Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 77, Richmond, Wayne County, 24 September 1825 — Page 4

SELECTED POETRY.

From the U. States Literary Gazette. THE SUMMER MORNING. Ti rapture to hail the morning birth, Whtn heavrn seeuiti bending to greet tl-e earth, And the fresh breeze, warm with life sweeps by, Asa token of Jove from the crimson sky. The moon ha a mantle of silvery light, When she walk with grace as cjueen of the night She' briiiht us the hopes of my youthful day She's cold as the friends who have passed away. But thou, sweet daughter of beautiful spriug, O woull I could chant fit welcoming, Or number the traces that round thee play, From the first soft glance of dawning day. Till thy heaven wrought robe is floating free, And the sun has followed to gaze ou thee. The cut ma boast its gilded halls. Where fashion presides at her revels and balli; And art may compel the mrtoflmg Such streams of licht Irani it silver wing, As rival the monarch of day? proud glare, Cut the sweetness of morn ii win ting there: And happier far I deem my lot, To i.iue at will in this lonely pot. Tin fallen tree i my chosen seat, Vh re- the violet bloom beneath my feet: Around me the flowery "pray is shed, And tr.e young leaes fluttered aboe my head, Al they j rd in zephy r's breath to play, Arnl -u i themclve in the ey e of day. O while on the glorious scene I gize, 31 v iieart i warmed with the morning ray; And fancies brii;ht as y on kindling sky, When gold i blending with purple dye; And hehnsjs pure as pearly drop. That trembles w ithin the daisy cup; And thoughts a rnlm a the airs that pass, Nr bend a blade of the tender gras; O moruinc, well may 1 deem lh e divine, When sach f mci . ft-i-lin.;, and thoughts, are mine.

From the New-York Mirror. HUM X NATURE. Written b M.U11M i Murrn of this eitv, for the premium ot titty dollars. The 1, u in t ii ni i n i like a tilting field, WhrT-- two Ci.ntrn Int. rh j inpiosH seorn toyield, R- .1041 and l'ion ra h in (urn j n vails, Ju-t is tht nw n r regulate the il. If Hi-t N ru on Rc ivmiN side declare, Fii n tmi-t iM, and ha-p.ines be there; But if", la, to r Irion's side he lean. Disorder r nji.s, and deolates the scene. Wiin KtMiiM ;i$hifd !iv m rxap'rat"d audience, in ron tjut'i .rt of a rude rn 5? lnvioul offered to a female favour ite, he ci.ultl not have chosen a more pi m

sihle t x u-e than the oiie which gained him universal applau-e. "Human nature," ; said the great trtovdian in his hijrh, shi ill. i peculiar voire, Human nature v 4Human natur--!' It was elotjurnt in the ex-; treme. The inm-muity of the win Id could not have devised a wiser pretext than the! irailtics ai d if consistencies of human na- j tur Good and evil are -trangely com- j m liled toother. Opinions alavstluc-j tu Miner, and pa-sions coii!ttera til z ea h j other, w? irl the mind into a delirium of Co -iter i z emotions, ;ir d n.an is so sinuu-! Iarl co ;tru ted, that he is ever regret-; ti.-o co-.M-rpirrt on his own foil , or

nn-crahlv disappointed in the acrornj 1ULm'i,t (Jf his hriii'ilest hopes. In all the ardor of virtu mis tru dit;;t t.'-n. he is eaer to acknowledge the imti'-.-ihilit v of a combination netween happiia s' and ice; and yet, in allured h tiue ejorv, and unahaslied hv -shame, he daily n rilii es integrity to earth! v pursuit-; he ahai.dons an endearing Protector, an everlasting source of joy, for paltry treasures, which arc at any moment liable to be destroyed by the fickle sport ol cl arce.

Fame, that comes and poes on the wings j

of the wind pleasure, which flash and disappear like electricity in the summer cloud and wealth, which glides irresistibly from the tenacious grasp, are subjects that monopolize the attention of the learned, and arrest the steps of the gay. The philo-opher in hi closet, and the soldier in the field, (thoiiiih the former professes to teac h the emptiness of glory, and the latter to stern the current of unjust power.) weary the slowly rolling hour with exertions: the one gaining admiration by the ridicule of praise, and the other ingc-niou-lv furthering the cause of humanity by glutting himself with the blood of his fellow men. We cannot too deeply impress our minds with the value of virtue, or too cart fully mould our meditations into the shape ol truth. Earth abounds with fascinating temptation1:, which surround the adventurer to dazzle his vision with false glares, and betrav his attention with

cheating sound. The ambient pleasures;

will sometimes prove too strong for eagleeyed resolution to resist, and faith often sleeps when the battle is nigh. Unless trained by long discipline into the practice of honor, he may not always fed low the best inclinations, or have anv good inclinations to guide him. The flowery wreaths of vice stupify his senses with their fragrance, and lull his conscience into a fatal repose, till the deluded mind is entangled in her hundred thousand folds, and the whole man sinks a horrid victim to irretrievable ruin. Then too late he sees his error; then the chaios which seemed at first garlands of

flowers, arc metamorphosed into serpents, whose breath is rank poison, and whose touch is destruction. Vainly he struggles in their nauseous embrace seizes their slippery formsin his useless grasp, or attempts to control their billowy motions, and trample them beneath his shrinking feet. Alas! the creeping folds have encircled his body, and imprisoned every limb,

gasping, he is enveloped in their countless toils, and yields, conquered and shuddering, to torments horrible as hell! The course of vice is a steep descent, and we pass with accelerated velocity down its dreadful abyss a false step, or a heedless turn, may plunge us into the lion's dcn, and the Spirit of God dwells not with the abandoned ones, to pacify their rugged natures or soften down their ire. Lot us on the other hand observe the noblest work of God an honest man. it is the constitution of humanity to endure every sorrow which is not the result of sin, and the good man turns a shielded breast to the ills of life, which rattle like harmless hailstones on an armed knight. Virtue to the mind is a more imperishable protection than Spanish steel to the body; and he who has equipped himself in her sacred suit, walks gigantic and immortal amid the loudest din and dangeis of tumultuous war. The greatest monarch who has gained his magnificence by the sacrifice of honor, has no dignity to compare to this; and La Fayette in fiis plain blue coat, surrounded by the sacred enchantments which virtue haV bestowed, is art object incomparably of more interest and admiration, than the sultan half buried in the treasures of the east. M my weak minded mortals, at the onset of their career, vainly suppose it possible to trifle a little with "the pleasures of vice, and afterwards to erect them, Ue in the strict practice of all that is just, honorable, ami jood. They w ould amuse their tates hv sipping forbidden sweets, being careful not to drain the poisonous bowl to the bottom, avid fondly imagine they possess resolution, in which daily experience proves their fellow mortals so miserably deficient to allow a few merrv gambols on the Mink of the precipice, w ithout the risk of being aetraved into the ahv ss. A very few . by the peculiar blessing of fortune, may regain their equilibrium, and re-establish themselves in the rond tn li:inniiu'- lint

man,aid far the majority, find their veins! sw- Ill g w ith incurable rnalaih , when the I

believed the -venom, ti- uohlet had onlv touched their lip: or dizzy and bewildered by the witcheries around them, lose their hold, and are huri ied into the t'ipinir thasm, w hen they only intended a glance over the edge. An honest man is rarelv to be found. l .ere is no lack of those sort of beings who abound in the negative virtues, who deliglit in religion, and detest the devil; who go to church three times on the Sabbath, and never demolish a meal w ithout a good long-winded grace. The excellence oi these consist in delarations of w hat feats they might have accomplished, if circumstances had not prevented, and how noble they would he if they could. They grow up like brutes, deficient in the cultivated passions of civilized society exhibiting their stated period of youth, maturity, and decay remote alike from the virtues and the vices, the rewards and the penalties.

the delicate pleasures and refined pains of active existence; and after having undergone the varieties of animal life, at last quietly repose themselves in their narrow bed, like small pebbles for a moment disturbing the peaceful tranquility of the water with their fall, silently they bury their

names and their natures in an oblivion as deep as though they had never been. These compose one of three classes of the

human kind. The other two consist of

active beings, whose loud voices are he ird, and whose figures are seen and remembered on the great stage of the world, conspicuous as the benefactors or enemies, the glory or shame of their race. Augustus is one of the former. In him are combined at once enthusiastic admiration of honesty, with will and power to practice it. Virtue consists scarcely more in acting, than in resisting. The impulse of a mo

ment may urge a young, warm disposition

iiikj Mime glorious undertaking, out it requires firm reasoning, philosophical morality, the most dillieult to attain, to defy temptations as a rock defies the waves which are forever beating at its base, and forever in vain. This great characteristic distinguishes Augustus from the rest of men. lie pursues his varied path, with an unwavering moral courage, which, without the foppery of unnecessary display, is faithful in the hour of danger, and rises in ratio to the tumults in which he is engaged; strengthening him in proportion to the op pressivc weight, it sheds a glory around his way, when overclouded with the gloomiest shade and when he is brought to the test, when Vice stands on one side, arrayed in her robes of gayety, with her long train of false phantoms to urge her requests, and

j otfering gold, and glory, and all the earth !

can afford, for a smile of his hp, or a touch from his hand; and the plain unadorned form of Truth on the other, calls with her silver voice, and bids him beware, then does this invaluable charm close his ear to sounds that would betray the unwary, and soften visions that would ruin the thought

less gay. Indeed his mind is a beautiful piece of moral mechanism, which presents a barrier to shield from almost every weapon, or affords a remedy for every wound, j What ills it cannot palliate, it teaches him to endure, and when fate banishes from him the prosperous rays which often shine on the vicious, it enables him to tread the (lark labyrinths with a light step and a fcarjless heart, confident and happy that joy awaits him at the end. j He possesses a thousand icsources for agreeable thought, which hushes his boisom into a serenity impervious to the storm. Cheerfulness perpetually irradijates his heart, from which he has wisely shut the greatest enemy to man. No matter what tempests brood over his head, or what terrors start up at his feet, whether he float on the full tide of triumphant prosperity, or smilingly row his little boat, industrious to the opposition of winds and waves, he happilv meditates, that if his

jbarque is overwhelmed, he can yet beat j j the surges with his arm, or if no means of j security vary the waste around, the worst j that can befa! him is the momentarv crisis, i j which not all creation could much longer have averted, and he eludes the cruelty of! the angry storm, by causing the very winds I i which wreck his vessel to waft him to ev- . erlasting peace. Manlius, on the contra- ! ry, pursues pleasure over the path of vice, j land for a few contemptible and evanes- j ; cent throbs of joy, pays a price, than which, ! j far less would have purchased an eternity ;

: of delight. Before his vouth had ripened ; I into the energies of manhood, he thought j ! he perceived many wavs whereby he might i

indulge in idleness, without making the j results visible in the tenor of his conduct,1,

or the recitation of his task; but he w as at length discovered in a falsehood which he had invented to excuse a crime, and, in nd dition to the advantages he had lo;?t, be

experienced the flagellation of his tutor. iiii ti.fniivrk ii .h.-i.. .r- t,a fiio i

111. 1 UUII Ul HIS I 1 1 1 I I I ' I M H ' I I s, III.J 111' reproofs and contempt of all his friends. U hen the world presented a broader path, and he had grown to be a mover in a wi der sphere, hi propensities for evil increased in proportion to the importance of hi situation, until he was elevated from tire

; meanness of being despised, to the dignity ; of being hated. By a thousand unprincipled actions he has accumulated a fortune, i which he lavishes to gain pleasure- he rati- ! not enjoy, and friends it is impossible for

him to preserve. The very hirelings who

"I am sorry that this is year resob Perhaps if you would inform me of trouble- your secret I might be 0fcUr vice to you.'1 cr .,:?yul',!.u.cr,d' b?.Mir

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fatten on his abundance, detect the hand ! from which they receive their favors; and I while the flatterer, fawning about his per

il raws a veil over his vices, or elo

?on,

; quentlv sottens them into generous, indiscretions, he is watching the effects of his - dose as the subject of future exposition and ridicule. Manlius himself, in the midst of j abundance, and the idol of the warmest j and most promising friends, with thou

sands to protect him from the attacks ofj his enemies, and charms to dissipate re- j tlection, is yet an utter stranger to that ;

cijccriuiucss ana ouoyancy 01 spirits, winch ever accompany Augustus through all the vicissitudes of life. Though he is sated with luxuries, he trembles at their insecurity, and, writhing beneath existence as anguish, he shrinks shuddering from its

close, as despair. His pains have no rem- j edv, his pleasures no delight; his mind,! like a dry leaf fluttering in the air, has j been long ago bereft of its use and beau-! tj; and the mental eve resembles him to

some gaudy fabric, standing insecure on a rotten foundation, with its massy pillars and costly decorations; every day accelerates its ruin, and while the cottage unostentatiously and without danger, lifts its thatched roof to the winds, the feeble tern pie, spreading its valueless magnificence to the gaze of day, moulders beneath the influence of every hour, and rocks in the summer breeze.

From the New-York Mirror. THE RECONCILIATION. Walking in the Park yesterday afternoon, I met Mr. James Blank, who was mo

ving slowly along, with his arms folded over his breast, his eyes staring at vac ancy, and his whole soul absorbed in meditation. I accosted him: "How comes it James,you arc melanchoLv ou have ever been the darling child of happiness why does your features wear so mournful an aspect? Has any misfortune assailed you? What is it mars your peace? Nay, nay, no sighing communicate your sorrow." "They who cannot keep their own secrets, need never expect others to do se. I will not tell you why I am miserable, but i miserable indeed I am!"

blc. Come, come, be honest yci -,rr :

IUC i Aud what if I were?' 4ls your case hopeless?' ; It is indeed.' 'You acknowledge, then that you cr- r love?' ' j 'Is there any barm in that?' 'No: but who is the fair one?' 'Oh she i the most cruel, beautify sc. I rapbic creature you ever beheld ' ' That of course describe her. 'She is tall and sylph-like her hair",'? j the chesnut color her eyes are blackj-i-there is more mildness than fire in themher skin is like the snow stained with t... die of the carnation her face is open. -7. erous beautiful Oh. she is lovclv, "J, ; heavenly 'That will do. Her name ' 'Harriet, Harriet, lovely, bloomin ?T, riot! By all my unfortunate stars. voil(r I she comes! Let's fly her presence:" 'Not I, by Jupiter.' 'Then stay, but I'm olT.' ? 'Not so fast you must remain nr.d set ler.'' Not for the wealth of worlds. J) detain me; she scorns me she hat s tinbut I love her to distraction notw itl.sta; J. ing. Let go my coal.' 1 1 1 A 1 1 . .

one we moou wrangling, ll.trri. t t 'the blooming Han iet,'' came up. Ituri;-)

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ed round to behold and adore the (iivi, .. perfection; but what was m sUI-rh;.

! when I saw the most aheminaUe iijjx .i

these eyes ever looked on! S'ie wa- ; .ily six feet high.and .is rh tab v a m a j she stretched her long, frail-iike hi;h- ::. at the end of which dangled a slender eton hand, in order to congratulate i,v r..: i i. a.,, i

i liieuu jemmy on uiu napj.'v o f 'eion ; j their meeting so unexpectedly ti ; led her shark-like jaws, which dini.l : j head, (and I really thought Jerntnv d j her ju-tice, when he affirmed that -! I

an ".y)o: courut nunce, ) and ceu.rn ; r-a chiding him for his neglect to call ar- -ner, etc. I le apologized for his ond t --he forgave him and they r.,n rc hod l'S gether he as happy as reciprocated k'.e could make him, and she as vain ;is t!.: gaud peacock, in her triumph over Lis atfeclions; leaving me standing a mat tute of astonishment, more firndv cc.r.vinced than ever, that Luve i- .is hind a hat. Gkokue.

jy the Pruitient of the Unite! Sit-in. ! iir-u:Mifc oi" law, I, John (jnx v .An a v.-, ireii!-nt ol' the Unite! 5t . t s i.l Aimth i. hT( hy j tit lih iintl in kt knm i;, that a ;-ii!-;h o will ti ht I I ,t th Land Oilier at lou r W

in the Suite ol lisiiiuna, on the third Mt-i. i : i Ortuher next, for he disposal f the foll.iwir : (.'" itcii:itet I uvviitiip4 atut fractional Tout ! i' La ml i-it'i ituin the District of 'amis otared kr-i.' at Fort Wa ne, viz: Fart. Totvii.-hin No. '21, of Rar .- N.. '2. -1 k ."-Town-!. in No. !l ar.il tract ?ovn-l i; No. Do. No. gl tol'raet township No. -B inclusive, Dn. No. 21 to do do d Do. do do do do " Do. No -25 do do do 10. Do. No. 2j to frari. to.vnhis No. :U1 in-"i!iio !! ml iVirti-m-il township N-. ;o, soi I or' r i. . -No. 12 ami t;j, situate north of the Mi uianv.r .i tho lake. The aforesai l land? are principnlh sit'iaie.! the Waha-h, Salarnaiii", and .Miis-iin a nwi nnd their waters. The vile will romruence with the lowet r'::!.! of section, town-hip, and rans;c, and will pmco '- the order herein de.-icnated. The land reserved hy law, for the tir ptVko ' or for othi-r purioc, nre to tie rxchided from vi"'Given under niv hand, if thentv of Wa-hi ton, this J0lh clay of June, A D "'"' JOHN QU1NCY ADAM'. Hy th Frif'ident : G KO II ;t: GRAHAM, ('oiiiinisiorier of the General Laml nflicf.

TO FARMERS. THE suhcrihr i about to eooimrnre the TANNING BUSINESS, Io the northern part of Richmond : and to ffp"r,J modate farmrr anl other, he proposes to t.ni . i' 4on yhares, at the lowest rates for wi i h he ' rt" eeive one half the pay in crain, or other c't'. tr 1 at ca-ii prices. He hopes by o doinir, nnd t v f '1 , in? constant attention to bswrie, to receive hl( ' enconraerf uu-nt. Any person iiitrnstine their Hides with him ni expect to have them tanned nnl (irenl l-' neatest manner and on the ihorfes t notice. SETII GOHUtRichmond, 9th mo. 0. 7'J eow3 rRODUCK. The followinc: article of country TW' v ;

be taken in pavmeiit for subscriptions to tla i i viz: Wheat Rye Oat Con: VM-rv-i .nn s

Su.-ar Ghhciu Rees-wax Talhw c , .

n;ix WoolLineu Rar9. &c, &c !;e "l

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