Indiana Palladium, Volume 7, Number 20, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 21 May 1831 — Page 2

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hi? own produce 'who will buy ours? Oar present plan for organizing and disciplining the: militia has failed to accomplish the ends desired. We have prosecuted it year after year,and our old men of the country tell us our performances are inferior to those of twenty years ago. Nor can it be otherwise, if left to the conflicting plans of the several states. In some slates they muster 2, in others 3,4,6,3 and as high as 14 days in each year. To regulate the burdens of duty in each state, to ensure concert and efficiency in this important branch of national defence, I am of opinion the general government .should take the subject in hand; that the numbers should be reduced in time of peace; that those who are called out ought to be paid for their services; and that, until something is done by congress to equalize the duty and compel the militia of the several states to muster alike, it is useless to burden the country by withdrawing each of our citizens from the pursuits of husbandry for three day? in each year, making an aggregite yearly loss of one hundred and fifty thousand days; and estimating each man's time at twenty five cents per day, the loss is thirty seven thousand dollars annually: a sum exceeding the nett revenue of the state. The limits of such a communication as this will not allow the details of a substitute for the present system. It is the duty of the excuthe tD make himsell acquainted with the wishes and interests of the people, to watch the effects of existing laws, and recommend sucli measures as will remedy those that may be defective. To discharge these duties will require an unremitted devo

tion of time and talents. I am therefore of opinion that the office of governor should never be sought for or used as a stepping stone to other offices, and if I should be honored by the choice, I "ssuffi my Tclluvv citizens that I will not during the time for which I am elected, or afterwards, receive at the hands of the legislature any office whatever. I will, fellow-citizens, comply with the customs of the country by visiting each county, and wishing to share the confidence of the people in every section of the stale, I trust they will not take ground against me, but suspend their choice until I can be seen and heard. N.NOBLE. May 1, 1831. Kir. ISarbca-'s Aalslrcss,Friends and Ft (low-Citizens: Agreea ble to your request, and being deeply sensible of the important principles which are involved in this meeting, I have assumed the baldness to address you, on your constitutional rights, and what I believe to be your duty to yourselves and your country. Old age and rank, each have their claims to advice; 1 am unsupported by either, yet I flatter myself that you will listen to the plain dictates of reason and justice, whether they flow from the lips of hoary headed age and wisdom, or from the tongue of youthful inexperience. If I understand the nature of this meeting, it is an Anti 'artisan meeting. We have assembled for Ihe purpose of nominating candidates for County and State officers, and to discharge one of .ft a a - w .. the highest duties of freemen. The elective franchise, and the nature of our government, are such that every man who feels for the happiness and prosperity of hi? country, must be, more or less, a politician. To acquire a knowledge of our Constitution and outlaws is an attainment worthy the aim of every man who loves liberty and hates oppression. They are the noblest institutions of human wisdom. They were acquired by the wisdom and bravery of our ancestors, and we are bound by every principle (hat should glow within the breast of Ihe disciples of liberty, to transmit them with unfading lustre to posterity. Equal justice to all, is the end for which governments are instituted among mankind. Offices arc created for the benefit of society, and not to advance the private interest of any one man, or class of men; and officers are elected to advance ihe interest, and promote the happiness and prosperity of the community, of which they are but individual members. In theory our government declares that "all men are created equal and fiee;1' yet men who profess to venerate our Constitu tion, have raised the banner of party spirit. They "cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war." Many of you, as well as myself, have been called on to aid in banishing from our legislative halls all those who honestly differ with us in opinion. As for myself, I am a sincere friend to the present Administration; but lam firmly opposed to elevating men to office merelv became they think as I think. It is'not that I love my Jackson friends less, "but that I love my country more." I never will aid in aggrandizing a party on the ru ins of ihe interest of my countrv. Every tub must stand on its own bot torn ; and every man should stand on his own merit, and not on those of General Jackson or Henry Clay.

Fellow-Citizens: I ask yon, for what purpose do we send men to Indianapolis, and Washington? Is it to advance the personal interest, or the political ambition of Gen. Jackson, and Henry Clay? I answer no; it is to advance the interest, and promote the prosperity of the country, and they should devote their time and talents to the attainment of that object. That man who dare prostitute that delegated power, with which a representative is invested, to aggrandize a parly, should be "damned to everlasting' fame." Ft llozc -Citizens : Against whom are we advised to unfurl the banners of party spirit? Against whom are we invited to unsheath the daggers of civil discord? I answer, it is against our fathers, our brothers, our dearest friends that we are called on to enter the list foim in battle array, and tear the vitals out of society. And who are to receive the benefit of this war of proscription and extermination? It is the farmer, the mechanic, and the laboring class of the community? I answer no; it is the professional gentry; and those who have become politicians by trade, who are to be elevated on the ruins of the peace and happiness of society. It is those men who have just head enough to contrive crime, but not heart enough to feel for its consequences, who blow the flames of party strife, and political discord among us, that like the ferocious hyena, or the hungry wolf, they may feed on the spoils, and fleece us to the bone. Shall we suffer ourselves to become the dupes of their disguised, but ambitious schemes? Forbid it reason; forbid it justice; forbid it every grain of freeborn common cense. Who made one party infallible? Who constituted one class of men with power to make an unerring decision, and bind all others to that decision? "To err is human, to forgive is divine." If e differ in opinion on the Presidential question, it is an honest dilferencr, and no reason why we should differ on all others. Let us venerate the fast advice of the father of our country, the Godlike Washington; he says, "beware of party spirit, it is the bane of republicans." That sentence is worthy to be engraven in letters of gold, and sealed on the heart of every American. Viet? the ancient Republics; turn over the mouldering records of departed ages. See the virtuous Aristides banished because he was just. See the immortal Socrate3 condemned to drink

hemlock, because he dared to think different frsm the ruling faction. See Athens enfeebled and enervated by party spirit and factions and at last see her sink a feeble victim beneath the tyrant of Macedon, and the sun of Grecian liberty set to rise no more. View Rome; see the parties cf Ivlarius and Sylla causing her streets to run crimson with the blood of her citizens! View Caesar and Pompey leading on their legions to slaughter,and enslaving their fellow-citizens ; and at last see that great Republic, the land of Cincinnatus, Fabius, Cato, Brutus, and Cicero, sink beneath the iron rod of a tyrant and a despot! Party spirit has led to the downfall of States, Republics and Empires, and brought the most dreadful calamities on mankind. Fellow-Citizens:. Let us take warning from the melancholy fate of those Republics, which have preceded our own. Let us crush the foul fiend party spirit, in the bud, and avoid the rocks and quicksands on which the liberties of other nations have perished. Let us nominate and elect those men to fill our political offices who have one common interest with us. By electing farmers, and mechanics, whose interest is blended with, and corresponds with our own, we shall bring into public view talents which have hitherto remained buried in obscurity. Look around you ; see how many men there are in the country of the brightest natural and acquired talents, who have withstood the bitter blast of poverty who have rent in twain the veil of ignorance whose days are spent in toil and labor, and their nights at the lamp, in the acquisition of useful knowledge, and who might adorn our legMative halls; yet they are passed by unnoticed; and unless they will sacrifice every principle that should animate the disciples of liberty, they can never rise. It disheartens exertion, discourages merit, and enfeebles the Slate. Depend up on it,'a man of real worth and integrity, who knows and feels the responsibility which a representative is under to his constituents, will not ride through the country and beg your votes. Look at the conduct of those men who make a business of electioneering; while soliciting our votes, they are the most clever men that ever existed, but as soon as the election is over, O sad reverse! O cruel destiny! that we poor "clod-hoppers," cord wainerand woodhewers, are doomed to undergo; we get no more of their generous trea'ts no more of their sweet greetings of "how do you do?" no more of their honeyed compliment--, until another year rolls around, and they again come on the turf as candidate for "the louves

and fishes. It is high time that the farmer and mechanic, who are "the bone and siiew of the country," and who bear the burden of government, should assJme that station which justly belongs t) them. The disciples of litigation, and political craft, have had the ascendancy long enough. Fathers!

will you st II remain blind to your duty, to yourselves and your children? Sons! will you tamely surrender your rights to a horde of idle drones, and political blood-suckers? Or, will you rise in the majesty of your might, and exercise your Constitutional rights like rational and thinking men. Friends and Felloiv Citizens : Let us smother the deadly flames of party spirit let us yield up our prejudices and our bigotry, a willing sacrifice on the altar of our countryrs good let us unite like a band of brothers, and no:n "mate men from among our ovvn ranks, whose interest is blended with, and corresponds with our own; and let them stay at home, and leave us to decide at the polls, who shall serve us. By adapting and adhering to this system, we can rid our country of that hoard of idle drones, who swarm through it in quest of the "loaves and fishes,' as thick as t he devouring locusts of Egypt. But in cur endeavors to accomplsh this object, we must be actuated by principles which soar above party sjirit; let us act on principles which shall tower aloft majestic and sublime, when we who now tread the stage shall be mingled with our parent dust. In selecting our officers, Lt our inquiries not be whether he is a Jackson manor a Clay man. Let our inquiries be "is he honest, is he capable," is he in favor of a just and equitable system of taxation; and when elected, will he stand firm and unshaken in the defence of the interest cf the farmer, ihe mechanic, and the laboring class of the community. OF TUG JACKSON CENTRAL COMJIITTrE, To the people oj Indiana. by a srn-coMMiTTEE appointed ron THAT FTRPGSE, BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. Fellow Citizens: AVc are fortunately relieved from the difficulties which attend most political parties; we have no interests to compromise and no opinions to conceal. The land marks of the Republican party, stand too conspicuously forth to be hidden by clcuds of misrepresentation: and they have stood long, and are known too well, to allow falso guides to lead us into new path The chief magistrate, to whose guidance we have confided the interests of the republican party, has proved the excellence of our choice, by the wisdom of his measures. Our treaties with foreign powers are the best evidences of diplomatic ability, and show that plain common sense may be applied with no less success to the mysteries of diplomacy than to the affairs of common life. The recovery cf the direct trade to the West Indies, is in the highest degree advantageous to our commerce, and the benefits derived from it to us, are daily increasing in magnitude and importance. Our commercial treaty' with Turkey opens a wide field of enterprize, and discovers new sources of wealth to our merchants. The administration has been no less successful in the management of our domestic affairs, than in the arrangement of our foreign relations. The policy it has pursued has been peculiarly that of the republican party. It has been settled for y ears, and is nothing more than the application of enlightened common sense to the measures of government; its march has been and will be onward to the good of the people. It holds in contempt the stage trickery of diplomatic stalesmen, and the glaring misrepresentations of mortified demagogues. It addresses itself at once to the plain good sense of the people, and asks only an unpre judiced consideration that it may be ap proved. It is a policy which has given our enemies so little room for faultfinding that they have been forced to seize on and distort it before they could abuse; and the labor of the contest is thus doubled upon those who serve no other purpose than to show us that the republican mantle is still unrent. The great points of dilference between the parties, are, if we believe our opponents, not the same now as formerly. Even they have been driven by the current of public opinion, from the ground they lately occupied with such haughty confidence. The aristocratic principle of entailing office, finds but few noisy supporters. Yet wherever the power remains, this fundamental principle of the party is fully applied. The murmurs against rotation in office are no less loud than formerly, but they are less numerous. The more liberal even of our opponents; are convinced that it is a necessary consequence of our republican institutions, and that it is the best if not the only practical preservative ofoffi. cial purity. Our opponents sliil su

perciliously claim to be the especial patrons of Internal Improvements, and loudly reproach us for intruding on this self appropriated privilege. The republican party has proceeded in this matter as in all others, with an eye solely to the good of the people. It has willingly and readily aided inter

nal improvements, when they were of such a character as the constitution allows to be executed by the money of the people. But the party has not been willing to violate the constitution, merely to waste the public money on local works, which produced no benefit, save to a few favored partizans, and no profit but to the stock holder of a private company. The republican party has not, and we trust, never will do this. It has too much respect for the people to squander their money, without reference to law, system or expediency. It has done all that can be dene legally; and our opponents only find a footing for a distinct doctrine by pushing our own principles beyond the limits cf law and beyond the "possibility of being realized. The republican party will wait until the national pledge is redeemed by the payment of ihe public debt, and wilt then expend such portion of the surplus revenue as the people may thin!: proper, on some well defined system of national work-, the benefit of which shall not bs confined to cne or to two sections of country, but shall be felt throughout the Union. The discussion of the principles which should govern and regulate the admission into American markets of articles of foreign growth and manufacture, ha3 had a tendency to confuse public opinion as to the true interest & policy of the citizen and of the government. The wisdom of experience is generally the most infallible, and to that guide we would doubtless turn were it not for the mazes cf mystery which our opponents attempt to throw around a plain and simple proposition, which, in some measure, serves to answer other designs than the candid cxamination of an abstract science of government. The settled policy of our government should be to make its citizens, as far as possible, independent of other nation?, and to unfold their genius and enterprize, as well as to developc its resources. A system of impost duties which would produce this eliect, has always been, and still is, zealously cherished and advocated by the friends of the present administration in Indiana, and although they may be represented, by their opponents as enemies to the "American system," or this peculiar branch of it, an unlimited "Tariff'" they will always be found the true f riends of that "American system," or j 1 'Tariff," which shall yield a sufficient revenue for the purpose of government, and which shall protect home industry and manufactures from the blighting influence of foreign rivalry and competition. While this principle is distinctly avowed, we desire that we may be fully understood. Articles of prime necessity and general consumption among all classes of the community, should be allowed to reach them at the lowest prices, and consequently' unincumbered with duties to such an extent as to enhance the cost; while on the other hand, such articles as are merely the auxiliaries of luxury, and are most generally purchased and used by the opulent, may be with far more justice, viewed as legitimate objects of higher duties and higher prices. It is the duty of every government to benefit a majority of its citizens by any measure which shall not oppress the minority. The rich as well as the poor would derive advantages from a reduction of the duties on staple articles of consumption. The essential articles of Salt, Coffee, Sugar, Tea, Cocoa, Sec. which every laborer, merchant and farmer inusl consume, and but few of which are very abundantly' produced in our country, or to the extent of a full supply, should be afforded at the lowest possible rates. I he operation of high duties on such articles as are in unlimited demand, has been, in all countries, to induce frequent and extensive frauds upon the Treasury and upon the people, by the process of smuggling, and by other devices to evade the operation of the revenue laws. Let the silks of Italy and France, the linens and laces of Great Britain, as well as her fine cloths and cassimeres, blankets and carpeting?, her India and Egyptian cotton fabrics, her fancy articles of commerce which pamper aristocracy and pride, be the prominent articles of the Tariff and high duties, and let every article which can be manufactured at home, at fair prices, bo fairly protected; but let rs not buiid up monied monopolies, at home or abroad, with powers and privileges to "grind the face of thelpoor." While we are unwilling to oppress the citizens of any portion of the Union, by the cttecli of high duties, we are also unwilling to be oppressed by the same means. Let it be borne in mind that they who consume, pay the duties. It is not ihe European merchant or manufacturer who imports, that pays this duty. If

fie pays it at the custom hcuc, the

farmer, the mechanic ami iuu i,. has again to repay it to him through the mediumof the retail store. 1 .us money, which some would he willing to give to the monopolist, is all paid into the Treasury from the pockets of the people. The farmer who buys a bushel of salt pays a part, and a heavy part: the citizen who buy? a pound of tehee, tea. Sec. pays also a heavy portion. Let the burden? of government bo hnmn bv all. but let the articles cf necessity be brought to the door of the Our JIUUI HI. HI ill u'1- ' v' - ' I opponents speaks of the Tariff as a piece of perfection which is so magical in its effects that it will make cvery man rich and independent. W e believe that it is similar to all other inventions of man, fraught with more or less error. As a general policy of government we approve it, but we do not annrovc of its erroneous or oppressive feature. We have high authority from men of both political parties that it3 bearings are unequal in diifcrent por ti ous of the Union, and that some ot it revisions require modification. We prov nr,mnjp fn mnend. v.ot to destroy iO build up not to pufl down. Give us home industry, fair protection and equal privileges and American genius: and enterprize will never be found in the rear of foreign competitors. Tha low priee3 of mrny domestic articles are given as so many proof of the fact, that high duties do not produce high prices. " In reply to this idea, wedeera it only necessary to refer to the great improvements in labor-saving machinery, the spirited heme competition in many blanches of trade, the low price of raw materials, and the enterpriz? of our citizens. We never can believe that the scarcity of an article tends to cheapen it, that a addition toils cost renders its value less, or that the absence of the foreign fabric would incline the domestic manufacturer to ask le?s for his goods. This would be sophistry and false reasoning. The products of our soil, the energy of cur people and the quantity of article which they produce, prove conclusively that the privilege of monopoly is not necessary ; but on the contrary, dangerous to our interest and in contravention of the plain features of cur excellent constitution. This modified TariiT will pour into the national Treasury, far more than is sufficient for ihe expenditures of the government. The disposal of (he surplus, presents a question of the rno?t grave and important character, h this to be retained in the national Treasury to be frittered away as t: i exigencies of party or the necessities of official parasite may re-uire i;?--Fortunately our President has furnished an ansvrr, which only needs to be stated to obtain our assert, lie haa proposed a plan of distribution in exact accordance with cur republican notions. It comes recommended to us by simplicity and equaliiy: and we hope to see it adopted and executed with wisdom and honesty. The course which has been pursued in relation to the Indians is so obviously the only legal and just cne that could be devised, that there needs no argument to establish its propriety. Even our opponents have given it a grumbling assent. It is to be regretted, that attempf3 have been made to disunite the republican party. They are to be regretted not because we have aught to fear from open enemies or hollow friends, but because we had hoped better things from those who have stooped to attempts sa inconsistent with their foimer political character. Fellow citizens: The elertions in our own State are approaching. We have too long allowed our opponents to triumph over us by management and intrigue. 1 hey should cease to oppoint officers over a large majority of the people of the State. It is unworthy the dignity of a powerful and fearless party, to be cheated into submission by an intriguing minority a minority insatiable in its appetite for offic e, and relentless in excluding members of the republican party, fr m place and power. Let us remove this humiliating proof of cur carelessness let us support fearlessly and unanimously the principles we profess let us give an tffn knt supr ort to the administration whose policy we approve let us enable it to effect those measures which the republican party is pledged to execute let u? have a Governor and Lieutenant Governor, Pwepresentatives in our State and national T.cnslu-j-i - - tures, who will speak cur language and advocate ably and zealously our prini ijdes and interests. Let us not forgo t that the choice of president may devolve en the m-xt Congress, and let us attend at Ihe election?, determined to judge impartially of the qualifications of candidates, determined to test their political fiii.ess by the unvarying standard of republican principles, integrity, talent unj patriotism, and to support those, and only those, who maybe found worthy. U .it y -and concert are eulirely necessary aiid by thtm on-