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J EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAN. Barlow. Volume III. LAWRENCEBURGH, INDIANA; SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1827. Number 3.

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BY M-Greg & D. V. Culley, OX EVERY SATURDAY. FROW TH2 NKW HARMONY XA. GAZETTE. Of fiitunfur Offered Honor. O'ir.I.i.iian correspondent last week complained, not without reason, of the arhitrarv. sometimes perverted sense, in which wo rohiteskins employ many of our words. There is one word, the abuse of which did not probably occur so for cibly to the mind of our simple friend, because the prejudices of his own education favored that abuse; we mean the word satisfaction. When capt. H ill visited the Loo Choo Islands, he found an unsophisticated race mlialiitanN. haDDV in pr.mitive simv. ....... t j . Ji

plir.ity, arid unknowing the use both of his me so leariessly. JNow you can ao unarms and of money. We should like to same: then every one will be convinced

hear a modern man of honor cndeavorin to explain to a Lao Choo Inlander the meaning of the word satisfaction, as laid down in the fashionable vocabulary of civilizi.'". VT -trang dialogue we should have! let us endeavor to sketch it: Loo Choo Islander. Satisfaction, I have been told, is a feeling of pleasurable contentment and bilenl self-approbation. Man of Hmor. Ys, I believe it does fnean something like that. Well, no man of spirit can be content ro he pointed oui by the world as a mean coward. Loo Choo hhmder. I understand that. Man of Hmor. Nor can any one, with a jut sense of honor, approve either in himself or in other, a tame submission to insult which is s ire to provoke, its repetition. Loo Choo Islander -This too appears to m" reasonable, so far as. I can under Stand it. Man of Honor.- Therefore, when . man insults me, I must have satisfaction: I must call him out; I must fight him; there is no remedy. Loo Choo Islander. Do you mean that vou must endeavor to kill each other with the weapons of destruction I see so often in this country? Mm of Hmor. Certainly. Loo Choo Islander. To obtain satisfaction? Mm of Hmor.-rYs no other course remains. Loo Choo Islander. A d then, if one of you is killed the other is rjtisfir.d; con tented; pleased with him?elf and with what he has done? Mm of Honor. But he could not help it. Loo Choo Islander. Not help being Satisfied? Is it so pleasant a thing to kill a fallow-creature? Mm of Hmor. O'a no; you misunderstand me. I , lid not mean he could not help beii g satisfied with his adversary's death, but only that he could not help lulling him. Loo Choo Islander. No? we Loo Chooans can always help committing such a follv. B it you say, it is to become gati-tied thai vou kill him. Man of Honor. ' ? you mistake again ; I lid not s w so. Loo Choo hl mder. Did you not tell that ou must fight to obtain satisfac tion? Man of Honor. Yes; but there is a great difference between obtaining satisfaction and being satisfied. Loo Choo Islander. Well, I suppose 1 do not yet properly und'-rsta id your language. Then you are not satisfied after having killed him? Man of Honor. I am satisfied as having recovered my l st honor. Loo Choo Islander. Then in this country it is an honorable thing to kill a man, and that mikes up the dishonor of yvhat you call an insult? Yet I think I saw a man hanged the other day; and they t.-ld me it was because he had killed another. Man ,f Honor. A ;d he deserved puaishme it: but to kill av man i i a duel is a very different thi g. You know I expose myself to death too. Loo Choo Islander. And does that make all the difference? Mm of Honor Certainly. Loo Choo Islander. Then if one man Stabs another and afterwards expose himself to danger, in that case killing is an honorable action in this country ? Man of Honor. Somewhat impatiently) It is useless to talk to y ou: you can never d-rstand the laws of honor among gentlemen. Loo Choo Islander. Not unless you explain them to me a little more distinctly.

Man of Honor. I tell you, that to viti-J

dicate my character, to shew that 1 am. not a coward, 1 must incur the danger of a duel. Loo Choo Islander. Then you fight to shew that you are no coward. Mm of Honor. I do: if I do not, the world would say that I held back through fear. Loo Choo Islander. But vou ran easily convince the world that you are not a coward, without fighting a duel. Man of Honor. H"w so? Loo Choo Islander.Kt- went last nigh' into one of your public gardens, and there I saw a man descend a rope Iron, a very great height. Soon after he began to descend, a quantity of firework were made to explode all around him; y et lie stood firmly and came dwn without any appearance of fear. Evrv one said he was a brave fellow who would venture l r- r i a t l .t that you are no coward. Mm of Honor. Do you think I am sucn a fool as to expose myself for nothi"g2 Loo Choo Islander. For nothing? hut it is expressly to effect what you desired -to prove your bravery. M"n of Honor. The world would think me a fool if I risked my neck only for that. Loo Choo Islander. Then I suppose it will think you a fool if you stand to be shot at in a duel. Man of o?ior. Oh, there the case is different. I have some ether object besides proving my courage. Loo Choo Islander. It appears to me that you shift your ground very frequently. First you told me you fight to obtain satisfaction ; and when I asked you if it made you satisfied and happy to kill your adversary, vou said no. Then vou said it was to recover your honor; a .d whei I enquired if killing was honorable you admitted that it was not. T.nen agan you give for a reason the necessity of shewing your bravery ; I propose to you a plan to effect this without fighting; but you say the world would laugh at you if vou incurred daiger merely to shew that vou did not fear it. And now, at last v eu sav that you have some ether object in duelling, and therefore the world will not think you a fool for exposing your life. What is that object? Recollect that it is not to obtain satisfaction, nor to recov er your honor, nor to shew your bravery: it must be something else. Man of Honor. I do not choose to be injured with impunity : if I allow it, every bravo will think he has an equal right to insult me. Loo Choo Islander. But are there no laws in your country to prevent one man trom injuring another? Man of Honor. Yes, but the laws do not assign any punishment, for many in suits that provoke a duel. Loo Choo Islander. Then where the law awards no punishment at all, you intend to punish with death?

Man of Honor. I do not choose to or was lost, and not much rather estab reason any longer with you. All I know.lLhcd by such conduct ? Was his mild

is, that a man who is insulted a id does not fight the insulter, is disgraced forever in the eves of his countrymen. Loo Choo Islander. If that were true, his countrymen yvould give but li'tle J proof of the value of their good opinion.1 tJut it cannot he. Man of Honor. It is, I tell you. Loo Choo Islander. Then Washington is disgraced forever? Man of Honor. Washington? Loo Choo Islander. Yes, Washington: read this anecdote regarding him: ANECDOTE OF WASHING TOM. In 1754, he was stationed at Alexan-

dna with his regiment, the only one in; or innocence of the suspected. A d the colony, and of which he was Colonel. 'shall another practice out of the same

I here happened at that time to be anj election in Alexandria for members the Assembly, and the ballot ran high! between Col. George Fairfax and vv m.i LIzey. Jn the course ol the contest Washington grew very warm, (for his passions, naturally, were terrible; though a wise regard to honor and hap piness, soon reduced them to proper com mand) and unluckily said something to Mr. Payne, who though but a cub in siz was a lion in heart, elevated his shelalah, and at a blow, extended our hero on the ground. News was carried to the regiment that their Col. was murdered by the mob! On the passions of the soldiers who doated on their commander such a report fell at once, like a flash of lightning on a magazine of gun-powder. In a moment the yvhole regiment was under arms, and in rapid motion towards the town, burning for vengeance. During this time, Washington had been liberally plied with ccld ater, acid, and

olatiles ; and happily for Mr. Payne and j

his party, was so far recovered as to g out and meet his enraged soldier-, who crowded around him with faces ol honstjoy to see him alive again. After thanking them for such an eviier.ee of attachment to him, he assured them that he was not hurt in the least, and begged them, by their love of him and their duty o return peaceably to their barracks.; As for himself, lie weut to his room, genrously chastising his passion, which had thus struck out a spark that had like to have thrown the whole town into a tlame. And feeling himself the aggressor of Mr. Payne, he resolved to make him the honorable reparation of asking his pardon. No sooner had he made this heroic reso lution, than recovering that delicious gaiety, which ever accompanies good urposcs in a virtuous mind, he weut to a ball that night, and behaved as pleasantly as though nothing had happened. Early next morning he wrtte a polite note of invitation to Mr. Payne to meet him at the tavern. Payne look it for a hallenge, and repaired to the tavern in full expectation of suellirg gun-powder. But what was his surprise on enter ing the chamber, to see in lieu of a brace f pistols, a decanter of wine and a pair of glasses on t he table. Washington arose to meet him, and offering his hand with a smile, began: "Mr. Payne, to err sometimes, is nature, to rcctity error is always glory; I believe I was wrong in 'he affair of yesterday: you have had, 1 hink, some satisfaction, and if you deem hat sufficient, there is mv hand let be friends." An act of such virtue, produced its proper effect on the mind of Mr. Payne, who from that moment, became the most enthusiastic admirer and friend of Washington, and, for his sake, rendv at any lime to charge up to a battery of two and forty pounders. Would our youth but be persuaded to act in a style so correct and so heroical, ourpapers would no longer shock us with accounts of young men murdering each other, on false principles of honor; and by one desperate deed, amercing themselves of all present pleasure, and of future hope. We know not what our Mm of honor would reply to this. It would be out of character to suppose him silenced, for it is generally a point of honor with this class of persnus never to be at a loss for words, whether arguments fad or not. But let us ask particularly your you .g ami fashionable friends, if we have any what they think of this anecdote? whether they cor sider it m ce.sary in order to obtain satisfaction to renrt to the duelling pistol or the small svord? Was it no satisfaction to Wash nton to have gained a friend for life, where others would have made a deadly enemy ! Was it no satisfaction to have obtained a victory over irrational passions to have smothered unworthy resentment? Did he ever, think y ou, in after days reiet what he had done? ever feel that tU honness likely to expose him to fresh insult. and not much rather to disarm enmity? Did any one ever accuse Washington of;p cowardice, because he would not stand to be snot at in a duel? Nav, will not that portion of society whose Wod opin- ! ion is worth the possessing, estimate the m ral courage that is necessary to break through a foolish and barbarous custom.; j much mare highly than the more physi cal courage of a bravo?

It will, it must. There was a time,!demanded, and then there appears to

whon instead of our present comparative y rational trial by jury, superstitious tests were resorted to, to prove the guilt ignorant and barbarous times shall the of.trial bv combat the substitution of might for right the appeal to the sword for justice, to personal prowess of skill for equity and reason shall such a sav age and antiquated custom still be restrained and sanctioned by the ivilizd world of the nineteenth century ? Common sense, the slightest reg.ird to consistency, the least spark of generosity then how much more good temper and good feeling forbid it. South Carolina. Columbia, Dec. IS. A preamble and resolutions from the senate was read by the speaker, appropriating the sum often thousand dollars of six per cent, stock, redeemable in the year 1850, to the legal representatives, for the benefit of the heirs of Thomas Jeffersow On the motion being put they had passed unanimously, without a dissenting voice. They had passed the senate with Benrlv the eante unsnimitv.

They are in the following words:

When in the course of human events. Providence raises up from time to time, men whose talents have an influence on the country , and on the age in which they live and yvhen such men have devoted their talents through a long life, faithfully and beneficially to the welfare and prosperity of their fellow citizens, posterity will owe for such devotion and such services a debt of gratitude which it ought to fee proud to acknowledge. And if it should happen that men so highly gifted have been called into the employment of their country, have bcei commanded to sacrifice their time, their labor, their talents, to her advantage; have been placed in situations of ex pense even by the performance of their public avocations, it would seem to be obligatory on the nation to make some remuneration tor such pure and exalted merit. It will be a melancholy retros pect to remember that illustrious mei who have given themselves to their coun try, who have protected her rights, guarded her institutions, multiplied her resources, and elevated her character. should bequeath to their families nothing but the recollection of their services, and the feeling of their privation and their ruin. Such has been the history of Thom ys Jef ferson the author of the Declaration of Independence, the uniform, efficient sup porter of our rights, the faithful servant of the public, through all the bright days ."! his long and laborious life. Jeffer son, the benefactor of this nation, and an honor to the age in which he lived, ha: left to his family nothing but the recol lection of his deeds, and his honor, and the gratitude of his country Let not that gratitude be cold and inefficient let it not be wasted in words nor evapo rated m eulogies. The claims of Mr Jefferson, are even doubled on this na (ion; for the elevation on which he was placed, from the rank he held in the annals of that country, drew around him a crowd of visiters from every quarter of the civiliz -d world, and obliged him in the excrete of a necessary, though frugal hospitality, to impair his reduced and neglected means. It becomes the generation who owe so much to his active wisdom and virtue to repair this misfortune to his family. Let it not be said that such examples may be dangerous. Claims and services like those of Mi. Jefferson, occur but ran ly in the history of a nation; and if they should occur again in ours, let us rather boast that we have such a precedent on our annals: Be it therefore resolved, by the legislature of South Carolina, one of the constituent members of this republic, That the sum of ten thousand dollars, in six per cent, stock, redeemable in the year 1850, be transmitted to the legal repre sentatives ol 31r. Jefferson, tor the bene fit of his right heirs, as a testimony of its gratitude for the services of their illustrious parent. Resolved, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to the legislatures of the different states througnout our union. OrThe preceding act appears to havt tssed as by acclamation. The yeas and nays were called for, but it required the rising of seven members to sustain it when four had risen there were cries of "shame, shame" two others rose, and six were up l-Ve will surrender our pay bills,' exclaimed several voices! The seventh not rising, the speaker de clared that the ayes and noes were not have been "a shout that echoed through the ho ise evidence, indeed, of the no hie feeling that prevailed, but the shew of which had better been deferred until the house had adjourned; when tin gravest member might have joined ii manifesting his exultation at this doing of the legislature of South Carolina. From the New York Statesman. Interesting History. It is known as a matter of history, that in the early part ol l7oo great exertions were made by the British ministry, at the head of which was the illustrious earl of Chat ham, for the reduction of the French power in the provinces of the Canadas. To carry the object into effect, gen. Am hurst, referred to in the letters of Junius was appointed to the command of the British army in north western America: and the British colonies in America were called upon for assistance, win contributed with elacrity their several quotas of men, to effect the grand objec of British enterprise. It is a fact still within the recollection of some of ou oldest inhabitants, that the British arm lay eiicamotd io the summer of 1755 oi.

the eastern banks of the Hudson, a little south of the city of Albany, on the

ground now belonging to John I. Van Rensseler esq. ro this day vestiges of heir encampment remain; ai d after a apse of sixty years, when a great pro portion of the actors of those days, hav passed away like the shadows frcm the earth, the inquisitive traveller can bseive the remains of the ashes, the l;.cc where they boiled their camp kettles. It was this army , that under the command of Abercrombie was foiled with a severe loss in the attack on Ticonderoga, where the distinguished Jlowe fell at the head of his troops, in an hour that history ha consecrated to his fame. In the early part of June, the eastern troops began to pour in, company after ct mpany, and such a motley assemblage never before thronged together on such an occasion, unless an example may be f? und in the ragged regiment of sir John Falstaff, of right meny and facetious memo ry. It would, and my worthy ancestors who relates to me the storv, have relax ed the grav ity of an anchorite to have seen the descendants of the Puritans marching through the streets ef o: e ancient ciiv, to take their station the left side of the British am v, some with long coatc, and aorne with small touts and others with no coats at all, in colors as varied as the rainbow, some with meir hair cropped like the army ot'Cf muell, and others with wigs whose curls flowed with grace aroui.d their shoulders. Their march, their accoutrements, and the w hole arrangement of the troops, furnished matter of amuseme. t to the wits of the British army . The music played the aiis of two centuriea ago and the tont ensemble exhibited a sight to the wondering strai gers that they had been unaccustomed to in their native land. Among the club of wits that belonged to the British armv, there was a physician attached to the f ff by the name of Shackburgh, who com i"ed with the science of the surgeon, the kill and talents of a musician, To ph ase brother Jonathan, he composed a tute4 ana with much gravity recommend d it to the officers, as one of the most c jebrated airs of martial music. The p ke took, to the no small amusement of the British corps. Brother Jonathan exclaimed, it was nation Jine, and in a few day s nothing was heaid in the camp but the air of Yankee doodle. Little did tho author and his coadjutors then suppose that an air made for the purpose of levity and ridicule should ever be marked for such destinies; in 20 years from that time our national march inspired the hemes of Bunker's Hill, and in less than 30 lord Cornw allace and his army marched into the American lines to the tune of Yankee doodle. i . i i A meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia, friendly to the cause of the Greeks was held in that city, on Saturday lat, to consider of the means best calculated to assist that oppressed people in their heroic struggle for liberty. H n. Joseph Hemphill was called to the chair, and J. N. Barker acted as Secretary. A preamble and resolutions were offend by :Mr. Matthew Carey, and unanimously adopted. Une oj the latter was to this effect : Resolved, That this meeting earnestly recommend to the citizens of the Uni'ed States to contribute, in proportion to their means, and with all possible despatch, to purchasing a supply of the necessaries of life, for the succor of the Greeks, at this perilous stage of their warfare. A committee of twenty of the most respectable citizens yvasappeinted to carry the wishes of the meeting into effect. In the discussion which took place on the passage of the resolution, Mr. James C Biddle dyvelt with much feeling and effect on the present degradrtion and misery of Greece, as contrasted with her ancient glories, appealing in glowing terms, to the sympathies of the friends of freedom and Christianity, in her behalf. Mr. Josiah Randell, in a pertinent address, detailed several facts of a very interesting character, as tending to manifest the state of public sentiment, and the probable success of an appeal to public charity. Among the liberal offers of gentlemen, some of whom he named, lw mentioned the case of one gentleman, a merchant of Philadelphia, who had voluntarily come forward with a pledge to pro cure and furnish, gratis, the one-third part of a cargo of one thousand barrels of flour. A letter was submitted frcm Peter Hotz,jr. offering his gratuitous services of comniander of the vessel which may ' e employed to convey provisions to Greece