Indiana American, Volume 1, Number 44, Brookville, Franklin County, 1 November 1833 — Page 2

BROOKVIXjLE:

FRIDAY EVENING :

NOVEMBER 1.

Written for the Indiana American.

SLAVERY.

The necessity of colonizing our free colored population on the coast of Africa, or elsewhere, 13 becoming, everyday, more obvious and urgent. The negro race, in the United States, increases in a much greater ratio than the whites. Every census of our population has furnished evidence of this fact. And, as our negro race will always he inured, from childhood, to invigorating labor, and be free from the host of fashionable diseases that attend wealth, indolence, and luxury, it will ultimately, without doubt, be equal or superior to the whiles, in number. The anticipation of this event is painful. But, unless a large portion of our free negroes, is transported, every year to come, there is reason to fear, that the event, painful as it may be, must, at least, arrive. And it can hardly admit of doubt, that w hen the event shall have arrived, and the negroes feel confidence in their numbers, they will demand civil rights and privileges, which the whites cannot grant without disgrace, or deny without danger. To think that the negroes will

then be contented with their present state of

bondage, or of nominal liberty, is a dangerous delusion. They are not nozo ignorant of the natural equality of rights, of the human family.

They are now not ignorant that their owners hold their services, and those of their children.

by the tenure of force and power, and not of

justice and right. The free negroes, especially, are becoming

too wise. 1 hey already begin to scout the idea of being colonized in Africa,even at our expense. They say to us " Tnis is our own, our. native Land. We know no other Home. Africa is NO MORE OUT COUNTRY THAN EcRORE IS tOlrS." In this language, we see the germ of the ap

proaching collision. I hey are intormed that

Liberia oilers them liberty and plenty. Many of them receive the offer with scorn. They see

a richer harvest in prospect here, than Liberia can afford. They will not toil to build up a new empire in Africa, when a richer and nobler one

is waiting for them here. They know that they

are overtaking the whites, in number, rapidly. They look forward to the time, w hen they shall

be equal to the w lutes . in strength, and wait

with patience, the term of their bondage and shame, in hope of the glorious Jubilee of Liber

ty and Power, which is in sure reversion for

their descendants.

It is not strange that this is the fact the free

negroes have access to almost every source of

mtormation w Inch is open to the whites. They read our declaration of rights they mingle in

celebrations of the anniversary of our liberty

they hear the story ot our lathers resistance to far lighter oppression than they suffer, told, from year to year, " in thoughts that breathe,

and words that burn." we cannot withhold

from them the means of information. We can

not keep them in moral darkness, while the full blaze of knowledge is beaming around them. Nor can we cheek their aspirations after free

dom. They will become enamoured of Liberty, veil her charms, as we may; and, sooner

or later will worship with us in her 1 emple, or

perish muntully in a struggle around her very Altar. If, therefore, they are permitted to multiply among us, uutil they equal us in number, there

will be no alternative but concession to their de

mands, however insolent; or war a servile war, marked with the most barbarous slaughter, by tire and sword, of every age and sex. And who can conjecture the horrors of the conflict? We may apprehend a secret nocturnal insurrection of the negroes, for the accomplishment of their designs. The night of horror and blood is appointed. It comes. Every eye is closed in slumber, but the negro's, and that is awake,

watching for vengeance. In the still hour of

midnight, the dark incendiaries steal along, with hidden torches and noiseless step, to commence the work of conflagration. At the same hour the flames of a hundred thousand dwellings, are rising up red towards Heaven, loaded with the screams and screeches of the victims. Hark! The cries of infants the shrieks of maidens and matrons the threats and prayers of fathers and brothers, are heard rising amidst the roaring of the flames, and the crackling and crashing of the burning timbers, and the hellish shouts of

their infuriated murderers. God of Heaven! what a scene ! It is as if the glare of Hell had burst upon the gloom of night, and the black hends ot the bottomless pit, have come up to revel and riot amidst fire and blood, Shall we not do what we may, e.h cn ccording to his ability, to avert these calani; es from our country? " It is true, that when the hour of suffering shall come, we shall be sleeping quietly in our graves. The turmoil of the awful conflict will not disturb the slumber of the tomb. But care we nothing for posterity? Care we nothing for our country its education its glory? Are we willing that the liberty of our country and its glorious institutions, shall "perish with us? The danger is not imaginary. Though distant, it is certain. It lies directly in our path, and we must remove it, or fall before it. The natural course of events is hurrying us onward to the fearful crisis. Our noble Ship of State, is gliding along a current, now tranquil and smooth; but, unless she beware, it will conduct her to rougher waves, and a darker sky than she has yet seen; where, if she escape total shipwreck, she will escape only with shattered timbers, and with the loss of the bravest, and the loveliest of her crew. X. - A Sad Mistake. A certain lady had a custom of saying U a favorite little dog to make him follow her, 'Come along Sir." A would be very witty gentleman, stepped up to her one dav and accosted her with,."Is it me madam,you called?" "Oh no Sir," said she, with great composure, "it was another puppy I spoke to."

SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.

ALAS! POOR YORICK! We are called upon to announce the melancholy intelligence, that Major Jack Downing is crazy, and "eik with collaty,"- and has " started off like a streek of greazed lightning for Bowningville." The following, we presume, is the last sane letter we ehall have the pleasure of publishing from the graphic pen of the eccentric Major. This is true, and "pity it is, 'tis true." But such the mutability of all created intelligencies and such the situation of Major Downing, late bed-fellow of the President! Sic transit, $c. Washington City, Sept. 30, 1833. To the Editor of the Portland Courier, in the State of Maine. My dear friend: have n"t you been in a terrible kind of a pucker ever since my last letter to you, to know what the President was going to say about me and Daniel? If you have n't, I have. I never felt so uneasy for a fortnight hardly in my life. If I went to bed I could n't sleep, and I've got up and walked the floor as much as half the night almost every night since. I've

wished the Bank to Guinea more than fifty times,

for there's beeti such a hubbub here about the Bank this fortnight past, that I could n't get a moment's chance to talk with the president about any thine: else. We'd have cabinet meetings

once in a while to see about moving the depos-

ites, and Mr. Duane, and Mr. Cass, and Mr. M'Lane, would talk up to the President so about it, that he'd concluded let 'em alone and do nothing about it, and let Congress manage it jist as they'd amind to. And then we'd go home, and

Mr. Kendle would come in and talk the matter

over, and read some great long letters from Mr.

V an Buren, and get the President so contused that he wrould lose all patience amost.

But Mr. Kendle is the master feller to hang

on that ever I see; he s equal to the tooth ache.

And he talked and palavered with the President till he finally brought him over, and then the President put his foot down and said the depos-

ltes should be moved whether or no. And then the botheration was to see who should move 'em. The President told Mr. Dunne to do it; but he said his conscience would'nt let him. Then the President told Mr. Taney to take Mr. Duane's

place, and see if his conscience would let him

Mr. Taney tried it and found his conscience went easy enough, so Mr. Duane packed up and went home to Philadelphia. We were all dreadful

sorry to lose Mr. Duane, for he was a nice man

as you will see one in a thousand. It's a pity he had such a stiff conscience; he might have

staid here in the Treasury jest as well as not if

it had nt been for that.

But this storm about the Bank begins to blow over, and the President's got in a manner cooled down again. This morning after breakfast we

took the papers and letters jest as we used to, and went away into the east room to read the news and chat awhile, and it did really do my

heart good to see the President sit down once

more looking so good natured in his great

arm chair, smoking his segar. After I had read

over the news to him awhile, and got him in a pretty good humor, I made bold to out with it,

and says I, Gmeral, there s one question I want to ask you. And says he, you know Major, I always allow you to ask me any thing you're a

mind to, what is it? VV ell says I, when we had that talk here about a fortnight ago, you begun to say something about me and Daniel; and jest as you had got into the middle of it, Mr. Kendle came in and broke it right off short as a pipe

stem. It's been running in my head ever since,

and I've been half crazy to know what it was you was going to say. Well, let us sec, says the Gineral, where was it I left off; for this everlasting fuss about the Bank has kept my head so full I can't seem to remember much about it. Why, says I, you was talking about nullification ; how the tops were beat down a little, but the roots were all running about under ground as live as ever, and it would n't be long before they'd be sproutin up again all over the country, and there'd be a tougher scrabble to keep 'em down than ever there had been yet; and then

you said if I and Daniel and there that

plaguy Kendle came in, 1 ve no patience with him now when I think of it, and broke it right

off. Ah, now 1 remember, says the General, how 'twas. Well, says he, Major Downing, it is a solemn fact, this country is to see a blacker storm of nullification before many years comes about than ever it has seen yet; the clouds are beginning to gather now; I've seen'em rolling

oyer rulh tyarohna, and hanging about Georgia, and edging along: into old Virginny, and I

see the storm's a gathering; it must come, and if

mere is n t somebody at the helm that knows how to steer pretty well, the old ship must go ' own. I aint afraid, sajs he, but what I can keep her up while I have the command, but I'm getting to be old and must give up soon, and then what'll become of her I dont know. But what

I was goin to say was this: I've been thinking if j

jou ana uaniei, alter 1 give up, would put your heads together, and take charge of her till the storm has blown over, you might save her. And I dontTknow who else can. j But how do you mean, Gineral, says I ? Why ' to speak plain, says he, if nullification shows its head, Daniel must talk and you must fight. There's nothing else will do the job for it that I know of. Daniel must go into the Presidetial chair, and you must take command of the army and then tilings will go straight. At this I was a little stuck up ; and I looked him right in the eye, and, says I, Gineral, do you mean that Daniel Webster ought to be President after you give it up? Certainly, says he, if you want to keep the country out of the iaws of nullification. But, says I, General, Daniel is a federalist, a Hartford Convention federalist, and I should like to know which is worst, the jaws of nullification, or the jaws of federalism. The jaws of a fiddle-stick! said he; but how do you kuow, Major, that Daniel is a federalist? Because, says, I, I've heard him called so down east more than a hundred times. And that's jest all you know about it, says he. - Now I tell you how 'tis, Major Down

ing. Daniel is as thorough a republican as you

be, as 1 be, and has been ever since my rrocla

mation came out against nullification. As soon as that Proclamation came out, Daniel came

right over on to the republican ground, and took

it upon his shoulders, and carry it through thick

and thin where no other man in the country

could have carried it. Says I, Gineral, is that a

tact? And says he, yes, you may depend upon

it, 'tis every word truth. Well, says I that alters the case a little, and I'll write to Uncle Joshua,

and the editor of the Portland Courier, and see

what they think of it, and if they think it's best to have Daniel for President, we'll have him in,

and I'll take my turn afterwards; for seeing the people are bent upon having me for President I wont decline, though if it is thought best that I should wait a little while, I wont be particular

about that. I'm willing to do that which will be best for the country. So I remain your loving friend, MAJOR JACK DOWNING.

Rumors. We hear reports from Washington

touching changes in operation. We know not the authenticity of the rumors. They hint

at an opposition to the removal of the deposites

by the Albany Argus, and a blowing up of the

safety fund system; a grand movement of the irresponsible cabinet against Van Buren. "Are

these things true?" say our readers: we know

only what we hear, and what we have announced above. U. S. Gazette.

From the National Intelligencer.

The late Steam Boat disaster. Information as

late as the evening of Friday, from Essex, Con

where the steamboat NEW-ENGLAND blew

up, has been received through the New York papers. Fourteen persons were then dead, and

some others were not expected to survive. The explosion of the boat took place about three o'clock on Wednesday morning, while the boat

was engaged in landing passengers at Essex, a

small village near the mouth of Connecticut

river. Both her boilers exploded at the same instant. The concussion was tremendous. Per

sons who lived three miles from the place were

awakened from their sleep by the shaking of

their houses, i he whole of the upper works in the centre and after part of the boat were shat

tered to fragments, and with a greater part of

the baggage of the passengers, scattered to the four winds. The engine, at the moment, was not in motion. We remark that almost all these disasters occur while the engine has been stopped for some temporary purpose, and generally arise from the culpable desire of the master or engineer to save his steam at the risk of the lives of all on board. The New York papers suggest several modes of guarding against these shocking accidents.

It appears to us that the most effectual way of

preventing them will be to make it the interest of the owners oi steamboats to do so. It is useless to try to explain them away they all result from carelessness or fool-hardiness, and if the

owners were by law fined 2 or 3000 dollars for

every person who should be killed or hurt by the explosion of the boilers, or from fire proceeding from the furnace, we should have to lament the occurrence of such disasters very seldom, if at all. With such a penalty hanging over them, we believe the proprietors of steam boats would take effectual steps to avoid its infliction. En

gineers would no longer dare to peril the lives of

a hundred human beings to save fifty cents worth of steam.

Lass of the steamboat George Washington, Capt. Walker, on Lake Erie. This new and splendid boat went ashore in the gale on Wednesday last, about ten o'clock in the morning, on the beach two miles above Long Point, on the Canada side of Lake Erie. We learn from one of the passengers that after riding at anchor for some hours, the gale increasing, and the engines from the strain of the ship, becoming unmanageable, it was determined for the safety of the passengers and crew, amounting to about seventy souls, to run her on shore, where she now lies, twenty rods from the water's edge, and broken in two. All the individuals on board were saved except one, a Mr. Millerd, of Lodi, Seneca county, who, notwithstanding the expostulation of Capt. Walker, ventured lo swim to the shore. He sunk a short distance from the vessel. The boat was not insured loss about 60,000 She belonged to the Huron Steam Boat Company. The stock was owned in Detroit, Huron, Ohio, &c. The gale was uncommonly severe, but we

have heard of no other disaster of magnitude on the Lake. Buffalo Pat

Mr. Noah's editorials, says the National Intel

ligencer, are generally amusing, often instructive, and not seldom liberal. We quote from his last Star the annexed creditable remarks on a very tender subject with most liege Jackson men.

" Mr. Clay will arrive in the city this after

noon. It has frequently fallen to our lot to praise and censure this gentleman, in no measured terms to applaud what deserved applause j and condemn what merited condemnation, in

his public career. We opposed his election,

and rejoiced at his defeat; and we are not sure that we may not again oppose him, if a suitable occasion offers. But with us, the 'waters of bit

terness' have no abiding place if w e "speak daggers, we use none." Mr. Clay is not now

before the people as a candidate for the Presi

dency; many of his friends declare that he will not be. Be that, however, as it may, we cannot forget the steady, uniform efforts he made in the great stuggle of 1812, to sustain the country at a period of darkness and peril, when many of those who now claim to be influential Democrats, were in the ranks of our bitterest enemies we cannot forget the voice of the man who eloquently plead the cause of South American Independence we cannot forget the man who assisted to negociate an honorable peace at

Ghent; nor, at a recent period, when ly rn i on orable compromise, he arrested the uplifted' bre on our own soil, as he did on the celebrated Missouri question. His friends ought to receiv him well, for he is deservfng of their friend t his enemies will forget the past, in hopes that his admitted talents may be beneficially excrci. ed for his country in the honorable station hp now fills in the Senate of the United States. "We saw with regret, a few days since, a very ' unhandsome attack on Mr. Clay, in the Post-i probably as an 'avaunt-courier,' to his reception here. The editors of the Post cannot get rid of their old federal hostillity towards him, for services rendered the late war; but they should recollect that when General Jackson travelled to the East, all the opposition presses treated him with the greatest respect and attention." EXECUTION OF JONES AND IIEROX. On Friday, 11th instant, the sentence of the law was executed on these unfortunate convicts in the presence of an immense concourse of per-

sons. The gallows was erected at the north end of the town near the State road leading to 'Indianapolis, to which great numbers crowded at an early hour of the day. A ring had been formed under the direction of the Sheriff about fifty yards in circumference into which none were permitted to enter.

At about twelve o'clock, the criminals were brought from the prison to the gallows, escorted by the Columbus Rifle Corps and the Officers of the Regiment of Militia in this country,who were on drill. The prisoners were on foot (their own choice) and advanced with a firm step to the scaffold, which they ascended'in company with several clergymen. At the request of Jones a religious discourse was delivered by the Rev. Uriah M'Queen, after w hich, several Hymns were sung and prayers offered up at a throne of grace in their behalf by the Rev. gentlemen in attendance. The religious exercises continued until a few minutes before 3 o'clock, when Jones addressed the multitude; but the distance from where we were situated, to the gallows, was so great, that we could not distinctly hear his remarks. We are informed, however that they were merely de claratory of the truth of the statements he had prepared for publication, and alledging that the act for w hich he was about to suffer, had been committed in self defence but expressed his willingness to die, and the most perfect resignation to his fate. He received the parting salution of his acquaintances with great composure and apparently much affection ; he seemed to anticipate fervently in the religious devotions of the .clergymen. Heron manifested no uneasiness upon the sub

ject: on the contrary, he exhibited the appear

ance of the utmost indifference to his situation and every thing around. No satisfactory answers were made to questions put to him. This is generally attributed to a partial insanity under which he is said to have suffered for several years past. , At live minutes before three o'clock, Jones i requested that the scene might close, when the

- . j J o ngiguianii urvi iuva ut tiu was given the cords to which the drop was attached it fell! and they were launched into eternity. On the first instant a slight quivering was observed in both a slight heaving of the bodies took place about one minute after they were swung off, when they were stilled in death. After hanging for thirty-five minutes the bodies were cut down ; that of Jones was given to his friends: none claimed that of Heron, and he was interred in the neighborhood by the Sheriff. The number of persons assembled to witness this tragical scene, is variously estimated. We presume not less than five thousand the computations of some greatly exceed this number. It gives us pleasure to state that the most profound silence reigned throughout the multitude

during the execution, and the most perfect pro

priety and decorum marked the conduct of the spectator"

We cannot forbear expressing our admiration of the conduct of the Sheriff throughout this

trying scene. It may suffice, however, to say, that he granted every indulgence to the prisoners which the most feeling humanity could dictate. He performed his various duties connected with the transaction with all the solemnity which the occasion was so well calculated to inspire, and yet with all the firmness so necessary to prevent confusion. Columbus Chronicle. IJfTERES TING ITE.VS. Augusta, Ga. has recently been visite by a fire, which destroyed 30,000 dollars worth of

property.

A letter from Cuba, states that the island ex

perienced several severe shocks of an earth

quake, on the 16th and 20th ult.

At a Cnlnnirafion meeting held in New York,

on the 10th ult. more than three thousand dollars were coutributed.

In Philadelnhia. all thft National Republican

candidates for assembly, select council, and common council, are elected.

The United States Branch Bank of New

York, has advanced its rate of discount upon bills of exchange two and a half per cent.

The Jonrne.vmnn Tailors of New York have

struck for higher wages, and succeeded.

Nine voun? gentlemen graduated at the Cen

tre College, Ky. at the late commencement.

Tucfin TWnrr1 Tt. T Cnrresnondinff Secre-

t UO bill -MJVJ. u. -m-r w - - ij tary of the American Temperance Society, has

reached Cincinnati, to be present at me

versanes.

Sit rvfflr-ro nf fVio first rank in the British ar

my have lately testified that the commonly received report, that "beauty and hooty" were watchwords given before the battle ot New UT leans, is a falsehood without the least foundation.

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