Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1843 — Page 1

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THE STATE SENTINEL i fjlttWti rrry 7Vfiy f firr n IfW.inn NrMf, tmUkmtt y th wtmtt if . KT rtif Si ite SJtBtlael will eontsla ut. r fw .re rrnird MSLg m.tt,,,o, 11 object, of gMMVSl iteNt, tJ of r i.;.ei in the r .tp. Twin.-.Two felb .1 , year .0 IN ft. Ir. no iii'tmrf will mme than our numt.rr M ent Ml :h- innnfv 11 rerre..! Ni'. r;i'.ri will trrnvt du nutkr 1 few wrek) kef rr if. . x 11 ition of rarhyraror tprm.an.J if Ihr payment foi a u ' ci ! 1 1 1 r eai "i rm tr not alvanrod, tile ai will be -Ihc .ntinM-.J. ' Tfcta 10 wi 11 ha a.!h. M-l lte 14 mm OMllar Wltlk WCeiv4 for HXMonlhi, an 1 filtv rriiti for t nee rn titlii nhc iu 14 adenine. .. , ,. ,, , ..if , r ,, rive il-itlii- will be received for inire yr.ii; or, time

.j;irn will be r 1 t tM 1 f for the vanie. AiivrritMr.M-. wii! t e HNSfltii Mure Inn ;it ur ,lo!l ir a MMMi SM m) aiiJ b- c iitiuu'-'l at Um rve ot J- (tnta ju-ire werklv (io-Ur.!yr wäfi X tMCSMt 1 MXlUll -3 a M-Mf "f 2 U mis Ye.irlv advertiser- will le ifnmim" ! .t I t. m-.i m' lc t.M.n-, winch -h"tiM alw ay-bt maijr in wriltt I Hp I! 11 advr it ic:netit fiorn at. n. in HSfttf n r mtpmmii ! b tkt risk, of no attcntiori will Lc paid to (hrm $V1'-"' PAUtt le p u l. OK t I KPV li '; I If u G Lewis C.im. a h h ru'in, fit for' lltiim, of I ft- CUmotclioti oj tlf IVubash and rt Canal " m halt rlri to Wabnfh Rh r,w tk Uh ' J ';. Is 13. Tli tl t fellow i.i ;ns, i in illO) .1 111 ii-f-urv l '. in. It I- th.' tn! niversary of

the hirlli of t!ii- grcal Republic. To-day tilih over the valley, that owes so r...n h t arc were bora int t!i ßunily of nations. In God, and so little to man, is tar d. nn r to th-tin-calendar of time tlu-rv i no event which oppressed population. than t.u - useles, but will roh:ili!y produce .1 more powerful and mijrhty structures. permanent effect npön the destinies of th 1 )ur i-a-t.-i n !r .t,--, tu xv 1 tl i i har.icteristic world. )nr revolution sanctified by sacccäü liberality and patriotism, which make tin tin- momentous principle of resistance loop descend en t? of tii pilgruna proud of the land pression, and it opened to inquiry the whole ol their 'Uftccstors, have just completed and s) ?t iu i t,'ov.-rnin-iit, with a freedom of in- ! d t( d a monument t mark the site of vestigation ana n power of discussion which I tU battle, which opened the great contest bad never before been united in any prari. between a powerful Empire and her young eal eiamifsation into tliat gveat depart .ent and distant provinces, and who- - influence, of the concerns of man. The thr . score if it did not uivi- to the revolution its fortujrears aotl tcn the term ol huawui life, liavc natc issue, impressed its character upon the not yet passed away, and wUcrc arc wc : wliole struggle. Wc have no such place to Prom dependent colonics w nave become an hallow ; but wc have tin people to do the independent K public. Prom n small peo- 1 d ?cds lv which places are suictiticd, and pie, thinly scattered over the tlantic coast, I where the pilgrims of liberty come not to sve have become a mighty Nation, with a I worship, hut to reflect. Wc have not the power ei n wh re acknowledged anil re- wealth nor those "appliances" by which the fiecteJ, With a n mi kaovn and honored, long and imposing procession, and tlic gorge .ml with all th I rments of prcsnt ro-; :i- oua pageantry which a great city can arrange ty and of future advancement such as Provi and display, affect, and almost subdue, !ic deuce has rarely deigned i confer upon imagination. We have not the Chief Magman. Witliiu t'ii- brief period, brief in the; j istratu of tlie Republic, with his official couohiitory of societies, the great tide i t' dviliza- sellors, t mark, a- it. were, with a national tion has passed the Allegheny Mountains and I character, the occasion of our assemblage, has spread its spreading wings over tlic prai-j Nor ha we construt ! an Obelisk, simple ries and forests f our own beautiful west I and severe in its style, but lasting as the deed and will n( ?to till it reaches the boundary it COmmeniora tCS, whose foundation i laid in f the Continent opon t'tc shores of the Pact- l f graves ol martyred patriots, but whose tic. The decree lt:i" gone forth and will be I summst rises towards th" heavens, t llin tinmrnllcd. The prospects of the future maylstor of their fall, and proclaiming the gratibe seen in the progress of the past. He who tudu of their countrymen. But there are neu ua read. ether political jealousy here stout hearts and strong hand-. Thounor incrc.iotil cupidity can stop our oawara j sands, who would devote themselves, as did mart li. If they louhl, fellou citizens, our the men of Uunkcrs Hill, to the cause of in ireli would be stopped. Perhaps while I iic -.U,n. and would li'-clit as they fought, ad ircs-s ou, aicasures arc in progress to wrest and die as tlicy died, should their country from u our Tcrriton west of the Rocky demand ! sacrifice. On the face ol tin.-.Momitaiu-. Island after bland, country after i;!oIm-, liberty has DO more ."ulous ilocountry, are falling before the ambition of Eng- lenders, nor patriotism more ardent votaries, I hi. I. Sii - i- planting her standard wherev- than in this great assembly, the convocation cr there i people to be sub lucd or the fruits of a people, who have made this region their of their industry to I e - urcd. With pro- own h all the ties that bind man to hi fctstopi ti philanthropy, -!i pursues the de- borne, an 1 who will defend it, and the in-ti-tsms of ambition. And she i- encircling the tutions, which belong to it, by ;ilt the means gfohe with her stations wherever she can best that energy ami intelligence and devotedaccomplish her scheme of aggrandisement, aess have over brought to the great day of The sua never sets upon her ßmpirc It is trial, and by w !i( ! they made it ft day of Buy il Jiberate omnion, that no nation, since triumph. the f ill of the Roman power, has display- Wc have come here to join in ar other corned greater tfisregard for the rights ol oth- memoration. '1 witness the union of the ers or more boldly aimed at universal dosni- lakes and of tlic Mississippi. To survey nation, (hir claini to the Coantn west ! one o( the noblest works of man in the imlie Rocky Mountains i- as andcniable as provementof that great highway of nature, our rihi to Bunker HiM or to New Orleans, extending from New York to New Orleans, and who will call in question our title to these who- mil moral and physical effects it were Maud tamed fr LI- ' And 1 trut if. will he vain tOSCCk CVeU to conjecture. Maintained with a vigor and promptitude And fitly chosen is the day of this celebraoqnnl to it- jnti -. War is a great evil, but tion. This w ork is another ligament, w hich MtN great as national dishonor. IJttleis binds together this great confederated Re-g.-iiaed by rieldiag Io insolent and unjust pre- public Providence has given us Union, and t atsjoun. It i I. tl r to defend the first inch many motives to preserve it. The sun never of Territory than the last. Par betl r in shone upon a ountry abounding more than dealing with England, to reasl aggression, our-doe-, in all tin- elements of prosperity, whether tf Tcrrittu'v, of impressment or i It were needless to enumerate the advantasearch. n hmi lirst attempted, than to yield in ges wc enjoy, and which gives us so dstinthf hon' that lovhearance w ill I-- met in o guished a . i among the nations of the put spirit, and will lead to aa aanicable com world. They arc seen and felt in all tlios? prntnisc. Let us have BO red Bnes upon the eviden of prosperity ami improvement naapof Oregon. I et us hold on to tlic in- which greet the traveller wherever lie passes tegrityofour just claim And if war comes, through our country. And -fill more striking be it so I do not RBytcIf beKevc it will I.- are they when wc contrast our -i: lation with lofsg avokled, unless prevented bi intestine that of the older regions of the world. I dillienltie- in the British Empire. And woe shall not enter into the comparison, I could he to us if w e Hatter fttirscNcs it can h ar- speak of it from personal knowledge, but the rested bi ani lystcm of concessions : of all t (-'. w ould not l- a pleasant one, for it would delusions this would be t!-1 most fatal. And recall many a cause of discontent, and many we should aw i!- from it a dishonored, it not a scene of misery, which meet the eve of the a ruined people. most careless observer, w ho exchanges the It i- profitable in the rareerof life occa- new hemisphere for the old. n American, ssonalli Io pauset to withdraw ourseh 'sfrom w ho does not return to his own country a tin- ever hu- scenes), wi i which wc mingle, wiser man. and a better citiz n. and prouder and to look back upon the progress we have and more contented for all be has seen abroad, made, and forward, a- far a- iL i ui n i- m i well doubt his own head and heart, and ltHk forward, upon t' prospect before us. mn well be doubted b bis countrymen. The-o ar.- nigh places in the journey of life, Still, it i- not to be disguised that, from the whence the region around as is best con tern- vcrj constitution of human nature, causes plated and understood, la all lim" great mat occasionally exist tending Io weaken, gvtcti have been tfefus coram amoral 1. The though they cannot sever, the bonds which principle lias it- foundation in homan nature, unite ti-: and happy i- it that these cau-e-thoogh perverted in it. appfication by power may be counteracted, and ultimately, wc may or mperstition. And maoi a monument hope, rendered powerless, by measures now w hich ban survived its own history and the in progress, which will add the ties of interobject! of it- founder, yet look-out upon the est to the die tat - or patriotism. Our railsilence around it. the solitary evidence oi road- and canals arc p netrating cv n secsome great, but forgotten event in the fitful tion of our Territory, They are annihilatdram i of hie. And we have come up to day ing time and space. The) are embracing in to one of these high places to cosnmnnc to- their folds the ocean and the Lake frontiers, gcther. Wc have met from manj a portion and the great region, extending from the Muf our common couutiy, aad this great as- leghan) to tht Rocky Mountain, through esfihlngc testifies, not l-- hy it- number, which the mighty Mississippi und its coontthan by the imposing ciix must nces which less tributaries fmd their waj to the Gulf of wiusjsjd itf that there is hera psrssing one of Mexico. Once let thsi work he completed, thos -cen - wiiiih mark the pmgres- .i -o- and we u- bound tog Ihcr bj COffds which , i. tv, and whili form it- character and of- no strenittb can -under. The moral and polen tin - it ''-tin. And -o it i-. and it i- litical elh-ct thcrefbrc, Of the great work In -good lor u- t he h re. C have not i omc fblC U-. i- I sen more important than the phyla ifJM a buttle, nor to commenio: .i one, steal advantages it pronwSJtt. It w ill bear upwe have not COJUC to wor-hip at the -lirineof n its ho-om tue products of a thousand ferpowcr, to celebrate the birth or death of tile valh vs, and it will -pread p!adncs and

iomc unuoithy ruler, the l ist -tep in pofifical

dation. Nor have we come to com mCUCe, to complete, nor to romilM tliont'' some useless but imposing structure, erected , . , , t I i i 'V P11'1' - -Ut ,;i" l)V ROVeity. I WOUld iKt however be misunderstood, rat lC it ccmwe ( to r,eck thOSC fcCnUgS . I lOVC Ol COUntl V. Or Ol religion, w hich SCCK t!l ir OU'pOUI ivs in the. erection of lll'mori- , 1 . 1 1 .1 t 1 1 c UfSUpon Spots Winch have drank tho blood of J, . pVjjotor tllC marU r. It i- :i tribute to . , , ., 1 1 . . .1 i. k. vii-r.ii which honors the dead and tie- li;iii;. .. . .... .

But let i be voluntary rncu it will neither be unjust i:i its object, nor oppressive In its act orii;li-im--ni. will (each a lesson to af terages, irhi ;i mji stimulate irirtuc u ;. -lion, :ii! w :':-f jtiid" io rmltir", till tiled i Ol delivCfatlC! Olli. VTltll its Struggle .'lllil with its reward. Look tli mighty Pyram !-. nrhich ria over the Arabian n ? 1 I Libyan wastes, and which cast tl eir hadows mr in the desert, mocking the res sarciies of the pride r m in They tell no talc but the old tale of oppression. They speak i: their vcry masstveness of pride and power, on one side and of misery and poverty on the other. One of ih little channels which t!i Fellah has diverted from the great river al their base, and which snr adsnrerdurc an .. -rprosperity o'.ti regions which have just been'

p k ae l from the Indian, and from the animals, bis co-tenants of the forest, which aiin ister to Li; wants. But it will tlo more than tili. It. will make triad the heart of the nat

not. A- le- -ail- aln' it. he will sec. not m . .

merely the evidence and the cause of wealth passed away, and the survivors find themselves ing the labor and enterprise of the settler, and prosperity, hut on-' of the ties which knit the members of a community of 3,0iM.(M:l of In a -nl-eu 'lit journey, led hy ofiki laty, us together. ly a pro -- more fortunate people. 1 have my. If witnessed much of I ascended the river ii a birch canoe. There than afebymist ever imagined, the feeblest el- tliU progress, and had my share of its toils is something romarriic associated with em -nt w ill he converted into the strongest and rewards. It is fortyhreo years, since I mode of couvc, in , but it soon pall- upon bond. It will bear the boat and freight to a landed upon the Northern shore of Ohio, a the travel! r, 1 : ing many a wean mile market, w here product- may be interchanged young adventurer seeking the land of prom- and hour, I bav bet n borne by tlris nl oriiand wealth acquired. Bot ü will interchange ise which ha been to him, as to many others, rinl kiiT ov r tlic lakes and river- of the interests and feelings whtoh no wealth can the land of performance. At that tun" the north v standst n it carried through dense purchase, .mid fbrwhich no price can pay. Territory of Indiana was no organised, and forests, across wild ortag -.and tl n floatWell then may we rejoice upon this day. the States of Ohio, ol Indiana, of Illinois, of ' ing up n some little stream, which gradually Tim occasion and the time are in unison to- Mic!ii;;an and the Territory of Oui.-consin swelled by successive tributaries, became gether. nd white we thank God for t!e formed on.- Grovernmcnt, under the name of large river. It was thus I passed li in L ike services and sacrifices, which he enabled our U) Northwestern Tcfritorv. I shall not stop Superior to the Mississippi, launching my fathers to make in the acquisition of freedom to brine before you the incidents of a frontier frail bark u; on a m :re rivulet, and descendand independence, I t u- thank him .'.-o.that life, nor the difficulties and privations, and i;- b fore lUe peculiar characteristics th,WC are able to strengthen tlVif work, and to gafleriiigs in peace and in war, by which the stream announced that we were upon that transmit to our children, as thev transmitted fore-t i- atpiired and reclaimed and finally miglily river which flows from its fountains in to theirs, the noh'csi inheritance that belongs subdued. During many years thi- region had the north to the tropical seas, to mm. The ark of the Constitution is yet iL-lull share of troubles. Th.- line of your But I have found tin-Canal boat a moi untouched. Withered 1 the hand that canal was a blood j war path, which has seen comfortable conveyance than the bark canoe ; wnld pollute it, mauva deed of horror. And thi peaceful and i!;- change i- not the least improve m ut 1 did not com here to speak to you ofpo- town In- had its Moloch, and the record- of whit h has accompaoit d the march of th : white litical questions which divide us. Sufficient human depravity furnish no more terrible ex- man. i our valley was then tiiinly occupied, unto the day is the evil thereof. In the seen- amples ol cruelty than were one red at his The settlements were sparse! scattered over lar concerns of life, we have enough of party s!irin-. The Miami Indians, our predeces- it The pioneers were moving on, bu th discussions. It is good, tliey should find their sorsinthe occupation of this district, had a task was a hard one. It was met, however, Sabbath their day of rest, when wc can terrible institution whose origin and objects with an energy which deserved the success it put ciicin behind as, and asset andgreetone have been lost in darkness of aboriginial his- gained. And its fruits now greel the travt Ianother, as brethren of the same family: as lory, but which was continued to a late peri- ler in all lliosc evidences of a fertile countn the countrymen of Washington and Jeffer- od, and whose orgies were held upon the very and n prosperous p iple, which mcel him son, and Franklin, the heirs of their labo., spot where wc now are. It was called tlie wliercvcr he moi I .n the Ohio to L and the guardian- of in ir fain. I am no man eating society, and it was the dut) ol brie. believer in the sinister predictions of those, its associates to cat sich prisoners as was pre- Here where your Canal prepares to i who are perpetually crying woe, woe to ler- sewed and delivered to them for that purpose, the basin of the Iakcs for tha ; the Missisusaiem. Our Jerusalem i- neither beseiged The members of this society belonged to a sippi; I I II the i rr with my bircii ranoe, nor in danger. It will survive all the disscn- particular family-,and the dreadful inheritance and placing u upon a wagon, i was transtions of the day, and whatever other menu- descended to all the children, male and fc- ported to Little river, where my faithful voyments may fall, as they have fallen upon the male. The duties iL imposed could not be agcurs re-embarked in it. and joined me al plain- of Liberty, this we may trust is des- avoided, aud the sanction- of religion were Iho White Itaccoon's village, to which 1 rod tiiK-tl to remain unharmed, a refuge for us, added to the obligations of immemorial usage, nnd where 1 passed the night. My friend, and a guide for ethers, w hen the waters of The feast was a solemn ceremony, at which the uaccoou, treated us with great hospitaliof oppression are out over the earth. Tho the whole tribe was collected, as actors or ty; but he was a little tone hospitable to h'tmfoundationsof our freedom arc too broadly and spectators. The miserable victim was bound st'H and his kindred, lie prcduccd the keg deeply laid to he easily shaken. Thev rest to a stake,and burned at a slow fire, with of fire-water to do honor to the Chc-tno-kcc-npon institutions, upon manners, upon religion, all the refinements of cruelty, savage ingenu- maim, but unfortunately he was too free al upon all thai gives character and energy to ity could invent. Tien- wa a traditionary his own feast On of these scenes ol in oxi the social system. In Europe, government ritual, which regulated with revolting precis- cation followed which are at once tlie banc denends for security anon physical force, ion, the whole course of procedure at these and the attendant ol Indian life, and I retired

Here it depends upon moral force, or in oth . . .i er word-, upon public opinion : and this brief contrast explains, almost all that i- peculiar in the political systems of the twohemisphcrcs. There largt armies, numerous llooU, a powerful police, a heavy debt, an cslablished religion, arc essential portion- ol

thc machinery by which the engine ol Gov- kucwau intelligent Canadian, who was present denuof Iron tier life, to pl;u:e in holder n ü ; eminent is kept in motion. Here I need noi at one oithe rasl sacfiticcs made to tins bom- the change wisich has rescu ! this region say these contrivances by which tlie lew rule blc institution. The victim wa a youn from tlie Indian, and. has crowned it with tlie tlic many, arc unknown. The Government American, captured io Kentucky, towards precious work Ol civilization. i here in the han 1-of all, and not it day the cosc of our Revolutionary War. Here Tae two bister and contiguous Si... - of passes in the life of any man, from tlic cradle where we are now assembled, in peace and Ohio and Indiana, have projected and cointo the grave, when it could not be peaceably security celebrating tlie triumph of art and pletcd this great communis i ion. T enter and legally ciianged by the general will, industry, within the memory of the present into the tatitics oi its cost or product won :

This is a state of things to which no parallel can be found, in the present condition of the

systems of Europe, social and political, nor thank God, that Council fire i- extinguished, and we all know, that a gn at ;. rpri lias could it exist there a day. It would lead to Th impious feast i- over, the W ar dance i- beeil complished, aud we ha'c an: to -convukuon and would end in revoIution,whose ended, the ,t'.u- So:i i- -unix, the. War drum tticr to rejoice at it W e have com ; to 1 el, Consequences are beyond the reach of hu- is Silent, and tlic Indian has departed, to find not to calculate. A stupendous undertaking man sasracitv. Here wc arc educated in a I hope in the distant west, a comfortable res- has been brought to a fortunate termination, habitual obedience to the law. It is our law idence, and 1 hope also to find, under the pro- utiud mauy diliiculiies, and hy . nerjy . : i and we are all interested in its observance, j tection, and if need be ander the power oi pcrs veraiice ol two new States, the oldest ol There the law i- too often the task master, to the United States, a radical change in his in-J which lias just seen L- fortieth anniv rs ry. be eluded or Opposed, as iotercstor some oth- stitutions and a general improvement in his Another route baa been opened hy which the er pa ion may dictate. Here an officer in J morals and condition. A feeble remnant oi Lwo great issues ol our Republic are unit .!

the execution of his duty, i- armed with a -mall piece tf paper, whi !i like a magic wand, ensures the submission of the strongest and boldest. There he is attended with an armed party, and the sword and bayonet are conspicuously displayed, as the true ensigns of authority. But I -hall not pursue thi contra-'. It is not necessary for any purposes 1 have in view. 1 allude to the subCCt generally, in Connection With Our present duties, merely to teach a lesson which may he useful Io os all. To remind von of the deep debt wcowe to Providence for what we possess and enjoy. To inculcate not merely content, but gratitude. T recall to you that von are American citizens, the depositories of your own political la'.e, and under God the trustees of liberty for the nation- of the eart h, w ho w ill one tiny aw aken tt) their strenzth, a they are now awakening to their T . rilit-, and who will do the deed which our fal her- did. and w hich made us w hat w e are. This is not mv first visit to this interesting pi n e. I have been here before, under other circumstances, indeed, illustrative of the progross of our country. Of tho-c wonderful changes which arc perpetually going on, and by which the strange fictions of Elaste rn imaginations arc almost realized, lint our ere aiion- are not due to the Magician lamp. Thev have a purer origin. They spring from indu-trv ami ent rpriz-- protected bv equal law- and invigorated by a benign religion, and they brine with them their reward. Scarcely two centuries have passed away, since a small band of adventurers seated themserves upon the shores of a distant Ocean, An interminable forest was around them, and its recesses were occupied by a tierce and vindictive foe. Thev came out to sutler in their dav. but to become glorious in their genera tion t And well did thev fulfil their mi MOB, Where is now the fore-t. w hich shut theal in. and where is the Indian who roamed over ami guarded it ? Both are laid low . The great w ave of ci iliz ition has swept onw ard-, bearing dow n the forest and it- tenants till this little band has become a mighty people, who have spread thcnwelvuf over a great Continent, and teem destined, in the Proviuence of God, sail to go on, till checked by one of tho-e cha-tisement-, hy w hich the nanal government of the World is vindicated and the ingratitude of nation- puni-hed. ell may w e exclaim in the language of in-pitation. "the lines have faden to us in p!eaant places, yea, wc have a goodly heritarC" w hen we survey this noble couutry, between the Lakes, the Ohio and the Mhuis-1 iippi whf rc yc have c:tabliihcd our dwelling, :ripp

There Is probably no region upon the Globe, better fitted for the residence of man and for the supply of the productions, which are es sentiai to his wants. All tho- -, w ho partici-

1 .,... nat d in its hr-l -eft I unit, have no' vet . ..... ceremonies. Latterly the authority andobligations of the institution had declined, and I presume it has now wholly disappeared, But 1 have seen and conversed with the head of the family, the chief of the society, whose name was White Skin. With what feeliugs of disgust,! need not attempt todescrtbe. I weM generation, our countryman have be en j!. is tortured, and murd red and devoure !. But thconcc powerful tribe, which formerly won their way t t!i- dominion of this region by blood, and by blood maintained it, have today appeared among us, like passing shadows, flitting around the places that know them no more. Their resurrection, if ! may so speak, i- not the least impressive spectacle, which marks the progress of this imposing ccremonv. They are tlic broken column, which connecis us with the past. The cditice is in ruins, and the giant vegetation, which cdVcred J and protected it, lies as low, as the once migh ty structure, which was sheltered in its rec sscs. They hav come t w itn -- thd lirst great act of peace on our frontier history, as their presence here i- tii'- last in their own. The ceremonies upon which you heretofore gazed with interest, will never again besccnoy the white man. in this seat of their former power, ---- , But thanks to our ascend nri . thi reprc tations are but a pageant; but a theatrical s exhibition, which with barbarous motions, and sounds, and conto;tions, shew how- their ancestors conquered thcli enemies, and how they glutted their revenge in blood. To-daj tins last ol the race i- here. To-morrow they will commence their journey towards J the setting sun, where their fathers agreeably to their rude faith, have precedl them, and where the red man will lind rest and saf tv. In coming to t! i place, I passed along tlie ( an d and marked with dolighttiu ! tutiful river upon whose bank it i- constructed, and the charming country to which it gives new lifo and value. I lorcibly struck with the contrast betu en ti.ijourney and a farmer one. Nature has been prodigal of le r iuo:- to the valley n' the Maumec. I tan never forgt . the first tim it met my eye. It was at the commcnct ment of the late war, when th troop- destined for the deft nee of Detroit had passt d through the forest from I 'rbana to the Rapids. The season had he n wt t, and much of the coun try wa- low, and the whole of it unbroken by a single settlement, and we had cut our road and transported onr provissons and baggage with great labor and difficulty W e were heartily tired of the march. and were longing -lor its termination, when we attained the brow of the table land, through which the .Maurr.ee has made a passage for itselef and a fertile region for those who have the good fortune to occupy it. Like the mariner we felt w e had r ached a port. Ii'- o the wanderer, a home. I have since visited the three other quarters of tins Globe, and passed over many lands and seas. But my memory -tiil clings to the prospect which bursts upon us in a bright day in June from the valley of th

Maum etoth river wending away beyond our view , to the rapids, presenting cvt n i rm ol ttie most ptcturcsquc objocts, to tho banks clothed with deep verdure, and to t!.- rich

' ft . .. ... . . . bottoms, denuded ol timber us 1 ou!i invitt my watiiu . l lavitigmy nostntui ms inenuat their orgies, in the morning 1 embarked upon the Wabash and descended tliat rii to its mouth, stopping occasionally Lotxamine and admire the beautiful country through which ii (lows, unsurpassed probably upon ifi i. i tlie liicc ol lue globe. I revert to these inciuot b suitt I to the pr - nt o is not u day lor tigun , but r -all ii. l I knt logetner, giving t the fertile country it a choice ol markets, and ;; iant I I better prie and a quicker sale. I i '. - cond mingling ol the waters oi til lak and of the Mississippi. A third route i- i progress, which we may trust Will be completed. Vnd there arc othci forme by nature, and which r pure but little . ; inen man to render them us (til. T n v , tm will undertaken and ac oiupIis!i i. an the table land which ilivid - '.. tcrnal seas from the Ohio and Ml--'- -' ; be lurrowt I hy canals win : r ih : coui pci mils and its w ants require, That region i- peculiarly I blc li these worksof internal impiovt m at. s r mwhich find tlicir outlets in opposite dir rtion have their -oj:(- in Io I, and may Ii united with little 1 tl-or. and upon dividin n- ground, elevated but level, prcscnti g midable obstruc ion to t rn have travelled ;:i"nr four of t! oi communication: one from i. akt to the head ol the Mis issippi, one from Fox to the Ouisconsin ii".' r, oue fron t!i linois to tiicago, and unotli i wh r canal has taken the place of th portage i Over three of them my noc was from one extreme navij hco but I kept along a fourth wi ion diseml ing, and thus passed ! n . I om I . -is-ippi into i .ukc Mit nig: i tlic - I'luint -. at sources of the Il!i:ei-. we f i s marsh, w im ij w entt r 't ind followed, b unfortunately loo la bcloVt the night do to re a it .'UOi: U! mi cd our farthei ; . I w the large wa ; Uly, and it w. proceed on our route in d irkn impossible to lind th shore. c I' comfortless night in oar frail lodgm nt, with the accömpauimc ts n musuitoes and a thunder storm, and the in xt m ri ing tori-ou-ly made our w ij the north rn tion of the marsh, where '. Mi igan broke upon our view, stretching .; in tlx bonton till lost in the distance. Weenl a small channel, and rapidly u ling en ineiue.d plant, 'ou lound Our-elves in t!i Chicago creek Lake. Our works ol Internal 1 honorable in the om i ; , and ra them have I n vigorously and mccesf ul prosecuted. The syst m has I en check by I mporary .... passing away, and Ihe work m goon. More was no doubt planned could be irnmcdiat 1 constnictt i, 'J

whole project was loo gigantic for prompt cution. But tilts fault, if fault it be, finds its origin in our national character. Tin re i- a n ckless cm rgy about aa, if I may be allow ed the ( Kpre ion. w hicli prompts u to the must gig .n rprtses. This suuVsruf expectation and ronndcnccin the r. -tilt Ii'- at the found ition of all great success. Tho will to i!.:r.- :.. ist pr 1 ! tl " I OWer to do. Even rashness is com tini i wisdom. Itewhostoua rooily to calcul; tc cv ry -o-p in life may ind i move forward, but he will c)oa find himself behind Ids cot smporai i - -. Oaa ar i- Ihn great word ol i; ag and country. Never, iii the hiory ol man, has hum in exertion be n mor displayed and rewarded, than in die naracl sol improvement which start up around us; which have chequered our land ami history from Plymou b aad Jasncstowss, to Lake Sutierior and the Mississippi, and l orn tie- landing of the I'ilgrims to the work whose consummation we have this day come to ball, and !.ih op ns to t'. tabic lastds of the Lake's, both the Ul aiiti ocean and the Csulf f o. A legt ad, that of the seven -leepcrs of Ephesus, would be more illustrative of ii;.- progi and change upon thicoutincilt, than it we - of the coufS of cVculin -i i Minor. There the young converts to Christianity were throw n into a miraculous -I cp, and found on awakening from Ihetr trau that more than two centuries hail elapsed since they bad l !t the world and taken refitge from the persecutions of pagan sup rstition in a i- tnponaty torn''. Bincrgiug into Ii:-, tliey w i r strangers in their native tily, bu ' d hv tlic CTOSl, whk'h had -ujijd.in d lite asignsof paganism, aud were surround 1 by I r tlircn of thai new faith for w i ii !i t'n had -a . : d, and bv w hoOS poWcT (icy had ! n preserved and i --ued. But no such sleep is n ary to mark the changes which come oi . the face of our country. Uuring a period i qual to th- seclusion ol the , Bpheshtii you a religion has not merely been ciianged, hut a continent has boenfsecopied and settled, an I niji:- have bCCW founded in regions unkuoun to Kpltesus. That proud i' lias fal'en. Her monuments are in ruius, her im Ofde in the dust, and Im r sleepers have lcpi sleep that know- hut one awakening; lar glori lias denaricd It i- tlie loquent hislori in of the lower empire who tells thi- legendary tale; lull the story lives in the traditions of Um Käst, a striking proof that hr.i-- and marM arc fur snore pt -risliabl th in popul ir fable, which ar tran--I mitte I from generation to generation, and I entt r almost into tie rharacterof m people. On th'j ton of one of the ino.-l arid I.i!!- in Syria, n i!. : i u 1 Cilj of Sidon, I ftmnd the gran I daughter of tlic f.r- I'il. lite ni.ceoi the - cond, tady il ster Ktanhope, alio had abando id, I know not why. her Kintiy, hei kindred and her religion, and had sought n r fing j I ice for b rself in that scclud d nook, ?u I a r luge lor her ron-

lie- in I ;: ded to tii : i : . i - a !-! ine-in. S!.. in I g lid, and with true I -' tu qu tions n spot li m .n t, ion and i'iiuth -ntic, and 1!m2 t!dis!i it ul i. t rut a matii nc ! to ' !i' imfuoi m nt i tcrnal mmmunie ition. - giu it by the State o srst iinpul : in t i proj v ark. n aim omm m i tvid m C dike of ie in, and an ndui in g inonum ut ol i ranct . and of n hit !i r States, uiuvilling In ret r t.i advancement. I . the mo no oi t : III r! ruilili ' n- ai or i. i irr. iij n riumph, nor lur gable umau th inI h the mn . r I all. a i ! I a its on an .1 . it in ..i ik'.e'! Ktending from laie. a dist lOCC of five cling the country is; and c mall p n. - udr d ml! -. :.: i in all iutportati direc tting cn;- valli - an ading our m mn hues ol la i : . i . w l ich w oula cttcmii- - ribc many a Lurop in kingdom. And be fore these works the forests givt wav, Tl i I s I'j'irlU ixf' .