Crawfordsville Record, Volume 3, Number 29, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 October 1834 — Page 2

fVo;;i r7 Heating 8iar. LETTER IV. Af.3Axv, Sep. Dili, 1334. 7b the Hon. Martin Van Burer. : Siu It is not j.r.posod to discuss tli" merits or demerits of fit her the friends or the opponents of the late war. So fir, however, ns the incidents connected with tint contest have become a pirt of the history of cur country ; and so far as their notice is deenvd necessary to a true deve'opctnent of your character, a retrospect will be taken. I now charge yon, sir. with aiding a"d abetting those men who were opposed to the war; with using your efforts to elevate to power -those who censured it, and with assailing those who were instrument in producing an open and manly resistance of British aggression. Yes, si', yon were the uncompromising opponent of Mr. Madison's re-election, as President of the Uniicd Slates, on the ground that he had involved the nation in an nuneces-

On the Starry Heavens. BY T. FLINT. I go forth in the silent and meditative hour ol evening under the cerulean star-spangled dome of the

and all thu aspects ol the seasons a morning of spring, and a morning in autumn a burning noon in summer, and a noon of frost and snow

i right bespangled with stars,

firmament. These numberless stars ! a night ol darkness and clouds

their multitude of movements, these! m,,aiiows enamelled with flowers, radient orb., this earth of our hab-!aml a forost robbed of foliage

by the winter and storm plains

covered with springing corn, and

nation carried round in space, like a hail vessel borne upon the ocean, penetrate my misid with profound astonishment. I attemp to scan the

randeurand tne nowor of Him who

gilded with harvest; you will then have a just idea of the various aspects of the universe as thev are rep-

has placed us in presence of such i r.ost'nled at -he same moment to dif

penser of prosperity ami happinc&'s shield, protect, and" bless you. In behalf of the Now Jersey FiM? Snf?.'fVnf f!limiiiii in ....! Kir if-.- rt"..

magnificent spectacles. I cor.lcm

plate the motion of worids,comnar--d with -hat of tin humblest' in

sects, the planets which circulate m

jary war; that he was uncapable of conduct-! tilC void without ever deviatino- from ingit, th-.t if he was left in power, he would j their pmh, animals movim m their soon be compelled to sign a disf-racefui and j , i . k ,- n '. ignirnhious treaty of poacc. " .appointed spneres Irom a Ulterior

It lir n Tfinnr!.- in n Tim(-r-r?in rr f of I

tnat no c large Will oe muio against you on -" "'ivmi.-'iiiiii; mhi, transcends vague assertion. This pledge sh dl iu re- J the li !litS of time and Soaoe withdeemed. After showing yonv hostility tojont lho accompaniment' of dm hothose men wno had hurled back up n the lint- ?., i - , , ish ministry, a proud defiance of their boosted i 7 ,'1 5t asnirit. the two mopower, I will exhibit you hi the prostituted j tlOMS Ol tile 'earth f" Olie. Oil its aspect of a vindictive foe to the late Govern- aX!, the oilier round the SUU and or Clinton, in conceit with whe n vou b.d ! it(" -. f ,.,!.-. . i .i ' i j . i , , ,4, lament wi the vvombeen acting; and then, as the phar.t svenniun! I , ,- , - , ' of Mr. M idsson, whom you had cmloavorej j lir ul ""press of Use CreiHor's in-

During the year o:if foreign afT.irs were apjxoaching a crici?. Tho appr- hensions of the patriot were tlepictcd in his c -in:i-fenance. The wrongs winch were u.-ihrted v.pon the persons, is well as upon the commerce of our iirmiFonding p-'ep! wore d'-ii'y increasing, while the minions ..f B :::;m tim:t )d and insulted our govrruncnt. O n- na

tional honor was sus-ncled bv a siorid-v

moVMU'. tltS 'S ii'S V,dw';ihb-

n; ou any uuown laws ;f physic. Attraction causes bodies to tend towards a c entre, but jiives diem no

lerent spectators.

it is an astonishing flict,that while you admire the sun, sinking under the arches of the west, another observer beholds his springing from the regions of the morning. By a wonderful order of the Creator, this ancient and unwearied luminary that n poses fn m the heat and dust of the day behind his golden canopy in die uts?, is die same youthful planet that awakes, humid with dew, fiom behind the whiten-

luiiiiimu in,' uin'.i!. in everv moment of die day, to some of our fMlow hemgs the km is rih;o, fi. zing in in the zenith or slr ke behind the western wave. Oar senses present us this chut mirg 'iio-ioi-. To a spc tutor beholding from a lived point in space, there would be

impuhecf motion. IVtio cm tail ! ,uifii('' sast niercdian, nor west; to admire the exact equilibrium of I mt lA' hlin NVOU'd blaze motionless

hi? Ai ,h co1,,,Pa,,ioI,s 0frcrdaredirected towards all t L "C,U .ll;Ul heroi'm havc rv!vrd kindred whom Lafavette has left 1

: U.. CI U 1IS UT I ; and mav'the Great !)i.s.

i-.i in ui uis, barren witn nim lor liberty on the same fields at Brandy wine and Monmouth, and two of those now present at our board served under him in the camnaion of

iormccia jiart of that corps which his own affectionate language designated as "his beloved light infantry,' at the triumphant capture of Vorktown. of di.o

ilast army of the enemy. Tho rcsrt

of us mo sons of these that L-ea

him

uei,

AARON OGDEX, President 1 1 1 . K K A TI M G 1 in li A 11 1 i ; 5 Not less than 3,00$ public libraries have lived and tlted in th. U.

11 O t . ....

wen, snared with fnrn m il-.o i niies. viinc own- in.-L.!., ,r.,

jiangtrs and successes oJ our revo-! Notwithstanding the brief existence lutionary strugg!r am u!)(n lhoy of PO many it.'j,,,,, established departed, left Uiih us, the memory for the lu-st ol -urpocs, thev have of his actions and virtues as a sa- ; been instrumental of gre it good to cred legacy which we may not for- , our countrv. li is out u, Un r.mr.-.t-

ei, or negn ct, hut will, with devotion, tiansmit to our children's chil

dren. While, therefore, we feel

ted that they lived, but that tiu v di

ed so soon. Tho ephemeral extst-

jence of libraries, hitherto cstablih-

tnese motuins, and dieir tendency

tr!!i Irs dome.

tosuotuv (h,. wants ?f man and na-l S lls 'niagine the view of tin

dire id. Indulging the hope, th :fp-!cemigh' j tun?? The earth, iue?i!:j;:.v on j5s 1 spectacle, if the laws of nature wen

yet be preserved we h id t .uhored and hesitt-1 axis, presents m lum its two bmwed too long. It hvl been msol. n;lv annonn ! ,..,...,,, ,r, .. ." ceil on t ti-aort(.ongri'?5, iy a die.ng;:i?;i-; - , , . ' . .' "" u '!'

oil an-t lev.tiogioderanst, ' t.'tat. tec co:

tip k-irL-pn ir.in n -1 At :i o

"it wts therefore, evident, that a b.

M-Vll'l'th 'dVmation ofdav ni2t:

our own loss, we tender to v.n ilwt rd.mvrht i-.rvr i, a i.

neartle.i condolence which springs jection to tardier attempts for die horn personal attachment and ven- jsame object, but to incite inquiry ration for bun, and affectionate re- 'into the cause, or r.-msr nf th,.;,-

paro fur those with whom he was j short duration, riiat those to be estaconiM end by die ties of nature and hhshed in future mav t.e placed tin-

, h'uhcii on mo ; on a more o:iuurmrT !;

jcwoiis oi i!!s Jib to rememler the Iaysofour trial, where his volun-

imoaiion .

i he principal cause of the unfor

tunate end of public libraries i t vi-

. . .

. im aided m sustammr? our ! dendv tho loss nf thn .wddi,. ;

struggli ; and when his blood flow- which brought them'into heimrL!" ed, and his heait was ready t. oour 'f lus loss of interest is, doubt his tre-.snresfor us, and for our the want of novelty, v.hich is one of coiiutnV freedom. jthem.-t poweriul n:t;vtrs of human it WOl.lld llOt llO nrnp.nr f. n no iiMcii.n.. I.,

... ui;''-1-!'"!" .ijtti eetion.-, ants

spectacle, if the laws of nature were " 'his occasion, to recount to you one of die richest and m-t abut daoammncd to the slightest change, die ac f of kind ties, or the deeds of! ant sources of -rincntion to o ri he clouds, obeying die laws o! thry, by which we and our ouu- j sons of ail a:res nmvmis and eenrgr.ixity would fdl perpendicularly ,ry have been heur fitted; I ut e tries. " '

: , . i . I , . . , , . . I it

n.tion nrest-nrs ns! 11 uu' t:aio; nr would ascend he

& fading s!i!)iiiisi.in

i Hie ci!se ol ibii j "fine uie ouui

ndent, that a base and d w ith the varied asnects and delight

'.anct "a!1! luI of the seasons. -gions of die air. At one period,

vend condensation into the upp r

triotic aid mdidy res

At this perilous crisis, where w .s.Moii

van bureu i lis smri r- hi, vrr nV;-- ,r.

to tins period, '"Hi- support of

eminent was not in:'re!

It is another h irmony of the mo-

;J'::';r?,:Hi' ):M)fth" dnt while we arc

v active, but z : !-; r " ' M,5,il "iia the greatest ah-

nor was his d of ordinary iar-n It ai;s-r! ; -OiMn rapidity, wo should have the ej Ins w!nl?.sou!;it led to nnadng exemo.. : j SHiisafiim of iu-inrr nt rt

it ,.i.t.;i.;. ,j . ,.n : . . . . rt m i-

uil circmnstancos' It is not my habit to us. vulgar and ungemlem .nlv l-'ttgu 5e. If i; wav.this qii--s!ioii would receive ii irsheprlhets

o- i ;;n ;i?;r ;iHl, Lowever. that even

'nee of it u untrue.

In April, lSI'i, yon ivero a candidate fo: iho State Senate Your opponent was E i -war s P. Livingston, tiiea bn tided as a thor ough fed'.-rahst.: buf since recognized hy voe an;l otii-T?, as a pure J ;t:k?on D-mocraf

nr election d

Ivoeklarsd, tho oth -r cot

?u on tn. con .". v oi

mosphen , and nverv relative landmai a by which we could measure, and bo rn ado to perceive this, are carried round with us; & thus we h ive a consciousness that we have not changed our place. We have

"ihar .-x unples of the deceptive! ' , -h iraeter of this motion. The fl-di- j .k:' rIu Yo) . - - . . Utj; iarta line

the ail" WOUld heoonm tfn rrrv A

at the nt-xr, too much rarifird far tie organs of respiration. Mho moot-, too near, or too distant from , would beat one time invisible, and atanother,would herself blood v and covered with enormous spots, or fjUing with her extended oil, ail mcelestial dome. As if Blessed of

some wild caprice, slie would eiiher move upon the line of th ivlin-

M gon o befieve that not ore ( f; ft rs hence evident, tlrd anv lAvn them all has been forgotten. Mhv;wbich will yccure ib bb-.-riV are gathered up w here nine w ill nm ; nov hv w hi h. m um,t ( ;-(-. o--o corrode or h stroy du m, thev will (.f the first ..-i.al stuueet mccnnvV !e reeoSh t ted w nfi f)i-;o:nw! I.;. ; in i t-.,,.,,,; i.. - ' .

u-.eiiiory, and with hrvent praversl n,v.i be sufllcn nt 10 nrcerve d- ;r tor too happiness of his postei.tv Ihves and promote tl'ei, orowth-' it is a!rconMdat!on-we knowlmha plan ir m ;r, .- .Cm too unit it is ,..ur-i,at be has h-lij, or duc divided into rcnio,

ii'Uii u II. 10 oiiici eut

tic, or rhantrinsf her

.Uii

won lo -n

rman, abandoning himself in his

being optned to you. In that countv, tit; ! o.V

in the disiric 1 l)ont lo lae s', and borne down

ine current, sees tiio snore an-

er to os a face wliicb

1 not seen. The sjars

I smitten with (he same uncertainty

of motion, would rush logoth r,and

i . -1 i ' Tl , nneom.a n zd , -.o 1 .

ineiuts otiii vnt UUntoti h id an overwhelm iwivin v an..,! :,s,d I. - i.'! v".,,v u,"t'ul,l ieri me co;

i... - . . ' J ...... o i.iiia:

M,ii..m c. ii w.i t.w-?rroa in your ocjuut and you w-re elckd hy asm dl niaiontv

d nt.

i: on wera known to i)j thir man. Tho qtie's- I

measures tin

l:::liiio - ....It

Tiii.MVTfit.ro,,!,! "o suooen, dm coo-

bt hind him a bright ;1!l( a

reputanon, unsullied and uoMimas-

.i-s me uieno of human liberty throughout ibe world. Ili uuw'iivermg pursuit of legalized Sl eos.sidmion: ii eedom,in his native country, amidst all the vicisitnd,s. the fronenbc -,tl ti... .o.

j. iu;u tiiv." tifprevious - f j, half ceuturv ofcon-

rm-ts im

nans

Oi ncou..t,cityortovvi,,ni,d forjuvu.de libraries intodifiereuibchools, ?md, after three months, all returned7 to a common deposits and anew distribution made, fcmch a disti il ution, vinuallv, gives, to each section

oi me community interested, four

a ...... lt . .i . i . r .

u:;;i oi war. or no war, now nutated i.h xvnn- ami (IISCOVOI'S Its (i ;ie and euelu:e country. Waere was Martin V,, Rnren's motion. To US the Sim and nlv;'zed and untmns vxqyuhV I will p-,in ! . lo it. On ihe20tiiofMsv,S12,an-vd-."SSi',Ni?,om :uivan"fl d'om the eas-

betoro the declaration of wir, a caucus wis held in this ciiy. You, sir, were a promoter of i hat cane;??, and a supporter of its doings. Mr. I).1 Wiii Chilton was nnnnv! n '!,,,

war. He w,s nominated in that caucus Z I nS' XVoUld s'Mne true and ab-dme

ii .

1 I atlOfl Ol iinifiiop iv,."!,: k .)

r-w ,,0l, vr, ,,,, ,u.(.i , t. r

- ' - i . y lll.IV lj

tern to tne western horizon.

son wno eouiu coiitemnl.io ihis mo

tion from a fixed pomi m i:- j

eav-

vuiu-r. liofitfs

would lead the Pleiades and ihc lion would roar in Aquariu; here the stnr wouhl fly away with the raj.idity oflighmm;r; mere thev wotdd hai o- motionless in the hea.v-

re.ons ..t S1 naif ceutury of con- new libraries in a year ; to school. : f hriwceii me powers, of despo- it might, in many cases, rive a new the principles of equal one eery moutlK fi.it-, ;ias tnaik(d lum as the most This "plan is not nofid m ihnnrv

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ens.

'Oinei.:me.s

crown msr

nrniin fl.- I 1 i

i n H i. I ... i .. , . . 4W I "1 . I i -t' VI !-lnf .1, ,E I . .... i. IIV 11

V...IJ..J .in, iwi itiv-ojjxce oi eresaient , in op-! ' " ' " - i m iae eann ad- ( ti.ij.. iuT posaion to James Madison. vancin- rapidly from west n, oao i "V . , 'V' J-H1.n PPriuroa vgat uiidersiandi.-igof tho whole cas-. On,. f,..?,nfuj !iinn(,iiV ...J. emo rc-ndrnj; the curiam Jtis necessity, p rh.ps, , retrospect. !., ' V ' " ot ootids, thev would oneii to view 1S12, and previous, the c.uens svsu m pr,- ;U co;t!pared wdii at-o-1 lh, .,.y K f ;. ' " 10 V, U vailed at wishin'or. .Tif-rson had beii un f i :S UjUst not bo OVirlookedJ ' ' " " ''. twice nranmat d ijy . Co.g- :o;i d c-uicus. Wild.- ii!(lVi'icii' and rt PUS" d-fb ' V"'?S'0r' ;;s Wul Upon the i?u tho Democratic P,nv, w,s the te ofPU j )Mm iiUti "mrch of dm suir., , -cient to expbmi all :non. Those who would not ahide its decis I bieh diversify the decoration of i)!?e5;7niPlJ;1- There must be a ion. wre considered noiie.caliv h.pmaov lilii.o iin.Li . ,1. i. i-. . perpetual and omninntonr vifii!.,.

U: n

Vf-,1-" ""distent and glorious of tfiecmzens France, lis univer-

il pinl teifiropy, which held in his

od race die wind family of man.

I'aieu mm to hear, evn (inch

hi u ne a d I . d sufleri ns in t heca me o: freedom and crowned him an apostle of human liberty. How den dl-'tl Xt 111. IDltrl I... .1. ..

; ' oeuie m - mory oi , oj--rarm::, it amweivii f;.,a jn toriMhaiI chiv;tIricdvw-.iio;jt,i.-.unti.,. cp-cnllv, ihrot h the Mai use, which brought ium a lubole .f tin-western and smuhern o!it.duf Strang raiuf armed (,trit .-ilnow f.-.nr r-.o,,,.,-,. i. ..

iv.iiv. iorj!i;,i. onnress'nti u f v-.n

I l - - - V c t

plan is not good in theorv

merely, but bke all other theories which are nudly good and sound, can be, for it has hern, reduced to practice, and xperienu proves that it i rleeis more in practice than it promies in theory. To (he questions, where ami how itinerant hbraiies can lie ntu ii.to

nr- t:'d'val. bucii wen; the "iisaor:- ml .l.c

Cinisn-) of the jiarty" tu those days. I):d vou aes wnh the democracy, in supporting Jam-s JNlidison? Or did von tct witn the federalists Tgimst him? Did y u support, or oppose "regular nominal io:i?'' In Jn.n'-. 1S12, w-,r was dch ed. Tt was the act of the poiy It was Executive recommendation, in a special mess'itje, tr.nsmitted to Congress on the first of June It w.isa measure adopted hy every branch of th-3 Governm-'n?. Where wis your fiery z;al, spoken of hy your puny piographei ? Did

you sustain, at that pen.ai, that measure, or

i rlciwm fn! ..... always

.. - ;,ai uiej are sue- i J

. t . I . l-i i . . . . . 1 II .

cehSive oti v in annntirsnpn 1in " voo wotiid need

v 1 5 .'-.ii,

m reality p raianent. Tho scene

wnich is eiliced from our view, is

repainted for another peoule. It is

noLtuo spectacle only that has chan

ged. I he Author of nature has

seen fn to unite the absolute and relative progress of succession, as well as of motion, in his beautiful work of creation. The one is nla-

uslainmg those laws in

tho men wno lod bo.dly and fearlessly adojit-! ced in time, the Other in Space ' Bv ed it? Did you, on that, occ :s;on, ';sunpnit ft, .1 ? c , 1 the jjivernmoni? Did y.u d.fmd Congress r,e'thi heauties of the UUlVei'Se and die ad;ninisiiati:n. insomuch, tint "ft ab-' ai 0 perptual, infinite, always the soi hod your whole sou:? Did you unite your; same. Bv the OiheT, they are muleneies with the friends of the war for the tiplicd, finished &, V newvd With-

Ave,- h,n .vi.a r;,vN nnti i,,,!., ' o n n HJere would

- ' - u Ui'J I "4iM V ! 1 V,' I Cia I .

-ti'n hotiien filled, rather tlian behold his country's honor trodden to dust and ashes, hy a foreign fm? Or did you, recreant like, flee the banner which the democr cy of the fin ! had galUntly unfurled to the bre,:z s .f h vaven? I pause, because my iadiT.aatu.n is excited, when 1 hear you spoken of, as an early friend of I ha war have not dune, hoover with this branch of the subject. It shall be resumed in my next letter. JJut first f shall take occasion to notice and explain, the m.vo

men ts, during the summer of 1812, of your iheti friend and counsellor, James A. Il irmlton. lie too, with equal truth an' propriety, might be pronounced an advocate of the wan Jir nobilefratrum . PATRICK HENRY.

be no

grandeur in creation. Wuhom

the other, it wotdd have bet n aSi inonotony. In this w ay, time presents itself to view in a new relation. The least of its fractions becomes a

complete whole; which comprehends every went modifies every change, from the death of an insect to the birth of a woild. Eve

ry moment is, in itself, a hide eternity. Brirej; together then, in tho't, the mot beautiful accidents of na

ture. Suppose you see at the same

no other eliort to destroy this irer

work, than to :tbandon"it to itself Our confidence that these laws w ill never chamxo, must rest on our conviction of the immortality of his character.

To the Family of Isafayeue. A WORTHY TESTIMOW OF DEPARTED WORTH, Trenton, (N. J) July U 1831. To THE FAMILY OF (iEA. LvFAYETTL: 1 he "State JSoeie.'v nfT1,,,.

J ' " cmnati" have assembled to commemorate tin- establishment of our oathMa! itidependeuce,&. rejoin in th continued prosperity of cur common country but we find tears in

our cupofjov, and a feeling of sor

row struggling w ith our patriotic e-

motifins. A bdlow citizen, a Cr'wm and brother, has been taken from lH7' Ye l)arta'i? t your adections. We minofe our griefs with yours.

your bereavement is also our bereavement,

We feel that wo have peculiar

s 10 unite our sympathies with

vp IntariM it? 7,',ii,...:i ...

.. . . . . A , Wl Ui(U1 jorei our

counln i ot until, we cease to be worthy of that liberty whh h he assisted us in projecting. Be assured that bis name is incorporated with ail that is precious in the history of the laud of his adop-tiou,and imhssohibly connected with him who stands in the Ions annals of human liberty the fir the last, the best. Death has now given an united consecration to the names and the characters of Washington and Lafayette; they are now connected, and will not he separated in all coisnn.'l tunc. They were both distinguished from all others; they were ooih citizens ol America, and exulted in their title: they were not he

roes mereiy they did not delioht

in shedding blood, nor in treading down the hopes and the blessings of millions in the march of e.mlulion, nor in building the edifices of despotism upon the crushed frao.

" v" iiim Juki miman

lumpmess, 1 hey neither loved nor sought power for its own sake, am!

they never wielded it to the injury of their fellow nun. hi the midst of our grief wo rejoice that time was given us to prove, that in regard to them both, there is but one heart in this our sacred and beloved coum try.

May you feel assured that tho

nireenou el emyv lxcvx: vicii libraries mav h ibrim d and uttiined w iih the greatest enye. Wlien the hooks are procured, they can he divided b thecuratois of tlie lyceum into portions of (., 100 cr 2)l v."!imn-'fc! f-l n.! .1 l: i

-.uu . uv w, ,u;u oi.nvered out to neighurhood Iyctums, er:co in three months, with far greater ease them they cnn.be delivered, individually, to ail the members of a library association, once a week, or as is frc queutly the case, vxevy day. At the quarterly. meetings of the county societies, "the books' can be returned fo the common dcposifc, without inconvenience. ' These qnarterlv meetings & distributions bring into action another principle of cur nature,scai cey leFS energetic or constant, than novel: v-

sympathy. Different branches ol the same institution coming together, occasionally, to unite "dric energies, under tho imniih-o of -t genemus rivalshipn promoting a common object, could hardly accu

mulate le.s strength from warmth ''""P, man from union of action or the love of novelty. All combi:iI oil must produce great and l,a; nV rest ills. I'lv

1 he plan of irincratin" Iibn-iV is "oless applicable to the city di m

schools it is applicable ,n ydiages and la W mwr! lam informed, Mr. Editor

measures arc in progress, lysome