Indiana Republican, Volume 1, Number 17, Madison, Jefferson County, 19 April 1817 — Page 1

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exuberance of blessings, in this produced it, with every joint dia good citizen in community, garden of felicity and delight, located by the cruelty of its mur- Hence aiises the cold blooded 21.3there are despriilers whose breath derous father, and with suicide Hgnity of those champions of djs. blasts beauty into deformity. on its brow. Conscious of the order, who fatten on the spoiU of whose province it is to defend the shapeless deformity of the skele- murdered truth whose 'power profligate and guilty whose ton, and unwilling to recognise is erected on the ruins of immotouch is contamination whose the premature and unnatural lated virtue, and whole throne exertions have been volunteered birth of his bantling, its father . of triumph flourishes only on to render virtue subservient to adds one crime to another, byre- the destruction of every enemy vice, and to overthrow the har- sorting to the sacrilegious profa- of vice. It is for this, that the mony and good order of the com- nation of the dead man's sepuU author of Lycurgus has disgraced munity. ' chrc, and dragging forth the himscli by atteu pting to d;sirm It is, indeed, a subject of se- ghost of pool Lycurgus, the an- Edwin of his power and to shield rious regret, that the pioductions cient Spartan lawgiver, to give the daring conduct ot the couiof some of your correspondents, currency to his dross and to dis- niissioners from the liglnni; gs of are receieved from the press, grace the memory of the illustri- truth. But how has ilic witithsmoking and dropping with the ousdead!!! ed miscreant accomplished his blood ot murdered language and But I will pass over his crimes ; darling enterprize ? He begins immolated sense; and nothing I feci no disposition to inflame his lirst paragraph by charging adds more to the poignancy of the public mind to a pre-condem- lid win with having written, a that regret, in the mind of the nation of the trembling victim; phiilipic of billingsgate abuse achristian, than to tee a man I will give him a fair trial before gainst the dear commissioners,

who had professedly devoted his the great tribunal of insulted an- afid ends it by declaring that he

me to the sacred ministry, de- tiquity and scendingfrom the dignity of his sense.

station to lead the vanguard of Excuse me,

if COMMUNICATED. z. Editor. I congratulate you, rm If brilliant display of elegance & jte, which has lately adorned I columns of your paper. I brilliant, because it would be rogatory to t lie gigantic greatjs and g'ory of a Whitson and Lkui irus to sneak of t heir Der-

inances in the lansuisre of ;th. Dear to the classic is the urn of rhe golden age which iir talents have recalled to b'ess j world! Bur yesterday the uds of savage barbarism and rllectual darkness ovnspjead :se regi()ns. No literary dawn saked the skirts of the hotizn; 'suit brightened the gloom of ; desert ; no charm inspired the Aude of the shade; no smile red the bosom of the wan'er ; no press blazed with the viusof its patrons: But that ht of the human intellect has scd away a new age has comneed the scene is changed dawn appears; the heavens e become luminous with rnurente ; the smile of gaiety pis on every countenance ; the ' g of cheerfulness floats on c- . f breeze ; the hum of indusL. greets every ear. Here virt has erectfed her sanctuary, la.nce has descended from the skies to the embrace of Madison, and the press sits enthroned upon the ruins of the desert, denouncvengeance to the guilty wning vice into obscurity fnmg virtue of its dangers & 3HDg its monitory voice against ry violation of liberty or law. But in the midst of this rich

violated common l$ much better qualified tor a cer

tain kind of drudgery, which Mr. Editor, in mtn had been employed in about

the town, thin committing tig. pndatiens upon gel In ihis.;eclaraiion the learned auilior his, indeed, far outstripped the Seve

rn y ot Edwin's pen, 111 JavuhiLj:

that fraternity of wretches, who throwing one glance upon hisfol-

glory in election, to office, of the lies, his stupidity and his ignorblackest k the basest characters an-e. I blush to attempt it; I that ever disgraced the records of blush to descend to the humhia humanity. tin degradation of noticing his

It is, indeed, heart-rending to meanness. His ungentlemanly zppiobriuin and disgrace upuj

piety, to behold such a man un- attack upon Edwin, proves him , tuose traj.scendantly iiiustJAui der the pretence of defending re- to be as ilestitute of common po- tou.niissioncis, io o fend v iiose ligion, stepping forth into the co- liteness, honesty and truth, as he spienuid talents, whose itijui cd lumns of a newspaper ; deserting is wanton in his insults to the i-me ud spotless integrity, he has his flock to indulge in the bitter- good sense and integrity ol an risen as a writer, to tiie enviable cess of political controversy ; enlightei ed public. Edwin has capacity of an idiot and a murwielding his pen to varnish crimes done no more than the imperious derer. Edwin lelt no ciispo&iti.n and to pamper swindlers ; prosti- mandates of duty require of eve- to disgrace the empire of gene, by

ruung nis cnaracur and degraa- ry goou citizen ami mend to vir- placing niem on a level wnn uie ing the dignity of. his protession tue. At a time of unusual peril commissioners ; the author ot Eyby espousing the cause, and be- and alarm; when the citadel of ho- curgus is justly entitled to the ex-

a!orn ilz

coming the champion of a parrv, nor .was threatened with invasion elusive giory of thai comparison.

who are only known by their pa- and contamination by the rnin- God grant that his tinpioytrs tronage and support of base and ions of villainy and crime when may never need a better advoca;c; abandoned men. the intrigues of the wicked, strug- his rame is complete he tki-ei ves But Mr. Editor, let me beg gled to enchain the minds of the a crown for his bn very, Un he leave to escape from the further people to the car of their impious has had the courage to tommir. contemplation of the conduct of idol, and to render them pamk- suicide on his subject and should this odious, this disgusting, this ers in .the infamy of his he again, come rorward, and iay unnatural political juggler. It is character Edwin stood forth up- his murderous iwrids i.pon the not in my power, and it certainly on the public watchtowcr, at one, English language let me warn is not my wish to add any thing to the enemy (If vice, the advocate him that he wn; iind ine prcurthe deep coiidcmnation of his of virtue and the champion of ed 10 weave 1 another garland ';f character, as it now stands record- truth. ' puisv' to decorate his frow, a.'.d

ed in the estimation of every ju- In his attempts to unmask the to p uck another feather lunn ins

aicious man. buch is tiie indiir- swindling wretch, who courted crown 01 ipono

nity and indecency of his per for- the smiles of popular favor by mance that I leel myself degraded kissing to betray -who bought up by paying him the tribute even of the suffrages of the ptopU by one moments consideration. wafting to their ears the unbroThs next author who presents i-ial incense of adulation, and who

hitnseif to the contempt "and deri- bought to disgrace an honorable gadier general MiJlerJ with fheir f . 1 . 1 1 i 1 1 1 . i.i"

sion 01 tne puonc, is guilty not station oy wrapping u 111 tnedsep uuw, .passccr inrougn tins piacc, only of. murder, but of sacrilege, shade of his infamy ; in his strug- on bat 11 relay last, with lieur. co). With one hand he plunges a dag- gfe to save this county from tlje Jones to visit fort Washington, ger into the heart of the English everlasting disgrace which tinea- which is commanded by rhar . gailanguage, and tears out the vitals tened to blacken its respectability hint and distinguished young ofof common sense with the other, forever ; and in exposing to the hcer. Notwiths-anding in: short His production, is at once, thee- world the late extraordinary cor.- notice which was received, cel. vidence of his crime and the duct of the county commission- Lynn called out a part of. th; n.imonument of his disgrace. Jt crs, in most daringly violating lit dry of the town, and a salute . stands before us, a haggard mon- the laws and constitution of tiie was fired by a company of artiJster, deformed by ignorance, dis- state, Ed w in is jusi ly entitled to icry under the : command of capr. toned by the convulsions that the lasting gratitude of every OnM.hU an immense crowd e;

bright plumage of his glorv. is Oil A i 10. Alexandria. March ro.

Major general Brown and bn-