Indiana Palladium, Volume 2, Number 30, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 5 August 1826 — Page 1

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Volume II. LAWRENCEBURGH, INDIANA; SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1826. Number SO,

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FOR THE PALLADIUM. "O MV COUJVTRY!" . When I reflect on a circumstance, which may arise out of the domestic concerns of our highly favored republic, I am led to use the abovc expression, uttered by the dying Pitt. Why despair of my country? because I am fearfd the sword of vengeance will be un sheathed at some future day; and that spirit which is the same, extern .y, to-day, and forever, has said 'vengeance is mine, I will repay.' There is no certainty, if the work of destruction and revenge is to begin, when the fell destroyers, may be privileged to commence their horrid labors. 'J here may be a midnight call to arms. The craggy cliffs of the Potomac, Jiappahannoek, or James' River, may echo with shrieks of despair, and th war worn soldier, uuy then present his manly breast to the storm in vain: where an inheritance has been stripes and toil, the contest will be a desperate one; and where justice should lead the van. even of a mob itst.f, fbe nsue would b; -mancipation. You cannot hold the slave in subjection, when he becomes armed with self-importance, and finds himself to be a man. Nei ther ran you expect a reconciliation with him, after the struggle has begun; for that must better his condition, or end his servitude. If ever posterity wanted a way opened for for tlieir safety, they want it in the e-se. in contemplation. In forming ibis supposition, f am bound by an assurance that th? shock, if ever felt at all, must and will be felt from one extremity of the United Stat s to the other; when the slave sxys my s. ruhi.Je shd! end, or I w.ll parish ;:, Wsi.ng i;,e fetters asm-ler. all must take prt m th- s ippr-ssi :n . or the Union of th states will be dissolved forever. " reiaiit.fd witt) r-irses was the bark that bore, 'I bij spoilers ot fh west to Guineas shore " In the year I5fJ3. John H awkins began the slave tridrt; a tnd which had human blood for its staple. fter sunporfing this inhuman barter for two h i;i lred and forfv-four years, legis tive phvlirhropisfs, stea.Jy to the purpose of an apoh(i ii. efT-e'ed it io the British parliament. I.nt ahs, the evil in the beginning had taken root in otrr land; and more than likely, the ir.nocenf wiil have to atone for the avarice d eruejfy of their fathtrs V'e hare one thing to boast of, in this affair: while a love of gain beyond the atlanlic, docUred a continuation of this accursed" trafic necessary, the American congress sealed its doom in th western hemisphere, and declared it at an end in our jurisdiction. Power and wealth, what is it thou wilt not grasp at! Reflection is absorbed in wonder and despair in hopes of happier days! Thou hast beat more vices than Priam did children, and, like him survives them all, while submitting to more mortifications to lo3e heaven than the martvr undergoes io gain if. The Bngaj or Siam Tyger will not prey upon, or worry, his fellow; b-it man, civilized man, has drank the tears of the suppl'ant, and feasted on the sighs and groans of many a heaving bosom. "I'earme, for wiM speak!" ' Slavery thou ait a bitter draught !" Ages, pertons or employment never have, nor never can lighten thy burden; thou art the same with Turk or Christian. Whre thou art known, there miv be . , - - mmo'hirnr .! in n r I i . ... il t .1 thou art ft'i-rne nd mtry; and we h"e buti to nvnr f.-, nt-A? tho known. Here I must sd'V: h"r" ' v poor hilitis will endeavor in r oorif srrpi and sutf rinjrs encountered tv the dt-srend tnfs of those, whom bottle of mm, a f-u h aU, or a few ysnls or rib SJti 1 ons;,ivl to 'h hfe of WO. Kpp.iW. ariNHnpuny me to my native Virgi nia. r-n! 5 will tomt out to you objects, which' in'it ex fit'- voiir compassion. b-n'l. Ih'n'.. of h m : niiate lint wife of yo:r hoo;n frvn our tend loaderl; ami think of an order from an unfeeltJ.l.iB -' .i. .llf I1TI II s ir I11IVII1 IIH I

inc soul uVver. ( nam- slave dealers bear in lie does not Know this, because you get; that sfrfe ) for her to taU nn a line of travel tojthe money from him lor if ici ally he is5o.t)r distant southern plantation. Are vou atarified as we say in Virginia. He is f.iiher wht mo he more dear to you than the; taxed for all the real necessaries of life j little tirattlinj imires of yourself, whort) ? kind and how does his money go? I wish he'; providence has Most rou with; could you stand, could come here and sec. If every man'

and ?ee them forced from your presence, whilej ther. perhaps, would he impnrins: a continu-j 9Afc under vour paternal roof? God of roer-

-"- ,,r'11 1 i forbid that my wile or uaugnter should rending strife? Yes, they are your countrymen ! d morethen you would have salthev ,re member, of our grand confederated' to the repubfic. h must be some

repnnuc : The above trifling representation, of the ne gro's sorrow, is not a vision of f.ncv; hut facts similnrly nafured, I have witnessed frequently, in the state ahore named. There the mountain rivulets have had the hrinv drop of affliction co-minslinsT with their crystalline floods, und he m'dnisrht groan has been heard in lengthened and ronvu! sive sobs. Sorrow there overwhelms the &oul, and the nero site brooding: over the perplexities of to-morrow, the day pe-haps of his depaiture from all his soul holds dear; and thus it is, that "countless thousands mourn " Propositions have been sanctioned bv legis lative bodies, to prohibit a comprehension of letters by their slaves. This thy lay is necesearv fir mutual safety. What, a wise people applaud ignorance to seeure submission ! The light of knowledge will dispel partially the neijro'a fcan, and the moment he can di6cern that

nothing but power holds him to labor, he willldy who thinks so highly of her Philan-

endeavor to obtain freedom. Jvent9 in the Island of St. Domingo, bro't plantation slaves, nevertheless, into public notice, who did not even possess the rudiments of a common edu cation ; and 3ixty thousand French soldiers, with Le Clerc at their bead, felt the affects of negroi ... . I oppufeiuuu. j ut cuinaie, nc jijjm auum, uuue something towards their destruction. lJut the whole world, in the mean time, w3 astonished to find abilities in a Laverture, which would have been an honor to the first warrior or statesmen of the day in which he lived. The slave-holding states have, even at this time, many extraordinary plantation slaves among them; ami a Christophe, DessaJines, or a Clerveaux, may, in the name of the black people and men of colour of the United States, proclaim their freedom, and swear rvever to yield it to any power on earth. The frightful veil of prejudice may be torn to pieces, perhaps, forever; and whoever would then dare to put the bloody fetters together, would have to wade through sluices of life's warm fluid, shoe top deep. According to the increase, from the census of 1810, the blacks will out number the whites, in the slave-holding states, in less than 50 years to come; and that during the life time of the grand children of the present generation, they probably will more than double the number of the whites in those states. This ratio progres sing until the year 1910. wonld furnish us with at least four millions of human beings hound in a free land, and distinct in morals and law from their lords and nabobs. Here self-preserra-tion will be aroused from its lethargy, and Marylanders, Virginians, Kenluckiacs. Sec. &c. will have to ponder and prepare for difficulties. We consider ourselves famed for benevolence; and thousands of dollars, advanced by the generous and gond, seems to declare that the name of an American is equally known in Greece as amongst the heathen, whereunto the sacred word of God has gone forth from our land, to edify and instruct. Yes, we have endeavored to subdue the stubborn will. Here peace on earth was the object, and eternal felicity the end. Bnt while we have been attending to ob jects of charity, beyond theterbulent billows ot the eastern deep, we have lost sight ot beings chained by the lawless hand of oppression in our own clime. We see the negro day after day, exposed in the market, with the lumber, farming utensil, and stock of his roaster, and there knocked off to the highest bidder. May God Almighty fjrgive our trespasses in this hi deous perfidy, and may his Omnipotent arm avert a calamity, whose cloud, if it ever should burst, would darken our nation, and shake our government to its very foundation. UN radiant pearl, which crtsted fortune wears. ;'No gem that tinkling hangs from beauty's ears; uNot the bright stars, which night's blue arch adcrn, ;'N'or rising sun that gilds the vernal morn, "Shine with such lustre, as the tear that flows "Down Virtue's manly checks f-r others wocd." Mountaineer. John Randolph, When the Bill makmg appropriations for furnishing the President's house, Sec. was under discussion in the Senate of the U. S. this singular personage rose, and, in the course of l !rkrrr it'.ilL- ' tnnrlp te frd I AW I n (r iiKcp rV-n., AJlUW tWW AUiiU II ft W W VUtjVi f 14 O ' J Itions: This is a strange world the man who is whistling over the furrow, at the time he is turning in corn to give bread to his wife and famiiv. knows no more of what

is doing here than a man in South Am'e-jsteps a lovely girl of 17. "Sir will you rica. He does not know that they who; he so kind as to print my name in a pret-

never did plant corn, or never shall; this cit' th:it arc ied out of nis cri' ' 1 .1 ' n the United States could spend onej day in Washington if every woman; couid sped one hour here and God ;pub special interposition of providence, tho' working by secondary causes, that will snatch this nation from the downhill progress it is making, not only to bankruptcy but to perdition. We may flatter ourselves as long as we please, and think and talk, and brag, and boast, in 4th of July orations and others, of being the most enlightened people under the sun we mav be all that and vet be radi cally ignorant. W e are going the road that has ruined nations before us we are copying, as far as we are able, the worst parts of the British system, leaving out the best, and who are we that we should be exempt from the law which the author of the being of all mankind has imposed on them? What is the histo ry of man, and what is he? The young la

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i . ',, his corn. He does not know, while! it shall be done directly. "I will call forjGd. for it, saying how much he was dis- wealth, w

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:un.L'-kec.n them fat, that horses are driven in .ointment! I fancied to mvself the little the Is. 6d. and the man went away. The

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with him to a certain point who will . 7 j 7 . . . go with him to the bottr m of the garden, and listen to the nightengnlc and the i mocking bird, and talk sweet sentiments ilM, ;? l ,i . i . hut it she goes so far as that she is lost she had much better go to her grandmama and not to Philander. So it is with a nation the man who say?, this is but a trifle a pecadillo I was absent from the senate for a few days, but none will think of it cestle premier pas qui coutc the moment a man leaves the path of religion or virtue the moment he takes Paley and the Jesuit to ascertain how far he may go on the border line in villiany without overstepp.ng it, that man or woman is lost. Our sit uation is awful beyond conception we are in a state of utter ingnorance of ourselves, and perhaps I mav he supposed at this time worrying the patience of the senate, when they would rather I should take my seat. From tli Portsmouth O.) Times. "I THANK YOU SlR." How very agreeable are these words when addressed to an individual who lias deserved them. How cheering to the spirits! How friend! v to the feelings of a generous heart! There is a pleasare at all times in rendering a piece of service and when we receive in return an expression, or even a look of thankfulness, it is cheering to the soul. I recollect to have heard of a poor cabinet maker, who was thanked, yes, virtually thanked, out of a beautiful mahogany table. He had taken it to the ParsoTv (and w ho could be so well qualified to return thanks.) The table was admired it was praised the workmanship extolled. The Parson thanked him he thanked him kindly the lady thanked him trie daughter thanked him and they all thanked him; and when the cabinet maker was after, wards interrogated by his wife as to the price he got for his table "O, my dear," said lie, "I could not charge the Parson any thing for it he thanked m so kind!v--and his lady and his daughter they all they thanked me so kindly that I I really could not charge them any thing for the table." How often does the poor editor have cause to envy the cabinet maker. Plenty of tables to make, but nopay and no thanks. Tim Tzn'st steps up wiihvastimportar.ee uMr. Editor will you be .o good as to notice in your next paper that certain town olhcers will be elected on Monday !" Very well, sir. im( you please good morning sir," No thanks of course. Jackty Loitali comes in with a marriage to publish. It .-hall be attended to, sir away he goes he has conferred a special favor by giving you the job call him hank and thank him. Here comes sergeant Sivp 4,Vill you please to publish a notice of the 4 1th company of 77th regiment Grenadier Light Dragoons to meet next Saturday?" Very well sir, AiI s'pose you don't charge for such things it helps to fill up the paper." Yes, helps to fill up very interesting too "Grenadier Ijght Dragoons' n smoke that. A tap at the door it is opened, and in ty little border as you did Miss Sarah angel would tarry 'till her name wasi . . fijshcd and then, (J, then, to have kissed the dew drop Vexatious! Here Bob, print this name hang me if I'll he plagued with it. Another rap. Come jp. "Good morning sir,' with all the nomnositu f a British Lord. "Mr. Editor 1 wish you to announce me a candidate for-theAsscmblv, and continue my name in the paper until the day of sale eleclion i mean. civ wen sn. iu ciums for that. In bolts Peter Cut-tape without knocking "halloo, Mr. Printer, I see you have made a mistake in our advertisement you've got only 40 bales of i l ?r ti . Cotton where it ought to be 400." Ha, a wide mistake, indeed; Tom, get the copy Here it is sir; 40 bales Sea Island Cotton. "Well, well, its my own mistake after all; put it 400 if you please." 1 es sir, 400; suppose we add another ought and make it 4000. "Verv well, do so, Mr. Printer, we merchants are allowed to blorc a little." 400 bales of Cotton; mum; who'll thank us for that ? Another rap. "Mr. Printer, I make you acquainted with Doctor Hard-flint. How do you do, Doctor Hard-fiat. Take a seat sir; (handing a three legged stood) best we have ,ir. "Mr. Printer, will you do me the favor, sir, to give notice in your nest paper,

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that I have opened an office on strectl for the practice of medicine, where I will

vaccinate persons gratis!" Yes sir; all persons gratis, sir?" "Ave, poor people; such as are not able to pay," We'll attend to it sir: (a good icay to get introduced into practice without cither money or thanks.) Next comes the village lawyer, Mr. Telltruth; ".Mr. Printer, I think it would be well for you to give notice thntthere will be a special court of Oyer and Terminer, frc. iV'c; by that means a good many persons will be present, and you will have a fine opportunity to incrasn 3'our subscription list. 1 humph; thinks J, how will it eii'ect your docket? Thus we might go on for an hour to enumerate cases in which nn editor is frequently called upon to render service to others without enjoying the gratification of receiving so much as thank-it for his trouble. The lawyer and the cooler, the doctor and the surgeon, the tink er and the parson, the brewer and the fidler; all, they all want something of the poor printer; and in return for which, it is too great a boon to say, thank you sz." Verily, an editor has the most unthankful office upon earth. Lven his brethern of the type, from whom something like a fellow feeling might be looked for, give him no better treatment than the rest of the world. Poor dog, he is every one's slave and receives no thanks for any. A few days ago, after pointing out in quite a friendly way, as we supposed, some inconsistencies in a neighboring print, we were told it was altogether gratuitous ;" nobody thanked us for it. Indeed, it was even hinted that we v ere the "humble confederates'' of Johnny Ranx.' dolph. Now John say "he sutlers no fool to make friend's for him;" but we don't sa that. Editors must submit to every thing, oblige every body, serve every body, and get no thanks at last. A Case of Distress. The following is copied from Belrs (London) Weekly Mes senger, of the 14th Ma, related by Mr. Hunter, in the court of common coun cil : iMr. Hunter, in enforcing the object of the meeting, (the relief of (he distressed weavers,) related the following case of a poor weaver in Manchester, for the truth of which he could vouch, as the statement came from a respectable manufacturer of that town: 44 A very worthy poor weaver applied to his master about three weeks since. begging earnestly for work, stating that he was in great want, and would thankfully do any thing for the means of supporting his existance. His master assured him he did not want any more goods, his stock being very heavy, without any sale, and that he could not give out mere work to anv one. The man nrpscpd vprv much, nnd :it h north hie

I ' J ' - I prevent you from starving, I will let youj have itj but cannot give you mere than Is. for it, (2s. is the regular price.) for 1 really do not want any more goods made up for a long time to come." "Let me have it master, I beg," said tire poor man, "whatever you pay me for it, pray let me have it." The piece was given to him to weave, ana ai tne ena or two aays ne brought it home; and on carrying it into; master feeling very uncomfortable about the poor man, thinking that the earnestness of his manner must arise from excessive want, determined on following him home. He went to the cottage of the weaver, and found the wife aloue in the lower room, making a little gruel over a poor fire. "Well, Mary," said themaster, "where is your husband?" "Oh! sir, he has just come in fromyour house, and being very faint and weary, he is just gone to lie down in his bedi" 4iI will go up and see him Mary;" and immediately he went to the upper room, where he saw the poor man, lying on bis bed in the agonies of death, with his mouth open, and his hands clasped; and after a short convulsion he expired. The master was very much distressed, and came down stairs, hoping to be able to save the wife, who was in a very emaciated condition. She h3d just poured the gruel into a basin, intending to carry it up to her hus band. The master said, "come Mary, take a little yourself first." "No, sir," said she, "not a drop will I taste till Jonathan has had some. Neither of us have had r.ny thing within our lips but water for the last two days we were weaving your piece ; and I thought it best to make a little gruel for us before we took I any thing stronger, as it is so long since

master said, "well Jonathan, if it is ah- t u J"w"a iaatey. ine lauer sussolutcly necessary to weave a piece to Pected the former c haying ccmraumcat-

we tasted food ; hut sir, Jonathan shall have it first." The master insisted on het

taking some herself before she went tip to her husband, but she positively refused it. At last, finding that he could not prevail on her to touch the gruel, he was obliged to tell her that her husband rffiS dead. The poor woman sat down tho basin of gruel, sunk on the lloor, and im mediately expired." We cannot at this moment pay a more appropriate homage to the memory of John Adams, than by publishing the let ter written hy him on the day succeeding that on which the Declaration was sigt? ed. It breathes, says the New York American, the spirit of a prophet, the confidence of a patriot, and the determination of one ready at any moment to lay down his life for the cause he had espoused. Its predictions have become historv and on his head has beamed and will beam the unfading "ravs of CJ f light and glory." The letter follows: Philadelphia July 5, 177G. Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever decided among men. A resolution was passed unanimously, "That these United Statesarc, and ought to be free and independent Slates." The day is" passed. The 4th of Julys I77t, will be the memorable (poch in the history of America. I am apt to believe it 71'ill fa: celebrated by succeeding generations, as the CHEAT ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL! It ought to be com memoraled as ifa'day of dilizerance, by solemn acts of devotion to the Almighty God. ltoughttobesolcmnized with pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forever! You will think me transported with enthusiasm; but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and the blood, and the treasure it will cost to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these states; yet through all the gloom t can tee a ray of light and glory; I can see that the end is worth more than all the means, and that posterity will triumph, although you and I may roe, which I hope we shall not. Yours, fcc. JOHN ADAMS. Murders. Two men named Cavfmcm aiid Courtney were shot dead on a by path in JNelson County, Ky. on the 14th instant. A father and two sons named IVatson, are suspected and have been ap prehended. The cause is supposed to have originated in certain lav suits be tween Watson and Caufman, in one of which Courtney was a witness. Last Sunday a convict in the Peniten tiary named Edmund Johnson was stab. bed to the heart by a fellow convict nam r. i ti n.-.ji... tmed to the guard a plan he had devised lor making his escape. He was a blacksmith and had made the weapon himself. On Monday a grand jury was called and he was tried and found guilty yesterday. One would think, that in late scenes, murderers would find little encourage ment to prosecute their bloody designs. Hut a fell, uncompromising spirit seem; :ing through this Commonhich nothing can check but an execution of the laws. Argus. Good Breeding A farmer who came tip to town to visit his brother who kept a shop in street, having given some ollence to a sister-in-law, who piqued herself upon her gentility, by something that did not accord with her idea of good manners, she pertly told him that he was very ill bred, and did not know what good breeding was. 'Whv, look ma'am,' replied he, 4as for that I consider myself quite as well bred as you, for all your fine airs: my mother naa seventeen of us in sixteen years, and Uiat i take to be very good breeding." Mr. Henry Tims, as "an cfiicer of the Senate of the United States," has, in S letter to the editor of the Boston Commercial Gazette, solemnly disclaimed the declaration imputed to him, that Mr. John Randolph, during the delivery of one of his late sneeches. drank -six hot ties of porter, two glasses of gin, and on& glass of brandy." Mr. Tims avers that "he is as clear of telling a palpable lie as any member of the Senate." A new steam boat of 200 tons burthen, called the Jubilee, owned by Messrs. Allen, Grant. $c Co. was launched at Pitts burgh on the F'Airih of July.