Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-02-10

VIC ".e~" ~ s'h'. ana I'm repOse, The
norning slumbers Of infancy could NOT
be more quiet. The political stosm has
ieit our country, il - devoutly In ne
hoped. in something like this condition.
HiSher claims of our nature are calm.
Us to better, more profitable. and con.
GENIAL pursuits. The every day rela-
tons al life will have fair pIav. and Al.
ready have they brought US back Ia the
feelings Of citizenship. neighborhood,
friendship, and brothcriy Kindness.
n great battle has, indeed, swept
through the land but is il over and
gone. The fragments Of this feast Of
war. which were left. are nearly cor.
su'ned BY "the beasts of the 6.ld, and
the fowls Of the air." Tn. t,t,ers and
the putrescent offai Of battle alone re.
main OF the ground Of conflict. The
meretr'cious and odious followers of
the camp, who have iurrd the living TO
profligacv, are now in shoals, following
the f"otsteps Of slaughter, To s,rip and
plumber the lead. Flights of foul vul
lures, at times. sail and scream over
The field. Flocks Of filthy carrion
crows croak in the air, and now and
then aliSht on some vet unconsumcJ
carcass. In one quarter. tr,ops or
gaunt and furnished wolves howl at
each others eyes; in another. pack.
OF lean and hungry dogs bark and
growi over bones. already stript to the
very last fibre. All these, unless whipt
aud shouted away from their foul con.
trover>y. will remain and iinscr about
the battle ground, So long rs there is one
rag To piilagc. or one bone 10 gnaw.-
These. what arc theys Who, sir, who
can call this refuse - the earth, the
American peopleE Thank God il is
not SO. Like the sea weed on YOUR
shores, this mass is but manure. Iii
no more the people. or like the people,
than the sweepings Of the stable, are
the high melted and generous war.
horse.
The two great parties have retired.
ihe triumphant, satisfied and warmed.
trust, with magnan,mitv. The de.
ieatesi. a, ] know, patriotic and patisnt.
ana deeply imbued with the fortitude
peculiar 10 their condition. What then.
at this time, binders one united effort
to carry forward a great scheme for
national good : Tell us not that a Pre-
sidential election has just passed. We
shall shortly be told, a Presidential
election will soon arrive. Devote, I
pray of you. sir. devote tho narrow in
terval. The suspicious nolr, TO the ser
vice ri the people. Put in practice the
sound maxim. the vigilant diligence of
the husbandman; and, like him remcm-
Der. that those arc,
" Brightest of al the Suns bright beams,
" When be,wxt storm and storm, he giesms."
HE people of the United States
have. sir, irnm the close of the reyoIu
tionary war till this hour, looked on
the public lands as their own; and
equally the soil and freehold. and in
heritancc Of each and every one of them.
This claim has been kept alive and in
vigorated 5y "reminiscences of its com
mon origin. and cn,lcarcd by the vari.
"os and multiplied appropriations from
year to year by US made. "a well for
them. 10 their use, as Tor the universal
bencfl Of this gre1f national inheritance
When, therefore. their Gfie is disturb
ed, their o'cnership questioned. and that
too by Brofhers 81 the same family.
how will you quiet the controversy p
VIII the people of the old States quit
claim 10 the people of the new; and
that in sight Of the graves Of their Pa
theirs, who won ills region as a herit-
aye for all their descendants? WHY
shnnt1 fhnr- Al
ons ancestry, disinherit themselves and
their children. BE assured, SIR, they
viii NOT, while man is man. and earth
!, lis abiding place. Let then, every
effort be made 10 put this question 81
rest. in Peace. and by fair and hontsf
Legislation. 1t may uther~ise remain
for adjustment, by process, and in
tribunal. over whose record. the hisio-
Ran shall shudder as he looks at the
legend.
Should il come. and without some
thing like the proposed measure, IL NAV
come 20 the "trial by battle" should
:, Come Ia that trial, who will live TO
Say the world ever witnessed such q
strife Of arms: The visions 81 action
have sometimes arrayed against each
other the most cndeared relations. -
Here those visions shalt be en,bOdied
and embat,led. Not only these Ioug
United States shall saBder, aud State
against State Us 10 arms, bot brother
and brother, father and son. meet in
DISCRIMINATING hostility. Eye 10 eye.
eT hand to hand, with no exchange 81
greeting bot the rinc--uo saIutat,on
Dot the sword. IN such . war. shall
noi the last RID man. who fell by bal
I let og bavoDct. LIE his head from the