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THE SENTINEL. NEWBEBN:' .o.,rP in presenting to our We nave grci - PreS: a Z, . by the nQ of Mdy mn.ng " ?o Utrdte than h. 3d March. To oar .Sentinel. riy the morn-ng. Of thtt. of .he AMr., it r 8ffic,en , o , both in matter .nd n..ner, . ... pol... " principle .nd t style of .On,PoS...on, .t no. STof the Present. They were prepared t; Z, ct scmd republican principlc.frank.y and ,T.y exprened ; hi. .M. We a"" H. has. moreover, clothed his n.imnt. in . .implicity, force d .'g.nc. of expression, wHiv . . i writer.' as wella, a sound pohhc.an and -w.k .how turn-to dp a ' . ' Tur are no superfluous orn; able siaiesmnu. .... - Q ,oilin after metaphor, and .lustra- , or Earned disser lion, bo puiiui'' i- cation, All is .iPla and v.gorou, . The prop r words are in their pioper places,- - ...... .hnrmonv which make. it more attract.vc ; and its ton- of sincerity enforce, the sentiment, and Drineiples which are conveyed. TbePrident's political creed is short.butcom. prehensile. Peace, friendship, and forbearance with foreign nations; a careful respect for the reserved rights of the separate states at sovereign members of the Confederacy of the U. S. ; a rigid economy in public expenditure ; a rigid accounta bility in public officers ; with an especial view to the speedy pavment of the Public delt ; an equal jy.tem of imposts, with a view to revenue, and with no other preference in the objects of taxa. tion, than such products as are eisential to na tional independence; Internal Improvement and Education, so far as they can be constitutionally, promoted ; standing armies to be discountenanc d; a gradual increase of the Navy ; a just system for strengthening and improving the Militia; a humane and considerate policy towards the In dian tribes; and finally, such a system of reform as shall place the purity of elections beyond tbe Teach of the Federal government, and shall place into office, only the able and the honest. Such are the outlines of the policy which Pre sident .Jackson proposes to pursue. Opposition he will of course meet ; the ultras and the disap pointed of all parties, will ndV little to conciliate them ; the unfaithful and incompetent ho are thrust out, as well as the weak and dis trusted who canivot get'in, can not be expected to lil ethe new order of things. These, together with the ambitious, who look for profit or dis tinction only in a change, and the smaller claws who will be actuated by an honest difference of opinion, will be sufficient to form an opposition at the least large enough for all the ; useful pur poses of an opposition for scrutinizing severely all the acts of the Administration. If, however, the President's future nets hall follow out the scheme of policy which he has sketched out in h Inaugural Address, we doubt not that thepeo ple will support bis Administrates, with the same xeal wiih which they supported his claims as, a candidate. It appears by the proceedings in the Senate which we publish from the National Intelligencer, that the announcement heretofore made of the members of the new administration, is not alto aether correct. Two nominations have been - made for the cabinet, and Mr. M'Leanisto vacate his office of Postmaster General, for a seat on the Supreme Court Bench. A mail or two must bring us the final arrangements. Appropriations for this State-' Congress have appropriated the additional sum of iwenty-one thousand dollars tor improving the Swash at O- cracock; twenty thousand dollars for removing obstructions in the Cape Fear River, below Wil mington, ami twenty thousand dollars for pur chasing the till s still claimed by Cherokee In dians to reservations within the State of North Carolina. The " America." System," seems in a fair way to be made a subject of unversa experiment. The manufacturers have been so successful in their en deavors to force the restrictive sytem otflhe coun try, taking the community for their own especial benefit.that other interests seem disposed to put in their claim for a share of the plunder. The land md interests of Pennsylvania having so long ac quiesced in the burdens imposed for the benefit of manufactures, are calling upon the manufactu rers to aid them in taxing the rest of tbe commu nity for the especial benefit of the farmers. They reason very naturally that if they are forced to buy dear clothes, they must be compensated by forcing others to buy dear food. What interest will be the next applicant, we cannot foresee, but if the reasoning by which the Restrictive System if now supported, be carried out to its full extent, e do not see why, in time, we may not become restricted, protected and systematised; until our "whole intercourse with foreign nations shall be cut down to one tenth of its present magnitude, and the inhabitants of these United Stales be come in the favorite language of the American System, independent. This glorious independence will consist in sacri ficing three-fourths of the profits of their labor to enrich a few capitalists and to keep out the labor of others, and iu contributing much of the other fourth for tbe support of government. A neeting was held at the town of Bustleton,in tbe neighborhood of Philadelphia, on the 15th Jebruary, consisting of delegates from several farming districts, to consult upon the present pri ces of produce, and tbe future prospects of the agriculturist, and to invite the attention of those , concerned to the subject of the increasing and direct interference in our domestic market by the importation particularly of barley and potatoes rom foreign countries. Resolutions weTe adopt eJ for calling the attention of farmers and era xiers throughout the U. S. to the subject, and for snaking a general effort to obtain for the measure the sanction of Coorress. Two observations arise apoQ these proceedings which are of some impor tance in calculating the march of the Restrictive System. The first is, that the.farmers who com posed the meetinr, expressly call for protection for their own particular benefit, and bare drop ped the bid restrictive argument, of the public benefit, "which the increased duty .on products is to afford. In the like spirit of openness end can dor, they state their acquiescence in the burdens imposed by thn manufacturing monopoly, and call for the assistance of the manufacturers as their just due for the assistance which the landed interest has given to the present tariff. We aire glad to see this formal abandonment by so res pectablea portion of the farmers, of. this Tariff fallacy, '. .: -I . The next remark which occurs upon these pro ceedings, is upon the obvious effect which the duty proposed is designed to have. A tariff of prohibition upon barley and potatoes, wilt in com-, mon seasons be a mere nullity, as much sq as a tariff upon iee, or wood. Indeed the : meeting avowed their object to be, to make the extraor dinary profits 'and speculations of a season of scat city, compensate them for the dull uniformity of their small but regular and annual gains. The natural effect of scarcity in raising extravagantly the price of food, is no sufficient to satisfy the awakened spirit pf monopoly ; this rise they state in their preamble to be generally from 200 to 300 per cent on potatoes, and 150 on barley, and they are desirous that no foreign competition should be permitted to lessen it, to their particular loss. This is an apt commentary upon the nature and character of the whole System, which is thus wil ling to speculate upon a deficiency in the prime necessaries of life, and grow rich upon the star vation oi the" poor. '. The bill of appropriation for the repair of the Cumberland Road, which occupied some weeks in discussion, was passed in the House of Repre. sentatives, with a clause authorising the erection by the United States, of toil gates. The Senate passed the bill, but rejected this clause, and the Houm concurred in the amendment. The clause thus readily abandoned, and which has been thus unceremoniously voted good for nothing by the- Senate, was the subject of about a week's discus sion in the House. . ' TheRaleigh Register of Friday the 6th instant, contains the report of a speech deli vered in the House of Commons by our townsman, Mr. Gaston, in reply to certain crude notions upon the law concerning corporations, which had been advan ced by the advocates of the Minority Committee, and of the proceeding founded upon their report. We hope to find room for it, or at least for some narts of it, in another paper. In the mean timet we recommend it to the attentive perusal of our neighbor Mr. Croom, whose ideas on that subject seem particularly confused ; in order that when on another occasion he undertakes to discourse of law and legislation, he may know something of tho subjects about which he is talking. The New York papers at filled with accounts of the distresses of the poor of that City, from the extreme severity of the winter. The public exertion, td relieve these distresses, are of the most liberal and energetic kind. Meetings are held in every ward, and subscriptions and dona tions of every kind made freely and generously The Committee of one ward alone, report that they afforded relief, in two days, to 515 families, representing 2163 persons. Widows with largo families were found in cellars, utterly destitute, and in some instances almost naked, without food or fuel, In the first ward $1700 was collected in one day, and 2S00 on another. At a meeting of citizens in one place, $200 was collected. 240 in another, 312 in another, 469 in another. Food of all descriptions, clothing, fuel, fcc. were con stantly contributed, and we regret to say, as con stantly exhausted by the increasing wants of the poor. Similar distress seems to be experienced iu Philadelphia and Baltimore. . The Anti-Masonic excitement'in the State of New York, has reached a surprising height and magnitude. Men of great weight 'and influence have lent their names and assistance to the rising party, and there ii now no doubt but that the whole strte will be divided into two great divi sions of Masonic and Anti-Masonic. The attempt is made, and will doubtless succeed, to extend the influence of these distinctions to other states.unti) the whole Union shall be similarly divided. An other Grand State Convention has been held at Albany, at which it was proposed and adopted to hold a general U. S. Convention of Anti-Masons at Philadelphia, on the 11th September, 1830. We are told that in the City of New York which had been formerly entirely uninfluenced by the Western feelings on this subject, the excitement is very great. In Vermont, Anti-Masonic meet ings have been held. Massachusetts, N. Hamp shire, and Ohio, have in a smaller degree partici pated iu these feelings. The rapid spread of An tiMasonry has astonished even its leaders. It has grown, so as to become entirely unmanageable by the first contrivers, and, we doubt not, is des tined to'be the creed of a very powerful party. , The Virginia Convention is to take place in October next. The elections will be in May. There will be 96 members, sixty from Eastern Virginia, and thirty six from the Western coun tie. This inequality has occasioned-much dis satisfaction . The Legislature of the State of Delaware have altered their electoral law, and given the election ot electors to the people. The General Ticket system has been adopted. If t t .BB i. aa a Mr. M'Kinley, Senator from the State of Ala bama, presented, a few days since in the Senate, the protest of the Legislature oftbat State agains the Tariff. , ; The sum of eighteen hundred dollars ras col lected in the Churches of Baltimore on Sunday last for the benefit of the distressed poor. We take this opportunity to return our thanks publicly, to those friends, who have favored us with their Correspondence, and offered us their aid," against our anonymous assailants in the Spectator. While we are grateful for their kind ness, we beg leave respectfully to decline their preferred assistance. We were forced into this controversy singly, by a knot of anonymous foes, and we doubt not that we shall be able, singly to manage it to our own satis fact ion . From the AVasbington ; Tellegrapb. At hair past ten b'clocjt, on Wednesday, thevofficers and soldiers of the Revolution formed in procession at Brown's Hotel and preceded to Gadsby's where thev dehvered WcusJungtonfAth MxrcAl2& r ,ndrbw-'Jacksoiv-t. , Sir : YVe, a fir of the surviving efficers and soldiers of tbe army of the' Revolution, now conveped jit this place, most fespect fully solicit the honor of forming your escort to the Capitol ti here you are abot to be rrtauguraled as the President of the .'United Spates. . .: -;r - ;: ; ! ; Former events, and onr advancel ages, preclude he idea that, this is designed to be a military pageant ; no, Sir, it is far otherwise; having fought in.the defrnce of the sacred rights of man, and for thfe liber ty, sovereignty, and independence f these United States, now happily bound together, as we fondly hope, by an indissoluble chain, we feel desirous to avail ourselvesjof the opportunity of baing present wlen the guardianship of these invaluable dene fits shall be deposited in your hands. I The valor, the judgment, the indepen dence of mind, the prudence the firmness and the patriotism of our great commander Washington, led us triumphantly through the Revolutionary war, and the iation through the first periods of the FederaCon stitution; and : we have entire toiififlence that, the exercise of the same transcendent virtues, wijl, under God, preserve inytol ate our liberties, independence and' umon, dur ing your 'udinlnlstraioiT and iris bur mosj ardent prayer that they may be perpetual. May your days be long: and happy may increasing honors multiply on your bead and, like your first predecessor, may you add a civic monument to vour martial glo ry ; and like his, may they be imperisha ble! . . : " ' : We have the honor to be, ith the high est respect, your most obedient servants, WILLIAM POLK, Chairman JOHN NICHOLAS, AARON OGDCNi ABRAHAM BC0M, ROBERT BOLLING, ELNATHAN SEARS, ROBERT K ENE, J. VVOODSIDES, PHILIP STEWART. ARMISTEAD LONG, JOHN M. TAYLOR. JOHN BROWN (C CUTTING, CALEB STARK, WILLIAM GA.MBEL, JACOB GIDEON, Sr. To this Address, the President made the following reply : Respected Friends : Your affection ate address awakens sentiments and recol lections which I feel with sincerity, and cherish with pride. To have around mv person, at the moment of ondertaking the most solemn of duties to my country, the companions of the immortal Washington, will afford me satisfaction and grateful en couragement. lhat by my best exertions, I shall be able to exhibit more than an imi tation of his patriotic labors, a sense of my own imperfections, and the reverence I en tertain for his virtues, forbid me to hope To you, respected friendsk the survivors of that- heroic band, who followed him so long and so valiantly in the path qf glory, l olTer my sincere thanks, and to heaven my' prayers, that your remaining years may be as happy as vour toils and your lives have been illustrious. ANDREW JACKSON. Washington, March 5. THE INAUGURATION. John C. Calhoun, Vice President elect of the United States, took the Chiar of the Senate at 1 1 o'clock, and the Senate was called to order. The oath to support the Constitutioa of the United States was administered to the Vice President by Mr. Smith, of Maryland. The, oath to suport the Constitution of (he Unites States was then administered , to the following new Senators,, by the Vice President : viz. JMessr. Branch, Clayton, Bibb, Ilayne, King, Knight, McLean, of Ohio, Tazwell, White, Sillsbee, Bellj Fre linghuysen, Sprague, and Livingston ; and hey took their seats. At half past eleven o'clock, Andrew Jackson, the President elect, entered the Senate Chamber, attended by the Marshal of the District, and the Committee of ar rangements, and took his seat immediately in front of the Secretary Vdesk. The Chief Justice of the United States and Associate Judges, entered soon after, and occupied the seats assigned for. them on the right of the President' Chair. , Tbe. Foreign Ministers and their suits, in thejr splendid official costumes, occupied seats on the left of the Chair. ' ' ' A large number of Ladies were present, and occupied the seats m the rear of the Senators, and the lobby under the Last gallery. NThe Western gallery was reser ved for Members of the House of repre sentatives. At twelve o'clock the Senate adjourned, and a procession was formed to the Eas tern portico of the Capitol, where, in pre sence of an immense concourse of specta tors filling the potico, the steps and the en closure, the President of the United States delivered bis Inaugural Address, and, hav ing concluded it, the oath to support the Constitution was administered to bira by Chief Justice. Marshall. . Salutes were fired by two companies of artillery, stationed in the vicinity of the Capitol, which were repeated by the forts and detachments of artillery on the plains. When the President retired, the procession was re-forruedr and he was conducted to ihe Presidential Mansion. r He here received the salutations of a vast number of persons, who came to congratu later him oponf IifS indctiptt p the Presi dency. v ---4.. -Mr iv Tbe day was serene and mild, and every way favorable to the wishe of those who iiad , in 4 dUttxce to witness the ce- i or persons present at the Capitol, within, around, and f ri ftifnt of it," haver ijen vari: ously estimated. ( We suppose that it did not fait short of fen thousand. Washington. March 7. The folio wtng nominations were yester day made by the President or thk United States, and promptly confirmed by the Senate, viz :' Martin Van Buken, of New York, to be Secretary of Stale. Samuel D. Ingham, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary of the Treasury. , The following; nominations are also said to have been made by the President, but tot to have been acted upon by the Senate, viz: John M'Lean, of Ohio, to be an Asso ciate Judge.of the Supreme Court of ihe unitea states. John W. Campbell, of Ohio, to be Dis trict Judge for the JJistiict of Ohio. c Exploring Expedition. We regret that his enierpitse, which has engaged so much of the public attention and interest, parti cularly pf 4e Iiyje ,raarjtnie community, snouia not nave been acted on. 1 he bU passed the House of, Representatives by a large majority,; but the late 'period of the ' I M. . " " session in which the fxaval (Jommittee in the Senate reported the bill,placed; it beyond the. action vf that body in'its regular order. U theretore remains, with many other bills 6t importance, to be revived and acted on at the next session. Nat. Int. JEFFERSON'S WORKS. We have been favored with the preface ot the 44 Memoir, correspondence, and mis Ccllanies from the papers of 1 nomas Jei- ftrson. Edited by Thomas Jefferson Ran dolph, Charlottesville, Virginia, by F. Carr & Co. l829., Under a firm persuasion that every thing in relation to the writings of Mr. J eiler son will be read with great iu tetest, we publish below the whole of the preface. Ill quality of paper and beauty oi yPgrlPn,cal execution, the pages before us ate really admirable, and fully equal to any thing which we have seen from the Bostou or Philadelphia' Press. We are pleased to seethe writings of Mr. Jefferson, thus given to the public in so beautiful a U ' J . 1. r a iiuui.a vuiaue in me vicinity or ms own monticello, 111 which ten years ago there was not a printing press. Political Arena. PREFACE. The opinion universally entertained of the extraordinary abilities of Thomas Jet ferson, and the signal evidence given by hi country of a profound sense of his patriotic services, and of veneration for his memory, have induced the Editor, who is both Exe cutor and the Legatee of his Manuscript papers, to believe that an extensive publi cation from them, would be particularly ac ceptable to tbe American people. . The memoir contained in the first volume commences with circumstantial notices 01 his earliest life; and is continued to his ar rival in New York in March, 1799, when he entered on the Department of State, ot which he had been just appointed Secretary. From the aspect of the Memoir, it may be presumed that parts of it at least, had been wiilten for his own and his family' use only ; and in a style without the finish of his revising pen. There is, however,no part of it, minute and personal as it may be, which the Reader would wish to have been passed over by the Editor, whilst not a le w parts of that description will, by some, be regarded with a particular interest. The contents of the memoir, succeeding the biographical pages,may be designated as follows : I. General facts and anecdotes relating lo the origin and early stages of the contest with Britain. II. Historical circumstances relating to the Confederation of the Slates. - If I. Facts and anecdotes, local and gen eral, preliminary to the Declaration of In dependence. IV. An exfct account of the circumstan ces attending that memorable Act, in its preparation and its progress through Con gress; with a copy from the original draught, in the writing of the Author and the paral lei column fn the same hand, shewing the alterations made in tbe draught by Con gress. ti. j , v Therlejnoir will be' considered, not a little enriched by the Debates in' Congress, on the. great question of Independence, as they were taken down by Mr. Jefferson at the time, and which though in a compres sed form, present the substance o f what passed on that memomble occasion. This portiop'of the work derives peculiar value from its perfect authenticity, being all in the writing of that distihg rished member of the body; from the certainty that this is the first disclosure of those debates j and from the probability, or rather certainty, that a like knowledge of them is not to be expect ed from any otber source. The same re marks are applicable to the debates in the same Congress, preserved in the same man ner, on two of the original articles of Con federation. The first is the article fixing the late of assessing the quotas of supply to the common Treasury ; the second is tbe article which declares, that in determining questions each Colony should have one vote. The debates on both are hot only interest ing lb themselves, but curious also in; rela iion' to. (ike discussions of the same . subject on subsequent occasions. ; V. Views of the connections and trans actions of the United States "witii foreign uationi it diforcat periods 5' pghicalarly a remonyfdr:thevIriaugnration. The number uarratrve, with many details, personal and political, of the causes and early course of Uie-Freach Revqfution, as exhibited to the observation of the AuthordurTngTsiptov matte residence at Paris. rITie narrative with the intermingled reflections, on the?, character and consequence; of that Revolu tion, fill a considerable space in the Memoir and form a very important part of it. VI. Within the body of the Merriirf or referred to as an Appendix, are other pa pers which were tho't entitled to the placer they occupy.. Among them nre, 1. A pa per drawn up in the year 1774 as Instruc tions to our delegates in Congress. Though heretofore in print, it will be new to most . readers; and will be regarded by alt as the . most ample and precise enumeration of the British violations that had then appeared,' or, perhaps, that has since ben presented in a form at once so compact and so com plete. 2. A Penal Code, being part of a " Revised CodtY of Laws, prepared by ap- . pointment of the Legislature oi" Virginia in 1775, with reference ;to the Republican forrd of Government, to tr)e principles of huma nity congenial therewith, and with the im proving spirit of the age. Annexed to die; several articles, are! explanatory and other remarks of the Author worthy of being pre served by the aid of the press. 3. Ajiis- torical and critical review of the repeal of. , the laws establishing Religious freedom." 1 his act, it is well known, as always held by Mr. Jefferson to be one of his best efforts in the cause of liberty to which be was de voted, and it is certainly the strongest legal barrier that could be erected against a con nection between Church and. State, so fatal in its tendency to tiie purity of both. 4. An elaborate paper concerning a money Unit, prepared in the year 1784, and which laid the foundation of the system adopted by Congress for a coinage and money of ac count. For other particulars, not here no ted, the reader is referred to the volume itself. J The termination; of the Memoir, at the date mentioned by the Author, may be ex plained by the laborious tasks assumed or not declined by him, on his return to pri vate life, which, with his great age, did not permit. him to reduce his materials in to a state proper to be embodied in such tv work. f The other volumes contain, 4. Letter1 from 1773 to his death, addressed to & I . ' . 1 1 ' rcreai variety or inoiviuuais; ano com or 1- sing a range of information and in many in stances, regular essays on subjects of His tory, Politics Science, Morals and Reli gion. The letters to him are omitted ex cept In a very , few instances, where the whole or a part of a letter bad been filed, for the better understanding of the answer And where inferences from the tenor of tho answer might in any way affect the corres pondent,; his name does not appear in tho copy filed. The historical parts of the iet ters and the entire publication,' have the? rare value of coming from one of the chief actors himself, and of being written not for the public eye, but in the freedom and con fidence of private friendship. II. Notes of conversation while Secreta ry of State, with President, Washington r and others high in office; and memoranda of Cabinet Councils committed to paper on the spot, and filed ; the whole, with the explanatory and miscellaneous additions, shewing the vie ws and tendencies of parties from the year 1786 to 1800. , Appended to the publication, is a Fat sirmle' of the rough draught of the Decla ration of Independence, in which will be seen the erasures, interlineations, and ad-, ditions of Dr. Franklin and Mr. Adams, two of the appointed Committee, in the. hand writing of each. lhe editor, though he cannot be insensi ble to the genius, the learned philosophic inspiration, the generous devotion of virtue, and the love of country, displayed in the writings now committed to the press, is re strained not less by his incompetency than by his relation to the Author, from d ve1in on themes which belong to an eloquence that can do justice to the names of illustri ous benefactors to their country and their fellow men. DIED. On Tuesday last after a protracted and severe indisposition, .Captain ELIJAH WILLIS, in the 50th year of his age.' Capt. YV. hjtd longhand suc cessfully prosecuted his profess ion in' the mer chant service oftbis port, and evinced throughout his useful career, great skill as a navigators As a man, be was universally regarded as upright aud scrupulously hnest. In testimony - of their respect for bis memory, the several masters of vessels now in the port, caused their respective flags to be displayed at half mast; and the remains of thedeceased .ware committed to the tomb by the brethren of St. John Lodge, No. 3, of,wbich he had , long been a member, with masonic ho nors. . ! . ' i . ' '".;' On the same day, Miss MARY ARMSTRONG, ARRIVED. Brig Gen. McComb, Raid, New York, raercbdx. to Geo. Reid.' SchrAon Maria, Hunter Turks Island, salt to J. Justice. Schr.' Amity, Crosse N. York, merchds. to Sk I Brown, C. Slover and others. Passengers, ur Lea?h, Dr. Saunders, Mr. Erben, and Mrs- Mel- in.v. .. -; SchrrUtility, Lindsey. Charleston ballsst. ta J. Olir." ., : . , Ariel. Freeborn, New Yrk. . , , . . j CliEAnED.. Schr. Amity, Crofs Nw Ygrk,. ScbrJ Baltimore, Htfgins. Baltimore Sobr. Hero, Jones, Martiaico. i '1 '' ii'. ' , . i. 71 t' f. f:- "