Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-07-07


tuned am sure, to do much more, for tie public
good IN tins part of the country. Every patriot cy
VI. 'ehecunS man, who considers that useful know
widely dltused, is the only sure basis of engh,
r ,1eeno syinpath'zes with you in your regret
Tor that disaster, WHICH has reduced its well provided
apartments and stately walls TO melancholy ruins
Inc pubic spirit, which raised, will, | donbt not
speeay restore those walls, aud niuse new enerpv
mo- a Justly ranked among the most
Pec'aDie IN the country honor to this town and Ga
inc slate anG public benefit to the West Indeed
IN the early care which in thus and some of the
heghnour!ng states, has been had for the establish
.1t 9, PAGES or education though much is natu-
ta1y sun so be tone, recognize the spirit which an
mated the pilgrim fathers of New England, (neyer
20 De mentioned by their descendants without nrasel
ia 'ie same cause You hare had your Morrison as
We ,i''u our Harvard As community, YOU have al
ready given pledges, that you are Determined vonr
pasterity shall have cause to bless your memory MS
we nave to bless the memory of our ancestors Let
put t!ie foundations be deeply laid in liberal public
unu private patronage, and the INT ellectual edice
nc sod fahrfG oil an enigh cncd coinrnuni.v-u;ll
sand firm, though the brick and the marble NAV for
time, SINK beneath the deyouring fainos and the
scientific treasures they contaued be reduced 70 dust
and ashes. ~ 0N'"
There s one association RECALLED to mind in ysi,iro
hVS place, to which it would he unpardonahIe were
'isepSo'e mn association, which has pcTpesriatetl
m the name OF your city that of an yer-nenorable
village III the county inhabt and in. nc near neigl
oourhood OF my residence. When the news of Tie
Matte OF heNington, the 10th Of april i.75.
reached party OF hunters assembled at the spring
III this place. they resolved in prophetic conuer,o
ration OF that event to give he Il;nc of LEXINGTON to
lne place OF their encampmcnt, and the town tha.
should there be founded. Not more than fifty wears
neiieVe nave passed away, since the actual laying
ont OF this town; and in that periud what a ,1onm
ipent haye not you and your fathers-reared to the
nFave and good men, wlN, at that doubtful crisis Of
the country tate, on the of her Independence
niiareu up thhir lives IN her sncred ca,,sc! They
were not OF your kindred, EXCEPT in the kindred at
Struggling liberty, and by the blood v'lcl,
they shed for yonr freedom us for their own.
Iney he in their humble graves, in the beautiful
Vilage' where they fell; and Il simple stone marks
the scene Of their ctey shGtifce bnt how
"oiihy.l III the rcnate west, has their pious srlfde
Votion been comnlemorated in the ample streets the
slightly dwellings the substantial public etfces, in
o e charitable the Literary The religious foundations
OF this important town!
Meantime, IN the astonishing uroeress oE oIIY coIn
Try this state, then an almost pahlcss wilderness
nan eXporeh, untitled or TILED only BY the bold hun
Ter, VINO Went to the field with spade in one and
aud rifle in the other las become itself the narant
OF other rising states Beyond tho " ahasb-baynna
the MIsslsslpp-there now large communities
VINO inok to these. their native fields with the same
eeingS' With WINCH yoar tathers Looked back their
native homes in Nrglup. have myself, within II
week or two, heard an individual, who had beer tn
explore Tor himself neW home in Illinois and was
on his return to take out hts family the chosen spot
even while commencing the abundance and fertility
OF the vast praires in that region chccs Himself as
we were passing by some Of the prosperous settle
ments, the comfortable houses the rich corn fields,
tne pleasant medows, the beautiful woodland pastures
OF bus native state and eXcaim ''after ALL there IL
nothing on Gods earth like old Kentucky"
Ana thus, gentlemen, It is, that civilization. I'm
PFoVe0insa ad our republican, institutions OF govern
nleh' are maaag then tspicogs progress from re-
9lon 10 region, Throughout the continents founded
on the happIest conception Of political wisdem and
confirmed by the dear ties of nature and kindred
lhe rapid growth of the country has brought iDto
unusual associations those opposite feelings and reIa
DptgnT TO-
ern states, and were before curnbincd in one
And the torch of enlightened liberty originally Kin
died at the aitars of Jamestown and Plymouth and
long ago transmitted across the rpolintains fs still
travelling onward, through the wide West. Il r.
CURES no great stretch Of imagination TO trace its
suspicious path to regions yet lying in the untcnant
cd solitude of natures nor TO apply to it, With still
happier augury, the beautiful lanruanc by which
the poet has described the revival Of ftsntfo
Tire nations ef the elder world
Isaw the expecting regions sanG
10 catch the cou,ing fame in tlfi,;
Sdw, from rgndy hand to hand
ihc bright but struggling glory igIrI,
Fnd each, as She received the flame
Lighted her altar with its ray;
!Tn, smiling, to the who cant-
SPECIFIED II OH us sparSling WY.
Bnt, MIR. President, must check myself, on fffs
dehghttui tflame and spare your putience. Allow
me In sitting down, to renew my thinks to tt;s
spectacle Company FOR their friendly and lespitnbfe
attentions, and to propose the following sentiment
f5n EoSferr and Uesbra Statls-Onc IN origin ons fr
ueFu:'nieh IN gDVcrnnEn they t sti In4.
united by mutual gopJ viii " e3
&fotg tie Iai9is5n,,s (Pa) {UteIEgeHrtr Of ,Tue 10
ANTT-AIASDN1C' CONVENTION.
The anti-Inasouic convention assembled nj FIR
courthouse in this borough on Thursday last ut three
O'Clock III the afternoon, ROBERT MITCHELL
OF Indiana, was 'losen the president, JouY LIVER
GOOD, Of Somerset, and CONRAD GERarA7, of ,ehini
vlce-presdents Isnar RotGrork of Union and Roianu
DVcr of Lancaster, secretaries. Tire following pcr-
SOILS appeared as delegates, viz:
Innrnstsr.- Holm Robinson, Ies,o II Jl,,~--..- II,