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SB! arm OCR LIBERTY AND HAPPINKSS AS A NATION ARB IN OCR OWN KEEPING, IP THEY ARE EVER SACRIFICED IT WlIX ON THE ALTAR OP PARTY SPIRIT, AT THE INSTANCE OP DESIGNING AMBITION AND BY CR OWN HANDS. VOL L YPSILANTI, WASHTENAW CO. MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY JAN. 24 1844 NO. 6. 3 THE YPSILANTI SENTINEL. Will bey iblished every Wednesday by JOHN VAN FOSSEN. Office oyer C, Stack's Store, three doors west of the Post Office, Tiufs Two Dollars a year if paid in ad vance, or Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if not paid in advance. Advertising on the anal terms of weekly papers. PROSPECTUS OP THS YPSILANTI SENTINEL In soliciting the patronage of the public for toe proposed publication, it is due to that pub. lie to give an outline of the views and princio plas by which we shall be governed, and this duty we proceed to discharge. While we shall endeavor to make ear sheet the channel lor communicating to our readers, the intelli- li:. I : - geice mtuf given in a puowc juurum, hj character will be essentially political; and ac cording to the original sense of the term, as applicable to this government; strictly demo cratic. We have lived sufficiently long, how ever, to learn, that names are but too often illusory and deceptive, and that the arts of impostors are seldom put in practice, except under cover of some specions and imposing appellation. We shall not therefore rest our claims upon a name, bat invite tne severest scrutiny of our readers to the fidelity with which our professions as aa editor are main tained and practised. As the only legitimate object of a republi can or democratic government is the equal protection of the rights, and prosnotion of the welfare and happiness of all ; it fellows as an irresistable conclusion, that that administra tion, or system of measures which is most conducive to these ends, is best entitled to the appellation of democratic. And as the only true test, of the merit of measures or adminis trations, is to be found in the effects produced on the interests and moral character of soci-1 ety, it is by this Btandaxd alone that we shall , aim to be governed in passing judgment upon Chem. We believe the doctrines or rather the dog. mas of party as inculcated by the leaders of that school laying exclusive claims to democ racy, to be the most dangerous, because the most ineiduous enemy to the interests and in stitutions of the countrythat it demands of its votaries passive obedience to the order of leaders, regardless of the claims of patriotism of count?, str the constitution. Our endeav or shall therefore be, to expose and counteract the dangerous arid enslaving tendency of this doctrine, and exiarce as tar as in our power .h'gf'er qligaAionn ojrinty to npraftlvea From the National Magazine. STANZAS. Nor yet the yoke we scorn to hate, Which groveling bondmen basely wear, Not yet we feel that iron weight Our spirits might not brosk to bear ; And still our souls are something free, And round the bright and laughing earth Our eyes may proudly glance and see, Sen?e record of our ancient birth. The wintry path, the midnight flood, The hill-top where of old they bled. The fields that reeked with precious blood. In many a fiery battle bed ; And home and temple, all that stirr'd Our fathers, hearts, all memory Which makes their fame a holy word, All, all are here, but what are we ! Were we not called the great and free, In memory of a nobler day f And shall we bend the servile knee Before this thing of brass and clay f Forget the deeds of former fame, Forget the glorious hopes of yore, And sinking down to endless shame The proud, bright names our fathers bore! And is their mighty spirit gone, That broke of old the tyrant's will ; That lightened over Lexington, And thundered upon Bunker hill? And shall we weigh our country's wrongs Against a doting despot's breath, And celebrate in venal songs , This Dagon of a senseless faith 1 Forbid it heaven ! forbid it all True hearts that scorn the life of slaves! Sooner that chains our necks should gall Midst our great fathers verdant graves, Pd rather be the meanest craven That crawls on old Oppression's sod, Than underneath my own bright heaven Lose the free heritage of God ! id to our country, cehevm? that where the requirements of party are thus urged by its leaders, the proceeding carries on its face the most conclusive evidence, that it is their own interests and.net those el thecomrry they are laboring to promote We believe that the wealth, happiness and independence f our country, depend on the encouragement and protection ef the labor and industry of our own citizens, and tne cultiva tion of eur own resources in all practibable cases for the supply of oar wants, in prefer ence to a reliance upon a precarioas supply to be drawn from abroad, subject to the cap rice of the world and tba eeatingences of for eign commerce. To this outline ef our views we ehall scru pulously adhere, and with this declaration, oi ter oir sneet to tne paaiie ana soucu im pac ronage. JOHN VAN FOSSEN. W.A. BUCKBEE, Attorney and Counsellor And Solicitor in Chancery YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN. Office one door east of the Printing Office. AND COMMISSION STORE. OPPOSITE A. II AITKIN'S HOTEL. S. KILPATRICK, Auctioneer. AA ILL attend to any business en V V trusted to him with promptness andfidelity. N. B. Cash advances made on proper ty if required. Ypsilanti, Dec. 20, 1843. tf WdDdPII)!!! Wanted at this office immmo- diately A NNUALS for 1844. and a great variejy Ai of elegant gift Books for sale cheap by E. SAMSON. Ypsilanti, Dec. 20. nL rClOFT SOAP. For sale by the fcj gallon or the barrel by 6 C. STUCK. Ypsilanti, Dec. 20. 1843. fiifKVOL. Harper's School District Libra fcPtrry, for sale low, by the quantity or single, at the Ypsilanti Book and variety store ot E. SAMSON. Ypsilsnti, Dec. 20. nl CAPS! CAPS!! CAPS!!! Cheaper than the cheapest may be found a the Variety store of E. SAMSON. Ypsilanti. Dec. 20. nl DliANKS ! DLAKJia ! ! , LANK Deeds, dsc, for sale at this office. From the Boston Evening News. THE AMERICAN BOY. Father, look up, and see that flag. How gracefully it flies ; Those pretty stripes they seem to be A rainbow in the skies.' It is your country's flag, my son ; -wiproudly-dxinkatha.liffh'" i O'er ocean's wave in foreign climes, A symbol of our might. "Fatherwhat fearful noise is that, Like thunderings of the clouds t Why do the people wave their hats, And rush along in crowds 7" It is the voice of cannonry. The glad shouts of the free, This is a day to memory dear 'Tis Freedom's Jubilee. "I wish that I was now a man, I'd fire my cannon too, And cheer as loudly as the rest But, father, why doat you ?n I'm getting old and weak but still My heart is big with joy ; I've witnessed many a day like this ..Shout ye aloud my boy. "Hurrah for Freedom's Jubilee ! God bless our native land; wind may I live to hold the sword Of freedom in my hand Well done, my boy grow up and love The land that gave you birth; A home where Freedom loves to dwell. Is paradise on earth. SKETCHES BY A WANDERER no. II. TUB GEORGIANS KEVENGE. In the spring of 1836, while on my way from Mobile to N. I ork, bavin? am ved at a pleasant town situated on the head waters of the Cattahoochie, I was so much charmed with the romantic scenery of the surrounding country, that I at once deter mined to make a tarry of a few weeks. during which I anticipated much pleas ure in the amusements of hunting and nsning. 1 he proverbial frankness and hospitali ty of the inhabitants made me feel quite at home, and their politeness and atten tion gave me opportunities of forming ac quaintances. Indeed Ibis last is a trait in the character of the people of the south generally, and was the more pleasing m asmuch as l was not accustomed to receive attention on entering any village in the Notrh as a stranger. In the south no sooner does a stranger enter a town or village than efforts are made by the young gentlemen to make his stay agree, able, and no question is asked, dictated by a curiosity to know where he came from what his business is how much he is worth, and numberless others of a like nature which every traveller in the New England States meets with at every stage of his journey. In a word I was completely at home almost from the first intimation that I intended to remain with them for a (ew weeks. While here I formed acquaintance with a young man J from the North, whom I shall call Charles Stanley, and who had left his home a year or two previous to seek his fortune in these regions. He was the beau ideal of a gentleman, with a frank, careless and winning manner one of those beings whose life seems to roll on like a peace ful rivulet, without meeting with a single obstruction from (he rocks and falls of care and sorrow. But a cloud was soon to come over his bright existence. Gen erous and confiding himself, he never sus pected of deceit and treachery in others. This trait tn his character led him to form acquaintances, which others .more, coo! and calculating would have shunned. Of this class of persons was Henry Brew er, a young man who had just graduated at Cambridge, and who had left the place of his nativity in search of a community where he might acquire more honor and pence than in that jEtna of lawyers, New England. He was poor, proud and am bitious, and withal one of those persons who cannot witness the prosperity of oth. ers without a secret rankling of envy. All this however, was covered by a spe cious show of what he did not possess a generous and noble spirit, Stanley, from a mistaken notion of this young man's character, had formed an intimate com panionship with him, and their leisure hours were spent in all the enjoyments common to young and buoyant spirits they rode, walked, and hunted tocher, I ly. Mow. and Charles, as a matter of course, paid all the bills : for he was willing to do this in order that be might have some companion. Strange infatuation! Let no one, who is rich, and above want, buy his acquaintances tn this manner. There is a concealed pride in the human breast, which in associations of this nature, ts for a while dormant in the recipient of your favors but it will burst form one day, it may be, to your ruin. Soon (how ever awakened) there is a growing sense of an obligation which he is neither able, or willing to repay. But nous verrons. Stanley had met with and become en amored of a beautiful Georgian ; one of such peerless beauty, as can be met with in no other part of the Union gentle. and timid as tha wild deer of her native niiis whose nobtw aout Dean. J ia ,her piness of two beings, and murdered both in slaying one, we took the body of the unfortunate young man in our boat, and sadly returned to the village, our faces blanched with indignation and deep sor row. Brewer, perfectly unconcerned at the deed he had committed, relumed also by the river side, and went about his usual avocations. But how should we break the dreadful news to the gentle Ellen? Such was their attachment nay, unbounded lovr, that it seemed that the heart-rending intelligence must overwhelm her with despair. But what was the surprise of the young gen. tleman deputed from our number, to ful fil this painful duty, to see her receive it with a blanched cheek indeed, but with j apparent calmness. This would seem unlike her, and opposed to her usual gen tle and even timid demeanor. But the close observer could perceive a something in her eye which spoke of a hxed deter mination, rather than resignation, as she stood statue-like, and silent; and ever and anon a flush shot over her cheek and brow, and then receded, leaving each as colorless as marble, displaying in clear lines the purple veins on her temples. Her eyes flashed out the spirit of which fiercely flows in Georgian blood, and seemed like the sudden stream ot light ning, which seldom fails to strike a dead But to the sequel. Shortly after the events narrated above, the peop'e were put in consternation by the approach of a band of hostile Creeks, who it was fear ed, intended to burn the town. Night guards were placed on the bridge that connects the two States, Georgia, and Alabama, and upon the banks of the riv er, in order to give the alarm to the citi zens in case of an attack, and every pre paration made for the reception of the en emy. Brewer was appointed to the command of one of the piquet guards on the night in question. It was a fearful night. The lightnings flashed with a vivid bright ness, the thunder broke in loud, rever berating peals, and the earth "trembled like a guilty creature." My duty called ;Wp. trn. Jar"0 - I wu. farmed to eye, and on whose cheeks the roses of I summon all my courage, during that fear health and modestly commingled inheav-j fuj night. Several times, as I paced the enly union. Her mental graces were noj orwge, wniie me uproar oi me elements, inferior to her personal attractions Could one of Charles Stanley's char acter see her and not be enslaved?-They met, and as it were by intuition, at once mingled tbeir pure souls in one. They loved, and soon confessed their mutual at tachment in a word became solemnly betrothed before heaven. But she was rich, and this proved the cause of her ruin. Stanley introduced his Jnend to his lady-love she received him with all the politeness duo to the friend of her lov er, and with the frankness for which the ladies of tho South are so justly famed. He, in return, knowing her to be posses sed of an ample fortune, and being deter mined that Stanley should not enjoylwh&H-hWv with the pistol still reeking with himself so much coveted, like a wily law yer formed the resolution of winning this lovely girl. But all his arts were of no avail. Charles and Ellen being engaged, and the day appointed for their nuptials, Henry Brewer found that he was likely to be thwarted in the scheme upon which he sot his heart; and in order to produce a temporary separation between the lovers, hit upon the base expedient of circulating stories injurious to the reputation of the fair betrothed ; but Charles having full confidence in the virtue of Ellen, traced the vile slanders to their, author, and the result was a challenge to the "field of ho nor. It was on a lovely May morning, that a party of young people were merrily sailing down the river on a plea sure ex cursion. I was one of them, and we were as buoyant and happy as young hearts, high spirits and a beautifully clear and bright sky overhead could make us. Ma ny were the playful jokes, and witty re partees, the merry laughs, and joyous shouts that rung echoing across the river. We had proceeded but a short distance, however, when a sudden stop was put upon our merriment by the report of a pis tol, and then of another, following in quick succession, reverberating through the woods Fearing that one of those en counters, so common in the couth and West, had taken place, we ran our skiff into a little nook, and hastened on shore. Thrusting aside the bushes, we hurried anxiously forward in the direction of the reports, and in a few moments our fears were too painfully realized weltering in blood, and already in the arms of death, lay all that remained of the noble, the brave the gentle Charles Stanley. Near by him, with his arms folded upon his breast, and with a cool look of fiendish exultation playing on his face, stood Henry Brewer hit friend. j With muttered execrations on the villain who bad thus wilfully destroyed the hap mingled with the hurried tread of human feet, was at its height, I exchanged the pass word with a young man, whose voice was singularly feminine, though all at tempts to draw him into conversation were unavailing. He passed on, and a flash of lightning, a few moments after, revealed him with another person, leaning upont be railing of the bridge. During the darkness which succeeded, I was startled by the reoort of a pistol in the direction in which I had seen them, and rushed immediately to the spot. I reach ed it just as a second gleam lighted up the scene, and revealed the prostrate and bleeding tudy of Henry Brewer. Above obstacles opposed. His integrity wa most pure, his justice the moat inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man. His tern per was naturally irritable and high ton ed; but reflection and resolution had ob tained a firm and habitual ascendancy over it. If ever, however, it broke its bonds, he was most tremendous in his wrath. In his expenses he was honora ble, but exact; liberal in contributions to whatever promised utility; but frowning and unyielding on all visionary projects, and all unworthy calls on his charity. His heart was not warm tn its anections; but he exactly calculated every man's value, and iiave him a solid esteem pro portioned to it. His person, you know, was fine, his stature, exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect, and noble; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback. Although in the circle of his friends, where he might be unreserved with safety, he took a free share in conversation, his colloquial tal ents were not above mediocrity, possess ing neither copiousness of ideas, nor flu ency of words. In public, when called on fur a sudden opinion, be was unreadv, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style, ibis he had acquired by conversation with the world, for his edu cation was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English bisiory. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journal izing bis agricultural proceedings, occu pied most of his leisure hours within doors. On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in few points indifferent; and it may be truly said, thai never did nature and foitune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same con stellation with whatever worthies have merited from roan an everlasting rn--c--brance. hi ;lnguiar destiny e l with him in tho Virginia Legislature from 1769 to the Revolutionary war, and again, a short time in Congress, until he left us to tke command of the army. During the war and after it we correspon ded occasionally, and in the four years of my continuance in the office of Secretary of State, our intercourse was daily, confi. deutial, and cordial. After I retired from that office, great and malignant pains were taken by our federal monarchists, and not entirely without effect, to make him view me as a theorist, holding French principles of government, which would lead infallibly to licentiousness and anar chy. And to this he listened the more easily, from my known disapprobation of the British treaty. I never saw him af terwards, or these malignant insinuations should have been dissipated before his just judgment, as mists before the sun. I telt on bis death, with my country-men, that 'verily a great man hath fallen this day in Israel.' More time and recollection would en able me to add many other traits of his character ; but why add tbem to you, who knew him well ? And I cannot jus tify to myself a longer detention of your paper. Vale,proprieque tuum me esse tibi ver suadeat. THOS. JEFFERSON IN smoke, stood the young man who had passed me, in whose flashing eye and pale brow, around which the long black locks streamed in the wind I recognized Ellen. She had slain the murderer of Charles Stanley. But I came too late. She stood an instant, and a smile of satisfaction played on her lips another, and the dark and turbid waters of the Cbattahoochie rolled over the form of the once happy and beautiful Georgian. f. w. b. THOS. JEFFERSON'S PORTRAIT OF GEN. WASHINGTON. In a letter to Doct. Jones of January, 1814, Mr. Jefferson thus remaks: MI think I knew General Washington intimately and thoroughly; and were I called on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these. His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. Hence the com mon remark of his officers, of the ad van tage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he select ed whatever was best; and ceitainly no General ever planned his battles more judiciously. But if deranged during the course of the action, if any member of his plan was dislocated by sudden circum stances, he was slow tn re-adjustment The consequence was. that he often failed On'theiurtrjia the field, and rarely against an enemy in eiauoo, as at Boston ana xork. tie was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his cha racter was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, go ing through with his purpose, whatever and merit, of leading the armies of his country successfully through an arduous war, for the establishment of its independ ence; of conducting its councils through the birth ot a goverorrent, new in its forms and principles, until it had settled down into a quiet and orderly train; aud of scrupulously obeying the laws through the whole of his career, civil and milita ry, of which the history of the world fur nishes no other example. How, then, can it be perilous for you to take such a man on your shoulders? I am satisfied the great body of republi cans think of him as I do. We were, indeed, dissatisfied with him on his ratifi cation of the British treaty. But this was short-lived. We knew bis honesty, the wiles with which he was encompassed and that age had already begun to relax the firmness of his purposes ; and I am convinced he is more deeply seated in the love and gratitnde of republicans, than in Pharasaical homage of the federal mon archists. For he was no monarchist from preference of his judgment. The soundness of that gave him correct views of the rights of man, ana his severe jus tice devoted him to them. He has often declared to me mat ne considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government. and with what dose of liberty man could be trusted for his own good ; that he was determined the experiment should have a fair trial, and would lose the last drop of his blood in support of it. And these dec larations he repeated to me the ofiener and the more pointedly, because he knew my suspicions of Col. Hamilton's views, and probably had heard from him the same declarations which I had, to wit. that the British constitution, with its un equal representation, corruption, and oth er existing abuses, was the most perfect government which had ever been estab lished on earth, and that a reformation of these abuses would make it an irppractic able government.' I do believe that Gen eral Washington had not a firm confi dence in the durability of our govern ment. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined to gloomy apprehen- i . sions : ana l was ever persuaaea mat a belief that we must at length end in something like a British constitution, had some weight in his adoption of the cere monies of levees, birthdays, pompous meetings with Congress, and other forms of the Bame character, calculated to pre pare us gradually for a change which he believed possible, and to let it come on with as little shock as mign: be to the public mind. These are rav opinions of uen. Yl ash- ington, which I would vouch atthejudg. ment seat of God, having been formed on aa acquaintance of thirty years. I eerv- SKETCH OF THE DEBATE CONGRESS. January ft, 1944. Jack so Vs fike, On motion of Mr. C. J. lngersoll the house resolved itself into committee of tho whole on the Slate of the Union (Mr- Davis, of Indiana, in the chair,) and resumed the consideration of ihe bill to refund the fine imposed on ueneral Andrew Jackson by Judge Hall. For which bill Mr. Stephens had offer. ed a substitute, providing that the sum of $1000, with interesfat the rate of six per cent, from the 3lst of march, 1815. be given, granted, and appropriated to and lor the use and benefit of Gen. Jackson: but that nothing in the said bill contained should be constructed as implying a cen questioning the propeuy 0lhi$ decisis in that case. . ; Mr Barnard was entitled to the floor, and addressed the committee at length mainly in reply to a speech of Mr. Slid eU. Mr. Dawton of La., arose in reply and spoke warmly in favor of the original bill. Mr. Kennedy, of la., followed in veha ment support of the bill. He had suppo sed that the publio will in this matter had been so fully and clearly expessed that congress had only to act, but it had pleas ed the gentlemen to debate the question, & attribute the whole movement to party tactics. As to what had been said by the gentleman from N. York (Mr. Barnard) about iho majority being unable to lick the question into such a shape that it would pass the other branch of the legislature, he should attempt no licking but to declare tha t the fine had been taken unjustly and traitorously from General Jackson, and must be returned to him. Mr. K., speak, ing of the respect which was claimed for tbe judiciary, said the judiciary was en titled to respect just as long as it showed respect to tbe will and opinions of the American people, aud no longer; and for himself he believed it quite as corrupt aa any other department of this or any Gov ernment. This irreverence might be at. tributed to his having once been a black smith; but as a practicing member of the bar he had been taught it by his own ob servation and experience. . As to the bill being stopped at the other end of the cap ital, gentlemen should remember that a similar bill had once passed the senate; and if that body should reject it, it would only show that there existed in this coun try a party which never learned and nev er forgot, and which the indignation of tbe American people would hurl into atoms if it dared resist their will. He consider ed the national treasury as cankered bv the thousand dollars which it unjustly wunneid from the country's defender, nor could it ever prosper as it would, should it disgorge this ill gotten gain. He scout ed Mr. Barnard's parallel between tbe public services of Judge Hall and Gen. Jackson, declaring it as his full conviction that there was a certain class of men in this country who never had forgiven and never would forgive General Jackson for whipping the bnghsh at New Orleans. It was not pleasing to see one's friends whipped before one s face. Adverting to the fact that Judge Hall bad two maiden sisters in the city, he dwelt upon it es ag gravating the criminality and odiousness of his character in a sevenfold degree, and marking it as dark and damnable. General Jackson ought to have hung him on tbe first gibbet in the public square. Mr. K. attributed tbe fine to a mean feel ing oi revenge, and spoke with great