Indiana Palladium, Volume 3, Number 38, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 29 September 1827 — Page 1

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EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING MATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAN. Barlow. Volume III. LAWRENCEBURGH, INDIANA; SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1027. Number 38.

FOR THE PALLADIUM.

In limes of general political excite

ment, like the present, it is reasonable-

to expect that many arguments will be

made use of, and assertions made, by de

signing and unprincipled politicians, calculated to wound the feelings and des

troy the character of the greatest and

nest men in our country. Every day's observation verifies the truth of this as-

jmonths; (the law of 1812, by which the

term was,fcxtendcd to six months, having

expired by its own limitation on the 18:h of April, 1814.) Admitting, for the

ake of meeting the detractors on their

own ground, (which I would not otherwise do,) that the six militia men 6hot at Mobile were detailed into service for three months onl), were they not guilty of offences previous to the expiration of this term, which would, by the articles of war, have subjected them to the punishment of death? What does Col.

sertion, to the confusion fit is honed) of

many engaged in the management cf PiPkir'' in h5s statement on oath, say

the press. But thanks be to Heaven our lot has been cast in a favored land;

aland of intelligence and free discussioi where the rich and poor are alike pro

tected in the enjoyment of life, liberty,

and every other object the virtuou heart can desire. Here no man is required to sacrifice his opinions at the ffhrine of cupidity, or expiate his obstinacy on the wrack. The people are the sovereign power the high court of impeachment before whom, and to whose decrees, it were no mean vassalage to bow with reverence, & submit with cheerfulness. Before this tribunal, a fair.' candid

presentment is all that is required to insure a hearing and an impartial decision. A 11 imnrirl'llll nllachnn ic risim noi.rliurr

lor decree, in this high court of Chancery, involving principles interesting to the American people; tin effect o( which will be to put down civil diccrd nnd unholy combinations against private and public character, or to perfect the ruin and pros-ration of every thing worth contending for in this life. The import anceof the case, thus stated, demands of the American people a thorough examination of its merits through the channels of intelligence. Let no one trust his father, his brother or his neighbor, in this nfiair; but be "fully persuaded in his

own mind, from the examination of

worthy evidences, and his own observation, that the assent he is about to give is expedient and proper. With these preliminary remarks, the writer of this article would call the at

tention of the reader to the case of the Six Militia Men executed at Mobile in 1815; about which so many pathetic tales have been put in circulation, intended to' injure the standing of General Jackson with the American people. No apology is deemed necessary for thus introducing thi9 subject: respect for the individual, as well as the duty every one owes to his country, to defend the character of her distinguished heroes and statesmen, from the aspersions of vile detractors and unprincipled men, imperi

ously demand this free expression of my

sentiments on this occasion.

The story of these unfortunate ftien, lias been the theme of many newspaper strictures. Letters have been written purporting to be from the pen of Harris, one of the six men executed, and widely circulated, even in papers claiming the character of truth; while others, with a little more respect for decency, have let them pass unnoticed, making up the deficit by a plentiful abuse of the Gen-j

eral'mr sanctioning the decision of the

Why, he tells you in August or the first

of September 1814 he discovered a mu

tinous disposition in his regiment; and

that a short tune previous to the 20th of

September, (the termination of the 1st three month?,) a party demolished the

bake house, destroyed the oven, and did

man' other disorderly and mutinous

acts. Col. P. further state., that on the day previous to the desertion, a large number paraded, armed, and marched

towards the commissary's stores; that he

ordered them to disperse, but his order

was disregarded; and that thev forced the

guard stationed ihere for the protection

ot the stores, Now3 agreeably to the 55th article of war, which says: "Whosoever belongeth to the armies of the U. States, employed in foreign part?, shall force a safe-guard, shall suffrr death," these deluded beings forfeited their lives, and might have been lawfully shot without trial. But this is not all, they committed many excesses contrary to the rules and regulations of war, previous to the time contended for as being the end of their time of serv ice. Thus, taking the accusers of tin G neral on their own ground, they are convicted of grossly misrepresenting his conduct. Having dislodged the enemy from his trong hold , it may be well to pursue him a little way on his retreat. It has been admitted for argument only, that the Militia men shot were detailed into

service for three months. The enemies

of Jackson would willingly make the people believe that this was the extent of their term of service, but have never

produced a single concurring proof in

Mipport of the assertion. The law of

Congress, of April 1814, gave discretionary power to the president of the United

States, by which he might extend the term of militia duty to six months. At

the time Harris and his companions were called into service, Jackson was act

ing under the instructions of Gov. Blount,

of Tennessee, to whom the order fronr

the President of the United States was of course forwarded, and who made out the order to Jackson. What the purport of Blount's order was, ir not positively ascertained; but from every evidence adduced, it appears pretty certain that it was for six months. This fact is established by Col. Pipkin's certificate, and further coroborated by the deserters returning and serving out the sixmo iths, agreeably to the requisition. The order of the President, which seems

so necessary for a proper understanding

of this mattcr,has not yet been produced ; and it is said cannot be found in the war

Court Martial, sentencinc them to death :office- !t is confidently expected, how-

although that court was regularly con-evRr t,lat tl,i orde" will shortly be found stitutod, and the prisoners tried agreea- or 0,lt thf proper department. To My to the rutes and regulations of war.!c,lt this subject short, at present, the eviSomc unblushing braggadocios, who, no'deilce ;iS to thc extent of service is altodoubt, "fight for those that pay best,"! gather in favor of Jackson, and against have even had the hardihood, with these u,s oppose's facts staring them in the face, to charge Where now are the charges of the him with the murder of Harris and his accusers of the General, by which they hssociates! How far this charge is bo- had hoped to do him injury? Have

lieved by hrs fellow-cinz mis, who have

not probably had an opportunity of ex-

they all fled before the light of truth, or is there yet one unanswered? Yes, he

In concluding this number, a passing no' ice is deemed necessary of som remarks of the editor of the Cumberland Md. Advocate, which immediate!; followed the letter of Gen. Ja kson.n the 37ih No. of the Palladium It hs alva s been the aim of the enemies f General Jackson, to endeavor to impies the belief upon the minds of the peode, that whenever he moves or acts, be impel

led by a stern, impetuous disposition,

which totally disregards the res raints ol

reason and propriety; and acions simple in themselves, and commeidablc in others, when performed by him ire transformed into heinous crimes. hen com

pelled to secede from this kind of raiiery, from the nature of the subjects of which they are treating, it is very easy to discover how the lips revolt at what the heart would have them titter. ?hus we see the editor of the Advocate h his remarks upon Jackson's letter, lire Mark

Anthony, mourning over the body of

( resar, disclaiming all intentions to in

jure Jackson, or wound the feedings of

his friends, flatly contradicting hs statements; and that too in unqualified terms.

This he ostensibly does for the pirpose of

defending the characters of Gei. Green and Gen. Washington. Here die higgling qualities of this editor is finely displayed, in his attempt to rescue (as he would have it) the characters of these dis

tinguished heroes, by the prostration of Jackson's. But it is a vain effort, and all

to no purpose. The reputation of Washington and Green stand too high

for the tongue of slander to reach, and

the actions of Jackson when put in comparison with theirs will suffer nothing in the contrast. If the reader will take the trouble to examine Mar

shall's Life of Washington, Johnston's

Life ot Greene, the debates in Congress

on the Seminole War, and Gen. Reed'

letter to the editor of the Baltimore Republican, he will find a sufficient number of precedents and facts (if any. are, wanting) fully to sustain General Jack

son in all he done in the case of Militia

men executed ; and moreover, to convict the said editor of stating that which is not. As to the credibility of these evidences, it is left with the reader to decide whether the historian, or the biographer, who wrote at the time the incidents took place, or from documents carefully examined, is to be credited in preference to the man who new writes from recollection. One thing I would here mention, with

all due di (Terence to the memory of the

distinguished patriot, that the deserters, hung by order of Gen. Green, were exe

cuted the next day alter their trial;

whereas the six militia men, executed at

Mobile, were not shot for at least two weeks after their sentence: And yet

we hear a terrible hue and cry against

Jackson for not giving the poor fellows

time to prepare for death! Who would,

who dare charge uen. Green with a de

reliction of duty, or the want ofhumani

ty ? His country had called hirn into

action, and it was her good, and not his own private feelings he had to consult in

the discharge of the high trusts reposed

in him.

To conclude these remarks, which

have been extended to a length not anti

cipated, I would observe, that lor the

correctness ol the assertions contained

therein, ! shall hold myself responsible; & shall always be ready to defend them against all those who may think proper to

attack them by facts and arguments none other will be noticed. : DEAnno?.::.

v ill go after it, if it be only to rest himself; and if he gets in he will sit in the stern, quite quiet and peaceable; to the great uneasiness, however, of the farmer, who does not care to let him in, if he can but ply his oars fast enough." The g'upe, or lynx, is the third among this country's hurtful creatures; ard he, like the bear, treats his enem), the di g, in a similar manner, "making ise of his claws so effectually, that he fleas him alive." They are, moreover,

very cunning in undermining sheepfolds,

"where they help themselves very nobly :" it happened, however, that in one of thoe a "goupe vvns found out by a he-goat, who, preceiving his subter

raneous work, watched him narrowl), and, as soon as his head come forth, butted him, and gave such home pushes, that he laid him dead in the grave of his

ia:

amining it properlv, I am unable to say; yet stands charged of ordering the exe- . . r . , ..! l: r c?: n : lit a tt . i- .i

but teel comment, mat u mere are any cmionoi oix zinnia men auer -me aan50 credulous as to believe General Jack-!gers which threatened our country had

son capable of so base an action, they cannot for a moment resist an opposite opinion, where the facts of the case are submitted to their examination. Not

withstanding the enemies of the General,1

have, in most instances, earned on a kind of desultory warfare now against himself and anon against his wife they have in the case of the Militia Men, been more bold, and assumed assailable positions, from which the friends of Old Hickory will undoubtedly dislodge them, or acknowledge (what Jackson has never done in the field) themselves fairly beaten on the vantage ground.

It seems absolutely necessary, in order

to convict the General of any improper

conduct in this business, that his assail

ants should prove that the militia men

executed were only drafted for three

months, and that they were condemned

for acts committed after this time had ex

pire. In order to sustain the first position , the law of 1795 is adduced, which

limits a tour of militia duty to three

own making.

Foxes are so proverbially sagacious, that wc shall confine ourselves to a single instance, we believe not very generally known. "When he wants to get rid of his fleas, without disturbance, he takes a bunch of moss, or straw, in his mouth, and goes backwards into the water, wading, by slow degrees, deeper and deeper; by which means, the fleas have time and can retire gradually to the dry pla

ces, at last to the parts of the neek and head, which he alone keeps above water; and, to crown the work, he gathers all his enemies into the before-mentioned bunch ofstaw; and then drops them in the water, well washed and cleaned. This project is so cunning that mankind could not teach him better." Squirrels would make admirable seamen, their skill on the waters being quite on a par w ith their agility on land. "On a chip or a piece of wood they'll sail acro?s a small water, and make use

of their tail for a sail; and with one foot

they'll paddle, and yteer themselves with the other; and thus they escape, sometimes, those that wait ashore for their landing, and find themselves mistaken,

by thinking they must come with the

wind." We have heard much of the as

tonishing instincts of beavers, but the

Bishop adds one instai:? w ith which we were not hofore acquainted, of which he was "assured by many who had been witness. When they are employed in transporting building materials, one will

suffer himself to bo used as a cart,

while the others, like horses, take hold

of him, fastening on him by the neck,

and dragging him along; for this purpose, he first throws himself on his back, with his legs up, between which they lay their already fitted and prepared timber;" the good will thus cannot be fully appreciated without knowing the whole; z. that this act of devotion for the pub

lic service "always costs him a bare back,

for it takes all the hair off." The truth

of this we found coroborated in the

course of our newspaper reading, a few mornings ago. We give it verbatim.

"At Amsterdam, in a street called the

Wood Market, recently lived a man who

was curious in keeping fowls. One of his hens5 though in the midst of summer,

had several days stopped yielding her usual produce, and yet made her usual cackling; he searched the nest, but could not find even the shell of an egg,

which made him resolye to watch her closely. He accordingly , the next day,

placed himself in such a situation as to be able to observe her motions minutely; when, to his great surprise, he saw

The Indians. Wo am it.fomiftrf tl

letters have been received ry a gct.lle man of this city j from S. Louis dated on the 8th int, oniau i g inloimatiori that Gen. Atkinson had left the pist of Prairie du Chicn with about six hundred troops, and gone to meet the Winnebago Indians, who were asse n.hht g at ihs portage between the Fox Ouist er iir rivers, in considerable 1 on. i Iriii their war dances, at d gin g c l ci manifestations of hoMiliiy. Suoig expectations were entei laine d ol a met iie between our troops ai d the restless b nd of savages that had congn gated at that point. Our information corr.es from a soured that may be relied on.

Cm. Chronicle Enterpize.- In addition to the steam boats now upon the stocks in the shipyards of our city , there are two Scnoir; LR5 building, oi of 120 tens, owi eri by, an enterpriziig citiztn, the other of smaller dimensions and owned by some gentleman of the south. The) art in-, tended for the Ccasiii g and West India trade. The period is not distant, we think, when a great many vest Is, destined for the ocean, will be buih at this

place. The enterprising Proprietors cf the:

Cincinnati lype rourndry, have receiv

ed an order iron South America, for

PrirAintr

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been beaten down, and victory smiled

upon our standards; apprehension had I II ?! 1,1

oeen succeeded dv connuence. ana mr

dawnings of peace had already beamed

upon our land. Kow much truth there

is in these assertions a few facts will

show. The battle of New Orleans was

fought on the 8th of January, the sentence of the court Martial was approved on the 22d of the same month, and Fort

Boyer was taken by the British on the

11th of February fellow ug, a month

after the victory. On the 20th of Feb

ruary news arrived at New-Orleans that

a treaty of peace had been signed, but

it was distrusted, by Jackson, as a plan

of the enemy to put him oil his guard ; he therefore paid no attention to it, but con

tinued strictly to enforce ah his measures of vigilance until some time after, w hen the treaty was officially announced. It

would be an useless expenditure of

time and room to pursue this subject any further at present, having beat-

len the enemv from everv post assumed.

We have seen a It tier mm a

gentleman of this ciiy , u w i 1 1 aid the

steam boat Eclu , dated at Mobile , Au

gust 5th, in which it is state d that u October the Echo would be sent to M co, for the purpose of running on tla R L 5 Norte, between Marlinu.ras ane' lxii s?o, which latter place is SCO nr.ilt at d u wards from the mouth cf the riv r, iViaihmoras is said to contain seveial thou

sand inhabitants, and to possess cci siderable cotr.meice. The Echo was built

last year at Pittsburgh, and is owned, we believe at that plate. We mention these facts for the purpose of exhibiting a tew of the many rviderces of the enterprise, manufactures, arid extending commerce of the West. Ib. Th e Jiaga ra jtu. On Saturday, the Sth inst. at 3 oxlot k, the schooner Mu lligan made her descent over the Falls of Niagara. She was towed by a boat to the commencement of the upper rapid? and there committed to the iorce of the current, With great velocity she passed over the first rapid in ex elJent style: upon the second she struck, and after her masts had gone overboard, slit was carried a wreck to the bottom of the short falls'. Her timbers alone adhered until she passed the grard fall, by which she was entirely dashed to pieces, The Michigan was decorated with several t fligies distributed over the d(k; the one on the foretop was called Car.' 7ER Bevkblv, whose provir.ee ii was to look out tor breakers. There w ere e r board one buffalo? two bears, two fvx r, .

one raccoon, a uog, a cat, and lour geese. The cat and two of the gcev were taken up uninjured below the fids The bears and the dog escaped to shore above the atdr.tct, dee from injury. The buffalo passed down thev

great falls and was seen no more, I he small animals were either deslrojed or escaped unobserved to the shore. TheV number of spectators present on the oo" casion is stated at from 10 to 15,000v

Extracts from Pontoppidans Natural UistoryofJor:?ay. S lected fromtheMuseum. Some might be unreasonable enough to decline living in a bears neighbourhood on these terms of form and good-

hreeding: to such, we have onlj to mention the mode in which bears treat those with whom they are on no terms of cereal1 l 1 ' C t A '

mcny, viz. me uumer, wno, ii ue laus in his attempt to run his knife down the bear's throat, stands but a poor chance, for, forthwith, the "bear fleas his skin off, and pulls the hair and flesh over his head, and ears, and face, and all!" Would our limits permit, we might dilate much upon the sagacity of these wonderful animals, such as pie king out the cow

in herd, "which hath the bell round her neck; which bell he'll strike so flat with his paw, that it shall never speak or vex him again;" or, when mortally wounded, how he endeavours to rob the "hunts man of his hide, which he knows he

comes for, and, therefore, lays hold of

a very large stone; and, if there he a deep water near him, how he plunges himeelf into it;" or how, when tired with swimming,(albeit very expert in the

art.) "if be set? a boat by the way, he

her discharge her egg; but no sooner Five steam boats filled with passergers

was she off the nest, than three rats made went down from Bulialo to the Fall?,

their anoearance. One of them itnme- The number of geese on the shore and in

diately laid himself on his back', whilst the others rolled the egg upon his belly, which he clasped between hi3 legs, and

held it firm; the other two laid hold of

his tail, and gently dragged him out of

sight. This wonderful sagacity was exhibited for several days to some curious observers." Globe Newspaper

Everv tourist who has steamed his

way by the coasts of Anglesey , has heard

ofPuthn Island and how these red throated divers burrow and live in rabbit-holes;

but we venture to say, he has never heard how they are extracted en masse

from their lurking places, in Norway. We will, therefore, tell them, that the most approved mode is to break in a lit tie dog, and send him into the cracks and openings in the rocks (for they prefer these to rabbit-holes in Norway,) "when he will pull out the first he can lay hold of, by the wings, where they are together in scores, sometimes one or

two hundred together; and their way is, when one i3 laid hold of, and drawn out, he bites fast hold of his next heighbour,

and draws him with him; and all lay ing bold in the same manner, that they must all be drawn oat and killed."

the steam boats, was much greater than on board the Michigan, and it is thought they afforded fine picking to the wary ho tel keepers and sportsmen of the neigh-' boufhood. P. To the surviving Cjjicers of ihe Revolution',Gentlemen: Your just claim for soss: remuneration for halt pay , as promised by Congress in 17S0, and unfairly com-' muted in 1703 after the preliminary ar" tides of peace were signed, the war iri fact at an end, and the required service performed, was before Congress aS their last session and not finally acted" on. It is the advice of some Menibe'f.r of Congress, thatth?y be furnished with: the number of the officers on ContinentalEstablishment, now living, and the rank they held at the peace ot 17 33. Thihr now doing in Kentucky and some other states; and it is desirable that it should be general: I therefore respectfully pro'' pose, that each report himself en or be' fore the first of November nesr, to tl; Marshall of their respective State. Oac of the Survivors e-The Printers of the U. S. will b& eo good aa to give the above an. insertion

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