i r , _ ztatna rat\YQ MEE TOW *NDA: co t bap Morning, Markt la, lOC stlut6 Votitt SPRINO. 11s 11 R 1 IZADT When Winter's howling, stormy blast, With fury on us rolls; When virgin snows fly drifting pas, In mountains from the poles: When fierce aorth•easters clear the street, Of every living thing. 0, then how much we long to greet The calm and genial Spring. g o ! Spring.approaches—how exact, The seasons do return. Each rising 51)11 proclaims the fact, Its beacon signals burn : The atmosphere, the wood., and lawn, Most joyously do ring, Woh sounds peculiar to the dawn Of calm and genial Spring. Theo-let's be joyful we who are So favored from on high ; Bow down the heed, let humble prayer, Ascend above the sky: Lei's cease awhile our worldly boasts, Attune the harp and sing. hosannas to the Lord of Hosts, Wh o se nds another Spring. S o on Nature in her richest robe, mokr glorious will be seen ; hind will' spread the entire globe uh purest. richest greet:t— iler .wiles: carpets span the earth, shr mantle ding, fr, r • glade, and mountain heath, TheLr , rnpproachins Spring.' n' F:ckneac are oppressed re v. ho-on, crutt he.: en-- Jump ot • Pxult, you'll find it best, doth Ihe bounding Roe Came out and view the budding tree— roar ators and: shutters sing Wide r , pon, to admit the breeze, Of sweet refreshing :Trine,. The mighty monsters of the Ileep The small fish in the streatit— They too, :ump up, and ail they leap, They praise the great Supreme— The .Eagle soaring to the Sun, The Fmall bird on the wing. Ami lark, at datr.brarik bath begun, To worship God in Spring. 0, breathes there one beneath the skies, A man, who ever trod This earth of ours, and still denies, The existence of s God— Let sock, if sne.h there be: arise, And view each happy thing, For all that wrllrs, or swims, or flies, Most worship God in Spring. ~jllSrltan•EAn3. COL. BENTON'S HISTORY. ANNo. I k 24 ••--.1.11.4g5 MONROE, PRCSIDENT Visit cf Lafayette to thelTaited States. In the summer 'at this year General Lafayette, arettmpanied by titts,son, Mr. George iVashingion Lirly.iny. and under an invitation from !he Prettitt eat. reri-ied the United States after a lapse cf for yewr. Ile was received with unbounded honor, 3riec ion and gratitude t y the American people.— , Lillie survivors 01 the Rertilution, it was the re. of a brother to the new generation, born since :tit time, it waa.the apparition of a historical, char• vterjarmliar horn the cradle; and comtnnin; all the Ties to love, admiration, gratitude, entlinsiastm, Ihath rould act upon the heart atnd the imagination he young and ardent He visited every state in me Union, doubled in number since, as the Lien(' nil pupil of Washington,he had spilt hitblood and unshed his fortune for their independence. His rogrepts throutrh the states was a trinmphal proces . ton, such as no Roman ever led up—a procession nst through a city, but over a contitient—foltowed, rot by captives in chains of iron, but by , a nation in 11te bonds of affection. To him it was an unexpect. eland overpowering reception. His modest esti. ere of himself had not allowed him to suppose that he was to electrify a continent. He expected kindness,but not enthusiasm. He expected to meet vett surviving friends, not to rouse a young gener. atm. As he approached the-harbor of New York, nr made inquiry of itime acquaintance to know sachet he could find a hack to convey bim to a weft illustrious man, and modest as illustration) l'Avle did he know that all America was on loot to !strife him—to take possession of him the mo t Thew zle touched her soil—to. teach and carry him-- bnat" and applaud him—to make him the guest stones, states and the nation, among as he could' , be detained. - Many were the happy meetings which he had with old comradee, scrvivors i for Lea l halt a• centuty, of their early hardships and ' 4l. `gx 3 ', and most grateful .to his head*. was to see them, es many'ofthem, exceptrons to the Mat H 7l which denies to the beginners of revolutions the good fortun e to conclude them, (and of which maxim hie nu n cou n t r y had just been an ex- Phi i'ltficattot, ) 'and to see his aid comrades norrur ly conclude the one they began, bat live to enjoy its fruits a nd honors. Three of his via associates he found ex.Presuleres (Adams, Jefferson and thscm.) enjoying C.e respect-and affection of their country, atter hay.ibg reached its highest honors.— Another, and the test one that Time would admit to the the Presidency (Mr Monroe,) 'haw in the Pre , idential chair, and turit;nu, him to revisit the land of bra adoption. Many of tureeady associ ates seen in the two Reuses of Cougrests—masmy in the state govet monis, and many more in• all the valks of private life, patriarchal sires, respeeted•for ° Audiometers; and summated for MOP patriotic "men. 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He said: ri The isin wiehjtas been sonietiinesindelged, that PrOvidence would allow the'patriot:after'lleath, to return to his country, and to contemplate the' immediate chaff gee' which had taken place—to view therre'reists fel ledt the cities built, the Mountains levelled , theCia: oalscat, the highways orietied, the progress of the arts, the advancement of learning, and the increase of population. General qour present vitit to the United Statia is the realization of the "consoling ject of that wish . hitherto vain. You are in the midst of posterity ! Everywhere yoq most have been struck w rift the great changes, physical and moral, which have occurred since you left us. Ev,en this verrci7, bearing a venerated name, alike endear. ing, to you and to us, has since emerged from the forest which then covered its site. In, one respect you behold us unaltered, and that is, in ,the senti ment of continued devotion to liberty, 'and of ar dent affection and profound gratitude to your depart. ed friend, the father of his country, and to your il lustrious associates in the field and 'in the cabinet, for the multiplied blessings which surround us, and for the very privilege of addressing you, whiCh I now have." He was received in both •Houses of Coriress wi s fh equal honor; but the House did not limit themselves to honors; they added substantial rewards for long past, services and sacrifices—two hundred thousand dollars in money, and twenty lour thousand acres of fertile land in Florida— These noble grants did .tot pass without objectiot; —objection to the princiole,not to the amount. The ingratitude of republics is the theme of any declaim er; it required a Tacitus to say, that gratiltide was the death oflepublics and the birth of monarchies; and it t efongs to the people of the" United States to!, exhibit an exception to that profound remark, (as they do to io many other lessons of history,) and show a young republic that knows how to be grate ful without being unwise, and is able to pay the debt of gratitude without giving its liberties in di,- charge of the obligation. The venerable Mr. Ma con, yielded to no one in love and admiration of Lafayette, and appreciation of 'his servieeis and sa crifices in the American cause, opposed the grants in the Senate, and did it with the honesty of pur pose and simplicity of language which distinguish ed all the acts of his tile. He said: "It was with painful reluctance, that he felt_ himself obliged to oppose the passage of this bill.\Ho admitted, to the full extent claimed for them, the great and merito. rious services of General Lafayette, and he did no t object to the precise sum which this bill propos. ed to award him; but he objected to the toli on this ground : he considered General Lafayette, to all in tent's and purposps, having been, during our revo luticm‘a son adopted into the family, taken into the honsehold, and placed, in every reaped, on the same looting with the other sons of the same tami ty. To treat him is others were treated, was all, in this view of his relation to us, that could be re. quired, arpl this hail been done. That General La fayette made great sacrifices, and spent much of his money in the service of this country, 'Otani Mr M ,1 1 as firmly believe as I do any other thing smiler the sun. 1 have no doubt that every faculty of his mind and body were exerted in The revolu tionary war, in defence - Of this country ; but this was equally the case with all the sons of the fami ly. Many native Americans spent their all, made great sacrifices,and devoted thew lives in the same cause. This was the ground ,of his objection to this bill, which, he repeitted, it was as disagreeable to him to state al it could be to the Senate to hear. He did not mean to take op the time of the Senate in debate upon the principle ot'the bill, or to move any amendment , to it. He admitted that, when such things 'were done, they should be done with a free hand. It was to the principle of the bill, there fore, and not to the . yam proposed to be given by it, that he objected. • The ardent Mr. Rayne, of South Carolina, repor ter of the bill in the Senate, replied to the objec tion, and first showed from -history, (not from Le layette, who would have nothing to do with the proposed grant,) his advances, losses and iicrifi. I ces in our cause. He had expended for the Amer ican service, in six years, kin - 1177 to 170, the' sum of 700,000 fiances (140,00) and tinder what circamitances !--aloreigner, owing its nothing, and throwing his fortune into the scale with his life; to be lavished in our catise t _ Fle left the enjoyments of rank suutfortune, and the endearments of his fa mily, to come aoirsefve in out almost destitute ar mice, and ivithont pay. He .equipped and. armed. a regiment for our service, and freighted a veasel to us, loaded vvatvarms and munitions., It was no t , until the, year. 17#4, when almost ruined by the Frenclt.revolutipn, and efforts in the cause of liberty, fiat he .Twould mediae ,the ,naked pay,, without interest, of a gerteild officer for the time he had served with us. A . MEI ,He was egli!!ed: o bad, ill Igto of t he Ocregni Q 1 the revolution,. end 1;1,5QQ Vico teas granted to hint, to, be located on any,or Alte,public tends oldia Ed States. His,agent,. located one thottsand we the,p,ity of New, . Weans ; ead,onmeas alterwarde, not being informed of thelocatipoy fed the same vomit° thexity LOtleahs. His location was-valid, and kw ma" so, infitanted.Oipt bevelitsed its-adhent tbit-c.sleyingottluit* he. would have noconteetutilltinfr. penticerottlerlimetkan people, tunkoderedlhwleeatittOo .be temoredl which weedone,end eenitd,optet:gtound , ol Dube' value—thee giving up wind was Then worth =I F,‘ 1> r 71' .;""rri" , -E . " 0' . it r0L,15 ITED: BY SA DAY-vlit4.olfAliDiV, BR,AtFOßD.,cousir - - ': , `BY . " lIBARLAII)ODRieni . • , . = a -r, •tf ••• ;;V". 44 . RE ARM. rt - !f, uTitilicumcq nos 44mi.QqA=3**.7, ---. .. I:ft • tri wr t • 15(4 ind r -rtos it.k 11 Were - in. b riniy advances, losses Mid iraci . rifice t s, grsat 'them #' eiti;e; beriserhap s *intuited by;the atorat'eftelp';uttful'eitlinttlet joining us, and . ,lrininfloeterferitirtbeiringand mitt. hay; which procured us die elfilinceef France.., inaniiniti, and with thegeneraleoneurtunce-ofthe Ariaerimm peo ple:oSO ,frartsfiSA ' as a reason, in a coneorsetion with me, while the petite rete..itepending (forrire bill witailtareed ih the Christmas holidays, when 1 had gene to Virgin ia, 0 11 4 oPPGTIRIIIIX IR girl appil `.greet man,) which showed his regard for liberty abroad as well as tit 'tibiae, " and ldrr•farlening ',gray into future events. life said there would be a change in France, wed laterls) mould be.as the- heed of it, and ought, to be easy And, independent in his circumstances, to be able to act efficiently in con t ddeting, the 9evement. This he said to me on Christmas dap , 1824. Sur ye ire afterwards this view iniolliturity was verified. The, old Bourbons had loYetire The Duke Of Orleans, a brave general in the reioblican armies, at the commencement of du/ reeointion, wie's handed to the throne by Laftelie, and became the citizen king, surroupiled / by. re. publican institutions. And in this Lafayette was consistent and sincere. lie was a republican him. self, but deemed a constitutional monarchy the pro. per government for France, and labored for that form in'the person ofLouis Xr.: as well as in that of Louis Phillippe. Loaded with honors and with every feeling of bean gratified in the n oble reception lie had met in the country of hit4Joption, Lafayette returned to the country of 'fps birth the following summer, mill as the guest, of the United States, and under its flag. Ile . was carried back in a national ship of war, tkie next frigate Brandywine—a delicate coin pliment"