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at length, by the general patronage of the represent the atrociousness of duelling and Any friendly hints for the further im- higher orders of society and thro' the tacit

the milchiefs flowing from it,-a subject provement of our paper, will be received

consent of the civil authorities, to have already become trite,-as it is to investi. with gratitude and will meet with becom. obtained a kind of honorary establishment. gate the causes of the rapid increase of ing attention. Decent and well writen In this instance, Europe is not followed, this horrible practice in our country. essays on interesting subjects ; literary and but is outstripped. There is not a country Whence is it that the grim idol Moloch other useful communication's; hiftorical in all Europe ;-there is not perhaps a fin has been erected in this land of light, and and biographical sketches; accounts of me. gle district upon the whole earth, where || is worshipped, as of old, with the sacrifichanical inventions and improvements ; || duelling is so much tolerated and honour ces of human victims-with streams of articles on agriculture, commerce, naviga- ed as it is in the United States. If a man blood poured around his accurfed altars ? tion, geography, zoology, botany, minero.

robs another of a little cash, he is con -Is there a native ferociousness in the ralogy, astronomy, natural philosophy, e.

demned to death or to perpetual confine. hearts of the people of these states ? Are thics, political and domestic economy ; ment and hard labour ;, and is generally they, more than the other tribes of the agd indeed on any subject whatever, that

viewed as an oatešít from. fociety and as earth, deaf to the wailings of woe-to the may tend to enlarge the {phere of useful

an object of contempt. but the man that groans of the widow and the orphan ? Is knowledge and to multiply human com

robs another of his precidais. Víte in a duel, relentless revenge their ruling passion ? forts, will be thankfully acknowiedged and thus brings irreparable mischiefs and Are they prone to feast their eyes with and promptly inserted. inconceivable distresses into the abodes of spectacles of human misery ?

-No.The best expression of our gratitude to peace and happiness, has, forsooth, acted These horrid traits do not belong to our dathe numerous patrons of the BALANCE honorably. The law sleeps over his crime. tional character. The people of this coun

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try, it is believed, have as much of the subject of a memorial from the State of | eca, Onondaga and Cayuga Indians were milk of human kindness as any other na. Kentucky to Congress?" 'Tis true the prelent, we can hardly think there is much tion, that exifts under the canopy of heav. President has not iaken any notice what. cause for felicitation on account of the en. They do not usually behold the pub. ever of this subje&t in the message, and yet good affection and harmony of our Indian lic execution even of the worst of male. there are many who think with us, that the neighbours. factors, without sensations of anguish - welfare of this large and respectable body By what a strange concurrence of circumof our fellow citizeris quite as interesting, Presidential song, " our burthens are lighi

Laft of all, comes the burthen of every tánccs has it then happened, that among and ought to command as much attention

ened;" that is to say, the taxes are taken a people enlightened by the christian reli as that of our affectionate, strong Indian gion and infthe infancy of their political ex.

off, namely, from loaf sugar, pleasure or negro neighbours, of which he ipeaks so stence--a people too, who generally speak much and so often -Again; Is it a mark

carriages and whiskey, in preference to ing, have a deep-rooted abhorrence to the of friendship abroad, thar another powerful lajfes, teas

, coffee and falt. Wie a favor

taking them off from brown sugar, mohedding of human blood unnecessarily, nacion has, without consulting us in any

able administration is this for the middling the murderous practice of due!hing should | Thape, bargained for an important tract of

and become so strongly established as seeming- our continent, immediately to colonize it ;

poorer classes of society ? ly to dely all atteinpis to suppress it ?

which will render her an object of jealousy The above are enumerated by the Presi. In my next communication, I shall at and continual apprehension to the Southern il dent as composing the more ordinary plealtempt to answer this important question, by States ;-Once more; How does it be ing circumftances under which Congress pointing out some of the fatal caules which speak extraordinary friendship abroad that meet; but the most extraordinary one is, have given rise and growth to a practice, " in some parts of Europe monopolizing reserved to finish the climax : "We rethat sets at defiance the laws bosh of God discriminations have been adopted, which, wark, with special fatisfaction those (cirand men, stains our national character and

in the form of duties, tend effectually to cumstances which result from the skill, pollutes our land with blood.

prohibit the carrying thither our own pro- l, industry and order of our fellow.citizens, ANTI DUELLIST. duce in our own vessels ?” That such is managing

their own affairs in their own the fa&t we are assured in this very meflage: way, and for their own use, unembarrasnay, it is complained of as an injustice, fed by too much regulation, unoppreiled which if not removed by friendly discussion, by fiscal exaétions."-So ABSALOM stole will call for legislative interference.

the hearts of the men of Ifrael.
Political.
Finally; we find it stated by the same

On this curious sentence a few quelthoriiy, that a naval force will ftill be ne

tions present themselves. What is par. THE MESSAGE.

cessary to restrain the Tripoline cruisers, ticularly meant by “ managing their own and the uncertain tenure of peace with some

affairs ?” Did they ever attempt to man[This last lullaby production si our worthy presi-ally require the force in the Mediterranean

other of the Barbary powers, may eventu age che affairs of other ra'ions " in their dent lias made its tour through the union. Every

own way" too. What are we to underto be augmented. body has read it—and every democrat, from the

itund by this ? Is it intended to convey highest to the lowest, has, as by instinct, applaud

Such then being the actual state of things the idea, that the people are no longer un. ed it. In a measure and; has it a:iswered the

abroad, with what face can Mr. Jefferson der any restraint from Government? If <bject of its author. It has nut, perhaps, gulled | attempt to make the people believe that we

this is not his meaning I am at a loss what are incommonly blessed with the peace and is. " And for their own ufe.” Have a single candid or inolerate man into a belief that

friendship of foreign nations ? But it was they not then always managed their affairs our present rulers are an atom more vise, more

thought necessary to present a pleasing pic. || for their own use ? “ Unembarrassed by upright, more economical, more attentive to the interests of the people, than were the former ad,

fure, and to adhere strictly to iruth would too much regulation.” What in the name

liave been to sacrifice the portrait, ministrations. It has (like the former message)

of propriety does this mean? Too much

As to " law, order and religion at regulation, or, in other words, too much Furnished a theme for the fulsome praise of de. mocratic printers--ardilat's all. - The editor of

home,” the first, I suppose, is proved by law : our fellow-citizens then are to bless the N. Y. Evening Post has commencued an able the destruction of the Judiciary ; the next

their stars that they are unembarrassed by and spiriteci examination of this Alessage, from

has been shewn in the warfare which has too much lew! We confess we should which we shall make a few st lections for this,

been made on one half the community, I have been utterly unable to comprehend and some future numbers of our paper.

who have been driven from their bread be. thuis, did we not fortunately, recollect a cause they would not renounce their prin ! passage in Mr. Jefferson's Notes on Virciples ; and for the last, what doubts can ginia, which comes in aid of our conjec

reinain of Mr. Jefferson's love of religion tures just at the moment we were giving EXTRACTS FROM No. 1.

after the invitation to Tom Prine and his the thing up, as being beyond our reach. placing him at his own table ?

Speaking of the favage state of certain InTHE president begins by felicitating us that we are fill blefied with peace jernment and our Indian.peighbo

Whether there exist between our gov.

dian tribes, Mr. Jefferson there fays and friendship abroad ; law, order and re

“ This practice results from the cirligion at home; good affection and haras they: are called in another part of the

cumstances of their having never fubmitmony with our Indian neighbours, and Message, our strong neighboiss, that de.

ted themselves to any laws, any corrective that our bur:hens are lightened." grce of afe&ion: which tendered it proper

power, any lhadow of government. Their to place it wong the blessings of the part only controuls are their manners, and Is it a proof of friendship abroad, that year, weiliall.iiot be very positive; but that moral fense of right and wrong, which, one foreign nation has," by the “ infrac. l if the account initie linjern newspapers | like the sense of tasting and feeling, in evtion of her treaty," as to the free naviga- | be correct, as to some late transactions in erv man makes a part of his nature. An tion of the Mililippi, rendered that impor- that quarter, or it any reliance can be plac- l offence against these is punished by contant and valuable river no longer useful to ed on what took place in a council held at tempt, by exclusion from fociety, or, the citzens of the western country, to that Canandarqua, lait Auguft, at which the

Canandarqua, lait Auguft, at which the where the case is serious, as that of mur. this breach of good faith has become the principal Chiefs and Sacheins of the Sen- ! der, by the individuals whom it concerns.

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