Indiana Palladium, Volume 6, Number 21, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 29 May 1830 — Page 1

it ft DEVOTED TO jXEJVS, POLITICS, INDUSTRY, MORALITY, LITERATURE, AKD AMUSEMEA'T. Volume VI. LAWRENCEBURGH, (INDIANA ;) SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1330. Number 21.

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BY AUTHORITY. LAWS OP THE U. STATES, Massed at the first session of the twenty first congress.

AN AC r for the re appropriation of certain unexpeaded balances of former appropriations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of Americain Congress assembled, That the following sums, being unexpended balances of former appropriations for sundry objects of the War Department, and in relation to Indian affairs, which remained in the Treasury on the Jaet day of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and are now subject to the provisions of the law directing such balances to be carried to the account of the surplus fund, be, and the game are hereby re-appropriated to the several object!1, respectively, of their original appropriation. For the materials for a fort on the right bank of the Mississippi, one hundred and ninety-two dollars. For the Georgia militia claims for one thousand seven hundred and ninetytwo, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, appropriated by an act of M uch second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, forty-one thousand and five dollars and forty-four cents. For the expense of the militia of Georgia and Florida, for the suppression of Indian aggressions on their frontiers, by an act of March second, one thousand eight hundred and twentyseven, five thousand dollars. For the remaining purchase money of a house and lot at Eastport, in Elaine, five dollars and thirty two cents. For the removing obstructions to the . Saugatuck rivf r4 twenty-eight dollars. For the building of piers at the en trance of La Piaisance bay, eighty-nine dollars and eleven cents. Fur the road from Fort Towson to Fort Smith, three hundred and ninety dollars and eighty-five cents. For the road from Pfnsacola to Sr. Augustine, five thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventytwo cents. For the road, called the King's road in Florida, two thousand dollars. F"r carrying into effect a treaty with the Choctaw Indians, dated eleventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the balance of the sum appropriated by the act of March third, one thousand eight hundred and twen ty-one, re-appropriated by the act of May twenty-sixih, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and again by an act of March th second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, being twenty-one thousand seven hun dred and thirty-seven dollars. For carrying into effect the treaty Tvith the Cherokee Indians, and extinguishing their claims to lands within the State of North Carolina, two thousand four hundred and fifty-nine dollars nineteen cents. For defraying the expenses of treating with the Choctaw and Chicksaw Indians for extinguishing their title to lands within the limits of the State of Mississippi, one thousand two hundred and fifty three dollars seventy-nine cents. For purchasing certain tracts of land within the State of Georgia, reserved by treaties in fee to the Creeks, and to the Cherokee Indians, the balance of the appropriation of fifty thousand dollars, made for these objects by an act of March the third, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, being nine thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars. For gratuitous pay for disbanded officers and soldiers, including travelling allowances for the same, five hundred and forty dollars and ten cents, being the unexpended balance of appropriations for those objects carried to the surplus fund on the last day of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. For the purpose hereinafter stated , to wit: the sum of eight thousand dollars, appropriated for the erection of a Custom and Warehouse at Mobile, by act of May twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, be, and the same is hereby re-appropriated, and an additional appropriation of eight thousand dollars to complete the same on an enlarged plan, be, and the same is hereby made, to be paid out of any Unappropriated money in the Treasury. Approved, April 30, 1330.

From the U. S. Telegraph, HIV. JOHN LELAND. We have been politely favored with the following interesting letter, from this venerable advocate of liberty, for publication: Cheshire, Mass. March 29, 1830. Sir For forty years (next to the salvation of the soul) the rights of conscience have been articles of my highest solicitude. Not only that all sects and societies should be placed on a level; but that each lonely individual should have equal favor, and not be oblged to join any society to escape disabilities or oppression. Indeed, I stand pledged, that as long as I can use my tongue or pen,I will never lie dormant when religious liberty is in jeopardy. The Report speaks for itself. If it can be bettered, I know not in which particular. It breathes the language of John Milton, Roger Williams, William Penn, Thomas Jefferson, &sc. and I think it is in perfect accordance with the letter and spirit of the New Testament. Il has my unqualified approbation. The report of the minority of the Committee comes in company with the other. Alter what I have said, it will

not be expected that I shall approve ol the whole of it. It discards the idea of any theological controversy, and yet, in the very beginning, it lays the foundation of a religious war. There never was a Christian nation on earth, before the days of Constantine, who opened the flood gates of error, and set Christians at war with each other. If all Christian nations acknowledge the first day of the week for the Sabbath, the New Testament never does. If our translation is admitted, there is not a solitary instance where the first day is called Sabbath. Where and when did the wise and good Ruler of the Universe appoint that all the progeny of Adam should keep every seventh day hoi) ? That God rested on the seventh day, is certain; but there is no account that it ever was enjoined on any man for more than twenty-four hundred years after creation; and then only on a few : yet in this space of time lived Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Melchisedtk, Joseph, and many great men of God; of whom we have no account that any of them observed the seventh day more than any other. But the subject shall not be left to negative evidence; positive prcof shall soon be g iven. When the manna was given, the Sabbath was appointed, which soon after was incorporated into the divine code given at Sinai, and certain death was the penalty to enforce it. Forty years after this, when Moses was speaking expressly of the Decalogue, be said "The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us,who are all of us here alive this day." (JJeu. v. 3.) Ihe dispute then lies between Moses and those who say that the observance of the seventh day was apj r ii . poiniea irom me Deemninp. It was binding on the Israelites, who were often reproved by their prophets, and punished by their God for profaning the day: but the Prophets, who reproved other nations for their sins, never men tion Sabbath breaking. Nor does Paul ever place the profanation of the Sab bath in the list of Gentile crimes. Whenever a nation has assumed the character of Christiati, it has always esiaDiisneo nnsuaniiy manulactur ed a creed appointed the days of de votion, and enforced a salary for the preachers and if any toleration has been granted to non conformists, it has been on very degrading conditions. Such has been the case (without excep tion) from Constantine down to the present day. Salaries for the Preachers, secured by law, has always been the chorus of the tune. I have never been able to say on what part of the globe the garden of Eden was planted. If at, or near, the poles, a day was equal, in length, to a year at the line. In any case, the globe has the same form. Is it reasonable to believe that a wise and good ruler would enjoin that on his subjects which was impossible for them to perform? For us to keep 3G5 holy days, while our Northern and Southern brethren keep but one ,and yet begin and end at the same point of time. Let a Turk, Jew and Christian decide their dispute by experiment. Let the Turk keep every Friday, and travel round the globe in a Western direction to the spot whence he started. The Christian travel in the 6ame manner Eastward, while the Jew remains stationary. Each of the three will keep their day, and when they meet, it will

be the same day. A law of this kind could be given to a section of the world, and be obeyed (so it was for Israel in Canaan); but cannot be universal. This has strong bearings on the divine appointment of the first day of the week, as on the seventh. The subject cannot be developed in a letter. It requires a volume. If the petitioners gain their object, Congress must decide the contest between Connecticut and Massachusetts. The laws of Connecticut prohibit recreation, labor and travel, fiem the going down of the sun on Saturday, until the same time of day on Sunday. Those of Massachusetts allow a man, on a journey, to travel until Saturday midnight, and resume his journey on Sunday, at the going down of the sun eighteen hours of holy time. But recreation must cease on Saturday, at the going down of the sun, and continue to cease until Sunday midnight thirty-six hours abstinence. Whether the stages that carry the mail must stop six hours in Connecticut, when they could be running in Massachusetts whether carrying the mail will be travelling on a

journey, in the sense of the law and whether passengers in the mail stage will be considered as parties of recreation or travellers on a journey, must be provided for by Congress. A few years past, a Moral Society was formed in Berkshire lor the suppression of vice. An executive committee was appointed to stop travel on Sundays. VVcie it not a serious sub ject, it would provoke a smile to see Belzebub in chase of Lucifer, whip and spur the committee breaking the Sab bath to preveut Sabbath breaking. When the pursuer ha d overtaken or met with his game, they sometimes compromised, and, for a fine, the traveller was let go on, but generally he was carried to a justice or the county court, and fined lor breaking the Sabbath. But a certain Mi. Clark, being stopped, resented the abuse, and brought suit against them, for assault and battery, before the Supreme Judicial Court, where Mr. Clark recovered a considerable sumfor damages the decision being that they had no right to stop ana unhorse him. This decision purified the consciences of the whole club. Strange bow the getting or losing money will give direction to conscience! Whether these good souls, on conversion, paid back the fines which they had taken, I caunot certainly tell. My best information is that they did not. I have lived long enough to see that individuals often break over the bounds of moral honesty to injure their neighbors; but this is not more frequent than it is for legislative bodies to overleap their legitimate guide and usurp the empire of n aural individual rights. The let alone policy may be extended too far; but less evils arise from that neglect that arise from a redundancy of laws.- The liberty of the native of the woods, under proper restraint, to prevent overt acts (if the expedient can be found) should be aimed at. If, on entering into social compact, individu als surrender all to Iht pub.iczvill, then Government may direct our food,ph)sic, costume, marriage, association, localion, occupation, private opinion, religion, hearing, seeing, appetite, pronunciation, vibration ot the arteries, and every breath we draw. But if all this is surrendered, the individuals lose all accountability to their Maker, and Government becomes responsible for all: for it would be beneath the righteousness of the Divine Being to hold a man to answer for himself when he was divested of every attribute that constitutes a moral agent. If I should vary a few degrees from the question of Sunday mails, it would be following a precedent which Congress has taught me. When members of that august assembly think until they are as full of matter as a bottle of wine that has no vent, they take the floor, and seem to tear up mountains by the roots ride on the w ings of the wind, and direct the storm. No matter what the question is, whether Missouri, Retrenchment or Public Land. The hall and the gallery are struck with wonder at the profundity of the orator; but if the small pox was in the question, neitherspeaker nor hearerwould catch the disease. I see no great evil in all this. Their effusions may help the next question: at any rate the next election. Have not members of Congress as good right to ramble as the late Patrick Henry? Must all be guaged to speak in the direct logical and irrefutable mode of Madison? All sqmH were not cast

in the same mould. It takes every man to make a world. I think Congress, on the whole, perform wonders. They have safely steered the ship between Scylla and Chary bdis, notwithstanding adverse winds and mutinous sailors. The religion which I profess forbid me to speak evil of the rulers of the people. I honor the throne (Government) and the alter (religion;) but those who under a pretence of religion and good order, would Shape my religion and guide my conscience, are usurping presumptious tyrants. A man cannot give

greater evidence that he is destitute of the meek spirit of Christianity, and ignorant of its genius, than when he makes, or urges others to make laws to coerce his neighbors in matters of religion. It is like putting a tool on the stones of the altar, or making a new cart to carry the ark. I cheerfully subscribe to the sentiment that Christianity is not only a good religion, but the only religion that ever met the sinner s wants, and relieved his woes. The only religion that ever brought pardon to the guilty, and gave assurance of eternal life. But as an institute of state policy, a question arises whether it has ever done any good. Has any Christian nation ever exceeded Tyrus in wealth Greece in science ancient Rome and Carthage in bravery or modern China in internal improvement? And what nations now are more perfidious and blood thirsty than those vho have formed crusades, established an inquisition, and massacrrd the South Americans? Let Christianity operate in its own natural chan. nal, and it is a blessing of immense worth; but turn it iuto a principle of state policy, it fosters pride, hypocrisy and the worst kind of cruelty. JOHN LELAND. Hon. R. M. Johnson. PUBLIC LANDS; The very important bill to graduate the price of Public Lands and to make provision for actual settlers, which has been for several years depending in the Senate of the United States, was yesterday brought to a decisive issue in the Senate. Several of the lower minimums were struck out: and the tno prices of one dollar per acre, and seventy five cents per acre, were retained, the latter piice confined to actual settlers, either present or future, and with a limitation of the application of these prices to lands which have been offered at one dollar twenty-five cents per acre, for three years, and remain unsold at that price. This is a great event ior me innaoiiants oi tne new States and Territories. The reduction of tzventy-five cents in the acre to the general purchaser, and of fifty cents in the acre to the actual settler, will ope rate as a powerful relief; and facilitate the acquisition of lands to a great many families who must otherwise have remained in the unprofitable condition of tenants or tresspassers. The trial vote, on ordering the bill to be engrossed for a third reading, wat a pretty close one, and strongly marked by sectional lines. The Western Senators voted for the bill unanimously, with one exception, (Mr. Burxet, of Ohio,) the Senators South of thu Potomac voiedfor it unanimously, with two exceptions, and one of these (Mr. Tyler, of Virginia,) voted with the friends of the bill on all preliminary questions; the Senators North of the Potomac voted against it unanimously, with one exception, (Mr. Woodbury.) There was at one time a tie, and the Vice-President had to give the casting vote. This was on the motion to strike out the minitmim of seventy cents, to general purchasers; a motion on which the friends of the bill divided, and Mr. Calhoun voted with part of them, to make the bill more perfect, and to eusure its final passage. The most animated discuF?ion took place, on a motion of Mr. McKinley, to fix the price for actual settlers at fifty cents per acre. This motion was zealously supported by the mover, and other friends of the bill, who made a brief but powerful appeal to the Senate, in favor of this meritorious class of citizens. The vote on this motion was not taken by yeas and nays, but the West, itself, was not sufficiently unanimous in favor of it. 05-Mr. BARTON of Missouri, being againet.it. The bill thus amended, being ordered to be engrossed for a third reading yesterday, may be considered as settled in ttie Senate, and besides the advantage of a reduction in the price of the refuse public lands, may be considered as an era in the Legislation of Congress on the public land? by

the establisment of two great equitable nrincirles; first, that the actual settler

shall haze a preference in the purchase of the public lands; and secondly, that the refuse land zchich will not sell for the price first demanded, vc vuviwut a lozver price. With tnese advantages in price and principle, we consider the passage of the bill as an act .of justice to the people of the new States and Territories, which will merit and receive their deep and lasting gratitude. With respect to its passage through the House of Representatives, (which is the next material inquiry) we can only eay that the subject has been long depending there; that similar bills to the one in the Senate have been reported there for years; that the Question will not be new; and that the provisions of the bill as amended in the Senate are so fews so plain, so intelligible, that every one can promptly decide whether he is for, or against it; and we apprehend the subject is of that important nature, as to entitle it to the speedy consideration and decisive vote of the House. The vote was as follows: YEAS Vessr3. Adams, Barton,BenlanBibb Brown, Ellis, Forsyih, Grundy, IWynt, Hen dricks, Iredell, Johnston, Kane, King, Living. ston, McKinley, McLean, Ioble, Rowan,-Buggies, Ttizt well, Troup, White, Woodbury i'4. NAYS Messrs. Barnard, Bell, Burnet; Chase, Clayton, Dickerson, Dudley, Foot, Frelinghuysen, Holmes, Knight, Mrks, VaucUin, Bobbins, Sanfard, Seym .ur, Sillsbee, Smiih, of S. C. Sprague, Tyler, Webster, Willey U. S. Telegraph. Extract from a communication to the New England Farmer, on breaking Steers. About 9 years ago, I had a two year old bull, that rather abruptly helped me over a Hve rail fence in less than no time. Having procured an iron ring, the next day, I took a cart rope and confined his head to a post, pierced his nose with an instrument prepared for the purpose, (similar to one left at the Agricultural Warehouse,) put in the ring, shut it, attached a cord to tbe ring and led him about the premises as orderly as a horse, afterwards yoked him up with my nigh and off ox, and made him work either side with but little trouble, put him in traces between the horses and oxen. And by passing the leading lines or reins from the harness, and buckling to the ring in the nose, I frequently rode to mill with my grist, in a sleigh, or on the forward wheels of a horse waggon. So much for the doctrine of passive obedience. The sloop Detroit.' The Albany Argus, of Wednesday, slates that a meeting of the owners of goods on board the Detroit, of Albany ,which was run down by the steam-boat Congress and her tow-boats, and sunk off West Point, was held in that city the day previouF. The value of the goods which went down in the vessel, was ascertained to be from 21,000 to 24,000. Of Ibis, about 8,000 was in iron, and owned by Messrs. E. Corning &. Co. on which was insurance of about 5,000. Of tho remainder, only about 1,000 was owned in Albany, and the balance in Utica, Rochester, and other western places. No measures were taken for recovering the vessel; but it is understood that offers were made to raise ber at ai comparatively small sum. Honorable Isaac Hill. The rejection, of Isaac Hill, by the (J. S. Senate, has set the Democratic papers in New Hampshire, in a flame in a perfect blaze. The excitement is astonishing but is it higher than it ought to be? Not at all. If a man is to be rejected, because he is a printer or editor, it is time that a sense of a free people were taken. The last Peterborough Republican has a long article nominating Isaac Hill to the U. S. Senate. The following is an extract: "We have no hesitation in predicting be will have the support of the whole republican interest, both in and out of the Legislature of New Hampshire as a candidate for the vacancy in the Senate of the U. Slates- and he icili be chosen.'9 No doubt he will be chosen. The people of New Hampshire are democrats to the back bone. They do nothing by halves. A Y. Enquu A writer in the Wheeling Gazette, who appears dissatisfied with the new constitution, thus concludes an essay : "Let the west then call a convention of the west, and let that convention appoint commissioners, to treat with the eastern nabobs for a division of the State, "peaceably if we can forcibly if we must

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