Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 84, Richmond, Wayne County, 19 November 1825 — Page 4

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ORIGINAL POETRY

FOR THE PUBLIC LEGER. ADDRESSED TO , A PREACHER. Go on, Hear , plead the cause of truth, Vrn trrmbhng age, and guide inconstant youth. T reckless men, who mock hit sacred word, Point out thetword of heaven's Almighty Lord. Declare icaiortals whoresit his spirit, That willing suhjt cts only life inherit. Tell us, O come and tell na here ajain, How 1 ard the sinner's way,hovr full of pain: How pcitoned conscience nips his budding joys, Ami all his world of earthly bliss destroys: How horror strikes him on hi sickened bed, How ten-fold horror stuns his achmc bead Whtu ero;ms denote his doom from bell's loudroaring dend. But gently raie the low, ?ubmiive mind ; To unintentied weakness Oh be kind! Dm- not the troubled soul to mad despair; Speak full on all thai heaven there is in prater. Tell bow the thief, with his expiring breath, Of sin repenting, 'scaped the bars of death. When once contrition's heaving sih i iven, How tears of pity mark the cheek - of heatm. Go ..r;, and Christ to all the world proclaim, W't ole chartered on thv brow n heaven's name. While thou cant plead the mandate from above, Thu fearless speak the Eternal's wrath and love. UN EDO. From the National Journal. He onee toil a lie was the emphatiral langu ago ued to me by an Indian in the year 179-1, when 1 was attending to the surveying of a large lody of lands in what wa. then called the French creek countrv, and vet of the Alleganv river, and as Some of mv people were killed In the Western Indian, I found it necessarv, v iil" the surv ey inir was going on, to visit the Indian towns, on the All gany river, frequently; they nric inhabited bv the S-'necas. Genera Wayne was then on hi- w w ith his armv to the Indian settlements on the Miami river of the Lake. O'le d i w hen I w is at the Cornplantcr! tow ii, the new shout, (.is it is called) was heard: all the Indians in the village imme di itel retired to their houses, (and even th-'ir dog went with them) when an old mi!i went out to meet the person who brought the news, and to take him to the L -og or Council hotie, where a fire was m ide. and refreshments were carried to him, and time given for him to dro? ai d paint himself, mi as to appear decent. i"n sulfn ient time had elapsed for these opratioi to he performed, the Chiefs it first tothehou-o, and a thevounf irvi were following, I a-ked an Indian who sp de Knolifih, and to whom (a he professed to he a priet. phvsirian and conjurer) I gave the name of Doctor, whether there was a:iv impropriety in mv going to hear the new-? He sni'l no, and that a I was received is a friend and visitor, all the housewere open to me, and if I did not go witnout anv ceremony it would appear as it 'fnxihtffl their zi: orris and htnpitr.lity which wa-considered as the greatest affront that could he put on an Indian. For if there was a! secret business going on. thev would inform me of it in a friendh way, arid then I might retire. I according! went into the house with him, when the Chiejs immediately r so and fjavr me a Se at among them; all the Indians in the 1)D T'f were smokir g their pipes w hen 1 Carne in, and tho stranger was sitting opposite the Chief-on a seat, or rather a platform, by himself; the time appeared tome Ten long a I was anxious to hear the news, being much interested in the event, as the Indians had been deliberating whether or not they would permit me to continue survev ing, or send me out of the country, and what surprised me was that no one, contrary to their uual custom, asked him for the news, and I was at a loss to account for their conduct. Eventually, the Indian hiu.self, after prefacing the business with telling them, he had no doubt as they knew he had been to the west, they would be gratified in hearing his new 8; to which no one in the company appeared to assent to. or to negative. He then gave an account of an affair between a convov of Americans, (w ho were carrying reinforcements and provisions to one of our frontier posts,) and the Indians and said that they had killed the commanding oII'k er and a number of our men; and after he had related all he had to say-, 'no one a-ked him for any parlirularsf the- actio; , or for any Corroborating ( in umdance, which appeared tome very unaccountable, as I had lormerh observed they were particularly polite tostrangersand visiters.and wet-even cautious to do or say anv tiling to hurt their feelings; :iUi soci .after thi Chi fs and other Indians begc '3 leave the house. I left the house with the Doctory nnd as soon as w e had passed the door, I pressed mv surprise to him at the manner they treated the man who brought the news, as it was mi different from anv treatment I had before seen, when visited by strangers a el that I would thank him to it-form me of the cause of it, When be, without

any hesitation, and with considerable cm- will he laid before congress for a still furphasis, answered, "He once told a lie," ther extension of the system of cauils 7I . - ..11 ! 1 I .

roads and if practicable, ran-ways: mat more extensive surveys will he taken

the routes of rivers more acuratelv defined

and continued, what-that man said 4muy

be so true," "may be so not,'' we always listen to what a news man lias to say, even when we know him to be a liar. But whether we believe him or not, it is not our custom to let him know or to say, any tiling on the subject; for if we had asked him any questions about the tight,it would have been a great gratification to him, as he would have concluded some of the company did believe turn, which is a thing we do not indulge any person in who has once been guilty of telling a lie and he concluded by saving: "he all one as dead." JOHN ADLUiM.

DECEIT OF THE WOULD. Said Thomas to me, "You mistake if you suppose mankind arc sincere in all

land marked down on the maps the heights of the surrounding country, ascertained with more exactitude. In short, the policy of our country is destined to undergo Ian important revolution. Instead of watchiing with so much anxiety as we have usually done the politics of foreign courts, foreign armies, foreign navies and so on, we shall be employ ed in an examination of the treasure? contained in our ow n soil, in jascertaining those immense and unexplored regions of coal, and other minerals, awaiting for the industry of man, to be drawn forth from the regions of the earth, for the supply of the wants of our countrymen, as well as those of foreign nations. The character of our soils will likew ise lie

they sau look and aci' This was so dii

ferent from my preconceived notion of the 1 examined, and plants of a growth, native

in the cabinet than their European, pehtors- in short, why should we n 1 1 on all the world with the eyes of a k cans. Surely this 1? an honest foCT deserving encouragement. , K "' taught a few years ago to decry r thing American; but that time has trone bv and better feeUncre ..!. . .0 . ' v

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to reign.

From tl.e Suffolk (Kn;.) fir rail

Witchcraft in Enoland. A few ' ago a man was "swatn for a u ,, ..jJ.

Wickham Skeith, in this county j,, i presence of some hundn ds of peopb ' particulars as wc learn are tl.esn.J0 that parish lives Isaac Stebbir.w, d "j"1' spare man about G7 years old. who obtv a livelihood as huckster; and hard h? cottage lives a thatcher, whose w if(. u, : '5 tunately is afficted in mind. ( t,( 'J "r parish there happens to he a farmer, n !

IIIIMil I? wv- n?ivuui 1 UPI IM ii U As it r

ed, and at once set it down to the account of

Uncle Thomas' peevishness. Being at that time voting, and lull of high raised

! hopes, I was pleased w ith myself and evo

ry one around me. 1 had not the most

tie. will he enltivafefl throughout all

;ttie cliangiug varieties ot our vast iimeri-:; some one or other put forth the ?Urni; 'can climate. Internal improvement has that these two alilicted peom Wrr(. now received puch an impulse that it witched, and Stebhings was spoken 0f'e will be vain to attempt to arrest its career, ' the w orker of the mischief. Storv ere 'or to retard its passage. Small politicians 0!l torv and accumulated lu-nr.

distant idea, that duplicitv formed anv -may indeed tell us that all this is unconstitu- ! accented among the vulgar i:Mhe l

part ol the character of man; or that truth i'tinna! they may indeed say, but who w ill , brhood, as pnxd undeniaide. Ap'" jtould ever be acriticed at the shrine of believe them, that out Constitution, signed j other thing it was said, that the Iri-iV.. ,lf ! selitahness. I was just entering uponac-!'by Washington, himself a farmer, was .j t,(, afllicted woman had tetourse t,, Itive life; a bright and brilliant prospect ' made to prevent the cultivation of the j mean recorded ia witim-rait am :t. , lv before me; I contemplated it with de-1-earth, the junction of streams, by the detecting the deviN agent ; and w iih? i light, friends Mniled and caressed and j' means of canals, tho formation of roads or , fring pan operation was going on at i i ;t' some whom I scarcely knew, came to prof- ' rail-ways, or to prevent any thing cle that Striding came dancing up tot!,.-

their adv ice aid iriendship. How, : will tend to the permanent prosperity ol , jI( his denial of thi rin (inMnrir. SM. I to mvself, in this moment of exulta- tbe United Stater ttiis idle sing song ob- ; ,j,.2H admitted that he did oi.ee If

tin, could my uncle so u..ju?tly charge the jt-clion, we hope will he rewarded, ncd jns nf.jgbbor's witli mackarel for s;d-, -Jt orld witli smcii ity J File.; with the idea, i "ith an argument in reply, for the cae ad- i 4 0Vhck in the morning, la fore the f. nik

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I hastened away to convince him of the I of mmc. hut with the more emphatic

h severitvand injustice of his remark : lie 1 answer of silence. What was our nnti

( received me with a frankness and kmdi ess tution made for to protect us from agri

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i fit mi. ii iu iiiineii. iiierine usual greet

ings, he asked me, 4,W 'ell, nephew, how do you and the world agiee?v 1 answered, "Extremely well; f nave as yet found no reason to complain of its selfishness, or ol

1 want of patronage, every one bear? nu

cultural or mechanical improvements, or

was it not rather made to secure tho Arnen can in the free enjovment of all the products of his skill and enterprise. Aid is it not hettT to behold our fellow citizens

were up,and his ailmissjoa w as taken t. '.

as much as be waslikeh to make. l)t .j((.? thi the village li.wninkfr peisjird ff.j

one morning, as cieonings pneij iv. three times ln'fore his hi use. I ( .

"not make' his wax t'

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would neithrr nv It nor mix." Da wizard oevond ail d -uht, p. or t.

thus employed, than in a vain at d idle i jnorant as neighbor, ;::-d tf a, d

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ittie Utmost good will wnd atlection, and 1 1 :l'r t'H cast oh lollies ot i-.urope.

am decidedly of the opinion, unc le, that j . Mu-t v. e forever, import not 01 1 Kutv peanj you have formed a wrong estimate of the j. literature, laws, and fabrics, hut Kur j ean j human character.' "It may be," he re- ' vces, also, for heme consumption. W e plied, "and for your ?ake, 1 could wish it j. pretend to he independent, and let ii.dewere so; hut I have lived long in the world "cpendence he our motto let lis av to the j have been a close observer of human na- j proudest nation on earth, that American; ture, and the sixty years in which I have wants can be satisfied with Ameiican sup-! ' 1 . . . . . . . ...1

been engaged in the busy scenes of active ;Pl'(,s tnat our continent is as valuable as life, served only the more strongly to con- jj l'iC continent pf Kurope productive ofn tirm my opinion. The w orld will court I; many varieties, and capable of administer your friendship eo lung onlv, as you arc 'nC"nt OI,b tall our necessary fants, but prospenus: Vour morning is fair, and : to a our luxuri s aho. We have underpromies a golden dav, but remember that 1 Cone pupilage long enough the strong &.

the brightest morning is frequently the

precursor of the darkest day. It is like the deceitful calm that precedes the tempest, which proves the more overwhelming, as we the hast expect it.M Notwithstanding my uncle bad given me the result of sixty years observation, I remained still tin-

jj convinced of the duplicity of man. Un- ! practiced in the artn of deceit, I fondly believed every heart as guileless as my own. j But the day at length came w hich dissipa ! ted this delusion, and taught me, by bit- ! ler exper ience, to set a just value upon the

empty professions of hollow -hearted friends

Herculean infant, has been put too long un

der the care of Kuropean nurses they j have taught him to believe in the reality of all their prejudices ai:aiut his native

land; hut he is now unlearning ail then lessons, and the talcs that he has been ! taught in tho nuisery. Another generation will arise, who treading in the footsteps of their fathers, and feeling the honest pride of American" in their hearts, w ill extend Sc improved on all these paternal dis

coveries. They will catch the present; .predominating impulse, and w hen intelli-' gence is brought to their doors that foreign j

Unsuspecting confidence in the honest v of !i climates abound in peculiar productions.

others, had ruined me. In this hour of! 'u enquiries that w ill be made by trial, I had recourse to my friends. Now jThem, will be whetheran American climate thought I, is the time to fost the strength M W'H "ot U've birth to the same productions.

and purity of their attachment. But how ji 11 ,s a vcry small thing to tie made nier

was I chagrined and mortified, to find my 1 r ..- . J

self repulsed and forsaken, by those who had shared most liberally in'mv fortune. After several ineffectual applications for

assistance, I no longer doubted the truth of

politically independent of foreign nations I to realize this noble and hardv virtue, it ;

must be carried throughout. Americans must be independentof foreign agriculture, fabric?, laws, literature, morals and hab-

my uncle's remark. This, thought I, is ii its or n other words, they must have laws,

demonstration clear as Euclid. After suf

fering awhile the keenest pangs of disappointment, I was led to inquire the cause of being neglected by those who had but lately professed themselves my, warmest friends. Am I not the same person now as before? Havel become vicious and profligate? Conscience whispered. So. Is it because I am no longer Fortu: e's favorite? The remark of unt le Thomas llasl cd across my rremorv "The world w ill court

iyour friendship so long as you are prosper

ous, it is because I am poor! this is the reason: And must a man's virtues then, ' rclaimed, be in proportion to his wealth !

must he carry his good finalities in his I

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, purser and must they be estimated arcord;"g to the number of dollars it contains?

Are there no redeeming qualities in the poor man, that will place him on a level ii i .

v,llli the rich? Jiut complaints were of

i.d avail they could not restore my lot fortune; and as for those fahe friends-.

j I wished them not. What 1 lost in wealth, jhas been gained iu experience.

EUUSUS.

Fromthf Baltimore Saturday lb -raid. Congress w ill shorth assemble. As the

!' president has pledged himself alreadv to prosei ule the great subject of internal improvement, we may expect that projects

agriculture, morals and habits, of their

own. Commerce when properly under stood, is not at war with such ideas it serves to make them more prevalent, to give them a more extended operation. Foreign nations will then be met on terms, of free and of friendly and of equal intercourse; but if foreign nations can persuade us that all American productions, fabrics, laws and literature, are good for nothing, are unworthy of their acceptance, what benefit can.possibly result from such inter course. !

All this has been denominated Chinese policy, terrapin policy, and a vurietv ofoth

erhard names. But what is it more than! a wish, an honest wish, to adorn our coun-! try with the spoils of forign nations. In time of war, how proud are we to unfurl; the standard of our enemy, and to exclaim!

this was won by American valor. Why 1 shall we not carry the same ennobling principles in agriculture, in commerce and the arts. Why shall we? not wish that the j

fruits of a tropical sun, may hl ssorn, ' bloom and ripen in an American climate I why not that our fabrics should surpass ' those of Europe in beauty, durability,! strength and el ujuence w hy not Hint the j splendor of ati American pencil may outri-; val that of European masters why not 1 that our stutcsuicti may be more eminent!

vond beariog.proposed at lenut i t.o: 'f 'n - the good old fashioned ordeal ofvi v -swim The proposal was readv cn'oi; ?i. Time and place wa agreed on, the f. 1 i , m I; .Saturdav at two o'diuk in a I.irce -ailed the Grimmer, on Wickhan? (Jr. : f-ur men were appointed to walk iit,. t e

I water with hirn, and the constat ie tic

parish en gag- (I to attend to keep the pen ?. The sjJe of the pond were crowded with spectators men. women, and rf.ihinn. SU-bbings had or breeches and hhi. ai-J when the men had walked him i:do tic wat'M broast-high. thev lifted him and !.t;d him fiat upon his back on the uafer. Stebhings moved hand nor foot, a d 1 r;-

uuuoi in unit poMiion or ic e win uu

This was the fir.sf trial and the sper.i:.rf called out. "give him another."' An ': ' r trial was at cordinglv given, for the rue length of time and with he a:j.e red. 'Try him and dip him tn der the w;;i r." was then the ci v. They dil o our ei : 0 four men pressed hjs ciiest a:.d dou:: vv;.t his bead, whilst up cam- his fed, i- a word he was like a piece of cork in the w ;;- ter. These trials kept the poor old !! three quarters of an hour in the pi r d. be came out "more dead than rdi" some were not satisfied. A: -eth'T r;; they said, of hi age and 'tz eug'!t swam with him. Stebbir-.gs aiecn' to this, for he was determined to get n d i;' the imputation, or die.' The f !1 .v. 1:: Saturday was appointed for the pmi and a man called Tom W ilden. of B 'o"

parish, near by, was named for his 1 m; ion. The story now got more wind. ;i:d hundreds of people from all the ncinkh1''" ing paris!es attended to witness t lie s coi d ordeal. But in the interval, the ch-rgy-man of the parish, and the two ci unli wardens, had interfered, and the swimrs were kept away, to the no small vtw.iiii and disappointment of a deluded midiif' It is now gravely told, that at the ven tunc Stebhings was swam, the alilicted f.-mr.'T alluded toabove was universally perJur ' he cried out, ! can see th imps all 'if'1 Uu me; I must frighten them awav witi; voice; and hi delusion and bis noi-c, Stebhings did not sink, are put down to . account. To complete the affdr, a respectable firmer in a neighborisg pi"1 has been it is said, to some cunning rr:::r and learnt to a certainty tint SteMdi it is a wizzard. The sum of A'C iv,,fc for his intelligence, upon the ;i-"i)f.e (C that St(dibingsshould be "killed by i; ' We have given up a larger space h fool lob :iff lir lbnii in K. ..i.loi,o oi sv.'): 'J

may deserve but if we rnav be alb

d'vl with others, for the honor and h '' ' ter of the age, surely we may forth- ,;,; tv in which we live. Exposure of thf : pleasant is often salutary. v

It is more prudent tpass by trivrnl otiw res. than to quarrel for iKcm; by ti" I T you are even with yoi:r adynnrv, bnt the first abovo him.