The Wabash Courier, Volume 1, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 September 1832 — Page 2

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WABASH COiKIER-

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Ashley Harris Blake W VV Sedam

Cummins

Cain Watson Harvey Lanius Jefferson Davis Zudoc. Reeves James Pickens Dan'l Stonerock

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McCormiek S Wallace 55 W Edmonds

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Fr™ R. Denny I,rvi Wood W Fulton Moses Pucket George Conn David Pocket Wm Brooman Samuel Karrel David Smith James Smith

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Tharsdaf Morning, September 87, 1832.

The Editor of the Courier is absent.

AXTl-TpETO MEETING.

The undersigned, citizens of Vigo coanty, rccommend to oar fellow citizens to meet at the Court House in Terre-Haute, on Wednesday, the 3d of October, at 2 o'block, P. M. to take into consideration the President'* veto of the Bank Bill, and his refusal to sign the bill making an appropriation of twenty thousand dollars for the improvement of the navigation of the Wabash River. Feeling a deep interest in these measures-, we earnestly solicit the attendance of eTery voter, at the time and place above stated Wtn Durham, Sen Moses Hoggatt Samuel Eversol Daniel Durham William Linton M. Chamberlain Ephraim Ross James Fnrrington Thos Parsons Lucius Scott

W Ruble

Thos Hougbton R. Montgomery Jonas W Baker David Jones E Benlley

Modesitt

Joseph Hussey E Russell A Conner Wm Ramage Peter Tongate N Robbins John McMullin Reuben Newton Jacob Balding

Scranton

A Ro»« George W Cutter James White

Warren

Doane Rrdford W Mc.Murran Charles Walker And. Armstrong John Crawford 8 Cammack

If l'ickott N Jones S Wright

W Harris

Samuel Hyde Silas Reeve Samuel Corby Jasper Newman Joseph Hnincs N Markle David Owens 11 It Nctherlin Win Herring Win Francis E Dole

W Anderson

Skinner

Jared Bell John Durham John W Hitchcock

Turner

Wm Probst Samuel Crawford John Cruft A King I) Johnson Mncom McFadden 8 McCabe John Brittort CG Taylor Isaac Cramer

John Dubre John McCrany Jacob I#a master Gideon Foster John Winters Absalom Hunt Bradford Hail If'in Foster Calvin Hays Sylvanus Ripley Wm Nichols Frnncis Baxter G. S. Hamersly Thomas Trnehlood Aaron Hatfield Mnlom Combs Wm Bennet Rich'd Uedford Jacob Parker I?anc Anderson Wm Mara

McCall

Wasson

II Wolcott DCondit

Thos Dowling George Ferrcl Josiah Richardson Henry Ross Win Durham Thos Durham James Ross I.. Tillotson Sylvester Sibley Septer Patrick

Miller

James Rod ford Henry Brasher Wm Walker John Carpenter S Gookins George Kelley John King Russell Rots Israel Price A Chapman Robt. Anderson Wm Hill

Allen Primroso Lee Ray Thos Sankey Eli'ha Parsons Joseph Smith Peter Agrew Thomas Ramage John Jcnckes Joseph S. Jenckes Noah Layton Mahlon Newmnn Daniel Durham, jr Rob't McColloch David Robertson #ij*h Dicus "tjamcs Brown

Stephen Lnwton Richard Sparkes David Harris Joseph Maleom Thomas Black George Taylor E Brown John Colman Solomon Perkins Geo. Rector, Sen George W Rector John Franklin James Dickson

John Coltrin Sam'l Mrlntirc Garrett Lambert Archibald Taylor Henry Allen

Noble

Jonh II Watson Wm Ilogue, jr. Milton Andrus Isuac Jackson Rwb't McKoskey Isaac Pointer N Glcssner

Tompkins

Hnllace

E ROM Angier George Hussey

Harrison

Deming

A. I- Chase Wm Williams If"m Ijodley John Beymcr E Bull John Sibley Reuben Holstead James Canon Justus W Denton Peter Allen

Manning

Eleven Tucker O Hearn If in Tucker N S Mills Thomas Hendricks Benjamin Wheeler Jacob Carpenter George Clem Silas Jessup Nealon Sottles Jonas Seelry Isaac Benight James Gilbert Wm Musgrnve George Clements Win Me Comb Jninefc Mason Charles Beacham Wm Caldwell James Trnbue Samuel Patterson Irf-muel Baker llorntio N Baker I*am Garrett John Westfall Wm Wilks John Dickson Chnrch Mattox George Jonlan Joseph Miller Wm Miller S Hoskins John Scott E Jone* Thomas Franklin Charles Patrick Andrew Karrell Zeb. Iiogue Benj. Thomas If'm Huffman

I.rvi Bogftrd Parker Hogors French John Mounts Joseph («rigg* Thomas Patterson Thomas Stewart Eli as Goddnrd Isaac Hall Christopher Hame) Joel Leake Moses Hicks Henry Red ford Thomas Durham, jr.

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AXTI»VETO

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There is probably no means more efficient in promoting the cause of truth and correct principles, than a candid expression of public sentiment. This, it is believed, the citizens of Vigo are prepared to gire. There is no portion of the Union, perhaps, where the ruinous effects of the President's vetoes will be more severely felt, than upon the, Wabash, and its tributaries. This section of country has not, at present, nor can it have, for ten or fifteen years to come, any other outlet for its produce, or inlet for its supplies. What farmer or boatman who has ever taken produce down the river, does not know the dangers which always exist, and" the losses which have often occurred, at the "Hanging Rock," "Ramsey's Riffle," and the "Grand Chain All are familiar with these names. Every man in the Wabash country, knows that a year does not pass, but these obstructions take large tolls from his own pockets—not that every man loses a boat— but that his neighbor, or some one else does, which throws the value of that boat and cargo, from

one

to two thousand dollars, out

of the couutry, of which every industrious man in the country would have received a portion of the benefit. These obstruction? Congress said should be removed, and for that purpose, made an appropriation of

twenty

thousand dollars. President Jack

son, however, by refusing to sign or return the bill, said we should have no such appropriation. What have the citizens of Indiana to hope from the re-election of a man opposed to every measure? that is conducive to their prosperity1? Nothing! Believing, then, that strong and united expressions of pablic sentiment, against this, and other highhanded acts of the President, will have a tendency to inspire confidence and vigilance in our good cause, throughout this and the adjoining States, it is hoped that every voter will make his good will manifest by his presence, at the appointed time. The call, in the preceding column, is signed by 2G8 citizens of this county, many of whom were friendly to the re-election of General Jackson, previous to his late Vetoes.

JKFFER.HON CO I'.V TV MEETING. The annexed call has been signed by 228 citizens of Jefferson County, Indiana, many of whom, says the Madison "Republican," were formerly the warm friends of General Jackson. There is no disguising the fact that the prospects of the National Republican party in Indiana, are brightening, every hour. May the good work go on with increased vigor:

PUBLIC MEETING.

We, the undersigned citizens of Jcfl'erson county, (Indiana) feeling a deep interest in the welfare of our common country, and especially in the selection of a suitable person as Chief Magistrate of the U. S. as one of the means of promoting this welfare and viewing the alarming course pursued by the present incumbent of that otiice, and the dangerous, pernicious, and unconstitutional doctrines advanced, and attempted to he put in force, by him, in several of his leading acts, particularly in his several Veto Messages, in relation to the Mavsville Turnpike, and Bank of the U. States his refusing his nssent to various appropriations for the Internal Improvement of the country—his attack upon the purity and independence of the Judiciary and Congress—his wavering and dubious policy as to Demnstic Manufactures and various other subjects too numerous to mention here, do hereby unite in a call for a puplic meeting of our citizens, at the Court House in Madison, atone o'clock on Saturday the 2*2d day of September inst. for the purpose of expressing our sentiments on the above subjects.

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Pf'm A Gans David lunton S Clarke Thomas Blake John Poum! Simpson Stark John Gongh Mvran H. Allen

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A meeting hat recently bem held in WOIi county, Trnne^re, at which the Hon. P. P- B*•*»('« WM nominated for the! Washington in a day or tvo,1o receive oficeof Vice Present. the answer of Gen. Pedrafci.

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The following paragraph is from the New Orleans Advertiser of Aug. •2a. Our Government will probably never have occasion to scud despatches abroad for the article wanted: The Mexican brig of wrar Cm. Santa Anno, arrived here this morning from Vera Crue, with Don Ccrcccro on board, bearer of despatches to General I'edraza, now In Washington city, [Quere from Santa Anna, inviting him to return to the Republic* and the Preadcwr.

WABASH APPROPRIATION. Surprising as it may seem to a readingffcomnmcity, it is no less a fact that many of the friends of General Jackson are in the habit of denying that any such appropriation as that of 20,OW dollars, for the improvement of the navigation of the Wabash, was ever made by Congress, or vetoed by the President. It is a fact still more to be regretted, that too many of the unprincipled demagogues, who are so destitute of candor as to make this assertion,have the a.ddress to make themselves believed. We have unquestionable authority for stating that this malady, so destructive to the cause of truth, has prevailed to a considerable extent, iftgsome of the neighboring counties. Now, it is no hard thing that we ask of the people, when we request that they will read for thenuclcti, and be their own judges of what is, and 0h«t is not. Who is he that is willing to admit that he is dependant upon bis neigh bor for the political bread of life We hope no such individual can be found but, if any such thay be, we say to him, beware, lest asking bread, ye receive a stone. l*he privi lege of exercising our own free will, and not that of our more potent neighbors, is the price of our fathers' best blood. Can such a privilege, then, be valuedf If so, who shall set its price? Every man should tal^e pride in feeling that he has an opinion of his own, discretion to govern it, and independence to maintain it, but a sufficiency of moral courage to acknowledge, when convinced of an error. If any are still sceptical, in regard to the Wabash appropriation, let them read the following paragraph, from the oigan of the Jackson party at Indianapolis:

The Clay presses are endeavoring to create the belief that Gen. Jackson has vetoed a very righteous and important hill, for the improvement of the Wabash river. A short history of this veto-catching matter will probably satisfy an honest and oandid public that the President acted in conformity to the plain features of the constitction, anil in pcrsuatu of the principle which he has always acted upon, to wit: Not to sign hills appropriating the public treasure to local and useless works but keeping it for needful and authorized objects of a national character. We 3hall not cavil or dispute about the nationality of the improvement of the navigation of the Wabash river but we will say that it now has greater faciliates for navigation than many other valuable streams in the state, and while it may be navigated in its present state, they are unfit for navigation, for the reason, that similar appropriations have not been made upon them. If the Wabash may need the expenditure of money to improve its condition, so may and do a large number of fine streams which flow through the vales of our state, and if it be injustice to withhold it from the Wabash,it is still greater injustice to withhold it from those which stand in greater want, and which might be equally benefitted."

We are gratified with the liberal and very candid remarks of our friends of the Indiana Journal, in relation to the paragraph above quoted. The following are their remarks on the subject:

This paper aspires to he the organ of the Jackson party in this state, and the public may thus see the kind of defence which is set up for the President's refusal to sanction the Wabash appropriation. The plain import of the defence is that the t^fpropriation was improper—that the pcojje wfcfCiiupertinent in asking it—that Conmo^fprrcd in pnssing the bill—and that th^!Pr§!!)()4!lt acted correctly in refusing to signet. "The object for which the appropriatiouijfc made is pronounccd wriest and local, nndfti refusing to sanction it, the President is wd to have acted in conformity to the tdfpn features of the constitution," &c. Now we should like to know how the President, on constitutional principles, could veto nn appropriation of $20,000 f«»r the improvement of the Wabash, after having approved and signed a bill appropriating $.10,000 for the improvement of the Cumberland river Where is the distinction in the two objects! The refusal of the President to sanction the Wabash appropriation, after having signed bills making appropriations elsewhere, shows him to be totally regardless of the interests and prosperity of Indiana and the defence made by his organ here—that the object was a useless one—is adding insult to injury. Ask

OOOJ. io t.«c diSp useless one—is adding insult to injury

left with him for sale. the thousand of enterprising people who arc June 14—I—3mos JO|dopondant on the navigation of that bcautiRratified W*

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IVoW StO tributary of the Ohio. It passes through HE subscribers hi an extensive and fertile region of country, t*tore, at the house I which is populating and improving with unby Mr. Samuel McClnil bash and Market strcd Terre-Hante, and offer able terms as their neigh articles, of which they sortment, vix:

improvement of the

lavigation of the Wabash a useless mat'—Her. It is supposed to be the most important

cxamphnl rapidity and a already in successful progress to unit!it with I.nke Erie. Can such a stream Iwfflstly pronounced useless or local? It is, in its present state, of great ntility, but the small appropriation made by Congress would have rendered essential service io improving its navigation, and the amount appropriated

Would scarcely have been missed by the Go-

June 28.—3w3 said, there are other objects which need the aid of the Government as much

Cheap Sad the Wabash. Well, suppose there are, is C. & D. LINTOthat any argument against this anpropriasupply of 8ADD tion! Because every thing cannot be protnakc, which they offei for vided for at once, shall nothing be done!—

June 14—1—tf ^Was this appropriation any less constitutionRiver and other streams

Store at the the most important stream in the State, and as it bas been determined to be on worthy of the aid of the Government it would be worse than useless to apply in behalf of any other object while the present incumbent occupies the Presidential Chair. It seems to be unconstitutional and inexpedient, in the opinion of our present rulers, to expend the pablic money for

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Internal Improvements in any of the western States except Tennewee. So far as Indiana is concerned, nothing out be expected from the Government without a change in the Administration. Tfeere can be no misapprehension as to the coarse which Geo. Jackson will pursue if re-elected.

PETER II. CRUSE, E*q. one of the Editors of the Baltimore American, died (4 the Ttl instant, of Cholera.

meeting at Iiidianapolis.

RAOM THE UWIANA JOD&XAL.

In porsaance of a request for that purpose, signed by nearly THKKK HUNDRED fcitixens of Marion county, the largest political meeting ever held in this connty convened at the Court House in Indianapolis, on Saturday the 8th instant, to take into eonrideration the refusal ot the President to approve the bill re-chartering the United States Bank, and also bis retaining in his hands the bill appropriating $20,000 for improving the na vigation of the Wabash.

On motion of Rev. Henry Brenton, JOHN C. HUME was appointed President of the meeting.

On motion, EDWAKO HALL, HAaaisTYXKa, WM. SANDKES, JACOB SHOCK, and JOHN W. RKDDIXO were appointed Vice Presidents, and Vlidden True and Samuel Merrill Secretaries.

After the object of the Convention was briefly stated from the Chair, Gen. Hanna rose and addressed the meeting at considerable length, after which a committee, consisting of William D. Hooker, Doaglass Maguire, J. J. Corbaley, James M. Rax/, John H. Sandersy William 7Wn, and John AUison, was appointed to prepare and report resolutions.

After the committee had retired, the meet ing was further addressed by S. Merrill, Dr Mitchell, B. F. Morris, and Gen. Wick.

After the speeches were concluded, Mr. James M. Kay, from the committee appointed for that purpose, reported the following resolutions. The question being taken separately on each, they were all unanimously adopted.

Whereas, the people of the western country have heretofore experienced great enibar rassment from an unsound currency, which would not be received at all by the General Government in payiui-.nt for their lands, nor by people in payment of debts, except nt a great discount: And whereas, since the establishment and success of the l1. S. Bank these evils have all been remedied, a snfe circulating medium has been established, giving a settled value to property, and affording abundant means for enterprise: And where as, it is at length clearly shewn by General Jackson's Veto, that he will not approve any bill for extending the charter and contin* ing the business of the present United States Bank, or any bank like it, although urged by the people, and modified and adopted by our Representatives in Congress: Therefore,

Resolved, as the sense of this meeting, That the time has fully come, when all are ended upon to prefer favorite measures even to favorite men—that we do not approve, and will not sustain any man in opposing his arbitrary will to the wishes of a large majority of the people, so long as we are able to judge fur ourselves what our interests are and that we cordially unite with all in the Union, who, to sustain the Bank of the U. S. nre using all honorable means to prevent the re-election of Gen. Jackson to the Presidency. \Vhereas, the people of the west have opportunities for making rapid advances in improvement by pnying a reasonable compensation for the use of borrowed capital, which will enable them to clear and cultivate their lands, erect mills and carry on manufactures, much to the public good: And whereas few or none of these employments can he undertaken or carried on with profit, when money is held at an exorbitant interest whereby the industrious and enterprising of all classes are placed on the same inactive level, from which the rich only can rise, nnd that not by works for the public good, but by speculating on the distresses of others And whereas, Banks established among ourmust be on fictitious or borrowed caand have stockholders and directors, are business men, wishing perhaps to rrow ten times the amount of their stock, nnd who, therefore cannot be considered as safe regulators of the public currency:

Anil Whereas, The United States Bank has been established on a substantial capital and managed by persons who have raised its reputation almost above censure and who have extended to those parts of our country, most in need of it for useful enterprise, the use of a large amount of capital, which they could not otherwise have obtained: And whereas, the destruction of this institution can be desirable only to capitalists, who wish to make larger profits on their money than they now do, or to the residents near the Atlantic, who view with envy the rapid improvement of the interior, with the aid of the Hank, or by the followers of party, who to suit their own purposes, change their opinions as easily as their coats: Therefore,

Resolved, That we will use all just means to bring about a re-charter of the U. S. Bank, conceiving, that to close the present channels of business, and withdraw from the west the large amount of capital now cmployed here to advantage, must be destructive of our best hopes, and safest calculations.

Whereas, the Supreme Court of the U. S. have declared the U. S. Bank to be constitutional a majority of seven members of the Senate, and of twenty-five members of the House of Representatives passed the Bill for its re-charter and a large majority of the People are evidently in favor of its continuance: Therefore,

Resolved, That the majority of our members in Congress, in voting for re-chartering the Bank, arc entitled to the thanks of their constituents for preferring the wishes of the People to the arbitrary will of the President and that in interposing his Veto, General Jackson has trampled upon the republican principle, that the majority shall govern.

Whereas, a large proportion of the pnblic revenue is derived from the people of the western country, as well by their purchases of public lands, as by their bearing a fair proportion of the public burthens generally: And whereas, for a full developement of the resources of the West, an expenditure of the public money is needfal for the opening and improving our roads and rivers, in some fair proportion to the immense sums expended for public purposes in otber parts of the United States: And whereas, at tbe late session of Congress, tbe President of the U' 8. refused either to approve, or return to Congress, that they might pass it without him, a Bill containing an appropriation of $30,000 for tbe improvement of the Wabash river, although urgently pressed upon him by one of oar Senators when at the same session, with evident partiality, be approved bills appropriating large sums for improving harbors and streams in otber States, especially $36,000 for the Cumberland River in Tennessee, hit own State: Therefore,

Resolved, That ia common with oar felhm citizens of the Wabash, w« feel, that ia disregarding the wants aad wishes of oar

State in withholding his aid for a valuable improvement of the W abash river, General Jackson has arbitrarily deprived us of our just right to a fair portion of the public money and that his pledge to the Senate of Indiana of a fostering care for the internal improvement of tbe country has been repeatedly violated, and we believe will be further forfeited, if after such conduct, he be elected for a second term, to the office of President of the United States.

Resolved, That we fully believe that by a prompt and united effort of the friends of the Constitution, of popular privileges and personal rights, these principles may yet be secured to tbe people and transmitted to our posterity, by preventing the election of Gen Jackson and Martin Van Buren to the highest offices in our gift and that, to concen trate these efforts, it is respectfully recommended to our fellow citizens of Indiana, who deem these principles to be in danger, and that they are worth preserving, to invite public meetings of the people, without delny, that the misrule of the present Administration may be clearly understood, and seasonably checked.

Resolved, That we have the highest confidence in the patriotism, integrity and ability of HENRY CLAY and JOHN SERGEANT and that we feel it to be our imperious duty to use nil honorable means to promote their etection as President and Vice President of the United States.

Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the President, Vice Presidents, anil Secretaries, and published in the newspapers of this State, which oppose tho re-election of Gen Jackson to the Presidency.

JOHN C. HUME, Preset.

WM. SANDERS, J. W. REDING, EDWARD HALL, V. Presets. JACOB SMOCK, HARRIS TYNER, r. T,".., S. MKHRILL,

CIRCULAR.

To the friends of Constitutional Principles and Popular Rights in the Stdte of Indiana.

In a few weeks we shall be called upon to exercise our judgment upon the principles and conduct of the present Administration of the General Government and as freemen, jealous of our rights and watchful of our servants, we are prompted to congratulate you, thut the privilege of bringing even our highest officers under our review, ufter limited terms, is not yet taken from us. Let us see, that we transmit not only the form but the spirit of this privilege, with our precious rights, unimpaired to posterity. To aid in doing so, the undersigned, appointed as a Central Committee by a meeting of National Republican citixens of Indiana, from various parts of the State, on the .list day of January last, would respectfully invite your attention to the deep interest which is awnkening through our land to the approaching Presidential Election and which we hail, as the harbinger of the recovery of public and private rights, and of the regained supremacy of the Constitution and laws.

It was not generally anticiptcd, that, after the reward which the American People chose to bestow on a successful and favorite General, his claim would ever have been n-

gain

presented for the same favor. It is becoming daily more evident, that such was not the expectation, and is not now the desire of the disinterested citizens of the U. S. Proof of this is manifested in almost every newspaper of the land, save those chiefly, who print "by authority" of the President and the cheering prospect is before us, that the people will rise in their strength, and pronounce their Veto upon the efforts of interested partisans, and Government presses, for their own purposes, to dictate to them their next Chief Magistrate. Such an effort was recently made by a meeting got up nt Indianapolis, by the friends of the Administration to approve General Jackson's conduct as President, especially his last Veto as an answer to which, we refer you to the accompanying expression of the largest political meeting ever held in Marion county, called by nearly 300 fellow citixens, as evidence that the people do not approve and will not sustain the course of the President, and particularly his utter disregard of their interests, and of the plain principles of the Constitution, manifested by him in his Veto Message, refusing to re-charter the United States Bank, and in his arbitrary and capricious attempts to check the Interi.nl Improvement, and depress the general prosperity of the country. In the call for which latter meeting were those united, who formerly supported General Jackson, and who arc now partial to him, but in view of the constitution and their public duty, they love their country better, and will no longer sustain him.

And it is not surprising, that the friends of public order and the supremacy of the laws, should rally in their stretgth at the present crisis, and determine to unite in preserving every principle which freemen hold dear and vital. It is not strange that the disinterest* ed citizens of every class,should disapprove of the implied censure upon our highly esteemed former Post Master General, by the removal of nearly 500 of his deputy Post Mnsters by General Jackson, in a few months after his election or that the friends of the Constitution and laws should be startled at his favoring the contempt manifested to the Supreme Court of the United States, by high authority in our land—or that the farmer and mechanic should unite in condemning a policy which denies to us a fair proportion of the public money for internal and commercial improvements, or which, arbitrarily takes from us the tried and approved circulating bank currency of our country.

Nor is it less to be expected, that Indiana should be awakened to a prompt and decisive expression of bcr wish, that her interests and prospect*, with tbe hopes of our common country, should be committed to other hands than the present Administration. And it is, that knowing and fealing tbe worth and importance of oar cause, and tbe favor it merits among our fellow citizens, that we take the liberty of addressing you, and inviting, to the approaching contest, every citizen of Indiana, who feels that our best interests are in danger, and that they are worth a struggle with the assurance, from what we learn from various parts oftbe State, that if tbe public mind is folly informed and awakened, and energetic measures takea by public meetings and otherwise in every oounty, to embody pablic sentiment, the voice of Indiana will be found, at the approaching election, heartily with those, who are pronouncing upon the present administration, "Yon have been weighed ia tbe balance aad are found wasting."

At the last Presidential election. General Jackson's majority in Indiana was but 5,184 over

John Quincy Adams, who was never able to interest the West in his behalf. Did not half of that majority of our fcllow-citi-tens, vote for General Jackson, expecting him not to be a candidate tor re-election?— From the numerous expresions of such opinions by his former supporters in different parts of the State, there is reason to believe they did, and many more. And now, when we are called upon to decide between tho present incumbent being continued upon us another term, with the experience wo have all had of his course, with Martin Van Buren as his associate,and our western HENRY s, CLAY, united with JOHN SERGEANT, the pride of Pennsylvania, we do not speak too confidently when we anticipate at the approaching election, by proper exertion, a triumph in the State of Indiana of tho friends of the Constitution, of Liberty and

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JOHN HENDRICKS, JOHN H. SANDERS, JOIINC. HUME, JAMES M. RAY, DANIEL BOAZ,

Central Committee.

HENRY CL.AT.

Extract from the Address of the f'irginia Convention. It is with pleasure that we turn from this humiliating spectacle of political depravity —from this waste on which no verdure quickens—to a character, distinguished, as wo be-" lieve, for every great and generous quality. The name of HENRY CLAY is not unknown to the people of Virginia. Born a citizen of the Commonwealth—reared amidst her institutions, imbued with her principles, and familiar with her history, he has ever munifested an ardent attachment to her character, nnd a just appreciation of her fame. The first act of his political life was signalized by a manly support of her principles then the principles of the Union and of Constitutional freedom. In the fierce con flict of parties which agitated the nation in 1798 when the spirit of Executive encroachment assailed the liberty of opinion, as it now docs, the two States of Virginia and Kentucky—the mother nnd the daughter— the birth place and tho home of Henry Clay, were seen fighting, side by side, in the great Constitutional struggle—the first sustained by the luminous intellect of Madison—tho latter aroused and awakened into action by the genius of the youthful Clay. In 1801, Mr. Clay first appeared upon the theatro of federal politics, as a Senator from Kentucky. From that period to tho present moment, his life has been dedicated to the service of his country. Whut public, prisis has ever5 found him wanting/ When was he seen to shrink from tho performance of his duty, when any great interest of his country was to be asserted and maintainedi when public corruption was to be reached by his indignant scowl? or when the despondent spirit of tho people required to be aroused by tho earthquake voice of his eloquence? His name is connected with all the prominent measures of the Union, and his clmractcr is identified with every leading future of her policy. The views of Mr. Clay nre limited to the prosperity of no particular interest —they are circumscribed by no sectional considerations. His comprehensive patriotism embraces the diversified concerns of tho confederacy. With nn equnl solicitude ho is in favor of protecting the industry of tho North, nnd of yielding to the just demands of the South. With him the preservation of the Union is a cardinal principle of nction and he holds every interest subordinate to that great end, the effectual guardianship of which he is the sole security of any and every interest. It was the spirit which in 1819 induced him to throw himsolf as a mediator between the North and South—calming the waves of faction—alluying the elloments of discord—and saving tho Union from destruction by his well known scheme of compromise on the agitating Missouri question. And it is the same spirit which has induced him, within a few days past to consent to an abatement of the demands of tho manufacturers, in order to appease the angry elements of sectional strife, nnd to restore harmony and tranquillity to the Union. He knows thut this government was formed in a spirit of compromise, and that it can only he sustained by the same spirit of mutual conciliation. His principles are national—not selfish. They look to the prosperity of his country not to his individual aggrandizement. Is there a class of Northern politicians with whom the annual distribution of the surplus revenues is favorite measure of policy? 'I hese men receive no countenance from Mr. Clay, who omits no proper opportunity of declaring his hostility to a scheme injurious to tho whole Union, and particularly obnoxious, because particularly detrimental, to tho Southern States. Is there another class in the West who wish to divert the splendid National Domain from its legitimate purposes, and for the exclusive advantage of that portion of the Union? Mr. Clay, although a Western MAN,promptly and decisively denounces the attempt, as an act of gross injustice to Virginia, and tho older States of the confederacy, at the haznrd of impairing his popularity in a section of the country in which he stands most in need of efficient friends.

But why attempt to eulogize a man whoso name is co-extensive, not only with the limits of this Union, but which has rcnched the classic soil of Grccce, and tbe summits of the Andes—wherever Liberty has found a renting place and Freedom a home. His splendid eloquence—his varied scrvices-rhis enthusiastic patriotism—bis pure and spotless character—are written upon every page of bis country's history. Calumny has in vain endeavored to blacken his reputation and envy has labored ineffectually to depreciate the excellence it could never attain—but be bids defiance to his enemies. He stands on an eminence which their feeble arrows can not reach. Hurely, Virginia should be proud of the bune of her gifted son, and emulous to secure his advancement to a station which would loose by that event none of the lattro imparted to it by tbe virtues which have until now adorned the character of its occupants. Mr. Clay's fame should be to Virginia a theme of just pride and pleasing reflection. She beholds in him the like which connects her renown with those days when tbe master spirits of the Commonwealth placed her in the front ranks of the confederacy.

This is the man, fellow-citizens, whom we recommend to you as a lit aad proper candidate for the Presidency—and we most cordially reccommend Mm to your suffrages at the approaching election.

Fellow-Citizens of Virginia! You are call cd upon to choose between Andrew Jackson

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