Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 67, Richmond, Wayne County, 2 July 1825 — Page 2

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taken a firm standing in faror of the right of the people, to animadvert freely on their

officers who might step from the path of

duty, ihe truth is, that a few calculating politicians have been trying to impose upon the people. That all may be satisfied of the present opinion of Mr. Ray on this subject, I will copy some of his own language from the first paragraph of his address to the voters of the 3d congressional district, as late as August last, long after he is said to have sinned, by his vote in the Senate. He speaks to the people in these plain terms, viz: "Your government has been created by yourselves. It is oneofyourownchoice,and is happily based in the will of the people, and is of laws and measures and not of men. By your poweiful voice you direct its helm, in your own hands are its pun strings, and your vigilant eye penetrates all its departments. All its public functionaries are the creatures of your volition, and there are none of them whatever may be Xbvxv politi ail elevation that are not at times subject to your animadversron for mal-administration in office." Is this the language of one who is friendly to the gag law ? Shame to those who have attempted thus to slander an officer, who has always breathed the most republican sentiments. Again, does he not tell you in his short address to the "Freemen of Indiana," of the 21st ult., that he is friendlv to the libertv of the press? Why then do you wish to see his sentiments repeated? I will now state the stage of the bill at the time the vote has taken upon it, as the journal show. It was the revised bill of criminal law, reported by Governor Hendricks, and tis section was a part of it. v This same law was passed by the House of Representatives xrithout opposition, and was reported

to the Senate tor its concurrence. No sooner had the bill landed in the Senate, j than a motion was made to strike out the i section, which was decided in the afiirma-i

tive. Nine members voted for striking out, and seven, with Mr. Rav, voted against it. Now, did those who voted n gainst striking out. vote fur the section? No. Was the bill on iU pasaL'e? No. Furthermore, what was the effect of striking out the :ection at that stage of the bill? It was this : all propositions to lop away the objectionable parts of the law were precluded all amendment to it was proscribed and prevented reflection arid

consideration upon its merits were ostenta-!

tiouslv defeated, an d a contempt ( tiered t the lower house, for not sutTeiing it to undergo the rut mar rcutii e rt ! -pitlatic i "Well, what would the vote of Mr Ray ai d others, if successful, have tfhchd? It would only have retained the law for further consideration, and then in the end whti it was on its passage, the) might, as if don constantly in a legislature, have voted al togther againt the law. It would have enabled it? friends. (if it had any,) to make it as perfect as possible, (which is a course usual and liberal,) by amendment. It! Would have been treating the other branch Of the assembly with that respect which i ; due them, to conilrr their law at least, j and then to kill it if thought unwholesonn .) It discovered a degree of malignity that! was incornpatable with philosophy, to;

strict it out so suddenly, by which the Huuse of Representatives we re told, their law was too detestable to be thought of. Finally, I aver it to be an every day's

practice, for members to vote against

striking out a bill, and then afterward to vote against the law; so that this kind of a vote proves nothing. The motion to strike out, if negatived, had not the effect of passing the seetion into a law. In conclusion, permit me to state that this seetion is much inisrrnre'.ented. It

, , ------ , does not punish any one for talking as much: as they please, and of whom they please,' and as sraiulalouOv and wicked as they! please. Verbal discussion, or the freedom of yprethi is not embraced by the law. It only punishes the vilfd, malicious, and base hearted libeller. True, free, open and lair discussion, in the prints, is not prohibited.; It punishes no one for writing the trull. ; but! it does fora slanderous falsehoood. Truth, t N. B. The author of the above, who is j a subscriber to the "Public Leger," re-; quesU Mr. Buxton to insert it in his paper.!

Fish Stories are uncommonly abundant: this season. A whale lately swallowed; the anchor of a Cape-Ann fishing schooner;; and after dragging the schooner some! leagues, lie returned the ar chor to its own-!

ers, arid with it a large portion of his entrails, as a compensation for the alarm he had occasioned. Mackerel are so plenty on the Cape May shoals, that a hundred fishing boats are aide to catch CO barrels a day each. A. Eng. Galaxy. To dkstroy Rats and Mice. Mix flour cf malt with some butter, add thereto a drop or two of oil of anniseed; make it up ii to balls, and bait your tr aps therewith. It you have thousands, by this means you may take them all.

FOUSIGri AFFAIRS.

The Greeks. The Augsburgh Gazette notices a rumor at Constantinople, that the Turks had sustained a partial defeat in the Morea. Tfc3 vrould seem to be a confirmation of t! . accounts already received, of the Greeks Caving attacked and destroyed a large body cf troops that had been landed at Mode n by the Egyptian fleet. The last letters from Trieste, stated that the Greek fleet had sailed in pursuit of the Egyptian squadron, with the hope of preventing ajunction with the Turkish squadron. The armaments of the Porte are spoken of, in letters from Odessa, as being in a miserable plight; while the Greeks are represented as being confident in maintaining their independence, if the present campaign terminates in their favor. The Paris papers say that General Guilleminot had daily conferences with the Reis Effendi at Constantinople, and that the Porte hoped by some brilliant exploits to conciliate the favor of the European Cabinets. The Boston Daily Advertiser, says: We published a short time since, a letter from Mr. Miller, who is in Greece, and another from Prince Mavrbcordatos, dated in December last. A letter has since been received by the Greeek committee in this town, from Miller, dated the 14th of January, in which he gives some information deserving of attention, of the state of affairs in Greece. He says that amidst of the general distress, equal to what any people ever endured, it is the universal declaration of men, women and children, within the very neighbourhood of the enemy, that they will sooner all die, than come again under the power of the Turks that they have a general aversion to the Franks, which will prevent their accepting a prince, should one be recommended by the European powers, and that the Greek government is daily gaining strength, and there is a tine prospect of a speedy settlement of internal distentions. Mr. Miller was present at the Congress of the principal inhabitants arid Generals from the departments of Western Greece, which was held at Anatolico, Dec. 1G, and sat ten days. The proceedings were conducted with much order and regularitv, and all the a flairs of Western Greece were amicably discussed and settled, though the officers and soldiers who have defended the country for the last six months have received neither rations, clothes nor money. There were two thousand soldies in the town, who came with their different commanders, vet there was no riot nor disturbance. He considers Mavrocordatos the first man in Greece, in point of talents and influence. He has defended the province the last year without money, yet his officers are attached to him. Mr. Miller ex pected to march on the next day, a volunteer under Col. Jarvis, in an expedition against Lepanto. Patras was to be attacked at the same time by troops from Napoli. He repeats his advice that no Americans should embark in the Greek cause unless they have resources to provide the means of support. Hundreds of Adventurers he says have already perished in Greece, and have done little or nothing for the cause of libertv or Greece. There are no later advices from Greece, but some further accounts respecting the

landing or me r.gypuans in tlie morea. That they have made such landing there is no doubt, that there has been some fighting sems equally clear, but who were the victors is more than we can tell. It is likewise pretty well ascertained that the winds had given such an advantage to the Greek navy, that Vice Admiral Sactouris had been enabled to blockade the Egyptian fleet in the port of Modon. He was waiting for a favorable wind to send a few ships

among them. The Turkish accounts from Smyrna, however, which are to the 29th of March, do not afford much consolation Pietro Bey, another of (he Greek chiefs, is said to have joined the Turks in the Morea, and the taking of Navarino and Cala-

mata, is confirmed from all quarters.

I he blockade of Patras is also raised. A letter from Athens states Odysseus,

the Greek chief, was quietly waiting at his fortified rotto for some change of circumstances favorable to his designs. A letter, dated Paris, April 29th, say ft 44 We are all bustle here for the coronation ceremony, to which Charles X looks for recovering his lost popularity. In the preparations for this aflair, there is much of splendor mingled with meanness. The only real splendor is by the foreign Ambassadors, who vie with each other in ex

travagance.

The present proceedings of the French government afford ample materials for reflection. The great aim manifestly is to establish the omnipresence of the Catholic priesthood, by bringing all the concerns of education under their exclusive management, and permitting no other instruction to be given to the rising generation than such as tends to forward their designs, to

bring the great body of the nation once more under the dominion .of their councils. They are advancing step by step, and there is apparently ho stretch of guilt that will deter them from their purpose. It is the general opinion at Paris, that the recent assassination of Paul Louis Courier, was the deed of some agent of the jesuitical faction, as he had finished,and was about to put to the press, a work in which all his powers of raillery and sarcasm were known to be employed .against them. It was in a wood belonging to him at Veretz, near Tours, that the body was found, pierced with three balls. The ordinance obliging the marriage ceremony to be performed first in the church and then in the municipality the threat of excommunicating all mothers who do not baptize their children within ten days of their birth the rejection of protestant sponsors the insisting on the production of confessional certificates the difficulty of obtaining Christian burial all these form a mass of tyranny and oppression from which the people will sooner or later rescue themselves; it cannot be otherwise. The population of Cuba is estimated at about 000,000 Slaves over 200,000 free people of colour, about 120,000. A Prussian girl, in Westphalia, has been asleep 451 days without waking. Two physicians were watching her, and she was still sound asleep when the last mail left there. Don't you now believe the "fsh story?'1 Cadiz, that once opulent city, the commercial emporium of the world, is running its course, like all things, to abandonment, and ruin. The churches and public buildings, both externally and internally, are in a state of dilapidation, and its Cathedral, which was to have been the glory of Cadiz, and the admiration of Europe, the building of which cost millions, "rs now petitioned into workshops. The pompous and formidable Navy of Spain, which in former days, floated in insulting security in her wide and spacious Bay, is long since annihilated from the waters of the deep, and the rich galleons, which annually poured in their vast wealth from the mines of Mexico and Peru, to feed the siekly appetite of pampered sensuality, are no more. Neptune, too, has declared war against the city, and decreed that his watery element shall ride rampant over its walls; already he has made great inroads on its boundaries, aid I doubt whether the treasury of France (for Spain has none) will be adequate to repair its rotten walls. Commerce also has taken her departure, and is now on her wings toother distant regions, and has left nothing behind but poverty and distress. Men are to be met at every corner, in the attitude of supplication for the daily wants of nature, who, not many years ago, were among the first merchants in the city. Everyday turns out a fresh supply on the town, and thoe whom the blind goddess has been more favorable to, studiously avoid their quondam associates who now supplicate their charity. Families who, during the former siege of Cadiz, occupied the first rank in societv, and were the very centre of attraction and admiration on the Alemcda, are now the criminal agents of

gaming-tables, and the panders of prostitution. Others again, who wish to preserve

a'i apparent virtue in the reversesoffortune, live more retired, and are never to be seen beyond the doors of their comfortless habitations but on Sundays and holidays, to comply with their religious obligation to bear mass. London paper. Butter. The deficiency in the quality of keg butter, may be chiefly attributed to neglect, in not salting it down into kegs, or putting it into pickle when fresh, a great part of that packed into kegs, has first remained exposed to the air, until it has become rancid and spoiled. As few of the

farmers have vessels prepared for salting, it devolves upon the country merchants to adopt the best method for preserving and putting up for exportation this important article of commerce. The following method has been practised with success: One or two large pickling tubs are provided, filled with strong pickle, made of eight parts salt, one of saltpetre, and one of sugar, into which butter is put as soon as received. Lids are provided, on which a weight is placed, sufficient to keep it covered. The butter, when convenient, is packed into clean, tight kegs, made of white-oak, into the cavities of which, (at bottom and top,) a little melted butter is poured. Care is taken to assort the butter, when packing, in each keg, according to quality and color. The pickle should be renewed every two weeks. A neighbour, who pursues this plan has always sold his butter from two to four cents per pound higher than that which has not been put into pickle or put up fresh. 'Pitts. Gaz.

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From the New-York A. The violent and treasVnfc Governor Troup to the pasrs ? Georgians, and his exhortation tf are so entirely without ground i r 0 ari tion. that I am nAnr. P ?d t

of one of the causes of k

Plaint.. The argument of the T General, m a late cauc befor i eT premc Court, is magnified by G(l l S into a premature exposure of th V S ate design of the present adminiJr , l take from the inhabitants of theS, h property in negroes, withoutcornp I It will surprise many of our reX' tl0derstand that this argument wa advancing a seh evident principal following case: intiit A vessel containing between 10oaftw negroes, was captured by a II q A portion of these blacks was cllS1 Spanish and Portuguese subject arfl7 remainder belonged tn

of the latter consequently vested? U. States, and by our law sV Ihe Spanish and Portuguese claim however, were unable to identify blacks to whom they asserted a J' Judge Johnson decreed that those were in one mass with the others, sho.lj be designated by lot, i. e.that they swj run the risk of slavery, and the others stai their chance of freedom. The attorjgeneral, in arguing this cause before judges of this confederacy of repute distinctly disclaimed speaking any seL;; merits but his own. lie was nrtlT.

counsel to resist the claim of Spanish 'b

trailers, and ne resisted their unbailed

i 1 1 1 1 1 in . n., wj v iwi uciiic WlllCU Gill ;r

honor, as an orator and as a man, j

claimed freedom for these unfortunate At ricans, because it was not clearly proved that they were slaves. He asserted th

prima' facie they were free free as G i made them; and that if any wished toei ercise absolute authority over them, fur

must prove their right to that authority. This is the sentiment which has extile; the indignation of Gov. Troup, ar,d ha brought out this tirade against the coiii:c ted authorities of our country. It U tirr.: to put a stop to these things. Thisi. lent stile of menace and invective curio!, and ought not to be tolerated from a m

ernor who has brought upon this rouitry the deepest disgrace she ever suffered: i

refer to the late conduct of the governor with regard to the Indians within his jurisdiction. Thev have been defrauded ii t late treaty. The solemnly pledged faiir, of his government to promote their atvance in civilization has been irlu4 and I fear that under the authority f-f M: very iiovernor and this leirMature, wU"

if is now assembled, a svtem of hostility ul

oppression is about to commence ag-i these unfortunate aboriginals w

for first time, give an American cause to blush for his country. I shall not now go into an examir.atis: of the hasty and violent measures ot G t Troup and his creatures, to divest ti es' natives of their property. An iuvestiption will be set on foot in Congress wlm'S will v indicate the honor of the natior..Suflice it to say, that it is a natiofal cc:cern, and as such it will be treated. TALUS.

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If you forget God when you are young-, God may forget you when you arc old.

Extract from the Menace of the Governor cf SewIl.itnpshirc. 3 "It is the policy of every well recub! cnvprnmnnl lo muuffulnf the 5U JtCl

of internal improvements. They are ot

the tirst consideration, as they if no -c o u ra ge a g ri c u 1 1 u re a n d m a n u fi ct u r ?. p' facility to intercourse, and ncthitv toc merce. Although nature has not njn

ouite so liberal in forminn the face on

fminfrv nnr in ie i ri bill ion of pen

rivers and lakes, in this as in some other states, this only leaves more to be . the skill of the artist, and the har.d w,fci industrious. The great and noble s(; nroiecterl :ur cYprntrd in the State oli

York, and others proposed in hs& setts, Ohio, Pennsylvania and 'ver

to nvritp rm Innniri- if SomtthirC .

kind may not be proposed and effrctc 1 this state, highly interesting to its cilitfi It is stated in the Washington GaZ the 8th inst. "that a gentleman

rank, in the serv ice of the. UrecK ment, is now building one or more i" in New-York for that government- y ships are to be built without t'c1 of the common timber of t'wt 'a Rumour says the constructions, ships is to be superintended by an in high rank in our service.'

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term rvf to cnnrinr

(N. C.) which had been fifteen , )

court, the jury returning a c,w i: dollar, and the costs and ePcf(.'partf ing to two thousand dollars. 1 !;;

were, Gregory vs. IJookei

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