The Wabash Courier, Volume 1, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 October 1832 — Page 2

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Ttantor»ni^OclrtMtt,»Mi S THE KDtocnos. Though laboring under much bodily infills ttity, we cannot refrain from saying thing on the crisis now approachin

lets than two weeks, the citizen* 01 ill be called upon to n&ke choice of a chief t| Magistrate, whose dotj it shall be to tee ,r| that the" laws are faithfully executed," and i, to perforin such other acts as are prescribed in the conrtitation. It is a solemn duty, and chonld be performed free from all personal bias and prigudice

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with a proper under*

standing of the qualifications, principles, and ji public conduct of those who are presented for our suffrage. This should-be the aim all, and the citiren who neglects it, cannot fulfil the first principle en which our governsent is founded. 8ince our connexion wit* the readers of the "Courier," we hare

JACKSOX, at the approaching election. Ha--^ing no private feelings to subserve—no pri"vate purposes to gratify—our statements bave been made with a strict regard to truth determined Nothing to extenuate, nor to set Idown might in maliceAs a citizen we feel an interest in the success of our governmcnjt, and as the editor of a public press we have Wctofore, and shall continue to give such a direction to oar humble labors, a will, in oar opinion, best secure a wise, peaceful, and virtuous administration of its affairs. \Ve have opposed, and now oppose, the re-elec-tion of ASDIEW JACKSON, oil the broad and Itenable ground that he hat been, now t*,and, «t his advanced age, must necessarily remain, Unqualified to manage with success the civil affairs of this extended and extending Republic. The worst fears of those who opposed s-.ijsii first election have been moro than realized, and the country itself, reeling under the effects of his mal-administratidn, has been "Reduced to the verge of ruin, while the corruptions which prevail, are alarming to 4*ery patriot who'feels

for

the wounded hon

or of his country. Surrounded by the most Artful and dangerous demagogues, it would strange, indeed, if a man of seventy, with fci« faculties impaired, his mind shattered, and his passions readily excited, could not be made do acts, which, while they lessen his own feme, add irrcfragiblo proofs that heis »o longer fit to be the ruler of a free people." The successful military chieftain," though he conquered at filty, finds it more JjfBcuU to resist the intrigues of his partigans thtfn he did to "resist the approaches of the enemy in 1815. He has given himself up without reserve, tt the direction and counsel of the "Kitchen Cabinet," composed of KenHall, Bleir, Lewis, and some ethers of the fame stamp, who, to our shame be it spoken, direct the destinies of this once proud Republic. Gen.

JACKSON

is a mere oypher in

the affairs of OUT "Gwernnient—controlled, directed, and overruled, by the irresponsible Regcnoy, who are determined to make the ©ost of the places which chance has assigned them. Nothing can more clearly prove this than the breaking up of his first Cabinet, in which the, Kitchen Cabinet" acted a conspicuous part, inil to whom Gen. Jack* ton pubVicly appealed to c**t dUgrace on gor retiring members of the Cabinet proper. Indeed, all the circumstances attending this "breaking up," are so ludicrous in themselves, so childish, so undignified, and disgraceful, that one cannot help wondering bow the head of the government—-under whose administration they occurred—could again hold himself up as a candidate for the luffrages of intelligent and reflecting men.— The whole farce Was of itself, calculated to fix the character of the man, and to shew him forth to the world as controlled by designing demagogues, unsustained by a mind capable of comprehending political truth, or of appreciating early and long tried friendSbip- W'*.

I But, Mlow-citisens, if we have bc*n Stirprised at Gen. Jackson's want of ability to do justice to the Presidential office, we have been shocked and mortified at his *ssi principle in the performance of the high duties confided to him by the American people. To enumerate an hi* tergiversations-—his twistiogs and turnings—where shall we begin? They are so numerous—so glaringCD foil of enormity—that we are at a lose to know how to set them before our readers within a reasonable upace, or without consousing more time than our present debility Will warrant. ToW short, then, we oppose the re-election of Andrew Jackson upon the grounds set out below, as we have no doubt, tbounfads of the Republican citizen* of Indiana will do on Monday week next, at the polls 1 1. Because, before his election, he pledged Ihiwitf to serve but for one term, and since, ike ha* repeatedly declared in bis annual -Messages to Gongrem, that a re-election la jjat insistent with the duties of President, and linngemsto tke Bbertiee of the People and

Legislatures

himself

honest

ly, faithfully, and, we hope we may add fearlessly, endeavored to give the public suck information of National jUfeir* as would «nable our patrons to make an enlightened ^choice between HTX*F CLAT and ANDREW

bious friend of

Because,

priations for this purpose, though passed by a decided

majority

sentatives. fh 8. Because be "has deliberately violated solemn treaties, refused to execute the lam to carry them into effect, and made himself an

active

12. Because* while he professes to be a waho friend to economy in the expenditures of the Government, his Administration has been marked by .prodigality and waste—the expenses of which, for three years, has exceeded the expenses of Mr. Adams' nearly FOUR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS! 13. Because he has set aside the authority of the Senate, and, after that body had twice rejected one of his nominations, he,nevertheless, when the Senate left Washington,re-ap-pointed the rejected individual to the very office for which the Senate declared him unfit, thereby setting up his own will in opposition to forty-eight Senators. 14. Because he has assailed-the ind&^fcndence of the same body, by coarsely denouncing the member* of it, for an honest discharge of their duty thereby shewing himself hostile to all who will not believe in his infallibility. 15. Because he is too 0Id to be longer useful in public life too little qualified to discharge the important duties of President

These are some of our reasons for opposing there-election of Andrew Jackson, honestly and candidly entertained, and we hope, respectfullj eij^ewed. Thcj are lutficicat to

begaarfi^liotwithatanding these avowals, he deuce not threatened $—nad her sovereignty is now a candidate for re-election. Ye^ feUow^^ the insiduou, 2. Because' be vetoed the United* States fee* within onr walls—the fire of treachery

Bill notwithstanding, in hi* last an- is smouldering beneath w, threatening d«smml Meisare to Congress^ he declared be

red offices on twenty two-members of Congress, jyai

thereby displaying his contempt for the join-

traction

"Wcmld leave thesettlement of tlmt question to «sby avaliant and virtuous ancestry. 1 to the people and their Representatives." At thepoUt, all must be decided—and to J. fcawe, professing not to seek office, the poll* let us all go, in the name of all that he has unblnshingly interfered with the mem- is just—relying on the blwsingi of that Probers of State

"American System" {notwithstandingbe has citizens moving in the cause of our country since proved

to be a doubtful and du-

the protective policy. rable men, having lrled in the infancy of 6.

every measure of his Adminia- the Republic, know how to place a proper (ration is prompted by a desire for support dr estimate on the professions of those now at renge.

7. Because, coming into the Presidential the purest days of the Republic, and, by office the-a wed and ardent friend of Inter-

nal improvements, by means of good roads ^ave

and oanals, he has repeatedly vetoed appro- brought upon it by incompetent and misguided rulers. Is it strange, then, that they should feel alarmed at the awful ruin over which we are suspended It would be strange, indeed, if they did not and we accordingly find them preparing to do something to arrest the inroads of arbitrary power in ourGovernmente/ It it time for old men to stand up." _^1

of the People's Repre

party to the most cruel persecu

tion of peaceable und unoffending Indians," whose habits were, and arc, fast assimilating to a state of civilization. 9. Because he has usurped powers which only belong to the Supreme Court, of declaring laws unconstitutional. 10. Because he acts on the abominable and anti-republican doctrine, that the people's offices arc the lawfuH'spoils" of victory, to be distributed among his political adherents, to the rigid exclusion of all others. 11. Because he has sanctioned the dangerous doctrine of nullification, by refusing to execute the solemn treaties entered into with a friendly Indian natiou.

to erery honored relic bequeathed

to obtain for him vidence which has heretofore established,

a renomination. [See Utter Gen. Krepps.] preserved, and prospered our National and 4. Becau«e he recommended tach an a- individual happiness. Let our motto be mendmentto the Constitution as would ex- God, our Country, end her hultiutiont.»

elude the President from conferring offices on u/| {, time fin- old men to Hand «p," reMembers of Congress and because, since he parked the venerable Bishop White, at the has been elected President, he himself confer-

late

not 0ur

when

ciples which raised him to office. counsel of old mot," our superiors in wis5. Because, he professed in his letter to 4om and virtue 1 That time has arrived, and the Senate of Indiana to be a friend to the

are pleased to see so many of these aged

&nd

her institutions. Many of these vene-

the head of our-Government. They remem-

the

inscrutable decrees of Providence, they

ajg0

been spared to witness the corrup-

MARYLAND ELECTION.—Theelection for members of the Legislature* in Maryland, has resulted in the complete triumph of the National Republican cause. The Jackson party in that State is annihilated, and MR. CLAY will receive eight electoral votis in that State, out of the ten to which she is entitled. The following will show the overwhelming majority possessed by the friends of Mr. CLAY in the next le-

gislr»ture: 4,. .***.«•

Alleghany \V ashington Frederick

and too

much under the control of irresponsible mm, to be tho President of the "People and not of mm a party. •*&- -»",**• IM 16. Because he vetoed an appropriation of twenty thousand dollars for the improvement of the navigation of the Wabash River, thereby shewing bis contempt for tho People of ludiana, and inflicting a serious injury on the Wabash country, in violation of a solemn promite made to one of our Senators that, he would not veto itt

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W a

.ot b. .f th.to/d

SUtMt «id that it i. opr datjr to oppoie turn

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But ten iayt now r«..m filth. .l«.bon.

National Repuhliraml-rfnends of the Con- „JI

stitution and the Laws—^tre you awake to the importance of the crisis? We are no a- S^CBDERS.—In another column, WC larmists But we tay to you, by all you hold give a list of il'x/y citizens who have dear upon earth, be up and active. Our be- withdrawn from the support of A»loved country is upon a precipice reeling DREW JACKSON, 88 a candidate for the to and fro—guided by a weak and an nnstea- Presidency, all highly respectable indy band, enfeebled by age, palsied by pas* habitants of Fountain County. We «on, and frantic at the ill-saeceM that has hope our worthy friend of the Indiana attended his Administration! All the poli- PoUodiutn. will talk no fflOlt of the tical elements are convulsed—our instito- gudgeons caught in!his Jack tioo. .r. di-rnm-d-ow «"P' hme ago.

W i. i^rihrf O. ^1 «oud ... A Wtr, (hend C«u.v, the booert Jack mn born are leaving you bj hundreds, bereafiooU. disgrace of the last four years AdminSstration, and to give to onr beloved country a CABT»»^—OtW friends moat be On season of repose and quiet. This is a duty their guard,on the eve of the election, every man owes his country, and the citisec we hare reason to apprehend that who neglects it, nets the pan of an uafaith-jsoote foul mean* will be resorted to by fal and ungrateful eon- If ear country were our opponents to sustain their sinking invaded, if her independence were threaten- cause* Look out for sparioos fiickcts ed,or her sovereignty awaited—who bat —they will abound—and fit be stateskulking coward would re»ain at hone to ments—and handbills fid of lies—and __ over the misfortunes of his country such other props as desperate politiAndissfaenot invaded? Is her indepen- cians BSe in desperate ti«KS.

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-si, 2^4?"^

Montgomery Prince GeorgeTs ^,

Calvert

Charles St. Mary's ,'^Annapolis city 'Anno Arundel

BAWUIMRO

Kessrs.

Philadelphia Election. And is it not

country arrived at that crisis,

we need the aid and the venerable

Jackson.

4§ISR WR

b.it\

Baltimore city do county lHartford

OiiMno Ann* 'IW#"* j3

Queenc Anne TalhSt .« Caroline Dorchestef *»f ,• 0 Worcester. m*'& Somerset ^4^

41 mhf iQ

•1 Total, 5€

*J te *4. 69 '•'ail

Claj'g j^ajority on joint ballot 43. OHIO.—Wc have, as yet, but partial returns from this State, ond, therefore, cannot say how the elections have terminated. The Ohio State Journal affirms that there are certainly ten National Republican members clected to Congress, and five Jacksonians, and four districts not yet heard from. Mr. PENN,ofthe I,ouisviile Advertiser, on the other hand, claims eleven Jacksonians, and raises quite a shout on the occasion. The Ohio Statn journal is printed at Columbus, Ohio, in the centre of the State, and might be supposed to know a thing or two about the matter. Which is the best authority? We feel bound to take the Journal's statements for want of better evidence—

j, Mr. Penn is quite good aotbo-

U8 few that

parties

wou|d be Kar| jn M„.

,* .. rjland Legislatore—but it tamed out

nothing the mailer-

•&- 1. ..JL

the Wa-

STAT®.—Some

Jackson presses in this State are republishing from the Washigton KJlobe' a good deal of Irttsk, tiring to prove that the Bank of the United States has bribed several members of .Congress, and several editors of newspa-

rs (among whom we see mentioned GALES & SIATON and Mr. R.

WALSH,

of Philadelphia.) It is well

known that the President himself, in his late tour to Tennessee, repeated the same charges in the taverns, as he passed on, thereby giving countenance to the productions of the "Globe," and leaving the public to infer that these assaults are made on respectable members of Congress, upon the authority of the President of the United Slates!— To comment on such undignified conduct on the part of ad American President, would be wasting time, especially when the same individual has so often sinned against the feelings which should govern a man placed in his exalted station. Having given himself up to party, body and soul, he no longer respects himself, but indulges in the most hateful slang, disgraceful to the most grovelling pnrtizan. "Having determined to put the Bank cfo&n, he is not at all scrupulous as to the means used to effect it. FRANCIS P. BLAIR,the nominal editor of the "Globe," is the tool chosen, and AMOS KENDALL the ingrate") writes the libels on the members of Congress, per order. Now, if Editors who have been accommodated with loans at the Bank, and who frave paid them up when due, are bribed to support the Bank, how is it with those who have borrowed largely of the Bank, and never paid it?—are they necessarily bound to oppose it? GALES & SEATON, R. WALSH,D. GREEN,and J. W. WEBB borrowed from the Bank, and have paid principal and interest, while Col. R. M. JOHNSON, WILLIAM T. BARRY, and F. P. BLAIR have borrowed to the amount of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, and have never paid a cent, and never let'//, of principal or interest These are the three worthies who now oppose the Bank so furiously—their reasons for doing which, after reading the following extract from the Report of the late committee of Congress,appointed to examine into the affairs of the United States Bank, will be obvious to all

At the Baltimore Branch of the United States Bank: Col. R. M. JOHNSON, as endorser for his brother due and unpaid since the 6th of August, 1819, ^10,000 Col. R. M. Johnson, overdraft, and unpaid since 28th May, 1819, $7^181 22 Lexington Branch Bank—See page 238 R. M. Johnson, endortor, due and unpaid »inccf 38th Sept., 1820. On page 239, same Branch—-WM.

$400

T. BARRY, now Post-Malter General, as drawer, du$ and unpaid since July 20th, 1824, Wm. T. Barry, as drawer, due and nnpaid since May 2nd, 1826, Wm. T. Barry, as endorser on a security due and unpaid sipcjJ

Senate ,tl IS

August 14th', 1819, »i Wm. T. Barry, as endorser or security, due and unpaid since 28th Sept., 1819, Wm. T. Barry, do. sinco 28th

LETTER TO tHE

of the

$609 14

$3,400

$769 14

Sept., 1819, v, $1,305 Page 238—Lexington Branch— FRANCIS P. BLAIR, Editor of the Globe, as principal, due 0 'ijif and unpaid since 26'h February, 1820, $1,334 53 Pa 2 3 7 an is a a endorser or security, due and unpaid, since July 10th, 1820, $5f?50"

RICHARD M. JOHNSON owes the Bank, for twelve years, never to be paid, thirty-one thousand dollars

WM. T. BARRY, Post Master General, a defaulter to the Bank, in the sum of Ten thousand dollars

And FRANCIS PRESTON BLAIR, (Editor of the "Globe") that most honest and modest of men, twelve thousand dollars, which in the language of the Com mittee, is Host to the Bank."

These are the men who cry

wtth the Bank!"

ttdo#n

We regret to say that the CHOLERA has appeared in Cincinnati and Louisville, sevcveral cases haviog been already reported by the most respectable Physicians in the cities, respectively.

Vattel, (we hope there is no treason in a printer's looking into the law of nations,) speaking of treaties, says: "This wise and free people have often seen, by the experience of other nations, that the law* are no longer a firm barrier and secure defence, when once the Executive oficer pretends to interpret tbem at pleasure." B. 2, chap. 17, wc. 282. Bow remarkable is the senteoce! It would almost seeaa to have been written on purpose to rebuke G«e. Jackson. We would invite Mr. Livingston's special attention to it.

M&IKE Eteenow.—The Portland Cornier, (a neutral paper,) after noticing tbo different statements of the votes given in the last Argus and Advertiser, says:" On tke whole, it appears pnbstfi, that Governor South is re elected by a .plurality of something- over 2000."

Gov. Smith's plurality last year was 6^00. Tfee Jacksonitos, have, therefore, wtained a nett lots of over 4^900! i,

CovimjTow, OCT. 10,1838.

BulBn' Enclosed I send you for publication in your paper a list of former Jackson men who have abandoned his support.—» I hesitate not to say that the number sent does not amount to one-third of those in our County who have changed. My constant employment in other matters, and most of the time (as you know) from home, has prevented me from seeing many who would have signed it, and of those whom I have seen, many refuse to give their names. They say their former support of Jackson hu been so warm, that all they will now consent to do, is to silently withhold from him their votes., I am cheered by the flattering news from alt quarters of tho State. 1 hope Indiana will redeem herself, and that the people of this Government will be released from the chains of despotism with which they are now bound.

Yours^respectfully,

Sfre, the undersigned, citisons of Fountailf county,* Indiana, who have heretofore, by our votes, and otherwise, suuKtrted the election and Administration of Attdsew Jackson, do hereby declare our intention to withdraw from him our support for the first office within the gift of the American People. Wo deem it unnecessary to give our reasons for this determination, they have been so often and forcibly given by our fellow-citisens in other p^r\s of tho country, that a recapitulation of them would be wholly superfluous.

Thomas Leas Jlrchibald Shan John McKinny John Murray .. Etra Crane, Nathaniel Newman Samuel McCallum John Murphy, Hamilton MeCbtrg Isaac Saunders John S. McEwen William Smith Thomas Meadows, John Pcarce Jonathan Elwelt Robert H. Landers, George Stewart Robert S. Stcwaft John Stewart Claiborne Glover iIndrcw McNcal James Campbell Lazarus Busey George Turner Daniel Fortner Solomon Fortner John Hagerman Robert Crawford Jot. D. Yeoman

Peter Ferrill Patrick P. Orr e? George G. MalUtt \Thos Ellliott

Andrew Round

7" 4

\AsherSergeant

%JElitha

Sergeaat

Noah H'aymire

v. George Sergeant, Frederick jMingryff "Enoch Sergeant

Joseph Curtis, Sen. 11 Uram Sargeant Leonard H. Scott IPeter Retford Charles Royal John Rhoten James Carton

Ephrmin* Lynn David Eugartt Jacob Slusher Wm. Slusher William Hanan%Jr.II. H. Flcmviitigf Job Castle, Jr. Samuel Campbell^ jJesse Burch -m

Wesley Waldrop Henry Campbell?

TO TNI EDITOR OF TUB WABASH COCRfRl.

The following fragment, tho production of a juvenilo mind, is rcspoctfully submitted for publication. 1

THE SOUL*

Oh! thou eternal, incomprehensible essence—--thou living scintilaHon of Omnipotence! who snail tell the talc of thy existence, or point out4he land* marks of thy course? What subtle instrument shall serve as a compass, to direct to the poles which support thy revolutions or what chart inform us of the sphere of thy action? Where aic the signs to mark thy progress, of the goal to fix thy destiny? Thou wast lit up, a burning taper in the cold receptacle of lifeless mortality, by the breath of Almighty Beneficence and thou hast burned on through cea3elew ages, a shining register of Infinite Power and transcendent goodness. Time JVJ has not perished thy bloom, nor change wrought thy destruction, ^hou dost still ,*

Flourish in immortal youthf atnid the waf 1 Of elements, the wreck of matter, and tho crush of worlds." And the breath that called thee into existence, hath pronounced that thy being hath no end—thy course is marked—eternity is the ceaseless round of thy unlimited existence—and thy goal tho realms of purity and love, or the grave of dark despair. **»:-.*

Bat where, say, where is thy flight, when freed from this coil that binds thee here to earth? WhohAswenthy exit,or noted thy way? Is thy career

upward, amid the burning lights of 4 Heaven? Dost thou now catch the first gleams of that Sun which hath an eternal day of brightness and survey erealion rolling its destined roond beneath tbee. Markest thou the ofder of unbounded wisdom, and hearcst thou the revolving spheres, hymning thefr songs of praise to the Creator's glory? Hast thou visited other worlds, far away beyond the visual reach of earthly sight—formed fellowship with other orbs, and extended wide thy be-

venof everlasting rest, which shed afar off its lucid light, over all the animated scenes of creation*tbou hast surveyed? and goest tho*home, to dwell in seraphic polity and unending bliss, with thosewho surround the eternal throne* and tune their harp-strings to praise the living God, who created, and who sated* ORTO#

The Rochester Daily Advertiser of Friday says, that the Rail Road betweeo the Erie Canal and Genesee Riwer was on Thursday opened lor' paaseagers—the carriages were placed, in lb* tracks andemwded wUhciteas—

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