Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 85, Richmond, Wayne County, 26 November 1825 — Page 2
COMMUNICATIONS.
FOR THE PUBLIC LTGER.
To the Legislators of Indiana, the fol-j lowing opinion, with conscious deference,1 is Mib:nitted: The apparent hardship of obliging persons conscientiously scrupu-i lus of hearing arm?, or doing militia duty,
ta pay fncs, as well as the irregular compulsion used in their collection, ha lone since become a topic of interesting discussion among political men, and sterns loudly to c.dl for legislative internoition. It
ner, to paralir? the exertions of that peo
ple, on whom she most depends tor her internal improvements. H&w can it be expected that any class of people will be a benefit to a state, when the property 'acquired by a summer's labor, is dragged from them in autumn, and gold to pay a militia levy? Fourthly The policv of the state de-
It mantis an immediate exemption from the
payment ol tines, on account of the check that our laws have given, and will continue to give the emigration of the Friends to this state. In all of the states within
ii nnf mv intention fi mrtri fiir their eX
Amotion a. a constitutional right; for I j ,K Union, except this, perhaps laws have think the Coaptation of this state wi.r-'f1 passed allow ing them an unrestrainrauts no ueh nrivilero: nor will I insist 0,1 'crcic of ro.wcionce, and granting
th if tie- 1 iw of nature, or the law of reli
gion entitles them to claim a freedom from .. 1 1
a dutv. that is expressed r implied in eve
rv national compact: to wit, fc,That, in consideration of the protection, which every member of the compact receives, he shall protect the whole. But, notwithstanding the obligators duties arising from constitutiorial authority, and the imperious max im above mentioned, yet there are many gn at p 'htic.tl motives, which call for a Tel:, x ition of those rub that are indUpensiblo to national existence; there are also circumstances at tend if ig a people circum s! nce arising from religion, poverty, local situation, form r tnisfortunes or oppression, vvhicn frequently solicit the attention of l.-gislature, and reasonably claim ol it
them an executive exemption from tht
payment of those fines. Nf man can rea
sonably believe that the Friends will emigrate from those states to this, when they verv well know that a settlement here
would tend. to jeopardize" their property. This article is entitled to more consideration than I am able to give it at this time. But sutlice it to say, that the legislature I have neglected this article in their deliberations, and greatly too to the detriment I of the state. Fifthly. There is no equality in the fines paid by the Friends and those paid ! by the other delinquents, owing to the 1 different administration of the militia law. Inasmuch as the law makes a notice to the
Friends unnecessary, tl.es thereby cannot
f i . . . i . . . - i r a-. . i . i
a re:nii,n from some political or civil du-: ,,e ' " 1" w"' tie, that appear to ret on everv member ! do military dim ; for. m the hist of the state. The Quakers of 'this -date . P,;iri' they cannot know when the musare entitled to an exemption from the nav- ! are, and consequent cannot be pre-
nvmt of military tines, not, a- I before said, I P'iri to make a defence at the Court ol j m rh on account of their religious tenets,! Assessments. This I .hern very n a qu.ta- j h- n.r renins fomc of which have been I U'- And if the delei ts that are prwiu-l
1 . . ,ti ,.!,; h Ic, ,li ,1(l..:,v.ir to ni.n. !' nent in the military law, are not sullirici-t
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b ! re J I -m) mv remarks un tin
sequence?.
' Tho writer has given it nsj imported wool is new two
nt y-fire
Per cv&
pis opinion uiiu un. i-ihj ' . ."j v-..., ...tvj Mime years t Texas "is not alone a sufficient attraction! i subject to rtn annual advance of? (0lHi to induce men to emigrate, unless it be ; cent and that woollen manufacb those unfortunate beings, the victims of ty- multiplying probably somewhat in r rannv in Europe, to whom any asylum j tion to the increase-cultivation ol th- '0 ' would be acceptable." Now here appears ji material. Wool, like cotton, must J
tobeaclass pointed outviz: "those tinforlu-i be. an article which will comm,,.,i ' '
nateboines, the vic tims of tyranny," these j; price and a ready market, and m,'
may emigrate one would suppose without : will bear a considerable diminution I,! li censure to Texas or whTe they please ; its production will be aa u;ipio!ita!,h. "i
and is there none of this class in the Uniieu ; nes lor t!ie grower.
States? yes, there are tens of thousands of jj - those unfortunate beings the victims of ty-1
ranny, to whom any aslum would be acceptable. "The m an nn dives for r.-main-! ing at homer thee 'unfortunate heings"'; are unacquainted with. "Their very o"mg will be proof of the lack of industry. This is a severe bite. Did our ancestors i i il ...Hwt
"lacK imiusiry -or we me not ,brahim ,,.rh , -unfurl unate beings, victims of tyranny u m, N n. ()j Romani Funper that caused them to emigrate -to j;t Grot,c fm , A.nenea? That there ,s land enough "in I; . nfGro:ii n(:f;lin.t, V 1 ,0loV
O'Ho.Mioiiri.fcc. within the protection ol:'4. ,.r, :1 ,
law s, good order, liberty of conscience, and the regular administration of justice, and within visiting distance of relatives, old friends and acquaintances'' is very true, but it should be borne in mind, these fine things do not come w ithin the icach of those victims of t ranny." And we must be "allowed to think' the writer of the article alluded to "has taken upon hinvelfa very
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Price
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FOREIGIJ AFFAIRS
Greeks and Tuhks Ve have (1 ,7 stock of reports. They aro generlly vorable to the cause of the Gre, I i ! few of them are of a positive ( lumut. The following isa brief notice ofsomeoftj tilings stated: IC
ton. W hue he waited to ask ;m ..v, i.,. .
: tion, he was attacked by the Greeks ijr)(j completely defeated. with the loss of i, i men after which he retreated to Cal-iin. ta, where he was surrounded by a fan,- r,f : 23,009 men, under Colocntroniand n poij, ed to have been in a desperate cur.diiiun. t seems as if, in a subsequent attack, he I lost 1,200 Arabs; and it is said that sien Hey, with a foraging party -t 1. u
' hi o tviii'o iiu ;i'.ivJ3 uni. i ii 1 .:t! i ii- .
f promise' U, Ibcc Uuited Sj,tr, ' 1 J .ilr. ,7, i . , 7 " , '"7 ' ' " r"
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rious responsibility when he .'lulds out a
the verv liest tint. r LD.
Froni tde Mi MM.urj, v'Vt.) Nniional Stuii.lunl. WOOL. Tuere is perhaps no class in community more slow to trive credence to tiie practicability of innovation in agricul
omv t cm farm rs themselves.
t considered it the polio efall ! "Mfi,r laim the attei tion of the h-idature
I it ive v
governm-N ts lo pass ;is man ti nipon-n g j I.iws as are nccesarv to t x ile emulation i i amon:; all of the people of a con n unit , without impairing its stability; and to ap-; ph s.jrh measures to even part of the Mat-, ; 3 will do to every member a partial good, ( a 1 advance the interests of the u hole col-
I t tivf' lv
1 wdl procf
as to ntakean nir.era ruer 1. It w i L ra r-i
i t haps, be r oiitei d d, tl;t it is imueitci ial j w hetlu r those w ho never d n.ilit. -x t!ut i have a notice of the time aid l ine o I mustering er r.nf. Snj p e, tlcn, that a Friei.d should have or e of his Je;: irek n.j on that era nrior dav, is it not reastnab! !
With these prelatorv nmaiks.j tiiat i;e hou!d in- permitted to make hi-j ,.rl .;.,. .... r.. iho defence at a airt of as-cments? M -st
VI II' ,111 1111 M fir'T' " '
tn to the ruciimental formation of govern merit, er, title them to claim, and authoriz the L- iii-lature to grant, a remission t thr-e fmes, which have b cn paid hitherto to the trr ;t impoven? ni f t of the wl ele Society ot Flier dv win in the juris! u t inn of this state. And rltf ugh an Xeir.ptien ir. tin ir behalf would he attended with the los- ,,f a large -um of mo? n eaih; yet tie' relit i tif.if m;m will, I think, be convinced, that the tate will be benefitted more hv t!. uraiit rf thoo indulgerires, than she v-nild lv a ui il" n, t-xnetinn cf militarv fi It i- a well known fact to every ni t'i who ha perused ancient at d niodern liitor . tii at a militarv spirit in all uovernIii 'I, has been that blind prompter that lia- urjed ver people, (wln se fall and nii-l r t j : . c have made a la-ti g impression on the mind- of the int lligent.) to a degenerate barbarism, and burned them to that ruin, which is consequent on the indulgence of a militarv pride. How ndniifa!lv are tlie pa ilic principles ir a nb .i-
te I v the h rieiids,"' dispfsed to parahze'
the Mjlir.tr spirit ol militarv fame ! liow Co s-.i;,rit ;ir(. their principle with tla.se in ; art (1 b the "Saviour of the world!" Vv . that has made himself acquainted w 'i the pacilie principles of 'Friend-,' cc !ued in thir society but has beenme tho . ij-jl ?i.vincd ef their bei eficial
elf M-? Ti-ev are the-., tenet of relish n. I th. f, in nfv . pinion, i, jj cri.latif tole-l ration: n t-, that ;m tnore cot m rial to cur f. mi ' governrn"; t, (in w i U h cciual;
' u r a I e.coa
ubjn t. to authorize an xccption, it wiil, at .'ast,!. ,,jeed so rnn.y bunbles are constantly
1 1 -r-1 1 r upim the world, that we can hanlly hi am their reverence Ar tried method, and antiquated customs ! if every virtue when carried to excess ir ajt to degenerate
i ito an opposite vice with which it is allied :
i id it not uulrequcntlv happens that an inlivi hial under the intluence of extieme caution will venture to predict the miscarriage of his neighbor in a rew schcrne of cultivation, until at length he is doomed to behold hitn far ahead in the course of -ucces?ful exnerimerit, and to lament too late the effects of his own prejudice and im redulitv. These ideas have been sug g'-sted to us by the tardy advances and low belief of our farmers in the ad vantages of improving our breeds of Slurp by tlie introduction of 'Jinejla res. The prejudices which have heretofore prevailed to a very considerable extent, seem now to vanquished, and the emulation which exist for the possession of the more improved breeds of t his animal, is bighlv auspicious
j to the prosperity of the State. Those who
possess ilof ks with an admixture of the Merino from a half to full bloods, procure from foity to ixty or seventy cents pet poin d for their wool, while the price of the common tleece is only thirty four cents.
These profits of the improved breeds are
n. .. ,.f i,n .....ii ..c i,. .,.. oi;-.f ! certainly, tvil tins he ca. net (to. at n ;
situation of those people, demai d an . x- Tg'iments might he adduc d to show Unit j cm;. tion from the payment of tines. j tl,r ,IW i? not equitaMe ; and one will sul j I the first place, 1 think that their reli- J i'O man ,. as been attendant j gi ,s tetiets. notwithstat ditig thriropnosi-h'' the court of a5s..?s,,,onts nviM be co - j
vmceu oi ine ngni exaction oi lines ir. in; the Quakers, and the extraordinary relaxation on the part and behalf of other d - j lirupients. As there are many person ,
who do not attend the c ourt of assessments. 1 w ill firielly state the proceedings in that court. The rorr.mandent of each ccmp -ny makes out a lil of d linquefff. wiich list is presented to the Judge Advocate ot the regiment, or the President cf the Court, by whom the names of the delioquents are called in succ osion. When the name of a delinquent is called, he comes forward and tells the court, that he had a sore toe, or that he was obliged to
auemi to nis own nusmess on mat tiav,or that he was obliged to g to mill, or to meeting, or to Cincinnati for a barn I of; salt, and consequently could not attend. j Then rises the officer bv whom fie was .returned, and states to the court, that he,
knows all that ' the delinquent 'had said to be true, for the delinquent t' I I him so upon which the question "n asked, Mine or no fine?" kiH line, no line,'&:c. Though f confess it is not always 4mo fine,' vet I have known a colb-rtor of the public revenue to be exempted fiom the pavmeitt of a line hetatise In; was collecting taxes, on which he received 9 per centum. For proof of this, search the records of the
IGtb regirnei t. But sutler me to ask,;
what excusr will avail a Quaker? None. Nothing but the payment of two dollars fifty cents w ill satisfy the requisition of the law. and those bv whom it is administered.
I at Candia, it is added, were about to nrrho ; to relieve Ibrahim. The defeat of the Turks at Missnloi . was very severe. Their las w;isgn ;(r land it appears to have deranged ;dj (n if
plant of the campaign. There was an insurrection in C;u and 3,000 men were aboat to embark
I 11 dra to assist in fighting the Turk? a:.d
Fg ptian-4 on that island. 1)40,000 sterling of the Greek loan I d been received to pay the troops. ('(,.,.
' troni and hi two scuis api'ar tr hp arm j
fioblv. Cioura i in t he N'.rtn . Athmi,ii G.000 men. Canaris has -ad- d for Al x dria, to burn the. fleet about to sail U aii thence. The accounts from Constantinople w ';!,
is;u'vv trial trie uivan is murn aian c.1 ;it I the appearance of things; but it i ij
that if the Greeks are successful w (,e more because of the defect? of the ernnv, than the elFects of their own skill or truT.o; yet they tight bravely, and especially ;it OCrLATF.R. Grkat Hhitaix and Ireland. A sap of ' admiral Miauhs has arrived in Lmu! r.
with tin pr'pc :-al of the G? e( ks to tluvu- : themselves under tin nrotecti'in et the
( British uovon inent. It will not he ncccj t- ! ed. A pnn lamation has jit leert iM ii t omn anding the strictest neutrality I . tw een the Greeks and the Tut k ii oi i (tunce of which several vessel-, l;uh v. j stores, ome for the supply of ' ' c ani :i e , for the other had precipitately b tt
land lest thev should be stonned. i
. . . . .. i u i w i .-i in. i rui'iiiu t' kiv'w. i".r Cr n ' a i f ' ' ' l "' vv. ul.t of ,e l -ec-. which in orui..:.iy jl Sl,A1N....A Grc,)ld:, ,:i. ( I0.li Hocks of hall and three quarters hloou, w til j-, , i.,, j r . , , , hentember, sa s, vestrrdn were nn i -a average from three and a hall to four! . ' , - , ; ... , , ., . . . i- ... toe seven free ma-ons who were a in
rk'hts ai d the libett of cotisrienre
are
pounds, while two and a half and three
pounds is a good -yield for common sheep with the same feed and keeping. A further benefit is seen in the superiority of price of the fine fleeced animals. A Merino ewe or buck is worth from ten to twelve dollars, and 3-4 1 lis and 7-Clhs blooded fr m three to six dollars, while from one dollar to one and half and two dollar is the price of native sheep. The preference of i earing sheep rather than cattle may be seen
j in the diminished labor, the ready profits,
a d the superior prices of sheep and wool over beef, butter and cheese. j
i the lodge in this cif v, in the a t c! lernvn ? an apprentice; the latter is sciilenn i! ei:;ht yl,ars imprisonment, i Turkky Nt Gr.f.ncE. The ii-surn-ni.n in Candia has :athercd so much iriii.t : that the Turks have retired to th leii: of Ketimo. Mount Ida. a? d sew;r;d -H ' ? places, had fallen into ha)d id t! ed: i Nothing now from Ibrahim Pacha. I Turkish ships were (docked in up the ciM ! Lepanto bv the Greeks. MirS lonclu was still hlorL-V.hwl mi the land side frtQUt T.t
combats take place. .One account s.'s t!.' the attempt to burn the Kirv ptinii tket at
I he profits of keeping Merinos may be!. Alexandria had nartlv Ucccded-a,,c.r
jLet me a!; the sti kb rs for militarv dutv.
V r di-tii 'uishir hatartf titic-. thanii (among w bom I have been one,) what isn ' c , . - . . . . 7 . ' H .i .i . ., i . , ew effort
l at oi rn other to the worm. A' o al-j reason, mat mere nave i.ot ncen
t - n'h tfiev can . their cot sciei fious!' enough collected, in th' loth regiment.
s- u' h s further than we deem neccssarv.!! during the two lat years, to nuichase fi
sh lithe legislator,- of thi state all w ix di urns? Is it because there are no t! tn no tob rati n? If their religion abn d liiajuents at musters? Certainly not. should not be oiti.i ient to authorize an ex j lhit a more cxplh it attswer I leave for the tnpii v ,I will ndeavor to bbow jj ofTn ers of every regiment; referring the
general ouostions t tliose whom I adore ss,
.' Ihit I must reserve. the .ration of the subject to next
Bi:iH)LDi:u.
greatly augmented bv improving thestaple,
which can he eailv done by udicious man
agement, by selecting the finest fleecd
I
S eoi lv-That the spitit of I uw in-
dus'i i . w ' n I
Ku ds from
l as ever di-t ioLMiished the
the other i itiz I S of this
Sf ..ud the herefit which the state deri v 'rfiom lluit industry, are a Milbi ient re Miital for the ikii rAatnatice of rr ilitia d'. L' t auv man a-k the collectors of pn lie rin i e, w hat part of the citizef.s of tii tale, has ,e most ahilitv, aid are IT'.-t wiling to pay tin civil assesHUK-i.fs, a. : e will tell him, I think, that it i the Fc ds. Uut. tnirdlv, the political men of this et.li ong; t to rec lb at that l e is in In r inf. .aid that the unreasonable seizor' - and ditr fcrirk.'dr use of in the collection ol lines, tew in a'woi dcrful pian-
k4th' leLilatois.'
further consider;
week.
FOR THE I'UBLIC ISGV.R. Ours is the bkst. I was led to rellect
i on t t.is snhjei t on observitig some remark in the C3d No. of the I-ger, taken from I the National Journal, relative totheseftlej ment iti Te xas, h is ;i hv potlit sis that genernllv obtains with nation ai d ii-divid-! uab, that, their own is the best, b t it relate tt what if may, and are pretty -uie to
o'liMiic tlu-se vvu may happen to difier
)ref(lers. ;itwl m nm i.ciii' lit l,r
hue !i . . rrA,,,,,j "j
; ' loss,,,- IM(. ,MOou wim me mxony race. . "H This family of sheep, it is well known, de-
i iv en ii om a seiecuon made Irom a Spanish flock, and introduced into Saxony abtujt sixty years since, where they have hern nourished with peculiar attention until the fineness of their Ib i ces far surpas-d that of the parent stock. This circumstance de ides what has often been doubted, that the texture of the fleece improves in a northern climate. It is asserted bv a vyriter m the P dtimore Patriot, that the Saxony word commands near double the price in Kurope and America of the fine Spanish 1 .eoncsa. But we are frequently asked whethei the pi ice of wool will not by the present extraordinary competition tpcedilv be reduted, and whether he who devotes hi capital exclusively to the production of vvoiil will not evi litnalh be. a loer. Of
tie
fr m 'hem, at i wit' a hold rs that ei c
this the agriculturalist can judg
much better than oui selves
j;erhaj 1 1 -
ve ca
informs us, that, though bravely conchu
;c c.n.wi ....f i t :i)cc oi nx
I. IflllCtl, Ull UllClllll oi wind. The Greeks capture many
m nean vessels laden with stores irc-m
Turks. Austtia is said to have iurd itive ordei for f he preservation ol neutr.ohty,and will not allow the protection1, vessels conveying troops, iwC. WeTfearful that the new proclamation? el u' tndity, by Austria and Great Bnt"'''?hj' a disposition to leave the Greeks to o "
j fate; for the belief now is, that they c;n ! succeed w ithout foreign aid, and tlt ,l
Turks will finally press them down u mere weight of numbers. t , Uaiibakv states. It U believed tn"' de) of Algiers is. preparing :i l "1' l,' . act against the Greeks The Tropili has declared war against S-U '""J Letters from Morocco, ,,j;it,t,',f emperor has put to the sword the wiu 11 j the inhabitants cf the city of Mcttci " entirely destroyed the ciiy, in tot -if''' 1
j of the late revidt.
Mvould bupposu they Lad -no icar-.i to cen-il lucrxdy ttatc the facts thut the dutv- on
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