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WIT"
POETRY.
To Uic One 1 &ove.
Oh, lady! when clouds shroud the slcy,
And tempests sweep the mountain crest,
The lordly eagle stoops on high.
And seeks the shelter of liis nesl;
And I, when storms distract my rest,
And cherished hopes are shivering low,
Will seek the shelter of thy breast,
And in thy smile forget my woe.
When summer scenes arc round me spread,
And the glad sky is blue above,
I may, by high ambition led,
For?e: my fealty and thy love,
Hot when my dreams are wan and sear,
And winter howls around my heart,
Thy voice alone my soul can cheer,
And bid despair's vile pack depart.
As springtide's sun breaks winter's gloom,
And decks the earth in leaf and flower,
.So doth my mind with promise bloom
Beneath the sunshine of thy power.
Thy hand can smooth those ills which wring
Sweat from my brow and claim- its pain,
And round wild passion's wayward wing
Thy love can weave a silken chain.
'Tis midnight but mysterious sleep
Has flung no shadow on my eyes, .
And I alone heed the loud sweep
Of winds which rush in madness by.
I've cast my much loved books away, .
That I may dream of love and thee
And as fond visions round me play,
I feel how dear thou art to me.
I lately thought that Fame alone
Should wing from me the pledge of love,
And that her soft and syren tone
Should only o'er my heart strings move.
But now I love thee more than Fame,
And the fond glance of thy dark eye
I deem far dearer than a name,
Emblazoned on ambition's sky.
Louisville Journal.
ABBRESS
On the Present Condition and Prospects of the
Aboriginal inhabitants of North America, with
particular reference to the Seneca nation. By
M. B. Pierce, a Chief of ike Seneca nation,
and a member of Dartmouth College.
The condition and circumstances of the race
of people of whom I am by blood one, and in
the well being of whom 1 am, by the ties of
kindred and the common feelings of humanity,
deeply interested, sufficiently apologise, and
tell the reason for my seeking this occasion of
appearing before this audience, in this city. ! and still more fatally in their proffers of prctend-
bv the waves of the Pacific, which is destined
to engulph us?
It has been so long and so often said as to
have gained general credence, that our natural
constitution is such as to render us incapable of
apprehending, and incompetent to practise, upon
those principles irom wnicn resuu me charac
teristic qualities of Christian civilization; and
so, by a necessary consequence, under the sanc
tion of acknowledged principles of moral law,
we must yield ourselves sacrifices, doomed by
the constitution which tho Almighty has made
for us, to that other race of human beings, whom
the same Almighty has endowed with a more
noble and more worthy constitution.
These are the premises: these the arguments:
these the conclusions; and if they are true and
just and legitimate, in the language of the poet,
we must say
"God of the just thou gavest the bitter cup,
We bow to thy behest, and drink it up."
But are they true, and just and legitimate?
Do we, as a people, lack the capacity of appre
hending and appreciating any of the principles
which form the basis of Christian civilization ?
Do we lack the competency of practising upon
those principles in any or all their varieties of
application?
A general reference to facts as they arc re
corded in the history of the former days of our
existence, and as they now arc transpiring be
fore the eyes of the whole enlightened world,
give an answer which should ever stifle the
question, and redeem us from the stigma.
Before citing particular exempiications of
the truth of this, I will allude to one question
which is triumphantly asked by those who adopt
the doctrine of the untameable nature of the In
dian, viz: Why have not tho Indians become
civilized and Christianized as a consequence of
their intercourse with the whites and of the
exertions of the whites to bring about so desira
ble a result? Who that believes the suscepti
bilities and passions of human nature to be in
the main uniform throughout the rational species,
needs an answer to this question from me?
Recur to the page which records the deal
ings, both in manner and substance, of the ear
ly while settlers and of their successors, down
even to the present day, -with the unlettered
and unwary red man, and then recur to tho sus
ceptibilities of your own bosom, and the ques
tion is answered.
Say, ye on whom the sun-light of civilization
and Christianity has constantly shone into
whose lap fortune has poured her brimful horn,
so that you are enjoying the highest and best
spiritual and temporal blessings of this world.
Say, if some beings from fairy land, or some
distant planet should come to you in such a man
ner as to cause you to deem them children of
greater light and superior wisdom to yourselves,
and you should open to them the hospitality of
your dwellings, and the fruits of your labour,
and they should, by dint of their superior v;isdom,
dazzle and amaze you, so as, for what to them
were toys and rattles, they should gain freer
admission and fuller welcome, till finally' they
should claim the right to your possessions, and
of hunting you, like wild beasts, from your long
and hitherto undisputed domain, how ready
would you be to be taught of theml How cor
dially would you open your minds to the convic
tion that they meant not to deceive you further,
that lie even can lore and pity, and feel grat
itude that he is prone to adoration of the Great
Spirit that he possesses an imagination by'
which he pictures fields of the blessed in a pu
rer and more glorious world than this; that he
possesses the faculty of memory and judgmont,
and such a combination of faculties as enabled
him to invent and imitate; that he is suscepti
ble of ambition, emulation, pride, vanitr; that
.he is sensitive to honour and disgrace; and ne
cessarily has the elements of a moral sense or
conscience. All these are granted as entering
into his native spiritual constitution.
For instances of those natural endowments,
eating of those powers a regard for the right of
humanity, of justice, of law is still a scholar,
a patriot, an honest and honorable man; though
an Indian blood coursing in his veins, and an
Indian colour giving hue to his complexion,
dooms him, and his children and, kin, to be hunt
ed at the point of the bayonet by those powers,
from their home and possessions and country,
to the "Terra incognita" beyond the Mississippi.
I now leave this point, on which, perhaps, I
need not have spoken, thus briefly, from the
fact that it is granted by all of you as soon as
innounced, and proceed to make a few remarks
confined more exclusively to my own kindred
which, by cultivation, gave to. tho children of tribe, a part of whom live near this city.
civilization their great names and far-reaching Taking it as clearly true that the Indians are
fame, call to mind Philip of Mount Hope, whose susceptible of cultivation and improvement, even
consummate talents and skill made him the to tho degree of physical, intellectual and mor-
white man s terror, by his display of those tal- al refinement, which confers the title of civil-
ents and skill for the while man's destruction, ized and Christianized, I now proceed to con-
Call to mind Tecumsoh, by an undeserved sider whether their condition and feelings are
association with whose name one of the great such as to render feasible the undertaking to
men of your nation has obtained more of great- bring them up to that degree whether in fact
ness man no ever merited, eitner lor ins accas tii.ey uo not tnemseives acsire to come up to it. versat on entirelv to istind "Wlm ii thp m-t-
or his character. Gall to mind Red Jacket, for- When I say they, 1 mean those who constitute ter? lias any thing happened? Do tell mo
iiitsiiy vuui c("iiiki, ouniv ui vu u iiiciiu I mu uuuy diiu ouiiiuiui.uj uiu IJCUIJIB. IU tills Willi liaS liaOnCned It IS 'ill (1VPT (Jilt it
and a laminar, ol the same tribe with whom 1 point, I take it upon myself to say, that such an mlist come if it costs her life But thpn slid
have the honour to be a humble member: to have undertaking is feasible, and doubly so from the quiets her conscience by exacting a promise of
been a friend and familiar with whom none of fact, that the object of the undertaking is ear- inviolable sccrecv That nrnmisp'of sprrecv
you ieei it a aisgrace. oan to mmu usceoia, nestiy uesirect oy tnemseives. however, means that she will tell it only to
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mo vjcuiii ui mo wimu man a ueaciiury aim i Know oi no way to sci mis matter in a clear- those ol Jrer immediate acquaintance, whom slid
v ' ..w.v " " "" "j pMniuiiguu ii.u owmuiaub can irusi: so in atiout two days it is all over
i i . . i . i : r - j i i i .1 i . l r i
Wo commend the following extract, from
Burnap's "Lectures on the Sphere and Duties
of Woman," to the attention of' those unfortu
nate ladies who are so constituted that they
cannot, with any degree of comfort to them
selves, keep a secret:
Some women appear to'be incapable of keep
ing a secret. It suems to burn upon theirjips
till they have uttered it". Let a woman of thin
description come in possession of a secret af
fecting the peace of whole families, and which
every tie of humanity would persuade hereto
bury in utter oblivion, and what does she do"?
Stay at home and forget it by pursuing her usu
al avocations? Ah! no, wet or dry, cold, or
hot, out sho must go at the earliest hour that it
is descent to visit. iShe calls on her most in
timate friend, without perhaps any definite in
tention of unburdening her mind. But when
she arrives, she can think of nothing else. One
topic after another is started, but all immediate
ly flag. A strange air of mystery aiid eon-
strait comes over her, which brings the con-
uiiu uiuiu cunquui un uiu uauiu jieiu, unu wnu ns to me spini anu mcauvance oi improvements town. It is a profound secret until it is found
at last was consumed "in durance vile," bv the amonst them. And this I crave the liberty of that every body knows it. Thus it is in the
corroding of his own spirit. "In durance vile," doing by a brief detail of items, prefacing the nowcr of some two or thrpp wnmrn u-hn nrf
Not onlv the eves and attention of vmi. our ed kindness
neighbours but also of the councils of this How much of the kindness of friendship for
great nation are turned upon us. We are ex- them, and of esteem for their manners and cus
nected to do. or to refuse to do. what the coun-l tms would you feel? Would not "tho milk of
!!
I say, (blot the fact from the records of that detail by a remark of a highly respectable indi- s0 disposed, to keep any community in a per-
uummng uascness, ui mat viuiuwuu oi au taw, oi viauai lormeny oi rioiianu, ii.rie county, Out petual ferment. I have myself known a whole
all humanity, which that page of your nation's for some eighteen years a resident of Illinois, town to be thrown into a most violent excite
history, which contains an account of it, must After an absence of about fifteen years, he re- ment, and a division created which separated
ui uu uiui uiu utujaci, i say, ueiure yuu nsc mrncu two or mree years ago, ana spent me families, alienated friends, and entirely broke
up to call an Indian treacherous or cruel.) Call summer in this region, and several days of the up all social harmony for years, by one base
io mina wwe ana a mousanu otners, wnom i time on me reservation, lie irequentlyremark- ins nuat on of not mnrp ilmn tpn wnnU It
have not time to mention, and my point is gained ed, that the Indians, during his absence, had might seem at first siMit, that such conduct as
ncre men me innaamentai elements ot tne improved lar more rapidly than their neighbors this could only proceed from pure malice. But
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uusi uoiuiu ui iiuiiiu.il iiuiuiu ate uuiuiiiuu us e.- i in me country arounu, mem. whoever should drnw thi? infprpnrp wnishl
.1- - 1 -. .1 T T I X 1 .1 ,
lstingm me natural constitution oi me inuian. in ousmess mere is much, scaler di ifTencp. mmmu rrmnt ;ii.ei;,. t t,;,. c. r
, w . I O O I vuiiiu.il. i Vt. fc 1 II 1 !J 01 L 1 i UillO UilOViO W U k J i
1 he question now comes, are these elements and industry; their teams, in respect to oxen, hen it has no worso. nnr dppnP.rmnnrPiH.iii
susceptible of cultivation and improvement, so horses, wag6ne, sleighs, &c. are greater in num- love of excitement, fondness for telling hews,
as to entitle their possessors to the rank which ber, and better in quality than formerly, and in It proceeds from inconsideration, and the want
civilization and Christianity bestow? these respects there is a constant improvement, nf snmpimmr ...nr imm.rin,.r .... ,J,,v
I he men labour more, comparatively, and the attention. The thoughts of man are busied in
iionai, active pity, and the attendant intellectual women less, except in tneir appropriate sphere, other mailers. He has not time for "Ossm
qualities, I ask you to call to mind tho story, lan formerly. even jf ie tjie inclination. Between re-
surpassing romance, of Pocahontas; she who v n regard to buildings, they are much more grets and self-gratulation on the past, sirurle
mrew nersen uetwecn a supposed inimical unvuuiiruuy piauueu, anu oi me uest materials, lor the present, and plans for the future he has
stranger, and tne deadly ciuo which, nad been uul" uwuiung nouses anu Darns, and new ones hitle time to look into his neighbor's affairs.
raised, by the stern edict ot her stern lather constantly Ngomg up. lliose who have not But women, who are shutout from the exhaust
she begged for the victim's life she obtained lands of their own under cultivation, are much less topics of business and politics are under a
his deliverance from the jaws of death, by ap-, more willing to hire out their services to others, stronger temptation to busy themselves in what
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poanng io tne aiiocuons wmcn existed in tho ennui uy mo year or uysnares;nnis snows mat is going on immediately around them. It is
bosom of her father, savage as lie was, and which lhc idea, "to work is thought to be dishonoura- not malice. For let that very neighbor, whose
affections overcame the fell intent which had We" has been done away. There aro amongst character in a thoughtless hour thev have picked
i , ., , . -i 1 i ii i . o J r.
caused mm to pronounce tne wnite man's doom. " uuu mowers, anu crauicrs, and reapers, m pieces, be overtaken by sickness and dis
From this time she received the instruction, Blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, and oth- tress, and their hearts are the first to bleed
imoioea me principles and sentiments; adopted i "luuuanics nuu worK enougn lor meir own their hands the first to brino- relief.
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me manners and customs oi me wnites; in ner mere are several wagons in tne na-
bosbm burned purchftand rationallu the flame lin which are worlh more than one hundred I
of love, in accordance with the promptings of dollars in cash; tools of the best quality, and of
which, she ollered hersoll at the hymeneal al- various Kinds; manure and other things
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tar, to take the nuptial ties with a son ol Uhns- sometimes appucu, out live years
tian England. The offspring of this marriage or quite- universally wasted.
have been, with pride, claimed as sons and cm- (to ce continued.')
zens oi the noble and venerablo state ol Vir
are
ago,
almost
Anecdote of Henry Clay.
He was travelling in Virginia, and late one
evening arrived at a fashionable hotel, in a ve
ry plain farmer-like dress, and stepping to tho
bar, he enquired of the spruce bar-keeper if
he could give him a room. He was told that
the rooms were all occupied, but that he could.
8lnla- A .TTwdicial Scene in Virginia. have a bed in a room with several oilers. "Vprv-
Ye who love jfrayer, hover in your imagina- 0n looking over some old Mao-nvinp latniv. well " said Mr. Clar. and was shown uo three
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cils ol this nation, and many private men are
now asking of us what many favor and advo
cate yet also what many discountenance and
condemn.
My relation to my kindred people being as
you are aware it is, I have thought it not im
proper rather that it was highly proper that
I should appear before you in my own person
and character, in behalf of my people and my
self, to present some facts, and views, and rea
sons, which must necessarily have a material
bearing upon our decisions and doings at the
present juncture of our affairs.
Hitherto our cause has been advocated almost
human kindness" in your breasts be turned to
the gall of hatred towards them?
And have not we, the original and undisputed
possessors of this country, been treated worse
than you. would be, should my supposed case
be transformed to reality?
But I will leave the consideration of this
point for the present, by saying, what I believe
every person who hears me will assent to, that
the manner in which the whites have habitual
ly dealt with the Indians, make them wonder
that their hatred has not burned with tenfold
fury against them, rather than that they have
not laid aside their own peculiar notions and
u.u..u .ui, ui uvh, emu ikhuw iu .uu vc camc acrosa the f0ow,ng capital descrip- or lour pair ot stairs, into a room with several
strong supplications as they arise from the fer- tion of a curious SCCR0 in lhe Court Room in common sort 0f people, already snoring. He
vent heart of Catharine, and then tell me wheth- Virginia, during the last war with Great Bri- "turned in" and was soon sound asleep. In.tho
er "the poor Indian whose untutored mind .: mnmino- lm nrnsn . an,l sitii.m nn tho ?rlp nf hi
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exclusively, though ably and humanely, by the ! habits, and adopted those of lhe civilized neigh
lnends of human n?h5 and human weal, belong-1 uours
,
ing by nature to a different, and by circumstances
and education to a superior, race of men. The
ability and humanity of its advocates, however,
does not do away the expediency, nor oven the
f necessity, of those of us who can standing forth
with our own pen and voltes, in behalf of hat
.same right and that same tccal as connected with
ourselves, which have boon and now are, by a
powerful and perhaps fatal agency, almost fa
tally jeoparded.
It has been said and reiterated so frequently
as to have obtained the familiarity of household
words, that it is the doom of the Indian to dis
appear to vanish like the morning dew rbe
fore the advance of civilization: and melancholy
is it to us those doomed ouqs that the histo
ry of this country, in respect to us and its civi
lization, has furnished so much ground for the
saying, and for giving credence to it.
4 But whence and why are we thus doomed?
Whv must we be crushod by the arm of civili-
t, zation, or the requiem of our race be. chanted
Having said thus much as to the question,
" Whv havo not lhe Indians been civilized and
Christianized by the intercourse and efforts of
the whites?"
I would now call vour attention to a brief ex
omplification of the point I was remarking upon
before alluding to the above mentioned ques
tion, viz: "That the Indian is capttble of appre
luMiding and appreciating, and is competent to
practise on those principles which form the
basis ol Christian civilization."
I do not know that it has ever been question
ed, and especially by those who have had the
best opportunities to learn by experience and ob
servation, that the Indian possesses as perfect a
physical constitution as the whites, or any other
race of men especially in the matter of hardy
body, swift foot, sharp and true eye, accompa
nied by a hand that scarcely ever drew the bow
string amiss, or raised the tomahawk in vain.
I believe also, that it is not denied that he is
susceptible of hatred, and equally ol friendship 1
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sees God in clouds, and hears him in the wind,"
is not capable, by cultivation, of rationally com
prehending the true God, whose pavilion, though
it be the clouds, still-givcth grace even to the
humble.
But perhaps I am indulging too much in
minuteness. Let mo then refer to one more in
stance which covers tho whole ground, and sets
the point under consideration beyond dispute
The ill-starredCherokeos stand forth in colours
of living light, redeeming the Indian character
from the foul aspersions that it is not suscepti
ble ol civilization and Chnstianization. In
most of the arts which characterise civilized
life, this nation, in the aggregate, have made
"It was during the last war, when the ves- bed, he kept his companions in a roar of laugh-
sels of Admiral Gordon wcre'making their way ter, relating humourous anecdotes and jokes.
up the Potomac to Alexandria, that a ncro Some of them enquired of the bar-keeper, when
woman was arraigned for killing one of her they wont down, "what funny old cock he had
own sex and color; she had been committed for Vm ln their room. He could not tell them, but
murder, but the evidence went clearly to cs- at the breakfast table they were alike surprised.
tablish the deed to be manslaughter, inasmuch I when a gentleman boarding there recognized
as it was done in sudden heat, and without and saluted him with profound respect as Hen-
malico aforethought. The Attorney for the ry Clay lhe Senator. The poor bar-keeper
commonwealth waived the prosecution for mur- was in great confusion, and lost no time in.pre-
der; but quoted British authorities to show that paring the best room, always reserved lor the
she might be convicted of manslaughter, though" President and members of Congress, and with
committed for murder. The counsel for the many apologies informing him that his room
accused arose, and in tho most solemn manner was ready. "Never mind, sir," said Mr. Clay,
ncl.-ofl llio nrutrt if it ivfic n liirr tt'nr lmivrl r,C I "jmr mimr nrfi nil. fimmipfi 1 am nprlPrllxr
i.imu aim long auvances, 1 UC arts Ol peace m hW nn i,wi;,.,1,tnl nn,.nA ,r .i .iuliil u-iih mv nrnspnt nMnmmnri.il nno "
I , j , . w - till ilKUMUUUl uv&tgilvU ' VMIO l J A UIU tllUl "kigu.u mi wV,.....VUH,.v..w,
an meir varieties, on which depend the com- acqiUed onld be arraigned immediately for Exchange paper
forts and enjoyments of tho enlightened, have anothcr, under the same prosecution? At in-
Doen practised and the results cnioycd by them, horrnlo i,nmLnmi,nn,n r-:.:i. Siimmbr Complaint. Theleaf of tlm ft par v
rl-H .7. - . . - I VOl ? WJ UVWlll iJ V V 1 1 1 UV'WIll lllrlll IIIU I 11 I HI " - - "
1 he light of revelation has beamed in upon their cannon British authorities! exclaimed the Pit is highly efficacious in this disease,;:
auuis and caused mem to exenange ttic mind counsoi. i3ritish authorities, iientlemci.' Is prevalent among young children. "A single
worship ol the Great bpirn, lor the rational therc any onc upou tlc bench SQ dead (0 the leaf of this plant put into a glass of water ua-
r s7 ,anu s ,rvice 01 VI? a 0 inc, - feelings of patriotism as at such a moment to
listen to British authorities, when lhe British
cannon is shaking the very wall of your court I
house to their foundation.
This appeal was too cogent to bo resisted.
Up jumped one of the justices and protested j
bchools have been established. An alphabet
of the language invented by one of their own
men: instruction sought and imparted; and let
ters cultivated in their own as well as tho Eng
lish language.
Hence i many individuals too s advanced even that it was not t0 bc 1)orne.lcl lho pr;soner g0
to the refinements of civilized life, both in ro-
spect to their physical and intellectual condition.
A John Ivoss stands before American psople m
a character both of intellect and heart which
many of the white men in high places may en
vy, yet never bc able to attain. A scholar, a
oatriot, an honest and honorable man; standing
up before the "powers that bc," in the oyes of
heaven and men, now demanding, now suppli-
away with vour British authorities! The
counsel for tho accused rubbed his hands, and
winked at tho attorney; tho attorney stood
his astonishment was too great lor ut
terance, and tho negro was half Avay home be
fore he recovered from his amazement.
" You aro very snappish" as the fox said to
tho trap when he Bioppcd on the trencher.
mediately produces a beautiful thick tnuciligr.
which is rendered pleasant by the addition f
ii . fit ' i . .
a small quantity oi loat sugar, and is rtmtrifv
taken by children."
Protection ot Vines. Plaister sprinklwl .
over squashes and cucumbers, when they fta,t
come out of tho ground, will protect them from
that "little destroyer," the stripped bug.
To cure the Bots in Horses. Pour down
tho horse a quarter of a pound of alum dissolve
in a pint of water, (milk warm;) in five or tun
minutes after pour down him a pint of Linseed
oil or other mild activo purgative; in ten min
utes lho horse will rise and eat.
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