Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Vevay, Switzerland County, 25 January 1840 — Page 1

AND SWITZERLAND COVNTV DEMOCRAT

BY ISAAC STEVENS. ,

"THE SENTINEL ON THE AVATCU-TOWER t)F LIBERTY.”

AT §2 PER-ANNUM,

VOLUME IV.

VEVAY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25,1840.

NUMBER 8.

Proceedings of the

Which report was unanimously concurred in* by the convention. " > ■ j Air West be dig conducted to the chair, made the followfng remarks: ■ Gestlemex—'When I see assembled here a convention by .far more numerous than any which ever convened in Indiana, and composed of those regularly authorized by thb people in their primarv assemblies to represent them, and who, impressed with the great importance of the duties confided to their chaVga; have come up here, many of them from great distances, without care tor fatigue, or exposure to winter's cold, I must confess that it is with unqualified pleasure that 1 address you, and sejza tho eailiest moment of tendering to you; my sincere thanks, for the great and distinguished honor you have conferred upon me. .. ‘ , The duties which wilt require your attention, are of the highest importance. We arc here to consult for the camrqon good, and loeclect our candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, also those for electors,-who In belmlfof the people of Indiaria.ehall give their voles lor President and Vice President of the ITpilcd States, Thus- are we to guard well the bebt interests of our state; now much disarranged and injured, both as to her finances, available resources, by whig mismanagement and whig misrule. and also to use pur greatest efforts to sustain that great and talented statesman who now so ahly presides over the councils of our nation. Let me urge that our deliberations be conducted with prudence arid harmony; let onr councils be discreet and judicious; so that those who have sent us here, shall see thafihe work we hjivcdone is good, and approve of it, ■ The democratic party of Indiana expect much of us, | In a severe contest jn August last, they gainedj a great and brilliant victoiyf their opponents were stricken down. FIushCiL-wiih-aue-i cess, they are now preparing for the great- and final struggle with an enemy who never slumber!. Let us carry a most minute and thorough, system of organization, into,every county', ;overy township; amt every village of the state, and then rallying around the candidates of our choice, good men apdtrue, march again to battle arid to victory.! ■ The farmers who cultivate the green fields of Indiana) have spoken once; imihe mqnlhs of Au-gust-and Kovember.ncxt they will ppsak again, and with such force, majesty dnd pqwbr, thal .il needs no spirit of-prophecy in meTo predict that our opponents, when totally defeated and scattered, will consjder if most judicious for the'future, to hake counsel from discmlopy knd deicrmirrtTto'iurrender up the coritron)‘?ej>lh'e affairs of this state to the democracy,!© whqraof right it belongs. - *. . ■ -"V. . Oriinotion of Mr*. Glenn, .» ’ -,

entire United States. ■" At such a crisis, tndifferancc is Hole better than treason; treason to our own best interests; treasan to the interests, yet dearer to us all, of-oiir children. ‘And if every nfan is called upon "at such a time, fur counsel and exertion, especial ia the •call upon tbe democratic party; for with them, both in this state, and the majority of States. composing (he Union, is, at this day, tho power to decide; and with them, therefore, now rests the responsibility of the decision. We arc permitted—nay,' called upon, to rejoice; that the old Jeffcrconian princl^ter—the principles of .the-revolutionary patriots—(he principles arid freedom and cf "Justice —arc now, atjleast, after a protracted stniggle against the aristocratic spirit of privilege and monopoly, once-more in the ascendant; that the people, who always loved, have'again recognised and approved them. Wo rejoice it H our privilege and our-'duly; yet our rejoicings are tempered by regret, and mingled with anxiety. The Democratic.parly of Indiana is summoned to tlic helm of State, at a moment whcn r the goodly vessel is in much peril; r whco dangerous breakers are ahead, and when Hie war of elements is raging around her. . Wo obey tbe summons under a solclna sense of tho Responsibility it imposes, yet with-no weak fears of the ultimate result; "Let. those fear \rhodaunt Hie people 1 . 'Let those fcarj who arc without confidence inhuman virtue, and without faith io the world. 1 *, progress!- To the unbeliever in the success:of the grcalUcxpcriraent—to those.who tremble at the decision of the popular will, and dam not trust the results, of universal suffrage—to such men;, who sec more safety - in Hit: wisdom, of the few than in the justice of the many—and to them alone, ip a republic'like ours—belong doubts and fears d(Hwvavcriags;~“TlHrYh5vc no abiding ground of hope; no fixed polar star of principle, toi cheer and direct through the distant future.— lo-prospcrity they arc inDrdinatcly cU|ed,and

currency, (lie funding system, (lie effects of Credit, Ibe policy of Internal ImproTCtnCDt, ibe best mode of collecting and disbursing the revenue—these are the chief questions, less exciting, indeed, but hardly less important, than those which formerly ditided the partisans of the Fcw'from the friends of the Many. . ■ Upon the these and $ynilar questions depends in a measure, our escape from’tho peculiarj embarrassments, public and private, which have recently bfeset us. , Wljat shall that decision be! We niay char(er/to'regulate th£ currency and in despite of' the CJooitiliition, a great National Hank, with its.tens or hundreds of millions.- We.may clothe it willrlucrative immunities, malic its notes-a legal fender for all gorernment dues and grant it the surplus revenue of the nation, - wherewith lo speculate, for the benefit rf.its stockholders. Wcunay swell that surplus revenue by ahigh tariff policy,and then, ai Henry Clay’s suggestion, lavish the accumulated trea' sure on an cnormqiis national system of Internal Improvement. Or if against this we have constitutional.scruples, IhciniHridual Slates of lltO Confederacy may become speculators, cn capital borrovbd. in-foreign, nations, to tho amount df. hundreds of-millions. In pursuance of such a policy, irc-rfay imitate, as Alexander, Hamilton the Funding System of Knglabd, and .proceed year after year, borrowing and expending, until our l ands are raortjgaged to half'their value, and our'taxes equal ‘ to.the rental of the property taxed. ‘.Wc ihay go on, granting exclusive chartered'privileges to bank after bank, and thus,fostering under a corrupting system of special legislation, by every artificial means .in : our power, an overgrown '.systemj,notil the hopclciseicbti of the present generation shall descend, as hereditary burdens,'to the next. * * All this may do. ■ AIttcliof this we arc rapidly doing.- The public debts already contracted, or in negotiation, by the several states of thpUnion, exceed, at this moment, double the An(ionaCdebt that vat incurred by Ameri&t during jtos jtRT *L/A* [.relation.- ■ They hare, swelled, by the latest accounts, lo more than a nrsuacn AND eighty millions df dollan; a sum exceeding the entire taxable properly of this State. and that of .Illinois supersJdcd. And the'cry is still, give! give! .The amount of.American State bonds at this moment offered for. sale in the’Earcpeaq market, is estimated it fifty millions; a sutn that would suffice to purchase half, the. Slate of Itfdiah’a, So.bcadlonghai'been tba rutb i n dm ark C t. and so » mk n , forlresbToini,That bon3s wmSficonld;-rca d i I y he negotiated t,hreeycar» ago'at five percent.; can now hardly be cashed at.doublc that inter- - est.* ■ . , . ' -.

Democratic State Convention. JVOTAKY 8. 1840. , At 0 o’clock A. M., the delegates assembled in the Hall of the House of Representatives,

formed in procession arid inarched through Wash--ington street,and returned again to the Hall, under the direction of Gen. E. Long, ns Marshal. The convention was then called io order, and Gen. John Milroy called to tho chair, the clerks of the House acting aa secretaries under a pro tcm.. organization Tbefollowin* gentlemen then took their teata as delegates, loNyil* FromJllten County—Win A Jackson, Marshal, A Wines, A F Scon, D Reed. Bartholomew-- Z Tannehill, James D Farrall, John Rupp, J S Lytle. A Jon.ce, J 1) Bowles; E Arnold, E Hamblin, "J Treadwin, 0 F Arnold, K C Ferry. Hood—John H Nelson, J Huff, J Bryati, J Chriaman, J Celts, W N Duzan, Tho P Miller, D C Wedder, P J.ong, J L Benson, G W Sample, E Sample. jjnuon—Banner Brummcl, James Taggart, T •M Adame, E Hamblin, Wm Taggart, Clark— Janice G Reed, Tho J Henley, J S Simonson, Henry Whiteman, George Lutz, Jefferson Howard, John Bottorf, G O Huckleberry. Clay— -JohirB Nees, John Johnson, Wm McIntosh. Craveford —Samuel Sands. Carroll —Samuel Molray, Samuel Grimed T C Hughes, R H Milroy, Philip Watere, Wm Crooks, IIJ Harris, II B Milroy. '» Cats— J B Durei, John Wilson, Graham N Fitch. Clinton —John Blake, J D Armstrong, Jacob Andcrsdn, Wm M Parell, Thomas Logan, AndreV Major, John Darner, John Vance, Mordecai McKingey, J L Harley. Jtecrfiorn—Amos Lane, Wm Connaway, Wra Perry, Wra Lanina, A T Cotton, Abraham Hooter, George P Buell. Daniel Conaway, John -P Dunn, Alexander E Glenn, David*Reese. Xlaoieu —Duncan Fulton. Decatur— Wm F Sipitb, Wesley White, and "George Robinson. Duloh —Benj C Edmoriion. • , Delaware—A °drewiKennedy, Abraham Buck, HM Slack. *' , o ' Elkhart —E M Chamberlain, Matlhotr Rippey, James Cook, E W H Ellis. * . Fayette —Samuel Reese, John Loder, Wilson ' Thompson, • William Dickey, Abraham Boyce, Janies C Rea, Wm Scruggs, 31R Hull,Floyd —Preston FTuley, John Brown, C W Hulchen,-N Moore, Mordccai Collins, Wra Wil- . Hams, John Groves, Benjamin S Tuley, John Coleman, lease Stewart, Phillip Engleman, Thomas P Baldwin; iranMri—Elisha Long, Redin Osborn, Freeman Alger, Theodore Pure el, James Wright, Benjamin Osborn, Abram Boyd, George Berry. Jbuj.'tuin—-Wm A Farmer, J Ristine, DiNewell, J 31'Cormack, H S Scott, J P Carlton, 311chaclMTAll. ' . Gibton— Smith 3IiIIfr,.Jobn Hargrove. Green —John Jones, jr. , - Grant—John Foster, James S Shiveley. J/anif/on—Samuel Dale, John G Burns, L H Emmons, A Thompson, W H Bryan, J W Kirkpatrick, C F White, C W Harrison, Ebcnezer Ilurlbeck, Samuel Jcunison, Samuel Rector, F t B Cogswell, John Fryberger, W .E Richie, James Ridgway,;W T Wheeler, John 3Ican, . Gardener Davis, F W Emmons, Joseph Gore, .Thomas Harvey, David 3IcKinney.Harrison —Henry Kinzer, Nathaniel Albertson, David Collins. > Hendnckt— Lewis 3Inr,tin, EStrange, DMat-

Shimer, 3Iadison Webb Jqseph Johnson, Isaac Barret, ‘John Johnion, Jon&a Htinman, Daniel McDaniel, Adam Wright, Peter Anthony, John Klingensmtth, Wm B Starkey, Geo Lockerbie, Thomas Johnson, Corson Vickerd,\ Aaron Aldridge, John Cain, William J Browir,- James Sulgrove, Ezekiel C Boyd, Livingston Dunlap, S W Norris, Israel Phillips, John Livingston, Na-* lhaniel West, N H Palrfjer, Samuel Hall, James Buchler, Joseph J Stretcher,- John L Keichcm, A F Morrison, Joshua Soule, Samuel 8 Rookcr, James Johnson, Henry Brady, Noah Sinks, Leonard Woollen, ■ Monroe— Samuel Patten,JohnShields,.John Ketcbam, Wm Berry, Aq\i)la Rogers, Lemuel Gentry, Felix Hite, John \V\Lce, Tmwnas Wilson, Jacob L Payne, Jesse Brrindoh; W A Gorman. . A Montgomery —Thomas Mason, (a soldier of the Revolution,) horn C Elsipn.S A Wtfson, Henry Lee, JoIm’Neleon, Daniel Boh en, 31 art in Vanhook, Daniel Carle,-John IlryM, Alexander Crody, Alvin Rainey, Solomon BajLT-Herron, George Belsier,'1LM SecrciTj ChirleB Sccrcsl, William Heath*, JlahnyMohn Brady, A P Watson, Jason W Cory, Jcel Lc3(j5ghii B Campbell, James Busenburg, John E Campbell, J *8 Gray, Crocket Ilcrrol. • . Vi.; Jfoi^an 1 —John W P 51 Parks, John J Graham, W Grui}t, 'Pallereon B •McCoy, Jonathan Williams. WiHirira' Williams, George Gilaspy, William Bowls,- Alexander B Kelso, 3Iorgan Williams, David W Howe, 3Iordicai D 3Iil!er, Ezekiel Slaughter, James Sercor, Daniel Norman, Jesse Rookcr.

.Wama—George W Ewing, Marshall—A L Wheeler. •.

. Noble —David B Herriman, Henry Lotz. 1 Orange—Clement McDonald,' Andrew Wil son,'Wra P Lomax, Wm A Bowles, John Frazier. - v . v ■

Oirea—David.Fulton, Geq W Jfoors, David 31 Dobson, Henry Secrest, Henry Jackson, Stephen Roach, William.Alexander. , Porte—Thomas Lakey, Thomas Jaspec Seybold, James Williams, A MjPue\t, John S Henry, Robert Clark, Jeptha Garriguat Joseph A Wright, Tobias Miller, Boyd. James Strange, Wtf Strange, Day)Afoel 31 Sanders, Isaac Remain, .Thogial'Mwridiili, Tho WJiite. . ; jri-.afe'J Pik$— Thomas C Stei&ri, Cbaifea Aleiaridcr, Alexander Leslie. * ; ’ . )’ Porey—Robert■Dfeld-ywen, Putnam— Joseph* FPdnny, Jaipeq Talbott, C Gazlebrooks, Aridrew,B Denton,Dr M Shepherd, John S Allen,"Pelaha*R Eckles.* .. .2

in adversity unduly depressed. When ttibsuri shines out, they exult, as if il would never be obscured; and when the.clouds arise and cover, it, they droop as if its -light were gone forever. Not "to such men should the destinies of si rcpublic.be committed. . \Vo obey the popular summons, then,' with anxiety indeed, hut without, fear pr doubt.-— Called to helm, as the seaman his guiding star) so wc, in Ums hour of earkness and difficulty, revert, for safety and counsel, to our original principl.' . . In catting opr eyes aronnd us-to note the ilgnrof;tLeJitnesj'wo ace, throughoutrtffe UnT ion, but'especially in our own State,.evils of a grave character, producing distress sad embarrassWcnt in the present, and threatening even worse consequences .in the fulurer.' A" thousand explanations' are offered, to account for our present commercial difficulties.— The whole world is ransacked for tticir causes. But wc need not look to China, nor even to'Engtand, for these,., 3Iany extraneous and incidental circumstances may have heightened the embarrassments of widely all:complain> hut one greal causo has chiefly produccd.thcm-/ It is,' the beseltiog sin.of pur age, EXTRAVAGANT SPECULATION, by States and by individuals; with its usual attendant, a recklessly extended SYSTEM OF CREDIT-- ..

Porter —G \VTurner, ' .' . Randolph — He as ton, Andrew West, Jeremiah Smith, 1 ' * Vr Ripley— John Snodbees*JMilcjp 3tendenhall, James 3Iuir. JM , Ruth— Joseph Lowe, Thomas Wprsler, Usmy n Robinson, ‘Jethro S Fqtger, John L Robinson, George W Brown, John Lefltfr, J Wm II Endicolt. . Av-. ' ■ ■' ' V'

- Resolved, That-tho rules for the government of the house ofrepre*cntatiyc«,?o f«ras the oame may# bo applicable) bo. adopted for Hhe - governmerit of this Convention. ' V / ‘

Of the enormous dcbt'lhus incurred by lha Stated, amounting to about TE.VDoluasfor.er* ery roan,woman,and child in Ibe.UoiiedjStaies, about'two thirds is taken by foreign capitalists. This, of) itself, is an atanmng feature in’the progress; of our modern funding'system. - The relation of debtor, to crcditoris always, ip a' ce rtain ex lent, a dependent-relation. Le l os beware! . England, sixty fire yean ago, sought to impose upon the American Colonics, a two penny lax no tea. The republican spirit awoke and the sword of resolution successfully resisted the encroachment. Where is that spirit now! Will It tamely suffer us still to proceed, adding one hundred.millions of debt.'to another, until we voluntarily become', in fact if not in name, once more the tributaries of thernot her country! Does it not cry out afoudi bidding us pauseandreflect, before we go on'mortgaging, to foreign nations, the industry, not of us ooJy'wbo incur these debts, but of millions who are to lake our places when wo are gone! Especially should these questions come'home to us, the citizens of Indiana. Our youngstato' seduced by the example of her elder sifters of the confederacy, has followed too faithfully in* thoirderrous footsteps, nay bids fair to outstrip them alt in the downward road to dependence and debt. v . ■

Mr G» W, Ewing presentedtbe. following communication: . • _ *Vr. "Pmi'Jf n/.*--The undersigned, begf .leave moBi respectfully to state to the Convention; that in consequence of his extensive busmffls engagements, jwith partners a* well-ss with other < persons, he cannot tinder any circumstances,'con sent to let his name be used as aesndidate' for iteoffice pf Governor, at the approaching Avgust elecearnestly,' requests' ,that : bis naine tmay not be brought in question' astcahdidalcV.^^|p;'r ;>-Vy l:\yerjIrespeclfuUy, ? *; 7 Your > r i; '-7 7 ; • GEORGE W. EVVI^G. ■ January8th, 1840. : A v : ; ; ; | ; ; On motion ofR.,D. Owenl '• Resolved, That a commute of sir cd by: "the chair, to prepare, on •behalf, of ’this Convention, an address to the people bfilhdiantii and. to report the some, at as early aperiod'as possible. The chair appointed the following fgehtletnen as said commiueo, Robert Dale Owen,Elwood Fisher, Thomas ■ J. Henley, J P. Danp, John Morrison, Matthew R Hull. • > 7 *y77 ' Un motion of Mr. U h amb erl ai o, Resolved, That a committee of five,, be ap; pointed by' the chair to prepare resolutions,for the consideration of the Convention.7 ; ; 1

Scott— E G English, Wm H English. V ■> ' Shelby— Joseph Nickio, W W McCoy, Wm J Pcaslee, VoohrcoConover, Stephen 31aior, Roy* al 3Iayhew, E Toner, Jo1k)hJ Lewis, James 31 Baxter, Wm Gallon,T Cation, Robert Ferris, Daniel Bates, John Hendricks, John Tome, John II Sisw&ri, Edward Gird, Simon Rhocr, G W JIcConnel, Burton Jeokina, 5Vin. H *DobIe, N Vice, Andrew Freon, 3Iartin W'arner, Resin Davis,- Milton Robbins,GW 31cCoroiack, N Jackson. *

Fatf bo it from its to'discourage the spirit'of entcrpriseVor to undervalue its bdneficiat effects. To that stirring spirit the world owes tlie best of itnproTcraeni«,,and mankind the fairest of tbcirbopes, It js the very principle of progress.' It is the sppr to the flagging bone,: the cheering cry to the sinking swimmer* • But as. tbere'is, perhaps; in the nature of mrn“, no . principle of evil, .without its leaven of good, so arc there no qualities so useful but they may' shoot'up into extravagance, and no virlues BO excellent hut they may be exaggerated Into. vice. ■; Prudence may sink into cowardice,' good humor in to ihibreilily, and temperance into'asceticism. Humitialy may become abject, and'courage rash. Self-confidence may swell into contumacy, and conscious rectitude garden into pride. Aod so may the spirit of enterprise, in itself the prolific parent of good, degenerate into the range qf speculation, and the fruitful source of cri). ' ’ .

SiaiVicr/and—Ehvood Fisher, Martin R Green, James 31 Kyle, Isaac Stevens, Josiah S Woodruff, William Miller. St. Joseph— JIatthiaa Stover, Charles Woolverton. I

lock, J 31 Gregg, J Sigerson, Thomas Nash, B M Logan, U Johnson, A E McHuffie, G Sang"Bter, H Arnold, W Arnold,'W Arnold, A 3IcAImunt, G Wilson, J Laiah, J Pearson, J Stutzman, 31 Nickel, Wm Morris, Thomas Nash. Henry —Miles Murphy, F L Goble, Henry Bigler, Harvey Lasure, James Mc3Ieans, Nathaniel 3Ic3Ieani, D N Bordet!, Sides Scott, LconardScott, Emeiy Soulhwick, E E Johnson, A Boring, Thomas Heat. Hancock—Andrew 3lcGahee, John Milroy, Jdo Estes, Wm Philpot, John B Hannah, John Martin, Henry Wood, Henry Knider, George' Sample, John Bennett. John Foster. JJan/ingdou—L H Purviance. */acArjort—Nictiolav Weed man, SI W Shields, Ewing Durham, Wm Shields, Johu F Carr. Jefferson— Gamaliel Taylor, Wm Hendricks, James II Cowdon, James Cochran, Joseph G Cowdon, Wm Griffin, Daniel Chtrwood, II Wilson, C H Walden, WII Donahue, Samuel Welsh, (a soldier of the Revolution,} John Hunt. . Jennings —Wm A Bullock. Achilles Vawter, Irly Smith, J S lhsnett,C S Maynard, E D Ferrell, J L Spann. ' Joftiuon—James Lusk.LeVi L Wood, A Taylor, W M Richardeon, James Wiley,*Geq Bridges, W C Jones, Janies Ritchoy, Thos Grant,- - M Vandetvisr, Wm Harris, Richard Gosney,' B ■“Applegate,'J M Norris, Israel Watts, Abraham Lowe. Jay— -Jlorrison Rulou, Benj I* Wheat, Isaac flarim,'Robert Hewey. Jafjier —Ur Brown. 'Kriox—J obn Law, D OfJohnson. Kdi&usJb—Dempster Beaty. Lawrence —George W Carr, Dr WFoot, Robert Mitchell, L d Haggatt, R 31 Carlton, John Y Djonlavy.’ . ’ L i Porte —John SI Lemmon, C 31 Cathcart, W I 1 Story, T D Lemon, W W Tayhr, Joseph Lon ax, G W Reynolds. - • Like —L Warriner.

Sullivan— Getfrge Boon,.Wra R Hadden); Juir tus Davis, John G Dodd. ■ Tippecanoe —Thomas Smiley, James’ White, Wm 31 Porter, II Ensinger, Elias Bedford, John Pettit. V *; , 1 - t/iiioii—Wm Watt, Janies Eevistoh, James Osborn, Robert Loiig, John Nelson, James Anderson. j

Vanderburgfy. —Joseph Lane, A B Coleman. Vermillion— Joseph Moore, John Gardner, Samuel Prater, Thomas Harris, Thomas Harlin. Vigo— William Wines, Walter Dickinson, Wm Mulloii, VacheJ Dean, irbrricfc—A Frisbie.

* During the political ascendancy of (bat party,'. oneft known as Federal, now -'calling itself * Whig, and soon pepbaps to rejoice iq some other, war-name—teal parly who’seem to regard Credit as (he,one needful clement of national prosperity,yrhosc organs haro extolled it as a great morax agent, hardly second to beneficent and derating influence to the sacred power of Education itself.f . At . the suggestion of her

Washington— Valentine Baker, Jonathan Lyon, Rodolplms Schoonover, John Ellis, Henry W Ilackett, II C Monroe, John I Morrison, .Wm Perdue, Elijah Nevvland, Wiley Johnson, James 31 Lucas, James Jlarkwell, Wm Lee.

The chair appointed iho following gentlemen as raid committee; E3I Chamberlain J G Read, Andrew Kennedy, G B Alberlsoni J A Wright. On Jloiion of Mr. Dobson, j Resolved, That three delegates .from each congresiignal district be appointed a committee to report to this Convention a,suiuile pereoh for elector for such district, and that the said committee, appoint one of their; number who shall report two persons to be run for general electors. On motion of Gcn.’Milroy, - ‘ Resolved. That the delegates of each county represented in this Convention-appoint one of their number to compose a committee, to report to tHe Convention candidates for the offices of Governor and Ll. Governor, and that such member of said committee be entitled to cast as many voted as the county has Senators and Represen. tatives in the Legislature. On motion, the Convention adjourned to 2 o’clock, p. v.: * Two o’clock, p, m.

• America, of all oilier countries,owes much to the spirit of commercial enterprise. An in-fabtcolonjr-two brief ecnturics ago, and for hardly two thirds of a'century an independent nation, already have her hardy pioneers swept over half a hemisphere; already do her vessels crowd .every foreign port, traverse every navigable ocean, and swarm, even by tens of thousands, on hermaguificent inland waters, ' Hut wiihilic good has come also pvil; and the time has arrived, wbcn that evil must be checked, or, if it be not, public morals, national faith, republican liberty, and commercial prosperity may be alike overwhelmed,iq one common ruin* Not only as private citizens, but as democratic politicians we see to this. ■ Let us enquire, how the matters alissuo" be tween jmrsclrcs and our political opponents* bear upon tho great question before us, ‘ The struggle which'has endured, through all lime, and existed in all nations, between the pretensions of privilege ad the rights pi equality, has, in modern days, assumed an altered aspect. The worldds becoming, too'wise to go to war., Even kings find it"difficult lb persuade their subjects*that if is pleasing to God and honorable before men, to shoottboir fellow creatures, in cold without a cause, and contentedly to sacrifice their own lives, in order to satisfy the royal whim, or fill the royal coffers. This world has turned its exertions from the tradq of destroying to the tfado of producing. Hence the decline if the power the Sword, ond hence the increase of the power of the Purse,

* Communication from faring, Drat hen & Co. the great Londointockbcokcrs, it copied into Niles* Register o ft he JClb November last} from it wo make the following extract*:- . “The late loan made by (he U.; S. Rink for. about two yean, and for fiOd.OOJ pounds sterling (or nearly four millions Of dollar*} ondeposito of fcmuylrania and qlhcr'statestock, at nj price which gives tea per cent', annual interest to the subscribers, show* what rate' of interest roust bo paid to obtain any amount of money on (behest American securities, anJserrcs therefore ns a guide to capitalists hero for their purchascs|ot State stocks. - • • • ■ * •

Wayne —J W Borden. S E Perkins, A Grimes, J IJ Oita, D D Sloan, Henry Hoover," Harrison Short ridge, W Baker, D Puns, Thomas Brown. Jt'hile —Roland Hughes, Wm 1 vers, John B Wilson. * Wabash—\V B Barlow.

On motton'of 31r. Hull of Fayette, it was Resolved, That a committee, to consist of two from each congressional district to present toaho convention the names of suitable persons for the officers of the convention, be appointed by ;he chair.

The following gentlemen were appointed said committee:

;: Atxt it tittle farther on] the Datings adds; . - “If the whoJo>cbeino pf Internal Improvements in the Union ii to bo carried inlo tffcci on 'the vast scale, ood with the rapidity, lately projected, and by tho mean* of foreign capital, a more comprehensive guarantee than thatof iudiridunlrtatw willbereqaired to miss so large on amodnt in a short tine.. A jaTl0Vii>riED0C would undoubtedly col.ect capital from oil ports of Europe.” ‘ J . ‘, Surclj this inost open our eyes! European capitalists, it seems, can now make their own terms, with os." Ye#, ond foreign stockholders can read us leuoni of prudence end economy! Nay, dare propose to ui. ah unconstitutional pledge, before they trust us further! Have wenot deserved them? And if wo have, will iiol national pride to say nothin; of republican principle, arrest our steps}

M RHuIl, D B Herriman, R D Gwen, \V A Bowles, Geo Boon, D R Ecdes, T J Henley, Bullock, J L Robinson, E Fisher; W J Brown, IV A Gorman, J M Lemon,' and -—Gardner, Wbo after a abort retirement, made the following report*

Convention met.

Mr, Owen, from tbe committed Appointed to draft an "Address to tho People of Indiana,’1 reported the following, which was unanimously adopted. ,

Fo/ Pretidenl, Nathaniel West, of district, . Vice Freriderilt, Andrew Wilson, of 1I10 let. George Booij. of the 2d, Samuo! D Welsh, of the 3d. - Elisha Long! of the 4th, Henry Hobf er, of the 5th. Thomas Blazon, of the 7th, Seerrturitt, ■ James P Carlton, of Fountain county, Alexander E Glenn, of Dearborn, 'E W H Ellis, of Elkhart. C W Hutcheu, o/^idyd.

TO THE PEOPLE OF INDIANA.

J/oduon—Henry Wyman, Daniel Williams, A Cooney, George W Force), Adam Reed, Ralph Bird, N Berry,' Samuel Irish, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Scott, David Edmonson, W HMershon, Thomas Pitrgibbon. Jfama—Martin Martindalo, Thomas Stout, Asa B Strong, George Haversttck, N Bolton, 'Aaron, Wright,- Youne E R Wilson, Deraas h McFarland, James* Webb, Peyton Bristow, /'“James Snow, Simon Peters; B Phillips, John .Banter, Aaron Wells, Banner Lawbead, E H

It is, at all times, the duly of a pood citizen, to watch,'with vigilant eye, the doings of the government under which he tires; but never, in our stale, and seldom, throughout the American confederacy, lias that dirty been so imperative as at (ho present day. . Apathy, culpabl&at all times, is criminal now. Events that have been silently ripening for years,* have at length brought about a crisis in the affairs, certainly of Indiana, And perhaps of the

. t A recent plumber of tho “Albany (N. Y.) Morning Mail,”'siys; There arc two, and only two, great moral agents existing in a land like this, and applicable to 1 the social relations of man, that can elevate without depressing, and can legalise without destroying; the one is xnowlepgc, the other cacnir. Against both qf them the arms of our political advenarie* are raised in fierce hostility. For both of these the whif party is Draggling.” '

jTfae power of tho Purse has been, for many years, advancing, wiihgiantstridcs.in America; and this circumstance it it, that has given a peculiar tone and character to the contest between modern political parties. Theydjffer chiefly on c'oomercial subjects. Dinks, the

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