HUNTINGDON JOURNAL.
WuotE No. 193.1
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To the Public.
THE public are hereby informed, that
JACOB MILLER has been app• inted agero
for Huntingdon county, for the sale of Dr.
Evans' Camomile and family .pet ient pills,
ohere all those that ne. d m. dicine, can In
supplied as he intends always to have a sup
ply on hat., , .
LIFE AND HEALT H, —Persons wltns
serves have been injured be Calon'ile,
or excessive grief, groat loss of blond, the sup
pression of accustomed discharges or tutu
se us , intemperate habits, ur other causes
wuich tend to relax and nervate the ['cr
oon, system, will find 3 friend to soothe anti
contort them, in EVANS' CAMOMILE
PILLS. Those afflicted with Epila psy or
Falling Sickness. Palsy, Seri , us Ap o plexy,
and organic affections of the heart, Nausea,
V milting, pains in the side, breast, limbs.
head, stomach or Is ick, will find themselves
ImntediAttly Mkved, by using
EVANS' CAMOMILE AND APERIENT
PILLS.
Do. EVANS doeiiiTtPretend to say that
his medicine will cure all diseases that fd•sh
and blo al are heir t hut he does sacs th
In ad De•eilitated and Impaired Constitutions
Nervous diseases of all kinds, particular
ly Of the DIGES FIVE ORGANS, and in
inb.;ipient C.ensuinption, wiled], of the lungs
or liver, they will cure. That dreadful dis
es..e. CONSUMP PION. might have been
• ~.•!::.‘1 in its commencement, and disap
pwe:, d its prey all over the land, if the ties'
6y,riptoass ~ f Nervous Debility had lire"
c4 , ,teracted by the C AMOMILE FLOW
cnemically pre;eared; together with many
other diseases, where other remrdits have
proved total.
H+'* many persons do we daily find tortu
red with th A dreadful dis;•ase, SICK
tI).kCHE, If they would only make
to i of this invalu ible medicine.. they w uld
pc, ceder that life is a pleasure and not a
cuurce of misery and abhorrence. In conch'
Won I would warn ueremt persons against
the abstraction of 151.00 D, hy leech
e+, eupping, or the einploym-nt of the Lincet.
Draittc purgatives in delicate habits are al-,
m est tqualiy impr , per. These are prat
*ices too often revert. u to in such cases, but
they sold-im f in prove highly injue•i us •
Certigc it •s of cures are daily received which
add sufficient testimony of the great efficacy
of this inv ., Li chic medicine, in r noting kf
fficted mankind. The above medicine is for
sale at Jacob Miller's store, Huntingdon.
1
Jur Sws•ne's Cotapwind Syrup of pro
,sus of Pleginifitan or wild Cher , y.
This syrup is highly beneficial in all peen,
ral affections; also. in diseases of the chest
in which the lungs do not perform ;:leir
proper office fi..m wart of due nervou.
energy: such as asthmas, pulmonary con
suniptian, recent or chronic coughs, hoarse
news, whooping cough, wheezing andel&
'Acuity of breathing, croup and spitting of
blood, etc. how many sufferei a do we
daily behold approaching to an untimely
grave, wrested in the bloom of youth from
their dear relatives and friends, affixted
with that common and destructive rava
ger, called consumption, which soon wams '
the miserable sufferer until they become
btynnd the power of human skill; it such
sufferers would only snake a tiial of Dr.
wayne's invaluable medicine, they would
mom find themselves benefittad; than by
gulphing the various ineffective certain
remedies of which our newspapers daily
abound. This syrup immediately begins
to heal the ulcerated lungs, stopping pro
fuse night swaats, mititigating the distres
sing cough at the same time inducing a
healthy and natural expectoration, also re
lieving the shortness of breath and pain
in the chest, which harrass the sufferer on
the slightest exercise, and finally the hecs
• tic flash in the pallid and mnaciated cheek
will soon begin to vanish, and the sufferer
will here peceive himself snatched from a
premature grave, into the enjoyment again
of comfortable health.
For sale at Jacob Miller's store Hoot
ME AD THIS!: DR. SW AVNE'S COM
AS) POUND SYRUP of PRUNES VIII
GINIAN Pi, or Wm)) CHERRY: I hill ts de
cidedly one of the hest remedies for Cough
and Colds now in use: it allays it Ration , f
the Lungs, lo hens the cough, causiug the
virgin to raise free and easy; in isthma,
rulrn nary Consumption, Recent or Chron
ic Coughs, Wh-t sing & Choking of Phlegm
141 narsenes v , Difficulty of breathing, Croup.
Spitting of Blood, &c. This Syrup is war
ranted to effect a permanent cure, it taken
according to directions which accompany the
bottles. For salt oily at Jacob Miller's stars
livsttorlors:
THE GA ULAN D.
-"With awe, test ft .wers ettecit'd
From various gartteos cull'd with care."
CHILDHOOD'S PRAYER.
Beauteous the ...vilest flower Of spring,
Which rears its timid head.
A fair, and frail, and helpless thing.
Above its snowy bed.
To transient sense and passing sight,
It may not hop, to vie
With those more fragrant, and more bright;
Which summer shall supply,
Vet memory fondly owns its worth,
With gayer blos.oins burst
To light and life;—f.ur this came forth,
The simplest, and the first!
Lovely the roseate seats of morn,
When dews and vapour rise,
Gemming with distnon drops each thorn,
As insense to the skies,
Brightly may shine the noon-tid rays
On nck, and lake, and hill;
Yet memory, 'mid their cl , udltss blase,
Will turn to morning still.
rhere was a freshness in that hour,
S') misty, hush'd and calm;
l'lvAt.like each opening leaf and flower,
The spirit owned its balm,
Anti such. if we may rate the worth
Of boon more rich than fair,
By synity la hot rowed from this earth—
Is childhood's artless prayer.
It is a boon above all price.
Ti earthly genii assigned;
View'd as the earliest sacrifice
Of an immortal mind.
When cowing from a guiltless heart;
And breathed by guiltless lips,
No after el4.quence nf art,
Its beauty can eclipse.
Oh, thou! fur whom I frame this lay,
If thou hast thus been taught
At morn, at eventide, to pray
With feeling, and with thought;—
`ev:•r thy privilege forego,
But each r. tur.iing clay,
In hope or fear, in joy or woe,
Cuti:ioue still t) pray.
So shalt thou find, through faith and lore,
In toil, and grief and care,
Th ,, u halt a Father throned ab .ve.
Who twars, and answ. rs pr .yer!
♦lll ORATION.
For the 4th, of July. Delivered in the
rum f Chilicoats, lfuluingdm coun
ty, Peunsylrunia.
Capt. T. C. Green.
SIR :—The undersign
ed having been appointed a Cominittee
for that purpose, by the Trough Creek
Guards, would reap •ctfully in behalf of
the company solicit the favor of a ropy of
the Oration delivered by you tie day, in
commemoration of di, anoiversaiy of our
!Val total Ini!ependence, for puWiciation in
the different papers in the couoly.
Your's very respectfully.
G. W. li ANI PSON.
SIMEON Vi ftlljlt r.
J. .MONTGONIEItY.
Committee.
fo Messers. Hampton, ighl ant! Mune-.
gonsery, Committee of the !'rough Creek
Guards.
ENTLIMEN t is with pleasure,
I comply with your request to furnish a
copy of the Oration un to day. It was
not intended for publication, but as it is
the wish of the Company, I cheerfully ac
cede to it.
I am Gentlemen Your
Obedient Servant.
T. C. G REEN.
July 4th, 1C39.
Oration
FLIENDI AND FLLLOW CITIZEN , :
Again has another anniver
sary of our couuiry'a Independence rid
led around; again has our nation assein•
bled to offer up upon the altar of liberty,
the incense of her gratitude ; again is Lit
cy called on to picture to the molds eye,
the gloomy period of distress produced
in our land by British oppression, and
the heart rending scene when war's
bloody mantle was cast over our country,
making all cheerless and desolate. Bui
amidst the horrors of the picture, the geni
us of liberty is seen urging on her votaries
by prem i ses of victory, to straggle for
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
A. W. BENEDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
HUNTINGTON, PI NNSVI VANIA. IVITNI:n)All, JULY 17. 18:9.
a t611.7a 1.01 al It 00. mem •,,y Ule strong hood
ut usurllai Rau, and trampled under lout Ut
a devout: toe.
toa t ored uy the spirit ut pall iutism, an
Aoant,, a ii.taaCUCk, a Henry, and a It
ul utoers, u. the wild ulable 01 theil eta
(peace, a wuxe !tool ICI.11.11•61Ck blumuer,
toe iallUa and aeon Ilk,. all elec
ir, spat a sills it ut re,t,tattce to the re
tout, ,t part, of our cip,i,Liy. Like the
proteutoos ?dittoes. who:st precedes the
anioty couvulptoos of oatut e ali WAS at
It ut an lila tutu U , aaWatitillg Lite deCtsiutl to
Cut•gre36 It cattle, resouoding thrum,
hot and v —4l lobe, I), or gbe
I me death.
There beat nut a heart in the breast ul
true Amer con, Mat did nut echo awl le
echo, ute atea dewilihnanun. Unappal
tile iiiiiuitierduie nahgt•ra Yvb ch
atteroundea them, ll,lawed by ts e mad . ,
tlaticulaes Ytllicu opprsti,en 01124 n, they
liuldly sc. ereti tie chants .1 qt . :4'4l,y
whicts uound them, and tearle,aiy taunett
rts tutu lie atortuy eleilletltS Uh war, with.
;warts winch tatters:Li not, and :al pm.%)
and pei se ail,: whL.il iii•%ei
it WJb ter (WM a tavatted, Nut, übthp
.d , uur locui:tillei 9 uallled Oil a 11(11011'1W
finds Wdi 11.01 .
t r, hi Men' Clod, cast aAuk• llle yoi.•
al ,y rallili 411(1 p 1 UtAillttlett to lhr iY urlu,
Li:AL tl:e,y were utiti w
It wa, oppres,ion that kindled the
hci6ll,, anu Italy 'lame of [Lill imis,n in
tut oubuisi of 411, autl w,uL each tu ,vreat
to the tlatkuees of but row , to peter the
Wilds of affection, winch buoml them to
the land of weir ancestur.
find Columbus been able in fancy's
wild revel, to see the incalculable benefit
ACIISIIig to the vvut!..l from his disco' - ery,
and picture forth toe greatness mid gran
deur ut the ICTublic, the portrait could
not pussiuly have been commensal ate w th
the reality. Bmndless and unlimited
the p.er of fancy way be, it could nu
possialy have grasped at once a plan so
stupendous in its fabric and boundless in
its resources. the idea of a government
existing based on republican principles,
was long looked uu by Europe as a wd.l •
chimera, but despite of prediction she has
Moved uooly onward over every Opposing
tfitticoity, iimh was thrown iii het w..y.
uut(ripm ; .; !veil conjecture in her ad
vaneentent in art, science dignity and
health. Acid now even in less than a cen.
fury, ranking among the must powe!ful
nations ol the earth, with no station too
high for her attainment,—no plan tao dif•
ficult in its execution for her to encounter,
which tends to promote national aggratt-
I dizeinent and national glory, She defies
!even speculation to say what she may not
!accomplish iu clays to coin.; obstacles
I rise before her bat to vanish like the mist
1
o thorn.
• America the home of the Genius of
Liberty, the refuge of the persecuted
any laud, whether amid the terrors of re
intolerance in Spain, or the liar
rots of the giilitines of France.
The moment he lands on o it shores,
the chilling influence of persi•cotiun
ceases, his feelings, thoughts and nature
become changed, and his life freed from
past sorrows, like creation where the wa
ters oldie deluge had retired from a cheer
leas scene, becomes one of calmness and
beauty: ''Unfcttered in mind and body,
e% cry thing around him bears testimony
that he stands redeemed, regenerated and
disci:throned." For this glorious heri
tage our furefethcrs suffered all that ho
ciao nature could end de ; you find them
at one moment pouring out their blood
like water on the alter of their country'•
rights, at the nett Samaritan like, kneel•
by the side of friend and foe, oft ring
with rut distinction comfort and assistance.
Humanity like the rid of Aaron, so soon
as the din of battle had subsided, aw•al
lowing up the remembrance of their
Wron4S,
Troy, Rome and Sparta, furnish splen
did examples of undaunted valor, sterlng
virtue and putt iotic zeal ; but it remain
ed for Assertcs to produee en army coin
uining the or .very of• Hector, the exalted
virtue of Cincinirattus, anti the devoted
patriotism of Letiniii .s. The annila o'
history cannot ,roiluce another in,ta•ice,
in which an arm , . covered with the Lurels
of success, starv 7 eil and without mosey,—
without even a murmur suliner4ing the
habits of the soldier ire iliose of the peace
ful citizen. Patient in arts ersity, they
were humble in proverily.
Siich were the men who perille I all that
posteriiy might be neilefitt.d ; such were
the men who fought, bled mit ‘lied, that
they might bequeath a their Ch Wen lie
legit, of freedom. Ant as
dant, of such men let us strive to von
hat freedom in all it purity, iitiadultered
and unsullied, by the pestilential bre ttli
of political dissentio Phoenix, like
our present form •if govermnent, arose
n all its beautiful simplicity from the
chaos of colonial misrule, amid the clouds
of tsar in the dark hour cf peril and eon
Wasinngiou, I.lb.triy, and the 4th of
Jul., will piss in the remembrance °I man,
while the sun continues to shine or the
eerth to produce a plant. Millions yet
unborn will read with amazement, the
events connected and associated with
with them. But this is nut the only one
of the heroes who performed a patr . o.'s
part in the arduous struggle of the revolu
nun; there are thousands whose mimes
souuld be etiru.le,l on the bright page ol
rica is the only land in which merit
is Ow p.oisport to day inetion. Time has
inaproi ed and retnudeled European laws;
but it has ugly served to unfold the beau.
t.. ; • and porti clion of ours. I\t, station tan
from punishment, when merited;
rune 04:1dt:base. Oar gove.iinuarui [stands
grand anti alone, the chet d'eusre of pu
iiticat productions; the latest and must
ilurious !abr.: ot civil liberty. That there
.11/1 ileticieocies ;lone cin deny ; but they
fr, intiasur.ibly lust sight of when comps
red with tin, ittimense advantages result •
tag to mankii.ll, front the stiucture reared
and consecrated to freed in. Ihe Star
spangled banter, ha .ured and respected
ul emery Hat.. Mi earth, no matter how
0, ;tow de,-ply ingulphed in bar
oat.s:u, is ia.le _ and looked on in every
a toe of !Welly sod equ
Cla , i• 3,
au, are all our COllteinplatkuli to bid
3JU•llllq,e6l 1.1 batilefielda, victories am'
a, au! the general harmony, the I
:mod of 1.1111 , 111 which bound the worth to
the ',oath, tile east to the west: a bowl pu
nned by blautl, and cemehted by toil, are
suujects equally worthy the adintration of
toe patriot, the statesman, and hero. The
lnuepenthince id Ain Tica, the manner of
its acinvement, and the train of circum
stances which followed, have been an all
inspiring theme both of Pacts and Ora
tors of every clime, file enemies of
ireeduin and equal mown by the
omits M . o.:even across the atom) , " waves
of me Atlantic to the allows of COluitiliia,
pointed the awl by their trade, and like
toe locust of Egypt left the mildew of
Wight and deaulation in their track. But
mink :lull the reign of terror did not hat
forever, the gloomy cloud which they
spread 'iv' r our lair fields, was doomed by
heaven's high chancery, ti be but for a
aid i SWlllll'lllll he scattered by the ri
sing suit of liberty, eq.:al rights told prier-',
tuges. Here they planted caution which
out roared the mighty Lion of the desert,
and made our continent to tremble as the
timid doe, but her awls, who were born to
lie free, recosering from their panic, rose
in majesty of their strength, t nd silenced
the cannon by extinguishing the match in
blood, and then the intruder retired to his
'amity amid Mune beyond thu waters whence
he cline.
foe war am a soldier of America
liav
trig cotiqttered, sought no farther conqaest,
but converted his sword into implements
mil husbandry, and again turned his atten
tion to the felling of the forest, and the
ploughing of the fields. fiat his projects
;i t ' d has laaors did tint end here. Cities
hate been 'milt, canals have been open
ed, high way, have been constructed, the
present facilities of transportation moth of
velema and cargoes, few transcend,' all
the aiiticipations of the past. Whitt
Prophet could have foretold, that in I ittl
more than a half a century, navigation
oould have overleaped the Uounds of the
Ocean. And that internal ships would
have teen seen ascending new pathway's
parallel with river., and meandering
amine; hills, to unite the far west with the
Cities of the east.
Who could have foretold that the wild
waters of the Susquehanna, would by the
art of man, mingle with those of the
Schuylkill, and those of Lake Erie and
Chanipla•ti with the Iludson, would not
the into have been denounced as a visiona•
r or a fanatic, who had ventured the pre
(heti,' that in so short a time the 'tail
Ito id, wdh its heavy train would have of
passing the h. guts of tie Apalachian
nil is, ,% it h the speed of the mama, and that
too by the pow.r of an inviaible agent.
W e may compare the pres,ettt with the
past, and felicitate ourselves with the
reflection the geotus of roan is bald and
aspiring., that it la the labratory of great
and grand events, that it is aiming at im
provements and contributes to tile con ve•
nience and cumfort of 'nankin'', but who
can anticipate the future 1 Where is the
mountain too high to he leveled I the rock
too heave to be removed
Ainerlea may safely defy all Europe,
lurnish t ountry id her a4e to rya.
in nnprovemaits. Considering that
was },iro Jut yetiterday, her precu,ity
ithl,c.itc. an, waa Intended Icr a WO ilea
t.tiv.
i. yet bat in the morn of life, hen
34-1:1 iv orifliant, and her attnu.pliera to uu
clouded.
So lung as the country at large, in Re
puuliean governments, and nut party, wa,
consulted they have prospered.
Rut the upas breath of the mad apiri
olfaction has ever been, and ever will be
the Mac of frro. dab,
Jte.:,ed Ito.o Itat sci es, our political
exis mice us sale and secure fro In a fur
toga foe, disunion alone can dislroy the
semple of, liberty, erected by our ances
tors, and cutisecrated by then. blood.
Deeply indeed must that soul be im•
incrsed In the foul watery am:l:pity and
ingratitude, winch for the sake of p.O ty,
could mar the beauty and order of a work
11/ pet feet.
Let u, but pursue the gemlike purity
of our constitution, let ua but continue in
our present prosperous and Kapp condi
tion, and tile thruueo of Europe which are
already, tittering under the influence
ut America, wi.l crumble into ruins under
the spirit ill Republicanism which la gradu
ally making head way in every part of the
world, despite oh opposiCon.
Under its revolutionary hand, tyrany
will wituer and die, and the benne. of iib
clay and equal rigliti wilt wave trium
phant tie toe winds ut every clime, eser
ting an influence us unbounded as apace
used',
But let uu fellow citizens, not only take
a ICU knyective view, but let the iininaep
nation fur a inuinent on that which
It Elie achievements in art and science
if all that has ueen accomplished in this
fair laud, be but the shadow ut coming
c, eats, to what uegree of greatness rosy
we nut iuuk furwanl.
Tins count:) , hay exercised a salutary
influence uputi i• has been VII
pnall ally teriti:d the twine of the emi
grant, and the asylum of the exile.
' nut beget that a guardian pow
er 11A4 t.vel luoised us, that an unseen
maul has guided us in our unward march,
and lel us pray that guidance and prutee
tion may toe extenued to us hereafter.
That the rude oreutli of political intuler
, ance and party violence, may net brink
upua time iiarmonwas repose of a "band
of mothers joined," out that the common
bonds of country and kindred, may grow
with the growth, a•4d strengthen with the
streugth,u. our cunamon and beloved coun
try.
Independence Dap
The 63.1 anniversary of the Declara
tion of Independence was celebrated at
Sh,rH obit% by the Invincit.lea of that
place. About one o'clock the company
partook of an excellent repast prepared
by Alr. John Ptice. The day wai spent
with the convivial urbanity which alt
attends our celebrations. and the recut•
lections ot the occasion gave a lively
cheerfulness to the scene. Captain J. NI, •
tialbreatii was appointed President; Ben.
jamin Leas, Solo.mm Dunkle , 6411/JVI Mi.
LC wary Vice Presidents. Mr. John Price
read the Declaration of Independence,
and Dr.'. U. Lightner delivered the fe!-
,
ADIMESS.
FitIENDI AVID FELLOW SOLDIETIE—The
day we celeora.e is the 63d of American
Lidepermence; it is impossible to find in
the 111111 iii, of th , world, it moment fraught
with more fearful interest, than that in
which tile event represented Chia day. It
war the crisis which determined the des•
tiny of our country, the rights fur which 1
our fathers hat! retired int, the wilderness, '
had been violated; they found their coon
try bound to imperiuua Britain by chains, !
sod, to swell Cie amount of aggression
beyood the possibility of endurance, those
chains were already red with •he ii.'ood of
our bre hen. l'hiey now deliberated rip
on the total and throat dissolution of that
canuectioo; a connection dnatural in its
character, degrading to them, and ruinous
to the cause of freedom throughout the
world. Oil the 711* of June. 1770, Rich
ard Ilenry Lee brought the great ques•
tion of Independeoce before Congress, in
the lolls. iog i caolution: .. flat these
Unit. al t °lonics are, and til right ought to
be, free and Independent States; that they
are ansolved Irmo all allegiatic! to the
Hi itish CroA ii, and that all political con•
nection in, and ought to be totally eissol
veil." I his resolution was adopted; and
'a committee coosisting of !kir. Jefferson,
John Adam., Dr. Franklin, Mr. Sherman
and R. R. Livingston, was appointed to
prepare a declaration of Independence.
Die draft reported by the committee, was
prepared by Jefferson, and was discussed
in committee of the whole on the id, 5d
and 4th days of July, on the last of which
it received the final approbation anti sane
tinned by Congress. In whatever light
we may contemplate this assembly, wheth
er tee consider their individual chatacters
the subject of their deliberations, or the
results of thee• acts, we find it interesting
en I important beyond parallel. There is
not perhaps in the wide empire of memo
ry, an instance of national assembly con
arituted like ours, and comprising so !natty
men ol• superior moral, and in.ellectual
;realness. It seems that Providence,
which willed the revival of the long dot •
Avant principles of right, collecte I within
'ale lowly wails of that unassuming hall,
la number of men in a degenerate age a.
the pillars of the world's great hermitag e
•
r Voir.. /V, No. 39.
of freer:one as the protectors and guard.
;ens of the unborn millions of posterity.
When the eyeglances, or memory awe.
kens upon this host of sages, patriots and
-tateamen; a Franklin, a Jefferson, an Ad-
ems, a Dickersou, a Hancock, a Lee, a
Morris, a Sharman. etc. etc.; men whose
characters are a pillar of effulgeut light,
auiding their cuuntryintu through the
night of degeneracy, and gently convey.
ing them in the path of virtue and free•
tom; we bow the head is lowly reverence
and patriotic gratitude. NVhat assembly.
before or since, has comprised such a
magnificent congregation of virtue and
power, where eloquence and deliberation.
wisdom and genius were joined, where
philoeoph/ and science, political wisdom
end political purity, stood forth, all the
determined champions of the rights of
man/ Our children's children will feel
the benefit of it; and centuries hereafter.
in the clays of our country's adversity,
their example will raise new Henrys to
plead; new Waehingtons to support the
cause of (rectum. !'here is nu spot in
the domain of history, around which we
linger with on elevated an enthusiasm as
this. As the birth place of our nation, as
the source of all fur which as a people we
are grateful, the affliction of the patriot
cannot but gather exultingly around it.
When we further reflect on the men en
gaeed in the act, when we think of the
high and noble impulse that urged, and
dangers and sufferings that attended it.
the heart swells with animation, and glows
With gratitude at the retrospect, even to
strangers, to those who contemplate the
eve it merely as an instance of mental
greatness, and moral grandeur, it presents
spectacle of unparalleled interest. To
us, the sons of those heroes, and the in
heritors of their freedom, and their fame,
it can never cease to be a theme of exel
ted and rapturous exultation.
'lime student of history cannot but be
forcibly iinpretteed from the detaito of
n wrung and outrage," which darkens
the annals of the past, with the misery
and degradation of our race. The scene
generally eresented by the historic irtlie.
io a succeasion of natioeal change., all
characterised by the bailie violence and
injustice, and all resulting in the same
oppression and suffe r ing. Each revolus
ton diechiees new scenes of horror, the
pe plc offered up unsteuggling victims on
the shrine of a guilty power, or frenzied
by their own paismns anti prejudices, be.
come the instrument of each others ruin,
even in those revolutinns which has been
dignified with the name of popular, and
hell .wed by the pretence of right, a close
and severe scrutiny betrays little for
praise, and less fur emulation.
iVe find most of them selfish and sor
did in their motives, wild and desperate
in their character, and bloody anti misera
ble in their ends. Not a deliberate and
reason sanctioned sacrifice of ease, and
safety to right, but a frenzied writhing be.
neath the lash of oppression and suffer
ing, an infuriate and savage start from
intolerable ills to a bloody revenge, even
if successful, their chsins fell from their
limbs upon the grave of their country's
hopes. They found themselves without
that dispassionate love of country, that
knowledge of the rights of man, necessa
ry for freedom and happiness; and gave
up their unvalued rights to the first hand
that offered to seize them. such have
• been moot of the popular reeolut one of
the past. And though amid the varied
metuorii ls of history, we see many instaa•
ces of a heroic and noble devotion ma free.
nom, none of them affords a parallel for
our own, IrVe have witnessed the writh
ing of the vassal under the scourge, th
struggling et the slave beneath his fetter,
we hare seen Brutus rise "refulgent fret
the stroke of Ceeear's fate," the Flank
wrestle with his tyrant, and even the de
generated and degraded Greek, frantic be
neath the nvewhelming weight of Mos•
lent oppression, spurn the chain to grasp
the cinieter. But with these, our revolu
tion knew no accordant characteristic.
It was no forced and infuriate rush from
the scourge to the sword, from the fetter
I to the foe.
It was the calm, determined defence
of a violated principle, the deliberate vin..
dication of a natural right, infringed in a
degree the rnn►t trivial; but still infrin;
ed. It was left for America to show a
whole peoplejuining to do an act, in eve
ry point of view grand, unsustained by
,ieltibliness, unprompted by rage, undo
graded by wrong.
Our fathers, whin they launched their
pilgrim vessels upon the western era,
drought with them from the crimes and
oppression of the old world, the untamed.
untrammelled opirit of freedom. Here,
is the wilds of America, and in the very
lap of liberty. they nursed the infant ni
-1 tion. It drew the first bi eath of lite from
the breezes which swept over a continent
forest land, and in its far career brea
thed not upon a single slave. Here un
.larkened by the spirit of prejudice v.hic:i
brooded over toe szheAs of Lurope, they