Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-07-27

" OF mankind, and hts every effort has been
directed TO t'c preservation OF that equality
among MS countrymen. How powerful in ;ts
OPERATION IS our descent law IN producing this
erect Founded on the everlasting prncinIes
OF Justice, y distributes among all his children
the NUTS OF The parents la5our. The frs, horn
rs no longer considered the chosen nj The Io.1
but nature asserts her rights, and raises the Ia,
with Am equality with the first. Thus il i that
the spirit OF proud independence. 50 ansn'
cious to the durability of our institutions. il en-.
gendered IN the bosoms OF our Citizens Tine
It IS that we are under the iufluenCe of an apr..
gran law IN effect. while nature, instead of ne.
ing violated, IS protected. and Industry. instead
OF beng suppressed, is excited BY new stimuli
The great lawgiver of Sparta in vain sou,h, Il,
perpetuate the principle Of equality amenSr the
citizens of that renowned Republic. BIZ yarious
measures, all of which ultimately failed--but
here is measure which cannot h,l--a n,easnre
winch depends not upon veneration for the cha.
racter otany one man, but lays hold Of the after.
uohs and records its own perpetuity in the
great volume of nature--a measure which will
every day more conspicuously develop its beau.
ties--one without which the blood shed in the
revolution would have been shed in. vain.
without which the glories of that .truegle
would tade away. or exist but as another prooc
o. man inc capacity for self government. What
more shall say OF IN May 1 not call (; that
great measure which TO our political. Ike the
sun 10 our planetary system, iRlpsrts light end
heat, unveils ad its beauties and manfests il,
strength. Tell ne then We destlnies that con.
trout Tie future, say is not this mans name in
Scribed in sdsnanG Say, men of the present
age, ye lovers OF liberty, We shining lights from
amid the gloom OF the worid--say does Vitgi.
ma clam too much when she pfonounces her
Jefferson wiser than the lawyers Of antiauityl
Ten me then, men Of America. have YOU not
lost your father, your benetaGtor, your hes,
iclendf And you, the men OF other countries.
where The lights OF his example is now but
d'mly seen--you who constitute the salt of the
earth. will YOU not kndle your amrs in the
mighty blaze u his fame, ard distribute the
blessings OF his existence around your
Here might stop. The cause of this mourn.
fui procession is explained. The picture might
oe considered as finished. His claim 10 the
gratitude OF mankind is made manifest, and his
ute to Immortality is established. But his la
oorS did nor here cease--I have still to exhibit
him TO you in other lights than those in which
we have regarded him---to present other claims
to your veneration and gratitude Passing over
those incidents which history has already re.
corded, lei ss regard him while in that station
"bica now hi more by the kindness of the
pubic than from any merit of my own--we here
recognize IN him the able vindeator of insilted
America against the sarcasms of European Phi
losophy. INDUCING in the visions of a falla.
clous theory, II was attempted 20 be PROVED
that the flush and glow which nature assumed
on the other side of the Atlantic. wac convert
ca on this continent into the eadas ern.ls aspec,
| ct disease and dege6erscy~-t while she
walked abroad over the face of Europe in all
her beautiful proportions, here She hobbled on
crutches and de9enerated into dwarf, How
| successfully he threw back this SANDER upon
our ealumniators, let the world decide His
Notes on Virginia viii ever bear him faithful
witness. SANDERS upon nations make the deeo.
est end most lasting impression. They fan not
on one man, but on a whole people; and ii not
refutcd, tend to sink them on the scale Of eg.
istence. IL, under any circumstances, they are
to be deprecated, how much more are they to
be 50, when published against nation not even
III the grstle OF manhood, unknown 10 the MACS
of mankind and struggling to be free, such
was the condition of America a, that t1ay. Shut
out from Tree intercourse with Europe by the
monopolzlng spirit of the parent state, she had
renamed unknown to the world, and was re-
garded as an extensive wild, within whose bo.
som the fires of genius and Of intellect had not
AS yet been kindied. Mr.. Jefferson saw then
the INJURY which she would sustsin If they re.
NAMED unrefuted. Viglant at his post and
guardfpl OF the Interests of these states. lie en-.
countered the most distinguished of the NH.
iosophers OF Europe, and his victory was com
plete' 1t was answer enough for him to have
SAID, what in substance be did say, that in war
we had produced Wsshingtan--in physics a
Franklin--and in astronomy Rttenhouse-a and
If his triumph had not then been esteemed
complete, might've not add, with the certain
ty OF success, that in philosophy and politics,
America had produced Jefferson.
In all the various stations which he afterwards
filled, We find him labouring increasingly for the
good OF his country Having won by Lis Vir.
tues and talents the confidence Of Washington,
he was called to preside over the Department
OF State. In this station he vndicste the q ghts
OF America against the sophistry of toe Europe.
an cabinets. and gave proof of that skin in d.
plomacy tor which he will be distinguished IN
all future ages. When the future ststesnsa
shall look for model from which TO form his
style OF diplomatic writing. viii he not cease
bis search, and seize with ayidi'y on that. the
offspring of the Secretary's pen ia his CORES.
pondence with Hammond and Genet. Called
al length by the voice Of the people TO the Pre-
sldency of these United States, he furnished the
model OF An administration conducted on the
purest principles of Repubrcansm. He sought
not 10 enlarge his powers by Construction, but
referring every thing TO his conscience, made
that the standard of his constitutional inierpre
tation. Regarding the government in its true
and beautiful hight of confederation of states,
he could not be drawn from his coarse by any Of
those splendid conceptions which shine but to
mislesd. He extinguished $4,000, 600 of the
national debt--enlarged the boundaries OF our
territorial jurisdiction by the addition of regions
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