Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1828-11-18

degraded man, and points his hope to glorious iu-
mortaty-ths II is that says to the Pebcisn of our
slashes,
"iionour and share from 20 condition rise,
Act well your part, there all the honour lies"
And to the Patrican Of Roanoke
.worh makes the man. the want of / tho iblow
IhcreH Is all hut leather and prunelu."
Mr.. Chairman, cannot venture my feelings in what
Is before me without throwing myself your kind in
dulgencc--pdrdon me, sirl basccch Your pardon IL I
lose myself and forget my subject. The ilustrious
British Bard To whose words have Just referred has
introduced tn my memory the immortal Byron.--Oh
thou sacred shadc. OH thou holy martyr of Missolon-
CHI thou, whose purse whose person and whose pre-
cious life devoted tho altar of liberty thou
whose sweetest notes ever tuned freedom aud
the rights Of man--but now thy Harp is hung upon
the Willow-.or
srhc,grass on Thy grave Is green and LONE
And sighs To midnight winds endless song
The fame Of thy verse, all meier shall il cease
'tcmty not limo shall grant IL a lease:
Thy sonss shall display the eS'cn, Of my merit,
i!iy death shall redeem all excess of thy spirit
Mr.. Chairman, have long had in my pocket mud
shall forever hive my heart the conclusion of his
beautiful Ode to Venice, in which he refers to DIR
own country in n stile of such pathetic elocuence
and in strain of such fanciiul feeling fail
deeply to interest every heart hearing and will
doubt afford rich compensation for the short
minute that its reading may require.
The of Commonwealth past and gone
Ger The three fractions OF the groanns glolc
Venice rs crIshd, and Holland dcigns
\ ccpre and endurcs the purple robe;
If the free switzer yet bcsirides alone
Ills ch'inlcss mountains Ills but Tor time,
For tyranny of late is cunning grown,
Aud in it's good season trainplcs down
Whose vigorous of spring by dividing
AR kept apart and nursed in tho devotion
Of Freedom whie! their fathers fougt for and
tetg'cath'dEal s'riasc OF heart and band,
And proud distinction from each other ianl
Whose sons mus, bov' cin az a mioanrch's motion,
rs If his senscless sccTire n
Full of the magic of e~Plo,cd science
Stll ono great cline, in full and tree dcfarcr,
&c, rca ,o hes C., e,s ansonq"eTd and sublime
s se f o,,n SH ncs II Fp a, tS sq s o
Nay strike whose rcd right hands hayo to,sh,
Rights cheaPly canned with blood. STILL still. for
Better, though each mans lfc-binod we're n river,
That it should flow, and overflow than creep
Through thousand lazy channels in VEINS
nunn'd like the dull canal with locks and chains
Mud moving, a sick man in his sleep,
1hrcc PAGES, and then i1ltcrins-bciter he
w their proud clanel OF ihonnopyte,
~, and one current to the Ocean add,
Ono spirit the souls fathers had,
one freeman more, America, to theoi
Sir, this niomentary communion with thu illuq.rous
dead Inns cast upon my spirit, kind of hallowed
feeling that should not, II my choice could be
suited be disturbed with any thing that has Jackson
| 1t. But the calls ofmy country must be obeyed,
and when the fate ofthc last Commonwealth is hang
Ing on a hair, have right to indulge my feelings
However distressing IT may be then let ,s return To
Andrew Jackson--Henrv Clay Hyperion TO n Sa-
tvr'-an angel of light demon of darkness--the
serene and transparent sirhce of sea TO
dick pu;iue IN n StorDi--tic and the lines
az tho garden--Jamcstown weed, night shade
lIemlpck OF the dunghiil-thc Cuy Of our slases p-
ricd clarified sancifed that of which is made china
procclan and nlabasier comparison with III old rot
tcHhearted Hickory stump of Tennessee full oflzzards
ord scorpions and snakes and bottle spders.--NIcr-
cilnl God. what IS the state Of our counry-Where,
Oh where is the Genius of Observation-Disclosures orc the
frshcs of her spirit and the thunAers of her clo-
qucnce, She who late lender in the land, "now
none poor to do Der revercnce'-- She who was
arrHyei in purple AMI fine linen, now clothed
il sack-coth aud ashes. But alas, the sun of her
glory has set, and darkness has como upon the
face of the EARTH and behold her alars aud her ten
pics are polluted and dcfed with
'Thoe birds of night and beasts of prey
That shunued the light Of her meridian day.
oh! Sir mus. not rather hope TINT tho trans
GCions of this lower world unknown in thos,. re
gions Of bliss where the wicked from troubling
and the weary rest,' else what must be the
condition o. cur Washingtons and our Wyths, our
Pcpdetons, and Masons our Lees. and our
Nelsons'--for hcrc--hnre is q speciabe that might
convert their Heaven into He'll But g,pryto God,
The dawn oil another day has already appeared, and
The ustre of the morning star is promising a still
brighter and more glorious sun, that shall presently
disspatc and dissolve mist of the morning. tis
foul fungus that has arisen darkness heat and corrup
ton. The Lord have mercy npon our peope--sparc
US good Lord, spare people distinguished with
Jay marks of thy Almighty favour: know with a few
exceptions, that they honest in their hearts and
pure in their motives and If in mistaken zeal for the
pH5ic good they should destroy this fair purchase Of
their fathers blood, for willing 10 CRY out
ia the language of n crucfied Saviour-.Father for
give them they know not what they do"
'Scr the iih cano and 9eth of Don Juoo.