleties of schoolmen, and placing her se curely on the frm basis of ascertained ele mentary troth, thence to soar the loftiest flights on the unfailing pinions of induction and analogy. To the genius of Jefferson— to the comprehensive reach and fervid patri otism of his mind—we owe a more momen tous obligation. What Bacon did for natural science, Jefferson did fi r political morals, that important branch of ethics which directly af fects the happiness of all mankind. He .snatched the art of government from thp hands that had enveloped it in sophisms and mysteries, that it. might be made an instru ment to oppress the many for the advantage of the lew. He stripped it of the jargon by which the human mind had been deluded into blind veneration for kings as the irrmie diate•vicegerents of God on earth ; and pro claimed in words of eloquent truth, which thrilled conviction to every heart, those eter nal self-evident, first principles of justice and reason, on which alone the fabric of govern ment should be reared. He taught those ‘ truths of power in words immortal’ you have this day heard ; words which bear the spirit of great deeds ; words which have sounded the death-dirge of tyranny to the remotest corners of the earth ; which have roused a sense of right, a hatred of oppression, an in tense yearning for democratic liberty, in a myriad myriad of human hearts; and which, reverberating through time like thunder through the sky, will, in the distance far away, Waken the slumbering ages. To Jefferson belongs, exclusively and for ever, the high renown of having framed the glorious charter of American liberty. To his memory the benedictions of this and all suc ceeding times are due for reducing the theory of freedom to its simplest elements, and in a few lucid and unanswerable propositions, es tablishing a groundwork on which men may securely raise a lasting superstructure, of na tional greatness and prosperity. But our fa thers, in the august assemblage of ’76. were prompt to acknowledge and adopt the solemn and momentous principles he asserted. With scarce an alteration—with noue that affected the spirit and character of the instrument, and with hut few that changed in the slight est degree* its verbal construction—they pub lished that exposition of human rights to the wort.l, as their Declaration of American In dependence; pledging to each other their fives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, j in support of the tenets it proclaimed. This j was the grandest, the most important expe riment, ever undertaken in the history of man. But they that entered upon it were not afraid of new experiments, if founded on the immu table principles of right, and approved hv the sober convictions of reason. There were not wanting then, indeed, as there are not wanting now, pale counsellors to fear, who would have withheld them from the course they were pursuing, because it tended in a direction hitherto untrod. But they were not to he deterred bv the shadowy doubts and timid suggestions of craven spirits, content j to be lashed forever round the same circle of | miserable expedients, perpetually trying anew ‘ the exploded shifts which had always proved ‘ lamentably inadequate hpfore. To such men, j toe very name of experiment is a sound of; horror. It is a which conjures up gor- j gons, hydras, and chimeras dire. They spem J not to know that all that is valuable in life — j that lhe acquisitions of learning, the discove- j ries of science, and the refinements of art — . are tne resint or experiment. It was experi- 1 inent that bestowed on Cadmus those keys ‘ of knowledge with which we nnloek the | treasure-houses o'immortal mind. It was experiment that taught Bacon'.'the’ Pfitiiitv of :!w G ccia n philosophy, and hit* to that; heaven-scaling method of investigation and analysis, on which science has safely climbed to the proud eminence where now she sits, dispensing her blessings on mankind. It was experiment that lifted Newton above ffie clouds and darkness of this visible diurnal sphere, enabling him to explore the sublime , mechanism of the stars, and weigh the planets |in their eternal rounds. It was experiment | that nerved the hand ot Franklin to snatch ; the thunder from the armory of heaven. It was experiment that gave this hemisphere to the woild. It was EXPERIMEN T that gave this continent FREEDOM. Let us not be afraid, then, to try experi- j ments, merely because they are new, nor lavish upon aged error the veneration due only to truth. Let us not be afraid to follow reason, however far she may diverge from the beaten path of opinion. All the inven tions which embellish life, all the discoveries which enlarge the field of human happiness, are but various results of the bold experimen tal exercise of that distinguished attribute of man. It was Ihe exercise of reason that taught our sires those simple elements of free dom on which they founded their stupendous structure of empire. The result is now be- fore mankind, not in the embryo form of doubtful experiment; not as the mere theory of visionary statesmen, or the mad project of hot brained rebels: it is before them in the beautiful maturity of established fact, attest ed by sixty-two years of national experience, land witnessed throughout its progress by an 1 admiring world ! Where does the sun, in all his compass, shed his beams on a country-, | freer, better, happier than this? Where does | he behold more diffused prosperity, more ac- I live industry, more social harmony, more i abiding faith, hope and charity ? Where are ! the foundations of private right more siable, i or the limits of public order more inviolatel.v | observed ? Where does labor go to the toil with an alerter step, or an erecter brow, ef fulgent with the heart-reflected light of con scious independence? Where does agricul ture drive his team a-field with a more cheery spirit, in the certain assurance that the har vest is his own? Where does commerce launch more boldly her bark upon the deep, aware that she lias to strive but with the ty ranny of the elements, and not with the more appalling tyranny of man ? True it is, that a passing cloud has occa sionally flecked the serene brightness of our horizon, and cast a momentary shadow on the earth ; and there are a sort of boding po litical soothsayers, who, with malignant alac rity of evil augurv, magnify each transient speck into a fearful harbinger of desolating tempests. But an empire, rock-founded as our own, on the adamantine basis of truth and universal equity, mocks the vain predic tions, and vainer aspirations, of those who either fear or wish its fall. What though the eager passions of men have sometimes broken through the restraints of order, and heady tumult, with precipitate hand, has seized the sword and scales of justice ? Did not the voice of reason instantly hush the cla morous shout of riot, and hasty anger abashed at his own intemperate act, restore the ra vished emblems, and bow with deference be fore the recovered dignity of the laws? But how pitiful—how worse than pitiful, the wretched aim of those, who gloat over these rare and transient ebullitions of tumul tuous rage as supplying an argument against the adequacy and benign effects of democra tic government! Have these revilers of the principle of liberty read the lessons taught by the history of the past; or have they consi dered the forceful admonitions .with which the present state of the other empires of the world is fraught ? If the mild spirit of equal laws, which derive iheir sanction immedi ately from those whom they affect, cannot wholly subdue the stormy passions of man. will they explain vvlift better form of political institutions has accomplished that result ? Methinks they turn, and with ready ges ture point to that monarchy from which this wards her with no unfilial glance. I rever ence England—with all her faults, I rever ence the.rnother of my country, and the great exampler of the world in arts, in arms, in sci ence, literature and song. I reverence her for the principles of civil liberty which she has scattered, ‘like flower seeds by the far winds sown,’over the whole surface of the globe. I reverence her for that she was the parent of Hampden and Sidney, of Bacon and Newton, of Milton and Shakspeare.— Yes ! though she drove our fathers from her shores with the accurspd scourge of political and religious persecution, and though, like an unnatural parent, site battled with her chil dren when they asserted the unalienable pre rogatives of humanity and nature. I reverence England. But let not mv eves he turned to where she sits in the swollen pride of aristo cratic grandeur, fi>r an example of that sys tem of .polity which can wholly reslrain the outbreaks of popular phrenzy. Behold, what fires are those which flash across her bor ders, and wrap them in the red and fumid wreath of conflagration? They are kindled hv the riotous and incendiary sons of agri culture, who, pushed bv want to the extreme verge of endurance, are now excited lit mad ness at the sight of art introducing her con trivances to render their labor superfluous, and snatch the scant crust from their famish ing mouths. But hark ! in another cinarter the hoarse roar of many voices is ascending, mingled with the crash of massive bodies, falling in shattered fragments to the earth. The tumult proceeds from the pale operatives of the manufactories, turning at last and rending the hands that degraded human na ture to the drudgery of brutes, without af fording it even the respite and nurture which brutes enjoy. And mark again, from yonder sea-port come the sounds of sudden fray. A press-gang, with the myrmidons of power at their backs, are in fierce conflict wilh Ihe populace. The latter contend desperately, for they are contending for the inestimable right of personal freedom. But see lhe guards in blood-red livery, (fit color for their sanguinary trade !) hasten forward to the field of action, and restore pence and order at the bayonet’s point. These are some of the scenes which a cursory glance over Eng land descries. The tremendous means of overawing man which a despotism exercises, may repress, for a while, the outward manifestations of human passion ; but, the mischief works not less surely that it, works concealed, and at last, j gathering strength superior to the resistance, i it bursts with an explosion the more terrific tor the delay. The dams and embankments of arbitrary power may, for a while, compel the stream of society to flow in a direction contrary to that of nature; but wider is the i havoc of the deluge, when the flood sweeps away its bounds, and gushes in wild torrents over the land. Happy, then, that country, whose simple polity places no restraint on opinion, which, freely expressing itself in the consfituted modes, continually confirms the institutions to the public will, and thus pre vents all occasion and excuse lor violent dis ruption and change. Compare the annals of iMs con fed a racy with those of any other na tion. and the beneficent influence of demo cratic liberty, in this respect, as in all others, will plainly appear. Can the political skeptic east his eyes over j ! his vast empire—can he look on the broad | bright face and sturdy form of popular free dom, and not find all his fine woven web of | speculative doubts of man’s capacity for self government. melt like brealh into the wind ? ft is hut threescore years since our national birthday dawned upon the earth. Look now abroad upon this populous land. Is this the continent, now resonant with the manv mingled hum of active file, which yesterday presented hut the scattered smoke of a few’ colonial settlements, curling licit and there from the dense foliage of a cbeeress, bound less, trackless wilderness ? \\ hence is de rived the strange activity which las wrought this cltange—so vast, so suddei, it almost makes the wildest tales of credible ? Whence? but from the inspiring influence ol equal democratic liberty, ‘ Yes, in the desert there is built a home For freedom. Genius is made strong to rear The monuments of man beneath the dome Os anew heaven. Myriads assemble there Whom the proud lords of man, in rage or fear, Drive from their wasted homes.’ No need of standing armies here, ‘ the hired bravoes that defend a tyrant’s throne,’ to protect the people in the secure enjoyment of their rights. No need of complicated guards and checks to keep the even balance of the law. No need of a portentous and unnatural union between things sacred and profane, to farce the unwilling consciences of men to worship God with rites their souls re ject. Here at last is discovered ihe grand political truth, that in the simplicity of gov ernment consists the strength and majesty ot the people; that as the contrivances ol state increase in complexity, those whom they af- ; feet are degraded and made wretched ; and that when the institutions of society snail con form to the beautiful simplicity ot nature, which does nothing in vain, then will man have attained the utmost limit of human feli city. In ihe progress of that great democra tic experiment, the origin of which we are met this day to celebrate, let us keep con- stantly in mind, that tlie sole end of govern- ; ment, consistent with the unalienable equality ! of human rights, and the greatest diffusion of j happiness, is the mere protection of men from ; mutual aggression, leaving them otherwise in unlimited freedom, to fallow their own pur- ; suits, express their own opinions, and prac tise their own faith. The day is past forever when religion could have feared the consequences of freedom. In what other land do so many heaven-pointing spires attest the devotional habits of the peo ple? In what other land is the altar more faithfully served, or its fires kept burning with a steadier lustre? Yet the temples in which vve worship are not founded on the violated rights of conscience, but e-.ected by willing | hands; the creed vve profess is not dictated j by arbitrary power, but is the spontaneous homage of our hearts; and religion, viewing the prodigious concourse of her voluntary followers, has reason to bless the auspicious influence of democratic liberty and universal toleration. She has reason to exclaim, in the divine language of Milton, ‘ though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, vve do in juriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and false hood grapple! for who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest sup pressing.” The soundness ol this glorious text of religious liberty has now been appro ved to the world by the incontestible evidence of our national experience, since it is one of those ‘columns ol true majesty s on which our political fabric stands. Let bigotry and in tolerance turn their lowering eves to our bright example, and learn the happy, thrice happy consequences, both to politics and re ligion, from placing an insuperable bar to thal incestuous union, from which, in other lands, such a direful brood of error’s monstrous shapes have sprung. Not less auspicious would he the result, if adhering closely to the avowed purposes and duties of democratic government, we should preserve an equal distance between politics and trade, confining the one to the mere pro tection of men in the uninfringed enjoyment of their equal rights, and leaving the other to he regulated hv enterprise and competition, according to those natural principles of eco nomic wisdom which will be ever found more just and efficient than the imperfect and arbi trary restraints of legislation. But above all, ‘et tis he cirofu]. bv no political interference with the pursuits or industry and improve ment, 1o violate that errand maxim of equality, on which, as on ils corner stone, the fabric of democratic freedom rests. That vve should frown indignantly on the first motion of an attempt to sunder one portion of t’ e union from anoiher, was the parting admonition of Washington ; hut with deeper solicitude, and more sedulous and constant care, should vve guard against a blow being aimed, no matter now light, or by what specious pretext de fended, against that great elementary princi ple of liberty, which, once shaken, thp whole structure will topple to the ground. Beware, therefore, of connecting government, as a partner or co-opera'or, with the affairs of trade, lest the selfish and rapacious spirit of trade should prove stronger than the spirit of liberty, and the peculiar advantage of the votaries of traffic should he regarded morp than ihe general and equal good of the vota ries of freedom. Yet deem me not governed bv a narrow sentiment of hostility to traffic. On the con trary, lam its friend. I regard it in all its k’gitimale influences as a benefactor of man kind. I regard it as the cultivator of amity between the distant portions of the globe, knitting Ihem together by a constant inter change of kindly offices in a thousand ties of intetest and affection. I regard it as shewing men their mutual dependence on each other, and cherishing a feeling of brotherhood for the whole human race. It explores every desert of the earth, and traverses every ocean, rescuing its continents and islands from the long night of ignorance and harharipm and bringing them within the blessed light of <hp dav-sfar of religion and civilization. Thp r ervor of equinoctial heal cannot relax nor the accumulated horrors of polar winter chill its hardy and elastic spirit of enterprite. It breaks through ihp sordid barriers which.” without its aid, would confine each being to his own narrow spot of earth, and makps the inhabitant of the most, tingenial climate a commoner of the world, bountifully suppl ing him uulh its various productions, arid open ing to him all its magazines of science, lite rature. and art. These are the achievements of traffic tinder the influence of its own sim- ple and salutary laws. But once violate the great principle of equality, once invest it with political immunities, and. from a henefartor. it becomes an oppressor of mankind, pervert ing the true end of government, snatching its advantages with a greedv and monopolizing hand, and leaving its burdens to fall with augmented weight on other necks. Beware, then, of bestowing under anv name, or for anv purpose, exclusive privileges on anv por tion of the people; for it is the nature of po ver to enlarge itself bv continual nggrega tioa. and like the snowball, which, hv its own motion, heronries an avalanche, and buries tie hamlet in ruins, it mnv fall, ere we dream j of danger, and crush us with its weight. If. in any respect, the great experiment whii h America has been trv ng before the world, has failed to accomplish the true end of government — 1 the greatest good of the greatest number’—it is only where she her selfhas proved rpereant to the fundamental article of her creed. If he have not prosper ed to the greatest possible extent compatible with the condition of humanity, if is because we have sometimes deviated, in practice, from the sublime maxim. ‘ that all men are j erpated free and equal, that they are endow-, ed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these are fife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If in no instance we have transgressed this axiom of demo cratic liberty, how is it that one man may freely perform what it is a crime for another to attempt? By what principle, accordant with equal rights, are the penal interdicti ns o 1 ’ (he law thrown across mv path, to shut me from a direction, which another may pur sue without fear or hinderance? Why are a few decorated with the insignia of charter- j ed privileges, and armed in artificial intan-; gibility, while the many stand undistinguish-j ed in the plain exterior of the natural man, ! with no forged contrivance of the ‘aw to shield them from the ‘shocks that flesh is heir tor’ Are these things consistent with the doctrine which teaches that equal protection j is the sole true end of government? that its restraints should hold all with equal obliga-! tion ? that its blessings, like the ‘ genile dews of heaven,’ should fall equally on the heads’ of all? It is one of the admirable incidents of de mocracy, that it tends, with a constant influ ence, to equalize the external condition of man. Perfect equality, indeed, is not within the reach of human effort. 1 Order is heaven’s first law. and this confest Some are and must be greater than the rest; More rich, more wise.’ Strength must ever have an advantage j over weakness; sagacity over simplicity;! wisdom over ignorance. This is according to the ordination of nature, and no institu- | lions of man cin repeal the decree. But the inequality of society is greater than the ine quality of nature ; because it has violated ihe first principle of justice, which nature herself has inscribed on the heart—the equality, not of physical or intellectual condition, but of moral rights. Let us then hasten to retrace our steps, wherein we have strayed from this golden rule of democratic government. This only is wanting to complete the measure of our national felicitv. There is no room to fear that persuasion to this effect, tho gh urged with all the power of logic, and all the captivating arts of rhelo rie, by lips more eloquent than those which address you now, will lead too suddenly to change. Great changes in social institutions, even of acknowledged errors, cannot he in stantly accomplished, without, endangering those boundaries of private right which ought to he held inviolate and sacred. Hence it happily arises, that the human mind enter tains a strong reluctance to violent transitions, not only where the end is doubtful, hut where it is clear as the light of day, aid beautiful as the face of truth; and it is only when the ills of society amount to tyrannous imposi tions, that, this aversion yields to a more powerful incentive of conduct. Then leaps the sword of revolution from its scabbard, and a passage to reformation is hewn out through blood. But how blest is our condi tion, that such a resort can never he needed. ‘ Peace on earth, and good will among men,’ are the natural fruits of our political system. The gentle weapon of suffrage is adequate for all the purposes of freemen. From the armory of opinion we issue forth in coat of mail more impenetrable than ever cased the limbs of warrior on the field of sanguinary strife. Our panoply is of surest proof, (or it is supplied bv reason. Armed with the bal lot, a hetter implement of warfare than sword of the ‘ icebro >k’s temper,’ we fight the sure fight, relying with steadfast faith on the in telligence and virtue of the ma jority to decide the victory on the side of truth. And should error for a while carry the field bv his strata gems, his opponents, though defeated, are not destroyed : they rally again to the conflict, animated with ihe strong assurance of the ultimate prevalence of right. ‘ Truth crushed to cartli shall rise again, The eternal years of GoJ are hers ; But error wounded writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.’ What bounds can the vision of the human mind descry to the spread of American great ness, if we but firmly adhere to those first principles of government which have already enabled us, in the infancy of national exis tenoe, to vie with the proudest of the century nurtured states of Europe? The old world is cankered with the diseases of political se nility, and cramped by tfie- long-worn fetters of tyrannous habit. But the empire of the west is in the bloom and freshness of being. lIS heart is unseroJ V,y (he prejudices rf i >m its intelligence unclouded by the sophisms of ages. From its borders, kissed by the waves of ihe Atlantic, to ‘ The continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashing ;’ from the inland oceans of the north, to the sparkling surface of the tropical sea, rippled by breezes laden with the perfumes of eternal summer, our vast theatre of national achieve ment extends. What a course is here for ihe grand race of democratic liberty ! Within ttiese limits a hundred millions of fellow be ings may find ample room, and verge enough to spread themselves and grow up to their natural eminence. With a salubrious clime to invigorate them with health and a generous soil to nourish them with food ; witli the press —that grand embalmer not of the worthless integuments of mortality, but of the offsprings of immortal mind—-to diffuse its vivifying and ennobling influences over them; with those admirable results of inventive genius to knit them together, by which space is deprived of its power to bar the progress of improvement and dissipate the current of social amity; with a political faith which acknowledges, as its 1 undamental maxim, the golden rule of Christian ethics, ‘do unto oi hers as you would have them do unto you:’ with these means, and the Constantly increasing disunity of cha racter which results from independence, what bounds can be set to the growth of American greatness? A hundred millions of happy people! A hundred millions ofco-sovereiuns, recognizing no law, but the recorded will of a majority : no end of law, hot mutual and equal good ; no superior, but God alone ! Abolition Patriotism. —‘ What is the Un ion worth to Abolitionists?’ said a reverend agitator at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention held in Boston. What are the memorials of that Union, and the Indepen dence fiom which it sprung, worth to the Abolitionists? Hear what their leader, Gar rison, says, in the exordium of Ins add ess, delivered on the 4lh of July at Marlboro’ chapel, Boston. 1 Felloic citizens— What a glorious day is this! Y\ hat a glorious people are we ! This is the time-honored, tcine-honored, toast drinking, nowder-wasling, tyrant-killing,) fourth ol July—consecrated, for the last six ty years, to bombast, to falsehood, to impu dence, to hypocrisy. It is the great carni val of republican despotism, and of Christian impiety famous the world over. Lord Brougham and the United States • — i ‘ I know,’ said Ins lordship, in the House of Lords, on the 2d ol’February last, ‘ the good sense which generally speaking prevails among the people of America, the sound po licy which for the most part guides thecoun l cils of its government. Long may that poli cy continue ! Long may that great Union last! Its endurance is of paramount impor tance to the peace of the world, to the best interests of humanitv, to the general im | provement of mankind !’ A democratic celebration of the 4fh took piace at Granby, Conn, at which about 100 ladies, sat down to the table with the gentle- : men. Several of the ladies gave spicy politi cal toasts. I'lie following is a very pleasant hit at our President for continuing a widower: I By a lady. Maitin Van Buren —While laboring for the preservation of the Ameri can Union, may be not be unmindful that upon carrying out the principle depends his domestic happiness.’ Taking it Coolly. —On the occasion of the j recent earthquake in Missouri, a couple who were quietly sleeping in their bed were some what disturbed. ‘What’s that?’ said the wife. ‘ Only an earthquake,’ returned the husband, as he dtowsily turned over, and re-| signed himselfagain to the arms of Morpheus. ‘ SENTINEL & HERALD. ~ coijjmlujs, augUS'r 9, isss. UNION CONG ft KSSIONAL TICKET. ALFRED IVERSBN, of Muscogee. ROBERT W. POOLER, of Chatham. JOSIAH S. PATTERSON, of Early. DAVID CAMPBELL, of Bibb. JUNIUS HILLYER.’ of Clark. CHARLES H. NELSON, of Cherokee. B. GRAVES, of Newton. J. G. McWHORTER, of Richmond. gen. JOHN W. BURNEY, of Jasper. PUBLIC MEETING. According to previous notice, a large por tion of our fellow-citizens of Muscogee coun tv assembled at the store ol Gapt. Joseph Coleman, on the Ist instant, for the purpose of nominating candidates to represent the county in the approaching Legislature. We were pleased to see so large an assem blage of the Democracy of the country, and Iso much harmony of feeling prevail among them. They were alive upon ihe great ques tions which are agitating the people, both general and local, especially on the subject of State Bonds. Those who advocate that measure, with a view to grant exclusive fa vors to corporate bodies, instead of having the Slate to do the works of Internal Improve ments for the benefit of the whole, will find that the Democracy of Muscogee will not sustain them. Two of the candidates who were nomi nated addressed the meeting, .giving their views and opinions at large upon the great questions of ttie day. We were charmed with the soul-stirring and eloquent speech of our fellow-citizen, J. P. H. Campbell, E^q.; he was followed by Col. J. L. Lewis, who, in a clear and for cible manner, gave his views upon the im portant measures now presented before his fellow-citizens. The sentiments of these gen tlemen were received by the warm and una nimous acclamations ol the assembly. The following are the proceedings of the meeting. Long may the sentiments contain ed in the resolutions continue to animate the Democracy of Muscogee. The meeting was organised by calling the Honorable Joseph Sturgis to the chair, and appointing J. 13. Webb Secretary. The ob ject of the meeting having been explained by the chairman, J. M. Guerry, Esq. then offered the following: Resolved, That a committee of thirteen he appointed, to select anu recommend to this meeting a suitable ticket to represent the County of Muscogee in the next Legislature. Whereupon the chair appointed the fol lowing gentlemen : Messrs. Guerry, Cobh, Jones, Benning, Delony, McCooke, P. T. Schley, B. V. Iverson, Helmes, Thorn, T. Howard. Glenn, and Grier. This committee, after retiring a short time, returned and presented to the consideration of the meeting the following ticket: For Senate. J. P. H. CAMPBELL. For House of Representatives, JOHN L. IIARP, JOHN L. LEWIS. The ticket was unanimously received, and duly nominated as the Democratic Anti-Bond ticket of Muscogee county. Dr. Delony then offered the following preamble and resolutions, which were read rtinl unanimously adopted : Whereas, We hold the established doctrine, ‘that majorities must govern,’ as one of the vital principles of our republic. And, where as, we believe it essentially binding upon the public servant to act in direct accordance with the known and expressed will of his con stituents. Resolved, That we will cordially unite in giving our zealous aid and support to the candidates this day nominated, unanimously, bv this meeting, to represent the county of Muscogee in the next General Assembly of Georgia. Resolved , That we are opposed to all mo nopolies, created by legislative enactments, and that such legislation is a palpable usur pation of power, violative of the fundamental principles of our republican institutions. Resolved, That under the protection of the broad canopy of our Constitution, the poor man is guaranteed all the rights, privi leges and immunities of the rich. That they who would attempt to abridge those rights, by the assumption of powers attained through the corrupting influence of money, are ty rants at heart, and unworthy the confidence of a free and patriotic people. Resolved , That we are in favor of the works of Internal Improvement by the State, as a State measure; but that the power, claimed for the State, of issuing her bonds to loan out, among corporate bodies of men, whereon to borrow money for carrying on these works, under their own control, and for their own benefit, is diametrically opposed to every principle of reason and justice, subver sive of *he broad ground of equal rights and privileges, and destructive to the liberties of the people. On motion the meeting then adjourned sine die. JOSEPH STURGIS, Chairman. J. B. Webb, Secretary. MORE INDIAN MURDERS. The Darien Telegraph of the 31st of July, I stales that two families were murdered in Ware county, Georgia, bv the Indians. The family of Mr. Wilde on the 17th ultimo, and that of Mr. John Davis on the 24th, not more than twenty-five miles from Wavnesville.— Mr. Davis was formerly a member of the Georgia Legislature. The murders were . committed by five Indians, whose trail was i followed into the Okefenoke swamp, where from every sign and symptom the neighbors were of opinion there must have been from four to five hundred Indians. In Ware and Camden counties great excitement prevailed, and a meeting of citizens was to he held on the subject. When will these bulcheries come to an end ? W hen will the suffering inhabitants of Florida find rest? Humanity weeps over their misfortunes —religion mourns for their sorrows, but still their wrongs go unredressed, and their sufferings unabated ! Oh ! what a miserable farce was that Se minole tear! The nullification presses in this State are opposed to Clay and Van Boren both. Tbev must be ‘ holding back for a bite’—wonder if they’ll take up George Kremer—old honest George —he is an available man, and fond of sour crout. M. L. Davis, Esq. the biographer of Col. Burr, is preparing for the press Mr. Burr’s private Journal in France. The New York Courier & Enquirer says it will contain much of importance and amusement. BANK POWER. There are doubtless many of our reader* who are still ignorant of the immense and dangerous monied and political influence which was exercised by the old United State* Bank, during its reign of horror. We are anxious that they should be enlightened and informed on that subject, for seeing ‘a* through a glass darkly,’ they will continue unbelievers to the end of time ; but when the noonday sun blazes around them, they may be convinced of the optical delusion under which they have labored, and beholding the naked truth, will probably understand and believe. The Mobile Examiner lias shown the subject up so exactly to suit our notions, and as we believe in the pure I’rghi of truth, that we adopt its article into our own edito rial with pleasure, nd beg all bank men to give it a serious and attentive perusal. ‘ In popular elections, in courts of justice, and in the halls of legislation, the pernicious influence ol banking may be felt; corrupting alike the public officer and the private citizen, and subverting the morals, as il has destroy ed the business of the community. The fol lowing statement, extracted from the report of the congressional committee, will throw fonr.e light on ihe means used bv the Bank of ihe United States to perpetuate its exis tence, and admonish the people of the necessi ty of dissolving all connection between gov ernment and hanking, if they would preserve their liberties and be represented by honest men: In the year IS3O, the United Stales Bank loaned to fifty members of Congress, $192,161 In 1831, to fifty-nine members, 3-22,196 In 1832, to filjy-four members, 478,766 In 1833, to filly-three members, 374,766 In 1834, to fifty-two members, 238,586 It paid printer Webb & Noah by loan, 52,865 “ Hording’s loan, 31,916 “ Gales &, Seaton’s loan, 52,370 Walsh’s loan, 6,541 “ Wilson’s (in pari) 4SB “ “ (balance in fees) 1,447 Lawyer Clay’s fees, 40,000 Webster’s fees and luans, 58,000 “ Sergeant’s 40.000 “ Johnston’s 30,000 “ Poindexter’s 10,000 To 12 individuals only, $320,837 ‘ W ell might Henry Clay declare that the ‘ bank would buy up politicians like cattle in the market'.’ It has done so; and among the rest has apparently bought the distin guished orator himself. When virtue so ex alted as his yields to the seductions of wealth, what have we to hope for from men of less pretensions? Let the people beware! Es tablish ihe great fifty million hank, whose operations are to embrace the whole Union, and we may yet preserve some of the exter nal forms of republicanism ; but we will most certainly lie ruled by irresponsible bank di rectors—let the people examine and decide.’ Here’s corruption for you ; nor does it ap pear in any questionable shape; it is tangible, and shaking its gory locks at republicanism, might have frightened her from her home in the hearts of a virtuous people, but for the unbending integrity and stern patriotism of Andrew Jackson. Two millions of dollars to buy a Bank Charter! Look at it, Union Bank men. PIOW BLOWS THE WIND? In Utica, JYew For A;, there is published an abolition paper entitled the Friend of Man ; from that paper, of July 11, ive make the following extract: ‘ But it is not at the option of abolitionists whether they shall acl politically on this qui-stion or nol, unko.i 111-. y will dmli dliullise themselves, abjure the right of suffrage, and abandon the,polls entirely to the sway of the files of freedom—and would this co irse, or rather this no course, this Great-O-in-the middleisrn, be right? If we vote at all, wo must act on this question politically, eilher for or against. J here is no dodging it. Po liticians must understand that the question is past praying for. Abolition has been politi cally attacked. Van Boren has pledged the power of his veto to the cause of wages stealing.’ Here is an open avowal, on the part of the abolitionists, to act ‘ politically , either for or against.'’ If then they are found in the field, fiercely battling, under whose banner may vve presume they will rally ? Certainly not under Mr. Van Burei.,for they complain that lie ‘ has pledged the power of his veto to the cause of wages-stealing .’ Mr. Clay is fairly in the field as the opponent of Mr. Van Buren, and will undoubtedly be the nnlv competitor of the latter for the Presidency; under the banner of Mr. Clay then the-abo litionists must rally, for they hate the present administration ‘ with a perfect hatred.’ If the South consents to unite with the abo litionists, in the support of any man, then they may prepare for a worse amalgamation than white and black. FORREST’S ORATION. We publish to-day the eloquent and mas terly production of this gentlemen, delivered by him on the fourth of July, at the Broad way Tabernacle in the city of New York, to a multitude composed of some six thousand persons. The oration speaks for itself, and we com mend it to the especial notice of our friend of the Enquirer, who squibbed at it in a style so ur,courtly. If its perusal does not make him blush for his small paragraph, we shall sus pect that he dozes in the Ice House. Branch Retreat. — In addition to the cool ing shade and pleasant pastimes of this rural place, the enterprising proprietors a lew days since served up a Turtle Soup after the most approved style of Epicurus—a la JViblo. — Would any learn how to cater, let him con sult James. Amongst all the tasty and vo luptuous pamperers of the appetite in the South, Jaincs stands preeminent—he is ‘ cock of the walk.’ Y\ onder how he cooks ai> English Rabbit. W c are not very fond of them. A warm bath at Sullivan's is worth more than ten pounds of Epsom , arid oh so much more delightful—and the shoicer hath will so pleasantly ‘ shock your modesty,’ that vou will feel the glow upon your cheek, and your blood will rush along your veins as the strong, swift waters of Chattahoochee. ‘Bathing is both delightful and healthy.’ Dr. Physic. The Springs. —The Warm, White Sul pher, Indian and Madison Springs, in this State, are all, we learn, well attended. The V irginia Springs are crowded, and Saratoga clustering with beauty and fashion. We are indebted to Messrs. Duwscn and Pickens for public documents. — Enquirer. Read them, neighbor, and you will consi der the account balanced.