Indiana Palladium, Volume 4, Number 31, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 9 August 1828 — Page 2
Extract from the unpublished Manuscripts of
Mr. Jefferson. To Doctor Walter Jones. JMonticelto, Jan. 2d, 114. Dear Sir: I deplore with you the putrid state into which ur newspapers hnve passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity! and mendacious spirit of those who write for them; and I enclose you a recent sample, the production of a New England Judge, as a proof of the abyss of degradation into which we have fallen. These orders are rapidly dennviriT fhr mililio tico mJ locnin r
its relish for sound food. A? chides of o Jv in ngr culture and English History.
information, 'and a curb on our func- His correspondence became necessarily
tionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief! Th:it thiq l.-i in n Weat decree, been
circle of his friends, where he might be unreserved with safety, he took a free share in conversation, his colloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing neither copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready short and embarrassed. Vet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in a correct stvle. This he had acquiied by conversation with the world: for his education was merely reading, writing and common ,i x: x ... U I K l-i- riArn en rvp vi nor
aritnmeuc, io nnim u '-v"
at a later day. His time was employed
in action chiefly, reading little, and that
produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit, I agree with you; and I have read with great pleasure the paper you enclosed me on that.subject which I now, return. It is, at the same time, a perfect model of the style of discussion which candor and decency should observe, of the tone which renders difference of opinion even amiable, and a suc
cinct, correct, and dispassionate history of the origin and progress of party among us. It might be incorporafed, as it stands, and without changing a word, into the history of the present epoch, and would give to posterity a fairer view of the times than they will probably d rive from other sources. In reading it with great satisfaction, there wa but a single passage where I wished a little more development of a very sound and catholic idea, a single intercal tion to rest it soli 11 v on true bottom. It is near the end of the first page, where you make a statement of genuine Republican maxims; saying, "that the People ought to posses- as much political power as can possibly consist with the order and security of socieh ." Instead of this
I would say, What the People, being1 the onl y safe d pository of power, should exercise, in person, every function which their qualifications enable them to exercise, consistently with the order and security of society, that we now find them equal to the election of those who shrill be invested with their Executive and Legislative powers, and to act themselves in the Judiciary, as judges in questions
of fact; that the range of their power?
ought to be enlarged," etc This gives both the reason and exemplification of the maxim you express,"that they ought to possess as much political power," &r.
1 sec nothing to correct cither in your facts or principles. You say, that in taking General Washington on your shoulders, to bear him harmless through the Federal Coalition, you encounter a perilous topic. I do not think so; you have given the genuine history of the course of his mind through the trying scenes in which it was emjaed, and of the seductions bv which it was deceived, but not deprav
ed. 1 think I knew General Washing
ton intimately and thoroughly; and, were I called on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these: His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, thcugSi not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his oflicers, of the advantage he, derived from councils of war, where, hearing all sug-
extensive, and with journalising his agi
cultural proceedings, occupied most of
Ins leisure hours within doors. Un the whole his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in few points indif
ferent; and it may truely be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merit ed from man an everlasting remembrance. For his was the singular destiny and merit of leading the armies
of his country successfully through an
arduous war, for the establishment of
its independence, of conducting its councils through the birth of a government, new in its forms and principles, until it had settled down in a quiet and orderly train, and of scrupulously obeying the laws through the whole of his career,
civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example.
How then can it be perilous for you to take such a man on your, shoulders? I
am satisfied the great body of Republicans think of him as I do. We were indeed dissatisfied with him on Ins ratifi
cation of the British Treaty, but this was short lived. We knew his honest1-,
the wiles with which he was encompassed, and that age had already begun to relax the firmness of hi- purposes: and 1 am onvineed he is more deeply seated in the love arid gratitude of the Repubii-
1 Russia mid Turkey, The "postscript" published in our last number, giving an account of several battles between the Turks and the Russians, proves to have been a hoax played off by some wag to astound the London stock exchange for with a few changes of dates and names, it is a mere copy of an old official bulletin of a series of engagements between the Russians and Turks in former wars. JWcs. On the 15th May the porte received the declaration of war by Russia, and on the following day the news of the passage of the Pruth. Commissioners ot Hie divan publicly announced the declaration of war in the market-places and ihe mosques. At the same time an ordinance was issued for a general arming, strictly enjoining all the Mussulmans to unite for the defence of their religion
and their country, and to go to the resi-
Of lite voles given in Dearborn county at the Annual Election, 1828.
TowNsmr?,
Governor, James 13. Ray Mai bin II. Moore Israel T. Canny
Lieut. Governor, Milton S'app A-ud C. Pepper Curtfi 5 J, John test Jonathan M'Cartv Senator, John Watts Ez a Ferris
hcpresrntilrccs,
ieun;e ii. lJunn
donee of the chiefs of the several quar
ters fo receive arms. Ii is by these 'rj,
measures that the porte has imw rred j Jamrs 'y P.dlock
the declaration of Russia, and it is pre-lrthur St. Clair paring 10 support the contest. At the ! jJoraC(1 Bassett
same time it has made the European ;Samuel II. Dowden ministers acquainted with its rest lotion, , Warren Tebbs requesting tin m to inform their repec- IX, vis Weaver tive courts that it was going to try the j Thomas Guion fortune of arms in defence of its ineon Joel Decoursey testible rights, and that it would rather j Mark M'Cratken perish than sutler laws to be dictated Robert Rowe to it as long as it had arms in its hands. Aaron Cross To the general surprise, the tranquili-j Sheriff, ty of the capital has not been interrupt-! John Spencer
ed in this critical moment. The stand- Thomas Lonle'
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ition to revise the state constitution
tor a Coii2M!
si gainst it
1779
The strange co:n!ut. It was during the Another shot came within a few feet of ast war of ihis country with Great J3ri- the captain's head, and passed through
cans, than in the Pharisaical homage
tne r euerai monarcnists. i or-i e was no monarchist from preference of his judgment. The soundness of that gave him correct vie s of th rights of man.
and ms severe ju tice devoted mm to jng instructions from Constantinople.
tlicm. lie has ottea declared to me,
aid of the prophet, which is generally
displayed on all declarations ol war, has not yet been hoisted. The Russians are prosecuting ihe war
with ereat viiror. bu. have not as vet ef- la
fected any inVportr.nt measure. At th.tain, that circumstances led me to be a the in sail, which he seemed to regard.
last accounts the emperor Nicholas ami i passenger on board one ol our large mer- as uiue a ne wouiu me napping ol the
th- grand duke Michael, were at Ismail. All the necessary materials aie heintr collected to lay bridges over the Danube in three places, namely between Ismail and Tomarewa, at Gallatz, and at Oltenitza, between Rudschuek and Silistra. Important military operations were expected, and the more so as the delay ofeievon days had expired, which the pacha of 1 brail w!io deel tred he had no orders whatever to commit hostilities.
had obtained for the purpose of procur-
that he c-Ttsidered our new Constitution as an experiment on the prac icalnhty of republican government, and with what dose of liberty man can be trusted for his own rood: that lie was determined the
experiment should have a fair trial, and would lose the last drop of his blood in support of it. And these he repeated to me the oftener, and more pointedly, because he knew my suspicions of Col. Hamilton's views, and probably had heard the declarations which I had heard, to wit 4'tbat the British Constitution, with its unequal representation
corruption, and other existing abuses,
was the most perfect Government which
had ever been established on earth, and that a reformation of these abuses would make it an impracticable Government. I do believe that Gen, Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our Government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined to gloomy apprehensions; and I was ever persuaded that a belief that we must at length end in something like a British Constitution had some weight in his adoption of the ceremonies of levees, birth days, pompous meetings with Con
gress and other forms of the same char-
cestions, he selected whatever was best;'acfer calculated to prepare us gradually
and certainly no Gener.l ever plannedifor a change which he believed possible,
liis battles more judiciously. Rut, if de
ranged during the course of the action,
if any member ot his plan was dislocated
and so let it come on .vith as little shock
The London papers of June 13'h,
state on good authority that the Turkish l roop?, who are disciplined in the Euroi" an style, are in excellent spirits that hey go through their evolutions with a precision quile astonishing for Ihe time, and mount jnaid with bayonets fix :d, in true hlie. -like style. The men appear to qlory in the adoption of ihe improvements. They are dressed in trow sers, short coats, and chdh raps. Bucharest, Jly 20. The head-quarters of count U'iiienstein are at Hadsehi Capitani, within two cannon shots of Ibrail, which is clos -I) invested. The grand duke Michael
arrived here on the 17th, the day before :be artillery for the seige airived there. The Turkish governor, beintj summoned
to surrender the place, replied, that he did not know that the saltan his master was at war with Russia, and he could not wiihoul his order?, give up the place which was entrusted to him. Every preparation who immediately made to obtain posesrion as soon as possible of that important fortress, and to render he navigation of the Danube free, from Ismail to Ollenitzi, where a bridge is to be erected. Tim bombardment of the r ..4 rn :i . . ,
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chaiifmen, in which I had embarked wings of a sea gull. But his counte-
what little property 1 possessed ; oureas nance grew dark and terrific he had were at that time covered with small not a gun on board, privateers belonging to both belliger- The privateer braced shard on the cuts, who did more injury to the com- wind, and at the second tack came withmerce of both nations than the several in musket shot ; a boat came on board puldie armed vessels of either. They and we were ordered under the pigme's almost invariably eluded the pursuit of '' in style of an admiral in the British ihe large frigates and ships of the line navy, in the mean time the wind had by hauling sharp on the wind when they freshened, and the captain had privately discovered an enemy; and their peculi- given orders to have every sail in readiar schooner rig, and being built express- l,,ss for instant setting. The boat left ly for sailing, would give them a distinct 11 and Wl here down apparently for the advantage over their square sail enemies purpose of fulfilling the command u hich in beating to windward. Again, their naa" Deen given us. To secure and
lighter draught of water when near the P;ck my papers was but the work of a. horo would frequently enable them to moment, lor an anticipation of the event inn so close in, that they could not beat- capture had placed me on m) guard lacked unless in boats; and every one in Ibis particular Whpn I returned cn who hasev. r read the account of the at- deck, we were almost within hail of the. ark upon the privateer Neutchatel, by stranger under a flowing sail; which, in the boats of the Eudymion, (I believe,) order to bring us to a proper luiT under which engagement happened near Nan- ne ' tue privateer, would seemlurket, w ill easily see how little force it iugly require to be immediately taken i ujuires to beat erf boats, or sink them The captain was still at the helm, previous to boaidieg. Be these things and he was intent, apparently, upon as they may,! return to my story. We coming as near the stern of the opposite had been sailing for two days with a good vessel as was possible, though at times bretz though now and then it would ne seemed to grasp the privateer at a, 'uil, and then we sagged heavily along glance; his brow was knit, and the veins through a fog, almost as dense as the wa of bis forehead seemed to be swollen teis w hic h bore n. he heeded nothing around him. At this We were not far from our port, and moment he gave the word "square
our captain was willing to crowd sail away,- which brought our bows on the eight and day, as the ii?k of capture was centre of the vessel of our enemy ull,' superior to that of shipwreck, or disasters SXi captain: at the same moment the from a crippling of our spars. Our ship das!) of a gun and its ball were both seen was of about -100 tons, heavily laden, ad heard from the port holes of our anand not a swift sailer. Her captain was Agonist it raked us 'fore and aft,' cuta man of shrewd judgment, of inhVxibib iu:X every thing before it; another i ty of purpose, and rather given to taci- moment, the bow of our heavy vessel turnity. He was of a slight figure, oen- struck the quaiter of the privateer with tlemaniy to his equals, decided and :l tremendous crash another moment prompt to those under him in hi; orders, 'le passed over her, and nothirrr
w as to be s( en ot our capturer but a few f:ojtieg barrels, seme spars, and human liiI;ir'-c ii' I-, i . I.,,l . . .- ... J i' . r
etl a kind of conrare, which one
as might be to the public mbd. These J '00 whom C,0o0 hav e remaiir i wollU raS, d.n ing, if they had watdn d ri'' the yawning den. Never shall
are niy opit.ions of Gen. Wasb.inton,
by sudden circumstances, he was glow which I would vouch at the judgment in re-adjustment. The C0Msequenceseat of God, having been formed on an was that lie often failed in the field, and' acquaintance of 30 years. I served with rarely against an enemy in station, as at; him in the Virginia Legislature from Boston and York. He was incapable.' 1769 to the Revolutionary war, and of fear, meeting personal dangers with; again a short time in Congress, until be the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the j left us to take command of the army, stro gest feature in his character wasj During the war, and after it, we cor res-
prudence, never acting until every cir- ponded occasionally, and in the four
cunistance, every consideration, was
ed at Bucharest; the other
e cry which came
a ,k eon nteiiaiiei oo n.-rn.n .r ,,r,-s ioijffl III
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iV Vr , r J, . W Vt;t at l rath- vet3el,a3 our own was passing: it wn& ami to Li leUalaclua. J he cluei Corn-! vy thl. ra(,fu n);u i.ar v. ho would reef allied to nothing human ; it ws of such mand o this corps is conhded to general for ;lfety, when safety did no. apparent. distress, that a maniac', imaginaRoth who is collecting ,1 the materials lv lvqtiro iu IJ(i wa5 m,, o( liln a,.nc cou,j i& dreadfuincss. necessary or throwing a bridge oier the o( men xyllo geemed fa U, in,iilcd to In a few day. wo reached our port
river ai uuenuza.
maturely weighed; refraining if he saw
a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose whatever obstacle opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known,' no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred
ng aole to bias his decision. He was
bend the purposes of oilier to his own, m,t mce our arrival, and even to the.
while they were kept in ignorance of present hour, I cannot forget the counr
graduates at west point. his views. I have Sc en him fix his raole down ol the privateer, over which our
List of cadets nho ertduated At ihn i'TnitpdJ eve ution a sailor and renuire of liim in vessel boomed as if but a floating stirb nr'
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years oi my conunuance in me omce otjM.es institution at West Point ibis 4 h July look him steadily in the fte for five mm- timber was in its path. The death Secretary of State, our intercourse was1 18:2S, with their rank in the class ami thelites, and then dismiss him without a sfk will viit me in dreams, and scare
daily, conndential and cordial. Alter j states tram vh.ch they came, copied from thejeomment or reason for so doin'
retired lrom that omce great and mali'-lfr,t ro!' published by order of the academic
nant pains were taken by our Federal j81". monarchists, and not entirely without No. 1. Alb-rt E. Church, Connecticut.
If
n,. jK'cliard L.
rist holding French principles of govern
ment, which would lead infallibly to li-';
centiousness and anarchy. And to tin
he listened the more easilv. ironi mx-'
known disapprobation of the British 8aChuse,. io i. x w. I H H A I. r i
ucaiy. i iictr saw uim aiterwards, orj ilmm Patmt r
these malignant insinuations should have
would bet my life almost that he had one. Alter skimming through the mist for
two days, (of which I have spoken,) I
but 1 s!e'P from the 4still watchej of
night." Bachelors Journal.
th-
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"Ivv Tp.r v.r..; i it l o V appei!ea, to ne on aeei; witn the can vv. Meicr, Virginia. 4. Robert R. lnu:le!.. : i ....
,r . . . .. ia in. i w as i n r.ooversai ion wo e. Mm a t
a i !... m . . - . I the orobabiiiiv ot reaching our nart f.-p
S i v u . . i irom the enemv s rruipr. TT rnli
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bei
ji.deed, in every sense of the word, a wise, a good, and a reat man. His temper was naturally irritable and high toned: but reflection and resolution had
ecuuencv uiese uuniuain uiMouauons snouia nave Massachusetts . 13 Robert E Clarv Mhs-
wv. , - -- v3 uuous, ne oceu uiipaieu ueiore ins jusc judgment Sficbusetfs 14 Robert Sevier, Tennessee.
va m.i ueo..uwus, i ins. wratn. in as mists betore the sun. I felt, on his 15. William W. Mather, Connecticut
ms expenses, ne was nonoranie, but exact; liberal in contributions to whatever promised utility; but frowning and unyielding on all visionary projects and all mvarthy calls on his charity. His heart wis not warm in its atfjetions; but he exactly calculated every mans value, :;ud gave him rt solid esteem proportioned to it. His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would with, hi deportment easy, erect, and noble; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be
Extractor a letter from Messrs. H. Ga:c$r Co. dated Montreal, July 20, 1G2S. 'Since this month commenced, ve havo scarcely had coe clear sunshine
d day: on the contrary, all over this district
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wnn ms usual brevity, "tne log and car- the rain has descended in torrents, hirying sail alone w!l save Us; I am made ing the low land one or two feet under
He utaer. layinti the crass and rrain rT.if
9 IeorK E. Ch.tse, Mas John F hint. Indiana 11
An. 1 r l'L I i if WP 0fin" if i. O I :im ruiii.arl
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ucatn,wiin my countrymen, that 'verily ,fc."09 u Mitchell, do. 17. Junes K. Izard. is a fog eater at this moment the tun
a great mannatn tallen this dayin Israelj tvnnsyUania. 18 I hotuas luffs, Mninedsepmed to ilah unou our derJ- ard th
more ume ana recollection would ena-! vv " uaiter, Vermont.
ble me to add many other traits of his! 1 TlVmpson, Tennessee
Character: but why add them fn inni"0". Louisiana.
m r A I nina L J 3 I (V It : - t' :
. j n ii . 1 1 i i 1 1 1 1 u . m -. iwiiii aciiw ii ihwi. .:n . ( ,
ttn:" - rr wa3 -iven, we saw directly
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spoke this in the same lone of voice that the potatoes under water, and creatine he would have spoken a common order great .alarm amongst the farmers, and. he looked up and said, sternly, there indeed, ihe whole community'
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. .. . . , ........... t , iim.ii t h.m mil (Jen,, hou uie .uuu n.jrsz: very uisiressinfT spec r, Vermont. 20 J-n fog rose from ihe ?ea like the hoisting of tad was witnessed yesterday rnSrnin" T,r". ' V Cl,rtaiM at ,h0 Th(rc-a smart on G randy street, near the liride, that - l'linua;l K,ns-breza took us back, and before an order of a horse, the property of Mr. William
w ho know them well ? and I cannot inslify
lo mys If Sl I0ger detention of veur na-
P-i. vaie, propriaque tuum, me
uui persuaueas, TH. JEFFERSON.
esse
The Emigrations have, this vear,been fewer to the British Colonies and mn,-. tn
seen on horseback. Although, in the 'the Uuitee States than lust year.
under our
Simuel K Cobb, Alabanria
el Torrance, Ohio. '27. Amos Foster, New Hampshire. 23 Thomas Drayton, South Carolina. C9 Thomas C. HrockiVHy, Connecticut. 50 John R. Gardner, Nrtv Yoik. 31 CnPs J. Wri-ht, Ohio. S2. James W. Tanrose, Mississippi. 33. Phl!rj R. Van Wyck, Nfcvv Jersey.
ITJUIIISUII, 1 1 1 1 II (IlSt . I 11 ,1, I 1 , i-i 1Qnra P Q 1 lee, a little blacK looking,, sharp built, )ama 26. bm;- . i . i , r , '
'in tygfuj tM, i otij inf.- scnooner, wnoae decks were cro wded with men. "Iknow her ejaculated or captain: the next thinj; there ea.T.e a i .; dancing across our hows in imH.ithm of a distracted porpoise. Our captain toede tho helm
lrcm a ganor
,,a
;ave eiders to hy
itiv-'iuj'sin', uiiuii i Hili'ieuce Ot hydrophobia; the poor animal we learn, was in a violent paroxysm, t) ing first in one divectioo, then in the another, utterly insensible of danger. Our informant states, that the horse was bitten a short time since, by a rabid doij belonging fa Mr. Denby, which was afierwardkilTcd oroft BLiU
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