Indiana Palladium, Volume 2, Number 49, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 16 December 1826 — Page 2

From this point, there is an uninterrupted water communication, to the renowned commercial city of New-York, the safest and best market in the United States. Two streams, the St. Joseph, and St. Mary's find their source in the state of Ohio, from the Maumee at Fort Wayne, in this state, which, from thence discharge its waters into Lake Erie. These are the natural facilities that are presented to the north to reduce western produce into money. There are thirty seveu thousand square miles in the state,

and nine tenths of all this land are sus

ceptible of cultivation. This will sup

port a population of ten millions ofsouN.

An industrious and virtuous race of people are rapidly preparing these extensive domains for the plough; so that in a little time, we may expect that the grar:ery of the husbandman will be overflowing to waste, with the various productions of the earth, without an opportunity of selling them These results in the regular course of thing5, will take place. Thus situated, let us arise, look around us, examine our condition and resources, and see what can be done to meet the exigencies of the times. The yeomanry are the pillars and support of the land, and they must be rewarded. It is the farmer that gives countenance to ever) other avocation. Agriculture, with ma- ' tiy ceases to be an honorable pursuit, so.

soon as it fails to be profitable; and whenever circumstances connected with public opinion shall withdraw that class from their legitimate employments, the flower of the land becomes at once neutralized, and general wretchedness is the fatal consequence. The labourer; to give him resolution, should always have before him a pros pect of certain reward. When he is not stimulated with the expectation of receiving an ample recompence for his toil, his

energies becomes paralized, and his

?iews are contracted within the narrow (Compass . of domestic family consumption. This prospect of a full reward for labour, will always be certain or hazardous, in proportion to the distance, which the commodity, the product of it, hail nesessaril v to be transported for consumption sale or exchange; and in proportion to the facility with which the conveyance is effected. Add

to this, that tini". is. ramify to the labourer,

through, the density of the population near them, and the multitude that depend upon them for the exportation of their surplus produce, as well as the small amount of money which w ill be required to remove the obstructions in them, I would respectfully recommend

an appropriation for thnt purpose, lam'

apprised that there are other water courses in the state, that deserve your favorable notice, but as our means are inconsiderable yet, for any of these ohjects, the largest and most useful should first enlist our attention. By the attention of our delegation in Congress, and special favor of the heads of departments of the General Government, a corps of engineers entered the state during the last spring, with the

view of operating here, with the worthy, but now deceased Mr. Shriver at their head. The intelligent Mr. Shriver's plan of operations for the season was, to enquire into the practicability of the While Water canal, by making an examination of the country from the Ohio river at Lawrenceburg, through the valley of White Water, to Fort Wayne; and to ascertain the practicability of connect

ing the waters of the Maumee with the!

affairs, we may in the end find, that we

were deluded by a false hope of visionary benefits, which shall never be realized,

leaving that time inertness, a blank in the history of our rise to eminence and

glory.

On the construction of roads and ca

nals, then we must rely, as the safest and

most certain state policy, to relieve our

situation, place us amongst the fust in the Union; and change the "cry of hard times," into an open acknowledgement

of contentedness. The rough appearance

of nature, must he overcome, am made to

yield to human enterprize. Our waters

must be imprisoned in ne:o channels, and

made to subscrxe the essential purposes, of

commerce.

As ttie construction of roads are not so

expensive as canals, and more applicable

to the present resources of the state, allow me to requet that, that subject may

command your calm and unbiassed consideration. View deliberately their con

struction, as your vital interest, seize the

first occasion to prepare for the work.

land a brilliant reward is certain.

Situated as we are upon the globe, we

have but one alternative, which is, to force our way to the L ikes, and to the

great rivers that run into the seas; and if Wabash by artificial channel ; & to make

we have not the rneansat presentto make surveys and estimates of a reute for a

artificial channels, through the earth for canal through the vallev of that stream

our necessities, let us no longer look with if necessary. After attending to then

jiuditierence upon those secondary lm- two projects, he expected to repair to provements, so honorable to a state and the Falls of the Ohio, in obedience unto jbencfiual to its inhabitants. We must special instructions to enquire as to the

strike at the internal improvement of the practicability of a canal round the Falls

state, or form our minds to remain poor of the Ohio, and to prepare a plan and

and unacquainted with each other; and estimate of the same. A summons to

those great projects to which we are so leave the world lias taken this compe-

trongly united hy nature, policy antl hon- tent engineer away, without allowing

or must exit only in idea, and their use- him to effrct his purposes to anv ronsid-

mlness remain undeveloped. erable extent but Major Mooie is the 'I'll is generation is speedily passing accessor of the deceased, who ha been

away, and ifivc sit still, posterity w ill see some time in the field, in the execution

nothing in our actions that is worthy of of the above mentioned plan. Hi la-

their admiration. Whilst our sisters bors have been crowned w ith complete

'around us are rearing eternal monuments success to the north. He has ascertain-

of their energies and public spirit, we ed that the connection of the Wabash 'have looked and admired ; but have been and Maumee is altogether practicable

too timid to imitate!!'. Something has and easy. The two w aters can be made been done by the General Government, to mingle at an expense not to be com-

and something by the state, to locate and pared with the magnitude of the work, improve roads, but much more remains From the St. MarvV, the adopted feeder,

to do clone Dotorc we can teei their utility, to the mouth et Little river oi the WaAJany roads have been defectively open- bash, the deepest cut through the film

ed under authority of this state, but the mit level is only twenty feet. Mainl

and that labour is the wealth of a nation ;, manner they have been kept in rep'airj Moore, not havine comnleted his r-xam-

and it. results that every obstacle which from the state they are now in, arestrik- iuations in that qnarter this fall, expects 13 in the way, that unavoidably consumes' ing evidences of a defect in our road sys- to return to Ms station in the spring, time, and employs the labourer in reach-, tern. Too much reliance is placed upon when we shall be furnished with ihe t.tUingtbo market he seek-, not only impov-Jtlie three per cent fund. If that fund, cial estimatesto this contemplated canal, erishes the country, but reduces the ng-j .after it is divided amongst the whole So soon as this takes place it will degregatesum finally received for the arti-j number of road in the state, shall be serve the most serious consideration of cle in an exact prportion to the time; found insutVieient to make them passable ; the legislature, whether the honor and lost: so, that every reduction of distance and if the state is not in circumstances interest of the state will strongly invite and every improvement which are made to appropriate monies' from the treasury her to complete this almost natural confor travelling, are a saving of time and for that purpose, a just regard to your nexion between two navigable si reams, money, of individual and public advan- duty and the rights of your constituents, whose waters flow to a northern lake, lag?.' , I will prompt you to call into requisition and towards the Atlantic aceau. We, Frorrilhese considerations it is evidentjsuch additional labor of the people upon remain uninformed, whether anv thing that the settlers of a new country, must; equitable terms, as may be thought sulli- further has been done, at the Falls oi be subjected to many privations and a cient to improve, ina proper manner, our the Oiiio, in the White Water country, Heavy indirect tax, imposed upon them' numerous highways, to such an extent as or elsewhere, by the board of engineers!

by the rude d'fnriity of surrounding na-ja due respect for individual rights will which would seem to require any special ture. To them, fmdi ig access to anyadmit of.- Whoever reflects that labor attention at th:? time. place that ij serviceable, diminishes the upon the public highway is not industry In inviting your attention to an improve-

real value of every ponderous comimdi- lost, but bestowed to accomplish a pur- meat oi the Wabash tails, near tin; mouth

ty much, before they can get into the; pose of common advantage to the whole possession of an equivalent for the re-, community, in which each individual rnai ider. Although this kind of a tax can participate, will cheerfully complv exceeds ten times the amount which with any reasonable demand which you 23 yearly paid for the support of the may think tit to make. The patriotic government, yet it .appears that it citizen will submit to it with alacrity.

bus escaped with less consideration, Your law on this subject, should contain! the state of Illinois, which has been trans

And more indifference, than it. N - what the existing one does, not a yarn?' mit ted to me, together with a memori-d thing is at stake io the assertion, that punitory clause ag unt the supervisor forj relating thereto, (all of which 1 lay before the absence of public works a id artifi-. neglect of duty. The present laws are, yon) it will appear that, that state lias cial aid are the heaviest, deadliest, barely directory and have no sanction.! incorporated a company ur.der the heweight that bear upon this cou itrv, and I would give the supervisor a compensa-' lief, and possessing efficiency only on the are thf capital o t ises of om.daiut vith tion and then compel him to a strictjeontingeucy, that Indiana will meet the the grain tjr.ving interest, ft is certain- performance of the law. Without some, proposition of that state by the passage ly these thick and iron featured forests, such course as this we shall continue as ofa similar law. B dug satisfied of the

obstructed navigation and neglected un- we are, having our statutes violated with urgency of this measure and the useful-

the government. In it, an aidustriour and economical people mnv grow rich and hannv. The timid Indian parted with this excellent country with painful reluctance. Melancholy cxnerieilce tells them the

has just been acquired : and its necessary connexion with the principal objects of the treaty, and its general usefulness will be still more manifest. Such a road will point to the heart of Kentucky, and

die ought to be alive to its success.

consequence of it, They knew that tThese considerations taken in connexion

their game will !v from the approach of

that bustle which accompanies the location of the whiteman; and they love the

country of their birth and the home, and the grave of their fathers too well to fol low it. The Miamies retain a little spot of land to live on, w hich they call their bld, which thev have resolved never to part with It contains the burrs of their ancestors. This handful of .Miamies is a proud though feeble remnant ofa once powerful nation. They have dwindled down into a few families, under the operation of their own horrible revengeful and retaliatory laws. They now read their destiny in the approximation of civilized society. The) are wasting awu and w ill soon be gone. Being uncultivated and savage in their verv natures, when spiritous liquors tied their wa

amongst them, which they always use to excels, all the native, tierce, and fiend like passions of their souls are aroused

hy its influences, and they cause blood to flow copiously from each others veins. These frightful reveb produce murder upon murder afterwards in cool blood to

gratify a furious spirit of revenge. These, though once our enemies, are human beings,and are under the sovereign, jurisdiction of the state. Shall we stand still unmoved at these spectacles, giving a license to such brutal butchery ? Can we see them thus sinking under the clods of the valley, unpitied unnoticed uninformed unrestt lined in their deeds of violence? Is their blood not spilt in our peace, on our soil, under our eye? Nor is it always Indian blood. I am informed there are not twenty genuine Miamiosin that nation. The white male and female have long since intermarried with them, and the color of their skin is ehanged. This being the condition of the native people of this land, shall we not in

terpose and check some of these prevailing sins amongst them? A law indicting a heavy punishment upon such as shall

gne or vende spiritous liquors to an In

dian, would have the most salutarv ef

fect; and let the penalty be given to the

informer) as an inducement for discover ing the offender.

The Fotowatamlcs do not carrv this

exterminatii g principle to such cruel lengths as the Miamies; but they nevertheless love whiskey too: they believe in its correctness, and would feel the happv

consequences of the law. The time has

been, when they have all lived without this mad water, and they can do so again. But while we are lashing the foibles of the poor Indian, shall we permit the same vice m the white man to escape our notice? The use of ardent spirits to excess, is hegining to make alarming stains. deej), indcliub'e impressions on our own c haracter. In some of the states, it is $:Uihubitua! drunkenness is punished

in a bouse of correction. Some odium

ought to he attached to the practice in

of White river, it is with much satisfaction that I can bear testimony to the liheral spirit indicated by the state of Illinois, to assist in the removal of those ou

st ructions, in that treat common highway to market. From a copy of an act of

with the incalculable advantages, which

whould flow to the people of Indiana, from its construction the choke of maikets that it w ould present to our citizens the money that its creation would scatter amongst the laborers, the inducement w hich it will held out to settle the wild lands of the United States the circumstance that it will cross the National road at right angles at our Seat of Government the assistance that it will give to the firmer and merchant in transporting heavy articles, to and from the Lake or the Ohio, at pleasure and the general figure it will make upon the map ex th e state; all, combined together, to demonstrate the cipi diemy of the measure. To make such a road a grant of Ia d was incorporated in that treatv One hundred feet in width from the LaU ;o. the Wabash is given for the road to rest upon; and one section of good land, coniigious to, and on each side of the same, is also granted for a road.lr ezch mile, from Lake Michigan to the Ohio river,

hy way of Indianopolis. Such i- the foundation w hich is laid for this great road. It will now be for the President and Senate of the United States, to approve of the grant. This I sincerely hope for: and if you think with me on this subject, I must request of you a. prompt expression of your views by way f memorial, to be sent to the city of Washington before the treaty is acted upon. I can see no reason why this article should be rejected. A similar provision has been made for Ohio; and the principle has received the sanction of the Senate of the United States. The grant severs the remaining Indian possessions;

and when the land granted for this pur

pose is settled, it w ill w eaken the attachment of the Pottawatamie to his country -Furthermore, the land may be located in the Indian country; and in the event of a non-ratification will revert to its ori

ginal owners. I datter myself, therefore that it will be retained for the internal improvement of the country, rather than to see it lost. As it is so grand an object of National and State aggrandizement, let us I prsy you, unite in soliciting its success But, while our best energies are exerted to improve the natural advantages and to bring into active and useful ex. tion, the various resources, of the state, shall we leave to neglect the cultivation

of the mind, the education of our t uth,

and the advancement of science ;i d in

telligence amoigst our fellow cr z f7

The reflection, that we are deeply res-

ponsibie to our successors and to posterity, for a march of intellect coequal with the flowing increase of our population w ith the regenerated spirit of the age

and for a diffusion of light and know ledge in proportion to the brightening rays which daily beam new lustre on our fall

ing forests, forbids it. The awakened

Indiana. Whoever can be so regardless-zal of the world in the cause of mind.

of social duty, as to destroy himself by land the golden opportunity which tve. str g drink to the injury of himself ami possess to shine in ihe republic of letters, f unify should be made to smart under a forbid if. The pride of our state, a reuspenal law of some kind. I earnestly re-ed by the noble example of her sisiers, commend this subject to your betterjealls en us to be no longer indented to. judgment for an appropriate purushmr.-nt. them for the progress of knowledge &sei By the treaty with the Pottaw atamie sjence : And the time has full) come when a valuable and extensive; grant of lands our prospect and circumstances will per

is made to the government for an impor-jmit this heart cheering subiect toreccive

improved roads, ta il create the- prime,' impunity, aad our roads neglected. ness of the design, I must recommend a thauga seemingly u-iseen cause of mur- Mr. Knight, the enterprising individu-; hearty and an immediate co-ope rafou Ciur, at the redm-ed price of our staple? j al entrusted with the location of the Na-jwith our sister state in the this laudable commodities. G viale these sunmu it-;tional Road, has, at length, reached In-j scheme. As the proposition first emanaable barriers to g"'iiual prosperit) , and, dianapolis, with a random hue; and to; ted from us, to make this improvement, you will at once i ifose. nw life into our! the line dividing Ohio from Indiana with and has been generously responded to by felbvv cifiz ms. If m are at presenta permanent location. In the spring he Illinois, a charter with powers co-exten-awed into dull neutrality hy the fear of will repair westward towards the point sive with theirs, and commensurate with

public opi tioa, be assured that the hour.of destination. A renewed expression! the high object, is expected from you.

oun i.iii! inieiLsuj g national aiai state toe losiermg attention and countenance

uhject. That w e may be sensibly penc-'nf the legislature. Those governments

iitude and utility, I ; that exist through their usurpations, dulge ine in making j frauds and force, and w hose principle is

t rated with its magnitud

will ask you to in

a few cursory remarks in support of the grand project. Michigan being the only Lake in the north, that belongs exclusively lo the United States, it is but reasonable to infer, that we will be more partial to it, than to those in which the Kingdom of Great Britain claims a com-

oi reieasemeui is ar nan.j. l u prejudice which exists i s onii places ag linst internal impr.iVnvnt, is redeemiog itself. The whole country as if by one universal impulse, is moved hy the m ister spirit that isabroad. Lead the way,

bring home visible benefits to the doors of your constituent i.id you will confidently' hear from that Sam? dreaded public sentiment, a favourable echo. The people will consult their own interest; and the force of iaformation will induce them to yield to what is right. It is not denied that the true remedy fir these -grievances, is ultimately to be fouad in their wise1, thoughtful and patriotic determinations; and experiment will make them sensible, that the one half of the

tax they pay upon the trvp .rtation of,

those articles they buy and $ch will place them upon the vantage ground, and put a period t those daag'-rs, sacrifices, and delays that hang like an incubus upon the country. If we "fold up our arms," and make ourselves easy whilst our condition is barely tolerable, under the expectation that some foreign revolution will restore us those times that are gone

of our belief that Congress will continue In the month of October last, the di-

to make adequate annual appropriations' plomatic agents of the United State, far the continuation of this extensive: held a treaty w ith the Miami and Potta-thorough-fare from East to West, will be wattama Indians, in the valley and on allowable, interested as we are in its the north bank of the Wabash, in this

fear, require an ignorant populace; but in one iike ours, w here virtue is the principle, and reason alone moves the great machinery, intelligence is the rock or which all hope is reposed. I would therefore earnestly suggest the propriety of extending the means of the state to the

man right with us to occupy. On thisjfurtherance of the object, with Mich liblarge and splendid lake a navy can sail j eralit y as our combined means will juviiou water that is altogether American. fy. With the control of the available On every shore of it, fortification may bejdonation in land, w hich has been vested erected, on ground that is our own; and; in you for the use ofa Seminar of learnthere our tlag can wave. Hence, if our! ing, and -of the sections reserved to thfc old enemv should ever again call us to'.iahabitants of the several Conwressioaai the strife ot battle, we must expect to townships for the use oi' common schools, meet her iu the north; and this Lake a treasury filled bo)ond the correspondbeing the nearest to the bulk of western ent charges against it, and a people anxsoldierv, w ill be looked to as the theatre ious for the dissemination of useful

speedy completion. We cannot suppose'state, with the view of extinguishin

that the plighted faith of the U. States, I their title to lands. This negotiation, :of operations. The tirt land to the know ledge to applaud ou, I have every in this particular, will be violated, butjwith great labor, resulted in a session of; north .f this lake is England's, and will confidence that the object of education

forever, and change the couatcmnce ofj of country which these streams pass.

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that the road will goon wiih the same! between two and three millions of acres! be 1 he hiding place of herseli, or allies, from its fist principles to its more advarvregularity that has hitherto marked its! of land to the United States, 1 ing within) Should such a., ua ished for calamity ccd and liberal summits will receive your

progress, until it comes in contact withjthe limits of this state; which, w ill doubt-;eer hcfal U:, and a requisition should be unreserved sanction and effectual entile dark wave of the Mississippi, less soon be surveyed and offered for, made upon maoy id the states of the couragemeut. It must be admitted, that Your attention is again called to the'sale. Having explored a considerable! west and -.oiih, for their quoto of militia, these lands sui ject d to rnr use for the situation of the two White rivers and portion of this new ly acquired territory w ith orders to meet a foe to the north, it best of purposes, although intrinsically White Water. These streams aflord a in person, I can speak with certainty as will be easily believed, that Lake Mich- valuable, are at present in a freat de'good navigation duringseveral months in to its real value and advantages. This igan will he the place of rendt zvous. gree, either wild and covered with urine year. The flat bottomed boat can country lies on the North and West sides Troops and ruinations of war wonidne- Hire's rank, rich uncultivated growth, (as descend them w ith her cargo; hut there of the Wabash, West and South of the cessarily, have to pass in performing the i to be fmred are the minds of too maare several places in the rivers where! St. Joseph's, and bordering on Lake, march the nearest, route through the ny of our rising y outh) or o:dy so partial-

large piles oi unit wood are collected,: Aiicnigan. xxo new country can present jcentre oi Indiana; ana or course the i) improved and tenanted, as to be of but-

extending across the streams, which sub

ject the vessel to iminent danger of be

ing wrecked. These collections of drift with some sawyers in the bed of the channel, and one or two inconsiderable falls in the While rivers, embrace the impediments to the navigation of these

water courses. Considering the extent

nent streams for manufactories, living

springs, extensive quarries of limestone, thick and durable timber, healthful appearance, and good natural position for commerce, it may be esteemed as the rirst new country, in value, low in market in

greater inducements to the emigrant. ;m irch must be performed on land. The. trilling avail now, and of little promise

It cannot he said, that it is the garden ot ; importance of a good road trom the Lakejto the future. 1 he propriety is thereHesperides; but with its rich soil, perma-to the Ohio, opening a direct communi-jfore respectfully submitted of giving

cation between them, consequently, be-such permanency to the management or comes, obvious in a naticnrA point oricw 'disposal of these various tracts, as will seAdd to this the facilities that such a work! ni e aa immediate aid and spring to the offers to the emigrant from many of thejhigh objects thev were designed to ad-

tales, who is in search of these rich new

countries, nnd even that very oe wll:hj

vance.

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