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P esentatives. Shall we betold that all this
_Bianilies nothing. That they ave all Qligarcas.
~And that all these federatises of Virginia, are
Jadbved only by consilderarions of policy, and
the hope of future success from their in-'
.N‘iﬁpﬂ-" Such is Mr. Ames's argument.
wee=Hach is the standing doctrine of his aclect
and arclusive friends. But of all this may be
teuly predicated, what Ms. Ames’says of fed
eralisin-»Tt is all # founded upon u inistake.”
T'as same distortation of objects from their
real characteris apparent.in she secowd ex
ggacts above quoted. The amendment of the
‘Constitations which exempted the States from
s uabitity by iadividuals, in the Courts of the
Uniony is represented as having been effected
hy the 'i’n'“! States of Virginia, Peansylvania,
ol Mew-York=ind as having exempied
Argonin form from the cblizationa of Justice.
& Wiy wps the odium of a measure presen-
At d mader saca an invidious description, con
.ﬁ M"‘ /‘f’d.ou..’ P:"?’II:II'DMI.JQ and New-
V.ok? Way was not Idissachusetts included
. I shall now undertake the tesk of vindica
ting the policg of Virginia, while the govern
raent of the State w.B 1n opyosition to the
-genaral'government. It rescmbied too much
that of the present rulers of Mussachuselts,
to harmopize with my ideas of correct con
. stitutional principles. But reflect upon the
* transactions of the Jefferson administration.
Reflect especially upon the trunsactions of
the two last years. ?I‘w part of perplexing,
of ohstructing, of counteracting the nieasures
~of the general government has not been. pers
. Formed by Virginic. She has no otherwise
s doterfored in the affuirs of the nation than to
pledyge hérself in the most solemn manner,
.+ A 0 support the nationul authorities, at a most.
_perilous crisis of our affairs. The ¢ sgLrct”
uhdd ¢ zxcrLumve” friendsof Mi. Aines, have
exchunged weapons with Virgiaia. But Vir-
K 1 in the most viruleot extreme of her op
, Posicion aever joined the baaners of a foreign
veneay to strike the standard of the Union. |
The state policy of Virgwia, like that of
. Mussachusets andof every other State in the.
~Union, fluctates according to the issue of her
sonual etections, lln the great party division
which has pervaded the whole union, and
Lof ;E Virginia State Convention which agop
ted it In the election which has just taken
pluce, four federalists at least, und two or
tiree others, as far from the political system
of the President, as federalism itself, have
of Virginia, like that ol the other States, was
,‘nmtmous for \V.ml:ingwn. To this day,the
Lhiel Justice of the Unit:d States, and -
“sother Judge of the Supreme Court, are na
mres.of Virginii, and federalists. Both of
‘them, as well as the prescnt President of the
“Auited o atos, were amonyg the active snppor-
Aacry of the federal constitution, and members
Qi pare subeervient 1o the other, " The neq
gress of party has perhaps contributed in
some degree to increase the preponderance
o Virgisia, in the councils of our union ;
bt & man must have taken a very partial
view of our late history, not to perceive that
t ¢ occurrence of party politicks with Vir.
ginlan policy, is accidental and temporary ;
that it cannot long continue, and that there
is every prospect that those engines, instead
of operating in concert, will soon be in oppo
gsition to each other. It is not party, but the
present Conatitution which has given a solid
and permanent increase to the influence of
Virginia ; and if this was not foreseen when
Abe copstitution was adopted, it was because
cunsequences which afier the event are found
o have buen nevituble, and extremely obvi
aus are ant often anticipated, by the foresight
of ,cmrolounden statesmen, Under the
old ederation, every state had the same
power ia the admipistration of the national
..affairs, Under the present constitution, a
_popular representation was introduced, and
. the most powerful branch of the Legislature,
_was 80 composed, as 10 give the greatest in
‘influence to the state of the lurgest popula
tion. 1 see nothing in this which ought to
affect or to wlarm an American patriot ; nor
.can I subscribe at all to the opinion that the
_mcendency of Virginia has become uncons
tn“bb. . ’ §
. It is also a great error to reason wpon the
hypothesis that the State of Virginia as such
hus a sieady, upiformy premeditated system of
.policy, hosile to the general government,
which she coustantly pursues under the chan
ges of her own adwinistration. Mr. Ames
gives as little quarter to Virginia federatism,
as 10 Virginia oligarchy. He would have
‘us believe that she adopted the consiitution,
only from considerations of poticy, and in
hope of success to her intrigues. ‘l'his is the
very wormwoud of local jedousy. The led
eralism of Virginia, had at that duy the same
‘obstacles to encounier as the federalism of
Mussachusetts, lis objects of pursuit weve
‘thie same, und it succeeded by a victory as
hurdly contested, and by a majority of about
Ahe same propoction. The ficst President of
the! United Stutes was a pative of Virgima ;
.but it.is not intimuted that during his admin
-dstration of eight years, the State of Virginia
bhad an undue ascepdency in the government
vof the nation. Qa the contrary, Mr, Ames’s
. great complaint ds that ‘she was constantly
thwartiog and counteracting it. At length he
pays she futally succeeded in reducing it to
the imbecility of the old contederation.
.Waich existed long befure the federal consti«
tution, Virginia, like all her sisiers, was divi
ded against hevsell. One effect of the con-
Jstiluiion was to new organize these two par
ties, and give each of them a rallying point
in the person of one individusl. The indi.
vidual on borh sides, was a native of Vierinia.
Waskinaron was the leader of the fedeval-
ists. Jevesuson, of the Republicuns., The
Vicginia represeutation in Congress was al
ways partly federal and partly Repubiican.
At (he sdcond presidential election, the vote
baen chosen members of the House of Re-
in the number? Had Mr. A mnca Drooten
that this very amend ment was introduced into
the Senate of the United States by Mr.G _olge
Cabot then a Sedator from the state of Mas
sachusetts ’—Why was the measure itself
g'rcumd in such an invidious light ? [lad
r. Ames forgotten that as a member of the
House of Representatives in Congress bhe
had voted for this very amendment himself ?
If he considered It us a scheme 10 exempt
States from the obligation of Justice, he stands
self-condemned upon a charg of notrivial cul
pability. A churgejof which Ido not belicve
him to have been geilty of It is not his vote
in Congress in 1794, but his representation
in 1805, of the measure for which he hud
given that vote, which discloses the, partial
and the prejudiced mind, That amendment
o the constitution, was called for by the gen
eral sense of the people throughout the U
‘nion ; its object was not t exempt the States
fram the oblirations of Justice, but from being
made parties at the suit of individuals, before
courts of the United States. The conclusion
to which the arguyent leudsis thut 2 confede
ration like thetol i!.c United Siates,is imprac
ticable,because thepowerfnl members will not
subim itto the laws ol the whole body, This op
imon is not new but our experience hitherto
Las not shewn its accurucy. It is the most sac
red duty of the American people, 10 continné
thepro of that & confederated republic of many
mighty members as a practicable expedient
of human association—=and it follows as aduty
no less incumvent upon their statesmen and
sages, to inculcate such principles and such
sentiments, as have a nawural tendency to give
duration and stabihity to their Union.
IMPORTANT TO MERCHANTS.
The Intendant-General of the Hivanna,
under date of the 18th March, has officially
apnounced that no vessel whatever from the
United States will be admitted to an entry in
to.any -of the ports of the Island of Cuba,
without the necessary cortificates of the
Manifest and Invoice of hach cargo, from the
Consular agents of Spaia in the U. States,
who when called upon will inform the mer
chants what articles are wdmicted ia said pors
for the present.
I except ugainst it the more earnestly, be
bause it is ohe of the most pernicious xnd fa
tul ervours, for the people of any one part of
this Union to admit into thén minds such sén
timents against the rest-——because, not only
the pubiicution of this volume, but a multi
tude of news-paper essays, party resolutions, -
and inceudiary pampilets within the last year
have shewn a systematick attempt to dissem
inate amony the people of New-Englaud this:
groundless jealousy and hatred of the south.
ern and western people. Above all because!
the poison ol this sume jeaiousy, and hatred,
has been circulated in a late address of the
Legislature of Massachusetts to the people.
of the State, It is time to say and to prove
thatall these insidious instigations ag:.unst our
own countrymemw, are Jfourded on mistake.
They expose us to the merited contempt and
scorn of those who are thus slandered, and
tiwir most inevitable tendency is to excite
and provoke that hostility which they pro.
claim. Prejucices und partialities exist in
every part of the Union ; but to the disgrace
of New-England her portion is* the first
where men distinguished as Mr. Aines, and |
even kegisiative papers have given counten
ance and credit to these fictions of ignorance
affecting to be wise, and these phantoms of
vulgar fear, affecting to be provident. The
legislative address indeed, after its hour of
authevity has gone by, will be numbered with
the dead. Its patrictick glories are already
withering upoit the stalk. But the elojuence !
of Mr. Ames is dcstined to longer life. His'
genious will still be admired, when its falla
cious colours will be detected at a glance,and
lamentecd as the fading yellow of a jaundiced
eye Had his friends valued his reputation ;
had they been eapable of discarding, for a
mowent, the contracted and sordid passions
of caucusing sommittee they, wmight have
compiled frem his writing and specches a
real monument of unsullied fame. As it s,
they huve exhibited him, as the herald of'
party slander, and the dupe of British impo
sition. Instead of rising with him to hold
commerce with the skies, they have sunk
him to a level with themselves. !
The reflections in the two last of these ex
tracts upon the southcern and western sections
of the Union, are not onty flugrant examples
of that spirit #gainst which we were so carn
estly admonished by the paternal voice ol
Wasninorown 3 they ars as unfounded as
they are untricndiy. Awmerican patriotisin,
contemplates with very different sensations
the vapid progress of these settiements. The
active enterprize and hartihood of coaracrer
whicn distinguishes many of we seliers ;
the rupidity with which peopuiation, cultiva
tion, and social €1 JOY IMCINS are constantly mul
tiplying, wich wealth and ‘arty, and science in
their train. To compare our fellow-citizens
of the southern and western States, with
wandering Tartars or Indian Hunters,to ufter
seriously the opinion that they will probably
sink into barbarism, is a demonsiration of the
most deplorable blindness to the true state of
things. Great nombers of settiérs poth in
the south and west, are emigrants from New-
Eonglind, They are literally our children
and our brethren, United to us not only by
the ties of civil society, but those of kindred
and consanguinity. Were one of their dis
tinguished orators, (and orators they have
with whom M:. Ames himsclf would not
have been disgraced by being compared) to
aficm that the mhabimns of the Atantick
States were sinking fast into piracy and bar
burisin ; that they had no wore patriotism
than Aigerines, and were not hulf so fond of
glory ; the picture would not be more unisind
‘nor more unlile than that aguinst which I am
here excepting.
. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL.
© " (In coniinuatton.) % .-
THE opening of the Fifth Canto contains
much poetick merit. The thoughts are hap
pys~—they are the effusions of an elegunt
mind. ! ;
Literary dPiscetiany.
.
The Hymn of the Dead, which closes the
Lay, contains ideas truly sublime. The se
rious reader will dwell upon the liacs with
reverence and “ solemn thought.”
I have selected but a few of those passe
ges which glow with poetick beauty. The
selection of more would have iniringed too
much upon the limits of the Miscellanra. 1
hope, however, the reader will be induced
to give the work an iﬂudnr’»d-u work
in which the lovers of the Muse will meéet
with a rich repast.
The Minstrei’s amor fiatria 18 depicted in
glowing colours. -
" Fitatraver is finely introduced io the fol
lowiiyg verses. - ‘
The love of country is neatiy touched in
the foilowing lines.
“ Carv it not vain : they do not err,
Who »ay, that when the poet dics,
Mute Nuiur€ ;nourns her worshipper,
And celebrates his obsequies ;
Who say, tail ¢tiff, and cuvern loae,
For the déprrted bard, make moan ;
That mountuing weep in chrystal rill ;
That low e es in tears of balm dustil ;
Througn his loyed groves that hreezes sigh,
7l oaks, dce:})cr grouus, reply ; .
And rivers teach their rushing wave,
Lo nwrmur divges round his giave,
'
I % Not that, in sooth, o’er mortal urn,
Those things mantimale can mourn ;
¢« But that the suream, the wood, the gale,
Y 1s vecal with the plsintive wauil
Of those, who, clsc forgotten long,
Lived i the poet’s fuitnful sung,
And with the peet’s purung breath,
Whose memory feels a sccond death,
© The muid’s puie shade, who wails ier lot,
That love, true love, should be forgot,
Frowm rose wid huwthorn shakes e tear
Upon the gentle Miusurel’s bier :
. e pitantoms knight, lus glory fled,
Mourns o’er the hickd lie heaped with dead ;
Mounts the wild blast thau sweeps amsin,
And shiricks along the battle plain :
The chief, whose antique ciowniel long
Stili sparkling in the feudai song,
Now, from the mountain’s misty throne,
Scisy i the thunedom once Lils own,
Hiy ashes, undisunguishied he,
i 3 place, his power, his memory die :
His groans the lonely cuverns fill,
His wcars of impel the nll ;
Ail mown tb?ﬁinmtl‘s harp unstrung,
Their name unknown, their pruse unsung.”
“ As ended Albert’s simple lay,
: Arose a bard of loftier por ;
For sonnet, rhyme, and roundelay,
Reénowned i haughiy Henfy’s court :
There rung thy harp, unrivalied long,
Fitziraver of the sirver song.
The gentle Surrey loved his lyre,
© " (Who hae not heard of Surry’s fame ?)
. His was the liero’s soul of fire,
‘And his the dbard’s im mortal name ;
And his was love exalted high,
By all the glowof chivalry.
They sought, together, climes afar,
And oft, within some olive grove,
Wkhan evening came, with tw ihght star,
“They sung of Surrey’s übsent love.
His step the Ttalian peasant st.id,
And deemed, that spirit from on high,
Round where some hermit saint wus laid,
- Were breathing heavenly melody ;
. + S 0 sweet did harp and voice combine,
To praise the name of Geraldine”
FOR TUHE AHUUVE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
*“ O Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet muse for a poctick clind !
Land of brown heath, and shaggy wood,
L.nd of the mountain und the tvod,
Land of iny Sires ! whut niortsl hund
Cun ¢’er untie thy filisl bund, by -
That knits me tothy rWMﬁ TR
Stili, as I view each well known scene,
Think what is now, and what Lus been,
Scem as, to me, of aull bereft,
Sole tricypls, thy woods and streams were left ;
And thus [love them better stll,
Even in exiremity of ill,
By Yarrow's streéam, still let me siray,
’l‘{mugh none should guide my feeble way
“Stiil feel the brecze L{o'wn Ettricke breuk,
A though it chiil my withered eheck ;
Bull luy my hegd by Teviot stoiie,
‘l‘hougt) there forgotteh and wlone,
The burd may draw his parting groan.”
When shrivelling like a parched seroll,
The flaming Heavens together roll ;
When louder yet, and yet more dresd,
Swells the high trump that wakes the dead !
0! o that day, that wrathful day,
When man to t, woke:‘vo clay,
Be ruov the trem sinner’s stay,
Though Heaveu and shall pags away.
“ Breathes there the man, withsoul so dead,
Who never to himsed hath sad,
This is my own, iny naiive nd !
Whose beact hatih ne’er within hia burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turngd,
From wandering oi a foreign suwid !
If such there oreathe, go, mark hiun well ;
For o no Minsti el raptures sweii
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth, as wish can clam ;
Despise those titles, power, und pelf,
The wretch concentred all in selt,:
Laving, shail forfeit tuir renown,
And, doubly dyicg, shall go down
To wie viie dust, tromn whence he sprung,
Cawept, unlionoured, und unsung.”’
That da“y of wrath, that dresdful day,
When Heuven and Eaith shall pass away,
What power shail be the sinner’s stuy !
How shall he meet that dreadful day ?
. o
MISCELLANEA, NO, XIX.
When. Gov. Gore made his vote-collecting
tour to the County ‘'of Berkshire, the Federal
Solomons of 'l’jd;ﬁﬂd hurried together o
“ cotd cotlection," (us paddy bus it) for his ene
tertainment, which they vain'y strove 10 ani»
mate, with a profusion of proiound, sagacious
pungent and soul-inspiring ToasTs, atmiong
which were the follo,wix_x‘q 3
By Cuft. Seth James. The amiable* Christopher
Gore—~None but the enemiecs of their country will
withoid their votes from so good a man,
By Doct. Lewis. Muy the amiable chiaracter of ouy
a'flluctrc’ouo Chicf Mugistrate, unite all heaits in his
ayYour. . . .
ent proof 10 my mind that you was the authov,
I accordingly in the month of QOctober last
(in dischurge of a duty incumbent on every
man who has the least particle of filial affec
tion, und especially when the parent thus a
bused, from age and infirmity, wus incapuble
of defending himself) calied om you for satis
faction in this papticulur ; you then ackuowi
edged that you must be accountable for the
piece alluded to, and although you believed
the story to be wholly without fiundetion, yet
you could nor would not give the sutisfaction
I required (which was a suitable recantatiog
in'the same paper.) I then said 10 you, that
I should proceed to chastise you, which I ac
cordinglydid to my perfect satisfactiop, and
until; you promised to make the recantation
required, within a reasonable/ time. And now
six_months having elapsedy,and you have not
fuifilled your promise—l have therefore, not
lime now, to be morg purticular, und will only
say you are a LIAR. and SCOUNDREL.
T JONATHAN ALLEN.,
Boston, April 14, 1810, e T Yy
* One of Gov. GURE's Aids de Camp.’ '
By Mr. Ichabod Emmens. Christopher Gore,whese
election lays so near our hearts on the first Monday of
April last. We have sgext the man, and are sat
ighed ! ! ! ﬁ‘.:ut Col. H.)
~ln the absence of Col- RULBERT.
It would afford an infinite fund of amuses
ment to trace the zigzag course of modern
tederalism. At one moment, we find it clothe
ed in thunders, hurling its bolts of wrath
promiscuously among the infidels who disbe
tieve the sincerity of their professions of pat
riotism——At another time, when they perceive
s prospect of defeat in the purposes nearest
their hearts, we find' them fawning as the
whippied -Spanfel. After the election in- 1809,
they boldiy talked of a severence of the Uns
ion==boasted tiwut their firm, patriotick, end
digificd conduct hud awed the general governe
ment, and compelled them to sbundon a sys.
tem of meusures which was then believed
best calculated to preserve the peace of the
cuuntiry, and procure redress of injuries from
foreign powers. Vermont, Ncw-ilumpshire.
and Mussachusetts yiclded o deceptions, and
became the instruments and tools of traitore,
'o subserve the cause of Britain, and awe the
American. Rhode-Islund and New-York
were seriously affected and well nigh became
victims. Federalism calculated with consicl
erable certainty on the co-operation of ali the
New-England states, to support its treasona
hle projects in 1810 ; and itsdefiances of the
national government shew how far the mis
chief might have extended, but for the guod
sense_of the virtuous -citizens of New-Eng
land—~How much causc of congratulation,
and thanks to the Governour of all, have we,
that we enjoy so much light in this western
worid, thut we can detect lurking treas «. in
its most devious mazes=--drag it 10 the light,
strip off its deceptive covering and frustrete
its dreadful purposes :==while ifi those covan
tries were tyranny reigns, a designing few, vy
playing with the pussions, have it in their
power to drench the land in blood, to gratily
their ambitious propensities, without procur
ing.any benefit to the people=-eVerily the
lines are fullen to us in pleasant places, and
we have a goodly heritage.
Federalism hus aguin retreated to the land
of atrady kabits, where under the auspices
of priestcraft it may make a permanent stand
;‘-3:;( fcdenlio::‘, ‘:;l'kc fire, while vamin“d
n proper | may serve to keep alive
that spirit of active lnqﬂ’ry and cauion which
is the vital (Gu'hdzb of rep: j==Now
?in we find sts all concilisting—
hey talk of Aarmong, unin moderation,
with as much sengfroid as o of the In
visitioe of merry while -
S the dostined vitiand of Dily Posr, erg
superstitious monks—They Wish 10 banis)
polisical intvlcrance, vnd introduce a, politicyt
The following publication relating to the “ Hawulton
?’ Museaciusetts,” the fu-&n:d My, Hulburt, of
ederul legislative mnork is from the Pittof-id
Sun of W:inesday last. Tt is rcruuhed in this
- town, because the slander whith it refuses wae
copied into the Centinel, und in that psper circula.
ﬁthmugb this vicinity, Bout, Chron.
70 JOHN W, HULBERT, L:g*
SIR, .
- In conseguence of a publicatign which ap.
peared in the Reporeer, (printed at Pittsficld)
on the 12th diy of angust (and afterwards
published in the Columbian Centinel) on the
subject of burning Gov, Gore’s Effigy and
Rev., Thomas Alten’s Boots, attributing the
projeciing, siding and assisting the suid bus.
mess to the Rev. Thomas Allen, in connection
with une Asoph Brown, (a convict) &¢. and in
making search and enquiry for the author of
stich @ FALSE, SCANDALOUS, LIBELLOUS and
DISGRACEFUL PUBLICATION, ] found sufficie
By Doss. Burghurdt. CHRISTOPHER GORE, the
Wasnincron,and Joun W, HuLseaT, the Hame
tLIoN of Mussuchusctray ! 2 22 1 2 2 ) 10
* For dcfination'of this amiable word, see newspa~
per lists of marriuges. e 0
t Th"w may justly be styled, “ Lvéd o rFinax
smicur ™ '
¢ And this, & teuch at the terrifick /
. MISCELLANT.
A CALUMNIATOR EXPOSED.
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