Indiana Republican, Volume 1, Number 11, Madison, Jefferson County, 8 March 1817 — Page 2

i:a has formed a constitution manifestly not republican, would they then, he akked, have been entitled to vote for electors ? Me would put another case : The - act of last session prescribed the number of delegates which should ; be elected by each county to the convention ; suppose the convention to; have formed a republican constitution, but that the counties should have sent three times the number of delegates authorised by the act of congress, would not congress -see that the whole course of proceedings was proper; and would pot their incipient acts be ineffectual until congress had decided on them ? The admislion of the member into this house, no o'her appearing to claim the seat, was different from the right of voting in the present electionand until the state was declared a member of the union, it was not to be so considered, so far forth as to entitle it to vote for president and vice president. Tfso, it was an idle thing for congress, in December last to dedaretheiradmissionintorhcunion. Mr. Kobemon, of Louisiana, regretted the agitation of this question, as he could not lecogrize the right of this house or the senate to decide on the lights of the state ; and to question the sovereignty of an independent state after its admision into the union was a matter of dangerous tendency. The state of Indiana, professing to be such, had sent members to this house and to the senate, who had been admitted to all the privileges of legislation. "Was it said congress had not used due deliberation in admitting those members? and had the state done zzy more in -electing electors than in sending her members to represent her in congress? You cannot now; said Mr. R. raise a question of state or no state, -ihe condition requiring the -state to adopt a republican constitution" was a nutter of course, becauic the United States were bound to guarantee such a constitution to each state ; and the joint resolution of December last was a mere declaration that the tate had complied with the obligation. Mr. Pitkin, of Connecticut, was of opinion that the state was entitled to all state rights, as soon as they complied with the rcqsitions of the act authorising the people -of the territory to form a state government. The state of Louisiana was different, because the act authorising that territory to adopt a sute government, requiid that their constitution should be submitted to congress, before their admission into the union. With Indiana the case was different, as with her no such condition was made. The question before the lu,usc, Mr. P. said, was a novel one; resolutions had been passed by the two houses to assemble for a certain purpose therein stated, and the most proper would be to send a message to the senate that the house was ready to proceed in the business of counting the votes. Mr. Hendricks, of Indiana, regretted the necessity which called him up. Indiana he said, was,

or not a state, and the decision of that question would settle the one before the house. The case of Louisiana was not analagous ; as the ordinance of 1737, concerning the territories, and under which they were admitted into the union, did not apply to any territory west of the Mississippi. The only question for congress to decide was, whether the s'tate had complied with the 'requisition of the act of last session whether the constitution adopted was republican or not nothing more. Suppose, indeed that the state had adopted no constitution at all ; had chosen to live under their laws alone, and had not thrown their state government into the form of a constitution ; would the state have been deprived of her rank in the union? The ordinance of '87 had guaranteed a state Government when they reached a certain extent of population, and congress could require of them no more than had been done. Mr. H. argued that the same authority which gave him a right to a vote in this house, gave diem also a right to vote for president and vice president of the United States. Mr. Ingham of Pa, moved, that the tesolution and amendment be both indefinitely postponed ; whichx motion was Agreed to almost unanimously; and then, On motion of Mr. Jackson, a message was sent to the senate, . informing them of the readiness of this house to proceed in counting the votes. The senate soon after again entered the representatives hail; when The speaker informed them that the house of representatives had not seen it necessary to come to any resolution or to tike any order on the subject which had produced thev separation of the two houses. The reading of the votes was then concluded ; and the Tellers handed a statement thereuf to the president of the senate, who announced to the joint meeting the following as the state of the votes : Prest. I Vice Prcst.

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then declared J AMLb MUNKUh, -isis saving mcmseives on board of Virginia, to beululy elected their vessels. The possession of president of the United States, k Tampico .will open, at once, :,

D ANIEL D. TOMPKINS, of N. channel for supplier, of every kinti York, duly -elected Vice Presi- reaching the patriots hi the inie. dent of the United States, from 'norland after the fourth day of March VAmis des Lois, Jan. 14. .next. ' The senate then withdrew, in GrCOP M Grcop the order in which-they -entered 5 0 the hall ; and . "'Haying observed in your paper The house adjourned. of Friday, an article from-Nor-folk, relating to Sir, G. M G.-c Jacob Burnet, Esq. is elected gor's having abandoned the .cause President of the United Stales of the Venezuelans, Rafter finding BranchBank at this place. alibis endeavors to establish any Cincinnati Gazette. thing like concert, discipline, or regular government among them A Dutch ship ( the Johana) ar- to be utterly unavailing.' I am in, rived at Norfolkthc, 26th of Jan. duced to state a few particulars in a very long passage from Am. relative to this person, f rom which sterdam, with 300 passengers, you may deduce probable utility Or. Are these the Swiss 1 destined of which he has ever been to the to plant the vine and the oHve in cause in question, our happy caul try, who some M'Grcgor arrived in La Guaytime last fall, were stated to be at ra, some tint towards the middle

Amsterdam rcadv to embarfc for of the year 1S1 1. Tie announces!

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(Ibid. himself as a Scotchman of rank who had served in the -Peninsula.

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United States Ranh. Second Instalment. In Baltimore, the specie part of the se

cond instalment in the National Scotch bag pipe in full bhir, but Bank has been principally paid: a his servants clad in the Highland amall number of stockholders on- custom attracted sufficient curiosly, having availed themselves of ity. M'Crejor for some time at. the proffered accomadation for ter his arrival did not find the sixty days. In Boston the whole military employment, which apof the specie part of that instal- pears to have been his object in ment was paid, excepting a very visiting the Main : hut during his trifling amount from one or two stay at Caraccas lie made himself small stockholders. In Charles- remarkable alone for some Enton, every stockholder paid the glkh propensities, such aj con. specie. Indeed, we believe that stunt displays of h?rsemanlup, a much more of the speic ptrt cf the strenuous affection for the botti-; secend instalment has been real- he. but above all his bagpiper wa feed, than would have been if the an inexhaustible source of won. Bank had not offered accomoda- der or disgust, to the musically tions, because of the nature and reined inhabitants of Carraccax. kind of security required for the In the threatened civil convuh payment of those accomodations, sions which were abcut to ex. and because the arrangement hid plode when the earthpu':c took the effect of depreciating the price place in March, 1812, M'Gregor of specie, so that stockholders could take p part, as he had no

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JUSTICE IT fCil, who is sup- sion of the Province from the posed to reside somwherc in the side, of Coro by the Spanish Ivo). western country, may get infor- alists, under Monte verdc, the mation of his son JEREMIAH command of a few hundred caval FI I'CI I, by applying at this office. 17, whom, after the most ill judg Jeremiah when young, left his fa- cd manoevering in the face of the ther and went to sea ; he was enemy, he contrived to lead into pressed on board a British ship an ambuscade, where the create:

of war, where he remained seven pari of them were slain or taker, j .1 years. He- has an uncle John prisoners, he himself escaping jp Fitch somewhere in the western with great difficulty. His ill concountry. duct on this was notorious, ami f

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do an act of charity by republish- hiin of absolute inebriety on t! ing this article. , day he left his cavalry, as well that he was seldom othcruii A resolution has been inrrodu- when there was no probability c ccd into the legistature of Pa. to being engaged. The writers inquire into the expediency of a- this knows, this mischance thre'

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15 lerred by a small majority to the of causes whicn induced Mirani' 1 it judiciary committee. . Gaz. in the month of July 1812, fM 8 surrender tke country to an in! 12 Gen. Victoria, the Mexican pat- rior force. 3 riot chief, in the intendency of MGregor escaped with vari'v' 8 Vera Cruz, after having taken a ethers, through the capitiilatu ; 3 convoy of 2000 mules laden with made by Miranda ; and it is crc 3 silver, (amounting it is said to ibly assert jl, that his proper; ;

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