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FROM Tm: CONNECTICUT itiiiutoit.
THE FUNERAL.

Isaw a dark-rob’d train, who sadly bare
A lifeless burden toward the house of God.->-
I enter’d there,—for I had heard ’twas good

0 see the end ofman. Then slowly woke
The Organ’s dirge-like strain,-—soft—solemn

--sweet ;-

It’s niotiriiful modulation seem’d to breathe
A soul ofsorrow o’er the slumbering air,
With its deep drawn and linked melody
Enforcing tears. But as the words sublime
Of Inspiration,——“ though we_seem to sleep,
25 got alniomenlt‘,l-—ive'shall rise, be cliaiig’d,

n in t ie twin ing 0 an eye put on
Tlieivictor robe of immortality,”
Quick, at the warmth of so divine a faith
Vanisli’d those tears,—as fleets theitransient

dew

From the ino_rii’s eye.

There lay the form of one
\Vlio many a year had in that hallowed place
Coustantas caiue the day which God had bless’d
Appear’d, to pay his vows.——Yes,—there he
_ rose, [frame,
With reverend front,—and strong, majestick
‘Where now, as powerless as the smitten babe
He waits for other hands to hear him forth.
Firm at each post ofpiety and peace
Where Christ hath bade his servants watch,
he stood, [blanch’d
Even ’till the gather’d shades of evening
His shuddering temples with unmeltingfrost.
He had the praise ofmen who knew to prize
The noiseless tenor of an upright course ;—
And he had draukofsorrow.—-Thosewho shed
The holy charities around his home,
Had long been tenants of the voiceless tomb;
And from that home, and those bright-shad-
oiiing trees,
The lingering solace of his hermit hours,
Ifle by a-freak of winged wealth was driven.
But now his head on that cold pillow rests
VVhere sleepless anguish dare not plant a
thorn. [cense forth

‘ the fulfilment of treaty obligation, which you

habitually employ for yourselves, without any
such obligation. In short, do as you did in
the case ofthe Florida treaty, and others.

When the President says he and his prede-
cessors have invariably done so, may he not
have forgotten the treaty ofl8l4, when a ‘com-
nianding word to Gen. Jackson would have
procured for us the Creek lands within our
limits, on at least as good terms as it did pro-
cure other lands for the United States,beyond
them. _

I appeal to the records of your office, sir, as
the vouchers ofthe fact, that, when that treaty
was negotiated, the obligations ofthe U.States
were no more remembered, than iftlie com-
pact of 1809 had never existed. Make an es-
timate from the saiue records of what you,
since 18052, have acquired froiu the Indians
for yourselves, and compare it with what, on-
derthe pledges ofthe agreement, you have
acquired for Georgia. The difference will
be about as 100 to an tinit ; and yet, it is as-
serted, that the United States have sought ev-
ery opportunity to fulfil the stipulations ofthe
compact. And may I ask the favour ofyou,
sir, to put your finger on that particular part
ofthem where-. it is shown that a proposition to
extinguish claims in your behalf has been an-
swered by the potent monosyllable, No! and
that you have been content. The history of
the Plymouth colony, and of William Penn,
might have been illustrated by the patience
with which such an answer had been borne ;
and the government ofthe United States have
never pretended, until now, that it would have
been borne at all. Now we turn over a new
leaf, the principle of the old treaty of Phila-
delphia, the quid pro quo principle, must gov-
ern all treaties, and satisfy all consciences.-
Would it had been so from the beginning ?-
Icbnfess to you, sir, I do not like this kind of
half honesty. Ifthe principle ofPenn’s trea-
ty was right, that ofevery other which follow-
ed was wrong, and he who has done wrong is
in front of conscience bound to get back to
right. To undo, promptly and directly, what

No more his briiis’d heart pours strong in- you have unrighteously done, is adiclfltes 1

To Him who smote it,-—nor his lonely tears
Freshen the turfwhere his lov’d treasures la)‘.

And is there cause to weep, that yon pale
Should liberate its tortur’d prisoner? [clay
Moorn we, because the radieiit realms ofbliss
Have gain’d a guest ?—or that the countless

ills [man
VVhich poise on vulture wing o’er helpless
Have lost a victim ? Is it time to weep,

Reads in the sun-bright register of Heaven
The need of all its discipline,-—and pours

In one eternal hymn?

their iinmediate representatives.

3

THE U. STATES AND GEORGIA.

think, ofthe Platonic and Socratic school-—
undoubtedly that ofa much higher, the Chris-

please, to unsettle all that has been settled,
but let not Georgia be the first and the last.——-

and, for nothing ; priority of occiipation,pri-

he law of force, took every thing, and gave

in return stripes and blows, ofcourse for noth-
ing ; and, beseecliiug the forgiveness of sins,
. return to the principles and practices ofWiii. ing, No! as in any other.

The following letter from the Governor of Penn. But then, is not atonement still due

Georgia to Mr. Monroe, through the Secreta-

mzin can read without disgust.
manifests the temper of the adherents of a
certain candidate for the Presidency, and in-

to the aboriginal ? How (if_voti take the rule

_ , _ _ ofthe inessa e fir vour iiide can on re '1ll‘
ry of \Var, lS penned in a style and spirit of , g l ' g ) y P‘

insolence and arrogance which no temperate landing on the rock at Plymouth?
1; plainly whole substance would not compensate them of our rights, as we understand, and have long
by one half. But, sir, not even the Puritans understood them, at the moment when we be-
and the Quakers will consent to give up now; A
and, ifthiiigs are to remain as we find them, is a subject of mortification and regret. So

he wrongs, of all kinds, done him since the

Your

are bound by the compact totake this o_r.'ahy
other measure to place Georgia at once in the
possession of her territory——-but. because of
considerations confined.exclusively to the wel-
fare and prosperity_oftheIndians. Iaiii,not-
withstanding, gratified that the Presidentgand
my self,dilfering unfortunately on other points,
should concur in this as a measure indispen-
sable to the improvement ofthe condition of
the Indians, and- necessary_ to secure their
permanent peace and happiness.‘ But, why
this could not have been accomplished with-
out the intervention of.CongressI cannot eas-
ily conceive. A treaty for exchange oflands
would seem to_me to be as obviously within
the compass of Executive powers, as a treaty
for the purchase of lands or any other object.
Ifthe instrument of persuasion is the only
admissible one for the 'attai_nment of the end,
Ildo not know how Congress can, by any act
oftheirs, make that which is already in the
hands of the -President, more efficient for
your.or our purposes. Delay is certain to
follow,and anxious as we are to know our
fate, it is delay we deprecate. The first de-
tachment from the body of the Cherokees
moved across the Mississippi on the naked
promise or suggestion of Mr. Jefferson—a
majority of the Cherokees would do so now.
One more instance, if you please, ofthe
unkind and unfriendly treatment recently re-
ceived at the hands of the United States. The
President, in the coiiise of the present session,‘
has considered it his duty to recoinincnd to
Congress to make provision for the l\rIass:tchu-
sctts militia claims, which Congress had hith-
ert_o refused to recognize, because, with very.
few exceptions, that militia, in the late war
with England, were arrayed against the con-
stituted authorities of the federal government.
Georgia, too has militia claims against the
federal government, of some 9.0 or 80 years
standing, which have been constantly urged
upon tliejustice of Congress. I remember to
have introduced them before the Senate, and
so unexceptionable were they deemed by that
enlightened body, that their validity was sanc-
tioned without a dissenting voice. They
would have passed the house also; but in their
way fell into bad company: they fell in with

tian. Begin, therefore, with Georgia, ifyou the Massachusetts claims, then most obnox-

ious, and shared their fate. They were claims
for services faithfully and patriotically render-

Say, in a spirit of repentance, that what we ed in defence of our frontier against the lit-
have taken unlawfully we will restore; that diaus. They amount to $120,000 at least.—-
the edict of Pope Alexander,—of pious When we press the U. States for paymeni,_tlie
memory, shall pass for nothing ; the procla- answer is—These claims, and all other claims

_ mations and charters ofdivers Kings ofEng- of Georgia, were merged in the articles of a-
When at this very hour, percliance, the soul 1 '

greement and cession; and when we go to

ority ofcivilization, priority of Christianity, look for the article in which this supposed

. all nothin ' S anisli recedeni which by inersion is to be found we will as readily find
It’s rapturous being forth to the Great Sire , g ’ P P ’ ’ ’

it in that very important one which gives to
us the right to ask lands of the Indians, and
the Indians the corresponding right ofanswer-

I will trouble you no further on this unpleas-
ant siibject. The causes which lead to the
expositions and references contained in this
paper are not ofmy seeking: Iwould willing-
ly have avoided them. The absolute denial

lieved they would have been most respected,

dicates the tone ofthe policy they would piir- why is Georgia to be selected for a piopitia- far as I participate these feelings with my

sue ifpossessed of the reins ofgovernmeiit.

EXECUTIVE DEPAE'1‘MEN’l‘, GEORGIA,
Milledgevlllc, 524th Jlpril, 1824.

tory offering? It is a fact unquestionable,that, countrymen, I assure you, sir, they are not
for 15 or 920 years past, well knowing your
obligations to Georgia under the compact, ing undera sense of our wrongs, within the
you have encouraged the Cherokees to make

the offspring ofthis day or this hour. Smart-

first hour I set my foot on the floor ofthe Seu-

defencé. If we omit or refuse to use the gifts
which he has extended to us, we deserve not
the continuation of his blessings. He has fil-
led our mountains and our plains with miner-
als—witb lead, iron, and copper; and given
us climate and soil for the growing of hemp
and wool. These being the grand materials
of our national defence, they ought to have
extended to them adequate and fair protec-
tion, that our own manufactories andlaborers
may be placed on a fair competition with
those of Europe, and that we inay have,with-
in our country, a supply of those leading and
important articles so essential in war. Be-
yond this, Ilook at the tariff with an eye to
the proper distribution oflabor, and to reve-
nue; and with a view to discharge our nation-
al debt. I am one of those who do not be-
lieve that a national debt is a national bles-
sing, but rather a curse to a republic ; inas-
niiichas it is calculated to raise around the ad-
ministration a iiiouied aristocracy, dangerous
to the liberties of the country. This tariff-
I mean ajudicious one--possesses more fan-
ciful than real danger. Iwill ask, what is the
real situation ofthe agriculturist? \Vhere has
the American farmer a market for his stirpltis
product? Except for cotton, he has neither
a foreign or home market. Does not this
clearly prove, when there is no market either
at home or abroad, that there is too niiicli la-
bor eniploycd in agriculture; and that the
channels for labor should be multiplied ?——-
Coiiinionsensc points out, at once, the retrie-
dy. Draw from agriculture this superabun-
dant labor; employ it in mechanism and niaii-
ufactures ; thereby creating a home market for
your bread-stuffs, and distributing labor to
the most profitable account; and benefits to
the country will result. Take from agriculture
in the United States, six hundred thousand
men, vvomen and children, and you will at
once give a home market for more bread-
stuffs than all Europe now furnishes us. In
short, sir, we have been too long subject to the
policy of the British merchants. It is time
that we should become a little more ./Imert'-
canized; and, instead of feeding the paupers
ant] laborers of England, feed our own ; or
else, in a short time, by continuing our pres-
ent policy, we shall all be rendered paupers
ourselves.

It is therefore my opinion, that a careful
atidjiidicioiis tariffis much wanted,to pay our
national debt, and afford us the means ofthat
defence within ourselves, on which the safety
of our country and liberty depends; and last,
though not least, give a proper distribution to
oiirlabor, which must prove beneficial to the
happiness, independence and wealth of the
coimnunity.

This is a short outline of my opinions, gen-
erally, on the subject ofyour inquiry, and be-
lieving them correct, and calculated to fur-
ther the prosperity and happiness of my coun-
try, I declare to you,I would not barter them
for any office or situation of a temporal char-
acter, that could be given me.

I have presented you my opinions freely,
because I am without concealment; Sr. should
indeed, despise myself, ifI could believe my-
selfcapable ofdesiring the confidence of any,
by means so ignoble.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your most obe-
dient servant, ANDREW Jxcxsox.
Ma. RANi)o1.rii’s SPEECH.--The Nation-
al Intelligencer has published a Speech of
Mr. Randolph on the Tariff, which is a curi-

Sm i I°3“"°l feffaln fmm ll“? ¢3Pl’e55l°“ progress in all the arts of civilized life, of first ate Chamber, I had occasion to expose the 0-‘ill? l" “"3 WHY °fllle §'°‘°5‘l“° “"5 the zit?‘

Wlllcll ‘he Plesldem ll“ lhollgllf PTOP“ f° edged limits of Georgia. They have been torsthatI would never vote for an Indian

make to Congress, on the subject ofthe claims ,

eariug flocks and herds, constructing com-

treaty until the claims of Georgia were satis-

"fGe°’8li=‘ agalllslllle Uni“?-d Sfatesi lmd" fortable buildings, making agricultural im- fied. My convictions and my feelings remain

fl"? '-mlcles 0f agreement and C€55l0" 0f “'9 provements of various kinds, organizing a the same to this day. Nevertheless, my sen-
Yei“ 1309- Assummgi 33" (1085: P”“°'Pl35 government adapted to the grade of civiliza- timents towards the President are unchanged. the Alleghany tothe Atlantic, 2 district,whicli

Of my 5‘"P'l5° at ‘he late C0nimuniCaIl0|ls necessity and comfort, within the acknowl- wrongs of Georgia, and to apprise the Sena- Z35 -“Yl°- A f°“' P3553395 °fll“’lll lll“5U'3fe

the temper of the orator on the subject.

' [National Gazette.
‘ Here is a district of country extending
from the Patapsco to the GiilfofMexico,froin

which I °°""°Ve""'a55e"l"g fact’ which I 1l0" ‘hey ha” reached; Willi SCltO0lS and reli- Who can be exempt front error amid the cares taking in all that partofhlaryland lying south

cimnol P‘_3"“l‘ ml’-‘elf ‘O admit 3 if 550011135 gious establishments, appurtenant, &.c. And and troubles ofsuch an office? _lVhat heart of the Patapsco and east of Elk river, raises
ml’ dill)’: "1 ‘he T808335 0f ‘hf? Legislature 0f you encouraged the beginning and progress so callous as not to pardon injuries inflicted five-sixths of all the exports ofthis country,

G30l'Sl3r (0 91"” my Pmlesfi l" belliilfofllle oftliese things with certain foreknowledge by it? VVe forgive; but our rights are still that are of home growth-—I have in my band

people ofthis State,against them, in the same ,

hey could by no possibility "endure. They our rights. At what tiiue, and in what man- the official statements which prove it, but

manner as I believe they would themselves have been t,,,,gm by the United States '0 Va]. "Cr. they Wm be asserted, mugt dcpgnd upon which I will not weary the House by reading
d0» if llley llild 3" °llP"”“"llY °f 5P93l'5l”g b)’ ue them as they ought ; ifthey had not been theflepresgnratives ofthe People.

The avowal (

aught altogether at our expense, and without

°f lllefie P"l“ClPl"-‘$3 lh8_ 33581130" Of these our consent we would have had no objection.
facl-is "‘V0lVe ll"? d°5"'U‘3l'0f.‘ Ofllle °°"3P'r‘Cl But this has been the sole cause ofthe uiiwil- Hon. J, C. CALHOUN, Sec’r_y q/‘War.

between Georgia and the United States—— 1
make it null and void—-and leave no alterna-

ingness of any part ofthe Cherokees to move.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

G. M. TROUP.

The United States,therefore, create thecause. GEN, JAGKSON AND THE TARIFF.

‘"9 I0 Georgia but acclulesenf-'9 0" f95l5l‘=‘“°e- The Cherokees avail themselves ofit, to turn The following letter from General Jztcxsotv,

1f“Ulllfled by “'9 3°‘ °f 0"“ Pi"i.Ya ll"? Oillef their backs upon your propositions for negoti-
P“".V l5 ab-‘°l"e<la and boil! 3'8 fteem declafe ation, and you have no means of escaping the '

Ill? TCSUIIIPIIOII oftheir original )'l.gllI5. difficuhy bl” by asserting for the Cherokegs
this cancelment make for Georgia or for the rights which they have not, and denygbg rights

United States ?
give you back your mouey—-and, witliotit ma-
king war upon the States ofAlabauia and Mis-

Gilli‘-‘ U5 back Our lil"d5—“"9 to Georgia which you ought to know she has.

I do most earnestly wish, sir, that this sub-

ject could be disposed of forever. It never

5l55lPPli We Will W" the Tlslf 0f Collcludlllg recurs, but the heart sickens at the recollec-

with them the best bargain we can. It would :10“ ofthe crimes cbmmcted Wm, 33,

And

was sent to Dr. L. H. Coleman,of VVarren-
ton, in answer to some inquiries, contained
in a letter addressed by the latter to the
former. Similar inquiries having been
made from other quarters,the general states
- in a note, that the same answer had been
returned to them :—Ralci'gh (JV. 0.) Star.
WASHINGTON CITY, April 26, 1824.
sin: I have had the honor, this day, to re-

be 3 bell" bargalfi f0’ Gwrgla ""1" ‘ha’: ll“? are the wrongs of Georgia never to have an ceive your letter ofthe eistinst. and,with can-

execution of which we urge upon the general and ?

lVben the proclamation of’64 gave to

government. But, beforevthis, we will have to Georgia gbe count,-y between gbe Auamic and
a§k 3 llmle "“}"F)’ °f)’°_“- Refund f°_G9°l" the Mississippi, it was thought we took some- selves, without any agency ofmine ; for I wish
8”‘ ‘he fl“ ""ll‘°"5 which J’°"'g'3f“"°“5l)’ thing by it———it was not believed it gave us
PT8§€m‘5fl '0 °?"3'“ P3f5""3"lf‘e Pm? °f ‘he what we and all mankind had before, the cited oflice; nor, when called upon by the
Pa°‘fi°‘“‘°" °f New E”gl‘”‘d""3“d "l“°l‘ -'/°_“ “gilt I0 ask the Indians I0 Sell landa in 3 fail‘ constituted authorities, have ever declined,
ftald f"°m ‘ll? P'°°e9_d5 9f0UT limd5- And 13 market ; we not only thought differently, but
11 00078“) fl"3-° 1? " dlS0°Vef€d: 8ll?*5la§h3l acted differently. We knew that the whole ficial to mv country. Brit, as my name has
G°°’gl“ ha’ "9 °l‘“"‘_elll‘9|' UPON the United country was ours in virtue of the very best been brought before the nation, for the first
313135 0' l-‘Pm’ ll“? I_“dl3"3s Wide!’ the °°mP3Cl kind oftitle then recognized by civilized Eu- office in the gift ofthe people, it is incumbent
Of 1303? Tl)“ 1‘ l‘-‘ all 3 dreams :1 V3510”: 3 rope, and paying proper respect to the occu- on me, when asked, frankly to declare my 0.
phantasmflr Will‘ Wlllch the deluded P9°Ple °f pations of the Indians, we exercised all the
Georgi“ have bee" Pli‘g"°l"g ‘l‘°m3°l"°3 f°T rights of sovereigns and masters, until Mr. pending before, and about which the country
Wflml’ Y9‘"?'? _-‘Vidal PT3)’ l’°Ua°f‘Vll3i 01h‘ Adams conceived a notion that part of the reels an interest.

er construction IS the Message to Congress comm-y bebmgcd to bi,-,,_ so be Said to "5,
5“5°5P“bl°_? A"? ‘_l°f ll"3I"fll3n5_r ll"-‘flail’?-81' that part which you occupy you may keep,the
ed ‘<15 '-*“°‘l"5*l P'°P"°‘°""‘a5 3“ ‘“d°Pe“‘l°_"‘ rest I will take_ to tnyself. So, accordingly. ainination and revision ofit ; and so far asthe
p€0Pl€a hiwmg full 3‘ al’5°l‘"¢ P°“'°fi“ml5C’Z' he sat down with his army on the banks of tariff bill before us embraces the design offos--

ed per mi et per tout; and that, therefore,

Georgia can take nothing but attheir will and

pleasure ? The United States promised in

the compact, to extinguisli, for Georgia, the
Indian claims to the lands reserved, as soon
as it could be done peaceably and on reasona-
ble terms. ‘The Presider;t,_in hisdiiiessage,
construest us into a stipu atton to o, in t is
respect, whatever it might please the Indians
at any time to do. Of what value was such a_
stipulation to Georgia ? She could take
nothing by it, which she had not, without it.--

' Georgia-might, according to the President,

intreat the United States to ask the favour of
the Indians, to sell peaceably and on reasona-
ble terms, and ifthc Indians pleased to answer,
No,.neverl the just claims of Georgia were
satisfied, now and forever. Was ever such a
stipulation beard-of before, either in compact
between government and government, or in
contract between men and man? Georgia has
not required ofthe United States to invade
Indian rights, to satisfy her claims; site has
. only asked ofthe United States to do for her
' ‘ ‘ he has (lune for herself—acq.tiire Indiaii
iensoever and wberesoever she want-
° employ the-same means for us, in

the Mississippi, and erected a territorial gov-
ernment. Georgia was in no condition to re-
sist—slie began, therefore, to supplicate—
from supplication she passed, by an effort of
great courage, to remonstrauce, and thence
suddenly into the articles of agrecnient and
cessio'n where we still find her; but, in the
mean time, what had happened ? I blush to
think ofit--the evils ofthat sore and name-
lessiniquity, are felt at this hour in all the
ramifications ofsociety——the instigators and
plotters ofit you -paid handsomely —how—I
will not say-—the secret is yet to be revealed-
the purity ofthe President has no doubt kept
him a stranger to it to this moment. “But, af-
ter all, having proceeded in a course of piece
meal execution ofthe articles for 20 years ;
why do you stop short? and say to us all this
has been gratuitous-—we owed you nothing,‘
and we have paid you a great deal; your rest-
lessness and inquietude and importuniiies,
our harassinedts and perplexities and experi-
ses, have been the results of false conceits and
ball-ucinations; and they must have an eml
Accordingly, it is recomiiieuded to end them,
by proposing a removal oft'he Indians with
ltheir consent; not because the United States

dor, shall reply to it. My name has been
brought before the nation by the people them-

it not to be forgotten that I have never soli-

wherel conceived my services could be bene-

pinion upon any political national question,

You ask me my opinion on the Tariff. I
answer, that I am in favor of a judicious ex-

tering, protecting, and preserving within our-
selves the means of national defence, and in-
dependence, particularly in a state of war, I
would advocate and support it. The experi-
ence ofthe late war ought to teach us a lesson
and one never to be forgotten. Ifour liberty
and republican form ofgovernnient, procured
for us by our revolutionary fathers, areworth
the blood and treasure at which they were ob-
tained, it surely is our duty to protect and de-
fend them. Can there be an Aineriean pat-
riot-, who savv the privations, dangers and dif-
ficulties experienced for the want of proper
means of defence during the last war, who
would be-willing again to hazard the safety of
‘our country, if embroiled ; or to rest it for de-
fence on'the-precarious means of national re-
source to be derived "from commerce in a
state of war with a iuaritiine power, who
might destroy that commerce to prevent us
obtaining the means of defence, and thereby
subdue us? Ihope there is not; and ifihere

blessiiigs of freedom. Heaven smiled upon,
and gavetisliherty and_independ‘ence. The
same Pnividence has blessed us with the
t~mcans of national indepeiidence and national

is-, I am sure he does not deserve to enjoy the ‘

--—in all this country—Ycs, sir, and I bless
God for it; for, with all the fantastical and
preposterous theories about the rights of man,
(the theories, not the rights themselves, I speak
of,) there is nothing but power that can re-
strain power—-l bless God, that, in this instil-
ted, oppressed, and outraged region, we are,
as to our counsels in regard to this measure,
but as one man ; that there exists, on the sub-
ject, but one feeling and one interest. lVe are
proscribed and put to the ban; and, if we do
not feel, and,feeling do not act,we are bastards
to those fathers who achieved the Revolution:
then shall we deserve to make our bricks
without straw. * * *

‘If under a power to regulate trade, you
prevent exportation ; if, with the most appro-
ved spring lancets, you draw the last drop of
blood from our veins; if, secundcm artem, you
draw the last sliilliug from our pockets, what
are the checks of tlie_constitution to us ? ./I
fig for the constitution. When the scorpion’s
sting is probing us to the quick, shall we stop
to chop logic? * * *
‘ Ifl did not consider an exciseman to bear,
according to the language ofthe old law books,
caput lupmum, and that it was almost as mer-
itorious to shoot such a hell hound of tyranny,
as to shoot a wolf or a mad dog—-and, ifIdid
not know that any thing like an excise in this
country is in effect utterly impracticable, I
tnyself, feeling, seeing, blushing for my coun-
try, would gladly vote to lay an excise on this
abominable liquor, the lavish consumption of
which renders this the most drunken nation
under the sun; and yet, we have refused to
take the duties from wines,from cheap French
wines particularly, that might lure the dog
from his vomit, and laythe foundation of a
reformation of the public manners. Sir, an
excise system can never be inaiutained in this
country. I had as lief be atitlie proctor in
Ireland, and met on a dark night in a narrow
road by a dozen white-boys, or peep-of-day
boys, or hearts of oak, or hearts of steel, as
an exciseman in the Alleghany mountains,
met, in a lonely road, or by-place, by a back-
woodsman, with a rifle in his hand. * * *
‘If any ofiicer ofour government were to
take the field a still hunting, as they call it in
Ireland among our southern oi- western for-
ests and mountains, Isbould like to see the
throwing off of the bounds! I have still‘ e-
nough of the sportsman about me, that I
should like to see the breaking cover, and, a-
bove all, I should like to be in at the death.’

[The London Quarterly Reviewers will be
-glad to receive Mr. Randolph with the testi-
mony in his mouth, that the Americans are
the most drunken nation under the aim] A

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J

y. Eject: qf I7"ear.‘——Iii thelinie of the Amer-
ican.Revolutiouary War, while the army was
encainped at “lest Point, a party of soldiers
discovered t(i]r_i eagleis pies; half way down :1
precipice, a jacent to t e ort. To "net at the
nest a soldier was let down by 3 m,;’e 3,5,6“-
ed round his middle. lVlien he had descend-
eu near to the nest the eagle came upon him
with hideous screams aiiuirig at his head : be
head no means of {defending himself, but by
ta ‘ing out his kni c with which be ke t her
off by striking at lief. In one ofthe pasges he
made at her, he had the misfortune to strike
sac rtt)lt‘>:.o:=ll:id (gut one‘ofbtlic sttrandsdentiielly
— er egan o e mi wiste w H e’
his cotnpanions drew him up as soon ah possi-
ble. Iii this situation he expected the rope eve-
ry moment to part, when he must have fallen
:;I‘ltlJtfl;“l:h: I:f:jInel1(lt)llS beight apipug ll]: rogks;
a. rawn to t ie to o t e roc w en
the remaining strand of (lit? rope was rdtliiccd
"9i”l.V l0 =1 Wisp of tow. In the course of :24
hours, the hair of his head, from a coal hluclt
was ttiriied asthe whitest of wool ! ! He was
25 years of age.-—Boslo7t Med. Tel.

Edwards’ Wot-ks.—-S. Converse, of N. l-I.‘
Conn. proposes to commence, in the course:
Of. the present year, a new and complete ed];
tiou ofthe first President Edwards’ worlis._:
The \'Vorcester edition left out about three
ttvo. volumes of his published works,-tlid
English editions have omitted at least two vol-
umes. The proposed edition will comprise’
all his published works, together with save.-at
volumes of his works, which have never yet
been published. It has been in a course of
operation for several years, and will be edited"
by one ofhis desceiidants, the Rev. Sgngxo
EDWARDS Dwioirr, of Boston.—D. fldv.‘

Halfa bushel of Strawberries were picked
one morning last week from a garden in'1‘reii-
ton,each of which would measure fr. 2 to 3 in.

PUBLIC ACT.
An Actto prevent the disinterinentofthebod-
ies of deceased persons.

b, I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives in General ./fssembly con-
verted, That if any person or persons shall 0-
pen the grave of any deceased person or the
tomb where the body or bodies of any deceas-
ed person or persons have been deposited, CI’
shall remove the body or bodies, or remains of
any deceased person or persons from their
grave. graves, or place of sepulture, for the
purposes ofdissection, or any surgical or ana-
tomical experiiucnts, or for any other pur-
pose, witliout the consent ofthe near relations
of the deceased, or shall in any way aid, as-
sist, or procure the same to be done ; or shall

 

bodies, or shall aid or assist in any surgical or
anatoiiiical experiments, or deiiionstrazions
therewith, or dissections thereof, knowing
said body or bodies to have been so taken, or
removed from the place or placesfofiheir sep-

forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding two thou-
sand dollars, nor less than two lnindred dol-
lars, and shall be further punislietl by impris-
onment in Newgate prison for it term notex-
ceediiig ten years, nor less than one year, at
the discretion of the Court having cognizance
thereof. '

b 92. That no professor, teacher, or lecturer
in any college, academy, school, or medical
institution, shall perform any anatomical or
surgical experiments, on the body of any de-
ceased person wbatever, in any building in
which students of such college, academy,
school, or medical institution, are taught. or
instructed in medical science, until such Pro-
fessor, Teacher, or Lecturer; shall have first
given bond with sufficient surety,to the Teas-
iirer_ ofthis State, in the stint of one thousand
dollars, conditioned, that no body of any de-
ceased person which shall have been disin-
terred or procured contrary to the provisions
of this act, shall be introduced or brought
within sticb building, during the time that he
holds the office or exercises the duties of pro-
fessor, teacher, or lecturer as aforesaid in such
college, academy, school, or medical iiistitii-
tion or elsewhere in this state. And if any
such professor, teacher or lecttirer,or any oili-
er person shall perform any anatomical or sur-
gical experiments on the body of any deceas-
ed person, in any such building without said
professor, teacher or lecturer having first giv-
en bond as aforesaid, he, the said professor.
teacher or lecturer shall, being duly convicted’
before the Superior Cotirt, forfeit and pay to
the Treasury of this State, a fine not exceed-
ing two thousand dollars, nor less than five
hundred dolla'rs,at the discretion of the Court
having cognizance ofthe offence.

'q 3. That the Mayor and two senior Alder-
men of any city, and the Selectmen of any
town in which such college, academy, school
or medical institution may be located, shall
have authority, at all times to enter and in-
spect every part ofsiich building.

b 4. That the bodies of criminals who shall
be confined in Newgate prison for crimes
hereafter committed, and shall die in said pri-
son, who have no known relatives, shall with
the approbation ofthe overseers ofsaid prison,

my and Surgery, in the Medical Institution
in this State, to be used forthe purpose ofud-‘
vancing medical science, and shall at all times
be subject to their order ; and also the bodies
of persons capitally punished under sentence‘
ofthe, law, at the discretion of the Court be-
fore whom the conviction of such persons
takes place.

i) 5. That in all cases of the breach of the
first section of this act, it shall be the duty of
the Governor or the person exercising the of-
fice of Governor, upon application of the Sc-
lectmen ofthe town where such offence shall
have been committed, to offer a reward not
exceeding the sum oftwo hundred dollars for
the apprehension of any person or persons
who shall have been guilty as aforesaid. And
in case ofthe apprehension and cbnvlcliuitof
such offender or offenders, the Controller of
public accounts, upon the application of'ihe
Governor or the person exercising the ofiice
ofGovernor,shall draw an order on the Treas-
urer for the amount ofthe reward thus offered,
who shall pay the same.

act entitled “ An act concerning crimes and
punishments,” be, and the same hereby is re-

shall not affect any offence or offences now
committed, nor any prosecution now pending;

respects the same, as ifthis act had not been
assed.

V . June 4, 1824.-‘Approved,
OLIVER Wo1.co'r'r.

1

receive, conceal or secret, any such bodv or .

ulture; every such person so offending shall -

be at the disposal of the Professors of Anato-_

b 8. That the severity second section ofthe
pealed : Provided however, that this repeal »

but the same maybe proceeded with, in all '