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Cbc 'ClftabctteZitu 'Stat; niiD JortbCaroIimi (Eastern JntcUigcneer Governor of the several Slate, the ie-utt f the election ; and should the LegMatire f any State not be in ies- Viorj during the first veek in January, the Governor of such Stale, shall Call the Legislature to be in session in that week and the Legislatures of the respective Stales throughout the Union, shall determine in the first week iTt January, (where an election .ha failed to be made by the people,) from the Uvo candidates for Presi dent and Vice President, respective- s having the greatest numbefr of vote-, ivhicb shall be t'resiuenr, ami tvliich shall'be Vice Preidetit. In tins mode of election, each Stale shall 1i:ui nnp vnl. an A t lie Members of the Legislature of eacli State shall . give their vole by aye s and noes, as the names of the candidates are se verally put to them i and iu the event ' of a tie of the fegiHlatureJ then the candidate who tiad the giea'iet nun btr iff vole from the people, for Pfe- sident. shall be PiesFdent ; arid the candidate having'the greatest num ber.of votes from the people, for Vice President, .hall be Vice President. In submitting this plan, your coui tnit'ee beg leave to say something in explanation. TnV States of the Union dilfcr widely in the qualifications ne cessary for a voter.. In Viiginia, the fi eeholder alonrn received ; while in j JVorth-Carolina, every free citizen of 21 years of age, and has paid a pub: Tic tax, is permitted,to give his uf- irae. j ms oinerence a- 10 quauu cations among ihe Siates, has not es caped the notice of your Committee ; and 'although it has cost: some trou ble and reflection, they hope and be liWe all difficalfy from that source "has bee iv removed.; , ,. . The plan proposed, secures to each State in the Union, her full weight, according to population, let the qua- . locations necessary to entitle an in dividual to exercise the right of suf frage be. what thejr may. To 'prove thiv they submit the following pro position : 1 " I . Suppose, in the election of a Pre- Isidenl and Vire President, Nrth-Oa- !5roIirfa should give 100,000 votes ; and that her Senators and Representatives in Congress, united, amount to 15 Divide according to the'plan propo btfdj'lOQOQO by 15, and the number : obtained i 6.636 and a fraction. A and B. ate candidates for the Presi dency. A, get 62,000 votes, and B. gen 38,000. Now, divide the 62,000 vole given to A. by 6,666, and it will . give A. 9 vo'es and infraction- and ii the -thirty-eight-' thousand votes giv- i en to B. divided in the same way, ii will give him 5 vtes and a fraction, ii This rule iscera;n and unerring it j shews the relative strength ofthepar J tie,, .-preserves that of the Stales, and enables the people to vote directly for the two first officers of the'nation. It might here be aked of your Committee, what is to be done with theTractioial parts of voles given to -.the candidates ? , They reply,add them up, and divide the aggregate by an arbitrary number, say, 10,000. Is a rea son required for this ? They answer, an arbitrary numbefis indispensable, because, when throwing the fraction al parts of votes from various State together, all differing in the number of votes they are entitled to in elect -ing a President and Vice President, there must be some certain number fixed upon a a divider, which will as well apply to one Stateas another. . Your Committee again express the diffidence with which they offer their opinions to the Legislature, and should they he no Fortunate as even . to present a thought which may here after prove beneficial, it will be more than a compensation for the labour . they have bestowed upon this sub' . ject. Respectfully submitted, . ALFRED MOORE, x . Chairman SELECTED FOB THE STSM. A Passionate Father'slleuiorse. j cONTlNUEDi When I avrokeup tt sense of what had passed around me, I saw the sweet countenance of, my wife bent over rue with an expression of most anxious ten derness. She. was wiping away the tears from her eves, and a faint smite broke into her face as she perceived my return ing sense. . . j I caught hold other art with a strong grasp, and 'lifted op my head ; but my eyes looked for the body of my child u was not there. YV here is jtr I cried where is the body of mv murdered boy? ' When I spoke the word murdered, rhy .wife shrieked i was rushine; out ht stopped me aud said, He inot dead- he is alive. Mv heart melted within me, and tears rein ;d from mj eyes. My wifelcd me to the c number where, they had laid cxy child. He was alke, if such a state could be ca.kd life. Still bis eyelids were closed ; still his cheeks, even his lips, were of a ghastly whiientss; still his limbs were eold and motionless. They had undressed him, andmy mother sal in silent grief be aicie his bed. When I came near, she un covered hi fair chest, and placed my hand orer his heart ; I felt athick and languid heating there, but the pulse of his wrists aod temples was scarcely perceptible. My mother spoke to me: We have ex amined the poor c hild,' she said, but we rind no wou.'id, no bruise, no marks of vi olence. Whence is this dreadful stupor ? No one cananswer me.' I tan anser you I said ; ne can answer but my self. I am the murderer of the child in my hellish rage 1 smirk his blessed head.' I did not see the face of my wife or oy mother as I spoke, I mini; my head ; Jjut 1 felt tny wife 's'shand drop lrom me; I heard my mother's low, heart-breakinp; iioan. I.: looked tin and saw my wife 4'ie stood before me like a marble figure, ratlier than a creature of life, yet her eyes were 6xed on me, aitd her. sul seemed to look out in ttu-ir gaze. Oh my hus haiid,' she cticd out at length, I see plainly in your face hat you suffer. Blrs ed (i id, have merry on him 1 have mej cy on liim! he sutTrs more than-we all. His punishment is greater than.he ran heart' She Bung her arms round my neck; shestroveto press me nearer to her bosoin, but 1 would have withdrawn myseit lrom her embrace. 4 On do not shame, me thus,' 1 cried, rememoer,. you must remembei that you are a mother. I tannot forget that am a wife, my husband, she repli ed, weeping. No, no, I feel for you, and 1 must feel with you in every sorrow How do I -feel with you now, in this over whelming affliction 1 My mother had lal- en on her knees when 1 declared my guilt v my wife drew me' towards her ; and rising up, she looked me in the lace. Henry,' she said, in faikt a deep voice, 4 1 nave been praying for you, for us all. My son, look, not thus from me. As she was speaking, the su.rgeon of my household, who had been absent when I first sent tor him, entered the chamber. My kind mo ther turned from me, "and went at once with him to the bed side of the child. 1 perceived her intention of preventing mv encountering the surgeon. . :J5ht: would vae concealed, at hast for awhile, her son's disgrace ; but 1 felt my horrid tnilt loo deeply to cate aoout. shame. Yet I could not choose but groan within me, to perceive the good man's stare, his reireat ngshudder,whik 1 described minutely the particulars of mv conduct- towards mv poor boy ! 1 stood beside him. an he exa mined the head of my child. 1 saw him jut away trie rich curls, and he pointed out to tne a slight swelling beneath them; jut inrvain did he srive to recover the ifeless form : his efforts were, as those of ny wife and mother, had been, totally without sucress. For five days I sat by the bed side of my. son, who remained, at first, still in that death-like stupor, but. gradu ally a faint life-like animation stoie over him ; so gradually indeed that he opened not his eyes, until the evening of the fourth day, 'and even then he knew. us not, and noticed nothing. Oh few can imagine what my feelings were ! How my first faint hope lived, and died, and lived again, as the beating of his heart became mute full and strong ; as he first moved the small hand,ji)ich I held in mine, and made an ctTortia feeble, and at first, fruitless effort to stretch out his limbsJ After he had tin- closed his eyes, he breathed with the soft and regular respiration ot a heaithy per son; and then slept for many hours. 4 It w as about noon on. the, fifth day, that he awoke from that sleep. The sun had shone so fall into the room, that I paitly closed the shutters to shade his face. Some rays of sunshine pierced through the crevices ol the shutters, and played upon the Co verlet of his bed My child's face Was turned towards me, ahd I w atched eager ly tor the Rest gleam of expression there. He looked up, then around him, without turning his head My heart grew aick within mc, as l-beheld the smile whiich played over his face. . He perceived the tiaiicing sun-oeam, ana put nis tingers softly ;' into the streak of light, ami taik them away, and smiled again. . 1 spokei to nun, ana iook ms nana in my own ; but the had lost all memory of rue, and saw no thing in my face to make him smile. He looked down on my trembling band, and played with my fingers ;tand when he saw the ring I wore he played Uhb that, while the same idiot smile tame back to his va cant countenance. . My mother'now led me from the room. 1 no longer refused to goji felt that it was fit that, I should . commune with my own heart, and in my chamber, and .be still. They- iudged rightly in leaving me to perfect solitude. The calm of my misery was a change like happiness to me. A deadness of every fa culty, of all thought and feeling, fell on me like repose. When Jane came to me I had no- thought to perceive her pre sence.! She took my hands tenderly within hers, and sat down beside me on the floor. She lifted up my head from the boards, and supported it on her knees. I believe she spbkc to me -many times without my repiyihf. . . " , - ' s :.At last I heard her, and rose tip at her entreaties. 4 You are ill, ' your bands are )urninffmy beloved,, she said: Go to red, I tjeseech you you need rest." 1 did s she told me. She thought 1 slept that uight, but the lids seemed tightened and Irawn back troirt my ourmng eye-bads. All the next day I Uy in the same hot and motionless state; I canhot call it repose.: For days I did not rise I allowed my self to-sink under the weight of my des pair. I begau to give up every idea of exertion. , My mother, one morning came to my chamber, be sat down by my bed side, and spJie to me. I did not, could not, care to notice her w ho spoke to me. My mother rose, and walked roundi to the other side of the bed, towards which my face was turned. There she stood, and spoke again solemnlyg f Henry," she said, I command you to rise. Dare youto disobey your mother? No more of this unmanly weakness. I must not spciik in vain, I have not needed to com maiAl before. My' son be yourself -Think of all the claims this life has upon yoqY or rather, think of the first high clainj of Heaven, and let that teach you to.think of other duties, and to perform them! Search your .own heart, j Probe it deeply. Shrink not. : Know your real situation in al its bearings. Changed as it is, force it like a man ; and seek the strength of Go$ to support you. 1 speak the plain tiutho you : your child is an idiot. You mk answer to God for your c rime. You wnl be executed by man kind for your hand struck the mind's life from him. (These are harsh words, but you tan bear then better than your own confused and agowzing thoughts. Rise up and meet yourUiial. Tell me sim ply, that you obeyl trie. I will believe you, for you never-yei have broken your word to me." ' 1 1 replied i irnmediately rising up & saying,) I do promise to obey you.! ' Within this hour I will meet you, . determined to knov my duties, & to per form them by the 'help of God." Oh! with what a look ) id my noble mother regard me as I spoke. God strength en yon, and bless yiou," she said ; I can not now trust myseif to say more." Her voice was feeble and trembling now, her lip quivered, and a i bright! flush opened ovei her thin pale cheek she bent dow n over me and kissed my i forehead, and then departed. i. ' . Within an hour from the time my mother left me, I went forth from imv chamber .with fa firm s step, determined again to enter upon the performances of my long neglected duties. ' I had des cended the last step of the grand stair case, when I heard a laugh in the hall beyond. I knew. there was but one who could then faugh so wildly ; and tpowcll I knew the sound of the voice, which broke out in the tones of wild merriment ere the laugh ceased. For. some mo ments my resolution forsook' me. I caught hold ot the balestrade to support my trembling limbs,' and repressed ith a violent eftort the groans I felt birrs from my heart I recovered myself, w alked into the hall. In the western ing and on el window, which is opposite the door by which L entered, sat my reverend moth er : she lifted up her face from the large my me, volume which lay on her knees, as step sounded iiear : she smiled upon and looked down again without speaking 1 passed oh, but stopped again to gaze on those who now met my sight. In the centre of the hall stood my wife, Jean mg her cheek on her hand. She gazed on her son with a smile, but the tears all the while trickled down her tace. iVlau- rice was at her feet, the floor around him strewed over with playthings, the toys of his infancy, which he had for years thrown aside, but had discovered that very morn' ing, and he turned from one to the other as if he saw them for the first time, land looked upon them all as treasures. LAn expression of rapturous silliness- played over the hoy's features v but, alas ! jtho' nothing but a iearful childishness was on his face, all the child like bloom and roundness of that face were eone. The ' : .... . boy now looked indeed older by rbany years. ' Ttusmiies of his thin lips seem ed to stFuggleainly with languorjant heaviness, his eyelids"w;ere half closed his checks I and lips coloi leBshjs. w hole torm wasted away- aIvj wne cameto me, and embraced me; but Maurice ho ticexj .me not for many minutes.; I He looked, up at me then, and, rising from the., ground, walked towards me.j I dreadt d that mv. --mournful appearance would affright him, and I stood breath less with my fears. Tie surveyed) me from head to foot, a id came close toirnc, and lookedj up with pleased curiosity in iny face, and then whistled as he walked bark to hiss toys, whistled so loudly. ) that the shrill sound i seemed to pierce thro my brain. . r-:-';!' ' ri!:':. ; :A: (To br confirmed.) . a:,Sti;cr, Ttie bent dowry to advance he marriage of a young lady is when she has "in her countenance mild ness; in jher speech , w isdom in her behaviour modesty, and in her life v irtue-r iene,i EpUtlu. 1 It is stated as a curious fact, i in a Pennsylvania paper, that no less-than 8 bachelors live in a one, story house, 18 by 22 ifcet, in Miuiu couuty, in perfect har mony. - j t j - Prgm the Phitadelfihia V. 5, Gazette. LIBERIA.; ' - If thin &ork be ofman it n7 come Jo nought $ but if it be of God, ye cannot o vertirovt it." . , : r j ... . In December, 1 82 1 , after various unsuc cessful attempts 4in the "preceding years at other points, a territory was purchased from the natives of Cape Mesurado, on the western coat of Africa, by the Ame rican jColoniialioh Society. The object of the Society Wa, fjound there a Colony of Free U lacks fnmt the U.! States ; to pro vide all'such as might wish to emigrate, with an asylum, whither theyi and thtir children might go and tnjoy real liberty, and all the immunities, privileges and at tributes of freemen. The scheme was im mediately approved and embraced by a great hum be r of our most distinguished ci- tizens. Under their protection, ana;sus- ained by individual charity, the Colony grew apace.' More emigrants were found than the society, could send, r in its miancy, iiocna, hkc an similar establishments, had to endure many wants and dangers. She was reduced to the brink of destruction by unusual-privations, and by diseases incident to a new settlement and foreign climate. In the moment of her greatest weakness, the natives jealous of her presence, fell upon her in numbers vastly superior to her own. i 'Bui even then she was too powerful fop such enemies. The multitude of the naked savages ser ved only to augmenttheirslaughter. They could not stand before the howitzer and 30 muskets of the colonists; but fled in eve ry direction to the woods, abandoned their assaults, and resumed their desultory and harmless warefaie, which they were soon glad to exchange for peace. I Since that lesson, they have displayed or attempted ho more hostility, and their confederacy has dissolved again into numerousrnd con flicting tribes, sin their disunion and weak ness, without arms or ammunition, they regard the Colony with respect and fear. They have learned to admire its instit u tions from its strength and prosperity, and from the Christian chanty and justice which its inhabitants exercise totvards them in all their dealings. Dotiie and trac table in their! nature,. rather uncivilized than savages, having none of the fen ci y and stubborness of the North-American Indian, they are anxious that their poste rity should partake in the blessings which they behold; and 70 children, sent by their parents for that purpose, are; bow distri buted among the families in the Colony, to be brought! up as their own offspring, in the language and arts of civilized lite and the Christian religion. Thus has Li beria already begun to realize! the antici pated effect, of shedding the light of civ ili zation ailtbt Gospel oti benighted A fi ica ! The Colony now contains 1iiih fifth year of its existence, about 5po inhabitants ; who live in cojmfortable bouses, and cul tivate successfully, the rich fields that the Society bestow gratuitously on all who e migrate. They are are self governed; they elect their own officers of justice, of the militia, and of civil duties their institti tions are, in fine, a miniature of those oi this Republic. We began less prosper ously. The Territory has been much in creased, both in size and value, by recent purchases ; extending along the coast for 20 miles, and indefinitely into the interior. Monrovia, the ; principal j settlement and capitol of Liberia, built on the high pro montory of Mesurado, is defended by a militia of 90 men, well armed, arid a strong fort of masonry, amply provided with can non and ammunition. The commerce of this plaice has also surprisingly augment ed.' From the 1 1st of January toe 1 5th of June, of the year 1 826, there were export ed fo New-England, Great Britain, Sierra Leone, Franc, the West Indies, Norfolk and Baltimore, dye woods and rvory to the amount of 243,980. The profits on this, to the exporters; will appear, in calculating the difference between the African mar ket and those of Europe j and America, to havebcen about 830,786 such a trade must be very lucrative. I Indeed, the prosperous condition of the colonoy is sttongjy displayed lin the fact, that when the brig John, Capti Clough, of Portland, M?ine, arrived there in June or July last, her whole cargo worth 8 11, 000, was disposed of' in ten days; jand every rentnaid, for its laws do out allow the peopleT;o-buy on credit,, ii is wun particular pleasure mat we remark, that a bug iaPabout to be des patched from! this port to Liberia, by one ot our wealthy and public spirited mer chants, and that there is a 1 probability of several respectable colored people avail ing themselves of j the- opportunity of emigrating. We trust that her trip may justify its repetition, and j that those who depart may. find all their hopes accom plished, in this world and in the next. Packets ply four times a year between Portland and the Colony ; arid such an intercourse between it ahd thisCity would prove highly j advantageous, in affording the means of emigration to those who wish to remove, by establishing a frequent and ready intercourse between the colonists ahd the coloured people here: by demon strating the advantages of the scheme in a commercial view, and calling to it ihe at tention of a (generous, republican, and Christian public. The great objects of the Society are, to eotivcn auu enugnten iuca, and umv peusate her tor the torments we nave in F.ee Blacks by transferrin their owq consent, from jhis ' where they can never be but free, to another where thry shun I so ; . to remove mass of rm, us, though among us, nd dit and a disadvantage ; tu abate iy gours of slaety, by uidulra pretext for harsh treatment, hv J. door to manumission, by majn, lB for an increase of whites; tu troy the value of compuW,fT i,' t'v by-thus gradually diminishing thf n "I1' of slaves and slave-holders, until WW fr ' can be eETected by purchase, tr opinion prevail as in the northcinL . against the crying evil. ' u:tS This is a scheme for the phibnK pist, the statesman, the patriot, thtCV tian. Though he may count (iv'm doubt,) its complete efficiency, the L . est degree of success sh.mld aro ward him for his labour and dt na-iUs : ' t:i. in .-" Commerce of the United States On Monday, in cornpliai1:P ttri tfie provisions of the act of Frb. ry 10, 1 820, requiring arruratea'c merits of the Foreign CotDn.ce rf the United States, to-be made ai,ntJ ally to Congress, the SecrnarT ff Treasury made a Report oo" Commerce and Navigation of the V Slates, frr the year ending Sep rin! ber30, 1826, act'ompanied w an explanatory letter from the Re?iMfr of the Treasury. The report embra ces y 1. A general stalent'ent of the qtiac. tity and value of mercliatniizp im. ported in the U. f.Gm dip of October, 1825, to the bOth tf September, 1826. 2. A summary statement cf tr r wt, 3. A general statement pf ilip q,tan.' lily and value of dumetii; ariide4 exported. A A tfB - te At M 1 ill aI A a-k, y m A . P a 1.' n gcuriai si ui ririrni ni me qtinrj. lily, and value of foreign articles exported. 5: And 6 Summary eiaipmpnis f(U. meatic and foreign at ttciei exported. 7. A general statement of the amoMnt of American and foreign umr:t .-employed in the -foreign- tiii'ect the U States. . A statistical view of ihe (rc. inerce and IVavigB'ion nf i lie Ufiii ed Stales. 9. A statement of the Commerce a'd Navigation of each btate and Ter ritory, and 10; A statement of the tonnnj M'b enterfed into, and departed fr m, the principal port of the tWini, Stales and t he Lake porte. From these statements it anprarr that the imporls during the year f fid ing on the 30tl of SepteibVr last, have amounted to $84,974,477; of which amount $80,778 J 20 vm? im ported in American vessels and . n r mm, I ' l iyo,3ol in loreign vessels. That the exportV have dnrir r 'he same period, amounted 1o 77,59o.-; 322, of which $53,055,710 e.e d domestic, and $24,539,61 2 ot lorei?-r articles. That oft he donesiic ar tides $46,199,528 were'espnr'r! h American vessels, and -$b,8a&.i5v m foreign vessels ; and of the foreii articles Ci23.353.288 were eiM in American vessels, and $1,185 6i in foreign vessels. That. -lJ tons of American shipping eniei. and 058,012 cleared from the r" of the U. States, and that Iw tons of foreign shipping entered, a'u 99,417 cleared during the samcp- riod. , The Register of t he Treasury .3 that the amount of register tpnnap employed in the foreign Irade on .c 3tst Dec. 1825 amounted to 700. & that the tonnage of fishing v?sf ' inouuicu . that the enrolled and ,,cens'V. naee amounted to 64, 1 ,423.1 U s appears by! the, annual ntof the District tonnagf pj '' A Ufiltedtates transmitted frpm. office onTbei0th! inht. ',, The Register further i-WTl in conformity to the turn . , the act above referred to, inea- . exported have been valued at nit; portah 1 Ills V .- at the time of their exportation. u Men art annHoft aTtA that tll 11 imported were valued at ,lf,8'?e tt'bich'M nl r.nst. or the value which mcj in the foreign port fon ..." A CA- -; ... Mnrtail,D the U. S. at the time of fh talions ffee of any subseqJ1 " ges whatever.Vaf M AXI M Never be pcn3 0 r rr'Km' wbo you know to p i nv r e'K-n wno you flicted tu ioipruve the condition ot the t overbearing disposition.
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