Indiana Palladium, Volume 2, Number 27, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 15 July 1826 — Page 1

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EQUALITY OF RIG FITS IS NATURE'S PL AX AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAX. Barlow. i Volume IE LA WRENCEBURGH,v INDIANA; SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1326. Number 27

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PRLVTED JXD PUBLISHED BY J. SPE.YCER, I). V. CULLEY, W co. O-J erery Saturday Morning.

BIBLE SOCIETY.

At the annual meeting of tlie Bible

Society, on the 2d inst. the following very feeling, appropriate, and eloquent address was delivered at the Methodist Church, by the Hon. Jesse L. IIolman; a copy of which was furnished for publication, at the special request of the Directors. In opening the proceedings of the present meeting, permit me to remark, that the important cause, in which we are engaged, is still gaining new and powerful advantages in various parts of the world, and is spreading with increasing rapidity among the nations. While extending more generally over ground previously occupied, it is still exploring new territories, and occupying new station?. The

rapid increase of Bibles, and Bible soci

eties, in Europe and these U. States is no longer our only wonder. A wide and winding door is opened for their reception and encouragement in Asia, Africa, and South America. And the affect pro

duced by the distribution of this Book of

Revelation, bears an eneourageing proportion to the labor of love that is used in the distribution. Individual instances, of the sovereign efficacy of the written worJ, would (ill volumes. The soldier, the sailor the most vicious and abandoned, have been thereby reformed, and made heirs of the kingdom; and a vast improvement has been made in the manners and morals of the whole community. This effect is more perceivable in the regions of barbarism and superstition than in christian countries. Of this the Hottentot, the Otaheitan, and the Esquimaux, bear conclusive testimony. They, with their benighted neighbours, turn to the Lord with that purpose of heart that is manifested in every action of their lives. The out casts of Israel, also, look on him whom the) have pierced, and mourn; Etheopia stretches forth her hand unto God: The Isles wait for, and receive the redeeming laws. Mahomet and Beedlow have lost many of their favorite votaries; the fearful Brama, who "stretches his leaden scepter over half the world," is totter2 . . I il rni- a r m

iug 0:1 ins inrone. ine Aincan uin.

flees before the sight of Revelation; and the unknown God of the American Indian is revealing his glories in the western wilds.

The American Bible society, of which wc are a member, is increasing in auxiliaries, in resources, and exertions. While liberally supplying the extensive demands of the union, it has reached forth the hand of its benevolence to the West India Islands, and to our sister republics in the south. In our own state the cause ii but slowly advancing: a few new societies have been formed, but the far greater part of the state is slumbering, unapprised of the glorious work that is carried on around them. This county

is perl:. ips at this time, doing more than anv other in the state. There have been more than eight hundred Bibles and Testaments distributed in it by the several, societies. This is but little in comparison with what we might have done, but who can estimate the blessing that may result from our having done thus much. , This .thought, alone, is sufficient to encourage us to proceed. But there is

ho view we can take of this important subject, but what has inspiration in it. The deplorable scarcity of the sacred

volume, the present and everlasting lm

unite with us. We are engaged in dis-lhimsclf for us." Here he will learn terrors, by the glorious news of arisen

tnuuting trie iioiy scripture without that sin is the so o cause o the world's Jesus.

note or comment. It is a work in w hich miserv. and that he that would effectual! v

angels would delight; a work in which the holiest of men are zealously engaged ; and it is a work admirably calculated to employ the vast extent of human enterprise. Are there any present whose ardent desires are cramped by common occurrencies of life? Are you lurking around the borders of hospitality, for some employment that is worthy of an immortal mind? something that will attract universal attention, and procure you unbounded applause? Here is a work suited to your high ambition. Here is a world in ruins that loudly demands repair. And here in the word of Eternal life is the simple, but all powerful means by which this important reparation may be effected. This is the mighty lever, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, by which our sin-degraded world ma' be raised out of the gulph of vice and misery, and elevated to its original station among the morning stars of Heaven by which the shattered fragments of moral creation may be restored to their prestine order. This holy word is the only means by which we can chase away the midnight clouds in which we are enveloped, and which alone prevent us from enjoying the full blaze of the son of righteousness. Here, then, in the distribution of this word, the aspiring soul of daring enterprise may embark with its mightiest energies. The voice of fame invites to the undertaking with her loudest trumpet. It is not the fame that fleets on the breath of the giddv multitude, whose applauding acclamations poison as they flow. It is fame bright

er than yonder sun, more permanent than the perpetual hills, more grateful than the applause of monarchs. It is a title of a starry crown, it is, to be had in everlasting rememberance, it is, the approbation of the king of kings. Where is the votary of fame, who would not task his energies to the utmost, to

obtain an assurance, that the Lord of

all, in the presence of unnumbered worlds, would pronounce in his favor, the short, but emphatic plaudir, of '.'Well done." This work is adapted to every character among the benefactors of mankind. Is the philosopher mourning over the darkness that covers the earth the gross darkness that veils the hearts ot the people? Are the powers of his mind inlisted in the inquiry; "how shall the world be illuminated?" Here is a conclu

sive answer. Here is a manifestation of

the true light that came down from

Heaven Here shine the beams of everlasting day. Let him distribute this Holy book. Let him bear it from palace to palace, and from cottage to cottage, and, under the blessing of heaven, it will effectually dispel the gloom of ignorance. Whenever its sacred precepts are received into the heart of an

individual no matter how strongly er

ror has wove her thousand folds of

midnight around him no matter how dark and deep the shadow of death in which he is involved the instruction that is from above has omnipotent in it it sends asunder the whole tissue of

error

alleviate our miseries must extirpateour sins. Then let him direct the eye of

faith along the sacred pagesand he wil

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demand shall not he complied with, we understand the Cherokees have deter

Wc therefore invite you all, gentle- mined to wage war with the Osages im

men and ladies, to unite with us in this work of the Lord. Those who know-In happy experience, that, the scriptures

behold the Bible, with a thousand glit- are the power of God unto salvation to tering fingers, pointing t Jesu-, and cal-j every one that believeth, we specially inling upon the millions of mankind, to vile we do more we urge, we entreat "behold the Lamb of the Lord that tak- them, a they love the word of life, as eth away the sin of the world." Let him they prize the salvation of souls, as they adopt this as the only effective mode of estimate the divine glory. We also in-

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The Osages are said to be

benefiting mankind: and bear the glad

tidings of salvations to every son and daughter of affliction. We have also room in the Bible cause, for all the zeal, the vivacity, and benevolencc of the Ladies. Thevoice of want and misery always finds the rcadiet access to the female ear always awakens in her bosom the most powerful advocate in their favor. The silent plead

ings of a tear, the whispered petitions of

a sigh, is heard, and felt, and announced, by the daughters of sensibility, before cold, calculating man is awakened into thought, much less into action. And it is in the cottage of distress it is at the couch of affliction that the female character most enchantingly shines. Though lovely woman may be endowed with all of beauty, grace, genius, and mental acquirements, yet she never puts on all her loveliness, until she is engaged smoothing the brow of sorrow, ano

plucking the thorn from the bosom of

affliction she never shines with all her

angelic sweetness, until directing the wretched wanderer, the way from earth to Heaven.

Here, then, is a theatre sufficiently

spacious for all her active benevolence. Her sister?, in every land but the Land

of Bibles, are in the lowest stale of de

gradation. Their condition is too well known to require a minute description, (t may be seen at a Hindoo funeral, where the same tire blazes around the living wife and lifeless husband It max be seen on the banks of the Ganges, where the mother's eye ut.mcved. be

holds the ruthless Allegator crushing the tender limbs of her darling babe It may be Eeen in the Turkish harum, in the Cafparian Kraal, in our western wilds. And where is the female bosom, so dead to every kindred feeling, as not to

burn with anxiety, to extend the hand of

relief to wretchedness so deplorable? who would not lake her degraded sister by the hand lead her to an equal seat in society, and direct her opening eves to the golden diadem above? It is a subject of rejoicing that, the lound voice

of their affliction has been heard bv the ladies in Europe and America; and that

numerous female societies have been formed for their assistance. Yes; the ladies of the land we delight in, have shown that their most powerful sympathies have been awakened in behalf of the heathen world. There are many of them whose benevolent actions shine like a brilliant constellation around them, and will light their names along the stream of time wilh those of a Newel and a Jusdon. They arc doing deeds of mercy that will be remembered in eternity. But is this theatre of action too dis-

vite the moralist, the patriot, the philos

opher, the phylanthropist-yeaall the sons and daughters of benevolence all who would wipe the tear from the eve of sorrow all who would lull the sigh in affliction's bosom all who would soothe the agony of a guilty conscience in short, all who would make the world w iser, or better, or happier. Permit one suggestion more. Ours is the age of enterpiize. Achievements that would have astonished the sober imaginations of our fathers, have become familiar to our little children. But among all the works for which we are de-

manding the applause of unborn millions, there is none that will bear a compari

son with the distribution of the Bible none that engages such a continualh

increasing host of the good and the great!

of all nations none is so disinterested in its nature, nor so important in its consequences none that spends so wide, nor aims so high. kIt stretch.es its arms like

seas and giasps in all the shores." li looks around the nations, and claims the wide world as its land of premise; and is rapidly making forward to take the

kingdom. It aims at the regeneration of the world. With one hand it lavs hold of the exceeding great and precious promises of the Gospel, and with the

other endeavor? to raise the whole hu

man familv, so high, that the mile of

the almighty may forever beam upon them. It aims at enclosing every kin

dred, tongue, and people, under Heaven.

within the sacred walls ot Zion; and producing that promised day, of celestial splendor, when "the sun of Zion shall nomore go down, nor hermoon withdraw

herself, when the Lord shall be her everlasting light, and the day of her mourning

he ended." ho among vou will not

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join in a worK so great in an employment so glorious. And I do assure you my friends, that, when we shall all assemble together around the grave of time, and the morning beams of Eternity's Hin shall smile upon the millions who have been benefitted by the distribution of the Bible, not one of you will feel a sensation of pleasure in saying:

I had no hand m that work."

mediately, and that they will be supported by several strong parties of Shawnees Delaware?, and other tribes in alliance

vv ith them.

considerably alarmed.

, Later. Since the above was written, we have conversed with several gentle-

men who lelt Cantonment Uinson oniv a few days ago, and learned that the council between the Cherokees and Osages had broken up without an accommodation of their difference. The latter nation objected to treating, in consequence of the recent death of their Agent; Col. McNair, and positively refused to make the satisfaction required by the other party, until another Agent should be appointed. The consequence of their refusal vas an immediate declaration of war against them by the Cherokees, hut through the intercession of Col. Areucklf, they have consentcefto suspend hostilities for the space of three months, for the purpose of giving the Osages further time to deliberate on the matter, and for the appointment of an Agent, and receipt of instructions from Washington City, which it is hoped, may have a ten

dency to prevent an etiusion ol blood between the parties. We aho learn, by the same gentlemen that an express had been received at the above post, from Cantonment Towson.

bringing M ine farther paiticulars of the

na;i uei of our citizens on Led river. It appears that there were five persons murdered, instead of three, as originally reported; and it is stated that it is doubtful whether the murder was committed by the Osages. Some of the Indians, it is said, were armed with muskets, and dressed in Spanish uniforms, vv hich makes it probable that the outrage was committed by the Pairnees, or some other nation living in the Spanish country. We are assured by Mr. Ciiotf.au, a respectable French trader, who has lived and traded among the Osages for many years and is perfecilv acquainted with all their affairs, that there is not a Spanish uniform in that nation, and that they do not use muskets. We also learn, that the express bro't information that a party of 30 or 40 citizens of Miller county, had gone out in quest of the Indians who had committed the outrage.

Farther particulars. The following let ter to the Editor, from persons of respectability in Miller county, contain some farther particulars of the late outrage committed on a party of hunters from that county: 'Pecan Point. Miller Co. April 29. 1826.

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it flings back the shadow of death tant for the ladies of Lawrenceburgh?

unites the soul to him in whom arc hid There is an amnio field at home. There ..... - . , , . I . 1 .

all the treasures ot wisdom and know- are around us alas there are amon" us.

ledcre, and makes it wise unto salvation, those who are perishing for the lack ofi Miller count v

Is the patriotic statesman bending all; knowledge those who are starving for' or twelve, were ene-aed in catching rnatlc lils escape, after a long pursuit, in

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From the Mat. Intelligencer, June 24.

ERX LXD1A.XS. Little Rock, (Ark.) 31a y 23. Major McCllllax, Agent of Indian Affairs

for the Choctaw Nation, in this Tenitory, arrived here the beginning of last week from Fort Smith, at which point his Agency is established. He informs

rived therefrom Red river, bringing' Adam Lawrence and his son, John Lawinformation that the Osaaes have recei.f-ircn(ie' werc ln company with oung Adv rnmmlttpH nn,th,r nfr, on J a m La w rence, a nephe w of the former.

citizens, by the murder of three men 1 ;ere attacked on horseback, and

bv the name of Lawrenc

man, nis son, and nephew

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paper, the death of Mr. Adam Lawrence,

Mr. John Lcznawe, and Mr. Henry Lens rence, who were murdered by the Indians about the 17th instant. These men were, on the Foe-Washita, hunting with horses, when they were attacked by a

large body of indians supposed to be Osages, dressed in soldiers clothing, and armed w ith bows and arrows, and shot guns.

of three men! 1 were attacked on horsebacu, ana o,-f. r-m u' pursued a considerable distance before Llivl , l4il OKI . . ew, citizens of!lhe two former were overtaken and kila partv of ten The 1:itter w,th reat diflicultj, i ii rondo his esenne. after a lonfT pursuit, in

his energies in search of that philosophy, the want of the bread and the water ofi

that will best regulate the affairs of gov-;life. Vice, immorality, and dissipation,

icrnmcnt? Here is the grand scheme al-are stalking abroad at midday, and pour-

ready prepared. Here is a ende ot.mg poison along the walks of public and laws formed by infinite wisdom Mere' private life See the havoc they someis the constitution of the universe. In times make in domestic comfort. See

these inestimable pages are to be seen the mother in the midst of her ragged

of her

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wild horses on the Foe-Washita, a uie course oi wnicn ne ietei.eu slA wuw

branch of Red river, and in a countrv to It0lcs "rougn ms nunung snm, out uu-

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wnich the Osages have no claim.

portance of an acquaintance with it, to-tiat golden law of Love, that binds the' babes lamenting the dissipation of gether with the flattering prospect ofjvarous orders of the upper world to; husband. See how the moral i promoting this acquaintance, by this the throne of the Eternal. And while itloccasionallv, runs along the female ra

inoJe of distribution, are admirably cal

ctil ited to animate us with a tenfold zeal in this benevolent work. But what could inspire us more than a view of that love in which this revelation was given. Could we see. that love in all its revealed proportions see it flowing through the age of patriarchs and prophets like a mighty yet mysterious river see it in the days of incarnation widening into a spacious sea-or take our stand on Calvary's crimson summit, and behold it extending into an unbounded ocean.

coul4this amazmg love, get full hold of

our affections, there would be no langor in this society all our energies would be awakened all our resources woulTl be called forth,' and every house and

every reader would have the word of

God.

As there arc many present, who are

not members of this society, I feel inclined to give them a pressing invitation to

ruin,

ranks.

reaches sufficiently high to encircle the; It has blasted the rose on many a lovely highest order of Seraphim, it extends'cheek it has chased the last vestige of Id till .! la . m

low enougn 10 cmorace me lowest mlel-' excellence trom manv a tender heart.

ligence in the fallen world. This glorious law of Love is short, but comprehensive. It is simple but efficacious. No matter in what part of the world it

is received and practised whether in

the palace or the cottage in burning or

in frozen climes by the sage or by the

barbarian, it invariably produces the same effect, of "Glory to God in the

highest, on earth peace, and good will to men."

Dos the Philanthropist lament the miseries of our race? Does he seek by

the light of the midnight taper, to lessen

the sickening streams that flow through the wide regions of calamity? Let him dismiss his feeble theories, at once, and hear learn a system of universal benevolence, from the precepts and practice of "Him w ho lived for us, and gavp

And do you not feel yourselves called upon to arrest its fatal progress. If the

enemy has come in like a flood, rear up

the bible as a standard against him.

Bear it to the mother who has a babe to

instruct give it to the child who can

just lisp its accents place it in the hands

of the youth of both sexes, who are pre

paring to enter into life see that all who bear the burden of the present generation hear it and leave not thehoary head on the verge of the grave without

it. Amidst all this there are peculiar

calls go with the Bible to the lonely

widow, and shew her that her maker

will be her husband go to the houseless orphan, and point him to a father that will never leave nor forsake him fly with the consolations of the Bible to the

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old man and his son, with three others,

were in a party by themselves, when they were suddenly surprised by a large party of Osages, and the two former killed. The nephew was with another small party at the time he was killed. The remainder of the party then hastened to their camp, roused those who had

been left there, and saved their scalps by making a precipitate retreat, but not without having to abandon their baggage, and about twenty-five mustangs which they had taken, all of which fell into the hands of their pursuers. The old man had been engaged in hunting mustangs for a number of years, had several times encountered unfriendly Indians in his excursions, and was severely wounded by them on a former occasion. As Major McClellan came down, he

met a deputation of Cherokees, accompanied by Major Du Val, Agent of Indian Affairs for that nation, on their way

holding a council with the Osages, and

demanding of them satisfaction for the murder of two or three of their People, who were killed some years since, and restitution for several horse?, which had

hed of ?:c!vnc2s, and disarm the king of been stolen by the latter nation. If their

to cantonment Gibson, for the purpose of left a wife and seven or eight children to

tunately sustained no other injury.

Ilenrv L-. wrence,son of George Lawrence, was ki!fod about the same time, while in another direction, and in company with a Mr. Dewall. Dewall was pursued a long distance, and several guns were fired at him; and during the chase he had to pass through another large body of Indians, w!k were encamped, and appeared to have a great number of horses. They fired several guns at him, which fortunately did him no injury. He owed his escape to the flcetiiess cf his horse. Two other men were pursued by another large party of Indians, on the same day and made their escape after a chase of about live miles. There were two other men out at the same time, and near the same place, who have not been heard from &ir.ce this affair took place. Those men were all citizens of Miller county. The elder Adam Lawrence has

mourn his loss. I have seen and conversed with all the men who have returned, and obtained from them the foregoing particulars, which may be relied on. About 40 men sat out from this cou: