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We will ding to she Pillars .t Lhe Temple .f our Liberties, and if It Sast fali, we will Perish anidst the Ruin." VOLUME VI. -E fte u t ouse, . C., Iar S c S, 1841. 30.7. EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER BY W. F. DURISOE,-PROPRIETOR. TERMS. -Three Dollars per annum, if paid in advance-Three Dollars and Fifty Cents if not paid before the expiration of Six Months frotn the date of Subscription and Four Dollars if not paid within twelve Months. Subscribers out of theState are required to pay in advance. No subscription received for less than one year, and no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the op tion of the Publisher. All subscriptions will be continued un less otherwise ordered before the expira tion of the year. Any person procuring five Subscribers and becoming re'sponsible for the same, shall receive the sixth copy gratis. Advertisements conspicuously inserted at 82J cents'per square. (12 lines, or less,) for the first insertion, and 431 ets. for each continuance. Those published monthly. or quarterly will be charged $1 per square for each insertion., Advertisements not having the number of insertions marked on them, will be continued until ordered out, and charged accordingly. All communications addressed to the Editor, post paid, will be promptly and strictly attended to. ECCLESIASTES IX. 6. "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand : for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good." BY REV. THOMAS RAFFLES. .Nor at esiwithbold thy hand, Who can tell which may succeed, Or if both alike shall btand, And a glorious harvest bear, To reward the sower's care. In the morning sow thy seed In the morning of thy youth; Prompt to every generous deed, Scatter wide the seeds of truth: He whose sun may set at noon Never can begin too soon! Nor withhold thy willing hand In the eventide of age, E'en to life's last lingering sand, In thy closing pilgrimage, Seed may yet be sown by thee, Sown for immortality! By all waters," he it sown Every where enrich the ground, Till the soil with thorns o'ergrown, Shall with fruit and flowers abound; Pregnant with a sweet perfume, Decked in Eden's loveliest bloom! Sow it in the youthful mind; Can you have a fairer field!i Be it but in faith consigned, Harvest, doubtless, it shall yield, Fruits of early piety, All that God delights to see. Sow it on the waters wide, Where the seamau ploughs the deep; Then with every flowing tide, You the blessed fruit shall reap, And the thoughtless sailor provo Trophy to the cause you love. Sow it 'mid the crowded street - Lanes and alleys dark and foul, Where the teeming masses meet Each with an immortal soul, S$unk in deepest moral gloom, Reckless of the coming doom. Sow it 'mid the htannts of' vice Scenes of infamy and crime; Suddenly, may Paridise Burst, as in the northern clime, Spring, with all its verdant race, Starts from WVinter's cold embrace. Sow it with unsparing hand, 'Tis the Kingdom's precious seed ; 'Tis the Master's great command, And His grace shall crown the deed, lie hath said the precious grain Never shall be sown in vain! Long, indeed, beneath the clod, It may lie, forgot, unseen $oxious weeds may clothe the sod, Changing seasons intervene, Summer's heat and Winter's frost v,.. tat .cc shnll nc-cr be lost. But, at length, it shall appear, Rising up o'er all the plain "First the blade, and ihen the ear," Then the ripe, the gold grain; Joyous reapers,.gladly come, Angels shout the harvest home. Edge Hill, Jan. 1, 1841. fftsce~aneous. From the Net Orleans Picayune. LETTER FROM PARDON JONES UP TRE CoAsT, Jqnnary.26. Dear Pic.-I see't you've got my mer ridge printed in your collums, as nice at can be, but you didn't printthe pertickleri about it, becauseyou say they was tu broad Well, I spect you're right-for I knowy they was pretty well stretched out-and to tell you the fact, Jerushy tell'd me the same thing 'fore I sent my letter, but I thought you'd like to know all sbout it, bein' you aint merried yourself, and so I sent it for what 'twould retch. No 'fence, I hope, was ther? Mistress Jones bas ber puttin, a new idear into my head sense wt was merried. "Parding," says she tu me one evenin',-"Parding, I du wish you would turn your thoughts from litterature, and employ your gifts iii pollyticks. Run for Congress," sayq site, sparklin' up "run for Congress, Parding-you're o-fay as the French say-you was cut out for a grate'man, and you'll succeed, I know you will!" "Lord bless yotir fond soul," says 1, "how in the name of nature du you ex pect I can got to.Congress? Wy," says 1, 1 haint got no niggers, nor knows, nor hosses, nor land, and can't even vote for another candydate-much more I cant git nolboddy tu vote for me'" "0 law," says she, "spos'n you haint got no niggers haint you got me-and aint I worth as much as tu or three niggers?" ''Yis, says I, "Jerushy-you're a darned sight better than a dozen niggers for my taste -but then you didn't cost so much-and monny is the thing tu make a grate man now-a-days-tallunts aint pothin' in the scale with money,"says I.. Wall, she sort a gin it up then, and haint said nothin, about it sene-hut it has been runnin' in my head, day and night, from then till now and I'm determined to try it! I'm a goin' tu put myself up, all ready against any body dies or resigns. Msunisu fifty dolla' I've gin up the school-it's tu darned rainy here for a school-so now I must go tu peddlin,' or tu teachin' short hand ritin.' or tu mendin' clocks, or else I must go tu Congress-or suthin'-it wont du tu he here duin' nothin.' I want you tu back me. Here's my ticket: For Congriss-from the fust vacant deestrick in Luzyatna, Pardon JonesEsq., son of old Mr. Jones of the Bay State. Mister Joneses sentiments is liberal and free, and founded on the principles of Washington- Jefferson--Jacksou-Vau Buren and General Harrison. Mister Joneses opinions about the banks is per cisely the same that them grate men all entertained. MisterJones will stick up, one side or t'other, for the tariff but don't like tu commit himself on that subject till he sees which way the catis goin' tojump. Mister Jones will go in for the public lands. He is goin' tu he the people's man, and lie wants tu be on the poplar side of every thing, for that is dimmercratic. Mistei Jones will go in for all the Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotchmen, Dutchmen, French. men, and all the forriners born and brought up in the United States. There-I guess that will du tu start on. Mistress Jones sends her compliments, and says that she has got twenty or ibirty stringi of dried punkins-the nicest perhaps, thai you ever seen-and she has got now neai about half a bushel of dried huckleberries, to. Wont you come and see us7? Yoti can bring your press along with you-I guess we'd have room for it itt our settin room. Your ever lovin' frietnd. PARDON JONES. From the Baltimore Clipper. Use and Abuse of the Press.-T he use of the Presa is to diffuse correct informa tion-to enlightetn and instruct-to incul cate morality-" to raise the genius, anc to mend your heart." It is an abuse of the presis to misrepre sent facts, motives, or acttns-to incour age immorality-to use abusive terms, oi to expose the occurrences at the domestic fireside. it is not our intention to ente, upon this wild field ; we shall confne oui attention to one poit--the abuse of the press in draggitng befotre the public matters which are entirely oif a private character Newvsmongers, in their eager search aftei novelhy, do not sufficiently discriminate between that which is of a strictly privati nature;t and hence we have events narrat ed, which, htowever they may minister ti the morbid appetito, shtould remain seelud ed from puhlic view. Petty disputes be tween individuals-the quarrels of lovers domestic discord-runaway matches-dig appointed hopes-every thing is no' thought worthy of being paraded befori the pubtlic. If the public morals could be improv~ed by such publicatints, some lhen ifit would result from the violation of pro priety; but this is ntot. pretenided. Thi sole object appears to he, to create a de mand for the paper in which such thing are inserted ; and this purpose is answered to a great extent. The press should lie terror to evil doers, but should disdain ti resort to the fair ily sanctuary, to dra forth and publish its secrets. Iforrid Murder.-Rumors have reae this;cit,o trh.e.... pe...io orf .a. mo, ho rid murder in the adjoining county of Or ange. It is stated that a respectable' citi zen named- Pratt, was engaged with- one of his negroes in the woods, riving Sbingles, when-the fellow struck him a violent blow with his hatchet which stunied him, and he then deliberately despatched him. Hav ing concealed the dead body in the leaves, I he went to the house and told his mistress, 1 that his'master had sent him for his horse i and pocket book, intending to go-toa neigh boring store. They were accordingly seut, i but the little son of the deceased accompa nied the negro, as bearerofthe pocket book. 1 On the way to the scene of murder, the ue. I gro felled the child on the earth with a I club, and supposing he was dead, made off o with his booty. The child, however, came i to, gave the alarm, and the negro was ar rested at Hillsboro', with the horse and i money. in his possession. He was com mitted to Jail, and will, doubtless, expa- < iiate his atrocities on the gallows.-Ra leigh Register, 26th ult. Murder.-Tle body of a tnan murdered, shot through the head, apparently by a rifle bull, was found recently by some gentle men in Macon county, concealed in a hol low tree. They were attracted by the buz zards which they oher;ed gathered about the spot. The body. says our informuat, r was stripped of every thing by which its identity could be determined on. Not even ascraporpaper, that would throw any light on the business, name or residence of the deceased; from his dress connected with other circumstances, he was supposed to have been a gentleman from some of the t adjacent States in search oflaud. An in- c dividual we have been informed, has been .J arrested on suspicion of having committed % the crime.-Alabama Journal, 241hult. L The Brok8r's Tax.-The Court of Ap- E peals gave their decision yesterday on this I interesting question. The Court sustain ed the prohibition of Judge O'Neale on t one ground-that the Tax Collector had I; mistaken the Act in making it retrospec- e tive-but they refused to express any opi- v nion on the constitutionality of the tax, or a their right as a Court to limit the taxing power of the Legislature, Judge Richard son alone dissented-was against the pro hibition on any ground, and very broadly ') denied the right of the Court to interfere. The Disputed Territory.---The Port land Advertiser states that the Land Agent I has decided to take ofi'the "civil posse" from the disputed Territory, and to leave an agent of the State to look after the tres- t passers---the Land Agent orMassachusetts I agreeing to pay the half of the expenses of i the agent who is to be kept there. Mr. I Hamblin will go to Fort Fairfield in a few t days, to discharge the men that have been 9 kept there by Gov. Fairfield. These men I have been doing no good to the State, and 1 have been supported at an expense of pro- 1 bably $50,000 for the past year. I Judge a man by his actions-A poet by his eye---an idler by his fingers-- a lawyer by his leer---a player by his strut---a box er by his sinews---a justice by his frown a grat man by his modesty---an editor by his coat---a tailor by his agility---a fidler by his elbow---and a woman by her neat ness. Quite a Present.-The Richmond Star mentions that a gentleman of the Editor's ac-luaintance received on Christ mas eleven turkies, forty. pounds of butter, one barrel of apples, twevle mince pies, a monstrous cake, a barrel-of soft soap, ajar of preserves, a peodle dog. two littlepigs, from friends, and twins by his wife. He must be per fectly happy. ______ The Dayton Journal very wvisely ob serves that, in these hard times, a man should never go any distance fromn home tor collect money,without taking along enought to defray expenses. The Editor observes that "a friend wvho had neglected this pre caution, had to burrow money enough to bring him back." Alabama-A bill has passed the Legis lature of Alabatma " to secure a homestead to every family in this State," wvhich pro vides-" Tjhat in addition to the property now allowed by law, fromi executions, there shall be exempted front executiotns upon all debts due hereafter to be cotntracted, for the use of every family in this State, forty acres of land, wvhich shall be and enure to the use and benefit ef settled and permanent families." Sudden Death.---Duncan Buie, E sqr., -aged 82 years, of Fayetteville, N. C., sud denly fell and expired on the 12th ult. The Observer says he could boast ofwvhat n to other man in the country could. lHe -had juct conmpleted taking the census of the cotunty for the fifth time.. He had per -formed that duty in 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830 and 1840. Fire.-A fire broke out inithe Stable in the rear of Mr. Samuel Boatright's dwell ing, yesterday morning about four o'clock, and consumed it with a large quantity of Oats contained in it. No other buildings were injured. It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary.-- Southern Chronicle. Pope's Oath.-Pope's oath was. God mend me. A little boy to whom he had retuned a penny, looked at his diminutive stature, cried out, "God mend you, in deed ! it would be less trouble to make a ncw one." The folt wing correspondence we pre lume hasflly ended the personal ditlicul y betweeii essrs. Pickens and Stanley. rhercause nd character of that difficulty was sutfitioatly set forth in the publica ion we m&fe yesterday. The first stage >fthe affairVas left for t he reader to gather rom whabilowed : It appears that after he adjust' nt, Mr. Stanley publibhed his >riginal reaarks, corrected by himself, and hus.gave ' cient reason to suppose that intwithsta ing his distinct disavowal of all intedtibn to insult Mr. Pickens, he vie willi nja'an indiract way to claim to ifi'self dWdvantage of having inflicted icid wrong. In the following i orresikondece Mr. Stanley disavows all I uch intentiog-and though every one must eel that heliad disregarded, through igno ance ordesi the proprieties ofhis then sit stion, stilf edo not see how Mr. Pickens ould refusel sAdisclaimer of all intention o offlend, as tisfactory. If Mr. Stanley ad felt it du to himself to make the pub. i ication allu, d to, he ought to have felt hat it was due to himself to make i he explana n, of his motive, before it ras requir 'Charleston Alercury. r'o the Edit the Globe Please pu the following correspnn euee.which niirely satisfactory to both arties. 4VTHOS. D. SUMTER, ; K. RAYNER. February %'I1841. - WMitveTo, Feb. 25, 1841. Sir: I 'peive in the fitelligeneer of bis morning~'hat purports to be a report f your remai delivered in the House of I tepresentatilbion the 19th inst., which rere the subj fcorrespondence between is. : . This matte had supposed was adjust d in a man' atisfactory to all parties. t t certainly ^iso far as I was concerned. I an at a ,therefore, to account for leir publica:V at such a time, apparent y under. you , action, and require some xplanation t will he satisfactory as to ihat I am fo at present to consider an C xtraordinary bceeding. I have the r-to be, Respectft .your obedient serv't. F. W. PICKENS. 7o the Hon. ., taoley, by Mr. Sumter. Sir: In to your note of this morn ig, I have tostate. that I deemed it due i myself, that my remarks should be pub ished, became yours, which illicited my eply, had been published. I deem it due to my constituents that I Isey should be published, for you had spo :en of me in terms of ridicule, in the first istanice, and there was no evidence that I ad repelled it in a proper spirit. As to lie " time,"I can see no reason why you hould be "at a loss" on that score. I would observe, however, that my remarks, fter having been most carefully revised, rere ready for the press. before the pub cation of the correspondence between us. thought it due to myself, that my remarks hould follow yours as soon as possible, hat my course might be justly appreciat d, as there wias nothing to show how the iffliulty had arisen on my part. You say you had supposed this matter I ras " adjusteil, in a manner satisfactory to i parties it certainly was, as fur as you rere concerned." 1 assure yoi, it was considered in the ame light by myself, and I did not, nor do now,deem the publication of my remarks, t all inconsistent with.the satisfactnry ad ustment of t he difficulty, as your offensive ! emarks had appeared and mine had not. J Understanding your phrase "require" to nean request I have cheerfully given the f xplanation, which I hope will prove satis- I actory. I have the honor to be, Respectfully, vour obedient serv't. EnWlARD STANLEY. 'o the Hon.F.W.Pickens, by Mr. Rayner. WA3Ise~'ToN, Feb. 26, 1841. r Sir: I receired yours ofthe 25th inst.,and ake no exception to the general tone and emper of yoer reply; yet as you deemed he "careful rivision," and deliberate pub. 4 ication of yotr "offensive'' remarks, and hat, too, a'fter a satisfaectory.adjustment. ecessary to aproper understanditna before tour constittuets. I now regard a distioct liclaimer on your part of ally intention to vound my feelings again, or reflect on my loner, by thispublication, as due to me. I have the lvnor to be, Respectfully, your obedient serv't. F. W. PICKENS. 'o the lion. Ed. Stitnley, by Mr. Sumter. WVAsHI~oI'oNV CITY. Feb. 27, 1841.. Sir: I do not hesitate to disclaim any in. ention to wvound your reeling., or reflect mn your honor, "by the publication" of ny remarks. I mentioned, in my last notc, what my -easons were. I could not, without for. ;etting what was due to tmy own charac :er, as well as to yourself, intend to wound tour feelings, bly the publication of my -earks. 1 need not repeat my reasons n this letter. I have the honoer to be, respectfully, Your obedient servant, EDWD. STANLY. To the H~oo.F;W.Pickens, by Mr. Rayner. Hard Times.-Nine demijohtns of eld Nadeira wine were sold the other day, at Iwenty dollars a gallon, or one hundred iollars a demijohn, and ten mere, not so ad, at ten dollars a gallon. The nine wvere taken by one individutal for family us. Ynnr. C'on. INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRE SIDENT HARRISON. WASHINGTON, March 4, 1841. Called from a retirement which I had supposed was to continue for the residue of my life, to fill the Chief Executive of fice of this great atid free nation, I appear before you. fellow citizens, to take the oaths which the-Constitution prescribes, as a ne aessary qualifcation for the performance of its duties. And in obedience to a cus tom coeval with our Government, and what I believe to be your expectations, I proceed to present to you a summary of the srinciples which will govern me, in the discharge of the iduties which I shall ie called upon to perform. It was the remark of the Roman Con tul, irn an early period of that celebrated Republic, that a most striking contrast ,vas observable in the conduct orcandidates 'r offices of power and trust, before and tfter obtaining them-hey seldom carry ng out iu the latter case the pledges and romises made in the former. lowever nuch the world mnay have improved. in nany respects, in the lapse of upwards of wo thousand vears since the remark was unde by the virtuous and indignant Roman, fear that a strict examination of the an tals of some of the modern elective Go erurnents, would develope similar instan :es of violated confidence. Although the fiat of the people has gone brth, proclaiming me the Chief Magistrate if this glorious Union, nothing upon their sart remaining to be done, it may be bought that a motive may exist to keep up he delusion under which they may be sup osed to have acted in relation to my prin 'iples and opinions; and perhaps there nay be some in this assembly who have 'ome here either prepared to condemn hose I shall -now deliver, or, approving hem, to doubt the sincerity with which hey are uttered. But the lapse of a few nonths will confirm or dispel their fears. Lue nutline of principles to govern, and neasures to be adopted, by an Adminis ration not yet begun, will soon be ex hanged fbr immutable history; and I shall tand either exonerat clby my countrynien, ir classed with the mass of those who pro nised that they might deceive, and gatter d -with the intention to betray. However strong may be my present pur >ose to realize the expectations of a mag ellfignderstand the ikiirmties of hunian iature, and the dangerous temptations to vhich I shall be exposed, lifm the magni. ude of the power which it has been the deasure of the people to commit to my atds, not to place my chief confidence pon the aid of that A!tnighty Power vhich has hitherto protected tne, and enn. led me to bring to favorable issues other mportnut, but still greatly inferior trusts, eretofore confided to me by my country. The broad foundation upon which our 'oustitution rests, being the people-a reath of theirs having made, as a breath an unmake. change, or modify it-it can e assigned to none of the great divisions if government but to that of Democracy. f such is its theory, those who are called ipon to administer it must recognise, as its eading principle, the duty of shaping their neasures so as to produce the greatest ;ood to the greatest number.-But, with hese tiroad admissions,. if we would corm Pare the sovereignty acknow ledged to ex 5t in the mass of our people with the pow r claimed by other sovereignties, even by hose who have been considered most pure y democratic, we shall find a most essen ial dilerence. All others lay claim to iower limited only by their will. The ma rity,of our citizens, on the contrary, pos ese a sovereignty with an amount of pow r precisely equal to that which has been ranted to them. by the parties to the na onal compact, and nothing beyond. We dmit of no Government by Divine right elieving that, so far as power is concern d, the beneficent Creator has made no istinction amongst men, that all are upon nt equality, and that the only legitimate ight to govern is an express grant of pow r to the severat departments composing he Government.-On an examination of hat instrument, it will be found to cotntain leclarations of power granted, and of pow r withheld. The latter is also susceptible f division, into power which the majority ad the right to grant, but whlich they did ot think proper to intrust to their agents, mud that which they could not have grant ~d, not being possessed by themselves. In ther words,there are certain rights posses ed by each individual American ctizen, which. itn his compact with the others, lhe as never surrendered. Some of them in eed, he is unable to surrender, being, in he language of our system, unalienable. The boasted privilege of a Roman citi ten was to him a shield only against a petty provincial ruler, wvhilst the proud Jemocrat of Athens could console htmself tinder a sentence of death, for a supposed violation of the national faith, which no one andertood, and which at times was the stbject of the mockery of all, or of banish ment from his home, his family and his :ountry, with or without an alleged cause: that it was the act, not of a single tyrant, or ated aristocracy, but of his assembled ontirymen. Far diff'erent is the power of our soverignty.-lt can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe fortms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punish ment but after well ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under forms. pre suribed by the Constitution itself. These precious privileges, and those scarcely less mportant, of giving expression to his thoughts and opinions, by writIng or speak. ing, unrestrained but by the liability fot injury to others, and that of a full nartici. pation in all the advantages which flow from the Covernment, the acknowledged property of all, the A merican citizen de rives from no charter granted by his fellow man. He claims them because he is him self a Man, fashioned by the same Al mighty hand as the rest of his species, rud entitled to a full share of the blessing with which he has enlowed them. Notwithstanding the limited sovereignty possessed by the People, of the United States, and the restricted grant or power to the Goverment which they have adepted, enough has been given to accomplish all the objects for which it was created.---it has been found powerful in war, and, hith erio, justice has been administered. an in mate ui;ou effected, domestic tranquility preserved, and personal liberty secured to the citizen. As was to be expected, how ever, from the defect of language, and the necessarily sententious manner in which the Constitution is written, disputes have arisen as to the amount of power which it has actually granted, or was ititended to grant. This is more particularly the case in relation to that part of the instrument which 'ireats of the Legislative branch. And not only at regards the exercibe of powers claimed under a general clause, giving that body the authority to pass all laws-necessary to carry into effect the spe etfic powers, but in relation to the latter also. It is, however, consolatory to reflect, that most of the instances -of alleged de parture from the letter ar spirit of the Con stitution, have ultimately received the sanction of a majority of the people. And the fact, that many of our statesmen. most distinguished for talent and patriotism, have been, at one time or other of their political career, on both sides of each of the :most warmly disputed questions. which forces upon u4 the inferences that the errors,.if errors there. were, are attri butable to the intrinsic difficulty, in many instances, of ascertaining the intentions of the framers of the Constitution, rather than the infuence of any sinister or unpa iriotic motive. But the great danger to our institutions loes not appear to me to be in a usurpa. tion, by the Government, of power not * granted by the People, but by. the accum ulation, in one of the departments, of that, which was assigned to others. Limited as. are the powers which have been. granted, the departments. This danger is greatly heightened, as it has been always observa ble that men are less jealous of encroach ment of one department upon another,, h an upon their own reserved rights. When the Constitution of .the United States first came from the hands of the Convention which formed it, many of the sternerit republicans of the day were alarm ed at the extent of the power which had been granted to the 1ederal Government, and snore partienlarly of Ihat-portion which has been assigned to the Executive branch. There were in it features which appeared not to be in harmony with their ideas of a simple representative Democracy; or Republic. And knowing the tendency of power to increase itself particularly when executed by a single individual, predic tions were made that, at no very remote period, the Government would terminate in virtual monarchy. It would not be come me to say that the fears of these pa triots have been already realized. But, as I sincerely believe that the tendency of measures, and of men's opinions, bfor some years past, has been in that direc tion, it is, I conceive, strictly proper that I should take this occasion to repeat the as surances I have heretofore given of my de termination to arrest the progress of that tendency, if it really exists, atnd restore the Government to its pristine health and vigor, as far as this can be ef'ected by any legiti mate exercise of the power placed in my hands. I proceed to state lb as summary a man ner as 1 cao, my opinion of the sources of the evils which have been so extensively complained of, and the corr'ctives which. may be applied. Some of the former aro unquestionably to be found in the defectse of the Constitution; others, in -my judg ment, are attributable to a misconstruction of some of its provisionsa. Of the former is the eligibilt ofC the same individual to a second term of the Presidency. The sa gacious mind of Mr. Jefferson early saw and lamented this error, end attempts have been made, hitherto without success, to apply the amendatory power of the States to its Correction. As, however, one mode of correction is in the power of every President, and con sequently ia mine, it would be useless, and perhaps invidious, to enumerate the evils of which, in the opinion of many of our fellow citizens, this error of the sages who framed the Constituttion may have been the source, and the hitter fruits wvhich we are still to gather from it, if it continues to disfigure our system. It may be observed, however, as a general remark, chat Re publies commit no greater error than to adopt or continue any featuro in their sys tems of government which may be calcu lated toecreate or increase the love of pow or, in the bosoms of those to whom neces sity obliges them to commit the manage ment of their allaire. And, surely, nothing is more likely to produce such a state of mind than the long continuance of an of. lice of high trust. Nothing can be more corrupting, nothing more destructive of all those noble feelings which belong to the character of a devoted republican patriot. Whean this corrupting passion once takes possession of the human mind, like the love of gold, it becomes insatiable. - It is the never dyina wvorm in his bosom, a'ows