Indiana Palladium, Volume 4, Number 42, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 25 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 25, 1823. Number 42.

of the Administration Standing Committee to their Felloio Citizens of Indiana. At a meeting of the Administration Central Committee, in the town of Salem, in April last, a Standing Committee was appointed to address their fellow citizens at large on the various subjects brought into discussion during the Presidential canvass, and to aid in diffusing

correct information among the bod of! me peopie. This Standing Committee, fellow-citizens, now has the honor to address you. Unwilling to add to the excitement already loo prevalent in the public mind, by connecting the presidential question with our State elections, we purposely! abstained fromaddressing you until those elections were over. By adopting this course, we conceived a better oppoitunity would be afforded you of confering your suffrages on merit, independent of parti, and the still more important advantage attained of securing for the Presidential elections your undivided attention. In performing the duty to which we have been called, we shall address your understandings, and not your passions. We shall advance no assertions but what are founded on facts indisputably established; and so far as the limits of our address will permit, we shall refer you to the documents and authorities on which we rely. We shall invoke a dispassionate attention to your own interests, as indissoluhly connected and identified with those of a great nation of republican freeman, and ask you to confer vour sulFrages and repose your confidence, where experience has demonstrated that you may do so with safety. In relation to the controversy now pending before the American people, tnerei3 one tact so universal and omnipregent to our feelings and senses, that neither the art nor the boldness of our adversaries can gainsay or resist it; we mean the universal prosperity and happiness of the people. This state of things alone, which existed without air loy, until the recent incendiary proceed ings in the South, (which we shall have occasion to notice) to a rational and reflecting mind, would bean ample refutation of nine tenths of the charges urged against those who for the last three years have administered the government. It is a good general rule to judge of the administration of a government from the condition of the people. "If we see them obedient to the laws, prosperous in their industry, contented at home and respected abroad, we may reasonably presume that their afftfrs are conducted by men of experience, .abilities, and virtue." If this principle, which has the sanction of a great name, be applied to the general condition of the United States, how triumphant will be the vindication of our rulers! In what favoured country or age, among what people, ancient or modern, shall we search for that degree of prosperity and happiness which the people of the United States at this time possess in full fruition? U it not a little remarkable, does it not present the most singular ofall contradictions, that when the general felicity of our condition is the constant theme of congratulation at home and admiration already that the cryof rottenness and cor ruption is resounding through the land? As inhabitants of the H est, do we not enjoy our full share of the public prosperity? We appeal to you, citz ns of Indiana! Although certain political doc tors are constantly feeling your pulse, talking about symptoms, prognosticating decay and dissolution, and prescribing their nauseous medicines, we fearlessly ask you, does not the life-blood of health and vigor freely circulate from the heart of our body politic through the arteries, to the remotest vein in the system? What can be the object of these kind doctors in thus urging upon a man in full health their doses and prescriptions? We leave this for you to determine. In the mean time we seriously invite you to take a retrospect of your condition from the dawning of your infant settlements, from those trying times when the war-whoop and tomahawk beset your path to the present period of general tranquility and improvement. H;v we not been regularly progressive? I not Indiana more flourishing now than ever? Where is the incubus that has fastened itself upon the body politic to stills its respiration and impede its growth?. What corner of our happy territory has the foul fiend of corruption contaminated with his poisonous touch? Alas, fellow-citizens these are the dreams of moon-struck patriots or the selfish

howlingsofpolitical quacks! All is quil and prosperous in Indiana. For

the last three years especially, the march of improvement has been uniformly progressive. Our land debt, which once threatened to involve our families if; impoverishment and ruin, has by the mild operation of a beneficient government, been extinguished, and by the recommendation of our present chief magistrate every cent of money which the settler or purchaser of public lands may have forfeited, has been restored to him, and he is now enabled to receive for his forfeited money its full value in land at the Congress minimum price. This sin gle act of the government, which was ffected by the agency and interposition ol Mr. Adams, is estimated to be worth to our citizens at least one hundred thousand dollars. During these same years, all the inter nal improvements that have ever been made or projected in Indiana have taken! place. We allude to the continuation! ot the Cumberland road through ou Stale; the extensive grants of land foi the Michigan road and Wabash canal: and the employment for successive sea sons of two corps of Engineers to ascerlain the facilities and locate the channels of future canas. In addition to ali these, the President has signed a law of the last session of Congress regulating the tariff, which promises, by discourag ing Sl suppressing British manufacture and British capital, to do more thai ever has been done to promote a home market for our corn, beef, flour, whiskey, &.c. to develope the resources of our country, and to, make us personally. as we have long been politically, independent of our ancient step-mother. AH these facts exist, all these blessings are enjoyed, yet still we loai the cry of bargain and corruption! down 7oith the administration! Yes, fellow citizens, it is too trot ! Party spirit is excited and fanned by every effort that ambition and disappointment can makt . But from what quarter does the cn come? Who are the men that raise these notes of discord that disturb the general harmony ? Do they originate among the honest and respectable yeomanry of Indiana? Is the husbandman who cultivates iiis farm and lives on the honest product of his labor, dissatisfied with the government that protects him? Is the grateful settler on public lands, whose freehold &: home have been secur ed to him by the liberality of the administration, disgusted with his benefactor? Oh no! this cry proceeds from disap pointed aspirants, fr. m hungry and ravenous office-seekers! from men whomore than Syearsago, before the administration had performed a single public act, declared, "they should .be put down though they were as pure as the angels that stund around the throne of God." Yes, fellowcitiz' ;-, these are the men who reiterate the cry of barguin, men who have bar gained Sz. combined with each other o put uowu uie.iuuiuMsu.uion ngni or wrong. A i.. !:. i i. j .

(J! this bargain and combination youjgress, we have kept this dreaded alterna

have had abundant evidence in the un ceasing malediction of our best and most distinguished public men, in the constant and systematic plan of perverting and misrepresenting the character and conduct of our chief magistrate, and in malignant nnd unparalleled persecution of the Secretary of Stale. As to evidence of any other bargain, we have never seen it. Our adversaries have been challenged and dend to produce it. They have.

wholly tailed and the only evidence of:due to the occasion, and that we may this partv catch-word "bargain,'" consists not be misunderstood, distinctly, but in the just and faithful administration of briefly to state without argument, our

the government. Ifsuch be the result ofjconstilutional faith. For it is not enough

bargains among our public men; if they will bargain with each other to do their duty, to promote our interest?, to ad vance the cause of domestic industry and( internal improvement, and we get the ; benefit of the contract, God forbid that we should object to any such bargain! From what other quarter has denunciation, not only of the President, but of the government at large, originated? And where does it now rage with ma hgnant fury? Not among the graingrowing staler not among the immense majority ofour fellow citizens where free lxnouris encouraged and rewarded. No, fellow-citizens, it springs from the avaricious nabob of the South; from the owner of some fifties or hundreds of hu man beings, who is maddened to desperation at the encouragement of manufactures and of white labor, who fears that by the growth and prosperity of freemen, the value of slaves maybe depreciated, and, who seems willingjto raise the standard of rebellion and civil war, to keep up the prices of his crops and his negroes ! You were told iu the administration

tran-jaddress of January last, that the people of the South were deliberately opposed

to that policy and those interests which you have uniformly regarded as essential to your prosperity, and you were cautioned against supporting a man for the Presidency who was, and is, mainlv relied upon by slave-holders of the South as their champion, to break down, not .-imply Adams and Clay, but the whole system of policy which lias for its objtti the independence of our country, and the growth and advancement of the west. We then referred you to the declarations ofGov. Giles of Virginia, and the resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina declaring all TaiitTlaws for the protection of domestic manufactures, and all appropriations for internal improvements to be unconstitutional. Yet we never dreamed of the extent, 01 she violence which this Southern opp.i ion has recently assumed. We never imagined that members of Congress, that Governors and Judges could be found who would advocate resistence to the laws of the union, and because they were outvoted by the people's representatives constitutionally assembled, madly threaten to dissolve the union. We never expected in our day to hear a member ol Congress proclaim to his constituents, that because they failed in shaping a vote of the national representatives ag eeahly ..their wishes, that 'Mhey -were tenfold more insulted more injured more disgraced fnd contemned by the majority of Congress, than our forefathers were at the breaking out of the Revolution; that the people of the South were represented in theory but not in fact" Fur fear we should be suspected of exagerating the language and proceedings of our Southern brethren in reference to the tariff, we shall here give you copious extracts of aid proceedings, copied from their own papers and published in Niks' Register. Extract? In m an address of sundry citizens of Colleton district, to tSie people of the state of S..uth Carolina. From files' Register, June G. 'What course is left to us to pursue? Our northern cz, western brethren are not, cannot, be ignorant of the operation if the system they advocate, or of the powers thev claim for the general government. They foil wtll know, because like us they must feel, that it lifts hem to prosperity, while it sinks us into nun. We have done by words all that words ran do. To talk more must be a dastard"s refuge. "What course is left to ns to pursue? If we have the common pride of men, or the determination of freemen, we must resist the imposition of this tariff. We stand committed. To be stationary is impossible. We most either letrograde in dishonor and in thame, and receive 'he contempt and scorn ot cur brethren, superadded to our v rong-, and theirsystem of oppression, strengthened by our toleration; or we must, '; opposing end smcm. loine very last voie in ion i.i m At i ... - vole in tivefrcm our minds, ti!i clinging to the vain hope, that some kindred feeling, some sense of constitutional justice, ; me spirit of forbearance and compromise, such as influenced our fathers when acting together, and the framers of the constitution would rescue us from this bitter emergency. But it has come, and we may not shrink in meeting it. "In advising an attitude of open resistnice to the ta-ws of the union, we deem it I hat imposts laid for the protection of domestic manufactures are oppressive, and transfer in their operation millions of our properly to northern capitalists, If we have given our bond, let them take cur blood. Toose who resist these imposts, must deem them unconstitutional and the principle is abandoned by lh payment of o?ie ctnl, as much as ten millions. Extracts from the Georgia Journal:

'These then are the blesinrs of heknme they will do what their intern! dictates.

'American system, in only one particular branch of it. Well might Col. Hayne say of it, that it 'would grind our people to the dust? and Mr. McDuffie, iiai it is 'an abominable scheme of legalised plun der 'a stupendous scheme of imposture and delusion:'' The same paper says "A writer in the Charleston Courier asserts, that application has been made to the Governor of South Carolina to convene the legislature of the state ; and it is pretty plainly intimated, that the purpose ol the meeting is to take measures preparatory to a secession of the state from the

union, in consequence of the pa:sage of the

tariff bill:' Another paper says: "The object of every agriculturalist should be in the first place to devise mearis for the destruction of the manufacturing mania. If any plan capable of being adop ted by a stale legislature suggests itself the public should be put in possession of it." In the "Southron," a paper printed in Millegevillc, Geo. we find the following remarks. After alluding to the passage of the tariff bill, and calling it the "accursed chain to bind us as victims to the idol Mammon;" "a detestable badge of slavery and degradation" &c. the editor goes on to say : "We must now turn ourselves to other means and other defences, constitutional indeed, but at the same time with a spirit, pushing resistance to the verj bounds of the c onstitution. Let there be a wall raised between them and us; and let us sav unto them as Abraham 4 said unto Lot: "Let there be no strife,! pray thee, between thee and me, and between thy herd-men and my herdsmen: for we be brethren. Is not the whole land be fore thee? Separate thyself, I pra) thee, from me; if thou wilt take the left hand, then I w ill go to the right, or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." Let us lry upon ourselves the injuncfion which God, through Moses laid on the Israelites: "And thou shait gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, md halt burn with fire the city and all the spoil thereof; and there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing tn thine hand." L t us govern ourselves by the advice of the Apostle: "Touch not, taste not, handle not the unclean thing which is theirs.'" "And for this purpose we would re commend that a congress asse:nblfd from all the states opposed to a protective tariff in order to advise and recommend to tin different legislatures and people, such measures, consistent with the constitu ion, as may seem best calculated to pro feet them from the operation of the tariff bill, and prevent the introduction and use of the tariff d articles in their respective states.' Toe k Columbia (S. C.) J'clt escape, contains an article signed "Mold," probably the production of Dr. Cooper, which h.ts the following admirable scheme of operation: "Let the Legislatures of Virginia, North Carolina, S uth Carolina, Geor gia,and Alabama, prohibit the introduc tion of horses mules, hogs, beef, cattle, bacon and bagging, and what advantages will Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, derive from the tariff bill, commensurate with the loss of our markets for their surplu of such articles? Let us prohibit the introduction of whiskey, flour, beef, cheese, Sec and how will New York and Pennsylvania be compensated by the tariff, for the loss of our custom? and these last states would be more deeply affected, should the southern states lay a munieinal tax amounting to prohibition, on all

stock in trade, consisting of goods, waresjgeanee. What could sixty members

or merchandise, the produce of those!

states. Let us not be told thai such prohi-ihcen

bitions can not be laid. JMtsl of the states have at some time, prohibited the introduction of slaves under severe penalties:

and many of the states have even stop- portioned off our wealth among the maped the transit of such property. A ve-;jority, and at last, when human nature

ry slight alteration of our law regulating pedlars, would effectually control the horse, hog, mule, t attle, bagging and bacon trade of the west. Should some such measures as we have proposed, be adopted by the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, and other states favorable to free trade and state rights, we have no doubt hui New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentut ky, and Indiana, would find it to their interest to procure the repeal of municipal prohibitions, by a repeal ofall protecting-duties laid bv Coneress and we Fhat those measures may be effectual, it is important that the states concerned should act in concert, and mutually sup port each other; and this can be aceom plished by the assembling of an an! i-tariff congress. The South. The most bitter things are still said of, and done in opposition to the tariff in South Carolina, and among other violent proceedings had at Columbia, on the night of the 30th, ult. the tariff bill together with the effigies of Messrs. Clay, Webster, Everett, Matthew Carey, Taylor of N. York, and Mallary, were burnt amid a large con-

course of spectators. -JViles Reg. July 19, 1S2S. Extract from Mr. McDuffie's speech, delivered at Columbia, S. C. "There was no hope, (Mr. McDuffie

said,) of a change in the system. Two thirds of Congress, actuated by selfish, ambitious, and avaricious motives, were determined to pursue their course reckless of all consequences, and totally, re gardless of the ruin of that portion ot the union which produced more than two thirds of the exports of the whole country. Indeed some, he believed , pursued the measure with redoubled zeal, because they hoped in their hearts that that would be the end of it. There was no colony on the face of the earth, that were not better situated than we were. We were tenfold more insulted, more injured, more disgraced and contemned, by the majority of Congres than our forefathers were by the ministers of Great Britain at the breaking out of the Revolution; for the truth of which assertion, he referred to one venerable living monument of those times, then before him (Col. Thomas Taylor.) He said, the people of the South, although represented in Congress in theory, were not so in fact; but were actually in a worse situation than they would be, if they had not even the appearance of it. Our representation in that body at present is precisely that suggested by the British Government at the beginning of the Revolution, and which was rejected with scorn and indignation by Frankln, Adams, Hancock, and other noble patriots of that day. These great men said, and they said wisely that the proposition was a mere mockery. For what could it avail this country to have a representation of sixty members in the British parliament consisting of five hundred members predetermined upon a course of legislative hostilities against us? Mr. McDuffie said, it was more than obvious that such a representation could have conduced to no other end, than that of exasperating the spirit of hostility Sz oppression already existing by the irritation which the opposition of this inefficient minority, might, from time to time, be irresitably provoked to set up. The truth of this, said Mr. McDuffie, was manifested by the very fact that if our representatives in congress dared to confront and refute the folly and wickedness of our enemies, it made them as eager again to subdue and annihilate us. It xcas for the southern people to determine hoii- long they zcould bear this, and in what maimer they would resist it; but he was sure it would have been better for the south if the)- had no representatives this last winter at Washington. It would have been better for their representatives to have quit the capitol, and have come home, for remaining there was only bearding and provoking the lion. He was sure that if an angel had ccme down from heaven, that no tiuth, no argument, even from his lips, would have prevailed with a set of men desperately bent on their own aggrandizement upon the ruin of the south. They had the power, and wnrfr never heard argument. To reason with a tyrant was but to provoke his wrath and drawr down his venfrom the south do? They would have silent, and tnereby supplicate me fell foe, hv their meekness; but it be came impossible any longer to listen to the insults heaped upon us, as they thu3 could no longer suiier in silence, our complaints were styled insolence end threats. It was to this dreadful extremity that our national councils had come." " Mr. McDuffie spoke nearly two hour?, and it is impossible for us to describe the deep feeling with which his ipecch was received, bhouts and applause frequently interrupted the Speaker. He ended by hoping that the citizens of South Carolina uould appear cn the 4th of July clothed in homespun, the menfactur vfthc south. Niles' Keg. July. 19. You here find George McDuffie chairman of the committee of ways and means; a leading member of the house and sworn friend ofjGeneral Jackson pub licly asserting that "the people of the south are tenfold more insulted more injur' ed, more disgraced, and more contemned than were our foretalhers by Ureal Uriiain, at the breaking out of the Revolution, :' What is this, fellow citizens, more or less than an invitation to resist the authority of the Union, and set up for themselves! Mark we entreat you, another of his assertions: "The south is represented in thcoiy but not inacrt" It is an old proverb, and a very just one, those who live in glass housej