Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-09-21

factis now mentioned, which we had not be. |
fore noticed that the clauses in the Constitutions
OF New Jersey and North Carolina, which emu.
merate the qualifications for Office, provide, in
positive terms, that no person "~ho shall deny
the truth Of the Protestant religion" shall be ca
pable OF being elected to any Office Of profit or
trust, or Of being member Of the Legislatures"
thus excluding Catholics and others who cannot.
conscientiousy, subscribe to the doctrines of the
reformation!
In this enlightened era and sge Of general
good feeling, and in this country, where the Con.
sutution declares, so far as the General Gouern.
n,snt is concerned, that e Congress shall make
no law respecting an establishment Of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" these
States should take instant measures to repeal
these obnoxious clauses. The Telegraph speak
Ing Of this subject, says, Gin North Carolina,
we know that the liberal spirit of the people is
so far in advance Of their Constitution, that,
(as will always be the case where the laws
lag behind the march Of intellect,) the provision
alluded to is mere dead letter, and completely
imperative; for the Hon. VIM. CASTOR, Catho
lie, and learned and distinguished citizen Of
that State, has not only been frequently elected
to Congress, bat also to the State Legislature of
W hich he is now mcmber,) without this absurd
clause having ever been quoted as bar to his
eligibility"
In preamble adopted at late meeting of the
Heroites in Allegheny County, it is asserted,
that "when the names Of Henry Clay, (who is
allowed to be not BAD county court lawyer,)
and Daniel Webster, shall have passed to their
mother earth, and be forgotten, the name OF An.
drew Jackson will live in history and song, and
occupy the first niche 10 the temple Of fame"
A little further improvement in the Jackson
code. and it may be that we shall become practi.
caliy fainiliarized to the words Of Cade, when
he sentenced lord Say to death: "Away with
him, away with him, he speaks Latin"
II is said the Speaker Of the House of Com
mons will be created Baron Lexington. Of Aram,
in the county Of Nottingham title once in the
possession Of the Sutton family.
The Sugar crop Of East Florida promises we'll
this season. There are about ten sugar planta-
tons, each Of which will produce from 80 to 100
hogsheads.
University Of the Cay Of New Iork.-Ths
institution which has been SO long in contempIa.
ton is likely at last to SO into operation. The
Rev. DR.. Matthews, Of the city Of New York,
has been appointed Chancellor; the Rev. DIR.
Cox Of New York, Lecturer on Moral Philo,o.
phy, and the Rev. DR.. McIlvaine Of Brooklyn,
Professor of the Evidences Of Revealed Religion,
and Lecturer on Sacred Antiquities. The other
departments arc filled with men advantageously
known in the literary and scientific world. The
exercises Of the University are to be held in Gin
ton Hall, until suitable buildings are erected.
Horrible effects Of oppression! Contemplated
Massacre Of the L1noeents. John A. Jones,
of Georgia, in his letter to Mr. Guien Of the Con-
stitutionaisf on the subject Of the Tariff, con-
cludes in these heart.rendins strains:
"Before God, love the Union as we'll as any
man; and would willingly sacrifice my life to
preserve it, and the constitution, that my chill
dren might live free. But when l look on them
and believe that the inheritance of freedom which
my father purchased with his blood aud suffering,
and transmitted untarnished TO me, will not de-
scend to them; when see manacles forging for
their young limbs, which know will be put on
before they are out of the gristle. am ready to
sacrifice them before they shall submit to this
degradation.
Old Wheat-The American Farmer gives
one Of the most interesting facts on the subject
of Wheat, that has ever been published. 1t
states that there is now growing in France a
patch Of wheat, the seeds Of which are upwards
Of t,oo thousand gears old-lt was obtained, d,.
rectly from one who was an 'nhabitant Of Egypt
somewhere about the year Ala before Christ. BY
some gentlemen in Frsnce In other words it
YVES taken from mu mmy. At this time, adds
the Farmec, we only know that the wheat was in
every particular, the same as that Of the present