Indiana Palladium, Volume 4, Number 43, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 1 November 1828 — Page 1

EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAN. Bj ARLOW. Volume IV. LAWRENCEBURGIJ, INDIANA; SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1823. Number 43.

of the Administration standing Committee refer you to the evidence in our

to taeir fellow Citizens of Indiana. appendix.

(concluded.) The charge of jYrgro trading is made

It is with great reluctance that we en- f 15 Mc!S ur I,! lhe Nahville ter upon a scrutiny of the life and ? 'I1 J"ly l8'and b CI. A . drew

character of General Jackson. Weare rr",n In ine same PaPer or August 2

well aware that for hi miliar co; J ,;'d supported by the letter of Horace

he merit?, as he has received. rn.iJ G.ree" Prtnerin the specuialion, and

tribute of the nation' trrtit Mr- R- Weakly, & one letter and one

have onallocca8ions liberally accorded 'p'dum, in lhe hand writing

him the meed of honor due to merifori- wlu ' T w " 'Wears

eus and succes

enemies of his

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won UV Ilim nn III nrnvp rrtmriamnn

on the 8h of January, might have bloom-"1 with R' Epperson for the purchase

ed and flourished in perpetual verdure, eg to the amount ot 10,050. had he not sought to entwine (hem with 1 ne !erms ' payment were, 2.050 in the civic zoreath, which alone befits the f'and' 4 000 at the expiration o! hx and brow of the accomplished statesman. 'S4'000 ar th expiration of i welve He has asked at our hands more than we ,nont,'s- Dr- MiNairy and CM. Erwin can afford to give. He has asked that ,re a,nor,g tne mosl respectable citizens which justice to ourselves demands we of he s,ate of Tvimessve. h is fur-

should inquire if he be worthy to recehe.Y ,n Proot tl lt tbese JNegroos were

Duty then, stern duty, compels us to ltJKr" l" country ana pan declare,thatthemilitarVaehievementsnf nf "!em so,d but lhe speculation not

Gen. Jackson have been so tarnished by ,urr,,f out 5IS pronii.ble as was rx acts of insubordination, tvranm anH nn- ( ecled General Jackson b..ugl out

pression, as to have made it a nice and Uh partr.rrs, went down to N .uhez and

with a brief summary of each of them,! port of this calumnious charge multiply-

f honor due to meri.ori- ' uen. JacKnn5i,y all which ,t appear-, ifalefbrls in repelling hr J?" " ,be ' 8,l 1811, Joseph i country. The laurels Colj-man, Horace Green, and Andrew d his' brave companions Ji'ck6ori, entered into articles of agree-

questionable point, whether we shoub

admire the hero or detest the man. I

has been an invariable practice with hm to carry the exercise of power to the ex

treme verge of constitutionality and le gality, and where legal power was wan

ting, he has never hesitated to assurm

brought back the unsold N groes t

Tennessee. Evidence has also beer

published in the same papers, shewing

me or two other speculations by tit

General in the same d. testable traffic?

Tne charge of Burrism is founded on

and supported by the follow i: g state-

it. Foractsofinsnhnrdinalinn. Wo refe, m"nt ai l'1 December 1827,

TIT-H- -

vnn tn hia rnnpaffwl mftinle in nhov ilw h,u?p V i.'liam? ot 1 eni.essee wrote t.

orders of the President of the IJ. Siates, issued through the Secretary of War.

and to his famous general orders, issu !

at Nashville in April, 1817, in which h forbids his officers and troops frnmohe ing the orders of their government ui e 4 1 ft -

me oraers came mrougn mm. t r act

lr. Kerr ot 'Virginia a letter, of whicl "tie ft Ilowif g is an extract:

- "My dear ?"u: Ii is madness to think

f Jackson for President f the Uoited

Slates. This Burr matter I cannot hr

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diisiaKen aunuF rny eyes anu ears ar

i nry witnesses. He, Jacksor, ff red nf

of tyranny, we need only refer to nj.,r commission oi captain in eurr s anm,

treatment of Mr. Louailiier. a membe; or ,0,(i mr 1 cou,d ret OIlf, 11 1 would

of the 1 jefrialiinre of T.oniAiann. nnH nf Cet It.

.TiiHm.e Hi. II .(r lai,. ahflroi., No r,l;. This letter to M. Kerr excited some

Iv manifested a rielei mination to so! the 'ttention in Virginia and a friend ofGen

civil authority at defiance, and to eMab- Ia(keonw,otetthim ''forming him of

lish a military Dictatorship. (See Dal- ' " ,a( l; "Pon wnM " U!'"' Jlil KS,,l,on Uu

las' official letter 23d ot hrhruarv 1828, addr. sed a ler

In proof of insolence and a domineer-'(ir to Judge Williams, ir quiring if ii

ing, brow-beating, temper, beyond ail parallel, we cite you to his letter in G v Ilabun of Geo. "You, sir, as Governor of a State, within my military district hiiw no right to give a military order whilst 1 am in the field:" and his still more intempe

rate and indecent langunge to Mr. Fro

were true mat lie, the Judge, huo

given the sanction of Ids name to what

'e, the General, pronounced a base

calumny, and demanding a prompt

ind frank reply. This letter apt ears

to have been sent by a special mes

senger, all the way to Sparta, a disH

itig, finding witness after witness and let

ter after letter, rising in judgment a

gainst him, his friends resort to the plea

of jastification. and plead the General's ignorance of Burr's bad intentions, and

his supposition that the government had sanctioned his plans! This latter is a lame and clumsy excuse for a man who had been a Representative and Senator in Congress and Judge of the Supreme Court of his own State. Did not Gen. Jackson know that the government of the U 'ited St ites had no power to sanction the ambitious schemes of Mr. Burr or any other daring unprincipled projector? We are howevertiiumphantly referred to Gen. J irkou's letter to Claiborne of Nov. 12, 1806; in which letter the General wartK Gov. C. against Wilkinson, but says nn a word cf Burr. If Jacksot. really wished to act like a patriot, andj warn the G 'vernor ot his real danger, why not mention the head of the conspi

racy at once, why name one of the suboi

dinale ajxMifs a::d leave the had unno

ticed! To shew that this attempt to tx

culpate Jackson fails, we have only to re

maik that there is the most convincing

Jestimony to prove, that more than a

month after this letter to G v. Claiborne

as writ tel., Burr was an inmate at Gen.

Jack' n house, that he left th re after

iht 20f: Decembe r 1806, and was ac-

corrtpa.-ied on his expedition by Stoke-

Iv D. Hays, a nephew of Gen. Ja kson.

I- if likely that Gen. Jackson would have

till red his nephew, a youth ot 17, to

embark his fortunes with Burr, six we-ks after he had denounced this same Burr

o Gov. Clai home? Some men have been so uncharitable

as to declare their neliet that Uen. Jack

son's letters to Mr. JelF-rson and G v. Claiborne were written with a view to

his own eventual sennit), in case Burr'j

chrmes should fail. Whether ihey wer

or i ot, we do not protend to sa). But for

ear some men may be so unreasonable

nd extravagant a3 to imitate the General

iimself, and z nd a bold sweeping d' ial of the ch.-i' gr of connection or asso

tation with Burr, wc will just advert to

o the correspondence between G'-ii.

Tark-on and G n. Adair, as published i.

he Li xivton heporter Mi 1817. I

that correspondence, G-n. Jackson him-

elf, wi'h more spite than prudence, had

cast in G"ti. Adair's If eth the charge of

ttuv'it g been a-soeiated with Burr! G o.

Adair in his reply obervi: "'Whatev-

without enemies. He has an abun dance of them, not on account of his owt errors or foibles simply, but he is held re

sponsible for the faults and mistakes of

his father. But weiuh them all in the

scales with the acknowledged vires and faults of Genera! Jackson, and we fear

lessly ask you, which will preponderate?

When did Mr. Adams ever reel power

and forget right? When was his ear ever closed asainst the voice of mercy

and compassion? When were his hands

ever stained with a detestible traluc in the persons and lives of his fellow creatures? When was he the host, the

agent, the friend, and associate, of a sus

pected traitor? When was it his boast

and cornage with composure?

But look for a moment at the policy

of Mr. Adam, under which we now

thrive and flourish, and the policy of a

lare majority of the friends of Gen.

Jackson? D you wish the heated par

tisan of the S- uth to obtain power, and thus inflict a vital wound on your inter

ests? They already reiuse to trade with ton. They say they wont buy your

horses, your cattle, and your h

pose, and that explicit answers in writing, be respectfully requested: 1st, Do you know or belive that thero was any direct understanding between Messrs Adams and Clay, at or before lhe last Presidential election, that if Mr. Clay would vote for and support Mr Adams for President, that he Mr. Adams, w ould in consideration thereof, nominate him Mr. Ctay, to the office of Secretary of State?- If any, please to state the evidence on which your knowledge or belief is founded: If no, "2dly, Do you know or believe, there was an indirect understanding between the said gentlemen, through their

leading friends, for the purpose and ob-

and pride that he could look on blood ject before expressed? If so, please

Ojr.

mentin, a U. S. Judge in Florida. For ,anP" ,f OTe hdred and odd miles from

acts of cruelty, we refer you to the exo- me -,Mieral s residence ; from the tone er 7,ere the intentions of Col. Burr, 1 nti-

cution ot John Woods and the six militia r"u n ueoeo. jauson evi-,,,er argnvned troops, nor did I superintend

men, who died the victims of the reckless ,jcm,.v "tpmcu i" hiwt mat wouni intemperance or the gross ignorance of l)e tisfactoiy. On the 27th of Febru their Commanding General. ary,four das only after the da e of the But, fellow cittz n,s, time and space General's letter, Judge Williams repli-

would fail us to enumerate all the acts e(J to n'm anirming most positively that

of arbitrary conduct in office, which have planted in our minds the irrevocable conviction, that G "leral J u kson belong to a class of men, zoho feel power, aud forget right. If these thi' gs be done in the

green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

Jf we voluntarily lodge power m hand

he the General had told him (William-)

that he could, if he would accept it, obtain a commission of Captain in Burr's army, and he made other statements going to shew that Jackson was concerned with Burr.

the budding of boats for him, nor did J

statu the facts and reasons upon which

that knowledge or belief is founded. Srdly, Do you believe in the charge of waste and prodigality made and circulated against the President in relation to any public expenditures that have been under hte control; and have yoil an) evidmcej knozrtedge, or belief that Mr. Adams has expended one cent of the public mone,xcept in the manner and for the purpose authorized by the laws of Congress and the long established U3

ages of the government? Resolved, That the Chairman of thia meeti .g, the Hon. J dm F. Ross, John H. Thompson, James B. Slaughter, and Dr. Benjamin Adam?, be a committee to forward a copy of the foregoing preatn hie snd resolutions to each of our S- nators, and to carry on such correspondence in relation to the nme, as ths said committee may think proper. . DENNIS PENNINGTON, Ch'n. A'test, . Joux II. Farnham, Sec'y. Brookville, Sjpu 25, 1G28. Gentlemen: I had the honoi to re r a t ft a.

ceive your tavor ot the 17m insl. last evening, covering resolutions adopted

by the cit:zens from several counties in the second Congressional district, con

vened at the Court house in Corydon on (he 15th instant.

The first resolution authorizes three inter riratorie- to be propounded to Mrii Hendricks and myself, by a tcmmillee composed of our fe llow-citizer s, namedy and oigai'iz.d by virtue of the second resolution, and that those intern gatories

losing ground in his own state, Hi-jmust be answered explicitly in writing character has been probed and found i for nublicat'on.'

The) threaten to drive you from your

opinion.,' to coerce you into their meas

ures, by taxing you into anli-tarilf no

tions; and they most chaiitabh tier to convert your hemo into straight jackets

and tight collar-, for ) our spei ial benefit. They are now fortunate) in the minority? Wnat think you these kind hearted people will do when they mount the ladder of power, with a man at their head who can foe k on bhod and carnag'with composure? Ahead ii M Duffi,

singled out as the J.u koo Secretai) ol S ate! Already is the S uth c hu klintr

in anticipation of the downfall of Heniv

Clay and the American System! Yes, fellow citizen?., vvhi'ist tin y arc; bur- ier

vour ii'St patriots and statesmen in effi

gy, and threatening you with civil war in case you do not yield to their iosolent demands, they impudently rely upo?. your gullibility, and eipeel you to unite with them in voting for a President!! Gre;t pait3 are taken by the friend

ol the uneraL in ooaslieo ol their mun

re-rs, to proclaim victory by anticipation. Bui, fellow cifizvos, be not deceived. Their caue is smki r. The II'jro i-

tainted to the core. Hundreds and thousands are leaving he M'liiary Chieftain,

to rally round the civil guardian of the laws, our peaceful and virtuous President. Theie is no earthly doubt of M.

Adam-; receiving the united votes of the

write confidential IetUrs, recommending him six New-Eogland States, 51 in number, to my friends, nor did I think it necessary, 24 votes in New York, the whole of New -

ajier fits jaioire was universally knozvn, to Jersey and Delaware, nine votes in M i-

ryland, thfj whoh ot Ov-io, iv oukv, and Louisiana, m iking in all one hundred and thirty votes! U you do your duty,

fellow -citizen:-, yru will

s tve mysefj oy turning informer cr state WITNESS. Wnyy we would ask, do Jackson and his friends tell two siorics on this sub

ject? Why do they in one breath pro

nounce the charge of connection with Burr a base calumny, and in the nex:

xcuse and justify it? Truth s simph

give

Now, notwithstanding Gen. Jackson

that have so often abused it, then indeed so eager to obtain the answer ofjaud uniform. Either the General was

do we deserve to be the victims of tyran-j Judge Williams as to send his ncphew'onnnected' w ith Burr, or he was not. ny and misrule. Did there exist uoi specially a hundred miles to Sparta for If he was, why not openly avow it and

that purpose, thereby shewing his owa;a?sign the reason? Whj call those who view of the importance of the charge,! say he wa-, calumniators? If he. was yet on the receipt of the Judge's answer,! not, then Gen. Cotfee and Gen. Jackson

bound to decide, like the patriotic peo- he remained perfectlv quiet for upwards! himself have both written and sworn

pie ot Louisiana, who recently on the ot six months! It is pat the middle ofi what is false!

very theatre ol his shrv, on the snoi-September, a id no eltort has been made

where the battle of N. Orleans opened to contradict the statement of Judge

other evidence against the General t han what has been exhibited by his public

and official conduct, we should feed

: principle of honor and patriotism, to di

We have thu', in the discharge of a charge ihr solemn duly vou owe your painful but necessary duty, cxhibiledif ou,,( r, hv conferring your suffrages on

to him the temple of immortality, by. William. On the contrary, abundant! to on our views o the real harnetr nflan !mnst, enlightened, and experienced

their votes declired, that, comparing hif'evideucc has appeared that Jackson was;Gn. Jackson. We have shewn Vou;st;1"-'i-rr,an The nations of the earth are

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good deeds w;tii Ins bad, setting fns yir-jco-nernea wun Durr in iorwarding hisj ,h.,i his character, his temper, and his tues in one scale & his vices in the other, expedition, that he advanced money forjroduct fur ih but indifF-renf vouchers

lhe l itter far outweighed the former. him, endorsed his bill, was his agent in But unfortunately for the General, 'he' purchasing boats and provisions, and in volume of his history contiios several' eekitig to enlist men to accompany him pages that either never were seen by dwn the Cumberland. The General Mr. senator Eaton, his biographer, or himself has sworn, and the affidavit is o'

which he took the liberty to suppress: record in the state of Mississippi, that

pages which implicate him deeply as a Burr was indebted to him upwards of

citizen, patriot, and man. We do no?j $500 tor monies advanced and paid on allude to gambling or horse racing, norjhis account. Gen. CofTee also made an even to tavern brawls and duels, in whichjaflidavit to the same effect.

unless history and Senator Benton be false, he has played a conspicuous part. We mean to state that Gen. Jackson is publicly charged, in bis own state, by respectable and responsible men, with having been a dealer in human flesh, for the purposes of speculation, in othr words, with having been a jYegro trader. and of having been an associate accomplice of the notorious Aaron Burr! Fellow citizens, these'are no trifling charges; noraie we trifling with you, when we state most solemnly, that we have seen evidence that convinces us that the charges are true. In order that you smy have an opportunity of understanding these charges and the evidence on which they rest, we shall present yoa

N w, fellow-citizens, we request you to mark the responses made to these accusations, and to notice particularly the manner in which they have been met. To the charge of Xegro trading the downright lie is first given. Afterwards finding that the facts proved, are too strong to tolerate a denial of the charge, the act isjustified 'because Gen. Jackson was only a security, and it is the duty of a security to take all measures to protect himself." Just so it is in reference to Burr's business; the lie is first given to every assertion connecting G'n. J. & Aaron Burr in the remotest manner. Gen. Jackson himself pronounces the charge of his connexion with Burr a base calumny. But finding the facts iu sup-

gnziog with interest on the manner in

which you ex"icic your sovereign pow-

for the mild and impartial exercise ofer They are zealously scanning the power. We have shewn yuu that his! princ iph s that regulate the bestow ment publie life is disfigured and deformed by!uf ur suffrages. With most of them,

intemperate proceedings, bv violation1 rontest between the civil and milita-

and insults of the civil authority, by ty- r power has resulted iu the triumph of

ranny and usurpation on the one handj,np latter and the downfall of the former.

and insubordination on the other. We At thi- moment hurope herself is the ad

have shewn you that his private charac

ter is stained with speculation in theiPower- Beware how you sufu r them

flesh and blood of his fellow -beings, and lo imbibe an opinion thai your views on stamped with the strongest suspicions ofjt!,is vitally important ubject coincide

with their own. bhew Hum bv your

uspicions

having entertained designs unfiiendly to ttie union. Admit for a moment with his ft iends, that his subsequent good conduct ha? justified and redeemed his char

acter, still will you choose for your chief

magistrate a man who is justly obnoxious to odious charges, and whose purity has been soiled by imputations which either of you would esteem dishonorable to have fastened upon you by one half the proof that exists against the General. The private character of president ought not only to be pure, but above suspicion.;

Un the other hand, we bav shewn you

Your address, resolutions, rnterroga'ories, w ith the preamble thereto, emanating from the proper and legitimate ource, in the language of the preamble, I feel myself called upon, and bound xplicitly to answer each of the interrogatories.The first interrogatory, I answer a the nega'ive, and will add, that be tore (he election of the President on the 9th of February, 1825, nor since, I have not

any knowledge of, nor do I believe there was any direct or indirect understai ding between Mr. Adams, at d Mr. Clay, that if Clay would vote lor. Mr. Adams to be President, that Mi. Adams would in consideration thereof, ncmiuate Mr. Clay to be Secretary of State. The secowd intern -gatory, I answer iff the negative, and say, that I do not believe nor had I any evidence then, nor have 1 now, to induce me to believe there was ever an indirect understanding between Mr. Adams and M. Clay through their leading friends for the purpose and object expree&ed in the first interrogate ryBefore I proceed lo answer the third interrogatory I beg leave to say, not being the friend of Mr. Clay to be Presi--dent, and many of mv fellow-citizens in this state know it, that I was really the friend of Mr. Ciaw ford; upon hearing the charge against Mr. Clay, of bargain

and sale, I looked at him with a jealous eye, and was determined if the charge could be supported, and he nominated to the Senate for the office of Secretary of S'ate I would vote against him. In the Journals of the Uoue c Rep. rcsentatives in the years 1824 and 5f page 198, 3rd of February , 1826, Mr Clay rose, and addressed the house, sta-

votes that ours is a government of Laws,, ting the charges made against him bv a

of Religion, of Moral, and of Peace, andmember of the house, that if true the that to obtain the highest oflhein thejjlouse WOuld be ecandalized asked for gift of enlightened freemen a man mustjall investigation, and requested that a

him five

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more, which win secure his ejecuon. Bat we are speaking for within bounds.

We have not mentioned Pennsyivai ia,

of the vote of which in our favour there is a strong and increasing proK-hility. Which will give us a clear majority of 27 vote. B it fellow citizens, let 'he anticipa

tions and prognordicatioiiS of politicians

be what tht ma, you have, a vital interest at stake, and are bound by every

vocate fur the supremacy of military

the public life and private character of gatories he propounded to the lion

Mr. Adams. We cannot 6ay of him, nor of any other public man, that he U

exhibit ether qualifications than thoe ofi

a MILITARY CHIFTAIiN. PUBLIC MEETING. At a meeting of the friends of the Administration, held at Corydon Ind. the following, among other resolutions, were adopted:

Resolved. That the following interro-

Wm. Hendricks and James Noble, by a

committee to be appoiuted for that pur-

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commiuee snouiu ne raised it he wa guilty he merited expulsion. His accu ser I believe was present, and now he failed to prove lhe charge, though every opportunity was a Horded before a committee that was raised for the express purpose, to receive and hear evidence. The framersof the constitution had ict view at the time of the creation and organization of the senate of the United States as the constitutional advisers of the president, and one of the branches

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