Indiana Palladium, Volume 11, Number 36, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 19 September 1835 — Page 1

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By V. Cole fc E. Curtis.

Terms $3 PER YEAR 331 PER CENT. VISCOUNT MADE ON ADVANCE, OR 101 ON HALF YEARLY PAYMENTS.

LAWiaiBWClBlBlJiaCHH, (IA.) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1S

MO. 3(8.

3IAUTIX VAX 1UTREX. The opposition papers have been engaged for a scries of years in assailing the lion. Martin Van llurcn, the democratic candidate for the chief magistracy. Whether he was in public or private life, he has at all times inspired their hatred and been honored with more of their abuse than almost any other man living. His official conduct has been made die theme of continued reproach, and the imaginations of men have been tortured for imputations upon the integrity of his motives. It is a little remarkable that those who harbor so much malice toward this distinguished individual, and who have peered into his public and private history with that industrious scrutiny which envy could alone inspire, have been wholly unable to find a blemish upon his private character. While almost every other prominent member of the party has been calumniated, and

the errors of his life exhibited to the

magician that ho has generally succeeded. This we believe is the "head and front of his offending." He is a magician, and, therefore, a dangerous man. Does the reader ask for specifications, does he enquire what has the candidate done which should alarm the fears of the people. He will ask in vain. The alarmists prefer to deal in generals if they should descend to particulars they would be driven to the proof, and abhor such a dilemma as a certain other mendacious personage who refused to give the rcrsons upon compulsion, and like his, their charges are as gross as the father that begat them. No candidate was ever presented to the American people whose principles, character and talents more eminentlyqualified him for the highest station in their gift, than the candidate nominated by the National Convention. His political principles accord with those

of a vast majority of the people; lie iia

public "aze, Mr. Van Burcn who en- been nominated by the unanimous vole jovs thcuninixcd hatred of the opposi- of a body of men who were convened Y,oT tvlio lm fliw.nrtnd their schemes according to previous usa?c, to select

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and defeated them on all occasions, the most prominent member ot tne hne nnSCo! flirniurh tho ordeal unscath- narty for the support of the people, and

cd. The purity of his life challenges the propriety of the selection is cordiinvestication, and none have dared as- ally approved by the whole democratic

sail it. As one of the distinguished mem

bers of the Democratic party, he has

family. We look with as much con

fidence to the success of the nomination as to the happening of any fu-

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been more feared by the opposition uro cm. u lmn almost any individual. His con- position made as it is of the "shreds y .v -f. fi 'and patches" of all parties, will be nn-

American people, early excited apprehensions of certain ambitious men, and their increasing exertions have been directed with the aid of the entire Federal press in this country, to weaken his hold upon the confidence of the people. But it has found that he was too firmly entrenched to be successfully asssailed. Every attempt to disgrace him in public estimation has endeared him to the democratic party, and quickened their energies in his behalf. When his nomination as a minister to England was rejected by a factious Senate, he was selected for the exalted station which he know occupies and was elected by an overwhelming majority. The deep rooted hostilitp and undisguised malice of the Hartford Convention federalists toward Mr. Van Burcn, would be alone no inconsiderable recommendation to the confidence of a majority of the people.

Those who are most in the way of the accomplishment of their designs, and most distinguished for firmness to the cause of equal rights,arc most exposed to their attacks and enjoy the greatest share of their hatred. The most grave charge that has been made against the candidate of the ncople, during a vigorous and bitter

warfare winch lias neen carried on

potent indeed.. Holding no principles

in common with each other, and dis

tracted by conflicting interests, broken down and dispirited, they cannot con

centrate their feeble forces upon any

rrm Hiflntc. Thcv look with dismay

upon "the prospect before them," and

anticipate a defeat with the same certainty with which we look for a glorious

victory. liar fjord 1 tines.

Clouds. There is nothing so grace

ful as a cloud. It is the richest thing

in nature, except a wave in its dissolution. How beautiful its printed sides

flaunt along the west! I have watched those that were engendered by the

snravs of Niagara and the winds of

Ontario, floating castwardly from the

nrriflont. until evcrv fold was bap

tised in molten ruby, amber, and vermilion, and as the vast curtains, leaving only a few thin bars of crimson across a" sky ofitcndcrest violet, I have repeated these beautiful lines of Greek: Methinks it were no pain to die, On such an eve, when such a sky OVr canopies the west, To gaze my full on yon cam deep, And, like an infant, sink to sleep Ou earth, my mother' breast.

tbr years,

is, that he is a 'magician.'

This charsic implies talents of some

kind and deserves notice inasmuch as it is the only instance in which a member of the democratic party has been allowed to possess any intellectual qualcations. General Jackson was represented as a mere dolt, without talents and education, and entirely unfit to conduct the affairs of government, t was strenuously insisted that he would bo impeached before the expiration of his first term, and that in all probability before the formalities of such a trial could be concluded, the ship of state would by the ignorance or obstinacy of the pilot be made a complete wreck. The leading members

of the democratic party m both branches of Congress, are represented as mere brawlers who sink into insignificance, in comparison with the Representatives of the the United States IJank in the same body. So it has always been. The federalists have all the" talents, all the virtue, and what is uf more, all the religion. Federal principles are a specific for moral leprosy once imbibed and the rccipent is healed of the most loathsome diseases. The term magician, is used we suppose from the accompanying explanations, to denote an intriguer, and thus tho democratic candidate is said to bo a designing and artful man. This chargein a limited sense we believe is true. It has been one of the principle designs of Mr. Van Burcn's life to defeat the machinations of the opposition, and he has been so much of a

There peace and welcome in yon sea. Of endless, blue tranquility,

Those clouds are living things: I trace their veins of liquid gold, I see them solemnly unfold Their soft and fleecy wings. Clouds arc like flowers, in their facing and passing away. We loose

them with regret. rl noughts ot our last hour come upon us, as we watch them die and we almost wish to die with them, to say Come now, O Death! thy freezing kiss, Emancipates: the restless bliss! would I were away ! I am led, in looking at clouds, to think of the past, and the mysterious awe with which they were regarded in the olden times. In the days of Tacitus, when the Roman armies approach-

led a town to besiege it, and if the shad

ows of clouds lay upon them, they would postpone the warfare until the sunlight was there. I thirrfToF these nlrl bnllads. where desolate ladies are

' represented in their castles, watching tho clouds as they sailed up the sky

from France into khglanu, envying their elevation and scope of view, and budding a thousand dreams, as fantastic as thcv. Kniclr. Beauties of fhe Greek Costume. Many of the Greeks present were from the Fanal, and three ladies from that

quarter, who stepped out ot tlic same caique, attracted universal admiration, wherever they moved ; for, if not princess by birth, they were at all events, entitled to claim that distinction in the court of beauty; and the eldest was

the most lovely creature I ever beheld.

She possessed one of those fine intel

lectual faces, which once seen, can never be obliterated from the gazer's re

membrance: and there was a languor

and a softness in her countenance, and in the expression of her large, dark, sleepy eyes, expressly fascinating, tho' more allied to oriental than Grecian loveliness. They were, Black as death, their lashes the Bame hue, In downcast length in whose shadow lies, Deepest attraction. Her hair was a deep glossy brown, nearly approaching to black, and fell in luxuriant ringlets on a neck of ivory: while her tall, commanding figure seemed to have been moulded by the

graces; and though somewuat inclining to the embonpoint, she moved with an elegance and dignity befitting Juno herself. I have already observed, that the ankle of the Grecian race is remarkable for its exquisite symmetry; and hers was a model of perfection, which plainly indicated her descent from a people, among whom beauty is the most decided national characlerisww It' 11 . . 7 . .

tic. llcr delicate small iooi was cnaussee'd in a very neat black shoe, with a stocking of snowy whiteness; in a word

she seemed the personification of Dudu: Somewhat large, languishing and lazy, But of beauty that would drive you crazy. The ferridgc or cloak, worn by this 'Queen of the Sweet Waters,' was thrown loosely on her shoulders, disclosing a dress remarkable for its elegant simplicity. Her veil of white auze, worked at the ends with silk and gold, floated at random over her hcab! and' shoulders; a rich shawl was bound round her waist, and served to

confine the tunic close to her bust: tho remainder of her dress was of muslin, nlain, neat, and of the purest white.

She appeared perfectly unconscious of 1 1 1 1 1 1. 1 !

her superior ucaiuy, anu, uiougu uns costume was calculated to display her attractions to the greatest advantage, her whole demeanor was characterised by the most perfect modesty. Visit to Gonslant'wople.

assumed fo nrovnnt incnrroriinns and save

communities! If in time of war, a Postmaster should detect a letter of an enemy or spy passing through the mail, which if it reached its destination, would expose his country to invasion and her armies to destruction, ought he not to arrest it ? Yet, where is his legal power to do so? From the specimens I have seen of Anti Slavery publications, and the concurrent testimony of every class of citizens except the abolitionists, ihcy tend directly to produce in the south evils and horrors surpassing those usually resulting from foreign invasion or ordinary insurrection. From their revolting pictures and fervid appeals addressed to the senses and passions of the blacks, they are calculated to fill every family with assassins and produce at no distant day an exterminating servile war. So aggravated is the character of those papers, that the people of the southern states, with an unanimity never witnessed except in case of extreme danger, have evinced, in public meeting and by other demonstrations, a determination lo seek defence and

sifcty in putting an end lo their circulation by any

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power whose elementsaic now agitating the south,

the united people of that section religiously, be

lieve; and so long as that shall be iheir impression, it will require the array of armies to carry the mails

in safety through their territories, if they continue to be used as the instrument of those who are supposed to seek their destruction. As a tnaesure of great public necessity, therefore, you and the oilier Postmasters who have assumed the responsibility of stopping lhese infl inflatory pipers, will, I have no doubt, stand justified in that step before your country and all mankind. But perhaps the legal rights of the abolitionists to make use of the public mails in distributing their insurrection ury pipers throughout the southern states, is not so clear as they seem to imagine. When those states became independent they acquired u .right to prohibit ihe'circulation of such pa

pers within their territories; and their power over the subject of slavery and all its incidents, was in no degree diminished by the adopliori of the federal constitution. It is still as undivided and sov

ereign as it was when they were first emancipated

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laws, to has ten . .uie of '.h? defiancef hei blel of. things bo deplora. I do not desire to be understood as affirming that the suggestion here thrown out, ourht wEhout the action of higher authority, to beonsidered as the settled construction of the laws or rcatded by Postmasters as the rule of their future action. It is only

iv oo mat m a ouuuen emergency, principles po grave and consequnces so serious, the safest course for Postmasters and the best for the country, is that which you have adopted. ' It prevents the seizure of all the mails in the aggrieved states, with a view to the interception of tho obnoxious papers the interruption of commercial and friendly correspondence the loss of confidence in the safety of the mail conveyance and the probable overthrow of the authority of the United States, as far as regards the Post Offices establishment, throughout half the territory of the Union. It prevents a speedy interruption of commerce and trade between the cities of the north: for there are abundant evidences, that the vessels or steamboats which should be known to come freighted with these

pjpeib, wut-uier in ui'j man or not would not Jon be

and puts the free negro in imminent peril.

ioj avoia oeing made yourself the agent and accomplice of blind fanaticism or wicked design in a course of proceedings which, if succesful, could not fail to repeat on our shores, the horrors of St. Domingo and desolate with exterminating war, all the territory of our happy country You prevent your government from being made the unwilling agent and abetter of crimes "against the states which strike at their very existence, and give time for the proper authorities to discuss the principles involved and digest a safe rule for the fu ture guidance of the Department While persisting in a course which philanthropy recommends and patriotism approves, I doubt not that you and the other Postmasters who have assumed the responsibility of stopping these inilamatory papers in their passage to the eouth, will perceive

the necessity of performing your duty in transmitting and delivering ordinary newspapers, magazines

and pamphlets with perfect punctuality. Occasion must not be given to charge the Postmasters with carrying their precautions beyond the necessities of the case, of capriciously applying them to other cases in which there is no necessity; and it would be

from the dominion of the King and Parliament of tne uuty as wen as uie inclination ot the UepartGreat Britain! In the exercise of that power some ment to Pun,sh such assumptions with unwonted se-

of those slates have made the circulation of such veruy. xnis suggecuon i oo noi maKe Decause I

papers a capital crime; others have made it a felony

punishable by confinement in the Penitentiary, and perhaps there is not one among them which has not

forbidden it under heavy penalties. It the aboli

tionists or their agen's were caught distributing

their tracts in Louisiana, they would be legally

punishable with death; if they were apprehended in Georgia, they might be legally sent to the IVnitcnitarv: and in each of the slave-holdino

states they would sutler the penalties of their re

spective laws.

straint; but because I wish this paper to bear upon its face a complete explanation of the views which I take of my own duty in the existing emergency. Very respectfully, your obedient servant. AMOS KENDALL.

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Much has been said and written relative to the

letter from the Postmaster General, and also as lo

tn thn course of our own Postmaster, fe. L,. Uou

t.- : l.,:,r im tho -l ) ml i f ion nnmnh!f?ls

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:ent, and intended lo ne sent uy man. i uu iuuuwn" highly important letter from the former gentle-

man, ex)iim.i j y 1,1:3 " t " j ? been handed us for publication by Mr. Goyeneur.

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Polt Office Df.partmkm-, 22d Augustt, 1835.

To Samuel L. Govcncur, Esq. Postmaster, New

York : Sir Your letter of the 11th instant purporting

to accompany a letter from the American Anti-

Slavcrv Societv, and a resolution auapicu oy uiem,

came duly to hand, but without the documents alluded to. Seeing them published in the newspapers, however, I proceed to reply without wailing to receive them olrlcially.

It was riuhtto propose to the anti-slavery society

voluntarily to desist from attempting lo send their publications into the soulhern stales by public mails ;

md their refusal to do so, aller they were apprized

hat the entire mails were put in jeopardy by

!,pm. is but another evidence ot the latuity ot the

councils by which they are direcieu.

After mature consideration ci i iv auujti, auu

kin" the? best advice within my reacn, 1 am ifirmed in the opinion, that the Postmaster Gen-

. . 1 1 nli inniv iiv nnv firner or refTnia-

,;n of Ins Deoartmeut, to exclude from the mails

any species of newspapers, magazines or pamphlets. Surha nower vested in the head of this Deepart-

m.nt. would be featfullv dangerous, and has been

properly withheld. Any order or letter of mine directing orollicially sanctioning the step you have taken, would, therefore, be utterly powerless and void, and would not, in the slightest degree, relieve

you from its responsibility. But to prevent any mistake in your mind, or in that of the abolitionists, or of the public, in relation i, mi nnsition.and view, I have no hesitation in

: ii.ni 1 ri fttprrpfl from fzivinnan order to

ovVh.Hfl tha whole series of abolition publications

from the southern mails only by want of legal power; 1 iii ;rr ,oro climtpd as vou ate, I would do

aliu 1 1 it m. w... v as you have done. m Postmasters may lawfully know in all cases the contents of newspapers, because the law expressly nmridps that thcv shall be so put up that they may

be readily examined; and if they know those con-

tents to be calculated ana uesigneu u i"uuw, and if delivered, will certainly produce the commission of the most aggravated crimes upon ihe property and persons of their fellow citizens, it cannot be doubted that it is Iheir duty to detain them, if not even lo hand them over to the civil authorities. The Postmaster General has no legal power to prescribe any rule for the government of Postmasters in such cases, nor has he ever attempted to do so. They act in each case upon their own responsibility, and if they improperly detain or ure papers sent to iheir oflices for transmission or de livery, it is at their peril and on their heads falls the punishment. . If it be justifiable to detain papers passing through the mail, for the purpose of preventing or punishing isolated crimes agaiust individuals, how much more important it is thai this responsibility should be

New Invention. The Yankees have discovered a new method of silencing fanatics, and dispersing fanatical assemblages without the use of swords, fire-arms or any other dangerous weapon. In Now Bedford (Mass.) about the first inst. hand-bills were issued, informing the citizens, that an abolition mee-

Now, have the people a legal right to do by ihe tins would be held at 6 o'clock P. M. in one of the

mail carriers and Postmasters of the United Slates, churches, at which, it was expected the notorious acts, which if done by themselves or their agents, Englishman, Thompson would be present, and hold would lawfully subject ihem to ihe punishment due forth for the edification of those present. The house to felons of the deepest dye? Arc the officers of was filled to overflowing at the appointed hour, Vt " j o. . iiwi 1 , ... . when.' says the writer ot the account, "much to the United Stales compelled by the constitution ' mont. nmi ut r ha 'a.

and laws, to become the instruments and accompli- found a Very large and respectable choir in the orces of those who design lo baffle and make nugato- chestrat "discoursing sweet music." Two reverry the constitilution d laws of these Statesto fill enj gentlemen ascended the pulpit, one of whom them with sedition, murder and insurrection to being an entire stranger, looked to a great part of overthrow those institutions which are recognized the audience prodigiously pronounced and comand guaranteed by the constitution itself? mencedthe reading of a psalm: when, lo and behold And it is entirely certain, that any existing law the signers tuned their pipes, and without waiting of the Unite .1 States would protect mail carriers and for the reader, or paying any attention to what was Postmasters against the penalties of the state laws, going on below commenced a chant of sacred music, if they shall knowingly carry, distribute or hand The reverend gentleman sat down, tho members of out any of these forbidden papers? If a state by a the abolition society looked as if music had no charm constitutional law, declare any specific act to be a for them, nnd the audience highly delighted crime, how are officers of the United States who A parley was held: A minister plenipotentiary demay be found guiltv of that act, to escape the penal- patched to the orcheetrc, who received him with the ties' of the state lawsl It might be in vain for them full chorus of an hundred voices, and dismissed him to plead that the post office law made it their duty to without ceremony, and he had no hearing. The deliver all papers which came bv mail. In reply to meeting was then opened,- the 1 resident took the this argument it might be alleg'ed, that the post of- chair and attempted. to address the meeting; wherefice law imposes penalties on Postmasters for "im- upon one of the choir rose and informed the assemproperly" detaining papers which come bv the mail, bly that it was their night for rehearsal and they and that the detention of the papers in question is could not be disturbed, and requested the audience to not improper, because, their circulation is prohibi- keep as still as possible. 1 his annunciation was ted by valid state laws. Ascending lo a higher 3ceived with demonstration and joy, and shouts principle, it might be plausibly alleged, that no law of applause by the assembly. 1 he instruments again of the United States can protect from punishment sounded, and the choir .burFt forth in strains the any Ln.whetherapubicc officer or citiien, in the most enchanting. Again silence reigned. Ihe

commission ot an act wnicn me siaie, acting witn- otw.. ii The undoubted sphere of her reserved rights, has "But when to speak the man essayed declared to be a crime. Can the United States fur- " Gods ! what a .noise that fiddle made," nish agents for conspirations ogainst the state and and the whole choir again broke forth in strains,. enclothe" them with impunity 1 May individuals or raptured the whole assembly, Mr. President, the combinations deliberately project the subversion of Secretary pro. tern, and'their associates excepted, state laws and institutions, and ligting their fire- who began to think their 1 hompsonian doctrines "no brands beyond the jurisdiction of those states, make ffo" here. Many said or attempted to say somethe officers of the United States their irresponsible thing, "that Thompson was not m the house, nor arrent to apply the flames!. Was it to give impunity in town;" but it was too late all had- become that the several states came into the Union and con- too rnch enraptured with tho music, and they were ferred upon the general government the power "to obliged to sit under a shower of hisses, establish post offices and post roads?" "As soon as silence was again restored, one of , , 1 proprietors of the house rose and requested that In these considerations there is reasosn to doubt, " audience might be permitted to retire in peace, whether the abolition.sits have a right to make use "Lreupon the choir struck a very appropriate tuno of the mails of the United States to convey their ; H - . . ... . . J . . fnthn wnrns.

publications into states xynere tneir circulation is ,tT. dismiss us with thv blessing' Sec.

And thus closed the farce. The society adjourned

forbidden by law; and it is by no means certain that the mail carriers and postmasters are secure from the penalties of that law, if they knowingly carry, distribute or hand them out. Every citzen may use the mail for any lawful purpose. The abolitionists

may have a legal right to its use for distributing their papers in N. York, where it is lawful to distri

bute them: it does not follow that they have a legal rifht to that privilege for such a purpose in Louisiana

or Georgia where, it is unlawful. As well may the counterfeiter and the robber demand the use of the

mail for consummating their crimes and complain

of a volation of their rights when it is denied.

Unon these crounds a Postmaster may well hesi

tate to be the agent of the abolitionists in sending their incendiary publications into states when their

circulation is prohibited by law, and much more may Postmasters residing in those states refuse to distribute them. Whether the arguments here suggested

be sound or not, of one thing there can be no doubt:

If it shall ever be settled by the authority of Con

gress, that the post office establishment may be le

gaily, and must be actually employed as an irresponsible aent to enable misguided fanatics or reckless

incendiaries to stir up with impunity insurrection and servile war in the southern 6tates, those states

will of necessity consider the general gtverment as

an accomplice in the crime they will look upon it as identified in a cruel and unconstitutional attack

on their unquestionable rights and dearest interests, and they must necessarialy treat it as a common

enemy in their means of defence. Ought the i ost-

waster or the Department by thrusting inese patm

sine

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die. without bringing xonn, wun an meir

ighty efforts, even a mouse."- Lex. Intelligencer.

ConBETT. His Love of Nature. One of tho

most beautiful and the most characteristic traits of William Cobbett was his love of nature. Here ihe amiabilities of his dispositions had room to luxuriate: and surely, if the enjoyament springing from this source be a proof of a finely organised mindof a mind atuncd to tho influence of the gentler sensibilites, then was Cobbett a man filled with all the elements of social and private happiness. . He delighted, even as a child, in the spring shower, the summer sunlight, the autumnal reposo and in tUechiU breath of winter. To him, the lake, the mountain, and the field, -the rural road the quiet grassyjmound, and the "silver streamlet, had a voice of welcome. Dearly did ho love to feel their soothing influences, and few men have more oleasinclv described them. We confess that we sympathised with the feelings he roust have had, when he desired that he might be carried out into the open air, once more to inhalo its tracrance, and once moro.to witness the operations to which hewas passionately devoted. .There is mora

poetry in these feelings than we were wu.ing io attribute to characters like Cobbett, and they bring

him to us in a more soflened torra uian as a

coarsof ana sometimes m icuim.- r-""

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