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f PGS^_RY- ’iiti.i.- M(.'trr,](oilUiii M;»ga/hic. I iirsiiii; V iiHA«s-(sno\VN TitM':. 'A E '.I !v_'v;.!c ;i ;^r;iss-^ro\vii 'I !.• uiitvr.nu s ia uas linijfrini,'' ttu ii, '.•tTi Ai.h jjuriin'j;' r;iy iho jrlmj’ii 'I h;.*. tluvk st qvii sti rM \iid ;J1 W..S calm aiul sllil Wlio ;(;uiul us sk j't thtIr ii. posc. ’ ;nuisM ; slu- rcsti-J on *.ny arm, And vais.-a !u r jr. nilo . \ t s (*:i ii.ino ; Aiiil I r’KirV. Iitr !u ;mt\'s rli;.rm, J.css bii‘4!i'. tliau it v\a-> wont, to sliinc'; J{ri"lit u:i> ll 'till ;—but il had Cii bvig-l.liK's!. lhau of t( !Ki.rn(. ss. «), dcart-r serins tliat still, Moro tliiirms tliat Idik'soiiu- dell adorn, Than ;ill the poniT) oi'c'alc and liill, Irradiate w itli tiic },^oUten nuini; Mure dcartli it iin. laiicluily y;ue, Thau all her bV.uk s iu hriiiliti. r da\j. f g'ui'ss i!ut, (1-ari.st Ainialu l, 1I(jw cabt ni;> hit on euriii ?nay he; heaven alone cum tell .i.it liuks (ir parts our i'.t stii.y ; Yet ean I oft unlearn to grieve, Vj\ thinkiujj on that autuiun i v'o. So deeply, chiquontlv inihl. The pure, calm li;.ji t tliiuu cyc-bcam shed. It secruM as tho’ an aiiL"' l snill’d, \ndt(ild oi'hopes, uhlnulteil To tliU lou wcri'l, so drear ami cold-- Ktcriial, IjouiulleS't, luauitbld' (I it ! c, ni\ Anna!)el! 'I'hu’ ciiaiu e uml clianije may part us here; J’li hope imuiortally to tlv.ell With tlu-f in heaven’s liif'h hk--9sctl sphcl'e, An>l love, \\ hen past tliese ilarknome years, In iflory tiiere, as here U5 tears. roll Tin: iatawba joiuNiL, 'I'he follou irip tale was written for my own anuibcnicnt, without any hitcntion of pub lication, and composed more from recollections of a youthful fancy, ttiaa a reincniberancc of tiie facts. 1 have often, in the ilay j of my boy hood, lolling' on the knees of an actor in this c- Vent, listened to him, while with tears in hir. ey' she would relate the tale. Uavlnsjderived niy knowk-dge of the t:de in this way, it is n mix ture of fiction and facts, rather than a plain re lation of an event; and in tliis character it shouhl :iot now appear before the public, only with Uiehope that it may be the means of producin*^ a more detailed and accurate account ot an ac tion whicli should not l)C for^ottei:; but w hicli, like tiiaiiy other events of tliis kind, \\ill soon follow its actors into oblivion, unless re^cueil by some one of the venerable J'nv who yet rciiiuin fin this siilc of tho grave. Im the early part oflht' year 1780, a dark cloud sfffofd to liaii^: ovor the southciii part ol' the Union. The ]'n;!ich and A- iiuM'icat'.s c oiijhincd had been i cpulsed h’ Suvannali ; Lincoln had surrendered Charlestoi , and the los.s of this impor tant jilarc v\ as much culculatod to de- pi ess the hu))Os of the Ameriratis ; Tarle- ton had cut lo peices the torce utider lin- ibrd at W’dxbiiws ;.und ihe upper parts of S. Carolina and (ieory;iu were in the pos session of the enemy. Il is at this dark period tliat our tale commences. One tvenijii^' in the month of June, when every il.lr.,u; seemed to smile, hut the at tempt oi the Americans to obtain their liberty, a man was seen ridinq; on the road Icaditi^ ft om Saiisl)m y to (,'harlolie, about live miles souiii oT the i'ormcr place. In his per.son he uas large and •well furnied ; he appeared to be about twenty two or thr^-e )curs ok! ; his dress consisted of a blue cout, the breast and tail skirutl with yellow cassimere, on which plated buttons wei e thickly set : liis small clothes wtre also of yellow cas- simere, and his boots fair tnppeil :—his hat was one of thui kind- that ure com- niotdy fh tioniin.ited ’Ti), utid u iiii ii were \voMi b\ the ollict rs cf tiuit pei'iod j tiu: epaiileltc , that iiimii; oti his slioulders, tiie pistols i!i .t were on the IVont of his sad- flle, ar.d tin* swoiil tlia' duni'led by In', side, all denoleil him to be un (/fVn'er ol sunc.iijr ratik. 1 le fdllov. ed the road un til be Id the residence of (leiK'ra! .Ma’lii' iv Locke, a wtallhy citi;'eii of •luwan and a dibtini^uished purtizun of the ’i‘\ohition. i his i^tiitli'Hian li\ed a- t)nut ^ix niiU'S from .'5alis!iury, ulu-re Scott riow re.si(lcs. U w us ida i iai!>:. and tho t;'.ntily h:ifl colU'c'.ed roi.'d i^e liif-idc. w iicn the buikin^^ of ilir luinoufji ed tiie a.>piu;ii'h of a str^m- r to the houii. It uas iji.l u short tiiiic. un'il lie t riiered tbp ho"se, ui.d w^.s liiiint fiiai'dV r>*roj;nir-ecl as Majur, since lieu. U'. Pv. L>\vii:. As miiMit h>- cx- 1, f.ist er,(juii'y w as I'oncei niin; £he news'd tlic ur :.’id liis pre.senl Ijiis- -nes' : in omer to m;ike this knoun, 1 am ’ trii I' the necess;t\ id' re'.ro^^adiptj a lit tle in mv taie, 1).\'t; finislicd bis*c!uca- tion lit Nas^aM in the \far 177(5: n lu'mill' to. tbe s"uib, and all the of fice ' s'.ilions bein.tj h'.!cd, hr coniiiKne ed i hr slud v of law at Sahsburv. N(it beii',; cun'enleil in tins situ.-.il«jn, while J.is ((juiitry uas in net d (i! Iii' sei \i(cs. ;ic I siirne riii atis lai'-ed a coniji;iny ol vulv.r.'.vcib uud hastened lu SuuiIi Ck'.! oli- ii.'.. P,\ l'nh: ..v; ;-y and pnuli urc, in: ulj- tuired th notiee ol Linculii, ^.ud uas a,)- jUjlnteil ALijor I>y that oiVuei. He hlleil this appointment at the i)alile (d Slow, when in the brave but uselesss utlempt ol his cavalry to break the lines ol the ene my, be received a wound wliieh conlitied liim for five motiths. Soon as he was a- ble, tiotwitiistaiuiinp: the discourat;inj^ prospect of rtscuiiirj the southern pai l td the Union, he maile apj)lication lo and received permission from the jjovernnicnt i ofN. (.’urolina, to raise a regiment, con-j sistin^i' of two troo])S of':avalry *and otie of mounled rillemen. Know ini^ tho dis- tini^uished patriotism of tlio citizens of Meckletibnr^, Cabarrus and liowan. he detei tnined lo make these counties the tlieatre of his recruitintj expedllion.—; While in SHlisbury, allhougii very youni,% hf had, by the suavity of his manners and i his determined patriotism, attracted the allenlion and obtaineil the friendbhij) ol many families in the snrronndirr; coun try ; amon^ them was (leii. Looke. Da vie had contracted an iiitimuK.* iViendship with his son (ieorge. \ouni^ Locke was a man of line jiei sonal apjiearance and reruarkable for his activity and bodily streni^th. He had not recei\ed so liber al an education as Davie, yet by his na tural slreni^lh of mind, his peculiar sweetness of disposition, he had so im proved the education he diil receive, that he mij^ht be callcd'an accoir»i)lished, in telligent young man. 'I'hese qualities, mingled with a similarify of fc|.ding be tween him and Davie, in regard lo iheir love of country, had linked these young men togidher in ihe strongest ties of friendship. A few months before the arriv al of Davie, Locke had married a distin guished young lady of his county, but had not yet left his father’s residence. It was for the purjiose of engaging the services of his young friend, that Davie, as I said before, visited the residence of Locke’s fa ther. The meeting of the young triends was mutually joyful ; Locke, to hnd that Davie Iiad recovered from his wound; and Davie, that he was once more iu the country ;f 1.is friends. Davie, while he eloquently relateil the ex])loils of his foriiier campaign, while he displayed, in glowing colors, and recounteil the n»a- ny advantages that would occur to A- njcrica, if the present struggle succeed ed, had gradually comm'Miicateil to the bosom of his friend, the feelings that ac tuated his own; so that wlien Davie oiier- ed him the appointment uf lieutenant, if he would accompany him, Locke replied with animation, “Yes ! and iiotiiing but death shall make me leave tlu: struggle until the inilependencc of my country is acknowledged.” Davie smiled at the efilhusiasm of his friend, and merely ob served, “Such was the k-ind of men he wished to light under him.” They now sealed their future movements, and it w as (ielermined that Davie should go on re cruiting, and Locke, with as niany friends as he could collect, was to repair to Char lotte in ten days, where Davie had pro vided the jiecessary equipments. These consisted of a large sword, a pair of horse pistols and a rille; for the purchase of these Davie is said to have spent the last of the fortune left him by bis uncle. At the appointed lime, Ihe corps met in Charlotte and proceeded lo tho south. To follow their many engagements would exceed the limits I have prescribed ; suf- iice It to say, that while the liriii^h over came almost every other opposition, the corps of Davie alone remained uninjnr- efl. To the brave and cautious Davie, aided by the etpially brave but more im petuous Locke, no dilViculty appeared too great to be overcome, no danger too peri lous to be attempted ; and in truth, the defence of X. (’arolina appeared to ile- pend alone on ibis sniall corps. \Vhen Cornwallis advanced from Cam den to ^Vaxhaw^», Davie,- now joined by a troop of rillemen under (ien Jos. (iraham of Lincoln, wa‘; -:ompelled lo full back neater Charlotte ; Cornwallis still pursued; and on tlu' ni;,dit of the 3i h St'pleml)er, the corps of Davie arrived al Charlollo about midriigiit. Learning from hissc.ouls that Csniualiis was sltll ail varicing- ami would ai’rive tiieiv caily next day, Davie deierniined, in (be w'ords of L( e, lo give I'.im a .vpeciinen of the roinitry he was in.” 'The \ ill i;;i'o! I'..i!-- lolli* then consisleil uf uIjouI lu cnly bon i- es, the Iv.o priiicijial slirets c:wS'?ii;g each othtT altlie ('our:-! (uusr. which Was of rock. l)a\ie ordri in '; tbc hoi ses lo be lii-d s.iHie flistancein ll-i' rear, plac ed i’.i'i nun !i(hind a wall ol'stoi.e; he had s( arcely arranged them, when 'i'arle- lon’s cavalry catne in ' iglit. The enemy SI eing the (ielViu e th;tt was intended to !)f m ule, hailed at the lower end td’lown iind formed t heinM'!', cs into cdumns cor- !i -ponding willi llu: bicadth ol'ibe slrcet: n tliis onli-r they advaticed against tlu' 'ni.ill hul (h I'-rniined cor[is that were bc- 'i'.nd the uiJI. 'i'he cavalry char;;ed with some \ u)!ence on the Americans, bi'l w ( re lepulsed wilii cuiisideralile loss. I’iu'v again I'ormed and advaticcd to ihe '.ha!‘;e, I'Wi were again driven ba k with e'jual loss, 'i 1 en (^jrnuallis liding uj). f'Mnir.ded ihcni jftlu’ir foi nu r I'ami, and ‘ohi tlu rn he !u)|)ed ihey would not let n be fivnisbei} in,\v by so small atoice.— I'he cavalry now c harged uilh rrncwed vigor, but were again driven back by the steady atid successful iire (d’ tiie Atri' ri- can I'llles. Ikil the main body of tiie en inv TU)W coming up, forced Davie’s coi ps 1.0 retreat arul mminl tiieir horses. 1 ht '.:iv.;!ry of 'lie cutiuy parbu-jd -• bv.t fi(.>ni liu* inl noi it) or t ( i. i.i-i .•-v, v. e. .', lo keep up. utid d:d not ;i(lvance last, lor! fear il wjs a plan laid l » draw them in to an ambuscade. Soon as the Ameri cans -were at v.ufTicienl dist ince, they halted, and loading their riOes, would wait until ihe enemy came up; tlw.-y would tlien fire, w heel and run again, until they were again far enougii ahead to lialt.— I’hey continiu'cl this irregnla.r kind ol battle lor about four mile- , tlu; enemy siiil jMirsuing; when Lo-.ke, who had fought that day with more \han hia usual brnverv, r.i 'uated, perha[)S by his near approach to liis belovec! wile, and ktuiw- inthe de'jlruction that wcjuld attend tJie advance of the enemy, he trusted lo the fleetness of his horse, atul remained some distance behind his companions, lo give ihcm ubal he called alw!but to liii'.i fatal trust, for his horse accident ally stumbling when he was considerably m ihe rear of his corps, threw him atul made hisescaiie. The enemy was so close on his rear as to render an escape impossi- !)le; and to cxpect iuarter from an ene- mv, by whom he had been distinguished for his opposition to the croun aiul his bravery in defetiding (ht‘ American cause, naniciilarly on that day, was improbable; or pel hapSjhis high spirit disdained tosur- render himself a prisoner ; but be wha will the cause, he delermitu'd to scdl liis life as ciear as possible, atid three of the front dragoons paid the lorfeil ; but al length, overco.ne l)y numbc'rs, he was killed, and the British, as if determined to make his dead body pay for the inan\ soldiers they had thal day lost, literally cut him to peices ; arul conceiving his death a sullicienl booty, did not continue the pursuit any farther. Judge the iVel- ings of his companions inarms, and ol bis sincere friend Davie, when tliey returned and found him weltering in his own blood, which flowed from a hundred dif ferent wounds. The rougli and proud eye of many a soldier was on that day wet with tears, as iliey silently looked on the bloody face and sunken eyes of their brave, and so lately animated lieutenant. Ifsuch v.'ere tho feelings of his companions, we can form but a poor idea of those of bis wife, who, when anxiously exiie.cling the return of her husband, she was piesenied with his mangled boc.^’y. Davie retired with his corps towards Salisbury, and paid the last tribute of res|)ect to his friend and martyr in the cause of freedom. Thus perished a young man who, had he lived, would have been an important instrument in obtaining hi.s country’s freedom ; and no doubt would have enjoy ed the reward liis ta!«Mils, bravery and patriotism, so vvell merited. No monument of marble points out the place (jfhis buria!—no inscription ic lates to us his services in the revolution—no poet has sung of his brilliant deeds—and ’tis only when his humble sejiulc'ire is passed by some one' his companions in arms, and lie stops to drop a tear over the grave of his friend, that we discover the spot where rests a youihful hero of the revolution. S. FOR THE (ATAW'IIA JOIUNAI. Lender a confederated government like tiuit of the United Stales, where.the pu!> lic will IS the ultimate result of power, no enlighletied mind can doubt, that it is the stale of literature and moral-s more than any thing else, by which the char acter of the nation is formed, and that a proper appreciation of these, is the best bond of union and patriotisui; being the best j)romoters of just sentiments and virtuous conduct, an'd perhaps the only tlfectual check to licentiousness and an archy on the one extreme, and lo arbi trary p jwer on th« other. When knowledge and virtue arc not I>redominant,or wlien, by l!ie concurrence of advenlitious circumstances, they be come inojierative, or lose their relative ecjiiilibiium, a morbid excitement is sometimes rendered genera), Atu! becomes iriesistiblc :—swayed by ihe magic wand of stispie.ioii atid misdirected by passit^n and parly interest, il often termiiiales in a sueeping torrent, alike destructive lo moral iiulejieiuleiuf, tu nalion'al charac- ler and pro-.pei ity. 'I bus the scale of natiTual degradation approximates the scale of ignorance and immorality, and is progressively gradua ted to an illiniitable degree. 'Lhe basest immoiality may dale its comideiion, from liu; pvr|>elration of some lirsl triv ial criiM' :—the climax (d cb'pra% ity, the aj)c‘X cd’basem .-)S in social inlercoursc ,that of pervertin:; a ii'an’s words and motives, by rri//iil misrepresenlation or misi o!i- slruclion of them, and tlieii abusing hiin for seniiments he Tievtr entertained and motives lie ne\or fell: this beai ing of false witness against our neighbor, this moral I'erjury, is alta.ined lo, tliro’ihe interme- liia’.e procvression of at I'n-st, asjiersion from nieie suspicion—then deli action, defamation, slander, calumny, 'I'hus on the s;'.me scale, as a nation inc reases in igno’ance and immoralily, it sinks in dignity, until it i^ lost in w retclicdness and degi-ad ttioii. This uniform result ue ba\c fioin liie f tiibful page ot histi.i }, markitii; ihe decline Uiid fall (j1 llu- ;;rea:esl emjiiies in the. world, 'i'hus may llu* lin.d destrueliun (>f our civil iiistitulicns ji iginate |':-otm the mis directed fervoi.rof a c ii( nms( rH)ed jiartv. Should wenolslu.n lliis preoij'i'.e, i.rc' g'.uii J a;;>.inii' ihi-^ a'.v In! Ji. -'i;i\ .- i...: Juvs ti.o iaLi... of jii.:. c-ninli y, in his farewell address, that almost per- foc: lext book of American policy? “I’ar- ty is our worst enemy. It serves always tu distract the public councils, and en feebles tlic public administration. It ag itates liie tommuuily with ill touuded jealousies and fal.se alatms; kindles the ani- moi,ity ofone part against the olher: opens a (lour lo foreign ii’.fiuence Ec corru[)tion, kc. Could [irer-cience have more fully delineated ila baleful inlluence, its de grading efrects and its direct tendency, as exhibited in our late session of Con gress r A session of 2 t weeks, 18 weeks of which, by a conduct as disgraceful to themselves, as degrading to the nation, and almost dcstruclive to the future prospects of the once amiable Calhoun, was spent iu tumult and abortive legisla tion. Is not this the very crisis so plain ly seen, and so greatly dreaded by \\ ash- ington.^ On a retrospection ol these transac tions, what a most degrading charge presents itself at the very threshold— ihat parental lineage works corrL,plion ; that the President is unworthy the esteem and confidepice of the nation, because he is the son of a foi'nu'r I’residont whcj act ed - incorrectly. What do Americans know about iheir jiredccossors r To us the difl'erencc is nothing, whether they were decked willi stars and garters, the mere [luppc'ts of governmental corruption, or wheliicr ih.ey were po.''.clters ol sheep folds, or rillers of bleach-greens. Thei/ musl answer for their inicjuiiies ; nr lor otirs. What,—must the memory ol I’ranklin be degraded, because he assist ed his falhei’ to dip candles and boil c.oap: or that of Patrick Henry, because he hoed corn atul tobacco for a li\ing, alter becoming insolvent al shop keeping; or lliat cf \\'ushington, because, deprived of his just patrim-jiiy by the laws of pri- mogeniuire, he w aded on loot thro’ l!u‘ swamps and liogs of N'irginia, exposed to all the \icissiludes of the season, all the privations of a hunter’s liie, earning his subsistence as surveyor of a county ; or of U. (1. Harper, wiio drove the planes of a carpenter, to procure an honest sus tenance ; or tlial of a Clieves, u ho raised our prosti ate navy from the grave of fol ly, and released our national bank from the almost hopeless suicide of rascality, because he taught infancy their -\, li, C, in a pine-pole cabin, to uccjuirc the means of furthering his education ; or that of the patriot Jackscn, because, during our revolutionary war, he raised peas atid sweet potatoes in S. Carolina, foi- his own and his mother’s subsistence r And must ihe character of Jno. Q. Ad- aTus be now aspersed, whose patriolisni in l!ic fuhfir scn'icc o'" his'country, stood the test, and received the uniform appro- biition of W'asliiiigton, Jefferson, Madison and .'\lonroe, merely bccause his father, on one occasion, actcd injudiciously or unwisely ? Shame, w here is thy blush I Hut modern cthics fed no regrel, even for such despicable rancour, such moral treason, lit only for a \'irglnia madman, or some furcign iilledcoxcomb. lint advert to other serious charges, made, and solemn pledges given as proof, in debate—that the execuiive, by some legerdemain, was manufacturing com munications from S. America ; that he was holding back oflicial information ; secreting and garblinjj otVicial commu nications, all to subserve a desired oli- jeci. Also, his bartering his own, atid the nation’s honor, and outraging the pu rity of her institutions, to his ow n exalta tion ; assertions never expecled to Ije proved—pledges never in'tended to be re deemed—but fabricated for (hcf//lion, and brought forth as the precursor to thui echo which is going the grand rounds of defamation, accompanied by the Pana ma speclre, the raw-head-and-bloody bones of Congressional Circulars. What a hicleous yell, what a doleful note was sounded, after the sUirted, to hunt down the Kxeculive on the i’atia- ma (picstion. \Vhat a llame of disinier- esiefl pati ioiism burst fortli—what a re- ganl fortlicj purity of our institutions— what caution and c ircumsiiecticjr!—what a search even into the veslal purity'of executive domti'slic anni'emenls—wlial sophistry, 'to invalidate that pledije tu S. America, which, \2 months before, was iheir highesl boast—what dread of contaminating our e\;illed honor, and soiling our repul.dican pritu^iplos, by coming into consultation at Panama, w itji llie delegates of kings :—how ihe t.rpcn'ir was rejirobated ; yet more time and mo ney were scpiaiulered about l/u;i mission, and in that glorious conflict v. hic li took p!a*-e, in at'.empiitig to strangle, wiih a live Cold cord, that hideous, one-ey'd, one-sided monster,ctiiijiired up by Ui ancli from the vasty deep, Ijy the magic (.1 iin- lailiomahle irilelligence, and suldimaied candour, than wou.il have delrayed the expense lil len such delei,^atioi;s. liut let us turn this Panama piriiire, this hobiiy of oppor.ition and (d’circulars, and lor ;i moment vic-w its revji’se fea tures. Our go\eiiimeiil is the only con federated representative g'ovenimenl that has ('vei e\isted, and has so far been the model of Ihe S. American t epulilics : they u ish to esiublish a similar !etler;iti\c un ion : tiu'y look to our (" jvcrience of -in \ ears for counsel atul a.lvice ; iliey, re- J.or.m;; (;ii our knoun ])alriotiNiii, and eonlidu’.g in the siiu ei ;t> of our former declarations, in our reC(i;;nilion of ihc ir iiidepeiidem e. :iiul snb.M\juen‘. ussilies, c;.er,i!:ive, fur u ihtii' Congvesj at Panama; at the lime slating dialinclly, that they wi^ti u" not in the smallest degree, ly from our neutral position. Our executive, knowing that in their self-delence it would be highly aclvunia geous tothemto organizearevoluiion i,~ the Spanish W. India Islands, and ing assured by them that this woukl be a subject of consultation; knowing, the same time, that in all their scpata^. republics, slavery was abolished, and ev ery inhabitant raised to the rank of acit xen, as a fundamental principle of 1)^.1. cotistiiulions,.—our executive, conscious of all these circumstances, iieats i1k>; overture with repulse ancl silent con., tempt. W'ould not every ciii/ien in iht slave-holding states justly execrate execuiive apathy, sijch dereliction from the highest duties of humanity, and our dearest interests ? Would not ihe txe- cuiive have been justly represented, as beholding with perfect indifVerence, and even with approbation, the blazing loixi*^ of insurrection planted ulongoupcoast and spreading through the interior, carrvlnp. rapine, murder and extermination in i:. march.^ W'ould not all the horrors of St Domingo, and the more recent and stj;i more inhuman and savage butcheries01' the Oronoque, Caraccas and La (iuira, bt depleted in their proper colours, and ac companied by all the ill-natured aspt'titv of M’Duflie, and the eloquence ol llavne be wafted from the capitol, down if^e great valley of the Mississ[)|)i, to liie gulf, and be reverberated along our coast fraught, in return, with the merited odi! um and ju.st detestation of every friend to his country If these would have been bur fecTinn-s and our sentiments, why pretend to cen sure ihe President, for acceding to this mission ; the reverse to w liu li, we would so unatiimonsly and so justly have exe crated, as opposed to our interest, our safely and our duly } Do v(jM believe the patriot Jackson, if President, would lu\e rejected this over ture r 'N ou do not. You know', thal his love of Ireedom, his lerveiil desire to maintain the dignified stand his countrv now holds, as the hope and model of th»* civil ami religious liberiies of man, would have made him cordially accecic 10 the reciuesl. And you also believe, that had he been Presideqt, he w ould no;, during our last session of Congress, have suffered his own feelings to have beeu thus outraged, nor the honor and dij^iiity of the natioti, to be thus proslilutecl. 'i'he dispassionate, disinteresleci opin ion of Lafayette on this subject, nifiits our attention, and cUims its proper in fluence. 'J'/iis long tried paliiot, this friend of America, tins experienced Statesman, esteems it a duty of the ;;ov- einment, and an honor to ihe nation, la have acceded to this Panama niissiuii. Why then, all this indecorous oppoMiiuii, '.his tuniult of sensiljilities, ibis sliou c;f patrioli'^m ? Is not the inference iiUMta- !jle ? If it be neccssary thus to sacrifici; the principles of social iniercoui se, and the laws of the human mind, tu secure au accordance to such a cause, ought not a reversion of sentimen-l and feeling 10 take place ifi every ingenuous mind : Allo’sr then one moment of your liie, lo cuiisult your own understanding, and allow the dictates of y our own bosom to decide. Tliere is always a dignitf in correct moral conduct, which gives influence:! charm in upright motives and manly can dour, which invariably iiisjiires coi.> donee; there ik an energy in correct utidcvialing urbanity, a controlliiii; iti* fluence in truth and virtue, which "ill ever give its possessor un honorable anil lisefulstand in society. A.id there is in re trospection, a sanctity of retriiiuiioii from memory, an appro!>aiion of conscious rectitude, a hajipiness wliicl’. mali},niiiy» bedighied in its most brilliant garnitures;, can never bestow. a ciiiy.i N- Among the signers of the Decl.iralioii ot !:• dejjendence, was’I'homas Nel'jfJH, >f \ who, afti rwards, fought in it.s (1 teiire ; when direeled by l.'atayi Ue to point the ofone of the haUeriesat Viivk, umu d tluiii ti'.''. a;,'';iinst his ovv n dutlhng, v.buh w as thf in llie piaee. U i-, s.iiil th.il ins uidow ij i.t'- living in N irgini.i, blind, and n ri/ jio'T. The Duke of Devonshire, the lii'iti.sh Ambassador to Russia, wiih him a service of plate .vhi( h \u;i^’» ounces—upwards of U.'UJ half a ton ! In a(’oiirt in London, ia“ad/, a f;irl-iP' plied Uj have the Judge I'ly an i!ijunc;ii'’‘ on a certain baker nol t» make lovr her. She proved how much ;.he as :in* noyed, arul the Judge issued tlie tion a( cordittgly, wii.b ;i penalty of ■ If the Judge had power to is-.i'.e lions to (\)iii/j('l people to make love, aiijireheiid he vvfuild find suflkieiit eX'-’r ei.'^e for his jurii^diction. A witness under examination in an ri->h Court of .Iiisiic; the olher da}'. I'“‘| jusi siatc\i ti'.al he w us suddenly rou>e- i'rom his sluuiiierr, !iy a blow on iho ‘And !io\v did you find yourself asi-'-- .he ex.;iThinin;; Co.unsel. ‘/av/ plied tlu; vvilneNS. l\Atr—At (Cologne, they the first animal that drew blood, aii- thereliv broke tiie in,'iu‘i'al peace, viz. flea lhal bit I’.ve the nighl after her t|* ; It is su'd lo !.'c ne;Mlv l.'.r"': •'■*■ '■.’;ri,',vn ;-r.;'.v n,.
The Journal (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Aug. 15, 1826, edition 1
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