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' , : ' 1 ' ' ... ; .x " i -,: .... . " Onri are tHe plans of fair delightful peace, unvrarpM by party rage, to live like brothers." THREE IOl,LAUS er Annnm, OlVEHAIiFlIV ADVANCE. Mty Joseph Gales Son. TERMS. " ITiinzs Don as per annum on half in advance Those who do not, either ai ine ume o juDcnuu.5 or aubiequently, give notice oftheir wish to have the Paper discontinued at the ipiration of the year, will be presumed as desiring tti continuance until countermanded AD YE RTIsfelflEN T S , ft t exceeding stxieen lines, will be inserted three timet for a Dollar; and twenty-nve cents lor eacn subsequent publication : those, of greater length, in proportion. If the number of insertions be not marked on them, they wiH be continued until or r tiered out n4 charged accordingly.' WASHiweTow, Feb. 29t 1836. "To the Speaker & Members w w of the' General Jissemojy of Virginia. Gentlemen Certain Resolutions of he General Assembly, tnstructins;, their Senators in tlve Congress of the United States, to mtcouuee and to vote lor a He- solution to expunge tae Journar ot a pre vious Senate in the .particulars therein, mentioned, and pointing out 4he precise manner in which the act shall be perform ed, have beei made known to me. ; Af ter thetnost deliberate examination which I am capable of bestowing upon them, and with a sincere destre to eontorm my conduct to the wishes of the General As sembly, I find it impossible to reconcile the performance of the prescribed task, Avithcthe obligations ot the solemn oatn I I T I - .1 A , i l f wmcn l. nave taxen to supporc me vou- stttution of the United States. With what promptitude I should comply with ine lnsiruciKjns ni ine ljeisiaiure, u compliance were nermitted rae, may rea dily be inferred, froni my past course of eonuuet : anu i oec your indulgence, gentlemen, whilst 1 advert to the most prominent incidents ot my lile, in con nexion with the great question of instruc tion. I was very young when I first took my seat in the Houses of Delegates, to. which i had been elected within a lew days after I had attained the age of 21. The then Senators from Virginia, (Mess. Giles and Brent) stood obnoxious to the charge of having disregarded the instruc tions of the Legislature, which had been adopted on the motion of a gentleman, then a distinguished member (Gov. Bar- boiir to vote against" re-chartering the Bank of the U. S. The first, while he voted against the Bank, denied the right of the Legislature to instruct him the last, disregarded the instructions altoge ther, and voted for a Bank. Impelled by no other motives than to uphold the Le gislature in the right to instruct its de puted organs, I introduced a resolution disapproving of the course which had been pursued by the Senators. My motive in doing so, was smgie ana unmixeu. i was too young to tuk projit by their ovtr throw. The resolution thus introduced by me, passed into other hands, and was substituted by other resolves, which were finally" adopted by the two houses of As - semDiy Dv large anu oyerwneimmg maio - rities. At the age of twenty-five I took my seat in the House of Representatives or ine uniteo estates, ine repeal or me . f TV . 1 fill I C At compensation law soon came under dis - cussion. I came in to supply a vacancy, and brought with me the wishes of my constituents in regard to tnat measure.- I made them known, and claimed the repeal of the law, as due to the well as certained wishes of the people. This brought into discussion the obligation of instructions: and I contended for the right, under the same restrictions and u- mitatmns as had been laid down in the resolutions before alluded to. I now re - affirm the opinion atall times heretofore expressed by me, ;that instructions arelby your predecesgors, I trust I shall be manuaiuiT, yioiueu hict uu uui require a violatfbd of the Constitution or the com- mission of an act of moral turpitude. When acting under an oath, the public agent, "whether a benator or a Juror, is bound by obligations of a higher Vmore controlling character than can proceed irom any eariuiy source, ine vonsu- tutien ot the United btates is the original and primary letter of instructions, su- premeover all, and binding upon all junction is thus solemnly imposed upon Tory the agent- w1k is sworn to support the aggregate body, and on each individ it. to violate" if knowingly and intenti- ual Senator. Whatever shall be done, onauy, wouiu ue an act oi tne grossest immorality ana mest unmitigated abase- inent. .Such is the condition in, which, in my view of the subject, obedience to vour iristructions would phce me. It is known to you, gentlemen, thaton my en- tering "the Seriate, the only oath which Jtook was an oath to support the Consti- liition of the United States ; to support t in an ana eacn oi us provisions: yield it neither to force, persuaiion, nor expediency. No matter what theobiect: uuuu. us aitainmeni conrer upoa me me greatest personal advantage, still to re - main unseauced not. to touch that Jor bidden truit. entered into a covenant , - r n "7 icaior.io oreaK wnicn, would not isil io piace in my.Dosom a frome- thean culture, tq tear and devoijr me.-r- ine ouiigauow men, to oDey an instruc uon wnicn cais upon me to break that gratitude ami admiration of succeeding covenantfcann6t possibly exist. I shotllid ages, But this provision in our Consti be unworUiy the confidcp of all hpnor- iution istillSviser. EacSenator writes aole menifVl could be induced, under tlaily hisowi bipgraflm FHe is repaired any circumstances, to commit an act of deliberate perjury. Instead of a seat in the Senate, I should richly deserve to be put in tfie pillory and to lose both my ears as an indelible mark of my baseness and such would be the sentence which the laws of Virginia would pronounce a gainst me. You have admitted the truth of this position in the alternatives pre sented in your second resolution. Be tween these alternatives I cannot hesi tate to choose. It is not for every differ ence of opinion between the representa tive, and constituent, that the constituent would necessarily require the resignation of the representative. In the course of a somewhat long political life, it must have occurred that my opinions have been variant from the Opinions of- those I re present ; but in.presenting to me the al ternative of resignation in this instance, you give me to be distinctly informed that the accomplishment of your object is regarded as of suclrprimary importance, that my resignation ,is desired, if com pliance cannot be yielded, I am bound to consider you, as in this, fairly, repre senting the sentiments of our common constituents, the People of Virginia, to whom alone you are amenable if you have mistaken thir wishes. My position in regard to this whole subject, is of a cha racter to preclude me from going into abstractions. I do not hesitate, on the contrary, to declare that, if you had, as the accredited organs of the people, ad dressed me a request to vacate my seat in the penate, your request would have had with me the force of law not -a day or an hour could I desire to remain in the Senate beyond that hour wherein I came to be informed that it was the set tled wish of the people of Virginia that I should retire from their 'service. . That people have honored me with the lushest offices within their gift. If the talent which I have brought Into their service be humble, I shall have at least brought fidelity to their interests. No where else have I looked for reward, but to their approbation. I have served under four Administrations, and might doubtlessly, by a course of subserviency and syco phancy, have obtained what is called by some preferment. N But what could have compensated for the baseness of my pros titution, and the betrayal of the confi dence reposed in me by' a generous peo ple ? The Executive files furnish no re cord of my nameas an applicant for any of the crumbs which hav fallen from the Executive table. I repeat, that I have looked exclusively to the people of Vir ginia, and when they have extended to ine their confidence for twenty-odd years when I am indebted to them for what soever of credit and standing" I possess in the world, I cannot and will not per mit myself to remain in the Senate for a moment beyond the time that their ac credited organs shall instruct me that my services are no longer acceDtab e. If for the past did not, my own conscious weakness would control mv course. What would it profit the coun" Ury or myself, for me to remain in the 1 oeuuie against meir witnes r uy retain- ing my place in opposition to their fixed. declared and settled will, I should aid 1 - 1 . no cause auvance no great purposa Jbe powerless to do good, & provoke only to narm reposing only , on my teebl strength, I should vainly natter myself that I could with my sinsle arm sus tain the Constitution, and keep back what I might consider the tide of error, when in verv truth I should but excite the popular prejudices more strongly and imminently endanger the Constitution bv my very ertorts to sustain it In resigning then, gentlemen, info 1 your hands, my place in the Senate o I the United States, to which I was called sons which have led me to the conclu i muuiseu iiua urieiijexnosilion or tne rea sion, that to obey your instructions would be to violate the Constitution of the Uni ted Mates, 1 shall doso boldly and fearlessly, but with alt becoming respect, and with all the brevityjft my nower. "c ocuaic is oruerea oy theUonstitution to keep a journal ot its proceeding? and to publish it from time to time. This in- snail De laiiniuiiy recoroea oy the Sec- retary, and shall oe laitntully kept not for An hour, and theo be defaced not for a-daytand then tc be erased nor tor a year, and then to be expunged but forever, as a nernetual witness, a faithful I history, by which the conduct, the mo- tives, tjie actions of men, shall be judged, not by those of the present day only, but to throunout a tim. if w a w si rns- torn among the Chinese, which reauired the bioarranhv of p.irli F.nmprnr tn hpwrif. ten oeiore the close of his lite, and placed J before him, so as to giveAimforeknowl- - edge ot what the would would think of him after his death. It If''- 7 --w.?-&.x restrain nis evil passions-? to curb the ex ercise ot despotic sway. It addressed itself to his ambition, and excited within - Imp a Jopging tor an immortalitv in the TUESDAY, to record his own acts, and takes an oath to keep that record and to publish it from time to time. The applause or censure of his fellow-men is not postponed until he has deeended to the tomb. It is daily uttered' by the living generation. How powerful are the inducements thus ad dressed to each member to be faithful to the Crust confided fto him! How much to be. admired the wisdom of our:ances tors in framing the.Constitution ! if this was its only feature, their title to immor tality would be established. This simple provision is one of the great securities of American liberty. It takes nothing upon trust. If the Senate kept no journal, it would bea secret con clave, where deeds the most revolting might be performed in secresy and dark ness. The train might there be laid, the mine prepared, and the first knowledge of the treason might be the explosion, and consequentoverthrow of free government. Liberty could not co-exist with such a state of things. There is no liberty where there is no responsibility, and there can bj no responsibility where nothing is known. To have a Secretary seated at the table of the Senate, to write down its proceedings, and to claim for itself the right to cancel, obliterate, or expunge what he had written, is equivalent to ha ving no journal at all a mocfeery and a fraud. The journal of the morning may be cancelled in the evening--that of tor day may be expunged on to-morrow can cel it in any way, whether by black or red marks, whether with circles or by straight line!?, it ceases to be a journal, and that which was is not The journal is to be published, but there is no journal. There was one yesterday, but ere it can reach the press, it is cancelled, marked out, or expunged. These are the neces sary results of ebedience to your instruc tions. If that journal contain a transac tion discreditable to the Senate, I should preserve it as a perpetual monument of its disgrace. If, to a party leader, I will give him and his friends who may tem poral ily have the ascendency, no war rant to erase or blur the page on which such an act ot misconduct is recorded.- should be afraid, after performing such a deed, if Virginia is what she once was and I do not doubt it, to return with- n her limits. The execrations of her people would be thundered in my ears. file soil which had been trod by her he roes and statesmen would furnish me no I T"l I i f. .1 ir I succeed in concealing: njyselt ironv the sight of men, I could not, in my view of - a he-subject, save myself from the upbraid-1 How could I return to mix. among her people, to shara her hospitality and kind- ness, with the declaration on my hps, I have violated my oath of office, and sooner than surrender my place in the aenaie, nave siructt uown uie ionsiuu- lion ?" If the Senate has a right to touch the Journal under instructions, it has a right to do so without ir to cancel a part, a right to expunge the whole. If to use ink from a pen, a right to pour it from a bot- tie to destroy the Journal in any other way to burn it to nuke abonfire of all that is bright and glorious in our his- tory, ' I know it has been said that the .a. a l .la process directed to oe adopteu oy your resolution is not designed to expunge. j I cannot believe this, and reject it as e qually injurious to yourselves and unjust to those you represent. You direct the words Expunged bv order of the Sen-j ate," to be written across the resolutions on wnicn you propose iu mase war. i resung-piace. x saouiu leei myseir gun-lot the (wing oi cngiana, nis master, or ty, most guilty ; and however I misht dered that a resolution adopted by the will not believe that you merely design! Had your resolutions: d-ecter me to toensnare my conscience much less willreDeal or rescin-d the resolution of tiie I indulge for a moment the idea, that you direct a falsehood, to be recorded by me. Those do not understand you who make nevertheless, have telt myself constrain BY .fill. m such ascriptions, anu l am not raisiea oy them. The General Assemblyofa proud and lofty State, is incapable of a mere auibblerand such an one as would dis- grace a King's jester- No gentlemen j the act which vou direct to be performed, s designed to be, ana equivalent to, an actual obliteration in all its practical re - suits. The manner of accomplishing this act of cancellation, is wholly immaterial. In publishing this journal Jrom time to been faithfully represented. His vindi time hereafter, the resolution thus can-1 cation, after all, cannot consist in the celled cannot be published as a part ot it. It' is declared to be expunged upon its face. But, if in this 1 could possibly belsinn of opinion ; and even it vour decla- mistaken it,atter all, it is merely child's play the. making a few flourishes, and putting thi?Secretary of the Senate to the ... . r. ..... ' . ...... trouble to write a few unmeaning Vords, tne question wouiu not oe changed. Such as is the journal, so shall it be kept, unaltered in a letter, uncnangeain a com- ii :a t i. il. ma. uic.sauic as n uuw is, io me last sjiiabie oi recortieatime." ouch is the x txl' -xx ...x? rrst . nat oi ine Lonsuiuuon, mere is not a clerk.or deputy clerk in the Common wealth of Virginia who would execute such an order in regard to his re cord s. The people would be alive to the ques - i i? " xj'' .i . ! i lion, ana in viuuicauon pi tneir rignts, wouldl Expungt the Court sooner than permit thefecord containing the titles their estateto be cantel led in any manner! whateyfrr 1 Tey surely cannot take less interest in the presetlUon ofthe qnsiU tutipq, the great carter of all their rights, J9EJMRCH1& t836. The effort has been made- io huijit" up precedents to-justify this act. The pa ges of English Parliamentary history have been ransacked, and an array has been made of examples drawn froni the times of the Jameses and Georges of En gland, With equal force might exam ples be quoted to justify an American President in executing capitally a citizen of any one of the States without the forra of a trial. He might equally be justified! in the use ot the bow-string, because such is the power of fhe Grand Signior. The power of the English Parliament is unlimited. So Is that of many of the States of this Union, in regard to this particular subject. No precedent can have force to overthrow an express enact ment of the Constitution. Under its pro-, vision, the Senate is directed to keep a journal ot its proceedings. If I were I. a a ' . . permitted to look eisewher than to that Constitution, I would go to Virginia for bright and glorious examples to con duct me in safety. The firstin point of prom inence, although not in point, of time, is the course attempted to be adopted by the King's party in the House of Bur gesses in 1765, as to the celebrated res olutions of Patrick Henry, fof that period. These resolutions were declaratory ofthe rights of British America. After their a doption, many of those who voted for them left the city of Williamsburg, there by giving to the opposite party the accir dental ascendency ; and they immediate ly formed the resolution to expunge them from the journal. But by a stroke of pol icy as bold as jit vvas successful, Mr. Henry saved those resolutions from be ing expunged, which form at this day one of brightest pages of Virginia His tory, and recorded on any man's to.nb would eternize his fame. And yet, to expunge them from, the journal, was re garded as much an act of duty by those who proposed it, as yofl, gentlemen, can esteem it lo be in the case under consid eration. They failed and my prayer, as a citizen of a free country is, that you too may be unsuccessful. Your p.osterity may have good cause to rejoice in your failure. Another example, almost as illustrious, is to be found in the conduct of Robert Beverly, during the Administration of Lord Culpeper. The history of the in cidents of the transaction are not onlv instructive, but highly interesting. Lord Culpeper, armed with all the authority ... fn i t. House of Bursesses durins'the Adminis Jtration - of Herbert Jeffiies, should be ex- et ri punged from their records, as highly Robert Beverly was Clerk to the House of Burgesses. Every effort was made to induce him to produce the journal, in or lertto have it expunged. He was sub- jecteu to all manner of persecutions j but he ffiorieu in nis sunerinjrs, anu nis no ble spirit rose in proportion to his perse cutions. He peremptorily refused to comply, alledging that his master, the House of Burgesses, had alone a right to make such a demand, and that their au thority alone he durst obey. "And I loo, reply to those orders which are now given me,- that I will not' expunge the records of the Senate until the Constitu tion, which, while it is permitted to re main, is master over all, shall be changed, altered or abolished. You will have full opportunity, gentlemen, to appoint ano jther in my place. fcFor my part, I will j not consent to be made an instrument to accomplish such an object nor shall lenvy any successojr whom you may send on sucn amission. Senate, I would have obeyed your orders, although with great reluctance. I would, ed to do so by my recognition ot your right to instruct Hie; That proceeding would have -reversed and annulled the act complained of. If your obiect was to vindicate the President in theauthor- ity which he assumed and still exercises over the public money, and esteemed it (necessary in order to do so, to have had J vour opinions expressed through me in I the Senate Chamber they should have form in which it may be urged. It is to be found alone in the legislative exures I . . . . ' . . rations in his behalt were conhned to your own journals, the historian would not fail to avail himself of them as effi ciently as if they itood emblazoned on the heavens, rrom my knowledge J you, I am sure that you would not be willing to pull down the Constitution un .. i ..t . i x " necessarily ana witnout oDject. I n your effort to vindicate the Presid dent, you have cast on me, in common with others, the very reproach which yoiT are pleased to regard so offensive in reference to him. You- have publicly. - land before thV-world, 4eclared a reso I. . - .."V- Mutton lor which l voted, to oe suDver- give of the rights of the House of Repres- to Untatives and the fundamental principles of free government." If you design to charge me with impurity of motive in the vote thusifeiven, your accusation , woud imply the highest censure. But this I do not' ascribe to you. You intend to say no more ihan.tht your judgment anu opinion differs from that expressed by me upon the subject out of which grew the resolution of the Senate, and that the Senate committed an error,which, in its. effects, is calculated to subvert ' the rights of the House of Representa tives and the fundamental principles of free government." The censure which your resolution conveys, implies a want of correct judgment, on my part, in vo ting for that resolution, and nothing more. If this be your meaning and I will hot permit rrjjself to think otherwise I am yet to learn how I incur the hazard of subverting the rights of the House, of Representatives and the fundamental principles of free government," by liav- ing declared in substance, what as a member of the Senate I did by my vote declare, that the President had mistaken his course, and that his conduct was "in derogation of the Constitution and laws.' Have I done more in this, than you have done in' your declaration? And if not, I submit it in all candor to your dispas sionate judgment to say whether, if I was liable to trial on impeachment before you, you would consider yourselves as having already pronounced upon my guilt in advance. I should certainly not dream of excepting to you as' my judges; because, resting on my integrity of mo tive, I should feel confident of acquittal. There can be no guilt without a criminal design and I am sure you would be among the lalt to ascribe .to the Presi dent any criminality of design, Am I to understand you as declaring, that be cause the House of Representatives may originate an impeachment against the President or other officer of the Govern ment, the Senate has no right to express an opinion as to any act ofthe President or such other officer r No matter what may be the act, even if it annihilates the powers of the Senate has it no power nherent in all other bodies, of self-pro- ection and delence r A Brennus rnav at nvade the bodv and pluck it by the beard, and, yet according to this, it has no authority to strike. Go to that ven- rable Patriarch of Montpelier, (Mr, Madison, )'and ask him whether, in fra ming the Constitution, he designed that the Senate should be a mere motionless stock, or'a vigilant sentinel to give no- ice of the a'nnroach of danger to that very Constitution which it is sworn to support whether the. Representatives of the sovereign states are sucn mere auto mata as to move only when they are bid den, and to sit in their places like stat ues, to record'such edicts as may come to them ? If the President recommends a measure which the' Senate believes im politic, s1iallitnot say so? So, if he adopt a course which he may believe to be correct, but which the Senate thinks unconstitutional may it not say so? And xloes its so declaring teud to subvert or to support "the fundamental principles You surely can be. at no loss to decide. The Senate, in he instance of the late Postmaster-Gen eral, (Mr. Barry,) who had contracted oans in his official character tor the use of his Department without authority, de clared by an unanimous vote, that his proceedings in this respect were in vio- ation of the Constitution and yet no complaint has ever .been uttered against that resolution of. the Senate. How comes t about, that anathemas have not been thundered in the ears of the Senate be cause of that vote ? Why is not that ordered to be-expunged ? Why is not that also declared to be "subversive of the rights of the Houseof Representa tives, and of the fundamental principles oi tree government r" is not the error as vital when it affects William T. Bar ry, as when it affects Andrew Jackson ? If so, every motive of generosity promp ted an interference in behalf of the first. He was powerless, and is now in his I had a personal regard for Mr. Barrv. He was talented, and his fault lay 4n being too confiding. Honest him self, he did not suspect others, and they deceived him. This was the rock on which he split.- In voting for that reso lution I did not desigtuto impute to,. him moral guilt : I did not believe it I de signed nothing more than to vindicate the Constitution. I thoughtAhat in doing so, I gave support to ?the fundamental prin ciples of free government," and never once dreamed that I had done an act n the remotest' degree, subversive pf" the rights of the xJ.ouse. ol Representatives, TJut say that in all. this I was wrong'. In voting for the resolution of the Sen ate, against whih, you are now so indig nant, I did no more than carry but the people's declared views of the Legisla- r - . i il i . f tore, as expresseu in tneir resolutions oi .i ... . i . 'i tnat day, ana wnicn were passed oy over whelming majorities of more than two to one in both hottses. The terras employed by tne legislature were strong ana deci ded. The conduct of the President was represented as dangerous and.' alarming. I was. told that it could not be too strong ly cpnderftrted--that had itiinififsted a disposition greatly toextend his officlarl in nuencQ ano.Decause t wun inoc ue larations before me, I voted for a rejoin tion which declares ' that the 'President in th ateExe9Utive proceedings: has IMBIBER 18. j assumed, upon himself xuthority ? and j power not conferred by, the Constitution : and Lawsi6ut in derogation of botbt'' I' am now ostracised by your fiat, wiclv require obedience or resignation, "Cm pare the resolutions of the General As-' sembly of that day with jthe above Yeso- i lution, apd its mildness will be entirely obvious.- I submit, with all due defers ence to yourselves, what is to be-.hV condition ofa Senator in future, if, for yielding obedienpe to the wishes of ont Legislature, he is to be called 'upon to. resign by another. If he disobeys the5 first, he is contemned if he obeys thev i last, he violates his oath, and" becomei. an object of scorn and contempt. I res pectfully ask, if this be the mode by which the great right of Instruction is to'oe sustained, may it not tlegenetato j into an engine of faction an instrument : to be employed by the outs to get inP Instead of being directed to noble pur poses to the advancement of the cause i of civi.1 liberty toiay it not be converted into a political guillotine, devoted to th worsT of purposes ? Nor are these ahtj? cipations at all weakened by the fact, as it exists in the case now under cohv sideration, that several of those who con stitute the present majority in the; Gen , eral Assembly, and who now call upon me to expunge the journal or to resign my seat, actually voted for the yery'fes- olutions of a previous session toiivhicli t have referred. ' I have thus, gentlemen, with frankness but without designing offence, expressed : to you my opinions. With the qiestionjT whether the Resolution of the Senate1 which you direct tp be expunged, be truer f or false, I have nothing in this place jtQ I do. If false, to rescind or repeal it was to annihilate its force as effectually as lo; cancel it You have preferred to adopt a different courser' I dare not tpuch the" Journal of the Senate. The Constitution5 forbids it. In the midst of all the agita-; tions of party, I have heretofore stood ! by that sacred instrument. It is the on ly'post of,honor and of safety. Parties are continually changing. The men 6f J to-day give place to the men of to-mor i row ; and the idols which one set; wor ship, the next destroy. The only object of my political worship shall be the Con?- j stitution of my country. I wUTjiflt b ; the instrument to overthrow it. A seat; in the Senate is sufficiently elevated fpt s fill the measure of any man's ambition I and as an evidence of the sincerity of ' my convocations that your Resplutioa cannot be executed without violating nif oath, I surrender into your hands three ' unexpired years of my term. I shall carry with mc into retirement, the prirf-. ciples which 1 brought with nie into pub? ! lie life and by the surrender of the high-'j station to which I was called by the Wict)" i of the Peopleof Virginia, I shall set. an 1 example to my children, which shall teach ; them to regard" as nothing place and, of ; fice, when either to be attained or held all f the sacrifice of honor. ' ; ' T 9 m j nl toman ' . iv- r1 i Your Fellow-citizer JOHN TYLERS Massachusetts. X bill is now before !. the House of Representatives of Afassachu4 f setts, ' relating to witnesses," which prpf j vides that no person appearing as a witness before any magistrate or court of justicfi T ill Liiat-ouiic, auoii uc uuniiuucu a .v uw religious belief, nor snail any evidence touching the same be received ; and' anr f person' appearing s a witness, whosbaUf j object-to being sworn, shall be allowed to a mrm. : Will Pormouse was one of tbelazisst, j wittiest, best natured fellows in the worlds- j but he never, could get up in time for ! breakfast, notwithstanding he desired j his wife to wake hi tri every; morning at j sunrise. The following dialogue was ;o-T verheard between them the? morning of their leaving the springs. i in- ' Come, rouae yourself," eries Fan to lazy Will, " The sun is up, yet here you're ) snoring ftillff j " WeU, what of that ?" cries Wilt with half ihui j The sun has farther ipnich tp g than 1. Specimen of Eioquenc'b. ' f, Gentlemen of the Jurv : If e' marf not callous to all sin and iniquity, cay man got mad rfor what sayCapt Pricef Liberty are a great thing our posterity in future days foutfbrljt tJierefbre, mj man, tare like Caesar'a -wife, not Only polluted, but unexpected. Which coulci you druther ? Who steals ray purse, steals trash, but him who robs me of Inijr good name, take that which not enriches him, butmakes me poor indeed all for to iniure my-elierit Mr. Dodge are i man o void ofcnirtc'riiiit tytyn njp tells the truth;tawripir; 'f;imat hurt your bodriHtTcanXbe cared but wnals garb piovrirUy canf heai tny clien t!scharfj acter,. whtcw is hair hung ana breeze &' Ken. tne aeienuant ar? 3r vou ?5 ,ra,a.; -. an excttsetVoZsihrbugH htiuind but rtii '4 ' . ' ' ' te'- '. .11 . prisciple to render nntasar,the what are uesat's ana unto mim-.v1? the things wnar, are nerrs i anuj unt client, the things JwKaarc hi S'tt. if at V: L 1 1 .1'. 3
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