Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-07

Among the passengers in the steamboat Pc
tomac on Tuesday, from Norfolk, were Com.
JAMES BARRoN and several other officers Of
the Navy.
In calling the attention of our readers to
Mrs. GnEES's advertisement, in an adjoining CO.
lumn, we not only comply with general ncl
nation to do homage to uncommon merit, but,
acting upon information of the most respecta
BILE character, we are impelled by the plea,
surable hope of rendering assistance to an &C
complished, amiable and virtuous female, the
protectress of helpless family, struggling
with adversely.
OF Mrs. Green's ability to give entire salts
faction to her audience, we have the most une'
quivocal assurance, if indeed, her high and
long standing reputation in all the principal
Theatres of the United States were not, of it.
self, sufficient evidence. We wcllremembeI
when she was in youthful prosperity; when she
was the generous reliever Of the wants 81 the
indgent-the unrivaled favorite of the lovers
of the drama, and the pride and boast of Vir-
GINA. But time, in the hands Of an inscruta-
BILE providence, has wrought melancholy
change. Death has bereaved her of the pro-
lection of husband, and of the affection and
important services of promising daughter;
and poverty, the fruit of her disconsolaton,
has chilled her hopes, and driven her again to
| profession, which she once fondly hoped she
had relinquished forever.
| We are aware that we have no claim to any
extraordinary influence over the actions ofour
fellow-citizens, but in exegting what little we
may possess, we feel that we perform moral
duty, prompted by the best of motives; and
we sincerely trust that our fair readers will set
laudable example to our own sex, thereby
dissipating the cloud of dependency that en-
velopes distressed female, and securing to
themselves rare opportunity of gathering IN
struction from rational amusement.
The following remarks by the editor of the
| Central Gazette, deserve place in every jour
nal. They speak the voice of Virginia from the
tops of he mountains, and will be echoed
through the lowland Wales. They will teach the
fanatical Governor of Georgia that although
Virginia was with that state in the Presidential
Election, she thinks too highly of the bles-
sings of union to be led in rebellion by an In
fatuated demagogue.
We owe an apology to the steadier
portion of the community for having
published the report CT the Georgia
Committee on the subject of federal
encroachment. This address is in
your true mock heroic style-ror ct pre-
feria nhH. 1t is the last thunderbolt,
we hope, that will issue from the forge
of these political Cyciops. Mr.. Lump
kin has yet to learn the temperament
of the people of the South, if he sup
poses our minds ripe for such fulmi-
hating, impotent bravado. We con-
cede many Of the points which are as
sumed in this report, and deplore the
necessity which compels US to depre-
cate the dangerous and increasing en-
croachments Of the general govern
ment on state rights. But, the pro-
gress Of that encroachment is not to be
| arrested by sowing the seeds Of dissen-
ton through our confederacy and cast
ing fre-brands of discord among the
already excited and inhammable mate
rials of the Union. Virginia brought
her full share of good feeling into the
union-she has sacrificed much to the
preservation of this union-she is will
ling to sacrifice yet more. Like avigl-
liant sentinel she has been found at her
post, whenever the alarm was sound
ed-nay, she has been the first to sound
it, and to grid on the armour OF tempe
rate reason and mild reproach when
occasion required. But it is not her
wont to follow in the wake of faction,
or to waste her strength in idle vaullts.
Let the people of Georgia or the peo-
pie of any other state, point out the act
by which their rights as distinct sove-
reignties are endangered by the mea-
sures of the federal government, and
Virginia will make common cause with
any or all her sisters, in resisting that
act even unto the death. But the sa-
cred bond of our union is not IL be sha-
ken by the impious tongue of 4 dema-
gogue, or the recent plots ola cabal.
If the report of this committee, is
designed as vindication of slavery on
the GROUND of moral right and public
experience, we dissent "toto carlo" from
the absurd sophistry Of its argument.
The utmost that the wisest and best
men have done in every age and coun-
try where this mos: bitter of all human
evils has existed, was to make an apo
logy for its existence, while they de-
plored it as national and individual