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From the Philadelphia Register.
The ins>dmus manner in which Mr.
Jeffers n has dictated trie impeachment of
iud re Marshal, is cause of indignant re; ret
to every man, anxious to determine his
course of conduct and sentiments on
principles of justice and reason. That a
great man and a philosopher, should disco-
ver so much pertinacity of judgment, as ob-
stinately t> peresist in the persusion of a
man's delinquency, after the proper tribunal
of his country had fairly acquitted him, isa
solecism in the noble works ot Nature, not
easy to be reconciled with onr ideas of the
general charade r- f Mankind, who are free
to acknowledge the errors of a premature,
opinion, and revolt wUh disgust from a bliud
persistance in them. It would be of little
Or no avail to deny the right, which, per-
haps the president possesed, to notice Burr
and bis colleagues in the style he has done,
bat that be has unprovokedly offered to the
judiciary as gross an insult as one department
of the administration of our government
could possibly do to another, is a truth too
glaring for objection. Mr. J. makes a novel
and very striking conclusion respecting the
existence nf a defect ; he says, " you will
be enabled to judge whether the defect was
in the testimony, the law or the administra-
tion o" the law." Pray, sir. is Mr. J. en
dowed with preternatural omniscient attri-
butes of a divinity, thus attempting to crimi-
nate every other source of intellectual light,
because he prejudged the cause, contrary to
the judgment of the proper authority to de
cidcit? If he is not, ar.-i expresses himselfas
one of our common beings, mark the tur-
pitude of re.is.on tfhicri accompanies the
allegation of the defect. AH subjects of
discussion are determined'by the evidence,
and if we discover an error in it, and can
testify to the fart of its existence, such proof
superceeds the error, because it ascertains
the truth contradictory of it, and makes the
testimonial circumstances perfectly complete
and satisfactory ; and it is correct to pre-
sume that, had this been the case, it would
have been shewn that the testimony was in-
defecti-... But if ait absolute blank appears
in the evidence against ah accused person,
¦without the filling of which the cause is
rendered precarious, and it seems (he height
of moial certainly that this cannot be done,
is not be to all intents and purposes an in-
nocent person, and would it not be injuri-
ous to society publicly to declare his guilt
after such a proceeding.
As tu the law having not amply provided
for trie conviction of treasonable lenders.
we believe that had it been a hundred times
more scrupulously cautious, the cmipassi: g
ingenuity of Aaron Burr would have evaded
it ; and consequently his non-conviction dints
not argue an inadequacy ill the c institution
or the law. Every man will find, on due
r< Paction, that "tin- framers of our coniti
tuiion and our government have guarded
against destruction by treason and our citi-
npression, under pretence at
it." Ihi' bawl of the testimony
or the law, i» indeed a refined pn.ee *>t fool-
ery- and yet a most, excellent subterfuge to
effect the downfall of an upright, amiable
character. Who can suppose that the pre-
sident intended it should be understood by
Jlis a-lhevnts th.it the failing attached to
«Uherof these articles- He lsjwell aware
that the commanding part of the ***'
are seriously devoted to the executiorftif his
destructive principles, and will not step,
"¦Hoheh deliberating the question, to examine
for the defect in the testimony or the- law,
but passing them in cool silence, will hasten
aw/ay to the impeachment: What an infan
tine artif.ee was it to say, " the legislature
alone can apply or priginatethe remedy."
Why not honestly avow the d« ign, and
courageously publish, that the l> gislatur.
itself, in the present instance, me t assume
the task of removing a man higl-'y obnoxi
ions to me, and of striking a blow of des-
truction at the judiciary.
In the name of heaven, can a republican
so far countenance oppression, as to cnu.-e
a man, whose impartiality, and strict adher-
ence to his duty, have been his only crimes
to be held no as an object for the hatred and
abuse of every vile rertegado in the union,
and lastly ti. be thrown from a station which
derives such glorious lustre from his talents,
because his temper did not coirci'le ifh
the c njectural judgment of Mr. J.-------
The facility, with which the common
people are made to believe that the judges
possess uncontroulabie powet* presented an
irresistable temptation to set this vile design
on foot, and also to heap more delusions on
them—It is certainly a go d piece of policy,
first to persuade them of the expediency and
Correctness of the D easur.e, tor if it should
ultimately be unsuccessful, they will have
acquired such an obstinacy, in thinking the
power of the aceuseu illimitable, that its
Injustice will unimpressively fleet ovei then
understandiugs, and with them, (lies;,end
supremacy ol the judges will be continued.
We hesitate not to a'ssert that the attacks
levelled at the judiciary department of our
government, are of as foul enormity, and
fatal de'structjpn to this country, as the exe-
crable machinations of Aaron Burr.
SETON.
The following extract is from Aikin's An-
nual Review, for 1806. a work of es-
tablished Literary-& Scientific character,
ed'ted in London ; it is the review a£ a
all publication, entitled,
*' Jfoounts cf tivo attemepts toivards the ci-
VaAdt'tor. of some huL
Society of friends"
* The progress of such truths as are' f great
practical importance to mankind, th.-ugh
it be slow, is as certain as that of time.—
\ The discoveries ol the Phil' sopher, may
slumber, brst it is only such as are of no u-
tihty. or . f which the utility has not ytt
him perceived. Ihe actions of men are
to'.otten, and happily the greater number
of their bad actions lcavfi no seed bshmd
them ; while ail good is progressive,.-pro-
lific,' and undestriietabl'e. We know no-
thing of the heroes, who lived before Agn-
¦' ; they and their monuments have
mouldered they and their crimes are for-
gotten, and • c trust forgiven. The chain
of evil events is of iron, it rusts, & breaks;
the chain of go- d is of gold. He who
first sowed a field, and he who first broke
in the ox to the yoke, have continued from
that hour to be the benefactors of mankind ;
the good which they have done continues to
increase with the increase of civilization,
and will continue so!to do till the consump-
tion of the present new order of men and
the next ne~v order of the Globe. W«t.
Penn was a member of that sect, which
was in his time the most despised and per-
secuted in England ; and nothing but the
heroism of an English jury (and it was then
as extraordinary to find a jury honest, as it
is now to find them otherwise) saved him
from perpetual imprisonment under sentence
of premunire. It is frightful to remember
how nearly Paridise Losi, & the settlement
of Pennsylvania, the two greatest works of
literature and policy, which have ever done
honor to the human race, had been prevent
ed undet the rei:j;n of Charles II. This
king who still keeps his festivals in the cal-
endar (when the Virgin Mary and the Apos-
tles have been expunged from it) gibbetted
the bones of Ireton, sent Hutchinson to be
poisened by the marsh miasmata of the shores
of Kent, and ordered Sydney to the Scaf-
fold ; and if he triad left Penn to rot in a
dungeon* and hoisted the quarters of Milton
upon the gates of London, we should still
have disbranched our green oaks, and rung
our church bells in his honor.
The French philosophers (who were not
wrong in every thing) taught us rightly to
estimate the character of William P. An,
and he is now acknowledged to he one of
the great men of England and of the world.
To say that George Kox was such also,
would still be " to the Greeks foolishness."
The tree, however, is to be judged by its
fruits ; and William Pfim was the' disciple
of this man, whwtri all our historians in
the blindness of their hearts and of their
understandings;, either pass unnoticed in
contempt, or, if they condescend to notice
him, call him a fanatic.
Upon the principles of morality which
Penn imbibed from him, he established his
colony ; and the event has proved that sound
morals and sound p >licy are the same.
Since the day when he purchased his terri-
tory from the Indians, n» dispute has arisen
between the Peimsylvaniaiis and the natives,
aid of all the Europeans who have ever
established themselves in America, he and
his people are the 011I3 ones who have lie
ver either disgractd religion or outraged hu
manity.
The present attempts towards the civili
Station of some of the Indians, are perfectly
in unison wilh the society in whom 'hey
originated. They an perfect and practica-
ble models how to reduce savages to christi
anit\. A few Gtuakeis. furnished by the
society with whale ver was necessary for the
sx>rprM
lain of the native tribes long enough to
leach them to hoe and pi ugh their fields,
to ei ch",e them, to rarse domestic cattle, to
build comfortable (muses for themst Ives ;
and, having taught them these things, and
instructed some of them in the blacksmith's
trade, have left them the in plwneuts, and
returned tu their ofl n families.
The word of a Qniakei is believed by the
ns, as it is in our on n courts of justice,
and it has never been broken. From the
Quakers they have uniformly received wise
advice and kind actions.
While the Quaker Missionaries of Agri-
culture have been resident among the In-
dians, some Indian girls have been taken to
the neighborhood of Philadelphia, at d there
instructed in uch things as were likely to
he mo.-t useful to them on then- return home.
It is to be hoped that these attempts are
theiViehide to great and extensive good.—
The Quakers begin the right way : tl ey
communicate instruction which is of imme-
diate benefit- The question, " hy are you
so good > will necessarily arise in the minds
of th< Indians ; and they will be prepared
to embrace opinions, of which they have
already, witnessed,the excellent effects. It
is absurd to go to savages with tales of
mysteries. Tin true method of converting
them is by show ing them, like the old blind
man in Madoc, how 1 tile difference there
is in the basts of oui faith.
" Know ye not It ni who 1; id
Tlie di'i'pf'iimia'ioii "I the Ea'th, am1 built.
The nrch of Heaven, ancfkimlli tl yonder Sun,
An . breathed imot'ne woods, &. waves &. sky.
The power ol It a <
We know him, liev replied.
The great For-Eyi r One, lee God nf Gods,
Tpalneiinioani. '" Dehy whom yco live.
" Aid we too," quntli Ayayaca, we know
And worship-th< Great. Spirit, who in cl«u Is
ui m,, & m untatns, c n&'-a, hi by the ml
if wafers in the woodland solitude,
Ai d n i: e night air! nilenct 1 f the s'v,
D«ih miik* his hi ins Mt. \\ e also know
And fear, send wot hip the the Bel. veol "no.
" Our Gul,"1 rep ie t.Cjtietha, " isllie same,
The Univt rsal Fa In. r."
Such language the Quakers may hold
with perfect truth ; in fact it is the language
t,hich they have held to the Indians, and
which the Indians understand. Let them
go en in d ing g od to them ; and time &
example, ard the Universal Father, will
bring about the rest.
BOSTON, 'November 2.
Arrived, the English bug Penelope,
captain Perry, 17 Says from Newfoundland,
brig Hannah, Duggan, do. iB. cargo fish,
nothing fiew.
Schr. Alexander, captain Bradford, 37
days from Lie of May, (via Piym uth) salt.
Left, brig Diamond,' Manson to sail''in 10
or 12 days for Philadelphia or Baltimore ;
schr. Malinda, Florence for St. Jago. 'Spoke
Oct. 11, tat. 29, 30, long. $9 a Hennaphro.
dire brig, 16 days from Rhode-Island for
W. Indies—same day, an English convoy
of 7 sail from Halifax for \V. Indies.
. Ship Mary, captain Stephenson, 90 days
from Trapana. (Sicilly.) Capt. S. lias ex-
perienced a veiy severe passage, has been 17
or 18 days on soundings and continually N.
W. winds.
Schr. Dispatch, Boyd, 57 days from
coa:t of Africa. Left at SieraLeon, Expe-
riment, of Boston, Hope, of Salem ;
Heart of Oak of Charleston. At Rio
Pongo-----------. captain Curtis of Boston.'
Schr. Branch, Pilchard, of Newburyp rt,
36.fr. Martiuico,molasses, sugars,&c Spoke
Sept. 27, a schr. 16 days from Baltimore,
forD minico. Oct. 7, lat 2g, long. 67,
schr. Amazon, of Biilt-mnrc. 18th, fat.
38, 34, long, 70, 30, ship Stranger, 3
days from Norfolk for London.
Schr. Nancy, of Camden, N. C. 47 days
f ra Port Antonio, (jam )
Ship Artstides, Williams, 4.4 days from
Liverpool, salt and goods. Sailed in co.
Sept. 17, Manchester. Perry, for New-Bed-
ford ; Belvidera, Hatha av, do. Leyent,
and Hudson, Tnmb, N. York ; Pallas.
Wilcox, Savannih ; Latona, M'Creigh.
Left, Mount Vernon, for Boston, ncxi
day; G and Sachem, New-York, in 2;
Swift. Taber, do. $ ; Manchester, do. Sa-
vage, Po-,r 10k, do. Magi* rate, do. Parnas-
sus, do. Horatio, P rtland ; John Ad-ims,
do. Ariadne, Portsmouth ; Nancy. Provi
dence R. I. Dispatch, Smith, Ricnmond ;
Laura, M'Lellan ; Hero, Eimm nd ; Co-
lumbia, Goodrich ; Francis, Curtis; Betty,
Evans; C mpact, Patterson; Pocahontas;
Minerva ; Sisters, Thornton, all uncertain ;
Henrietta, Baltimore, 8 day> ; Western
Trader, Philadelphia, Mary, New Orleans;
Georgia, Savannah ; Abeona, Charleston ;
Resource, d >. Sp.-ke. Sept. 26, lat, 48,
long. 14, ship Eliza, Rich, 27 days from
Charleston for Cowes. Oct. 26, lat. 42
40, long. 65, 30, schr. Miles, Standish
41 days from Bilboa, for Plymouth ; 27,
lat. 42, 40, long. 67, ship Hope, 41 days
from the Mediterranean, for SaUtt. Lu
cmda, Adams, Norfolk and ' altimore.
Cleared, ship Meridian, Lord, Rotter-
dam ; bri'S Superb, Henry, Leghorn ; Sally
Ann, Nichols, Amsterdam ; Nancy, Da-
vis, Burin1; Falc. n, Tucker, Poole, En-
gland.
bound'to'St. Croix, taken and brought in
by a Tortola privateer, belonging to Mr.
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