The constitutionalist — Exeter, N.H., 1810-10-08 00:00:00, page 3

have no Washington ” There is a
'spirit in man that should scorn to com
promise with insult! Rather ahould it
" poise itself on its own magnanimity,"
rather should it rejoice at the lashes
which fall on the back of the tamely
To the real citizens of America I
would address myself in the following
manner. Though the language of an
Englishman, it is also the language of
most impressive eloquence and glow
ing and universal patriotism.
" Let neither private acquaintance,
nor party combination, stand between
ns and our country ; let all those who
have common interest in the publick
safety, join in common measures to
defend it ; let us pursue to disgrace,
destruction, and even death those who
have brought this ruin upon us, let
them be ever so great or ever so many ;
let us stamp and deeply engrave in
letters legible to all Europe at present,
and to all posterity hereafter, what
vengeance is due to crimes, which have
no less objects in view than the ruin of
nations, and the destruction of millions.
They have made many bold, desperate
and wicked attempts to destroy vs;
let us strike one honest and bold stroke
to destroy them."
A NATIVEAMERICAN.
EDUCATION.
For the Constitutionalist.
IT is the easiest thing imaginable to
quarrel with constituted authorities,
and question the opinions of those,
whose province it is to reform and en
lighten the age; but it is generally
considered unwise, and by many deem
ed the worst species of profanation;
hetice the reason, I presume, why those,
whobavc indulged the publick with
speculations relative to the best mode
of education, have been so wild and
Utopian upon the subject.. Much dis
pute has, I conceive, unnecessarily aris,
en upon the question, whether a pub
lick or private course of education be
most adapted to the general good.
For the great mass of citizens the for
mer is, undoubtedly, to be preferred;
not merely on account of the great re
duction of expences which is incident to
our fathers? Where are the assertory
of our former independence? Alas !—
" When Washington died we had
AMERICANS." Merciful Heaven!
is this to be resented with no indigna
tion, unless what it gain from the eyes
of all posterity? Where is the spirit of
crouching slave, and spurn with pious
mockery, even in the pangs of death,
at the insolence of a tyrant !
While I blush for her rulers, I trem
ble in anguish for my country! She
almost deserves the anathema of Jugur
tha, pronounced upon Rome: " Ve
nalis civitas, mox peritura si emptor
em invenias !”
easily the apprehensions of men can be
quieted by appealing to their vanity,
and Spain is not the only victim that
has bled at the shrine of imperial flat
tery. It seems as though he would
never cease torturing poor fated hu
manity. Who, without the most pain
ful emotions, can read Bonaparte's late
insulting language to Gen. Armstrong,
through the medium of Champagny?
A Hamilton —Hamilton IS GONE WE
“ HIS MAJESTY LOVES THE
THE rapid and momentous succes
sion of events in Europe supply mere
food for the astonishment of the vulgar
and superficial observer; but the pro.
found politician holds no parley with
doubt and ignorance; he is not con
tented with immediate impressions;
aware of the fallability of human judg
ment, he finds his account in subject
ing them to the most rigid examination.
The Corsican tyrant is intimately ac
quainted with the springs of human ac
tion ; he knows where lies the weaker
side of the human heart, and there he
is indefatigable in his secret and mys-
terious operations ; he has seen how
For the Constitutionalist'.
Communications.
the former plan ; but because, in or
dinary cases, more real knowledge, I
mean of that kind, which is to ensure
future, distinction in the world, is 'to
be obtained from the less limited means
of intercourse with mankind. I am
no Locke, neither would I dispute the
palm with Chesterfield or Priestly ; IMit
I cannot, with reverence be it spoken,
I cannot unconcernedly observe what
I consider some very important errors
in our literary discipline. Perhaps I
may prepare myself to expect no mer
cy, when I assert, as I do in the most
solemn manner, it is my belief that of
the multitude which our universities
annually send forth, like Pharaoh's en
emies " from the muddy banks of Nile"
few are real scholars, many fewer gen
tlemen in the stricter sense of the
word. Our professional men, to be
sure, possess a competent knowledge of
their profession. We have many first
rate lawyers, many respectable phy
sians ; and our divines, though wemay
have no Kirwan,-no Masillon, do not,
I hope, disgrace their divine mission.
But even a butcher or hostler is ex
pected to serve in more than one ca
pacity; and it is a scandal upon the
nurseries of our young men, that they
prepare them for nothing shall I
stop here ? for nothing, but for pacing,
" dull as an ass that treads the cistern
wheel" the same continual round of
law, physick or divinity.
We want accomplished characters,
poets, orators, and statesmen. In Eu
rope, it is not so ; those that there as.
.pire to scholastick distinction, do like
wise aspire to the highest honours of
church and state ; even with their in
ferior schools, such as Eton and West
minster, our first seminaries bear no
comparison more than a butterfly with
the bird of Jove. In those celebrat
ed institutions, the higher Greek and
Latin authors are all read. Sophocles,
Euripides, Demosthenes, JEschylus,
Juvenal, Terence, Livy are but a part
of them ; and yet of these names, ma
ny of our school-boys know nothing,
except what they may have fortunate
ly learnt from Bigelow's Introduction,
or Lempriere's Dictionary. It is fre
quently laughable to hear them con
struing with the greatest labor and
difficulty the simple Fables of 2Esop
or Phcedrus, and blending at the same
time all the grotesque gravity of a Don
Quixote with the dull monotony of a
country deacon ! But Ido not so much
blame those, who are necessarily men
of inferior acquirements ; I am blam
ing the niggardly system of oeconomy
that pervades every rank of citizens in
this mammon-serving country, where
an instructor of youth, for all his care
ful anxiety and painful solicitude, re
ceives less wages than a manual labor
er. " Those, who are qualified for
nothing else, consequently become tu
tors, and our guides to Parnassus are
themselves ignorant of the road that
leads thither." Neither would I have
it supposed that I condemn all the
minor literary institutions in this coun
try ; to the fidelity and ability with
which some of them are governed,
particularly the Academy in this town,
I am willing to bear honorable testimo
ny ; how much the publick arc indebt,
ed to the sedulous watchfulness of its
amiable president over those commit
ted to his care, and their consequent
application and regularity of behavior,
is well known to thousands, who have
not the honor of being Alumni of
Philips' Exeter Academy.
CASTIGATOR.
EXETER,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1810/
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LEONTIUS.
We would direct the^tention of our
readers to the first page of this day's
paper. The Address to be found there,
though sometime since published in the
Spirit of '76, is peculiarly valuable for
elegance and energy of style ; besides,
th6 facts there mentioned are not, we
presume, of so little importance, as to
be easily forgotten,
Union of the States.
" The North, in an unrestrained in
tercourse with the South, protected by
the equal laws Qf a common govern
ment, finds in me productions of the
latter, great additional resources of
maritime and commercial enterprise,
and precious materials of manufactur
ing industry. The South in the same
intercourse, benefiting by the agency
of the North, sees its agriculture grow,
and its commerce expend. Turning
partly into its own channels the sea
men of the Nort&, it finds its particular
navigation invigorated—and, while it
contributes in different ways, to nour
ish and increase the general mass of the
national navigation, 'it looks forward
to the protection of a maritime strength,
to which itself is unequally adapted.
The East in a like intercourse with
the West, already finds, and in the
progressive improvement of interior
communications, by land and water,
will more and more find a valuable vent
for the commodities which it brings
from abroad, or manufactures at home.
The West derives from the East sup
plies requisite to its growth and com
fort ; and what is perhaps of still great
er consequence, it must of necessity
owe the secure enjoyment of indispen
sable outlets for its own productions
to the weight, influence, and the future
maritime strength of the Atlantic side
of the Union, directed by an indisso
ble community of interests as one na
tion. Any other tenure by which the
West can hold this essential advantage,
whether derived from its own separate
strength, or from an apostate and un.
natural connection with any foreign
power, must be intrinsically preca
rious. ,
" The unity of government which
constitutes you one people, is also now
dear to you. It is justly so; for it
is a main pillar in the edifice of your
real independence, the support of your
tranquility at home, your peace abroad;
of your safety ; of your prosperity•
of that very liberty which you so high
ly prize. But, as it is easy to foresee,
that from different causes & from differ
ent quarters, much pains will be takfen,
many artifices employed, to weaken in
your minds the conviction of this truth ;
as this is the point in your political
fortress, against which the batteries of
internal and external enemies will be
most constantly and actively, (though
often covertly and invidiously) direct,
ed, it is of infinite moment that you
should properly estimate the immense
value of your national union, to your
collective and individual happiness ;
that you should cherish a cordial, ha
bitual, and immoveable attachment to
it; accustoming yourselves to think
and speak of it as the palladium of your
political safety and prosperity, watch
ing for its preservation with jealous
anxiety ; discountenancing whatever
may suggest even a suspicion thit it
can in any event be abandoned ; and
indignantly frowning upon the first
dawning oftvery attempt to alienate
any portion of our country from the
rest, or toenfeeble the sacred ties which
now link together the various parts.
" For this you have every induce
ment of sympathy and interest. Citi
zens, by birth or choice, of a common
country, that country has a right to
concentrate your affections. The name
of American, which belongs to you
in your national capacity, aiust always
exalt the just pride of patriotism, more
than any appellation derived from lo
cal discriminations. With slight shades
of difference, you have the same reli
gion, maimers, habits and political prin
ciples. You have in a common cause,
fought and triumphed together ; the
independence and liberty you possess
are the work of joint councils, & joint
efforts, of common dangers, sufferings
and successes.
" But these considerations however
powerfully they address themselves to
your sensibility, are greatly outweigh
ed by those which apply more immedi
ately to your interest. Here every
portion of our country .finds the most
commanding motives for carefully
guarding and preserving the union of
the whole.,
" While then every part of our coun.
try thus feels an immediate and partic
ular interest in UNio^r, all the parts
combined cannot fail to find in the
united mass of means and efforts,
greater strength, greater resource,
proportionably greater security from
external danger, a legs frequent in
terruption of their peace by for
eign nations ; and what is of inesti
mable value, they must,derive from
union an exemption from those broils
and wars between themselves, which so
frequently afflict neighboring coun
tries, riot tied together by the same
government ; which thyir own rival
ships alone would be sufficient to pro
duce, but which opposite foreign alli
ances, attachments and intrigues,
would stimulate and imbitter. . Hence,
likewise, they will avoid the necessity
of those overgrown military establish
ments, which, uhder any form of gov
THE Members and Brethren of
Washington lodge,
are hereby notified, that their regular
monthly communication will be held
at the Senate Chamber on Wednesday
Evening, 10th inst. at 6 o'clock pre
cisely. By order of the Right Wor
shipful Master.
JOHN P. PAYSON, Sec'#.
N. B. All visiting Brethren are in
vited to attend.
Exeter,-Oct 6th 581st
" These considerations speak a per
suasive language to every reflecting and
virtuous mind, and exhibit the contin
uance of the union as a primary ob
ject of a patriotic desire, Is there a
doubt, whether a common government
can embrace so large a sphere ?—let
experience solve it. To listen to mere
speculation, in such a case, were crim
inal. We are authorized to hope that
a proper organization of the whole,
with tiie auxiliary agency of govern
ments for the respective sub-divisions,
will afford a happy issue to the exper
iment. It is well worth a fair and
full experiment. With such powerful
and obvious motives to union, affect
ing all parts of our country, while ex
periment shall not have demonstrated
its impracticability, there will always
be reason to distrust the patriotism of
those, who, in any quarter, may en
deavour to weaken its hands.
ernment, are inauspicious to liberty,
and which are to be regarded as par
ticularly hostile to republican liberty :
in this sense it is, that your union
ought to be considered as a main prop
of your liberty, and that the love of the
one .ought to endear to you the preser
vation of the other?
" In contemplating the causes which
may disturb our union, it occurs as
matter of serious concern, that any
ground should be furnished for char
acterising parties, by geographical
discriminations ^— Northern and South
ern—Atlantic and Western ; whence
designing men may endeavour to excite
a belief, that there is real differenceof lo
cal interests and views. .Oneof the expe
dients of party,toacquire influence with
in particular districts is to misrepresent
the opinions and aim of other disti & ts.
Yoh cannot shield yourselves too much
against the jealousies and heart-burn
ings Which spring from these misrep
resentations: they tend to render
alien to each other, those who ought
to be bound together by fraternal af
fectidn.—The inhabitants of our wes
tern country have lately had a useful
lesson on this head : they have seen,
in the negotiation by the executive, &
in the unanimous ratification by the
senate, of the treaty with Spain, and
in the universal satisfaction at that e
vent, throughout the United States, a
decisive proof how unfounded were
the suspicion's propagated among them,
of a policy in the general government,
and in the atlantic states, unfriendlyjo
their interests, in regard to the Mis
sisippi ; they have been witness to the
formation of two treaties, that with
Great-Britain; and that with Spain,
which secure to them every thing they
could desire, in respect to our foreign
relations, towards confirming their
prosperity. Will it not be their wis
dom to rely for the preservation of
these advantages on the union by
which they were procured ? Will they
not henceforth be deaf to those advis
ers, if such they are, who would sever
them from their brethren, and connect
them with aliens ?"
), Married,
In this town, Mr. John Pearson of
Newburyport, to Miss Harriet Carle
ton, of this town.
In Dover, Mr. William Taylor, to
Miss S»ly Gilman, eldest daughter of
John Phillips Gilman, Esq. of that
town.
In Baltimore, commodore Batney,
aJi^hUng man, is nominated for con
gress, in opposition to submission
men. In Philadelphia the taleralists
have nominated commodore Truxton,
another fighting man. If he is elected,
and com. Barney succeeds also, as
one will fight the French and the
other the British, it is to be hoped we
shall have two members at least ready
for action in some way or other.
Balt. pup.
MASONIC NOTICE.
Ineresting. —The Georgia Journal
(the state paperj of the 29th ult. pub
lished at Miledgeville, contains the fol
lowing article:
A letter has been received by a gen
tleman in this place from an officer of
the U. S. army in the Missisippi terri
tory, dated 22d ult. which states that
" all officers on furlough are ordered
to be at head quarters by the 15th Sept,
for the avowed purpose of taking pos
session of Pensacola."
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
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