Driginal. HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1804. Hisher the products of your closet-labors bring, Enrich our columns, and instruct mankind. FOR THE BALANCE. REVIEW. A Poem, on Liberty and Equality. By Daniel Rogers, Student of Union College. IN N this poem, the critick will undoubtedly find much to cenfure. The writer has either intentionally departed, in fome inftances, from all the acknowledged rules of poetry, or he has thrown some of his thoughts into rhyme in a very careless manner. But even the critic must acknowledge, that the poem, in fome of its parts, difcovers a talent in the writer, which, with proper cultivation, may ripen into excellence. The candid reader, on being made acquainted with the peculiar circumftances of Mr. Rogers, will look upon this poem, as a performance which, taken together, reflects honor on the author. The best of poets have written their firft pieces; and it will hardly be prefumed that their firft have been equal to their last. Although it is believed that no man can become a good poet, unlefs endowed with a natural talent-ftill it must be admitted that much art and practice is requifite to bring the moft fhining talents to perfection. Mr. Rogers' opportunities for improvement in fcience and literature, have been very few. He is the fon of a respectable mechanic of this city, and ferved out an apprenticeship with his father. He, how ever, discovered an early attachment to books, and embraced every advantage for improvement within his reach. On the expiration of his apprenticeship, his defire for an academical education became too powerful to be refifted. He entered Union College, at Schenectady, and pursued his ftudies with fuch application and induftry that he has now completed his ed ucation. The title of the poem is enough to fhew that it is of a political caft; and a few extracts will give the reader a pretty corfect idea of the fentiments of the writer. In making these extracts, care has been taken to fele&t fome of the best paffages. The objectionable parts are left for the investigation of those who are fond of viewing the dark fide of every thing. In his preface, the writer fays, I thought the matter o'er and o'er again ; Thus, beasts on land, and in the sea, The Lion has, his counterpart; or Behold a creature, mean and vile, His nights, in painful tedious watching, "Learn them to fight with club and fist well, For lo! what raptures fill the soul, And nought's to fear, that may befal us Nor then, shall men fall on their knees, down In long, in short, or common metre ; 1. Hail! sacred goddess, plac'd on high, And face thy fulminating pow'r !! 2. Ignite us with a flame, Of pure atherial gas; 4. To thee, the elder child of chance, Liberty of the Prees. FROM THE LANSINGBURGH GAZETTE. inuendoes were properly proved, they must The publication being admitted by the Mr. Van Vechten then commenced the defence; and in an argument of confiderable length pointed out to the jury the important confequences involved in the queftion fubmitted to their decifion; that it was for them to determine whether the proceedings of our courts of juftice might with faiety be published; whether the conduct of our public officers was to be fhielded from the public eye; wheth er the liberty of the prefs was to be prefer ved in this country; whether a primer fhould be punished for publifhing the truth. He contended, that as from the nature of our government all its officers were amenable to the people, were in fact their fervants, it was neceffary, it was indif penfable, that their proceedings fhould be publifhed, that they might be known. He dwelt at fome length on the import ance of the trial by jury, and urged the neceffity of their refifting every attempt to encroach upon their privileges. He allo contended, that as the publication in queftion related to the official conduct of a public officer, its truth, which had been fully proven, ought to be confidered as a complete juftification. His whole argu ment was, as ufual, clear, ftrong, eloquent and impreffive. : Foot then bawled at the jury, for fome time, and in his ufual way; but as he himfelt applied to his harangue the epithet 66 Foot, district-attorney, who was present at the trial of Mr. Crofwell, was then called on as a witnefs, to prove the truth of the publication. He refufed to be fworn; and on being queftioned, it was difcovered that his only excufe was that he had not been fubpænæd. To fave time and the trouble of making a fubpoena, his teftimony was relinquifhed; and Mr. Van Vechten, the defendant's counfel, offered himself as a witnefs. He ftated that he was prefent at the trial of Mr. Crof well, and that the chief juftice refused an application to poftpone faid trial, for the purpose of giving Mr. Crofwell time to At a circuit court held in this county on procure a witness to prove the truth of the Tuesday laft, before his Honor Judge publication for which he was indicted; Thompson, came on the trial of the edi- and declared that he would not permit his tor of this paper, on an indictment for a witneffes to be fworn, were they in court. libel on Morgan Lewis, Efq. chiet juf. He allo produced a copy of the cafe made tice of this flate. The indictment was for the fupreme court after the trial of Mr. found at a court ofgeneral feffions in Octo- Crofwell; from which it appeared, that ber laft, and was removed by certiorari the chief juftice charged the jury "that it into the fupreme court. The words fet was no part of their province to enquire or forth as libellious on the record, were ex- decide on the intent of the defendant; tracted from a publication in this Gazette or whether the publication was true, or of the 23d Auguft laft, ftating a decifion falfe, or malicious; that the only quef. of the chief justice on the trial of Harry tions for their confideration and decifion Crofwell, accompanied with fome remarks, were, whether the defendant was the pub. and were as follows:- The Judge (Lew-lifher of the piece charged in the indictis) on the trial, refufed Mr. Crofwell the His honor Judge Thompfon then adprivilege of producing his witneffes;" the dreffed the jury; and in a very impartial following words, but which did not appear and perfpicuous charge explained his ideas upon the record, concluded the sentence of the law on the fubje&t of libels. He "declared that he would not fuffer them, The truth of the words upon the record flated that in his opinion the jury were were they prefent, to open their lips, to being thus proven, the diftrict-attorney confined in their enquiry to two pointsthe truth of what Crofwell had writprove moved for leave to read to the jury the ift, whether the defendant was the publish ten, exprefsly charged the jury that it was whole of the publication from which they er, and whether the inuendoes were prov entirely immaterial whether the libel was were extracted. This was objected to ed; 2d, the intent, whether innocent true or not; that it was not for them to by the counfel for the defendant, in as or malicious. He repeated his opinion, confider whether the words amounted to much as the public profecutor had been at as before given, that the truth of the fuch a libel as ought to be punished; that liberty in the first inflance to felect the publication ought to be confidered mere. whether the motives of the defendant were materials for the indictment from the wholely as an item to fhew the intent; for there good or bad was wholly out of the quef-publication; and it would be paying a poor might be cafes, he faid, in which the on that if the jury was fatisfied that compliment to his understanding or integcompliment to his understanding or integ-truth of a libel would be no juflification. li Crowell was the publifher, and that the rity, to fuppofe he had felected thofe Such, for inflance, were thofe private ment; and fecond, as to the truth of the blundering," it would, perhaps, be ungenerous to fubje&t it to criticism. He however attempted to perfuade the jury that the words on the record were falfe; for that the refufal of the chief juftice to allow Mr. Crofwell the privilege of produ cing his witnesses was not on the trial, but on the difcuffion of a preliminary, queftion before the jury was worn. But we feel difposed to pardon him for this pitiful quibble; for had he not availed himself of it, he must have remained Glent. bels which publifhed the natural defects of an individual, & which ought to beconfidered the more malicious for being true. He however fubmitted both the law and the fact to the confideration of the jury. He adverted to the diftinction attempted to be drawn by the diftri&t-attorney, as before mentioned, and flated it to be immaterial, as he confidered the preliminary proceedings alluded to as forming a part of the trial; and obferved, that he had no doubt but that the words fet forth upon the record were fubftantially true. In the courfe of the charge, he declared to the jury, that although his opinion differed from that of the chief juice, ftill he beJieved the latter to have been governed in his decifion, on the trial of Mr. Crofwell, by the best motives, and from the fulleft conviction of its correctness. The jury retired to their room, and in a few micutes returned with a verdict of not guilty. Editor's Closet. ANOTHER FEDERAL TRICK! Of all the horrid federal tricks, difcov. ered by our watchful democrats, the one now about to be mentioned is the mafter is piece; and why all the prefidential pi. pers are fo filent on the fubject, I cannot imagine. What has become of all Capt. Straddlepole's patriotifm? Why does he not tune his Organ, and tell us fomething about this new federal trick? Where is Capt. Daggerman? Has he turned his Watch-Tower into a dark lanthern, that he may ftab Burrites" in the unfufpecting moments of fleep," with the greater fecurity? Has Mitchell run away again? Does the Aurora Borealis, no longer illumine the Northern hemifphere? "And why does not the Bee buzz a drowsy note to the tune of federal tricks? Is the captain too busy with ftar-gazing, or does he wait to take his cue from the two great captains of democracy? Alas! thefe queftions cannot be answered. I will therefore undertake to give the reader fome account of this moft abominable federal parcel of young intrepid federalifts (whom trick. Mr. Jefferson had graciously permitted to remain on board the navy) not having the fear of the Bafhaw before their eyes, nor 16 dreading the fmell of gun-powder, did, with force and arms," and with "malice aforethought," attack, burn and deftroy the faia frigate, and did break in upon "the circle of the felicities" of the crew, and did them kill, mangle, wound, and capture to the great difcomfiture of the faid Bafhaw, and to the great fcandal of all Mountain Heroes, and Jeffersonian Philofophers. A fresh-water Swab, in the laft Bee, has hailed the ftargazer, with "Ahoy! friend Holt! Ahoy!" As the piece is figned "Tom" and the writer feems to be very fond of Judge Lewis, one cannot help thinking of a famous charge of a famous Judge in a famous caufe at Claverack, in which the jury were told "that the mafter of a veffel had an undoubted right to You must know then, reader, that during that memorable "reign of terror,' when John Adams was prefident of the United States, all the pirates and freeboot. ers of the ocean unembarraffed by too much regulation," fell foul of our commerce, plundered our merchants, and murdered our feamen. You will recol. lect that John Adams and a federal Congrefs, "for the fole purpose of eftablishing a monarchy and enflaving the people," reared a proud little navy, and manned it with a fet of brave and daring Americans, who would fooner run into all manner of danger, than flee to the mountains, or philofophically buy a peace. You will recollect that this navy, by fome curled trick of federalism, protected our commercial rights, and gave the U. S. fome national confequence.—Well-flick a pin there, and turn over a new leaf.—At length, the people became fo much alarmed at the "monarchical views of the fed-flog his failors, for any misconduct whateralifts," that they refolved to make the ever-that Jailors were fervants, &c.”— philofophic, the mild, the ferene Mr. Jef. Tip us no more of your palaver, Tom. terfon their prefident. Mr. Jefferson did not like a navy; and plainly told the people, that it was beft to leave commerce to take care of itself, or words to that effect. Accordingly a great part of the navy was fold, at lefs than half the original cost, and fold, at lefs than half the original cost, and thus a great faving was made. But the ferene philofopher, abhorring the practice of turning men out of office, on account of their political fentiments, permitted the federal naval officers to retain their com The Tripolitans, taking advantage of the abfence of the American ar armed veffels, foon commenced their depredatious in the Mediterranean; and the ferene prefident found it neceffary to employ a few fhips to keep up a fhew of protection: But he took good care to hint to Congrefs, that it would be well to fend "the leaft force competent." The force, however, proved incompetent, in confequence of which, a fine frigate fell into the hands of the enemy, and her brave crew was fent into captivity. then for the federal trick!-While the captured frigate was riding at anchor in the harbor of Tripoli, under the protection of forts, caftles and batteries, a miffions. -Now Before the democrats even pretend (for it is nothing but pretenfion) to have any regard for the maxims or fentiments of Washington, they will do well to inform uwhy they recommended the period of his retirement as a day of jubilee. Capt. Stargazer, in the laft Bee, corrected fome of his late lies by an Errata. If he is difpofed to follow up this plan, I will offer him the following for his next paper: Errata. For feveral hundred affertions which have appeared in the Bee fince its eftablifhment in Hudson, the reader is defired to fubftitute directly the reverfe, by which he will come pretty near the truth. To Correspondents. "NEAR BYE," is notfo far off as to be unknown. "KEEL UPWARDS," is inadmiffible at prefent. Agricultural. EXTRACT. FROM THE YORK RECORDER. A METHOD For preferving Clover Hay, and improving the flavor and quality of Straw. IN Na day or two after your Hay is cut, when only about half dried, let it be taken in and packed with alternate layers of ftraw; give to each layer of clover four or five half pints of falt, or more in proportion to the quantity of Hay: three pints to the hundred weight will prevent the fermentation, or exceffive heat, which injures and moulds it. By not drying the hay as much as common, and putting it up as above mentioned, it imparts to the ftraw the flavor and much of the quality of clover, and cattle eat one as greedily as the other. How to preferve Clover in its green flate. Take in your grafs from the fwath, cut it down as you would ftraw, on Symior's or Kirk's cutting machine; pack it well down in a clofe apartment or hogtheads. giving a pound of falt to every hundred weight. By preferving in this way you will have a beautiful green hay, exceed ingly fragrant and nourishing, and fupe. rior to any other fodder, especially for milch cows. It is not more expensive than the ufual mode of making and drying hay as the fame number of hands will cut and pack it, without the risk of having it damaged by rain, which too frequently hap. pens from unavoidable delays. This procefs is certainly worth attention, and more fo from our eastern farmers who are in the habit of exporting this article to the West. India markets. How to improve impoverished land. Put in two fucceffive crops of buckwheat, and when in bloom, plow them down this may be done in one feason, and in the fall fow your wheat or rye, and you cannot fail of having a promising crop of grain the next year. AGRICOLA. A WOMAN, (fays a late writer,) a mong the favages, is a beast of burden; in the Eaft, a piece of furniture; in Europe, a fpoiled child; and in America, the lovely and beloved companion of man. Monitorial Department. To aid the cause of virtue and religion. EXTRACT. BENEVOLENCE. W HEN we examine the various characters and diftinctions among men, if any of them claim our pure love, friend fhip and eflcem, it is the man who poffeffes the genial traits of genuine benevolence; and it is he who is intitled to our firft and highest encomiums; for benevo lence is a principle of the heart, by and through which we receive the pleasure refulting from true inward happiness, the continuance of which will last until the indifcriminating hand of death fummons the foul from its tabernacle of clay, to wing its courfe through the ætherial fkies, to the bleffed manfions above, the refidence of thofe whole virtues and perfections have crowned their heads with laurels of immortal glory. Let us never withhold from the memory of thofe men, the praifes which their virtues have obtained, but fuffer the apologies of human nature to plead in their behalf-as perfection on this earth, has not nor never wil be obtained; the wifeft as well as the befl of men have erred, humanum eft errarae. -The benign influence of this godlike atribute benevolence, has a powerful tend ency, when it operates upon the human mind, to eradicate therefrom the fling of vice and immorality, with which it has been poifoned. To do a good action is a good man's fecular study, and to promote the felicity of his fellow creatures his fupreme delight. It is not fo much his enquiry, who are, as where are the ob. jects of pity and compaflion, but to inform him is meritorious, because their wants are immediately meliorated by the adminiftration of his help and affiftance. The benevolent man harbours not a mali. cious thought, neither doth he take pleafure in expofing the faults of his fellow men; he is contented in concealing them from a flanderous world, and admonishing them in fecret." Happy the man who inherits this virtue; his days are days of pleasantnefs, and all his paths are peace.' APHORISM. YOU can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on him. elf. He only who acts confequentially owards himself will a&t to towards others, and vice verfa.-Lavater. Miscellany. [The following Oration was sent us for publication several months ago. Our correspondent is re quested to pardon the postponement, and the total omission of a few passages.] AN ORATION, Pronounced at Campton, New Hamp Shire, on the fourth of July, 180g. By JOHN ROGERS, A. M. THIS Anniversary forms a prominent epoch in the annals of America. It ar refts our attention to that memorable day, whereon the fober watchmen of Colum. via, from the high balcony of prudential wifdom, proclaimed the birth of the lat Empire of the world, It alfo brings to wounded recollection, the doleful portrait of a cruel Tyrant, aiming a deadly fhaft at the head of his innocent and manly off fpring-But that guardian God, who holds the fceptre of univerfal empire, and decides with omnipotence in the defliny of nations, averted the impending blowcompaffionately extended his arm to deliv erance, and his finger to WASHINGTON(that man, of whom the most exalted eulogy is puny praife; and compared to whom, the boafted great ones in pompous ftory, are but rufh-lights to the blazing Sun)-defignating him, like the patriarch. al Leader of ISRAEL, to conduct us thro wilderness of difanimating toil and danger, and through a red fea of blood, to the deftined haven of peace and acknowl edged independence-which progress and attainment, (all things confidered) like the quails and manna in Egypt, excite aftonishment, and lay claim to miracle! elfe why did the proud, the pampered Golish, Britain, yield the palm to the young, the untutored flrippling, America! or why did that mighty Nation, whofe navy cov ered the feas, and whofe martial prowess held Europe at defiance, lay down their brilliant arms at the feet of American Peasants! The answer is unavoidably this, "If it had not been the LORD who was on our fide, when men rofe up against us, then they had fwallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled againft us. Void of this fignal interpofition of Ifraei's GOD, the LORD of Hofts, what would have been the probable fate of this fair Canaan, but dreadful defeat and fubjuga tion! This joyous theme, therefore, de. mands a tribute of exalted praife and thanksgiving from the willing tongnes ervent hearts of all but the knave, the flave, and the infidel: Hence let evely Free-born American teach even his tender prattlings, to regard this day as the impor tant Jubilee, on which their fage progeni tors fnatched their birthright from the and iron fangs of oppreflion; expecting their grateful pofterity duly to appreciate and improve the golden benefit, until rational Liberty fhould bid her laft adieu to the face of the earth. But the arrival of welcome Peace did not wholly difpel the lowering clouds of danger and difficulty; for the important confideration, that firmnefs, unanimity, and wildom, are equally requifite to fe cure as to make a conqueft, opened an ample field for the difplay of the expanding energy and rifing glory of an infant Republic. Thus, felected wisdom and talents were concentred for the conftruction of a National Beacon, which, like the polar ftar, fhould ftand immoveable for the fu ture guidance of the great political Ark. It was done-And the fpontaneous fails of commerce whitened the harbours of Europe and Afia, and poured the riches of the world into the broad lap of our extended country. propriety as the herds of the valley, or the goats upon the mountains: Witnefs alfo the countlefs hordes of reftlefs emigrants, and foreign convicts, fwarming from Europe; who, like the frogs and locufts of Egypt, have darkened our fhores, and caufed the land to ftink !-And again, have not the brawny defparadoes of Hi bernia, combined in fyftematic league and united phalanx, been beckoned to our fea-ports and virtually invited to lend their friendly aid in our most important public elections ? And, fhocking to relate, have not hungry adventurers, and venal fycophants, whofe ears were doubtless left as ornaments upon European whipping-pofts, been patronifed and paid in America, for infulting and defaming, the moft exaited characters for virtue and talents, that ever adorned humanity ?Let the fainted afhes, entomed at MOUNT VERNON, fpeak and declare. Oh, my country! How muft thy face The Genius of the great Columbus was be covered with the blushes of confufion, enraptured with the rifing profpe&t of his and the diftortions of remorte, if thy redarling child; and for twelve fucceffivenowned Hero and Sate fman fhould return, years, fmiled approbation and complacence not withstanding the vile, though feeble attempts, of a few defigning, midnight fons of darkness and difcord. But at length the peftilential, hydra mifchiet engendered in the morbid atmof. phere of the "terrible Republic," and exalted by the horrid flench of murdered millions, was waf.ed by the firoc winds of France, to thefe western fhores; where, alas! in places pre-difpofed to infection, it affumes the file of an epidemic, detroying more in filent darkneís, than at noonday Sharp stung with envy, like the man of sin, Where still, with cank'ring tooth, and rav'nous joy But, fhall it be affirmed, that the united myriads of honeft patriots, who in the hour of peril and upon the fpur of danger, zallied round. the altar of Liberty and the ftandard of Independence, have so far forgotten their moral and political creeds, as to become the profolites and difciples of anarchy, rapine, and confufion? NoThis fhall not be faid, refpecting nine tenths of the virtue, talents, and property of our country; for whenever fact has favored fuch a fentiment, it ought to be afcribed to numbers, rather than to worth ur weight of character: Witnefs the fable cattle of Africa, who, by an ill-fated, though unavoidable indulgence of the Conftitution have been accurately weighed in the balance of fuffrage, with as little i to enquire refpecting the improvement of thofe leffons of moral and political wif dom, left, as his dying leg cy, for the direction of his favorite children! Muft not the corrofive heart-burnings of thame and ingratitude, arife in thy breaft, enough to trangle a Mammoth ! ! Thefe, fellow citizens, are fome of the charming effects of the new. new-fangled phi lofophy-that elaborate fyftem, hatched, ike the egg of the Crocodile, in the fever. 1th brains of Frederick, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Godwin, and old ftaunch difciples of Moloch in the fchool of Pandemonium, where, for twenty years, they have been attempting, with unrivalled ait and perfeverance, to revolutionize the world, and to eradicate every fentiment of moral duty, and religious obligation from the face of the earth. France was the firft theatre on which thefe mighty managers undertook to dif play the horrid tragedy; and Louis, the humane, the placid Monarch of that abominable nation, fell a lamentable victim to that deftroying engine the Gullotine, fecured to the meritorious inventor by patent-right from Belzebub, arch prefident of illuminifm and wild-fire democ racy. The " tempestuous fea of liberty," ag. itated by the maddening winds of the new fyftem, continued raging, while Briffot, Carriere, Marat, Robelpierre, and other murderous demagogues, feized the he'm; from whence they foon tumbled, into the giddy vortex of their boafted liberty and deadly equality. Thus the cameleon, gallic monfer, confifting at one time of five and at another of, five hundred heads, blafphemously af. fumed the title of Government; which it held in the clutches of perfidy and wickednefs, until the wonderfu', the unparallelled BONAPARTE, with his unconquerable legions, appeared at the gates of Paris, and graciously proclaimed himself their Lord and Protector !-And anon, millions of elevated hands, and clamourous tongues, declare him Sovereign Dictator for life! which amounts, in plain English, to the most defpotic tyranny upon the globe !-And, indeed, the great mafs of the "fovereign and beloved people," were glad to exchange the wolves and tygers of France, for the Lion of Corfica to rule them; being fully convin ced they could not govern themselves; but that fome ftrong arm, fome energetic power, condenfed to a focus, was indifpenfible to quell the tornadoes and whirl. winds occafioned by the breath of a lawless mob and although this fentiment is repugnant to the modern do&trine of democratic fchools, where the rights of man are fophiftically tortured into a juftification of every outrage; yet the immemorial experience of ages, confirms its truth and propriety. Republican Governments have fometimes fprung from the afhes and lava of revolution, and have placed their main dependence for fupport upon that rare ideal phantom, public virtue-that nondefcript damfel who flutters in the fantastic courts of Lilliput; but as well might the bloated epicure fatiate his ravenous palate upon utopian dainties, or the a-la-mode flesh of a white raven. Public virtue, like private charity, is oftener feen upon the tongues that in the actions of men. A thousand impediments will fpring from the hot-beds of Abfalom and Ahithophel, (two confpicuous democrats of antiquity) to check the growth of that delicate, tender, fenfitive plant and although in the outfet of govermental caricer, it may be the ferious intention of many to cultivate and mature it; yet, by the folly, fupinenefs, and inattention, in the majority, of its boafted votaries, it droops and dies, furrounded by the rank, poifonous weeds of envy, calumny, ingratitude, hypocrify, and the whole family of fin. But let us turn our attention to the afpect of our own dear Country, and afk, whether we are not following the footfleps of thofe great nations and republics, which have heretofore figured high in the catalogue of fame, but are, long fince, funk in oblivion, or become the vaffals of defpotifm? Where are Greece and Rome! Where is Carthage! And, to modernize the queflion, where are Switzerland and Belgium-and where will be America!!It conjecture muft arife from the fpirit of the times, and the manners as they pafs, must not an answer be given prophetic of evil and deftruction to this land? Do not the fymptoms of dire disease appear plain |