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Mlt. CROOM'S SPEECH, ;
At the late mating Of the friends of
the general administration, after5 the
resolutions had bewlread,. Mr. Hi B
Croom, said : j ' 1 ; -
JJJr. Chairman, ; . ?. , , f
I rije to say a few words in support o
these resolutions 5 but before proceeding
to the immediate subject, I may observe,
that the privilegeof expressing ogives
freely concerning public. men and pobiic
measures, tike those benefits derived from
tbe elements around tts, though happily
so common with as as scarcely to be
thought of, jet is it among the most valu
able and essential that freemen can pos
iess, Lilce other bounties of nature and
pro? idence, however, this should be used,
and not ubuted. The latter, I regret to
add, not unfrequently occurs, and St is my
purpose to avoid the Ucenet while I use
the privilege. 1 .
In considering the character and claims
of the present chief magistrate of tbe
anion, we are at once struck with the re
markabl( fact, that he has enjoyed the.
confidence of every preceding president,
and been employed by ' them in public
posts of the highest responsibility and
im portance By ; f Washington he was de
clared our most valuable public character
abroad, and by his recommendation be
ras continued and promoted by his fai
iher. By Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison
be was employed at minister plenipoten
tiary at the courts of Russia and Great
Britain; in negotiating the treaty of
Ghent, and subsequently a commercial
convention with Great Britain. During
the whole term of Mr. Monroe's adminis
tration, he discharged the arduous func
tions of Secretary of State, during which
lime he negotiated whh the Spanish Min
ister that Treaty by which the important
and long desired territory of Florida was
ceded to us, and five millions of dollars
secured to our plundered merchants. Du
ring this' long, term of service, malignity
bas not produced a doubt of his integrity,
and impudence itself , has not denied his
ability. Spotless as Ariitides, he is able
.as Metternich or Canning. r
Mr. Adams enjoys a high character a
broad, osa Statesman and a scholar. It
is known that the late emperor of Russia,
at whose court he long resided, erf?r
tained for him a high esteem, and by him
was laid the foundation of that good un
derstanding which, with a single except
tion, (relating to the N. W. Coast,) has
so long subsisted between that govern
ment anil "ars,
A Pf s Journal, in adverting, to his
recent elecon, congratulated the country
on their exchanging' the military rough
a ess of Ccfonel Alonro for the philoso-'
phical acquirements of Mr. Quincy
Adams. What would the same editor
fay,:wert we now to richange iMr. Adams
far the- far more rough and military Ge
oeril Jaci?t;n ? j .. -y,.-.-7 1
The ortpostiioi to Mr. Adams, as well
as I recollect, resolves itself into .the fol
lowing allf gaiions :t ? ' ' !' 'j'
-1. That he is the ion of hi father
John Adams. V '" ".": ;
2: That he wa once a Federalist; 1
5, That he was born in PJ. England,
and holds no slaves. - :
4. That he was elected by Congress,
and voted for by Mr. Clay and his friends.
5. That he isavourable to a tariflT, and
gives constructions to the Constitution.
6. That he bought 4 Billiard Table,
ut of monies voted for furnishing his
house. " x ' ; ' : ;
f 7. That the English have shut us out
of their W. I. islands ; or, in tbelanguage
of the - opposition, he has lost us that
trade. ' :''r-:"::f"-': '''' v..
On reviewing this summary, - we are
struck with the almost ridiculous sature
ofthe greater' part of -these charges.
Fintyht is the son of John Adams. And
who was John Adams ? One "of the
mjt jealous, most daring, most efficient
of those who gave the first impulse to the
ball of the, revolution.' One who, with
Hancock and Samuel Adams,, had the
honour and distinction' of being excepted
from a British act of pardon, who led the
bold, roused the indifferent, and confirm
ed the waferingin Congress, the Cham
pion of independence j one whose; ! fiery
spirit, like the flames of Hecla, blazed to .
the last, amid the snows of his clitne,and
the frosts of his age. V-V; i1-' V ' '
It is not necessary for me, it is not my
purpose, to defend every public act and
Measure rbis Kfe I am 3 free to admit
lhat, while ' president, hhj ga?e Hit'SariC;;
tion to some bad measures, which his par-'
i promoted. The f alien and sedition
i leava to" that pdiuo end indisoa
iiony they have long excited, Biit jet it
be remembered now many acts ana mea
sures condemned in him, bave been ap
ptadded and supported in liis successors.
It was" once bis Reproach,' it jis now his
glory, to have laid the foundations of an
efficient to.iirtificiionsi Taxes, an;
Army, execrated then, have since been
sustained witfr scarce & murmur. Will
Korth Carolina then make.., it a reproach
to have oeen the son of such a man ? one
who during his short administration .0
four years, bestowed more signal favours
and attentions on Jker9 than all the other
presidents, in the space jof thirty! two
years'-;. ; a i
i-- But Mr. Adams tfas supplanted by Mr.
Jefferson, and the federalists, especially
In New- England j ha ving become, in the
opinion f Jpbn Quincy, violent and un
justifiable in their opposition, r he aban
dpoedthe party, and gave his support to
the administration of the country, at the
head of which ; was his father's rival.
Here, as his opposers accuse him of ve
nality, we might claim for him the praise
of magnanimity; By some of the orthodox-
in party, this former federalism is
still objected as a damning heresy, an ine
radicable taint of political sihr For my
part, though I never was a federalist, and
certain of their acts- both in power and
t " . .
me the word has ceased 4o be a bug bear,
especially when I recollect what great
names have adorned that party. Ham
iltbn, Jay, Ames, Marshall, Pinkney of
the South, we might invoke the names
of even Washington and Henry. In our
own State we have known a Davie, a
Moore, an Iredell, ' all honourable men' ;
and in our oumXoutn, we have living ex
amples, the purity of whose lives, the
brilliancy and fascination of whose tal
ents have shed, a lustre on the place, and
made it "the abode of names that have
given unto it a name." Even Mr. Jef
ferson once said that -we are all Federal
ists, all Republicans. . But Mr. Adams
was born ro New England. And where,
I ask , is Boston, w here is Fanuel Hall,
Lexington, Bunker's Hill? I answer,
in New England, and near to Quincy.
The President too is one of, those happy
men, who free himself, beholds no slave
about his person nor one upon his soil.
In this we of the South are far less fortu
nate. But shall we make it an objection
to the President, and insist that, on this
account, he is the less fitted to preside in
a republic? We believe that he l;as ne
ver attempted in any shape to interfere in
our Southern polity in regard to this deli
cate matter ; too wise, and too true to the
Constitution, to seek to infringe its pro
visions, and our rights. V,"
I Mr. Adams was elected by Congress.
And so was Mr. Jefferson in 1801. Those
therefore who value At services, and es
pecially they, whose Alpha and' Omega
he is, must allow that Congress may make
a wise'ehoice ;they who would be con
sistent, while they value the Constitution
ought not la object to the mode of his elec
tion. All the means resorted to, to prove
a bargain between him and Mr. Clay,
have signally failed, and ought in justice
to recoil on his accusers.-- ' .-r
It fs alleged that Mr. A. is favourable
to atonal But if this be true, it is cer
tain that General J. voted in the Senate
for that Tariff which has been so , much
complained of in the South: 1 A Southern
President alone can feel our immediate
interests in this matter ; but 1 would ra
ther trust for moderation to the North and
East, that have ships and commerce, than
to the West, that has hone.
At to constructions o( the Constitution,
this is what : every human composition
must be subject to; Your deeds,i your
wills, yodr statutes, after all the precision
that lawyers cangive them, "must often
be expounded by construction. Not hu
man compositions only, holy writ- itself
roust sometimes be construed, and men do
Often doubt and differ in their construc
tions. If the decalogue' itself, though gi
ven in thunders from Mount Sinar, and
inscribed upon marble by the finger of
the Almighty, has yet received from con
scientious men, some differences of inter
pretation, ho w shall the "Federal Consti
tution escape, penned by men, : in the
halls of Philadelphia ; even though we
should deem some good angel guided
their,' deliberations; and influenced' the
result ? . yirginia, ' then, construes' the
Constitution differently Iron' Massachu
setts, and the question remains' f 4 which
construes aright ?" Has Virginia become
a political Oracle, another tk!phii?hoe
priest is the Editor of the Enquirer, and
whose Magnus Jpollo is Governor Giles?
If so, -1 might read -you soroe of her re
sponses' given forth when she was sus
taining the cause ot another, sufficient to
raised blush upcm Uie TcjUeJt of himho
could he, at t)nce, 'a supporter of the' Ge
neral, and a votary pf the Oracle. ' r
hubject thecBMar4 Table is
one tHat dnH nnt Hpcprve. vciur attention.
fr M ono, of t thes miserable shifts to
which party, i.:iu viruleuce wiU some
times resott, to raise an outcry however
unreasonable' or ungenerous against him
that is the object, of .its persecution. I
regret to addthat it was a representa
tive from' this state that enjoys the poor
distinction of having dragged before the t
pu one in is paury 'spojeci. vongress, as
is their custom, at the elevation of a new
Chief Magistrate, voted a sum of ionoey
for furnishing his house, the President's
salary being inadequate to this, with the
other expenses of his office. : Qutof this 4
raoney, it was said, a Billiard Table was
purchased for one of the rooms of the
house. 't: This,' to be sure, had it been
true, one might think was no mighty of-.
ience--since gentlemen, both in , this
country and Europe, frequently r furnish
their establishments with this source
elegant amusement. - But slight as the
charge is, it appears to be destitute of
truth. Mr. A. bavin? declared that , lie j
naid for it out of his other monies : and!
it'appears bv the anecdote related by ;:.my j banishes sleep; the pulse becornes languid,
eloquent and honourable friend Mr, i weak and generally unequal, the tone of
Bryan, that the East Wing, in which it the heart is as it were, partially paralysed,
was placed, was built in the time of Mr. so that the blood is sent feebly through
Jefferson, and bv his directions, expressly the lungs ; the general circulation also
for a Billiard Room.; How blind and being inadequate to carry the vital cur
senseless the rage of party often proves J rent through the minute vessels of the
n, . . , , . , 1 1 skin, the whole bodv' suffers and the
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important topic we have touched. Un
fortunately, however, it is too compnca-i
ted to be here orooer v discussed ; but I
ask, is there any reason, save
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the assurances of. the- British Minister,
which were not fulfilled, were the causes!
of the result ? 'Is it wise in us to sacri
fice our President to the Molock of Bri
tish cupidity ? to make Aim the Jonah of
the storm, the 'scape goat-of the evil,
while we succumb to the pretensions of
,ou"r haughty commercial " rival ? -J We
sacrificed not Mr. Jefferson to the Orders
in Council of 1807, to the Berlin & Mi
lan decrees ; nor Mr Madison to the sine
qua non and the uti possidetis of 1815.
Why then make this new and unhallowed
immolation to foreign artsas though to
appease some power no. force can .op
pose ? " Forbid it patriotism! forbid, it
spirit of 76. and of 1812 : that spirit
which shed a glory around our stripes,
and caused them in many a conflict, on
sea and land, to wave triumphant abov
the bannered cross of Britain. Xet us,
as Mr. Madison Jong ago said, let us con
cur in doing what shall indicate that we
dare exert . ourselves in defeating any
measure which commercial policy shall
offer, hostile to the welfare of America.
MEDICAL REMARKS ON MARRIAGE,
f - (by A PHYSICIAN.)
One of the most common events which
follow the. attainment of adult - age, in
both sexes, is marriage. Since this' sa
cred compact is a state in perfect accor
dance with instinctive riature of man, no
disadvantage in refereace to .health can
result from the event itself, if both par
ties have reached adult ajgeljefore .it be
curs; although, the artificial state of so
ciety, the cares and anxieties attendant
upon family, especially with narrow
means only for its support; are circum
stances unfavorable tu the preservation of
that eqttinimity of temper and gaiety of
heart which are conducive to the main
tenance of a healthy state of the body.
But too often the female has not arrived
at adult age; and her health and future
comfort are sacrificed either to the in
considerate vehemence of a girlish pas-
sion, or to the baser gratihcation of one
desirous to unite itself with youth,' br to
the cupidity of a parent, wbojs eager to
get a daughter, as the term is, advanta
geously settled. The constitution, in few
women,; can be regarded as properly or
firmly established even at twenty years
of age ; and, indeed it would be advan
tageous for every" jWomafif i to J pass her
twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth vear before
subjecting herself to the cares and fatigues
wnicn ine uuues oi a marrtea me neces
sarily impose.' I am well aware that this
is a doctrine completely at variance with
that romance which too often governs the
youthful 'mind, when the imagination
usur ps the place of reason arid paints the
future .:77.;yA ; . -X'-t'''
More sweethan all the landscapes smiling
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j But it is to insure solid commrt
of this delusive sweetness. thU enchant -
mentj whicb distance spreads over the
future, that the acquisitions of experience
are demanded to temper Si rein in thefer
or ' of y outhV 7 If a female marry before
twenty her disposition' liVeiy, her tem
per ardent, and hex love 6f novelty "and
pleasare Still at iti f beight-i-what'is t the
conseqhenc? yisitiogsv latehdurs
dancing and other dissipations into which
she probably rUl enUrr, will prove noit
in furious, to her health; w hen she is a bout
fo become a motherf and rn accor- -
if she ha ve already acquired that impor ' ding to' the- conscience of ' hint 4hat :4d v
tant charajcter, independent of the haxarcl Chancellor, -and, ai this is larger or nar
which must also "ehdaneer.'notimerelyr.i rpwer, so is uityv 4 It w all one' as" ir
the health, but the
life, of an infant,
breast of a mother,
which is applied to the
either tn such a state of feverish
excite -
ment or of exhaust
haustion, , as is likely to be.
lad)' returning from a ball,
I evening party. Women
ie neriod of life at which it
the case in a
or a crowded evening party
also, under the nertod of life at which it
is 'contended marriage -ought to take
place, as they are more ardent, in their
anticipations, and less experienced in the
i ffairs o f it fe, than t h ose t hat; have - attai
ned that, age, . are also more likely .to
suffer, if a cloud ( should, pass over the
brightness of the Scene which .they had
pictured . to themselves from a union wih
the object of their affections, Thl pro
duces a slow,rcorroding grief, which gra
duafty ;, undermines! the energy - of. thejr
nervous system, destroys appetite, arid
complexion becomes pale and sallow
the spirits deranging
I ill a Ctntfn .-f ttiA li'var H!c9nnn!n(mnt
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and if the individual does not sink its
victim she drags on a life of wretched-
and chagrin.. This is a melancholy
( mr.tiirR r hut it hn hftn inn nffn rfnli.
sttid
ritilhv-n.
manv are the love-matches,
rashly entered' into between' young peo
ple, which exhibited, in a few years,
this sad termination. Diseases of this
description occur from matrimonial alli
ances at every period of life, and. are
referred to causes very foreign to that
from which they originate. True, indeed,
is it that disappointment and chagrin may
result from a marriage contracted at any
age- yet experience has proved that theV
are more frequently the result of unions
from violent attachments in the Very
young and romantic, than in those whose
judgments have matured, and their ima
ginations moderated, by a (little more
acquaintance with the world. than either a
boy or a girl under twenty years of age
can possess. - " ' , .;. -..'
It is but justice, however to acknow
ledge, that it may, be contended, and
justly that as much injury arises to
health from ungratified love as from pre
mature marriage, and that this operates
more suddenly and violently, because of
all the passions it is the most violent, and
the least capable of being controlled. In
some constitutions, indeed, it shows itself
only by its effects ; the body wastes : the
pulse becomes tremulous and irregular ;
deep sighs break from the chest; there
is an alternate glow and flushing of the
cheek; the mind becomes1 deiected: the
appetite is lost ; the speech falters ; cold
sweats and watchfulness follow, which
gradually terminate in consumption.
sometimes in insanity. Yet the passion
remains latent in the bosom of the suf
ferer ' , ;
" " She nerer told her lore,
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud
Feed on her damask cheek ;
She pined in thought,
And with gren and yellow melancholy,
She sat tike Patience on a monument;1
Smiling at Grief."
The passion, corrodine invariably like
intense grief from any other cause, un
dermines the constitution ; and th only
remedy is trie union of tbrt parties. But,
in allowing the truth of this description
of the eflect of disappointment in ths
tenderest of air the passions,' I would
enquire whence the evil proceeds ? ( Is it
not the result of an error in female edu
cation ? does it not arise from the early
impression which every girl receives,
that marriage is the first and most impor
tant object of her; life,- and from the
anxiety of every mother to push ofT her
daughters, as soon as they have arrived
at that period of life which has been er
roneously fixed upon as the marriageable
age. , Were' this altered" and young
women impressed with the idea that mar
riage before the age of twentyfour or
twenty-five is both injurious to health and
likely to hazard their future felicity, the
passion which is awakened prematurely
would teldom be indulged before the
Constitution is coofirmed,and the judge
ment sufficiently matured to make, that
Lseiecwon wnicu u muicteiiftiu ui nsui
han the frbmance an
f ideality or the majority of early marriag
selection which is more certain of enstir-
d
marriage
on the present system. At all events,
there canje ax doubt or the advantages
of the change, in reference to health.
feEfs the satne
that the spirit is in relegion, what every
one pleases to make it ; sometimes they
go accordiog to . conscience, sometimes
accoruiug w i", uuicimic utcoruing io
r to la w, sometimes according to t
iC court 2TEquty'Ui' a ro-
ibt rale ot
guish thing i for law'we have a ..measure
; tney should make the standard' for the
' measure we call a foot a chancellor's foot ; ; i ;
1 what an uncertain measure would this be i
One Chancellor bar a long oot, another
a short foot a third an indifferent' foot
)t is the same thing in the Chancellor'
conscience. 5. That; saying Do a$
conscience. 3. 1 hat ; saying, Vo 8$
you would be done to,J is often misun
derstood ; for it is riot thus meant: tbatl,
a private man, should do to you, a pri
vate man, as I vould have jrou doto mef
but do as we have agreed to do to one
another by public agreement. If the pris-'
oner should ask 'the judge, whether bo
would beontented tojbe . hanged, . were
hen .fhis cas No. ;
'.f.Th'sri, says the prisoner, do as you
would be done tq?? ' Neither of them must
do as, private men, but the judge must do
by him as they have publicly greed
that is, both judge and prisoner have
consented to lav, that if .either of them
steal, they shall be hanged. Selden.
" During my stay in Petersburgh,
says Mr. Holman, " the following singu
lar story was spoken of as' having occur
red athis place: Two gentlemen had
contracted a bitter and irreconcileable
enmity against each other - A' servant
of one happening to die, was buried with
in 24 hours, after the Russian custom,
when the other determined to gratify his
revenge upon his adversary, by accusing
him of the murder of this man. To give a
color to this accusation Accompanied by
some of his confidential servants, he pro
ceeded to disinter the corpse, with a view
of inflicting marks of violence upon if
The body was removed from the-coffin,
and held erect, that it might undergo a
severe floggiug ; when, to the. astonish
ment and dismay of the party, afteris (ew
blows had ' been inflicted,' animation re
turned, and the affrighted resurrection
man ran off with the utmost precipitation
The corpse at length recovering its ani-.
mation, was able to move 'off' in its
shroudand regain its master's hatjta
tion, hich it entered, to the great terror
of its inhabitants. At length -however,
this reality becoming certain, they were
re-assured, and the supposed ghost com
mouicated all that he could remember of
ihe state he had been in ; which was; that
his senses had not left him, notwithstan
ding he had felt so cold and torpid as to
be incapable of speech or motion, tilt tho
blows had restored him. This led to the
detection of the diabolical plan against
his master's life and character."
THE INDIAN SUMMER.
The month of November, in England,
it described as the, most gloomy &s cheer
less portion of the year: its days heavy,
dull and damp ; its nights clouded with
dense fogs, thick, enough to be cut in
slices. -In the climate of New England,
although not the mildest of the .children
of the seasons, it is far from being com
fortless or unlovely. ,The forests are di
vested of their, foliage; and . the winds
make melancholy sounds among ,the leaf
less branches. The wild revelry of storms,
the majestic rushing of tempests, and the
frosts of coming winter, are blended with
calm nnd sunbright , days and moon
lit evenings, when the pure autumnal ai&
breathes an invigorating freshness into
the system. Usually, after the first on
sirt of cold, the Indian summer, as it is
called, pays its annual visit, the weather
becomes warm the blue vapor comes
over the hills, and an atmosphere as soft
as that fanned by the genial airs of spring,
rests on the earth. The calm and: mellow-brightness
of the mild day is suc
ceeded by a close as magnificent as tho
sunset of Italian skies so often celebra
ted in ethusiastic verse. - This' beautiful
time often continues many days, and at
its termination, winter sets in with stern
severity. -,,s : .
In the early periods of our history.
when ) the Indian enemies lurked in tho
forests and burst out from their; ambus
cades on the planter the first settlers en
joyed little securityexcept in the winter,
wnen the severity of the season prevented
the incursions of the savages ' The com
ing of winter ; was ; hailed ; as the com
roencement of peace by the early inhaf
bttants of the country : they sallied out -
from the little forts : and blockhouses la
which they had been; hemmed up, with .
the joyful feelings of prisoners escaping
from confinement, and busily gathered
in their harvests. To our ancestors, thb
shows of winter were . more pleaiant
than 'the Ifldwers of spring,, is they,
brought the cessation of the horror! or N
war. 6ut it ofleri happened that the tniloT
'days of November afforded the red met'
another opportunity, of visiting the fietvr
vhich burst like the lightriirigi frdrii the?
clouds leaving the record af tbiir tikt&
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