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Ill THE*YOUNG MOTHER.
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® She stands amidst the glittering crowd,
jfpi ^ vr|ien at grst her sweet cheek glowed,
H§ Even in this very place.
i| The same bright tresses bind her brow,
1® The same rich pearls her hair,
SI Her lip is just as roseate now,
fH Her hands as soft and fair.
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n| As when we saw her first,
fil When in her flash of happiest pride
Eg Upon our eyes she burst;
Bl| And even now she leans, as then,
III Yes^-’tis the very same again,
■ > With every faultless charm.
Yet there’s a change-her eyes are still
P Most beautiful and bright; ^ ^ ^
I Her^voiced sweet, and rich, and low,
fl But ’tis grown more, like a river's flow,
H Then a fountain’s laughing fall.
H
If Still, still she smiles as radiantly,
|| When friends are speaking near:
jj| But in her smile there’s less of glee,
And more oi Diiss sincere.
>Tis not tlie brilliant scene around
That her quiet heart beguiles;
In her pure spirit may be found
The fountain of her smiles.
Now, ever and anon, her eye
Is fixed on vacancy,
And she seems to listen earnestly;
For, ’midst the revelry,
In fancy comes an infant’s wail,
Or its murmuring in its sleep;
And the splendid hall seems cold and pale,
When such visions o’er her Greep.
And though the scene is very fair,
She wearies for her home,
And thinks the hour to take her there
Will never, never come!
She, who once watched the time in pain.
That would too quickly flow,—
Oh, sure she might be gayer then,
But she is happier now!
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
By the British ship Frances, Capt. Leslie, at
Savannah, from Liverpool, London papers to
the 27th of November and Liverpool to the 2Sth,
are received.
Marshal Jourdan died in Paris on the 23d of
November, at the age of 71.
The London Gazette of November 26th, says:
The Indicateur de Bordeaux states that St. Se
bastian has been declared a free port, and that
provisions are abundant in that town, brought
there by French vessels.
Accounts from Madrid state that Bourmont
passed through Merida to embark, and that Don
Carlos was still at Castello Dranco, or in the
environs. Several arrests have taken place at
Madrid amongst the Clergy.
The Foreign market was in the same state as
that of the British; prices nominal as on the 25th
of November.
j Letters trom Home state that the rumored in
tention of Austria to sanction or create an Ita
lian Confederation, had so alarmed the French
Cabinet as to elicit from it a notification to the
Holy See, that in such an event the French Go
vernment would deem it expedient to increase,
the number of its troops in Ancona, and occu
py Civita Vecchia. Great Britain, it is also stat
ed has acquiesced in the policy of this menaced
proceeding.
Liverpool, Nov. 28.—We annex our circular
of 23d inst. to which we beg reference—since
that date we have had more demand for cotton
with a little feeling in the market, and prices ad
vanced a l-4d per lb. from the extreme depres
sion of the previous week. The enquiry yesterday
was, however, more limited, and a greater de
sire to sell was manifested, in consequence of
which the market was again rather languid and
the above advance cannot be considered as ful
ly maintained. The business in the last few
days is estimated at 14.000 bales. New Uplands
8 l-2d a S 3 4d.
100 DOLLARS REWARD.
ON Tuesday morning, between Fredericks
burg and my plantation, in the upper end
of Stafford, a NEGRO MAN, and the'MARE
on which he was riding, both belonging to me,
were stolen by a man who seems to have been
a stranger in this part of the country. When
seen in possession of the Slave and of the Mare,
he was inquiring Ins way to Stafford Court
House. He is described to me as a person be
tween fifty and sixty years of age, with re
markably white hair; his stature stout and well
set. He wore a brownish colored stuff cloak
The ne«£ro is between twenty-five and thirty
years of age, as well as is remembered; stout in
his person, and about five feet ten or eleven tn
- ches high; has a drawling manner of talking,
and appears to be much less sagacious than he
really is. His name is Jack. His dress was a
blue cloth cap, a grey great coat, and his under
clothing drab cloth.
The Mare is a fine large sorrel, without any
spot of white about her, unless perhaps there
may be some few white hairs in the centre of
the forehead, not covering more than the size of
a four-pence-hulfpenny. She is, as well as is :
recollected, going on seven years of age; is re- j
markabiy long in her body; has along tail, and
it is remarkable where it joins the rump. There
may be discerned in the film of one of her eyes
an incision which was made a year or two ago j
to cure the hooks.
One Hundred Dollars Reward will be given for
therecovery of the above Slave and Mare, or in !
the ptoportion of four and two for the recovery of
eiliierJ . , v JN0- TAYLOE LOMAX.
Fredericksburg, Jan. 23, 1834.
J£f" The Whiteman calls himself Ashberrv. !
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ALEXANDRIA MUSEUM !
OPEN, daily, from 10 to 12 o’clock A. M. and j
|from 3io i P. M. jan 24 1
congressional.
/n Senate, Monday, January 27.
Mr FRELINGHUYSEN presented a pet1'
tioa from a number of citizens of Newark', New
Tprsev praying that the deposites of the public
moneys may be restored to the Bank of the
United States.' . , _
On presenting this memorial, Mr. Freling
huysen said:* I have before me, to offer for the
consideration of the Senate, a memorial of the
citizens of Newark, New Jersey, on the subject
of the present agitation of the country. ■ This
document is signed by thirteen hundred and for
ty-one of the citizens of that town, and com
bines the great mass, at least four-fifths, of its
business population. They deplore the lemoval
of the public deposites from the Bank of the
United States, and the consequent breach upon
the credit and derangement of the currency of
the country. r .
This memorial knows no distinction of party:
I find among its numbers many of the hardy
sons of honest labor, who feel this blow most
deeply in the reduced demand and wages of
their industry. For, however visionary specu
latists may reason, a plain man knows that the
value of his indu*try is depreciated by every
act that alarms the credit and confidence in the
money market. There is not a political econo
mist on earth, in the use of his intellectual per
ceptions, but must admit that such a sudden and
violent measure, as the order of the Secretary,
and proceeding from the hand of the Govein
ment, must inflict injury—it is inevitable. Why,
sir, consider, for a moment, the time: w hen a
prosperity prevailed in all the branches of com
merce and trade, without a parallel in this or
any other country—when all the channels of
confidence were full—when enterprise and trade
were strained to their highest pressure—then, to
strike a sudden blow at the great moneyed re
presentative of capital, could not but produce a
crash. The confidence of the country is smit
ten. Men do not know where they stand, or
what may be the coming crisfs.
It is most marvellous, Mr. President, that it
should never have occurred to the Executive,
that his remedy does not and cannot reach the
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gerous agent, and that the President ami Di
rectors deserve all the suspicions and denun
ciations that have so liberally assailed them—
that they are now engaged in meditating all man
ner of terrible designs—“ gorgons, hydras, and
chimeras dire”? Why, sir, do you not see that
the removal of the deposites does not touch the
transgressors? There sits the President of the
Bank~ with his Board of Directors, around the
exchequer .table, as calm, I doubt not, as a sum
mers morning: his salary goes on; his official
functions are uninterrupted; and the Bank itself,
the only object which the general panic has left,
without a concussion or even excitement.
The Executive dreads and condemns the
Bank; and punishes by distracting the country
and distressing his friends. Yes, sir, I have
said that this memorial had no party character
istics about it. 1 wish sincerely that I could so
persuade the Administration and its friends. It
ranges above party—far above it. It assails the
business and the firesides of those, many of
whose names are here, who have stood by the
President in good and evfi report. What mo
tive can they have, or what inducement is there
for any man, to decry his administration, or
embarrass, without good and strong cau-e. his
policy? Sir, they would far rather persuade
him to add another laurel to his well-earned
wreath—not by military victories, but by a no
bler triumph, the self conquest that would pre
vail with him to retrace a step that is so calam
itous to the country.
Mr. President, I know that I shall have the
sympathies of the Senate, when 1 recal to them
the instructions lately transmitted by the Legis
lature of the State which I, in part, have the hon
or to represent. This is a great national ques
tion, of common concern to us all: for these in
structions are multiplying, and call, -certainly
from me, sir, for distinct and respectful notice.
The import of these instructions, I admit, sir,
cannot be mistaken. The terms are unequivocal,
and plain to any apprehension. They instruct
us to sustain, by our votes and influence, the
p/mrsp of the Secretary of the Treasury in the
removal of the deposites. What are the nature
and claims of Legislative instructions? That a
Legislature has the inherent right, legislatively
and detached from their constituents, to direct
the political conduct ofa Senator in Congress,
1 can never subscribe to. Sir, where has such a
right been delegated by the People? A Legis
lature of the State instruct or direct the Senate
of the United States! Why, Mr. President, we
had better change places at once. But where
the resolutions of Legislature can be satisfacto
rily regarded as the clear indication of public
sentiment, deliberate and abiding, I am bound
to hold them, as 1 do hold them, in most respect
ful consideration. And on such an occasion,
where that opinion interfered with my own
judgment and conscience, 1 should promptly
surrender a trust that could no longer be held
in harmony with my constituents. But here,
sir, my embarrassment commences. 1 am not
satisfied that these resolutions are the sure in
dex of decided public sentiment. Sir, you know,
that, for the lu*t five years,.pur political atmos
phere has been very much given to change.—
The wheel is turning now, and, unless I mis
read the language of events that are passing,im
pulses are given to its motions, that will bring
them to a whirl. Now, sir, will it be right to
surrender private convictkms of duty to an in
fluence from this giddy seat of power? I think
not. I am quite conscious of the delicacy of
my position, but I trust that 1 meet it without
fear. 1 will further say, sir, that even where the
opinions /if a State may be well known, occa
sions may arise to a Representative of the Peo
ple, rare I grant—when the emergency is of
that deeply eventful nature—when lie must go
alone, so to speak, in the purity of his own pur
poses, and cast himself, with all his fame and all
the confidence ofhis country, into the crisis, and
sink ctr rise, as success shall crown his intrepid
conduct. I do not pretend that this question of
fers any parallel, or even analogy—nor would
I presume to be equal to its claims. Sir, we
have recently been witnesses, on this floor, to a
most illustrious example of such a noble daring,
of w hich I may not say more, but hand it over
to fill one of the brightest pages in the future
history of these eventful times.
But, Mr. President, the difficulties of my situa
tion are not diminished by the arrival of this me
morial. Here, sir, 1 hold in one hand the voice
of the State Representatives, and in the other,
in louder, deeper tones, the voice of the People
—and, they are antagonists to each other—they
begin to diverge from the very starting point—
what shall we do? Sir, 1 believe I may speak
for my friend and colleague, when I answer, we
will go for the People. There, after all, springs
our power and our responsibilities. We will
meet them there. I have no other course: I
must follow’the lead of my own conscience, with
the consolation that my conduct will be subject
ed to the sober judgment and impartial scrutiny
of a generous People. Sir, I cannot afford to
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lose the confidence of my fellow citizens. It is
a plant of slow growth, and when smitten, sel
dom thrives again. I have not the desperate
resoluteness to forfeit what I hold so valuable.
Vote to justify the rash and ill-considered order
of the Secretary! Sir, I should fear to meet the
disappointed countenance of a grieved an in
jured community—-and worse than all, I should
lose that which no earthly distinction, no voice
! of human praise can repair or supply the re
spect of my own mind. I will cherish that, and
should I fall, it will be with consolations ol which
power cannot deprive me.
At some proper time, Mr. President, I will ask
the indulgence of the Senate, to state briefly the
reasons of my dissent from the opinions of the
Secretary of the Treasury. At present, I will
not interrupt the regular debate, but only ask,
sir, that the memorial may be read and referred
to the Committee on Finance.
RIOTS ON THE LINE OF THE CANAL.
We regret to have to inform our readers that
the account of the pacification of the riot among
the laborers upon the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal, above and below Williamsport (in
Washington county, Md.) turns out to be pre
mature. Since the return of the Hagerstown
volunteers, with a number of the men under ar
rest, fresh and fatal hostilities have broke out,
in the course of which, as appears by the fol
lowing account, a number of lives have been
lost:—Nat. Jnt.
Williamsport, (Md.) January IS.
Since the foregoing event, great commotion
has existed among the hands. Very little work
lias been done, and a state of alarm and war
like preparation has taken place. On Thurs
day Iasi, we are informed, a party ofCorkonians
comitted excesses along the line above this
place, yesterday morning a small party were
seen approaching this place from above, and
were met on the Aqueduct and driven back by
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an uPJJUM 11^ |J<1J \.y vm 111^11 C/UUim j men 111 uirj
town. In tins affray one man was very serious
ly beaten and wounded. The citizens of the
town, with commendable alacrity, soon put
themselves in military ol der, under arms for the
balance of the day, and the greater part of the
night.
This scene was soon followed by another
which resulted in a disastrous battle and seve
ral deaths. A party of Fardouns or Langfords,
consisting of about three hundred men, headed
by intrepid leaders, were announced as ap
proaching from below. Their design, they
stated to be, to pass up the line of the canal to
the upper dam, for the purpose of exhibiting
their strength, and not to commit a breach oi
the peace, unless attacked. They were armed
in part with guns, but principally with helves,
duos, &c. They passed up quietly over the aque
duct and on their way, as we learn, three or
lour hundred more of the same party fell in
to their ranks. At the upper dam, in a field on
tlse other side of MiddlekautPs, they met the
enemy in battle array, drawn up on the top of
a hill, about three hundred in number, and arm
ed. in part, with military weapons.
The information we have is, that the attack
or at least a challenge to the combat, was made
by the latter party. Volleys of shot were ex
changed; some men were seen to fall, and
the party above began to fall back and disperse
before the superior forces of their enemy. A
pursuit ensued through the woods, where fre
quent firing was heard, and no doubt many
lives were taken. Persons who traversed the
field after the battle was over, observed Jive men
in the agonies <J death, who had been shot through
the head; several dead bodies were seen in the
woods, and a number wounded in every direction.
Those who observed the battle described it as one
of the greatest rage and most deadly violence.
All the deaths and wounded aie reported to
have been of the Corkonians.
About ten o’clock la^t night the victorious par
ty returned, and passed quietly through this
place, halting a few moments in one of the public
streets, to their respective sections and shan
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the balance of the night.
We have thus attempted merely a sketch of
the horrid barbarities committed in this neigh- .
borhorhood through the past week. The pub
lic peace bad been outraged, and the civil au
thorities condemned. It remains for the officers
of justice to take the necessary steps to repair i
the gross violations of the law.
Postscript.—Since writing the above, a prin- j
cipal leader of one of the parties has been ar
rested for examination. The volunteer com
panies have arrived from Hagerstown,comman- i
ded by Col. Wm. H. Fitzhcch, who is also
Sheriff of the County, and are now in readi
ness to aid the civil authority. An express has <
been despatched to the Seat of Government for ■<
a sufficient regular force, to be sent on and sta
tinned here, or at other suitable points along
the line of the Canal to preserve order among 1
the laborers, and for the purposes of general
prosecution.—Bovver.
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ALEXANDRIA:
THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 30, 1834.
PUBLIC DISTRESS.
The land u gives signs of woe”!
It is with pain, indeed, that we give the follow
ing facts, collected from the papers received by
yesterday’s mail, descriptive of the dreadful dis
tress that prevails .throughout the country —
What are we coming to? What is to become
of the country? To Congress must the cry be
raised. Will they, can they, disregard the ap,
peal of suffering industry—of paralyzed enter
prize?
We learn that nearly three hundred hands
were discharged by four manufacturers on Sa
turday, in consequence of the existing state of
things; and we need scarcely predict that every
day will but add to the number of those depriv
ed of the means of support.—N. Y. Courier.
As some evidence of the present distress
among business men, and consequent suffering
of the poorer classes, we-state, upon undoubted
authority, that four wholesale clothing establish
ments have, within a few days, discharged from
their employ nearly one thousand persons.—
There are in this city, employed by the various
clothing establishments, ten thousand persons,
almost all of whom will be out of employ in a
few days, if this state of things continues.
N. Y. Mercantile.
One hundred workmen were discharged last
week from an extensive iron foundry. It is com
puted that two thousand laborers were discharg
ed by their employers on Saturday, and that
ten thousand have been thrown out of employ
within the last fortnight.—N. Y. Com.
Saturday was a fearful day for all who had
payments to make or wages to receive.
The distress is becoming universal, and all
classes, save only political hacks or leaders, are
taking measures in earnest to make their voice
heard by Congress.—N. Y. American.
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which has for some time weighed upon our com
munity, lias not been relieved. It would seem
that the sources of our prosperity are, for the
present, completely dammed up. Public confi
dence is wholly destroyed* industry labors al
most without incentive or reward; and enter
prise finds, neither in the present or future, that
which will justify adventure. The distress ap
pears to have reached the interior. We learn
that the Country Banks are unable to afford
their usual favors; the farmers find it difficult
to effect sales of their produce at a fair rate;
and many of them, alarmed at the state of!
things, are changing their notes into specie, and
withdrawing their deposites to hoard them at
home.—Philadelphia Intelligencer.
Extract of a letter dated
Columbus, (Geo.) Jan. 10, 1834.
Dear Sirs: We have suffered your note to be
protested. The only apology we have to offer
you is, that, with ample means to pay all our
debts, we could not command the amount of
your claim. Such is the press for money, that, •
to raise it. many have to submit to five per cent,
a month. This we could not stand, &c. ,
Extract of a letter dated
New Orleans, Dec. 27, 1833.
There is nothing doing here. Money is so
scarce no one dare buy scarcely, except from -
hand to mouth. We are afraid to sell to a pur
chaser in the upper country, not because he is
not good, and perfectly able to meet his engage
ments, but because we cannot negociate his pa
per. The United States Branch will not pay
any new paper on the west, though it is willing 1
to help the merchants out with their old. What
we are to do, God only knows. 1
These extracts will be sufficient to show the
nature and reality of the distress. ]
Under such circumstances, we wish we could (
see land! from the sea of debate in both houses
of Congress. But we do not. There are said j
:o be several Senators who aie yet to make set ^
speeches; and at the conclusion of Mr. Hunting- ^
:on’s speech in the House on Tuesday, no less ^
;han four gentlemen at once endeavored to ob- .
ain the floor—Mr. Gorham, Mr. Vanderpoel, | r
Mr. Wise, and Mr. Archer—when it was given j
)y the Chair to Mr. Archer!! ~ c
We say there has been enough of speaking; *
t is time for action! ^
We understand that Virginia paper is now at a
i discount in this place of one per cent.; in • f
Washington, one and a quarter; in Baltimore, t
me and a half; and further north, from three to t
ive per cent. , r
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Some misapprehension appears to prevail re_ t
ative to some remarks made by Mr. Forsyth in j,
iis speech on Monday. We understand that c
hat gentleman proposed no plan of relief for p
he community. We hear that he admitted that, i p
ad he been one of the President’s counsellors* ! v
e would not have advised the removal of the a
)eposites. o
Instant, prompt and decided, measures ought tl
i be taken to put a slop to the scenes now act- h
ig along the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio a
‘anal. The men engaged in this business ought
) be taught, at once, that here the law is su
reme.
u Honest/” George Kremer is in Washington
-in consultation, it is said, with Mr. Van Bu- (
en! ___ n
Mr. Jno. Janney, of Loudoun, may consider ^
imself fortunate, in so far, at least, as having 11
een made the object of the abuse of the Globe. 0
’hat precious print—the “ Official Government 11
aper’5!!—(Heaven save the mark!) being now
scognized as the legitimate reviler of almost jr
very thing good in the country, its denuneia- y
on may be considered prima facie evidence of c
Ir. Janney’s merit. ^
We can, for the satisfaction of the Globe
owever, inform that paper, and doubtless it fc
ill be a source of much satisfaction,—so pecu- lc
arly amiable is it in all its course,—that Mr. w
mney is not “ an inveterate bank cockade fe- tv
eralist.” g
Having told the Globe what Mr. Janney is not, di
re will now tell what he is. He is, then, a true ^
.epublican—a self-taught man: elevated by the 2
>rce of his own talents and character. With
no recommendations but his own industry, per.
severance, integrity and knowledge, he has se
cured to himself the respect and esteem of eve.
ry one who knows him, and the full and entire
confidence of the large and intelligent coun tv
which he represents in the Legislature.
If there was any such thing as shame in the
composition of the Globe conductors, their faces
ought to burn when they think of their constant
abuse of virtue and patriotism.
The New Jersey Democrat lately gave an ac
count of the conversion of Capt. Stockton from
Jacksonism. The Trenton Emporium denies
the statement and says that Capt. Stockton has
not been converted. Which of these papers
are we to believe?
The Regents of the University of the State
of New York, at a meeting held on the 22d in
stant, conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws
on the Hon. Benjamin Franklin Butler. Attor
ney General of the United States.
Mr. Flint, late editor of the Knickerbocker
consequence of the state of his health, which
obliges him to pass the present winter in a mild
er climate, has withdrawn from the charge of
that Magazine.
Abner Kneeland, to whose name the title of
Rev. has been sometimes absurdly prefixed
has been convicted at Boston of blasphemy, af
ter a trial of three days.
On Saturday morning the Court proceeded
to pronounce sentence, which was, that the de
fendant be imprisoned three months in the com
mon jail, and enter into a recognizance in the
sum of S500 with sufficient surety in a like sum
to keep the peace and be of good behavior for
two years.
The defendant appealed to the Supreme
Court.
Great Verdict.—In the case of John Rundel
Junior, against the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal Company, (which has been under trial
for several weeks in the State of Delaware.)
the jury, after four days spent in their chamber,
came into Court last Saturday afternoon, the
25th inst., awarding to the plaintiff the large
sum of tiro hundred and twenty-six thousand
three hundred and eighty flee dollars damages.
An army of Woodcutters.—It is computed that
6000 persons are employed at this time in cut
ting timber in the woods of the State of Maine
[communicated.]
The hint of *'* Senex,” in the Gazette of this
morning, to “ the Friends of the Bible,” is sea
sonable and kind; for it is certain that the friend*
3.' the Bible must always be the friends of the
poor. We have many such among us; and
whensoever we will, we may do them good. It
3iir benevolent young men, who have provided
wood for the poor, and propose opening a Soup
House for their benefit, need more funds, they
have only to ask for them: and if they needed
my thing to stimulate them to persevere, beside?
:he blessing of the widow, the respect of their
fellow-citizens, and the approbation of their own
minds, they should have the public and private
:hanks of every Friend of the Bible. Let them
%o forward. Their conduct is honorable to
:hemselves, to the community, and to the Bible
May the blessing of those who are ready to pe
*ish, and the blessing of the widow’s God, be up
in them all.
But does “ Senex” mean to intimate that the
joor need only wood and soup? Shall we sup*
>ose that we have done all that Charity demands
vhen we have provided for their temporal or
emporary wants? Shall we feed, and clothe,
md warm their bodies, and neglect their im*
aortal souls? The Bible instructs us to care for M
roth. And while millions of our fellow-men are
destitute of that Holy Book, whose inspired
ruths, alone, can give the knowledge of salva
ion, and awaken the soul to its true interests
nd its high and solemn responsibilities, “ the
nends of the Bible*’ cannot think they have done
0 others as they would that others should do
into them, until they offered a Bible to every fa'
lily, and, if possible, to every individual, of the
ride earth. This, with the blessing of God,
hey are determined to do. It is a great work:
; is a good work: it i* a noble work. It has en
ountered, and will encounter, opposition: but
will be done. And if, while we are encaged
1 this toil, we should ever forget the sufferings
rhich are around us, be “ Senex” our Mentor
md if, again, he, while pleading a remembrance I
f the poor, would feed the body, and neglect
le mind, we shall turn to our Bibles, and read
im this lesson: “ These ought yc to have done,
nd not to leave the other undone.”
Jan. 29. A Friend op the Bible.
MR. LEIGH.
The gentleman to whom the following letter ■
tvith its enclosures) was addressed, at the ear*
est solicitation of a large circle of friends of
ifferent political opinions, has consented to lay
lem before his country. He submits them up
n his own responsibility, and without a com*
Richmond, Aug. 27, 1833.
My dear sir—I received your letter of the I9th
i due time. It was provident as well as kind in
ou, to prepare me for the catechism I am to re
vive from-. I certainly did not expect d ■
om that quarter.
I send you extracts from three letters I have ■
ritten on the subject ofthis nomination of
»r the Presidency—one, to Mr._of Met k
nburg, on the 24th June, before the nomination
as made in that county—another, to Mr.-"
i Brunswick, dated the 3d ofthis month-and
lird to-These extracts will serve 1° I
ve you precise information of the line of con
ict I have marked out for myself, and to ex
ain my motives and reasons for it. I am ' r‘
r desirous that my personal friends should un
jrstand them.
My health has not been so good as usual du