Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 21, Vincennes, Knox County, 9 July 1825 — Page 4

Poetical.

From the New Monthly Magazine. I love the man who well can bear Misfortunes angry frown; I lov! the heart that spurns despair, Though all its friends have flown. I love the soul, so nobly proud, , That mis'ry cannot blight: The soul that braves the jefiing crowd, And sternly claims its right. I love that fortitude, refined, Which sorrow cannot shake; I love that strength of soul awl mind No earthly power can break. I love the man who scorns to bend Beneath affliction's blast; Who trusts in an Almighty Friend To sooth his woes at last. MISCLLLAXY. From the Unston G laxy. XEW YORK LEGISLATURE.

lie then proceeded to show, avenging hand! chastise not this that while Women arc thus shame- murderer of your peace, for the Fiilly neglected, our own dear sex villian is protected by law; and are treated with great kindness by for attempting to punish him for the law. lie cited several eases the crime he has committed, or from the books, by which it ap- to prevent the repetition of that pearcd that it had been holden ac- crime, the sentence of a court may tionable to say of a Barrister or reduce you to poverty drag you Attorney at Law, "He is a dunce, from vour family and home, and and will get nothing by his pro- plunge you into the dungeon of a fession" of a Tradesman, "lie prison is a sorry fellow, and a rogue, and Why should the proof of any

a rogue, and compounded his damage be required? It cannot debts at six shillings on the be doubted- that the artful and pound" of a Justice of the insidious whispers, or the bold Peace, "He is a debauched man. assaultsofthc calumniator, will, in and not fit to be a Justice of the most cases, if not in all, prove fa Peace. " He commented sarcas tally injurious to the purest fetically upon this last case You male character. And can repu-

must not, he said calumniate his Ration be lost and no injury be honour, or to speak with more sustained? What is life without

Tell me not that innocence will

always bean impenetrable shield

against the envenomed shafts of

calumny. No thouxands of times

(ers ruin and misery in bis path,

and is allowed to go unpunishable

by the laws of your country? It

is that accursed bend, "whose tongue outvenoms all the worms of Nile," at whose Upas touch the fairer and better part of creation withers and dies It is the cold blooded slanderer, he who has a worse excuse to give for the sins he commits, and the misery he creates, than might be oflered by thc murderer himself. An unhappy man, in the desperation of the moment, rushes into the street, and plunges the dagger into the heart of the traveller. What urgsd this murderer to the dreadful deed? It was the cries of his wife and children for food and raiment. Horrid as in the sMit of II eaven and earth this excuse must be, still it is better than the slanderer can ofter. He destroys character, and, consequently happiness, without the hope of any benefit to himself He is actuated solely by that principle which Milton so justly ascrihes to the

lather ot lies, the arch fiend him-self-

profound respect, his worship; character? What virtuous female

The author of tthe following No. he is a Justice ot the Peace, after being dishonoured and din

Speech made in the New-York and a gentleman; you must not graced, would not willingly sink legislature is a son qf Masachu- call him a debauched man. for it to the grave, to hide from infamy?

setts, and is doubtless remember will rum his character Hut you cd-by many, a a member of the may slander, to your heart's conlegislature of Mass. some years tent, his honour, or his worship's ago. He was a representative wife; it will not injure her rcputa-

from Sheffield, in Berkshire coun tion; and who cares if it does, she those shafts have pierced that

ty, and was one ot tne aids 01 is no justice ot the Peace, she shield, and reached the heart. Governor Gore Mr. llulbcrt is nothing but a woman! Nothing is more delicate than now resides at the village at Au Sir, said Mr. llulbcrt. in these female character;, nothing more

burn, and is one ot the most res pectable members of the N V. legislature. The bill alluded to in the speech, was one to author ize females to hri ng actions of

slander without compelling them crime that she can possibly com sooner shall the Ethiopian change T JL; ; scourge t ie vile to provincial damages mil. and the law utterly witholds his skin, or the leopard his spots. ;"mn'a or' l"Ul1 h,f mouth shal1 Me. llulbcrt said, he rejoiced and denies such presumption, yes, sooner shall wool died with ue "metrically sealed. .

; "Evil, be thou mv good." Sir. let us pass this bill. Let

cases, which I Dave ust mention- ncrlrctlv susceptible of injury; 1 , " "ia.v cd. the law presumes damages. Ul when once hli-hlcl. it is like , f" ad.e "'cak;-. t.hat vve m,S without waitincr for anv nrnnf n (lie. flower severer! from the stem. I 'VC ,,,c. f"r tlle,r ve!7 w-,ak-

h.i nmnt .. -,i - hi . i .. .;:e incss. and. in return, be loved bv

.,v Mlivt i.i, i. Hals' I" a Wll I II v lie 1 1 u I ?, imh m.Ki un

man with the most infamous Once stain that character.

and tll5:m for 1,10 Protection we should

auoiu ljct us scourge the vil

tbat the time had come, when the Can anv thing be more unnatural searlet beeome white ajniin. than

committee liad an opportunity of and absurd! Why thus suard that stain shall be washed away, legislating; on a subject Which and defend the strong, and let the Let a woman once lose her repucotiidtvst fail to be deeply inter weak go unprotected? Why prop tation. and like the star of night csting to all gallant and honoura- the oak, and leave the tender she has fallen never to rise again ble men. He congratulated gen- plant to struggle with the blast? Sir, I would guard the reputatlemen on the happy occasion. Thifc rule of law, renuirino" tion of woman with the flaming

He would not detain them with I proof of special damages, is ecprelimioary remarks but would tremt ly mjust and oppressive hasten to the merits of the ques- Tn most cases of malicious slan f inn ilr if nrilrl I..... ! 1 , 1 a

The plain object or the bill, he ;ive such evidence. There arc with mingled emotions ofindisr- ? .l ! 11,1 ct(d uPon aaa said was to authorize any lemale no windows to the human heart; nation and pity, when T think of ;; . tneji owns of beau-

jKinni. !Pi 311UUH1 n- unu i mm 1 1 ruiiMj Ol ITS lUrOOning IMC lllMI t Wllir.li llili: IIIKS"

ii mere dc a man amoner us.

who is not ardently in favor of this measure, I pronounce him no genuine descendant of Adam. Surely he cannot be the offspring of that man. who was unhappy,

even in paramsc until woman ap-

nnirnl 4 . ( I It

i ..r,i. t 1.1 imu ii any uiie snaii

u t ii r'f i iii t 1 1 - i : i .u n iiiii i 11 11111

k . . V. . . r.l , ... .... nare to

will) tne lasn 01 me law. 10 me vc

vote

against

this bill, I

Willi Tlie lab 11 01 lilt law. 1 11 1 lie i;- 1., ' . . ri- t 1 1 ii, earnestly pray that he may rery narrow of his back bone, the ,-.,, 1 J . ... , ., , . iv 1 11, ?nc the sc crest punishment that vi e calumniator Mv heart swells itrit, oim . . n. .

ico wan.

maliciously accused by any one, with distress, cannot be proved by cd and which was caused by cru-

of prostitution or inconstancy, human testimony. Sir. think of

to maintain an action of slander the wife of your bosom, or of the ' agaiiibtany such accuser, without daughter whom yon love, yester proof of any special damage lie day conscious of innocence, she said, a the law then stood no was enjoying happiness herself, such action could be maintained, and like a ministering angel, dis without proof. This was a fact, pensing it to you and all around which would undoubtedly sur her to day, the cruel calumnies prise and astonish many who which, by some fiend in human heard, him, and he therefore felt shape, have long been circulated himself bound to shew that his against her, have reached her car statement of the law was correct. Like the vanishing of a dream, lie then cited two cases settled her happiness is gone She sees in the Supreme Court of this the envious and malignant rejoi state, in whicii it was decided, cing in her ruin, and even in those.

that words charging a married who still devotedly love her. she

wimeii won auuuet v. ana tnese niscovers suspicion and contempt.

wonK se is a common nrosti- She shrinks from the fnee of.i

tute. and I will prove it are not human beinc. hrr be.irt ctrimrcnm

in themselves actionable. He nuiverinn with tUu

read a part of the opinion deliver behold the object of your fondest

cd in the first mentioned case by the then Chief Justice Kent, in which that great jurist says ' Ve can only say with Lord Holt."

'such words are a great scandal.

if we could, we would maintain

an action, but the law has ordained otherwise."

el calumny T speak now of no

fictitious case, T speak of sad real

ity I have seen the tears of the

slandered orphan girl, and of her widowed mother, "Tcnrs so jiurc, so mil(! and meek,

T'irv wouM'nt stain an an.rl s check.

MUSEUM OF FORhlU.Y LITERATURE A.Y1) SX'IKXCE. THIS work is compost d entirely, as its titie implies, of selections from foreign Journals. A few words may show that it is however far from being adverse to our own institutions cr literature and that, on the

contrary, it may have an important effect hv

Oner this interesting ffirl. to preventing the dissemination of doctrines in

Whom T allude Was as happy aS discordance with the principles upon which' ii 1 1 iiUL., va3U3 W. our society is constituted. Some of the Brithe lot of humanity WOUld allow, tish Reviews and Mag azir.es, are reprinted She was admired and beloved by j this coutry exactly as they appear au h i I 1 . ii 1 home, and they, as well as those which are all wno Knew ner, ana wen sue ,,ot published here. embi acc much mnttor r

miflbt be, for she Was beautiful ' little interest and no advantage to our readnnd virtnoiiQ' hrr hrirt vm fllp and which i mt unfrwpitntly fitted to and MrtUOUS. UCr Heart was lUC tKlte their literary taste, their morals, or

saneiuary 01 truin. inno

. i . -1: . 1 . ..

aueeuons smKing to tne uravc.

Go not to courts of Justice, for

redress; ypu will be told that the

law cannot presume any damanes in such a case; you will be

reminded that it is the lot of hu

man beings to sicken and to die. ami that it mav hr thr ha nil of

Such. then, said Mr. llulbert. Providence that is pushing to the is the law of our country But it grave the object of your love No.

is not that law whieh protects the it is not the hand of Providence! innocent: and punishes the guilty; It is the poisonous breath of the it is not that law (to use the lan slanderer, that has reached and

guagc of Hooker.) whose voice tortured her heaft, and blasted

is the harmony ot the spheres, and withered her frame. Hut

and whose seat is the bosom of this fact you cannot establish it is

liod No, it is a law in direct beyond the reach of technical

opposition to all the dictates ot prool, and the felon slanderer.

sober sense to all the generous, like Satan in Eden, smilino- at the

noDle, and gallant feelings ot the misery he has created, stands ac

Heart. Quitted bv the law. fifnv vnnr

very

it 11 t

cence ana love, anu ner cnaracter was 'Pure and unsullied os the driven snow, IH- the bleak northern bb.t twice bolted o'er." "Rut the slanderer came, and

1 that character and that happiness ;

were blasted forever O, where should she fly for protection? To

the laws of her country? To the

temple of justice? No; those laws afford her no redress the doors

of that temple were barred against her. Should she fly to an affectionate Father? Alas, the clods

of the valley lay heavy on his heart; the arms that once would have smitten to the ground her vile and infamous accuser, was mouldering in the dust. Where, then, should she look forconsola tion? Surely, not this side the grave. She could only wait for death, and look to that place where the wicked shall cease from troubling, and the weary shall be at rest. And who is this tbat thus seat-

to

or

their political principles. But while it cannot be denied that there is in all thee foreign Journals, a large part of which consists of details and speculations which are uninteresting to American readers, or mischievous in their political or moral tendency, it is cquully certain that a considerable portion of tlieir coients is of general application and of interest and value, and that they embrace much that is in a very high degree interesting and curi us practicable, sound and able refined and elegant much that will excite thought 6c refine the imagination that willl " raise the genius cv mend the heart." And when we consider that the ereatcst uhiloso-

I phers and statesmen, as well as poets, critics

ami au oiuer men ot literature, now find the fieri. ihcul ftreas the channel through which

men opinions can be conveyed with the grea ¬

test certainty una titcct to the greatest num.

uer 01 men, it win appear very ewdent, that a knowledge of what is thus written and done abroad, is necessary to the successful cultivation of our own literature, and important to the politician, scholar and man of business, as well as to him who reads only for amusement. To persons who reside at a distance from the great depositories of New Hooks, and New Inventions, a work conducted upon this plan is peculiarly important, as affording to them an opportunity of keeping pace, in, some degree, with the progress of knowledge at a very trifling expense of money or time. Terms of publication. The Museum is published by K. Littell, Philadelphia. A numln r appears even month, and the subscription price is six dollars a year, payable in advuuc?.

V w w v J m w