Berkeley And Jefferson Intelligencer

JUBILEE AT JAMESTOWN.

Norfolk, May 16.

"The year of Jubilee is come." Would it not be proper to have it perpetuated by an act of the legislature, as a day of rest and thanksgiving? It is the second Centennial Anniversary since our successors landed in Virginia—a day, which, by Americans, should never be forgotten.

Two hundred years, from the enterprising disposition of a few individuals, has produced a nation of people, under a wise and well regulated government, free and happy! Detached from European nations, let us cultivate our farms and our neutrality—let us pursue pacific measures, which alone can continue to us those blessings we at present enjoy—let us forbear to encroach upon the rights of others, and be unanimous in protecting our own—let us divest ourselves of those party prejudices that of late has arisen, and our posterity may see a return of this day—may contemplate the former wilderness of their native land—and rejoice (as we do now) in the perseverance and industry of their forefathers, in handing it down to them in its present well regulated and improved state—when we like those who laid the corner stone, shall be buried in oblivion and forgotten. I have not the happiness to be of the party, but my admiration and gratitude to the founders of this happy country, stimulates me thus to testify those sensations of joy, which have no other avenue of alleviation. But in this excess of pleasing reflection, sympathy for the aborigines which were driven from the spot we celebrate, propels me to regret that ingratitude should have been blended with the acquisition. The amiable, the virtuous Pocahontas!! I drop my pen, and in pity to my own feelings, shall forbear to recite her sufferings; and although no social companions surround my board, yet her name by me shall be venerated, and I sincerely hope it may be re-echoed on the shores of James Town.