Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-07-23

groans Of the sufierinss you may Id your 'haco'f
ty and indifference, have caused: .el
Reject the poison from your lips.-and go-n
you 20 the way Of all the earth-so into eternity
SOBER. and see your Judge with every faculty. 0,
the bright soul which he has given you unlmPareu
and fresh. Let the aged drunkard see your sun
ny eyes and sprighty frames bidding aenance 20
the ills his spirit dimmed flesh IS heir TO-
Thus you win disarm that horrible pesulence
the Indian ChoIera-which even now seems 10
look towards our city from not distant point
fires n Intemperance, and you need light no fu-
neral torch for the Cholera. Thus will you meet
the angel of destruction which rides on the trou'
bled winds, in your seabeat strand. The breath
of the malaria NAV be here-it may be breathed
in the pure face Of National Temperance, and
find no breath on which to fasten It's poisonous
Influences"
7neposiiion of South Carolina.-lhe Charles
ton Mercury Of the fourth instant, has very eo'
quent and able, but erroneous, editorial article
occupying upwards Of five columns, upon the
subject Of Notification, the Country, and South
Carolina. We annex its concluding paragraph:
And this brings US to the last point: the RENE.
DIV. But we have already extended our re.
marks so far, that we shall say nothing upon this
point, except that it consists in the Of Null.
ication-the right of the State to rut its veto
upon these usurpations, and to interpose IN Its
sovereign capacity, for the protection OF its cltl-
zens This right is of the very essence OF sover-
eighty. To deny it to State, is to deny that
she is a State, and to place her at the mercy oil
an agency created by herself. This right has
been proved to demonstration by the greatest
statesmen of the country, and particularly by
the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and Ma
olson. Report. 1t has also been repeatedly ex-
ercsed by variety OF States upon different &C.
casions, and has always proved peaceful and ef-
fcient remedy. Congress is bound to respect it,
and to call a Federal Convention to terminate
the controversy by an amendment OF the Consti-
tuition But should the Federal Government.
instead of calling Convention as they ought,
madlv undertake coercion, then the consequent
ces will be upon their heads, and not upon those
who only contend for the Constitution and their
rights. When then shall Modification be aP-
piled? AS soon after the next meeting OF the
Legislature ss may be practicable. And how!
By solemn ordinance Of the people IN ConVen--
ton Let the people take the matter into their own
hands, and act on il for themselves. Their voice
must and will be respected and obeyed. 1t will
both State and Federal, and must command the
respectful consideration even of the majority in
Congress. 1t will compel them either to relax
the Tariff, or to call Federal Convention. or
to declare war against the State. And should
the last course be madly proposed by any one,
we should like 10 see upon what grounds he
would rest the right Of congress. OF the delegates
and agents Of the States, TO make war upon
state If this coufederacy. The very discussion
If that question. BY showing the utter inability OF
the federal agent to control the States that Great
ed 1.-THE utter absurdity Of delegates from States
putting down the States thenselves-would es-
tabl,sh forever thu rights Of the States. and Sc
cure the triumph Of the ductrine Of Nullfica-
tiuu. And let not that sjority deceive them
selves any longer. They WILL HAVE TO ADOPT
ONE OF THOSE COURSES; and let them remem-
Der, in time. that that government IS only dura.
BILE or powerful which lives in the confidence
and affection Of the peope-that the strength
of this union is equal rights, and equal burthehs
and that people, born to freedom, and strug'
cling as the Southern States now are, tor their
essential rights aud interests, never can ENJOY
repose, nor settle down in peace, until they Ind
them in the arms of LIBERTY!
To the Editor of the Ohio STATE Journal.
read the account, given by a correspondent
Of the Portland Daily Advertiser, Of our Sena.
TOR. Mr.. THOMAS EWING, with feelings thrilling
with pleasure. All there said about that gifted
man is substantially, it not literally, the truth.
How much reason has Ohio to be proud of some
of her most eminent sons Not from any thing
extr,nsic, but because they have risen to gigantic
staures by their own unassisted efforts, like her.
self.) from the wilderness and gloom ct nature.
was reared in the same village where John
Nc Lean made his debut at the bar. Ii my IN
formation is correct. he was weaver until the
age of II or lS The thirst after knowledge in.
dnced him to quit his trade and hire with wor-
thy man. a .chooImaser, (whose ePdaughter
he afterwards married.) to labor on his farm.
The terms were. that young Mclean should
labor morning. noon and evening, TOR board
and instruction in the common branches OF
education. How long he remained with Mr.
Stubbs. do not know. He afterwards wrote
in the Clerks Office at Cincinnati. where he stu,
died law, in the intervals between the hours OF
labor at the desk. In the year 1905 or =, he re-
mo, ed to Lebansn, in the County OF Warren, to
which town and county he will always advert
-. Ill G,;.I .r,,;on. and established the Western