Indiana Republican, Volume 1, Number 12, Madison, Jefferson County, 15 March 1817 — Page 1

4 INDIANA BLTCAN.

I . . . : "WHIRE LIBIRTY DWELLS, THERE IS MY COUNTRY." I . ? . : ; : - f VOL. I. MADISON, (INDIANA) -SATURDAY, MARCH tc, 1817. No- 12. I . . 1 -

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Van W 'sirt.

The suspicions which col. Tall-

ide has endeavored to excite the rectitude of these men's entions in their capture and

tentiun of major Andre, during

r war of the revolution, is con)cred as an affront to the naWl character. Why indeed are mises placed in contradiction of bmwledged acts incontiovcr)h facts It appears that all Andre's offers re fruitless He was brought 0 the American camp.- Who, i can presume to say that any jbg he could promise, would ye been effectual ? Mr. Gardenicr has treated this bject very ably, ingeniously, Hngly, and patriotically. Aljst every editor in the country $ censured the attempt to obligate a glorious record from our 4 itional history. We content pelves with the following exlets : , ym Dr. Ramsey's History of the ' I Revolution. I Andre offered his captors a rte of gold and a new valuable itch, if they would let him pass, X j permanent provision and future promotion, if they would convey and accompany him to Jtfcw York. They nobly disdained the proffered bribe, and delivered him a prisoner to lieutenant Volonel Jameson, who command - 1 the scouting parties. In tefctivony of the high sense enteitain1 of the virtuous and patriotic induct of John Paulding, Davjd yilliams and Isaac Van Wart, the iptorj of Andre, congress re

solved that each of them receive

annually two hundred dollars in specie during life, and that the board of war be directed to procure for each of them a silver medai, on one side of which should be a shield with this inscription, Fidelity; & on theother, the following motto, Vincit Amor Pat Ha: and thar the commander in chief lye requested to present the same, with the thanks of congress, for their fidelity and the eminent service they had rendered their country. From Marshall: Life cf Washing, ton. " The thanks of congress were voted to the three militia men who had rendered to their country this invaluable set vice, and a silver medal, with an inscription expressive of their fidelity and patriotism, was directed to be presented to each of them. In addition to this flattering testimo nyof their worth, and a further evidence cf national gratitude, two hundred dollars per annum during life, to be paid in specie, or an equivalent in current money, was voted to each of them ; a reward it mut be admitted, much more accurately apportioned to the poverty of the public treasury, than to the service which fiad been received." More impressive than either of these authorities is the following from the New York Courier of of this day, Jan. 29 : Andre's Captors Col. Tallmadgt'i attack on the character of the three American yeomen, who captured my or Andre, having been made known to one of them, Mr. Van Wart, he came down yesterday from West Chester county, to see me on the subject, and to take measures to rebut those charges, the object of which is to take from him and his compinions, not only all claim of melit, but render ' them infamous, by representing them to have been Cowboys, in plainer EnglLh, cattle stealers. He introduced himself by a letter from the Rev. Mr. Smith, of Tairytown- In this letter Mr. Smith expresses himself in these words. " It is a truth as incontestible as the existence of the sun, that Isaac Van Wart sustains as excellent a character, as any in the county of West Chester, and cvcr did, from his youth. And proof can befmade by some hundreds of persons now living that neither Van Wart, Paulding nor Williams ever were in the British camp ; and that they never wjre suspicious persons, but on the contrary were true supporters of the rights and liberties oi their gountr, Upon this subject there

is not a .-ingle observation ma ie

by Mr. Tallmadge, which points at the tiue character of these men." A gentleman who sccompanied Mr. Van Wtrt, and on whom I can rely, assures me, that his character has been during his whole life entirely unimpeachable, in evcry respect, and thar he is a etrictly moral and religious man, having been for twenty years a member in communion with the thurch. Mr. Van Wart intends to make a statement on oath of all that took place, at the capture of Andre, and to support it, with such further corroborative proof, as shall leave no dr;ybt on any man's mind. In this I have promised him all the assistance in my power, and I hope to have every thing prepared for publication, in the course of a fortnight. I was much pleased with Mr. Van Wart's personal appearance ; it is respectable, and being advanced in years, even venerable. His face is one of those in which honesty is written most legibly ; k when he came to speak on the subject in his visa, it was "tisercin grief than in anger " He appeared solicitous only for the restoration of his fair fame, and that of his companions. His circumstances are easy and comfortable, as he owns a licit farm of about a hundred and fifty acres, which he lultivates with skill and industry. In politics he has been an uniform supporter of the principles of the Washington school, and has been to this day and now is a federalist, and I must confess I could not but sympathise with him ; when he learned that it was from a federalist that he had received the deep and enormous injury of which lie complained. We publish the following artie'e to shew the feelings and opinions of our Canadian neighbors. How much they despise the ' fedcraliiits of the Boston Stamp" may be seen in every paper that is published in Canada. We are heartily glad of it. It is what they deserve both abroad and at home. 1). P. From the Montreal Herald, Da. 7. Tl I F. AM l R I CANS NOT C I f RlSTlANhJ The title we give this article, wc should have reprobated, had its correctness nor been proved by a respectable Federal ! paper published in Boston, said to bs edited by a inanb-r of that kind of priesthood entitled the Bulwark if the Christian Religion. Before the Hartford convention met, the members of that hypocritical body wished to make John Bull be

lieve that they were earnest in l is

cause, and ready to assist in laying prostrate the atheistical government of Mr. Madison, ihe depth of their sincerity wis soun e in the sequel and the truth seems to be that if their power had been adequate, they would have destroyed not only Madison's government, but that of Great Britain at one blow. But this could not be done, and wc fear wc are digressing from what we intended briefly to state. When the orlicial accouirt of lord Exmouth's brilliant deeds before A-giers, came to Bosion, it appcarcd plain in the treaty between his lordship and his highness the dey, thar ail christian, in slavery were immediately released (when we saw the articles of the treaty, we said, 4 the Americans are. in eluded of course,") and christian prisoners never afterwards to be treated as slaves. But to our utter astonishment the priesthood

ueny mis, inry asscrr rnac uie -mcricans are not included, and consequently fhtly deny that they arcchrisii.ms ! This is baic faced ly asserted before the eyes of the world, but lias come our wc should imagine rather unwillingly no matter whether or not, for, however, blue the light it is bright enough to light us into the sentiments of the New Englanders. They have for ten years past represented Great Biitain as the Bulwark of religion, as far as we can remember they never said of what religion.) But this is of little consequence from such mouths and pens which can be devoted to any purpose to promote selfish designs. Without giving our country the Jesuitical title of Bulwark of religion, we shall give her one which no heathen will dispute. She has proved herself the Bulwark cf Humanity, and in no instance more conspicuously than in the glorious transactions before Algiers which the Boston cd;tor contemns for being christian ! Had the business of humbling Algiers been left to com. Ch.iuncey, there is no doubt he would have done his duty as far as hl means would have permitted; but a great doubt arises in our minds, whether lie would as lord Kxinouth did, (if successful) have carried back the 570,000 dollars to the lings of Sardinia and Naples, if they had come within his clutches. VVecail on the priesthood to remove this doubt if 1 hey can. Had we scrn any perversion of the meaning of the tteaty with Algiers in the American oliicial paper, or any other which suppits governm snt, wc bhcmld iiave probably