Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 32, Richmond, Wayne County, 16 October 1824 — Page 2

AMERICAN NOMINATION.

PRESIDENT. JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN, JPOi? VICE-PRESIDENT.

ELECTORAL TICKET. JESSE L. HOLM AN, Dearborn county, JAMES SCOTT, Clark county, ISAAC BLACKFORD, Knox county, CHRISR. HARRISON, Washington jo. DAVID H. MAXWELL, Monroe do. CLAY TICKE T. JAMES RARIDEN, WILLIAM W. WICK, WALTER WILSON, JAMES WELSH, MOSES TABBS, MARSTON G. CLARK,

JACKSOX TICKET. JOHN CARR, JONATHAN M'CARTY, DAVID ROBB, SAMUEL MILROV, ELI AS M'NAMEE. FOR THE PUBLIC LEGER. "Here talents sink, and merit weeps unknown.' GoLDSMlTTI. The privilege of choosing our own masters is one greatly valued by the people of the UnitedStates. It is the boasted glory of our government. There is no obscure citizen, however ignorant of the numer- " ous, but established rules of right and wrong, who does not know and prize this right, and who would not highly resent any attempt to deprive him of it. Why then does he not use it? It is a fact melancholy to many interested in the public welfare,' that the actual electors are too few. The industrious and intelligent farmer, or mechanic, than whom there is not a more useful and honourable character in our country , remains at home following his ordinary occupation, and leaves the business of choosing his rulers to the long train of worthless idlers, drunkards, gamblers and factious fellows, with which the seats of election arc always crowded and too often

disgraced. This course is not right. It invites faction, opens the way lor intrigue, and gives encouragement to the unworthy to treat the drunkard and mount the throne. Whither may this lead? It may lead to the subverson of liberty, and icill lead to the corruption of government. Let us reflect. If we but open any history, or cast our eves to the old world, we hear a loud voice exclaiming, take care. How few and how transient have been free and equitable governments! Some aspiring demagogue, hy a fac tious multitude, has soon overturned them. Here is warning. In Asia, Africa, and the greater part of Europe, the monarch has the property, liberty and Jives of the people in his hands. His cafricious will is the law of the realm. Ie speaks, and the subject has no home. He speaks, and the subject must die. Eear

and submit is the language of the government. Let no one become insensible to these examples before us, because they arc far away. No human institution is unchangeable. The noble fabric of our constitution, if not entirely subv erted, may be so far torn down as to render the life of a man hateful to him. To guard against this the loud-speaking voice of all ages and countries call on us. And how shall we do it? Certainly hy guarding our elections. It is through these corruption will creep into government. Keep the source pure, and the stream will be undefiled. To preserve elections from imparity let the good people face the polls. This will frown away faction, shut out intrigue, forbid the designing man, and give honor to the worthy. "Ahold peasantry" is always "their countrys' pride. " In the polls you have the key-stone of liberty, keep it sacred to merit and it will be instead of armies to you. It is to he feared an impression too much prevails amontr many of the people, that they are. but little interested in the affairs of state. They pass their days on peaceful farms fulfil the duties of brother, friend and neighbour, and thus imagine that government, in all its branches, is as a something far away, a something that concerns them not. Hence we so often hear this language, "It makes no difference to me who shall he elected." Perhaps if the taxo were raised to the tenth of all his possessions, if he were denied the recovery of his dues, if he were confined to Ids own premises without a passport, he would say "it made a difference." "Experience is a dear school:" wail not till these things or worse come on you: on the next election dav shew that you are friends to good government, that you regard yourselves, that

you regard posterity, for your offspring may suffer through your neglect. Fulfil your duty. It is not only the privilege but the duty of every man entitled, to give his suffrage. It is a right proceeding from the ashes of our heroic fathers therefore the importance of the privilege itself renders it a duty. It is necessary we should have rulers, it is also necessary they be raised by the people; it is therefore the duty of the people to raise them, not of a part, but of the whole. It is the duty of every man to take care of his family and property; every citizen of the Union forms one of those who are to take care of the public family, and has some property in the government; it is therefore his duty to take care of them. Once more, it is held as the duty of those called orticers to perform the requisitions of their offices; every citizen is an officer and has an important duty to perform; it is there-

fore his duty to fulfil it. Citizens, an im- ; portant election is at hand. Let not the j work be done for you by substitutes. Your j time will be well employed, come and vote. I The spirit of your fathers, the prattle of

! your babes, the genius ot your constitution, ' and the voice of your countrv, sav, come.

VOX PATRLE.

rr.ttn tie Chri;thn Intelligencer. INTERESTING FACTS. It appears, from the best information which we can obtain on the subject,' that some new scheme must be devised for propagating Christianity in India, or the exertions of both Catholics and Protestants will prove ineffectual. 1. "The Rev. Mr. Adams, a Baptist missionarv at Calcutta, gives it as his opin-

I ion, that the number of native converts, j now living and in full communion with one or other of the Protestant missionary socij eties, does not exceed three hundred.''' 2. "The young Baptist missionaries in

it Calcutta, not inferior to any in India in n-

I bihties and acquirements, or in Christian zeal and exertions, arc sincere enough to ; confess openly that the number of their converts, after the hard labour ofsix years, 'docs not exceed folk. and in like manj ner the independent missionaries of the ; citv. whose resources are much ercater j ml j than those of the Baptist, candidly acknowledge that their missionary exertions for seven years, have been productive cf only

J t. l Ull VI I. 3. "Those who have embraced the re

ligion of the uilssloiuii ies, ppea( o be more influenced 4by the love of 'elty, pressure of poverty, or hopes of gaijfithan by convictions of the truth of the cloctrine they embrace. They are rewarded, it is said, 'with 500 rupees and a country-lorn Christian zvoman for a wife, for professing the Christian Religion!1" 4. "The Roman Catholics who reside in India, generally speaking, are ignorant, superstitious, and immoral; and among the Protestants, concubinage prevails to a considerable extent." Is it possible that such professors and preachers can be useful in the land of idolators? And shall the people of this country be permitted to remain ignorant of these interesting and alarming facts? Did the supporters of these missionarpprojects know the true state of their cause in India, nothing but blind or wilful infatuation would allow of their continuing their con

tributions.

CATHEDRAL AT MONTREAL. It is stated in a late paper, that the corner stone of the splendid CathcdnOerecting in Montreal, was laid under a discharge of artillery, "This," says the editor, "is a new mode oi consecration." The follow-

! ing is from another paper giving an account

of the circumstance and of the extent of

the building. Reformer.

"Grand Church. The corner stone of

anew church has been laid at Montreal, under salutes of artillery? This church will be the most splendid edifae. for public worship inrthc new world. V)"he style is Gothic. The length of the church is 255 feet brcadtn 134. It is to have G towers

! 200 feet in height 1 2 entrances 7 altars

i i r i li . 1 i

a cnime oi neiis a grauu unun- mm promenade. The eastern window is to be 32 feet by CC the side windows 10 by 30. The church will contain 10,000 persons, who, it is said, can disperse in five minutes."

A LAW AGAINST DUELLING. TllC law of

the Territory of Arkansas on the subject cf Duelling, is very strong and clear. Killing a man in a duel is declared to be murder in the first degree on the part of the principalsand seconds: Subjecting all partics to the punishment of death. The penally for sending or accepting a challenge is 1,000 aru disqualification for holding any office of trust ,or profit in the territory. Western paper. .

Whatever your trade may be, never be ashamcd.of it, or above it.

Selected from various Eastern Papers. Spain. General Don Juan Martin, alias El Empecinado, had been liberated from prison at Roda, where he was confined in an iron cage, hy a detachment of troops, who arrived in that town with a forged order from the government to deliver the prisoner to them. While the commander of the troops was deliberating with the Governor of. the prison the troops overcame the garrison of the'prison, released the Empecinado, mounted horses and with the Empecinado at their head, left town without shedding a drop of blood. The Banditti was increasing in every direction throughout the interior of Spain, so as to make it almost impossible to journey on and off the public roads with safety. A strong force had been sent from Toledo against a band in one of the mountains near that place, but was defeated, and returned with 10 wounded. Tiie Commissioners from St. Domingo had left Paris for Havre.to embark on their

return not having been able to eflect any satisfactory, arrangement with the French Government. Accounts from Zante to the tCth of July, communicate intelligence of the f ill of Ipsara. which was attributed to bribery. It

7 - - j ! was said that the Russian Ambassador 'at Constantinople granted permission to j the merchant vessels to transport Turkish t troops to Ipsara. and that 1500 Arnauts in 'the service of Greeks at that place, had ; been offered 1000 sequins to aid the Tuks, which they accepted: and that tf?e Greeks finding out the treachery, and seeing no hopes of escape, heroically set fire to the i fortress, and blew all up "together, crying

"Long live the Greeks." Colombia. Late accounts from the Piepublic of Colombia, represent the present state and the future prospects of that countrv, in a most favorable point of light. The

late wars had indeed, a desolating effect: hut there has this good grown out of them,

i that the people are now united in the sup

port ot civil and religious liberty, on rational and consistent principles. The Roman Catholic is still the prevailing religion: but Protestants have equal advantages

i with the Catholics, in the concerns of government ;-fiourishing schools are extensively established the scriptures in the Spanish language are widely distributing, and i tho most pprfect freedom of inquiry is tolf erated and encouraged. This looks well ; If the remaining provinces of South America follow this example, they will have little to fear, either from domestic broils or foreign invasions. The soil, the local sit- , uation, and the internal resources of Co- ; lombia, are also highly spoken of; and it is j added, that a project is now before Coni gross for uniting the Atlantic with the Pa- ! cific Ocean, which it has been ascertained

! can eanly be done in four different places.

Extract of a letter from La Guavra, South America, dated August 20, 1321. 4The countrv and climate resemble Paradise. The Catholic priests continue the old Spanish policy. They parah ze every effort of the government tending to liberty and its concomitant, information. Joseph Lancaster, in the populous city of Carac-

i ces, having been there four or five months, ! and with a salary from the government of

S'3000 a year, and his interpreter 81500,

his chool free for all the inhabitants, has

rime scholars! The magic wand of priestcraft touches even commerce and by a late enactment, one-half of the foreigners are under the necessity of closing their stores. I believe that the distribution of Riblcs,and particularly Testaments, in the Spanish tongue, would, more than missionaries, facilitate their emancipation from

dreadful mental bondage. I am satisfied that the more outward form and ceremony, the less inward purity,the less reality." Increase or Roman Catholics. According to returns laid before Pailiamcnt, about thirty-fiive years ago, the then number of Roman Catholics was C9,37G; hut. according to the statements ot souls belonging to their communion amounted to about six or seven years ago, to 500,000. In the year 1781, there were only three Roman Catholic schools of any note in England: hut at present upwards of ffty; most of the Roman Catholic chapels, the number of which is actually no less than nine huntired were built within the last thirty live years-, in the collegiate establishment at

btonyhurst there are accomodations for.

500 pupils, besides professors, managers, and domestics; before the arrival of the Jesuits, there were not more than tenor a dozen Roman Catholics in the immediate neighbourhood of Stonyhurt, but now several thousands; within a lew cars, there have been erected near that place two spacious chapels, each capable of containing 2000, and yet insnffcient for the accomodation of converts of Popery; 3000 Roman Catholic children were confirmed

j in the year 1013, in Liverpool, Manchester,

and Preston; the Roman Cnthclic ! Lancashire and parts of the adi fa

ties are nearly as numerous ru'tL" iCUi

taut churches, Jesuits of StonvU,'?1

lor t!ic use 01 their establishr " . acres; they invaribly disp.s,.js' )ff convertible Protestant tenants, as their terms expire, and substitute p0 Catholics in their places; they fi,u ' to restrain many Protestant' bo,)4 from selling any books against p,'15 while there is a Popish bookseller in i j f'' town whose shop is abundantly l'lr) ) with publications hostile to thecau. '!fu " u -li- . V r

leMuuiMii; men amesi orators rou) preach against the doctrines oftl.6!?.'.''-

j mationand the Established Church t'f ! frrriiiriitl v dpsnnt rh n front

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WILL OF BONAPARTE. The last will of Napoleon Boimpsr line inf iwen niililisliol in f

pamphlet, in French and English, U

Kidgway, oi London, lhe lol!owi; --r

isage, appears to possess- the chief iutcm

in tins very curious uocument: 'Nafolkox. This 15th of April, if

at Long-wood, island of St. llcl.?;:a.

is my testament, or act of mv will:

"I die in the apostolical Roman Rf

; ion, in the bosom of which I was born more

i than fifty years since. It is mv wish tbt

, my ashes may repose on the banks of ti

Seine, in the midst of the trench j.-cojl; whom I have loved so well. I have alwav

had reason to be pleased with my dearc

j wife, Marie- Loui?e. I retain for her, ti

j my last moment, the tenderest scntimert; I l 1. I A Jl.

j i oeseecn ner 10 w aicium oi uer 10 prcseng

! my son from the snares which yet environ,

his mlancy. 1 recommend to my son rove:

to forget that he was born a r resell prince, and never to allow himself to become a:

instrument in the hands of the trimmis who oppress the nations of Europe; he oup;ht never to fight against France, or to injure her in any manner; he cuzh to adopt my motto, "Every thine: fcr t:.e French people.'' I die prematuioh,;j sassinated by the English oligarch ;.:d its The English nation will ret be slow in avencrinir me. The two ur.llnunale results of the invasion of France.wLci she had still so many resources, are tc k r ri Kil rA tr llm frrtirAii rf I rri nr.f 1",.

inu iuuh u i tuv; i til ?l ' 1 1 Ul iiiiiuui'ii .i i rr.. TV.I1 1 1 T r ; I

give them: may the prosperity oi'Fnrr forgive them like me. I thank mv H and most excellent mother, the carc:4 my brothers and sisters, for the interest which they have continued to feel fern;!1. I pardon Louis for the libel which be published in 1320; it is replete withfi!:' documents. I disavow the uMai;ut;jt of St. Helena." and other works, umh r ti title cf "Maxims, Saying," &c. !;id: persons have been pleased to public i'r the last six years, These are not tin1 ml j which have guided my life. I cau.-d tis Duke d'Engheiu to he arrested and i''1 because that step was essential to the safety, interest, and honor of the French ropie, when the Count'd Artois wasnu.n.t.. !- inr, by his confession, sixty assasr-i'. Paris. Under similar circiinisla! .ces i would act in the same way." The remainder of the will contains a very great number of bequests, to long to-" sertion.

From the Salens )hrrvor. Ska SnnrF.NT. The following nccourt of this animal is taken from a slatcn;rrtt furnished us hy Mr. Philip Lcfavor.tl skipper of a fishing vessel, Icloi .gii tJ Marldehead. It is the most particular ac

count we have yet seen, -and as itsrutlxr ticity is boyond'disputc, it must sntUfv tbf most incredulous, on this subject, tbat ihrrf

is a monster in the sea resembling a Sti" pent. 44 While on their late vovnge, and C leagues firm Marblchead, ihcy fell a with him, and be was so near that the ill' per, when standing at the helm, va''"' eed to incline his body to look over oj him. He continued so near the heritor enough to he harpooned an hui dn i t:n: The skipper and crew were satbfr'' ,!'u his back is perfectly smooth, ai d that lU protuberances heretofore attached to are owing to his undulatii g n otion. 1 -head is as larce as a half band, hi t;li" blunt as though it wi re cut square oth '!- of whitish color, graduallv beci in'mg

er till it exhibits the l larkncss olaM;(l

snake, lie shifted his nestuics sct

times, sometimes lavingat full lengths

he appeared over s'ixlv feet, at other timy-

assuming a snira lorm resell 'l-c ' I

worm of a still, lie changed hi K1" very easily. His whole appearance Wterrific though he seemed harnh'?s 1 iP The correctness of this btakrnent W dependened on. for the skipper aI tl f j are men well known in 31arbleiieaJ.a-!i

; their ver::citv has never been impcacu--