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THE WASHINHTOHIEK.
ifjr.tfSTA. MAY 3,1 815.
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EDITORIAL COMMITTEE.
Rpv. W. T. BuavtiaY, Dr. D. Floqk,
“ \V. J. Haki>, J>mes Hahpkh, Esq,
*' C. S. Don, A. W. Noel, Esq.
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haps the only cause, is easily come at.
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earned. The Publisher.
Temperance Meeting Postponed.
In consequence of the Pic Nic taking
plnco on Thursday night last, the meet
ing of the Temperance Society which
was announced in our paper of last Sat
urday to take place on the same evening,
was necessarily postponed to next Thurs
day night. It will be needless we hope, lo
repeat our earnest appeals to members
nnd citizens to encourage by their pres I
ence, so good and glorious a cause. We |
arc not exacting too much when we aski
their aid in this way, nor do we feel that i
they are at all alive to one of tho com-'
moncst, plainest and most simple of
those duties they are called on to per
form. We mean the pleasure of doing
good to oneself and toothers at the same
time, and (hat too in away that cannot
possibly cost mor# than an hour or so of
time. Stay away if you will; but may
you never have cause to repent your
conduct.
Ilaiu Wanted.
We have had a most extraordinary
drought for the season of the year.—
April has come and gone •without a show
er falling upon our dusty, dried up—
parched up streets. How much longer
this state of things may last we cannot
foretell, but if we are allowed a Yankee
privilege, we “.guess” it will be some
time yet—though we “ reckon” others
are as wise about tho weather as ourself,
and may think differently.
Virginia University.
Some ot the \ irginia papers gave an
account of a serious rebellion in the a
bove Institution of learning, but a few
days ago; and so serious was the out
break that it was thought that the Pro
fessors would resign and the duties of the
University be suspended for a time.
Hanpily, however, things did not go to
such extremes, as it now appears that aii
difficulties have been settled and the stu
dents have returned to their studies.—
Such rebellions in our literary institu
tions must always be looked for. They
have their origin in the very complex
ion of our political governments.
Never has there been a time in this
country perhaps, when there could have
been a greater need of the assistance of
the friends of the Temperance cause,
than at the present crisis. The present
position of our country in her foreign re
lations is such, that none, the wisest and
most sagacious can foresee, much less
foretell what change that position may
assume in a very short space of time.—
The wise heads and pure hearts of the j
country will, most likely, soon have to ;
decide upon the gravest and most impor- j
taut of all questions which can affect na
tions and individuals; the question, we j
mean, of peace or war. Our position j
with Texas may prove to us exceedingly j
embarrassing, and Mexico with a deep !
sighted policy, instigated and urged to it
by a foreign influence unfriendly to us,
may take a course with Texas which can
not but tend to defeat the anticipations
of a large and respectable portion of the
citizens of the United States and of that
country. This stroke of policy on the,
part of Mexico (o which we allude, is the
recognition of the indepenccnce of Tex
as, before the question ot annexation
shall have been agreed to by both gov
ernments and the act consummated.—
The Texas National Register of the 10th j
of April says that there is “ very little |
doubt that Mexico will make speedy over-1
(tires for the final settlement of all ques-!
tions of dispute between the two coun
tries, on the basis of independence.” If
this be so, and we anticipate such poli-j
cy, it may well become us to reflect upon j
its future results, now and for time to j
come. Again:
Our position with the Brazillian gov- :
ernment is quite a delicate affair, —dif-
fering from all others in this, that with
her it is not a question of territorial ag
grandizement, or of gold and silver; but
one involving national honor and nation
al rights. Tho settlement of questions
of this character, wo all know, has sel
dom ended in mere smoke, without the
usual accompaniment of leaden balls.
Nor is our position w-ith our old nc.
quaintnnee John Bull less serious. It is
too plain to admit of doubt, that nothing
short of a compromising spirit adroitly
managed by both parties, can ward off a j
most serious collision between tho too
governmets. Without this, war is an in
evitable result.
If then our foreign relations with Tex
as, with Mexico, the Brazils and the
British Government are of this charac
ter, where shall we look for the defenders
of our liberties? Among those most ca
pablo of undergoing the fatigues of the
camp —the perils of exposure, and whose 1
heads would be always clear, and whoso
hearts always warmed up by the love of
country; to those whose temperance
was a sure guaranteo that our liberties
were in the keeping of safe and sober
men. Upon such and such only can we
confidently rely for success. To such,
the country will never hesitate to look up
to, and upon such has she always de*
pended for her safety.
1
Extra Congress.
The President of Texas has issued his
proclamation calling an extra session of
Congress, for the purpose principally, of
taking into consideration the subject of
annexation. Time will soon devclope
the result of a measure, which decided
any way must materially affect both our
own, and our sister Republic in their do
j mestic, as well as foreign relations. For
the present, we must be content to await
these results.
There is a negro in our city who says
he never wants a ticket after bell-ringing;
he is so black that the watchmen cant
sec him as he passes them.
Bowery Theatre Burnt.
This ill-fated building was consumed
by fire, say the New Y'ork papers, on the
24th April. Other buildings in the vi
cinity were also destroyed, though not
to any great extent. This is the fourth
time that a Theatre haß been burnt on
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this very same spot. We learn, also,
that ample facilities for arresting the fire
were attached to the Theatre, but all to
no purpose. It may be from these facili
i ties being so convenient and ample, that
no insurance was made on the building.
The Sarcophagus.
The following correspondence is spread
before our readers, that they may learn
a lesson of Republican simplicity from
one whose earthly career must soon ter
! minate. Let it be a beacon and ales
! son to those who are to come after us,
that they see, like the patriot Jackson,
| that the Republic suffers no detriment.
! “ I cannot,” says this patriot, “ permit my
! remains to be the first in the United
■ States to lie deposited in a sarcophagus
J made for an Emperor or a King.” Who
shall be after this! The genus of liber
ty would weep over such a votary at her
shrine. The spirit of the departed he
roes and patriots of our country would
rebuke sucli hollow-hearted ambition.
Gentlemen: The interest which the
National Institute has been pleased to
take in the eventual bestowment of the j
remains of the honored Andrew Jackson
in the sarcophagus which 1 brought from
abroad; and deposited in your institute,
makes it my business now to communi
cate to you a copy of his letter of the
27th ultimo, lately received, on that sub
ject.
With sentiments so congenial to his
strict republican ism-"and in accordance,
indeed, with the republican feelings com
mon to ourselves--he takes the ground of
repugnance to connecting his name and
fame in any way with imperial associa
tions.
We cannot but honor the sentiments
which have ruled his judgment in the
case ; for they are such ns must add to j
the lustre of his character. Wc sub
scribe to them ourselves ; and. while we
yield to their force, wc may still be per
mitted to continue our regard to the en
during marble, as to an ancient and clas
sic relic--*a curiosity in itself, and partic
ularly in this country, as the first of its
kind seen in our western hemisphere.
From it we would deduce the moral,
that, while we would disclaim the pride,
pomp and circumstance of imperial pa
geantry as unfitting our institutions and
professions, we would sedulously cherish
the simpler republican principle of repo
sing our fame and honors in the hearts
and affections of our countrymen.
I have now, in conclusion, to say that,
as the sarcophagus was originally pre
sented with the suggestion of using it as
above mentioned, I now commit it wholly
to the institute as their own and sole
property, exempt from any condition. I
am, very respectfully, yours, &c.
Jesse Duncan Elliott.
To the President and Directors of the i
National Institute, at Washington.
Hermitage, March 27, 1815.
Dear Sir. —Your letter of the 18th
instant, together with the copy of the
proceedings of the National Institute, fur
nished me by their Corresponding Sec
retary, on the presentation by you, of the
sarcophagus for their acceptance, on con
dition it shall be preserved, and in honor
j of my memory, have been received and
: arc now before me.
Although laboring under great debili
| ty and affliction, from a severe attack
: from which I may not recover, I raise
|my pen and endeavor to reply. The
steadiness of my nerves may perhaps
lead you to conclude my prostration of
strength is not so great as here expressed.
Strange as it may appear, my nerves are
' as steady as they were forty years gone
' by ; whilst, from debility and affliction,
i I am gasping for breath,
j I have read the whole proceedings of
I the presentation, by you, of the sarco
! p/ingus, and the resolutions passed by the
boatd of directors, so honorable to my
fame, >vith sensations and feelings more
easily to be conjectured than by me ex
pressed. The whole proceedings cali
i for my most grateful thanks, which are
hereby tendered to you, and through you
to the President aud Directors of the
National Institute. But with the warm
est sensations that can inspire a grateful
heart, I must decline accepting the hon
or intended to be bestowed. I cannot
consent that my mortal body shall be
laid in a repository prepared for an em
peror or a king. My republican feeiings
'and principles forbid it; the simplicity
of our system of government forbids it.
Every monument erected to perpetuate
the memory of our heroes and states
men ought to bear evidence of the econ
my and symplicity of our republican in
stitutions, and the plainness of our re
publican citizens, who are the sovereigns
of our glorious Union, and whose virtue
is to perpetuate it. True virtue cannol
exist where pomp and parade are the
governing passions, it can only dwell
with the people—the great laboring ane
* : % & ■
producing classes form the bone and sin
ew of our confederacy.
For these reasons I cannot accept the t
'honor you and the president and direc
| tors of the National Institute intended to 1
j bestow. I cannol permit my remains to
be the first in these United States to be
deposited in a sarcophagus made for an
I emperor or a king. I again repeat, please
i accept for yourself, and convey to the!
I president and directors of the National
Institute, my most profound respects for j
i the honor you and they intended to be- j
, stow. I have prepared a humble depos- j
I itory for my mortal body beside that j
1 wherein lies my beloved wife, where
| without any pomp or parade, I have re-1
quested, when my God calls me to sleep
I with my fathers, to be laid ; for both of j
us there to remain until the last trumpet
i sounds to call the dead to judgment,
j when we, 1 hope, shall rise together,
clothed with that heavenly body promised 1
j to all who believe in our glorious Re
deemer, who died for us that we might
j iive, and by whose atonement I hope for |
; a blessed immortality-
I am, with great respect,
Your friend and fcllow-cititen.
ANDREW JACKSON.
To Com. J. I). Elliott, !.
United States Navy.
The sarcophagus is of marble, and was | i
brought from Beyroot, in Syria, by Com. j:
Elliott, having contained the remains of j i
Julia Hammila, who was Queen Regent j i
of Rome during the minority of her son,
Alexander Serverus. It is about six feet i
in height and eight in lengths—similar in '
form to a plain cottage; the roof two
feet and a half from the ridgepoint to '
the eaves, above which the coiners pro
ject nearly a foot, and arc rounded uni-; 1
vcrsally The four sides are hieiogliph- 1 1
ically embellished with representations of I !
serpents, festoons of fruit, heads sur- 1
mounted by wings, ox heads, human fig-; '
ures, etc.; and the front portion of the! 1
roof also presents two rough and unfin- 1
islied forms of men, in a recumbent pos
ture. Tlie sarcophagus is broken in sev- (
eral places, and a mere glance, without
being specifically told, demonstrates that '
it lias seen much service. To the living 1
it seems anv thing but a desirable place
for the dead. ■
A Word to the Inactive.
There is, at the present time, an un- '
accountable and reprehensible reluctance
on the part of leading and influential
citizens including some of the clergy
and other professional gentlemen, to take
hold and push forward the temperance
enterprise. From some cause—either
through indifference, or disgust, or wea
riness—many of those who, a few years
since, were foremost in the work, have
retired from the field, while less able,
Icssjutlicious, and less influential individ- i
uals are striving, with limited means and j
crippled powers, to do what little they
can, to arrest the progress of this mon-1
| strous vice, which threatens notwith- j
; standing all our efforts, to desolate our j
, land with its unutterable and loathsome
abominations. j:
Our enemies, encouraged by the sus- j
pended decision of the Supreme Court of
the nation respecting the constitutionali
ty of our License Laws, and by the ap
parent appathy of leading and influen-|
tial temperance men, are making a bold ;
and vigorous effort to regain their lost !
power, and with an effrontery worthy of
the Arch Devil himself, arc opening their
fountains of poison by the road-side and,
at the corners of our streets, to impov- i
erish, brutalize and kill our fathers, our
brothers and our sons. Already do the
fires of the distillery burn with an inten
ser heat, and the dealers in the damning ,
liquor ply their trade with double dili-!
gence, while the victims of intemperance |
multiply like the frogs of Egypt, and do- |
mestic wretchedness fills the houses of;
the poor, crime our prisons, and disease '
, our hospitals. No one, who has watch
, ed the progress of this reform, can hesi
! tate, for a moment, to declare that intem
perance, in our cities and larger towns
especially, is fearfully on the increase,
! this curse of curses will spread, like a ;
foul cancer, over the republic.
What shall be done to arrest this aw
ful scourge ? Let the community be ful
ly informed of the terrible results of the
abominable traffic. Let the press utter
its warning voice. Let it penetrate ev
i ery dwelling in the land, till all the in
habitants thereof, from the extreme East
to the farthest West, shall be made to
feel that something must he done, and
; that immediately, to deliver the nation
from the remorseless grasp of this relent
! let's tyrant; till the concurrent voice of
| aiJ ihe friends, old and new, shall be
| heard, saying: “We will unite in the
destruction and utter overthrow of this
fierce monster of uncounted heads.”—
• Let those who love their country; who
; take an honest pride in her institutions,
i civil, literary and religious; who would
t see America preeminent among the na
; tions of the earth—the fountain head of
1 intelligence, morality and every Chris
-1 tian virtue—the glory of the whole
earth—her escutcheon without n stain
join heart and voice and hand in this no
| bie enterprise.
What though some of the reformed
men have introduced into their lectures
disgusting details, and dealt in epithets
denunciatory of the clergv and the ear
| Her advocates of the cause, this ought
not to prevent its true friends from giving
it the whole weight ot their influence.
He who loves the cause should manifest
i that love, by self-denying labors, amid
opposition and reproach. True, his ser
i v ‘ ces ma }' not be appreciated ; his mo
' tives » eve n, may be impugned, but
| let him not be disheartened bv these
1 things. Let him show to the world that
he is governed by higher moral princi
\ p! e > that he loves his fellow men more
than he fears the censure of the envious,
the prejudiced and the inconsidernte;
that he looks beyond the present to the
future, and sees the reward of his sacrifi
ces and toils in the improved physical
and moral condition of his fellow men.
Thus let him think and act, and an im
pulse, like that which sent the orbs of
light careering on their eternal pathway,
will be given to this heavenly cause,
while present and unborn generations
shall walk in the brightness of its glory,
till this earth, which has so long groaned
under the weight of this awful curse, shall
smile and bloom in the brightness of a
second Eden, and the sons and daughters
of men dwell in bowers of bliss and drink
from the gushing fountain of Heaven's
distillation, rejoicing in the boon.—
Temp. Standard.
Tile Itazor Strop Man.
No mortal, since the famous * Lozengo
man,’ has created half so much sensa
tion as the ‘Razor Strop Man.’ ‘What
sort of a man is he ?’ * lie’s a humbug,
aint he?’ ‘Where'd he come from?’—
‘ He’s a Yankee, aint he ?’ ‘ He’s a hard
case, I recon.’ ‘They say he’s a keen
fellow.” ‘Where can 1 sec him?’—
‘Where does he hold forth ?’ ‘What
docs he say ?’ ‘ How does he look ?’
The foregoing may serve as specimens
of the many questionings and surmises of
the populace during the last few days.—
Every body wants to see the 4 Razor
Strop Man,’ and hear more about him.
Well, we can’t undertake to answer one
half of the queries; but we will endeav
or to answer some of them.
First of all—we feel warranted in say
ing that he is no ‘humbug’ in any sense.
Were lie such, our readers well know we
should not hesitate to blow him tip. But
to the contrary, he is a sensible, modest,
and well-behaved man, who, unlike hum
bugs, pretends to be less than what he is.
Henry Smith is an Englishman by
birth, about thirty years of age, and quite
good looking enough for a * respectable
merchant,’ as he sometimes styles him
| self. His birth place is Waltham Ab
bey, twelve miles from London. He
j was born in the year 1815. His origi
| lial trade was that of a calico-printer.
But, it seems, he had not been long at
the trade before he became fond of
strong drink; and, to use his own lan
guage, like all men with brains, be soon
became a drunkard. He was subsequent
ly brought to bis senses, by the speech
of a reformed inebriate, named Whita
| ker, and became a good teetotaller. It
I would amuse as well as instruct any one,
| to hear him tell how he went to the meet
-1 mg in a borrowed coat, through whose
j sleeves his arms stuck our so far that he
had to hide them in his breeches pockets !
He himself thus describes the joyful se
| quel:
“ When the meeting was over, I told
my wife I would try it for a month. I
i did, and at the end of the month I found
! myself much more comfortable. When
[ was a drunkard, Wife cried, Father cri
i ed, Mother cried, John cried, Ann cried,
j Mary cried, Ted cried ; but I had been a
' temperance man only a month before
Wife sung, Father sung, Mother sung,
j John sung, Ann sung. Mary sung, Ted
! sung, Grandfather sung, and I sung ; and
; l bought a frying pan and I put it on the
fire, and put a good stake in it, and that
is the singing for a working man when
|he is hungry. Finding myself much
better, I went and signed the pledge for
life, and I hope I shall hold on.
In January, 1842, the man that I work
ed for wanted to lower my wages, the
same as he had done many a time, when
he knew men could not help themselves.
At this time we only got half what we
used to get nine years ago, and not so
much work; I made up rny mind not to
submit to such tyranny any longer; so I
' left for this country on the 18th of Janu
ary, ’42; when I landed, and made in
> quiries about my trade, I found it to be
! very dull, not half the factories employed,
i Weil I thought I must look after some
• thing else ; I fell in with a man that
» wanted a Carver, at a Temperance
, House, in New York: I took the place;
I here I fell in .with a man that sold Razor
■ Strops; he told me that I might get a
f first rate living selling his good Streps ;
- so I took two dozen, commenced selling
3 in Wall street, knowing it to be a great