Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 9, Vevay, Switzerland County, 1 February 1840 — Page 3

VEVAY TIMES AflfD SWITZERLAND CO^Ti^DLMOCRAT.

?EV AY,INDIANA:

a whig post-tnaster, 4nd an office-seeker who is 01 notorious for his political diihonesly—who has bi been hanging to the skirts of either party for pi years past, begging for officej and.as often has d been castoff as unworthy tbo suffrage of both; - Notice was given out by these great 41 1 Am’e,” to a few of their neighboring followers that, a meeting- would be heM at the little whig -village of'Golhem pn the 8th. : Well; according to .the c appointed or a dozen, only, rmis-' iered together, for there were many belter men of their party.wh 0 kad never bean notified of the meeting. meet * n £T was composed of a ir hig postmaster, ’an Ex-whig postmaster, a pettifog- . gin gfiddling lawyer, (who were the conspicuous actors,] and about half a dozen straggling whigs, the, remnant of all that remains of the party in (be little village of Gothcra. The meeting was called to border, when on-motion of a genuine Light” fed, tmpo/ted from Cincinnati, a : Chairman* was appointed; and on motion of the j whig postmaster, a citizen of Warsalv, Kentucky | was made Secretary. The objects of tho meettog stated in a very brief, though Ulitero/e and raugA raaqner* by Pettifogger, Esq,, . who wound tip with his favorite tune on the fiddfc, w|iich went something liRo , ■ n 1 ..-Hink a ting, link a ting, tu, v. V * ; . ; link a ling tu —rallul , ■ e - After the applause had subsided, the meeting a rtisolvedf itself into a committee of tbo whole do- I zen, to draft, a preamble and resolutions expres- I Hivo of their centiments. After retiring in one s corner.of the room for a few rairtutes, they rel a potted through their Chairman, Pettifogger, Esq., I a very elaborate preamble and resolutions which, e In tubftihi/yof language and .literature, is equal to the Declaration of Independence—-andif any* i thing a litthworo eo! We shall take occasion, t at some future period, to lay .this splendid pro- i duction before our readers, or at least,some ex- i tracts from it. : ■ / 1 1 A resolution - was unanimously, adopted, -ap- i proving.of the Hamsburgh nominationjof the < HERO of Jfarth Bend, inwhich tbo whtJle do- i zen madp a solemn declaration to use all honor* i able, to say nolhi ng of the dishonorable moans, to I secure his promotion to the Presidency. | * . i I Three persons were appointed from each town- i , ship in tbo county; as delegates to the whig I Convention at Indianapolis on the IGth, Among I (ho nurabpr we notice the names of two wAtg : postmasters; a citizen of Kentucky, and an indt- . vidual who belongs to the DEMOCRATIC party. it is something very singular that these two : Utter names should.appear among the list of i delegates. What! has the whig party in Hus' i county so far dwindled eway thst they had i over to old KenTucfc for oho- and select another ' from the XJfmocra/tc ranks, to fill up their date- . • gallon! It appears so. ‘ . . • On motion of“-Bfuc LtgJj r u it «u resolved, "That a Central Committee of 13 be appointed, two from'each township (except )cjffereon,)and Jfisee from Jefferson, to attpnd to all tillable ituine*|' throughout the county, as the case'may require.” We can’t fur the life of us see what mo- : live " Blue Light” could have in tho appointment of this committee; unless it-was to furnish «Aii- , key in August and November next ’ for the - purpose of buying up votes. We may bo mistaken in'our conclusion, and if so, all well. But we ' shall make iU«r.*!busineis"to watch tlw move- - meets of this mysterious committee of thirteen, I and should we find their attention diverted to t- any- other than a fair "business” transaction, f they may ’depend upon it, wo will ‘'attend” to e therff—"as tho.ca$e may require*' - On motion of our short-haired friend and Ext whig postmaster, (a man who wiil never set the - river on fire with the sense intide of bis noddle,] B itWlS - . r ■ . s . That we have /all confidence in t- the Political 'Beacon, published at Lawrence9 burgh, Dearborn Co. la., by Milton Gregg, and - that we will give it our hearty support.” t ’. We.hare no objection to this resolution whatt ever; but on the contrary, so far from it, that wo , hope the Beacon may profit by it. We have e nothing to expect from tho whigs of this county, y and we arc sure wo shall lose nothing at their d bands. The spirit in which we know the resoir lution must havo been given, however, coming n from' the source it does, was no doubt intended b to fall heavily upon ourliead; but as we before d remarked, wo havo nothing to lose or gain by it, g and it only serves to remind us of a more trifling i- and confewi/di6/e act of the simo individual about i- two years since, when ho withdrew hia subscript L- tion from our paper, (then neutral,) because wo it had the assurance to lay before our readers the d first message of our present chief magistrate—a d document which, wo havo noduubLheconsidcrs ed as much sacrilege to peruse, as he would p Tom Payne’s Age of Reason. This is a fair spe-: c cimen of somoofour modern whigs'who once ■ bowed allegiance to a British sovereign.' Wo f- advise tho Beacon to use this roan gqntly—he is full of/irc.and fury, ■ ' . J Tho proceedings of this great whig caucus, or d secret conclave, was dosed something after the )f manner in whtchthey used to "do $p” things in it the days of .dfexander Hamilton and Hartford fodd oral Convention memory. For fear their acts would be known at home, by any but those cloieis ly allied to their own parly, the proceedings were ordered to be published in three papers Is abroad, the Political Beacon, the Rising Sun • Journal, and Warsaw (Ky.) patriot The latter

order, we presume, was made for the esppcial benefit of the member and delegate'fromv that place, wb6 reprcEcnled A old Kenfuct ia ' : tho Indiana WbigStatoConvcntion. ‘

tlaleraent of facts, "sledge hammer facta” that no whig metal can resist. If the Bank veto hia produced this state of things, why is the. sin I thrown upon tho shoulders of Martin Van Boren! Why is General Jackson not charged with a share of the ruin, as ho was the roan who slew tho monitor!' Because tho v whigs know (hat Gen. Jackson’s name is a watchword on tho tower of liberty, -around wluch Democracy will ever rally, while the genius of American institutions exist.- They wish now to praise the old Hero, and to drive the Democrats from’the support of Van Buren. - . God! the country knows their iden-

Abif the'country was flooded with moacy. it. would change the unjust eyelera of thsimprovsmoot bill. I.care not, if thejcountry was aa prosperous as she ever .has been, the people

SA.TU.RtmY,!

FEBRUARY 1, 1840.

"An LAsrEMEST Treasury— whore officers, responsible to the people, instead of privileged obrporatio ns, shqll guard the people’s money.- Democracy %*ks in vain—what claim have the Banks to use tbit public treasure as thefeyn—again to convert it into •an engine of ruinous Rfmnupss and of the currency, and of hew political panics and pressures, to enforce submission to tbo money power 1”

. . , 11 » — T C ■ *. For the Vecay Timet.' Tbo "Whig Convcnllon. ; V Mr. Editor:— I have the proceedings of tho Whig Convepion, of the 16th, at Indianapolis—the address, resolutions, i:c. t and theyTdrniout.to bo exactly whatlyanticip* ated. As fob the great pomp and /parade of their late convention, it is natural forlho whigs to resort to them. Being rotten in principle, they seek its concealment by an' external gaudy attire. "Like whited sepulchres, they make themselves, pretty .without; but wkhin- they ate filled with rottenness and dead*men’s bones.’’ v

would bo taxed to pay for this system, JH*u the rasney of the state collected by taxation, that is to bo expended upon the various works. And . mark me! if tha wings -do succeed in this can* , vass lor Governor and Lieutenant Governor, the monjent that ihdy can find a market for our slate bonds, eo soon prill this tgigantic system recommence at the grinding p£the people of (hestate. Anotherfact.i If thj Whig Convention at Indianapolis wWoppdSfl U> the system, why did they not expresstheir j^isappl&jalioni through the medium or. they passed*. Not one word, do they say .about it. A tacit acknowledgment that they arc for the system. It is the resolutidns passed at these conventions that directs the course the* candidate shouId : pursue.— are not the nominees ofjthe Whig Convention before you. for*support/, identified with the system! Verrily they are. Judge Bigger, the candidate fcr Governor, voted for the surrey hill, he then boingin the Legislature at the time, l which bill was an entering wedge to the system, md cost, the State upwards of two hundred' thousand dollars, Samuel Hall, the candidate for Lieutenant Governor, in the Legislature too, at ihViiraeV waea member of ihe board of internal improvements, and acted for the system,— Xowondcr'iba convention denounced'not the the system in their resolutions. . But' the ’Democratic Convention condemned in bold terms, lit their address to the people, and through the resolutions they pasied, the gigantic system of improvements.,And to cany out their opposition toil, they presented the name of Howard and Tulcj for Governor find Lieuten-

Democratic Republican Nomination. j . _TOE PRESIDENT, . MARTIN* VAN BBREN,

FOR VICE PRESIDENT,

RICHARD M. JOHNSON,

;ily. They know that shoulder to shoulder they fought the battles of Democratic liberty,-and

1 ELECTORS FOR INDIANA. ' William Hendricks, of Jefferson. Georob W, Ewing, of Miami, 1st. District. Robert Dale Owes, of Posey, 2d*. ** George Boon, of Snllhyin. ' Ad. " .. Thomas J. Henlet, of Clark. ' 4th. ■ John Li Robisson, of Rush.- . 5th. " f Andrew Kennedy, of Delaware* 6tb. " William J. Peaslee, of Shelby. • 7th. ’* L. John M, Lemon; of Laporte, -

they will not now forsakeThe cause. But let us now see what Is tbo real cause of -our pecuniary’embarrassments. Itis an asloun-

But what astonishes roe most, Mr* Editor, is the address'of that Convention to the people of Indiana. A Convention boasting of the collected wisdom of the state—so nurfterous'.That they had to assemble under the broad canopy of Heaven, and after, being assembled two daysj to bring forth such an address, as thox} of (life truth as it if in brevity, is what astonishes me most amazingly. It'comtncncca with thename of Gen. William Henry Harrison in largo italics and ends in "tho winter of his discontent;” Aqd if I am not most egregiously deceived, at the.next November election, "his bruised .arms will b'o hung up for- monuments” of defeat, "and instead of capering nimbly” in the JFhile //pure, at Washington city, he will bo "descanting on bis own dfeforfnity” and folly; over ag7a« of hard ciderin his own domicil, aiNftth Bend;

ding fact, that the debt! which bur merchant*, bankers and states owe Great Britain now far exceed the .debt incurred *in our Revolutionary struggle. Thus wo find ourselves in a state of GnahciaJ dependence to Great Britain.' and subject to the weal or woo of that great nation.— .Whctrsho suffers a revulsion in trade wo feel ity effects. Sho occupies the position of the sun, to ub-, as a lesser plannet. Our life, motion, and energy, depend upon that great centre of attraction, This dependence tiasnot necessarily beeit brought about, nor has it been by any act on tbl part of the administration of the General Government. But a reckless legislation among the different states—b, system of public plunder of the people's purse to excavate canals, and build op cosily rail roads. These are the causes why England has the balance of trade in her favor; possessing our State hoods as a pawn for money^ foolishly to be expended abd collected by taxation out of the hard carnidgs of the people. ; Young Indiana has been'duped into .this system by whig misrule and whig legislation, and which Iwenty years Jikhing of the people*# mb*ney will- not pay. A tew Democrats may have voted by instruction for iheiyatcm, or may bay* been carried off 1 by the prevailing manta which may have'seized the Indianapolis Junto, but it bears strongly tbo marks of'a whig policy. The system was ilrongly recommended by Gov, Noble, and advocated and sustainetTby David Wallace, the present incumbent, both in bis messages and public speeches to the people. And they were bitter bigs'. Tob, the people of Switzerland cobnty heard his speech at the court house in this place. What was the burden of Davy*# song then! Internal

• FOB OOVEESOB,, . - ’ TILGHMAN A. HOWARD.

FOR LIECTE.VAST 00FEBX0B, ■ . BENJAMIN S: TULEY. }

(#-\Ve,are,- authorized to announce Jons Stefletdx as a candidalo for re-election to the, office of Cons table, at-the ensuing March election?

are requested to nay that James/B. Lewis is also a candidate for re-election to' the office of Constable. ..

Mobdecai Redd is a candidate for Con stable of Jefferson township..

;The address goes on to show the manner in which Martin Van Buren defeated Ilatrisoa at the last election; but joes not let) that Harrison was an automaton* in the hands of Clay, Webster, and others, to carry tbo election into the House of Representatives, thereby, not only to violate the true spirit of the Constitution, but to defeat tbo wilt of the American people. It does not state that Martin Van Buren is decidedly more popular ijpwj than bo\as when he run fonr years ago—that during his' administration ho has won golden opinions—and that his last message, for its democratic simplicity and beauty, has haWhima homo in the' hearts of his countrymen. It docs not tell that state after state is now going to his support; that Indiana; noble

Littlefield is also a candidate for the office of Constable. ‘

tenant GovernoV, Democrats good and true! men whom iho honeslyeomanry of the country, will rally :round, and support untiring real? men, who Haro always, been and still are oppoced to the system; men, who will reflect'honor and glory on 'the State* and redeem it Irom the thraldom of Whig nucule and political specula.iom * A DE3IOCRAT.

editor has been absent during the greater part of the week. This together with the iiYegulartty of the mails, must servo as an apology for tho lack, of variety‘in our paper today.

Dheadfcl Steamboat Disasteb.— Our eastern exchanges bring itty melancholy intelligence of the burning of the steamer Lexington, on her passage from New.Yorkto Providence, and loss of one Aiijuired andjifiy lives! W.c have. neither time nor room for particulars this week. They will be given- in our next- " ; _ ;

Clarke the Rivpr Pirate.

Wo learn from the New Orleans papers, that Clarke, the celebrated river pirate, who, a abort time since, attempted to murder a Sir. Tapp, together with his eon and eon-in-law', on board a flat boat on the Mississippi river, has been taken and ia now in confinement. Hij, together with , ■ an accomplice named Simths, -attacked] these men with axes, while they wjere asleep, but their victims resisting, the tabtfcs were turned; and the 'assailants in lunt compelled to retreat. Clarke is to |v sent to the parish .of Feliciana, where the ofrenco was committed, to await hii. I trial. ■* . ‘ He is supposed tti be the murderer of a Mr. ■ Merrick, who left this city in March. 1839, with a flat boat load of produce. After arriving at Vicksburgh, be was never again, heard of until his body and one of hia "hands,” were found in the river, they having been murdered. Merrick’s boat waa brought'to Now Orleans by Clarke, who eold produce and gave receipts,* 4 c. in Me name .o/yVrrrick: 3Ir. Tapp is not yet Head, though his life is despared of. He is an Sieociate judge of the IndianaDistrittcourtand lives at Vcray.f * - We find the above in the Cincinnati Dally News of Tuesday, Mr. Tapp In a resident *f this county and one of tbs Associate Judges of our Circuit Court, and not of-the Indiana Dis-; *tiict Court as stated above.' Sir. Tapp together with his eon and aon-m-law left this place la«l .fall with a flit-boat load of produce for New-Or-ieana. News reached here a few days since, through a Baltimore paper, that.Mr. had been mnrdered; but we ate happy to learn from the above notice of tho circumstance, which appears to come more direct, tba't such not the . case, anddhere may yet be some hope of his surviving. ' Mr. Tapp has a numerous and respect- . • able family, to whom these gad tidings, coming ; in such an unquestionable'shape 1 , cannot but prove distressing in the extreme. . \Ve shall pro- j i bably receive some further particulars of jho af-j . fair in a few days, when we hope tho fearsof hjir | family and friends will be relieved.by a more . favorable-report; .. . . , - f

Indiana told a tala through- the ballot 1 box las August, that nefer will bo forgotten—ajo Indi ajiSf the theatre of ken, Harrison's glory and waited from.her slumbers; and the departed spirits of tho lamented Daviess and others whose bones lie,raouldering on the battlefield of their glory £cry not for sympathy and succour to:Him, . It does not state .that Massachusetts—the old Hay State—the cradts of liberty—the. home of the great champion of-lyhig principles, Dan-

0^7*Joe Romsso.v,' the representative from Ripley county, is down upon Mr. .Glenn of- the Dearborn County Democrat, m a long abusive: article published in the Indiana Journal, which is perfectly characteristic of the,foul tongue from, whence it emanated, for having stated that hd •(Robinson] voted foradjournrng over the holt-' days, and afterwards, at Napoleon on his way" •home during the recess, denied giving*that void. Robinson* jurist have made such stateracnlor re* port belies him. Wo recollect distinctly oTlicar| ing it at Napoleon, on our return from Indiana* polls, and wo are underthe impression that; the report was.current there. From (ho general chancier of we areled.to; believe ■He is fully capable of a slip of the longue—wb have known him to perpetrate the fie plump -in smaller matter. ,

Improvement! Internal. Improvement!! Aye,

the system was held up in a glowing light to the people by little Davy, The greifinflux of population into our state, and the proceeds of the sale of public' lands would carry rfh oor works and the people would not be oppressed by heavy

taxation. Such was the language of Uavy.— But hoy, t fellow-citizens of SwitzerlanJbounty, has this turned out to be! How, 1 ask you, a * | / * * I small portion of the Democratic party in this I county who could not help but listen to the sweet-soothings of his sophistry, bow have you been deceived by the statements of a man whom you-we/e bound to believe possessed politics) Honesty and integrity! What do you now] behold! 'Entirely the reverse. You see the State now ou the brink of ruin and distress—her plighted faith pledged for the redemption of her bondSj—the honest contractor golijg without 1 Jahd the poor daily. laborer open the works, Mirown upon the cold charities of the world—by* extravagant speculation. - Another fact to stamp the system as a whig policy, is that every chairtniin of the cpran|iuee on Internal Improvement* has been invarjably a whig throughout every step in tbs proceedings of the bill; and tKat the Democratic .party in the House were the Grit to adrocatethd modification system. But we facts than.these. The great Whig Speech, of whiqh we have spoken and which was adopted by ibis convention, says not one word against the system of Improvements of Indiana. In speaking of the system, if rather advocates it than otherwise. After howlirighnost pitiously over tho bankrupt condition of the State, which it charges to the Administration of Martin Van Burcn—if states;. ■ ' “A great revulsion in the currency of a nation begins among the commercial interests but ends among the agricultural; and besides at that time all our' works of internal improvements wefe progressing, and consequently, full employment was furnished for the laborers of the country as well as a steady market for the produce of tho farmer. But now this employment has ceased—tho market is ; - "Where now shall the great agricultural interests of the nation, and especially where now shall the farmers, the mechanics, and the laborers of the West find relief! For these now there is no rblief. No more bonds- can bo sold. No more-specie can bo imported; bur, on the other hand, specie to an amount, exceeding ten millions of dollars must be seat annually to Europe, to pay the interest of the debt—and,*then, the debt iuolf must be finally paid! * - V "A largo portion of the public improvements must be suspended, The,priceof labor, of produce, and of stock and'Und, must fall,' and yet the debts which as individuals, and as States, wc.havo contracted, must be paid!” * What inference are wo to draw from the extract! That the whig party who went in favor orthe system wish now to abandon it! No!—

iql Webster has forsaken her talented but mistaken;Senator and ‘returned back to the principles of her Pilgrim Fathers. .. It states none of these startling facts. Bat-what it dock state, is most ingeniously interwoven with sophistry.- It

labors hard to prove that the present distress in the land was produced'by tho veto of the Uni-

ted States Bank by Andrew Jackson, and it the same time it declares that tho country was in a prosperous .condition' whoti Martin VsnBuren came into office. Now a few facts heed mly to be stated to show, the utter absurdity of (ho position of the address. The Bank of the United States was votoed-wc know in the first term of Gen. Jacksbh’s presidency; and,if the veto of the Bank is the true cause of embarrassment in

The Mt. Sterling Whig Canons!

The Pofiftcal Beacon,published at Lawfenccburgii, contains the proceedings of & wonderful federal Koco-poko meeting, .which was held at' Mt. Sterjlng, in this county, on tha Eighth of January; to appoint Relegates to tho whig State Convention hold at Indianapolis on the 16th. ■ TKeducation has. been asked, why this great whig faction sent the proceedings ofatieir meeting to anblher county ftr publication, when there was a press nearer at hand. This question has oft been repeated in our* hearing during the pastweek, and, from what we can learn, the inference has been drawn by many ihafwe had been solicited but refused to publish them. This is not the fact; and if'such is tho report, it was no doubt promulgated through sinister motives towards us, and we now pronounce the whole a most base and unpardonable whig fabrication. No; it may readily be inferred why the wings did noVeend the proceedings of their meeting to this office for publication. It has been their constant aim,from the time wo jirst hoisted the flag of our party, to denounce us and our paper on all occasions, and , more than once have they been guilty of going behind the iuth to accomplish their foul designs.

the country, why'did it not follow upon tho Executive act! . Why was the merchant basking in the sunshine-of prosperity, and thefarmer living bn the fat of tho laud four years after the veto, and when Martin Van Bureru assumed the

helm of affairs! [For this is a fact, that- lhe Whig* address admits.] Because the origin of

our calamities are not to be aicribed to tho veto If the existence of a United States Bank is ne-

cessary to keep us from a revulsion in trado and commerce,-why was there distress in the land when she wielded the finances, yes,.I may say the destiny of this nation! Why was 'tho bank of Pennsylvania in 1937, the first to suspend specie payment, knd pitifully to howl ruin and distress through the land! Yes the Bank of Pennsylvania to suspend—tho bank which Nick Biddle fraudulently imposed upon the people of that State, and afterwards said, it was equally as strong and efficient as tho old United Slates Bank! •

A new Artir.hof JVaflic.—One of oar etchings , papers contains tho following paragraph: “The Moms Multicaulis speculation thrown in the shade.—A, down easier who is the owner &f & very saleable breed of hogs, has lately realized a large profit by selling their tails at three - cents a culling—kinkt double price” ' . -

HYMEJrEAI"

“The rilitn eo;

that bind* l*o trilling fuatls. 1 '

On our return from Indianapolis a report reached our ear that we had been applied to and pointedly refused to publish a call nf their ipeeliug at Mt. Sterling, when in truth wo had never heard of such a thing as a'meeting at that place; and from what we could learn, a very few individuals in the county, save a few of the leading whiga themselves, knew aught of tbfl meeting until the day it was held. ■ As the proceedings of the meeting were ordered to bo published in ihreo papers abroad, haring little or no circulation in this county, and many of the whiga themselves may not have bad an opportunity of learning the transactions of these omefer of their party, it is but justice that we, as the "faithful chronicler of events, 1 * should apprise them of the facts. The whole secret of this great whig faction, is about as follows: . * The meeting was got up by a few individuals of York and Posey townships, among whom were

MARR1EU)—At Versailles, Ripley couply.oa Sunday last, the 26ib ultimo, by iho Key. Lewi* iturlbut, Mr, Hkkrt Mirtnrr to Mrs, Alxtia .Beard,. both of. that. county. . ■ ‘^■ -

Because, sir, we -arc not to look to that eource for our own calamities. We are to look to the extravagance of the people. The real cause will bo found in Martin Van Huron's last most excellent message and the Address of Robert Bale Owen to the Democrats of Indiana. - You will find the teal causes worked out by tho square and compass in those addresses. You will find no bucIi sophistry made use of, to plaster a sinking cause, as is contained in that Whig tophmoric address of tho redoubtable Richard W. Thompson. You will find fads as they really You will find in them rjo splendid wrought theories ofspcculative brains—no straining *‘tomake tho worse appear the better reason'—no falsehood a while-ioathtd to pervert the public mind, which form the’ chief characteristics of whig policy, and without which theircame is lost Bat you wit) find In thorn & plain unvarnished ■ tfe

Pinion Hall for Rent. THE present occupant of ibis eatabluhment, being desirous of changTng his hniinew» will rent for three or four years it" ipfmedislo application bo made. A. bargain may bo bad. JOHN M, KING.’ 8if.

But had it not - been for tins the currency,” (forthey are how bound to stop, any how r ] wo would.go on with our works, we would not impend- Ttrii is the conclusioi.—

Jan. 25,: 1840.

,$3 O^BEWAltD! STRAYED from tho fcrnr of AVilUim Park, living inXJraig township, Switzerland county, Indiana, on or about the let of Jnne'lSSV one red and mol; Steer, and One.pale-yellow colored horned Heifer,each abontlS months old,-. Any person giving- information respecting the above estrsys, communicated to William rark;or to Montgomery Patton at the Tevty Hotel, so' that they may be recovered, will receive a reward’ of three dollars. : - ■ , Feb. 1, 1840. - - 9e-