Indiana Palladium, Volume 4, Number 28, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 19 July 1828 — Page 2
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AN ADDRESS To the Voters of Indiana. Fellow Citizen: In presenting myself as a candidate for your suffrages at the ensuing election, it may be proper to premise a lew observations explanatory of the course which 1 have thought it my duty to purtue. When I consented, last winter, to become a candidate, there was an understanding with some of my friends, that I should make a tour of some extent through the state, and use those exertions which have been U3ual with can didates for office in this and some of the adjoining states. This course however repugnant to my feelings and opposed, as ( conceive to the tru? interests of'the peo ple, I had consented to adopt. On my return to Madison I found it would be impossible to pursue the course expected by ray friends, Sz as I had not time to consult fliem, determined to decline immediately, and afford the Central Committee, which was to meet on the 22d Feb. an opportunity to nominate some other person. Since that period 1 have received numerous communications from different parts of the State, pressing me to still hold a poll, and some oi them stating! that 1 was still considered a candidate. I have therefore in consequence of these representations, yielded to the claims made upon me, and am now a candidate for your suffrages for the oftiee of Governor, at the ensuing election. When men espire to office, their opinions on important subjects wnich agitate the public mind, become interesting to the community; it is therefore their duto give their views in relation to those subject, without concealment ordisguise, and patiently await the decision of the people respecting them. A different course may be justly stignatised as disingenuous if not dishonest. With this view of the subject, 1 shall proceed to lay before you my opinions on a few of the important subjects which now occupy the public attention. It is generally known that at the last election 1 supported Gen. Jackson for , President of the United States. I thought him a genuine Republican, preeminently qualified for that high office, whose interests were identified with ours, and whose claims on his country were superior to those of any other individual. It is also true that I entertained an opinion equally favorable to Mr. Clay. I believed he had few equals and no superiors; but I neither considered his claims so great, nor his prospect of success so good, as those of Gen. Jackson. The opinion formed at that time of Gen. Jackson remains unaltered ; and circumstanced attending the last election have given his claims additional weight, and afford additional reasons for his support. Of the three candidates returned to the house of Representatives the evidences of popular preference, were entirely in favor of Jackson. He was the first choice of eleven states, the undoubted second choice of three, and probably of five others. The representation of several of those states voted for Mr. Adams contrary to the wishes of their constituents; thereby violating that fundamental principle of Republican Government, that the representative is bound to obey the wishes of his constituents, however known to him; This principle is to Republican Government, what the key stone is to the arch the one on which its strength and durabilily depends The contest is therefore no longer personal, but this important principle is involved: shall the people or their representatives, who disregard their will, make the President.. Connected with the election of President, and probably dependent upon the success of Gen. Jackson, are the amendments contemplated to the constitution as a further security to the rights of the People. Perfect as that instrument was as il came from the hands of its illustrious trainers, (and it certainly was as perfect as any human production,)experience has pointed out some imperfections, and these have been removed for time to time, by such amendments as expediency required. Oae of the most important now demanded is to vest the election of President directly in the people, and take the ultimate choice form the house of repreleivatives. Anc'her to limit the period of executive service to a single term, and thus take from the President all sinister motives in his appointments to office. So important is thi3 latter principle deemed, that m my of the states have limited the service of the executive to a single term; and the want of such limitation in the ronstilutionof the union, I consider one of its principle defects. Tbeso sentiments I consider it my duty to urge upon the consideration of such of my fellow citisens as I may have intercourse with, in whatever situation I may be placed: And it is equally the duty ofall good citizens to support the preient and all other administrations of the general government in all measures not opposed to the public good. The great question of affording equal protection to every branch of the national industry, is so firmly settled by the passage of the l?tte tariff, that it may be considered as one of those national measures in which all parties concur, and is
not (obe shaken by any change in the administration of the Government. Any fears therefore on this important subject, are visionary, a9 there are not more than ixty members of the House of Representatives opposed on principle to a protecting tariff. Another interest equally important to the western country, is the right of the General Government to appropriate mo
ney to make internal improvements; but this question is settled on a basis equally firm,and supported by a majority in Congress equally great. Of the various interests requiring the co-operation of the State and General Governments, the right of the several States to the unappropriated lairas within their territorial limits is one of vital importance. Of the right I entertain no doubt; but previous to the discussions in the Senate of the Uuited Slates, thought it best to ask as a matter of expediency, what I thought might be refused when demanded as a matter of right. I am now, however, convinced, that the time has arrived when our claim m?ij be urg ed upon the attention of Congress, both as a matter of right and policy, with every prospect of success. The limits of this address will not permit me to dwell upon the various measures of internal policy and municipal regulation which are interesting from thir importance. One however affords such bright anticipations of public utility, that I cannot entirely pass it without notice. The grant made by Congress for the pur pose of uniting the Waba5h and Mminep ruvers ar. naviganie points, aiiora me i: . . it . - i
wuik ai uv uibiiiiu uay wnnoui any nur-, jv..red by the R v. S. Harris and L. Althen on our citizens: and the tolls with;,iPn. :iua rf.n irI ,i,, t..f tJlt, cn.
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judicious management will be applica-iday gcnoo in Aurora was read by its suble to the cxtention of the work to thcperintiidai,l, containing a general stateOhio, or the construction of simi lar works ;ment of the C0l,di! ion of tne neighboring
iu uuici pdiisoi uieoiaie. ,ina wnemer we receive the unappropriated lands within our limits as matter of right, or in specific appropriations for the construction of similar works, the beneficial effects arising from those improvements constitute a most pleasing subject of contemplation. With this short exposition of my sentiments on a few of the important sub jects which now engage your attention, dismiss the subject with the single ob servation, that should 1 be honored with a plurality of your suffrages I will devote my time to vour service with zeal and fidelity, and if you otherwise determine will cheerfully acquiesce in your decision. I. T. CANBY. Madison, July 5th, 1828. From a letter to a gentleman in this !. O "!: .J , city,: uaieu ctrtu r tMipe up vuaun. irronnc? Teias,) Maj I7tb, 1828. IV. Tiller. of
-mere are inousanasot deer m these established in the same general bounds; prairies; there are also thousands of;'i which there are about 130 teachers wild horses, cattle, mules, hogs, panthers ;anrt 937 scholars, which with the increase
bears, wolves, lurkejv&cv&c. bo thereof the other schools will give a total in is no danger of starving in this Heaven crease in six months of nearly 140 teach favored land; for truly nature has done'ers and about 1000 scholars. ... 1 ax. r i i . !
uio.e 101- wis waii any otner country The following list will present those that I have ever seen or heard of; thelschooIs nearly in the order of time in
and is rich, the climate generally iitfauuy, especially in me interior; arid;
what is the greatest advantage to theiars is officially mven: in the others we
the tarmer, he does not have to feed his l .1..1 ! 1 m stock, mere neing always a great abundance of grass for their support; the cattie keep very fat the year round. One of the farmers in this neighborhood has j
upwarus oi iour nunureu neau 01 cattle,; pfocll( 2-,r and as fine as you ever saw. The in-V..,. 1 1 1 J. . j.,, J-jaw-re nee burgh crease is almost incredible." Cros Road "We have been visited by a Spanish Willow FoilGeneral (Taran) and his suite, which is jjount jon " composed of several officers and about Sparta thirty soldiers; he travels in a coacM Moore's Horse Mill drawn by eight mules, they have twoi Franklin baggage wagons, each of which is drawn j2(j' Manchester by eight mules; they also drive upwards, m, 'Pabor of 100 head of horses and muies within-., ri-u fho.r. i?o !.. n r, jriogan rim
1 ft Vf- V " f1"- Al,e-V have left this place and gone on to Naci-I doches, expecting to meet a commission - uu we pan 01 we united states to run the dividing line between this province! and the United States. We have not heard whether there has been a commis sioner appointed on the part of the United States or not.,r Texas. The following information, relative to Texas is copied from the New Orleans Halcyon and Literary Repository,of the 25th of May. It contains information which will, no doubt, be new to many of our readers: "Although little more than seven years have elasped since the Austins began their colony near the Rio Grande, it now numbers from 12 to 15,000 souls, mostl) emigrants from the United States. tl j r 1 muusanu 01 acres, nowever, remain with the patentee, and will afford immense wealth to himself and to his descendants. "On the opposite side of Texas, and in a quarter possessing greater advanta ges, another colony is fast rising into im portance under the patent of Col. Milam. There are 200 families already settled on the alluvian of Red River, nearh over against Miller county, in Arkansas. 1 he cotton lands yield astonishing crop;of the hnest cotton, tobacco, and corn innumerable herds graze on the eh vatcd prairies and the mountains arc
known to contain the precious metals. The colonists are to be exempted from taxes, and the merchandise they may import will pay nodutie?. The law of Mexico, prohibiting slavery, is evaded by having negroes bound lo serve an apprenticeship of 99 years. There are several planters who number 50 or 60 of such apprentices. New Oi leans will receive the productions of this colony, by barges and steamboats descending Red River, and send back in exchange whatever the new settlers may be unable to provide among themselves. These settlements, so high up the Red River, may be view
ed as the links which shall, in time, connect us, in trad'-, with St. Fe, and other parts of New Mexico." COMMUNICATED. SUNDAY SCHOOLS. The anniversary of American Inde pendence was celebrated in Aurora on the 4th inst. A procession was formed, in which, immediately after the music, the clergy, and the committee of arrangement, were upwards of two hundred Sunday scholars with their teachers; consisting of the school in Aurora, about fifty from the school at Munt Tabor, and the balance from the Cross Roads, Sparta, and Franklin schools ; these were followed by a large number of ladies and g Miumen, tormn g pernaps as interestiuga procession as has ever been witness - ed in this section of the country. I hey proceeded to the baptist meet ing house, where, after prayer by the R v. John Watts, and the reading of the MD clralion of Independence by fj. Basi ' 1 appropriate addresses were deSunday schoo s .as far as information had been received. Cold refreshments were then distributed in abundance to the whole assembly; and the interview terminated in perfect harmony. Prom lh Sunday school report we .nake the following extracts: mi i a r i ne auouay scnoi m Aurora com menced in June 1826. At that time, th ere was no other permanent school that we know of in the southern part of the county. At the close of 1827, there were eight schools in existence, in a lit tle more than one half of the county, and including a part of two or three school districts in the adjoining counties, which A 1 ft 1 . I 1 is me only oounus wan wnicn we are particularly acquainted. In these schools there were about 60 teachers and 450 scholars. One of these schools has declined, but in the others there has been an increase of about 10 teachers and near 1 00 scholars, during the pre sent vear. 15 new schools hniTe hon 'which they were established. In ten of them the number of teachers and scholpresume we are ratlier below than above the true numbers. Teachen. Schohrg. ! Aurora lst Manchester J7 9 9 12 9 6 3 9 10 14 9 10 7 10 8 8 10 7 8 6 6 115 70 70 90 80 30 70 64 108 100 104 100 50 CO 60 60 50 60 30 40 30 30 South Hogan Hartford r!x.e iDias's Rising Sun Willow Branch Grants Creek Scranton's Millers 200 1480 There are Sunday schools in the northern part of the county, but we are unable to state their present condition. Several schools have been recently established in the eastern part of Switzerland county, and a disposition is there manifested to increase their number. Eighteen oi the above schools have li braries, containing at least S 130 worth of books, most of which have been purchased the present year. 27 have been laid out in books hy the school in Aurora. The School in Franklin was organized me sunaay in fpriiiast, and has re cited more than 40,000 verses in the New Testament. The whole school recited 12,004 verses in one Sunday. A large proportion were recited by four boys. Obed Wilson recited 2,852, Orti& Wilson Since thii report was made, we learn thai ht-re is a Sunday school in New-l,wrenrehurjjh, that the school in the Ola Town is not so full i was m few months go, but it is presumj-c5 at in both schools there are more teacher and
choUrs iban are set down in the report.
2,825, Daniel J. Palmer 2,174 and Ira Gleeson 1 885. Obed Wilson has recited the whole of the New Testament except a few verses in 13 Sundays. The Sunday school has had a salutary effect in moralizing almost every district in which it has been established, and many instances might be enumerated in which it has produced a thorough reformation in teachers and scholars.
Washington July 7, 1S28. Fourth of July, and breaking ground for the Canal. An era in our national annals will take its date from the proceedings of Friday last. That which was only design iu the Father of his Country, which was subsequently speculative opinion uith thousands and hundreds of thousands, on that day became matter for the historian, li it be subject or pride to record triumphs over human liberty and life, how much purer the pride which swells his bosom who describes only the victories of human genius and enterprise, over the trannv ofirnorai.ee and weakness. h is to weave a chaplet of flowers, and to cast it on the stream of time, where, buoyant and beautiful, it shall float down to other ages, a memorial of the past, and a tribute to posterity. The only relics of the Grecian glories, are the mouldering ruins on the shores of the jB3"' The pyramids of Egypt still standy but they rise in the solitariness of of desolation; their builders scarcely known their purposes forgot. But a work which will conquer time and space; which will form a mighty ligament of our confederacy, and draw the ties of brotherhood more closely together; which will open new channels for industry, and new sources of prosperity, will furnish to unborn generations other memorials than ruins or solitary grandeur. Neither will the constructors of the work we have just commenced be unknown, nor its pur poses forgotten. It is one of those works which contain the elements of immortality within them: which require not even the aid of the press to herald them to renown; it will be made immortal by the benefits it bestows by the moral: and physical opulence which it distributes hy the lesson of wisdom and enterprise which it inculcates. We have a right, therefore, lo say, that "an era in oui national annals will take its date from the proceedings of Friday last." By selecting our national anniversary for the commencement of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, that day, sufficiently entitled before, has gained a double title to our gratitude. If we reverenced it, previous to this time, as the anniversary of national independence, we may now superadd the reverence due to the birthday of that great policy of that munificent system, the tendency of which is to establish that independence more securely by cementing that union of heart and hand, of purpose and interest, which is necessary to make il perpetual. The day was unusually favorable, the thermometer being under 37 at the greatest elevation. Many thousands of persons were on the ground and we have heard of no exception to the general gratification which was experienced. We cannot, in closing, avoid a passing notice of the address delivered by Mr. Adams. We will not say that it was the most chaste and felicitous address he ev-j er delivered; hut we will boldly say, that it will not buffer in comparison with any one he has previously given, or any other effort, be the source what it may. It was simple, pious, and liberal. Its allusions were apt, accurate and beautiful. There was a sincerity in his manner, which made every sentence eloquent. The ornaments he used were judicious; and his liberal reference to the ceremony of laying the first stone of the Rail Road in Baltimore, invoking equal success on the two great works, was happy and acceptable. Thus terminated an exhibition more interesting in itself, and pregnant with higher importance to our country, than was ever before witnessed, since the con federation. The great work which has been prayed for, hoped fr.r, year after year, is commenced, rropnecy lias yielded to historv. May He, who con trols the destinies of nations, as of individuals, crown this undertaking w ith his smile, until from the smitten rock shall rush the opulent stream, whose waters shall carry the produce of the remotest! west to meet the rising sun ! Jour, From the last American Quarterly Review. Naval Incidents. The London Quarterly Reviewer goes to an argument to prove that their 32 pounders are more effectual than our 42 pounders. A short time before the late war, the same question arose between Commodore Decatur, then in command of the Frigate United States, and Capt. Carden of the Frigate Macedonian, both laying at Norfolk. The argument of the English captain was pretty much the same with that now advanced particularly in reliance on the circumstance "that a 32 pounder will fire three rounds while a 42 pounder will fire only two;" and thus, as Capt. Carden expressed it, will throw more iron into the enemy's ship in a given time. Neither of these commanders was con-1
vinced by the other, and Decatur ended the dispute by good humorcdly saying to Capt. Carden; if our countries should be at war, and we should meet at sea, I will convince you of the truth of my argument. It happened, somewhat strangely, that they did afterwards meet as enemies, in the same ships, and Decatur kept his promise, and established the soundness of his opinion by an unanswerable argument, the capture of Captain Carden and his ship. We all remember with how much testacy Capt. Dacres, of the Gucrriere, saw the approach of the American Frigate Constitution with what delight he looked to the combat, his only fear that the Yankee would not fight, but n ould give him too cheap a victory. We recollect his promise of the prize to the fir?t lieutenant, and his numbering the minutes in which he would put him in possession of her. The Yankee did fight and received the flag and sword of the delighted English captain in about the same time he had promised the Arr.ericav hip to his df li hted lieutenant.
NOTICE. DEAR DO RX C O UJ'TYJ Dearborn Circuit Court, 5 April Term 1823, Charles M .rsh complainant, "1 versus Michael Li Reevrs and t On complaint in Chtnceiy. J-.hn Reeves defendants. J NOW on this day to wit: on Monday the first day of the April Term 1823 conns the complainant hy Ttst his attorney, and files hi Bill of complaint against the said deftndanis. and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that Michael 1). Reeves and John Reerts the de fendants aforesaid are not residents of the state of Indians, it is therefore ordertd by the court novr here in chancery sitting1, ihat notice of the pendency of the foregoing Rill of complaint be published for 3 weeks successively in the Indiana Palladium, a newspaper printed and published at Lstwrtnctburgh, Dearborn county, requiring th? said defendants to be and appear before the Judges of the Dearborn circuit court in chancery sitting, at their term to be bo;d.n ttt Lawrence--urgh, in and for the said county ot Dearborn, on the first Monday in October nex, ihm and there to answer the tt mplnarts h it aforesaid; cr the same will be taken js confessed, and a de cree entered thereon accordinglyJA " K DILL, Clclk, D. C Court. July 15, 1829 29-3 w. NOTICE. DEJRBORA COUXJ W) April Term Dearborn Circuit Court y 1828. Thomas Oj;den, terfug I On petition far & Ddtrnl Loder and f Deed, others. J NOW to wit: at the April Tarn of the DearHvro cirruit court Ifci., . .irres h- petitions- by Dunn h.s attorney, wnd fi'fd his petition showirp "hat one R.on Loder in his l te time executed i d delivtrtd to him U e sad 1 h ms Ugden a ond, commonly calh d a mle tioud, for thirty five acr. s of lnd, part of tie North u es quarter of B'.ction No. 13, in towr.ship 5, of Uarge 3 w?st, in the said county of Dcartorn end pr&yirg the appointment of a rnmmission-r gi erably o the statute to mske him a deed in fee simple for the same, the said Rion Lader having dt ceased intestate. Public notice is therefore hereby given to Daniel LnrVr and all others, the hehs of Rion Lader deceased, that unless he or they appear nt the October Term of the Dearborn circuit court 1828, and shew good cause vtby the prayer of the petitioner ought not to he granted the appointment will then be made as prayed for and the land conveyed accordingly. JAMKS DILI., Clerk, D. C CVurt. July 16, 1823. 28-Sw. Q25 Brigade Order. 107. BRIGADE, LXDIAJVA MILITIA. Printer's Retreat, June 28, 1828. THE Field fHcers of the several Ktgroents within said Brigade, will convene in full uniform on Saturday th- 9th day of At'gust next, at noon, at the public hotire IN JIAU FOHD, on L-uietier-, for the urptsr of aitenpjr the rounds ot the re g'tnents m said brigid". By order of Willum (J K-.n. Brig. General. SAM UK L JELLY. B. 1. ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE " SALE. TUF undersigned having taken out letters of adminis'rution on the estate of Grorge Smithy deceased, of l)etrivorn county ; do hereby rctifjr 'hose indetted to sid estt to make payment; and those having claims to present them duly authenticated, as the said estate is known to be amply solvent. Also u ill l e r.rlt red for sale on the ninth day of August next, at tht bouse of Benjamin Wilson at 10 o'clock A. M. household furniture, farming utensils, Horses, Cows, one new Iiiflc gun, on all of which a liberal credit will be given, us the property of said deceased. JOHN SMITH 7 BENJAMIN WILSON, Jr Arffn'rs.July 16, 18,28. 28-3ty NOTICE. Alfred J. Cotton & Dorothy 1 Cotton his wife, and Benjamin Noyes, purchapers from Israel Noyes, late of Dearborn coun- I on application ty, deceased, for deads of against j conveyance. The heirs and Irjca! represent- I atives of the said Israel Noyet, ! deceased. ) NQTI0B ia hereby given to James Miltiken, and PriscilU Milliken his wife, daughterof Israel Noyes deceased; Israel Noyes, Benjamin Sylvester and Sarah Sylvester his wife, daughtrr of Israel Noyes, dee'd the two latter cf whora are non residents of this state; and to Hugh Noyes, and to El-zabeth Noyes, widow of Israel NTcyeg, dee'd. ar.d which said Elizabeth Noyes, is also guardian of I aloui Noyes, Elizabeth Noyea, and Daniel Noyes, infant and minor heirs f Israel Noyes, deceased, late of Dearbon county ; that we shall apply by petition t the Dearborn Cirruit Court, at their Term to beholden at Lawrenceburgh, in the said county of Dearbornxon the first Mondy in October next; to appoint commissioners to convey to us, agree, bly to ou- purchase from the said Israel Noyes, deceased, oor several shres of the North east quarter of section No 20 in township 6 ot range 2, west of meridian line drawn from the Mouth of the Great Miami nrer, and lirg in the said county of Dearborn, of which all persona concerned are requested to ttkr no'tce. ALFRED J. COTTON, DOROTHY COTTON, BENJAMIN NOYES. June SOtb, 1823, 25 iw.