Indiana Palladium, Volume 2, Number 47, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 2 December 1826 — Page 2

POLITICAL.

FOR THE PALLADIUM. SENATORIAL ELECTION The following very judicious remarks tf i he editor of the Franklin Repository, on the subject of the next Senatorial eJection, deserve the candid consideration of every liberal minded man, who feels a lively interest in the destinies of our infant "state; and more particularly, of every member of the present legislature, who will shortly be called upon, as the representatives of the people, to choose some man to represent the slate in me U. S. Senate. The arguments of the worthy editor are cotrent and irrisistable,

and carry on their lace the imprint ofjthe purpose of supplanting the General,

iustice and the stamp of truth. And they are entitled to greater weignt, irom me fact of their arising, more from an honest and ardent zeal for the public welfare, than from personal feelings towards Mr. Noble (for f am well aware that he is not a personal friend to the general). Let the personal enemies- of Gen. Noble divest themselves of every prejudice; let them weigh well these dispassionate remarks of the editor; and draw the distinction between them and the vituperative abuse of 4 Verltas,' and the passionate invective of another, whose opposition to the general is strictly personal, arising from some private cause, which, ffere it divulged, would put the seeminghj honest declaimcr to the blush. Then if reason, instead of fac tion, is to govern them in forming their opinions if a desire to serve the public -weal, instead of, to promote the views of particular men, is to be their pole-star, the following honest and impressive suggestions will net be unappropriated VOX POPULI. After some very just observations of the editor, as an introduction to his subject, lie proceeds "From this, (at present) hasty, but just and impartial view of the subject, we have long since come to the conclusion, that it is never wise, prudent or politic, to displace or dispense (when it can be avoided) with the services of an old, experienced, and tried officer, in any department of the Government, either civil or military, upon slight pretexts: nor without some very obvious reasons, standing connected with, or growing out of the public interests; and wc know of but two general reasons that can present themselves and make such a demand. The first is where an officer of Government has been guilty of wilful default in point of duty, either by neglecting, to do his utmost to promote, or hy sAcriliring the interests of the public; or by a course of conduct dishonorable to the post he has filled; thereby forfeiting public confidence. The second is, where there is a manifest want of ability, and unquestionable evidence that the office will be better sustained in this respect, by a proposed successor. In either of these cases, duty calls! imperiously calls upon the popular prerogative to remedy the evil; for this express purpose, and not for the .purpose of effecting perpetual changes of men for o'hVe, do the principles and doctrines of rational self-government, place all officers within the reach and under the control of the popular sovereignty. '4The principles here laid down, as they stand obviously connected with the public.welfare, would universally obtain in every section of the U uted States, and of the individual Slate-, arid become the political order of the day, were it not for

the fact, that there are such legions ofkinuations of anonimaus writers, or of the-that those concerned in deciding the po-ofike-huulers, all well qualified, at least j flct ious Veritas, &c. we trust he will atli(ical fate of the candidates on the in tlvur own opinions, to fill any oflice,; least stand upon equal ground with his question, at the pending ehetion, will,

no matter what, that they tread upon each ..others libels. ro accommodate w-nm there must be a constantly quick succession of iac imbents to every office in the nation: an l however useful even an old,tri'd, public servant(as such) may hiv been, to oblige these ofli e-huuters

(Mrnpnient of restraint") comViaationseither by electioneering motives, or v !-! m-i-it be farnv-d, aa l fvery species of ings of personal enmity, it will be well,

irap, manag-meni ana mirigue empioy-i candidly and dispassionately to survey ed anoe.imous writers fictitious nam-jthe ground he has occupied, both in relaed writers enlisted in the service to in-: tion to this State and the United States, as Nmu itc it volume of evils ag.urist him, if a member of the National Senate, with

possiole to excite public jealousy and suspicion Personal pique must be brought into the tield in battj array a ''mist the;

man who has long stood high as ,i favorite TJ uon, in its very infancy, has ever enofthe people, upon (he-iipp virion that he .yed so much of.the munificence of the had really supp rted their interests,and General Government, as has the State they called upon in the eaveuoui-d rage 0f I idiana ; with every prospect at presofa splenetic m ad-ai n, t nelieve. thatcnr, of its increasing in magnitude, and he had never lifted his finger or moved j that too, when pecuniary circumstances hu tongue to promoje til ur w.'ir.treho'jexisting between this Slate and the U. they have for years in -iccesi o, enjoy-; States, seemed to argue against, if cot e I tlvi fruits of those nrra .gements, forbul it. Notwithstanding which, rewhicnhe had heen a co-i .strum-ut withipeated acts have been passed, and the others in brinr aSmiit- and not he-jpame acts amended, and when the term hied the mast efl!,, eat: a id even while to which they were limited had expired, erasures for the.r benefit are goinirinto new acts have been passed still further

I . i . ...mf own observation and wilhin their knowledge: in the productioa of which he had been specially oincious ana eincieni. "Such i the game, which, for some months p i t has been, and is now playing off against one of the three candidates (Gen. James Noble) from whose number our Legislature will shortly make the selection ofan individual, to represent this state in the national senate, for sixyears next succeeding the expiration of

the present senatorial term. And what exceed., in imposition upon the public, and profound trilling with the free elective franchise, and interests of his immediate constituents, any thing wc have ever before witnessed (save in Indiana) and furnishes (if sanctioned):! most pernicious president, is, that one of the competitors, (Mr. Jennings) directly from the pollsofthe second Congressional District, where he had been, without opposition, elected to the House of Representatives of the United States, with equal emoluments of a Senator, and a

field for equal usefulness before him (if that were an objeci) and with three years oflice and its honours (if faithfully tilled) upon his head and shoulders, tor becomes a candidate for the senate. What is this, (we would ask) taken altogether into the account, hut a political persecution; designed, if possible to prostrate him forever. But while it puts on this face, it proves at the same time, that in the estimation of his enemies at least, the Castle of the General's popularity among the people is too strong to be battered down by the bombardment of calumny, detraction and invective, bellowing from the out-works of private enmity, envy and ambition; they must therefore, under cover of the dust, smoke and fog raised by the open attack, attempt to take it by a kind of political coup de main ; bringing into the field for this purpose, the (-iiipposedl) ) most mancevreing and strongest man in the state: or under those circumstances, he has been selfinduced to make the attempt. "Of his other competitor, Mr. Blackford, we have little more to say, than that, his present honors and emoluments as Judge of the Supreme Court, in which he may render as important services to his country, rs in the Senate Chamber of the Union, and for which he mny be fully as well qualified, ought to satiate his ambition, and satisfy any man. Beside, he has sustained that office,- but about long enough to become tolerably versed, in its rotine of duties, and to support its true dignity, and if now elected to the Senate of the United States, will no doubt be succeeded by a mere novice who will, upon this plan of doing business, consider the bench of the Supreme Court a mere stepping-stone to a seat in one of the Mouses of Congress. At this rate we would ask, when will Indiana be blessed with able Jurists? a class of men vitally essential to her liberties, and independence the safety and happiness of her population and her standing in the Union. But to return.

"If, however, Gen. Noble deserves the'in his seat, the more of the confidence of

kind of persecution ahov noticed, we his official associate?, and of the governsay let it fall with all its weight upon'ment he gain?, from the confidence which his head if he has criminally neglected . it manifests his constituents have in him, his duty ash Senator if he. has sacri- by their continuing l.im in it. A id ficed, or even endangered the interests' that the government have such contiof his country, or neglected to support'dence in General Noble, is suilieientlv them if he has not done what he could, clear, from the circumstance that he has and at the proper time, to foster and pro- several times been selected to transact mote the interests of his constituents, the' business, for, and in behalf of the United citizens of Indiana If he has done, or States, with the State which he in part neglected to do any other act in his offi-! represents. A id who does not know cial capacity, which a true patriot, injthat a man's influence is always proporihe sanv relation to the public, taking tionate to the confidence reposed in him. all circumstances into the account,1 "Under thesft circumstances; and at

would not in all probability have done, or neglected to have done: then treat; him with neglect, and fill his seat with another; but, it none ot these facts : istyor if there is no higher evidence of;

I proof of them, than the overflowing in'ture period, will it be proper will it belJ

the rage of Mr. Polk, which he acknowl-l edges to be the fruit of irreconcilable, persona! enmity I he interrogative in-: competitors, v or the collected wisdom of the State can never be influenced by j such unwarrantable testimony. 'But, before the die is cast, without' being too minutely particular, or noti cing the attacks made upon the General bv mere New-naner writers, influenced' reference to time and circumstance. k-h should be distinctly understood as matter of fact, that no new Stut. in tho to extend their benefit, by which the price of lands, already sold on credit. has been reduced, the whole of the inter est which had accrued on the amount of purchase relinquished, &c. &x. for the express purpose of favoring our agriculturalists, and of promoting the wealth and welfare of the state; by which means hundreds, if not thousands of farmers have been greatly relieved and encour aged, and-not a few saved front -ruin. and their families from becoming home-

les?. ao say nothing of the early treaties with the Indians by which their title to lands within the limits of the State has been extinguished, (greatly to our advantage) even while there were millions of acres of unsold Congress lands within the same limits, we will just advert, not to the arrangements respecting the national road (the benefits of which we shall enjoy equally with Ohio, Illinois and Missouri.) but to the aid given to the. State, on the subject of internal improvement, by encouraging and promoting the interests of our contemplated canals, in appointing and providing for their surveys, at the expense of the national Treasury. And had it not been for the opposition of Mr. CY.lhoun, both to the. administration ami the interests of the west, at the late Session of Congress, the Senate would have decided in favor of a donation of lands to the State, six miles in width, the whole length of those canals, where they shall pass through lands belonging to Government; and which will vet no doubt succeed,-if the state maintains its present standing and influence in the National Legislature. "To effect all this for an infant state, a State whose pecuniary intercourse with the General Government, to say the least of it, argued nothing in. its favor, must, we certainly think, have required some considerable exertion, and not a little influence somewhere. We cannot however be guilty of so flagrant an act of injustice towards the other members of our representation, as to deny them their just and equitable share in the honor of being influential in effecting those arrangements, nor idle enough to arrogate the whole to Gen. Noble, but from good reasons which we have had sufficient op

portunity to know, wo are fully satisfied

that noone has been more efficient, ifasjsuch conviction be effected, (and wc have

much so, in obtaining their accomplish ment,Mr. Polk, being three months at the City of Washington, during the last Session of Congress, to the contrary notwithstanding. "We ought here to remark, that the standing and influence of a member of either branch of the National Legislature, depends not only upon his due attention to business, but his length of membership, and the circumstances connect ed therewith; such as forming acquaintances and associations; acquireing ' n adequate know ledge of the rotine of business, and the proper time and manner of doing if, by which means a foundation is laid to enlist influence and interest in sectional measures especially, which could not otherwise be done. Beside, the longer a member is continued this eventful period, when the State of Indiana has n?ndine and in earlv nroJ Wss, some of the most important inter-! ex-jests ever contemplated by her ci:iz ji whatever might may be proper at a fu - politic will it subserve the interest 'of the state to effect the change contem plated by some? We cannot but hope and we have the fullest confidence that they will weigh the subject before they finally act upon it, having an eye solely to the interests of the public. "It should he recollected that at the August election, two new members to the lower house of Congress were eleet-

ed, and should Mr. Jennings now be e-! installment ; but it is said lected to fill the vacancy which will bojiUenious enough to pay it

oecupied thereby, so that the twentieth; Congress will open with all new mem-.! hers in that house. Should Mr. Blark-i ford he elected, then in that Congress at' most there will be but two members of aistanding out of five in number in lioth j houses, Mr. Hendricks in the Seriate,

i T .. ., : if . r it confidence of the State, that for the remainder of the time he continues in the ! Senate, he will indeed be of little more; account than a cipher, compared withi what he has been. Such, reason and common sense, says must be the result. "But admitting that we were whollv mistaken in our views, as to the result; of the proposed change, what is the state to gain by it? Will it be in part better represented by either ot his competitors than it has been and still is bv Gen. Nohle?! Bv associating Mr. Jenninrs with Mr. Hendricks in the Senate, comparing what it now is, with what it was when the General took his seat in that body (and which he has ever held) will the State cf Indiana, in proportion to her

.uiu mi. penning. ... jio ,su .,, Ite-( - - . . , ..u ... uuti j Thereis a great cmicration from preventatives. This is not all. By tl.ejquarter. As tothe number of the encmyYGermany to Poland-250,000 mannfacproposed change the influence of Gen. nrces and other details, the accounts in tllrcrs arc said to havc Uepartcd wilhi Noble will be so far diminished, at the. ,he letters are various and contradictory the last few years, very time when it is most wanted, from: lfom twenty to 50,000 men are the an excited belief that he has lost the I estimates of the Ashantee army, and one

consequenca now, and then enjoy crjeharge the forces raed for defence and

reap greater advances from his services than it has from the General's? Of this there is neither proof nor even reason to suspect. Is .Air. Blackford a man of a more accute penetrating mind than Mr. Noble is he more of a business

doing man? If there i no proof of, or

good ground to believe that any of these (tUm if so we may expect a monarchy, circumstances exist, or will exist in the ; Indeed, from many things which we have event, of a change, what, we would ask,!seen and heard, we are apprehensive that is to be gained by it? And if the Public Bolivar is about to resign his pretensions is to caiji nothing bv it, why make it?, to the character of the "Washington of especially since it is clear that there is ! the South." We would et hope not

not only a possibility, but a strong prob ability that much may be lost by it. "To conclude. The foregoing remarks, correct or incorrect, have not resulted from any personal pique against either Governor Jennings or Judge Blackford, "for we have none' nor from'

any personal predilection for General jam! stable government. King5, princes Noble, but from an impartial, and dis-jand bishops are easily manufactured passionate view which we have taken of-hut it is the work of years to educate and the present, and as depending on the tit a people like those f the late colonies present, the future interests of this state, jof Spain, to understand what are their and the ardent desire we feel for their , own rights, and discern the lightful way promotion; a flattering prospect of which1 of maintaining them. we now see, or think we see before us ; The privateer Republicano has rnp-

and entertain serious fears, that an inno - vation upon the order of that union of interest and influence, which has eh cited and put them in progress, to say

the least, will prove the means of an ap-jfor the good treatment of certain Colompalihig dela,if not partialh ruinous to bians, who may have fallen into the

them. If, however, we can be convicted of error in our decision on the subject, and that to elect either of his competitors, in preference to the General, will be promotive of the interests and welfare of Indiana, and the Union generally; if we have any influence, or can make any interest to that effect, it shall be zealously erdisted for that purpose, by every honest and honorable exertion. But until as yet no evidence which tends to it) we must believe that while our public interests stand as they now do, they cannot be so wHl promoted, as by the re-elec-iion of Gen. Noble to the Senate of the United Slates. From Niles' Register. LATE FOREIGN NEUS. From London pwpcrs of the 5th October. Turkey. The property of Chablchi, the rich Jew banker at Constantinople, lately legitimately seized, amounted to nearly sixty-nine millions piastres, or six million? five hundred thousand dollars. It will be recollected that according to our last advices, a dreadful fire broke out in Constantinople on the 31st August, which was raging on the 3rd of September. It broke out just before the sacred standard of the prophet was nhout to be taken with great ceremony from the seraglio and replaced in the khasne, or imperial treasure, whence it was taken on the occasion of the late suppression of the Janissaries. It began in a baker's shop, and such was its fury that in Pera it was thought to have had a hundred beginnings. The palace of the vizier was consumed. It is supposed that t tie number of houses burned is not less than seven thousand. The fire had been extinguished in several places, but it broke out again afresh, and the people beingirritated, neglected those measures ,,,e.V ought to have adopted with energy li is s,lid that the astrologers have predieted, that, on the 27ih day of the moo" UM (,ri)' ortnf return of the sandcbenli,a great Hre wouid orenK out, n" me precursor oi a political re-ac-uon. i no riesirucuon oi me property which it occasioned was immense. There

was no reason to suppose, according to'rhid pacha was sevcrelv defeated and

this account, that it had been produced'compelled to retire. It is reported that by design. j lord Cochrane has arrived in the ArchIndia. Accounts from the East Indies ipelago with a squadron of 23 vessels, hrings rumors of a Burmese infraction of A fl,ter from Constantinople of the inn unoeo olroilt n.l fnn rlittoidiitn rf

...w .... i. ...c uMm..u.i "li31st of Aueust sav? '-It nonpars lh.it ev-

Sir A. Campbell from Calcutta, to rejoin the armv, tiives some countenance to the report. The Burmese had how ever, lo.njueieu u.n. Seeuuu compensaung .. i i i they had been in coin debasp( to be half its nominal value. The cheat was discovered upon the coin l, inS assayed at the mint: The i 'ihantces. I nvate letters and' documents from the Gold Coast to the -0 th Jul v, confirm the intell-ence of the movement ot the king ol Ashantcc! :n(r'i!ri!( ilm Rr!l! Ji mJ rr. : I ' o the letters says, that it is alreadv vithin thirty miles of Cape Coast castle. They all sufhVientlv demonstrate the dreadful alarm w hich prevails and which 's heightened by the previous experience of the savage and formidable character of the Ashantees. The British subjects and their allies were ordered to

arm in readiness to oppose the inroads of vivors of the cr-wj in a state of starrafian. the enemy. I'MJ hd lived on green hidts, Sardioies, ami

Colombia. U divar had not arrived in; water- fjr aSy- I took nine men Colombia, as was some time rw;Jn(J one woman from her, and two of them died

time ago po-it-!,in(J i ihnf ho

iveh smtet hn it Pom ihf k . immediately expected, of the date of the! last accounts. The affair at Pat , aPJ . pears to he nearlv at an end he him self iiad called a meeting of the people at Caracas at which it was resolved to dis-

other purpose?, and to send a deputation to Bogota. We may scon expect further particulars. There is a strong report that Bolivar will be invested with absolute power, and that the government of Colombia,

will partake largely of a military despobut much allowance must be made tor temporary acts o( power in South America, because of the ignorant and bigotted people to be governed not accustomed to yield much to reason, and ruled bv force. It takes a long while to raise up a populace capable of sustaining a free (tured thirty Spanish vessel, burnt avillage on the Mediterranean coast of Spain and also made prisoners of a parcel of friars, perhaps to be held as hostages hands of the Spaniards. The comman der of the Republicano has a small portion of the ficnt zeal of the British admiral Cockhurn of infamous memory. Peru. The stale of aflairs appears unsettled in Peru, also in Chili; and conspiracies against the rulling powers are spoken of. It is also intimated that a difference tvill exist between the two states. Later 7k:vs London papers to Oct. o The cotton market wasabout the same as at former dates, though the sales had been extensive. The stock on hand at Liverpool on the 28th Sept. was estimated at 340,000 bales, of which 1 "0,000 was North American, 68,000 S. American, G0,000 Egyptian, and 22,000 of other kinds. Whole battalions of the Spanish troops were deserting to Portugal. The kingdom of Ferdinand and his priests is tilled with misery and murder, and public and private distentions and outrages. Seven thousand persons were ill at Groningen the city seems half dessolated by disease. Russia was marching larjre bodies of troops to the frontiers ofPer?ia. There will probably be a pretty active and extensive war in that quarter. The people of seme of the Russian provinces arc said to have joined the Persians. The late great fire at Constantinopleis attributed to the Janissaries or their party. It is reported that the sultan, pressed on all sides, has ordered an accession to all the demands of Russia. It appears that the king of Bavaria has openly announced himself a friend to the Greeks, and sanctioned the departure of some of his subjects to fight against barbarian oppressors. The Greeks arc much distressed for the want of fund si A letter from Algiers, of the 9th of September, states that intelligence ofan almost authentic nature was received there, that Major Laing and all his companions had been assassinated in the de- - ert by one of the tribes called Twarnies. Ve have conllictinr accounts from ; Athens one saving that it was - hands of the Turks, the other thr in the that Resecutions continue in silence, and that o j i - - ' - - - the ort am, throw into the sea. everv aoaa bcdies which are carried bv the current away fjom the shores bor 7 - j dering the capital." The manufactories .in Scotland are much distressed. At Ayr, one thin) of the operatives were wholly id!e, ai d ub : iati a? poor,Jas subsistence o.nld bv A "frightful fever" prevails at Dublin, Mr. Gallatin, with his family, is on visit to Paris. Mr. Canning is also therej Extract of a teller J torn Lapt. Swmson, of Scht Bolivar, of Gloucester dated "Cayenne, Aio 25 1826 You will nn doubt be surprised to hea from n,p h pre. I llP Sllla ftf it IT-1 no f II . . . On thr 10 h . f August I in with Brazilian brig winch ha.l b-eu 90 tys from K.o Grande, A r the North of Rr..2J full of watr-ih s.ir one woman from ,ier and two before I 0t in here, hich port I before I 0t in here, which port I was under 7Mii, "Jin f" of "? ? m with her t.vo of hem were rpm.nnmnr .UjH nn with her two of (hem were remaining dad on leek, the survivors not having strength enough to throw them oreiboard. The britr nju?t hare sunk in lesns than fit hours after J let); hx1