Indiana Centinel, Volume 5, Number 10, Vincennes, Knox County, 7 July 1821 — Page 3

SATURDAY JULY 7.

INDEPENDENCE, 4th July, ltf-l.- This anniversary cf the Declaration of American Independene, was celebrated m Vinccnnes in a very becoming style. According to previous arrangements,, the Citizens and military assembled ut Johnson's Tavern, where a procession was formed, and proceeded to the Court House, where the immortal Declaration was read by Genl. W. Jon.NsroN, Esq. and an Oration pronounced by Joux E.vw, Esq. which did euuiil honor to the heart and head of the auLhor. it was gratifying, to the friends of the real independence oi our country, to hear such truly American sentiments delivered in sulIi handsome style to such a numereus and attentive audience in Vinccnnes. it augurs well to the progress of correct principles among u, and to the future respectability of our iocai character. it . ti.nu indeed, that importers should be discouraged. If the national government, bhmny bent on a false system of revenue, will still turn a deaf ear to the tries el' the country, it is time that the peop.c, so far as in them lies, should entieavor to redress themselves. Our nation i still purchasing every thing, and selling nothing. The farmer's produce, in market, will not pay its transportation. The manufacturer languishes for want of encouragement, being undersold by foreign capitalists, backed by their governments, and invited by the ruinous-policy of ours. It is, then, necessary for the people to change their habits to ieara to be self dependent to ccare encouraging those who are draining their country of its specie for foreign luxuries and tsys. while their own productions are neglected k, rotting at home. The Fanners, who are the noblest class cf society ; uho form the basis upon v.hkh all the ethers are founded ; and who are, intrinsically, the insst honest, patriotic, and well-meaning, must look at borne for their ease, their comfort, their wealth and independence. They n$U':t cease to look abroad for the gewgaws find the fripperies of foreigners. They r.mst look to their own fields, and put their cwti looms in motion, Every yard cf cloth thev make for their own use, is to much saved to themselves and their country every dollar they pay for foreign manufacture, is lost to them and their country forever. These are truths which cannot be too often repeated, nor too implicitly believed ; and we were truly rejoiced, in common with the great majority of the audience, to hear them so distinctly asserted by Mr Law on this occasion, and so emphatically and beautifully enforced. At the conclusion of the Address, the procession formed again and proceeded to a beautiful green, embowered in the enclosure of Mr. Owen Rgilet, who had prepared a most sumptuous repast for the occasion Henry Ruble Esq. presided at the table, assisted by Dr. Jacob Kuykendall as Vice President. When the cloth was removed, the following toasts were drank, accompained by appropriate national tunes by the military v band cf innate. The day passed off in harmony and glee, and the company, separated at an early hour, highly satisfied at the concert ar.d pleasure of their ca-

1. Tic Day we Celebrate. The people willed it, and were free. 2. Independence. May millions yet unborn cherish the love, and evince by their conduct the knowledge how to enjoy it. 3. The Heroes of the American Revolution. May their fame be as lasting as their struggle was glorious. 4. The Immortal Washington. A Caesar in War, a Cincinnatus in Peace, and a Solon in Policy. 5. The Marquis De La Fayette. The Patriot The Philanthropist. .6 The United Slates of America. E pluribus Unum. 7. Adams, Jefferson and Madison, May the review of a lone: and arduous discharge of Public duty solace and sweeten the decline of life. 8. The President of the United Slates. Faithful intelligent .nd Patriotic. 9. The Navy of the United Stales. Its deeds of glory will live as long as Ocean rolls a wave." 10. The Late Army. The Heroes of Freedom and Hpnor have not tarnished their Inheritance. 11. The State of Indiana. May she gain Knowledge and virtue, as she gains age and strength. 12. Equality. Free but not Licentious laws tempered by humanity--and Fame founded on Talent and principle. 13. The Fair sex of Indiana. May their Beauty consist in virtue, and not their virtue in Beauty. CELEBRATION AT THE Rock Spring The human mind is so delicately and justly framed, that no pleasure can be forced, and no enjoyment constrained. The joy of the heart is uncontrolled by system, and unassisted by the mechanism of external form. He who would compel us to be happy, by limiting and shaping our course of conduct by his own tame, subservient and hackneyed rules, knows but little of the mental organization of man. Pure pleasure is, like patriotism, spontaneous and free, dependent on neither reins or fetters, uninfluenced, unbought, unseduced, unterrified. There is little friendship in formality, no solidity in ceremony, nor cordiality in the fawnings and punctilios of fashion ; but one honest expression of the heart is worth a thousand cringings and contortions of the countenance. Thus thought a number of sensible citizens of Vincennes and its vicinity, farmers and mechanics, those classes in whose arms are enclosed the wealth, the honor, and the safety of their country, who, honestly patriotic and truly independent, wished to enjey their own day in their own manner. They accordingly, by previous concert, without parade or tumult, assembled at the ROCK SPRING, about two miles from town, and there enjoyed themselves as became Americans, Republicans and Freemen. The peculiar scenery of that delighful. spot added not a little to the zest of the! recreation ; and the cause and the da j they celebrated, lost no interest from We romantic beauties that surrounded thr m. Col. Robert Bunti?, was the Pr esident of the Board, William Fur cn, Vice President, and Maj. James P. addollet, Marshal of the Round Jere, in the midst of nature's harmony, v ,tth no affectation to interrupt it, thev sp nt the d xy ia the pleasures of rational 'fouvivi-

fciii. The following TTcre the (oasts djank on the occasion ; and better sentiments were never uttered by man, than arc given in the first thirteen. The volunteers were not all handed to us those "we have are excellent, as springing from the impulse of the moment, unpremeditated and undesigning. 1 . The Day ue celebrate. Altho' but too often spent in unmeaning revels, its recurrence must, to the friend of. his country, bring a heartfelt joy, tempered with a religious gratitude "to the bold minds who first conceived the plan of independence, and unfurled its banners ; to the undaunted and persevering men who breasted the rtorm in its defence, and to that beneficent being who approved and ultimately blessed their hallowed exertions. 2. George Washington. That revered name conveys a meaning fully understood by every sincere friend of his country : it wants no comments. 3. The Constituted authorities cf the Unitcd Stales, and cf this Stale. 4. The Federal Constihdion. Proud monument of wisdom combined with patriotism: may daring ambition or sly intrigue never make inroads into its sacred precincts: confusion to Caucuses! confusion to the representatives of the people, when metamorphosed into cringing applicants for executive favours. 5. The State of Indiana. Young and inexperienced,- she gradually advances towards maturity ; may her first errors and unsteady steps give place to wisdom &. energy, Sc may she deserve and obtain an honorable rank amongst her sister states. Union. These solemn words should never cease to be repeated. United i:e stand, divided we fall. Away, then, with all local distinctions. We are all members of the same family ; are all embarked in the same cause, and must sink or swim in the same bottom. 7. Our Legislature. May it be filled with intelligence and rectitude, and may it forever be cleansed, thoroughly cleansed,of bank agents and bank dependants, and be what it ought to be, the honest representative of a well meaning people. 8. Political health. May our political atmosphere be soon purged from the pestilential and donating inllucnce of banks ; may republican simplicity of-manners, and a purity of morals, soon take place of that ostentatious extravagance, and widely spreading depravity, perhaps, the unavoid able appendage of morbid monarchies, fcut amongst the sons of liberty, the su-.'e forerunner of a fatal decay. 9. Spain and Portugal. Depressed by age of despotism and bigotry, they rise vrilh an elasticity which has made despots tremble. May their dignified and temperate march towards regeneration obtain the smiles cf Heaven 10. Our brethren of Spanish Ameiica, When the despots of Europe are aiming ut the extinction of the last sparks of liberty and independence in that devoted portion of our earth, a tlamc is kindling in the New "World, which will appal the old. May we soon be able toFsay, from Patagonia to Canada, we are all republican?, we arc a.l American?. 11 Agriculture. The truly creative pursuit , the school of innocence and manly independence. Assume an erect attitude, ye husbandmcuXo fred and honour your country, and are its main stay when assailed by storms. 12. Education. The dew of knowledge ought not, as it has hitherto done, rrater tlie eminences of society en!, bui

fertilise also Ihc humble Tallies, and penetrate every ramification of sockt-. Knowledge is the safcgiu rd cf our u .-ti-tutions. The citizens who know their duties, as well as their rights, can se'dom be subjected or subdued.' 13. The American Fair. None but the good and brave, deserve their chaims. VOLUNTEERS. By Robert Buntin, Jun.The Citizens of the United States May their Virtue equal their bravery ! Bv Albert BcdolUi. Tho memor of General GEORGE ROGERS CLA i K. Bv William French. Major Gen. AnprewJackson, Mayhis services be gratefully recollected by the son' of liberty. By James P Baddollct.sUj. Cm. Scott. A pattern of American heroism. By John Jri'scrThc American Constitution. Those that donrt like it, kt them leave it. By Josiah L. Holmes. 31 ay the citizens of Knox county, at the ensvi-;g election, approach the polls withou fear or attachment to the Banking inlertt. By JTilliam Rodgcrs. Our coui:f. :. May all its enemies have the Devi! for their barber, to be lathered with nqv,4 fortis, and then 'shaved with a handsaw ! By James II. W Don all. The Amriican Fair May they love young p:. . and despisa old Bachelors ! By Archibald JIP Clvrc. Our depart , friend, Col. Jhn Small, the patriot, if" soldier, the kind and honest man. Ev -ry thing around us recals him to o memory. As while, here below, few men were better, while gone above, may none be happier. The following gentlemen are announced as candidates at the approaching election : For the Seriate. Knox, Daviess, nd Martin. WILLIAM POLKE. FREDERICK. SIIOLTZJOHN EWING. Knox Representatives. BENJAMIN V. BECKES, DAVID BROWN. GENERAL W. JOHNSTON, JOHN MYERS. JAMES B. Mc.CALL. ABRAHAM F. SNAPP. Knox County Associate Judge. JOHN MOORE. JOHN M'DONALD. JOHN M'CLURE. CARTER BEAM ON, WILLIAM L. COLMAN. SAMUEL ADAMS, County Commissioner. WILLIAM BRUCE. JOSEPH M?CLURE, SAMUEL EMISON. JAMES P. BADOLLET. ROBERT M-CLURE, DANIEL LANGTON. Director of the Poor. JAMES II. M'DONALD.' Alexander U. Prase?, COUNSELLOR & ATTORNEY AT LAW, Vincenncs Will practice in the Counties Comprising the first Judicial Circuit of tho State of Indiana and the Counties of Crawford, Edwards and Lawrence in Illinois, as well as in the Supreme &: District Courts of both States His office is krpt at Col. Lasselles Taveru where he will be found. JuneSSth, 1821. 26v.