Indiana Gazette, Volume 1, Number 8, Vincennes, Knox County, 18 September 1804 — Page 2

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This condition was complied with : the man has since laid information against all of them for signing a receipt, without a stamp! The penalty is 20l. each. For the Indiana Gazette.

Vincennes, Sept. 8th, 1804.

Mr. Stout, IN your paper of the 28th ult. l have observed with surprise, a piece in which the author has treated the citizens of Louisiana and the American emigrants to that

country, with the most un-

expected about that period,

not only to present the me-

part, but of the whole of the Enough hasbeenfaid ; and people ? Are not the Louifia. it isbeliened that'the Lookernians citizens of the Limed on will 'found no more the States? And have they not tocsin of alarm, without hava natural right, which right ing fir ft received official Wor. is guaranteed to them in matiou.

mortal or petition, but to

receive and congratulate them on their arrival, with all that hofpitaluy, ceremony and politenefs which are the known charaderiltics of the nennle of that conntrv. A

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So far from instituting or organising a systematic body, a convention to dictate to the governor and judges, the citizens of the district of Louisiana only mean to lay before them, their own internal local situation and interests, and

I . .. I , . ! i I . nifl in ' brav that certain Liw

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" : ,m , -puflcr authentic this i enacted luitaoie to lucn their

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calumny, uas anu.utu mil. ai-

r.atu e of LV.v- On : by which

h!iep-j:",)1e would be induced)

local fituation.. Strange con Ihuftion, indeed, of the intention of a known well dif-

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:ivl an eye witnefsto the jiuainy aai.iil an enlightened ell informed, hofpitable and . 1 1

ai'.L-:. the people ot Louisiana, j ponce people I

f the autaor has been a looker en, he has certainly been very incurred in his obftrvations : but if, as he fays, from au. tlicntic information received,

The Looker-On accufes the citizens of Louifuna with liceniioufnefs ; the contrary is well known to cverv we'l

l.i, ton cfpondems have ccr. i iniormeu citizen or tuc Uui

1 I :.!', dtieived him. In or- tea abates, lie - hopes that c .i to take of the unfavora- rlie good fenfe of the people l,L uuprdriens made on the will point out the irreguhrii;:i:ids of the people at large, tv or thcir proceedings." He as v.e'.iaion the minds of the !lhen ays that the Louifiajzo.cnior and judges of ihelnians are unacquainted with Ju 'iana Teiritory, by the ca-;our language, culloms, laws liumy confined in the piece and al1 clie ordinary princis -ncd Looker On, I beg'P,cs of" t,lc Police oi our RoLavc to prefent to your rea-1 vcrnment." Here, indeed, ((!, au account of "what has ,,ierc appears an inconlirten-couH-to my knou ledge rela-;cy in the writer : out in the t:ve to th; proceedings of the -1 1 1 c r obfervation, it nuiit be citizcnsofthediHria of Loui-' r-markcJ in branding siana foincorrecliy Hated b)vl!ic LouiHani ins v::h :-jgi: hc the Lookcr-On. u perfectly incorrect; for a great part of the citizeni ot I am authorifed to publlfli Louifuna, I apprehend, are tu the world, from informa- j much better acquainted with t-)u icewved at st. Louis a the things here cir.cd tiianthe i'-ua)sago, thatithadbecn Looker-On ishimfelf, and are t'lcinuntioij of the citizens of much lefi iubjtcl to contra-pvu-Louisiana to draw up dictions in their writings.

a memorial containing a ilate

the conftitution and- by the j treaty of celTion, to a(femblev peaceably together and deliberate on their grievances and to petirion and lemouhVate for redrefs ?

J. Darneille.

To the Public. WHETHER the attacks I made on the acts of the gov-

1 ne government ot the ernor, or on the governor Cnited States ought not to be hinifdf be malicious, imncr underltood to operate merely ' pU

by the whim and caprice of

the officers of adminstration; no, there are known laws by which they are bound, and from which they cannot depart.

What rigorous exertions then can be used to prevent

the assembling of the people,

it they think fit to so do? Strange infatuation, strange dispoition, indeed ! to endeavor to vilify a respectable and enlightened people, lately acquired and annexed to the United States, who ought to be treated with all that delicacy and respect which they are so well known to merit. I am indeed surprised that the anonymous scribler (I mean the Looker-On) should not have seen the great indelicacy and high impropriety

ot publiikmg Lia iufamcu; libel on die citizens of Louisiana without having iii i! received official information from the lieutenant governor and firft civil commandant of Up per Louisiana at St. Louis. An olScer, give me leave to fay, as much attached to good order and the interelis of the United S'cacesasany nun ; he ought to have been treated with more refpect. 1 think

founded truths, pertinent and political ; and whether fall!ly and malicioufly calumniating me, or reJienli;:Gl sntetizii me .as laoraey General, Parke has lud- ;. afro,uery to :erm were the tna:t c fie dual weapons of defence for his

friend that he could wild, or the cafe admit, will be determined by the pu'J.c. who are now in pa!fe"jn of all that lias been written on the lubject, and not by the unprincipled slanderer Parke Confti0U3 of my innocence, I ward his tissue of falsehoods i;i the List No of ihs Gazette, as I have his junr.cr jdricatkns, alrfio' lie confidercd and knew c!.c import of the .vords, which he e.xpeded would have pro-' voked me to fee him. His ...

uuty as a pub he oUirrr

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luent of their local situation The Loookcr-On "hopes

siul uuerclls and praying the rigorous exertions, will be made pvemor and iudpes toenail to prevent the calling of this

iao's as mfght bethought projected convention:" and j the-Looker-on muft be an arif-

mid neccttary for luch fays, (hefeemsto ipeak trom tocrat, who wimcs to preju-

l! vir lucal situation and in- authority,) that, 14 if it is per tcrjt. 'J hat Qandir.nr COm- filled in, it will terminate in r ;t:ccs lud been appointed the fliame 3nd confulion of all P u cubiy to alumble in the the convened,', and then he Isveral dilhids and deliberate fiys, if the people wiflicerfrthjtpuipofe. 'I hat about tain laws palfed, let them

In ft of October next, it petition and remonttrate, the

was intended that a deputation governor and judges will be

one or two incmhiTsfrnm hnuwitn attend to the remotl-

tiic committees of the feveral rtrances of the people,

"inu, Ihould aflt-mble at st.

;(,uis, and after the memor,al Ihould be prepared in a

Now let me afk the Look-cr-On what better method

dice the general government acrainfl the people of Louisiana jr7order that a lyficm of defpotilm may be eflabliflied amonglt them.

enircs of him :o L .-;:

fenders to cojuiig.i punimmenr. I have c.uie to believe he will not permit me to Ucapc the ignoniy of trial and condemnation, if it is in Usfower, which I fet at defiance. Wm. M'ieCTOSH. Yincenues, i6:h Sipt. 1804.

Five Dollars Rcivai

Fr()pcr manner, to wnir nn ol netitioninn; can be adopted

1 )e governor and judges of by the people than that of elfdunaTcrritory Ywhofe alTembling together either in

trrivai st. Louis

thpv : committee or

lonce more pronoucice, that from a confiderable acquaintance with the citizens of the diftrid of Louifuna, I am authorifed to fay that it has never been the difpoufition of them, either in an aggregate capacity, in committee, in convention or in anv other capacity whatever to dictate to the governor 6k

RAM-AWAY from ilj- fuSrcff living h the to ad of Vrincfnnn?i, i apprentice by the nam? of JOHN MATSOM, bound (o learn tht Hmk -Csrrrnrer bufia:f. AH pcrfons are Jiceoy caulionrd apainrt b-r.-n;', harborir,, or unbwfuliy detam-ng tVtd appicn-ice at they will be dealt witU 2;torJin to IaW JOSHUA BOND.

ALL UNDf Or PRINTING, Executed oo the Shorttft NoticJ.