Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 6, Vincennes, Knox County, 26 March 1825 — Page 4

Poetical.

FOR THE WRSTKRN SUN. LAFAYETTE & LIBERTY, AN ACROSTIC. L augh ye sons of Liberty, A pnl.uul Lafayette and be free; F reedom, the genu of happiness, A prospect tvh'uih we all must bles. Y ounj; and old, crookM and lame, K ager all, to cliaunt his fame; T rim and ne it, in town or city, T wisting, screwing, uglv, pretty, E ach join in chorus to the song, C ch AUJit in concert loud and strong L augh ve who are with freedom blest, I n univm welcome our save guest; II lessiniijs on his hoary head, E ach will remem'.jer him when dead. It ound the table yiass the glass, T rue to his giil, each toast his lass, Y es Freemen all , ehaunt and be free, "Lafaykttk cf Lmr.HTy."

FRANCISCO.

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MoVnaFloyo, E

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Having learned "that the bill providing for

n settlement at "I )ukgox," has passt d, and

being friendly to the understanding, I pres ctit to you the fil losing: .

TO OREGON. Wake, Oreoi! Wake from the slumbers of time! The Sons of fair Freedom shall dwell in thy clime; Shall lcel thv fu rests, so gigantic, now Where Savages hunt, they shall follow the plough.

crystalline stream of the

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Columbia! thou

West, With towns and wit.h cities thv banks sh

be drest; Boats eambotts, and ships, on thy bosom fchall glide, With luxuries lac'ien, for pleasure and pride. The blessings of Nature shall flow in thy sphere, As grc at and as good as they ever have here; Enough, and to spare, as reward for their toil, ShAll farmers receive from thy prolific soil. In union they'll dwell, independent and free Their sweetest ot comforts Religion shall be; Their science shall flourish, and Genius shall New s stems and arts for the good of mankind. There, firm and fnt-vpid, in Liberty's cause, Their p itt io.s und heroes shall merit appkmse, And eni'lhe statesmen and sages shall soar To honor immortal "when time is no more,"

How great is Uie prospect! 'tis truly sublime' !

1 here sUite shall be made m the process ot

tune, "Epi.VKIRI'S uni m" To Oregon river, V:

gravity, Is permitted to occupy the most conspicuous seat. This gentleman possesses a mind somewhat resembling the nature of the soil, climate, and natural growth of the country he has always inhabited, rich, temperate and lux

uriant; and like that too, seems to have suffered from the want of proper cultivation. His countenance wears a genial smile calculated to attract the attention of the passing stranger, and is, at the same time, marked with a kind of placid gravity repulsive of that impertinence and levity which, I am told is the proud characteristic of some members of the bar in this state. His person and gait is very much as 1 described it to you in 1816 dig nified and firm. lie is still the same intelligent and communica

tive companion, and recapitulates with increasing delight the history of the early settlement of the X. W. Territory. With that, apparent self satisfaction peculiar to an old soldier, he recounts the many scenes of Indian warfare "in all its horrid shapes" and incidents. I shall not at this time give you a full length portrait, you must be content with a faint outline, such I have sketched here in the lobby. On his right sits the second whose countenance seems as well calculated to adorn the desk of the Counting hriusc as the bench of judicature With the cool calculating brow oftlc merchant, he seems to contemplate with the penetrating politic eye of an exchange broker, and dcuidely with the ease, and facility

of an exnerienec case hunter.

Disdaining the modern paraphan

alia of our new tangled jurists he

adorns his derisions with festoons

culled from the year books of Al

fred, or the pandects of the Uo- . ... i f j

hall hies and be blest r runs to iff ll'rst" APF.UIO.

Courtland Village, N. Y. Jan 1", : . : o o o : : ; AflSCEf.L.iXY. from the Indiana Register. 14i HUsed, 1 send you a bundle of lettei s and papers left at my houe in an old port folio by a gentleman travelling towards the

lakes a a pledge for his return.

ignorance or tbe ponderous entity of learned nonsense. "Like summer clouds 'twixt earth and skies 'Too poor to fall, too gross to rise." When animated you no more see those flashes of exagerated feeling in the eve, but there is dis

cernable a steady flame desscmin-

ating to all around an easy kind

of nonchalance mode of half exis

tence which can neither be described nor enjoyed except in his company. It is not (infrequent,

nowever, mat this tlame brightens into the most lively com sea-

i tons and seems to

selves have seen, and in all of which they were important actors. Wc have sat until ouv blood had almost chilled within us, and heard them tell their stories, their trials and sufferings, in watching the movements of the enemy; in fording streams; in lying upon the frozen ground all night, almost destitute of covering except the canopy of heaven, and suffering for want of food to support nature; and in wading through swamps and mora-ses.

deep in mud and water, till there

mu seems to carry us into , V , . ; . -

a more ranlicU medium of v.it ' , , unu and foncv where e arc led in a I , r .,CU,matlC .pa'n.s- and ti,("h'

hannv. thouoh rational rvrnmnn mu ,,d" ,1LdI lainieu within

r - y- - - ' HI I Vl

and insensibly brought back to

the commoner topics of practical

pmlosophy as applicable, to the j

ordinary domestic concerns of the day To assign each their station in their oilicird capacity 111 -v I .

wouki ne uimcuit us tuev cannot

all occupy the same place a

same time: to speak of each relatively with ihe other, the. first may be considered the wisdom the second thestrength and thcthird the beauty, of the bench. I commenced with a view of giving you a sketch of the bar but, adieu; you shall hear from me by next mail.

1 1 otn -it .. . . t.

mi iii. tft, mi pi -ciMire. make the above extract, and we should love to hear, from the same source a particular description of some of the battles and skirmishes mentioned in it The pension act, in our opinion, does not wholly ac-

. iU i comphsh its object. Its design t tne i i 1 1 i i . ,

suoum nave neen, not so mticii to make a pecuniary reward for services, as a great ful acknowledgement of them Who then, in general, are the most worthy? are those who have, since the revolution, by their industry, econo my, and sobrietv, gained a cornfor table subsistanre for themselves and famiiies,or those, whose poverty placed them upon Ihe pension list? We think the unpleasant feelings of neglect might

be remedied bv our government, i 7

bur he ha Hive none to that

V bourne from whence no traveller eturlls:,, it you think they "will entertain the readers of your paper you are at libert y to publish them Respectfully, yours. &e. A SUHSCKIHEK. Sept 22. 1821 ( on Um ( la ) June 1S21 Dr.Ait ru.vNK I wrote you from Pittsburgh that I should trav el uo further west this season. Nothing but that abominable smutch could have driven me from there. You know I could never enduie stone coal, and al ways admired the sound of the mechanical hammer: hence my aversion and partiality for Pitts burgh, I arrived here just in time to have a squint at some ot the mem hers of the bar attending the Su-

preme Court of the state of In-

j man Code; and instead of the

sweetmeats of modern rs. York:

he bases them upon the ancient

solid bacon and cabbage ground

of ITanrrave and Coke. With a

countenance that a Lavatcrwould

turn from with disgust and a cranium that a Caldwell would throw among the rubbish of materialism as useless matter, he

evinces m practical lite a genius suited to any capacity and like Hume would deceive the most penetrating connoisseur. His hit h erto useful life is a practical com mentary upon perseverance and a libel upon the modern theory of phrenology, for he was by nature every thing he seems to be: and he is by dint of application

every thing he seems not to be. On the left, sits the third, to whom I believe you was once, introduced as the author of You would nov know him only by name, for botlr

physiologically mentally speak ing, he is not the same that be was twelve years ago. He is no more the child of wild fanaticism to be blown and drawn into cve-

ry vacuum lormeu in ine moral and material world without a substantial governing motive He is no longer that visionary theorist fluttering in the litetary

gale holding upon no twig bug

An extract of a letter from a soldier of the. tmerican Revolution to his son. j T;in A IMS

Dear Son"As T find evrry hY g"lvS to tbe former class, a

tiling in your region, as well as in . mefl.al- bearing inscriptions of thcours. to beacceptable, must some- services rendered a expressive of how be tinctured with Lafayette, : ,a,,t,Id and remembrance, and who is every where celebrated as tbe latter, their pensions. It the hero of 'the Ameiican rcvolu- ls tne H?pa r forget fulness and lion, that this, lor the same pur- j neglect, that troubles the warpose, may have a little seasoning j worn veteran. But few are the with the 'same spice, I will ob I fliers now living, who have serve, that it wasv my fortune to j been m more important service hear a feeh!i n.-n-t nnclnr iic 'in,. than the writer of the above ex-

mediate command, in al! his marchings and counter marchings to check the progress and baftle the views of Cornwalhs in

tract, and what reward has he? the pleasure of telling to his children w hat he has suffered Long will he remembered the com'

Virginia; and at the capture of the mander. for six successive years,

il'itihh army at Yorktown;and I

niay a dd for your recollection, that it was my lot to serve through the whole of that war, entering as first Lieutenant, in May, 1775: and retiring from it in January, 1 784. with the rank of major, that I was in the battle of Hunker's Hill, and in most of the actions and skirmishes on Long Lland, York Lland, and the region round about; also at Trenton and Princeton on the 2d and 3d of January. 1776: at Ti-

ol the light infantry of the eir-th

Massachusetts regiment and may his country not he forgetful of his important servir es. DUTIES OF HUSBANDS. You who are husbands, must Ntreat your wives with delicacy and attention. Nothing in nature is so endeaiing. so enticing, so winning so captivating a tenderness: nothing creates aversion so soon, so strong, so inveterate, as rudeness, indifference, or dis

respect. She i the weaker vessel,

eonderoga. Fort Stanwix, and in ; am dependent on you for pro! re.-

.. i i . . i

an me anions previous io tne can

tore of IJmgovne in 1777: at the battle ot Monmouth in 1778; in storming the works at Money

Point in 1770: in 1780 and I7si ; with Lafayette at storming ire works at Yorktown; t hat the

tion and comfort in all her difficulties. For our sake she. leaes

i her friends her connexions, and

all the world; and should she meet with a tyrant instead of a lover, she may repent of this day

us lunn ub hoe uvrs evec m-

enough to be classed

among ei

diana. ol which this is the tempo- iUT the literati or fcnorami Af-

light infantry company of the rt.nse Qr ,,suu ,er. anf4 a vnil

eight Massachusetts regimcrnt was . xv to i(.ej) your own temper under my command for six years amj ptw. nPVer on any pirtencc in succession. Now I am in the u batevcr. squander thai in dress 76th year of my age. and have drinking or dissipation, which been unable to perform any labor vnu av bv fwr the henefor twenty years, owing to the fit of your family. They have an loss of the use ot my legs, (hall exclud e claim "on what you can I say in pursuing the enemies of earnnnd everv unnecessarv in-

my country?) and although there dugence which you take apart are 13000 of the revolutionary fmm thrm i at tKeir exnense and

army on tire pension lists. I am

rary capitol. This court is com- , tcr all his oseilations he seems to inot considered poor enough to be

poed of three members, each c t have settled upon the enviable

whose characters 1 had occasion ground of mediocrity without be to rncntitrn to you alnr my visit ing appended to either the one or to Ymeennes in 181 1. They the other; tloating in that happy seem to have no ptoidt rrt other medium of the horizon of exis-

than b eouhesv

enrolled with lhem.,,

It is pleasing to hear the warworn veterans of the revolution relate the ba ties, the skirmishes.

the "marchings counter march

injury. Consult your wife on caes of difficulty; it is her inter

est as well as duty to the best advice she can.

give you

the one of the tence which knows neither the 1 ings,"' ro b file the efforts of t icir

TWO VEXTS pci pound, witl ljC given tor any q.i mtity of clean Lxnner

or Cotton U.HiS at the wr.SNTEits sus

greatest age

..(Tiro, in rnah rrr-iht. ncirct trr-r-J -

and mott apparent starveing vacuity ot a protound j country a enemy, that they tum counts.