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our ancestors, should be left where the constitution has placed it, undisturbed and unagitated by Congress. Speech at Taylorsville, Va.

PART III.

ELOQUENT AND REMARKABLE PASSAGES.

PART III.

facundia preceps;

HOR.

Utiliumque sagax rerum et divina futuri—

SKETCHES, &c.

JEFFERSON.

He

IN 1801 he snatched from the rude hand of usurpation the violated Constitution of his country. preserved that instrument in form and substance and spirit, a precious inheritance for ages to come! How vain and impotent is party rage directed against such a man! He is not more elevated by his lofty residence upon the summit of his own favorite mountain, than he is lifted by the serenity of his mind and the consciousness of a well-spent life, above the malignant passions and bitter feelings of the day! No! his own beloved Monticello is not less moved by the storms that beat against its sides, than is this illustrious man, by the howlings of the whole British pack set loose from the Essex kennel! When the gentleman to whom I have been compelled to allude, shall have mingled his dust with that of his abused ancestors,-when he shall have been consigned to oblivion, the name of Jefferson will be hailed with gratitude;—his memory honored and cherished as the second founder of the liberties of the people; and the period of his adminis tration will be looked back to, as one of the happiest and brightest epochs of American history!

House of Representatives, 1813.

GENERAL HARRISON.

A bright and glorious prospect, in the election of WILLIAM HENRY HARRIEON, has opened upon the country. The necessity of a change of rulers has deeply penetrated the hearts of the people; and we everywhere behold cheering manifestations of that happy event. The fact of his election alone; without reference to the measures of his administration, will powerfully contribute to the security and happiness of the people. It will bring assurance of the cessation of that long series of disastrous experiments which have so greatly afflicted the people. Confidence will immediately revive, credit be restored, active business will return, prices of products will rise; and the people will feel and know that, instead of their servants being occupied in devising measures for their ruin and destruction, they will be assiduously employed in promoting their welfare and prosperity.

NATIONAL SKETCH.

Taylorsville, 1840.

If you wish to find an example of order, of freedom from debt, of economy,-of expenditure falling below, rather than exceeding income, you will go to the well-regulated family of a farmer :-you will go to the house of such a man as Isaac Shelby. You will not find him haunting taverns, engaged in broils, prosecuting angry law-suits. You will behold every member of his family, clad with the produce of their own hands, and usefully employed; the spinning-wheel and the loom in motion by daybreak. With what pleasure will his wife lead you into her neat dairy,-into her

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