Rising Sun Times, Volume 3, Number 129, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 30 April 1836 — Page 2

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TEXAS. DECLARATION OF IXDEPEXDEXCE. The unanimous Declaration of Independenence made by the delegates of the people of Texas, in Genera! Convention, made at the town of Washington, on the 2d day of Marc!), 183G. When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property, of the people from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for th advancement of whose happiness it whs instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable nnd unalienable rights becomes an instrument in the hand cf evil rulers for their oppression. When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which the) have sworn to support, no longer has a .ijblaiilial existence, and the whole nature of their Government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a res.trir.ted Federative Republic, composed of sovereign States, to a consolidated centra! military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded, but that of the himy and of the priesthood both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the ever ready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants. When long after the spirit of the Constitution has departed, moderation is ;;t length so far lost, by those in power, that even the semblance of Freedom is removed and the forms themselves of the Constitution, discontinued; and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them

arc thrown into dat.geous, and m rcenni ni mies seiu luua iu loice a new Government upon them at the point of the bayonet: When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance, ami abdication, on the part of the Government, Anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements: In such a cri-is, the fust law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and unalienable right of the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political affairs into their own hands, in eitreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such Government, and create another in its stead calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness. Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind. A statement of a part of our grievances, is iherefoie submitted to an impartial world, in justification of the hazirdous, but unavoidable step, now taken, of severing our political connections with the Mexican people, aad assuming an independent attitude among the nations of the earth. The Mexican Government, by its Colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness, under the pledged faith of a written Constilution, that they should continue to ei joy that Constitutional liberty and Republican Government to which they had b::en habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America. In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed inasmuch as the. Mexican nation has acquiesced in the late changes made in the Government by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna; who, having overturned the Constitution of his country, now otters us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so manv priva tions, or to submit to the most intoler able of all tyranny, the combined des potism of the sword and the priesthood, It has sacrificed our welfare to the State of Coahuila, by which our inter etti have been continually depressed through a jealous and partial course of Legislation, carried on at a (ar distant eat of Government, by a hostile majority in an unknown tongue; and this too, notwithstanding we have petitioned in the humblest terms for the establishment of a separate State Government, and have in accordance with the provisions of the National Constitution presented to the General Congress a Republican Constitution, which was without just cause, contemptuously re jected. It incarcerated in a dungeon for a long time one of our citizens, for no other cause but a zealous endeavor to procure the acceptance of our Constitution, and the establishment of a State Government. It has failed and refused to secure on 6rm basis, the right of trial by jury; that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen. It has failed to establish any public tystemof education, although possessed of means almost boundless, (the public domain) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people arc educated and enlightened, it is idle

to expect the continuance of civil liberty or the capacity for self Government. It has suffered the military Commandant stationed ,among us to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and yranny; thus trampling upon the most sacred rights of the citizen, and rendering the .military superior to the civil power. It has dissolved by force of arm? the Stale Congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our Representatives to fly for their lives from the seat of Government; thus depriving us of the fundamental political right of Representation. It ha? demanded the surrender of a number of our citizens, and ordered military detachments to seize and carry them into the interior for trial; in contempt of the civil authority and in defiance of the laws) and the Constitution. It has made piratical attacks upon our commerce, by commissioning foreign desperadoes, and authorizing them to seize our vessels, and convey the properly of our citizens to far distant ports for confiscation. It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our conscience bv the support of a national relicion calculated to promote the temporal interests of its human functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and living God. It has demanded us to deliver upour arms, which are essential to our de

fence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical Governments. It has invaded our country, both hv sea and land, with intent to lay waste our territory, and drive us from our homes; and has now a large mercenary army advancing to carry on against us, a war of extermination. It has, through it? emissaries, incited the merciless savage, with the tomahawk and scalping knife, to massacre the inhabitants of our defenceless frontiers. It has been, during the whole time of our connection with it, the contemptible sport and victim of successive military revolutions; and has contin ually exhibited every characteristic of a weak, corrupt and tyrannical Gov ernment. TM 1 .1 . i ncsc hhq omer grievances were patiently borne by the people of Tex as, iiiiiii inev reacneu mat point at which forbearance ceases to be a vir tue. We then, took up arms in defence of the National Constitution. We appealed to our Mexican hrethern for as sistance. Our appeal has been made in vain; though months have elapsed, no sympathetic response has yet been heard from the interior. We are there fore forced to the melancholy conclu sion. that the Mexican people have ac quiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therefor of a military Government; that thev are unfit to be free, and incapable of Self Government. The necessity of self preservation therefore now decrees our eternal political separation. We, therefore, the delegates with plenary powers, of the people of Texas, in solemn Convention assembled, appealing to a candid won for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare that our po litical connection with the Mexican na tion, has forever ended; and that the people of Texas do now constitute Free, Sovereign and Independent Re public, and are fully invested with al the rights and attributes which proper ly helong to Independent nations, and conscious of t he rectitude of our inten lion, we fearlessly and confidently com mit the issue to the decision of the Su preme Arbiter of the destinies of Na tion. Signed hv RICHARD ELLIS, Pjies :tent, and 4'i others. Thc Indians. We find the following paragraph in the Chigaeo American of the 27th ult: "Rumor say? that the Indians on our frontiers are discontented, and that thoe who removed west of the Missis sippi last year arc returning. If such be the rase, we mav have another Black Hawk atFiir. The number of warriors in the neighboring tribe? is estimated at 4000 to 5000. The coun try is wholly unprepared for resistance in case th- Indians should commence hostilities." Remarkable fact. The church at Southampton, Mass., -was organized in 1743. and thev have' had but two cler gymen in nil that time, the first serving period of 60 years, and his successor still holding on. 1 his speaks as much in favor of the congregation as of their pastors. Such instancesof uninterrun ted harmony are but too rare in our country. .V. Y. Star,

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SATURDAY. APRIL 30, 1836. PRIVATE POST. We take pleasure in stating to such of our subscribers as receive their papers bj private post, that we have succeeded in making arrangements which will insure the delivery of then papers regularly every Saturday. We have no doubt this will be pleasing news to them it is, at least, to us. 07We invite he attention of the public. both at home and abroad, to the advertisement of the Trustees of the Indiana Teachers' eminary, in to-dny's paper. FROM TEXAS. We Rive to-day the Declaration of Indepen dence, made by the people of Texas. It is a document worth reading. It is rumored that the Texians have taken the Mexican General Cot, and burnt him alive. e give the latest news received. TO FARMERS. On the first page of to-dny's paper, our agri cultural readers will find an article on the culture of Potatoes, which we recommend to their attention. This article is from a New York paper; and we are unable to say whether the same mode of cultivation pursued there, would answer here, or not. If, however, this should be the case, we hope some of our agricultural friends will communicate the lact to us for pub lication. The articles which we heretofore published, from the same pen, on the culture of Corn and of Oats, have, we are pleased t say, met with general approbation. Now that the Farmers in this country 1iave gained the ascendency ver all other classes, and are enabled to regulate their own ricts, we think they should begin to turn their atten tion to improvements in agriculture for in stance, in procuring the best varieties of seeds and vegetables, and in experimenting as lo the best modes of culture, especially where doubts on this point may exist. If these things nre attended to, wc will lend all the aid in our pow er, by disseminating correct and useful infor mation through our columns. Time was, and it was but a short time ago, that the Farmers of this country were compell ed to take whatever prices might be offered them for their produce. But there has been a change that time has passed away ; and now Farmers obtain whatever prices they may choose to ask. Thi being the case, some mav think it useless to attempt improvements in the quality, and will pay more attention to the quantity of their products. Dut this would be bad, not to say ruinous, policy. A good article will always bring more than a bad one, no matter whether prices are high or low. In this country, there is a wide field for agn cultural improvement. Better breeds, varieties and species of horses, cattle, vegetables, fruits, agricultural implements, Szc. &c. are wanted; and Farmers can now afford to pet them nnd make improvements, if they will do so. We hope that some attention will be paid to this matter, and that soon. By the way, what has become of our Agri cultural Societv We have not heard it na med for some time. A law was passed last winter making it the county society ; and it is now entitled to the benefits and privileges of a body corporate and politic. We think it should be resuscitated. Farmers ought to take an interest in its success; for such a Society, well conducted, would be of incalculable advantage. We perceive by our exchange papers, that in many parts of the State where societies exist, they have already published a list of the premiums to be awarded next fall. Our society should not be lagging behind. CONGRESS. The only important measure which has been agitated in Congress latelj', is the admission of Michigan nnd Arkansas into the Union. A bill for this purpose has passed the Senate, and is now pending in the House of Representa tives. It will doubtless pass the House, and of course become a law. A bill to erect the territory of Wisconsin, is also before Congress. NEW PAPERS. We have received the first number of the Liberty Star and Union countt Banner, published at Liberty, la. by Mr. C. V. Duggins. It is quite a neat paper, with one exception : we advise friend D. to put the word "and" in the second line of the head, and space the antique. We hope our old acquaintance may meet with belter success than has heretofore attended newspapers at Liberty. The F.vansvii.lk Republican is the title of a paper just commenced at F.vansville, la., by Mr. J. R. Rhodes. It is also a neat paper, nnd is edited with spirit and ability. If the editor be the same Jo Rhodes we used to know, we wish him much success. 03The last Palladium contains a communication signed by Mr. John B. Craft, which was written in the first place, for the Times, but was refused a place in that paper. Mr. Craft says he did not write Rasp No. 1. No person ever charged him (or at least we did not) with writing the whole of the article his assertion is therefore correct. Will he deny writing or dictating aar of it! If he will, we say publicly that he shall have the use of our columns to do so; and then we will, through the same channel, make him an honourable acknowledgment. The reason we refused to publish his production was, that it is a piece of eq ui vocat ion from beginning to end. Had

he either openly and candidly denied

or acknowledged writing a part of Rasp, he should have had a place in our paper. We told him so at the time; and he knew, too, that we never charged him with writing the zchole of Rasp, No. 1. Mr. Craft denies a partnership. He denies it, because he thinks there must be writings drawn to constitute a pailnership. He acknowledges a partnership with his Father. He told us not long since there were no writings be tween himself and his Father hence. according to his own ideas, no partner ship can exist without writings. Mr. Craft savs we are the author of Junius, and that there is more Latin than truth in that article. We told Mr. Craft that we did not Wite Junius, and that we were not the author of the whole, or any part, or portion of if. We now tell the public the same. Will Mr. Craft he as candid about the nu thorship of Rasp, No. 1? In regard to the Lati n and truth part, we can find ten who will differ with him, wheie he can find one of his opinion. Mr. Craft makes a feint attempt to prove that the assertions of Rasp No. 1, are true. Had we no other proof, this would be sufficient to convince us that he was concerned in writing Rasp. If however, the assertions of Rasp No. 1, be true, then, in our opinion, it reflects but little credit on any individual, and particularly on a professor of the Chris tian religion, to have been the intimate friend, the patron, and the associate of as bad a character as Rasp makes us out to be. Ci7"After a cessation of one week, we have received Rasp No. 3. It will be found in to dav's paper. We know of but one individual capable of writing so powerfully and eloquently, and he is qualified for it in an eminent degree. It ought to secure him his wished for office, particularly as in lying he has no superior. Aa long as his roypj operate on us as they have thus far operated, he hope he will not fail to furnish the Palladium with a No. every week. OrThe last Palladium is entirely silent in regard to the letter Gregg wrote to Judge Gray last winter. Gregg charged us with publishing a base falsehood about it. He refuses to publish our letters, and no doubt he wants the subject to die. But this shall not be. He shall either publish Ihe original letter, or the base false hood shall recoil upon his own rr.aiig nant head. In regard to this affair, he is acting the part more of a mean, con temptible coward, than of an honorable man. 0i7We did not receive a number of the last Palladium. Those for subscri bers came as usual. Probably Gregg is about to cut acquaintance. Statement of the rargo of flat boat Clinton, which left this place on the 23d inst. for New Orleans. C. Miller, owner John De Hart, captain and supercargo. 1 7 tons of Hay, 95 barrels of Corn Meal,

23 do Cider, 17 do Flour, 26 do Apples, 10 do Potatoes, t do Pork, ,

245 sacks of Oats, 115 do Corn, 19 j irs of Apple Butter, 15 do Pickles, 1 keg of Lard. TEXIAV EMIGRANTS. A company of about eighty men. un der the command of Capt. Slausbury of me i exian Army, left Cincinnati in the steamboat Orleans, on Thursday, the 21st inst. The men were mostly young, and appeared to bo animated with the spirit of heroes, determined to rescue their suffering, but gallant countrymen from the hands of a relentless and priest ridden soldiery, and a daring usurper, or perish nobly in the attempt. Previous to theirdeparture they were invited by the hospitable proprietor of the Cincinnati Merchants' Exchange, to partake of a handsome collation prepared for the occasion. Here they were addressed by Gen. Robert T. Lytle, in a strain of thrilling eloquence, by whom, as the organ of the Cincinnati Texian committee, a brace of pistols wag presented to Capf, Stansbury, to be deliv.

ered to Gen. Houston, as a lestimor v of the respect -and confidence enterta: :d by the citizens of Cincinnati, in hiss-.'il, energy and devoted patriotism. A -ther brace was also presented to C. r S Stansbury, who, upon accepting tk : .. madean appropriate acknowledgmt":-;, and stated that so far a3 he was concerned, "they should be well used." We learn that efforts are making i; Cincinnati to organize a volunte;' corps, to depart fir Texas some t;; during the ensuing summer, and th i they are likely to prove successful. YY ? say, Amen! Success to our friends dismay and defeat to the enemies c. human liberty wherever and whenever found. Covington Eng. From the N. O. True American of the 8th inst. IMPORTANT FROM TEXAS. By the schooner Equity, Martin, from Brazoria, arrived off the Baliz?, we learn that on the 18th of March, Col. Fannin ordered the Georgia battalion, consisting of 150 men under Col. Ward, to attack the Mexicans at Refugio, numbering 600 men, which

force thev routed killing 2.50 Mexicnn without the loss of one man. On hic returninc to the Fort lie was attacked by a reinforcement of Mexicans, nnd was compelled to make his way to th San Antonio bottoms. Colonel Fannin had blown up th Fort at Goliad by order of Gen. Houston, and endeavored to effect a junction with the main body of tha army on t' Colorado, but was attacked by the e emv and driven back. We also learn by several gentlom;i direct from Texas, that. on the 23, 'j, March, Gen. Houston with 1,200 m:., was on the east side of the Colorado and that he had driven back the ad vanced guard of the Mexican army, and taken two spits. It was daily expected that an engagement would take place between G?n. Houston and Santa Anna on the Guadaloupe river. The Texian army consists of abou' 5,000 men nnd reinforcements arrivir :; dally. From the Palladium. HASi X). 3. wlr. Editor: Sir His Majesty, the regulator of the Times is on tne d;;cl: his health is very delicate, frorr wi: u his physicians say; there is no' r, u :l probability of its growing better. Or., of your eminent physicians etui hi:, lordship a rest'raiive ; but whether :t will relieve him is yet to be ascertained. It certainly caused him to give vent to a great quantity of spleen. The Heir apparent to the Crowu i; re;dy to enter upon the duties pertain ing to it, when the interregnum shal' have been duly promulgated. His 1., nor has not heretofore been very indvi gent with his subjects here allowing religious toleration and freedom of 'speech ; consequently many have luketi advantage ut his present indisposition and infirmity. Tfcey have come out in deeded opposition to his lordship's govern -merit. They gei.erally animadvert with great severity and bitterness a gainst the measures adopted by hJUnistry. The affairs resemble a dark cloud about to burst asunder on its devoted victims. Should his Majesty sur vive his present illness, we may expcci a ukase in which he will propose some method to appease his restless subjects; otherwise the meeting of parliament that convenes on the first Monday in August, will take some measures to cject him from his Ihi one. Some oven go so far, (and some of his Ministry too) as to think that he merits the fate of the unfortunate Lewis of France, when he and a part of his Ministry were guillotined. Robespeers, Darilons and Marats are rising among us. I think his power too strong to he overturned without some hard fghling, as the interior Wilmington will support him with great unanimity. The principal part of his Cabinet is composed of Noblemen from the interior, consequently they reap too many crumb.from their sovereign's table lo be alien ated all at once. In fact theNorlhet!and Southern parts of the Kingdom iin a complete rebellion and should th z rebellion be quelled, it will be with sa 1guinarj fighting. His majesty has charged two of hu prominent subjects with writing a piec; calculated to disorganize his government and promote a revolutionary spirit. To which his Lordship condescended to reply and too evidently showing a mental hallucination, lie has ordered the far famed Aristides," (Captain of his body guard) to have them arrested and tried for high treason. This faithful subject of his Monarch lives about one mile west from the Palace at his bivouac. These two charged with the crime are intrepid individuals and are determined not to flee their country, let the consequences be as they may. Should they be taken by this vigilant Captain, they will be put itUo closo custody and condemned almost