Indiana Republican, Volume 4, Number 186, Madison, Jefferson County, 20 July 1820 — Page 1

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cc WHERE LIBERTY DWL1S, VilERX IS MY COUNTRY." 4 VOL. IV. MADISON, INDIANA, THURSD AY, JULY 20, 1820. No. 1 36.

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3J CONDI L iU.Nb. IThe "REPUBLICAN" will . .Iriivercd at the ornce for two J ii.ir-. ner annum, paid in ad-vin-e; if paid within two months after subscribing, it will be consi-u-e I in advance ; two dollars and rrv cents if niid v.'ithin twelve ,., ,-;ths ; and three dollars if not piil until the year expires. So paper will be discontinued all irr. araes are paid. In all cases a subscriber mast ft. - notice punctually at the end ot p .... yt-nr of hU intention to disco.:or h'i will be held resnensi j. i.. for ;uirtner years subscription A d ertis-un : tu.s not exceeding a : tre will be inserted three times ir one dolhr ; Iri.roaes in pro-c-tion, and if the number ot ins ' .us desired, art not c;r.e t - v.-; . : br cotifinutd at th- -- of tue aavtrtiatr until oru, rA" 1 ?!-rs to the K iirr iv- n ..-t ;-,tid. r ' - - Lin. i-Oolce, Jetler ' i August i $tb, 18 1 3 PERSONS wishing to uiike transfers of lands entered in this o lice are requested not to ?:ilie th-m on the back of the Register'; certificate but on a separate pica: of piper. It frequently happens, thu by transfenng an I assigning on the bick ot certificates, they become $0 mutilate.! and defaced as to destroy th-contents. The follovvmg form may be ied. ' For value received I, A. B. cf county, do assign & franr to C- D. of county a!l my right Sc title to the qu irter section No. in township .T u. (North of South as the case may be) or ran No. East ot 1 !u Jeffcrsonville District. Wi.n s my hand and seal this day t 18 1 3. A. B. (Meui.j Tet," This assignment tiring acfcnowle Iged oct ore any justice of the peice, and certified t)" the clerk of the county ot its being stub, will procure a patent. In all cases where the ?rvi nt rate's or cicrks teniar ito happens to be on a "dWeren? piece of jvukt from the assignment it will be proper tor th-m to vet forth t tic particular tract sold. It will be well for magistrates and others who are in the lnbit of writing assignin -uts to preserve a copy ot the biee:ving as their guide. I ho;" who send to the ollice o in .vet their business done, will please- to be pirticular 111 descrining in pbiin legible hand, the tract thev wMi ti enter, and to "write their given rumen at full Ln "th. w"ft SAMl. GWATHMEY. LAXD OFFICE MJT. list :'.r:;tj, ;v -icte: cf kicf jr;- rt'CtivjuIe s.s cash fcr tve sale cf puh'.ic lands at Jtjfir Bmk of the United States and branccs, Biuk of Virginia & branches, Tenners bank, ditto, Bmk ot lenn. (Philadelphia,) Bmk of North America, ditto. Bmk ot Philadelphia Tarmers & Mechanics do. Me;hinics bank ot City and Count v t j " - - Commercial bank of Pen. do. Bmk of Northern Liberties do. otUiliiraotc iriBaltimore,

Bank of Maryland ditto, Union bank ot Baltimore Mechanics bank Merchants bank cf Baltimore, Franklin bank of Commercial & Farmers do. Farmers & Mechanics do. Bank of Colurn. Dist. of Col. Union bank of George town do. Farmers & Mechanics bank

Patriotic do. of Washington Bank of Washington )9 Bank of the Metropolis Union Bank of Alexandria Bmk of Alexandria, Bank of Potomack, Farmer, bank of It New York bank - New York, Manhattan Company ditto Mechanics Bank Merchants Bmk Union Bank of f Bank of America Farmers and Mechanics bank Bank of Cnilhcothe, Srite .;ik or la. Vincennes, Bi' v rz Illinois at Shawnee tOWf!, Bin. f diss-uri St. Louis, Bt ik f MisMasippi Nateuez, Bxuk of Orleans, Orleans, B 4nk of Louiiina, lTninn Dank ot VS. Cirolina, fcts.te bank of S. Carolina and branches, Lxcept note cf a ks3 denomination than five dollars. (CwRRECTr.D WF.LK.LY.) AN OR VI ION. Delivered at 'ernon yenninzs cunty, It. J( v 4tb 182c. by William A. Bullock Eia. Fellow citizens. Trie occasion upon which I ric to address vou der ives its importance from the ideas it associares, the reelings it inspires, and the principles it inculcaies. If your speaker slnll be so fortunate a? to revive in voar re4 lmmbr ance the virtues and ma -n ni;ni?v ot our aiHiCied ancestors; and to quicken a pinionc emulation in your hearts, be will iiave attain d his chief objret and hi- highest widi. It is devoutly wished tint the cenivalitv of thiidav, nuv be such as to meet the approbation of heaven, and to leave the ccuso nous tongue no just cause for reproach. Let then a pious oadtude be found am onc,our oSFeriiis: and let not "this feast of reason and 11 W ot soul" be swallowed up i; the appetites ci sense. A review ot the A merle :n hlstorv at: " irda a nleidnq; astouiah.ncnt to him wh ) delights in the improvement ot the arts, the extension ot science, and the civilization of nun. That pleasure is heightened by contrasting the present condition of our country with its earliest settlement; and by marking the changes ot its natural and political state in the space of two centuries. Could our forefathers have enjocd the fond anticipations that their litttlc colony was ever to be such an extended empire; that from their wide and shapeless altars were to rise so many towering temples, dedicated to their God; that their wild and savage neighbors were ever to be tamed into obedience, 3nd to be brought to acknowledge the true author of their being; could they have foreseen the civil and religious liberty, which hassucceeded to their sons, they would have hid a sweet foretaste of the happiness we this day realize, and the pain cf their own priratbns and sufferings wcuid scarcely have b:cn

felt in the transports of such expectations. But exiled as they were the wide Atlantic on the one hand, and an interminable wilderness on the other, the eye of fancy could not have rested upon a spot where cities were ever to rise rieing in magnificence and splendor with those of European nations. The beneficence of heaven in colonizing and protecting our country was gratefully acknowledged by our pious ancestors; and our obligation to that Power has greatly increased, by the miracle wrought for our Redemption from the slavery and oppression .hich they endured. That spirit cf intolerance and enmity which drove them from the land ot their birth, visited with worse than persecuting fires their equally guiltless children. The more populous we became, the more were we envied as we rose in opulence we sunk in debasement, and the more aggravating and intolerable were British imbQiti and exactions. American enterprise industry and economv were drawn to the support or the rapacious ministers ot Britain, whose appetircs increased oy what they fed on." Remonstrances were regarded only as the lauguige of disloyalty and rebellion. Pmers and petitions were answered in tones of menace, haugut; ncss and contempt. To have submitted would have been to acknowledge a degradation unworthy the human character; and to reLt, although a more honorable alternative, seemed 1.0 les, than a voluntary surrender ot lite and property to cert tin destruction. But the hardy sons of Revolt, strong in theieccitude of their views, tack a stand entrenched in eternal justice, 3iid unbailed to an astonished world the banner ot Independence. Long and hopeless veas the contest. Courage was the only nerve the arm of resistance possessedall cise wai weak and mutilated. Tro ups tew and undisciplined; the scarcity of military stores; the dependence on individual resources for pecuniary supplies, were pressures under which our country rose to grapple with her gigautic foe. But more disheartening than all was the paraiizing influence ot hitcrnzl duc.rJ. Many there were so spiritless as to stand aloof and decline the combatothers more heartless sought their safety under the superior strength of the British standard. An abandonment of our country's cauie at that eventful moment, created a guilt aggravated by all that is infamous in cowardice and ba32 iir perfidy, and demands that punishment ot bitterest foretaste the execrations of posterity. Our victories and defeats, the coniligration of our cities, t fie rapine and spoliations of t fie enemy hive been so often recounted oy the historian, that no new horror remains to foe told. But by patient sutferiag, unyielding bravery and a timely ailunce with a foreign nation, Lagland was constrained into an acknowledgement of our Independence. Here let us oQer our tribute of gratitude to those heroes and martyrs who so anxiously look cd for the advent of freedom, tut dud wtksut ike sil-:. Odd

mingles with our joys, while we remember the valiant soldier whose vigilance slept not in the night of his country's afHictions, but who fell ere the dawn of her deliverance appeared, & "whose ashes flew no marble tells us whither." Every blessing for which we fought, and everv advantage we so dearly purchased, were happily secured to us in our form of government. To give scrength and energy to a nation without the power to oppress; to subject the vuled to their rulers without too great an exaltation of the one or humiliation of the other; and to make authority nd obedience 4 subservient to each other, would deem too Utopian for practice; but a Jefferson, Franklin and Adams, without any other precedent than heaven's charter of rights before them, created for us a system of government, uniting these happy advantages. How invaluable to us then ought our Republic to be regarded, constructed with such wisdom, cemented with so much blood and embodying so pure a spirit of liberty! iiov.- highly the Americans appreciate their government, and hov ready they are to defend and inainrain its honor, appeared in their re'.ent ments of the insults ottered to their commercial rlerhts. So nearly is ttie riht to an unmolested commerce allied to independence, that the one is but a name without the other. The Ireouent and unprovoked aggressions upon the seas; the biocdy depredations of her siv age allies upon our defenceless borders-; betrayed the envious malignity of Britain yet unappeased and imperiously demanded redrew. An appeal to the sword that Arbiter of contending nations became as unavoidable as it was unhappy. Our infant navy impatiently waited the iignal, to rush from our ports to avenge the unatoned blood cf a Fierce, and the unrequited sufferings of nur gallant Tars. Our enemy was sought upon that element where long had waved the uuconquered llag of British prowess. But this 'mistress of the seas," was then to meet run bearing on their hcarrstheir country's fionor, and looking forward to tltcir own in the grateful praise and admiration that survives to an American hero. Often was her pride made to bow by surrendering to an inferior force. It was deeply humiliating to our enemy, and gave the keenest anguish to the mortification ot deteit, that her proudest and most favorite honors, that had been brightening through so many centuries of conflict and 'ocean chivalry;" were destined to increase our national glory then so hateful and enviable in her eyes. If we turn to our armies we sec them inviting the battles or pursuing the retreat and discomfiture of the enemy. The victories of Erie, Chippewa and Bridgwater, throve around the American arms themo3t brilliant lustre. The battle of Bridgwater will be remembered with the same sensations as those cf Bunker hill & Saratoga. Its sublimity was heightened by the darkness in which it was shrouded. The incessant blase of musketry, and the more

glaiing flame , ot artin.: y , pictured ''on the mamleof night,' a view the most grand and awful that the mind can contem. plate. The morning found as in undisputed possession of the field, and one of the enemy's chieftains our captive. The victory of Thames, beside

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who obtained it, is a happy instance of glorious revenge to our country, and just retribution to our savage enemy, for the cruel butcheries inflated upon our innocent and helpless citizens. The history of the last war concludes with the battle of Nezv Orleant, where we enjoyed a victory free from those painful calamities that usually attend the conflicts of armies, and dampen the joys of triumph 1 he thunder of the British cannon here "spent its force in air," or fell harmless at the base of our fortress, wfiile peals of death reverberated from our shores upon the unsheltered heads ot our invading enemies. No cu logiums of mine can reach the merits of the birj cf Orleans and his Spartan band. lie stands as f ar above the praise of his countrymen, us he is superior to the envy and competition of hte enemies. The many enormities and unexampled warfarft carried on by the enemy, will ever be remembered with the most disgraceful abhorence. Tt the inhuman alliance formed with the savugc3, those insatiate cannibals who prey with tho same fierceness upon the innocent as guilty blood, maybe added the most cruel and barbarous treatment to those uho by the fortunes ot war he came their victims. Where 11 J the magnanimity of our cbrttain enemy, while our capture.', friends were groaning with hunger and disease on board thj prison ships, and during thai incarceration at Beaufort and Hirtmooi? By the rules of chivalrous hmcr, and bythe mo;inviolable usages of war, enmity becomes ungenerous, antiL, cruelty unpardonable, toward a fallen foe. No brave nun ever became the tormentoi of hi victim. Kindness and sympathy arc among the train of a soldier's virtues, ever softening his heart without weakening ids spirit. The indiscriminate slaughter of each sex and every age the wanton and inglorious destruction of the elegant works of art, so ornamental to the world and so unoffending c a foe, have marked with indelible disgrace the marches of the British army upon our shores and borders. This outrage to humanity and the customs of war could never provoke our nation to retaliatory cruelties and sucli base dishonor, "f The present conditioner our country is interesting to all whose political welfare is connected with it. Our borders arc annually extending by the creation ot new btates, and the boundaries are not yet known that are to form the out-Iincs of our future greatness. Our lomr anticipated possession of the Floridas, will soon be realized in conformity to the treaty, 6r by their forcible seizure. Th0 fertility of our soil, the mild" ncss of our government, and the salubrity of our climate are the alluring invitations held out by cur country to the cUion-

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