American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1825-12-09

aoe 10 our country il the SEQUEL o. the same exper
'nehts should be coun,enanced by the patronage {
our government, as they have hitherto Lcen by thus
OF France and Britain.
connected with the establishment of an University, q
separate from II, might be undertaken the erection Of
astronomical observatory with provision for the spport
an asronomer to be in attendance of
upon the phenomena of the heavens, and tr the perc
Sa Puphcaton OF his observations IL is with no felu
OF prlde, as an Am rcan, that the remark NAV be made
ha on the comparatively small territorial s face Of Eu
rope there are existing upwards Of hundred aud hir,,
of these lighthouses of the skies while thu ou,rhou III,
whole American hemisphere, there is not one If We re-
Meet moment upon the disco cries. which in the Last fo
centuries, have been made in the physical constitution
'he universe, by the means of these buildings and of OH
servers Stationed in them shall doubt of their useful
ness to every nation? And while scarcely year passes
oyer our heads without bringing new astronomical
discovery to light which tain receive at second
nahd from Europe, not cutting ourselves Off from
,he means OF returning light for light, while we have
heer observatory nor observer upon half the globe
anu we ea,h TeVolves In perpetual darkness our ui-
searching cyes'
When, on the 25h of October, 1871, the FIRST
President OF the United States announced to Con.
gress the result OF the FIRST enume alton OF the nhab
ltants OF this Union, he informed them that the re-
'urns gave the pleasing assurance that the popula
tion oil the United States bordered on four millions
oi persons. AT the distance of thirty years from
that time, the last enuner alton, five years since
completed, presented a population bordering upon
ten millions. Perhaps, OF all the evidences of
prosperous and happy condition Of human society
the rapidty o the increase o population is the mos.
unequvocal. But the demonstration Of our pros.
ptrity rests not alone upon this indication. Our
commerce, ouriwealth, and the extent OF our terri
tories have increased in corresponding proportions:
and the number OF independent communities asso.
cated In our Federal Union, has, since that time,
nearly doubled. The legislative representation OF
the states and People, in the Two Houses OF Con
gress, has grown with the growth of their cons,i
tuent bodies. The House, (which then consisted
OF sixty five members now numbers upwards of TWO
hundred. The Senate, which consisted Of twenty
SIX members, has now forty eight. But the Exc.
cutive, and still more the Judiciary Departments,
are yet in great measure confined TO their primi
tive organization, and now not adequate 10 the ur
gent wants oi still growing community
Ihe naval ornaments, which, at an carly period, |
forced themselves upon the necessities oil the union
soon led to the establishment OF a Department OF the
Navy. But the Departments OF Foreign Affairs,
and OF the Interior, which, early after the formation
oil the Government had been united in one, continue
SO united at this Time, to the unquestionable detr
ment OF the public service. The multiplication oil
our relations with the nations and Governments OF
the old world has kept pace with that Of our popu-
iaton ard commerce, while, within the last ten
years, a new family OF nations, in owr: hemis
phere, has arisen among the inhabitants OF The earth
with whom our intercourse, commercial and polili
cal, would OF ITSELF furnish occupation TO an active
and industrious Department The constitution OF .
the Judiciary experimental and impe feet as it was,
even in the infancy Of our existing Government is
yet more inadequate to the administration of nation
al justice at present maturity. Nine years have
elapsed since predecessor in this Office now not
he last, the citizen who, perhaps, oil all others
In oughout the Union, contributed most to the for.
nation and establishment OF our Constitution in his
'aedlctory address to congress Immediately pre-
seding his retirement from public life, urgently
recommended the revision of the Judiciary, ard the
establishment of an additional Executive Depart
nent. The exigencies of the public SERVICE and
IS unavoidable deficiencies, as now in exercise,
,ave added yearly cumulative weight to the eonsid
,salons presented by him as persuasive to the mea
ure; and in recommending il TO your deliberations,
am happy to have the influence Of his high au-
hority, in aid OF the undoubtng convictions Of my
,wn experience. :
The laws relating the administration of the Paien,
Office deserving of much consideration and perhaps
uscepble of some improvement The grant of power
eguate the action of Congress this subject has spec
led both the end to be attained and the by which
is to be eected-to promote the progress of science aud
he useful arts by securing for limited authors aud
nvenors the exclusive right to their respective writings II
nd discoveries If an honest pride might be induged in
reflection, that the records of that office already
ound inventions, the usefulness Of which has scarcely
ranscended in the annals of human ingenuity, would not
exultaon be alayed by the inquiry whether the laws
effectively insured to the inventors the reward desi
ed to them by the Constitution, limited term of
lusive right TO their dscoveries'
On the 24h of December 1899, it resolved by
ress that marble monument should be erected by the a
nited States, in the CAPITOL at the City of Washington
nat the family of General Washington should be request
to permit his body to be deposited under it and that
monument be designed as TO the great
vents Of his military and political life In reminding Con- RI
Of this resolution and that the conempa NJ
ID by it remains yet without execution shall indulge
the remarks, that the works in the Capitol approach
TO completion that the of the family desired "
the resolution, requested and obtancd that
ment has been recently erected this city the expense
the Naton the remains of another distinguished
atriot Of the Revolution; and that spot has been re-
we'd within the walls where deliberanr for the