Indiana American, Volume 10, Number 50, Brookville, Franklin County, 9 December 1842 — Page 1

t OCRCOCWTHT Oth C0CNTRY8 INTERESTS, ' 1 OCR CODKTRY'S FRIEXD8. BY C. F. CLARKSON.

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IIE.VRVCLAY. Pride of the Jc--t! what through dark Hate Her phrensied storm around thee rolls ffas it not ever been the fate Of all this Earth's truth-speaking souls? Lightnings may play upon the rock Whose star-kissed forehead woos the gale, While they escape the thunder-shock Who dwell within the lonely vale Living unnoted! not so thou, Chief of the fearless soul and brow! Yet let the lightning and the storm Beat on thy long-devoted form! The silvery day-beam bursts! and lo! Around thee curls the Promise-Bow! Look! on yon height Columbia stands Immortal aurels in her hands And hark her voice "Rise! Freemen, Rise! Unloose the chain from ev'ry breast; See! see the splendor in yon skies Flashed from the bosom of the West!" Roused at the sound, lo! millions leap Like giants from inglorious sleep! M'hat cries are here? What sounds prevail? IVhose name is thundering on the gale? (Far in the mountains of the NorthFar in the sunny South away A winged lustre bounding forth) The deathless name of Henry Clay! Id The following is a late gem of the sweet songstress, "Amelia," whose notes often enrich 'the columns'of that most excellent and widely popular paper the Louisville Journal. Mr. Prentice, in noticing this noble produci.uu, My, -u is wormy the genius of Kerner, 'him of the lyre and sword:' " From the LouLoville Journal. THE AMERICAN SWORD. Sword of our gallant fathers, defender of the brave, Of Washington upon the field and Perry on the wave! Well might Columbia's foeman beneath thy death strokes reel, For each hand was firm that drew thee and each heart as true as steel; There's not a tarnish on thy sheen, a rust upon thv blade, Tho' the noble hands thatdrew thee are indust and ashes laid Thorvrt still the scourge of tyrants, the safeguard of the free, And may God desert our banner, when we surrender thee! Sword of a thousand victories ! thy splendor led the way, When our warriors trod the battle field in terrible array; Thou wert seen amid the carnage, like an angel in thy wrath, The vanquish'd and the vanquisher besfrew'd thy gory path; The life-blood of the haughty foe made red the slippery sod, Where thy crimson blade descended, like the lightning glance of God! They poured their ranks like autumn leaves their life-blood as the sea, But they battled for a tyrant we battled to be free ! Sword of a thousand heroes, how holy is thy blade So often drawedby Valor's arm, by gentle Pity's staid; The warrior breathes 'his vow by thee, and seals it with a kiss, He never gives a holier pledge, he asks no more than this; And, when he girds thee to his side with battle in his face, He feels, within his single arm, the strength of all his race; He shrines thee in his noble breast with all things bright and free And may God desert his standard, when he surrenders thee? Sword of our country's battles! forever may'st thou prove, Amid Columbia's freemen, the thunderbolt of Jove, While like a youthful victress, with her lovely flag unfurl'd, She sits amid the nations, the empress of the world; Behold the heaven-born goddess, in her glory and increase, Extending in her lovely hands the olive branch of peace; Thy glittering steel is girded on, the safeguard of the free, And may God desert her standard, when she surrenders thee ! AMELIA. Fixe Writixg. The October Number of the kdingbnrgh Review contains a masterly de lence of Democratic Institutions, in a critical notice of Alison's Europe. Here is one strik in passage. "We know that thero r sts who jndge of the most important institution j.ff . . 3- . "i loreign states, accoramg 10 meir own idea not alwavs the most tasteful or rpfino.l r, the picturesque who detest Democracy because the ladies of Cincinnati are cold and repulsive: who adore despotism because the Countesses of Vienna are graceful and polite; and who forget the cowardly cruelty of a cold-blooded tyrant, in their admiration of his simple habits and familiar manners. To st;ch judges an English gentleman may appear a far less romantic personage than the imbecile Spaniard, in whose veins stagnates the blue blood of Wendoza; or than the servile and frivolous Austrian, whose orst fear is a frown from Prince Meternich: whose noblest ambition is to be creme de la eme, and whose proudest boast is his descent r,Jm a long succession of titled Teutonic ooors." It is stated with confidence that the tnghsh and French Governments have determined to unite in offering their mediation between Mexico and Texas.

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lir.uiaiiAnvrJ. The readers of the American will remember that in our Legislative reports of last winter we gave an account of Lieut. C 's unfortunate attempt at making a speech, iu the house of Representatives. The worthy Lieutenant be coming embarrasedjfound.although his speech was carefully written out and deposited in his hat, that he should beobliged to desist; and, in the extremity of his mortification, he rushed from the State House, hat in hand. Fortunately for the human family in general and for the correctness of our legislative reports in partic ular, the manuscript speech has reached us and as faithful chroniclers, we commence the history of the present Session of the Ind liana Legislature with the SPEECH OF LIEUT. C . Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the Lemslatur: While we the representatives of a free and inlightened people are a sittin' here a deliber ating while the sun are pourin' his rays through ysn sky ngni, wmie thousands ol farmers are at their daily tile, and while thousands of hosrs are on their way to market and the hills about Cincinnati echoes the groans and squeals of the dead and the dyin'; let no man suppose I'm a keerless beholder; let no man sunnnse I'm an ignorant legislatur man. Gentlemen, old John don't scum over the surface of the bir copper kittle of politics he dives deep down among me meat and dumplms. I tell vou I've rcau 01 nignis ana Sundays. I tell'd my friends at home, jest elect me and seeif old John don't widen the boundaries of crownology in the State and national legislatur about a feet. You find I'm pledged to do somethin' for my country, and how am I to do it? By sittm' here like an old hen, without say in' "a word? No, gentlemen, I'm bound to make a speech I'm bound to see my name in print; I'm a goin' to widen the boundaries of our statesmen. Gentlemen, when I fust got to this town, I was considerable streaked, and my heart sunk till it felt like a plum bob. I hunted round ior my coJIig, and finds him at Brownin's a bowin' and scrapin' jest as if he had'nt done any thing else all his life, and dressed up quite spicy like. Think says I, this an't my crowd, so I jest took a turn through the streets, and sich sights as I seed. Good heavens, if some of the Rochester folks had ben here, what would they say. Jest to think, the gals runnin uv,..uia iuuiiu iun, iiKe cmcKens anout a w heat stack; to see their ribbins flyin', their gooia watches and chains, and leetle bits of bonnets that won't hide their noses; their black veils and gloves, and frocks sweepin' th ground, and then above all a thingumbob cock ed on behind, jest for all the world like mv bie cart pad, to make their petticoats stick out. I hese here women von't do, says I. They're no republicans. Let's look at the men folks. Jest as I was a thinkin' this over in my mind, out pops a fe'.ler from a door by my side that had a sign to it, ,;cash store," where I reckon he had been a buyin' goods on a credit; and as a pretty fair speerimin1 I'll jest serve him up. In the fust place he had hair on him; all over his shoulders, round his jaw, over his upper lip, and a small speck on theeend or his chin. His nose peeped out of this heap of hair like it was sheered, ana nis eyes twinkled like a pair of siage i imps in a rainy night. On the top of the hair was a very leetle shiny black cap; below the hair was a blue cloth cloak, and below that a pair of breeches strapped under boots with heels three inches long. Give this thins a cane and you have the man. I seen lots of jest sich chaps. Think says I, these is regenerated days. The Republic is a trimblin'. And while my mind was filled with sich men and women, and troubled about irresponsible paper issues, irredeemable corporosities, theoc racy, &c, I felt my dander risinand I resolved that the good old precepts of Democracy should never suffer in my hands. Every thing is tail foremost in this tiera town, hut prehaps we'll turn if eend for eend yet. Jest stand back tell I make my speech and you'll see a shakin' among bustles, whiskers and rattans. I went agin to see my collig'. I finds him a mongst a big crowd at Brownin's; I jest peeped in at the door and give him a sly wink and out he come. Says I, friend S , we must do somethin'. We must erect a magnificent ob livion. You in peticklar, says I. You know they say, at home, you'er a bit of a dandy a member of the Temperance Society and some don't like you bekase you're a merchant; and I've hearn some folks rayther suspicion as if your father in law had a leetle too much infln ence on you. Now,says I, shew the democratic grit that's in -ou. Says he, friend C never fear me, I shall stand up to the works. Give me you hand on that, says I; and the way I felt comfortable about tlie diefraim then want slow. The more I requestered around this here town the more I did'nt like it. Sich grand churches; nnd then a great thing in 'em to maKe music, jest hs if the Almighty could'nt make a musickle tool; and then the red curtains and saft enshins. With all the contraptions, a man can hardly get a seat in them, for every feller shets himself up in a leetle box, jest as ef it was his home. All Ihoncmrr These here things must all be sot to rights be fore the pure precepts of Johnson demoemov shall take the wings of the evenin' and fly to a! A a .a . . me uimosi eenas oi me state. Amen. Gentlemen, you are alive to sense of these evils, you know they exist; and If all of you are not clean grit, I feel a lively serenity when I mind that there is here a priority who goes in for simple adulterated democracy and not for empty whig docrin's. Gentlemen, allow me one word on a very important tropic, to -wit myself. One of my honorable constitutions sent me a pertition. His wife would'nt" cook or wash or do nothin' else for him, and he arriv at the conclusion, that he had ort to have a divorce. So he

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.. . .... " ...s penuion. I offered it and the rS likTtoT pe?ite,y enq,,ired at me I d like to have done with it. I thought this rayther a queer question. r, i, IT.0-Tl iVa T . s's,a,ur o grant it; but I tho' I'd do as HllOthpr .KJ . . .V" Je t then ehLomm,l,ee on Federal Relatives. r! S v h ?" ?nmannIy haw haw as a set An . . P . Up 1 never nea afore Ann (TAn MamAii t ----- . ,c you mat rrorn then tell nos I could never be sartain what they were alaffin'at. At any rate, I'd advise 'em not to rl 7. ' m'gtM turn out to be stive a few. Gentlemen, I shall return to my con"uu""3 ""repaired in body and mind, with clean hands and a clare conscience. I've lifted up my voice agin the cryin' evils of the day Ann nl I ria rtifvVit .1.. m i . J . ...v. .Ki ,. jo oe sure 1 and my worthy collig has voted opposite on all the main moves of the session. He voted for a Dutch Statue, and I agin it. He voted to appeal mprisoument for debt, and I agin it and so on through the Legislatur', but he must lake the verdick of past posterity. Some folks says he was jest electioneering when he voted to transplant the laws into Dutch, for you understand in the county that represents us there is may be, 300 very distinguished, free and inlightened German dutch votes. As to inpnsonment for debt, a man that owes ought to be in jail, that is democracy, what is what the immortal Jackson meant when he wrote his imperishable war message agin the French. ,:them wot trades on borrowed funds ort to oust. I liere is a few other streaks of lean about my collig' that don't set sopurty well on my astronomic organs. He offers to tax lawyers and doctors, and after a spell offers to take the tax for license off of merchants. Whon you learn that my collig' is a merchant this! little thing looks ugly. On one measure we ! agree to make a great corperosity.give it the ! nue water anai. which cost 81,300,000, and allow them to finish the job and have all they can make without any expense. As democrats we go agin all irredeemable corperosities and all inclusive water privileges, yet we had to go mis one. Uur constitutions will duly rv-ir. ciprocate this sacrafice of honeMy on our part to their private and piticklergood Gentlemen, I'm well nigh through and I hope you're satisfied I'm right. The people of Rochester will be astonished to hear of my makin'a speech. I tell'd 'em I should, but they would'nt suck it. I guess they'll know now that I an't to be skeeVed by a few short cloaks and big whiskers. One thing I ask of them chaps wots a'taken notes of this speech, don't you make any mistakes; there's ben some grumblm' about your doins, and I don't want you to botch my speech. Mr. Speaker, and genllemeD, I thank you for your purlite attendance. I feel this to be one of the proudest days of me life I dont know that I felt taller the day I was married. My heart swells with magnitude to think what I've been able to do this day. I have done Franklin county and democracy and a hard currency justice. Gentlemen, Jonh C , is satisfied with himself and wiil be while life shall last. Respectfully yours adieu. (Thunders of applause, blowing of noses and other suspicious sounds. A HARD HIT. MR. CLAY AND F.X-GOVERXOR GILMER. The last Charlottesville Advocate gives the following anecdote: When the regular session of 1841 had commenced, it is said that Mr. Gilmei met Mr. Clay and alluding to a previous conversation during the Extra session, in which Mr. G. predicted a change against the lugs in the fall elections advancing he remarked l,I told you so; Mr, Clay, I predicted that Ohio and Indiana would be lost to the Whigs. Every thing I foretold has happened. You find I'm "a prophet." ,;Tistrue," was the reply, "you predicted some events at the Extra Session, Mr. G. which have happened, and which it required no prophet to foresee but you did not tell me one thing you did not tell me all. You did not prophecy that Thomas W. Gilmer, elected in the spring, in one of the strongest Whig Districts in Virginia, upon the declaration that he w-as 'every inch a Whig would be found in the fall, less than six months afterwards, recording his vote at the polls for a rabid Locofoco to represent him in the State Legislature!! I believe that was not embraced in your predictions!" At this Gilmer turned blue and seemed to be choking, as though he had swallowed a shad tail foremost! Harriet Martineav. Honor to Harriet Martineau! She has set an example of self-de-nialand independence which is sadly wanting in these days of servility and self indulgence. Lord Melbourne, hearing that she was too ill to pursue her literary labors, and that she was straitened in means, offered her a pension. This she declined. She does so, in the first place, on the ground that money given as a reward should beconrerred only on the express desire of the public served; in tne second place, because she would lose more or less of her freedom of speech, if not of thought; and, in the third place, because she has steadily opposed the whole pension system as an iniquitous tax. She thanks Lord Melbourne for his considerate kindness, but cannot accept a favor which is w rung from the hard and scanty earnings of the over-taxed laborer. Once there lived one Samuel Johnson, the Corypheus of Church and State drivelers, and c:the great moralist oi tne age. ne cumpueu a certain dictionary, and in that he defined a pensioner to be, a slave of State, hired by a stipend to obey his master. He became afterwards the very thing he defined. For not on'.y did he take'a pension from his master, George the; WTUing a luuiutri nip puiiijiun-u, ioiii n v" tion no Tyranny," the design of which was to destroy American Freedom. The literary history of Englond required an antidote to this mean example. And as we began, so we finish, by saying, Honor to Harriet Martineau for hav- j ing furnished it. English I'aper.

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i no doubt,-not the fell u ' weEk,. dt,"nAe session of the Legislam,ld be nomh a ed ThST of .L V -U Cn!a'n fai,hful and ear,y reP Convention? S!

"ii, mere can oe that Mr. Clay ...1 r .: of the sublet 7cVo se wSK ZU tL l ";d.,d.al.e. and . - Proportion to neremrp m i n TPSS. It "menus agnation should ti t V- I ., k, r!,lgS' will not allow so iwl iPnriAP nniiM .... i ... J . " t UIIUI 1 niiiiii comn le.Z h er,UUIe' and end in 'St'tr' 'mfilUr Th s we firmly believe come defeat' come nnhin. prosperi,: SadS ."cicmicncumare. mat. rnmo x-,tnr ceedorfaihflifeU soared, we : win n '

termination to be entertained as wo ,,n k- . i m energy ana determinatirpliedinthesubmSionofS be ,m- purpose, for the great measures oil example vention Th,, b ! whw naine to a Con- a Sockd Ci rrescy, a Protect ,r no by all a ntC" Zr''SESofithe Pcbl.c Lako.: fo, Ol

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candidate or no candidate Now let the Whigs j..in hands, and pledge their fa.th lo sustain HENRY CLAY, and the Krr.u nnncinies snnrlionpH hv n mntri t i w.r. uiAUKEli AND SIXTY THOUSAND FREEMEN, in 1844. The Madisoxiax. The rumor is amin revived that the Hon. Isaac Hill, of New Hampire, is a .out to assume the editorial charge of the President's official paper the Madisonian. - The change will be for the better. It could r,r!,Hn fr WrSe' f,!r "ever did an Ad"1'"" - ill . T erSOJSr,?rIy before by rea?on of IL p " , y f hS 0fficial rgan and Z i .in "r'y mendacious and profligate Willi the Globe, it nevertheless lacked the stalI wart vigor of that journal, of which, from the ; 7, , s "mui vamiy aany put forth, 1 ave s,""ewhat consci-

mi. inn. iinwpver. i n mmi nf A . (r.... for the better; and we shall rejoice when the! namby-pamby emptiness f the Court ionriml i isanpears. Aeic ork Cammprr;,i1 State Coxvextiox. Fellow whig?, rouse up in the work of the w hig State Convention! ITrCtlllCIl Of Uie UresS. nrV clnmhnr nni l,i,i let us heai of the day and the hour when your' primary assemblies shall meet to appoint the ! delegates. This is a vast matter to us as a nar ty. Let it then be kept before the people. Hand round ihe word from this period nrnnnl The CONVENTION, should be the cry. 1 1 is mt- Maning point lot the campaign, and all other effort is 'useless without it. We have momentous interests to discuss then. Not only are our Slate elections implicated in this measure, but it may be important to settle the attitude of Indiana in regard to the presidential nomination. We need concert, organization and harmony in EVERY county nnd township in the State. Give us a rally, brethren of the press, all depends upon 'you. Indiana must! roll back the current of defeat and Marl the ball once more! Onward, then onward to the rescue! Ind. Journal. Col. Jonxsox. This distinguished gentleman is now at home. During the fall he has passed through the Eastern States, and everywhere has his presence been accompanied with enthusiastic greetings. In Baltimore. New York, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Washington city, Cincinnati, indeed every state in his route has been marked by a public expression of his loco foco friends in favor of his pretensions for the Presidency. Col. J. is by far the most available and worthy candidate of the Opposition hut the scheming machinations of the atch magician, will assuredly defeat him in caucus. So jW ell does Col. Johnson understand the character of Van iJureu, that notwithstanding the latter paid him an especial visit, during his western tour, j et old Tecumseh, though in his immediate neighborhood, failed to return the call! Ind. Journal. .iore mormox i roubles. it will be rec ollected that the late English papers spoke of a party of one hundred and sixty eight English Mormons being on their way to this country, with the design of colonizing w ith Joe Smith at Nauvoo. A letter from the active and intelligent Capt. Taylor, the boarding officer at the Balize, to a friend in this city, gives us the next notice of their whereabouts. Capt. Taylor,in one of hiscruizes,on the 1 Ith inst., at the bar of the N. E. Pass, w as hailed by Capt. Pierce, of the ship Henry, on board of which the Mormons were. Capt. T. boarded the ship, when he was informed by Capt. P. lhat the passengers were then, and had been, in a state of mutiny, from the time they were three days out from Liverpool. At the request of Cnpt. Pierce, and on his affidavit, Capt. Taylor made prisoners of the Rev. John Snj-der and two others whom Pierce pointed out as the ringleaders. N. O. Pic. The "Court Fcol," following in the footsteps of his illustrious Captain, has cut off all Ihe Clay papers from hie exchange list. Is not thic mnnetrniiclv lilp the bcb who thriiRt hi h ad in abllsh and-thought he was safe from National Character. Dickens says,whenever an Englishman would i cry "All right!" an ad!" which is some - Amf rican cries "Go ahead what expressive of the national character of the tw o countries.

' , u.nvKiii i principles nave nm oeen oeieaieu mat stamp. He has strong talent and wields a vig- they cannot be; for they have their origin in orouspen. He speaks lo the plain common the immutable necessity of things. Falsehood sense of the people, and makes "the worse an- fraud and treachery J have placed their hdvo pear the better reason," in a Cobbett-like sort cates momentarily in the minority; but they oi way that is popular. He moreover strikes' will not stay Hit re long. Locofocoism canheavy blows on occasions. iJut any chanTA nm ,...,!,. ii!r Tt .,r,

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INDIANA JOURNAL. i ms paper will be issued daily, tri-weektv "-T be deen.ed of mosi T. mere u" The Ca,efUlly enVe,Ped'Wld reBU The Ion standing of i,, u... il thia Mni.:.. . " Am .... v v uiiniucningaavccite or Tii measures and Wh'f men. the opponent of the AniiietHlion. U And from this course no swerve it. I j ..... . ""'W, y me present laitniess ExecuUve vernment patronage, or 3" "l ""J"1 I.e, exchtMy,urCle ,us, ma.niy reiy or support. In 'appointed ! The ten , w..r.u.,v, v. ii u i c Mian IIOV OC Glterms during the session, will be as fol Daily Jotirna!, Three copies daily, Tri-weekly Journal, Weekly Journal, 200 500 1 00 50 Indiana with Our contemporaries in whom we exchange, will please publish the ' above, or otherwise notice it. ? ' ! What is to be DoxE?-Some of our friends manifest great, and to us unaccountable anxie- ' know whilt ,he Wlii?s are ,0 d" now thai they are defeated. There is but one thing they m.. t,. n, l.,u,r:ii.u n.i i r,M.min-j and that is to abide by their principles. Those principles hate not lost a fraction of their importance, by the defeat of their advocates ti ! t . . with H.a piommn. ..rcnW,iv Hroi .. n n, ,i o. An ; . .; " ,:...i cj ..., i r i . iiimiiiii'iii i v a :ir i it iiKcr niiAro truer sentiment than when he said, "a lie cannot last forever." Ijocofocoisin is an embodied falsehood. False in principle and corrupt '111 nrni-liri- it.aiiiil.tr. nl.v.a i:.:-t ..... and order. Ilence.it must fall. Let every Whig, then, stand firm, and ,-ield not i nani. cle. To talk of surrendering, is treason treason to justice, to truth, to policy. Lroovxe Co. Hep. Sr-AXisn Robberies. During my stay of a fortnight in the capital. I heard of three robbe ries in the streets. One of them was conducted in a most singular manner. The victim was returning from a party at the French ambassador's, w hen he was accosted by several men and ordered lo give up his money, which . being alone and unarmed, he did, Ihe robbers then handed him a piece of paper, which, w ithout looking at, he put in his pocket. Thin happened near tthe foot of the Alcala; and when he arrived at the top of the street he was again stopped and asked w hether he had not a piece of paper. He produced the paper he had received rat the foot of the street, which was a certificate of his being robbed, and he was allowed to pass immediately The Spaniards are certainly ladrone- r garba, as the new spaper editor has it; for they give one the option of cither f ghting or paying; whereas, an Italian w ould first shoot you from behind a hedge, and then rob you afterwards. The most singular instance of the coolness and in trepidity of the Spanish character I have heard occurred not long ago at Seville. My infor mant was an English traveller who resided at the time in the town. A countryman was proceeding to market w ith his mule, w hen he was accosted not far from the town by a man armed w ith a musket, who ordered him to give up his property.The peasant replied that he would do no sneh thing, because he had a knife, and if his opp nents gun missed Are, he would then have the advantage. The robber expostulated, but to no purpose, he at length took deliberate aim at his intended victim, drew the trigger, but his piece missed fire; the peasant immeaiately attacked and despatched him with a knife, threw the dead body across the mule, and entered Seville in triumph, "carrying as a trophy the arms of his 'enemy. This w ild species of justice is certainly excusable in fa counlry where no other is obtained. A bummer in Spain. Right Spirit. The New York Tribune, in concluding an account of the election in that city speaks the follow ing language to which eve ry true Whig w ill respond: Let one thing be distinctly understood: In weal or o, prosperity or adversity, hope or gloom there is but one W'hig candidate for President in 1844. No fortune ran alter that Mr. Clay himself will not be allow ed to retire, should he w ish It. For him and none other (he being alive) the Whigs will vote; and we have no doubt that Ihe result w ill prove the LocoFoco successes of '41 and '42 as hollow and unmeaning as those of 38 and 39. It needs no exortation to induce every Whig to be ready for that contest. Pretty Good. -An Alabama editor makes an apology for a lack of "editorial," because Sal (,ne endearing title ( ) scissors. The bahi ofhts better half) has tne babies, he says; "must have ghirts and Sal w on't cut out a shirt with a handaw, no war it can be fixed.

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