Vincennes Gazette, Volume 4, Number 36, Vincennes, Knox County, 7 February 1835 — Page 1

7, 1835.

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V I KC2NNBS GAZETTE! ' I'uhlirhed evert Saturday, TYriii! 2 ;', if paid dnriti? the year. OO. if "paid in advance. 00, it not paid during the year. j.'l 2), Cur fix month". Tipers dici. tinned only at the option of the publisher while arrearages are due. T"Adv('ttitMn.ii(s 1 1 i a k. i 1 1 2: one square or less will he inserted three times for one dollar, and twent -five cent" for every subsequent insertion; longer advertisements in the same ratio Atlvertispments sent wit limit order?, will in all f:ir, be inserted until forbid, and charged ncnrJ ing;l y . Such articles of produce, os are used in a family, will be rreeived in payment for subscriptions, at the market price, delivered in Vin-cenru-s Washinonon Citv, Jan. 7, 1C35. Il m. David Choc kett. Dear Sir: IVo have learned, because vou secrelly informed us, lhat you have declined permitting your name lo be used as h can iidale for the Piesidency of the Unite ! States, and that you have addres sed a letter to that effect, some lime since, to the Committee of the Convention of Mississippi, hv whom you were nominated fjr lhat high office . Upon a priraleunderstanding between you and ourselves, and a number of our friends held in a kind of cuucu, it has been concluded lhat we phould come ut in a eecming open upplicutiofcfor a copyjof your IrHer, pretending Ihnt it is important tint jmir liiendj eliewhere, os well as in Mississippi, may have an eail) oj poriuuity ot turning their attention lo some other suitable person, but feally to give ) ou an occasion to play of! upon Ihe public one of j out best efforts for effect, and to keep up Ihe humhuggery of the Hank, Gold Currency, and all thai sort of tiling so necessary to blind the people, and keep our party together. Yours, with great respect, Nicholas Hanks, of Pennsylvania. A-Houtw J. Bui.LtON, of Indiana. Thos. R. Goldwire, of N. H. Martin V. Trashmonev, of N . i . ; Washington Citv, Jan. 8, 1835. Gentlemen: I send yoo a copy of Ihe letter you wish. It is not my wish to take advantage of any body. I never eaid I cared about being President noa-, and so I have writ to all my friends in private letters, and when I talked about it I always talked tkt way. As Mississippi was the fJift state, (and I expected it would be the last) lhat nominated me for the Government," I writ ihe letter and sent it there to be printed, to show that 1 didn't go off half-cockd, and to keep people fmm thinking that I had refused before 1 was ready. But as I want another man elected in the north, that I may have a sort of a plea lo come in nextime myself from the South West, and as I see some people are going lo try lo hunt for Ihem selves, and don't seem to be after the same game that I am, but are scouting ail about to start other sport, and seem to be barking up the wrong sappling, I want to blow 'em off and put 'em on Ihe right (rail But as we understand each other, I shan't say any more but just send you the letter, and am glad you mean to publish it. Ytur friend, DAVID CROCKETT. To f'ie Committee . Washington Citv, Dec 1, 1333. Dear Sir: I suppose the Democratic Convention is in earnest in recommending me to be the President of the United States. There is so much trickery about that thing now a days, and so many sham nominations just to make people shew their bands, that I thought 1 would let you see that I know a thing or two myself, before I slated how thankful I am for your pitching on me for the Presidency. But I am sorry 1 don't want the office just now I'm after another thing. l'ma very candid man, and when my mind is fixed upon a matter, you might as well try to stop gunpowder half blown up, as io top me. I can't agree to be President. The next election for President and Vice goes ahead of all the elections that ever took place in America, except when Jefferson any Ihe present Government" was elected. Them two beat all creation, because they fought for the democratic principle." Now I should think the Constitution quite gone unless the "democracy" that is, our side, all the office holders in the country, and in Washington City, and at New York, and evry where carried the election in 1836. To win that election we must give item to one another. We must hang together like a pitch plaster lo a b-tld pate. No flying off no thinking for ourselves. We nviVnt have but one candidate, and for that reason I wont go upon the list. Til be a "voter," and this is a big char acter, able to shoulder a steamboat, and carry any candidate that the caucus at U lltimore may set up against the people. What's the people to a caucus? Nothing but a dead agua to an earthquake. But, gentlemen, though I can't lake the appointment myself, I will tell you who can, and you won't have to persuade him long neither. He will play shy at uiM, owinc to his nature; but it ain't hard to

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ll is Mr. Martin Van Bu-

Perhaps you never heard of him lfor. II. ...v.r oed.ll. in I,.i,'a 1 ''"7"."-" set in the same chair together more than (wo years, but fully hall that time he was ither in my lap or I in his, exchanging comnlimenls, so that 1 knov him Letter . .mm a uodk, i.n.. cuusay, idne mm up one side and down folher, he is Ihe most fii - 1 1 l ..... . . f. I Z ... b in i vjciiciu. jaiuruu, iui me j I'i esident, of any man that now hurrahs! .v.. a,w ,u..Cy me peo,ic. i lit way he is a Democrat, is a caution, all over. He is dyed in the wool, through aim inrougn, anu comes as near to the red He aint like any other living cretur:- ! rnn'l U - ttnrU.lf.ahi. incf c tvell i i .:. ,j . . . r- r, . .. uciiiiiu as oeioi e sees as wen one way hs another. They say his life is like a clean copy book; there is not a blot in any part of it : not a word nor letter scratched out. &, every t dotted, and e ve ry f crossed from one eend to l other. Jn.lus nalral disposi -

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britches ot Mr. Jeflerson as a new patch lie has been accused about the Safety upon an old garment can be made. Asto'F

ability, he himself don't know how much don't know any thing about these Bank he knows; and if he don't, who can! Air. Van Buren has uhvavs been in fvop

iiwn, ne is a tame as me present -govern ' proviaeu that lor every ixtymei.l," and will just suit to come allei il. j three dollars issued in paper, there should The way his own Slate thinks of him out-je one dollar in silverj-buf, not satified shines Ihe yellar jackets. They J.avejWiUi making the notes secure, by provi

oet n stall reeding nun tor twenty two years, and have got him s slick as an ing on. His State is the biggest in the L-oi-on has got two millions of people 42 members in Congiess the longest canan the hngt'Sl ships more banks smaller notes less cunning, and more honesty, than any State in the Union; and has never had h President yet a great reason this for giving her one now, though she has had three Vice Presi lent out of seven, besides other high officers, from Alexander Hamiltondown. But ignorant people, w ith a glib sort of a tongue, says, what has he done? They ought to ask what has he not done? I wouldn't an srver Ihe first question so far as Ihe people is concej aed, but for his sake, I will itll you what h has done. And not to get ahead of my story, I will go back to t tie time fie began to be u politician. He set out with this rule never to choose side? till he found out which was which, and il he happened to make a mistake, il was nothing to nobody, and things scon got straight. He never was wrong in any dispute if either side was right; that is, h was always light, unless both sides were wrong. He broke up a whole Legislature in New York to support Mr. Madison in the war, and threatened to turn him out of his government, and put Mr. Clinton in; but failing in this, he turned over again and tried to break dowu Mr. Clinton , in New York. All the time lie was for the war, he was making the people belieie Mr. Madison was not to be trusted ; and there has been pieces pi inted from his speeches, shewing how he abused M r. M adison's government. Then he praised Mr. Clinton, and -afterwards turned right round and talked t'other way. He was all sorts of a member in Ihe New York Legi.dalur. He was one of the lit ter of great men that was got by the War out of the Old U. S. Bank. He took side wilh his father, and went his death against his mother. He was the very man for the times talk write right -bring in bills laugh make bow? draw State papers, which, finally inade the federal party smell the patching that drove them from the field in April, 1814. This was rale New Orleans scrape, aud it was a long time before the people at Washington found out which was Ihe biggest affair. But Mr. Van Buren always give up lhat Orleans was the greatest. Now, go much' for the question, what has he done ? It is true, he voted for the Tariff of 1828, 'that bill of abominations,1 as it was then called, but he was obliged lo do thai ; his Legislature instructed him; but some have said, lhat they instructed him by his own request, for his friends have boasted that he has never seen the day for the last ten years, that he couldn't make the New York Legislature do as he wanted them. But this vote proves what I said before. He went against the Tariffj at hame. called the Harrisburh Cenven

lion, while it was hatching this very Tariffibe tire, or, as we hunter? used to say, bill of 1828, a trick and turn over to makelhere there is so much sign there must a President,-and then goes to Congressjoe game. Now Mr. Van and me, and the and votes lor it. Don't this look like a men that wrote lo send 'em this letter to man can't well he wrong that takes both 1 e published, and a good many of our sides? It looks a little curious lhat a manjfolks, have all got together, and we think should go against a measure at home,! by making a great rush upon these free speak it in public, write again it, abuse it j thinkers we can whip 'em back into the as a fraud and a trick, and get elected 1 party , and make 'em Hind rip (o the under these circumstances, and then get track, fodder or no fodder This letter -s the very Legislature that elects him to tell ' for that purpose. I know, and we all him to vole against his own "graphic" ; know, that one half ot it isn't true, and speeches, and for a "measure proceeding ! the olher is trash. My friends said tome, more from the Closlt than from the jy our name sounds big, and if you come Workshop " This is the way he got the out nfl inke telev you don't want

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name of a Magician0, and it looks a good to be President, and talk auout tiemocradeal like il to a man up in the tree.' icy, aristocracy, Jefferson. Madison, CrawMr. Van Buren has been more scandal-' frfK persecution, the War, the Bank, izedthan any man in the world, not ex- Gold Currency, hard money, but. above ceptinsr Mr. Jefferson. Every body has all, Jackson and the Battle of New Or combined air:iint him. He has never in- leans, and then hurra for union, harmony, Altered with any body at all! If it concession. Van Buren, and Ihe great hadn't been for th., he would hive been State of New York; the seceders will General Jackson's favorite, and be would tark and run back into the democratic rehave ma.le bin. bis successor. But ih-v P"blicn fold, which means the an hu

poured so much poison in the old man's 1

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:!. ,. ... 1 "... . ' v '. . r.ny m. a .Hi ,,r i . . , , - ' Crawford, against Jarkson, and Jack riiiu, iiihi ne wa nrst ;or ! South Carolina friends eon $ n.l thon U u i . tiv-iiiiv. tTfi; i for Adams, ann finllv l. Q , . eierenlh hour for Jackson, pot into the jnest of Jackson first and last friends . looipu em out, took their place and they go even so far as to say, thai he - i ne cuoice or Ueneral Jackson for Prrij dent. But this ain't so ; if i wa., it would , make him look again a little like a Maigician, of -hard money," and he always obs.in. atelv refoipil in Ut ,i' . j ,v. .in. muie ii ii i n. !.i..i i e.e... . . . . u'u unu m iy uariKS tie chartered, at nine in ieiv lorlt; and (hen he m d and stood lo it, they shouldn't isue notes lower than a auariar of a JnInr . . ' - ? .iiittj : went for notes under lhat, il would dtire j an me specie out the country. And then ing ine anove specie lo take Vm up, he jsaui it one hank failed nil the others 'should make it good Now . ihi h the i Safely Fund sy.tem of New York. These j Banks are all in a league; to keep their j privileges, and lo keep up one another. i a"d lo kee p up I heir party, they have a joint Fund, that is always subject to party purposes, to pay for voles, for treating, for travelling, for printing, for handbills. and for every thing that j necessary to jcarry an election. AH this h managed at Albany, and is called Ihe Albany Regency. Now by Ihis sy-tem New" York nas sound politics, sound morals, and hard money. How can any body blame him for the Safety Fund Bank-. Then, loo, he has gone with all his might Bgainst the United States' Bank, but i in favor of its branches if they will put 'em in New York. Bad s lhat Bank is, he wrote for one to be put up in Utica. and his fiienda denied this, till they proved il upon him by his letter, and became they happened to forget about his trying to get this Branch, his enemies want to make out that he rows one way nnd looks another, and this is the kind of proof that is to make a man a double dealer! a Magician! They call him non-committal, too, and this is because he always looks before he leaps. They say he never gives the measure of hia foot. Now how can this be, when it is shewn lhat he speaks against the Tariff at home, and votes for it in Congresp; goes for internal improvement by the General Government in New York, but against il out of it ; goes against the Bank at Philadelphia, but in favor of it at Ulica ; goes for all the candidates for President in turn, and Jackson last, notwithstanding which they say he is in higher favor there now, than those tht began before him. Went for the war, but went against Madison; wanted to (urn Madison out and put in Clinton, aud then turned Clinton out from the little office he held in New York. Goes for gold and hard money, and has more rag money in his State than all the other States put together. Call you this non committal? As well may you call the fingers of a watch non-committal, thai goes regular roupd to every figure on the face. I have gone through what they say against Van Buren, and now 1 must speak about our sticking together: every thing for Van Buren, nothing for nobody else -thai is, nothing for Judge White ;for to tell vou the truth, the whole of this letter is just intended to keep the people from opening their eyes. Some very good honest Jackson men are foolish enough to think that they ought to have an opinion of theirown,and talk about it quite grave. The words "Magician," "little magician,' "non committal," "Safety Fund," "Albany Regency," "New York tactics," and such like, have been named so often they begio to think there is something in it, and say, where there is so much smoke there must

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,ilcl ClTTTT I -- nil?, o mi in rn cii (pi) oil to my you ought to plert Mr Van Buren. ecaue lie i from 1 he Nnnli If j L .1.: : .. ... . . . - . we ... . 6 - . "" " c u,, ,, nrr u v ra o it Till flPvt limu IKa Irni.'.l , .rsi.n-iu niui come imm ... ..wun.-r, ami uien unere fir lanuf ny that time the partv will be so well drilled that they will uke an body that the par ty say s they nnit take. and, in the mean time, I think I can cry n.r,i,i i m i . . . -

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". ' j ' J'c,""ii ty ; a. mi an i na i .. you w,u recommend me then, 1 il be t.j. uirtu. ii rnie snouKi t e elected now, that will he two Presidents from the South-west, and then I can't roiblv eet ;.. . t .. . . i . i ' . . . - .t h. te.m J.'.,.. T 'Z w, Z . . . ; '., mil nine v an Uuren. and b the time ' . M itnt' 1 1 .... I .. . u'l . "J .'" n.'.ff it a . . - - . ............ , . i ,- t tt i.-

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I T-.r . . . but not belter; and besides, he sh his rrjukef. ami f..o..l.i b.ri, .i r. iifl! i hi: in 7 i a r. ( IO a V mot f rniLrl.l If., L itr , , . - - - enry.) But if we elect him it will be ; greedily lok like we wanted allthe Iresident. ft nonld Wreak up the demo J crat party get th tate together by I the -nrs, nd place the counUv in the ! frightful situation in which it wi.ito,ted i when V irgmia gave us four dernonatic Presidents three band running. It wont do. Let the next President come from the North, and then I go with nil my heart for a South-west President, theterm after, and that President -InH he myself. Hoping that you will not forget -nr r.gni years nence, nndth.it we can keep the People from thinking for themselves against a Caucus nomination, I am your fellow citizen. DAVID CROCKFi'T. From the Vhiladtlj hia Gazette. tjik PitACTici: of m:Aii.; ar:.is. Our attention ha been drawn to this subject, by a recent occurrence in this city. A young gentleman in a moment of fury , drew his dirk , and before he could be restrained, committed several outra ges, the particular of which, however worthy of censure, we will not mention. h hope is entertained, from the general 'y Pftimahle character of the gentleman.

that the offence-will not be brought before some years since, a man condemned to our the court. This affair will, we hope, ad- penitentiary for murder, said to us -- "Ah, monish a certain class of young gmtle- j !'r' no one knows how easy is the commen resident among us of the serious and I mission of such a crime. You are one gross impropriety of carry ing arms. The;mntnerit innocent and belovr d--one bur-t practice has become so general, (hat pasion one blow nnd you me a muiscarce a brawl takes place in which dirks ! ere 1 1 l''m who is about to conceal are not unsheated and pistols flashed. It 1 ,he 'l'1' his bosom think of tlu se thir g. might be thought that we were emulating ; I)irn ask himself if it is net possible, the ferocious nnd cowardly traits of the j yo,lnff ar'd ardent, with hot blood , "spirit Italian character; nnd that instead of I'rrud and prompt to ire" and thrown

boasting Ihe loftv honor and manly rour - age of our fathers, we kad become skulk er? and assassins. The savage and cowardly knife is not the weapon of Americans: nor is Ihe midnight brawl the scene in which they vindicate their honor or signalize their courage We regard the practice of bearing ! arms in a community like this as uncentlemanly, ruffian like, cowardly nnd dangerous. vv e think mat a moments rellection will convince our young friends, lhat the terras, however strong, are not misapplied . It is ungenilemanhj , because il betrays a want of confidence in those with whom you have intercourse, neither manly nr courteous. It regards friends as foes. It goes forth among gentle and generous spirits, and miserably suspicious, says, "this man is a base assassin, he has a design upon my life, and I must he prepared for him.' Would the savge on ihe Oregon, feel or Ret thus! Would he, when he came openly as a friend, come secretly a a foe, with mortal weapons concealed upon his person. No, he would, in his natural dignity, regard the concealment rs mean and ekulking, and the distrust as un courteous and unmanly. It is ruffian like, fm it contemplates, not an exhaulted or honorable contest, but ihe base squabbles of the midnight rioter, of the low brawler, who nerved by the bottle, stabs in Ihe dark and considers himself a hero. None but the ruffian will he guilty of brawling. Whenamausofar forgets himself as to allow his blade to glisten in the moonbeam in a drunken rencontre he may demand the credit of the Kalian cut throat, or the skulking Greek, of wretches who join ferocity with cowardice, and incapable of bold and manlydaring, commit murder in brawls: but let no such roan claim kindred with men f courage. Courage is calm, is open, is dig nified and honorable. It has nothing to do with riolg in oyster cellars or haunts still more degraded, where reeling buck vociferate vulgar blasphemy and flourish their dirks as if. by showing that they are ruffians, they prove that they are he roes. The practice in coTtardly. It is the mark and proof of cowardice to imagine danger where there rs none, or exaygeratp it when it exists. Now there m no danger in our streets. None but the chickenhearted will imagine any. It i coward ice, womanish and disgraceful cowardice. ..r..,m..t. lrnml.br w b r, I . .a d IIKU ' " 1- l'isj w, --- -. himself with pistol, and dirks, swallows a quantity of brandy, and gues forth pre-

pared fo defend him-e!f; against :.-,;' That which women rml ch,hiien ! . a i rwithoni fenr Ihe perils of fJ()iet M.C 'hrcrugh (hi roost foiocious of cifie-!--Rrave men carry no dirks. Thev nr not pfraitl In e without them. Tla v

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.. ,.., ,,. , WJ, . I .Mt: mi) n 1 I V . n r r n - . Pr, ,, ,(r Inor!a) , -PM w ,,, some bo i. nd prctir or 'avp liit Tbi'V wniild I bhih lo think of tnt an act. rrrrnu that a childish anil foolish cowmdice couhl alone have prrrnpled the thought. Aninrident occurred rerentlv.cn braid a Now York steamboat, w hie b" il'i.-t r:.t . . . i qua r i e 1 1 f f! "ilh one o the uirkmen . board. Mruck him. and at once drew ., in dirk. He stood, w ith hi wear on r:;i-i prepared to bury it in li e I reat ot 1. defencfl.g artagoniM. when 1 i band v... I 1 i.e workman enr.g.d at ml !, I ouirage, m-i!r.l cn IPSf-ritlt.gr f. .f. Kin t (r ;p n. , c. ,. , I I ( l i .. : . i. . . . i . i " I1M I - n. w th a t!i (lured n i.ii j. i r i .1 i j on a, pfopi'tol. and st-cj ruennrfd to . r-rove l.ii rl.it f.!r- . - - ........ , ..-1 .i.i ..r.arir .1 .,r, ,, 1. - . man . with r corLf-d i isfol n coo hand. nd a drawn dirk in the c!l, .-. The interferance of t)fc crowd prevent d an exhibition of hi courage. Such is ti,e chivalry of lhnsP u mihan like in tl, ir diposiM'on. pant for a quarrel , but afraid of an equality of prowess, draw lh cowardly knife against an honorable and unarmed antagonist. TIip practice is dangerous. Apart from the impropriety of tarrying weapon, no one should do it who is not most firmly assured that hr is incapable of remnant of weakness or pasejori: where i the man j who basso completely chained the fieri I j in his nature, lhat no" incident will even j under the maddening spell of liquor, call jup dark passions nf his lo-om. 'itn.tgine h baty brawl, the blindness, lbf confusion, t he frenzy with the nl ject rf your wrath before you, fury in r-ur brnin, and your weapon in your fand--wbst would save y ru fiom murder? The irtuons, the wise, iren the patient, have (fen, in one moment's impulse, dne deed that have spread orer tht-ir hlleir lives the gloom of the grne. No one knows himself. Nw one knows howr easy il is Or the mildest nature, ic.tl.ime4 bv llPllir and rnuiinr in rrl.. I.l. , Ihat ",;,v bp fatal. We remember that I " , I ..V. i I W .7 I'.'f.T ami(J Hie most maddening excitementsto commit in one thoughtless moment, a deed which will loan himself, his namu and all who bear i' with las-ti.or infamy. Such occurrences have come within the range of almost every one's, objen alion The affair referred to in the Komrrencemenl 01 ,nl article is a strong instance of the dangers and disgrace nitpodinrr o O ft nit. practice. The present is a favorable moment for it? complete abandonment am! abolition. We hope that our young citizens will join in an o! ject so worthy their aid; and would suggest particularly to Iho. gentleman connected with our medical school-, the propriety of holding meeting nnd resolving to do all in their power (n discourage a practice so discreditable and unworthv. The weather has been cold enough during Iho pi9t 6even or eidit days, to Miit the most luxurious inhabitant of the Arctic Circle, ft has been almost as frigid as they have it sometimes in Klumfiidgen, where once in two or three year?, not oftener, flame freezes, nnd they cut it into amethysts, for l'.uropcan markets. A note from the Postmaster Ht Greenwich, informs us that on Sunday- morning, at S o'clock, the thermometer indicated 31 degrees below zero. Ytsterdav mominj at G. it stood at 21j below, and was falling;- U e learn also from a gentleman from Lancaster, Hint on Sunday morning at G, tbo mercury stood t thirty-jive below 0. The sulftririEs of mariners thrown on our rough New Eni-land coast during the present severely cold weather, must be very great On Saturday a e;inan left a ship from IS'ew Orleans, in the lower harbor, to come to the city in a bunt. He got up opposite the Fort, when he was stopped by the ice. Night closed in, and he remained in ti e boat till Sunday morning, when he lpft her, and passed over the ic to South Boston, where he arrived fu(e, w ithout being frost bitten. He rnut have been "wtuthr proof." liott. Transrrijit. The memory of our 'otde.t cit'zep runneth not to such extreme co'd weather, as bus been sent upon ns within the hist two duys. The "Cold Krid iy" of )SlO. vas "no prt of a prin.inatoit.'' Then, ihe mercury flood Rt sunrise at 29 decrees below zero. On Sunday morning lt, at the same time, it st..od nt 33, fit was thought tlat by n "lilt: w-jiig; ihe mercury rnidit have been frozt n ;) nnd on .Monday at 3" below. Thi is colder bv I" degrees thun any wonther we have ever known. This weather even, is mild, computed w ith that experienced by the inhabitants of a portion of the Granite State. In the year 18.-7, the p. o, I e of Frrmconia, -V H had (wri-ty-nvc nays in -uc- ! f.ession, in which the mercury rose nor hiVh. r than 20 dei-ree b'dow zero Ihe lowest point nt which it stood was ' 40 bf dw!.' ! J)unstable Ttlenph. A crenarh'er of the regiment r f Chimr-nne whs ret re a tin g fn -in t he i a nk, mo-t a I Iy w u ,.m-t , - . , . -,. ;, , , . . , turninsr rond, anJ expiring hs he -poli .