timid and procrastinating policy is adopted-the resources of the country cannot be called into operation-the fears and jealousies of the people are roused and kept awake by those who were preying upou the vitals of the country-national faith is lostpublic credit and the justice of the nation languish the just demands of the patriotic creditors remain unsatisfied the reward of the faithful and victorious defenders of their countrythe price of their toils, sufferings and blood, continue undischarged and depreciated-national bankruptcy and disunion threaten, with all the horrors of civil war, the loss of liberty, and independence.

AT length on the brink of destruction, they awake from their security, and see the impending danger, and while with silent astonishment they contemplate the dreadful abyss, they remember the words of their father, the voice of Washington, and the enlightened patriots of America is again heard. Again the retired sage comes forth, and at the head of an illustrious band of statesmen, digests and completes a form of government, the wonder and admiration, not only of the wise and enlightened legislators of our own nation, but of the civilized world. Again he retires to the shades of private life, and the proposed form of government, by the influence of his character on the public mind, and the confidence reposed in his superior discernment, virtue, and integrity, is adopted and ratified, though opposed and assailed by the clamors of discontent, the positive and unrelenting obstinacy of ignorance, the fears of the timid, the arts of the unprincipled and interested, the presumptuous interference of factious and treacherous foreigners, the blasphemy of calumny and slander, and all the rage of party zeal.

BUT who shall be selected the chief magistrate of the Union, and at the head of the national councils, organize and give operation to that system which our American worthies had produced? Who shall retrieve the errors of neglect and inaction, and heal the breaches which discord and faction had made? In whom can the people repose unbounded confidence in this interesting crisis Again they give their united call, and again he

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steps forth amidst the shouts of applause, the tears of gratitude and blessings of his country. Triumphal arches mark his course -crowns of laurel overhang his passage-the hoary patriot salutes his approach-and choirs of white robed virgins sing his welcome and his praise.

WITH paternal solicitude he enters upon the duties of his important trust-again spending many anxious days and watchful nights, to secure the permanent happiness of his country, until the mighty fabric of our political salvation, protection; and honor, is reared and completed-quells domestic faction and insurrection-overawes foreign intrigue-beats back from our shores the destructive storm, which has threatened the annihilation of civilization-conducts his country in peace through the awful tempest-and exhibits to an admiring world an administration worthy his wisdom and his virtues.

"ADMONISHED by the encreasing weight of years," and anxious to entrust with his countrymen, the administration of their government having again pointed out that conduct and policy which would lead it to honor, prosperity, and happiness

he who had exchanged the character of the soldier of the heroic and virtuous general, for that of the plain industrious citizen he who had with so much dignity, prudence and firmness, held the reins of administration and wielded the sword of justice, always temperate with mercy-to complete the character of unequalled worth and true greatness-resigns the chair of state, that he might by his example teach his fellow-citizens, what it was to be an obedient and faithful subject of the laws under a free and efficient government. May the angel of peace administer consolation and satisfaction in his retirement, and may no inauspicious event disturb his felecity.

THE rights of the nation are violated! Its honors insulted! Its liberty and independence menaced !-Tribute is demanded! Its sons are roused and indignant; they resolve to repel the unprovoked aggression. They gather round their chief, the wise, firm, and profound statesman, the worthy successor of their beloved Washington; assure him of their approbation and confi

dence, and their fixed resolution not to survive the honor, liberty, and independence of their country.

BUT where is the chief who now shall lead the patriotic band? Why does the nation anxiously bend its looks toward Mount-Vernon? Can they again venture to disturb the repose of their aged father in the shades of peace and domestic happiness; must he again" enter upon the boundless field of public action, incessant trouble and high responsibility ?"-Why does every face brighten with joy?-Why those shouts of applause?

THE venerable hero is already armed! The watchful citizen had observed the insiduous hostility of the foe, he joins in the sentiments of approbation and confidence, expressed by his country in the wise and prudent administration of our virtuous president, and accepts the command of its armies. His name is an host the enemy offers peace.--BUT BEHOLD HIS TOMB And is Washington no more! Is that arm of power —is that form of majesty, confined to "the narrow house!" Is that eye which bespoke virtue and benevolence, closed in death!

Is that tongue from which flowed the words of truth and wisdom, silent in the grave !-Has that heart which ever melted at individual distress, and bled for his country's woes, ceased to beat! Has the mighty fallen! No thanks to God, Washington never fell. Like the resplendent orb of day, he has disappeared from our horizon, only to continue his course. With the same unshaken fortitude and equanimity, which he had displayed in the cabinet and the field, he meets death; with a firm and manly step, undaunted and serene he descends to the tomb,divests himself of his mortality, that he may run an immortal course. Of him this world was unworthy-he has gone to another, and a much better-to the enjoyment of a more perfect society. Let us remember his virtues-let us deplore our loss, and around his grave mingle ours, with a nation's tears.

LET the fawning and tyrannic demagogue, elevated by falsehood and corruption, attempt to stop the full tide of feeling and heart-felt woe, "as inconsistent with the independence of freemen!" But freemen taught by the noble impulse of their

own feelings, and the example of the good and virtuous of all nations, in all ages of the world, will not be restrained in paying the full and grateful tribute to the memory of their greatest benefactor-their father-the father and savior of their cou ntry. It is an offering pleasing to heaven.

THOUGH We have lost our renowned hero and illustrious statesman, he has left us his example and his works-they are an invaluable legacy. He has left us in possession of liberty, independence, a free constitution and government, and of that certain and uniform system of administration, which alone can preserve that liberty, that independence and that constitution.He has left us the religion of our fathers." The altars of God still remain." To that revolutionary, disorganizing and destroying system of policy reared by modern philosophy on the sandy foundations of theory, speculation, infidelity, and insurrection, supported by falsehood, blood and crimes, and in which liberty is an empty name-he has opposed a system founded on the sure basis of experience, practice, and the true rights of man; and supported by truth, the doctrines of the christian faith and morality, and the pleasing and animating hope of immortality.

THIS system of government and laws yet stands secure amidst the awful storm; but how long it may thus stand, it would be presumption to anticipate. Who can be indifferent when he sees so powerful an opposition, as that, which failing openly and directly to overthrow our constitution, is now sapping its foundation by weakening the confidence of the people in its wise and regular administration? Or when he sees the uninformed invited by enthusiasts and ignorant demagogues, to decide with positive confidence on a whole system of laws, which they have never read; and upon a system of administration, where a Washington and an Adams would hesitate ?

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"Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread."

WHEN I see alien incendiaries and foreign traitors foremost in that opposition, I must doubt the justness of its cause. And when I hear the loudest cry in favor of liberty, the rights of

man, and plain republicanism coming from the superb palaces of southern aristocracy, swelled with the sound of the lash, and the tears, blood, and groans of their thousand slaves, I must suspect its sincerity. The daring advocates of the revolutionary, "tempestuous"* and infidel liberty of the present day, are vigilant and indefatigable. To me our prospects appear dark; and perhaps it may only be necessary to exchange our christian chief magistrate for an infidel president, for the completion of their plans, and to effect the destruction of our religion, government, and union, plunge the nation into civil war and deluge it with blood. Pause, my fellow-citizens, before you make the awful trial, and contemplate the prospect. Beware of experiments which will be purchased with blood, lest it may cry to heaven. Consider what will be your situation when you have run your revolutionary career. When, pursuing those principles, which you are invited to adopt, you have overthrown your government ;-when the justice and faith of the nation are lost; when your hands have been imbrued in the best blood of the nation;-when you have seen the hoary veteran, who had fought at the side of Washington in defence of your liberty, and in purchasing your independence, after again attempting to save his country, flying for refuge, when his aged arm had failed, to the tomb of his beloved chief, and strewing it with his silvered hairs, while the streams of life follow the assassin's stab; "when you have unplumed the dead for means to destroy the living;" when the sacred obligation of oaths has failed; when you have abolished your sabbath; when you have renounced Moses and the prophets, and denied the divine author

* Mr. Jefferson in bis letter to Mazzei seems much dissatisfied with the people of America, for not embarking on what be calls "the tempestuous sea of liberty." The tempestuous sea of liberty! And has liberty ceased to be the companion of order, religion, peace, security, regular government, and social happiness? But why do we ask the question? Let us turn our eyes to France, where we will see the jacobin system of government in full operation; founded on irrational reason, infidel religion, ferocious humanity, and producing revolutionary security, and tempestuous liberty!