Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 23, Richmond, Wayne County, 14 August 1824 — Page 4

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"Whatever the mead oroiceryjield, The grotto, grove, or garden yield. Of useful, fragrant, choice, and rare We still select

THE REAPER'S SONG. Ye Ytrdant hills, ye smiling fields, Thou earth, whose breast spontaneous yields To man a rich supply ; Echo, whose mimic notes prolong The melting strain, and bear along, O'er distant glades and caves among, The mountain shepherd's artles song, Soft swelling to the sky. Attend the reaper's joyful lays, And bear the tribute of their praise To nature's bounteous King; Whose voice, loud sounding from the pole, In thunders oft is heard to roll, When murmering along it stole Theiephyrs silken wing. With bread, the heart of man to cheer, See bending low the ripened ear Bow its luxuriant liead ! In vain, ye swains, had been your care, Had not He caus'd the bright to spare Thf promise of the summer fair, And bade the sun, the rain, the air, Their gracious iufluence shed He bade the soft refreshing tale Blow jcrntly down the teeming Tale, Nor hurt the peeping grain; But when the car began to rise, To him we raided our anxious eyei; Oft from the cisterns of the skies He sent, in mercy, rich supplies, Early and latter rain. And now His hand hath crown'd our toil, We juy like those that share the spoil, 1 he harvest home to bear ! With shouts the laughing pastures ring With grateful hearts, je reapers sing The praise of Heaven's Eternal King, Through whose paternal care ye bring The produce of the year.

The following Acrotic from the Worcester 51cis, is correct in sentiment, and not without poetical merit. J tjstice and Reason fix upon the man 0 n whom a country's gratitude should lay ; H is pow'rsour country's interest quickly scan, H or storms nor factions cloud his rising day. Q uench not the fire that glows within his breast, U nfuun'd witt law'ess pride or madtl'ning ztal; 1 n him all shining virtues lie compressed, y ourish'd as acred to his country's weal, C ntch then the light of his capneious mind, V our bosom fill with patriotism's ceaseless flame, A nd in jour heart, our Country's pride will find, D eeplv imprrs'd his own immortal name A nd in his own, he seiks his country's fame. M ighty in council his name will ever stand, S potltss as snow, the glory of our land.

CHARITY. 'A friend should bear a friend's infirmities." There is no virtue, in which men are more deficient, than in the exercise of that spirit of charity, "which beareth all things and hopeth all things Though we ought never to countenance error, yet ought we to view aud reprove with tenderness the faults of others. The pride of our own hearts, which is ever leading us astray, impels us to detect and expose the errors of our neighbours, and thus triumph in our own characters as a model, and every difference or deficiency receives our condemnation. Unmindful of the endless diversity of characters; the peculiar constitution of different minds, and the variety of motives which govern human actions we mark out one path of thought and action, for the whole an attempt as absurd and impractable, as to prescribe one orbit for all the planets which glitter in the firmament. Charity does not require us to excuse the vices or overlook the errors of a friend. One of the best proofs of friendship, is that affectionate censorship which watches over the actions of another, marks his errors and sedulously labors for their correetion. It instructs us to bear, with affectionate sympathy, those eccentricities of character, those fluctuations of temper, and those little excesies either of gaily or depression, to which all are subject. We should advise a friend with caution and humility, and reprove him with that meek-, ness which would result from a conviction j that we ourselves are fallible, and that we frequently require to-day the admonitions which we so freely imparted yesterday. Another important duty is to guard and defend the repution of a friend. The world are prying and captious and the shafts of calumny lly too thickly to miss even the most spotless character. We need not point out the numerous occasions which present themselves to silence the calumnious hint, and rectify the equivocal remark. As the depository of his sentiments and the confidant of his secrets, we ought ever to guard the character of a friend; and without excusing or palliating his er

rors, we may often throw the mantle of

protection over his foibles. Co. Star,

From the Commercial Advertiser. PUBLIC EXECUTIONS. We have always held that public execution; not only did no good, but were actually a serious evil. .Death is disarmed of many of its terrors, when the culprit is made a public spectacle, and too often a hero; and the millions who throng to such places, receive any thing but solemn impression. A striking example of these truths, was afforded in the case of John

son; and another is given in a Liverpool paper of the 17th ult. now before us. Two rumans were lately executed at Ilchester goal where a great concourse of people assembled, and the town presented one scence of riot and disorder, disgraceful to civilized society. Even under the gallows regular battles took place; and instead of the circumstance exciting feeling at awe, it seemed to produce no sort of effect on the hardened spectators who devoted the whole day to licentious, gluttony, and riot. It is a very remarkable circumstance, that the companion of these two unfortunate men, and engaged in the same robbery for which they suffered, but who had saved himself from the fate of the gallows by impeaching them, died at Shepton Mallett on the same day that his companions suffered.

From the Milledceville, Geo. Journal. ON BATHING. "This is the purest exercise of health, The kind refresher of the summer heat ; Nor when cold winter keens the brightening flood Would 1 weak-shivering linger on the brink. Hence the limbs knit into force; And from the body's purity the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid." The annexed Rules, (which experience has established and physiology approved) are submitted for the benefit of bathers. 1. Bathe one hour before breakfast; or, what is much better, one hour before dinner. 2. The stomach : ' ould always be empty when we bathe. 3. Never take the cold bath when the temperature of the body is below the natural standard. 4. To prepare the tepid bath, which is the best in this climate, the rule should be this: Bring the water to that temperature which feels neither hot nor cold to the arm, or some part of the body usually covered; and after entering the bath raise its heat to that point which imparts the most agreeable feeling. 5. We should take exercise before and after the warm bath; the importance of this is every day evinced where bathing is practised. G. After leaving the water, the body should be briskly wiped with a coarse towel,and immediately covered with sufficient clothing to excite or preserve the healthy temperature. 7. We should never remain long in the water. From ten to fifteen minutes is sufficient. 3. Every 2d or 3d day is often enough to take the bath. By a regular use of the bath, governed by the above rules, we shall always feel more light, cheerful and active, and better fitted and more inclined for a full and successful employment of the powers of mind and body.

THE PRINTER. 44 T pity I pity the printer," said my uncle Toby. uHe is a poor devil, rejoined I. "How so" said my uncle Toby. "In the first place he must endeavor to please every body, and ten to one if he pleases any body. In the negligence of the moment perhaps a small paragraph pops upon him ; he hastily throws it to the compositor it is inserted; and he is d d to all intents and purposes." "Too much the case," said my uncle with a sigh, "too much the case." "Nor is that all," continued I; "he sometimes hits upon a piece that pleases him mightily, and he thinks it cam 1 xmt go down with his subscribers; but alab ho can calculate? He inserts it, and all is over with him. They may forgive others but they can't forgive a printer. He has a host to print for; and every one sets up for a critic. The pretty miss exclaims why dont he give us more poetry and bon mots? Away with these stale pieces. The politician claps his specks on his nose, and runs it over in search of violent invective; he finds none; he takes his specks off; claps them in his pocket, declaring the paper good for nothing but to burn. So it goes. Every one thinks it ought to be printed expressly to please himself, as he is a subscriber; and thus weekly, it is bro't to the grand ordeal."

Trim could no longer contain himself

but rising, and making a stride to the middle of the floor, with his arms akimbo, and his head upright, exclaimed in a loud and audible voice, "if I was a printer, an't please your honor, I'd please my self. I'd never give .up the ground to any one or renounce one sentiment. I would not be swayed by the whim, caprice or folly of any one, but would mark out a straight line, and pursue it." Here Trim traced with the point of his stick, a right line from my stool. "If I could not succeed in a plain and independent course, I'd freely kick the beam."

If you wish to repel the endeavors of the whole human race to raise you to character, credit, and prosperity, be a Drunkard ; and you will most assuredly triumph.

(Fron the Genius of Universal Emancipation.) THE PRESIDENCY. The following are a few of the sentiments advanced by different persons, respecting the bearing of the subject of negro slavery upon the Presidential Question. The editor of a western paper, speaking of the pretensions of H. Clay, observes "It is true, that Messrs. Jefferson, Madson, and Monroe, are natives and inhabitants of slave-holding states but it docs not follow that because no objection was made to their elevation to the presidency, on this ground, none such should be offered to Mr. Clay. The southern people had led us to believe that they considered slavery as a great evil, nay, as a curse; and Mr. Jefferson, in his Notes on Virginia, has denounced it in the most forcible terms. It was rationally to be presumed, therefore, that they would have taken every means in their power to limit and finally extirpate this evil and this curse hence it was, that no opposition of this kind was made to the nomination of either Jefferson, Madison,or Monroe. But the result of the Missouri question has opened the eyes of the people of the free statesthey find that, so far from limiting the evil of slavery, the southern people have succeeded in widening and extending it and that they have exhibited the singular and glaring inconsistency of imposing what they have led us to believe they consider a curse, upon the people of new and extensive regions. For these reasons it is, that although the slave question was not made an objection to the presidents named, it ought and will be made an objection to Mr. Clay and the n re so, as Mr. Clay was among the foren jst in bringing the disgrace and the shame upon the nation, of enlarging its slave boundaries." Another writer, in canvassing the same subject, has the following "A candidate at the late hustings in a neighbouringcounty in Virginia, proclaimed himself a supporter of Mr. Clay for the presidency at the next election; and the principal reason he assigned was, "that

Mr. Clay was a friend to the extension of

domestic slavery; and he should he elected to the chief magistracy of the Union, his talents and influence would undoubtedly ensure a complete triumph over the non-slave-holding states, and silence their opposition to the extension of slavery forever." The contest on this point, therefore involves a very simple proposition only, which every one can readily solve forhimself, are you an advocate for the extension of slavery ? If you are, make Mr. Clay your President."

CrFEDERALISM.O The Boston Courier, a Federal paper,(nm) in favor of Mr. Crawford,)of the 1 1th June, says: "Whatever sins and inconsistencies the Federalists of Massachusetts have to answer for, that of wishing to make John Q. Adams President is not among the number." We nevertheless hear it sometimes alleged asan objection against Air. Adams, that he is a Federalist, and supported only by that party. PnESiDENTiAL. Seme few weeks ago the Telegraph, printed at Rochester, New York, gave a list of the members of the Legislature of that state, designating which of the Presidential candidates they w ere in favor of, by which it appears that of the Senators 1G were in favor of Mr. Crawford, Mr. Adams 10, doubtful 4. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Adams had 82 in his favor, Mr. Cawford 43, doubtful 3. The same pap. r of a later date contains the following remarks. Lfceii. u We embrace the occasion to repeat, vrith increased confidence, that John Quikcy Adams will receive the votes of N. York, whether the electors shall be chosen by the people or the Legislature. The statement in a late Telegraph, of the relative strength of Mr. Adams and Crawford, by a Legislative choice, has not been contradicted; and we have ourselves been able to discover but one error in the division, and that is in favor of Mr. Adams. Mr. Malloiuvi Senator from Renssalaer county, we learn, is a fast friend of Mr. Adams, as is almost every Republic in that county. Let the friends of Mr. Adams, in the different states, look to N. York with entire confidence, for we have the fullest assurance that she will not disappoint their hopes." From the Nationul Crieis of Atiyut 2. The A ddress of the friends of Mr. Adams assembled al C olumbus, during the late session of the Circuit Court, will be found in our paper of to-day. It is a temperate and we think a candid production, and must have a happy ellect. We have read the labored effort of the Clay meeting, a copious extract of which, or rather ihc Jirst draught of an extract, was published in a late number of the Liberty Hall, purporting to be a letter from Columbus We

have no doubt both were written ty the same hand; or at least they bear internal evidence of the fact. We must undertake t6 differ with nn

friend, who for the sake ofargument wo will suppose to be the author, in many of the positions he has taken. We do not believe that he has any reasonable ground to place the votes of New-Jersey, Maryland, nois, or even Indiana, to the credit of Mr Clay: nor that the vote of New-York oa be calculated on for him in any event, rot. withstanding the nomination of Mr. Chan, cellor Sandford. An extract from the late New-Orleans papers will throw some WtU

on Mr. Adams' prospects in Louisanafat all events, we are free to confess, that Gen. Jackson has apparently more friends h

that state at present than any other candidate. In Ohio, we are confident in the a, sertion, that Mr. Adams's prospec ts are aa favorable as those of Mr. Clay, though hij friends did not number three hundred at Columbus, and were private, and silent ia their meetings. We give Mr. Clay, Kentucky, and perhaps, Missouri.and there e stop. We make no assertions, altho' e have the same privilege with our opnon. ents, as to the result of the election in this state; but we have the pride and satif;i tion to know, that the supporters of Mr. Adams move in a solid phalanx, and tho'na bold statements are made, no note of dt-u-ance sounded, they will march to the pdlj with the most confident expectation, that the electoral votes of Ohio will be given for the man of their choice. While on this subject we will inform our readers, that we have just received a communication from a gentleman of high respectability in ir- it i: -1. ...1 l .i

v incenncs, vinuiaiici,; in wnnu iw uhm ivci that "the Adams ticket will receive a majority of two thousand votes in that state;'1 a r.d in the county of Kncxn wheie it has been asserted the Secret?! v of State has no friends, that he will ''have a majority of 200 votes." On what ground then, the electoral college of Indiana is claimed for 3Ir. Clay, we are at o less to know. It is stated in the Indiana Gazette, of the Cht ult. that the friends of the Clay ticket have attempted to create contusion, ai d if possible divide the vote of the supporters cf Mr. Adams, by adding another name t3

the candidates for electors. It seem?, the

gentleman who is announced is not a candidate: and the artifice was too shalicw to succeed.

EXTRACT. As far as we can ascertain public cpinion, it is divided between Gen. Jackson and Mr. Adams. Mr. Crawford has ro friends in this state, and Mr. Clay hut few adherents. Mr. Adams and Gen. Ja kson are men of congenial sentiments.and closely linked by the ties of private friemhhip. Mr. Clay, by his own acts, have severed his liaisons with both and certainly cannot, by this means, have acquired a stronger claim to public confidence. ,V. O. Merc. Adxt. July I. The National Crisis, printed at Cincinnati, speaking of the public meetings held in Ohio, in favor of Mr. Adams, (a summary of which was published in the last Lfger,) says: "The expression of public feelings i6 strong and powerful for John Q. Adams. His friends are beginning to awake, like "giants from their slumbers,' and by evidence the most unequivocal, to declare their partiality for the man of ll eir choice. The Columbus Monitor states, that the yeomanry of Franklin county , hastened to the meeting, on short notice, in the midst of their harvest, & numbered in the Courthouse, when the resolutions were adopted, one hundred end tzrenty-stxen. We further learn,that although it is said three hundred persons attended the Clay convention, yet in fact, the resolutions of that dignified assembly were pushed when not more thaa one hundred were present. At all tvci tf, this indication of Mr. Adams's strength is fully equal to that which was dcvtltrei at the Circus in this city for Mr. Clay, ai d is among the most cheering we have noticed in any county in the state. We hepo those Editors, nho publish the proceeding of the Clay meeting, will insert these voices, by way of postscript. Let notour opponents hereafter, with an air of triumph proclaim the popularity of Mr. Clay in 0 hio, nor arrogate to themselves the exclusive privilege of knowing t "ntiments ci their fellow-citizens on the Presidential question. Notwithstanding the report oj Mr. Kelly, from the Reserve; cf General Vance, from Champaign; and Mr. V ri?!jt from Jefferson; the tree electors of" state are the keepers of their own cobciences, and have not deputed members ox Congress, or canal commissioners to fort stall their opinions. With the most sincere conviction we conclude this artl by assuring the friends of Mr. Adams, tea Ohio is now safe. If you would lc.a rrft to riety,bca Druc-ar' audyou v-qihe uvcuitd a? ialeclioui.