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inst, lias been duly iec?ived, in which you stated that a charge has been made againt you "that you w ere forced to pursue Pioctor from my remonstrances," and that 11 ! said 10 you upon that occasion, that ji . ;j immaterial what direction you took, th:t I was resolve J to pursue tlie rnerny upon tLeThsme?, and you it quest me to give a statement tf (acts in relation to the r.r.nei' nf w;.r held at Sandwich. "I wi'il, iu t!ie fiiit place freely declare, t'nat no such language ever passed from me to you. "The Army, I know was on its march by tunrise on the morning of the '2d of October, and continued the pursuit four days, often in a run until the evening of the 5th, when the enemy wa9 overtaken.

"During the whole of this long and arduous pursuit, no man could make greater exertions or use more vigilance than you did to overtake Proctor, whilst the skill and promptitude with which you arranged the troops for battle, and the distinguished zeal and bravery you evinced during its continuance, merited and received my highest approbation. In short, 6ir, from the time 1 joined you until the moment of our reparation, I believe thai no commander ever did or could make greater exertions than you did, to tiled the great objects ot the campaign. L admired your plans, and thought them executed with great energy, particularly Your order of battle and arrangements for landing on the Canada shore, .vere calculated to inspire every man with confidence that we could not be defeated with any thing like our own number. "Until 1 had served the campaign of 1813, I was not aware of the difficulties vcu h;ul to encounter as commander of the Northwestern Army. I have since often said, and still do believe, that the duties assigned u you on that ocrasion, were more a-duous and difficult to accomplish than any I had ever known confided to any commander; and with respect to the zeal and fidelity with which you execute ! that high and important trust, there are thousands in Kentucky as well as mvself, who believe it could not have bee n'rommilted to bettor hands." "With sentiment of the most sincere regard and esteem, I have the honor to be. with greast respect, your obedient servant. ISAAC SHELBY. To Maj. lien. Wm. Ulxry Harrison.' Now, Fellow citizens, what candid man who is disposed to do justice to the lame of an old soldier and patriot, can read this letter from the pen of Gov. Isaac Shelby, and doubt the skill, the talms, the courage and patriotism of Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison? The whole arinv who were present and ey-witnesses of his conduct, have testified to them. Col. Kiehird M. Johnson, the present Vice President of the U. Slates, was an eyewitness. He led the charge of mounted Hide-men which produced si.ch decisive lilect iu the battle. What does he say? Of toe career of Gen. Uorrioa I need not speak the history of the West is his history. For forty years he has been iJe:.ut:d v tth i's interest, its peri's and its hor.es. Universally beloved in the v. aiks'of peace, and distinguished by his ability in i' e councils of his country, lie lusbecn yet ij:c iU.is'.i iously distinguished in the I'iold. '1) liing 'lie late War he was losrer in actual set vice than any o'.bor geru nl officer be was peihrps ottener inaction than uiy ore of them, and never sustained a dc"f:at." What did Commodore Perry s ay, who had srveptthe Lakes of the British fleet by achieving a victcry, which in the language of President Madison iu his message to Ci ngress, "Never was surpassed in splendor, however much it may have been in magnitude." After this victory lie joined General Harrison, acted as his volunteer aid in the battle of the Thames, and was also an eye-witness of his whole conduct. In a letter to General Harrison, I8ih August, 1;17, he says: "The prompt change made by you in the order of battle on discovering the position of the enemy, has always appeared to me to have evinced a high degree of military ta'ent." W hy, fellow-citizens, there are thousands of living eye-witnesses who were the comrades in danger and in batde of Gen. Harrison, who will testify to his fckill and talents as a commander to his purity of character, and his devoted patriotism. I confess 1 had no knowledge of the brilliant scenes through which he lias passed, and of the mass of testimony that has been produced exhibiting h plendid services to the people of the United Slates until he was assailed by his enemies. The votes of Legislatures, whose troops lie commanded in battle the resolutions of Cong;ess of the United Siates th beautiful compliments paid him by Prrsi dent Madison during the last War, hi? masterly productions as a republican statesman when Governor of Indiana, when Senator in Congress, and when .Minisur abroad, all place him in the first rank as illustrious citizen, and will insure him the fust place in the hearts of his country men. NOTICE. We hereby notify our fiiend of the Sun. that the Tickets issued from this oflice on election day will not embrace the names of the Van Buren candidates for Govern or and Lieutenant Governor. The balance of the ticket will be full, embracirg the names of all who are candidates for offices in the county. We give this notice because we do not wish to take any undue advantage.

Saturday, July 18, 1810. The Union of the Whigs for the sake of the Union" NOMINATION BY THE WHIG NATIONAL CONVENTION. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON OF OHIO. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. JOHN TYLER OF VIRGINIA. (Tt ONE TERM. Mr. Plkpletos , of Ohio, statt-J in the Convention, that it was the wish of General HiiimsoN, if elected to the Presidency, to serve only ONE TERM. TRUE WHIG DOCTRINE. "One l'resiJentiul Term the Integrity of the 1'ubiic ser vants the safety of the Public Money and the general good vf the Iconic. Gov. Harbour. FOtt GOVERNOR, SassiJSOl IliSTer, of Rush County EOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, S:i S!i:i4'3 ES.'iSi, of Gibson County. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. SENATORIAL, JONATHAN j.IcCARTV, of "Fayette. JOSEPH G. MARSHALL, of Jtfier.son. liETRESENTATIVE, 1st District, johx w. iate, of Harrison. 2J do. b. w. THinirsox, of Lawrence. 3.1 do. Joseph l. white, of JelTirson. 4th do. james h. cravens, of Ripley. 5lh do. caikb b . smith, of Fayette. 6th do. wx. hf.roi), of Bartholomew. 7th di. hexiiy s. lane, of Montgomery. THE Viiicennes Tippecanoe Club will meet or. Monday evening next, at the Town Hall. A general attendance is requested. If there le iinv persons ho are desirous todis cus the merits and claims of Martin Van Uuren sulu cc r r!:euhirly invited to attend. REMEMBER, On Monday next, Mr. RICHARD W. THOMPSON, a candidate for elector, will address as many of his friends as will assemble in Yinccnnes. 5 !t The communication of our correspondent A. N. J. fehall be attended to in due time. Principles. The office'holdcrs prate a great deal about prin ciple?. J hev nave been lolJ over ana over again that we are contending for thoso principles for which the old Jackson party contended in 1SSS me Presidential term curt i!:n:j the patronage of the President and a purgation of those corruptions and abuse, which have crept into the different departments of the .ati mil Administration, and which are sucking the heart's blood t f this once happy and prosperous nation. Do the oflice hoUers think they can deceive the people by crying out principles! Away with such lip service, such empty professions the people have hiJ enough of them. They want a change, they demand a change, they wish it understood that no matter upon what principle this Administration is conducted, whether on the lotary, the perpendicular, or the horizontal, they have had enough of it. When a man has his fingers in a Llacksmith's vice, he docs not ask upon what piinciple the vice is turned, nor would it alleviate hi pain to know, all he desires is to citricate hims If from the screw. This U the situation of the people; the government is applying the screirs to them and they are determined to extricate themselves. S'" 1 The office holders are treating their party a good deal in the manner that a celebrated quack tooth doctor did his patients. He took them to a certain post, made them walk three limes around it muttering a certain incantation, then drive a nail in it at a certain height from the ground, and finally knock their heads three times against it. His patients generally followed his directions im plicitly until it came to the butting part. Here they wou 13 pause and hesitate, and he, as a matter of course would exhort and beseech them not to give it up, but to go ahead, that the charm wo'ild not take if they did not. So it is with these office holders. They have taken their party to the post, they have made them walk around it three times, crying out 'democracy, democracy' they have driven the nail in the post too, and now they wish them to butt their heads against it. Some ef the party hesitate. OU! cry the office holders, you must not desert now stanJ up t( the rack fodder or no fodder go the butting like men. and d n the whigs, vvc will kill them al off before they know where they are but the are very careful not to tell them, that they wit knock their own brains out in doing co. We heard a loeofoco office holJer a few lay? since, denounce the bank" as the cause of the pre sent distress. We asked him if the country wanot prosperous three years ago. He replied yes Did net your party then commence a war upm the banks! Yes. Would the present prostratioi of things have come upon us if your party ha not have waged this foolish war upon the busine of the country! Yes indeed, taid he, convulsions

and reactions will occur in business. I have lived

to witness three or four. Things are sometimes up and sometimes down it i tho nature of tradeWell, wc replied, you have now shifted your po coition a few minutes ago you charged the banks with being the cause of the present distress, now you Pay it is one of those depressions which oc cur in the natural course of trade. The truth l you know that the policy of the present admini3 tration is the cause of the distress; you have no right to charge the banks with it, because you have prostrated them, you have tied their hands and they can do nothing. As to your argument that it U one'of those reasons of gloom which oc rationally visits a country in the common course f trade, you might with the same propriety say, had you administered a dose of arsenic to a man who died shortly after it, that men will die, it it the course of nature, and thereby prove that the arsenic did not kill him. ft Negro Witnesses. We present today the proceedings in Congress in the Hooe case. We ask the loeofoco ofhVe holders with what face they can now charge Gen eral 7jrrison with being an abolitionist, a charge they know to be false. 7ere it appears, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Mr. Van Buren has recognized the principle that slaves, negro ai,t"ijv who by our constitution possess none of th'j right of citizens, are good, cnnpcltnt, and legal wit n esses to convict White men, aye, the free and independent sons of this Republic, of violations of the law. It can be proven by the Journals o' the Convention of New York, that Mr. Van Bu ren, as a member of that body, nut only voted fur, but advocated in a speech, the proposition to con fer upon free negroes the righ of voting, when they owned real prorerty to the value of $250 and to exclude all poor white men who were nu householders, but now it seems, he thinks that negro slaves ate good witnesses against white men 0 - Standing- Arm7--A Conspiracy Ag-ainst tho Liberties of tho People. We invite the attention of the public to Mr. Campbell's review of Messrs. Van Buren nd Poinsett's scheme for a standing army. We ask every friend of liberty, every one who wishes to hand down the rights he enjoys to his children, if he can support a man for the Presidency who has the boldness to recommend a project so fraught with danger to onr institutions as this of Mr. Van Buren's. It is enough to make every friend of freedom tremble. The signs of the times are truly portentous. The President has the sword constitutionally, he has seized the purse, and now ho asks Congiess to rise him a standing army of 200,000 men. Let Congress do this and they will make tho President independent of the peo ple, they will put it iu his power to clothe himself with all the power of the Russia Autocrat. We may enjoy liberty, but it will be al the mercy of the President. The people cannot effectually resist his measures, for, if necessary, he will carry them at the point of the bayonet. Many of our citizens left the govern-sents cf E;irop, ir.i.s the sUndinz armtc ' t'ac;r in -u.:v! ' them toftrind the p -p', it Iuu t:it h- r-tt" vented Ireland, in, and oppress! LoLv.?h j from having long since thrown off the joke of a British despotism, but the standing army of England. Had it not been for the bayonets of this army, she would have long tince tnuqht her haughty oppressor that she appreciated the b!csings of liberty, and comprehended the duties of Republican citizens. Our fathers of the revolution gave as a teaeon for throw ing off their sllejiance to the King of England, that he quartered a standing ijrmy among thorn. Mr. Van Bur?r. proposes to quarter upon us a much larger standing army. His friends say it is r.ct a btandir.g army project, but only a scheme -:r organizing the militia. Let any one read th-i proposition' and they w ill find the only difTerene between it and a standing army, is the name. General Howard. General Howard said iu his speech at Petersburg, that ho was not running against Mr. Big. ger, but General Harrison. If this is the case the friends of Harrison will bhow him, hc can't come it. 9 &' Why is tho Log-cabin-Hard-cider cry so grating to the office holders' ears! Because it is a sort of 'Hark from the tomb' to them. The office holders talk loudly of changes. They cannot shew five men in the state who voted for Harrison before that will vote for Van Buren now, unless they are in some way connected with, or dependent upon the General Government. It is out of the nature of things for men who have been opposed to Van Buren. to go over to his sup" port now, when ruin, political and personal, is staring them in the face. Will men desert their country and eo over to its enemies in time of dan-. ger! 110 never. We can show fifty changes the other way in this county. fiflarri&oii Jlcn Head. We take the following from the Extrn Globe of July 1st: Indianapolis, Ind. June 1st. "In regard to the politics of Indiana, we have the strongest reason to believe we shall elect a Governor, a Lieutenant Governor and a majority in the Legislnture and. if so, we will certainly give Mr. Van tturcu the electoral vote in JXo vember." Jlncennes, Ind., June 17, 1810. 'We are going to c:irry this Stale foi he administration, both in August anf Vovember. Accounts frora all quarter. re cheering. The Democracy of lh Uate is up and doing. I never have seei 1 finer spirit, more energy, or more ac ion. I cannot be disappointed in th. .igns of the times. Never have I seen letter feeling manifested. What is youi news from Ohio? I have written Hamer, but got no answer from him yet. Th!

great and Democratic Slate cannot give its vote to such n old dotard aa Harrison. I will notbelieve it until I see it." You see by these letters that the Van Buren officeholders are now writing to Washington City, that if they elect their Governor they can earry the State for Van lluren in November. How important then is it for every one who wishes Harrison elected to vote for Bigger for Governor. Do not suffer yourselves to be deceived by any trick or artifice of the enemy. They will resort to every species of fraud to induce you to vote for Howard. Let those who charge General Harrison with

being a Federalist.read General Van Rensseallear' speech. The oflice holders have hunted up th certificates of persons never heard of before, to prove this false charge against our old Governor. We can show Mr. Van Buren a Federalist by his own speeches, and his life writteu by his political and personal friend. It may be recollected that some time ago an article appeared iu the Western Sun on the subject of ,4the necessity of Vac cination and re-vaccination," by Duct. Stahl of this place. Subsequently it was re-published in the Ltterary'News Letter, published at the office of the Louis ville Journal, which was transferred to the Journal with the complimentary no tice of Mr. IJliss, the editor of the News Letter, without any credit. Tne Journal of the 13th says "We have received several letters expressing some surprise that we had complimented a IL. Stahl as a gentleman and a scholar, without giving the place from which the letters were sent. We have no doubt as to the authorship of the letters, and the grounds of sore grievance, and will bare ly teuiark, in justice to a worthy ftllowctizen, that we agree with the Editor of the N ews Letter in considering him r'a gentleman of sound attainments, both as a gentleman and a physician," the opinion of the letter-writer to the contrary notwith standing. The annual meeting of the Vincennes Historical and Antiquarian Society, for the election of officers for the ensuing O year will be held this evening at 1 o'clock at the office of Messrs. Judah & Gibson. The Xvgro Witnesses. The case of two negra men being brought before a court martial as witnesses in the trial of a liei:tenar.t " in our Navy, h?a jjive.i a dca! cf uausca to our :: i v k 41 au'iv hIjuu. town, and they tiiiv Mnn'gly shout quitting his support, if thty o'ldll be convinced that what has been published as his endorsement on lieuteuant Ilooe's remonstancs is genuine. To satisfy them in this particular, .we publish the following document, in which it was introduced, word for word as it was read at the Clerk's table in the house of representatives. Observe, if you please, the President's style he does not deign evejj to notice tho peciliar ground upon whichl ieut.IIooe placss his exception to the proceedings of the court, which, whatever may be the usages allowable in the U. S. courts martial, gave at least a fair claim to remonstrance from one whose feelings, as a citizen of Virginia, could not but revolt at what would have been an outrage on his tights as such. It strikes us, that if the President had made up his mind that it was all right and proper for the testimony of these two negro men to be ciren against lietit. Hooe, a brief statement of his reasons might have detracted nothing from his official dignitj' while the lordly brevity with which he declines his interferance, says but line for his profession of 'Southern principles.' Norfolk Herald. Ilowscof Iiepresentativcs, Friday. June 12 Mr. Uoits, of Virginia, asked leave to offer the following preamble and resolution observing that he held himself per sonally, as a representative, responsible for the truth of every word and syllable contained in the preamble, as established from a personal examination of the records of the case: Whereas by reference to the proceedings of a Naval General Court Martial, held in the month of May, 1839, on the United States ship Macedonian, then ly ing in Pensaeola Bay, for the trial of Lt. George Mann Ilooe, of Virginia, of the U. S. Navy, on charges snd specifications originally preferred agairrst him by commander Uriah P. Levy among other irregularities complained of by the accused, the following facts will appear, which will call loudly for redress, to-wit: That, on the 30ih day of May, James Mitchell, the steward, a negro servant of the said tommander, Uriah P. Levy, of. the United Mates ship Vandalia, was nailed and sworn as a witness on behalf of the prosecution, to testify against said lieutenant Hooe that the accused objected to the examination of the witness upon the ground that he was a colored man; ihat the court, after deliberation, did not onsider the objection a valid one, and rdered the examination to proceed that he accused then offered the following proest, which was, at his request, spread ipon the record: 'The accused begs leave to state to the ourt, most distinctly, that he solemnly protests against the evidence of this witless being received and recorded. It is far from the wish of the accused to object

to any evidence which the court may! deem legal but the witness is a colored man, and, therefore, in the opinion of the accused, is not a competent witness even before this tribunal. GEO. MANN HOOE, Lieut. U. S. Nary." Whereupon the witness proceeded todeliv crhis evidence before the court upon the conclusion of which, the acensed offered the following paper in writing, which, at his request, was also spread upon the record: "The accused having protested against the evidence of this witness, on the ground that he conceives his testimony to be altogether illegal that he knows it would be so considered before the civil tribunals of

this Territory, the forms and customs of whrch, he humbly thinks, should be as closely followed by a martial courtas possible, therefore asks to spread upon the record the fact that he cannot consent to, and has totally declined, cross-examining the witness. GEO. MANN HOOE, Lieut. U. S. Navy." That, on thfi flame dav. ("to-wit: the 30th day of May.) Dai.iel Waters, a ne gro cook, and piivate servant of tho said original prosecutor. Uriah, P. Levy, was called, sworn and examined before the court whereupon the accused presented the following naner in writing, which, at U is request, was spread upon the record: The court having decided to receive and record the testimony of colored per sons, the accused, in regard to this wit ness, can only reiterate his objections as set forth in the case of Mitchell, the Uap tain's steward. The accused will pursue the same course with this witness that he decided to take with the other colored man. GEO. MANN HOOE, Lieut. U. S. Navy." That the trial progressed until Wed nesday the 5th day of June, when the court entered up its judgment of which the following is the conclusion: 'And the court therefore hath and doth i-entence thefaid Lieut. George M. Ilooe to be dismissed from the West India Squadron, after having been reprimanded in general orders by the honorable and the Secretarv of the Navy." Which said proceedings ate endorsed, "Approved, J. K. PAULDING." That, on the return of the President o the United Slates to the seat of govern men., the said Lieut. George M. Hooe addressed a remonstrance to his Excel lency the Presidentcomplainingof the it regularities of the Court, generally, which remonstrance concludes with the following statement: "There is one other point in the pro ceedings of the Court (touching thir le gality) to which I invite the particular at tention of your Excellency. It respects a matter to which all Southern men are deeply sensitive and, if notoverruled by your Excellenoy, will assuredly drive many valuable men from the Navy. In the progress of the proceedings of this court, two negro?, one the cook, and the other private steward of Commander Le vy, were introduced as witnesses against me. 1 protested against their legal com petency to be witnesses in the .Territory of Florida, on tho ground that they were negroes. 1 he Court disregarded my exception, and as the record shows they were allowed to bo examined, and to tes tity on my trial. This I charge as a pro ceeding illegal and erroneous on the part ol the Uourt, and if so, according to es tarnished law and precedent, must vitiate and lay aside their whole proceedings. - All which is most respectfully submitted to your consideration and final decision by our ob't. servant, GEO. MANN HOOE." That, after an examination of the re

cord, the President returned the sarmrI , 3 F 1 t u "7 y1 to the Navy Department with the follow- " "m.!?, .

ing endorsement "The President finds nothing in the proceedings in the case of Lieut. Hooe which requires his interferance." M. VAN BUREN." And whereas the introduction of negroes and private servants of the prosecutors as witnesses to testify against the characters of gentlemen of the Navy, in the service of their country, is a practice, though sanctioned by the President of the United States, that will not be justified, and ought not to b tolerated by Southern men, or 'Northern men with Southern principles,' and, if not corrected, must operate as a serious injury to the Navy, to the humiliation of its officers, and to the infinite discredit of the government. Resolved, therefore, That the Secretary of the Navy be required to communicate to this House a copy of the proceedings of the court martial hclJ for the trial of Lieut. George M. Hooe that his wrongs may be promptly redressed, and the evils complained ol corrected without delay. Van Rcnssaellacr and Harrison. We publish below, a part of the 6peech of the veteran Gen. Van Rensaellaer at a dinner given him in Cincinnati on Thursday last. It speaks of Harrison in his early years, and shews the exemplary youth, who is now become the venerable man of his country's hope. Thetestimo ny of such a hero and sage as Van Rensaelaer. is worth reading; it outweighs a pile of loeofoco affidavit certificate-stuff as high as Pelirm: At this period I first became acquainted with Harrison; he 19 years old, and I one year younger. We we were for a long time the youngest officers in the army, and I am happy to say that at this distant

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positions, proved too ronKi absence, and we met in N. ork. in 17. after a separation of 7' warm friends a. we had parted on tbia spot in '1,7. This period recall to ny mind the inauguration of M"d' and with it the charge against Harmon of "ancient Federalism:' I am a living witness, that at the period to which I refer, the charge was without the slightest foundation. The republican principles ot Harrison were then as well known as his chivalric spirit, and he had no superior in either. It has been reserved for the politicians of the present day, even whiltf surrounded by the monuments of his civil and military virfues, U question both. Gen. Wayne was a severe deciphnarian. as well as an able General and gallant soldier. He exacted the most punctilious conformity to all the rules of military life; particularly did he exhibit himself, and require his staff to exhibit a constant example of the conduct lie required ot others. Brave, temperate ana laoonou himself, he selected his staff for qualities similar to his own. Of such a military family thus organized, Harrison became a member, in the confidential relation .01 aid-de camp. The delicate duties of thai responsible station, he performed, not only with the entire approbation of Wayne, but the satisfaction of every officer of the army, with whom its duties brought him into almost daily intercorse; and such was his uniform urbanity aud kindness to the soldiers, that their respect lor him as an officer was only equalled by their love for him as a man. The first N. W. army, while in quarters in the wilderness, had few amusements to vary the dull routine of camp duty. There was no society out of the army. The consequence was, that habits of dissipation were acquired by many of the officers, whose rank and age made the habit contagious. Harrison, though of an age peculiarly week against iuch temptations, was strengthened to successful resistance, by an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, both general and professional. Temperate, active and studious then, as now, he lost no time.Then as now the sun never found him in bed; and the intervals of military duly were devoted to a course of extensive historical reading. The battle of the Manmee, on the L!0lh August, 1791, was fought by the Indians with the most desperate courage. There was no point of the line at which the danger was not imminent. As nid-de eamj, it was Harrison's duty to carry the orders of tho General to any part of the Army. These orders, of course, were most frequent where the fight was thickest, and in those, parts of the fight I generally saw him on that eventful day. I can attest the truth of the remark said to be made by General Wilkinson and Col. Shamburgh, that Harrison was in front of the hottest battle his person was exposed from the commencement to the close of the action wherever duty called, he hastened, regardless of danger, and by his efforts and examples, contributed as much to secure the foitune of the day, as any other snbordinote to the comman-der-in-ohief. General Wayne, in his official account of the battle, after naming several officer who distinguished themselves, says: "J must add the names of my faithful and gallant aids-de-camp. Captains He Butts and T. Lewis, and Lieut Hanison, who. with the adjutant-general, Major Mills. rendered the most essential service, bv communicating my orders in every direction, and by that conduct and bravery, ex citing the troops to press for victory." 1 was stationed with my troops on the extreme left, and the order to me to charge, was delivered by Harrison. In that charge 1 was severely, it was thought mortally wounded. Perhaps, I owe my llfn . .t. . ..-.:" r lent, and nursed and watched me with the tenderness and affection of a brother. Of the Officers of that army, so far a my knowledge exteuds, there are but four that survive General's II Urady, and John Bosey of Kentuckv who was a Cornet in my troon. and my self. General Wayne whose best oulogv is the grateful and affectionate remem brance of the People of the West, wa wholly unnoticed by Congress, and died at a miserable hovel in Pensylvania; and there without a stone to mark the place, his body was deposited. And now, when the people ate calling your iriend and neighbor from his farm, by acclamation, to redeem the country from the distrfi degradation to which it has been reduced by a selfish and designing politician, the orders have gone forth to charge upon him, even upon him whom the people assemble' in unheard of numbers to honor, the most detestable crimes, civil and miitary, which the wildest imagination, unrestrained l,v single moral sense can conceive military crimes, which if true, would long since have consigned his body to anion's tomb, and his memory to general, execration civil offences and delinquencies, which if true, think you he would now stand first, as he does stand first, in the hearts of hiJ countrymen! People of Indiana, you who have h the objects of his civil administration. imn you, especially devolves the grateful task of asserting the civil virtues of vnnr i,i and best tried friend; to raise his fair r, far out of the range of the puney shafts of low ambition,! and I hesitate not to believe it will be efficiently performed You are now called upon in his old age to repay that immense and accumulating debt of gratitude, which I, an eyewitness, not from hearsay.now testify y0Ur father, incurred, 111 his early youth. The inheritance has descended! upoa