JEMALE PATRIOTISM. Wreath. FOR THE BALANCE. And said with them to be a fav'rite joint- mand, LIAR. IN the year 1637, Judge Crook having a cause to seule concerning ship.money, and being learful of exposing himself to the resentment of a powertul ministry, had determined to give judgment for the king ; but his wife, a woman of true vir. Tue, addressing him in a style of Spartan magnanimity, conjured him no. to erra. gainst his conscience and his honor, for lear of incurring danger or poverty. For herself, she would be conient 10 suffer want or any misery, rather than be the occasion of his acting against his judgment and his conscience.. Crook, ftruck with the exalted fentia ments, and strengthened with the farther encouragements of lo dear and persuasive a friend, altered his purpose, and not coly gave his opinion agaioli the king, but are gued with a n ble boldness and firmness on the side of Law and Liberty. An Irish print observes that in all cases where a jury of matrons are impanelled, the Fore-man should be a woman of relpectable character. Diversity "Ibe greater the truth the greater ihe libel." CANTO THE FIRST. Turks : wise "Our army and fleet," say the French, TERMS OF THE BALANCE, " electrified by the genius of one great FOR 1804. man, have lost all diftinétions. You see To City Subscribers, Two Dollars and Fifty a dragoon at the top.mall.head, while a Cents, payable quarterly. To those who receive them by mail, Two Dolo is nothing very terrible in all this; fince, ars, payable in advance. if true, it merely proves that she genius of To those who take their papers at the office, in one great man has put every thing out of bundles, or otherwise, a deduction from the city its proper place—a work which the French price will be made. Revolutionists have often performed be A handsome Title Page and Table of Contents fore in the civil department. will accompany the last number of the volume. (London paper.] Advertisements inserted in a handsome and como spicuous manner, in the Advertiser which accompact nies the Balance. N O T E. The first and second Volumes of the Balance [Ilid. ] may be had on the following terms. First Volume-unbound- Bote Volumee, so sent to any post-ofee in the state for 52 cents posto many holes in ii. age; or to any posi.office in the union for 78 cents $ 2 $ 2, 50 $ 4 Editorial. (SUBJZCT OF LAST WEEK CONTINUED.) Without pretending that spot !!! “ ers mentioned upon that occasion, were arrangements for Vice President, [hop" John Langdon and Levi Lincolo, from ing that the fluation of the man might “ Massachuseurs, and John Breckenridge “ forever keep bim under way] they vote " from Kentucky. At this time, the " ed, or, rather recommended him as a " members from the state of Virginia, "proper person to fill the office. But " were clamorous in favor of Mr. Breck finding they were unhappily deceived, enridge and upon comparing the they veered about, and fewed their “Atrength of those three, in the early part is cloven foot, ihrew off the cloak under 4 of the session, it was discovered that Mr. “ which they wilhed to act, and let the cat Breckenridge would have a majority in “ out of the wallet ; and the very man, “ his favor. The only circumstance that ! whom a short time before they held up “ seemed probable to disappoint his elec as the most competent to fill the office “ ţion, was the jealousy shat existed in the of Vice President, is now no longer fit, " breasts of the finaller ftates, at tbe over. “because he does not reside in the right grown power of Virginia. '. Mr. Breck. “; ja and New York, always calculate on “ of Virginia. It would th:n be à Vir. filing the office of President and Viceginia President and a Virginia Vice. Prcfident. By clubbing their interests President. These were the arguments and dividing the smaller ftates, they will " adduced upon the occation, alway's be enabled to do so. Thus is ". This, with the local situation of the " the duplicity of these two overgrown man, induced many valuable members “ states exhibited to view. This is a glato oppose the election of Mr. Brecken. ring specimen of that intrigue and dis. ridge. Oihers, again, who soared a. • fimulation in states which I pointed out “bove these petty prejudices, viewed the " to you in the preceding part of this ad. man, and not the spot where he might " dress, and which like all other fecret “ chance to live. This party, together political strokes have fbaken the liber. " with the strength of Virginia, (at this .so ties of the people, and at lait compelled “ time clamorous in favor of Mr. Breck. "them to yield to the power of tałtion. enridge) would have been a majority. “ But, fellow citizens, whom has this " So far, the members from Virginia, “ dangerous fa£lion pitched on for Vice" seemed to have acted confiftently. But • Prelident ? It is true that their choice “ mark their subsequent conduct ; and " has been confined to one' whose princi. you will perceive what duplicity, and ples cannot be doubted, and who figure ci seifilhness characterize their intriguing ed in the revolutionary confli&t. But policy. They did not wish to loose che " it must be conceded, that he is worn friendhip of the western intereft, which " out with years, and that he has bereto. “ had uniformly been attached to the po. “ fore declined entering into public life licy that had marked and characterized s from a sense of his infirmities. There " the fate of Virginia ; and in the first " are of themselves confiderations sufg. Gov. Clinton is the moit suitable person on the democratic fide, in the Itate of New-York, for our next president, I do not hesitate to declare, that, as far as rel. peets our commerce, I believe he wonld act with ren times the energy that is mani. fested by our present president. I do not believe that Gov. Clinton is so much a philosopher as to think of prote&ting our commerce with such paltry craft as Gua Boat No. 1, and Gun Boat No. 2, and whirligig guns. Bui, besides the object of protecting our commerce, there are o her considerations which ought to induce the preference of a northern over a fouthern president.' The designs of Virginia and her fatelites, ought to be counteracted, before they are carried too far for a peaceable corrective. As long as our elections remain tree and pure, we bave a safe and easy remedy lor every evil; but we must be watchful, or intrigue and corruption may render our situation desperate-dissolution and ruin may be the confequence ! An address has larely appeared in the democratic papers of Kentucky, which needs only to be read, to create alarm in the mind of every northern man. After some general remarks, the writer says • Let us come to the point. " At the commencement of the last fel. " fion of Congress, a number of persons " were talked of by the republican mem. "bers for Vice-Presidents Among oth. 66 in their not is this sentiment will pervade the Union “ cient to enable you 10 perceive that “ danger in the conduct of their affairs. + | "sespective parts of the Union as poffiyour representatives in making this “ Il lavors so much of the practice under 'ble. True. But at the same time ibat ** choice, were governed by other mo " the most deadly despotisms, that the A “ I am of opinion that this should be done " lives than the public welfare. They “ mericans should guard against it, by all “ by means of representation in the legis. " are sufficient to induce you, my fellow " the vigilance, by all the temperate for. “ lative deparıment, yet I contend in the " citizens,'trom aceeding to the choice, **-bearance and prudent circumspection in *** present case, that even this doctrine has " from motives of prudence as well as power. been observed, If any influence is " from a lense of delicacy, which should “ The jealousy that has been evinced by " to be derived from Tending a Vice. " teach us the impropriety of calling into ." the republican party towards itself is re. “ President from Kentucky, the Western “ the busy scenes of public life, a man af. pleie with the most alarming symptoms. " Country has become fufficiently weigh• flicted with infirmities and worn down “ Fitteen years have we been itruggling " ty in the Union, to juftity the operation " by the decripitude of old age. " by uniting our wisdom, our talents and " of the doctrine there. By not permila Now, fellow citizens, if fate should so “ our prudence, in opposing the anglo ling that operation, when a suitable “ determine ir, ihal Clinton, the perfon “ federal party in America. During ihe “ character presents himself, we virtually “ recommended, should be called to fill “ greateft part of that period, our hopes " violate the spirit of our conftitution." the chair, what might we calculate on " and fears have ebbed and flowed: we “ We interdict the right of suffrage, by " from a man of his description ? It is an " have experienced all the malice of op-making place the criterion of eligibility “ arduous task for a man in the vigor of “ position and all the inreteracy of a con. " instead of perfonal qualifications. “ his health and confti:ution, with all the - fli&t which we considered as teeming I presume it would be deemed pre. " inclination and ambition incident to " with the fate of our couriry. By steady “ fumption in me, to assume to myfeita " man, to fill the office with dignity, and " and determinate means, after overturn, discovery which I anticipate has already "! to hold the reigns of government with a ! ing a multitude of obitacles, we belield “ roused tbe just indignation and becom. " Iteady hand. " the day of triuinph, flushing upon our “ ing jealousy of the Imaller flares. Now " The office of Vice President is an “ hopes with all the beauty of Ipring after s is the time, this is the golden hour, lo " office of the highet importance ; for in " a long and disailious winier. At this break the combination of the unwieldy “ case of death, refignation or impeach. to auspicious period, when the majesty " and overgrown ftates of Virginia and 56 ment of the Prefdent, he fills chat office, " and justice of our cause begañ even to New-York; and not suffer ourselves to “ until another is conftitutionally elected. " make our enemies suspect that they had “ be duped into measures which are traught ". But should we accede to the nomina“ been fighting on wrong grounds, bei "i with all the arts of fraud and intrigue" tion of Clinton, let me remark, and call “ bold ! the demon of jealousy springs yp, “.We are clearly not bound by the nom. " on my country to recognize the poffi. spreads desolation ihrough our ranks, viinarion. When we coosider the part - bility that there will be, for your Preli. " and threatens by dividing us to give the Virginia has taken, I trust no oiher "deot and Vice-President to be, chosen " enemy a chance of regaining its ascen. "part of the Union, reflecting a moment " and appointed by your Senate ; for I dancy, on the case, will feel themselves bound " believe it is universally allowed, and I " What is the idea of Virginia Pref. " to support it. This would be a dere. " think it is but justice too, that Jeiferson " li&tion of sovereign power, for which os will be re-elected to the Presidency. ", dent and Virginia Vice-President,' bat or the dead heroes who archieved our in. He, ally, is wearing out with years; and " states of Virginia and New York in al. “ dependence, if they view the affairs of ";I:will venture to predict, that if Clinton “ this world, would drop a tear of iodigo ways furnishing the two first executive " is elected, he will feel the weight of “ officers, but a jealous combination, re. government and of his office, so heavily, For But should this not be the case, what ? " sulting from a malignant tear that the in. so that he will refign it or at least he will " fluence of the smaller republican stares « why our political horizon darkens• not attend the different sessions. It is “ will gain the ascendancy, and one part ". A gloomy selfithness pervades the fed. “ niore than can be expected from a mao of the union overbalance the other ? “ eral combination ; and principle is let " who has passed the summer of life, and " These are all political jealousies actually “ amidit the jaring interests that will a. " who has become deaf with years, that ro rise. " exifting in the brealls of the republican " he will be enabled to attend six or eight party. Is it a correct principle ? ." What, then, will be the difference " months in a year and that in the most " between the Grecian combination and Ought it to be entertained at a inoment rigcrous [eason. Should it then please "i when we have enemies whose 'vigilance " the American? Nare : and I can read " the divine disposer of human events to • is directed towards our movements, " in the fair of Greece, the fate of Amer. " call the Presidenų to the land of reit, " ready to take advantage of our follies? " ica. To the intelligent reader it will be " Clinton's infirmities will render him un. " It is not correct, becaule it shews a “ fufficient to táv, THERE WAS AN " able to fland at the helın ofiche nation. - diftruft of ATHENS AND A SPARTA!!!! own cause. It is “ Should he resign, which is the most like. "" nos corrcét because it has an evi. "* .....-IN WHOSE VORTEX THE ly, then your President and Vice-Prer. o ident will be chosen by the Senate -« dent tendency to weaken our counc ! RFST OF THE CONFEDERATE s and embarrass chose deliberations upon “ STATES OF GREECE WERE " What, fellow citizens, in this care, " which the happiness of the country can SWALLOWED UP ! ! ! ! at would he vour situation ? Both a Preli. "I here concluderhele remarks by ob" alone relt. Ti is not correct, because it " dent and Vice-President to be chosen by ** endangers the very existence of the re Cerving, that no man ought to be vored the Senate ! However tavorably difpo. *** publican cause, by feparating the parts for as an Elefior, who will not une" fed I may be towards that constitution " from each other, throughout the union, quivocally declare, and make bis dec. " which marks out this provision, yet I " and lessening that strength so necesia. hope that the neceflity for carrying it “ laration public by publishing the fame in ry in all great pational archievennents. " the public prints,' that he will vote før "5 into actual practice, will occur as sel “ Thomas Jefferson as President and John “ doon as poslihle. For a time it would It may be contended, that it should “ Breckenridge as Vice-President of the fufpend the powers of the fovereign !" be the policy ofgovernment to preferve “ Vuired S:dies. 1 is in be hropert, that " people, and be an era of most imminent as nice a balance of the interells of the « nation. " at large; and that the fame declarations an eye, a.card from the hand of one man him up along side of his partner Foot, " will be required by the states of their to that of another. Thirdly, the gentle. then I confess I am no judge of colours. " Electors before they are voted for, and " it is understood that no one will be vomanly trick of conveying flush cards into The “ Weekly Il’anderer," an obscure “ted for, , who will not make an avowed the hand of a confederate--and ially, the ** declaration, lor whom he will vore! whole art of cheating an intoxicated man democratic paper, published at Randolph, A TRUE REPUBLICAN." out of his money, by toul play at Pam Vermont, remarking on the meafares of Lexington, Kentucky, June, 1804", Loo. And then, I expected to find added, the federal administration, says : • To crown all, the Sedition Law was - My' remarks on this singular perform by way of nota bene, the performance of ance, are necessarily postponed until next the Black Ari, Thewing how an oath may “ enacted, and clapt, like a padlock, up on the freedom of tpeech and the press, be so stretched and twisted, ibat a district week, when the subje&t is " that we thould not have even the salu. TO BE CONCLUDED. artorney, who is bound by his duty to pros “ tary pleasure of complaining of our ecute all breaches of the law wbich may wrongs." come within his knowledge, may never This paragraph needs not refutation thelels gamble all night in the house of a our readers know very well the falutary tavern-keeper, and yet neglect either to effects that flowed from the Sedition Law. prosecute or complain of him ; and how Sedition Law--TRUTUI NO LIBEL. the rulers of a free people may wink at such conduct, by keeping the said diftri&t Common Law-TRUTH IS A LIBEL. attorney in office. And now, Mr. Wanderer," if the Sedia Editor's Closet. But, reader, the “ Card” is of a differ. tion Law was a "pad.lock" upon the ent kind. It purports to be a card of com freedom of speech and the prefs, pray, fir, pliment from Foot to the editor of this pa what sort of a lock do you suppose the de" To lash the rascal,” &c. per, in which the former expreffes a great mocratic Common Lawia be FOOT deal of chagrin and mortification, on acKnown in this county by the name of Pam, or the count of the contemptuous manner in Honesty is the best policy." which I have treated him. Had this card The Editor of the s Wilmington MisAfter the resolution I had taken, my che reader, I never should have noticed it, || ror," a' Jeffersonian paper, with much readers may be surprised and disgusted at for reasons which have before been given. || truth fays that “this good old maxim, , feeing the name of this reptile again in print, With fwindlers, gamesters, and mi) which has stood the ten of ages, is likely but when they are informed of my induce. am not in habits of intimacy. I ex. : to be brought into disrepute by the" dement for once more waiting time and pa." change no civilities with Foot except in a mocrats, per with him, I hope and trust they will court of juftice. As often as he dares to Teadily excuse me. meet me there, he shall have his baleness Not a single democratic editor has, to Lately looking over a fort of newspaper | placed upon record. Why, I would as my knowledge, corrected the erroneous called the Northern Budget, I observed. | foon fearch Newgate or the State Prilon, Aatemene copied from the Bee concerning " A Card,” in capital letters, and dire&tly or whipping-pofts and pillories for fub. my late trial. What a pack of rascals ! following, " Mr. Foot,” in letters equal- || jeas, as to shed my ink in satirizing Foot. Jy large. My first conclusion was, that I will have no concern with such fellows. Holt seems to wonder that his papers do Foot, having lost the countenance of the But the card in question, was written by.a | not regularly arrive at Cheir place of deftipublic, and being shunned and defpiset certain featherless Bird, who has taken nation. Those who know how carelessly by all good men,* had fallen upon the ex Foot into his neft, for the purpose of mak. I they are packed for the poft office, need pedient of obtaining his livelihood by ex ing him a beart of burthen, to fetch and not be surprised. hibiting tricks of legerdemain, and that this was his advertisement, setting forth the carry, &c. and, really, I think the heaviest load that he has ever placed upon his back, wonderful feals which he could perform is this same card. To Correspondents. with " a card," or cards. I really expected to find a long lift ot deceptions advertised And does John Bird feel anxious to figure in print ? Is he not sufficiently Judge Wilson's charge to the Grand Jury, der to be praaised by the said Footlor inAtance-Firsly, The wonders of the Knave known ? For mercy's fake, let him draw livered at the opening of the last Court of Sessions in This county, was handed in too late for this paper, it around his charaéier she thick veil of ob. of Clubs, from the turning of Pam, to shall be given in our next. " A Young PoE r," might write with propriety the making of a Pam fiujh. --Secondly, scurity. Let him not impose upon me a on common su'ijecis, but riper talents are required ike art of transferring, in the twinkling of disagreeable task. If he wishes further es. position, let him collect the handbills of his to do justice to HAMILTO:. " Yates," with accompanying papers, shall re. * I do not mean to infinuate that Foot's former enemies (his present friends, the ceive attention. · partner, or those who keep Foot in office, democrats) and republish them in a vol. " LIAR," canto second, was not received in seaare bad men. ume ; and if they do not ferve to hang son for this paper, FROM THE PLEBEIAN. AN Juprovements. thoughts beyond its limits. Few, very few, ifaluus of a mistaken fancy, which having seem inclined to contemplate that awtule. danced belore us for a moment, disappears veni, which, before the expiration of the for ever, and leaves us in all the dark hors present huur may happen to us; or to an. rors of a dreadtul uncertainty. iicipate that vart scene which lies beyond It such look backward, the black catathe confines of time, although it is a logue of their muliiplied transgressions, subject wherein we are essentially intereft. like the roll which Ezekiel faw, " is writ. ed. It is indeed " an undilcovered coun ten within and without, with lamentation, Agricultural. try from whole drear bourn no traveller mourning and woe." If they look for. has returned ;" yet so far as reason and rev. elation can guide us, we ought to explore | darkness hang upon it. ward the prospeet is gloomy, “clouds and The day is end. E X TRACT. it. The neglect of this important business ed, and the night appeareth wherein ng is a proof of folly. To a sensible mind, man can work. unacquainted with the world, it would ap EUSEBIUS, pear almost impossible that reasonable and IMPORTANT TO FARMERS. accountable beings, whose days are uncer- depends on the due performance of prelent Nintelligent gentleman ol Platte. duries, lhould be so regardless of their beit kill, has communicated to us the follow. interests, as not frequently to consider their ing method to preserve Wheat from the Latter cod. But, general experience con- FROM THE DOVER ARGUS. ravages of the Hefjian Fly, or what is of. The present mo . ten termed the infect. The little expence mert engrosses our attention, and we li. SOLOMON DAWSON and ISAAC and trouble which is required to make the for all the living," without thought, and COX, of Kont County; (Delaware,) lave experiment, we hope will induce our far. without reflection, invented a machine, that takes off the iners to give it a fair trial, heads of wheat, rye, and barley, without I take the salt and pickle, says our in. Whence can this inconsistency of con. duét arise ? Is it because it is pleasant to formant, which can be fpared from my lofirg the shattered grains in its ripeft ftate behold the sun ; and that even the bare -it promises to be one of the greatest in. meat tubs, and adding water sufficient to ventions ever yet discovered in agricultu. soak my leed wheat, put in falt as long as apprehension of being taken from visible ral improvements, as its utility tends greal, the water will dissolve it. In this I loak | things covers the mind with a melancholy a. I gloom? ly to curtail the expence and labour of the feed eight hours-then turn off the wa the farmer, save abundantly more of bis ter and add as much ground plafler as will To the vir, vous this can never be the grain, improves the land. The inventors adhere to the kernels of the grain. For case : to the vicious indeed it may. They clayey land substitute lime for plaster. The cannot reflect on their final separation have not hai a full opportunity this harveft to observe and correct the impertections grain should be harrowed in before it is from what now delights them without feel. (naturally attendant on all new inventions) dry. When my feed is thus prepared, ing a secret horror. Their desires and so as to make it entirely compleat—but as continues our correspondent, I have never prospeets are bounded by sensuality; and it will equally apply to the taking off the failed of a crop, altho' the adjoining field they consider no loss so great as that of heads of clover, they expect by ihe time which was sown in the common way, has those obje&ts which now delight them. E. he feed is ripe to be able io fatisty any been lo far destroyed as to induce me to ternity, in their view, is one vast gloomy person desirous to promote improvement plough it up for buckwheat. Buttermilk walte, and stands arrayed in the horrors of in agriculture, who will find it answers and water have been tried in the room ot annihilation. They have no juft idea o! every ond contemplated. feed thus rient enjoyments which await the virtuous ed until after the equino&ial storm, from when they are removed from the illusive the 21st to the 28ih September, and have || objects of time and sense, and centered in FROM THE SALEM GAZETTE. found it answer well. a lite unchangable and cverlasting. They on, Durham, (England) has invented a are not conscious that they poffels facul. Thrashing-Mill, capable of thraihing out Monitorial. ties capable of everlasting improvement, twenty bushels of oats in one hour, and faculties which only bud in time, but 'welve fheaves of wlica: in less than four whichi il properly cultivated will gloriously To aid the cause of virive and religion. ninutes. Twelve teer in the bar gives expand and flourish in immortal vigour for ufficient length for the M chipe, as well ever, EXTRACT. is the management of it, but as it ftrids How shocking must the condition of close to the wall, it does not pwject a: chose. be, who have thus mispent their love four feet. The house wheel is upon FROM TIIE SENTIMENTAL MAGAZINE, time and talents, when the fatal mandate i perfe&ily new principle, and entirely put arrives which will summon them to the ogether with crew bolts. Though one On the Misapplication of our time, and Talents. lomb, when every thing will appear in its orfe is capable of turning the mill, a true colours, when the illusive phantom: rovision is always inade for siking 'wo: vanilh, and the awakening voice of con. the borle tract is 20 leer in diameter with OTHING isi more common science shall at once proclaim their criines, he posts or pillars, and confequently the thank for people complain of the short and their deiliny : ai that feafon what ar enue of the perpendicula: fiate of the nels of life, who wafle it with ihoughtiels riches, honours, titles, external pomp and heel is not listhian ten teet from the wall want nnels, and feldom exłend their grandeur ? 'what indeed vue ite ignis o the barn. 1 NOTHER |