Indiana American, Volume 1, Number 30, Brookville, Franklin County, 26 July 1833 — Page 2

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To the l !, vs of the :h Congressional District: It was not my intention to address to you a printed circular. I hi:l tint in compliance with a eu4on sanetio'.ie I by opinion, the candidates would meet at the place? appointed, state and mutually discus? tlit re of the public measure? in which you are interested; thus affording voh an opportunity to compare our pretensions, and to select the candidate who proposed the measures: most beneficial to the district, and whose abilities would enable Slim to carry those measure? into operative law?. In this I have been disappointed. Appointment? were made as far back as the llth June were published in all the papers of the district, and all the candidates respectfully invited to attend. I can easily excuse Mr. McCarly for declining the contest. He is unused to pubi - -! j l:

He speaking ana as ms opinions on pan j'ou

tics, as well r.s public, measure?, are Jo be the same with Judge Test, he thought it unnecessary to engage in

tier. No s:;ch reason can excuse Judge Test. A warm advocate of stump speaking, lie has. in every previous election, i.nrranguod thro the district, and boasted cf the advantage he derived from measuring strength with his opponents.

In the present canvass his course has been far

different. I have endeavored to bring him to a

meeting, but in vain, except in the four instan

ces, that accident enabled me to laid him: am!

in three "f the published appointments that he attended v illi me. I have just learned with

expresof the

understood

may have the discus-

mium m.on these, would be at Last 11,0 10 I ion

w hich could be realised a? soon as

The result nia be interred fioin ihetau-

the first instal- going explanation.

Unable to as gilllieilt,

sustain I nmse!

lie rcsortei that be 'h

to

.,r cm -., nn',A I... I I hp holders m e- DV lair ami uetoiou

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iv."...i n:...- 4U cmt- personal uoUsC and noliiii'U ne

lOIPII kll U I I M i.l 1 ' MHI1 It! El .

. T. . .i . .. : i :.. it. .l l, ,,..' :ni in:nie known

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Tb.it f fdud.-e Test, riving eleven millions ot to me some oi r.;s aj

our own money lo lJ,ll one third of whom are which distributes it equal

zcn?. i?d. I would also modify

weab by stockhoders. foreigners on mine.

v among our own citi-

the charter so as to

nr-rmit rnsirrpss to organize anotner institution

at anytime within live years before the expiration of the recharter. '1 he necessity of this is rendered obvious by the embarrassments we are

now sudoring

same davslnat the r.pp'

the llth June, call me i

altered, however, such

that I may meet lpm.

nfments. nil made on the fi tments published since o distant places. I have as it was possible to alter. I have replied to Judge

fest that whatever course he may choose to pur.ii i i "j ti...

sue, mv own will he uncnangeu. n.e- unrests of the district and not the foibles of tlie Judge

shall he the subjects of my attention and d.scus-

lon. I have known vour opinions and lechngs

too long and too well to suppose that the ability

3d. The foreign stockholders should be allow- to invent or retort vulgar personalities or slandc

ed five years to sell their remaining stock, and

be thereafter incapable of holding it.

JmW Test objects to this, that it will occasion

the withdrawal of foreign capital. foreign cap

ital will ilow in amongst us if it finds a profitable investment, and that" without endangering the

government by getting in us power an mslitu-

rous abuse will entitle its possessor to 3 our favour and confidence.

Your friend and Fellow-citizen, AMOS LAN II.

surprise, that lie has charged me with ting di ilc rent opinions in diifercnt part;

district. Those opinions were formed after careful investigation, prior to the canvass, and have been uniformly and distinctly expressed. To prevt tit, however, the possibility .f misapprehension, I will place them briefly.bofore you all. As I have no leisure to writcoutan elaborate exposition, I shall sketch tliem as staled to you, in my stump speeches, and contrast them with those put tot ward by Judge Test. The Tariff, hitherto so full of interest, is apparently adjusted by Mr. Clay's compromise bill of last se-sion passed by congress, approved by he president, accepted by the sent!;, and but i.tlb1 objected lo by the north. To disturb it w ould be unwi e, until its effect upon the revenue, the south and the manufacturing interest is f'irly developed. The Hank and the Public Lands are subjects in which you are interested, and to their discussion the candidates have confined themselves-. A full and impartial examination, has convinced me. that the financial business of the government. tltecomreLcrciai.manufacturing.and especially the finning interest imperatively require an uniform national currency As there is net now enough g.d I and silver in the country to furnish Vuch a currency, we must have a banking institution.

whose n t; s shall be current throughout the United S.ate. Congress is bound not to establish another U.S. Dank until the charter of the pre-ent in ;:tutien ha? expired. The curtail-

to Tin: public. I am credibly informed that the noted Mr.

tion intimately connected with our public finan- LANE, roundly asserts, at some of his stump ces and interned commerce. But the objection speeches, and calls on his God to witness, and is in itself Groundless. We have only to rcmem- inv okes the pow er of the eternal Jehov ah to

her that one, or at most, two instalments were sink him into everlasting perdition" if he ever paid in on the stock, to discover, that as much received one cent from either Hamilton or No-

tlvcr is drained from us every year to pay the kle, in the case oi i iluam Hamilton, Admims-

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dividends on lorcign siock as asiuuaiij j.aiu traior vs. ioui ixobi.e. r.nu aiso preienus 10 in when the slock was purchased. read at those stump speeches a paper purporting

llh. The Bank shall not possess real estate, to be a record of the C ourt of Dearborn County

Tlie reasons are know u to you all. This privi- slating that the Judges at the next term after

lege has converted the bank into a speculator pronouncing the sentence of his bannent upon and a landlord vvith a numerous and dependant him had declared that it was illegal, unjust, and tenantry. Judge Test would grant it the priv i- oppressiv e, and for that cause had set the said lege of possessing for five years, as enabling the sentence aside. And for the truth or rather the

Bank to buy up the property and prevent us falsehood ot these assertions othis,scethe record

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sacriSicc. i nc reason is loiiimeu on jui mem- nelow, vvnicn cieany snows tnat: me sentence 01

red supposition, i ho tuniv will never purcnase the Court was just, and was not set aside on any

property unless it lie protitaldc to do so. JjV such grounds, bee the petition ot LAAL.,

torbiddmn it to luirehase vou connne it to its which shows oi his bcimr reinstated; and also see

proper business, and leave purchasers.to the fair his receipts toHAMii.ro-, and to Noble, which

competition of individuals, many of whom might shows that he did take and receiv e a fee from be unwilling to offend the Bank by bidding a- both of them.

t it. WILLIAM HAMILTON.

IGth July 1S33.

Slats of Indiana , Dearborn County

Dearborn Circuit Court. Set.

Be it remembered that in the records of

Dearborn circuit court, in and for the county of

gam

5th. The slo k to he liable by Mate laws to .. .'11 ll'M.

ho same tax as ot her lunucu nroneriy. iiui

these restrictions I shall vote for the recharter,

The uMostion of the Public Lands has always

been one deeply interesting to us. Mr. Clay':

proposition has always excited a new feeling in i)carj,orn, arm state of Indiana; there is amongst

the old Mates, and IP.ey Have accepted nnu sup- ,.ccord wherein the State of Indiana was com

pe.iieti it wiui eagerness, u'muiui; "6",u',7 plainant, against Amos l.ane detendant, on

ot its inconsistency Willi the conditions on vv nicn complaint for mal practice eV c. &c. and contempt

tne land was gran-ea to me leueuu goveinmeoi. fron, wlirh rccorj9 the following extracts are

I hey carried it througii by sucn large majon- nm(ic to wit:

lies as seem to render its passage Ucreaucr ccr- Extract Xo. 1. Referred lo in William Ham

lain. Once passed into a law we may ma lare- ji(0lv-s affidavit

lie

1;

t ; f i J s di.eoiiiits and tise settlement of

ast busip.ess will occasion a most disastrous pres- :: e esneei ally in districts like our ow n, where

is t ra n sa e ted. F.n tb ar-

. rue credit busine

and

pn

ly loss

. 'iient,

.! othe

We are ad n ni-hel by

Isol

'Willam Hamillon administrator of John

Hamilton deceased

To Amos Lane Dr.

April term 1S10. To fee in case

of J. Howard 1). C. C. ; 00

Do. do. do. To fee

In case of Page Cheek. 5

October term 1S1'. To fee in

case of Morcan D. C. C. 5 00

October term ISi'J. To fee on

bond of A' 1000 vs. Noble. 10 CO

e occasion-

covcrnnn a!.

tlie

e circumstance;

m ike the present institution the means of fur-

th? currency reuuired. I he president s

oli:t prevented and will prevent the rceharofthe present Bank, with all its privileges

h. timir

vt te

an opportunity is thus offered us to dock the dan

siereus oe.w, r. of this mammoth ir.onoi'olv. and

I v so Ueitt

si he:. The capital of the present Bank is thirty five millions. One fifth he! I by the government lour tilths by two thou-and seven hundred and fortv-four indiv iduals, of whom eno tiiird are English Noblemen and Cermun Bankers. What claims have these stock holders lo the exclusive

favor of our government? When they purchased

tne stock instead 01 paying sev en million ot specie

into the vaults cf the Bank, as by law they were

bound lo do. they paid in only two millions and met all the oilier instalments with notes borrowed of the Bank on pledges of their stock. They have enjoyed the advantage's and profits deriva

ble from tlie vast business of the Bank, romprelieiulingnot merely its currency ,lut the discounts

exchange dealings and other transactions based not on their ow n capital stockonlv.hut on thede

poshes made by our government and ons citizens. Thev have thus received six and a half per cent.

annually on an amount four or live times grea

ter than their capital slock; and ten or twelve

times greater than the amount actually pain by

them into the Bank. It is true that the annual

dividends hav e never exceeded ten per cent. But we must remember the immense real estate, the undivided profits, and the enormous losses

from fraud and mismanagement, amounting previous to March 1810 to more than three and one half millions, which common prudence would have added lo the profits. Surely the present stock holders have reason tobe content with the advantages already enjoyed. Yet, Judge Test proposes to recharter the Bank, and, lo allow them to take the sleek

at .$100 per share, that as soon as the recharter

is grauted will be worth in market si I'd or SloO.

Our government would thus make a free gift lo

2,7 1 1 indiv iduals. one third of whom arc wealthy

foreigners of elev en cr seventeen millions of cur money since it is from the people of this country that the profits are derived, which give to this stock so high a v alue. I therefore propose that the following condition be annexed to the recharter.

to UK i

it useful:

to our-

w ell to reductions of the price as well as lo gifts

for internal improvements, occ. 1 he interests

of the old States, to swell the amount ot pro

ceeds to prevent emigration that will diminish

their political strength and increase our own,

will be ample cauc-e oi opposition.

It is, therefore, necessary to incorporate anv

provi.-ion we may desire with this bill. The price of the public lands seems rightly fixed at S'l 5. as it i? not purchased by speculators, but entered rapidly by actual settlers. Not so with

the rtfufc lands

I'fteen or tw enty y

llh I ongressiona

refuse lands, which are entirely unproductive. nri Wrvi io.v nrnrWn ri,;t

I morose that the mice be reduced to fifty cents ..j.i;., o n.

x 1 111 I euuii, ij am lining .-.iniu 111 limnper acre, and the land sold in conv enient par- ccry. and drawing answer of 11am-

ceis 10 oui cuizcii? 011 iiuug aa aiuuav 11 ui.u mev iHon against Noble.

will actually settle on and cultivate it or will an

nex it to a farm already under cultivation, and that thev enter the land for their own use and

benefit, and not for another's.

At l,2o per aore,tlio cost of tlicte land

would be $ W)

At r0 cents per acre, 101,177 00

mds which have been hi market for Nov ember term of Supreme cnty years. Distributed through the court 18eo (o ,e in casc ssional District are r'32,351 acres of Noble in error.

of

00

00

s75 00

Received of William Hamilton administrator

of John Hamillon deceased.in full settlement of

all demands between us, the above amount 75

lor services rendered as an attorney in suits

brought by an against him as such administrator,

as per above dates.

AMOS LANE.

"Extract .Vo. "2. Exhibited marked A. referred

lrt ill MrTilrc nd'irlnvif Clrn ATnnli Mnliln c-i

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indusuious poor, woo wouiu uus oeauie 10 pro- , w some difficul( effected a settlement miKA ItrvitK-t nnJ rnmhvMn o ClinTwvrr nil t in I .

, , - II-, . , 1UIU JllllllillUII 111-. lllJYllI III ItLCIIJl 111 Hill .mm.F. I ii.liniil.iiT.i i rt-k r . 1 .1 i t Ml T1 Aim itniMliin

uui. .....amast . .u.m,. . . , i" 0f an demands shall have nothing more to do

live anil mx-naviug iiiuusuj. luuus uovisioii ;(7,I,!m ,ir l.w r-lnim T.l or

udge lest is warmly opposed, but oilers no oth- Uber(v Lk rctain? fc ' from ihn

er argument but that the land won Id be seized (crms rropo5cd; yo wiHthcrcforc send by the

on ov spccuuuors, w no cou u ... toe mousauus oi ,)0arer Mr A St Cl- h jj, - .

our ciueus iet;o i me i.tnu uiiiicn in riure iiieni'

The amount gained ly the people of tins

District would be 24 1,7 03 00

We may add to this the great benefit to the

selves, enter

Iht

compliance with the proposition,!)-you proposed

in writing, and believe me your obedient scrv't.

AMOS LANE.

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at law, ot the Bar of this ccuit, aj chart cd and ,".!l"dged agahut him in the said affidvits" and intt i rogatories. And it is there upen f'.t.' dered and adjudged by the said court, that ti said Amos Lane do forfeit bis license as an Attorney and Counsellor at law of this court, auj that be the said Amos Lane be stricken from the llolb of (his court, as an attorney and ,.,,'

roai

cellor at law, and that P.e he discharged fi

and that he

appearing or practicing ny virtue ot ins license aforesaid, in this court; and in all tho circuit courts oflhis State. And that he pay the costs of this prosecution S:c. fcc. And the said de

fendant appealed from the sentence aforesaid to the supreme court of this State, which is grafted.

Ex;ract .Yo. t. "And where as afterwards j0

wit on Monday the sixth day of April IS'29, be.

ing the first Juridical day of the April trim

I the follow ing is made a matter of rcuij

to wit: Indiana Dearborn County, in the Dearborn circuit court to wit.

our petitioner, Amos Lane, a resident of the

count v of Dearborn humbly represents to v our

I lonors that at the last October term of" the Dearborn circuit court by the determination of the court it was then and there adjudged that he should be deprived of the priv ilege of an Attor

ney and Counsellor of said court, and wholly

disbarred. And from thence afterwards pro

hibited from practicing as an attorney and counsellor in said court, which decision and ad

judication of said court deprived vour Petionerof

his means of procuring a livelihood and of sup

porting; a family near and dear to him; to las and their disgrace and irreparable injury. The facts of that case bein g fresh in the memory of your Honors, your Petitioner will not herein repeat them. Your Pcfioner humbly begs pardon of the court, for his conduct in the matters and things connected with that casc; and most humbly prays your Honors to reinstate him as an Attorney and counsellor of this court and to all

his rights and privileges as though the said sentence had not passed against him. a privilege

which he has enjoyed for many vcars to which if

your Honors will be pleased to reinstate him, he

humbly promises the court, tnat neither tne court, his clients, nor the worid shall hereafter have

any cause of complaint against him,'

AMOS J.ANL.

State of Indiana, )

Dearborn County.) Set. I, James Dili. clerk of Dearborn circuit

court do certify the foregoing scveal extracts

from No. 1 to No. 4 inclusive, to be correctly copied from the records of the said court.

In witness whereof I nave hereunto anixeu the seal of said court 10th July 1833. JAMES DILL Clrck.

Jan vary 4. 1S23.

Jleceived of N.

Noble the within named A. Sr. CLAIIL

on complaint for mal practice and

contempt .rc.

now on

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exposed to sale in the sev eral states, in amounts proportioned to the Federal representation the number of shares taken by any one individual to be united six thousand fortv-one shares would

That two thirds of the whole capital stock be.

land and turn it over to him

who hrioed mem. fMich an omecuon needs no

answer, and requires no comment.

There is another prov ision I wish incorpora

ted in the Land Bill. The 12 percent, on the thirty dollars.

sales of lands in our Male, is placed oy the late

mil ii iiic uisiusdi mi: uiiuv; iiciMdiuii; iui i jXiraCl .t). .

purposes of internal improvement or education. Stale of Indiana

We well know the expense of legislating and verses

the dilhculty of making a lair or satisfactory divi- Amos Lane

sion of such funds. 1 he Wabash rcpresetation 'Friday 17th of October 1S2S'' and

rules the legislature and this district can expect this day comes on this cause to be heard by the

nothing from its bounty. I propose that the court here, and the said Amos Lane comes in his 124 per cent fund, amounting annually to $G2, own proper person, and files here in court his an-

.IK, be exclusiv ely appropriated to the support swers to the interrogatories heretofore filed and

of common schools in the several school districts, renews Ids motion to be discharged from th a:( l. 4',. .r r, r,.,,. i ..,,( i, ii jr ji , , . ' . ...

ii mi mi- diu uu;.-iikuu.ui luuu, in iinMiii,? ruie iiercioioic iukcii againsi mm in tins case: 11 1 1 . v ... I. .. '

a well arranged and euective system oi oonimon and alter solemn argument of the counsel for and schools, might shed its improving and enobling against the said Amos Lane, and the inspection

influence over the children of all. I have so ofall and singular the affidavits, intcrogatories, long been convinced of the vital importance of and the answers of the said Amos Lane thereto such a sysem, that I may be forgiven for again and the exhibits tiled in the said case and ma-

and again urging it on your attention. fare deliberation had thereon; the motion of the

1 need not add that Judge lest opposes this said Amos Lane is over ruled and the court

as warmly as my other propositions. I have yet, here do say and find the said Amos Lane guilty

now ever, 10 near irom mm an argument against ot the Jwicl, mal practice, corruption, and contempt it worthy of serious refutation. of this court in the discharge of his duties, as

1 lie two prominent subjects have occupied so an Attorney and Counsellor at Law. charn-e. im

much room, tb.at I will briefly say, in reference puted and alleged against him the said Amos to the surplus rev enue, that if divided, I shall Lane, in the affidavits of the said Noah Noble advocate its expenditure under the direction of and William Hamilton filed in this case, and the

red to the citizens of Indiana.

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pro-

the state legislature, in equal portions among the several congressional districts. In conclusion it may not be irrelevant to remark that on Saturday, the loth instant, 1 had the plasure. of meeting Judge Test atLaw.enceburgh and discussing with him our sever , 1 opin- (

a i : . i l -it -i i - ,i

uiierrogaiories niea ncrcin ana go lurtlier say and find the said Amos Lane, as such Attorney

and Counsellor at Law of this court, is guilty of gross violation of duty, and of the rules of common honesty and justice; in his dealings with said NoaS Noble, an 1 Willam Hamilton.

Circular. To jny Fellow-Citizens of Franklin romi'y: I have lived among you for tlie last sixteen years; I came here a mechanic, and have continued a working man ever sinco. I have never been an office-holder, nor received a cent of support from the State or County Treasury. It b with the greatest confidence then, that 1 present myself before you, at this time, as a candidate for Recorder. I should be pleased to be elected, and would feel grateful for your votes; but it is not because I am unwilling or unable to support myself otherwise, that. I ask your votes. I have not, by continual office-seeking, thrown myself out of all honest employment. My opponents are honorable men, but that the' have claims on the people superior to n:y own, I am unwilling to admit. JIr. Hoop has been in office for the last 11 years, and discharged his duties at all times w ith ability the last of which he served in our State Legislature: he is now on the. retrograde march, and busily engaged in importuning the people for the office ol Recorder! contrary to the fixed principles of all distinguished "Great Men." But would it not be well enough to let him occupy for a few years, the honorable pest of a private citizen long enough at least, to learn him that he is a mere man, and that he can sometimes be beaten? It is said by some of my opponents, that I have business enough without the office of Recorder. It is true, Fellow-Citizens, that I have business to occupy my attention that I have a Cotton Factory about which arc employed many honest

and industrious hands, male and female; it is true, also, that these hands have to he fed from produce purchased from the Farmers of Franklin County, and a commencement is made towards these Manufacturing Establishments, that will eventually make a market at Brookville, cqual to any in the country. If these things disqualify me for the Office of Recorder, I am certainly disqualified. You know, Fellow-Citizens, that all my property is in your county; and I will have every inducement to discharge the duties of the Office failhfuily, should I obtain it. In addition to this good security w ill be given, as the law requires. At the last election for Recorder, my enemies reported, that I was one of the richest men of the County since then, however, it has been said, that 1 was broken up, and would fail. Reports of this kind arc easily raised, and too often believed; but I appeal to every one who is acquainted with me for the truth of the assertion, that since that time I have sued as few mcn-ss-any man in business here ; that I have paid seven hundred dollars security money, and have laid out a great deal in valuable improvements, and I shall still continue to make permanent improvements, such as will benefit the town and country, so far as my limited means will afford. Very respectfully, Your Fellow-Citizen, G. W. KIMBIX. Brookville, July 20, 1S33.

Old Ladies o:i Dt mand. Married at the Kip Raiw' Missouri, Miss Deborah Cockepur, aged e''tfj-svr..0 Mr. Pulaski Siimter, aged twenty- one.

If love's a fianie and kindled by desire, Sure an old s- A's best, for it is drier.

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