Jeffersonian Republican

NOBLE SENTIMENTS.

We must take time—abate our importations— use home-made goods, and support home industry; be Americans outside, as well as at the hearts core. We must not only be able to raise our own grain, but we must cover ourselves with American garments. American wool, American iron, and American silk, must be manufactured by American skill, for our immense population. We must call home our thoughts that roam abroad. But if we intend to do this, we must do nothing that will stop our exertions, by crippling the sources from whence the means must come, to make us a manufacturing people We must keep the specie for the present in the banks, as a basis for the notes that are in circulation. Let the specie out, and go to Europe, and who will then take the notes of our banks. We must 'rest upon our oars' for a little while."

It is well that all the presses of the country are not shackled, and that even among those who support the Federal Administration, there are some who dare be free. Foremost among those is the American Sentinel, a leading influential paper in Philadelphia. and, however widely we may differ with its respectable editor, on the great principles of government, we are constrained to award to him a character for fairness and candor not merited by many of his brethren. The above remarks extracted from an article in that paper on' the subject of specie payments, are worthy the head and heart of a patriot, and bespeak a superiority in the author to that grovelling party subserviency and abject compliance to every scheme of ultraism so characteristic of the press of the day, rarely to be found.

How true is the remark,'We must be Americans outside as well as at the hearts core'; but how few reason thus. Let us be content with a homespun coat and blue stockings as our forefathers were in the purer days of the Republic, and our wives and children be taught to consider the manufactures of their own hands, and the product of their own stock, more honorable as garments, than the most elegant manufactures of a foreign Nation, for which we have to pay so dearly. The noblest emblems of American industry and American economy, would then be found on the person of every American citizen. Did we import less and manufacture more—ape the manners and extravagance of the aristocrats of the old world less strenuously—and keep in view that Roman virtue as the polar star, which carried our forefathers through their struggle for independence, we would not be brought with every depression in the money markets of the Old World, to the disgraceful necessity of a suspension in order to prevent the specie of the country from being sent over the Atlantic to pay our foreign debt. We are but plain republicans, and should convince the world that we have resources within ourselves which render us independent of others; and we will call that man a democrat who eschews a ruffle shirt, silk stockings, and broad cloth coat, for the plain, coarse, yet comfortable clothing worn by a majority of our hardy yeomanry Let the democrats of the sea-board. follow the example of the democrats of the interior, and our word for it, there will be less complaints respecting the hard times,' and depression in the business of the country.

The recent flood has done much damage in the lower part of the State.

The Governor of Virginia has sent a message to the Legislature, in which he condemns. emphatically, the course taken by Congress in relation to the New-Jersey members.

The Legislature of Rhode Island have passed resolutions reprehending in like manner the outrage on the rights of New-Jersey, and transmitted them to the Governor of that state.

Mr. Richard Biddle, an able and eloquent Whig member of Congress from Western Pennsylvania, it is reported will resign his seat in the House of Representatives this session. We are not learned of his reasons for this step, but presume they have no connection with politics. Mr. B. is considered one of the brightest ornaments of that body.