Vincennes Gazette, Volume 5, Number 24, Vincennes, Knox County, 14 November 1835 — Page 1

71 Mo VOLUME 5. VINCENNES, INDIANA, NOVEMBER 14, 1835. NUMBER 24

pl.e pensioned party Globe, (the unblujhing calumniiitor of every upright, independent pub

lic man in the United Statei) at the moraentMhen on their way to the lake

that it seems to acquire fresh vigor in the base press sent to Gen. Clay to hasten forward attempts to reconcile the mme of "democrmV 1 hose troops, found them at Fort Win with the iibrviency of a party menial, bound Chester, reduced by detachments and to obey the designing faction who have mo.!,,ckneM ,0 1100 effective men: To atnonolifed the ear of the President, bat pub.,eml,, to throw hiwgelf into the fort in the

I lished some ,,sorg, on behalf of th deceitful "democracy, and the following is a pnrady of No. 1. Air, "The Star Spangled Banner . SONGS OF THE PARTY. No. 1. Hurrah for tVe poil, our treachery won, In the dark day of strife, from a misguided nation ! A fat'ning bequest, from the sire to the son. To be guarded by him from his next generation Oh let not the trust Become but as dust. As, If placemen abandon the party, it must; Then y of the public crib! sleep not but awake ! For Martin Van Euren and existence atstaka!; The office yon bold might fill you with pride,

Concealed by the mantle of Jackson's full.to the boats, and it not, to file off under

But the Magician's name, is far too deeply dyed With the party, our forefathers knew as the "Tory," No charm in his name To lead us to fame, But still follow, with conscience unshaded by shame ! In the hope of "more spoils'' let as never forke Little Martin Van Buren, and our fortunes at take. Go look round the nations, and show ma a clime Mora early corrupt by one man' endeavor, Will je mar his high fortune? No, placemen! let time As now he beholds him behold him forever. Could Absold's brare form Rie breathingljr warm. He'd point to the pilot who roused the dark storm; And shout o'er each eity, and valley, and mere, "Hurrah for Vnn Buren my spirit it there " Defence of Fort Meigs bv General Harrison There is nothing in the whole military career of Gen Jackson (o be compared with this defence. Albany Gazette. In order to secure his provisions and munitions of war, and to cover the country from the marauding incursion of the savages in the Spring, Geneial Harrison built a fortification at the toot of the Rapids of the Miami, te which tie gave the name of Fort Meigs. Here, by the end of winter, he deposited all histores, when the British officer who commanded in that quarter got intelligence of the situation of the fort and its contents, and resulted to make an attempt to take it. General Proctor had been ordered to reinforce the British army on the Niag ara; but the contiguity of Fort Meigs to that place and Detroit, overawed him; and there is little doubt that the establish, ment of Fort Meigs postpone! the fate of fNiagara Not daring to leave it in his

neighborhood, Proctor resolved to reduce j it inrstT and anti tariff-Jackson and j every civilized community, and calcula- he ?ur ve " M i in communities, in conit. Gen. Harrison on receiving in forma -. an,j Jackson bank and anti bank a- ted above all others, to increase national ! gregations of his fellow men, that his tion to that effect, hastened from Ciucinna- j gajnsi universal suffrage nd for universal ; prosperity, promote indiv idual happiness. powers are developed, and his intellect ti, where he then whs, with all the forces .' uffrai?e. His motlo seems to be. 'Change and in fine, uruductiv e to man either a n strengthened. In the contest of mind

he could collect, and on the 22d of April, as e t i s c ye breeze," I'll sail beiore the arrived at Fort Meigs with 300 fnen.ijnd

which, with those alieady there amounted to net more than 1500, one third of whom during the siege, were on the sick reports. This force was not a third part of what ought to have been assigned to the defence of such an important station. The secretary oi war was eariy enougn ap-; rrio,t r.f if hni n e ir I rf nd lo a n i hn r -r r riir..i-. - . i Genral Harrison, in time to expedite ai ,.. r-, I 11 '- . . !.

sufficient of troops. Idate for the Presidency. This avowal Harrison, however, threw up new bat-alore, is sufficient reason, in our estimatlemenls the officers as well as soldiers, why he should not be elected. He working in the Ditches; and on the first ; knew the manner in which that Convention of May, the enemy, who had invested the' was got up, the materials of which it was fort on" the 28(h of April, opened his bat-; composed, and yet he says, H would not teries upon it, and continued firing until j have consented to be a candidate but by the 5th. Thu General's quarters were injthe permission of the Baltimore Sanhecentre, decidedly the most exposed part:r'tn The people might have nominated of the fort. During the siege several ' me in their primary assemblies, in every shots passed through his marquee, seve- j Slate in the Union, and I would have con ral of his domestics were wounded, and jsidered their nomination of.no force or efCaptain M cCulloch, while setting by the jfect. A Convention composed of such General's fire, had the back part of liis'men in Dr. Kucker. Shadrach Penn, and skull carried away. During the whole 'Thomas J Pew men who did not come time General Harrison's fare was the same i''" Ir0 ,he People,' is the only iegitias that of the common soldiers; in no night;nite and correct mode for the nominaduring the siege did he sleep more than t'or f the first ofiiceis of (his free counan hour; and indeed, in general, when try. in the neighborhood of an enemy, slept' Had such a doctrine as this been openon an average not more than four hours h avowed in the good, old Jackson days out of twenty-four. H '25' b' anJ m professing to be a reThe defence of Fort Meigs, may be ; publican, he would have been banished fairly considered as one of the most bril-J w',h contempt and indignation from the liant and extraordinary events b.ich dis- j ranks of the party, tinguished the late war. Exclusive of

the disproportion of the armies, General! Harrison had at the commencement of

the siege, only COO shotof all sizes; for m ine na.e.gn arar, the Wardepartment thinking a s,egeun.!" ,he eu,,Jecl , of ,h,er n'xt Presidential l.kelv.had made n better pre-.a.at.on. deC,,0n' '' himiHr Tbe General however, put the best facej "Anti-Caucus Anti Fan, on the matter, and kpl his want ol 'amu j White Jackson- Unio n .Van." nitien a profsuud secret pretending thai ; This, as a matter of course, the rn--Jern

be did not wish to harrasa his men by utj. necessary firing1. It happened that for the purpose of defending the frontier. Gen Harrison had made a requisition on the Govenor of Kentucky for 1600 militia. There, he hoped, would have arrived in time for hi purposeful only a part of the battalion, joined him before the investment of the fort: the residue descended the St. Mary's and

the Au Glaize at convoys to large (uppliet An ei ilace ot an army ot more than three .times his number seemed hazardous if not rah, yet ueo. Uay resolved to at tempt it on the i which he sent no ht of 14ih of May , of ce to Oeneral Ham - son, stating that he would make the effort sometime between three o'clock A. M. and day light: lie did not, however, arrive until 9 o'clock, meantime. Gen Uairison, wiih the view of playing off a surprise upon the enemy, despatched orders to Gen. Clay to land 6 or COO of his men on the north side of the river above the enemy's batteries, who were to march down the river under cover of the woods. storm and blow up the enemy's batteries tpike the cannon, and if practicable retreat the foot of the hill where they would be protected by the guns of the fort. This snaiioeuvie, so far as the desliuction of the hatteries and cannon, was successfully ex ecuted; and ij i If? it w ag in progress, Gen. Harrison nrdeid three sorties from the fe-rt in one of which two hatteries opened by the enemy on the south of the river were carried, and (he cannon destroyed, and two British officers and 42 men were taken These losses and discomfitures I had the effect of convincing General Proc tor of his inability to carrv on the seige to prosperous issue, and suggested to him: jthe neefs-ity of making a retreat, which

ne enecieu ttnn naste oo ttie nintn ot at which he rei, and ays to him-elf j 11 nere among ourselves that whatever adMay. " thu far ihulr iiimi ctcx a t . i vanLfmenl is to k made, whatever new

w From the Raleigh Register. SEVERAL REASONS WHY MARTIN VAN BURF N SHOfl-D NOT EE ELECTFD PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 1st. He is in effect nominated by Gen. Jackson, and the President should never he permitted lo nominate or electioneer lor bis successor. 2d. He is the canilidate of tbe office. holders , and not the candidate of the people. 3d. He is the : prolific parent of the odious -yslem of : proscription tor opinion sake, setting the ,

example in his oin department, while which are intended for the benefit of all Secretary of State. 4lh He sanctioned ; In no one art ha the improvement lo 'be removal of the public moneys fromjwhichl refer, been more conspicuous than (he depository in which they had been! in that of agriculture, by which is intendplaced by the people's representatives --j ed "the art of cultivating the earth in 5th, He is known to sustain the monstrous such a manner as to cause it to nrodnce

pretensions set up by the Executive in his Protest Rn instrument which would cen tre all power in the hands of the Presi

dent, and destroy every other branch ol . his dominion" an art which is tbe basis ' vvno are devoted to it, is a combination the government. 6h He has done more j of all others, and to which all others are ! nl un'on 8" interested for mutual than any other individual to turn the eyes' in a greater or less degree tributa ry an improvement. Why should it be otherof public men to the President, rather art coeval with civilization, and known j w'se w'tn those engaged in this highest of than to the people, for the rewards of and practiced from the earliest period of'3" ar,s noblest of all sciences? public service. 7th He has been a fed- which we have any record an art uni-! Man was destined for a social being. eralist and a republican war and anti. j versal in its application, employing as is j lone, he would be no better than the war stale rights man and constitutional- estimated. even-eiirhths of mankind m!aJIe who roams the forest, "lord of all

From the JSashville Republican. The people should bear in mind that Mr. Van Buren has declared, in his letter acceptance, that a nomination by the. n .. 1 1 ; . ., C. ..!..

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would have consented lo become a candi From the Columbia (Tenn.) Observer. 1 .... !,.. . : . .i f ) i t r- .

democrats will swear is he. Can't be for Jackson, say they , and against Van Buren at the same time; if you do, you oppose the measures of General Jackson' administration. The President prefers Mr Van Buren, they continue, and if you dare oppose him, yon are at once an an-ti-JacksoD man, a Bank man, a NulIifW. traitor, vagabond, tool, and every thing else but a clever fellow: These aie the epithets applied to the friends of Judge White for daring to support him in preference to Mr. Van Buren. A fine doc

trine, this, to teach in a Republican Gov ernment like ours. Citizens of Tennessee! and of the United States! are you prepared to tolerate such a course? Are you willing to be transferred like slaves to promote the interests, or gratify the ambition of any man or set of men? We j hope not. Let this practice be kept up i for n few vears let the office holders. with the influence of the President's name, appoint his successor, and ere long we may expect to see nothing short of the CROWN descending from the FATHER to his SON!! The freedom of the elective franchise will be wrested from us. and our liberties gone. May Heaven forbid that such should ever be our destiny ! ADDRESS Delivered to the Agricultural Society of Knox c.vxiniy, Oct 12, 1835, by the Hon John Law. The improvements which have been mane within the last half centurv, in the arts and sciences, have awakened the astonishment of mankind, arid the individual who should at that period have predicted them, would have been treated as a fool or a madman. If in so short a period the changes in our physical and moral condition have been thus astonishing, who j shall predict the advance in fifty years Income. What prophetical mind can calculate our destiny, or reasonably set : limits to our knowledge ? Man is destin ed in bis career through life lo ndi-jinr lor re Irogade there is no stationary point .... ..,,, ,UM. I,,, i.iiiiiri. ,

The conflicts of mind hurry him onward, 'henries practically to be carried into efand whatever new development of InorH feet , whatever original experiments are or physical power is made w hate ver ad- i ,0 be tried, calculated to be successful in

vance in science or art. ?l,e benefit h gen eral, and all become participators of the blessings it confers. The power of pub lie oi.inion directed through tb of the mess, mpeg i. nmrrl Umi -.r.o.v x. . .v. ... ights brek in upon us, we stand ready to eize the ad vnrai?ee which the U i i . the genius, and the ingenuity of our lei low men have devised for our use and improvement, and practically realize by application, the benefits of those theories in the greatest plenty and perfection those vegetables which are uselul to man and j lo ihe animals w hich he has subjected to individual or social being, of more pros perity and adyantage than all other arts put together. When the decree went forth alter the expulsion of our first par ent s from the garden of Eden that "by the sweat of his brow man should earn bis bread," this art had its commencement. Cain was "the first tiller of the ground," ' . husbandman and planted a vineyard " J he Egyptians worshrpped the ox. The Chaldeans and Phinicians held agriculture in the highest estimation. The Greeks and Romans paid it the highest hnnors It was celebrated by the writing of Xenophon and the poetry of Hesiod among the former and the prose works of Cato the Ce nsor, and the Georgicks and Bucolicks of Virgil, have consecrated it as a science, worthy of the love, the admiration and the eloquence of ancient writers As civilization increased, as the night of barbarism opened to the lights of science and literature, it grew and prospered and flourished during succeeding ages throughout Europe, and aided by the skill, fostered by the wealth, and improved by the genius of more modern times, it has been elevated, as it is deservedly entitled, to the first place in the list ol those arts which are calculated to support national independence, and promote in the highest degree the happiness of man. Time would fail me, and Ihe present occasion would not permH, the examination of its improvements within Ihe last half century. In that period in Europe, and in this country, its advance has tended lo bring it nearer to perfection than the progress made in it for two centuries before. England, however, has gone in far beyond any other nation in securing to it a high rank, philosophically anu scientifically, aDd the names of Soinerv ille, Young,

Sinclair, Bakewell and Coke, of London, LT n T ... ....I C.I Li .'til l

iiu.raam, ornriEn . win rje nanuen down to posteiity as the scientific and munificent patrons of an arf, which holds civilized man in every portion of the globe their debtors & admirers In our own country. the best and greatest of oui citizens have deemed it of the highest importance, and we who but a few years since were mere colonists, dependant upon eur mother country for all the theoretical and practi cal information we possessed in relation to it, are now daily striking out new paths. suggesting new theories, o be followed and carried into practical application by the wisest and best ot modern agricultur isls across the broad Atlantic, thereby in some measure repaying the riel.t we owe them. It is, after all, in this country that the science is to arrive at its greatest height of perfection. The very nature and genius of our soil, the skill and inge nuity and industry of our citizens the vast extent and diversity of territory, stretching from the Bay of Fundy to the Gulf of Mexico, embracing every variety of soil and climate, are admirably and happily adapted when combined, to bring forward the science of agriculture in all its various and multiplied branches, to a height which no other portion of this vast creation can ever expect to excel, even should it equal. It is here more parlicu larly it is destined to advance in its onward career, until skill, and science, and wealth, have no further materials in store to aid in its improvement. It is here in our most loved portion of our much loved country (the Western States,) with reference to the habits, the mariners, the skill, the industry of our people, the fecundity of our soil, and the fa vorableness of our climate, that the "desert is to blossom as the rose," and (he "vine and the fig tree" are to be set under, as the portion of every industrious son of Adam, with a less proportion of labor and a more certain reward of his industry, than in any other ! legion favored with the blessings of Proj v 'l,nce, and the light of civilization. It still further aiding the progress, and ensuring the complete success of agricultural labor, it is here I say, among ourselves iu the w es tern states, they are to be made. and God grant they may succeed; may he vno "wei?he(h the mountains in a scale, and the hills in a balance,7 who "hotiietlif ",e waters of the earth in the hallow of mi band," who has said that "though Paul m p'"' and ApoJIas may water, it is he "no givetn me increase, mess anu prosper our undertaking. Fello w-Citizens Farmers of Knox county This is the first attempt which has ever been made within this county, to enlist your feelings and encourage your zeal upon the all-important subject of ag rtcullure In every other branch of sci- "- or f art, one of the most uselul and successful methods of improving those (with mind, the '-ethereal spark" ot geni1,19 H"(' wisdom elicits its light for the be tie ht of kindred minds, and strikes out new principles for the guidance and safeMy o( those who are to succeed. In agri culture, however, 'the development of old operations tested by experience, are generally more important than new theo ries. Agriculture, line tne common law, is more indebted (or its best principles to precedents founded on wisdom and experience, than it is to the presumed improvements of theorists and speculative experiments." He w ho ha taught us 'to make two spears of grass grow where but one grew before," has conferred more benefit upon mankind, more real advantage, and is deserving of higher praise, than tbe most successful general or statesman who ever flourished. It has been found in all ages and countries, that the cultivators of the soil require peculiar attention to the cultivation of their own art; and although improvement may go on under the praiseworthy skill and labors of unconnected individuals, yet it is out of the question that they should enjoy the advantages which a knowledge of the success of others in approved practices would impart. Unless a general spirit of systematical improvement cau be roused, our progress must be slow. When results are produced by combinations not strikingly apparent, we must not be disappointed if we find that much lime and pains are required to produce general attention and salutary conviction. It was for the purpose cf uoiting and combining the practical knowledge and the oretical information of all who feel interested in advancing the cause of agricul lure among us, of all who either by a more surcesful cultivation of the soil than their neighbors, by some process cither learot or invented, by some meaoi

pracficallv useful, have been enabled t .

j make greater advance! than others and who by thus throwing- their information derived from whatever source it might be, into a common stock for the henefit of all, would add to the knowledge, increase the means, improve the soil, and render more valuable the stock of every practical farmer and industrious man within the borders of our county I say it was for this purpose that our society was establishedthat it will be the means of doinp much good, productive of great benefit, and tend to the lasting improvement of all among us, I have not n doubt; and though neither theoretically nor practically much of a farmer myself, yet, if by any means I can add to its success, and promote the means of its doing good, I shall not begrudge the labor and tune, or money, employed in getting it into opera Hon. To point out to you a Yew of the advantages to be derived from such an institution among us, and to direct your attention to some few of the means of making it useful, will be my object o the present occasion; and if I should suggest single new idea or hint at a single im provement in tbe art as applicable to us, I shall deem myself richly rewarded for the labor of composing the address which you have done me the honor of requesting on the present occasion. And io the first place, to imagine for a single moment that the same system of agricultural improvement which exists in older and more cultivated sections of our country could at once be introduced here with complete success, is to advance what no one who hears me, will, for a single mo ment, admit. We are yet in our infancy the beast of the forest wa9 but h short time since, roaming over oui cultivated elds a large portion of our country if now in its natural stale. The soil is fresh and alluvial, and he who should advise the introduction of experiments calcula ted only for thickly settled countries and long cultivated fields among us, would be as unwise as he who with our spaise too ulation, should recommend a tunnel under the Wabash, because one is about to bs made under the Thames. The fact is, our theories and practice, as all theories! and practice ought, should conform to the existing state of things to a new people to a new country to a soil such as God has originally created it without deterio ration from human labor. The anolicaHon ot manures of plaster of Paris of clover crops (as manures simply) for enricning ine son, are unknown, and will prouaDly for a long lime, among us. The great question should be, how most successfully to ensure the greatest return from a soil such as we find it here. The theories and experiments in different soils are wholly inapplicable to us. Our first labor is in clearing the forest for cultivation. In other countries, the great ques tion is how to preserve them. On this subject, even at the first start, there are different opinions; some are in favor of what is called the ''Yankee method ," that is, cutting down all thetimber except what is wanted for shade or some other purpose, some the olher and more common meth od of "girdling" as pursued here. Each has its advocates as to its immediate utility and permanent efficacy, iu the products of the soil after the clearing is effected one side contending that the heat generated by the firing, and the nshes created by the burning, are calculated to em rich, others to impoverish. About a matter of fact so simple, one would imagine experience would long since have settled it. 1 have seen two very learned essays on the subject relative to western lands, each advocating different opinions, ( merely mention the fact to show how difficult it is to produce a coin idence of opinion even before commencing with tillage how much more so in relation to tillage itself. What volumes hare been written on this subject. The object with us should be to enforce and illustrate certain great leading principles as applicable to the existing state of things here, such principles as are founded on facts and justifi ed by reason. Our task should be to fol low as fur as practicable, the dictates of iiaiuie, gui neu as ii is uy me all wise Creator and Governor of the universe apply her piecepts and examples with due discretion and judgement, the farmer cannot err much; and if he will lend the aid of his experience either in the rotation of crops, the tillage of the earth, the increase and breeding of stock, makinf with his neighbors a common fund of it, much good will result, and much Useful information be obtained. Let him note facts ooe well authenticated is worth in agriculture, as in every thing" else, a do zen theories For instance, suppose in the different townships of our county , the members belonging to this society were to meet once a month, and verbally state such facts as came to their knowledge on their own and others farms, they being practical and intelligent men suppose these fads in relation to all the operation! of husbandry were noted and preserved lor our annual meetings, would they not be highly useful and valuable? They would be lost in most instances if written communications weie expected, for in most instances none such would be made. Suppose the facts thus numerated and col lecled, were collated wiih those known and described in other quarters ot the