Vincennes Gazette, Volume 3, Number 29, Vincennes, Knox County, 21 December 1833 — Page 2

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INDIANA LWjISLATirili:. lie money which, by some uncountable The .,,.,hture ias not yet passed any hills of, ef, Mnml ly V,,m import-'). The Bank question at the issuing ; , , , ,. . .... .... pey , who commanded the troops that Ct the last Indianapolis papers, had not been . . 1 . . , r .1 , t. ... fought for the Reput lic and tor liteabated hen ,t does come la-fore that boJ lougm I f e uet we eenai.dy hope and ardently uishihn, ifom I hat reasury was g

mend, rs may think wis. ly ami deci.le pruuent-

ly. l u.k we shall doubtless have we are 'teii the attempts ol Laar toiem ieto c?rest the course, which would he anxious tli.it it ehoulJ afford im money and not'the pubUc jeposUs ot Rme, uheu L 83- necrarv on his part "

7ass- , . , c !r drawing h.s sword, thieatened to k.ll ot on mv own account, hut as an act A Bill has been introduced inte the bnnte by 0 'of duty to the country, I now subjected Mr. Battell for the construction of a Rail Road h,m obsetv.ng at the same time, Anl my irifll. anf, finp to wtraint, by tenfrom Kvansv die to Latayette Uuloss the bill know )oung man, it is much easier to d flpj ing, jn order to avert a .resent hostile ehouhl be so amended as to shorten the distance than tu grt it Mete ilus w as lorte'l to breach , a future surrender of my post, rery materially, it will, we apprehend, prove ajrGtire (rorn citadel, which the s in rne I should not ultimately concur with nullity. ARad Uoad from thn former place tol to hl, CHle, ail(! Lai.ar foith- "1P hU' lnr m C;nCUI Vincennes could be accomplished. The con rence or non concurrence was made known

template! one is Tiite t-o extensive for the limited resources of our infant tate. till we wish that the proposed undertaking might suc-

ceed. We hope our Representatives will use)a,t He w ill be held in veuer atioti w ben

every effort for the improvement of our highways both by water and land, ttliich are bad enough to he made better. From our Senater We have nothing; to expect but good inteiitions. V. S. SENATOR. Gen. Samuel McKcan has been elected to the Senate of the United States, by the legislature of renusylvania on the 3d vote. tup. PRi:sit.sTs mi:ssac;e. We have not until within the two or three last dajs had suilu it-nt leisure to take more than a simple glance at this document We have now however read it with that care and attention which a paper emanating from the most exalted oiucer in the government would seem to demand. And we are forced to say and we say it too in the spirit of candor and impartial ity that it is neither remarkable for vigor of thought or elegance of diction. The develop mtnt which it makes of our foreign relations is satisfactory enough. But that part of the mes age w hich embraces the topics of the Tost Office and the United States Dank we do not hesitate to affirm should be branded by every patriot with sternest reprobation and hissed to ineff ihlo ecorn The Executive saj , 4,lt lias heen rrctntly discovered that from the earliest records of the department the annual statements have been calculated to exhibit an nmount considerably th'irt of the actual expense im urred for that service'' Recently! God save the mark! How opportunely that wo.d recently, comes in there to cover us with a shield the dear pet Postmaster Rnrry. li it not wonderful, that tin chief of the Tost Office did not discover until ju-t about the time that he had made that establishment bank rupt by his mismanagement, that there had al ways been an incorrect report of the annual ex penses of that department? Is it not wonderful, passing wonderful, that all the Postmasters' General, from the days of Washington until thece glorious days of Kitchen Cabinet rctorm have not possessed sufficient intellect to detect the error, and sufficient honesty to proclaim it to the public, when thus detected? Bab! The General must suppose that he "is boru to command ' twelve millions of ignoramuses. Equally fruitless has been the attempt to blind the 5jes of the people, in regard to the want of wisdom which he has displayed in relation to th removal of the public deposites from the United states B.mk to the Local Banks. A

guural panic ha? taken possession if the mo-;get Ca(M u uot,ce ,t jCaU,P h:,(1 neglec'ed any duty-not bency market in the eastern cities inconsequence; ,(l addressing you, 1 have hesitated be j caue I had differed with the President 00 of that political crime and blunder A general, tHeen the adoption ot a geneial exposi-'an) other p unt of public policy not be suspension of specie payments in all the local!Uont an, 0f ;l brief defennve addie.-s, ac j cause I had differed with him about the fcanks, is looked forward to with the most companied by that part ot the coi respou- bank - f the United States but because gloomy forebodings A premium of 4 per cent'dence between the President and myself, I refused without further enquiry or isatthis tinjp freely given in St. Louis, for j which the official papei seems to iiaye action by Congress, to remove the deposUnited States R;k pajer, in exchange for that challenged me to produ. e i adopt the' ite. of tome of tbe Local Banks, (that of Louisville ' latter course In the correspondence you B. in oiy letter No. 2. there is any thing included,) to w'-.ich those l) posite have been will find ample materials loi an u urate! that should not have been there, 1 ask it removed. U is I umiliatiug to the proud honor of j comprehension ol my case one ot insultjto be borne in mind, that it was writthe American citizen, to nH, ihe stale and ran-'aml oppression jten under a deep sense of injury and in

corous iiwectiveof our Chief Mnairatp toraitist' ........ i,, u, me vio em inent and the nation stands pledged to make the depository of the public funds, until the Secretary of the Treasury shall (under the intiueuce of reasons which do not now, and re not likely to exist) remove them or until its charter m 1836 shall expire. It is still more humiliating to find him driving the chief of the treasury from bis citadel, of which the national law had made him the only legitimate guardian, for having dared to disobey wis arbitrary ami vindictive mandate to remove those deposites. b IT f R.llllr u llih 111 when his solemn oath of office the honor of the nation the happiness and prosperity of it citizen?, all proclaimed to him to keep those deposites where the law had placed tin m We are sometimes inclined to believe that TcDuflle was right when he said that "General Jocksou was the greatest imposition that the

worM has behclJ since the days of Mahomet.

He is, however, more 10 ue mnu i.m imsurvu. He is in his "sear and yellow leaf the mise rable tool of the New York Dinch 5 Master. Marl in Van Bnren, and that most unholy of all cabinets that ever d:d exist the Kitchen He is indeed now bul "the shadow of a gre-i? name And yet some of his slavish office holders ar note seeking to continue him in ofuce for a third, and perhaps a fourth term. Are the American people freemen or slaves? i 1 l 1 .int. duaxe. We publish in to-day's pai er the expose of J. W. Duane, Ex Secretary nt the Treasury It 14 n most able exulpatory document, and silences most e fiectuallv the slanders of the Trident promulgated 1 through the column ot the Washington Globe In reading it, we were forcibly

struck with the resemblance between An-, the opinions and views, that "it was not drew Jackson and the fntCa2-arwhoc!e.!hisintenti.m t? interfere with the inde. A4. ,. hpndent exercise of the discretion com stroyed the liberties ol Unne. Afer 'x latter had passed the Rubicon the sacred, n()f whpn on he 10,, juiy gave my boundary of Boman libertx. he hastened Opinions frankly and fully, as an honest to Rome to rub the Treasury of the pub- mini-ter and man should do, there was return thiif that nt :ionrot)Ation On

by iieteilUS. me 1 lea.u.ei nuu 1 "'1" i in gold, ami an immense qu inuiy 01 si 1ver. Duane has acted nobly his calumuiatois have been consigned to oblivion, or it remembered, rememleied with detestation. lit is an hone?! uian and had no business 111 Mich company We ask our patrons to read his Expose with deep attention. FIKK. We regret to be compelled to announce the lesiruction by tire on the t8'h inst of the Grist and Saw Mill, the property of Mr. John F. snapp. U is not known whether it was accidental or the w ork of an incendiary . nut:. Extract of a LeHei liom lonony, Pa. dated Dec 7th, 1833. On the evening of the 25 h ult , when all han.is weie at Mippt-r. fifteen minuteafter 6 oVlotk, P M , it wa. discovered that our Woollen Factory was on tire; the fire was on the uppermost garret imme diately undet the toot, where theie never was a candle, fire, chimney, or any material w hich w ould take ti e of itself. We lir?t applied all our force again! ihf fl tme without fU-cess - whenwi s iw we could not Save the t.ctot.w began 'O carry out all the moveables fiom the thtee lloors, l ut the tire came down or, u so 'ast that we weie unable 'o ate the mathinei) All we got out as cloths and some yarn. Our b.ss is immense; there was a whole winter's stock ot den and colored wool in the taclorv, of which we did not save a pound. We believe it to be the woik nt an incendiar. H.kJ it been a windv night it would have taken more housis. but theie la a little miow on the roots which saved the lest. .MR. IH AM.S UA'POSL. To the Veople the U btales. Fellow-Citizens. I announced on the'

20th ultimo, that.ai an eatiy day I vnuhlJuly 22. I felt absolved from nil obligation

appear before uu. at lea-t to repel im-!

putations cast upon my character, con-', time. tamed in a publication in the Gljoe, the These last appeals, indicative of any othcial paper of the Executive, ot the pre- thing but bad feelmg. or disrespect, were ceding day. ialso sent back to me. in letter No 7, de li the calumnious attack re rred to had; elaring my services no longer necessary, not been obviously 3 mcutied by the I submit to all just men to determine, by Pre-ident ot the United StaHs, mich is whom an assurance was given, and withthe character of the nevp per under his 'Hit cause disregarded i.r.iipciion. that I should n.d Ii.ivh fell inv-i Thu was I thrust from office not be-

" ,ne tn ol December, lb32, without any solicitation on my pail, I ws uuex pectedly invited to accept the othce of Secietaiy of the I'reasuiy. I sought to shun the station, I did not consent to serve until asked lor my decision, uo the 50th Januaiy, and then coustuted reluctantNo douol, subsequently to, as before, the adjournment ot congress, speculations, for their own selfish ends, agitated the deposite question, and kept up au excite meut, fell by the president; but it was never intimated to me that he desired to concentrate m himself tbe power to judge and execute to absorb the discielion given to the Secretary of the Treasury and even to nullity the law itself. I never heard until after my entry luto office, that he meaul to remove, the deposites, without further inquiry by Congress, or

"ihat he had aiked the opinions of the

member? of the cabinet, on the subject; on the contrary, when, after having en tered the treasury department unpledged ; untrammelled, and unsuspicious, I was in formed of what was meditated. I felt surprise at the manner in which it was communicated to me . On the 3d of June, the President himself made known to me what was in contemplation, and that he had taken the opinions of the members of the cabinet on the point; two of whom concurred with nim, two of whom did not concur, and the fifth had not yet given a written opinion ito ni3 ih.it he would submit to me the 'written opinions of the four membets of II" n 'the cabinet with his own views; and that he would expect me .0 give him my opinjopa franklv and fully. As it to urge me reserv e, he assured me, in a ,!pt,pr ,i.fPfj nl)Ston. June 26, transmitting - ' - a of July, I was " j WM mv iniention l0 re .1 1 . t r. :.. f,P t0 remove the deposites, it, alter in. 1 ,i,.;mn( ..;ti. quirv oV an agent and ad isement with M pre5ilent should decide ove them, as, in surh case, it "would Kprnn,p y, jn frankness and candor, ano wnust l smi neui n mv nanus, ine manuscript pxpomon, nim u wa icau m

a natriot's.'hP cabinet on the 18h bept and then de . . . 1. n : 1

iiveren to me ry uie 1 rMorni . tor my considerafion. he virtually dimiased me as an officer and insulted me as a man, by cauninsr the official annunciation, hereto appended No 1 to he published in the Gb he of the 20th September Yt after this, when it mut have been obvhun that, independently of other consi lenliom of s;reat weight, I wasabsolv ed f'om all respect for any past assurance, mv lefer No 2. which I personally pret .ented to the President on the 2 1st of Sept. srcoHjnor to my promise of September 19. was contumaciously sent back to me, in letter No. 3. intimating the existence of improper imputations in mine, No. 2, calling my attention to my assurance of Jul 22. and enquiring whether I concurred in removing the deposites. From this letter. No 3. it must be evident that when it was written, mv dismissal was not then deemed justifiable, on grounds subsequently 02geted; for when the President wrote it. he knew that I refused to resign; he knew the contents of the letter deemed offensive, and yet he held the correspondence open What then, f ask, subsequently occurred? Instead of treating this new indignity, the return of mv letter, with silence, or evincing any other mode of dissatisfaction, I felt th.it I was 011 duty at a public post, and that I ought not to suffer it to tie taken by surprise f could not now mistake, for concluding that it was intended to insult me from office, or to draw from m some expression, which might foim a pretext for mv removal on a minor point, so doubtful was- the President, after all, of the propriet y of removing an ofli er fir not yielding, when desired, the discre tion given to him by law. Accordingly,! sen' letter No 4, subse. quently withdrawn for al'eration. and then letters Nos 5 an I fj because the President did not s(p1;i to comprehend me. when in my letter No 2, I s;tid, that after what had occurred subsequently to to observe t'e assurances given at that SUll. I appeal to all prior letters and inter course, to shew, that I had not on any oc casion forgotten my respect for the Chiel Magistrate, or for myself; and I deny that in any letter, there was inaccuracy of fact, with my knowledge. As I considered my removal inevitable, I asked, m my personal interview, and by letser No. G, such order, as, when shown to the repiesentatives of the people, would be an apology lor leaving the station tin der my care Had such older been giv en, all subsequent unpleasantness would have beeo prevented: tor the present re suit 1 am not accountable. If any doubt existed as to the propiiety of submitting the annexed letters to the public eye, it is removed by the example set by the President in the attack which he has sanctioned! and against which thi is defence.

f appeal to the justice and geneTOity of, 1 J 1

all nublishers of newspapers, who have inserted, therein the attack npon me, whether 1 have not a claim upon them to allow me to he heard by publishing the pfesentletter, and the annexed documents. Very respectfully vours, W. J DUANE. Philadelphia. Dec. 2, 1833. APPENDIX. NO. I. From the Globe of Sept. 20. 1C33. "We are authorised to state tnai me ueposites of the public money will be chang ed.from the Bank of the Uniieti aiaies 10 the State Ranks, as soon as necessary ar rangements can be made for that purpose, and that it is believed they car, be com pleted in Baltimore, Philadelphia, iNew - . - . , 1. n l.o Yoik, and Doston, in lime 10 m.iuc change by the first of October, and perhaps sooner, if circumstances snoum lender an earlier action necessary on the part of the Government. It is contemplated, we understand, not to rfmove at once, the whole of the pun lie money now on depoite in the bank of j

the United States, but to sutler it to r-- confidence and pay of the administramain there until it shall he gradually tion, to intimidate and constrain the sewithdrawn by the u-ual operations of the cretaiv of the treasury, to execute an Government. And this plan is adopted act in direct opposition to his own soin oider to prevent any necessity, on the Jenm convictions. part of the Bank of the United State for j Am)j nQW h;iVjn;? wlh frankness, pressing upon the commercial community, that neHna m (Ji!,rt,fnectf a0, Wli, feeland to enable it to afford,, f it think proper .. pi;fh a- , (.itc, decare(1 ,he,n tf iQf the uual facilities to the merchants. pUUli ,0 VOUf UY 1 refuse to execute is believed, that by this means the change wh. '(Urectt proceed L peilorm a nee.lnot produce any inconvenience to ' k.Si.,ri!y cimucc aCt of dutv , by anthe commercial community, and that cir Ln.iri,irr f(1 vm1 .... 1 tUl not illfl,nii VoU

cumanccs will not requite a sudden and iieavy pun o., me au u. .... Oiaif! mi a 1 J m:ca?iiii r iiik.i 1 1 luruiru i iu the institution or the public " No. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury to the President of the United States Treasury Department, ) Sept. 21st, IU33 S Sir; I have the honor to lay befoie you 1. A copy of my commission, empowering and enjoining me to execute mv duty according to law, and authorising me to hold my office at your pleasure. 2. A copy of my oath of office, wherein I solemnly pledged myself to execute the trust committed to me with tideli3. A copy of the 1 Gt h section of the law chartering the Bank of the United States, whereby the discretion to discontinue the deposite of the public money in that bank, was committed to the Secre tary of the Treasury alone 1. An extract from your letter to me of the 26th of June, wherein you promise not to interfere with the independent ex ercise of the discretion, committed to me by (the above mentioned) law over the subject . 5. An extract fromour exposition of the I81I1 inst. wherein you state that you do not expect me, at your request, order or dictation, to do any act which I may believe to be illegal, or which my conscience may condemn When you delivered to me, on the 13'h inst. the exposition of your views, above relet ted to. I a-ked you, whether 1 was to rf gard it as iiiscretiou, by you to me. to remove the deposites; you replied that it was your direction to me In remove the deposites, but upon your responsibility; and you had the goodness to add, that, if 1 would stand by you, it would be the hap piest day of your life Solemnly impressed with a profound sense of my obligations to my country and . my .self; after painful icflection, and upon my own impressions, unaided by am ad vice such as I expected, I respectfully announce to you. sir. that I refine to carry your diieclions into effect I. Not because 1 desire to frustrate your wishes for it would tie mv pleasure to promote them, if I could do so, consistently with superior obligations. 2 Not because I desiie to fav or the Bank of the U. S , to which I hav' ever been, and ever shall be, opposed. 3 Not to gratify any views, passions, or feelings of my own but 1. Because I consider the proposed change of the depository, in the absence of all necessity, a breach of the public fnth. 5. Because the measure, if not in reality, appears to be vindictive and aibitrary, not conservative or just. Because if the hank has abused or per verted its power, Ihf judiciary are able

and willing to puni-h, and in the last otlice that I never sought, and at a rerno resort the representatives of the people val from which 1 shall never grieve on may do so. ! rny own account; it must, on the contrary, 7. Because the last House of Ilepresenta ; hasten my exit . So that, if you shall prolives of the United States, pronounce I ceed in wresting fiom the Secretary of the public mouey m the Bank of the U. the Tieasury the citadel in his possession, S. safe. j the act can only be accomplished by :i G. Because, if under new circumstances,: mandate, which will be my apology for a change of depository ought to be made1, no longer standing in the breach, the representatives of the people, cho-j And now,. sir, allow me to repeat to you, sen since your appeal to theni in yourjin sincerity of heart, that in taking" the veto message, will in a few weeks as-i present course, under a solemn sense of semble, and be willing and aide to do! my obligations, 1 feel a sorrow on your their duty. 'account, far greater than on my ow n . 1 9 Because a change to local and irre-' have been your e irly, uniform, an I stead-

sponsible banks will tend to shake public confidence, and promote doubt and mischief in the operation of socie10. Because it 1a not sound policy in the Union to foster local banks, in their multiplication and cupidity, derange, depieciate, and banish the only curren cy known to the constitution, that .l gold and silver. 1 1 . Because it is not piu lent to confide, in the crude way proposed by your ugent, in local banks, when on an average of all the bat.ka, dependent in a great degree upon each other, one dol

.... M laia I'" r - 12. Because it is dangerous to place, in the hand-of a secretary of the tre i-u-rv, dependent for othce on executive will, a power to favor or punish local hank, and consequently make them political machinery. 13. Because the whole proceeding must tend to diminish the confidence of the world in our regard for national credit and reputation, inasmuch as, whatever may be the abuses of the directors of the hank U. S. the evil now to be endured must be borne by innocent persons, many of whom, abioud, hail a right to confide in the law that authorised them to he holders of stock. 14- Because 1 believe that the efforts, made in various quarters to hasten the removal of the deposites, did not originate with patriots or statesmen, but in schemes to promote selfish and factious purposes. 15 Because it ha been attempted by persons ami presses know n to be in the jllnt.1M,,0 e;tve t,,e post, hich the lawr ihas laced under my charge, and by giv ing you my reasons lor so reiusing It is tine, that, on the 22d of July, yo'i signified in language sufficiently intelligible, that you would then remove me from office, unless I would consent to remove the deposites, on your final decision ; it may also he true that I should then have put it to the test; and it is also true, that under a well grounded assurance, lh.it your ban plan, the only one then embodied in the instructions drawn up by me lor your agent, would be, as it proved, abortive. that for this and other causes, you would be content. I did state my willingnes to retire, if 1 could not concur with you. But I am not afraid to meet Ihe verdict of generous men, upon my lefusal, on reflection, and atler what has since occurred, to do volunalarilv what I then believed I never would be a-ked to do If I had a frail reputation, or find any sinister purp -e to answer, 1 might be open to cen sure, for a neglect of punctilious delicacy ; but I can have no impure motives, much less can I attain any selfish end. I barely choose between one mode of retirement and another: and I choose that mode, which I should least of all have prefened, if I had not exalted and redeeming considerations in its favor. I have, besides, your own example; 1 do not say, that after you had promised 'not to interfeie w ith the independent exercise of the discretion vesteil in me by law,"' you were wrong in interfering, if vouteally thought the public welfare a "uperior consideration to a mere ohserv ance of assurances made by me; nor can you say that I err, when upon a solema jsense of duty,l pieler one mode of remo val from this station to another. The course is due to my own self-preservation, as well as to the public, for yotj have in all your papers held out an assurance, that you would not ki.riterferti with the independent exercise of the discretion committed to me.hy la wv over the deposites; and, yet, every tbiiig but actual removal of me from office, has been done to effect that end. So that, were 1 to g out of otlice voluntarily , you might be ablo to point to official papers, that would coutiadict me, if I said you mterieied, and I should thiHbe held up as a weak or faithless aent, who regarded delicacy not shewn to himself, mure than duty lo his tlUst. St, after all, I confess to you, that I have had scruples, for it is the first time that 1 have ever condescended to weigh a question of the kind : but I am content, that it shall be said of rne, that in July last I forgot myself, and my duty too, rather than that it should be saul, that now, knowing the course that you pursue, I had 1:1 any way favored it; on the contraiy, if ( have erred. am willing 10 be repioved, but my motives no man can impugn. Mv refusal to resign cannot keen me. one moment longer than you please, in an fist friend; I can have no unkind disposilion, but shall cherish those ol a kind na ture, that I feel. You proudly occupy the hearts of your country men ; but still it is the lot of humanity at times to err. 1 d ample justice to your motives, but 1 am constrained to regret your present proceedings; and 1 devoutly wish, that you nay live t see all rny forebodings contradicted, u'id your measures followed by results beneficial to your country, and honorable to ourself. With the utmost consideration, Vour obedient s-rvanf, iv. y aim:.

lar in sdver cannot t,c pa;u tor c.x ao, I.. -a nanpr in circulation