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raiZRIVIS
OF TIIR
UT:NT:ITO-DON :ornr,A.L.
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hut, and chame accordingly.
THE SUICIDE,
OR THE DOUBLE-6EI)OED ROOM
' "Well, after all," I exclaimed, "there
are few thins so comfortable as !nag
quarters in a good inn;" and, so saying, I
drew up my chair a foot 'or so nearer the
fire, and manifested the exuberance of my
satisfaction and the soundness of the po
ker by reducing a superincumbent mass
of Ike 'hest Walls-ehd to minute frog.
'unto. A ride of some eighty miles out
side the mail in a biting November day
had thrown me into that state of tlelicious
languor, which disposes any one to regard
anything in the best light, awl I had aban•
doted myself to the enjoyment of th e
pleasurable so far as it Was to be obtained
in the best parlor of the head inn in the
provincial town of Nibblington. A neat
repast had feasted me "light and choice,"
and a second tumbler,of brandy and wat
er. "warm with," stood exhaling its fra
grance at my elbow. The fire was in fine
spirits, and went laughing and cracking
up the chimney: it took part in the satis
faction it afforded, we were sworn friends.
"What a glorious thing it is," I mutter
ed to myself, as I rested my heels upon
the fender, and stretched mysell back- .
wards in my chair—"what a glorious
thing it is this taking one's ease i n one's
inn! It bath a relish almost too fine for
earth—it smacks of Elysium! You have
cheated fate for once, given business the
go-by, and left the anxieties that dog y o ur
footsteps daily, in the lurch. Here you
are 'yourself alone,' none to thwart, to
fret, to frown upon you,—with a few sov
ereigns in younpoeftet, you are yourself a
How respectful is mine host?—he
isyour chancellor, and holds you tenderly
in his keeping, as royal consciences are
are kept. The waiters, how obsequious!
angels, ever eager•eyed*—these be
your ministers, watchful to do your will
ail the more that the prospect of the gra
. redly to be secured thereby is ever vividly
present to their imagination.. The cham
bermaids, your ntaids of honor, and hon
ored as maids—lighting you to dreams of ,
love and bliss, like second Heros, with
warming-pan and bed-room candlastick of
Naas. Your bed--but, ecod! I never
thought of that,"—and I started up and
tugged the bell in considerable trepida
tion.
My call was answered b► the appear
ance of one of those smirking animals,
that go about inns with towels over their
left arms.
"Have you secured a bed for mcl"
"Yezzir." 1 resolved the dog should
have an additional halfscrown for his at,
tention. "Sorry, sir, could not let you
have a room to yourself, sb.."
"Eh, what!" I exclaimed, and my con
templated generosity such at once below
zero. • ,
"Single bedrooms all engaged, sit."
"The - devil'!"
"Yezzir,—tall of lawyers, sir. Assi•
ies this week--crowded—not a currier to
cram a cat in."
l'And where am I to be stowed away,
prayl"
"Excellent apartment, sir--third story
behin—two capital beds, well aired. Otli.
er ginTm'n very quiet, sir."
"Who or what is he?"
"Don't know„ . sir. Came here a week
ago, sir--breakfasts at ten ,minutes to
eight precisely--cup of coffee, sir, and
half a roll—goes out, and comes home at
eleven every night. Mute as a mouse—
tried myself to draw him out—viouldu't
work, sir. Strange man, sir--neither
speaks nor elts— how he lives, can't tell,
what he does, ditto--where he goes, a mys
teryas dark, as dark as Omnibus, air."
Hum Queer fish, seemingly?'
“Yezzir, singular man, sir—indeed I
may say, a very singular man, sir, Seems
in rAther low sp irits, sir. Any inure bran
dy and water, sir?"
L ordered a fresh supply of this terres
trial 'lector, and . flung. myseif into my
chair' with'the air of a man who feels hini
self a victtin to untoward destiny.
'nut this should have happened to me
of all in the world!--to me, who never
could tolerate bedfellows in my 161—
•
slept with locked door and window fast, l
and not a soul within half a dozen rooms!
of me—me, whose chief motive for re- I
maining single—my Nlarmo was certain-
ly a very, very charming creature do
half incline to believe, was the horror of
laving my habit of lomliness invaded!
Possibly the wroteli snore.i. Oh, horrible!
most • horrible! IF , II, if I do strangle
him, no te.lightened jury can bring in a
worse verdict against me than that or
...justifiable homicide." Looks melan
choly, ton? Oh your melancholy men
have a trick of speaking in their : , .leept .
and I shall be kept shuddering all night
at his incoherent ohs! and Ohs! It is nes• .
ltively ton t e n!! Anil men!, I dashed the
poker into the bowels of the fire, at.Q stir
red it fiercely. The exercise only threw
my brain into a livelier state of activity,
and _my fancies 'assumed a darker hue.
To be shut up in in out-of-the-way room,
in n confounded old raiehhug wifileiness
of an inn, with a fellow whom nobody ,
knows anything about—to have your va
lise and breeches ransacked, their "silver
lining turned out upon the night," while
you are wooing the earresses of the drow
sy god—or possibly like the Irish mem
ber, to wake in the morning and find your
throat cut! A cold line seemed drawn
across my . WeliSallti at the thought, and 1
greened inwardly. Seizing my brandy
and water, I whipped it ell at a gulp;
but it had lost its davor,--was cold, vapid,
ineffectual stuff, and left no relish on the
palate. I sank into a reverie, a dull
quasicnllapse state of misery, on starting
from which I found that the fire hail sunk
down to few cinders nod a ghost of flame
which looked up for a moment, as if to
reproach me for my neglect, and quietly
went out. Conjuring up a smile at my
fears—a very hectic sort of an in
deed,—l called. for a light, and, following
the pilotage of the ..chambermahl," was
heralded along a succession of passages,
and up a labyrinth of staircaae, until I
reached the room that had been selected
as my dormitory.
Its dimensions were something of the
smallest. Twe beds, placed directly op
posite each other, engrossed three-fourths
of The apartment. They were divided by
an alley of some four fret in breadth, at
the end of which, in the window recess,
stood a table with the usual - appurtenances
of mirror and caraffes, and the window it
self looked out upon Cimmerian darkness
and the devil knows what. The other
furnishiMrs consisted of certain cane
chairs, whose appearance was anything
but calculated to inspire confidence in
their trustwurthyness. "The rusty grate.
unconscious of a fire," stood shivering in
the yawning fireplace, above Which a
cloudy mezzotint, conveyed the faintest
possible intimation of the blasted heath,
with a gibbet in perspective, decorating a
o all, which time :Lod damp had reduced
from its primitive shade of green to the
most miscellaneous diversity of tints.—
Here was an appearance of things, not
certainly the most favorable for dissipa•
ting the unpleasant feelings that had fur
Some time been fretting iny lesser mutes
tineato the tenuity of fiddlestrings; but
put st bold face upon tie; inatt, r, and alter
a leisurely survey of the apartMent de
posited myself in bed. Sleep, however,
was not to be thought of till tha arrival of
theperson who was to share the apartment
with me, and I lay forming all sorts of
speculations as to the. prohable appear.
since. At length, towards midnight, - a
heavy step sounded on the staircase, and
I heard some one advancing with a stately
tread, to the ruom in which I lay. Now
then, for a solet,on of my uncertainty',
I half raised myself on mV elbow to ex
amine the person that should enter. • The
dour eppned leisurely, and a figureudvan
red into the room, that increased rather
than abated my perplexity. It vas that
of a tall, powerfully•built man, dressed
all in black, with - a cloak of the same col
or about his shoulders, and as he held the
can;lle . bolero him as though he held it
trot, its light fell upon features of a char
acter singularly impressive, but pale and
blasted, as it were. with untold woe. His
long raven hair fell away in masses from
his forehead, like blackening pines upon
lightening-Scathed mountain summit, and
his eyes burned with a dull, moveless
glare. Ho appeared' to he utterly 'neon.
scams of my presence, notwithstanding
my endeavors to excite his attention by
sundry admonitory coughs and hems,—
Finding these of no avail, I resolved to
attack him more directly, and, ill as in.
diffrrent tone as! could muster, exclaim.
"Good night, sir?"l--nn answer--
"Goud night, sir?" with a stronger empha
sis—still not a word; anti it was not tilt 11
had repeated the salutation several times
that he turned his eyes upon me. Anti oh
what an inward hell did that look reveal!
in words that draped like minute guns
from. his lips, he said,
"I wish you may haven good night sir."
This vias enough; 1 was thoroughly re
lieved of any desire tor failher converse
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
A. W. BENEDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13, 1839.
with a gentleman of this kidney; so he
relapsed into his abstraction, and I into
my pillow and speculations.
I was fatigued,. and would fain have
slept, but this I soon found to be impos
sible, In vain turned from left side to
ri ht, from right to left, and then in des
pair threw myself on my face, and dug
my head into the pillow. I tried to think
of discourses on political economy, of ser
mons on temperance, of all the most sov
ereign narcotics I could recall. I repeat
ed the alphabet letter by letter and then
groped my way through-the multiplication
ia;tle; but it was of no use. Sleep was
not to be cajoled. The gentleman en black
had betaken himself to bed.' The room
was as dark as midnight could make it;
and /heard a sigh and the curtains draw
closely round in front where he lay.
Strange precaution, 1 thought. What
can he meats? Ilas he the same. doubts of
me that are haunting me with !regard to
him, and so wishes to place the slight bar
rier of a piece of dimity between us? Or
perhaps the gentleman is conscious of
sleeping in rather an ungainly style, tos
ses his bed-clothes off him perhaps, or lies
with his mouth agape. like - a fish m the
death pang; and may not wish the =r
iling light to disclose his weakness? But
this comfortable view of the matter soon
failed away as the remembrance of his ap
pearance pressed upon my vision. Those
features so pale and rigid; that massive
figure, trained in no ordinary toils; those
eves dead, to all outward _cts, and light
ed up with fires that seemed inwardly
consuming him, stared vividly before me.
1 saw him as • he entered the room, and
went through all the operatiOns of undres
sing, with h motion merely mechanical.
What could have so palsied the senses &
the will! Was it remorse for some un
utterable guilt that prayed upon his heart
or was he even then meditating some act
of inexpiable crime? 1 was lying there
alone, in darkness, with a felon, perhaps •
a murderer! And then his answer to my
friendly salutation; "1 Wish you may have
a good night sir'," came back upon my
ear. May have a good night! There
was then a doubt, which even he conies
set!. I stirred, in my bed with as much
noise as possible, coughing at the same
time, to sec if I could elicit any corres
ponding sound from my opposite neighbor.
But was - hushed. /could not even catch
his breath. Oh, I thought, he must be
gone to sleep. He, at least takes the mat
I ter easy._ But still his words; "/ wish
jou mall have a geed night sir!" haunted
me. What was there to prevent my hav
ing a good night but something of which
he himself was alone conscious? The
• night was a quiet one, and onr room too
much out of the way to be visited he any
one of the usual sleep-dispelling noises of
• an in 1. Would to heaven it had been
less so! Again I thought of the curtains
drawn so carefully in front oh his bed.
Hit. he not behind them be preparing
the knife, with which he was to spring up
on my secure slumbers? /coughed loud
er than before, to assure him that /was
still wakeful this horrible fancy now
rook entire possession of my mind. His
sepulchral wish you may haves good
night!" pealed a perpetual alarm in my
ears. It was an intimation to settle ac
counts with the world.
He would nut kill my unprepared spir-
At. Not he! lie was a sentiinental mur
derer, an amateur ussasin, and Fate - had
kindly quoited me into his grasp. I lay
rivetted to my couch, 'expecting every
moment to hear the curtains torn apart,
and to feel his fingers at my throat. Ev
ery nerve and faculty Were.strained to the
utmost pitch, till even the suspense grew
more fearful than the reality itself could
have been. A death-like stillness filled
the chamber. Its "very hush and creep-.
ins grew oppressive. The Stirling Of a
mouse would have been worth worlds to
me. •
Worn out with excitement, I fell into a
perturbed and gaaptng slu►i►ber, and, on
starting from it, my ear seemed to catch
the expiring echo of a groan. ' It might, ,
however, have Only been the wind stri
king a favorite note in the crannies of the
chimney. Day had by this time began to
break, and the gladsome light gave me
courage to look out between my curtains.
Those of the opposite bed were still
clown, and its inmate seemed locked in
.profound repose. I turned my eyes to
wards the window to strengthen myself
by the. sight of some cheering object
against the anxieties that still hung about
my mind, end found that it • looked out
upon a desolate court, commanding a pros
pect at the same time, of which the lea
ding features were , some crazy old chim
t►ey-stacks. The sky was wet and wel
terh,g, and no wind of life was audible,
except the occasional rattle of a cart blen
ded with the driver's whoop. rousing the
echoes of the slumbering streets. The
whole teeling of the time and place was
as cheerless as possible; and to complete
my discomfort, a seperanuated raven, a
creature worn with the throes of luckless
'prophecy, settled upon a chimney right
before my eyes, and began croaking its
monotonotia chant of woe. Oh, how that
ternal "caw! caw!" did chafe me, "min
gling strangely:with my fears," and pre,a
,,oing tare coining of some unknown horror!
It threw my thoughts back into their old
channel. Alarm, however, had now giv
en place to curiosity, and I determined al
all hazards to know more of the myste
rious man who had occasioned me such a
night of torture. I lay intent to catch
the minutest sound, but in vain. Fine ear
himself, that hears the grass grow in the
I,iryrtale, could not have detected the
'shadow of a breath. This, I thought, is
the most unaccountable man I ever met
with. He comes nobody knows whence,
rocs nobody knows where, eats nothing,
'drinks nothing, says nothing—and sleeps
like no other mortal beneath the sun. I
must, and will sound the heart of this
mystery.
Here was 1, with fevered pulse and
throbbing brow, after a night of agony,
while the cause of my uneasiness Was ta-- .
king deep draughts of that 'tired Ka•
Lure's sweet restorer." of which his sin
gular appearance and ominous words had
effectually robbed me. It was not more
stvange than provoking. I could bare
this state of things no longer, and dist:har
ed a volley of tearing coughs, as if all the
pulmonary complaints of town had taken
refuge in my individual chest. Still there
was not a movement to indicate the sligh
test disturbance on the part of my tor
mentor. I sprang out of bed, and paced
up and down the room, making as much
noise as possib!e by pushing the chairs
about, and hitching the dressing table
alon the flour. Still my enemy *slept on.
rusted'l o the fire-place, and rattled the
shovel and poker against one another.—
He cannot but stir at this, I thoug'it; and
listenell in the expeclation of hearing
him start. Still the same death-like si
lence continued. I caught up the fire
irons and hurled them together against the
grate. They. fell with a crash that might
have starqed the Seven Sleepers,—and9
waited in a paroxysm of anxiety for the
result I had anticipated. Hut there were
the close ctirtains as before, and not a
sotind issued from behind them to indi
cate the presence of any living thin... I
was irra state bordering upon frenzy. The
fearful suspense of the past night, the
agony of emotions with which I had been
shaken, workini , upon a body • already
fatigued', had left me in a fever of
excitement, which, if it had continued,
must have ended is madness. I was wild
with a mixed sensation of dread, curiosity
and suspense. One way or another Ibis
torture mast Le ended. I rushed towards
the bed; upsetting the dressint. '
table, in
my agitation. I tore open the curtains,
and there, oh God! lay the cause of all
my .agony—a suicide —weltering in a
Fool of blood. I felt my naked foot slip
in mullet king moist end slimy. Oh! Hea
ven. the horror of that plashy gore! I fell
forwards on the floor, smitten as by a
thunderbolt into insensibility.
When I revived I found the room crow
ded with people. The noise of my fall
had alarmed the occupants of the room
beneath, and they had burst into the
• chamber where we lay. But my suffer
ings were not yet at an end.'The noises
had made in endeavoring to rouse the
stranger had been heard, and were now
'construed into the struggle between the
murderer and the victim. .How it hap
'pened I knoW not, but the razor with
which the suicide had effected his purpose
was found within my grasp. This was
deemed proof conclusive of my guilt, and
I stool arraigned as a murderer in tTie
eyes of my fellow men. For merits I was
the tenant of a dungeon. "It passed, it
.passed, a weary time;" but at length my
trial came. I was acquitted, and again
went tenth, with an unstained name. But
the horrors of that night have cast a
blight upon my spirit that will cling to it
through life, and I evermore eeeeaate the
wretch who first projected the idea of A
I !moats BEDDED' CHAMBER.
—....__. 43 e 0 ___..._
Letter from Gen. Harrison
to Mannar Denny.
NORTH BEND, 2ND DEC. 1832.
Dear Sir:--As it is probable that you
have by this time returned to Pittsburg,
I do myself the honor to acknowledge the
receipt• of your letter front Philadelphia,
containing the proceedings of the Nation
al Democratic Antimasonic Convention,
which lately convened, in that city. With
feelings of the deepest gratitude, I read
the resolution unanimously adopted, nom
inating me as a candidate for the Presi
dency of the United States. This is the
second time that I have received from that
patriotic party, of which you yourself are
a distinguished member, the highest evi
dence of confidence that can be given to a
citizen oqour Republic. I would attempt
to describe my sense of the obligations 1
owe them, if I were not convinced that
any language which I could •command, to receive money from the people, but
would tall tar short of what I really teel. !hat it was its unavoidable prer,tgative al-
If however the wishes of the Convention so to originate all the bills for that pur
could be realized, and if I should he.the pose, is true in theory as in the letter, but
choice /of. those who are opposed .to the rendered utterly false and nugatory in ef
present administration, and success should feet, by the participation of the Panisters
attend their efforts, I should ha.ve it in my of the crown in the detttils of Legislation.
power to manifest my gratitude in a man- Indeed the influence they derive from
ncr more acceptable to those whom you setting as members of the House of Com.
represent, than by any professions of it mons, and Irons wielding the immense
which I could at this time make. I mean
by patronage of the crown (constitittional or
exerting my utmost efforts to carry out
usurped)) gives them a power' over that
the principles set forth in their resolu
tions by arresting the progress el' .those base osethat renders plausible at least the
fluttery, or as :s more probable, the
measures “destructivo to 'the prosperity intended sarcasm of
et the people and tending to the subver- ' Sir Walter 'Raleigh,
in- an address to Janies the Ist that the
sion of their liberties," and substituting
. demand of the sovereign open the Com
for them, those sound democratic
mons for pecuniary aidwas intended only
.lican doctrines, upon which the adminis
tration of Jefferson and Madison were con 'that the tax might seem to come them
selves.' wheras the inference is, it was
ducted. really laitfby the sovereign himself.
Among the principles proper to be adop
fed by an Executive sincerely desirous to having thus givenycu my opinion of
some things which might be detr, and
restore the administration' to its ortginal
simplicity and purity, deem the follow- „!lets which should not be done, by a Pres
ident.coming into power by the support
.ing to be of pet minent importance, of . those of t h e p eo pl e win a re opposed to
1. To confine his services to a single the principles upon which the present ad
term. ministration is conducted; you will see
-11. To disclaim all right of control
over the public Treasure, with the excep
tion of such part of it as may be approprt•
aced by law, to carry on the public err
vice; and that to be applied precisely as
the law may direct, and draw from the
treasury agree:tidy to the lung established
forms of that department.
111. That he should never attempt to
influence the Elections, either by the pea-
We or the State. Legislature, nor suffer the
Federal officers under his control to take
any other part in them, that by giving
their own votes when they possess the
right of voting.
IV. That in the exercise of the veto
power, he shoufd limit his rejection of
Pills to; Ist such as are in his opinion un
constitutional. 2nd. Such as tend to
encroach on the rights of the states
or of individuals. 3d. Such as involving
deep interest, may in his opinion require
more mature deliberation or reference
to the will of the people, to be ascertained
at the succeeding elections.
V. That he should never suffer the
influence of his office to be used h for pur
poses of a purely patty character.
VI. That in removals from office, of
those who hold their appointments during I
the pleasure of the Executive, the cause
ot• such removal should . always be coin
municated to the person removed, and if
he request it, to the Senate, at the time
that the 'nomination of a successor is
made . .
And last but not least in importance.
VII. That f he should not sutler the
Executive Department to become the
source of Legislation; butileave the whole
business of making the loos for the
Union to be done by the Departments to
which the constitution has yr,: lu,ively as
signed it, until they has e assunien that
perfect shape where and when alone the
opinions of the Executive may be heard.
A community of power in the preperation
of the laws between the Legislature and
the Executive Departments, roust neces
sarily lead to dangerous communications
and greatly to the advantage of a Presi
dent desirous of extending his power.
Such a construction could never hale
been contemplated by those who framed
it, as they well know that these who pro
posed the bills, will always take eared
thmuselves, or the interest ul their con•
and lie- 1 th
stituents , and here.: the provision in
constitutions, burrowed from that of 1..:1ig.
land, - restricting the originatingol Reve
nue bills to the immediate Representatives
of the people. So tar from agreeing in
opinion with the distinguished character
who lately retired from the Presidency,
that Congress should, have applied to him
for a project da Banking System, I think
that such an application would have man
ifested not only great subserviency upon
the fart of that body, but an,unpardon.,
able ignorance of the chief danger to be
apprehended from such an institution.
That danger unquestionably consists in a
union of interests between the Executive
and the Bank. Would an amuitious in.
cumbeut of the Executive chair neglect
so favorable an opportunity as the prepa
ring of the law would give hiM to insert
in its provisions to secure his influence
over.. it? In the authority given to the
President by the constitution "to recom
mend to Congress such measures as he
shall judge necessary and expedient," it
was certainly never intended that the
measures he recommended would ba pre
sented in a shape suited for the immediate
decision of the Legislature.--The sages
who made the constitution, too well knew
the advantages which the Crown ot Eng
land derived from the exercise of his pow
er by his ministers, to have intended it to
be used by our chief magistrate, or the
heads of departments muter his control.
The boasted principled the linglialt con
stitution that the democratic Branch of
the government was not only necessary
[ Vor. IV, No. 18.
that 1 have omitted one, wbie - kis,ifeemed
by many of as much importance as any
other. 1 allude to
,the appointment of
members of Congress to office by the lies
i lcnt. The Consti wino contains no nro
h hi tion of such appointments, no d mbi he
cause its anthers could not believe in its
necessity, from the . purity of character
which was manifested 'by those who pos
sessed the confidence of the people at that
period. 'lt is, however, an °pion very
generally entertained by the opposititin
p arty, that the country would have esca
ped much of the evil 'toilet which it has
suffered for some years past, if the con
stitution had contained a provision of that
kind—Having had no opportunity of per
sonal observat too on the conduct of the
administration for the last tin' years, I am
unable to decide upon the truth -or error
of this Opinion. And 1 should be very
willing that the k.aown subserviency of
the legislature to the Executive, in several
memorable instances, should be accoun
ted for in a way somewhat less injurious
to the charactee of our country and Re
publicanism itself, than by the admission
that the Fathers of the land, the trusted
servants of a virtuous people, could be se
duced from the path of duty and honor,
by the paltry trapping s and emoluments
of dependant of fi cers. But if the evil real
ly exists, and if there be good reason to
belieit that its source is to found in the
corruptibility of the members of the Leg.
islaturep-sts effectual remedy cannot be
too soon applied. And it happens in this
case, that there is a choice of remedies
(Inc of those however, is in my opinion
free from the objections which .might be
offered to the other.. The one to which 1
object is. that which the late President has
been so lousily called 'upon to adopt, in
cousequence of a promise made at the coin
incitement of his administration, vii that
the Executive under no circumstances,
should appoint to °Bite a member of,either
branch of the National Legislature.--
I There are in my, Mind several weighty
re.ssons against the adoption of this prin
'ciple. 1 will dentin you with the men
tion of but two olthent, because I believe
that „you trill agree with me, that the al
ternative' 1 shall present, while it would
be equally effectual, contains no feature to
which a reasonable objection could be
made. •
As the Constitution contains no provis
tc wevent the 'appointment of mem
ion to pt appotnuou,.. _
bers of Congress to office by the Execu
tive, could the Executive with a due re
gard to delicacy and justice, 'without
usurping power from the people, declare
4 disqualification whieh they had .not
thought necessary? And where is the
American citizen who regard the honor
of his country, the character , el its peo
ple, or who believes in the superb:may of
a Republican form of government, who
would bc:Willing toqyrochnin to the world,
that the youthful nation which has attrac
ted so inueli of its attention which it has
so much admired for ha gigantic strength.
its undaunted courage, : its high attain
ments in literature and the arts and the
external beauty of its Institutions', Was,
within, a mass of- meanness and corny
(ion/ That even the chosen servants of
the people, were ever ready', for a paltry
Consideration, to abandon their ellegiance
to their lawful sovereigns, and to •become
the servants of a servant. The alterna
tive to this degrading course, is to be
found in -depriving the Executive of ell
motive for .acquiring an improper Wan
ence over .the Legislature. To . effect
this, nothing in my tq inion is necessary
;but to re-establish the principle upon
which the administration was once con
ducted, with a single addition of limiting
the service of the President to one term.
A condensed enumeration of what
cotl
cetve these principles to hive been, is gi
ven above And 1 think no one can cluidst
that, it faithfully carried out, they would
[ be effectual in securing the independence