The Wreath. EXTRACT. ODE, WRITTEN BY SELLICK OSBORN, AT THE AGE OF 19. TO MY PEN. COME, passive servant of my will, Thou restless busy body-meddling elf! Come, fill thy thrifty throat-come, drink thy fill, And write an ode. To whom?-Why, to thyself? Myself!" methinks I hear thee quickly cry"Myself! turn egotist too ?-no, not I— "I'd sooner serve a laureat to a king; "Sooner would I, in words like oil, so smooth, "Pronounce a villain great-his conscience soothe, "Or tarnish innocence-(a common thing!) "Though, by the bye, to me it would be new, "None have I wounded-I appeal to you." No, faithful PEN, thou ne'er didst place But why 'gainst egotism dost thou strive? Thou'rt not the only self-prais'd wight alive— Authors, whose volumes long have grac'd the shelves, And scribbling, language-murdering poetasters, Mock satyrists, pedantic scholars, masters, If none will laud them-why, they praise themselves! Though but the offspring of a simple goose, None, like thyself, can tell thy wond'rous use; Write then! inform the world (the town at least) That thou art more to PHAON than a feast Inform how oft, by inch of taper, Leapt on the clouds, and rode the wind! Ah, humbling thought !—ye sage;, 'tis no joke, In truth, I think thou art my firmest friend, On thee, at least, with safety I depend, LORD LANESBOROUGH was fo paffionately fond of dancing, that in his old age, and in the most violent fits of the gout, he danced with as much transport as when he was young and in good health. After the death of the Prince of Denmark, husband to Queen Anne, he demanded a private audience of that Princess; which was to perfuade her to dance, in order to preferve her health and difpel her grief. Hence the following lines of Pope, in his Epiftle to Lord Cobham. "As weak, as earnest, and as gravely out, "As sober Lanesb'row dancing in the gout." A supposed origin of the European custom of saying, "God bless you," to a person sneezing. A FRENCH author fays, that in the time of the Pontificate of St. Gregory the Great, that is, about the middle of the eighth century, the air was filled with fuch a deleterious influence, that they who fneezed immediately expired. On this the devout Pontiff appointed a form of prayer, and a wifh to be faid to perfons fneezing, for averting from them the fatal effects of this malignancy. VANITY OF HUMAN GREATNESS. PRINCE Potemkin, of Ruffia, whose life was a conftant career of military fuc cefs, and who died fome years ago, covered with titles of honour, and worth fixty To City Subscribers, Two Dollars and fifty cents, payable in quarterly advances. To Country Subscribers, who receive their paper at the office Two Dollars, payable as above. To those who receive them by the mail, Two Dollars, exclusive of postage, payable in advance. 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UT even putting the cafe that the climate of Louifiana were fuch throughout, that the whole of it might be cultivated by white people, it would still be worse than ufelefs to the United States, fo far as should relate to its occupation by actual fettlements; because they urgently need, within their domeftic territory, manifold more labourers than they now have. When labourers are fcarcer and more pie cious than gold; when the whole, except a very fmall proportion, of the United States, now lies uncultivated and wafte; when hundreds of millions of acres of wilderness belong to the governments of the Union and of the particular ftates, and hundreds of millions more are owned as private property; when a large part of the nation are already fo thinly difperfed, that, from the impractibility of fupporting fchools and other inftitutions neceffary to civil fociety, their children will grow up femi-favages-under thefe circumstances, what can be more abfurd and ruinous, than to wire-draw population fo as to extend it into a foreign country :-With ftri&t propriety do I call Louisiana a foreign country it lies beyond the vaft body of waters which till very lately has been confidered as the ultimate limits of the United States.Why overleap this boundary? Why tranfgrefs the ordination of nature, which has feemingly faid, "itherto fhall ye come, and no further ?" Why pafs the Milliflippi, in queft of land, leaving behind more wafte lands than would cover feveral of the fmalier kingdoms of Europe? Why aim to extend, to Mexico and the Southern ocean, a population, the whole of which would not fill the fingle State of New-York ?-Such a measure might enrich fpeculators, but would inev. itably impoverish and weaken the nation. -To compare great things with small, what would be thought of a farmer, who owning a homeftead of the full extent of a quare-mile, partly cultivated, but moftly a foreft, and having only five perfons upon it, fhould run himfelt deeply in debt for a tract of new land, at the distance of feveral hundred miles, and fend on one or two of his domeftics to fettle and cultivate it ?—The inftances are nearly parallel ; the inferences are obvious. It may be argued that Louifiana will be made a lucrative object of national fpeculation, by felting it to land-companies for more than its original coft. But there are two confiderations, which feem to invalidate this argument.-Firfily, Louisiana having been owned alternately by the governments of France and Spain, during a whole century, it fcarcely admits of a doubt that much and fome of the beft of its foil has already been bestowed on fome of the favorites of thofe two courts; nor is it prefumeable at the purchase of the right of jurifdiction would cancel the antecedent right of individuals to the foil. The natives alfo are numerous, and are the proper owners of the lands, which they inhabit they must either be driven. off by force, or their claims extinguished by purchases. But, fecondly, fuppofing the United States fhould purchase nearly the whole foil, and fhould fell it to fpeculating companies for more than the purchafe-money; thefe companies, urged on by their private interefts, would exhauft every species of intrigue to draw money and population from the Eaft and from the Atlantic to the Weft; and the baneful confequences to the Eastern and Middle States, which have been mentioned, would, in fome degree, inevitably follow. It may be further urged, on the oppo fite fide, that Louifiana, tho' not wanted. for the purpose of cultivation now, will be wanted by pofterity. Let us spend a moment in examining this point.--One century, at leaft, will pafs away before the prefent territory of the United States will be fo full as to render it neceffary to cross the Mifliflippi in quest of lands.— Now it must be well known, that, in the purchafe of new lands or any other property, that is for fome time to lie dead, the compound intereft of the purchafe money ought to be reckoned, till the period when the premifes fhall become productive.— Let this principle be applied to our prefent fubje&t. Any given fum, at the compound intereft of eight per cent. (an intereft which our government has fometimes given, and may often be obliged to give again,) would double itself a little more than eleven times, in a century; and ac cording to that ratio of accumulation, fifteen million two hundred and fitty thou and dollars would, in a hundred years, amount to more than three thoufand million dollars!A fum that far exceeds the whole British debt ;-a fum that almost exceeds all human comprehenfion: Yet this, or near it, is the fum which Louift ana would ultimately coft, on the fuppo fition that it were to lie wafte, till the dif tant period when a full population would require its fettlement and cultivation. Ald to this the confiderations of the expences of defending it and of the rifks of lofing it. Louisiana has feveral times changed owners, during the last century; and may change owners in the century to come :no-wife can it be defended, without an annual expence of a very confiderable amount. It is alfo to be confidered that the United States, already unhappily dif jointed by the immenfe range of mountains which divides them into Atlantic and Western, would be ftill further disjointed by attaching to them a vast region beyond the great waters of the M filippi. If the view we have taken of the fub. ject be correct, the advantage accruing to the States, from their holding the immenfe wilderness on the farther fide of the Miffiffippi, is reduced to this fingle circum-that if I had found the democratic party ftance-it may tend to keep off dangerous neighbours. perfectly honeft and upright in every oth From the fol So much additional territory, East or on this fide of the Miffiffippi, as might be neceffary for the permanent fecurity of the navigation of that river, would be really valuable to the United States. New-Orleans, more than any other spot, feems to be the key of the Milliflippi: therefore to have the entire right of jurifdi&tion over New Orleans, fo as to be able to fortify it and forever to hold it, must be of great importance. Some further acquifitions, on the Eiftern bank of the Mississippi, might be neceffary to fecure its navigation; and confeq ently a delirable object. The whole of Weft Florida, (which is now faid to be included in the purchase,) as it abuts on the Miffiffippi; and as through it and on its Eastern border, into the gulph of Mexico, run the navigable rivers Mobile and Appalachicola, the fources whereof are far within our national terri- Some time after the indictment of tory, would, if attached to the Union, Crofwell, my preceptor, being overtaken tend to give it compactnets and fecurity of by a violent form, called to fee me. At. rights. These acquifitions would be im. ter enquiring about his health, fhaking portant, not as a territory for cultivation, hands, and feating him at my fire-fide, a but as being neceffary for the fecurity, filence of fome minutes enfued. What peace and profperity of the Western coun- were his reflections during this paufe, I try. Vionary theorifts may declaim on know not; but, for my part, I was conthe benefits accruing to the Union, from triving fome mode in which I might adthe annexation of a vast and fertile coun- drefs bim, without running the rifk of giv try beyond the banks of the Miffiffippi;ing offence, or of throwing him into an and ignorance and ftupidity may liften and applaud; but, in reality, it is as clear as a fun-beam, that an enlargement of this nation's territory, efpecially in the Weft. embarralfment. At length I ventured to Ferfon."-"Yes," anfwered my precep. tor, with a look of fome confufion. Ploughman. Under what law was this profecution commenced ?I thought the Sedition Law was annulled. Preceptor. Yes, the Sedition law was annulled, as foon as republicans came into power. Mr. Jefferson fcorns the protec tion of gag-laws. 'Tis the common law that's now in force. Ploughman. When and where was the common law made ? Preceptor. Ages ago, in England. Ploughman. I think you tormerly told me, there was no law to punish libels in this country until the Sedition Law was pafled. Preceptor. The Sedition Law was a villainous thing. It was paffed for the purpose of filencing the voice of complaint, that the federalifts might the more fecurely carry on their nefarious plans. Ploughman. But where was the neceffity for fuch a law, if the common law has been fo long in force? Could not the federalifts make ufe of the common law for their purposes? Preceptor. I tell you, Sir, the fedition law was the moft tyranical and abominable aft of the federalifts. It was paffed to fifle the voice of free enquiry. The federalifis plundered the cafury-they railed armies, built navies-they opprefled the people with taxes; and this law was paffed to prevent the people from opening their lips about it. Ploughman. I afk you again if the common law could not have been employ ed for the fame end? Preceptor. (impatiently) No, no,-! infift upon it, the fedition law was intend ed to make John Adams a king! Ploughman. Did the fedition law puc ith any thing but malicious fafhoo's ? Preceptor. Yes, it punished every thing that was faid against John Adams and his junto. Ploughman. Did it not allow the truth to be given in evidence? Preceptor. No, indeed, No, indeed, no! T truth in evidence? Why, bless it allowed no fuch thing. you, Sin Ploughman. I will not contradi&t you; but I have a copy of the law in the hous, and if I miflake not Preceptor, A copy of the law! No fuch thing. It is a federal cheat. Nothing but a forgery. Sir. Ploughman. It is published officially, Preceptor. Poh, Poh-No fuch thing. -But fuppofe you have-what then? Suppofe the truth might be given in evi No. 39. dence. Don't you know, the charges against the federalifts were of fuch a nature that they did not admit of proof? Ploughman. I don't know: It appears however to me, that if printers are allowed to give the truth in evidence, when profecuted for a libel, they ought not to complain. But if I am rightly informed, this has been retufed in the late cafe in our county. Preceptor. No fuch thing. The Attorney-General, than whom a more upright and candid man never exifted, will let the fellow prove all he can. But he can prove nothing. He will never offer to prove any thing-not be. They are all a parcel of infamous lies that he has published. Nothing but lies. Preceptor. He could not prove them. Ploughman. Why not permit him to Preceptor. His guilt is apparent enough. An imfamous wretch-to publish fuch vile ftuff against Jefferton. He ought to be hung. Ploughman. I think, however, that it the federalifts, if permiffion had been givwould have prevented the complaints of en Preceptor. Complaints of the federalifts? What bufinefs have they to complain? Have not they done the fame thing? Surely, they can't complain. He put fpurs to his horfe and rode off. The ftorm abated-my gucft had warmed himself and dried his clothes, and, without the ceremony of even bidding me good day, he departed. He had never difcovered fo much paffion and want of candor, as at this interview. He had generally affected much moderation—and had converfed with decency. But the manner in Thefe arguments of my preceptor, ridicwhich he treated this affair, ferved to con- ulous as they may appear, are nevertheless vince me that he confidered it is a moft very fimilar to thofe advanced in the dedefparate cafe. He is not the only demo- mocratic newspapers. The party in gencrat, however, that attempts to defend the eral take great merit to themselves for not conduct of his party by abufing the feder-acting worse than the federalifts. But ealifts. If fuch defence is fatisfactory to others, it is not to me. ven admitting that this is true-How are After the above-mentioned converfation, I carefully avoided faying any thing to my preceptor concerning the profecution federalifts have been equally bad? What! After we have taken fuch extraordinary of Crofwell, until fince his trial and conviction. I was prefent at the trial, as well pains to remove the old officers of governas my preceptor, who, when any opinionment, and to fill their places with new was delivered from the bench, prefented at countenance fo marked with fhame and confufion, that I really pitied him. The next day I met him in the road, and could not avoid accofting him. Ploughman. Well, fir-Crofwell was not permitted to give the truth in evidence on his trial. Preceptor. O Lord, No-he could not do it. Ploughman. He was not permitted. Preceptor. He could have proved nothing, if he had been permitted. Every body knows he published nothing but lies in that infamous and fcurrilous Walp. Ploughman. He offered to prove his charges. Preceptor. Oh, that was all a hum. Ploughman. Are you certain, then, that the charges were falfe ? Preceptor. Yes-who could believe that Mr. Jefferson would be guilty of fuch crimes? ones, fhall we be told for our confolation 66 ident of the United States. The Com"mon Law principle is adopted in Maf"fachusetts and New-York, that truth "cannot be given in evidence in juftifica“tion of a Libel. The Federalifts, after vindicating and applauding the Common Law doctrine, for years, now complain of it, when one of their party is "indicted." [Pittsfield Sun.] In the above paragraph, the reader is presented with a specimen of the unfair manner in which democratic editors treat the prosecutions of Croswell. Not one of them has yet dared, or ever will dare to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the business. The editor of the Sun could not even venture to mention it without surrounding it with two or three falshoods. We believe that the common law principle, that the truth cannot be given in evidence in justification of a libel, is not adopted in Massachusetts. At any rate, on the trial of Carlton, permission was allowed him to justify by giving the truth in evidence. The editor of the Sun must have known this; and yet he attempts to hold up a contrary idea. How near such quibbling borders on falshood, the reader will judge. The next sentence is absolutely false. The federalists never either vindicated or applauded the common law dec. trine with respect to libels. To evince their aversion to that law, they passed an act by which the odious doctrine, that Truth is a Libel, was abrogated and rejected. To this act, which permitted the truth to be given in evidence as a justification, the democrats, to a man, were uniformly opposed; and, by their means, it was permitted to expire. To prove that the democrats uo approve of the common law doctrine, it is only necessary to mention, that, in the plenitude of their power, they have never thought fit to amend or ameliorate it, as the federalists did, when they had the power. PA developemer of the "Young Democrat" of New Jersey, with sundry other Closet articles are postponed for want of room. Agricultural. EXTRACT. A NEW METHOD TO PRESERVE CIDER. THE green and defective apples fhould be first made up and the cider fent to the difti lery, to make brandy, which is a very good cordial, if fottened with a little fugar, and kept until matured with age. The good and found apples, fhould be kept till they begin to grow mel low, then ground fine and the cider preffed out. It fhould be trained through a hair fieve when put into the cafks, which will take out the grofs parts of the apples. The cafks fhould then be removed home, and fet on fkids at the North end of a building, or fome other cool place, (but not in the cellar,) where being placed a little floping, the bungs fhould be taken out and filled up daily with cider, fo that all the fcum may go off. When the liquor is fine or clear, which will be in tour or five days, it fhould be drawn off in clean. cafks, bunged up clofe, and flowed away in the cellar for future use. "It will be much fofter and pleafanter than when preferved in the ufual way; and the reaíon is plain; for all the fermentation in cider proceeds from fmall particles of apples remaining in the li quor. In the above method they are moltly feparated very foon and thereby the cider is prevented fermenting fo far as to make it four. "The cider that is defigned to be kept after June, fhould again be racked off in March; and if a match of brimstone is burnt in each cafk, and a quart of cider brandy added to each barrel, and is kept quite tight bunged, it will keep good two or three years. "There is confiderable faving of cafks in the above method, as each may be filled quite fall of good cider, without any fediment at the bottom, or space at the top after the cider is wrought.-The emptyings, or fediment that is left, will aufwer for the fill." He on the character of Dr. TAPPAN. poffeffed, in an poffeffed, in an uncommon degree, the various qualifications which adorn the gentleman, the fcholar, and the Chriftian. His manners flowed from a heart, replete with benevolence, and were calculated to conciliate the affection and esteem of men of all ranks, and of Chriftians of every denomination. He held a diflinguifhed rank among the literati of our country. His ftudies were chiefly directed to thofe branches, which were calculated to render him ufeful in his office, at the University, and eminent as a minifter of the Holy Religion. And though exalted attainments in thefe ftudies, excite not that admiration, which their intrinfic excellence deferves; though none but the wife and good can duly efti mate that philofophy, which infpires "The better fortitude the "terrors of the law," without confef ing, that the anger of heaven against the finally impenitent would be juft? Deeply is this lofs felt by our Univerfi. ty. Seeing that her fons have loft a father, her patrons an affociate; her feftival is changed into mourning. and her venerable feats are cloathed with the habiliments.of the grave. Cut down in the midft of his days and ufefulness,, his death, though happy for himfelf, is too foon for his country. How he loved her glory, and lamented her wrongs; how he endeavoured to affuage the violence of party, and to vindicate the manners and principles of the pure age of our republic, are in the memory of all who obferved him revolving in his exalted fphere. Thofe who feel gratitude ought to ex prefs it. But how inadequate is language, to give life to the fentiments of the heart. While we are humbled under a fenfe of calamity which we fuftain, we muft re. joice, that the favoured fervant of heaven is tranflated from toil to glory, and that he is diftinguished among those No ambition is fo pure, as that which animates men to afpire to excell in deeds of benevolence. Of this fpirit Dr. TAPPAN was poffeffed. He was qualified in an eminent degree, to make men wife and good. In public, he was highly acceptable and fuccefstul. His eloquence flowed from a heart deeply imprefied with the truth of that religion which he preached. Who ever heard him defcribe the charms of religion, without feeling, that his good refolutions had gained fome acceflions of ftrength? Who ever heard him dwell on Jofephine. Why did you wish to impofe on me? Hans William. I'll tell you-your father and mine have treated our love a little to much in a mercantile manner. Fof. Our love! H. Wil. I did not wish to contradict my father, and as my heart was free, I nei. ther promifed nor refufed, but I was deter. mined ficft to take a look at you. If I had not liked you. I fhould have been off again in a moment: but-here I am ftill-and, to own the truth at once-I do like you. Jof. You're very flattering. H. Wil. And therefore meaning to be a dutiful fon (advances towards Fofephine.) |