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4 DAILY, BY SNOWDEN & THORNTON. A*» (FOB THE COCKTBT,) Olf TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS AND SATURDAYS. COBBER or FAIKFAX-STBEET ABB PBIBTEBS* AlUT. Daily Paper, g8—Country Paper, 2,5,per annum. . MONDAY, JULY IT, 1826. From the Constitution'll Whig. ORATION. Why this numerous assemblage— this solemn and melancholy procession—these habiliments of woe? Do they betoken the fall ol some mighty Autocrat, some imperial master who hath “bestrid the C3rtl. like a Colossus,” and vjiose remains are followed to the grave by the tools and minions of his power? Are they the tokens of a ceremonious woe—a mere mockery of feeling? Or, are they the spontaneous offer ings of gratitude and love? What mighty man has fallen in Israel, and why has Virginia cloth ed herself in mourning?—The tolling of your dismal bell, and the loud, hut solemn discharge of artidery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings—THOMAS JEFFERSON to longer lives. That.glorious orb n hich has for so many years given light to our footsteps, has set in death. The patriot—the statesinatf —the philosopher—the philanthropist has sunk into the gra'e—Virginia mourns over his re mains and her harp is hung upon the willows. Why need I say more? There is a language in this spectacle which -speaks more eloquence than tongue can titter.—This is the testimony ofa well spent life—the tribute of a nation’s gratitude Look on this sight ye rulers of the earth, and learn from it the lessons of wisdom. ■Ye ambitious and untamed spirits, who seeklthe attainment of glory by a scaffolding formed of human suffering, behold a people in tears over the funeral bier of their benefactor, and if true glory be your object, be guided by the light of mis rAam|>ii. In pronouncing the eulogy of tlie dead, my countrymen, 1 have no bloodstained banner to present—no battles to recount—no sword or helmet to deposit on bis hearse. I have to en twine a civic wreath which philosophy has wov en and patriotism has hallowed. 1 he achieve ments of the warrior in the Held, attract -he at tention of mankind and fasten on the memory,1 while the labours of the civilian too often pass unnoted and unknown. But not so with that man whose death we this day mourn. The re sults of his policy are exhibited in all around— although his sun has sunk below the horizon ol this world, vet hath it left a train of light which shall never he extinguished. At the com mencement of his successful career, lie manifes ted the same devotion to the rights of man, w hich he evinced in all his after lile—at an early dav he so distinguished himself as the firm and fearless asserfor of the rights of Colo nial America, as to draw upon him the frow ns of the Royal Governor—and had already anti cipated the occurrence of the period when the colonies should be elevated to the condition of free, sovereign and independent States.—Hav ing drawn his principles fiomthe fountain ot a pure philosophy, he was prepared to assail the slavish doctrine that man is incapable of self government,and to aid in building upon its overthrow that happy system under which it is our destiny to live. On the coming of that tre mendous storm which for eight years desolated our country, Mr. Jefferson hesitated not—halted not. Born to a rich inheritance—destined to the attainment of high distinction under the re-’ gal government—courted by the aristocracy of the land, he adventured,with the single motive of advancing the cau«.e of his country and of hu man freedom, into that perilous contest, throw ing into the scale his life and foitune as of no value. The devoted friend of man, he had studi-1 ed his lights in the great volume ot nature, and saw with rapture the era near at hand, when those rights should be proclaimed Sc the world aroused from the slumber of centuries. The season was approaching lor the extension ot the empire of reason and philosophy, and the disciple of Locke and of Sidney rejoiced at its approach. Among his fellow labourers, those devoted champions of liberty, those brilliant lights which shall forever burn, he stood con spicuous. But how iranscendantly bright was that halo of glory by which he was surrounded on flie 4th of July 1776! Oh day ever precious in the recollection of freemen! now rendered doubly so by the recollection that it was the birth-day of a nation, and the last of him who had conferred on it immortality. Yes! illustri ous man! it was given thee to live until the ad vent of a nation’s jubilee—-thy disembodied spirit was then upborne by the blessings of ten millions of freemen, and the day and hour of thy renown was the day and hour of thy disso lution. How inseperable is now the connexion between that glorious epoch and this distin guished citizen! Does there nut seem to have been an especial providence in his death? The sun of that day rose upon him, and the roar of artillery and the hosannas of a nation sounded jn his ears the assurances of his immortality. So precious a life required a death so glorious. Who now shall set limits to his fame? On the annual recurrence of that glorious day, when with pious ardour millions yet unborn shall breathe the sentiments contained in the cele brated Declaration of Independence—when the fires of Liberty shall be kindled on every hill fc shall blaze in every valley, shall not the name <jf Jefferson be pronounced by every lip and written on every heart? shall not the rejoicings of that day and the recollections of his death cause the smile to chase away the tear and the tear to becloud the smile? But not to the fu ture millions of these happy States, shall his fame be confined—that celebrated State-paper will be found wherever is to be found the abode of civilized man:—sounded in the ears of ty rants, they shall tremble on theirthrones-while man, so long the victim of oppression, awakes from the sWp of ages and hursts his chains. The day is rapidly approaching, a prophetic tongue has pronounced it,‘to some nations soon er, to others later, but finally to all, w hen it will be made manifest, that the mass of mankind have not oeen born with saddles on their backs, nor a favoured few booted and spurred ready to ride them legitimately, bv the grace ol God.’ Already has this great truth aroused the one half ol'ihis continent from the lethargy in which it has so long reposed. Already are the pacins of liberty chaunted from the Gulf of Mexico to the Rio de la Plata,and its altars are erecting on the ruins ol a superstitious idolatry. A mightv spirit walks abroad upon the earth, which shall in its onward march overturn prin cipalities and powers, and trample thrones and sceptres in the dust. And when the happvera shall arrive for the emancipation ol nations hastened on as it will be by the example of A merica, shall they not resort to the Declaration of ourlndependenre as the charter of their rights and will not its author he hriied as the benefac tor of the redeemed. But my countrymen, this stale paper is not the only testimonial which he has left of his de votion to the rights ol msfn. W here should 1 stop, were I to recount the multiplied and vari ous acts of his life all directed to the security of those rights. The statute book of tins state, almost all that is wise in policy or sanctified by j justice bears the impress of his genius and fur-j nishesevidence of that devotion. I choose to present him to you in the light of a mighty re former. He was horn to overturn systems and pull down establishments, lie had a more dif ficult task to accomplish than the warrior in the embattled field. He had to conquer man and bring him to a true knowledge of his own digniu | He hud to encounter prejudices Ijccome vi:n ru ble by age,—to assail errors in its strong plates and to expel it even from its fastnesses. He advanced to the charge with a hold and reck less intrepid it v. but with a calculating coolness. The declaration of which 1 have just spoken had announetd the great truth that man was j capable of self-government,but it still remained for him to achieve a conquest over an error which was sanctified by age, and fortified by the prejudices of mankind. lie dared to proclaim the important truths “That Almighty God had created the" mind free; that all attempts to in fluence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget hypocrisy and meanness, and ale a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and v f mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who being them* selves but fallible and uninspired men, have as sumed dominion over lilt faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such en deavoring to impose them on others, hath es tablished and maintained false religions over the greater part of the world and through all time;” “That truth is great and will prevail if left to herself—that she is the proper and suffi cient antagonist of erre*, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interpositiofi disarmed of her natural weapons, free argu ment and debate, errors ceasing to be-danger* ous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”—This is the language of the Hill estab lishing religious freedom, and is to Toe found on our Statute Hook: how solemn and sublime and ■ how transcendantly important, are the truths • which it announces to the world. What but • his great and powerful genius, could have con- j lemplatcd the breaking asunder, those bonds in i which the conscience had been bound Jot- cen turies? \Vho but the ardent and devoted fi icr.d of man would have exposed himself to the thun der and denunciation of the church throughout all Christendom by breaking into its very sanc tuary and dissolving its connexion with govern ment? If lie consulted the page of history he found that the church establishment exercising unlimited control over the conscience, and un locking at its pleasure the 'cry gates of heaven to the faithful devotee, had in all ages governed the world—that kings had been made by its thunders to tremble on their thrones, and that thrones had been shivered by the lightnings of its wrath. In casting his eyes over the face of the globe lie beheld it is true the mighty spirit of Protestantism walking on the waters, hut confined ami limited in its empire, and even its garments dyed in the blood of the martyrs.— Over the rest of the world he beheld the reli gion of the meek and blessed Redeemer, con verted into a superstitious right and locked up in a gloomy and ferocious mystery. The sen tence of the terrible Inquisitor sounded in his* ears, followed by the clank of chains and the groans of the victim. If he looked in the di rection from whence^the sound proceeded lie saw the fires of the auto de fe consuming the agonized body of the offender, and thus finishing the last act of this horrible tragedy. He felt the full force of this picture, and regardless of per sonal danger, set about the accomplishment of the noble purpose of setting free the mind. He who had so much contributed to the unbinding of the hands of his countrymen, would have left his work unfinished il he had not also unfetter ed their consciences. True he had in all this great work able coadjutors, who, like himself, had adventured all for their country—hut he was the great captain who arranged the forces and directed the assault. Let it then be hence forth proclaimed to the world that man’s con science was created free—that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions being responsible therefor only to his God—that it is impious in mortal man, whe-1 thcr clothed in purple or in lawn, to assume the j judgment seat—that the connexion between j church and state is an unholy alliance, and the , fruitful source of slavery and oppression—and ( let it be dissolved. What an imperishable mo nument has Mr. Jefferson thus reared to lus memory, and how strong are his claims to our gratitude. When from every part of this ex tended republic the prayers and thanksgivings of countless thousands shall*tiscend to the throne of grace, each bending at his own altar, and worshipping his Creator after his own way, shall not every lip breathe a blessing on his name, and every tongue speak forth his praise? Yes, he was born & blessing to his country, and in the fullness of time, shall becotae a blessing to mankind. He was, indeed, a precious gift— a most beloved reformer. Shall we not, then, while weeping over hisdoss, offer thanks fo the giver of every perfect gift, for having permitted him to live. Hut my countrvmen we have still further rea son for the deepest gratitude. He had not yet finished'his memorable efforts in the cause of human liberty—the Temple had been reared, but it was yet exposed to violent as«aults from without—those principles which in former a ges had defeated the hopes of man, and had overthrown republics, remained to he hunted out, exposed and guarded against. 1 he most powerful of these was the concentration and perpetuation of wealth in the hands of particu lar families, and the creation thereby of an <fier weeniug aristocracy. The fatal influence of this principle had been felt in all ages and in all countries. The feelings of pride and haughti ness which wealth is so so well calculated to engender, and the homage which mankind arc unhappily so much disposed to render it, caus es the perpetuation of large fortunes in the hands of families, the most fearful antagonist to human liberty. Marcus Crassus had said that the man who aspired to rule a Republic, should not he content until he had mastered wealth ; sufficient to maintain an army—and Julios Cx sur paved the way to the overthrow of Rom^n liberty by the distribution, from his inexhausti ble stores, of largesses to tlu* people. Mr. Jef ferson saw there lore the great necessity for re formation in our municipal code, and the act, abolishing entails and that regulating descents are in all their essential features, the offspring of his well constituted intellect. Me has acted throughout on the great principle of the equal- \ ity of mankind, and his every effort has been | directed to the picservation of that equality a- ; mnng lus countryqien. now powenui in us ^ operation is our descent law in producing this effect. Founded on the everlasting principles of justice, it distributes among a!! his children the fruits of the parent’s labor. The first born is ho longer considered the chosen of the Lord, hut nature asserts her rights and raises the last to an equality with the first. Thus it is that the spirit of a proud independence, so auspi cious to the* durability of our institutions, is en gendered in the bosoms of our citizens. Thus it is that we are under the influence of an agra rian law in effect, while nature instead of being \iolntcd is protected, and industry-instead of being suppressed is excited by new stimuli.— : The great lawgiver of Sparta in vain sought to perpetuate the principle of equality among the citizens of that renowmd Republic, by various : measures, all of which ultimately failed—but ! here is a measure which canntu fail—a measure j which depends not upon veneration for the j character of any one man,but lays hold of the j affections, and records its own perpetuity in the great volume of nature—a measure which will every day more conspicuously developc its beauties—one without which the blood shed in the revolution would have been shed in vain—* without which the glories of thut struggle would Jade away, or exist but as another proof of man’s incapacity for self-government. What more shall I say of it? May I not call it that great measure, which to our political. like the sun to our planetary system, imparts light and heal, unveils all its beauties and manifests its strength. 'Fell mo then ye destinies t-hat con troul the future, say is not this man’s fame in scribed in adamant! Say men of the present age, ye lovers of liberty, ye shining lights from amid the gloom of the world—say does Virgin ia claim t'40 much when she pronounces her Jefferson wiser than the lawyers of antiquity? Tell me then men of America, have you not lost your father, your benefactor, voty best friend? And yon the men of other countries, whoie the liglu^P his example is now' but dimly seen—you who constitute the salt of the j earth, will you not kindle your lamps in the | mighty blaze of his fame and distribute the blessings of his existence around you/ Here I might stop. The cause of this mourn ful procession is explained. The picture might j he considered as finished. His claim to the j gratitude of mankind is made manifest, and his title to immortality is established. Hut his la bors did not here cease—I have still to exhibit him to you in other lights than those in which wc have regarded him—to present other claims to your veneration and gratitude. Passing over those incidents which history has already re corded, let us regard him while in that station which I now fill more by the kindness of the public than Irom any merit of my own—we here recognize in him the able vindicator of insulted America against the sarcasms of European phi losophy. Indulging in the visions of a fallaci ous theory, it was attempted to be proved that the flush and glow which nature assumed on the other side of the Atlantic, was converted on this continent into the cadaverous aspect ol disease and d^encracy—that while she walked abroad over the face of Europe in all her beau tiful proportions, here she hobbled on crutches Sc degenerated into a dwarf. How successful lie threw back this slander upon our calumnia tors let the world decide. His Notes on V irgi tiia will ever hear him failhlul witness. Slan ders upon nations make the deepest and most lasting impression. They fall not on one man, hut a whole people, and if not refuted, tend to sink them on the scale of existence. If, under any circumstances, they are to he deprecated; how much more are they to be so, when pub lished against a nation not even in the gristle ol manhood, unknown to the mass ol mankind, and struggling to he free. Such vas the condi tion of America at that day. Shut out from free intercourse with Europe by the monopoliz ing spirit of the parent state, she had remain ed unknown to the world, and was regarded as an extensive wild, within whose bosom the fires of ginius and of intellect had not as yet been kindled. Mr. Jefferson saw then the injury which she would sustain if they remained un refuted. Vigilant at his post and guardful of the interests of these Slates, he encountered the most distinguished of the philosophers ot Eu rope^ his victory was complete. It was answer enough for him to have said, what in substance he did say, that in war wc had produced a Washington, in physicks a Franklin, and in as tronomy a Rittenhouse,—and if his triumph had not been esteemed complete, might we not add with the certainty of success, that in philosophy and politics, America had produced a Jefferson. In all the various stations which he after terwards filled, we find him laboring unceasing ingly for the good of his country. Having won by his virtues and talents the confidence of Washington he was called to preside over the Department of State. In this station he vindi cated the rights of America against the sophis try of the European Cabinets, and gave proof ol that skill in diplomacy for which he will be dis tinguished through all future ages. When the future statesman shall look for a model from which to form his style of diplomatic writing, will he not rease his search, and seize with ari dity on that, the offspring of the Secretary's pen in his correspondence with Hammond and Ge net. Called at length by the voice of the peo ple to the Presidency of the United States, he furnished the. model of an administration con ducted on the purest principles of Republican ism. He sought not to enlarge his powers by construction, but referring every thing to his conscience, made that the standard of constitu tional interpretation. Regarding the govern ment in its true and beautiful light of a confe deration of States, he could not be drawn from his course by any of those splnidid conceptions which shine but to mislead. He extinguished S3:’,000,oro of the rational debt—enlarged the boundaries of our territorial jurisdiction by the addition of regions more extensive than our original posscssons—overawed the Barbary powers, and preserved the peace of the nation amidst the tremendous convulsions which then agitated the world. I will dwell no longer on this fruitful topic, nor indulge my feelings.— Paitv spirit is buried in his grave, and 1 will not disinter it. The American people will as one man look with admi’ation on his character, and dwell with affectionate delight-over those bright incidents in his life to which I bare al reaay auuacu. Thus then, rny countrymen, in the f>9th year of his age lie terminated his political career, and went into the shades of retirement at Monti cello. I5ut unlike the politicians of other days, who had fled front, the cares Sc anxieties of pub lic lift*, that retirement was not inglorious, lie still lived for his counted, and the world. Let that beautiful building devoted to the Sciences, the last of his labors, reared under his auspices and cherished by hi., care, testify to this. How choice and how delightful this the last fruit of his bearing! How lasting a monument will it be to bis memory! It will be, we may fondly hope, the perpetual nursery of those great prin ciples which it was the business of his life to inculcate. The youth of Virginia and the youth of our sister States, to use his own beautiful language, “ will bring hither their genius to*be kindled at our fine.” “ The good old Dominion, the blessed mother of us all, will then raise her head with pride among the nations.” When history shall at some future day, come to draw his character, to what department shall she assign him? Shall she encircle his brow with the wreath ol civic worth—or shall Philo sophy weave a garland of her own? lie is equal ly dear to all the sciences—In mournful proces sion they have repaired to the Toinb where bis mortal remains arc inurned and hallowed the spot—Yes hallowed be the spot where he rests from his labors—Wave after wave may roll by, sweeping in its resistless course countless ge nerations from the face of the earth, yet si all the resting place of Jefferson be hallowed— Like Mount Vernon, Monticello shall catch the eye of the way-farer and arrest his course— There shall he draw the inspirations of liberty, aud learn those great truths which nature des-' lined him to know. Is not then this man's life most beautifully consistent? Trace him from the period of his earliest manhood to the hour of his final disso lution, and does not his ardor in the prosecu tion of the great cause of human rights, excite your admiration and enlist your gratitude?— .May it not be said that he has lived only for the good of others? Look upon him in the Iasi stage of his#exislcncc—liul a few days before his death he exults in the happiness of his country and the full confirmation of his labors —With the prospect of death before him—suf fering under a cruel disease, lie offers up all im pressive prayer for the good of mankind—when speaking of the approaching Jubilee, in writ ing to the mayor o! Washington, he says, “May it be to the world what I believe it will be; the signal of arousing men fo burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and su perstition had persuaded them to bind them selves, and to assume the blessings of free go vernment”—And it shall be that signal—A flood of light has burst upon the world, and the Juggernauts of superstition and the gloom of ignorance shall melt in its brightness. Will you then lock upon him my countrymen, in the last moments of his existence. Shall I make known to you his fond concern for you and your posterity when the hand of death pressed heavily upon him? Learn then, that he dwelt on the subject of the University—por trayed the blessings which it was destined to diffuse, and forgetful of his valuable services, often urged his physician to leave his bed side lest his class might suffer in his absence. One other theme dwell on his lips until they were., motionless—it was the 4th of July—He often expressed the wish to die on that day—On the 3d, so says my correspondent, he raised his lan guid head and said “this is the 4th of July,” and the smile of contentment played upon his lips—Heaven heard his prayers and crowned his wishes—Oh precious life! Oh glorious death! He has left to us my countrymen a pre cious legacy—His last words were “I rcsigfl myself to my God, and my child to my coun try”—And shall not that child of his age—that only surviving daughter—the solace of his dy ing hour, be fostered St cherished by a grateful country? Thus has terminated, in the 84th year of his age, the life of one of the greatest and best of men—“Ilis weary sun hath made a golden set.” Let the rulers of nations profit by his example—An example which points the way to the temple of true glory, and proclaims to the statesman of every age and of every tongue Re just and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country’s, Thy God’s and truth.— Then shall thy lifeless body sleep in blessings— and the tears of a nation water thy grave. Let his life be an instructive lesson also to us, my countrymen. Let us teach our children to reverence his name, and even in infancy to lisp his principles. As one great means of per pptuating freedom, let tlic annual recurrence of the clay of our nation’* birth be ever hailed wPh rapture. Is it not stamped with the seal of the Divini ty? Hour wonderful are the means by which he, rules the world? Scarcely has the funeral knell of our Jefferson been sounded in our ears, when we are startled by the death bell of another pa triot—his zealous coadjutor in the holy cause of the Revolution—one among the foremost of those who sought his country’s disrnthrallment —of ADAMS, the compeer of his eatly fame— the opposing orb of his meridLff day—the friend of his old age—and his companion to the realms of bliss. They have sunk together in death, and have fallen on the same glorinu., day into that sleep which^ knows no waking. Let not party spirit break the rest of tl.eir slum bets—bullet us hallow their memory for the good deeds they have done—and implore that God who rules the universe, to smile on our country. IMPORTANT DECISION. The additional security afforded in remitting Bank notes through the Post-Office, by cutting them in two, and sending each half hy a diffe: etit mail, lias been rendered doubtful for some time by the notice issued from the Bark of the United States, that no payment would be made of any note of that Bank voluntarily cat into two or more places, unless all the patts of it should be produced. The doubt is now re moved by a decision which gives that certainty to the security contemplated by those who used that mode of remittance. The Democratic Press, contains the opinion of Judge Washington, in the case of Mahtin tv. The Bank U. S. argued at the last October session of the Circuit Court of the United S'.ates, in Philadelphia, upon a statement of facts which set forth, “that the plaintiff was the owner of a number of notes of the Bank of 17. S. amounting in the whole to 8500, which his a gent, after the publication of a notice by the Di rt* t tori, that the Bank would not pay cut notes unless all the parts were produced, divided into halves at Cincinnati,(Ohio,) and forwarded in two parcels by different mails for Philadelphia, one of which parcels never arrived. The de mand of Plaintiff'wgs for the full amount of the notes. The Judge, in his decision, treated the question as if the notice were brought home to the Plaintiff; and decided that, the holder of a Bank note has a legal right to cut it with a view to the security of the debt of which the uote is the best evidence, and that the Bank which is the debtor, cannot by any declaration, however notified, affect the legal rights of its creditor who bar, not assented to the conditions of that declaration. Judge Peters concurred in opinion, and judgment was rendered against the Bank for the full amount of the notes.” From the Baltimore Patriot, July 1?. .HARBORING APPRKN'I ICES. -At the June term of Baltimore ritv court, came on the trial of William K. Mitchell, for harboring two apprentices of Hester Crockett from the 1st of May to the 30;h of June, 1826, inclusive. 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