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same proportion. T1 Persons sending Advertisements, must specify the number of times they wish them inserted, or they ill be continued until ordered out. and must be paid for accordingly. THE BROADSIDE. Concluded. The address itself, of inordinate length. nd stormy and swaggering in its ?pirit, is no doubt the production of Mr. Barbour; and lie has thoroughly imbued it with the hoarded venom of years. The spleen of the "Earl" may be forgiven his vocation is gone; hi-i Secretaryship enjoyed by another; recalled from. his nussiou to England; de ffated in his attempts to gain a seat in the Ijoeixlature of Virginia; in short, al! his political power and prospects having wither cd away under the triumph of the republican party, he may be safely indulged in vent ing his resentment against Gen. Jackson. It must afford him a temporary respite from the ravings cf the pent up storm, which the lea,t humane of his opponents would be too charitable to withhold from him. Hut that The body of distinguished men, by whom he was surrounded the elite1 of the National Republican corps should have given their sanction to a chain of calumnies, linked together by the shameless spirit of faction, like the one before us, presents a melan choly instance of the extent to which the finest intellects may be depraved by mad dened ambition and the abject servility of its satellites. 1 he address is without digni- ' ty or decency ; it exhibits none of the ex panded and elevated mews of the states man. It affirms, it is true, in the bitterness cf reproach, that our country is disgraced and ruined, and it sobs and groans piteously over the wreck; but it has net condescended to designate the department in which tins misrule originated, nor has it pointed out nv great fundamental principle of the gov crnment which had been trodden upon by the administration. Harrow minded and querulous initscharacter.it has searched the sewers ct political huh, and seizing with avidity upon every calumny that, tor years. lias fallen from a prostituted press, it has adopted and embodied them, and sent forth .the foetid mass as a Statesman's liht. It is

V really but the dull, stale slang of the newspapers, dressed up in a Sunday garl with ?n ugh of gaudy tinselry to divert the super- , ficial eye from the hollow ness of the sub 1 ftance it covers. The follow in? is a fancy sketch cf the condition cf the United States under the rule of Messrs. Adams and Clay: "No President ever entered on the duties of his office under circumstances more favorable to a successful discharge of them than the present incumbent. The country, thanks to Providence and to the ability and good fortune with which the public affairs

bad been earned on by preceding Administrations, wnsina high state of prosperity. All the public establishments, and all the ;reat branches of private industry were in the most flourishing condition. Agriculture was rapidly extending itself in all directions, mid particularly through the wide and fertile regions of the West manufactures were advancing with unprecedented rapidity commerce, internal and foreign, was animated with a corresponding igor our relations with foreign powers were of the most amicable character at home, tranquility am! general contentment pervaded every corner of the Union the parties that jormerly divided the citizens and distracted the country, had, in a great measure, become extinct under the operation of time the growing prosperity of the mtion, and the judicious and liberal conduct cf the Government." Were ever more eleiiberatc misrepresentations crowded into a smaller space? hat a compliment is here paid to the intelligence and patriotism cfthe American people, who indignantly hurled from power an administration that had erriched its country with audi a multitude of blessings! "all the public establishments were in the mi ficurishV;';'.fT ccndniin"! Let the labors of the comTtiittee on retrenchment answer this. They velope a mountain of profligacy and extravagance under whose weight the admin istration, with all its talent and patronage, funk, to rise no mote. Tobv Wat kins. from his prison grates, together with a hst of peculators, hear ample testimony to the reckless, electioneering prodigality cf the lat administration, and to the searching vigilance and puritv of the present. "Agt icultute was rapidly extending itself all directions, and particularly through the wide and fertile regions of the wet'! ti) fat from this extension being promoted by Mesr Adams and Llay.it had, m its progress, to contend against ev ery discouraetnetitjnnJ embarrassment that a blind, btgcttd devotion to the manufacturing ir.U i -est could device. Mr. Uwli, then Vcretary of the Treasury, under the countenance or r fcecuwve. a- tl .lb. TV

pressing upon Congress the necessity ct checking the tide of emigration to the wet ai d of enhancing the price of the public lands, in order that the surplus population A

the North and East, might, with their ener s;ies abused and eb graded, be retained, pent up in penury in the manufactories, upon whose forced and premature importance the administration strove to build up a gloty and a name. 'Commerce internal and foreign was ani mated by a corresponding vigor"! The loss of the West India trade is a sufficient com ineutupon this idle boast. At home, tranquility and general content ment pervaded every corner of the Union"! If so, why was the administration over thrown by so decided an expression of public disapprobation? While the sound of that eventful struggle is not yet died awar, and every mind is still embittered by the memory of the feuds and conflicts ol that period, vr had not supposed there was any so harcfeneu V as to venture an assertion, which evorv hild in the streets can contradict. sooner were Messrs. Adams and Clay installed into office, than a general burst of popular resentment was heard throughout the Union. The people proclaimed that the constitution had suffered a shock and that the liberties of the nation were in danger. The Union rocked to its centre during the fierce and mighty conflict which followed a struggle that roused and enlisted all partics, creeds ana conditions; the common charities and civilities of life, the warm obligations of private friendship, the sweets ct social intercourse, were all forgotten, and trodden upon in the tumult of popujas filing. It was not faction, nor the selfishness of ambition, which may agitate a village or convulse a city, but the mighty ocean of pub-, lie opinion was stirred in its depths by tV' maddening sense of violated right which burned in the bosoms of the American eople. Yet this the Address calls "tranquility" "a general contentment." At one moment, under tluit rash and ill guided ad ministration, we were on the verge of domestic war; and Mr. Adams in the plenitude of his patriotism, was heard to menace the authorities of Georgia with an invasion, and to claim by "a higher than human authority," the t ight to butcher her citizens Aggravated by insult and injury, the peopk of the south, more than once met, tocaicu late the value of the Union? Was this "tranquility" "and contentment"? The suspicions of the people, once awakened, diey instituted a scrutiny into the acts of the administration, which resulted in detecting every where abuses of the most flagrant and alarming character. These discoveries added fuel to the flame of discontent which the election cf Mr. Adams had kindled m every state and neighborhood in the republic. The contest gathered wrath and violence as it progressed, and an administration which had been formed, upon the most profligate and selfish calculations of ambition; which had been conducted in misrule, amii the hisses and curses of the people, was lit length overthrown, by an effort, which, con tinued a few years more, would have dis-M solved the Union. That Gen. Jackson entered upon the administration of the go' ernment, under circumstances which enabled him to be eminentlv useful to his countrv, will be frank lv conceded; but this ability was promoted by his predecessor, in no other manner than as the culpit superinduces the usefulness of the judge and the executioner. After recounting, with its general veracity, the various means by which the republican party secured its triumph, the address sketches, in the following terms, the feelings with which the opponents of the President viewed his entrance upon the discharge his pivblic eluties. V "Suffice it to remark, that the change was effected in form at least ir. a legal and constitutional way; and, however justly offensive the circumstances that brought it about, might, cc must have been to the friends of the last administration; however deficient the present incumbent might have been supposed to be in the qualities most requisite for the station to whk.h he had been rai sed. 'tis believed that when he entered om his r fece, there was no disposition in any portion cfthe people to commence a prema ture or factious opposition to his measure" It wasalarmitnr euouirh to prudent and well meaning men, that the government cf the countrv had fallen into such hands, and far from attempting to perplex or embarrass the administration, they would have rather lent all the aid m their power, to carry the country safely through so dangerous a crisis.' We are much indebted to the 'nationals,' for the admission that the President was clected in a constitutional manner. The hint that it was but a mechanical compliance with the 'forms' of the constitution, doesnot lessen our obligations for this precious confession. Wc are too familiar with their reluctance to own the most palpable truths of historv, to complain cf this s'ight exhibition of obstinacy on such a delicate subject. Hut how will Mr. Clay's course tally with the declaration, that "there was no disposition to commence a premature or factious opposition to the measures" of the President? The sound of the cannon announcing the inauguration of the General was still ringing over the waters of the Potomac-not a measure of the new government was broughtTfyrward; not one of its principles develorjTed, when Mr. Clay, shorneof his powerjjwnounced in the city of Washington a philippic against the President, which, for acrimony and recklessness of feeling, Mis litu? short of his "war, pestilence and famine," invocation at Baltimore. He denounced the administration by wholesale, charged the President with incapacity, rebuked the devotion of the people to the 'chicfuanV interest; and, groping his darkling waythrough the tombs of the past, in the bitterest mood of foreboding, pointed out the ruins ! of all the republics that have ever fallen, as j t pes a:vt shadows of the melancholy lute that awaited us. And, as he journeyed homeward from the citv, like the Parthian, lie threw bis poisoned darts behind lti.n j tv rknint. nnd venting his tU remcnttous at eve stimulating h.s iiv::td to prosec cute in con d!en .-:r. the v.

"retaliation." Hundreds cf presses in his utersrst caught the impulse, and from hence-forward, the vandal war open character, upon truth and decency, was watd y his followers. I he reputation of every ft iend of the executive, no matter how stainess, was swept into the vortex; every measure of his administration, however ptrio'ic in its conception or salutary in its effects, et with regular and systematic opposition. Woman, whose fame every manly impulse .-ud generous charity of the heart, bid us herish and protect, was hunted down and bagged from her fireside, upon the political nrena, as a fit victim to the remorseless spirit f faction. In truth, the adminitration advanced under embarrassments, and surmounted difficulties, unexampled in our his;orv; but it advanced in triumph, be cause it enjoyed the confidence of the people; and us measures, pure and enlightened, have iulfilled the hopes, which that confidence inspired. But was not the opposition "pre

nature" was it not "f ic.ii us" being in contempt of the public will, us solemnly ex pressed, after a eiiscusion of four years? The people ill believe so, whatever may be the asseverations cf the followers of Mr. Clay to the contrary. The atUess, proceeding to a discussion, r rather, condemnation of the course of the administration, details in succession the acki eyed objections w hich are to be found n all the opposition papers. There is no new dish served up arnrng the dainties of this political banquet "Proscription" is the theme most harped upon, and to which Mr Bitbour's sensibilities are, perhaps, most keenly alive. Thu principle of "rotation in nice is fiooteu at, ana me l'resif.ent is ( barged with guilt beyond measure, for the dismissals which have taken place un crhis ulmistration. If these di-mials hav e been indiscriminate, as asserted bv the address, it : i . t r - . .'. .i. . iui invuuc ini ius (i u!i'.r;:utT. aim uie (juestion resolves itself into one oi'nofm-ty or no firoficrty in the ehr. cs held; a question no sooner stated than decided by the people, it could not have been expec ted that the nembersof the old cabinet should have been retained; they 'uere in all their hopes and resolves, the impNcvhle enemies of the President. Of on:- diplomatic corps, we beieve but two mi inters were rccullc d Mr. Barbour fiom Lnglaiid and Gen. Harmon from Columbia. The fo tner was a "broken down" minister, wh.i had utterly failed ii the objects of his mission; his success n has accomplished them to the fu!ht extent of Mie whiles ot the Aim ric..n g o eminent, and lias thc.s proudly vindicated die policy of the change I l.e l.itt'-r from an uinmthoi -i zed inter ferem e with the intcteal aifaiisof the government to which he was acct edited, had become odious to the amhorities of the republic, and was thus stripped cf every influence. He made no Dririess towards accomplishing the obj cts of the negociation. His successor, Mr Moore, fiom his polite and conciliating course, huis established rcla tions of the warmest friendship and confidence between the two nations. The wis dom of the removal is abundantly testified bv the result. Air. Middletnn whom tir Viddress represents, as having been "abi uutly recalled," from St. Petersburg!!, vclun tardy returned, and is now, if we mistake irtjt, amone the friends of the President. The accidental and unforeseen illne;s of his successor jeopardised no interests of the republic; we had no ru-gociation whatever pending with the Cz.-ir; and the wild pro jeet of usit g our influence with him in behalf of ftee principles; or in other words, remonstrating against the subjection of his revolted provinces, would, from its Quixotic, visionary character, not only have exposed us to the jeers of the world, but hare drawn down on us the jealously and h ue of the most potent of the transatlantic sovereigns. Th- ( y Hewing arc the disparaging terms in which the splendid success cf the President, in our foreign t vtu'icns, are alluded to: "In the conduct of !? fire'irn affairs. their has been, however, ".u aiturance cf 4 success, in consequence of the fact that several arrangements wi:h foreign power?, which had been maturce!. anil in save instances concluded, under the preceding administration, have been made public under this." "An af firarance cf'tvcccts"!! The "Na- ' tionals" will long have to lament that some such "appearances did not distinguish the administration of Mr. Adams, which might have operated powerfully to redeem it from the gulph into v hich it was hurried by its follies and ices at home. Will any have the unblushing effrontery to conte nd that the brihar.t results of the negotiations with Knglang, France, Colombia, brazil, Denmatk and Turkey, were "matin ed" by Mr. Adam4-? He lias never been charged with anv lack cf anxiety to blazon his services; vet in his messages, and the various other channels of communication enjoyed by himself and friends, no hint of there labors is dropped. He 7.n. that he had lost the W est India trade, and that he had in vain pressed our claims for indemnity upon France anel Colombia and the American, people have now, fertile first time, learned that any progress was making in the attainment cf the objects of the other missions alluded to. The assumption of the Address on this subject is grat uitous, and is a foul attempt to rob the administration of honors, the reward of arduous and trying public services, as durable as the justice of the country. The adJrcss furnishes proof conclusive, that, on the tariff question, the 'Nationals' have taken the 'tack," and bowed to the lorcc of public sentiment Twelve or eighteen months since, no objection against the President was urged with such warmth, and relied on with such a show of confidence, as his recommendations that the tariff should be modified. Hut, now, the song has ceased;' Mr. Clay has "comeoer,M and the convention, obedient to the '-signs cf the times, paises the tanll question, in I gtlvrdcd silence. - ! A desperate attempt is made in the ad dress, to excite public feeling agcinstthe

President on the 4Ikr k qucsticn." 1 be plorablc state of things in the Contentriend of that institution have tr.o much! tj0n. Debates had run t igh. coi Aiding sagecity and lorr sight to identify i's fate j opinions v ere obstinately adhered io, cnwith that ot Mr. Clay or any ol the states lincsitits u?ie kivdling, seme of the men that arc clirgmg to the wreck ol ; members were threatening to go heme, his fallen foilurcs Arcntwalof the ! ard, at this alarming crisis, a t'issoluiion present charier, with proper modifies of the Cc.nver.ticn was hourly to be aptions, it is co- fidcntly believed wH meet pithei d d. Instructed in ihee particu-

tne apprcbaiicii ol the huecu'ive Should this occur, in the course ot the present ression, (ar d it will in all prcl a bility.) the oppr si ion will then be lelt j "without a loop io bang a hope upon." j The "Indian bilt" is made to cut s ! conspicuous figure in the recital of oui national disateis, and the President is openiv denounced lor failing to n ake war upon the State ot Georgia, a his predecessor had threatened to do, by d:vnc right That this measure origit atcri with the la'c administration, wc have often proved by relerence to General Porter's Report It has removtd a "bene of contention" between the State and National government, rrd provided a home lor those unfortunate Indian tribes; who are oppressed and rendered wi etch ed by the mere progress ct civilization. The option is presented, to remove, o submit, like the white men around them, to the laws ol the States within whose teniioties they reside and, it is net tiue, as has been asserted, that the tutlmriiies ot Georgia have ever employed fence, or that the president has countf nance-d its employment, to compel the Indians to remove. The language o' the bill passed by Tonprcvs, and every act of the state and na ional gove i.mcnts in the cxtcutiou of its piovbions, conlu'e this stale c a. uti r y As to the endeavor made to heap odiun upon Gen Jackson, became a lew dr. Glided, lanustic missionaries have, lor llgian? breaches nf the penal laws of Georgia, been imprisor.ed. it is too f3rsicn: :o merit a passing notice. The gtea' Mogul hd gteat an agency in the transaction as the; Pic&idem. It was th right of Georgia to e xor an oith of aHe giance from all her citizens, and to an nex to a refusal to take it, such ptnalti as her Legislature might derm prudent The refusal ot these missionaries to ak it, shows that the object of their re si cience there, was incompatible with fide'it y to the government. It is better lhaf they should suffer a slight punishment lor their blind and treasonable obstinacy than that the Indians, excited by theii fatal enthusiam, should dt then their soil with the blood of the whites Irum tiL Lout on Daily AdveriUtr. CONVEMTO' rcnrODMINCTHF COSTITUTION OF TIIL UMTLD STATES. JFroni Sfia'k's Life of Gouverneur jMortts, now in Press J Having resided seven years in Pennsylvania, since tie ceased to be a member or Congress, Mr. Morris was eonsidcrtc! a citizt n, and was elected one of the dele gates trom that State to the Comtr.tio loi forming the Constitution of the Uni ted States The Convention assembled at Philadelphia, in May, 1767, and con tioued together more than tour months before the Constitution was completed. As there is not a note or memorai dun among his papers, indicating his acts it the Convention, cry little cr.n be said on that subject In a letter to Colonel Pic keting, wiittcn 'wo years before his Ceatl he remarks: "While I sat in the Con icntion, my mind was too much occupied by the interests of our rountiy, to kecj notes ol what we had done. Some gen tlcmen, I ws to d, passed their evening? in traosciibing speeches from shoil hand minutes of the day. My facullic s u ere un the stretch to further rur business remove impediments, obviate objection, and conciliate jarring op;nions." In sun dry letters to his friends contained in hi published cor i espondence, and writtei after cons'ilutional questions began to b much agitated in Congress, particularly one to Mr. Walsh, he explains his views oo those topics, and alludes to the pro ceedings of the Convention, but this only in general terms, and rather as an inter preter of its intentions, than a histoiiar: of it deeds. Thus destitute of the written or prin ted materials on thin sul jret, I arp'icd to Mr. Madison, the cn'y survivor of tire list of worthies, who attended the Cor. vention, and signed the great charter o' union andfrctdom. Ti.e following art extracts ot a letter to Mr. Madion "It is said by several persons w ho pro fess to know the fact, that the Cons:itu tion in its present form and language i Irorn the pen vf Gouverneur Morris; that, after ail the debates were finished, and each part had been adopted in substance the instrument was put into his hands to be wrought into proper pbiaseology and style. His friends are in the habit o thinking, that much is due to him for the clear, simple, and expressive language, in which the Constitution is clothed. "The following anecdote is also cur rent. Whilst the Convention was it ting, Mr. Morris was absent for several days. On his return to Philadelphia, he called at the house of Robert Morris, where he found General Washington, who as well as Hr bert Morris, was much dejected al what they rcgatelcd Uc tic

Pars. tjouTcrneur Morris went into the

Convention em ti t day follow it g, ar.el pnke with such eloquence ar d powert on the ntce ssily oUir ion, of partial saeri fices and temperate discission, that he contributed n uch to woik a chanpe in the Iceling of the members, which was ti e means of rcttoring harrrony. and ultimately of attaining the objects of the Convention. It is added, that, ts his absence had presented his partaking . f the warmth which had been excited by the previous discussions, his courscl and c olness hat. t!.e grca er c 0'ct.,, Cencernirg these points, and in reply to the queries on others, Mr Madison wrote an answer, which every reader will uc glfid to see entire, Moktpflier, April 8th, 1831. "Dear Sir I have duly received your letter ol March 30th. In answer to your inquiries rejecting the p3rt i.cttd by Governeur Morris m the Federal Convention of 17S7 and the political c.octrines maintained by him, it may bo justly aid, that he was an able, an eloquent, and an aciiv e member, and shared i.rgely in the discussions tuccecdirg the Ut cf July, previous to which, with the t:xcep?mn of a few of the early days, ho as nt sent. "Whether he accorded precisely with the 4poiitical doctrines ot Hrmdion, I cannot s.y. lie certainly did not 'incline o the dtmceratic side,' and ws very rank in avow V g his opinions, v hen most atariance with those prevaiiirg in the Convention -He did rot propose any outline of a constitution, as was done by Harrilton; hut contended for certain aricles, (a Senate for life particular lv) which he held essential, to the fctobnity .u d energy e.f a cve:r.n: ent, capab v cf protecting the lights cf preperty against ffe spirit ed democracy He wished to ii ake ihe weight of wealth balance lh2t ol iiijifbers, which he pronounced to bo the on'y e iijctual security to each, against the encroachments of the other "1 tie Jinitft given to the s'ylc ?rd arrangement cf the Ccnsritutton fairly belongs to the pen of Mr Morris; the tas-lc, having, probably, been handed over to dim by the chairman ot the Conmitttef himself a highly respectable member, and with the icaely concurrence of the others. A better choice ccuid net have r-ecn rrade, as the performance of the task proved. It is true, that the state of he n aterials, consisting of a reported draft in detail, and subsequent reso'u'iona accurately penned, and falling easily into iheir proper places, was a good preparation for the symmetry and phraseology of theinstrumenr, but there was sufficient room lor the talt-nts and tas'e stamped by the author on the face of it. The ale ra'ions rnadc by the Committee art not iccollectcd. They were not men as to impair the merit ot the composition. Those, verbal and ethers, made in the Convention, may be gathered frcm the Journal, id vi;ile found a'ro ro leave -he, merit altogether unimpaired. "The anecdote you mcmirn may rot :c without a foundation, but no: in the ..xunt supposed. It is certain, that the return of Mr. Morris to the Convention was at a critical stage of its proceedings. The knot, felt as the Goidisn one, was the question between the larger ar d rhe smaller State?, on the rule ot voting in the senatorial brrnch of the legislature; the latter claiming, the former opposing, the rule of equality. Great 2cal and pertinacity had been shown cn both sides, and an equal division of votes on the question had been reiterated ami pro'onged, till it had become rot only diTtssing, but seriously alarming. It wag tiring that period of gloom, that Dr. Frankiin made the proposition for a reigious service in the Convention, an account of vhich was so erroneously given, with every semblance of authenticity, through the Na.ior.al Intelligencer, several years ago. The crisis wts not over, when Mr Morris is said to have had an interview and cenversatinn with General Washington and Mr. Robert Morn, uch as may well have occured Hut it appears that, on the day of his re-cnter-mg the Convention, a proposition had been made from another quarter to refer the knotty question to a Committee, with a view to fome compromise, the indications being manifest, that sundry members from the larger States were relaxing in their opposition, and that some ground cf compromise was contemplated, such as f:nal!y took place, and as rosy bo seen in the printed Journal. Mr. Morris wa in the depi;r.io from the large state, of Pennsylvania, end combatted the compromise throughout. The tradition is, howetfu, correct, that, on the day of his resuming his srat, he sotered with anxious feel'mg into the debate, and, in one of his speeches, painted the consequencei of an abortive result to the Convention, in all the deep colors suited to ti e occasion. Hut it is not believed, that any material irfiucnee cn the turn, which things to!k culd be asxribxd:o hisf-