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with reverence or contempt? Ih cases!! cd by that declaration, seems to beat

are precisely similar. Ths President is required by the Constitution "to recommend such measures to Congress as he shall deem necessary and expedient.'' Suppose he were to attempt to dictate to them the terms upon which they should adopt such measures; or point out to thera certain restrictions and conditions, by which they should be governed, in deciding upon them; what would Congress say to him on such an occasion? They would say 'sir, it is your business to recommend the measures, and ours to determine the manner in which we shall decide upon them, as well the restrictions and conditions by which we will be governed in our decisions, as thejerms upon which we will adopt them.' I ask you, sir, bow would Congress view such a dictation? Not with reverence, not with contempt, nav, but with disgust. Are the cases sim-ila-or not? If they be, and we adopt the

amendment to the resolution, your Constitution is a dead letter, and the oath of a representative in Congress a mere nulity. "This is but one view of the subject there are some others which I shall briefly notice. I have said, sir, that this amendment to the resolution of the committee of Foreign Affairs was not only wrong in principle, but repugnant to the very ground upon which the measure rests. Let us, sir, examine its features a little more minutely. It is said, we are not allowed to sanction any departure from our settled policy that in extending our commercial relations with foreign nations, we should have with them as little political connection as possible. This, sir, is one of the sage maxims of the Father of our Republic, General WASinscTON'.and bught to be held inviolable by every statesman. It is one of the fundamental principles of diplomatic

economy, and Dever onght to be departed

present the settled policy of this govern

ment towards those Southern republics; Dor, sir, hare I ever heard it objected to, until I heard it called in question by this amendment to the resolution offered by the gentleman from Delaware, (Mr. M'Lane,) and by the present modification of it by the one from Pa. (Mr. Buchanan,) and sir, whatever gentlemen may think of it, it will continue to be the settled policy of this country towards those southern nations, so long as they shall love justice, and continue to cherish their free institutions, notwithstanding all the Kttle opposition which it may meet with in this Hall. Sir, it is our true policy to cultivate a good understanding, and extend to them the aid of our moral and even our physical influence, so far as may be consistent with our neutral position toward other nations; our commercial intercourse with them is of more importance to us, than all our other cemmercial relations in the world. They furnish us with a near and beneficial market fr our surplus manufactures, and a considerable portion of our agricultural productions. Our trade at present, with them, and the island of Cuba, amounts to very little short of thirty millions annuallyI think I may venture to say, the chief oi' the six millions of our surplus manufactures exported the last year, were disposed of to them; the demand for them is rapidly increasing, perhaps more than the increase of that branch of our industry. Pursuing this liberal policy towards them, has secured to us their most friendly feelings; and by continuing that same liberal course, we shall at least remain Upon the footing of the most favored nations; while changing our policy would naturally give um

brage, and tend very materially to change the aspect of our commercial relations

with them. It would seem to me a very

., tk dividual wU e!Ji thp re-jj red on war, and i? arraying hi, im

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n kind of personal inter

terestin the acquisition of domain which overlooks the public good, power, appropriates to himself that which belongs only to his subjects. Republics are actuated by other views and motives, they seek not personal aggrandizement, they act upon.more extended and liberal principles. Personal feeling never enters into their ideas of government. The public domain belongs in common, to the whole: there is uo individual or selfish interest, t exert a precarious aid undueinfluenceoverpubhcaffairs: no personal pride, avarice, or ambition, to gratify ; but the very nature of the government requires that all should enjoy the ! public acquisitions of all. Hence, ns no ione person, or integral part of the commuI nity, is to acquire an exclusive benefit from !the public wealth, it is not their interest, or their desire, to accumulate, beyond what is necessary to their public conveni'ence or safety. And hence, too, the imimunity from danger, on entering into political connexions with them."

POIUSZGri AFFAIRS.

from, in merely extending our commercial jjgtrange determination in this government, relations. Gentlemen seem to forget that ! that after havinc "iven to those republics

circumstances alter cases, that there is a ;:., rmin(n,nrp nnH moral siiDDort or in-

wide difference between merely extending our commercial relations, and providing for our future safety. Though the maxim would be equally correct, that in providing for our future safety, we should hive

Selected from Eastern Papers. France. It is said that a new treaty is to be formed between France and Spain;

by which the occupation of the latter will be prolonged several years. I The French government has issued an (ordinance directing the diffcrei t consuls and other authorities to u-e. henceforth, the name of Huyti instead of St. Domingo, in all their re'latiar.s with that island. The reason assigned for this mandate is, 'that some difliculty had been made against the admission of a French vessel at Ilnyti, Ithe Hayticn authorities alleging that she w.is destined for St. Domingo, and not to In the French chamber of deputies,

March 25th, petitions were presented from

stfennth, naval and rrhlitaryjor tU

on the empire ofSA Ottoman. Adra Greig, who commands in chief the Hf t f. tRussia, has been ordered to St. Vch' burgh,to report the condition of the r ?! forces, and prepare for hostilities ir' X

Black Sea. The armies of Sacken Vf Wittsgensicn, in Bessarabia, are said (have urged every argument against v L

trcmenuuous war: out in vain. No din! f macy could avert the storm, which cpfl r

i ready to burst on Eastern Europe in Y

miugaieu lury.

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fluenm during the whole of their strugele, 1 Paris, and from Havre, for a more effectual

. c i ' t and at a time too, when their oppressors 'prohibition of the slave trade. A member might with some reason complain of our stated thnt more than 30 vesseta had been Nantz within

;when thev have fairlv achieved their indc

with foreign nations, as little connection ; ptndence md secured themselves against as possible, so we did not omit any thing nc- j tjlc future domination of Spain, change its

policy, and thereby defeat the object of its heretofore honorable and hazardous exertions; at this very time, too, when we are about to reap our reward for them break up those friendly relations which have resulted from an interchange of good offices, when there was really a danger of forfeiting our claims to a neutral character -annihilate those friendly feelings connected by every tic that can bind man to man, and man to his Gcd. So much for our policy in regard to our commercial rela tions Sir. I have noticed a distinction

, between extending our commercial rela1 merely and providing for our future safety

j I beg leave briefly to notice another poii 1 1

in this branch of the .subject. It has hecn said by an honorable gentleman from Maj sachucctts, that vicinity of trrritorg gives an additional interest in the affairs ol governmcnt of that countrv ; it is in the nature

cessarv to such provision. He must be

bli'id indeed, who does not discover the distinction in the two cases. When General VASHiNGTON,wrote bis valedictory address, he had a direct reference to our political connections with Europe, countries far distant from us, in whose destinies we had no interest, except that which we feel in common with all the world, for our fellow-m in, connected with the benefits resulting from a commercial inlercouise. Countries whose government had little or bo resemblance to ours, who were jealou of our crowing greatness, and envious of our happy condition. To have had political connection with such nations, further than was necessary fur the due extension of commercial relations, would have been the heieht of madnes3. What could we expect from such connections with countries sodistant, with governments, manncrF, habits, interests so dissimilar to our own.

but di

contenti

nothing to gain, by them. The American

republics present a very different aspect. They arc in our own hemisphere, and even upon our borders; a similarity of government gives us an interest in their success, which we never could feel for the despotisms of Europe; while a similarity of sufferings, in acquiring their liberties, excite in our bosoms, sympathies we never entertain fortrans-Atlantic countries. Sir, it is in the very nature of things, that we should entertain fr thosesimilarh situat d,emi

thirs and feelings different from others;

of thim' that it ghould because, owinc

iscord, embarrassment, and perpetual to i(s uroximitv, it is enabled, by an adntions? We had all to lose, and j vcrse movement within its own iurisdition,

; to do us an irreparable injury. Hence it ; becomes our duty,hile on amicable terms, ! to secure ourselves, by mutual stipulations or otherwise against the effects of those ad j verse movements. So far indeed has this principle been carried, that an act of an adjacent power within its own jurisdiction ; has been mde pretext of a long and blood) ' war. And such too is the case at this day j in Europe, that the building of a garrison by an adjoining power, is followed by a corresponding precaution in the other ; and kit i c itia r f th mrnns bv which the ba-

and, for its practical operation, 1 need on- j jance Df power is maintained throughout y refer to the celebrated declaration of the j that J,., poIu,atcd rtgion. It i Ire-

laie rrcsiaeni oi me unueu oiaies, i r. , cnt y nec'cssar- to the public safety, and Monroe, contained in his message a J u fact nothing is more common than for opening of Congress m December, 1 823, , in 6t;tw llaf-l ;it forlg ,liall not be

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a year; and that French slave vessel when pursued, threw their slaves over(joard! Spain. A letter from Cadiz gives a a most deplorable picture of Spain. Commerce has lied her shores and the interior lies wast and uncultivated, the mbcrable inhabitants of which are foui d dead in the fields." The early recognitions of the independence of the new states,by Spain, is spoken of probably, that the valuable colonies which are loft may be retained to the mother country. A plot to compel the king to abdicate the throne is said to have been discovered. The kinudom is in a very unsettled and distressed state. CoLt'MBi a. On the 1st of February, oi the present year, was installed with much solemnity in the city of Carthngena, the superior court of justice for the districts composed of the departments of Magdalena of the isthmus. Thus we perceive Colombia indicating the progress oforder Sl perpetuating all its moral good by the gradual instalment of district courts. In the fulfilment of the 12th article of the law, of the 21st July, in the year 11,

I ordaining that the manumission of slaves should take place on such days as are conisecrated to national festivity, as a motive 'thtmore powerful for calling forth joy and thankfulness for public blessings, there jhave been manumitted, for the b-St year, C3 slaves, viz 8 in that of the department of Venezula; 18 in the department of Asua; 21 in that of Ibague, in the province ! of Marquita; 5 in the canton of the capitol ofTunja; 3 in that of Garagoa ; 3 in that fChiquinquira,and I in that ofCoqui,and j 4 in the capital of the province of Casa!pare. In Maracaibo, 13 slaves received

their manumission at the column of the middle of the hall of the great square,

SATURDAY, JUNE 10,

GAZETEER OF INDIAJfA.-Elijh Ccfit Samuel Pierce, of Milton, in thit county, ronCs?t j' publish a Gazeteer of the state of Indian

ns they can collect the requisite materials

understand that they expect to put it to prrr, after the close of the next session of the legulat. We believe, from a perninal acquaintance, that t gentlemen who have undertaken this work are en ry way competent to the tatk. Should their tfforti 1 in procuring authentic materials be secmidrd .r.t ,k ,:,f

the state, their work will combine a t;rtat

nfii I r. 1 1 a 4 tUn

uiiui nuu iiiirnninj; iuurr, mruwn lElIO the On t convenient form. It is hoped that gcntlerctn h' whom they have addrecd letters ot inquiry not neglect the call to render the puUic ani sential service. A correct work of this (.'eicn tici has been long a desideratum. To t n-igrat,t3,rar,J ularly, and thoe wubinj to emigrate, it would b a valuable acquisition directing the:a in their m-f quiries, and placing Ht once in their iev, the rfa. tive advantages of different sections of the stats. (j-Editors throughout the state are solicited b. publish or notice this article, that the pub.'jc tajbe apprised that such a work i in pro-rrtsi. t THE ELECTION. Attention, a" it should .i is considerably excited on the appro ichir.p el'C:.-. ' Freemen should not he listless when ti e elu.. rihti? to be exercised. Upon the right aijoa: the people's votes, almost every thing worth '.vr for may depend personal and political sicu it j public, individual, and domestic ftlicity. i h J are men, who, so far as their influence ct u!J t-j it, would snp the foundations ef society, ror;: :;,

; every upright and honorable principle, arr.i.h';:

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of any other power in Europe, than Spain,' with the form of government of any of the Spanish republic, hut in the li:ht of an attack upon the principles of free Governments. Sir, it was like a Toire from heaven, it elect ritied and united all hearts,while it marked, emphatically marked, the policy of this countrv toward our sister republics in the -South; every tongue confessed its ipdienry and responded to its correctness. N disheriting voice was heard from Prnobscot t thr mouth of the Sabine; and even the the Holy Alliance felt its inllu ence in a manner little expected by the world. The result is well known; the French fleet, destined for the reduction and subjugation of those provinces was diverted from it object. Indeed it may be aidofthat illustrious declaration, that if it did pot pive, it at least secured and continued to the Spanish icpublics, their freedom acdicdepeodcnce. The policy aark-

not be sent into certain sea-. Hence it is evident, the circumstance of proximity alonc alters the nature ol our relations, and may render it n ccwiry for our safety, to extend our political connextions with those province, far beyond that which would be warranted in mere commercial regulations. For it is well known to every genllman conversant with geography, that our frontier borders upon one of them, for a distance of perhaps twothousand miles, including one of the fairest poition of the terraqueous ulobe. Can our policy be the same at with those, situated m remote, that oceans roll between. 1 think not, sir.

It is likewise evident that political count x

deliverance of the country from the bond

age of the Spanish general, Morales, and, in Panama, 8 received their freedom in a similar manner. The revenue of Colombia Inst year, amounted to ,Si;,l 9(J,7lJ5 ; and the expenses of the army and navy alone to5'l 1,794,59G nearly double the revenue. l.viHA. The Burmese war is at an end, after a vast sacrifice of human life, by which, however, the British have gained four or five provinces, and were to receive one croze of rupees 10 mijlions, equal to five millions of dollars. The Boston Cuurier, or Friday announces the arrival there, on the proceeding e-

vening, of the British barque Arcadia,

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inadequacy or connivance of law ai;d police, ; aaiiut iuan, and nurture the seeds of vict, -.,: I by a defective early education. We do net a::. hend that this Ptate of things will ever be w.tM,;.' j in Indiana, but it will to some extent, utltu ; elect men whose minds are capable of comprt :- j ing the great and essential principles upon v.. I civil society is based, of seeing, at a glance, ic ' consists, the duty ofa legislator, and the truer; ests of his country : and of so far discarding itt j sidious opinions and importunate clamors of c :" ; as to do what they believe to be their duty. i:'. 1 caen there are, we kuow, in Wayne countj--, j of respectable talents, comprehensive Lncwlt I and sterling intcgntj. It is important that ; men, and iuch only, should be induced to bfr: j candidates to represent us. Tublic spirit, and :Jj lie opinion, should frown dowu into native ai:Ji ! . propnale insiuifiearice every aspirarit it voi-: I these essential qualifications. The reojleare e;:; 1 ;iously wanting to themselves, when tKfy c..n!:- : calmly on, and witness scenes calculated for : ; other purpose hut to discredit th county, ani ca j honorable men from accepting the oi!ice Jc-r: k ;asitiiby the touch of assuming ignorance, ' reckless tcmeritv. i

It it a fact which every one will A.m.U

which all who feel for their country's h r.:r

lament, that the vtry important o!5ce of Lep: '"" one that may justly be considered the mcut ci and momentous in which a man can ba ' fallen, sunk, degraded, in the estimation ct -l upright and intelligent mm. Why is thi tve-' The reason isevidrnt. Men are eltctrd.hxei time, year after year, who either have nott.!' ity requisite to make them useful, or, who "!" rifice very principle at the shrine of pop''. From seeing the same course pursued by sac:?Legislature, people imbibe the opinion that i -s ' ignorant or dishonest (such are thtir coa-r-at almost every session) hence succeed 3 f3 ble carelessness in selecting proper objects o: confidence. The election of some ut.wort'J . sons fans the hope? of others, and wherever !.. a spark of ambition it is kindled to a bla:e. i pirants become numerous in proportion 3' greater listlesue&s in the selectiou ot oSxt r4- , For the sake of honor, of interest, of ever)' we hope thut the people of Wayne- cjui.tvi': courage no man to become a candidate, ;v ents and qualifications are not at h i-t ri'f-" ? and whoso integrity is not uniinpeari ' nnme i-hould be suffered to appear or rrn-.'--candidate, which could briny; discmht , county. To induce such men to an:'-

elve, is, in our estimation, a 'lagrant Jcrei.- ,

social duUes.

ions with republican government, re not j from with London papers of the

name 10 me same onjecuons w itu tnose oi regal or rnonarchcal character. It i never the interest ofrepuhlic5,to acquire territory

beyond what is necessary to their physical

ICth tilt. From the Traveller, of that

date, the following extract is given:

The din of warlike preparation pounds

Horrible outrage! We arc that on Monday last, between H ar J o'clock, A. M. in Union county, j miles south of this place, !lr. W who was returning from Cinfi-1''! had nearly anived within a rv.we L wasattneked by three ruffians ' J

faces blacked. After hisj

)i;tplh

in the iNiirth : all lhf account, tn-fl.iv weai il ... 1 ( i

etreogth.or to secure them ugait.st the en-jl hottile aspect. The r-ar fccmf rr ?-l ,! f,rr? 1ll"-v ',"chnr? " rnc ,u u" j