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FROM THE PHILADELPHIA SATURDAY CHRONICLES
Weep (or the Bride.
DV DIRE. LYDIA JANE PIEDSON.
Down to the quiet and holy tnrnb,
'rho imituz and beautiful went;
No mildew tainted her early bloom,
No stain with her Innocence bleat
Earth had oot touch'd with a frigid blight,
Her warm and confiding breast;
And life wan yet bright with the holy light,
In which innocence sees it drest.
Swiftly the Messenger sped his flight;
Gently earth's amnia were riven;
Aud the soli filed from n world of light,
uTo , r 1 riouA blissful heaven.
Why do we weep o'er the peaceful tomb?
Sweet is her d I'l'll tulese reot;
And the soul in its earth unsullied bloom.
IS now with.the early blest.
Ali! rather be tenrs of bitterness shed
By 'paternity's dewy eyes,
O'er the F fumy eurtain'tl and dreamy bed,
Where the bride in her beauty lies.
Ifer hoora are too fair, in their airy heights,
To endnre the storms of time;
And the bud of her hapoines6 all too bright,
To expand in this frosty clime.
She drmints not now in her blissful sleep,
'flint woman's fate is sure;
To languish, agonize, suffer and weep,
Be humble and endure:
A h, littlevimc knows of maternal cares,
And fond anxieties;
Th(t weary watehings, and hitter tears,
That dim the mother's eyes.
Nor dreams that placid sleeper now,
Of Avnkinc life's miseries;
Of bitter words, of broken vow,
Cold heart, and scornful eyes.
That the love may die which alone can smootl
Poor woman's rugged way;
The balmy tromure which only can sooth, •
ller cares and pains away.
Ali! gently reclines her blooming face,
Against her husband's breast;
nut she knows not the depths oilier resting place
Or by what it may be possest.
Ah! weep for the Bride who must suffer and die
For her ho bitter tears shed!
While sweet resignation Mimes the eye,
O'er the pious and early dead.
vaira mu6Te)..11542•-,i)11.n.y0
The Princeimol the Jeweller.
A jeweller of Paris one day saw a splendid equi
page drive up to hisAoor, and a tall, important
looking gentleman alighted fro:n it. He wanted
a lady's set of diamond ornaments, a complete
• wedding pcirttre; The price was fixed at two
hundred thousand francs. t'leVeral designs were
shown to him. He mado.choice of one, said he
could grant but little time for executing the order,
and insisted on leaving with the jeweller a doposite
of four thousand francs in billets de banque. He
also selected a ring, Worth a hundred and twenty
francs, and ordered it to be Sent home next day;
and five days after, the whole set of diamonds
were to be completed. Accordingly,on the follow
ing day, a confidential messenger from the jewel
ler's repaired to the -Hotel the Rue de
la Paix, and inquired for Prince Gargarin. He
was shown into an apartment on the first story.—
Five or six lackeys were in the imtechamber.- 7
The prince took the ring, paid for it, and gave a
present of ten francs to the messenger, who joy
ful returned home, and congratulated his master
on having so wealthy and liberal a customer.
The jeweller,with the utmost punctuality,carried
home the diamonds on the day appointed. The
prince was in his study, sitting before his cylin
drical secretaire, which was open. The jeweller
handed the casket to him, and his highness min
utely inspected the jewels; suddenly one of the
valets entered the room, and announced "Prince
Dolgoroulti."
. 6 410 my noble brother-in law!" exclaimed his
highness. "I do not wish him to see the present
which I destine for his sister. Request him to stay
in the drawing-room, and I will come to hint im
mediately." Ho touched the table, the cylinder
moved, and the secrete - ire closed. The diamonds
were in it; but on the table there lay an open box
filled with leather bags, and numerous roleaux of
louis were huddled together in confusion The
jeweller had observed all this treasure on his first
arrival; but his attention was particularly attracted
by a large Russia leather portfolio, well lined with
billets de Gangue, the edges of which were visible.
• His highness left the room, saying he would re
turn very shortly. Tho jeweller begged he would
not hurry himself. About twenty minutes elapsed,
and a sort of vague apprehension began to assail
the jeweller. At length the door opened. Oh,
hero is his hi:illness, thought he. But no, it was
the master of the hotel, who stepping up to the
jeweller, said—
oAro you waiting for any body, sir'!"
"1 am waiting fur the return of Prince Gar
gano, to whom I have just sold n set of diamonds
for two hundred thousand franca. Arc you his
secretary?"
"I urn his tiupe, and so I presuma,you are.
"What do you mean?—his dupol Imposihie!
Tim jewels are shut up in that secretairo. Besides,
look at all this money."
Ho seized one of the leather hogs, and opening
it discovered, to his horror, that it was filled with
nails; the roulcaux contained nothing, and the
portfolio, scraps of waste paper. However, the
jeweller consoled himself—the diamonds were still
safe. A locksmith was sent for; the secretaire was
opened, and oh, horror! it was empty. It stood on
one side of the room, against a wall in which a
hole had been made, and, there being a correspond
ing hole in rho back of the secretaire, the jewels
had, with pare 1 case,
been convoyed into the ad
joining apartment.
The despair of tho unfortunate jeweller may be
easily conceived. The master of the hotel,too,who
had let his apartments to the pretended Prince
Gargarin, had boon extensively s‘vindled. Tho
servants all belonged to the hotel, with the excep
tion of the valet de cha Illbre, who was the compan
iaa and confederate of the prince.
It was ascertained that they had decamped in a
coach from the door of the hotel. 'Every exertion
!was made to trace them out, but several years
,elapsed before they were discovered.
The' jeweller, who was nearly ruined by this
robbery, removed to another quarter of Paris, and
established himself under a new name. Ono day
a messenger ealled . on him from M. T—, a gen
tleman holding an official situation, who was very
ill, and wit.hed to purchase some ring.. The poor
jeweller had naturally becothe suspicious eversince
I his fatal adventure with Prince Gargano; and, in
stead of sending his shopeann, he took the rings
himself. He was shown into a bed-chamber which
was partially lighted; owing to the situation of the
windows, the room was all in shade, except where
the bed stood. What was the surprise of the jew
eller when he discovered, in the invalid M. T—,
the swindler who had some years previously de
frauded him in the assumed character of the Rus
sian Prince Gargarin! For a few moments he
was struck dumb with amazement. However,
he recovered himself, and deeming it prudent not
to betray the disco Very he had made, he displayed
his rings; several were selected, and their price
amounted to about six thousand francs.
"It is a large su m of money for a poor, ruined
man." said M. T—. have not ready ejS 1
enough to settle the whole amount, and I shalt feel..
obliged if you will take in payment this eution
! old snuff-box, which is of great value."
"lie asked for his dressing-case, and onening it,
took o it an octagon-shaped snuff box, ornamented
vith ten miniatures by. Clinchhteil, set in geld and '
rubies. It was - perfectly unique, and of ineAitria
ble value. 'fine snuffbox which M. T— pre_
wilted to hint•was one which had been stolen from
him a few days before the robbery of his diamonds.
The box was too remarkable to admit of the pos
sibility of mistake. Besides, it had a secret spring,
by means of which all the miniatures could be ta
ken out of their settings; !did on the reverses were
painted similar subjects, but treated in the style
of indelicacy peculiar to the age of Louis XV.
This circiimstance was important in proof of his
claim to the possession of the box. When M.
T— asked him to set a value on it, be said with
out hesitation—
consider it worth more than fifty thousand
•Fifty thousand francs!" exclaimed M. T—;
I thought it valuable, but this far exceed my es-
imation of it."
“Bir,” resumed the jeweller, "I will not retract
what I have said. I am an expert dealer, and to
me it may possibly be worth far more than the sum
I have fixed. I will make this proposition to you:
you shall take the rings you have sdected,and you
shall put the box under an envelope statii:g it to
be my property; and, if it does not bring more than
fifty thousand francs, you shall have my rings for
nothing."
M. was completely blinded V this deep
laid scheme. He was a good connossicur of sub
lects of virtu, and he was not a little gratified to
sul his box so much orervalued;and to be enabled
to obtain the rings without opening his purse.—
The most exaggerated valuation of the snutrbox
would scarcely have exceeded seven or eight thou
sand francs, He sent fur two of his neighbors,one
of whom was a notary, and the matter was arrang
ed conformably With the jeweller's proposition.—
This being done, the invalid said—
" Who will fix the price of the box'!"
"You, sir," coolly replied the jeweller.
, ;11fel You are jesting!"
"I assure you, sir,‘l am quite serious. I would
willingly lay a good wager that you will value the
box tally° hundred thousand francs."
M. I'—directed at the two witnesses a look
which seemed to say—the man is mad; but the
'metier added—
"You will value it at that price, ram certain you
will. But first of all, I have to acquaint you with
a circumstance connected with this box,which will
enable you to perceive its real value."
M.l'-, full of curiosity and anxiety, consen
ted to hear the jeweller's communication in private_
The two neighbors, taking the box with th• ni, ad
journed to the drawingroom, and M. T- arid
the jeweller being left alone, the litter said:
"Sir, it is now about sixteen years ego since
at snuff-box was stilen from me; and a short
tune after,you robbed me of fifty thousand crowns"
worth of diamonds, under the assumed name of
Prince Garearin. I have now discovered you.—
My evidence relative to the robbery is on record.
You have declared the sunfT-box to be yours, and
can prove having purchased it at a public sate
I know a secret which will pin-e the truth of my
assertion beyond a doubt. Now, sir,tell me wheth
er you are inclined t> defend yourself in the crim
inal suit which I intend forthwith to institute a
gainst you."
Every word uttered by the jeweller fell like a
thunderbolt on the ears of M. Overwhelm
ed with the consciousness of hi s guilt, hi s imagi
nation pictured all the horrors of imprisonment,
trial, sentence, and the scaffold. He reflected, and
the jeweller, said:
"Sir, I give you five minutes to form your deter
mination."
At the expiration of that interval, M. , in
n faltering. voice, directed the jeweller to open a
drawer, in which he would find billets de banques
for three hundred thousand francs, payable at his
banker's that day. This being dune, the jeweller
called in the witnesses,
"Gentlemen," said he, "I have at length con_
vinced M. T— of the real value of the snutr-box,.
You see the price at which ho has purchased it
back from me."
"I have given five hundred thousand francs,"
said M.
„ Hero is your box,” said the jeweller, restoring
it, "and I will let you have the rings into the bar
gain." '
The notary, who was no less amazed than the
other witness, said:
"Tliero is some mystery in all this."
“Probably there is," replied the jeweller, "M.
T— may explain it if ho pleases; for my part, I
promise him eternal secrecy. ."
With these words, he took his departure, Tear
ing the witnesses bewilden;d in a maze of conjec
tures. M. though immensely rich,(he was
said to possess upwards of three millions,) never
recovered from the mortification attendant on this
unexpected discovery. The jeweller faithfully
adhered to his pro..lise of secrecy; hut the subtile
machinery of the police unravelled the mystery.
From the London Morning Post.
She is Thhie.
It will be remembered that an extraordinary
excitement was created some months since, in the
most fashionable circles, by the secret marriage of
a lady, equally celebrated for her wealth, beauty
and accomplishments, to the youngt4 branch of a
family more illustrious for its talent than remarka
ble for any other possessions. Upon the discovery
of the ntorriftro by the father of tho Indy, a Tali,-
"I WISH' NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF MY LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HONOR FROM OORRHPTION."-.-.BIIA Rl3.
altat-vwzramufbmelm' e pro 221122)al Zo Vi‘ a6 O EAp/c.
Lively, ingenuous, conversable, and charming
little garls, often spoil into dull, bashful, silent
young ladies, and all because their heads are lull
of nons-at-e about la-aux and lovers. They have
thou.-and thoughts and feelings which they would
be ashamed to corife,-..% though not ashamed to
entertain; and their preoccupation with a subject
which they had better let entirely alone, prevents
their bcLg the agreeable and rational companions
of the gentlemen of their acquaintance,which they
were designed to be..
Girls get into all sorts of scrapes, by this undue
preoccupation of mind; they misconstrue the coin-
monist attentions into marks of particular regard,
and thus nourish a fancy for a person who has
never once thought of them, but as an agreeable
acquaintance. They lose the enjoyment of a party,
if amain beaux are not there, whom they expected
to meet; they become jealous of their best friends,
if the beaux am there, and do not talk to them as
much as they wi,h; every trifle is magnified into
sorncthie.g of importance, a fruitful source of mise
ry, and things of real importance arc neglected for ;
chimeras. And all this gratuitous pains-taking de
' ferts its own ends!' The labor is all in vain; such
•
; girls are nfa the most popular. and those, whd
can never to have thought about matrimony at
all, are sought and preferred before them.
If the natural feelings of modesty are not
cunt to guard you from all personal familiarity.
with the young men of your acquaintance,let good
breeding, and good taste, aid yon in laying dows
rules for yourself on this head. Never join in any
rude plays, that will subject you to being kissed of
handled in any way by gentlemen. Do not suflJr
your hand to be held or squeezed, without show
ing that it displeases you by instantly withdrawing
it. If a finger is put out to touch a chain that it
round yerim neck,ur a breast-pin that you aro wesi
ing, draw tack, and take it off for inspection. 7 t
Accept not unnece.4sary assistance in putting oil
cloaks, shawls, over-shoes, or anything of the sort.
Be not lifted in and out of carriages, on or °if a
horse; sit not with another in a place that is Lori
narrow; read not out of the same book; let not
your eagerness to see anything induce you to place'
your head close to another person's. These, and
many other little points of delicacy and refinement,
deserve to be made fixed hablts,and then they will
sit easily and gracefilly upon you, heightening the
respect of all who approach ynu, and operating as
an almost ins:sible, though a very impenetrable
fence.keeping off vulgar familiarity,& that deseera;
lion of the person. which has too often led to sicei
The custom of a young lady's receiving 4m
pany, apart from the rest of the family. is attended
wilt many awkward circumstances and much
waste of time. There are very few cases whete it
had not bettor dispensed with. If a family is
so situatedahat the mother cannot spare time fiom
her domestic duties, to receive the casual visits of
her friends, her daughters had berer be assisting
her, than dressed up every day, at calling hocra,
and seated, unemployed, waiting the entrance of'
visitors_ No one can expect: to carry on any plan
of &Lady- or usefulness, in a city, who allows her
morning or evening hours to be given to company.
Supaosing, horrer-, that, th mgh living in a city,
you so arrange your time, that you think yon can
give two hours before dinner to chance visitors;
unless you can do it in company with your mother
or an elder sister, it is placing yourself in a very
awkwanl situation. You may, in this way, bring
on yourself long let--a-lefts with persons whose
society ts irksome to you., and be forced into ac
quaintances that are undesirable. If it be known.
as it soon will be, that Miss A- is always ready
to see company at such an hour, your parlor will
be a lounge for all the idle youth of your acquaint
ance, whilst the mom worthy part, being full of :
occupation. cannot appear there, and will think the
less of vim, for sitting in that manner in the receipt
of custom.
.
ty- of circuinstances prompted the demand of satis
faction which an exchange of pistol balls is suppo
sed to communicate; a “message" was delivered
from a friend of the ol,Jurate and indignant parent
to a diAinguits:hed nobleman, the husband of one
of the ladicc whose honor was supposed to be im
plicated by the transaction. "A meeting" took
place, happily without serious consequences. A
considerable time elapsed before a reconciliation
took placet and that event was, we believe, the
result of accident. .-Sus is Tnim6" has ever since
been the reigning favourite in the most DI sin yells
circles, and is invariably introduced en "Bridal oc•
casion add but to this, that it is sung by Mrs.
Wood and another cause of its universal populari
ty will be discovered.
Tilt: father of the bride, happening to hear the
paizire music of .`Sac IS Tl/I E, " took up the
nalLad, and ca.:tin:,-his eyes over the poetry,became
ntrccted, that his carriage was ordered, aid he
returned hoate—that night a letter of forgivenesa
was fonsanded to his daughter.
Sim is thine, the word is spoken:
Hand to hand and heart to heart,
Thou.4ll all other ties ha broken,-
Time these bonds shall never part.
Thua has taken her in gladness
Fro© the altar's holy shrine;
Oh! reinr:n!)er in hrr sadnes4,
nc is thine 21)t1 only thine
la 51 , fair a temple never
soy ,
Ati77.lt of ill can hope to come,
Go NI will strive, and striving ever
Make s.n. pure a shrine its home;
Each the others love possessing,
Say that care should cloud that brow,
She will be to thee a blessing,
And a Silidd to her be thou.
2.)
raw., - rut Tor'(; LADY'S FItIF.ND
Behaviour to Gentlemen.
Since the customs of society have awarded to
man the privileze of making the first advance to
wards matrimony, it is the safest and happiest way
for woman to leave the matter entirely in his
hands.. She should be so educated as to consider,
th it the great end of existence, preparation for
eternity. may be equally attained in married or
siit2le and that no union, but the most perfect
on--;is at all d e Matrimony should be con
sider-d as an incident in life, which, if it comp at
all, must couch- without any contrivance of yours,
and therefore you may safely put aside all thoughts
of it, till some one forces the subject upon your
notice, by professions of a particular interest in
For those who lice in the country. whet. morn-
ing calls are rare, and personi must go 'a long dis
tance to make them, it would be quite out of
place to refuse them; but, in a city, it is perfectly
proper to reserve to yourself those precious hours,
by saying you aro engaged.. Whcn gentlemen
are received in the morning, they should be shown
at once into the common sitting-room, and their
visit should be shared with the rest of the family:
this saves the embarressment of taken the visit
wholly to yourself, and gives you abetter opportu
nity of judging of character, by seeing them dif
ferently drawn out towards the various members
of your Family. Much may be inferred from - the
manner of behaving to your parents, and from the
treatment of the little children; if a person appear
to advantage in these relations, the acquaintance
prospers all the better for such domestic influences;
far better than it would, if you were shut up togeth
er in the hest parlor, with nothing to do but to get
over your embarrassment and mako conversation.
As to the propriety of receiving invited guests
?a a room apart fro:a the rest of the family, that
must be determined by the customs of the place
you live in, and the wishes of your parents. It
never seems to me a desirable thing. The spirits
of young people are ofton so high, that they are
carried away by them, and commit indiscretions
for which they are afterwards very sorry,nnd which
the presence of elder friends would have prevent-
ed. . I would have children on such friendly terms
with their parents, that they should regard a moth
er's presence as no restraint upon their innocent
merriment, only as a weletime regulator, to save
them from extremes that they would themselves
condemn, in a cooler moment.
" tt .
COOlsl if uf ionid Convention.
Remarks of Mr. Dunlop
We take the following extracts from the remarks
of Mr. DuNr.or, on the motion to print Mr. Inger
ctioncering report, ou the 23d ult.
"There is one more reason, Mr. Prtsi•
dent, why I should have no objection to tn•
dulge the gentleman from the county, in the
promulgation of this report, and ,that is, sir,
that I should be glnd to see the gentleman
show himself otal: in the two, very'Oistinct
political attitudes which he has certainly
occupied within the last few years. That
, rontlernari and I had the honor to sit once
in the New York Tariff convention, and he
here took a distinouished position, as his
talents and acquirements must always necos•
sarily place him in. There that gentleman
charmed us all with the soundness of his
views, the beauty of their developement in
11:41. very able-address, of which he was, to
some 'considerable extent, the author.—
There, sir, he sang the sweetest notes of the
nightingale upon all the sound principles of
protection. (Mr. Ingersoll here said, stnil-
ing, there was nothing about banks, sir.)—
Well, sir, said Alr. Dunlop, may bp there
was not, but there was so much said by the
gentleman in favor of the Tariff, and so well
said, that I !levee fair right to conclude that
ho was in favor of a sound currency, and
the utmost facility of exchange,and the best
means of preserving both.
I thuilc, sir, if I am not mistaken, and if I
am I hope the gentleman will correct me,
ns to facts, that he was so exceedingly de.
voted to all these great interests, that he
went to Washington as agent of the friends
of domestic industry to aid their cause be
lore the Congress of the United States; and
indeed I have heard, Mr. ['resident, that in
s ardour to serve the friends of the mane
icturing interests, that he actually, to ren
or his efibris more effective, dressed hi rnsel
la suit of homespun. In this latter particu
ir, however, said %Ir. I should by nu
leans wish to be understood as positive, bu
I I may venture to say that I am fully awa'r°
that the gentleman had made ample ar
rangements for procuring it. If I am in
correct, I appeal, sir, to the gentleman, in
hopes that he will kindly put me right.—
(Hero Mr. Ingersoll smiled very, compla
cently, but made no reply.) -
Sir, I said (continued Mr. D.) that I wish
ed this Report to go out, for the purppose of
enabling the gentleman to exhibit himself to
his constituents in the several positions he
may have found it suitable to assume, during
his political career I have read somewhere
in PhysiologiCal works, Mr. President, that
Nib human frame_undergoes a total change,
hcdy and breeches, sir, every seven years.
I don't read a very great deal, sir, and I
can't undertake to be very positive, but I
think it is seven years. It may be more,
hut I'll take it to be a term of seven years
in which a man's frame undorioes an en
tire cltinge; the whole materia4Of his shy
sieal syetom is revolutionized; the old mat
ter, sir, down to the very bones, - passes off,
and the waste is supplied by a new deposite,
This is ascertained, sir, I understand, by
fettling little pigs on tnadder, or some such
olouring matter, and watching the progress
n'the color infused into the bones when the
lido animal is killed. The precise color
o'the political opinions of our friend from
t.e county, some eight or nine years ago, I
ci not exactly undertake to assert; bat I
fink, sir, (said Mr. D. inquisitively, and
trning to Mr. I.) you held office about that
me, under Mr. Adams. Well, Mr. Presi
ent, it is discovered on the death of these
Me pigs, that in precisely seven years they
ndergo a complete revolution and become
aw pigs entirely. Thus, Mr. President, I
a it is with the pigs and the madder, suit is
mb men--I mean some men and heir
pli ics. They become dyed, sir, not only
ainvery distinguished Senator, on a very
dstnguisited occauion said, dyed not only
o wool, but actually in their bones; and
sir, this color works out about every
n years, along with the osseous matter
hich it gives the tinge!"
On Monday the sth, Mr. Manzarrit,of the
City of Philadelphia, a' violent and bitter WHIG
MASON, conceiving himself and his constituents
to have been unnecesarily alluded to by Mr. SIT.-
YENS, took occasion, in the coures lac a long and
abusive reply, to drag in some of Mr. M'Sittaar's
votes whilst n member of the Legislature. We
subjoin a rough sketch of Mr M'Sherry's reply.
Remarks of Mr. MeSherry,
On an amendment offered to the 4th Sec. of the
Ist Article of tho Constitution, on the Bth inst :
Mr. CHAIRMAN-1 am in favor of the
amendment under consideration, viz: "to
have the number of Representatives to be
fixed by the Legislature,to be not more than
one hundred nor loss than sixty, to be ap
portionol on the principles now adopted."
ft will readily be-perceived by this time, if
we may judge from the votes on the articles
passed on in Committee of the Whole, that
the Convention aro disposed to make few,
if any amendments to the present Constittn.
tion. flow the, shall determine on the re
maining articles, is now difficult to decide.
Mr. Chairman,—While this article was
before the Committee, on an amendment to
increase the number of Representatiess.to
one hundred and jive, and on an amendment
to that amendment to limit the number of
Representatives from any. City or County to
six, the gentleman from Philadelphia (Mr.
Mencurrit) supposing himself personttlly
attacked by my Colleague and the gentle.
man from Franklin (Mr. Dermot") in their
remarks on said amendment, in vindicating
himself from that supposed attack, fell into
the same error which he so 'strongly con
derimed in others, by refering to the course
of members in past transactions in the Le
gislature. In this he has not followed the
golden rule of "doing to others as he would
that others should do unto him." The gen
timer; has introduced n new rule into the
Convention, by refering to my name and
votes while a member of the Legislatirre
some ten or twelve years ago; having done
so,I fuel myself called on to explain the prin•
ciples and reasons which governed me in re
lation to those votes.'
1 was a member of the Legislature for
several years, and during that time in the
usual course of business gave many votes on
the many various subjects which came before
the Legislature; and I
am happy to find that
amongst them all, the gentleman can only
discover three(th find fault wrth. Why 1
have been singled out by him, I cannot tell;
took no part in the debate on, those emetic!.
'bents; 1 Med both against the nmundment
offered by the gentleman fOrn;;McKean, and
the amendment to that amendment offered
by my colleague. My colleriftiand myself
are not• bound by instructions to pursue the
same course upon all matters; our constitu
ents expect that each of us will do what he
believes to be right and proper, and they re
quire no more. But as I have been thus .
called on to render an account of mv course
as a member of the Legislature on some par.
fibular questions, by the indulgence of the
committee I will cheerfully do it.
The first vote called in queotion by the
gentleman, is thriven the subject of the pub.
lie Improvements. The charge is that I
voted against the great System.of Internal
Improvements, being then a member (us the
gentleman called it in derision) of the Im.
provement county of Adams. 1 answer,
freely, that I did vote on that question and
against the improvements as they were then
in contemplation. Arid, Mr. Chairman, 1
will give my reasons for so voting.
My constituents of the county of Adams
Were favorable to improvements; but they
conceived the hotter plan to be,to have them
made by Incorporated Companies, the State
to lend them aid by taking. a part of the
Stock. They did make turnpikes at a very
gittatexpene through their County, and so
did the other Southern Counties alluded to
by the gentleman, at their own expense,not
at the expense of the Commonwealth. They
made turnpike roads to their nearest market;
the only one to which the State lent any aid
was the one leading in the direction of our
own Metropolis, the City of Philadelphia—
( repeat it, my constituents were not oppos.
ed to Internal Improvements; but they did
not wish to see the State plunged into a great
amount of debt. and thcught that this night
be avoided by proceeding in the way I have
suggested. .They thought it was but just
and right, that those whose lands would be
enhanced in value by the works passing
through them, and those upon whom they
would confer the greatest benefit, should as
sist in their construction.
In addition to these reasons, during the
session of 1.25-8, the representatives of the
county of Adams, of whom the person who
now addressee you was one, voted against
the Bill for the commencement of a Canal to
be called the "Pennsylvania Canal," at the
expense of the State, and the rensons of that
vote will he explained by the "Protest"which
myself and others put upon the Journal of
the House against thepassage of „that Bill,
which is as follows:
"The undersigned avail themselves of the
rule of the [louse which permits any merri' •
ber to place on, the journals the reasons for
his vote, and 'Under' this rule they offer the
following reasons for their votes against the
bill entitled "An act to provide fir the corn-
mencernent of a Canal to be constructed itt
he expense 'of the State, and to be styled
ho "Pennsylvania Canal."
"They ate aware that a system of internal
mprovement, which Would have for its oh.
pet the connectiou•of the Susquehanna. with
he Allegheny, would afford facilities for the
nterchatige of products and commodities,
hat would he highly. beneficial to the in-
tereqta of the State: and while they,readily
acknowledge the vast and magnificent prim-
pests which are presented in the prosecution
of a great system of Internal Improvement,
that would link the east to the west; by
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communication of the kind adverted to,thei -
never can give their assent to the 'exiiendi.
tore of the public funds in 'a project ofdoubt.
ful utility. The undersigned had anticipa ?
ted, that when a course of measures Witr" . ;
about to be commenced by he Legislature,
which looked to futurity, and pledged the
interests not only of the present generation,
hu! of posterity, that no step would have
been taken until all the information was ob
tained which could be had upon the subject.
With a view to procure the information re
quisite to the location of the route ofa Ca
nal between the Eastern and Western wa
ters, the Legislature at its last session ab
thoiized the appointment of a Board of •
Canal Commissioners, for the purpose of
ascertaining the different routes and their
practicability from actual surveys. In the •
prosecution of their laborious duties 55,01.10
of the funds of ,the State have been neces
sarily expended tlf The information acquired
by this board, in relation to the several
routes directed to be surveyed, has not yet
been spread before the Legislature; end the
undersigned deem it the highest impolicy to
compromit the State in a matter or such
immense imporianoe to the interests of the
community, without having all the light
which could possibly be shed upon the.sub
ject.
"Another reason which influenced the
undersigned in the votes which they gave,
resulted from the circumstance, that no in.;
formation was afliirded to the House by
which the amount requisite to the comple
tion of the whole line of Canal could be
known, and no • statement was rendered Of
the means that would be resorted to, to meet
the expenditure. The undersigned believe
it to be due to themselves and their constit
uents
.that the entire extent of the pledge of
the State, in the measures about to be adopt
ed, and thecmode by which this pledge is te:.
be redeemed, should .bave been spread be.
tore them and the people.
"A resolution ofilired to the House, hay
ing for iti''object the ascertainment of the
proposed expenditure and the means neces
bary to be adopted to meet it,was-refused to
he considered by the friends of the bill, and
thus all information was withheld .upon a
subject of such vital importance to the inte . -
rests'of the community. This information
was the more necessary et this time, inns
muell as in voting for this bill we are pledg.
ing the present and future resources of the
State in favor of a course of measures which
must necessarily result in the expenditure
of millions. The present amount of._ the
State Debt leaves no other course for . the
Legislature to pursue in raising the requi
site sum, but by loan or taxation; and even
lithe former is resorted to 2 -•it must evertu-
Idly result in the latter. in the present de
pressed state of the Agricultural inter e sts,
the undersigned believe it to be highly im
politic to adopt a system of measures, in the
prosecution of which it will become necessa
ry to resort to means for raising the sum ex
pended, which must operate with severity
on the yeomanry of the country; and the un
dersigned conceives that the interests of '
Society are best promoted by avoiding eve
ry pleasure which may have a tendency to
embarrass that interest on which every other •
depends forsiipport. 'The undersigned also
believe that the river Susquehanna is cepa- •
We of bein4 improved so as to be. made safe
and easy for an ascending and descending
navigation. • To adopt the language of the
Society for the promotion of Internal Im
provement:the rivers of Pennsylvania, res
tored to their proper estimationovill become
the surest means by which all the citizens
of the Commonwealth will he made parta
kers in the great State work about to be en
tered upon.
"The sum 0f530,000 having been appro
priated by an act of the last Legislature for
the improvernen . t . of the Susquehannah be
Columbinupd Northumberland, only
one-third of whial has yet been expiended a . - _
the undersigned believe it to be a' waste.. : OV
the resources of the State, to constritot,:e.A.
Canal along the margin of that river, tie-;
tween the Juniata and the Swatara, where
few obstacles are :present to a perfect nevi- . • 7
gatioo.. The natural channel of the river
offiirds fhcilities to navigation both in cheap- . •;.
ness and celerity, which give it as the un
dersigned conceive when improved by "Le-
gislative bounty," a decided superiority over
transportation by Canals. Hitil the bill
which has passed the House proposed the
commencement of a canal between the ens
tern & western waters,located from the high
est navigable •points on the streams to be
• connected, so as to form a navigation where
none now existeOhe bill would then have .
afforded to the cilinsideration of the House
some justification for so large an expendi- '
ture of the public money. .
"The present bill instead of adding facili
ties to the navigation of the Susquehanna,
interposes obstacles in the way of it, and
sanctions a' principle in Legislation which
the undersigned conceive will be injurious
in the best interests of the whole Susque
hannrt country,and that it is authorizing, he
erection of dams, even to the obstructiontf
the navigation. The undersigned are aware
that there is a provision which, in case of
such obstruction, compels the construction .
of a channel equal to the natural one. This
the undersigned believe to be entirely inetE- .
cient,nnd they have no hesitancy in
that in every instance to be found in o ur,
statute books, in which there has been any •
legislation in relation to the Susquehanna.
the Legislature - has, with the most. sempel.
ous care and under the severest penalties, •
provided against the erection of dame, or
any other devices to impede the navigation.
"This bill, nn the contrary,degraiitiethef
Susquehannah to a mere feeder ofa romp.
ble Canal, and undertakes to authorize
pedinienta to this great highway or nature,
opon which the proliosta *fan *aim* fn.
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