The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-10-26

TO ne Editor 81 the M0dtsQntan! =.
siR You will do good work towards .h
promotion Of civil liberty by Inserting the fol
lowing (lsken from the Philadelphia Mercury
in favor Of victim of European .despolism in
your paper; as also another from German
eommi,tee. in New York, addressed 70 the
Israelites in the United States.
A CouNrRyMAS or PRoFEssoR JORDAN
IAN APPEAL
ITO the freemen Of the city and county Of Phiia,
the University of Marburg (Gsrmsny, late member
Of the House Of Representatives Of Hesssn Cassei,'
nav in prison for the alleged crime Of high treason,
Of which he was convicted ,cihout trial, BY an In.
qdisilory process conducted BY enc Of the crown
judge"
one the most fearless champions OF popular rights
and stolieious liberty. 1t was through his efforts
principally that the Jews were emancipated IN the
Electorate of Hesse and that the savage cruel, and
PREDICATE despotsm which has for nearly century
swsyed that unfortunate country, baptised by Will
liam Pitt as the I" butcherA shop Of Germany" was
at last mitigated and tanned. For this he Is now in
bis advanced age, loaded with chains BY the side Of
the hjghwaepan and murderer! His family, solely
dspepdent o. the produce Of his literary and scientific
Ia6ors, Is BY this unjust andrmerciess judgnent
posed 10 the utmost suffering, deprived not only Of
the means of subsistence but without prospect al
betterng their condition for the next 1--WE or six years
"Undctthese circumstances tho adopted German
cizehs have resolved address ther fellow citizens
without distinction Of caste, in order to solicit their
aid IN obtaining subscriptions for this unfortunate
family; trusting to that generous sympathy which
Wilde Il hash tear and open hand for unfortunate
Ireland will not entirely overlook tho throes and an
guish of nation whose serene philosophy and pa
ent investigation Of truth has entitled them no less
to the consideration of mankind and whose struggle
for liberty though silent, that account not
Less intense and persevering"
5 TIE PuRsulr OF 'TRuyH.--The greater number Of
those who study nature, frequently do not consider
that with the eyes of prejudice they will never dis
more than that which they have resolved be-
fOrehand to find as soon z, they perceive facts con-
believe their eyes have deceived them clse If they
back it in hopes to be able to reconcile them
with those notions with which the mind is imbued.
II Is thus find enthusiastic philosophers, whose
peposessions show them, even in those things which
most openly contradict their opinions incontestible
proofs of those systems with which they are pre-oc
cupied.
There are very few men in the world who think
deeply who render to themselves account OF their
ideas, and who have penetrating minds business Of
intellect is one of the rares gifts which nature be-
slows the humaRspecies.9 Too lively an imsgina.
ton, oyer-eager curiosity, as powerful obsta
cles to the discovery of TRUTH as too much phlegm,
slow conception, Incidence OF mind, the want
of thinking habit All men have more or less
imagination, curiosity, phlegm, bile, Incidence,
activity 1t is from the just equilibrium which
nature has observed in their organization that just
ness Of mind depends. Nevertheless, the organiza.
ton of man is subject to change, and the judgment Of
his mind varies with the changes which his system is
obliged to undergo hence those almost perpetual re-
volulions which take place in the ideas Of mortals;
above all, when there is aquestion concerning those
objects upon which experience does not furnish them
with any Fixed basis wbereon to support Them ~ o
To seek and dscovertruth which every thing strives
to conceal from us, and which frequently dis
posed to dissmulate to ourselves, which our habit
ual terrors make us fear to find there needs just
mind, upright heart, in good faith with ITSELF and
an Imagination tempered with reason. With these
dispositions, we shall discover truth, which never
shows itself either to the enthusiast srhitten
with his reveries; to the supersttious being nour
ished with melancholy; to the vain man. pulled up
with his presumptuous ignorance to the man devo-
ted 10 dissipation and to his pleasures or to the rea
soner dsngenuous with himself who is only disposed
to form illusions to his mind Hoibach.