Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 35, Vincennes, Knox County, 4 August 1812 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM.

l cannot but remember such thing werre And were more precious to me SHAKESPEAR. SCENES of my youth ! ye once were dear Tbough sadly I your charms survey ; I once was wont to linger here, From early dawn to closing day, Scenes of my youth ! pale sorrow flings A shade o'er all your beauties now : And robs the moments of their wings That scatter pleasure they flow. While, still to heighten ev'ry care, Reflection tells me such things were. 'Twas here a tender mother strove To keep my happiness in view ; I smil'd bencath a parents love, That soft compassion ever knew. In whom the virtues all combin'd ; On whom 1 could with Faith rely, To whom my heart and soul was join'd By mild affection's primal tie ! Who failles in heav'n exempt from care, Whilst I remember such things were. 'Twas here, where Calm and tranquil rest. O'er pays the peasant for his toil, That, first in blessing, I was blest With glowing friendship's open smile, My friend far distant doom'd to roam, Now braves the fury of the seas ; He fled his peaceful happy home, His little Fortune to increase "While bleeds, afresh the wounds of care, When I remember, such things were. 'Twas here- ev'n in this blooming grove, I fondly gaz'd on Laura's charms, Who, blushing, own'd mutual love, And melted in my youthful arms. Though hard the soul conflicting strife, Yet fate, the cruel tyrant, bore, Far from my fight, the charm of life--The lovely maid whom I adore, Twould ease my soul of all its care, Could I forget that such things were. Here first I saw the moon appear Of guiltless pleasures shining day ; 1 met the dazzling brightness here, Here mark'd the soft declining ray; Beheld the skies, whose streammg light Gave splendor to the parting fun ; Now, lost in sorrow's sable night, And all their mingled glories gone ! Till death, in pity, end my care, I must remember, such things were.

The congress of the United States have at length adjourned. The two houses ended their fatiguing and tedious session of eight months continuance, on Monday evening at an hour unusually early for the last day of the session, but not before they had gone thro' all the business of a general character which pressed itself upon their attention! As there was an evident determination in both houses to mature certain business before them, there was exhibited

none of that confufion winch j we have iometimes w knelled, j

particula? jy in the houfe of i eprefentati ves, on the eve of adjournment- Oil the pre lent occahon we ifiWhappy to fay that all difcord was baniflied, and the members appeared to feparate with mutual rrood will. I he urbanity

CC decorum which character lied the w hole feffion, on occafioo?, too, vvell calculated to excite vindictive feelings and roufe unholy padions, continucd to iis termination. It would be unneceflary obtrufion on the time and pa tience of our readers to at tempt any thing like ahiftory of the pad feffion! or a reca pituUtion of the events, with which every one is familiar, that mark it as the molt im portant which has occurred lince the adoption of the conItitution, We will only fay, that in reviewing the trail factions of this interefling feffion

i we know not which molt to

admire, the patriotic fpirit

which congrels have difplayed or the lledrattnels and unwearied perfeverance with which they have marched to the confumation of the objects it became their duty to puriue. 1 hole members particularly have deierved ek will receive the thanks of their condiments on whom, as members of the committees whole portion it was to digefl and prepare the bubueis which came before both houfes, has devolved the bin then or labor and almoll or relponlibility for the leading mealures or the feffion. The mealures adopted by the con grefs have been iuch as to hand their memory down to poHeritv ; Sc we rict nothing in faying that on the page oi hiltory lor ag s tcomrj the twelfth Congrefs ywill rank next to the immortal congrefs of '76 the fathers ot the nation I nder the aufpiccs of the one this nation (pi ung into exigence ; under thoit of the other it Will have been

1 prelerved from ddgracetul j recoloniisation Nat Ir.t. of July 8,

A bill yefterday pr(Ted the houfe ot reprelentatives ol great importance as it affetta our off en five operation againil the enemy. ic places in the hands oi the prefident the appointment of the officers ot the volunteer corps, whole (ervices the prefident has been authorifed to accept, and ces to make that force efficteni which was before fcarcely any

thirls mere than nominal! Whillt the volunteers were officered by the Hate authori ties, it was very evident they were in facl militia, inHead ot regulars enlifted for a limited term, as originally recommended by the executive The bill now parted by one branch of the legiflature, and which will probably become a law, will, it appears to us, fanclion the employment of a force more congenial to the nature of our government, and of the patriotic war in which we have engaged, than regulars, and whit h warmed by the patriotic feeling, and love of glory which animates volunteers, will be at lealt equally as efficient for lervice. The houfe yeflerday rejec ted the bill making further provilion for the army of the United States, vviz. for ap pointing additional general officers, as recommended by the prefident in his 1 alt mef (age to congrelsj after a warm debate. Ibid.

The Sanest ion briefly stated. It Ihould be always re mem bered, that the prelent conreit is not one or our own feeking. Every expedient fhort of it has been tried witheut etfeel We have negociated and argued, until the public mind nas literally licked under the difgulting detail. One ad vantage, however, hasrelulted from this delay. Every man converfant with the hi

tory ot our own times, nov

admits that lutlicient caufes

ot war have been given by

both the belligerents. The operation of their orders and decrees, lett the U. States but one of two alternatives. We mult either abandon the oce an altogether, or manfully af fert and maintain our neutral 1 ights.

Our government has chof

en the iatter. To have done other wife9 would have been

a cowardly furrender of th

ngnts wn:cn Uod a:id natur

iiave us.

But 3et us luppole

tor a moment, that the government of the United states, torgetting what was due to the rights and honour of the nation, had failed to make tins lad appeal. That they had ailo repealed the embar go and non interccurfe laws. What would have been the confequence ? Would our commerce have been more fecure I Would ourhips have been left liable to Capture ana condemnation I Purely nor. On ihfi contrary! i: would

have been an acknowledgment on our part, that we admitted the right of each belhgent to exclude us from ihe ports of his enemy. Ic would have been an aft of humiliation which w ould have invited and encouraged further and greater acts of anr. greflion- 15y weakening the fenfe of public wrong, and by deadening that high fpirit of independence which ought eminently to chara&erife a free and powerful nation, ic would have prepared us for a tame furrender of whatever clie might be required. Mrs. Cram ley The rumor in circulation fome time ago that tins unfortunate woman had been burned by the Creeks, is not true. Some particulars of her fate have been learnt from a half breed Cherokee, who has been upoa the frontiers of Giles countv. He Hates that ihe has been feverelv w hipped, exhibited naked in circles of warriors w ho danced around her; and that at prelent Ihe is at I uckabatc lire, boating meal for the fa mily to whom file belongs. 1 ippehorchevv, the fellow who commanded the affaffins at the mouth of Duck river, is not what col, 11 jvv kins would call, a wild young man which the nation cannot manage, but in facl a principal chief, and one of the molt dilHnguifhed warriors of the Creeks. Tuc-

kabatchee, the place to which mrs. Crawley has been carried

and where Ihe is now detain

d, is a conlidei aole town near

the heart of the Creek nation, it any evidence was warned of the hoiiile difpouYion of the creeks, it is now fully furniihed. A party of their nation has travelled three hundred miles from home, have entered into the acknowledged limits of the ftate or Tennellee, have deflroyed two families, have taken a prifon-

er and five fcaips, have retur-

ed into the heart of their wn COUntrv. leading thir-

captive, and displaying their Icalps ; and yet the nation have neither feized the aflaftins nor liberated the woman. Will col. Haw kins now b? able to lay that this is not the crime of the whole Creek nation Clarion.

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