Indiana Palladium, Volume 6, Number 10, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 13 March 1830 — Page 1

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DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLITICS, INDUSTRY, MORALITY, LITERATURE, AND JMUSEMEXT. Volume VI. LAWRENCEBURGH, (INDIANA ;) SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1830. Number 10.

GOVERNOR vs. GEjV. J. JYOBLE. From the Indiana State Gazette. Indianapolis, Ind. Feb. 25, 1830. To James Noble, United States' Senator from Indiana: Sir; In looking over a late Washington City paper, my attention was arrested by an official attack made by you, upon hie, which, considering the manner, place undmattcr, is so ridiculous and extraordinary, that the chronicles ot'human wici.edhess, slander, corruption, and malicious jhischief, would seldom allbrd a parallel. It is my right to ascertain and let our mutual constituents know the grounds of so flagrant and unprovoked an outrage upon me ; and they will determine whether any justifiable cause is to be found in my conduct, either as a private unoffending citizen, or as the Executive of the Slate that permitted you to enter that consecrated chamber, where you now riot in the m:st wanton billingsgate, causing the reputation of the State to bleed at every pore, under the disgrace which you have brought upon it. If I hod been so fortunate as to have a friend in the Senate from Indiana, whose apprehensions of future conflict with me, were les3 active than your own, when you delivered yourself of your maudlin, hallucinatory farrago your vulgarisms would have been in some degree palliated ; but that unbroken combination which has chained the people of Indiana, to the cars of a few great men, from the year sixteen, to the present time, possessed too many charms to be dissolved on my account. Your Senatorial privilege and your, own dear brandy, nave encourned you to commit acts of aggressi .n, which excite tny pity for your condition, more than my contempt for your conduct. Who that, knows you of late, seeing what you do and reading what you say, would for a moment doubt, that this gratuitous production of yours, is not one of the pestiferous funics of a previous night's debauch, in vexatious fortune at cards, whiskey and pleasure ; or the hypochondrical imagery, of the dark side of fortune, rolling in appalling magnitude, in the day dreams of a distempered Imagination? Who that knows you best, sir, either at home or at. Washington; will not agree with me, that brandy has been gnawing at your liver so long, and constantly, that your whole system has been experiencing ihc most frightful paroxysms, and that your head has not been exempt from the general inflamation of all its parts, which has, in spite of all your efforts to regulate its crazy machinery, betrayed you ; and which has created such a suspicion of your approaching insanity; that what you say is harmless and that you are entitled to no other notice than your dignified oilice tnsurcs to you; From what I know of James Noble personally; and from what I believe the public know of him; if he was not where lie is, my feeble pen would have remained unemployed; and my tongue silent, under his dastardly attempts at defamation. If you were stripped of your office, sir, and standing naked before your country, upon your jrrcscnt merits, should not, fortiter in re, the long and black catalogue of your public and private malversations, assign you a place lower than ouaht to be allotted to even a dealer in scandal ? The repeated displays of the 4,hypocrite," one of the epithets which appear familiar to you, and better understood by you in practice, would shine forth so conspicuously in your conduct, as in a short time, to complete the catastrophe, par excellence. And now, sir, having expressed my opinion of you as a man, permit me to tejl you, that though the pill which I am about to administer to you, will w t be rolled in honey, still it shall be free from the worm-wood and the gall. Although, in your great abuse of poor human nature, by your general career in dissipation, it is not probable, that yon have left a single redeeming virtue unblaiu ; yet, your seniority in years, and your relation to the state whose interests lie' nearest my heart, may avert for the present, the impendent exposure, of a secret character, which charity alone has hitherto concealed from public view. It is not less surprising to me, than it is unprecedented, unfair, and ungentlemanly, that you should obtain your own consent, as well as that of others permisshely to make the Senate of the United States, an cx-parte theatre -for abusing an American citizen, six hundred miles away from the place of the putrescent explosion. If you, Lad any thing to say, or do to me, sir, Indiana is the proper place to settle all personal affairs ; and one would suppose, that ungovernable as your passions have become, under the influence of intemperance, and proud and huughty as you have grown, bv your past revels on the "bonne hooch,-1 of 0 the city, that you still in the mid&t of your ruins, possessed discretion enough, to supnrffts vnnr rs;sinri until x 1 , , j ... j, v, u iuiuiuc'U home, and placed me upon equal ground with you. The propensity which you manifest, to ttke all advantages of an antagonist, appears to he a notorious family failing, and is as dastardly a conduct, as to hurl the deadly missile, from behind some safe retreat or breastwork. It now remains for me, sir, to review

your late speech against me, and to prove that vou nave triumphantly succeeded in adding to the numerous stains already fixed in your character, that of a FALSE ACCUSER. This charge has been recorded against you already by a man who holds a station similar t. mi-ic, in a western state and it now becomes mv dutv in selfdefence, to join him in testifying to this capital ibiblc in your character. Should I stand still and suffer you to promulgate to the world about me, those things which, hundreds, as well as myself, know to be wtrve, my conscience would convict me, of an almost unpardonable omission of duty, besides the countenance which your licentiousness might receive, for the lack of a suitable corrective. On the 4th inst. it appears that on your presenting to the Senate, a letter from me, enclosing to you, certain memorials of our last General Assembly, at their special instance, t r varded to you in the faithful performance of my duty, with a respectful request that you should lay them before the Senate, vou broke forth in a strain of bitter invective, uncalled for by the occasion or by tlie letter, which requested you to perform services highly important to the state,

and in the course of your remarks, exhausted your small stock of epithets upon my humble name. Had I not a right, sir, and was it not my duty, to send you that letter, and those memorials? If I had not so act ed, I should have been liable to impeachment. The interests of that country which has given to you and to me, our ollices, de manded it at my hands. Why you have, for this act, applied to me the general terms, "political hypocrite" and "political dema gogue" and "time-server,'1 and what instance of my life you intended to single out, you have not informed me. The mutto which has guided my political life, sir, as you well know, is "princijdes, not men;'''' and I now challenge you, and your whole corps of parasites, to show one instance in which I have violated it. This is bold ground, but so confident am I. thai I know what I am saying, that I throw down the glove. Although I am certain that my opinions of any of the great leading measures of our country, have not experienced any change, (the assertions of my enemies who appear to know my mind better than myself to the contrary notwithstanding;) yet, 1 am not one of those who think it dishonora ble to change in opinion when error be comes manifest, but think it praiseworthy. Indeed, I believe that political opinions must change in the process of time, to keep pace with the rapid growth of a country like this. Neither politics, law, nor a moral code, is so perfect as to bid defiance to mutation. It would have been desirable, had you affixed some definite meaning to those terms, with which you entertained the senate, and you would have shown some regard for those around you, however destitute of a sense of justice towards the object of your malevolence. The word "demagogue" is a Greek word, derived trom "demos" the people, and "agogas" a leader, and would mean a leader of the people. Now, 1 have nothing to say to this charge, further than to inform the Noble General, that I have never had the vanity to suppose that I was a leader of the people; but it ever has been my highest ambition to please them by faithfully serving them, and my greatest pleasure to bow to their sovereignty. But oh! says the general, the definition of the word implies a leader of the "rabble." Now, if this definition be correct, we cannot have a leader without a rabble. Well : who are the rabble in this country 1 Are they the farmers and mechanics? These men constitute the bulk of my friends. Have I ever mounted a hobby at any of my numerous elections in Indiana? or have I not stood upon what the people thought of nie, ready to stand or ready to fall, with calm resignation? Sir, I wish you to know that unlike yourself, 1 serve a set of fixed principles. Do, compare your own life with mine by this rule. If you must make 31EN your standard of political orthodoxy, let me ask you if you remember the time when you rode through the counties in the W hite water country, abusing John Quincy Adams with all your fine store of classical epithets, such as "Old Codfish Yankee, ecc. &c. After which, you were no sooner warm in your seat at the City the same winter, than it became convenient to procure the appointment of certain brothers to land olhces, &c. and you immediately took shelter under the healing wing of the "Old Yankee." "Men who live in glass houses, should not throw stones," This is but a small portion of your history, as it respects your consistency about M EN. It was but a short time after the last election for Governor, that I was in Brookville, when, finding that my election was certain by a great majority, you tendered to me the hospitality of your house, and assured me that you had supported my election for Governor, and had voted for me. Well, sir, did the blemishes in my character exist prior to that? Now, you say all manner of evil things about me. Then, you never change. But, sir, permit me to inform you that 1 did not believe your professions of friendship at the time ; for you had during the canvass, contrived to set these to abusing

me, who have always appeared as noses of wax in your hands. No, sir, 1 could not confide in your asseverations, for 1 knew your hostility had existed too long, and was too deeply rooted to wish my success. When I commenced practising my profession, in the town where you lived and now live, twelve years ago a young man, without any person or property to recommend me, you exerted all your powers to destroy me, and you continued your opposition, both at the bar and before the people, though they on all occasions declared against you. You were then powerful, in a small circle and carried all before you, like the whirlwind. When I look back, 1 wonder how I ever breasted the torrent. But, sir, the honest yeomanry of the country, have stood by me and batlled all your efforts; Although I have not enjoyed those early advantages which others have abused, and which with you have only served as an incentive to every kind of vice, 1 have stood exclusively upon the rectitude of my conduct and intentions, and I be

lieve, that it is more than you can do whh all your notorious powers of intrigue and low cunning, with your boasted large fami ly connexions, and with vour combined as sociates, to steal from me the good opinion of my fellow-citizens and the hard earnings of my life. Of this, you must be admon ished by the failures of those repeated at tempts which you and those in league with you, have often made. The following is a specimen of the late slanders of your crazy tongue from your own mouth, "lhis Uovernor Hay, had not long ago, through an erroneous judicial opinion, when a man was compelled to pass through the borders ot the state, in conse quence of freshets produced by high rains, declared that the slaves he carried with him, were free and entitled to all the rights of freemen; inconsequence of which un justifiable procedure, the individual was deprived of his property, which he held un der the laws and constitution a3 they now stand." Now, sir, you must bear with me, whilst I tell you, that in publishing the above you have deliberately and of "your own malice aforethought," told as certain a falsehood as ever emanated from the lips of a demon A man that knows so little about the jurisprudence of his own slate, and a Senator too, as to assert that the Governor had power to give judicial opinions, and set slaves at liberty under any circumstances, is too ignorant to mingle hid councils with the most august body of a great and free nation; Our courts atone have this power. But such an opinion as is insinuated was never entertained, much less given by me as au individual. As far from this is the fact, as light is from darkness ; for it was directly on the other side. During the last winter a citizen of this county and a slave holder, disagreed about the liberty of some slaves. They concluded to refer the decision of seme abstract principles to me, entirely disconnected with tle facts of the case, both parties aiming, as 1 supposed, to do what duty and law enjoined. After being repeatedly importuned by both parties present, to say what the law really was, I gave them the following fire-side opinion, to wit; 'i'hat if a person should be actually emigrating through the state, from one slave state to another, his slaves could not thereby claim their freedom ; but that if he left a slave state and entered a f ree one, not as an emigrant, but with an intention of making his slaves serve him, as such, in a free state, they could rightfully claim their freedom" The facts, 1 had nothing to do with. This is the law of the land and cannot be successfully impugned. I here aie hundreds here, who heard ni3 give the same opinion, when called on as a witness in the case iow, sir, what will those Senators thuik of you whose minds you have aimed to poison, by this slander, when they read my leal opinion; and behold your Parthian arrows lodging in your own bosom and drinking your own blood. They will say, '"Let him die the death of the wicked,for his latter end must be like unto theirs" I will now dismiss y.,.ur negro allusion, and return again to yourself. You seem to think that I made a thrust at you in my last message, in the course of my remarks on the right of the state to the vacant lands within her limits. Your name, sir, is not once mentioned in that document, and unless you had considered yourself guilty of some mighty misprision in your office, or as if you had abandoned some great state interest, you could not have considered yourself as pointed at. But truth will find its way to the hearts of the guilty. Vou know, sir, notwithstanding your late denial to the contrary, that you did last winter refuse to obey the instructions of the Legislatnre, and virtually declared yourself independent of the same, on the domain question. It is in vain for you now, to attempt to explain away your first conduct and shuffle round to the support of the question, after you see public sentiment gaining in its favor, under a pretence that you never change your opinions, or in other words, as you are now a domain-man, ergo, you were always a domain-man: This will not save you now from the weight of that odium which ought ever to fall upon the head of the man, who will turn traitor to co momentous a feature

of our republican institutions, as to declare! himself independent of the Legislature and I

refuse to obey their instructions, and still retain his seat. If, sir, you felt so pugnacious, at the time you received from me, the resolution of the Legislature, as to bring ! you into collision with the best inteiests of the state, it was your duty to resign ; and not continue, to lacerate at the same time the most sacred doctrines of our government and the reputation of the state. The charges which you say I made againstyou, 1 know nothing about; but with your denial to the Contrary, there is one thing which I do know something about, if the National Intelligencer tells the truth, and that is, that you did refuse to obey the instructions of the Legislature: the fol lowing speech of yours, made last winter in the Senate, at the time the land resolu tion and instructions were introduced into that body, will stand before you as firm as bhylock s judge, and to your beard, pro claim from your own mouth your own con demnation. Hear him as follows "Mr, Noble proceeded to remark, that it would ever afford him pleasure to promote the views ot the Legislature of his state, but there were questions of policy, on which he could n t consistently with his declared principles, OBEi the instructions of that Legislature, If he was to be jtroscribed for assent to a relinquishment of the national domain to the states in which it lies Vou spoke tnus, with more arguments goin to the ,r i. , ,aaV you did not use this language in the Senile of the U, b. last winter ; and deny if you dare, atter this, that you did not retuse to obey the instructions of the Legislature as above, And I wisli you to say, from what quarter you obtained information that I ever charg ed you, as you declare 1 did, in your "roun ding to" speech of the 4th inst, otherwise than I now confess and prove. In conclusion, sir, allow me to marshal a few evidences of your malice, and to shew your shallow devices to do me a deep and i . lA 1 . lasting injury, "right or irrongt" Knowinp that it was Judge Morris who save the deciiion which set the slaves mentioned by i u . ir ii i . y you, at liberty, you wilfully charge it upon ' o iJJ r me. fcecond, knowing that vou have for more than ten years been my secret traducer,you pretend to have suddenly discover 0 j ed my foibles. Third, to obtain a pretext to paim your ancient grudges upon me, you falsely pretend, that 1 have charged vou "with contending on the floor of Congress, last winter, for the independence of the General Government of the States and the people." Fourth, knowing that your ill will tome has principally grown out of for mer contentions, heightened by my prefer ring Col. Kinnard of this County to y our son-in lawj Col. Ilussel, for Representative in the Legislature, the differences between your brother and myself, and political con siderations, you try to make an impression mi i. uuuibiibtv Jijmiia, aa luiiiv buuisc, nave i lately burst upon yo ar vis.om Fifth, you :.. ' j . "l 3 " n t onma nem 1 i rl- t cs n . . . . I r i 4 V i ""i win uuia ClIV pit what nurlirnlnr nrt 1 Kqvo nmmir. I ted Whirh U irrnnAnnthrow your name and office in the scale anint TTlf Wlthrillfr mvinnma o n r.nr.rvrtm.i tvof defence. Sixth, vn.. lahnrtn ...... v..... ciiuii; uitmiuuuiuiuiifi disinterested in your aim to rob me of mv standing, and to make me the sr.an iw to expiate the supposed offences of others, "IT . . . I iou can point oat my inconsistencies in signing certain land resolutions : but, ou seem to know nothing about the Legislators that enacted them under oath. Youascribe to me party vie ws when you know that 1 am a ami-paiiy man, wnuai iuu nave cauuuacu u uomc aim auruaa ior pariy purposes You say that I would desire your rlltriinf inn linn rnn 'nnnt (knl hiva long since destroyed yourself, and were only saved irom publ ic censure for your antirepublican course on the land question, in not aiding your colleague to procure a cession to the State, by the fallen condition in which you were considered. Let me assure you, sir, that you have fallen, fallcn,j alien, as a man,and useful officer, by the influence of your obstinacy, dissipation and your increased insolence by renewed favor, from your once less ig-Noble bearing. Those papers throughout the Union, which have published Mr. Noble's speech, will it is hoped, be so just as to inseit what is over the name of the undeisigned; and partisan editors in Indiana, opposed to me in politics, would perhaps do well to hold their peace until the controversy not began by me, is ended; Fair play is all I ask and what I will have; and what shall be given to my antagonist. JAMES B. RAY. Ini ANATOLI?, 25th Feb. 1830. TO THE PUBLIC. In consequence of the signal disgrace cf Governor Hay, occasioned by exposing his Handy letter, just before the late Gubernatorial election, it is well known to many of my fellow citizens, that 1 withdrew from his support, immediately after the Jackson Central Committee, published his dishonorable offer, to secretly sell, or trans-

such oninions. he could not helnit.and was I

i r i Y ii 7 oi my uienu? naa neen yenned, by the not much disposed to fear i t His remova exhibition of an article, to many gentlemen from office, and his removal fiom de: won d of tliis x in vvhich lu3 ellenc ,a create no great chasm in human aflaira. He feeUuM towards mvself and brother, am

believed that t ongress would never

fer, his f Am political friends, to that party, For so doing and for contributing as I did

to the effort of the Jackson Central Committee, to expose his duplicity; it was my misfortune to incur his Excellency's most bitter displeasure. The recent exhibition of his vindictivp feelings by attacking me before the Legislature, when from motives of delicacy, I could not one; a defence. His unjustifiable attempt to have my name as Supenntendant, expunged from the Michigan road bill and lastly, the prostitution and abuse of the Executive prerogative, for the pur pose of fixing a stain on my leputation, by appending to the law, slanderous charuesj which he wished to enforce by an official act, must be well known to a portion of the public, After having, through the intervention of the Senate, escaped the odiun wh.eh hia Excellency intended to f sten upon me, I hud hoped the votes, of censure passed on his conduct by that body, would have da i.peued his ardour, and that he wjuld have pursued me no onger. Jn this, hi wever, my friends did not agree with me, and insisted that he would follow up the stroke with a newsp per attack. The late hour at which his man Tage was with nis Excellency, on Saturday evening last, seemed to auur. that some plot was on hand, and the predici. f C - 11 r. fully developed. On the g'od opinion of the public, particularly those with whom 1 daily mingle, I place a high value, and so far as 1 may have deserved it i cannot relinbuisli mv claim. nor suffer Goy, Ray to strip me of it. with- - J out a struggle, I therefere request a suspen sion of opinion until i can see his piece, and be heard, My brother being competent to his own defence, it is with great reluctance that 1 speak of him; nor should I have done so, had the Governor not have included us in the article he has been reading to many gentlemen in town. On this ground, and , i ,u i ru r the state until the close of the session of ri i . ? u n u --u -IT' 717" 'T " . w oonox.ous io the Governor. Last spring oi winter Gov i . r h , ' , ' Hav, in a presainer manner ur?ed mv broths m , M v- m c1 J - er to become a candidate for Governor, at our next election Had he have done so he must have vacated hisseat in the Senate, and in that event, next winter, we should have had two Senators to elect in place of one. My Drcther was however, bo obsti nate, as to decline the Governor's kind offer, His Excellency being in the habit of execu ting his political plans, "peaceablu if he can, but forcibly if he mast,'''1 and supposing my brother would be a candidate again concluded to step in the shoes of the Le gislature, and cast a censure on him, and did, m his message, give him a thrust. Early in this month while presenting some resolutions to the Senate, my brother made it convenient to deny the truth of the Gov . i i , , ,h f ? okeKof.,h"? Ve,ry freely this defence of my brother's, the Governor now Calls an unprovoked attack . . .. tittuvnj n hX -tSpeCttully, N. IVOBLE. rl1 , r r i r xamoiws. infinities oi urazu mr ni6" annually, irom X'd to ju,uuu carats, ( carat is 4 grains,) or from 13 to 14 lbs. of rotigh diamonds. The expense of .1 1 . exploring tne mines is aDout seven dollars per carat. If a slave hnds a diamond of more than 70 grain3. he obtains hii freedom. A rough diamond, weighing one carat sella for N9: two caratB, &36; four carats8 Xl44: eight carats, 8576 sixteen carats, 3,304, &c. A cut mond weighing 16 carats," if the . w o ' 9 dia form and color please, is worth 9,216 The cutting of diamonds i3 effected by means of diamond powder on a horizontal wheel of soft steel. The diamond consists of pure crystalised carbon, otf pure charcoal. Hamp. Gazette wmmammmmmmmmmmmmma Naval. The U. S. ship Natchez, capt. Claxton, but bearing the broad pendant of com. Creighton arrived at Norfolk on the 3rd instant, from the Brazilian station all well; as were the officers and crews of the Hudson and Vandalia, left. The return of com. C. will test, or silence, the many serious rumors that have been put afloat concerning his conduct in thecommand of (be squadron Niles. The Hornet is given up for lost. Orders have been received by the navy agent at Baltimore to discontinue the payment ot the allotment tickets granted to her officers and crew; and a petition has been extensively signed in this city that the pay of said officers and crew may be continued twelve months, for the benefit of surviving relative?. Ib, IVillis, the famous bugleman and leader of the West Point Band, died at that post on Monday, and was buried with the honors of Var8