Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 30, Richmond, Wayne County, 2 October 1824 — Page 1

"""JJSfc. -miwjjui.i 1 v

if -

FRIENDLY

FRIEXDLY TO THE JEST PURSUITS OF MAN, f TO THOUGHT, TO FREEDOM, AND TO PEACE."

pVMBER 30.

Coirpcr.

RICmiOND, WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1824.

I i.!NTLD Asit rUCLISHEI) EVERY SATURDAY HY

i:i)MUND S. BOATU.N, . t r 1 r t - 1

JVynf ''tti yyjsirc lflC lit 'imon(l o:et.

Hit' llUtti T 1 I i I l .VI I.U 1. Two Dollars for ririv-two number., to he nnh 'i lvnce; Two Pollirs and Fifty Cent"! if j i-iihni the v ar, or Three IXdi irs, if nut paid

Tim TRICK OF Tll! VAVV.R

paid in

pan!

, ... tte cx'-iMtion ol t lit vrar: avment in ad-

ncc bvnr( the mutual iuure:ol Lata parties,

tlta.l1'iitJi'c,,,,,' '"" 1 r 1 .1 l

j -s.nt; n taKerc nr ie in.ni monins, nnu r oirr'r discontinued until all arrearages are ;..;, ?- nitifv a discontinuance tit the cxiarni.y.i a: "tr.e ti.ii' -.jhscrih-ed ior, will lie considered n "ip'v e:: ; 1 ."I'lu'ii t.

r

:iJ 01 t-tCj

:a;.

1 a ir cVtnicd to.

'a it ii? postage

TEItM OF ADVERTISING.

Fifteen lai.'s, or Ie, for three iiw-rtion-i One Dol- !

ir 01 h continuance I wenty-;e cr nt. L,ar;. .r advertisement ia the same p: r'crfion.

.

west, isanoincrcharge. Those who make t ought to prove the affirmative. We know that this is impossible; but do not leave issue with the triumph of their failure. As we have often heretofore done, we will prove a negative against them. In those admirable assays, styled "American

r mi. aii;tms aiue re- ! filiation of Mr. Ames' slander of the peo- ; pie of the west. We hope that the people j of Ohio will judge from these specimens j whether lawyer Ames, the federal "Phroj photic Politician;' or Mr. Adams is the I triend of the people'ofthe "west." Our i gratulation at this kind and liberal feeling

j toward us is unmixed with the repugnant j thought that it was produced bv expecta

tion of ofiico.or any emolument. It was

I made in I 3jr. Ames says in his book i page 414. 7 Thrtrnc?Hns settlements of the goutiieiijj j part or the UMos which now is the govrrnine : part, have ben formed by emigrants from almost all th nations of I'iirn-. si i'ti 1 1:1.

, t i lit . 1 ' . i .1 t ""'"I"-' in iiit.il umiii.rs aunt; ic Sliall aua hut latle more to the prool jj rm the nnn--ancc f enemies and of government

adduced, that 3ir. Adams coa- jl 11,5 i'iaitely m ire probnhle, that they will simc

!)reicriS- l , E XRV' AR,SM t!ian n-to the dignity ofnation-

8. " rr p.nt the wandering Tarhirs or Indian hunjtcrsat least as susceptible of patriotism, as these j strnrl r in oi;r western forest, and infinitely fonj der of qlory ? It is ditTicult to conceive of a country j wl,i''!i, trota the manner of it etllf ments, or the

manifest tendrncirs of its politic", is more d-stitut or incapable of beine inspired with political virtue." On which, Mr. Adams rem u ks. uTh.- rf rlerfjr.nn in tht two l::t of these evtmrt

I npon the son'.horn and we-teni ertin of the t'- ! nio:, are rot ordv f. .crar.t cxm np' of that Spirit aaaia :t which we were so earn tly admonished bv i t!:e paternal voire of W ichin-ton ; thev areas naj f miid'd as they :irr nnfrtendlv, American patrio-

, ti-ni, eont iip lat", with ver dilr. rmt sensations the ri :d pr iress of the-e cttlein"nt. Theartive I vnU rrrir an.! hardihood of cliaracti r whi-h !itin-

VOLUME .

Fr ora the C!umhns Ohio Monitor. FRESIDKNCY NO. V.

alrciidv

f'..r:ii to the teat, which wehav

democratic nrincinl A few i

J.uv,"t:ver iii iy be added, which

indeed superduous lor that purpose,tnay ie i.'.ttit'sting as matters of political historv. Ti.e facts, we iiow intend to subnv.ro collateral tlian direct, in

; j;purt of our position that Mr. Adams is probaldy always was a democrat; and c.in rather in anw;r to om; of the objec-

rn.uie agiin?t him on other accounts, mostlv iricidental to this.

uH'cJ.ni ii--c," is thetijcme of manv a- chimes in favor of Mr. Clay. "Mr. Ad.inisis opposed to the west,"' "The cahiaci

isaHnrruplf- and in the lanua-e of the h n"n ih settler the rajidity with 4 I i i. i i; 'h. i poi 'ul :f;on, ii 1 1 1 va i n , ni.fl social enc"AiJrCS Ol the meeting. Held 111 tins i ..nt; arc'.-.tantly mnlti.U.n?, with wralthnnd

i:avp, o:i tne v-u tu viuiv, -.u mv r,t the

po;t reflecting citizens of the countiv de-

art, rjeuco in tro jr tram. 1 o co:j,pare our f 'dow cit :.: ' t the ? ounthi-rn and western ftatc,

, r , ',i ,i . , I' wito v fiT.'i rip I ariar or Indian hni.ti r-, to utter ennned to adopt the opinion that no ken.,.!v th(. 0;.m,in (hat the will Prob ddv ink

nieia' er of the executive cab'met ouuht to

e jected, to succeed Mr. .M.mrew." 'J s ,.-:on is wanted there to turn all the ,c... ...Lt. i.'jlIc u:;d heel, out ofoliice.''

p .ii lo ilia f.:?t reason, if we an weak cw , . , ; ... : - r :.!...,

into !:rb iri a, i a 'f:u.nstratioii of the n.ot ! -plorahle Lli.id.a -1 th-tr'ie stat of thin;-. Cn at

'tiler? ijotli ia the ,-otith ar d vv t, sin New Knhmd. They are iiter-

niiii) ,i r- ot io ar . en.i.rant

- 'j .

i

'.". ' . ( xpe:.r

t

to

. u

'0,1 o;

"Mre-'fra interest;1 and .nt 'd. We know of no

.1'. i;i't

1

t'.:er; ient to our interest ol'ihe r t of the nation; if . -i;i i--l! -i; enougii tosup- ',: c an 'ircv,i:I oyer tite

fiF- 1; , - i'..r!it;:..":;t on t iie.se

y.-vr what is l

l''X ii !

ft

e lcn. hi. "mated a v.'iiion- . m. .1.1

1 ...... (i.. l if. -ni

III U ViV.MI'll

D ;t in

r :.-ti '!: totnat eviction, a c.!npar.r;m he- ' "Ui the iiieiiU Mr. Adams ar;d Mr.

Ci:y nail i.ot a.lvance the latter. 3Ir. A- jl '': was t!i fir . r., n in tii -..vr'r.siieMd jj - .V'j rn oti'-n to that entcrprie, at:d Ims-1(

i..--1 it .l a-.-iv -m'jijmji lit, through evil

ier:t it: doter;:

t i, ' . ' i. ii ill 1 1

ai !;r.provfnient'i.M

a!! our ci.d.tren aj d onr hr turee, nn;t'd to uj nut only bv t!." lie ofrjril society, but by thoe of kindred an ! f.or.santnini'.y. U'i re one of their 'itincni'hed orator, (arid orators thev have, w.th vtiora Mr. Ames hitn-i !f woa!d not have hcen di--L'race! hv hrnn eoniieirei; to atTirtii that thf inhah itants ol t'. e :l ititie tates wi ren kin fat into (;racv ar. 1 barbnnvn. that they had no more patri i.ti-ni tlran i i' v - , and w r not half foal .a clorv. the pi. lure would not be in.,r nnkmd, nor mori nnl.he than that against which 1 am here ex-certin.

I

exce

i one of t i.a n.ot jit

)-o

ana r:re

Above a!U be

I

no

.1 ;

!f Mr. Cl.:v l.a- '-hewn

i z ai in the 5; nrt of this ina- jj .Uiair.s was prir in time and it

i -

: v.iio have o ofo-n harped thic

''- tfi.'if lias charmed o many sim - :ie, riiiuht tell u- cf a '-western inter-

v.hich is som-vvhat re;.': t!ir).i"h ve-

r.v Iirriiied. lint it is most politick to keep t:tl? -'itrrrest otit ofjight of the vulvar gaze, ii well known th.at the L.vwvr.RS were I lirtd;a laimers in favor of Mr. Clay, r i d tin- Aotcui interest. Probably pTtr.-i iudds of the gentlemen of the Bar I I tin- dutr, (Ohio,) are the advocates of his loction. They imagine that showers w executive appointments will descend on t--m, if Mr. Clay is made President. How

". uiy disappointments to the expoctants of

"muau secretary oi aiaie, oi ine omcc i Secretary at War, of the Treasury, Na- ' (vos navy ! for though we have no sea-

hoard or sliipping, yet a western Prcideul h'nt support the western intt ret) MinisPlenipotentiary, Con-nS-, Ir .1 Oilit!'rs ai;d Agents, in case- of his eb'ction, af-J'-ridl his paitial n;unif;c::iCo' has been ex"eistod, we hope never to v itners. This expectancy incites to act'a...; and with art, and no little surc e,-.. t'uey endea-;-to make the -Alrouinvs believe that it Kthnr intt reit, that they are so solicitous ;"ut. Fellow Citizens, when you are di;ued that the LuvvKitsare the mot upi'Uiit patriotick disinterested men ainongst you, it will be time toli.-ten to this tJ ti .(;e of a "western interest. You then really believe that it is the irdert of your own little selves, wnich is sought he promoted by the election of Hwrv 'wLAV. '-l!r. Adams will not bo friendly (o the

T?."in.t it more earnetlv hecaue it

rioa ind fatal errors, forth'

efanv one part oitio- Union to admit i

I th'-ir min !s s ic h bintinr nts ac un-t the rct i.eI ea-re, ivt only the publication of lhi volua.e, hut j a mnltit :n!e of r.cwp n" rs essays, party re-ol,.tioi!-, and im-endiary pam;-!ets, within th last year have ht wn a m tematic atti mpt to disseminate nmonir

th t e. "; !'" ot Lt. eland tins roun'lles jeaiousev

Ct (' southern una wetru feople.

aia- t.ie poion oi this amf ieaionv

n i hatred, ha? been circulated in a late ae.drcss ot the Legislature of Mass ichu-et ts to the people of the state. It is time to say and to prove that all t!o so insidious indications against our own countrvnr;, .ire toii::ded on ir.i'taUe. I hry expose iu to the nn ritr d contempt and sco n of those who are

, thu s! nd f d, and their most inevitable trmb nry ' is t.-s excite and provoke that hostihty whirh they pn.f 'aim- Priudire and partialities exit in every

I n ire Linnn; nm, i . n- " o . . - ... , ' land, hrr portion is the first where men, di-tin uishrd as Mr. Ames, and even legislative paper, have ! civen countenance and credit to thosn fietiou of iji nora n.' atT. '.in? to be wi-e, and these rh au tarns of

vulvar fear aif- etiuto be provident. Tlie l'a-!ia-tive"nddrr'. ind. eif, after its hour of authority has -one bv, will he narabnred with the dead. Its pa-trh-tic "clones are already witherins: upon the stalk. Rut the eloquence of Ames- is detind to longer life. His t-enins will "till b ndmir"il, when its fallacious colors will be detected nt a clance,and lamentei! as the f I'lin? yellow of a jaundjred eye. Had his friends valued his reputation; had they been capable ofdirardinc, for a moment, the contracted and sordid passions of n C4UCUsio committee, they mi-ht have rompilt -I from his writin-s and speeches a real monument of unsullie.l fame. As it is thev b-lve exhibited bim. as the herald of party slander and the dupe of Rriti-h imposition. Instead ol ris-in-with him to bold commerce with the skies, tney have sunk lain to the level with thoneelve-.' That "the Cabinet is all corrupt;' is a vulvar lu?.i not believed, in that unlimited extent, either by -those who say it, or hear it,but if by a qualification of terms, ft imports something serious and true; ii it char-es extravagance and prodigality to the President, and some of the Heads ol l a a J ...lilt.

Departments, it woiUl not accoiu .

the rule ot Divine vengeance, iu .t

innocent with the guilty. VV'.o nas fl A.I...., ,.r itrrkdlCTollrV.

ACCUSED iir. voama ui r. v"...... ,

the tier

i i t. ,.-.,') ll.'iO.i'or his

extravagance or uenaui ueij -. ....v.--. patronage has been perverted from the public good to his political friends? that his supporters have ever shared an into ot preference above hii opposers? Verc it otherwise, we should hardly sec bun com tinning the same printers of the U. S. law in this'slate- all of whom are opposed to his election.

1 .

out wtiat evidence have we that Henry Clay would cleanse out the 4Au;san stable" as some of the kennel scribblers call 't- He has been in Congress almost constantly these 12 or 16 years past, where if peculation, or any other species of corruption, existed it would have been his official duty to have done it, w ithout moving one finger towards it. Nothing contributes to corruptip a free government like salaries. R-. Olay .vas an advocate for the law, that gave Congressmen a salary of 1,500 a year, and himself $3,000; -which we have been told was not sufficient for his expenses. He also received in his diplomatic mission $22,000, in 18 months, and from common fame, we learn, was not able to "make both ends of those 2 years meet;1 and now bis embarrassments induce him to practice law. Hence we very much doubt the policy that Mr. Clay should supercede this "member of the cabinet.' Gen. Jackson was about six months in the U. States Senate, last session, without turning one member on his neck or heels," without "cutting off one ear," or in any way distinguished himself.either as reformer, or legislator. It was not his theatre of action, for even in his consecrated element, the power of destruction, he there shewed no feats. The insinuation that Mr. Adams, because a member of the cabinet, is a venal character, is refuted by every act of his lite. That he will march fearless up to the line of his duty, make no compromise with corruption, and brush away technical cobwebs for the purpose of bringing offenders to vindictive justice, is evinced by the whole of his political course. In proof of this, we select, among many of the same character, an extract from his REPonT made in committee of the U. States Senate, in I i n favor of the pulsion of the Hon.

j.Joir; Smith, Senator, fr.in the state of Ohio, who was implicated in iiurr's coni spiracy. "Tnr p.owf rof expelling a member for misconduct, rr .iiltc, on the principle-of common stne, from the ; iaUT'.'ts of the nation, that the lush trust of leishitjon -h'oul l he investi t in pun hands. When the tra-t is !rvatrn! it is not to he presumed that the

ec

irr.titu.-nt br.'v will commit the dcpoitP to the

s kt i pi:i of worthies- characters But when a man, .'.bom hi- A llow citizens h ive honored with their j oanden- e, on the ph lcreui'a spotless reputation, I has fh traded hi.i.alfby the comiuisMnii of infamous ! imi'W which become suddenly and unexpectedly

j r-veah 1 to the v.-.. rid, ih tective nidi id would be i that invitation v.huh M.ouhl lie impotent to discard ! V-en :L- bo o,a the cf ataion of such i member

whi h d.ou'd have no remedy of imputation to ajnr.t.l tro- i oi-oii h..d reached the heart. w Ibf i;at -li- an; on the trial of a criminal cause, U-fore the court of common law, is not between saalt and inference. If a doubt can possibly bo raised, eeleriy the ir.irenuitv of the party r of his eoun--e!, or hv I. a v ; rati of c aicr;.! rules in thtir un-

that doub.t

art;cular ea-ef.

quittal; and the verdict of

Mast the assembled rulers of the land listen with calmness and indillerence, session after session, to the voice of notorious infamy, until the sluggard of municipal justice can overtake his enormities? Must they tamely see the lives and fortunes of millions, the safety ofpresentand futuie ages, depend ingupo.i his vote, recorded with theirs, merely because the abused benignity of general maxims maj have remitted to him the forfeiture of his lifel"

VIRGINIA. Adams Meetings. On Monday the 30th ult. at the Court-houses of the neighbouring cotmtiesof Nelson and Bedford, meetings were held, for the purpose of di vising means to promote the Adams Ticket in thi state. We have not yet received the offi cial draft of the proceedings, but we understand that Loth meetings concurred in the nominations of electors, previously made, in the districts to which they respectively belong, and made other suitable arrangements. Mr. Martin, the gentleman nominated as Adams elector in the Nelson district, was placed by the Richmond cau-

cms on the Crawford corresponding commit

tee, for that county! In how many cases lias Mr. Crawford's popularity, by similar gratuitous assumptions, when the names of gentlemen of standing and influence have been wanting, been thus bolstered? In Bedford, we learn, the scene was unusually animated. The meeting was attended by hundreds, the room being at all

times full to overflowing. It was attended

too, by gentlemen of the first standing and the most extensive influence by men not lukewarm in the cause, but who are zealous and determined, and w ho earnestly solicit the co-operation of their friends in oth er parts of the state who invoke them never to despair of success, but in the full confidence of victory to march to the polls and give to the people's candidate Ma long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether." Lynchburg Virginian An adjourned meeting of the citizens of Hardy county, Yirgiria, was held at the Court-house, on the 10th ult. Ym. North Ksq. in the Chair, and J. C. Gamble, Esq. Secrctarv. Resolutions were adopted in favor of Air. Adams, and appointing a corresponding committee. A meeting was lately held in Middletown Monongahela county, Virginia, at which lolm S. Barnes Esq. presided, and Elisha G. Barret, acted Secretary. Atthismeet-

jing, Mr. Adams was supported, with the

exception of one vote (lor Mr Clay) as President, and Gen. Jackson as Vice-President; John S. Barnes w as nominated an Elector, and the usual committees appointed. National ntclHzcticcr.

fori vf rn a p -heat ion ta nai t he deci i ve i-T

not cailtv, perhaps ia nine cases out ot ten, means no more "than that the quut of that party han not been demonstrated in the precise, specific, and narrow form'' j resenht d by law. The humane spirit of the laws multiplii s the harriers for the protection of innocence, ana fre iy admits thai these barrier? may be abused for the slu !la ot nil t. It avows a strons partiality favourable to the person upon trial, and acknowledges the preference that ten cuilty should escape, rather thai that one innocent should suffer. The interest of the public, that a particular crime should be punished, is but as one to ten, compared with the interest of the party, that innocence should be oared. Acquittal only restores the party to the common rights of every other citizen ; restores him to no puhlit trusts; it substitutes the sentence of mercy for the doom of justice; and to the eye ofimparti il reason, in the ijreat majority of cases,-must he considered' rather as a pardon than a justification. , thit when a member of a legislative booy lies under the imputation of arrivated otTences, ami the determination upon his cauie can operate only to renove him from a station of extensive powers and important treat, 1hi disproportion between the in tcreat of the public and the interest of the inoividual I'isan pears: if an v di apportion exist, it is of an oppo-ite kind, if is not better that ten traitors -houl dbc member of this Senate, than that one innocent man should sullVr expulsion. In either case, no doubt, the evil would be Rreat. Hut in the formerit would strike at the vitrtlsof the nation; in the 1Mb r it mi;ht, than Ji deeply to ho lamented, only be the cal iiidtv of an individual. The niu'rit of the constitution has not subjected KJ.o removal hv impcacl iat nt ; and when the

darlini of the people's choice, has become their dead- j

!i bi l" o, can it enter ine imatriuaiiou oi .1 reasonable rn'in, that the sanctuary of th ir leirUlation must remain polluted with his pitfence, until a court of common law, with its pare of snail, can ascertain whether hi- erime was committed on the ri'ht or on the lift ban' of a river; whether a puncture of diff( r:-nce can be founfl between the words of the proof; wheth r the witness of bis ruilt should, or should not he heard by his jury; and whether he was punishable, becanse present at an overt ucl, or intanrible to public pistice, been use he only contrived and prepjired it. Is it conceivable that a traitor to that countrv which has loaded him with favour5, emlty to the common understanding of all marikind,?hculd be suffered to return unquestioned, to that post of honor and confidence, whvre in the ztnith ol t us tjoo l fame, he had been placed by theefteem ef his countryinen,and in defiance of their wishes,in mocxrrv of their fears, surrounded by the public indig

nation, hulinnccesible to its bolt, pursue the purpeecs of treason ia the heart of the national ccsrvila? if

From the Cory don Gazette. The circumstance of so many of the friends of Clay turning over to Jackson, in this state, may be accounted for, in some measure by the reason which we have heard some give, viz: That the Electoral ticket got up for Clay, is only a ( rnvford ticket in disguise; and that should Clay be out of the question, as is most likely, those men will then most likely rote for Cravford. The citizensof thisstate are not disposed to vote for the Caucus candidate under any circumstance, and so long as it is understood that the Clay Electors are inclined to Crawford, in any event, there w ill be a continual falling off. Why? Tiie reason is that the people would rather vote for Adams

or Jackson than to trust their cause in the hands of such men as mar transfer their interest to a candidate whose elevation they do not wish to promote; they do not wish to elevate Crawford over the shoulders of Clay. MR. CRAWFORD. In some of the Eastern papers, accounts are given of Hie different duels in which this gentleman has been engaged; of the arrangements between the parties as respcts'thc mode of fighting; such as, the pislols to be smooth bores; loaded with a ringle ball, by the seconds, in presence of thcTprineipals; the distance 10 yards; the parties facing; the pistol to be placed, by the second of each party, in the right hand ofhis friend, cocked, with the barrel as nearly perpendicular as possible, pointing up or down; neither of the principals to alter the position until the word is given, &c &c. &.C. which may have some effect with the moral class of the community as regards Mr. Crawford's election but a publication of that kind is here unnecessary, as Mr. Crawford has but few political friends, and cannot ia this state calculate on as many votes, as there were members of thelVjii family in ancient Rome. Cincinnati Crisis,