Vincennes Gazette, Volume 3, Number 33, Vincennes, Knox County, 18 January 1834 — Page 2

VINCENM ES . sATiiitn vv, 'AN. in, ir:h. 3I!t. i;VIN(;S HANK Pitt ' iX'T. Under this head the IMitor of the Indiana

nn-i.nrtat. ti.-w ern uronPT in the marnitnde of

his wisdom to make a malignant attack nginst the public churn: tor of our Representative in Conors the tloti. John Ewing. The nolaW.v . i. i mniiim.ms Kditor has taken a suita

ble, time to assail him with the f.fthy sli.ue of . rr (iitrnriiinPiu

invective while lie is ai me ft. -excrtiithe biilliant powers with which nature Us ,ndowed him for the advancement of the intcrcEts ami the honor of his conlituenU-of the Stale of Indiana-anJ of the people of these ruited Slate?. The Lion has for a season left

Lis old lair ami near it i now heard the screams

of the Jackall y- Anc wl,v these loml dfenm,cia !, from the mlonhtuble Editor of the Demo

crat? Merely because Mr. Ewing has had sufficient talent and industry to prepare, and lay before Congress at thn early stage of the Session a "Bank project" which is alike honorable to himself to his District and the State from which he "haih" find which is as far superior to the "Bi.k reject" of Gen. Jackson, the very politicnl God of this matt'y Editor's idolatry, as heaven is higher than the earth. liut hear the Editor he shall speak for himself: iVe -upect that Mr Ewing, the "?o!e representative'' iu Congress of the opposition to the ad nini;tration in this state, has discovered ire !n that he lias commenced business at Wash1 tnVon upon somewhat too large a scale for a iu.av beginner; and that hU high sounding prorosi;ion in regard to a national currency; m'c a I ot earn ing with it the eclat which he anticipated doubtless, is rather more likely to reni... i,;m imeiiviaMv conspicuous; and to fritter

away the little influence, which by prudence he niHit perhaps have obtained. It would have Ken "more wise, as Mr. Ein$ will no doubt toon learn, if he has not already done so; tor him as a new member, and one not very deeply vetted, we should judge, in Banking operations, to have kept a little in the back -round, for a rrt.iUntanv rate ; and natticnlarh upon a sub

ject of such magnitude as that which he has so unadvisedly chosen tor his debut. It is one we think, which he will probably find a little too li.avv for him to handle; and he would have

it.me well, to have followed, instead ot attempt

ingto lead, many gentlemen in the House of

this E-litor, and he will, perhaps Ic astonished to Cud, before long, that our Representatives' "Bank Project'' has received tho approbation of distinguished individuals, who believe like the IMitor that General Jackson can do no wrong.

For the present we nave uunu wuu una lumui. We have devoted too much of our time already to a "crittnr," w ho would sew on the rear "suspenders' button" of the Hero of two wars, hich Maior Jack Downing stitched if his breeches

with a naseous blaze, not gf

vtiivi-"' glory but of perfume n posteriori. The editor of the. Vandalia Whig, a reel

loose untroddeu soil, covered with annual plants and vegetables, the country was universally unhealthy. The billions z intermittent fever? wereourannual visitants, and thev came with neither mildness nor

mercy. I nousamis ten victims to meir fury, who left but little for their families but uncultivated lands purchased of the

general government at two dollars per

acre lands but little if any better than those adjoiniog, yet unsold. These lands

have been the hope and patrimony of the lathertheless, and if the price of the un

sold public land is reduced, their hope will be lost aod their patrimony scattered

I to the winds. And we can state further.

that wh had no mills to grind our grain

no schools to educate our children, and

many of us have been compelled to meet

j the savage toe in delence ot our dear

bought lands and homely cabins, and ihe

hones of many of our sires are now mo'ul-

ienn in the battle-ground. But now the

rene has changed the wilderness is io

part converted into fruitful fields; every

hot Jacksonian, speaking of the different resolution offered in Congress, says: "That of the most interest was by Mr Ewinrr of Indiana, proposing an enquiry

into the expediency of authorizing a na

tional currency of thirty-live million founded on the faith of the U . S to he dis-

ir.hniorl in thp states according to their!'

tl l'Ul- w ' " ' lepresentative population, and also, an ' . 1 1. . ,,,wt u nr-1 nl rtflhlldl

enquiry m . " ' tWcounty has its state and county roads, and intranational bank, ot which me elates, j ,- ... .,,i.dki

shall be the only stockholders."

some of them highly improved: Bchoo

houses are multiplied and the school mas

cm. ,ter is abroad amongst us other improve

-incuts are made and being made, anu tne

pestilence tvhich raged amongst us in ear Iv times is now but little known; and pla

ces which were once notorious for sick

During: last week wc received a neat- nPP aie now proverbial for health Am

now let us ask, what has produced this

Appointment by the Governor

Kathbone, F.sq of Vincennes, has rereiv ed the appointment of a Notary Public.

ly printed sheet, entitled the Child's News

paper, published semi-monthly by Cory & Fairbank, Main street, Cincinnati. The Child's Neuspnper is edited by Hev.Thos. Prainerd, the editor also of the Cincinnati Journal, which is already notorious for the ability with which it is conducted No other recommendaton is nece-tary for the Child's newspaper. The E xtern Mails due since latThursday week, have just come to hand.

We have rereied the follow mg communication in the shape of a petition, with a request that it should be published in the Gazette We have complied with the writer's lequest, who is i plain, hone.t

lienresentatives. who are rolabh sonieirhat farmer, and to Fav ihe least, some of his

n. rt exoerienced in tinancial operations and in . . . . , ?n J ZcwUuv. that! Mr. Ewing is." opinions correspond with our own

"Now in the name of all the God.'s at once,"! To the Honorable, ihr Stitate and House of

4los it not peem from this tissue of ribaldry, that j llepresentalhts of ike United Shifts at the aforesaid Editor thinks that it is "pitiful heir frzt session of the 23d Congress. vordrous ri'iful,'' that Mr Ewing should as a; Your petitioners-, iii nbu tnH jf l!,p

oune member icflect honor t:pon the State ofj State of Indiana, land hohles, atifl some

Indiana, and participate himself in the glory

v.hich the patriotic services of the statesman;

never fail to secure from a grateful people? ':6ole representative in Congress of the opposition to the administration it) this state.""- Pray which administration does the Editor mean! The state administration of Indiana, which the language of his fulminating Bull would seem to convvv, or that of the CJencral Government, which its spirit indicates? It is easy to perceive that perspicuity is not one of his esce i!encies,

of the early settlers i thp State, humbly, sheweth, that it is with regret that they have seen an attemp' made bv political characters, to indue: the good ivple oi this State lo believe that the pubi land, known by the name of Conre.- Iiils. either belong to the State, or that tfie G -vernment of the United States are io duty bound to cede those lands to the bf.re, or to dipoe ot them to actual settlers for

a trilling consideration. It this were pure ly a political question, and its determina

ond we advise him to give Blair's Lectures a t ion were to ailed its advocates in the . t . ii - . ii i .

second perusal. '-Commenced business at Wash

Intfton upon eomewhat too large a scale for a

new beginner." He would persuade us to believe that it is too soon for our Representative to try to do good to try to save the people of tbi country from the ruin flowing from adepre-j ciated currency a ruin which already begins to be felt in the large Atlantic cities, brought upon us too, by governmental opposition to a liauk winch has long regulated our currency, and never et had one of its notes dishonored too fooii to try and give a substitute for that U.

!3. Bank which General Jacknm who now ie

th government'' has declared shall not exist a substitute to pu serve U3 from one of the w orst of all evils, a vitiated currency. "Iu-tead of carrying with it the eclat which he anticipated doubtless.'' It seems the Editor claims the gift tif Omniscience, to fathom the heart, and the mind, the thoughts and motives, of Mr. Ewing. How does he know that h-e anticipated any such thing? It is easy to see that he knows not tow to appreciate the manly independance and patriotic sacnuces of our Representative that he etitnate3 the standard of his soul by the littleness of his own. uIIe would have done well, to have followed, instead of attempting to lead, many gentlemen in the House of Representatives, who are probably somewhat more experienced in financial operations and in Congressional proceedings, than Mr. Ewing is" that is,

until some of the courtiers of King Andrew the 1st. had offered their "projects,'' and until "the powers behind the throne" had pulled the wires. Tor oursi Ives, we are proud, that a Represcnta-i tie from the Hoosier state has taken the "lead" in a subject of sucu momentous importance, as that of the National Currency; and whatever tnay be the fate of his "Bank project," w e knowit Laa received the approbation of a considerable portion of all parties in Congress. His "project" may not be s good as the Charter of the U. S. Bank, which General Jackou and his hirelings have pursued with a hate as unrelenting as the grave; but that is uo reason why it

ehould be cried down before its merits have been fully tested. It has born the destiny of Mr. Ewingtahavc

ttrong enemies as well as friends, and there are

some who, envious of his well earned fame, ren

(sme manner that it would its opponents,

as most political questions do, we should look on in silence, without obtruding upon your honorable body our ievs on thsubject. But such is uot the case; for it the price of the public lands is reduced, a class of citizens of Indiana, of which the undersigneis form a part, must sutler in the loss of property or in the value thereof, which, to them, is the same thing; tor

if lands aie now sold tor titty cents per

acre, which are equal in value to lands whic h were sold iu 1820 for one dollar

and sixty-two and a half cents per acre, ihe cash price at that time, those who purchased lands in 1820, will be robbed, cheated or defrauded out ot s?l 12i for every acre of laud th-v purchased at that time, besides the interest en the money for thirteen years, which at tJ jerceut. amounts to 874 ceits; consequently the fust purchasers of the puMic Imds iu this sdajte would he wronged out ol two dollars for every acre of land they puichased of Government, and of that Government which is bound to protect them in their rights and property. We acknowledge that when an article in market is in the hands of numerous holders, each individual has a perfect right to dispose of his part of the article at such a price as he thinks will best pro

mote his own interest; but when the article is in the hands of one holder, that hold er has not an equitable right to sell a part of his property at a high price, and then reduce the price to a I title ; for in that case he atlects the interest of the first purchasers. Such will be the case with regard to the Government of the United

States, it they now reduce the price of

the public lands.

Your petitioners beg leave in behalf of

change? the answer is ready. It is the toil, labor, industry and frugality of those

w ho h.ivG purchased lands it is that class

cf citizens who have indirectly and direct

Iv poured their hard earned cash into

vr-ur lap thev have tilled your land otli

ces and assisted in nii vur tusium uuubc

with money. The United States creditors, its civil and military otlicers, its soldiers and its heroes of the revolution, have partaken of their bounty. It i& the cash of the land holder thatconstitutes the three per cent fund, with which our roads are improved , and travelling and transportation made easy. And if we look at our state and county treasuries, we shall find the n mostly filled with the cash of the land holder. From these premises it is clear and plain that the unsold public

lands are at this time worth more than

wre thoe land that were purchased from congress at the time of their sale.

It proof is w anted of this assertion, we can

l ie k to th western part of the state of

Ne-v-Yoik and the elate of Ohio, and all new countries, that increase rapidly io

population

The pti'-e of land does not altogether depend on the quality of its foil, but in

part, on its locality, on its proximity to n settlement, a water privilege, a high M k

way, a large town on naviganie waters, and many other circumstances. The barren and sterile landa on the shores and

places adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean,

will command a much higher price than

the rich alluvial soil of the states west of

the Alleghany mountains. Your petitioners now beg leave to notice some of the arguments advanced by the advocates of a-reduction of the price f the public lands. Io the first place, it is said, that mtiney was more plentiful, and !es valuable in the early settlement of this s'ate than at this time. It is true,

that bills OQ thTi innumerable hanks of

Kentucky and Ohio, were more plentiful, than cash is at this time; but those hills did not pass in the land offices in the Uniteft States, and hard cash or its equivalent, U. S Bank bills, were scarcer in the year 1820, than at this tune, aiHl also in the years preceding and succeeding that year.

It is said, in the next place, that Great Britain, Spain, and other nations of Cu

tion; said debt being now extinguished,

the lands should be sold tor a sum oniy

sufficient to defiay the expense of surveys,

&c. If the national debt had been paid

by the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, it might then be said to have an ewered the purpose intended by the State

of Virginia and Congress, instead oi pos

sessing power as trustees, to sell those

lands, at any price, would possess no pow.

er M all; and in that case, all lands not

sold, would belong to Virginia.

But the above proposition made by the

advocates for a reduction in the price of

the public lands, is not virtually sustained by facts. The public debt has not been paid by the proceeds of the public laculs, but ou the contrary, those Iand9 are debtor to the United States' Treasury; but the national debt has been paid mostly by the effect of the United States tariff laws, which is a duty laid oo imported articles, that has been drawn on the purses of the American people for about half a century.

It is this duty that has anticipated the avails of the public lands, and it is but just

and reasonable that the price of public lands should remain as it is at present, until the avails shall have amounted to the full sum of the old national elebt with

the interest that might have accrued there

on. Those who advocate a reduction in the price of the public lands, contend that should the public lands, be reduced in price, they would be immediately set

tled by the poorer class of citizens, and by thfir industry, the price of farms in a few yearn would "be high. This is a mistake. It is not a numerous population of poor

people that enhances the price of land, but it is n population of able, enterprising

and industrious settlers that causes lands to increase in price It is in such places we find good roads, good schools, and good teachers, good mills, good mechanics, and many other advantages whicll are not found elsewhere. It also said, that should the price of public lands be reduced, we should be individually taxed a less sum for state and county purposes. Nothing in the opinion of the undersigners )s further from the truth tnan this statem""1; for should our country become an asyum for all classes of poor people, from tne Atlantic states and from Europe, have we not reasou to fear that the Atlantic an(' European cities would vomit upon our state the scum and dreg9 of their popula

tion, most of them, habituated to habits of

idleness, vice, and dissipation? If misfor

tune, or even the want of economy, was

the only caue of poverty, the poor, in all cases, would be entitled to our sympathy, and what is of more valae, our assistance.

But it frequently happens that poverty is

caused by idleness, dissipation, intemper' ance. aodvicious and immoral habits. It is that class of poor that we do not wish to invite to reside among us. We who

what

duced. , m

Your petitioners are aware mat some difficulty would attend the arrangement of the d"etils of a bill of that character, but those difficulties they consider not insurmountable; and they think it might he enacted that additional entries of the public lands might be made in the name of thp nreient owner or owners of tormer

entries or purchases, and said new or ad. ditioaal entries be divided amongst its se

veral owners, agreeably tollie laws oi me state on such subjects.

Your petitioners believe mat it congress are generous, they will not refuse to

be just; and that they are not asKing ior a gift, litit for an equitable claim, which

claim they hope will not be rejected.

And your petitioners shall ever pray.

LEGISLATIVE.

From the Indiana Journal. STATE BANK. Both Houses of the General Assembly are now fairly engaged on the Bank question. A considerable battle has been fought in both Houses on the first section of the bill, in relation to the number of Branches. The proposition lo reduce the number to five failed in both Houses the vote standing in the Senate 12 for reducing the number and 16 against it, and in

the House 33 lor and 37 against it. Considerable debate took place yesterday in hath branches on a motion to strike out the second section, which divides the state into Bank Districts. This motion also failed in both Houses. For the details of Monday's proceedings the reader is referred to our Proceedings. Our sketch of the debate in the House is ne

cessarily much condensed. Supposing the public to be deeply interested in the sub

ject, and being pressed for time and room,

we just submit our notes in the rough state iu which they were taken during the progress of the proceedings. The debate was continued yesterday iu the House, ou the proposition to reduce The numberjof Blanche?, by Messrs. Kilgoue, Brown of T. Bracken ridge, Palmer, (Speaker,) CRiniE, Evans, and Clark. The proceedings, thus far, have strengthened our belief that the bill will pass. To the Editor of the Quebec Mercury Sir The statement of the melancholy death of the youth (Paquet) at St. Am broia, from hydrophobia, which appeared in your paper of Thursday, the 21st inst. induces nie to forward you the following extract from flardy's Travels in Mexico. London, 1829. There cannot be a more humiliating scourge inflicted upon the burn race than this dreadful malady, for man becomes afflicted with all the symptoms equally with the brute, while laboring uneJer the same disease; anil

liQUA ruiffrioaAfl diip Innla it o l, i rwV r w r

i iaaA ....m should the simple remedy prescribed la

characters, who would receive their lands the f ftwingpote b ti.ed ,o this country, as a gift. Such a population, instead ofmaJ le who 19 the athor of evci7 food'

reduc no- our taxes, would augment them i u,t" l,,c

o o

Many would become paupers, and others

candidates for the penitentiary. Our courts would be thronged litigation would increase we should find a great increase

couitsat the expense of the industrious

classes, and what is worse, the morals of

the rising generation would be contami

by lay open a channel lor removing this fearful complaint. Yours, &lc. D. "From Don Victores I learned a cure

of state causes to be tried in our ownjfor the hydrophobia, which, in three ca-

ees, he had administered in the last par-

oxysms of that dreadful complaint. He told me that he had known several die

rope, give their lands to settlers. This

nated by evil example. It is said, that j who had not taken it, but of those to whom those public lands that have been in thejitwas administered, not one. He is S3 market some ten or fifteen years and re-l honest a man, and has the general char-

j main unsold, are refuse lands, and of liitlei acter of such strict veracity, that I enter-

value lor rultivahon ; that is far from tbej tain no doubt of his having witnessed truth. When the first settlers enter upon! what he related. One of the patients was a new country they select some place thatitied up to a post with strong cords, and a

may be the case, lot they do not sell lo, pleases their fancy; otheis that come afttr one persou at a double price, end give to them, generally locate themselves near

another, and thereby rob or detreud one man to enrich another. England, it is true, gives her lands in Botany Bay to ac tual settlers, and transports them to it, but her transports are those who, accord

ing to her laws, are guilty of lelony, and

priest was administering the last offices

of religion. At the approach of a parox

ysm; the unfortunate sufferer, with tufu-

form a nucleos, aroand which, a settle

ment is made ivithout much regard by any, except some of the first who settled in the place, to the quality of the toil or the ulti-

the halter is exchanged for transportation ! mte advantage that will attend their lo

It tnav b the case that Great Britain! cation. Three or four such settlements

....

bestows her Canadian lauds to actual se'

tiers. Canada is a cold, uninviting part of the Brifi8h Dominion- : it is separated from Great Britain by an Ocean three thousand miles wide; it has neither the soil nor climate of the Western or new states, and fuither, it is the policy of Great Britain to settle Canada by all possible means that in case she should be engag ed in a ar with the United States, she might be able to defend herself against the arms of our government . Iu addition to this, Great Britain is overrun with paupers whom she is willing to part ilh on any teims. Most of the same observations will apply to Spain and her policy, as respects her wild lands. Another view of the subject may be

constitute a county in its incipient state. If the lauds unsoldweTe compared with those that have been taken up by pur chase, having regard only to the'quafity of the soil, it would be found that the lands that are 6oId are not more than ten or fifteen per cent, more valuable than the unsold lands, and that difference in value as to richness of soil, is many times over balanced by the superior advantages that are attached to the unsold lands, that did not belong to any wild lands until they were created by the industry of the pre sent land holders. When we compare the sold and unsold lands, and take into view the quality of the soil, the advantages and disadvanta-

ges mat nave and do belong to them,

themselves and other land holders of ourltaken. The lands in Canada belong to we find the unsold lands to be fifty per

lit'iru nu iiuuv-i uuu j'.iii u'lie. people, will join with sue !i as the Lditor of the tVmocrat, in putting the vor?t construction on hi actions howsoever praiseworthy they may be. Rm thotijrU absent, Mr. twins tins (and the IMitor of the Detuoerat w ill ere Ion; discover the fact) fr;ends that nre as willing as they are able to defend his honest fume from the misrepresentation and insiduous assault? of the calumniator, howsoever high may he his station, or in wuatsoerer department he moy be found. Mr. twine'?

mind stud soul as entirely of too lofty a cha

State (as they will not be repiesented in

the Houe oi Kepresentatatives in the 23d Congress except by one of the members of this State,) to enumerate some of the grievances that they must suffer if the mad project of reducing the price of publis l-nfla ii iirnmiilicriul In I ti O iSrct

I place, they, or most of them, came to thi

state at a tune when the whole countrv

was mostly a wilderness. Each family had to make their own roads, and suffer all the inconvenienced which are incident to the emigrants of all new countries. If we raised a little more produce than was necessary for the use of our own families, we had no maiket for the surplus within our reach. If we stood in need of any article, (and we stood u, need of many) not the production of our own vet unimproved country, we could obtain'it only at

the most exorbitant price; aod in addition

ncter be treasured by the puny intellect of! to thi?, in tonsequeucu of residing on o

the crown of Great Brilain. The King

ran give, sell, or dispose of those lands ae he pleases. Parliament hs never assum

ed a control over their alienation. Those! they highly approve of the provisions of lands, called Congress lands, are held in a bill, commonly called Clay's land bill,

a different manner. 1 hey do not belong to the President of the United States, or to Congress, but they belong to the people of the several States, and every citizen, whether born under the government, or naturalised, has a ehare, though undivided, in those lands, and Congress are only trustees to dispose of those lands; and it is their duty to dispose of them for a reasonable price, aod make an equitable distribution of the proceeds amongst the owners, giving something extra to those who have mostly defended the soil, and increased their value. It is also said, that those lands were given by the Stale of Virginia to the several Slates to be disposed of, anJ their avails to be applied

those who first made their way into the

wilderue6s; thus three or four families riated looks, desired the priest to get out

of the way, lor that he felt a desire to bite every body he could catch hold of. Ad old woman who was present, said she would undertake his cure; aod although theie were none who believed it possible that she could effect it, yet the hope that she might do so, and the certainty of the patient's death if nothing were attempted, bore down all opposition, and her services were accepted. She poured a powder iuto half a glass of water, mixed it well, aod in the intervals between the paroxysms she forced the mixture down his throat. The effects were exactly such ag she had predicted; namely, that he would

almost instantly lose all power over his bodily and mental faculties, and that a

death-like stupor would prevail, without any symptoms of animation, for either

twenty-four or forty eight hours, accord-

ing to the strength of his constitution; that

at the end of this period the effects of the mixture would arouse the patient, and its violent operation, as emetic and cathartic would last about ten or fifteen minutes, after which he would be able to get upon his lege, and would feel nothing but the debility which had been produced by the combined effects of the disease and the medicine. She-mentioned also that the fluid to be discharged from the stomach would be as black as charcoal, and very offensive to the smell. "All this literally took place at the end of about twenty-six hours; and the patient was liberated from one of the most horrible and affecting deaths to which mortality is subject. She had her own way of accounting for the effectiof thii disease. She termed it a local complaint attacking the mouth, which by degrees it irritates and inflames; this ripens the pus which is conveyed to the brain by raean9 of the nerves, and is received also into the 6ton -ach with the saliva. The poison thus matured in the mouth and at the root uf the tongue converts the whole of ifca.

cent, more valuable than were the sold

lands at Ihe time they were purchased.

lour petitioners would further state, that

whirh passed both houses of Congress at

the last session, and which did not receive the approbation of the President they therefore pray, that the provisions of said bill, may be re-enacted by the 23d Con gress, at its first session. But should Congress io its ividotn, consider it inexpedient to re enact said bill, and that the wel fare and interest of the country, especially of the new States, would not be promoted thereby, and should Congress instead thereof, reduce the price of the un

sold public lands your petitioners pray, that tormer purchasers of public lands.

may be authorised, without paying an) thtDg further into the land offices, tr select

a quantity of land, which, when added to