Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-07-13

have educated. the poor families have
saved from prison, and clothed aud fed.
They sometimes visit me:
" They give to misery all they have--a tearw
And this repays me, with interest, for all
/ have done for them. My wife, whose
affection increases with my misfostunes,
often visits aud comforts me. And when
she is gone, sing for hours the following
verses, which are very old and very
good.
6 That which the world miscalls Jail,
A private closet is to me;
While good conscience is my bai,
And innocence my liberty.
I'm in a cabinet ock'd up,
Like some high priz'd chrysoEte,
Or, ike the great Mogul, or Pope,
And cloister'd up from public sight.
Here sin, for want of food, must stsrye,
When tempting objects are not seen;
And these strong walls do only serve
To keep vice out, and keep me IN.
Have you not seen the Nightingale.
A prisoner like, eoop'd in cage
How doth she sing her pleasant tale,
In that her narrow hermitage
am that bird, whom they combine
Thus TO deprive of liberty;
But though they do my limbs confne,
Yet, spite of hate, my soul is free.
Fen now my careless melody doth prove,
That allmy bars are trees, my cell a grove
BY singing sentiments like these, I en-
deavor to persuade myself, that am hap
py-that am free But alas am not
happy. | grieye for the triumph Of cru
city and injustice over me- grieve that
am wasting the prime of my life in idle
ness; that the blessings of freedom, and
the charm OF social life, are cut off from
me; that my constitution is dissolving
away in the damps Of lonely and gloomy
dungeon; that am deprived Of the OPP
portunity of making provision for my
children, before age and decrepitude seize
on my limbs: that the Summer of my
manhood is passing by without any prepa-
ration for the vinteT of age, and that the
laws Of my country land heaven knows
love my country, and have stood for its
cause in battle) tolerate this human sacri
flee upon the altar of AUarice! At the
next meeting Of the Legislature, / intend
to offer petition for the repeal of that
cruel law, that offspring Of Barbari sm and
Tyranny, by which / now suffer. 10
the mean time beg that you, Mr.. Edi-
tor, and all whose sentiments are opposed
to imprisonment for debt, will use all your
arguments and my example against it. So
may your country bless you as l shall
ever do. Your suffering fellow citizen.
Circumstances concerning Enlmett'S last
moments.
Executed for conspiracy
"One day, previous TO his trial, as the
governor was going his rounds, he enter
ed Emmetl's room rather abruptly /; and
observing remarkable expression 10 his
countenance, he apologized for the inter-
ruptiop. He had fork affixed to his
little deal table, and appended to it, there
was a iress Of hair. You see, said he
to the keeper, how innocently / am oc-
cupied. This little tress has long been
dear to me, and am plating it 10 wear
10 my bosom on the day ofmy execution
On the day Of that fatal event there was
found sketched by his own hand, with a
pen and ink, upon that very table, an adj
mirable Likeness of himself, the head sew
cred from the body which lay near it.,
surrounded by the scaffold, the axe and
all the frightfuI paraphernaIia of high
treason execution. What strange union
of tenderness, enthusiasm, and fortitude,
do not the above traits Of character ex-
hibH His fortitude indeed never forsook
BIN. On the night previous to his
death, be slept as soundly as ever and
when the fatal morning dawned, he arose,
knelt down and prayed, ordered some
milk, which he drank, wrote two letters
Zone to his brother in America, and the
other to the secretary Of state, Enclosing
in and then desired the sheriffs to be in
formed that be was ready When they
came into bis room, be said be bad two
requests to make--one, that his arms
might be LEFT as loose as possible, which
was huuanely and instantly acceded to-
sI make the other said he, not under
any idea that IL can be granted, but that j
may be held in remembrance that ! have