Indiana Palladium, Volume 6, Number 42, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 23 October 1830 — Page 2

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To the People :of Indiana

NO. V. In the four numbers which we have laid before our readers we have endea voured to point out the following facts riz That business of much impor tauce will be presented to the Legisla ture at its next session. That a majon ty of that Legislature are the opponents ot the present iNational Administration; that this majority will endeav or to fill the several offices of the state with men of their own political senti ments. regardless of the known fact. that a majority of the people would do otherwise, could they carry into effect their wishes and views of justice. That the friends of the present administration have too long suffered an aristocracy to give them rulers and laws That the people have the power to di rect these things otherwise and in accordance with their own ideas of propriety; and that gross and flagrant attempts are now making in several sec trousofthe state to coalesce the for tanes of political demagogues by reciprocal acts of political turpitude, involving the freedom and purity of elections, and imposing upon the credulity of the people by duping them into measures which are only calculated to advance the fortunes of aspirants to office, and to support and elevate those who are seeking to rise higher in consequence, without consistency of character, purity of conduct or the confidence of the wise or reflecting, who are ready and will ing to see all men stand upon their merits, or to see them fall by the weight of their own ill-advised acts. It has also been certainly demonstrated that a system of "proscription" and disfranchisement of Jackson men pre rails in the state, to an absolute extent, and there is every reason to believe that this system will, if possible be perpetuated. We are induced to believe that the people are convinced of the truth of our remarks on these subjects, and that they see and feel the necessity of endeavoring to avert the evils which threaten their dearest rights, and which portend the destruction of their rightful sovereignty . The method which we have pointed out, is the only one which will at present, be able to correct this accidental derangement of the political affairs of the state. The doctrine of the rtghl of instruction, is considered one of the fundamental principles of true republicanism, and there are but tew aristocrats who have the hardihood to object to the mandate of the people. When Henry Clay was esteemed a Republican, it was his most shining at tribute that he bowed submissively to the high behests of the omnipotent peo pie. He has said that the Representative is bound to do the will of his constituents, no nutter how he is made to understand that will, should it be either by an express and positive declarition or by implied and constructive under standing. I'h's is correct reasoning, although the practice of its author has sorely impinged his professions. Truth is truth, and is the same sterling commodity whether issued by the common author of falsehood or the immaculate fountain of purity. It should not, charitably speaking, be presumed that even a Clay representative, who was aware that his district contained a majority of Jackson men, would require any further guide to his duty. It should be his pride, as it is made his sworn obligation, to faithfully represent his constituents; but in these days of political depravity there are men who will sacrifice honor and duty both at the shrine of ambition, and who will, for the accomplishment of party arrangements, immolate the last vestige of consistency and candor on the altar cf self aggrandizement. A prudent public, reasoning from previous circumstances, should leave nothing-of an important character, subject to the convicting impulses of individual caprice, selfish motives or party prejudices. Wherever doubts are entertained of the real sentiments of a representative, wherever duplicity marks his character, and in every case where it is known that his individual preferences are contrary to those of the people of his district that representative should be positively instructed. All emergencies should be guarded, and all accidents and escupes prevented. The people of the state should do mor than think upon these subjects they should act, and action should not be delayed until the evils we dread are actually consummated. Lethargy will only bring double reproach. To really understand the danger that awaits us, and to calmly fold our arms and view it rolling upon us, will certainly be more galling a d mortifying than to n) "fully resist nd be beaten. In this contest we do no injustice to our opponents. If they are the most numerous they can and will out voteu . if we are the majority we have a right to be heard. A proper attention to system and concert of action is essential to the com

pletion of every great undertaking. Every neighborhood should organize a neighborhood committee; every township, a township committee; every county, a county committee and these should concentrate all opinions in a state Convention. Written instructions should without delay be gotten up. Public meeting? should be called and the signature of every citizen taken. Let it be distinctly known that it is only the intention to elect by the Legislature such person or persons as will render a candid, honest &fair support totheGeneral Administration. No man should have the confidence of Jackson men unless he will unequivocally pledgy himself thus far. When committees of vigilance m the several counties are formed, they will always be efficient m ans for the con veyance and extension of correct information to the people, and let thi3 republican system once be adopted in

our state, and we may and will bid defiance to all the arts, intrigues and Coa liiions of our adversaries. Whatsoever we do let us do it openly and aboveboard. All that we want is unity of action and we can sustain our rights and piivileges in defiance of all such as would usurp power from the people and lord it over the real supporters of our republican institutions. Indiana Democrat WEST INDIA TRADE. The glorious career of the present administration is not more gratifying to the true friends of America, than t is mortifying to that class of politicians who predicted all sorts of dhgrace and disaster from the election of the venerable patriot, whose wisdom has proved a blessifg to his countrymen. Our present ex .cutive has not exhausted his time in intriguing for a re-electon, but in successful t-fforts to promote the prosperity of his country and the happiness of its citizens. Upon his entrance into office, his comprehensive and active mind tok a rapid surv y of the domestic and foreign evils we were suffering under, and no sooner did his indefaliga ble research discover (hem than a cor tection was immediately applied. He lost no time in useless negotiation used no "ebony and topaz"' mystification, in attempting to redress the wrongs and secure the lights of his fellow citizens, but went to woik like a "working man, 'and hrs success has proved the advantage of a highminded, honorable course of conduct over the miserable underhanded policy adopted by the last administration. At the time of the inauguration of G -n. Jackson, we were in dim. ulty with many foreign powers on both continents, and our demands for reparation were in most cases treated with neg lect. O r commercial relations with foreign nations, in many insiances, were on ajprecarious or vex .tious foundation. c: ; i i . i. tm .. oiiiLK uiai penou, L'nmai k, r zhs, and Colombia, have liquidated claims to large amounts and provided for their payment to our citizens. Mr. Rives, the able minister to Fiance, is in a fair way to recover the property of our citizens, which we have bought foi twenty years. Our commercial relations are plact d on a favorable and reciprocal footing with Brazils. The valuable trade of the Black Sea has been thrown open to oui ships bv the ef7rts of Mr. Rhind, appointed b) Gen. Jarkson and Mr. M Lane, our talented minister to London, has negiciated for the opening of the Briiia'i West Indies to our commerce. This offers an extensive market for the lumber of Maine, North Carolina, Virginia and Alabama, and for the produce of the sea and soil generally, and is one of the most important acquisitions the country has gained for many years. It will add twenty-five per cent to the value of much of our shipping and give a sensible impulse to agricultural industry. Vessel?, says the Now Yrk Post, fromhe Cnited States will now enter the British West Indies upon a perfect equality with British vessel, paying no more duties on their tonnage or carnoes; and British vessels from the West Indies are admitted to the same privih ?js in the ports of this country. The direct trade between Gveat Britain and the West India Islands i9 not included in this arrangement, and re mains for that country to regulate as she pleases. These are the same terms which ihe former administration at one time rejected, but which the) afterwards in ain offered to accept. An evening paper, with its usual infelicity of mis-statement, says, that the) were not acceded to by ihe last administration on the ground that"lhey were inconsistent with the dignity of the national character' If this be the case, their notions of national dignity must have been extremely fluctuating, since Mr. Clay, in his instructions to Mr. Gal latin, 10 June, 1826, directed him to accept of those very terms. He excludes the direct trade expressly in these word, "The Government of the United States will not insist upon a

participation in the direct trade between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British American Colonies." Boston Statesman.

From the N. V. Courier and Enquirer. The opening of the British West India Ports to American Commerce, of which there is now no dubt, is one of (he most important acquisitions to the commerce of the United States, which has taken place these last twenty years. The negotiation by which this point has been achieved, is additional evidence of the good sense, patriotism, and wisdom of the administration of Andrew Jackson. To Connecticut, Maine, North Carolina, Virginia, and other maritime state?, it will furnish an outlet for many valuable articles of domestic productions, which have heretofore been left at home, unasked, onbought, and iheir value lost to the nation at large, as well as to the individual producers. The agricultural interests, the back bone of every state, will receive a new impulse from the prosperous termination of the present negociatiop. By the President, of United States. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas ny an act of Congress of the United States, passed on the twenty nil. tli day of Ma) one thousand eight hundred and thin), it is provided, that, whenever ihe President of thj United States shall receive satisfactorv evidence that the G ivernment of Great Britain will open the ports in is Colonial possessions in the West I idit--, on the Continent of South America, the Bahama I-lands, the Caicos, and the B rmuda ir S mer Islands, to the vessels of the United Statf ?, for an indefinite or a limited term; that the vessels of the United States, and their cargoes, on entering the Colonial ports aforesaid, shall not be subject to other or higner duties of tonnage or impost, or charges of any other description, than would be imposed on British vessels or their cargoes, arriving in the said Colonial possessions, frorn the United Spates; that the vessels of the United States may import in the said Colonial possessions, from the United States, any article or articles which could he imported in a British vessel into the said possessions, from the United States: and that the vessels of the United Slates may export from the British Colonies aforementioned, to any country whatever, other than the dominions or possessions of Great Britianany article or articles that can be esported therefrom in a British vessel, to any country other than the British dominions or possessions aforesaid ; leavingihe commercial intercourse of the United States with all other parts of the British dominions or possessions on a footing not less favorable to the United States than it now is; that then, Sz in such a case, the President of the United States shall he authorized, at any time before the m xt session ot Congress, to issue his procla mation, declaring that he has received such evidence; and that, thereupon, and from the date of such proclamation, the ports of the United Slates shall be opened, indefinitely, or for a term fixed, as the case may be, to British vessels coming from the said British Colonial possessions, and their cargoes subject to no other or higher duty of tonnage or impost, or charge of any description whatever, than would be levied on the vessels of the United States, or their cargoes, arriving from the said British possessions; and that it shall be lawful for the said British vessels to import into the United States, and to export therefrom, any article or articles which may be imported or exported in vessels of the United States; and that the act, entitled "An act to regulate the commercial intercourse between the United States and certain British Ports," passed on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twentythree, shall, in such case, be suspended or absolutely repealed, as the case may require. And whereas by the said act, it is further provided, that, whenever the ports of the United States shall have been opened under the authority therehv given, uritish vessels and their cargoes shall be admitted to an entry in the ports of the United States, from the Inlands, Provinces, or Colonies of Great Britain, on or near the North American Continent, and North or East of the United States: And whereas satisfactory evidence has been received by the President of the United States, that, whenever he shall give effect to the previsions of the act aforesaid, the Government of Great Britain will open, for an indefinite period, the porta in its Colonial possessions in the VVest Indies, on the Continent of South America, the Bahama Islands, the Caicos.and the Bermuda orSomer Islands, to the vessels of the United States, and their cargoes, upon the terms, and according to the requisition, of the aforesaid? act of Congress: fow, therefore, I, Andrew Jackson,

President of the United Slates of America, do hereby declare and proclaim, that such evidence has been received by me; and that, by the operation of the act of Congress passed on the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the ports of the United States are, from the date of this Proclamation, open to British vessels coming from the 6aid British possessions, and their cargoes, upon the terms set forth in the said act; the act, entitled "An act concerning Navigation," passed on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the act supplementary thereto, passed the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and the act entitled "An act to reculate the commercial intercourse between the United S'ates and certain British Ports," passed the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, are absolutely repealed; and British vessels and their cargoes are ndmitted to an entry in the ports of the United S'ates, from the fslards, Piovinces, and Colonies of Gieat Biitian, on or near the N rth American Continent, and North or East of the United S'ates. Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and the fitty-fifth of the Independence of ihe United S'ates. ANDREW JACKSON. By the President: M. Van Burek, Secretary of State.

From Niles Register. FOREIGN ARTICLES, It is slated that Charles forced the publication of his obnoxious ordinances against the strongest representations of his ministers. A new coinage, with the effigy of Louis Philip, is ordered it will bear the inscription, ikDieu Protage la France. Charles, on his first arrival in England, demanded to be received as king of France, which was refused. He retires for the present, to Ludlow castle, near Weymouth. A considerable depoeite in gold , has been made in his name, at oue of the banking houses. lie had been waited upon by some of the bnti?h nobility. L uis Philip has sent off special mission!? to the British, Russian, Austrian and Prussian governments. Gen. Lafayette is named commandant general of all the national guards of the kingdom. Numerous rceeting3 had taken place in England, in honor of the revolution in Fiance. It may cost another king his throne, if public feeling shall be despised. The Messager des Chambers, says It is asserted that 22 lieutenant-gener als, and about 100 major-generals, forming the cadre ot 1 830, and enlirel) strangers to the army on the 18th of March, 1824, are going to be struck off the list to make room for the generals of the old army, who are taken from their retreat. Among others, the 150 who, though in the vigor of life, wen included iu the ordinance of the 2d ol December, 1824, and all those who have received their appointment since that time. Not a single emblem of royalty has been allowed to remain in Paris, and in pursuance of the system of expunging the names given during the reign of the late king, the title of the academic royale de musiaue, has been changed to academie ?iationale, and the theatre ds madams has resumed its former name of gymnase. We enn affirm (?ays Le Temps) a fact no less certain than remarkable, namely, that from the 31st of July to the 17th of August last, not one murder or robbery has been committed in Paris. We have no particular intelligence from Spain thongh there are many reports oPita agitations. Minct and Quiroga are said to be concerned in them. The late dey of Algiers landed at Naples on the 3d Aug. with a suite of 109' persons 4 of whom being his lawful wives, and some 40 or 50 his concubines. The women were kept closely shut up on the voyage, and remained most strictly conceakd. The dey was ver) richly dressed. The Netherlands appear omewhat agitated by the events in Fiance. In Prussia the eagerness for news from France was sucji that the people fought in the streetg ofBerlin for the "State Gazette." f A private leer from Toulon (received al ransj gives important intorma tion from Algier. According to this, Bourmont haa refused to strike the white flag, and Duperre had hoisted the tri-coloured flag; so that all communication between the army and the fleet is suspended. A conspiracy had been discovered at Algiers. It was found that the Turks had been conveying a quantity of arms to the Arabs in the interior. On the first alarm, about 50 French, who were scattered in ths streets, were

massacred. 2,000 Turks had been nfrested, and were to be conveyed to Smyrna. A fire occurred at London on the 11th Aug. in Bartholomew Close, by O which one life and 200,000 pounds worth of property was lust. The tri-colour. Many it quiries have been made of late, as to the true origin of the tri-coloured flag, and ot what it is emblematical. We find the following explanation in a paper before ns. Before the revolution the city nf Paris had colours of its own red and blue ihe? white being the color of the kn g and his army. After the takiig ot tle Bastile, the armed bourgeois of the city, having taktn the name of the national guard, added tht white to the two previous colours of Paris, for the purpose of indicating that the king was no longer a separate estate, and that his power had passed into the hands of the people. Thus the tri colour became the national colour. There have been great excesses at Cavan, in Ireland. The Oiangcmeo having congregated at different lodges, turned out, with avowed purposes of provoking and assaulting thr Catholics A battle ensued, and the Oiangnmen being repulsed, retired to tht place wberethey had adposite ofarma,when they rallied and fired upon the people. A terrible scene followed the Catholics gathered their strength, and find the houses of the Orange rr -after which they armed themselv 3weIf as they could, to the amount" of ab ut 40,000 men on which ih Orange men dispersed and fled, and peace was restored. The loss of life is not slated. Other dis'urbances have happened in various parts of Ireland. Catholic emancipation is not )et followed by internal pacification. The old parties retain nearly all their old animosities. Madrid, Aug. 11. The decree which Ferdinand VII has just publish d concerning the press in Spain, consists of

20 articles; the first provides that no printer shall print a single line without previous permission of the council of Castile, the subdeh gat1 of the press, or the subdflegate of the provinces, under a penalty of 550 and two years' exile from the tow n where the i ff nee hasr been committed, The 7th article forbids the printing of any book or writing against the Catholic religion or the scriptures, in w hatever lai guage it may be, against good moral?, against the form of tlu Spanish government ,against the prerogatives of the king,&x. The 9th article prohibits all prints representing subjects mentioned in the 7ih article. The penalties w hich, accoiding to article 10, are to be it flu led upon offendii g printers, book-eller, aid printseilers, will be proportioned to the malignity of the author of the writings; the punishment of death even will be pronounced if the crin e be high treason or sacrilege. With such a decree we say "good night" to king Fiedinand.J A ''giers, Aug. 2. An American frigate arrived )esterday, and instantly placed itself between Ihe Piovence and the Bieslau, without salutiig the French fljg. The American eapi. put Mit a boat to go ashore, but admiral Duperre immediately aimed a boat, which put itself in the way of the American. The efficerin the boat ackd tfce reason of this conduct, 6a)irg he was in a free city . Linn nplied, that as the Fit-nth fl;.g was fl)ii g onitgiers, he ought to submit to the laws and regulatioi s of the coi qut ror9 ai;d that admiral Duperre wmld let them know what they were. 7 be American boat returned cn board. The captain of the frigate waited on admiral Duperre, and every thing was, I believe, arranged. There was a report at Paris that the king ol Sardinia was about to appnirt a regency and retire to Naples and that Austrian troops were advanring to garrison his principal fortresses. It ia added, that the king of Russia and the people had disciaimtd any intention to interfere with the affairs of FranceMetfernich, who is, de facto the empe ror of Austria, is a bitter opponent of liberal opinions but if a French army shall again enter Vienna, the power of Austria to do wrong will be crushed forever. The Russians have almost entirely left the Tuikish territories. The loan, as offered by the house of Rothschild, had been rejected. ft is said that the subscriptions of the British, for the relief of the wounded and of the friends of those who lost their lives at Paris, to the amount of .200,000 in cash, had arrived at Calais. Napoleon Bonaparte, son of Loui?, has sent to the editor of the "Courier Francms," "the humble sum of sixty Lui?, being "all that he possessed at the moment," to be distributed amorg "the families of the heroes" of Paris and rejoices in the "triumphs of his country." His letter is dated at Florence, August 10. France is ahout to recognize the republics of South America. Mighty sums of money, in silver and gold, have arrived fiom Algiers. The

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