Indiana Palladium, Volume 1, Number 39, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 30 September 1825 — Page 2

Pennsylvania, is well settled. Brownsville, about GO miles by water, above Pittsburgh, is a considerable town. It was the centre of the earliest improvements on the western waters. It will be more familiar to the old Quaker settlements in Pennsylvania, and in Jersey and Delaware, by the name of Redstone; so called from a fort constructed ot red sand stone, common to that neighborhood. Numerous valuable settlers from the

districts mentioned, emigrated hither about!

35 vear ago. established a regular system ot

lnntrfl extensive orchards of

ciioice fruit trees, brought from the place of

their former residence. The western country is now extensively supplied with apples,

cider, whiskey, tec. the product ot these orchards.

Nine miles above Pittsburgh, and imme

diately upon the north bank of the Monongahela river, is the celebrated battle ground "Braddock's Field.'" It is famous for the

destruction of an army intended to capture

ort Duquesne, to crush the extending pow

er of France; and control the Indians on our

western border. Here Washington fought and Braddock fell. On this spot, 50 Frenchmen and 250 Indians nearly destroyed the forty-ninth and fifty-first regiments of British regulars, though aided by a number of Pro

vincial troops. The battle was fought on

the afternoon of the 9th July, 1755. seven

ty years have since passed away, and yet the crumbling bones of men and horses are

seen in every field for a mile in circuit. For

maiy years they were shrouded by a mourning wilderness of shadowy woods, but this has yielded to the busy axe, and the plough

is now annually driven amongst the sculls of

the slain and the bones of the brave. Rich harvests wave o'er fields fertilized by the blood and bodies of a thousand unburied men. Tlie partridge whistles and the reaper sings on the spot where the cries of mortal anguish told the dread revelry of battle. 'Twas here the wild whoop of fierce savages qitelled the rallying cry of Europe's warriors. 'Twas here they drove the ruth-

life had been devoted, the improvement ofl

the moral and political condition of man.

Throughout that long succession ot time, the people of the United States, for whom, and with whom, you have fought the battles of liberty, have been living in the full possession of its fruits; one of the happiest anions the family of nations. Spreading in

population; enlarging in territory; acting

and sultenng according to the condition oi

their nature; and laying the foundations of cherished us in your regard. Ours by that

the greatest, and, we humbly hope, the most beneticient power that ever regulated the

concerns of man upon earth.

In that lapse of forty years, the genera

tion of men with whom you co-operated in

the conflict of arms, has nearly passed away Of the General Otficersof the American ar

mv in that war. von a one survive. vM me

Sages who guided our Councils; of the War

riors who met the foe in the field or upon

the wave, with the exception of a few to

whom unusual length of day, has been allot-

ed by Heaven, all now sleep with their lath

ers. A succeeding, and even a third gene

ration, now takes their places; and their

children's children, while rising up to call

them blessed, have been taught by them, a

well as admonished by their own constant

enjoyment of freedom, to include in every

benison upon their fathers, the name of him

who came from afar, with them and in their

cause, to conquer or to fall.

The universal prevalence of these senti

ments was signally manifested by a resolu

lution of Congress, respresentir g the whole

people, and all the States of this Union, re

questing the President ot the United States

to communicate to you the assurances of

grateful and affectionate attachment of this Government and people, and desiring thai a national ship might be employed, at your convenience, for your passage to the borders of our country. The invitation was transmiitcd to you by my venerable predecessor: himself bound to you by the strongest tics of personal friendship: himself one of those whom the highest honors of his country had rewarded

less tomahawk deep in the crushed scull of for blood early shed in her cause, and for a

the vanquished, and with yelling joy, tore

the ecalp from the head of the feeble and wounded, the dead and the dying. The retreating survivors carried their Wounded general with them until he died. He was burled about 40 miles from the battle ground, in the centre of the road, his advancing army had cut. To prevent discovery of his grave, soldiers, horses, and wagons, were passed over it, to save the body from savage dishonor, by thus concealing the trace of its interment. Some of Braddock's affectionate soldiers, so marked the trees near the spot where he was laid, that the recollections of those who visited the west many years after, could point to the exact place of his interment now, emphatically called Braddock's grave. It is close to the northern side of the National road, seven miles east of Uniontown. Ohiq.

which we live, the blood of lofty patriotism

shall mantle in his cheek, the fire of consci

ous virtue shall sparkle in his eye, and he shall pronounce the name of Lafayette.

Yet we too. and our children, in lite and alter death, slill claim you for our own. You

are ours by that more than patriotic self-de

votion with which you flew to the aid oi our

fathers at the crisis of their fate. Ours by that long series of years in which you have

long life of devotion to her welfare. By him

the services of a national ship were placed at your disposal. Your delicacy preiericJ more private conveyance, and a full year has elapsed since you landed upon our shores. It were scarcely exaggeration to say, that it has been to the people of the Union, a year of uninterrupted festivity and enjoyment, inspired by your presence. You have traversed the twenty-four states of this great confederacy: You have been received with rapture by the survivors of your earliest companions in arms: You have been hailed as a long absent parent by their children, the men and women of the present age ! And a rising generation, the hope of future time, in numbers surpassing the whole population of that day when you fought at the

head and by the side of their forefathers,;

have vied with the scanty remnants of that hour of trial, in acclamations of joy at beholding the face of him whom they feel to be the common benefactor of all. You have heard the mingled voices of tlie past, the present, and future age, joining in one uni-

jversal, chorus of delight at your approach;

ADDRESS Of the President of the United States to General Lafayette, on taking leave of him at his departure on the 7th of September. General Lafayette: It has been the

good fortune of many of my distinguishedland the shouts of unbidden thousands, which

fellow-citizens, during the course of the year! greeted your landing on the soil of freedom,

now elapsed, upon vour arrival at their re-jhave followed every step ot your way, and

spective places of alde, to greet you with

the welcome of the Nation. The less pleasing task now devolves upon me, of bidding

you, in the name of the Nation, Adieu.

still resound, like the rushing of many wa

ters, from every corner of our land. You are now about to return to the coun

try of your births of your ancestors, of your

It were :;o longer reasonable, and would; posterity. The Executive Government of

be superfluous, to recapitulate the remarka-the Union, stimulated by the same feeling

ble incidents of your early life incidents which associated your name, fortune, and

reputation, in imperishable connexion with

the Independence and History of the North-' African Union. The part which you performed at that important juncture was marked with a character so peculiar, that, realizing the fairest fable of antiquity, its parallel could scarcely be found in the authentic records of human history. You- deliberately and perseveringly preferred toil, danger, the endurance of every hardship, and the privation of every comfort, in defence of a holy cause, to inglorious ease, and the allurements of rank, affluence, and unrestrained youth, at the most splendid and fascinating court of Europe. That this choice was not less wise than magnanimous, the sanction of half a century, and the gratulations of unnumbered voices, all unable, to express the gratitude of the heart with which your visit to this hemisphere has been welcomed, aflbrd ample de

monstration. When the contest of, freedom, to which you had repaired as a voluntary champion, had closed, by the complete triumph of her cause in this country of your adoption, you returned to fulfil the dutiesof the philanthropist and patriot in the land of your nativity. Theremin a consistent and undeviating career of forty years, you have maintained, through every vicissitude of alternate suc

cess and disappointment, the same glorious

which had prompted Congress to the desig

nation of a national ship for your accom-

unshaken sentiment of gratitude for your

services which is a precarious portion ot oui inheritance. Ours by that tie of love, stron

ger than death, which has linked your name,

for the endless ages of time, with the name

of Washington.

At the nainful moment of parting from

f. , you, we take comfort in the thought, that

wherever you may be, to the last pulsation

of your heart, our country will be ever pre sent to your affections; and a cheering con

solation assures us, that we are not called to sorrow most of all, that we shall see your

face no more. We shall indulge the pleas ing anticipation of beholding our friend a

gain. In the mean time, speaking in the

name of the whole People of the United

States, and at a loss only for language to

give utterance to that icehng ot attachment with which the heart of the nation beats, as the heart of a man I bid you a reluctant

and affectionate lareweli. Copy of Gen. Lafayette's answer to the President of the United States, on the 7th Sept.

Amidst all my obligations to the General

Government, and particularly to you, Sir,

its respected Chiet Magistrate, I have most

thankfully to acknowledge the opportunity

given me, at this solemn and painful moment,

to present the people ot the united btate: with a parting tribute of profound, inex pressible gratitude.

To have been, in the infant and critical

days of these States, adopted by them as a favorite Son, to have participated in the

toils and perils of our unspotted struggle for

mticpenuence, ireeciom, and equal rights, and in the foundation of the American Era

of a new social order, which has already pervaded this, and must, for the dignity and happiness of mankind, successively pervade cvoi-j jjchI of tho other hemisphere, to have received at every stage of the revolution, and during forty years after that period, from the People of the United States, and their representatives at home and abroad,

continual marks of their confidence and kindness, has been the pride, the encouragement, the support of a long and eventful life. But how could I find words to acknowledge that series of welcomes, those unbounded and universal displays of public affection,

which have marked each step, each hour, of

a twelve-month s progress through the twenfour States, and which, while they overwhelm my heart with grateful delight, have most satisfactorily evinced the concurrence of the people in the kind testimonies, in the immense favors bestowed on me by the several branches of their representatives in every part, and at the central scat of the confederacy. Yet, gratifications still higher awaited me ; in the wonders of creation and improvement that have met my enchanted eve, in the unparalleled and self-felt happiness of the people, in their rapid prosperity and insured security, public and private, in a practice of good order, the appendage of true freedom, and a national good sense, the final arbiter of all difficulties, I have had proudly to recognise a result of the republican principles for which we have fought, and a glorious demonstration to the most timid and prejudiced minds, of the superiority, over

uegradmg aristocracy or despotism, of pop

petitions, at once before you, Sir, and this

respected circle, to proclaim my cordial con-

irmation of every one ol the sentiments

which I have had daily opportunities publicly to utter from the time when your venerable predecessor, mv old brother in arms,

and friend, transmitted to me the honorable

invitation of Congress, to this day when you, my dear sir, whose friendly connexion with

me, dates from your earliest youth, are going to consign me to the protection, across the Atlantic, of the heroic national flag, on

board the splendid ship, the name of which has not been the 'east ilattering and kind among the numberless favors conferred upon

me.

God bless you, and you all who surround 111 A A I

us. iiou bless tne American people, eacu

of their States, and the Federal Govern

ment. Accept this patriotic farewell ot an overflowing heart; such will be its last throb

when it ceases to beat.

modation in coming hither, has destined thejular institutions founded on the plain rights

first service of a frigate, recently launchedjof man, and where the local rights of every at this metropolis, to the less welcome, butjsection are preserved uiuler a constitutional equally distinguished trust, of conveying you'bond of union. The cherishing of that un-

home. The name of the ship has added

one more memorial to distant regions and to future ages, of a stream already memorable, at once in the story of your sntlerings and of our independence. The ship is now prepared for your reception, and equipped for sea. From the moment of her departure, the prayers of millions will ascend to Heaven that her passage may be prosperous, and your return to the bosom of your family as propitious to your happiness, as your visit to this sconce of your youthful glory has been to that of the American people. Go, then, our beloved friend return to the land of brilliant genius, of generous sentiment, of heroic valor; to that beautiful

b ranee, the nursing mother of the twelfth Louis, and the fourth Henrv; to the native soil of Bayard and Coligni, of Turenne and Catinat, of Fenelon and D'Agnesseau. In that illustrious catalogue of names which she claims as of her children, and with honest pride holds up to the admiration of other nations, the name of Lafayette has already for centuries been enrolled. And it shall henceforth burnish into brighter fame; for if, in after davs, Frenchman shall be

called to indicate the character of his nation

ause. to which the first years of your activej by that of one individual, during the age in

ion between the States, as it has been the lareweli entreaty of our great paternal Washington, and will ever have the dying prayer of every American Patriot, so it has become the sacred pledge of the emancipation of the world, an object in which I am happy to observe that the American people, while they give the animating example of successful free institutions, in return for an evil entailed upon them by Europe, and of which a liberal and enlightened sense is every where more and more generally felt, show themselves every day more anxiously interested. And now, Sir, how can I do justice to my deep and lively feelings, for the assurances most peculiarly valued of your esteem and friendship, for your so very kind references to old times, to my beloved associates, to the vicissitudes of my life, for your aiTccting picture of the blessiugs poured by the several generations of the American people on the remaining days of a delighted veteran, for your affectionate remarks on this sad hour of separation, on the country of my birth, full, I can say, of American sympathies, on the hope so necessary to me of my seein"

again the country that has deigned near half

Extract from the Speech of the Hon. Andrew Stczcart, of Pa. at the Chesapeape and Ohio Canal Celebration, held at Smithfield, (Pa,) on the 4A of July 1 825. "Let other nations boast of their palaces, their pyramids, and splendid piles, erected at the people's expense, to pamper the pride, or perpetuate the power of some pageant Monarch, or proud usurper; yet be it our pride to expend the people's money for the people's benefit; in building up proud and permanent, and glorious monuments of Internal Improvement, alike useful, in peace, and in war: uniting the distant parts of this extended, and extending republic, to which our children's children may look, in after times, and bless and praise the wisdom and munificence of their ancestors. And when was there a period in our history more auspicious to the commencement of the great work of internal Improvements than the present? At peace with all the world ; unconnected with Europe, and strangers to the storms which disturb her repose: unique in our situation, abundant in resources, the freest government on earth, and a country embracing in its wide domain every variety of climate and of soil: intersected every where with vast mountains, and lakes, and rivers, extending their arms from the East to the West, and from the West to ths East, as if to clasp each other, and imploring as it were, the aid of industry and art to unite them in the sacred bonds of a perpe

tual Union, making them tlTe fruitful sources of wealth of intercourse of harmony and love, to the countless millions that repose upon their borders, awakening by their plastic touch to new activity and life, every branch of industry, agriculture, manufactures and commerce; opening everywhere ft?w aud abundant sources of wealth, which must otherwise forev er remain dormant and unknown, "If Internal Improvements have decorated and adorned, and enriched other countries, why shall they not ours? What country under heaven presents such advantages or such inducements? If the traveller in Europe, be every where delighted on his journey by magnificent roads, and splendid canals, shall he come here to be disappointed? Shall this proud Republic lag behind the .Monarchies of Europe, in improving its own condition; in confering benefits and blessings on its people ? Or should the time come (which God forbid) when this happy government, sharing the fate of former Republics, shall fall beneath the power of some successful Caesar, shall it be permitted to tlie proud usurper, looking .abroad over the desolated land, to ask in triumph the fallen friends of liberty, where are the benefits left by your boasted Republic? Where the footsteps of its power, or the monuments of its glory? Where the remains of any of the boasted blessings which it has conferred upon the people? none none. .Nothing left by which the Republic is to be remembered or regretted nothing to recall to recollection the happy days gone bye nothing to rekindle the sacred love of liberty in the bosoms of her votaries nothing to call forth the tear of regret for its fall.. No, gentlemen, this must not, cannot be. ;i Let us ad

vance in the goodly work in w hich we are engaged; let us fill the land with these evidences of Republican wisdom, and Republican magnificence. These will be found our best security in times of danger they will be found the most effectual means of counteracting the sad vicissitude to which I have adverted. 4;But I perceive 1 am getting into a boundless field I have already trespassed too long on your attention, permit me to repeat my obligations, my grateful acknowledgments for tins manifestation of vour confidence and kindness, and believe me gentlemen, (for 1 speak in the sincerity of my heart) when I say, that if I could even for a moment indulge the pleasing dream that iy humble and unimportant name should ever be associated with any thing connected with the

mv country, 1 would r.ot desire for

glory ol

it a more exalted niche in the temple of

a century ago to call me hers? I shall con-lfamc, than that, in which vour kindness has

tent mvselt, retraining irom suptribions !e-!:hhdav been ldctted to nhce T