Indiana Palladium, Volume 4, Number 41, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 18 October 1828 — Page 1

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EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAN. Barlow. Volume IV. LAWRENCEBURGH, INDIANA; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1828. Number 41

wlessrs. Editors: At the solicit hoo of some

of your subscribers, you published tbe proceed ings of mating hdd in Fay it County, Ky. on the subject of the excifpmnt in (be South; as an act of justice to Gn. Jackson nod his fnnrifls you will pl-se publish the fallowing Address and R-snlufions. L f o,e people hare both sid.-s l?t them have light end tlifcre is no dnr but they will discover that the whole of j ct of all this noise raised by a f.jw adherents of the administration is to put down Andrew Jackson, vbo is no way concerned, but quietly attending to his frm in Tt.nilft5Sf. f.EGIO.V. Address and Resolutions Adopted at a meeting of the citizens of IJiltimarc frit wily In the election of Gen. AXDIIEIV J.1CKSOX as President of the United States, convened on the 5th ult. The friends and supporters of the peo pie's cause within the city of Baltimore, have hitherto regarded in silence the ef-j forts which have been made to identify i their cause with the cause of disunion, and themselves leagued with traitors in the support of a traitor. Confined as they have hitherto been, to idle insinuations, too ridiculous to he viewed a serious charges against a party, which can proudly challenge their opponents to a competition in all that gives honor, and character, and usefulness, they have been looked at as the intempera'c effusions ofzealots, who had gone in advance of their party even in the insinuation. Ignorance and causeless opposition to the present Administration have been imputed to us; and we have regarded such imputations as the usual results of party strife. We have been characterized by our opponents as a discontented faction, seeking onl y for place and power, and we have smiled at the characteristic, when given by those who are striving with desperation to maintain places and power for themselves. The cry of foreign influence has been raised against our party, which as some f the adherents of the Administration allege, is composed of presumptuous foreigners, renegade Irish, and ignorant Dutch; and we have left this allegation to be answered by our Constitution and Laws, which invite freemen of every clime to come and dwell under them, and to partake of the civil, political, and religious liberty which they offer. and by a proud appeal to the conduct cf our adopted citizens, who in moments cf danger and difficulty have been found in our. country's foremost ranks, sealing by their blood, the principles they have professed. Whilst we have viewed with regret such charges and imputations, when doming from a party, to many of the members of which intelligence, virtue and patriotism, are cheerfully admitted to belong; we have always regarded them as brethren imbued whh the same principles of freedom which we have professed, who believed ai.d knew that in the hour of peril, and in defence of our country, and our country's cause we should always be found by our country's! side. We have, therefore, read with extreme suprise and indignation, the resolutions adopted at a meeting of the friends of the administration, at Franklin Hall, on the -24! h of July, for the ostensible purpose of expressing their disapprobation ofthe proceedings of certain meetings recently held in South Carolina, in relation to the Tariff. Had they been content in these resolutions, to ascribe to those meetings,' their time and character, extent, objects and results; and to express their disapprobation in terms which were warranted by the consideration of these, it would have been unnecessary for us to notice them. We might have admired that patriotism and valor which waits not for the hour of danger, or for the occurrence of difficulty; but which o'erleaped all ordinary bounds' set fortii in the true spirit of Knight-errantry, to seek for dangers when none are to be seen. We might have been enkindled by this ardent and . enthusiastic feeling in the cause of the constitution, by the solemn pledge of lives and fortunes to sustain it, which waits not until it was called for and goes forth even when it is not wanted. We might have been transported in imagination to that age of lofty daring and chivalrous adventure, when it was said of the sword of Hudibras !t ate ioto itself for lack Of somebody to new and hack. We might have bowed in defference to. that lynx-eyed apprehension, which with the true McFingal tact, soaring beyond that vulgar vision "ichich sees only wh it is to be seen" cari discover storms in the cloudless sky, and behold darkness under the noon-day sun we might have

applauded that generosity which tenders to our government that which our government has the rigid to require and we might perhaps have paused to enquire: why this assurance, for by whom had their patriotism been doubted? The tenor of these resolutions has however imposed upon us the duty of exposing their real designs. The occa

sion, the actors, the circumstances under which these resolutions were ushered into the world, and all the signs of the times, but too clearly demonstrate their designs. They form but a part of a sys tem oi etiorts commenced with the afhli aied presses which sustain the present administration, to represent ourcause as identified with disaffection and treason. and ourselves as ready to pull down the fm - '. t ..v : :V - . i vwiijiuuiiuuiii iiiijisii we cannot ny its aid elevate our candidate to the Presi dency. In the oreamhle to thnso roan. hit ions they inform us ''that they have read with deep regret ofthe violent mea sure? taw-en by the supporters of Gen Jackson m South Carodna, in relation to the late Tariff:" and they declare 'that they hold it to be the duty of all (rue patriots, whatever coincidences of political opinion they may be disposed to recognize, to pour upon the insurgent spirit of disorganization, and public! v to express their detestation ofthe treason ous manifestations of a portion of the Jackson party in the South." If these words have meaning, what mean thev but that the Jackson party of South Carolina, as a party, are arraved in trea sonable opposition to the government: and that rebellion is there the animat ing principle ofthe party, which distin guishes them from the friends ofthe adiimiKMiauui!. i iicse resolutions were ushered into the world at a moment when, by sly insinuations we are informed through the governmental pres ses, that the spirit of disaffection i among us all that he whom we delight to honor by elevation to the presidency. is a traitor, murderer, adulterer, and we his willing instruments for the p rostration of ali law and order to efiect that . r T r . mm elevation. H tilt the spirit of indignant freemen, an jealous of our liberties and r?. regardful of our rights as the friends of the Jit! ministration can be, or have been. ivc embrace this occasion openly, "to rcnac our fealty to the great Union;1 and to the high and holy principles on ivhichive rest our apposition to this administration. We deern it proper however briefly to advert to the recent occurrences in South Carolina, and to the circumstances under which the Franklin Hall resolutions were passed, only for the purpose of demonstrating their true objects. We say with our opponents ;iIt is not now necessary to enter into a defence ofthe tariff system It is not now necessary to direct Franklin Hall to a period but eight years distant, when the piril of opposition to it, sustained by the same objections which are now urged ;g linst it in South Carolina, stood tri umphant in Faneuil Hdl, the cradle of! Alt. Adams and his principles," and the Wehsters and all that race in New-England in whose mouths it is now the watch-word, were striving to be in at its death it is not necessary to direct Franklin Hall to a period four years distant, when with exceptions too few and solitary even to constitute an exception, all New Engl uid was warrin" against it, headed by Daniel Webster of! the i riumv irate it is not uecessarv to I ;ok back to its day of darkness and dif ficulty, when the great body of thos who claim for Mr, Adams its merits were striving to strangle the infant in its cradle, nor to the portentious silence of their great chief who has never lisped the word "Manufactures" without kindly adding Agriculture and commerce, or embracing the whole under the general term of domestic indus try, which means, a that man can do." It is not necessary to hold up in con trast the bold and fearless advocacy of it by ben. Jackson in its moment of per il; or to admire the Indian dexterity oi our present rulers, who tinding the ta-i nil system borne upon the shoulders of ' me peojim uave leaped upon it as a ralonquin to bear them softly into and through oflice suffice it to say, that it has been established upon its present foundation by a congress having a majority ofthe friends of Jackson in both Houses. Thus established, it has encountered some opposition in the South, but that opposition is purely local; knows no distinction of parties; existed before Gen. Jackson was c ver named aa candidate for the Presidency, and exists still without the least relation to the principles on which he is supported. Such being the nature of its opposition

-what has been its eytent? One whojto

knew not the facts, upon reading these resolutions, would naturally look around to see the spirit of treason abroad and it arms in our land, the flag of rebellion unfurled and the arm ofthe government shortened that it could not save itself. He would ask for the foe, and who could refrain from laughter when directed to the resolutions of a little District meet ing in South Carolina. Io some other portions of the State they have exercised the privilege of constitutional remonstrance, which as freemen, and fellowchizens, no man dare deny to them. 1 bey have resolved to wear none but domestic fabrics, and so did the Legisla ture of Maryland resolve a few years since. They have resolved to manufacture for themselves, ard that is the very principle of the tariff system itself yet. it disaffection was abroad in a state so long eminently characterised by patriot ism of the purest order, it required not franklin Hall to quell it. Jt has found lis correctives in the good sense and vir tue of the people of that state, and it ha? been st ifled in the moment of its birth b the Jackson presses, the Jackson party, and the Jackson governor of the Slate. We submit the following remaiks of Gov. Taylor with the single observalio: . that he too falls under the su-eeping denunciations of the Frai klin Hull address. "If," says he, "I have any flnnress, it will be exerted to preserve-the Union, to preserve, to protect and defend the Constitution of this State, and of the United States; if it were an easy matter to dissolve the Union, I would not, for one, forego a participation in the glory vhich our felhm-chiz'ns of the Union have achieved. Your uniforms, your military array, all remind me that you are brother militiamen with those who fought on the plains of New Orleans, many of you the sons and grandsons of those who stood in arms when the birthright of a nation was to he sustained." With these facts before their eyes and ringing in their ears, which taught them that there was no war in the land, but the war of the people, against this administration; no Union opposed but the union of the President and Secretary, !y which it ua, funned; nothing which required either lives or fortunes to subdue it, the fiiends ofthe administration in this city come forward if. the panoply of resolution warfare, armed to the chin against the Jackson party of South Carolina, and ready to propagate their patriotism by the sword. If ii is patriotism to seek a division in j political - ntimerd amongst the people of these United State.-, upon questions local and sectional in their character. and to array b their aid, the North against the South, or the East against the West, we deny it upon them, if il be patriotism to arouse feeling of hostility, by the causeless and haih imputation of them, or to lash a free, gal-

ant and virtuous, vet ardent neon e mtoihnsh to rratitv t hctr appeuie lor lerior.

1 j 1 1 ? j madness, by the charge of crime and the; On aH subjects of difference between us language of menace, we deny it not unto we would approach them as political them. If it be patriotism, and brotherly brethren, who in all times past, have snskindness, and charity, to fan the flams ofltained the Union and the constitution,

discord, and instead of pouring the oil ofithrough good and through evil report

kindness, and southing upon the troubled waves, to uprouse the. tempest, we deny it not unto them. We have learned it in another school have caught it from lh lips of our sainted her.. WASHINGTON Listen to the language of his fa rv well

address:- "In contemplating that we bear them aneJzrhen came siu he causes which may disturb ourcn appral without power io the hearts of th

(avs he) tne Union, it occurs as a mutter of serious ranceni. that any around should hnr.r hprn fir-l 7 t'O w v. . . ( nishetl tor characterising parties by 00grapniciu aiscriminauons , .orlhem ana Southern, Atlantic and Western, whence designing men may endeavor to create a belief that there is a real difference of local inter esls and views. Oie of the expedients of parly to acquire influence within particular districts, is io misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts you connot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heari-biirnings which spring Jrom these misrepresentations they tend to render alien to each other those rcho oup-ht to be hound to gether by fraternal affections." Has not AblilJNu 1 ON, in these words, described the very policy of the administration party of this day? It is to us a source of deep regret, that we should differ on this or any other question of national policy from our Southern brethren, or that in sustaining these differences, the ardor of opposition should carry any of them beyond the language of temperate remonstrance yet, our brethren of South Carolina may proudly appeal to our history and to years of unerring patiiotism and valor, which place them in the foremost ranks amongst ths friends ofthe Constitution,

shield them against the imputations of

treason. We have not forgotten that in wresting our birth-right from a tyrant mother, they were among the first on the onset and the firmest in tbe fight. Thir fields of victory, crimsoned by their blood and immortalized by their valour, are yet fresh before your eyes. We have not forgotten that, in the reign of terror, when to speak the language, of freemen was seditious and jo be an alien was disfranchisement: they were fore most in defence of the principles of the revolution and in the prostration of the elder Adams. We look back to our se cond war waged in defence of our rights upon the sea, and in vindication of our national honor and dignity, and we have not heard them pronouncing our government feeble and penurious cmd unequal to a contest with the mercenaries of Europe. He have ?wt heard them declaring that it was unrighteous to rejoice in the victories of our country. We have not seen them striving to tarnish the lustre of our victories by pronouncivg them not more honorable to us than defeat to our enemies. Faneuil Hall was then the dwelling place of treason. Then she come not forth embodied in rash and passionate exclamations or in momentary ebullitions of passion, which evidenced no settled purpose, but she sat in conclave under a Northern sky, meditating in Northern coolness the sever ance (if the Union, or she sought the pulpit to robe her disloyal doctrines in the garment of sanctity. Then she was manifest, not in idle hasty language but by laying the cold and paralysing hand upon the resources of government, and by denying to it the supplies necessary to its support, and that too when danger was nigh & the enemy at the door. Then to her the victories of enemies or their menaced incursions were but so many allies to aid her in her unholy purpose. Where were then our brethren of South Carolina? Their Calhoun, their lozcndes, and their Chne 5, first in the support of our country in the National Councils, against the Wehsters and the Quincy's of the North, and their people pouring forth their blood and treasure with n spirit that out went even their power The davs of the Hartford Convention! are gone, but where are the "Webster's, the Otis's.and the Quincv's and all that race of that day? First in the ranks of the supporters of the Administration. honored, thncc honored, punned 01 an disloyalty and joining in the denunciation ofthe South for its opposition to the tariff, upon the very principles which they were the first to promulgate Wf i'i not with such as these to the rebuke of our Southern brethr", a hoaims have encompassed our Constitun and government in every moment ofj danger and difficult) l I I J (JllU tL -nor go we will those who. in the days of the Hartfoid Convention, s.it silent and passive un der the droppings of their doctrines. Nor po with akumUis who beat every we appeal to them by the valor and patriotism which has illustrated their deeds and the deeds of their fathers in its defence by the blood they have shed by the glory they have won by the blessings they enjov by the love such is mimltl Tltev have gone uiih us in six ,fi ' - , lrn and who dare, insinuate, thev 7 ' ' would desert us in tne sevenui. If, however, some of our Southern brethren had indeed fallen from their high estate if resistance to the constitution was up, if treason was in the land, were the friends of the administration in this city the exclusive friends of peace, good order, and union? 1 hey have told us in their preamble that it is the duty of all patriots, whatever coincidences of political opinion they may be disposed to recognise , to frown upon the insurgent spirit of disorganization. Why, then, were the friends oi the administration alone invited to quell this spirit, and to join in this pledge of lives and fortune ? Why this severance of parties on a subject of common concernment? Are we not worthy to be in communion with them on this subject? Are we too political lepers who, if not infected with treason, must at least undergo a political quarantine? In our wives, in our children. our friends, our tortunes, and our liberties, we too have a stake in this Government. And if it ua3 the duty ( fall true patriots to express their disapprobation of the proceedings of the South, why were not all true patriots inwlcd? We

know not, unless the friends of the administration be the Levites, whose peculiar duty it is to guard the holy ark of

the constitution! Disguistd as these resolutions maybe, enrobed as they are in the language of the F ilher of his country, they fall upon the ear with a meaning not to be mistaken. Disguise the present administra tion as you will, it is still the present ad ministration. Flying from an indignant people for the preservation of power, acquired onl) by the forms of the constitution at one moment resting upon the Panama mission at another upon the great American System, which they found u'ershadowing them and claimed the merit of planting at another upon the tomb of mutineers and deserters with tears of compassion for those who had no compassion lor their country, and finally seeking shelter under the banner of the constitution itself: that Constitution might well exclaim,".: m you tooBrutus!" It might well ask where is my vital principle, the elective franchise? Where U my purity which holds all power illegitimate, but that which springs from the people? All public power, patronage and treasure, but as given and to be tx ercised for the general welfare and common defeucc, and not for the support of dependants and favorites? Where are the rights secured by me to the smaller States in the election of a President? Where is my dignity that cajoles not for favor, that rests with conscious innocence and proud security upon its d.cdF,and roams not through the land courting its vindication at dinner tables and barbacues? Where is my jealousy .f the dependants of the executive power, so eloquently and forcibly illustratratcd by the immortal Jefferson? Where is my respect for state rights, which elevates not those whom the people have prostrated for a disregard of those rights? Where are my principles,- w hich know no distinction of nations, and which invite freemen of all climes to come and dwell under the droppings of my bles 1 ''J I ll ... M f smgs : J nere zv ore, ana iney are noi: We have long observed the studious efforts of our opponents to divert the pub lic mind from the true question which divides us as parties. The practice is as old as the world, when principles cannot safely he assailed, to assail those by whom they are supported. We have been told by some of Mr. Adams' friends that he sometimes indulges in the practice of throw irg out a tub to the uhale! a 1 id from Ebony and Topaz dow n to General Jackson's murders and South Carolina rebellions, these tub9 all rest un the saint bottom! 'I hat they may 10 longer ramble from the true question at issue between us, we embrace this occasion of rei.ewn g our icaiir 10 me principles upon which we rest as a party. Wc hold these truths to be ths doc trines of our Constitution, and the spirit o! our goveri men: That all power springs from the people: and that all our rulers are the mere trustees of the people responsible to those who have entrusted them with pow er, for its proper ard faithful exercise the organs of their will and bom d io give that w ill its fair and free expression. That in tbe exercise of the elective power in the choice of a President of these United States, whether by electoral colleges or by Congress, the fair and full expiession of ike constituent by the Representative, can alone render it an election, according to the spirit ofthe constitution. That a maintenance of a due sense of the Representative's responsibility to his constituent can alone insure the perpetuity and full enjoyment of civil and political bh ssii gs secured to us by the Coi stitntion That the power of bestow ing the cmces and dispensing the public treasure of these United States, is vested in its President for the general welfare and conmon defence of our country. That all who are recognized by cur constitution as its citizens, are entitled to the free and full enjov ment cf the privileges of citizenship. That every precedent and practice, not expressly sanctioned by cur constitution and laws, when used as the sole jusliucation of an exercise of power or an appropriation of public money, under the constitution, is unsafe and dai gerc us. That cur constitution can be preserved in its original force and purity, only by opposing the beginnings cf tvil and by resiitii g, at the very threshold all encroachments upon it: and that every such ei croachment, if wii kedat or sanction d, becomes immediately "a safe preee'dfnt upon which t-ome future usurper may take liU tacd 10 destroy