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VOTE OF" ‘THE TOWN.

Arr a meeting of the freeholdere ‘and other inhabitants of the town of
Bosrolzgassembled at;Fanuei1 Hall, on Tuesday, the 4th day of J uly,

_ A.‘ DLIBEO, at 9 o’clock, A. M. and then adjourned to the Old South

Church, ‘

- ‘Vo'mD,___Thatd_the Selectmen be, and hereby are, appointed a come

m'it%tee,% to wait on W Txmononm LYMAN, jun’r. Esq. in the name of
the town, and thank him for theielegeant and spirited cOra.tion, this day

o deliveredby him et the request of ‘the town, uponthe Anniversary of
 Amelficanelndependence, in whicliwere considered the feelings, mam-

ners,' and principles, which produced thatgreat national event, and

% the important and happy effects, general and domestic, which have ala-

ready, or will forever, ﬂow from that auspicious epoch ; and to re:
quest of him a copy for‘ the press. '
,Attest,e THOMAS CL ARK, Town Clerk.

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True year, fellow-citizens, is one of the ﬁrst
;yea.1*s since the resiglxetion of Greneml Weslxingtonn

in 1’T97,,wl1e11 e1‘1theinl1ebitents of this town have

pmfessed a, political attachment to» the’ President of

the United States ; it is elso one of the first years
since the edoption of the Fedeml Constitution,
when it Wo111d1)e diﬂioult to ascertain the exact
<1‘iﬁ'e1*ences of state or town parties of the present
time, or to foresee those which Iney hereafter exist.

And the gentlemen, “Who l1evetl1oug11t ﬁt to assigns

to me the chxty of speaking the acidress cnstomary
on this oeeesioli, have beenselected by t11eir;fe11oW-
citizens, with a. slighit inequelity'a.s;to 11un1ber, from
those two celebrated parties, A Wliicil ~fo1~n1e1*1‘yMe1nbit-
te1-ed much of your doxnestieintercouxise,” and which
have never failed to manifest the political zeal jend

consistency that have ztlweysi A distinguished this

town.-—--Abovei i all, before enotlxer anniversary ef

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your independence again returns, the 200th year

will be completed since your forefathers landed at

Plymouth.’ I mention this as another great circum-
stance of harmony and thanksgiving, and it cannot
be remarked with too much admiration and grati-«
tude, that in less than two hundred years New»
England, first settled by those illustrious puritans,
has herself become an old country and annually
sends forth her children not to struggle on coasts
hard and forbidding like her own, but to settle the
richest portions of this Vast continent ; but what is
still more extraordinary, New-«England ﬁnds her-

self upo11 the approach of this 200th year happier,
yfreer, e and better united in feeling; and council than

in any one year which has gone before it. Ami.
upon this birth day of your independence may I not
speak of n the birth clay of this part of the nation
with exultation to men, who have been truly repub-
licans for two hundred years, whose forefathers
manifested as pure and steady and passionate love
of liberty in the 17t11 and 18th centuries as you have
done in the 19th.~—---It* is in vain to say that your
liberty or your republican institutions begun on the
ﬁlth July 1776. That blessed day did you no
other good than to make you independent as a

nation. But those institutions begun on the 31st

day of December 1620, that day, when those stout
hearted pilgrims ﬁrst setup their frail tabernacle in

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the 'WTll(1C-1‘l.1BSS , little divi‘uingtl1a,t hereefte1*se1*1no11s
rshetuld he preeclted, and ora.tio11s delivered, zmcl
edee etirxg to the praise of that event, and that 8.
great people, abounding in all the luxuries of life
:u1(l- acquainted with the history of all antiqtlity,
eheuld go mad visit that bleak stud‘ inhospitable
rock, as the treweller visits 21,11 a.11cientva,lley in the
eld World censeemtecl by tradition as the spot,
Where the feurrxclere of 21 greet empire were nursed
hay it Wild’ beast of the fereet. i

It is m10tl1er good Sign of th.e present yee1'tl1et
€‘«X.(3ltl3t?1lI1tbIli3 lies eeztsetl froln Without as Well f:tS,f1"0I1'1
within. The i’.ei'tl1i"u1 ship still peeees as safely
and t’1'eq_ue11htly :teresse the Atltzmtic, her sides awe
etill l.fH;’:§,l,ttL‘.I'l. by ‘gelee, 2u'1€l. her deck is etill ‘\"'WLttCl‘l.(5d
in lagrng; end (lttIlg(3»I‘0’l;lS 11iggl1.te'l)ytli1e seine bold
mld €5l1'tﬂI‘I)l'lﬁiIlg; n'1zt1*ine1*.e; but she now sails
ei”len.t*ly end unheedecl into your l1e1°b0‘urs, and the

l10'[15£4(b‘t()1')lS no 1o11ge1* erowcled to Item, if there be

111 me lmttlee of Merenggo, AL1St£51“*lit55; Leipeicl or
W:t'te:1'1«;)e. Time it is, the clay of Bttlletilae, Cos-I
seeks, Oztxnpeigne, Memllele 21.11411 Bivouecs is

pzteeetl, and that cl1a1*ecte1* bestowecl with such all-_

lnilrrmle precision upon the Atlxeniens ceases to be
peeu'lizm: to you. “ For all the Athe11ia11s mid S‘t1‘iL11-
;e;e1*.9 which were tl1ere, spent their time in nothing
e1se.,hut eith.e1* to tell or hear sometliing txewf’ t A

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i But here I come to a subject ‘Wl3.lCl1 is far from

being in liarlnony with the other delightful recol— V

leetions and circumstances of thisi day. It is due
to the early and keen enmity which your a11ees—-
‘tors, particularly in this town, always manifested to
slavery ; it is due to yot11'”ctl1aracters,t equally as
Christians, men and as republicans, and, if I may
say it with becoming respect, it is due to my own
fee»1i11gs, that I should speak of this subject with
earnestness and solemnity. l\/lore especially, as it
will seem vain and desperate in all future ages,
even the most reinote, to act or speak for liberty or
emancipation, when the A.1nerica11s, the freest peo-
ple in themost eiiligliteuecl age of the world, have
eonsentedto spread slavery over their cotmtry With-
out a limit as to time or in reality as to space; in
an age, too, when the most despotic goverunieius of
Europe have joined in it this holy league 2l«gﬂ.l],1.¥3i3
slavery, and me11,~ alike renowned for t;a1eut.s, learn-
ring and 1*elig.;ion have within a. sliort time come out
of a contest, which, with one exception, In as no
parallel for lellgtll and violence in the political
history of Great Britain, and have obtained a vote
in the British parliament, ‘Wl1lCl1, I am hold to say,
is not surpassed as to its good consequences to hu-—

y manity by a.ny_votepin the political history’ of any“

country. Jews and tRon1a,ns  bestowed at certain

intervals portions of liberty uponitheir slaves gm-b'x1.t ’v

ea»-n

Americans, wiser, freer and more enligliteiied, who
inscribe upon the tablets of their laws, the freedom
and equality of man, as the ﬁrst and main axiom
of the declaration of their independence and of their
state governments, and who declare that the birth
right can never be forfeited but by oﬁences against
society, these republicans have in a solenin law
scoffed at all liberty and equality, and at thehirth
of every man passed an attainder upon his blood of
perpetual toil and servitude- I speak not this in
reproach to man or men. The opinions and con-—
sciences of legislators ouglit to he as independent
and sacred as the opinions and consciences of con-
stituents. But it has fallen to my lot to record on
this occasion, sacred to the emancipation of man
and to every hope that goocl men feel for the safety

and Iltrosperity of their oo'1'11rrt;1*y, that disastrous vote a

of Uonpgress, VVlll(3l1 has put in eternal jeopardy the
tranquillity and security of the most fertile part of
o11rcount1*y.---«Is it nothingi that there shall live
hereafter millions‘ of people in tliose vast and fruit-«
fol regions, Where willhe found cities like Palmyra
and Nineveh, and ., when the rivers‘ Mississipi and
Missouri shall he more famous than  those great
rivers the Tigris and the Euphrates? Is it
notliing  that in those plains, separated by high

mountains and a ,g;reat eiiteiit of territory from_ the V

White population of the, Atlaantioip States,=. shall he

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eovered with vast multitudes acquai11te.dfro111 tlleir
childhood only with bondage and oppression.

Indeed, those must be heedless and imlifferent,

who are not ﬁlled with dismay at the thought of the
long days of misery and bloodshed, which, perhaps,
within a few months have been laid up in store for
these highly favoured regions. It may not be that
the trumpet of this jubilee shall always sound thus
joyfully tl1roughout the land. It may not be that the
servile wars, so frequent and well known among the
ancient nations, shall never be renewed in tliis.--—-«
But those nations were le1nphaticall.y lnilitaryr and
were constantly and alike girt for foreign battle as
well as for the foe within their own borders. And
it may not be that the speedy extermination almost
to the last man and child of a powerful and
Wealthy population in one of the larggest and most
fertile islands of the ocean shall be the only exam»
ples of terrible Veligeaiice on the records of these
centuries, over which the friend of man is called to
lament. Indeed, you may still see upon your own
hospitable shores a few of those unhappy men,
barely escaping with their lives in that dreadful
moment, and now condemned to wretchedness, pov-
erty, and long wanderings in foreign lands. In»-

A deed, I tremble for my country, says Mr. J eﬂ’erson

in one of the most eloquent passages in our lan-
gaxage, 4‘ I treinlile for my country, when I reflect

that God is just, that his justice oeuuotor sleep for-
“ever, that co11sitie1*i11g uumbers eiici nettuml me fine
Tonly an exeliange of situation is ainoiig possible
events. The Aliuigilty 113.18 no attribute, Whicli can
take side with us in such a contest.” A Hem then in
t.hi.é our.~=se and uhomiiietioii of s1a.ve1*y, liere is your
d1*ee€t mid Wop You have .110 cause to fea1*tl1ei11«
‘meioii of foreign 6118111165.‘. The1‘ey are already‘
ttioxig your shores the gloves, bearing the mines
'5£LIl(1d£3V"i(:e.S of fo1*ei.g11 netiolis, of gallant men enough
to serve 21S'€tl1,G'tB1*I12L1 Wu1'11i11g to ell, who sl1a,11l1ere-»‘
ufte1* attempt to set My it de.epe1'-e.te foot on your Soil.
You lmve étill less cause to fear for the safety of
the Union. ?Every year 11:18 luede this nation ﬁeer,
imore i11depe11d.eut eucl better united. There is

every your less diecortl in your national councils,

ieess (liet1*11.et in the succeee of uetiomti measu1*es,;
uml I as]: tlxdse, who umy look with e misgiviug
eye upon this olieewegtioxi, to 1*ea.d the history of
their country froln the time Mr. I"I2L11ﬂ1—1JO1’1 begttxi to
oomsoiidute the nzttiouul debt to the peace of Ghent
in 1815. The lewe uire every yeer better under»

stood and u¢11ui11iste1*e«3l, and that imnuunt of cola»

niul dispositioii and dependence, that even for many
y‘ee.1*s after the emeuoipetioli led this people to re-
gartl European nations as friends and Iwotectors, is
nowutterly absorbetl by at steady eylidi genlline ipa.-:
t1:-iotism. Not tlmt you shoulgl coeneu1tiwit11=sta.te;s~i
2 A V

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10

A men either from the north or south, Whose opinions

or interests 1_nay,for a moment have been shocked or
defeated, but go out and consult with the people both
from thenorth and south, and I believe, that I ven-—~
tore little illlsaying, that Whoever speaks after me
on this occasion,-.A will have abundant cause to thank
Heaveit, that the republic is still great, nncormptecl
and unshaken. p ; You, then, are as deeply concern-—
ed in tlieforebodingsy which it has been impossible
to repress on the present occasion, as the individ--
nals ainong whom they may hereafter be aocomw
plished.   Those individuals are yoL1roo1111t1*y1nen,

most of the desolation and ‘many of the battles of the

revolntioliary War took place a111o11gttl1em .-mA111ong;
them, too, is the tomb of yo111*VVasl1ingto11, and tl1ey,
too, are alike guiltless with yO111’SelVeS of llaving
ﬁrst b1*oL1gl1t the curse of slztvery on the nation.
There are few nations in the old world, who have

not sent hither some portion of their population and

some tinc.tureof their institutions, Whether good or
bad; still no pestilent tli.l1'lg, no truly permatlent
evil remains upon the land but slaveryﬁt

 The Colonists are by the law of nature free born, as indeed all
iznen are; white or black.‘ No better reason can be given for enslaving
those of any colour, than such‘ as Baron" Montesquieu has hurnorous-
ly given as the foundation of that cruel slavery exercised over the
poor. Ethiopians; which threatens one day to reduce both Europe and
Americe to the ignorance andpbarbarity of the clarkest ages. Does it
tiellow that it is “right to enslave ‘a man because he is black 3‘ "Will short:

ltlfi

But, on the other lxend, if the mttion has not sno-
eeetlecl in subdnillg all its prejudices, it is delight-
tul to reflect upon the conquest you have made over
the pl“-eea,ges and prejudices of the old WOI’l(l. It
is (lelightful, that you elmtlld no longer be heeet and
oppressed with the opinions, of European politicia.11s
as totlle tluretion of the republic. You need no
longer go 2tl1(l ask Dr. Price, if at restless and a.1nbi-
tious state will ﬁtmlly usurp all the powers and pri«-
vileges of the Unio11,or M. Mi1*abezu1,if the society
of Ci11c.i11.gmtti will he a, pe,trici2m,o1é(le1*, 2.1. “ military
1_1olJl,esse,” t'tSSl11Ilil]_,g,‘ to itself the estates and di§;11i«

‘ curled hair like wool instead of ohristl.en hair, as it lsvoallecl‘ by those

whose hearts are as hard as the nether millstone, help the argument?
Can any logical inference be drawn in favour of slavery from a fleet.
nose or a long or a ehort face 3 Nothing better oer; be said; in. favour
of a trade, that it is the most shocking violation of the law of nature,
has it direct tendency to diminish the idea of the irrestlmeble value of
liberty, and makes every cleeler in it a tyrant, from the dlrecforfof an
African company to the petty ehepmen tin’ needles “and pins on the

unhappy coast. It is a clear truth, that , those‘ who every day barter

away other tnerﬂs libertywill soon care little for their own. To this
cause muetbe imputecl that lfertooity, cruelty and brutal harberity
that has long marked the general character of the anger‘ islanders.

H They man in ggenerel form no icleeof government, but that which in

person or by an overseer, the joint end several pronerrepresentative
of e Creole and of the d \ l, is exercised over ten thousand of their

 

r fellow men, born with the same rightrto lheetlom, and the sweet enu-

joyments of liberty and,li_fe.as theiruynrelentingi task masters, the oven-

eeers and planters.” \

. -Otis,----p. 413, Ste. Boston, New Englam’l,‘1764l

The Rights of the British C'"oIomI:sts asserted amlcltprovnecl, by James

T2.

ties of the nation. It was useful and l‘t01101I1*ttl)lf3 at
the time, tlutt at defence of your constitution sltoulﬂ

'tha.veib;een p1'ep:.u:‘ed”en(1 eent forth to the imtiomés,
lthut eeven if other ineans of tlefeiioe ainl those, too,

of a. far cliﬁ’e1*e11thi11d‘(lidtuot now ebouml, I should

the gla.cl7to know if the Whole W01"l£l can h1;ingy 'fO1'tl1 a,

n1oreisa.tiefecto1~y defence of the he constitution, encl at
more beautiful illuetratioll of the 1°epuhliezu1 ec11e1ne,

than the example of the great 1,n2u1,ltoWhon1 I hzwe

just elludecl, Wliet lnore can be 'VVit11i;ll1g to show

tliet your 1-ulers awe republicans, thg;u1 the extaoimli-~

nary fact, that of the four men once st:.u1(li:11g at the
head of the nation, three of them still live in it usin-
tgulair privacy a11_tl iéetirelnent, icoveting; neit11er hon»-

ournor inﬂuence in town or country, ancl ])0SS(tS$i.l]g

neither ofﬁce, title, or 1)e11sio11 P Who asks now, it‘

the experiment of a,.1”fBp11l)llC' lies been lnede?

Those, who condesceml to notice you even in foxes
eign lends, e,1rea,cly Search for other ternie of re-«
preach, and no 1on,ge1~ exultilig in the spee.(1.yb1*eek-
ing asunder of the federal Union, content tlxeinselves,
forsooth, with the sorry rebuke, that the A1‘11e1"lC2”t1'l.‘3‘
have no poets, and that they h::we diecoveretl no con-e-.
stellations. W110 asks, new if this people has he‘
come a nation P Let such go to those famous seas,
that wash the shores, ‘where stood the celebratetl
and misnam ed republics of antiquity, '.iI‘he-re they
will ﬁnd lofty ships of War of the inmost beautiful
construction bearing the ﬂag of at people, wlxose

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iem.111t1'y lies 3000 miles beyond any el1orei_e-ven

lgmowu to the iuliebiteuts of those republics. Will
it not eifectttvitli Wonder and delight the brilliant
imaginations of the people, who now dwell in those

regions, that there sail upon their sees, that there

come into their l1tt1‘l”.)0l11‘*S tlioee lnagniﬁcent vessels,
‘visited, es they have been, by the ltiiage and empe-

frore of the ancient dynasties of the ea.i*th—---oue of
them bearing the name of the sn.viourofl1ie coun-
l31‘_‘)?‘ zmd the i'e.the1" of the 1*epublic,-—--and the other
hee1‘ing; the name of the greztteet [)l1il0SOI)l‘lE-1‘ of the
new ::u1d Western world. Surely it will eﬂ’ect tltoee
innztginutioile with it double wender and delight to
behold that ship, which the nntiou lies just sent
:l'o1-tli-~—-the mlglt)l1ltbSl2V’GSS(:§lHOW floating on the ocean
~-~—hezt1*i11g too the name of him, who diecoveredia,

V W()1‘l(l----ﬂ.I1(l eeili1tt1gt<“‘l>o fortlmt sen. upon the ehere of

Whieli he was lJo1:-n.,----'1‘rul;y,., this its at liomege Won-
thy of Columbue, and justly sent by e nation of
:t0,,000,000 of inhebitante in little more tlunu 300
gyenre after their country was ﬁrst seen by at Euro-
peaii eye. On the other hzu1dfea1~leeet::mcl :indefeti--
gable men I lieve penetrated across vast deserts and
over dangerous inounteine "to that broad ocean,

~wl1ich Washes thetgwo great continents of the oldest

and newest world, a,nld"heve thus appnoaehetl by

llnml those countries of Asia, which the vast genius

of Columbus taught him to do by water. At the
iM;m(1an v111aAggg%upon the lmnks of one of the gxeet

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rivers of that wilclerness, t'arther relnovccl from the

spot, Where you are now assembledg than half the a

breadth of that great ocean Whica your aecestm-e
crossed, and, again, as far removed from that other

great ocean, which also serves to divide the Wotltl,

there your llardy and intrepitl countt~y111ienll;1ave
ﬁxed and securetl a new boumlaiéy to the republic;
like the Romanlegions, sent tom: to ehcamp aiiiohgg
the ba1'*ba1'ians,l Whether of First or Pelrthian, and to
cause the eagle to be respected at the uttermost limit
of the empire. i If such revolutions shall take place
in this country as have taken place in Europe, there
may be no other Way ltereafter of designating the
spot of an American encampment but by a few"
coins of the"i*epu.hlic or bro1{e11 ixistmments‘ of War
found lJI11“iB(l and Wasting in the eattli.

And shall it be of no account to nieetien lxere,
that the American ﬂag has been unfurled on the

plain of Ma1*atl1o1a, under that i'ai1* and pure sky of
A Greece 29 Shall it he of no account to say, that la
a frigate, hearing the name of the liation, has cast

a.ticho1* in the Piroeus, the l1a1*l)ou1* of Atllens, and
the first clear and gentlel Waves, that came against
that ship, had passed but a few moments before ever
a spot, Where was Won the greatest naval victory in
in the cause of freedom I’ From the quarter deck of
that ship, your countrymen could see those splem
did ruins, still as fair and beautiful as the day when

themarhle was drawn from’ the quarry, and the

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“wom"lert'ul work of a small city, placed in a. narrow
di.et‘riet and lmown by e proverb for its sterility for
more the.u 3000 years. There reey lmve been those
e.mong; them , who saw in that eight one more of the
numerous forerunners of that destiny, which may
elike await you. The laws of the Medes and
fPersi2ms have clleugged. Of mzmy of those mighty

cities, Whose reeewn ouee ﬁlled the world and to

Whose merts merchants came from the most distant
parts of the earth, there now exists scarcely any
remnant beyond a. few coarse bricks nlzwkecl with
mysterious el1e1*eete1's; and on the ieo11tra.ry, so
unzteeou11tztble is the history of the revolutions of
him], that there are found in the deserts of the
Eztst vest fehrielrs, constructed with at power
erul. an art beyond the eomprel2e11eio11 of modern.
erelrniteete, ihhrielrsz es lestiug eml Lluelxang-ed as the
deserts upon whiell they et:.u1d, zmd Whose builders
end ohjeeste ere ee unknown as i the nations that
lxere ouee peopled those deserts. Is there then

l'.ttJ‘l3l}lI'lg to re you P Eilmll all this virtue, liberty

eml intelligence perieh l’1:-om the feee of the earth,
tlepe1*tee it scroll, when it is rolled togetl1er~ '5‘
Little truly would it delight and profit the trav-

eller_, if in every" fallen well and shattered co»  

tumn he only sew 2u1otlrze1*&type‘of the contli-—
tion of his clietmlt and beloved country. Yesl
my friemle, let 1.1.9 believe that in your religion
ee'fety mey the found for your republican insti-

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ttotione. Not one of those netionss, that limit-*

hracetl cl1risti2mity, has yet (lieeppeared like the
nations that existed before them, and only one still
1*en1eio.s in the object and deplorable comlitton. in
which it was at the time that clat'istiemit.y was to-
vealed.‘ ‘Let uehelieve, toot that .enothe1* safegnartl
mey be fountl in the purity end peculiarity of 3,-our

tlomestic laehite-=-hebite unlmown to the ancientt

netions.j The rluties and reletitxtle of teen eml
Vvife, of 1)€t1’(’}1’ltS and children, and that eiofgnlzt1*
zu‘1t1l1elloWe(l atinellmettt, which every mm in this
country has to lltlﬁ home and ﬁreeicle, are the beet

pledges,_ fer "bettet~t1m11 domestic gods or the smoke

7 ed itnages of ::u1ce.etoI*s, put up in the halls of your

houses, that you will always love Wlttla it pure and
sincere love the count1*yin lwhich you are bor11,~:~
end the rule:-s you lmve appointed to rule over you,;

It is not unl)ecoming;, nncl Itruet, th::tt it will not
be without its good purpose to ellucle here to st
1nostconspic‘no11s anitl melancholy (lepartore from
those moral laws, which you account of such lligh
value and import. It is not unbeconﬁng, imtsnmell‘
as that liberty, which you now enjoy and which
you are now :.tssemhled%% to celebrate, received ite
birth and chief and constant support from the 1*e1i.~
gions tenets and conduct of your ancestors. Gon-
Sidering then the high moral and 1*eligiot1s clm1*act~
ter in W11ich‘;you take so just a, p1°icle,ftt becoxnee

A the  duty oftlxose, who address you on this occasion,

it

to hold out to your rebuke and indiggnation every
§)ublic deviation f1'oIn that morality and religion, as
ttrell as every setting at nought the political iighte
er the ca1zens.- t:e‘u11.we11 doI know, that if it
had been left to you to choose the spot, Where the
gallaixt1nan,,toWl'io1n  have just alluded should
fall, j/‘ed Wouldnot have chosen a sod of his native
soil; nor would you have chosen a spot, wliere

their death shots could be heard in the halle of the i

legislators of the republic ; much less would you
have olioeen, that the hand, Whic.l1 gave the death»-
wound, shmild have been the hand of‘ a countryman
and comrade in arms. Better rvould it have been, if
that p1*ociot1el.ilood hadbeen poured out on the broad
deck of his ship, an olilering to his country, and not
upon“ the fair pure surface of his native land, an offer-
i11g to pritrate resentment. Better Woiilditllave been,
if that exalted spirit had fled avifay in the midst of
Contagion and (lisease----ii” twice in the same year,
the nxessenger of death had come up and said to

yell, aga‘in another of your clioseli cliildrellllas

quailed unde1- the pestilence of a distant climate,
and again a eecond tomb is abandoned to the rude
and uncertain". care of strangers in a foreign land.
Above all, far better would it have been,if the
great and salutary example, new on the records of
your navy, had been properly heeded. If at this
time We could say to you, another of those brave
men, alike high in rank and alike known by brill-V
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iantsuccesses over the enemy, hart publicly and in the
presence of an American ﬂeet Withhel_d himself from
submitting to that practice, which has, within a few"
years, deprived this country of one of its most eminent

stateslnen and on e of its most (listinguished oﬁicers.

Inthe last place, it cannot be concealed, that a
‘considerable uncertaintyehas at last settled ‘upon
the true interests of l3l1lS.COUJ1l3I"y._ The repose and;
poverty of E_urop,,e now operate like a great and

  fatal embargo upon your commerce, and the wealth

which that commerce has been prepa1*i11g the last.

thirty years, is new partly absorbed in projects for
domestic manufactures. Few can have been so
headless and indifferent as to have overlooltecl the

rapid and unforeseen authority, which thatbranch

i of Wealth has acquired in the national councils and

in the breasts of the citizens, Itpweuld not be easy

stop recount to you the vast and continued efforts,

macle, more especially in the middle states, for the
protection of manufactures, but no one can have
passed by Without solemn notice the vote, recently
given in Congress on the subject of the Tariff bill,
sen it will avail little to pass Tariﬁ' bills, if the
present signs in Europe forebode more wars and

commotioI1s,When American Wealth and enterprize  
i will go back to commerce, and American commerce
4 will be as widely, spread and as productive as it
iewas in the year 1808. Agriculture, too, has made
aprogress equally great, and successful. Agricn.1~»

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tnrel societiesgere now established on the Berlrshire
plan, if 1 am rightly infoimetl, in every county of
New England, except in the state of Rhode Island
"**""":iI'l every county of the state of News Yo1'l{5 antl
much has been done for the same good ipuyrpos-w in
Pennsylvania, Mztrylantl, Virginia, North and

South Caroline, Kentucky, Ohio, and even in the
new state of Illinois. Here then is another in?-
stence putting to slmtne the notions of the econo-a

mists. In this America. hasbnt followed the splen»
did exzunples of those rich countries of Italy and
.Engla,n(l, ancl by the extent and success of her corn-—
merce she has prepared funds for the esteblislunent
of 1n2u11;1l’z;1ctu1*es and the perfectio,n of agmicnlturey.
The present years, therefore, abound in clmnge as

to the commercial interests/of this country. Em»-
l.)o1'goies and were checked but for a time the, pro-

gress of onebmlich of industry, but the present feel-,
ings of the people eml the disposition of the popu-

lar and powerful limb of the government e1)peo§1* l to
beprepering to set in a total] y opposite course renal
vocation at large portiton of the commercial capital,
enterprise, and intelligence of the nation. In the
rnean time it becomes you to Watch patiently and

steadily in the porch till the; Waters shall be stir-

rrecl, and to recommeml to your legislators to reﬂect

‘well, before they consent to en xneasure, which will

b1*ing- about the decline of your comm erce encltlte
rlecay and downfall of yonrrnevyt

Tt1eseyea1*stoe, a1)pea1° to abeumt in clemge 
to the political state of Europe. It has not been?
etltﬁeiexlt that the Scythian, who 11eve1' comes dmvn
into Europe, but when an empire is te” tae over’-"
thrown, and ‘vvhe seems to be kept in the north by
the hem} of Gred, as an zmgel of 1;Gtt‘i.bl1ti0l1, to be
b1*e11g11t forth at the interval of ages in mder to 1'e’-
press the ambition of individtmle‘ mt te restore the
equality of m1.ti011e,tt“t has not been stxtﬁeiettt that

hehas gone back to those remote, u11t«:n'mt/11, emit

tulbounded eteppee beyentd the Berysthenee zmd the.
well of China---[it has not been eufﬁcient to ctmiin

V the gimtt to the rock of St. Helena. The spirit mt

t'efo1*n1etienie in the people, aml that 111it§_..ghi;y zmtt

‘t'WOI1dE'.1‘fl11 luau came t11p])11ta;S e. g1*eeta;11d st1*ong it:-»

.~;~;t1*ume11t to I12:tete11 aleilg and to r’em1e'r mere ter1*i'b1‘e
and effective} that mimc1’1t0t1e 1°eVe111t.ion, ef Whi ah
the end and the mezming; seem at 12-’tS't3 to be in full
eccomp1ish111etnt and develepelnent. }i<‘ra,11ce, ‘Be-~
‘w3.1*ia;, Spain and seveml of the elnetl states of G631’-~
mztny have a11'eady received free c011stitutio11s, 3.116%,
I trust, that every one, who sh.‘ It come up heve

“ettceessively toedd1'ese you, VVi11‘ht"L“V6 other court»-

tries to 611111I1e1‘EL‘t6’ﬂ111S rescued f1‘O111 bad govem~

A ments,%ti11a.t1a.et that spiri't of i11de_pe11de‘nce anti

1'ef01'1na.tio11, which begun in A111eric.a,,t shall lmve
epread peaceably and 1)e1°1mment1ythreughotlt the
elmlstien and civilized world. A We