Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 35, Vevay, Switzerland County, 30 July 1840 — Page 1

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VEVAY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1840.

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the establishment of the system,and it is ordered to bo prosecuted by expending' the money of the people In small sums alt over the State to suit the convenience of certain towns and speculators, at the expense, and ruin, and bankruptcy of the State—when it is found that the system cannot longer be sustained but by a taxation more oppressive than ever before fell to the lot of a civilized and sovereign State, where do they find Mr. Bigger againl Not this time in the Legislature, but in the strife of the people against the speculators and political swindlers, who had by false estimates and false instruction given to them as to actual cost of the works. When the true friends of the State were striving to check (he mad career that threatened the disgrace that we have since experienced, we ask again where was Mr. Bigger then?—on the question of classification in August, 1837, where was Mr. Bigger? Every one is ready to answer the question, ho was in full armor along by the side of our present hen and chickens Eieultve, David Wallace, who in return for Ida past services is now Mr. Bigger’* and Mr. Sigler's certificate makeri Wallace was for the iniquitous and simultaneous prosecution of the public works, Dumont was for classifichtion. Thus then Mr. Bigger is shown to bo an simultaneous system man from the commencement down to the last election for Governor, from his recorded votes and acts that ho cannot and will not deny.

■ base altcmpt to make Gen. Howard & participa- * top with himself and others in their political infamy and disgrace. Next was published Mr. Puctts loiter which is before the. public, and with which we have nothing to do, more than to prove that it was never road to Gen Howard or its contents made known lo him before its publication—it is not our duly to decide the question of veracity us raised between those brother Senators, they are both known lhc public, and wo presume that Col. Sigler will never be able to certificate-- that public into the belief that Major Puctt is less worthy of credit than himself. , Now ns to these certificate gait linen, as we have stated that it is unnecessary for us to tako any further notice of tho mailer as between Sigler and Puctt, bo, if it were not for the fact that Mr. Collet who is known licro to bo xprrtoml enemy of Gen. Howard, has undertaken to give a coloring to tho fact that Howard entered some wild lands in this county which is relied on' as a circumstance to prove that Howard was a system man, would not require noticed This Mr.Collet knowing his own price supposes every man may bo bought. Tho truth .in regard lo this fact is, that Howard in company with a friend did enter some congress land near this line in Parko county partly with his own funds and partly with the funds .of a distant.friend sent him for that purpose, not in all to exceed $1300 of $400 worth.' Now we ask every sensible man the question,*doos the fact - that Gen. Howard entered lands on the canal line, prqve/Mm to be a system man? so much for 3Ir. Collett? Next comesMr. Harrah’s certificate. Of Mr. II. wo know nothing,Tnnd he sayfc nothing that would go either way to establish .whether the truth is with Puotl of Sigler, and has nothing to say of Gen, Howard.. . >' Next comes his ExcoBency, the Governor of your State, the rejected by his patty'when/an applicant to enter the li3t.as.the competitor of Gen, Howard. .Wo hope* those gdqu Whigs who have complained so vehemently of lato lhat our venerable-cx-presldent Jackson, wrote a let? ter to his friends;to correct a falsehood which was propagated through the Union against him Will find ho difficulty in spying out cor ncr in which safely to deposite little 'Davy with his favorite “hen aod chickens” story. He has labored hard to prove a fact circumstantially, which Major Puctt has unquestionably proven lo be a lie, - •* : .. ; This brings us home, and calls oaf attention lo the certificates of Henry SUvens, Wtni T. Noel, H. J. Bradley, Win. J. Spaw, J, McCatnpbell, E. Adamson, and J, Ritchey, and presents to our view the painful spectacle of a few individuals at home, for consideration* thaj, are well understood here, attempting to place ard in a fa lee position before the country, and to bring up directly bo.foro that country the question of veracity between him and themselves. Wo know that here where all.are known,;Gcri. Howard’s character for honor, truth and veracity, will suffer nothing by comparison with that of those who have been so .willing in his absence to assail him. ‘ . ■.

ness to furnish the reasons why it was that while he was the ardent supporter of Gen, Howard when be saw Col, Evans last year taking a Township in which he then had a superior popularity, to that which hat fallen to his lot elsewhere on account of Evan's distinction as the advocate of the mammoth, will the great rejected say why he did not just slip out this certificate to those friends of his in Liberty township and set the roaUeryigbt then for his friend Howards*-, Next comes.the last and least, the famous trio certificate with Mr. McCampbell at (heir head, to those persons who know that Mr McC. was recently beat to death in this township for a justice of the peace, and those who know him in and about Charleston we suppose his name will cot bc taken as the most indubitable evidence of truth, but let tho public read a letter lately written by Mr. Me. and published m'a Salem paper, which contained- the yarn about Bigger beating Howard in this county fromff lo500.votes. Hois the personal and political enemy of Gen. Howard, and.the causes here aro wcll known.* The same may be said of Adamson and his attempt lo injure Gen, Howard last year by circulating reports gotten up by which ho knew lb be false, is not forgotten here, an4 if he will deny this we will show the public that he is not the man who should be called on to establish a question of voracity by either party. Of their colleague Mr. Richey wc will only .say that he is at one lime at least carried by Ms feelings for a political opponent into bad company.' -

18^3.'Mr. Noel says that it i* notorious hero that Howard supported tho bill, fee, 1 will not attempt to define what Mr. Noel would cill notorious, but I am sore It was ncrer notorious enough to reach my cars. In Col. Slavens' lotter ho states that Gen. Howard called on hi m to aid m tho illumination of the town. I surely need not add that tilts is not boliovcd here; Gen. Howard could not have desired tho town to have been 'illuminated and no one know any thing aboni it but Slatrens, and lie, feeling himself as if he might be mistaken, says, that others in and near town heard the su)jeet of illumination spoken of, but those person* do not say that they heard itspokenofby Gem Howard. It i* worthy of remark that in this same letter he rays, lait fall Howard was opposed to the management of the system. There is no doubt of the truth of this, but he has stated in tho hearing of myself and others, within lee* than a month, that Howard alwaya opposed ;he management of the system, ' *■

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POLITICAL.

Fraud!—Fraud!!—Fraud!!!

The last fraudulent effort of the Whig party to the People of this county, Oq the 27lb ins t., a large number of thn extraMr as issued and extensively circulated ia this county, and elsewhere, containing :several certificates which charge Gen. Howard with having been In favor of the system of Internal Improvement, at the limn of its passage. A more base, corrupt, and intriguing course, could hot have emanated from the leaders of that party., And it is only necessary for Iho people to know the facts, to fully understand iho deception. ,

I hcaid the Idler that was written to Puelt talked of m the time it was written. I understood that Maj, Puetl had written to eorne of his friends here that overtures of assistance in our work from Green castle, had been made to him by the internal improvement jnen, and ho wished to know Whether aa the bill would pass, it would n °t bo beiter for him to vote for the bill to secure this interest, in our aid. In the spring when Puelt returned homo, and was arraigned for his vote, from the stump.he gave this reason to the people, nor did he attempt to defend himself upon the ground of instruction fioia Howard or any one else. , - _

But where do ve find Gen. Howard all this time! What is he doing that gives so much offence to this bnt-ender of the system an ho calls' it. Gen. Howard himself eaya that ho favored the project of the State entering into a system of internal improvement, and prosecuting it in that manner which would render the capital productive as the work should progress; J/r. Bigger, it teems, was a simultaneous man, or rather wished to prosecute the works in that planner that they should not yield a profit as they progressed. Now here let us make one remark to settle the question right off, and that is this, that whatever may be said about whether Ho ward-was a system man or not, even these certificate makers have not one in their whole band, who docs say, or who will contend that ever Gen. Howard was a system man after the simultaneous commencement of the works was agreed upon.— This was in the spring of 1336, and from that time all agree that he opposed tno system, ece certificate appended No. But we find further evidence of this fact. In ! the summer of 1636, the western side of our rcounty, that was considered favorable to the ‘system of 1336, had their regularly nominated | internal improvement system candidate for the j Legislature, 3Iessra. Steele and Wright, and jolliers, were opposing candidates. Mr. McKin'ney, of the western pan of the county, advocated the internal improvement ey.ctem from the stump; Messrs. Wright and Steele were for classification, Howard was the supporter of Wright and Steele, although-on the question of national politics there was no difference of opinion among these three candidates. In 1837, it is agreed by all, that he supported Dumont, and has always since been, and now is for a thorough reform in-this branch 1 of State policy, sS that if Howard was ever for the system of 1836, he is to be proved to bo so by persons who arc neither politically nor personally friendly to him, against all his acts and voles, and also against the recollection of his friends and intimate acquaintances. But supposing him to have been in favor of the system of ten millions, to be borrowed and expended as he had a right to suppose according to the act, and the works to be completed in twenty years, os the act provided, he as a private citizen had no data from which to form an opinion, but the surveys furnished by his now calumniators, Sigler and his associates. He had no data , to combat tho pretended estimates of the State engineers. Ho could not suppose that a •State would report the costs of a system to the people at ten millions when it was kuow'n to cost from thirty to forty millions; He wap no doubt, like many others, placed in a false position by reposing confidence in the deceptive action of the Legislature, and as soon as he dicovcrcd the cvidencO'Of the spoiler’s hand in the simultaneous prosecution of the works, ho is fi.und battling against the measure, whilst Bigger is battling for it. Now taking it for true, that he was a sytem man which he is known not to have been after the extent and mangement of the system was known, will Mr. Bigger*# friends tell us why the classifiers of 1637 who fought side by side with Howard in the election between Dumont and Wallace, should abandon Howard and vote for Mr. Bigger, who opposed classification in 1837, and by that act aided in bringing bankruptcy and ruin on the stale —which act of- policy Las destroyed the credit of the state, and loaded the people down with taxation, and now through his conductor Sigler, and a few other hopeful conversions certificate makers asks to be rewarded with the first office in the gift of the people. This parallel between the action of the two candidates in reference to this absorbing question has been drawn for the purpose of showing that the authors of this attack on Gen. Howard by attempting to assail the character of Major Puett, has been one of concert and secret arrangement, to do their dirty work in such a way as to avoid detection until their villainy could take the desired effect on the public ratnd.— This is evidenced by the fact that a man who ia known to have been a system man always, becomes the tool to make an attack oh Gen. Howard upon a point that is admitted by themselves, and Mr. Digger also, that he is deeper in the mire than they ever pretended Howard himself was.

Why ts it that the enemies of Gen. Howard, on the eve of the election, resort to certificates •to prove he was in favor of the system! And .why have they delayed giving this information to the pcople, until this late period! And why is it that such men as David Wallace, Joseph G. Marshall, John Sheets, and Francis G. S.iects, and many others, who have ever been, and still are, the strong advocates of the Mammoth system, are so violent in their opposition to Gen. Howard, if indeed he .s in favor of the-system. People ofSwhscrlaml county, your dfarcst rights are at stake! Beware then of the tricks and intrigues of those who are hinting to deceive you on the eve of the election. . Remember that on Jlonday' next, you arcjcalled upon to.discharge the high and important trust of electing a Governor. Remember also, that the result of this will fix the destiny of this State, for weal dr for woe, far a long time to come. And above all, remember that Bigger is thelnlernal Improvement, candidate, Supported by the leading men ol the State, who have been, and still ere, the strong advocates of the ruinous piammoth, system; and that Howard has ever been, and still.is, the strong and"consistent opponent of the system, as wifi appear by the following address and certificates. ■

1 regret that.! should he called upon to add my testimony on a subject of this kind, but the conduct of others has left no alternative* Tours truly, ' ■ . ... -

No. l. ■*' . Rockville, July 15, 1840, : Gentlemen:—In answer to your letter of this date, requesting mo to stale what Gen. Howard’s views were at the lime of the passage of thq internalimprovement bill of IS36: and also calling my attention to several letters addressed by cliizons of this county arid others., to Co). Sigler.of Green cast Jo, and published in an extra sheet of the 'Visitor of that place, I have only to sty; that I never heard of any "one,making an effort io r identify Gen. Howard with that odious system,' or of attempting in any way to hold-him politically responsible For tho reckiess and prodigal poljcy by which'its prosecution was carried on, until ho was nominated as a candidate.for Governor. nor do i bclieye, that if that question was as popular now as it.was in 1637; when Howard voted-for Dumont and classification, and his honorable''competitor'for Wallace and simultaneous prosecution, 1 that these certificate gentlemen would, bo'hunting out his position with certificates, and placing him where hejmigbt divide the honors: of the system with bis competitor, Mr. Uiggerf aHcKwL thosb of-them from,thia country, especially Messrs'/Slavcns r Nool and. Bradley, all of whoa were the professed friends of Gen. •Howard, in tho-controversy between Howard and Co). Evans,.when Col. Evans was taking almost' a unanimous vole in Liberty , townihip, in this county against Howard, on. account of tiis Internal improvement-views, never once ihouglit of giving.iltoie good.citizens of Liberty a certificate that Howard was a system man. The certificates of the others, with the exception of Mr. Ritchey and Mr. Spaw, I think would not-have been of. much consequence at home. — With Mr. Riichey 1 think Gen, Howard has very little, or no acquaintance. With regard to my own recollection of Gen. Howard’s yiewa. I will add'that I thought them fairly expressed m his letter lb tho lion. O. Burton Thompson which is before the public: f was quite intimate . with Gen: ..Howard then, and have been ever.'since. He wns'anxious, is'I think almost body was before;ihe.bill was passed to see-thq -Stale engage in a system of internal. improvements. After the bill of 1S30 was passed, ha stated to. mo frequently that it pros used a system too extensive,llmt ten millions of debt was a larger liability than the State ought to have undertaken. As soon as the mode of prosecu ting (lie public works, was determined upon and Gen, Howard was os strong and decided a classifier as any one in this county, and every where advocated classification, supported Dumont on' lhaf ground, "as hw ttetyamly to others of his friends hcreand. elsewhere. In 1830, the western side of this county, who .were generally considered system men al that time, brought out Mr. McKitiney as a candidate VTor the Legislature’, who advocated the system from the stump—this same year Messrs. Wright and Steele were candidates, both of whom opposed the system, and advocated classification. Gen. Howard warmly supported the classification ticket. I did not know umjlafter Gem .-Howard’s'nomination that any one hold him as a system man. 1 suppose though from this effort, that no distinguished politician in this Stiaio is to avoid the odium of that measure. A majority of the politicians of that day were in for it, and from this effort it would seem that with what: ever of zeal they are inclined to disagree with Gen. Howard on every other subject, they are disposed to establish a coincidence of their views with him on this. Every vole that Gen. Howard gave for any one, and every act in relation to the system, would seem to be, in fact is admitted to be against the system. .His volo against McKinney for Wright and Steele in 1836, after the simultaneous prosecution of the eyslcui was agreed upon.—His vote for and advocacy of Dumont, the recollection of almost, every body here, is that ho was not an advocate of the system as tl passed; yet loose conversations are plucked up from the oblivion of years, and certified forth upon the community, for the purpose of uniting Howard with Ibis system of abominations, as is has been lately termed by one of its early advocates.. In the certificate or letter ol Mr. W. T.'Noel, it is staled that Gen. Howard advocated the.system for a year or more after it passed; this,, of course is inaccurate, for whatever difference of opinion may exist of late about his earliest views, in relation to tho system, I have not yet met with any person who pretends that ho was not for classification, and that ho did not oppose its simultaneous prosecution from the limb of its commencement, which was early In tho ensuing season after the bill passed In

W, r. BRYANT.

, . No. .2/ ' • . • - July loth; 1840. Having been called on by,my neighbor, Maj. A, M. Puelt, to make aBiaiemeni concerning the views that Gen. Howard-advanced in relation to the internal improvement system in 1330. So far as niy rccolcction serves -me, Maj. p'uolt received a leilcr from Gen. Howard during tho session .of 18115-6, of which I was member, tho lime 1 cannot recollect to. a day, in which the tetter stated that he [Howard] was ah internal improvement man, but to what extent I cannot recollect. I also recollect distinctly that Howard said in conclusion, that he did not give it as instructions,' that it was merely an opinion of his own. With regard to what induced Maj. Puett to vole for the bill, be always told mo that Jib' had Y plcdge» front, some.of; t lie internal improvement party that they would aid him hi getting a branch of (he New Albany andjCrawfordtville road lb diverge at'Greencastle, vnd run through the county of Parke in a direction of Danville, III. I read the letter, as it was shown me by Maj; Fuett. 1 can also state that I was again elected in 1S3G, Gen. Howard gave mo hia hearty support; I advocated classification and the finishing of one work at a time, I can‘a!=o state that Gen. Howard advocated the election of John Dufriofili M the classifying candidate for Governor ia‘1637, ' G.K. STEELE.

Dut wo will commence with (bo letter of. Slavens, and the illumination story. ' It is almost unnecessary to eay tlmt this certificate wo believe lobe false in fact, and dishelived with but few exceptions here, inasmuch ab Slavensis the only person in the town or country that ever heard of tho story before. This redoubtable Colonel is supposed to have a soft place on iho.tdp of his head, and is greatly addicted to telling long yarns. See the certificate.' Wo refer to the statement of Gen Meucham and others,'to show tliat this certificate tnaktr' has knowingly suppressed the truth in reference to tbe time of Howard's opposition to the bill, ; Slavcns states that last fall be had a conversation.with Gen. Howard, and that Howard then opposed the 'management of tho system. Why did he not come out like a man and say that Howard op-' posed the system from the time tho simultaneous operations were commenced. , _ . Next in order comes the, certificate of W, T. Noel, tho Western delegate in the Indianapolis central junto committee, a kind of «- phnre of the movements otViis titightwrs,. This committee-man is very much' astonished that there should bo any dispute in reference to this question, among Gen. H*s neighbors—as to what he says of the notoriety'.of Ibis matter see the statements and evidence furnished at the end of Ibis communication, but ibis certificate. which is exceedingly insidious, is also proved to bo false in another respect by certificate No. 0 and 7 and that is this, he states that Howard was well known bore tn be a system man fur a year or more after the passage of the Bill. Now the bill passed in January 1630 the simultaneous commencement was determined upon by the JCrst board that met in tho spring of 1830, and the subjoined certificates prove that Howard was a classifier from the first commencement of simultaneous operations, see also Bryant's letter, the conversation between Slavcns & Bryant of alato date, also certificates of Gen. Meacbam and others. Slavcns there admits this fact—see also Howards course in relation to the representatives election, in 1630, and also the election between Dumont and Wallace. '

GENERAL HOWARD VINDICATED AGAINST TUB CALUMNIES CIRCULATED UPON THE EVE OF TUB ELECTION TO DECEIVE THE PEOPLE.

It was not to be expected, judging from the rancor with Which the gubernatorial election has been prosecuted ever since it-opened, that any means, foul or fair, would not ba resorted to, in order to defeat Gen. Howard, that could by any sophistry be made to assume the appearance of (plausibility or . fairness. But no one dreamed ibat party excitement could ever be brought to generate as base and unblushing falsehoods as are contained in an extra number or the last -Grcencistlc Visiter, in which it is modestly ask«d that all the papers in the State shall assist in giving them the widest and fullest possible ctr «ulation, now, right on the eve oI the election, it vaimpossible for them to bo answered by Gen. Howard, on whom they are intended to operate. It will no doubt be asked by every ooe why it is, that any effort at all, to say nothing of tlio untiring labors of Col. Sigler and bis hen and chicken excellency, together with the whole host of opposition throughout tbo Stale, to identify Gen. Howard as a system man. The answer is an easy one, or rather there arc a thousand, and among the principle ones are these; such men as Sigler and his hen "and chicken” excellency, desire more associates to share the infamy with which the people have covered them, "as with a mantle," for their past political plundering, and reckless prodigality in the raangement of this system, others have sagacity enough to see that a plain and agricultural people like cure, desire so/neihing more substantial thin the gaudy shows, and parades, and music and speeches on national politics with which Mr. Bigger opened the canvass, .as the foundation stone upon which to place their votes for the first office in the gift of a yet free and independent people. They begin to ask whether these regiments of flags and drums and parades bear upon them tlpj elements of home reform; they wish to know why it is, that our State now brought by tbo most vile and debasing corruption in our past politicians and managers of our State affairs, to actual bankruptcy and ruin, that while we ought to be clothed with sackcloth and ashes, should the whole Slate be, .or appear to be, one unmitigated revel; whilst they find the attention of the people turned to the examination of these quations of home reform, they begin to look for a standing place for their Mr. Bigger. They find him in 1835, a member of the Legislature, voting for the expenditure of thousands on multifarious works of Slat* improvement without oven a survey, without I he lines being us much os marked with a 'hewer** axe. (See Journal p. 443, DDL) They find him voting for the Survey Bill the same session, the entering wedge of the whole system. Who charges Geo; Howard with doing either of jthese actsf no one. But further, they find after

-V No. 3. - .'Newport, Indiana, July 15,1840. This is to certify that I have had frequent conversations -with Gen. Howard about the time of the passage of the bill of intcnialimproTetnenla of 183(3, amlsince, and that (Jon, noward always remarked to mo that ho was an internal improvement man, but that the system.as it passed was too large for .our, State, that we could not sustam any. such a syslem, nnd that he was opposed to the same; and that the only hope we could,have of getting along was to [adopt tho classification doctrine.; 1 * . v JNO, GARDNER.

L ’,. Weccrtifythat’Col. Stayeiis, in a converse lion between Himend Hr, Dry ant, a few days ago, wild in dur\ hearing, ihtt.Geo. HOW A RD had aitraiyaVpposed : tho.sirauliancoiisrproiccu' tion of'the public {works.. -Given under our hands. { JOHN. J. M EACHAil. ; r:; e. ai. henson. ; Jnly 15‘1840. f : - v

No. 5.

Wejhertby Hale liave beonintiraalely acquainted wittf T/A.'Howard forupwardu of seven years: that during- Iho winter of 1835-C he was understood to be in favor of some eysicm of Internal Improvements within the means of the State. Thau so soon as the Board of Inter* nal Improvements agreed upon * simultaneous commencement of the works,embraced in the system referred To; be was decidedly in favor of classification, and has been a classifier ever since. That fien. Howard hae uniformly voted for classifiers for the Legislature, and warmly supported John Dumont upon the classification question in 1837.

JNO. G. DAVIS. K. N. GILKISON.

No. 6.

The certificates of Mr. Spa w, wo are fi is posed to pass without comment, as we believe him to be honcttly mistaken. His rccoiicctions.aro diametrically opposed to those of scores more intimate with Gen. Howard than himself, whoso certificates will bo found below. Mr. Spaw may have labored under a fatal bias from the influence used by his half brother Mr. Bradley, if so we will only say “forgive him for ho knows not what be does.”

We the undersigned citizens of Parke County, hereby certify iltat wo have been personally acquainted with Gen. T. A* Howard for several ytara past, and that most of us have had frequent conversations, with him on the Subject of Internal Impravements; and that wo have always understood him as being in favor of a system of Intcreal Improvements, uiVAtn the means and resources of the State, That he always has expressed himself opposed to the management of the system of 1836,.and has been frequently heard to say that that echcmo would ruin the Stale. That between Wallace and Dumont wo well know that ho pressed the Claims of Dumont for the oJEce of Governor on tho’grouhd of clattificalion, and that we have always understood T, A. Howard as being a classifier/^Nor Lave we ever heard of an attempt hy any one t to identify Gen, T. A. Howard with the Mam*

After the first statement of Sigler was made, which was on the 20th May last, some friends of H. caused to bo published a letterwritten by him (Howard) to O. Burton Thompson bearing dale, some time in last February, as every ouo in this region had been surprised to hear and sco the content* ofCoI. Sigler's first letter, so when they saw Gen. Howard's lottar above referred to they fixed the seal of condemnation on that of Sigler’s, as proved by certificates; appended a* a

The next certificate is that of Hugh J, Bradley, the great, tot thrice, but u Jite timer’’ rejected of the 'people, a candidate for almost every vacant office both military and civil, tbp zealous supporter of Howard for Congress, at least to all appearances bo was so. perhaps it may bo, he was supporting Howard’ for the use of himself, as he was than awaiting his fifth rejection by the people, but if ho thinks this surmise too uncharitable,, will bo have (he kind-