Indiana Palladium, Volume 2, Number 3, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 20 January 1826 — Page 1

EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAN. Barlow. Volume IL LAWRENCEBURGIT, INDIANA; FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1S26. Number 3,

Printed and Published on every Friday, BY J. Spencer, M. Gregg, and D. V. Culley; Editors and Proprietors.

AJV ORATIOX Commemorative of American Independence; delivered July 5, 1824, in the flowery Church, before the Firemen of the Gily of New-York, by Hooper Cummins, I). L). Auspicious Morn! which witnessed the noblest declaration that ever issued from the lips of patriotism. Auspicious morn! which gilded the manly brows, and dilated the benevolent bosoms, and strung the sturdy nerves of Jefferson, and Adams, and Franklin, and Sherman, and Livingston. Auspicious morn! which heard three millions of freemen exclaim, "The sword of the Lord and of Wash ington." Oh! it is good to be here. I congratulate you. I rejoice with you I can without misgivings, call you breth ren. The day that commemorates the birth of a nation, is altogether interesting. The philanthropist regards it with in finitely grateful emotions: the patriot's bosom expands with joy: the christian's heart ascends to heaven, amid the in cense of ten thousand praises. In tracing the causes which originated the formation of a people into a systematic government, and exalted them, to the dignity of a great republic, contem plations are awakened of paramount im portance. Here, we behold the developement of principles which will have a lasting and decisive operation upon all the diversified relation of man, and for ages will improve or debase his moral character. On the present joyous occasion, it were needless formally to recapitulate the great events which established our independence, and gave us an exalted station amongst the governments of the earth. You have from your infancy delighted to dwell upon their history. You have often listened to the war-worn veteran, who in tears of grateful memory, recounted the alternate triumphs and defeats of those memorable times which tested, with severe scrutiny, the sincerity of patriotism. Yoii heard him with exultation. Every incident was cherished by you : for it was the story of your birth-right. "Here,1' would he say, "our little army of heroes advanced! The proud legions of oppression before us! All that sensibility made dear, to urge us the altars of our devotion the fireside of our children the sepulchres of our fathers, had been invaded and insulted by unprincipled bands of foreign soldiery. In front of these sacred pledges, wc planted our standard. Our motto was short and simple: but it was full of energy. It was the motto of our hearts: and Libert v or Death, waved in sight of our foemen. They felt its meaning. They learned with fearful conviction the appalling lesson, that the shrine of Liberty was defended by a courage, that was nurtured by principle, and sustained bv conscience. We taught them, that the thunders of their cannon, and "all the dread pomp and circumstance of war,"" sent no terrors to the heart of an honest soldier. He fought not for the blood-stained laurel. The mercenary rewards of the hireling imparted no vigour to his bravcrv. It was home, and wife, and children, and coun try, that nerved his arm. It was liberty of thought and action the noble privi lege of governing ourselves, for which tve contended. The struggle was long and -arduous: but it was successful. Yes! honored be the memory of that band of worthies! This day with all its blessings: the enjoyments arising from a well-organized government: the inestim able rights of conscience : the certain re sults of industry and enlerprize secur ed by the administration of our own laws, challenge our warmest gratitude, and will forever embalm, with the richest praises, the names of those who bled for their country. You have heard all this! and your pulse beat in unison with every throb "and fibre of his heart. But, when he pointed you to the Hero of his story: when, with the native eloquence of a soul that disdained the arts and ornaments of fancy, he presented to you the name of Washington, and all his virtues, how did his relation brighten in interest, and your attention fasten with eager enthusiasm on all the proud recollections which that name awakened. In traversing the woods and wilds of America, our great Captain studied the severe and wholesome lessons which dangers and privations furnish. Here, he learned tne ruuiments 01 nis iiuure great iipss. Hardships, adversities, vicissi tudes, the perils of savage warfare had

chastened and poised his mighty mind. Its powers had been tasked. He had tried, and he knew their strength. When our liberties were endangered when the ambitious ministry of Britain threatened to extinguish the last spark of freedom, and forever colonize our privileges when our Fathers rose, and in the strength of the God of battles, fixed their purpose with unalterable firmness-when they determined that the chain should be broken, and the oppressor overthrown Where, where was then the master spirit that could "ride on the whirlwind

and direct the storm" the master spirit that could lead on, and consummate tin glorious resolve the master spirit that could animate the friends and intimidate and annihilate the foes of freedom? Washington appeared ! He had been tutored and ripened by the good Provi dence of God, for the very object which now summoned him at the head of our armies. He saw with a prophetic vision what America might become, if her sons were virtuous, resolute, brave, and per severing. And with an enthusiasm reg ulated by singular prudence, he direct ed all the energies of his enlightened and capacious mind, through a long career of action, to attain the golden prize which futurity held in prospect for his country. There is an era in the. history of our struggles, which will never lose its interest, while memory retains her power, or integrity her influence. Our finances were embarrassed. The sources of revenue which our scattered settlements, and our restricted and hazardous commerce yielded, were inadequate to meet the increasing claims which beset an already exhausted treasury Our troops were deprived of their hard earned wages. The spirit of revolt and disaffection spread itself throughout certain sections of the army. Discord raised her pestilential crest, and there were not wanting talent and influence to welcome her approach to fan the flame that had been kindled around the altar of free dom, and was fast making its wasteful way to her very pillars. Washington, the idol of the soldier whose word was law whose sentiments were sacred whose persuasion was resistless stood (hen the sentinel of our hopes. But Lib erty did not tremble. Had he who pass ed the Rubicon been tnere, our history might have been the degraded storv of wrongs and bondage, but, the Father of his country never paused. To tamper was to imbibe contagion: to breathe in the air of mutiny, was to inhale its poison. t .With a righteous indignation of spirit, he rebuked the foul fiends who had dared to whisper infidelity. He calmed the passions which insidious arts had ruined to mislead. He opened to view the devouring gulph which was eager to destroy in its vortex, all that seven long years of toil and suffering had secured. The demon, fled from our ranks. Order returned. Our honest bat misguided defenders saw their danger, and shrunk with horror from the imagination of its consequences. And we live, my countrymen, to admire his unconquered virtues, and to rejoice this happyaday, that under heaven, Washington presided o'er our fortunes. Long may his name live in the best affections of a people, to whose happiness, his first and last days yvere consecrated. May his counsels be engraven on the posts of our doors: and may every heart emulate his worth! Let mausolea rise in every citv, town, and village to his honor. And let New-York, first in wealth, commercial enterprise, prospective prosperity, intelligence and patriotism, in her park, or some other appropriate square, erect a monumental statue of such dimensions and such materials, that combining beauty with stability, "longum perdurat in cevum." Conqueror of time, he has triumphed over mortality: Legate of heaven, he has returned with the tidings of his mission: Father of his people, he has ascended to repose in the bosom of the lather ot the spirits of all flesh. Solemn, "as it were a pause in nature," was his transit to eternity; thronged by the shades of he roes, his approach to the confines ot bliss ; panned by the song of angels, Ins jour nev beyond the stars. Born to direct the destiny of empires, his character was as majestic, as the events to which it was attached, were illustrious. In the delineation of its features, the vivid pencil of genius cannot brighten a trait, nor the blighting breath of calumny obscure. His principles yvere the result of organic philosophy ; Ins sue cess of moral justice. His integrity as sumed the port of command; hisintelh gence, the aspect of inspiration. Glory, to many impregnable, he ob

tained without ambition; popularity to

all inconstant, he enjoyed without jeal ousy. I he one was Ins, trom admira tion: the other, from gratitude. The former embellished, but could not re ward; the latter followed, but could nev er lead him. The robust vigour of his virtue, like the undazzled eye of the ea gle, was inaccessible to human weakness: and the unaspiring temperament of hi passions, like the regenerated ashes of the phenix, gave new life to the great ness it could not extinguish In the im perial dignity of his person, was exhibi ted the august stature of his mind: "See what a grace was seated on his brow, An eye lika Mars, the front of Jove himself, A combination, and a form indeed, Where every God did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man !'5 When his country became free, he wa no longer a General. Sublime specta cle! more elevating to the pride ot vii tue, than the sovereignty of the globe united to the sceptre of ages ! Enthroned in the hearts of his countrymen, the gorgeous pageantry of prerogative was un worthy the majesty of his dominion. That effulgence of military character, which, in ancient states, has blasted the rights of the people, whose renown it had brightened, was not here permitted, by the hero, from whom it cm --mated, to shine yvilh so destructive a lustre. Its beams, though intensely resplendent,did not wither the young blossoms of cur in dependence; and liberty like the burning bush, nourished, unconsumed by the glory which surrounded it. Fellow citizens! I have dwelt the longer on his character, because I have been taught from my cradle to revere him, and the maturity of reflection, and the soberness of realities, have confirmed and rendered indelible the first impressions. Yes! and I revere also, the character of his distingushed, gallant, and disinter ested coadjutor, whom we hope shortly to welcome to our shores. I would rather shake hands with Lafayette, that with any man on earth. He was my lather's friend: they stood and fa light side by side, at Brandywinc, and Germantown, at Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth, Yorktown. The only surviving General offi cer of our revolutionary army, he de serves to be hailed amoung us, in the patriotic, emphatic, and elegant lan guage of our worthy Recorder, as "the guest of the nation." And he will be so received. New-York will not be outdone by any city in the union. Every vault will echo and re-echo with his praises. Every sanctuary will send up petitions for the protraction of his useful life, and the happiness of his soul. Every domicile, great or humble, will be ready to welcome his entrance, and esteem itself most highly honored. Every infant will be taught to pronounce his name. Every patriot will delight to do him homage. And it w ill be seen to the confusion of the haughty Bourbons, and the deep mortification of every branch and fibre of the unholy alliance, that Republicans are grateful. Wrc hope, that he menns to spend among us, all his romaining days. And when he shall descend into the sepulchre, the sighs of cotemporary gratitude will attend the sublime spirit to its paternal abode; and the prayers of emancipated posterity will ascend in glowing remem brance of their illustrious benefactor! The laurels, that droop, as thev shad ow his tomb, with monumental glory, will be cultivated by the tears of ages; and embalmed in the heart of an admir ing world, the temple erected to his memory, will be more glorious than the pyramids, and as eternal as his own im perishable virtues." I cannot without injustice to my own feelings, as a npan, as a christian, as the w arm friend of my country, pass onward, without some notice, of another distin guished, and I may add, with peculiar emphasis, devoted patriot. He is poor, but without spot. It in the councils of the nation, he ever erred, it was unintentionally. When our country was bleeding at every pore its funds exhausted its bravest spirits desponding, he in troduced into the Commissaries department, a sy stem of economy, w hich saved us. Well might he exclaim ''hundreds and thousands have passed through these hands, but not a cent has ever stuck to them. My labours have ministered to my necessities' I speak not as a poli tician, but as a philanthropist not as a federalist, nor a democrat, but as an American: not as a partizan of the secre tary of the treasury, or the secretary of state, or the secretary at war, or the speaker of the house of representatives, or even the hero of Orleans. I am for I them all. Let the people select. And

no danger will follow, let their choicel prosperity, he urged by the con?ide:?.fall, on whomsoever it may. Their in-j tion of their vast importance, to n live telligcnce w ill keep the president always perseverance in the ukivaiioi: of ihe on the alert, and in the path of dim. arts of peace. our 'A'untiy. Uvi No despotism will sap the foundation of hopes rest on you. hen y,.'.ir hand

their liberties. No war w ill be declared without their consent. Their purse will not he picked. The ma fell of internal improvements will not he arrested. Thank God! I am a freemen, and therefore can speak boldly. Myself, grossly traduced, I w ill advocate the innocent. My life on it, no man deserves better of his country my life on it, no man will receive a warmer embrace from Lafayette, than the venerable Timothy Pickering. Assembled to celebrate this eventful epoch in American history, w e should by no means withhold our humble tribute of gratitude and praise to the gracious author of all our mercies. His providence guided our arms. When amid. difficulties and dangers, a superior foe superior in numbers and the munitions of war: but not superior in courage and devoted patriotism, threatened desola tion to our cities and villages: vvhen our reduced, and retreating, and discouraged forces almost despaired In that dark hour, w hen the heart of the v irtuous patriot sunk within him, and in ago ny trembled o'er his hopes lie who rules in the .armies of heaven was on our side. He encouraged the- desponding warrior. He infused new wisdom ii.t..;l our cabinet. He overruled the eV.-i i - of the appalling crisis. He bbssed u - with victory, and peace, and freedom.

And every returning year of our na- rt ! lor her sircngth and her nuirh ional existence through each section ,.;ill,t-'lit naxo hnever.

tional this vast continent, furnishes abundant causes tor gratitmie am? iov. Joium as foreign politicians may nave endeavored to pourtray the weakness ami tiie anar chy which will flow from its forms: yet, forty-eight years, has it withstood the hocks of lime: and at this favored hour. it presents in all its diversified operations, the spectacle of a free, a prosper ous, and an united people. -Whilst ihe government'; of the old w orld have been shaken, and crushed, and overturned. America, republican America, stands firm like the rock hy yonder ocean: and the collisions which have agitated its cit izens, have been ooly the convulsions of the waters that died Irarndess it its base. It is now more firmly secure than ever, by the safest palladiums--the hearts of the people. This is a bulwark, my coun trymen, which power cannot claim: which the w ealth of worlds cannot puichasc. America owns it. Survey the interesting scene. Fruitful fields! Pow erful cities! Flourishing villages ! Domestic tranquility! Universal harmony ! V ..: i i i . -i!. ... i i nam t. u 1 1 now mcei liienu. wiiuoui a bitter feeling. The prejudice of the leart is removed. The jaundice of the eye is cured. No ban of proscription now excludes from the social circle. No invidious line of demarkation is run along through the relations of society.

which, with a strange magic hand, had!atter ;:T1; hlmled the first reat princithe aw ful power to divide the strongest ! P'os "hhm give impetus to the future cords of nature, to poison the very milk; ;eharacler. Here are elit ited ?he his;of human kindness, and array a hrother'H'!,,J'''ali,.r:S l t-11 luminaries of sci inarms. My countrymen! niv conntrv-!e:'rc xv'iU h their rays into tho

men! let us here dig the grave, and bury forever in its bosom, all the div isions and animosities, w hich have only weakened our government and destroyed ourselvcso Distinguished by such inestimable blessings as those which signalise our lot, our duties become solemnly responsible. Obligations reach every individual, how-

ever humble his station, or limited his: the losses of w isdom and virtue; direct-' influence. The legacy w hich our fath-jing the new born ideas of her childerners secured by their labours and forti-jand fixing upon the pliant mind the inW tude, and sealed with their blood, is' press of truth; tempering heroic fortinow confined to the care of us their chil-j tude with the gentleness of compassion dren. We ourselves. This is the es-iand manlv vigor of intellect with the

sence of republicangovernment, and the; plainest man among , you perceives in the very statement, that the rulers must be virtuous, or the laws can neither be

just nor good. ice is the reproach of is an honor to address you. You are, any people. Oh, my countrymen ! irn-j without a solitary exception, the mosf prove y our privileges! They exalt you: useful and important class of our citito the heav ens! I conjure yon to heu arejzensl our wiv es and children, our pro-

that they come not down in wrath! Letmerty, ourselves, our insurance comnn-

each member of this great family feed, that in a sense, and in a strong sense too, the welfare of the whole is entrusted to himself. In the steady pursuit of industrious habits in repressing within his sphere the inroads of vice in adorning his lowly shed with piety and virtue, he may, and often docs exert an influence far, far more happy in itself, more honorable to God, and more salutary to man, than the proud sons of power ever could attain. Let ihe merchant, the husbandman, the mechanic, the manufacturer, the bone of all our strength, the true source of our national

wanderer from amoiii; our '!u-ruu? rai ks strays into the way-raid paths of dissipation and indole! i re. one pillar .if her pride is gone. --Ami lor your encoui agemc at, never foiget, that trua honor is sub; (antia, and that h nest In dustry leceives her piaiso... hi the estimation oi iieii; n i-i it, he deserves mo: t who fulfils the diuies of hi stauon with most lidt .ity: and no matter w :ere tha$ statioa Ui y he, oi: the sv.de oi an us in gradation, "Act well yoiir piu-t; then all the honor lies." While you continue virtuous and iaithful, nothing w ill dis turb our security. Time will only, stenghthen t tie foundatioi s oi governnient. All the venom of the unholy alliance cannot poison us. All the powers of legitimacy, f.isely so called, i'ot their is no legitimacy hut toat which orriginates in the people,) all the powers of sclf-stvled legitimacy cannoi crush us America, still republican, sih intelligent, still united, w ill be ihe land of the brave, and the home of the free. But if that melancholy day should ever 'arrive when the busy hum of your manufacturing establishments shall cease; when the ( i - ering sounds of the anvil and the i'j0, the hammer and the nail, the aoh - t .if and the wheel, the shuttleand the? .lh.eii:. ;he axe, the hoe, and the plough; shall no heard no more, then farewell hMay 1 be permitted to add, aitnoui 'i earring the charge of too much gallantry, that to Columbia's fair daughters' much of purfc usefoh ess and honor iffairly to be (raced. The w ie and good of all generations have regarded the tender sex a, the hist refuge of virtue, Where woman i. degiavied, man is a sa vage. The nrst gh am of light pervadeo the darkness of the middie ages, -va? announce "1 by the homage paiu k," 4 e rude v; -e-j!i: nr d as civ ill-aJ ion bar idvaKc' a it has ; ' va s been more higf-lv appiroiau-u. At the hreside of ft n.j.lt' watch r: loess, many a blessing to f.i-soi United States is lowered. It' that Uvo of truth and i ighteousne-s thai ardent benevolence and expressive svmpathy-. from which ab-a, the cause of humani ty can hoot for so; part, are k be form J on earth in j u Ml ami simplicity, ii U in the bosom of the amiable, accompd-hed.: and intelligent n n-?.!e. Retirii g, unobti ushe. her ".iiuenre, n peh numbers, if- n't pcrieep? e ?:i ei e : w it:. in the sjo.ee of j;- oj t ra-h . of t pow e ai !.; oeciSiVt. I lit r i; belongs to u: '.:; the pow of the inlantiie na-.d t. ia-i.il the earih -! receipts of virtue- to impn s ihe earliest feeling of humanity :e form al ; V j,G undo? -tamiiag. the imagination, and iic heart. Aroiv.-d the domestic hoard anct most remotest lime. .And I ere toe. uicu finds a solace for his caie;, rind a resting; place for his wearied bosom. Hlomc-sti happiiit-sh! h-. u-i oi.ty Mii tn Par. dLst, line h.s Mirv vcd th- t'.il 'I hou ar hr nurtir r? v:fuc! In ih)i;e arm 3,' Sue smiles, appi annar v j r truth sl.e i, Heavt n v.n . .. o s ir.t d ; t- t-k't s agu-n? '. We behold a pious mother incodcatinc? on the sacred pledges of her aifectton, tenderest affections of the heart, i rejoice in this happy spectacle as the host safeguard of my country's prosperity. I iremen oi the city of New-Vork! If nics, our banking insthutioi s, aril all our commercial interests ia all their bearings and relation:, depend, imdei God to you for protection and preserva-' tion. c.u are benevolent. The wi dow's furrow ed brow is :mc c.thtu!, and the orphan's tears are wiped away by the hand of your beneficence. Vu cub tivate among yourselves the spirit of brotherly love. Alw ays act in harmony. And every man in this community , w ho. o opinion is worth regarding, will view you, and treat you as possessed of the highest respectability. You are exempt ed, it is tiuc, in consequence, of yr. -V

slawer.s, her vigor ? ops, u a -..;ugls