Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 9, Richmond, Wayne County, 8 May 1824 — Page 2

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PRESIDENTIAL. , We have seen an article "going the rounds," taken orignally from a paper printed somewhere in Kentucky, called ihe Republican, from which we extract the following: w It is impossible for Mr. Adams to bear this scrutiny, for if he ever gave a vote or uttered a sentiment in favor of our just rights, it is unknown to the people " ! ! ! In these few lines the the writer has betrayed his entire ignorance of the subject upon which he was writing, or a disposition to misrepresent facts and deceive his readers. There is no man who has taken the least interest in national affairs

for the last fifteen or twenty years, but has found the name of Mr. Adams identified

with nearly all the leading measures of

our government; either in the cabinet, or

wielding his matchless pen against the

greatest statesmen of the old world. To

how how void of truth the lines above

quoted are, we have inserted below an ex

tract from Mr. Adam's review of the works of Fisher Ames. Before giving the extract, we have thought proper to give the following paragraphs from the work itself, being those upon which the part of the review we have copied is predicated. " The straggling settlements of the southern part of the Union, which now is the governing part, have been formed by emigrants from almost eveiy nation of Europe. Safe in their solitudes, alike from the annoyance of enemies and of government, it is infinitely more probable, that they will sink into barbarum, than rise to the dignity of national sentiment and character." "Are not the wandering Tartars, or Indian hunters at least as susceptible of patriotism, as these ttragzlers in our western forests, and infinitely fonder of glory ? It is difficult to conceive of a country, which, from the manner of its settlement, or the manifest tendencies of its politics, is more destitute or more incapable of being inspired with political Virtue." page U4. Now let it be remembered that these "were the sentiments of a leading federalist," who characterized Democracy as an "illuminated Hell that in the midst of remorse, horror and torture, rings with festivity;" and who throughout his works evinced a disposition to calumniate and villify the people of the south and west for their adherence to Republican principles. Mr. Adams, after "citing several ex"tracts" from the works of Mr. Ames, among which were those above quoted, proceeds as follows : In grouping together these sentiments, from a heart ulcerated against our fellow citizens beyond the borders of New England, I am pt-forming a task still more ungracious than when collecting the moil Striking tetimonials of the author's contempt for us all. If it fee true, that the people in the differneut quarters of this Union are not sufficiently drawn together by the tics which form the connections of a common country: If it be true that they have, in every great section certain varieties or supposed oppositions of interest, and many passions and prejudices which alienate them from each other, let me ask, what ought to be the principles and the maxims, of a genuine American statesman? Can there be any patriotism, can there be any wisdom, can there be any humanity, it. a painful exertion of intellect to awaken every sleeping ember of jealousy, to widen every breach of separation, to stiffen coldness into frost, exasperate indifference into rancour ! No, it is to aggravate the very evil of which we complain. Crimination and reproach are not the natural instruments of conciliation. Unjust reproach inevitably calls forth and deserves resentment ; its natural offspring are hatred and revenge. I cannot waste words upon an argument to prove that the first of human blessings to this country is Union. 1 must take this for granted; and then I say, legislators of America! whether assembled in the halls cf Congress, or in the Assemblies of the individual states; whether exercising the magistracy delegated by the people and your constitutions, or that natural mag-

'"""J' vn huuiie; a iree ana virtuous people is the prerogative of genius and virtue, delegated bv Heaven, and operating bv the influence nf VAn urn.

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tings and examples; let it b your first stud t to draw

'uS-i'"-i mcac ticuieiiiB wnicnare too loosely associated ; promote a spirit of conciliation; soften asperities; cherish a good understanding with your neighbors; exhibit to the.n a confidence in their integrity ; an accommodating disposition towards their interests-, a cheerfulness in the support of common burthens; a candid acknowledgment of participation in common enjoyments; a good humor and benevolence, such as seldom fails among men with any degree of civilization, to meet with a like return. Do not totally estrange from each other those whose common misfortune it is not to be closely enough allied. Do not make national enemies of those who are not sufficiently fellow citizens. Do not enkindle fraternal fury among those whose greatest want is a sufficient ardor of fraternal affection. There is no real opposition of interests between any one part of this Union and another. Nothing but disunion can create such n opposition ; but that would create it; and in its train an endless penpec tire of unextinguishable war. Union is pece is liberty. Dismemberment would from its origin breed war and despotism at a single birth. The reflections in the two last ofthese extracts upon tne southern and western sections of the Union, are not only flagrant examples of that spirit agafctt which we were so earnestly admonished by the parental voiceof Washington; they arc as unfounded as they are unfriendly. American patriotism contemplates with very different sensation the rapid' progress of these settlements. The active enterprise and hardihood ofcharacter which distinguishes taany of the settlers; the rapidity with wTiich population, cultivation, and social enjoyments arc constantly multiplying, with wealth and art, and tsieace ia their train. T cccpsrs cur (dtevr cit-

irtSJ of tse ssuthtra and western states, with wan

dering Tartars or Indian Hunters, to utter seriously the opinion that they will probably sink into barbdri a demonstration of the most deplorable

blindness to the true state oi mings. ureai nucwrs of the settlers both in south and west, are emigrants

from New England. They are merany our cnuaren and brethern. United to us not only by the ties of

civil society, but by those ot Kindred and consanguinity. Were $ne of their distinguished orators (and orators they have, with whom Mr. Ames himself would not have been disgraced by being compared) affirm that the inhabitants of the Atlantic states were sinking fast into piracy and barbarism; that they had no more patriotism than Algerines,

and were not half so fonu of glory; the picture would not be more unkind, nor more unlike than that against which I am hre excepting.

I except against it the more earnestly, because it is one of the mosV pernicious and fatal errors, for the people of any one part of this union to admit into their minds such sentiments against the rest; because not only the publication of this vohime, but a multitude of newspaper"5 essays, party resolutions, and incendiary pamphlets, within the last year have shewn a systematic attempt to disseminate among the people of New England this groundless jealously and hatred of the southern and western people. Above all, because the poison of this same jealousy and hatred, has been circulated in a late address of the Legislature of Massachusetts to the people of the state. It is time to say and to prove that all these insidious instigations against our own countrymen, are founded on mistake. They expose us to the merited contempt and scorn of those who are thus slandered, and their most ine-vitable tendency is to excite und provoke that hostility which they proclaim. Prejudices and partialities exist in every part of the Union; but to the disgrace of New England, her portion is the first where men, distinguished as Mr. Ames, and even legislative papers, have given countenance and credit to these fictions of ignorance affecting to be wise, and these phantoms of vulgar fear affecting to be provident. The legislative address, indeed, after its hour of authority has gone by, will he numbered with the dead. Its patriotic glories are already withering upon the stalk But the eloquence of Ames is destined to longer life. His genius will still be admired, when its fallacious color? will be detected at a glance and lamented as the fading yellow of a jaundiced eye. Had his friends valued his reputation ; had they been capable of discarding, for a moment, the contracted and sordid passions of a caucusing commit tee y they mierht have compiled from his writings and speeches a real monument of unsullied fame. As it is they have exhibited him as the herald of party slander and the dupe of British imposition. Instead of rising with him to hold commerce with the slues, they have sunk him to the level with themselves.'

The following description of Mr. Adams is copied from a New York paper. "After conversing for a short time with the Secretary of war, and finding him almost as well acquainted with New York as myself, I was next honored with an introduction to the Secretary of state. It has so happened, that I have never seen him as he passed New York; and although I have a hundred times heard him described my idea of his person was imperfect and

erroneous. He is taller and less corpulent,

than 1 expected to find him from the description. In his whole appearance, he hears a striking resemblance to General

ning dressed in a plain blue coat and pantaloons, and white vest. From his retiring & unassuming manners, being entirely destitute both in his deportment and conversation of every thing bordering on parade or display, you would hardly suppose him to be one of the first statesman of the age, and that half of his life had been passed in foreign courts. Through all the grades and vicissitudes of diplomacy, and exposed as he has been to the habits of nearly everyEuropean state, he still preserves no small share of the New England character and of the puritan simplicity. He is now at the age of fifty-six ; although his features are a little care-worn, and bear traces of the scholar, yet his constitution appears to be vigorous and healthy. His family are long lived, several of his ancestors having reached the patriarchal age of his father, who is now rapidly approaching four score and ten. The secretary is naturally taciturn : but when engaged in conversation on an interesting subject, he becomes unusually animated, and his remarks possess much directness and point. Accustomed to believe that statesmen and politicians are professionally close, cautious, and wary, or as Pope has it ; "All sly, slow things, with circumspective eyes,1 I was not a little surprised at the freedom, frankness, and decision with which both of the Secretaries (of state and war) expressed their opinions on some of the sub

jects now before congress, and other interesting topics of the day. But I was still more surprised at Mr. A s' minute acquaintance with oopular sentiment. He seems to have read every newspaper in the country; and in a conversation of a few minutes, he alluded to recent occurrences in the city of New York, of which I was ashamed to be found ignorant." From the Ohio Monitor. ELECTORAL NOTICE. On the 18th of Feb. fast, a respectable number of members of both branches of the General Assembly, from the different congressional districts in this stale met, and were organized,bv choosing Joseph Richardson, Speaker of the lloi,of Representatives, Chairman, and Cel. Jaiies Kilbourn, Secretary, and passed resolutions expressive of their determination to support a candidate for President-who is opposed to the slave holding policy, and in favor of JOHM QUINCY ADAMS. The meeting then proceeded to nominate persons to be recommended to the people of this state as electors of President and Vice President of the U. States, and agreed on tho following gentlemen to compose the No. to which this state is entitled on accouut of her senstcra aod reprckiatativcj ia cc.-rcs.

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Miami, JOHN 7ALLACE,ofCbaramin, ABRAHAM SHEPARD, of Drown, J. WOODBRIDGE, of Ross, SAM'L R. IIOLCOMD.of fGa w, , NATHAN'L M'LEAN, of Franklin, MICH'L GAURAHTY, of Fairfield, BARNS' f,e. 'fTw' J. M'LAUGHLIN, of Jefferson, T. M'MILLAN, of Wayne, EPHRAIM QUINBY, of Tremble, and JABEZ WRIGHT, of Huron. . They chose a committee to superintend the publication of the principal proceedings of the castings to fill vacancies, should any occur in the ticket, by death, or refusal to be considered candidatcs---to correspond with gentlemen iu different parts of the state and direct such other measures, as they may deem expedient for the promotion of the grent object cf electing the Hon. John Qniacy Adacs to the first executive oice in the nation. Columbus, April 22, 1C24. (From the National Republican.) THE NEW-YORK CAUCUS. Most of our readers in this city have heard the exultations and fancied triumph of the friends of Mr. Clay, when they first learned that Col. Young (a supposed partizan of that gentleman) had been nominated a candidate for Governor, by a N. York legislative caucus. They rere sure that state would go for Clay; and his election to the Presidency was pronounced equally certain. No other candidate stood any chance. Gen. Jackson was entirely in the back-ground. The fever run so high, that if it had been contagious, we confess we should have been apprehensive it might prove epidemic and infest our citizens with a serious malady. But it is not strange: the clouds and darkness which at present rest upon the prospects of this candidate, oppress the minds of his friends with cheerless anticipations and fearful forebodings. A transient ray of light, fleeting and momentary as it is, although it affords no permanent relief, may possibly save them from immediate and absolute despair. The nomination of Col. Young can no more be considered a test, by which the relative standing of the Presidential candidates among the members of the N. York Legislature can be ascertained, than it can the probability or improbability of Colonel Symmes' hypothesis of concentric spheres.

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SENATE. Monday, April 5. The bill "to abolish imprisonment for debt," was taken up for consideration. Several amendments were proposed and adopted ; among which was one offered by Mr. Johnson, of Ky. for extending the operations of the bill to the District of Columbia. The bill, as amendiH was Ardered to be printed, and the senate adjourned. April 6. The bill "making appropriations for the naval service of the U. S. for the year 1824," was again tajen up for the purpose of considering the amendments made thereto in the senate, and which were not concurred in by the house. The senate determined to insist upon their amendment to the bill, which appropriates 225,000 for the contingent expenses of the Navy Department, and provides for those expenses in the gross the house contends for an allowance of $1S0,CC0 only, and that the items of the expense be specified. Adjou rncd. April 7.- The senate was principally occupied this day in discussing the provisions of a bill to exclude foreigners from trading with the Indian tribes within the boundaries of the U. States without coming to any conclusion, the senate adjourned. April 8. The bill "to abolish imprisonment for debt," was then taken up. On the request of Mr. Johnson, of Ky. that some member, who had voted for the recommitment of the bill to the Committee of the Judiciary, would move for a recc. asideration of that vote, Mr. Thomas, who had voted for a recommitment, offered the motion for a reconsideration of the vote, which motion, after considerable opposition, prevailed yeas, 23 ; nays, 1 8. Tl:3 question to recommit was then taken end decided in the negative, without division. Amotion was offered by Mr. Hayne, for the indefinite postponement o( the bill, which was also decided in the negative ; ayes, 10, nays, 21. The bill was then further amended, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading Adjourned. April 9. The principal business before the senate to-day, was the bill "to abolish imprisonment for debt," which was passed ayes, 24; nces, 19. Adjourned till Monday. April 12.-Mr. Macon said, he thought it was quite time that congress should be looking towards the time of adjoummentand, withaview to bring the subject before the senate, he offered a joint resolutionuthonzmg ths president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives, to adjourn the present cession of congress on the 4th day of May nest. The resolution was read, end laid over for consideration. The greater part of this day was epent m the epdiemtien cf local matters or private chir.

April 13. Mr. Van Buren, froiJ1 4V committee on the judiciary, reported a ,;,! "in further addition to the act,cMit!ed;p act to establish an cniform system of turalization, and to repeal an act herc! fore passed on that subject.' " 1 4 April 14 The bill relative to theefi : tion of a president and vice president

the U. States, occupied considorn ' ;.

this day. It appears only to relate to i f1 transmission of the votes of the elector ' colleges to the seat of government. i not finally acted upon. V April 15. The whole of this day,exc esome time spent in executive business,- jV occupied in the consideration of pri vat I

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Saturday, April 3. The IIouie,in Con. mittee of the whole, resumed the con.. cration of the bill " to amend the sevpi

acts laying duties on imports;" after a considerable debate on the general principles of the bill, the committee rose, & thehcite adjourned. April 5. Mr. M'Lane, from the Com. mittee of Ways and Means, to whom tier subject was referred, made a report unfa. ; ' vorable to the making of "an approprb , tion to compensate the friendly Creek 1 dians for property lost and destroyed dsring the late war;" which report was , on the table. Mr. Allen, of Mass. called up the consideration of the resolution cffo.V ed by him some days since for fixing the A

time of the adjournment of this house ; arj :J

the question cn considering being takeiikj a yeas and nays, it was carried, yeas 94, raj? , 90. Mr. Allen then moved to fill the bki with "Monday, the 3d of May Mr. moved, as an amendment, to fill the bhl with "the 20th day of May." A deba I on the subject ensued, which was sap , seded by the Speaker, who passed to tt 7 orders of the day.

sipni o. i.ir. uanuoipn gave nonce, having been prevented, by indisposit r l i"

irom caning up ms resoiunon rcpecu , , an alteration in the compensation of met '

bers of this house, he should call upt

same oa Saturday next. The house, i

the chair, resumed the consideration e(it

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oiii -io amena me several acis iawgur ties on imports;" and after discussing number of the items proposed in the amei ments, the Committee rose, and report the bill to the house. Adjourned. April 7. The engrossed bill, "prori.1 , inrr fr ikn rrri ri tr"i on t1 r zT A fnt to

side with the Osage Indians," was rea , third time, passed, and sent to the gecCf TM- 1 . i i l i. :.J, t' t

of the amendments reported by the Co ( mittee of the whole, to the "bill laying 6; ties on imports1 The first amendment I reducing the minimum on woollens, fro:". CO to 40 cents the square yard, was adef ; ; ed ayes 101, noes 99. Adjourned, . April 8. The house then passed to tit ' unfinished business ofyesterday,beif2 i report of the committee of the whole fi. the hill for a revision of the Tariff d&i oii Imports. Several of the amends made by the Ccmmittee were adopted Mr. Kremer then stated that several Et bers, now present, who were absent terdny, when the vote was taken for ducingthe minimum on woollens frcr, to 40 cents, and ecvcral ethers whotvoted in favcr cf the reduction, untlri '

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moved (or a reconsideration. Alter isiderable eppesitien this motion prtva;'yeas 109; nays 95. The question tb recurred on the house's agreeing to report cf the corr.:ttee of the whok that r.rr.r-2iit cf the bill which rcduf the minimum cn 7cc"?n goods from $0 40 cents the square yard; after an ani ed debate the question was finally takand t!ie hours refurcd to aree in the $ ducin the minimum to 40 cents e 101, Nays 101. Adjourned. April 9. The house was envf most exclusively, cn the Tariff BilL 1 taking tho question to concur in the as mentofthe committee reducing the cn cctten b- 30, frcm G to 4 1-2 C : per yard, there appeared, ayes 84, 1 62. On tho quorticn for concurring l amendment rducir.3 the duty niro1?, bolts and bars not manufactured, from dollar and Uvclve and a half cent to , cents per cwt. thore appeared acS ' V noes C5, Adjourned. , ,v April 10 Mr. Randolph moved the resolution submitted bv him son

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uca 01 members of congress to six ; should nes be token into consider. The question being put, the hou re'H to consider the resolution. Mr. fr11;. then remarked that he thought thw ject cf so much importance, that he feel it his duty to press it upon the of the house so lcn as he had the h1; I a seat there. The unfinished l. , yesterday, bein 2 the further cony of the amendments ajrrctd to ia ctd- j

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