American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-08-01


con,cn until he had mastered wealth sufficient to
MAINTAIN army-and Julius Caesar paved the way
10 the overthrow OF Roman liberty by the unsparing
distribution. from his inexhaus.ible stores, OF lar
gesscs TO the people. Mr.. Jefferson saw, therefore,
The great necessity for reformation in our municipal
code and the &C. aboshing entails, and that regu-
]atng descents, are in all their essential features,
The offspring OF his well constituted intellect He
has acted Throughout, the great principle Of the
equality Of manklnd-aDd his every effort has been
directed 10 the preservation Of that equality among
his counliymen. How powerful in its operation is
our descent law in producing this effect Founded
on the everlasting principles of justice it distributes
among all his children the fruits OF the parents la
bor The first born is no longer considered the
chosen OF the Lord, but nature asserts her rights and
raises the last to equality with the ffst.--Thus
ii is that the spirit Of proud independence, aus.
pcious to the durability of institutions, is
rendered in the bosoms OF our citizens. Thus is it
that we under the influence Of an Agrarian law
in effect, while nature instead Of being violated, is
projected and industry instead OF being suppressed,
is excited by new stimuli The great law giver OF
SPARTA in vain sought 10 pcrpetuate the principle Of
equality amongst the citizens of that renowned re
public, by various measures, all OF which ultimately
failed; blu, here is measure which cannot fail ;
measure which depends not upon veneration for the
character OF any man, but lays hold of the afec
,ions and records its own perpetuity in the grea,
volume OF nature measure which will every day
more conspcuously deveope It's beauties; one with
out Which the blood shed the revolutions would have
been shed IN vain without which the glories Of that
struggle would fade away, or exist but as another
proof of mans incapacty for self government
What more shall say Of itP May not call it that
great measure which TO POLITICAL like the sun
10 our planetary system, imparts light and heat, I'm !
yes all its beauties and manifests its strength y
" But his abors did not here cease have still
TO exhibit him to you in other lights than those in
which we have already regarded him to present
other claims to your veneratiOn and gratitude I
Passing over those incidents which history has al
ready recorded, let us regard him, while in that sta
tion which now fill more by the kindness of the
public than from any merit OF my We here
recognize in him, the able vndica,or of insulted
America against the sarcasms OF European phllos-
ophy-Indugng in the visions Of fallacious theo
ry, it was attempted to be proved that the flush and
glow, which nature assumed the other side
OF the Atlantic. was converted on this continent
into the cadaYerous aspect Of disease and degeneracy
That while she walked abroad over the face of Eu.
rope, in all her beautiful proportions, kere she hob
bled on crutches and degenerated into dwarf
How successfully he threw back this SANDER upon
our calumnators let the world decide.-His Notes
on Virginia will bear him faithful witness. Sian.
ders upon nations make the deepest and most last
ihg impression. They fall not on one man, but on
whole people, and it not refuted, tend to sink them
on the scale oil exis!ence.-If under any circum-
stances they are to be deprecated how much more
arc they to be so, when published against nation
not even in the srisIe of manhood, unknown to the
mass OF mankind and STR ggling to be free. Such
the condition of America at that day. Shut
out from free intercourse with Europe by The mo
nopolishg spirit Of the parent state she had remain
ed unknown 10 the world, and was regarded as an
extensive wild within whose bosom the fires Of
genius and OF intellect had not yet been kinded
MIR. Jefferson saw then the injury which she would
sustain II these ISLANDERS remained unrefuted. Vigi
Ian, at his post and guardnl OF the interests of the
States, he encountered The most distinguished OF
the philosophers Of Europe and his victory was
complete 1t was answer enough for him to have
said what In substance he did say that in we
mad produced Washington, in physics Franklin,
and in astronomy Rittenhouse and il his triumph
mad not then been esteemed complete, might we
not add with the certainty of success, that in phoso
ply and politics America had produced Jefferson
In all the several stations which he afterwards FL
led we lind him laborine increasingly for the good
OF bis country Having by his virtues and tai
ents the confidence of Washington, he was called to
preside over the department OF State. In this sta.
ton he indicated the rights Of America against the
aophstry of the European cabinets. and gave proof
OF that skill in diplomacy for which he will be dis
lingushed through all future ges.-When The
future statesman shall look for model from which
10 form his style OF diplomatic writing, will he not
cease his search, and seize with avdi,y that the
offspring OF the Secretary's pen in his correspon
dence with Hammond and Genet. Called aticngth "
ny the voice OF the people to the Presidency Of these
Cn'ed States, he furnished the model of an ad
conducted on the purcst principles Of
'epnblicanlsm He sought not to enlarge his pow. :
rrs by construction but referring every thing his
conscience, made that the standard of the cons.itu
llona Interpretation Regarding the government
IN IFS tue and beautiful light Of confederation of
States he could not be drawn from his course by any