Indiana Palladium, Volume 4, Number 40, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 11 October 1828 — Page 2

FOR THE PALLADIUM. To the Electors of Indiana Greeting:

T humbly .beseech you to pause for a moment, and consider wen tne import . ant part v you are to act, on the first Monday of November next: you arc then to give your suffrages for Electors, to elect a President of the United States, to serve four years from next March. In making our selection, our main object should be for the good ot tne wnoie, anu not a part ot our great republic. There are two considerations that naturally force on our minds, as the basis of our actions: viz. capability and character, in those persons we wish to be our public servants: and es pecially the hrst magistrate of the United States. i would respectfully inquire into the two candidates, characters, abilities, and standing in society; also their probable fitness to fill the otlice of President of the United States.

One of those candidates is our presentiings than those of pily, the labored eiTu-

President (Mr. Adams) whose political ;si.n of your correspondent "Biekwoodsand moral character, is well known to man," which if treated acbordii g to its the people of the United States, and nil! merits would be permitted to pass with Europe. To comment on his character out any other notice than that of silent or qualifications, would be useless and contempt; but as he seems particularly

unnecessary. We can never expect to obtain a better or greater: even his ene mies do not deny his worth and abilities to be superior to their own candidate, Gen. Jackson. What is the caue of all this noise, and confusion about the approaching election? there is no real complaint against Mr. Adams' administration; he has not said or done any thing contrary to the welfare of the United States. I would ask what is to be gained by an exchange of presidents? are we to expect an abler one, or one of more persevering industry and integrity'? in exchanging Adams for Jackson, there certainly must or ought to be some important good at least to be expected. Gen. Andrew Jackson is our beloved citizen, and one who stepped forward in the hour of danger to repel the invading foe. He was brave, heroic, and persevering in defending the liberties of our country. Does he not deserve our esteem and good wishes for his services in the late war ? Are we not proud to hail him as the Hero of NewOrleans? The man who taught the proud sons of Great Britain, and the wild sons of the wilderness to respect our rights. But does all this give him capacity and ability necessary for the first magistrate in our Republic? is it criter an whereby to measure the powers of the mind in state governments? With one voice you will say no. But when we step down from the lofty height we have been travelling with Gen. Jackson's military character and mingle with his private actions in life, we are strucn with horror, and surprise on its review: a life spent in debaucheries, blood-shed, and a contempt of the laws of his country. Ft is needless to enter into detail of those irregularities; they are already too well known to the good people of the United States. My heart bleeds to say thus much of so brave a man: but the time has come when we are called upon to act an honest part to ourselves, our country and our God. Firmly believing that the good people of Indiana will do right, in their elections, when propei Iy informed of t' eir own interest, nvd the welfare of fuiure generations. It has always been considered, that a well spent life, and a good moral character, were a necessary part of the qualifications of a President of the United States.

For why do Governments institute a said or written about Clay is plain penal code of laws to punish crimes? formatter offact,and M . Backwoodsman i why are houses of correction, built atl challenged to disprove a single word of great expense, to imprison the bodies of;it. This he cannot do, for it stands on the out lawed cil'z mi? is it not to pro-ja foundation as firm and solid as the tect the innocent and punish the guilty?, rocks of the ocean. "Again he sav? If these are facts, then of course those! John Q. Adams is the son ot John Ad-

lawless persons, imprisoned, would not!

he fit subjects for Governors or Magis-' live, and that this John Adam-! served as trates, in a virtuous Government. 1 j one of the committee to draft the declawould humbly ask; does any ofour hou- ration of Independence." This is a 3es of correction contain at this time,' rare piece of information, and that it or did they ever contain in the United, ever should have reached the habitation

States, a convict whose crimes surpass in magnitude Gen. Jackson's private character, with the addition of some of v a. his public usurpations? II they now do, or ever did, please to name, when, where, and who that person i-, or was, I that tias the honor to stand hrst in vioIdiUiZ the laws ot Ins country. In saying this, my sole object is to preserve the Government of the United Staies, from toi.il ruin, and debasing ourstlvcsin the eyes of all the world, bupposmc for instance the ood people! Ot liutiai a were about to electa Governor, a member to conuress or a treasur r- l f . . w " . er of this State; where would thev look! for a suitable person to fill that office? to the virtuous citizen? or to the man that had always respected the laws of his country, and the rights of his fellow citizens? or would they seek out the man that had violated the laws of their country, trampled on the rights of his neighbors, a ul taken the life of his fellow w ith impunity? I appeal to your good sense to make the decision. It will be said that Gen. Jackson never was convicted

or imprisoned in a State Prison, during his whole life. But dare any of his ad

vocates say, knowingly, that if he had his deserts he would not only have been imprisoned, but continued so, or deprived of life. These comments are severe, and trying to the feelings of all good people; and I would to God they could have slept with his military fame for ever: but the good of our country re-; quires a full investigation of facts, in this important case. I humbly pray that the good electors of Indiana will consider well the important part they are about to act; and say to themselves do we wish to perpetuate and hand down the present form of Gov ernment, with all its blessings uncontaminated to the latest posterity of time : if we do, we must elect virtuous men both in public and private character, to be our public servants in government Scipio. FOR THE PALLADIUM. Messrs. Editors: I have read without any other feela .x ous to distinguish himlf above hineighbors in Hie wood-, and lias sought a paper controversy with Alphonso as a means toaccompli-h his aij ctlhave con cluded to give him full satisfaction ; and 1 now give him notice that if he has an wish to make a figure at newspapei writing or a display of his extraordinary talen's in a political controversy Alphonso stands ready and willing to meet him. The very eloquent and sublime dessertation on the lives and character of Messrs. A lams and Clay, and the tru ly critical notice of Alphonso with which he furnished ihe public in the last Palladium have secured to him a character as a wi iter which will be as lasting as time itself, .and which will he (landed down from generation to geneiation to the latest posterity. Knowing these tilings you will readily discover, that I urn well aware of the formidable character of the man with whom I have to contend. But, if in the sequel of our controversy he should find out that he has met with one "more mighty than himself, he need not be astonished greater men than he have been confronted by Alphonso, and in shame have ben compelled to retire from the field of combat, and "turn their attention t something more advantageous to themselves and the community." Bat to the subject he has told the people that i4Afi wouU, that the dead might rest, and let the two candidates Adams and Jackson run on their own merits." To this I have no objections I would also "that the dead might rest; But does he not know that there are those of his own party who would tear from the grave the body of the old patriarch Adams and strip it of it's winding sheet, if they thought they could injure the election of J. Q. Adams by it If he does not know it, I, at least, beliezeit. Backwoodsman has told Ui that some people sny John Adams was a very bad man. Tnis doe3 not make it so bare assertion will not answer I demand the proof he ha? has not said that John Adams was a very bad man; he has not dared to venture the assertion he wishes to maki the impression, and at the sam lime avoid .the responsibility. This I consider sufficient evidence that Backwoodsman himself dues not believe it. II says Alphonso is very uneasy about Mr. Clay J his assertion he has made without any foundation in truth. All I have urns; why I koew this a far back a I; of a Backwoodsman atfords matter of wonder and amazement. John Q. Adams was born in Massachusetts, and is only sixty years old. Now how on earth this Bickwoodsman ever found out in the short period of sixly years, that John Adams was the father of John O. Adams, or how, in this short time he found out that John Q. Adams had anv father at all, is to me trmdy astonishing he next 1 declares his inability to understand how "this pious witer (referring to Alphonso) e-ts alon" 1 am not at all astonished

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at this s. Ignorant men of weak minds, as I take B ickwoodsman to bp, are: such

generally dull of apprehension. I wouldjthe administration. Last session there

however advise him to read it again, then if he cannot understand, to read it a third time, should he not be able on a third reading to beat it into his brain,' let him carry his paper to some of his; neigbhors and get them to read, and ex plain it to him. Let him do this and I think he may possibly find out yet how this 4pioii3 writer gets alarg." ABackwoodsman appears to be a man of unlimited information well vuised in

the science of political affairs and a strict observer of the truth in all matter of importance, I will acknowledge myself under obligations to him, if, in his

next communication he will give us a sh r. desertation on the life, character and qualifications of Gen. Jackson. These are subjects that have caused much excitement, and have produced a great diversity of sentiment among the American people. If he can furnish us with a true history on these subjects, and settle the present agitated state of the public mind he will then have done something that "will be advantageous to himself and the community." But to conclude, I would suggest to him the propriety of pursuing the course he has pointed out for Alphonso and himself viz: of "turning his attention to something more advantageous to him self and the community," for I really think that little benetit will be derived from any thing he can say or write. But if his object be to vanquish Alphonso, and entwine his brow with the wreath of victory, let him sally forth and make another attack. 1 will then charge en him with ten-fold fury and ten to one he falls in the combat ; a oast mortem exam ination will then take place, and as my calptl is in good order, I fancy that I hail be able to perform the dissection .I I J, k I. K .. wim neatness aim ueapaicu. m me mean tmn- I shall note down the ditteient morbid appearances as they present themselves in the course ot theexaminaation; these may perhaps foim the sub ject of a future communication. Startle not Mr. Backwoodsman, you may expect before I am done with you to have your bones si ripped as naked as a lightning

rod, and your skeleton strung up in theifrustrum of a cone or sugar loaf. Oppo-

comer of my room, there to hang as a -erious warning to all (uture writers to teach them to beware how they come iu contact with Alihonso. FOR THE PALLADIUM. Hear and Julge. The veracious Charles Hammond, speaking of the lections in this State, holds forth as follow; "The administration have gained a most complete triumph in Indiana. So far as we can learn, the united WHOLE HOG strength of Gen. Jackson a;ij brought to bar on their candidate for Governor, Dr. Canby, and it -ecms to be understood that he is the lowest of the three candidates. The majority of Mr. Test, against whom the Jackson force in this country was put in action, exceeds 2,000. In Mr. Jennings' district no Jackson man ventured to take a poll." Now, be it remembered, the ahove statement was made one month after the elections took place in Indiana, and is in direct opposition to what was then verv well known to be the truth. I will just notice one or two misstatements of Mr. Hammond, as a sample of Me man, and to show how much reliance ought to be placed on his assertions about matters abroad seeing he tells such ''tough stories"' at home. First: It is not true, that the whole

Jackson force centered on Dr. Canhy:jlow banks, and, except in the dryest

nor is it true he is the lowest of the three candidates. Dr. Canhv beat Mr. Moore, the administration candidate, at least 1000 votes; and would, no doubt have

been elected, by a l uge majority, hadihanm 1 of the river, and their motions lie not declined until near the election! through the grass and aquatic weeds can

to hold a poll at all. Secondly: It is not true that the Jackson force was put in action against Judge Test; nor is it true that his majority is even 2.000 it is a little over 1100. Judirn Test, when in Congress.

had voted for Jackson, and faithfully dis- 'Tippecanoe, a distance ofabout 2G miles, charged his duty, in matters wherein thejthe l'd is extremely ilat; one third J'eksm party were interested; they! lmrt wt prairie and almost impassi-

cuiil 1 not, they would not, proscribe hirm because ot an honest dihVrentc ot opinion though the spirt of the times, and the example of such men as Charles Hammond, would have dictated a course of that kind. A it respects the election of Mr. Jennings, it is only necessary to say, that he voted for a Jackson speaker in con-

gross, and with the Jackson party whenjt'o Devils, a male and a female once

he thought them right, and against when: wrong. He did the same by the Adams party. Ihe Jacksonians had no cause to oppose Mr. Jennings in his election, hut were in duty bound, as a liberal party, to support him, seeing! " he was opposed by Mr. Thompson, a hot 1

Adarns man, whom the Adaministrationjnaut to the hike, where she and her

party had purposely pitted against 4ir. aenni'ii, 10 put mm down lor his: independence in not hitching himself to their car. His majority is over 6000!! In the first district Mr. Boon is elected to Concre?5 over Mr. Blake, who hnd ?ia?7er his jhz to the mast, and w as willing to "sink or swim with the cause of; 'were hut 14 or 15 members of the house of representatives in favor of Jackson; now they are a majority in that house. Now, where is the great administration triumph in Indiana? imr, which dis solves all things, has told a tale not to be mistaken as Mr. Hammond is in the above extract. Ah Charley, Charley, when wilt thou learn wisdom by experience? When w ilt thou acknowledge the truth of the good

old proverb, that "bent sty is the besi of policy."' Need I add that this same Charles Hammond is the editor and conductor f a publication in Cincinnati, dubbed Truth's Advocate?" a book of great repute and consideration among a few Adams men about Lawrenceburgh, who, by the authentic information thereby ob

tained, take upon themselves to dictate to the whole country. O temporal O mores! Corrector. The following was written by a gentleman attached to the company tbat lately fxplored tbe country north, for the purpose of loca ting the Michigan Iioad as it is termed hid. Journal. Mr. Editor, Subjoined I send you a short description of the country between Lake Michigan and the Wabash river, which you may publish if you think proper. That part of Lake Michigan which is situated in the state of Indiana, is bound-

i i : ...:.n ..T dimensions with the first and sometimes a third, a fourth, and even a tifih; but they pre not generally so large as the one adjoining the lake shore. These hills are mostly parallel with each other, and appear like an arch of a circle, whofc radius is IX) or "0 miles. Some times however they make an angle with t ach other, and often appear like the site these hills from the lake the land is low and mostly covered with ponds and wet prairies, that run parallel with the lake shore. This tract of wet land is from a half to a mile wide. In many places the hills are blown away like snow, and driven into the woods, and have buried the standing timber so that only the tops of the tallest trees appear above the sand. Near the southermost point of the lake, the wind has blown the hills entirely away, &, the sand carried into the woods at a period so lon at?o that the old timber has become rotten and a young growth sprung up from the top of the newly formed sand hills. The timber on these hills is dwaifish oak, y ellow pine, cedar, juniper, &e. a te pine grows on the wet lands in beautiful groves. After leaving the land above described, and steering southwardly, the traveller passes about six mile? of wet beach land; then live miles of first rate timbered land; then a rich prairie and barren land for 3 miles; then 3 or -I miles of seccond rate barrens and wet praiiie; and then about 9 miles to the Kankakee river. The Kankakee" river is below the mouth of Yellow river about twenty

ueu on as iiluiii un i uui u v um-1 ji 4le miormaiion received from Uonstansand, running parallel with the Lakejtinople seems to indicate this from its shore. Its height is from 25 to loO feet, jcontradictory character. Behind this hill isa deep hollow, in some The Seraskier has caused Ejoub Paplaces nearly on a level with the surface jcha to he beheaded, who did not sutliof the water of the lake. In the rear ofjciently defend himself on the Danube, this hill is found another, ot nearly equal The powder magazines of St. Siepha-

rods. The English lake is a nart of theil"g been delected the last tour or live

Kankakee and spreads itself about a quarter of a mile wide, which rives the name ot Lake. The Kar kakee ri ver fljws through a level country, with lime ot the year, it inundates the land for four or five miles from its bed, on one side or the other, and sometimes on both.

Fishare found two or three miles from thejkew itsh.

be seen several rod. The country about this stream is considered so unhealthy that the Indians, as the summer advances, retire from the influence of its putrid waters and decaying animal and vegetable matter. From the Kankakee to t tie b,e All the other lands are either bai

ren or covered with dwarfish oaks. The der to support one corps of their army soil is white sand. From the Tippecanoe!'" riving from Varna. It is added that

to within five or six miles of the Wabash, ill the Bulgarians are inarms tosuppoit the land and timber resemble that la?li'he Russians. But the accounts from

described, but are a little belter. Three or four miles north west of the Tippecanoe is a lake, called the Devil's lake. It is sunnosed by the Indians, that I S 7 " inhabited this lake, and that they preyed kinds ot game, and Irtquently slew ihe Indians, and almost desolated the country. they also believe that two good boy Devils came from Lake Michigan and killed the old male devil: but that the female Devil escaped prey oung continue to reside. On the Tippecanoe, uve or six inuus irom mis iaKe are found bones of a large size, that the Indians sav are bones of the old Devil. The place is know n by the name oftlo Devil's Bancs. Whenever the Indian fish in this lake, or sail in their canoes on its waters, or leave their canoes on iu banks, they otfer up nn ottering of tobac co to her widow ed QeviLhip j io appease her wrath or keep her in good humour. This lake is about six miles long, and three quarters of a mile wide. Its course is from N. E. to S. W. The shore of this lake is somewhat indented hy the point.of land. Several wet praries. discharge their waters into it. The outlet of tins hike forms the little Kankakee that puts The word Kankirtc in a,t In dignifies Uliv'WSEU UM)

into the big Kankakee a few miles above the English lake. The Devil's lake is shallow near the shore, and it is prob.ddy not deep in any part of it. It is well stored ith fish of various kinds, which are easily caught with the hook or gig. I omitted to mention, when describing the land about lake Michigan, that no streams except one or two little creeks put into the lake from the state of Indiana, and that there can be no harbour on said lake within the same.

From the Boston Palladium. The Packet Ship Columbia, Capt. Delano, has arrived at New-York, with London dates to the 22nd August. The more important intelligence, as given through the New Yoik papers, relates to the war in the East. Schumla is supposed to have been taken by the Russians, although the official seal has not been stamped on any account that has yet reached us. There seems to have been serious dis. sention in the counsels of the Porte. 1T1 :. c . - !no having been blown up, which in preent circumstances is a severe loss, the Sultan has ordered that 500 schismatic Americans and 500 rich Greeks should make up the loss. The Pacha of Egypt has been confirmed in his post, at a great expense, although there was no competitor His levies of men and money from the inhabitants are carried on with the utmost ri gor, and spread dismay and despaii, as they have already beeu exhausted by former requisitions. The ( i rand Vizier had spent a few day s at Adrianople, where he was about levy iug the people en masse. It was announced in every mosque that all between the ages of fifteen and sixty must arm themselves and enter the army for the defence of the Turkish dominions. The city of Constantinople, in three days, furnished a contingent of 100,000 men. There is uo doubts says the Smyrna paper, of a most obstinate and bloody resistance on the part of the Turks. The people follow implicitly the impulse of the Porte, and resign themselves to every event. Many European families have left Adrianople, and some have reached Smyrna. All Roumelia is in arms and it is saitl, if the Turks risk a general battle, it will take place before the walls, of Adrianople. They do not mean to expose themselves to the organized masses of the Russians. A partizan warfare is to be waged against the Russians. Piracies appeared to be nearlv sup pressed only one piratical vessel havmonths, w hich was a Gieek biig ofabout it!200 tons and 10 8ll,,- which had been taken in the bay of Salonica, with goods of almost all nations, and carried into Smyrna by an Austrian vessel. A letter form Moscow announces that the fortress of Bagdad has been ta ken by storm, by the troops of Gen. PasThe accounts fom Semlim of the 4th inst. says, that the reports in circulation, and w hich agree w ith one another, leave no doubt that the position of Schumla has been carried by the Russians. The Emperor Nicholas was present at the battle, which will be a mortal blow for the Turks. The details are expected to be important. It is said that the Balkan has been forced at three ditTt rent points; that the Russians have eilected a landing in the Bay of Burga, in orTrieste of the Is, i ast. which, by the by, is a circuitous w ay ot receiving the earliest communication, tell us that the Russians were obliged to retire with great loss. We cannot be long in suspense, unless Nicholas should delay his operation some time, to allow the discontent in the jMahomedan camp to make the first for midabie onset, in order that his bay o nets may find easier access in the umtir. ous ranks of the enemy, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. It is stai ed in the Ohio State Journal that contracts were lately entered into for the excavation ofabout 20 miles of this canal. Gieat competition existed between the contractors, no less than four hundred and sixty proposals were received from seventy five associated compa nies or individuals. The contracts were taken considerably below the estimate-; of ihe engineer. The total cost of the amount of line as contracted for will be 5469,000, The cost of the same was estimated by Messrs. Geddes and Roberts, two eminent civil Engineers, at 000. There is every prospect of tk completion of this stupendous scheri t of Internal Improvement. The West views its progress with no common an iety for its accomplishment. Bcltim-jre Pah ict,