The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-08-18

What beautiful commentary on the
Justice and benevolence of the Supreme
Being, is seen in the variety OF animate
creation around us.--Elow admiral y are
the gifts of the brute creation adapted TO
their ecessities-instinct, filing up the
void OF reason, and prompting them to
industry, or sagacity, or courage or kind
ness, as their relative situations require.
To man, his gifts are more various, and
though not always equal in number, sell
dom different in the aggregate amount.
He who is born blind, is furnished fire.
quenlly with an astonishing memory. We
know young man thus situated, who is
an admirable grammarian and an excel
lent Greek and Latin scholar. The
forms OF letters he learned by feeling the
tomb stones Of bis own village grave yard,
and the powers Of his mind, assisted by
the faculty OF hearing, accomplished the
rest. We have just read OF anothe.
born blind, who, in works Of mechanism,
is inferior to few-and who has accom-,
plished the manufacture Of many articles
IN less time than any one who has ever
commended with him could accomplish il.
Instances of persons deaf and dumb dis
playing the most surprising rapidly Of
concePion-and brightness of intellect
are numberless. So il is throughout
II man was as kind and merciful 10 him,
self as Heaven is TO him-this world
would be Paradise. Emhor,uD7.
Extract from the address of MIR. Clinton
before the Phi Beta Kappa society
at Union college:
"Faction and luxury-the love of mo-
ney and the love of power, were the ny.
dra>headed monsters that destroyed the
ancient republics. At the time tina, the
Roman commonwealth was overturned,
all ranks of men were SO corrupted, that
tables were publicly set out, upon which
the candidates for Office were professedly
ready TO pay the people the price Of
their votes and they came not only to
give their votes TO the man who had
bought them, but with all manner of
weapons 10 fight for him Hence it often
happened, that they did not part without
Poiluting the tribunal with blood and
murder, and the city was a perpetual
scene Of anarchy. The justice of Hea.
ven pursued the perpetrators of these
enormities, and Rome was scourged with
series of the most de;estable tyrants
that ever disgraced the character of hui.
mainly. Although corruption will not
at first present itself under such hideous
undermining and dangerous forms, it will
appeal TO cuPidity and to ambition, by
magnificent promises and by donatives of
office, if not by largesses of money.
| Good men are often too letharslc and
inactiye--bad men are generally bold
and adventurous. And unless arrested
by the yigilaDt intelligence and virtuous
Indignation OF the community, faction will
in process of time contamipate all the
sources of public prosperity-a delete.
rious poison will be infused into the vital
principles OF the body politic-inlrigue,
ignorance, and impudence will be the
passports to public honors-apd the
question will be, not whether the man ia
| fit for the Office, bu: whether the Office il
tit for the man. In this crisis of the re.
public Its degenerate and unpriucipled
sons will unite in one common crusade
against the public good, and will encircle
the land with Gordon of corrupt and
daring spirits, like the peecant humous Of
the body, which in dangerous disease,
collect in the morbid part of the SYSTEM"
ESTIMATE OF MORTALITY.
According to a statistical chart pub.
Iished in Neapolitan Journal, the popu.
| lation of the 1iobs :, 600 hut. r,