Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1854-07-01

perity OF the northwestern country, ana 10
give strength dnd security TO that extensive
frontier. In the salutary operation Of this
sagacious and benevolent restraint, it is be-
lieved that the inhabitants Of Indiana will,
at no very distant day, find ample remn-
neration for temporary privation OF labor
and emigration.
He was against slavery; and BY his will
both manumited and provided for the
hundreds which he held. But he was
against foreign interference with his rights,
his feelings or his duties and never failed
! TO resent and rebuke such Interference
Thus he was one Of the most jealous Of
the opposers Of the proposed Missouri re-
striction and even voted against the divi-
| sional line OF sfhrty-six, thirty" Tn !he
House, when the ''slavehoIder" would be
reproachfully used, he would assume it,
| and refer TO a member, not in the parlil-
mentary phrase of colleague, but in the
complimentary title OF "my fellow slave
holder" And in London, when the con-
signee Of his tobacco, and the slave factors
Of his father, urged him to libcrate his
slaves, he quieed their intrusive philan-
you buy and set free to the amount of mon
ey you have received from my father and
his estate for these slaves, and ] will set
free an equal number"
In his youth and latter age he fought
duels; in his middle life, he was against
| them and for a while he would neither
give'nor receive a challenge. He was
under religious conviction to the contrary,
but finally yielded, as he believed, TO an
argument of his own, that duel was n
private war, and rested upon the same basis
as public war; and both were allowable,
when there was no other redress for in-
insults and injuries. That was his argu-
ment; bat | thought his relapse came
more from feeling than reason especially
from the death OF Decatur, to whom he
was greatly attached, and whose duel with
Barron long and greatly excited him. He
had religious impressions, and a vein OF
piety which showed itself more in private
than in external observances. He was
habitual in his reverential regard for the
divinity Of our religion; one of his beauti-
ful expressions was, that "If women had
lost us paradise she had gained us heaven
The Bible and Shakespeare were, in his lat
ter years, his constant mpanions-travel.
ing with him on the road-remainng with
him in the chamber. The last time | saw
) him lin that last visit to Washington, altel
his return from the Russian mission, anC
when he was in full view of death,)
heard him read the chapter in the Revela.
tions (of the opening of the seals,) witt
such power and beauty of voice and deliv.
cry, and such depth Of pathos, that felt a.
had never heard the chapter read before
When he had got 10 the end OF the siXIl
seal, he stopped the reading, laid the bool
(open at the place. on his breast, as he lay
on his bed, and began discourse upon th,
beauty and sublmity of the Scriptural wri
, tings, compared to which he considered al
human compositions vain and empty
Geing over the images presented by th
, opening Of The seals, he averred that thri
Sublimity-that no human power coul
take The same awe and terror, and sin
ourselves into such nothiugness in th
presence OF the ''wratli of the lamb"--tha
he wanted no proof of their divine origi
, but the sublime feelings which they in
spired.