The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-10-26
70 TIE Editor Of tie Madssqntan |.


Sis: You will do good work towards th'
promotions Of civil liberty by inserting the fol-
lowing (,aksn from the Philadelphia Mercury
in fAvor of ! victim of Hnropesn .despo,ism in
your paper; as also another from q German
eommittee, in New York, addressed 10 the
Israeites in the United States.
A CousrsyMAS OF PaoFEssoR JoaDAN.
IAN APPEAL
o To the fteemen Of the city and county Of Phila
deIpua, on behalf of PROFESSOR JORDAN ef
the University of Marhurg (Gwmsny,) late aAember
OF the House Of Representatives. Of Hesseu Cassel,-
now in prison for the alleged crime Of high treason,
Of which he convicted scithoss s'ist BY an in
qu1st0ry process conducted by OF the crown
judges"
Hqtsssor Jordan is known throughout Germany as
Of the most fearless champions Of popular rights
and sreligious liberty. 1t was through his efforts
principally that the Jews were emancipated IN the
Electorate Of Hesse and that tho savage, cruel and
predicate despotism which has for nearly century
swaJed that unfortunate country, baptised by Will
liam Pittas the " butcher'A shop Of Germany" was
at last mitigated and tanned For this ne Is now, in
bis advanced age loaded with chains BY the side Of
the highwAyTnan and murderer! His family, solely
dependent o. tho produce Of his literary and acienc
labOrs is by this unjust andmerciless judgment ex
posed 10 the utmost suffering, deprived not only Of
the means of subsistence, but without prospect Of
"UDder these circumstances the adopted German
citizens have resolved address their 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
Ireland will not entirely overlook the throes and an
guish Of a nation whose serene philosophy and pa
tent investigation OF truth has entitled them no less
tho consideration Of mankind and whose struggle
for liberty, though more silent, on that account not
less intense and Persevering."
3 The PuRsuir OF rsuTH.-The greater number Of
those who study nature, frequently do not consider
that with the eyes of prejudice they will dis
cover more than that which they have resolved be-
forehand to find; as they perceive facts con-
trary to their own IDEAS they quickly turn aside and
believe their eyes have deceived them clse If they
turn back it is in hopes to be able to reconcile them
with those notions with which the mind is imbued.
1t is thus we find enthusiastic philosophers, whose
pIeposessions show them, in those things which
most openly contradict their opinions incontestible
proofs of those systems with which they are pre-oc
cuRed. .
deeply, who render to themselves account of their
ideas, and who have penetrating minds. business Of
intellect is Of the rarest gifts which nature be-
slows on the humakspecies.9 Too lively an imagina
tion over.eager curiosity, are powerful obsta
Giles to the discovery of truth, as too much phegm
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 organizae
ton of man 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-
volusions which take place in the ideas ofmortals;
above all when there is aquestion concerning those
objects upon which experience does not furnish them
with any fixed basis whereon to support Them 81 %
To seek and discovertruth which every thing strives
TO conceal from u.s. and which are frequently dis
posed to dissmulate ourselves, which our habit
ua 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 supersttous 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 disingenuous with himself who is only disposed
to form illusions to bis MIND. Hotbach.