Indiana Republican, Volume 1, Number 17, Madison, Jefferson County, 19 April 1817 — Page 2

mfip.t them 'law. imrVfurriish abundant cm- boston, march a. the steering sail had got am,

and shewed by their continued ployment for lawyers and sheriffs, Extract efa letter from Mr. Rich, water, both of which served I

cheerino-s how .anxious they were justices and constables ; and they ara dinner, oj notion, on voaru .cep ucr urtuubiuc to the w

to pay the proper tribute of re- support the government gener- the trench orig muncue, oouna naa snegoi oeioie uie wind,Ii;

spect to the men whose heroic ousiy Dy paying more excise uwu .jlunt " - ""uiu ncv

deeds shed a lustre on the Ameri- any other class of citizens. dated Lampeachy, nay o; Mexico, nave caugnc ner. when we s, can arms and entitled them to Drunkenness promotes liberty and December 25th, 1 8 16. rrived within about sixty n their country's lasting gratitude, equality. : Because, it deposes the "You will have no doubt been the Bahze, we had a violent; subjects to spurn all restraint, uneasy on my account, not hear- of wind from the north and); From "the Greensburgh Gazette. " human and divine ; and brings . ing of our arrival at N. Orleans, two days, but the vessel sufl x down the proudest gentleman to You may perhaps have given us so much, the leak increasing. ac THE FORESTER : a perfect level with the greatest up for lost ; we escaped being so the sheathing going from her bo;

dy Walter woodlands, esq. ruman, and renders tneir compa- very narrowiy. kju un..m.wi -ui, viuu. uiuugm propJ No VI. nv eauallv agreeable and Nov. we struck on a reef of coral .to bear away for the Havanna 1

rt,P rhinvmnan h,vnn to plover entertaining as.thev are eauallv rocks, about 6 leagues from Man- repair damages: but in runni,!

'The distant Cumrock hits cut disposed to pour out timzas, at 8 o'clock at night ; inv over from the Tortugas, wefe; .cuts: a deluge of nonsense, billingsgate mediately all was flight and con. to leeward of Bay n Ilcnda, ac'To count her horns, vrt a' my prrfr,, and blasphemy. . 'fusion, and all subordination was it blowing fresh from the Nortf Isetwscl: Drunkenness promotes legal set- at an end, the sailors refusing to JSast, we were obliged to tatj

But whether she had three or four, ence. .Because, drunfcards obtain ooey tne oraers or uieir uiulcis,cx auiF auu uuiu 10 ca. m t ' Icou'd na tell burns. an interesting knowledge of cri- immediately attempted to get out days beating off and .on the dan" y.POI.OfiY FOR D.R.UNKENNESS. minal iurisorudence. and a num- the boats.the iolly boat they .stove gerous reef of Coloredas, wclo?

Ir annfm-s imm the nublic ber of them studv the nenal sta- in srettinc: her over the side ; the sixty miles to leeward and sceir)

papers, that the Synod of Pitts- tutes, in those legal seminaries, long boat they succeeded in get- no prospect of beating up to 4 buigh have prohibited the use of commonly called jails and pene- ting out without injury, and then Havana, and being in danger i ardent spirits, and have thereby tentiaries. set to work making up their bun- going on the Coloredas in cbetlJ

condemned drunkards to suffer Druukenness promotes domestic dies of clothes, and put them into wind veered to the northward

everlasting -thirst: for if they government. K or, it you follow the boat; they also put into tne .we consulted wmca was best

cannot get ardent spirits in this a drunkard home you will, gener- boat, a small casK or water ana a oe Gone m our meiancnoiy situworld, it is not probable that they ally, find him raging and foam- bag of bread, and then insisted on tion. To have steered to & will obtain anv in the world to ins blasphemine: God, and abus- leaving the brir immediately. The Orleans was risking all, for j:

come, however great their thirst ing his innocent, industrious, and captain and myself represented to ,case we should encounter anotW

may be. fUut, witn suomission miseraoie wire ana cnuaren, wuu mc uanti ui taiu v .uiu u uc nvr to the Synod, we may venture to stand before him with fear and vessel at the beginning of night we hid not sufficient provisions!

-allege, that before they pronounc- tremoiing norour ana anguisn, in a smau Doar, wun 23 souis, oc wdici iu uavc iclhcu ine nav: ed a sentence calculated to place as silent as the grave and as sub- aawe supposed 10 or 12 miles na ; thus situated, with two sim drunkards in purgatory ' before .missive as the slave chained to the from the shore, with a dangerous casks of water, and a small qui their time thev ouirht to have oar. reef of jrocks between us and the tity of provision?, we bore ra

given them a fair trial. Tor, Drunkenness is subservient to or shore; no entreaties of ours how- -for this place, and arrived whatever, the merits or demerits thodoxtf virtue. Because, drunk- ever could prevail upon ithem to 16th instant, having been on ven of these men may be, they are ards demonstrate the doctrine of abandon the rash project, & they short allowance of provisions it

entitled by the constitution and human depravity & degradation, gave us to understand that it we one glass or .water. per meai. the law, to trial by competent by arguments the most convinc- did not go, they would leeve us to . - iudcres and a iury or their peers : ins and unanswerable : and they our fate in the brig. Thus situa- 6T. PATRICK'S DAY.

and a drunkard has-no peers, in, display vice, in an attitude h dress ted, with no other boat, we were A respectable number of chok: . . 1 1 1. 1 i .. 'm n r ii. . i ...1 . :J

coeve, or under tne earth, except tne most oaious ana aigusung. oongea to comply, ana wun an jjjuus num mc uiumju inai

drunkards, therefore he cannot Drunkenness promotes religion m the passengers, including the wire the borough or .anesviiie, on ti 1 1 j 1 1 j t . .,... C .U T? .1 ...!!. I Tlx- I-L- l"-m- ..J-..t ,.11,,,,.

oe conoemnea, on consiuuuonai general, ana numuuy m particular, uicnuiui consul, wmi mice amuiv o j, iuu nuu f . . r t 111'IJ : -.ti : - ... I

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ana Jegai principles, out oy tne uecause, some men nave no 5mancniiaren,wentinio ine ooat. ig luais.wcic uranis. wunauiax verdict of a jury composed of religion until they obtain a stiff After Quitting the brig, we rowed ry glee and appropriate muic t twelve drunkards, Uiey only be- grog, and their religion increases about one hour .and a half along Mr. Smith. h ing his peers. 'Yet, in the case in in proportion to the quantity of the reef, and the mate who kept .1. The Day held in Ternem-

question, drunkards have been spirits which they imbibe, until sounding every moment, announ brancc of the tutelar Saint of 'dj

condemned without a trial by ju- at length they become so extreme- ced from 3 to 4 fathoms water- land of our i-ativity, who. pre; ; ryorihcir peers, and by judges ly religious and humble, as to wal- on which I observed to the captain pagated the doctrines containq ' incompetent to the task, being low in the mud along with the and sailors, that we were evident- in the good . old book, the chrij j destitute of that experimental hogs, for the edification of the ly on the rocks ; that if the boat tians discipline May we, knowledge of the subject, which spectators. struck, we must all perish, and sons, pattern. after him in theorj would have led them, when de- Drunkenness circumscribes the a- the only chance to save our lives and practice. 1 ciding on drunkenness, to make gency of the prince of darkness. was to stand out from the reef Tune St. JPatrick's Day. a lioeral allowance for the thirst Because, his infernal majesty, until day light. One of the sail-, .2. America, the land of or of the drunkard an important irom long experience, has so much ors. immediately proposed that we adoption she stands firm amids point in the cause. And that a confidence in drunkards, that should return to the brig and the downfal of .kingdoms and tl generous allowance ought to be they will directly or indirectly, wait for day, which I seconded, crush of empires the distinguish, made for the thirst of drunkards, render themselves and their fa- They agreed at last to return to ed asylum for the persecuted' :' v ill appear evident, when the in- milies as miserable as possible, the brig ; and having a compass all nations ; May we and our affluence and operation cf that that he seldom interferes in the we steered back North, .having spring respect the abode of licet ; thirst is taken into view. Now, business. And whenever a drunk- steered nearly South from the ty. Hail Columbia. J it is well known, that there are ard appears in any company, the time we left her. After rowing 3. Ireland our native scilH men, who have drunk their hor- demon on duty puts on his hat about 2 hours, we discovered the which .for landscape and harbour j ses, cows, sheep, hogs, houses and leaves the room, as his pre- brig about 2 miles distant which for prospect; statesmen, g''V and lands, to allay their thirst, sence ?s no longer necessary. convinced us she had drifted off men and great men, is not ck'

and still they are dryextremely Drunkenness prevents testamen- the rocks and having all sail set cecded. 13ut alas I the law iHr. dry, and if they could have dis tary litigation and funeral mourning, she was going from us; this ciis- ped from a foreign nation g'jj '; tilled their wives and clrildrcn, as Because, drunkards, generally, couraged all for a moment : but her ! Will she be free, or willv easily as they can mash them, live their own heirs and die their on my observing that we neared be a slave.

they would have drurk them too. own executors, and leave the her fast, they set too with re- Ireland my Darling

Surely, the thirst of such men world with the consent of their doubled force, and after two 4. Monroe and Tompkins 1,; is entitled to serious attention, friends and neighbors. hours more hard rowing we got sident and vice president; tillVj On these principles, we move an All which is respectfully sub- on board, and to our great joy on choice of a nation ()(ralllfci arrest of judgment ; and, with mitted, on behalf of the thirsty, sounding the pumps, found she May they civc to their preset. , .1 r. 11 i?.., . . 1 ? r. 1? 1 1 . .1 1 " 1 Iimtr

me musi proiouuu iiuminiy, sud- Dy ineir attorney in raci. 01a not masc more water than oihccs tne same uegrcc u - mit to the consideration of TLMOTHY DRY. ordinary. Wc immediately trim- they have heretofore imparted t the venerable Synod the fol- ' Westmoreland, Jan. 18 17. mcd all sail, and stood off till day stations of inferior magnitude lowing statement of the advanta- Those editors of newsDancrs. light : and the next dav oassed Monroe's Marc"'

ges of drunkenness, supported who published the scorching re- the Havanna, continuing our 5. James Madison, our hte j :I

by tacts within the knowledge of solutions of the bynod or ruts- course tor New urleani it was sident; he leaves the siv.p ' thr roiirf. ' 1 r vrn ' xu mnfnr r fnvnnr nn nhnnt csrtf rhanrr tn r UunArrA aj?', . ir'nrm im ic. hcllll t( "

rktic tendency Bccxu3ei drunk- the above apology. X. D of the jolly boat which was stove, a rope yarn wanting; ards pay their debts according to ' rj " got entangled in the rudder, and jib pointing fo the N. 1-