Western Statesman, Volume 3, Number 6, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 20 April 1832 — Page 1

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" WHEBB LIBERTY DWELLS THERE IS MY COUNTRY. TOL. fill. LAWREXCEISURGII. INDIANA; FllIDAY, APRIL 20, 1S32.

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TERMS : ; TWO DOLLARS and FIFTY CENTS, peryear, payable within the year, but may be discharged j by the payment of TWO DOLLARS in advance, THREE DOLLARS if payment delayed until Those who receive their papers by private post must pay the postage, or it will be added to their subscripNo paper will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid I (unless at the option of the Editor); and a failure to notify a discontinuance at the end of the time subscribed, will be considered a new engagement. Loners to the Editor must be post paid. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates. POETRY. AMERICAN SLAVERY. BY MOORE. Oh freedom! freedom! how I hate thy cant! Not eastern bombast, nor the savage rant Of purpled madmen, where they numbered all, From Roman Nero down to Russian Paul, Could grate upon my ear so mean, so bare, As the rank jargon of that factious race, Who pant for licence while they spurn control, And shout for rights with rapine in their soul, Who can with patience, for a moment see The medley mass of pride aud misery, Of whips and charters, manacles and rights, Of slaving blacks and democratic whites'? To think that man, thou just and righteous God, Should stand before thee with a tyrant's rod O'er creatures like himself, with souls from thee, Yet dare to boast of perfect liberty! Away! away! I'd rather hold my neck By doubtful tenure from a sultan's beck, In clime? where liberty has scarce been named, Nor any right but that of ruling claimed, Than thus to live where bastard freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. FROM THE LOUISVILLE JOURNAL. THE CENTENNIAL BIRTH DAY OF WASHINGTON. Why swell a million hearts, as one, With memories of the past? Why rings out yon deep thunder-gun Upon the rushing blast? Why hold the beautiful, the brave, The Jubilee of earth ? It is, it is the day that gave Our patriot-hero birth! We offer here a sacrifice Of hearts to him. who came To guard young Freedom's paradise With sword of living flame! To him, who, on war's whirlwind loud, Rode like an angel-form, And set his glory on the cloud. A hale of the storm '. A hundred years, with all their trains Of shadow, have gone by, And yet his glorious name remains, A sound that cannot die! "-Tis graven on the hill, the vale, And on the mountain tail, And speaks in every sounding gale And roaring water-fall! No marble, on his resting spot, Its sculptured column rears. But his is still a nobler lot, A grateful nation's tears! Old time, that bids the marble bow, Makes green each laurel leaf. That blooms upor. the sainted brow Of our immortal chief! His deeds were our-- but, through the world That mighty Chief will be, Where glory's banner is unfurled, The prophet of the free! And, as they bend their eagle-eyes On Victory, s burning sun, Their shouts will echo to the skies "Our God, and Washington !" FROM THE SAT. EVENING POST WHAT I LOVE. I love to watch the God of day Slow wheeling to the west; 'Tis so the righteous shall decay And sink amid the blest. I love to watch the evening star, When first in radiance bright. It hurts upon the astonished view, A meteor of the night. I love to watch the lightning's flash Illume the darkened heaven, Or listen to the jarring sound Of clouds in thund r driven. 'Tis then, in awful majesty. The God of Storm draws nigh We mark him in the rushing flood, And in the whirlwind's cry. lit rides triumphant o'er the plain , By his own power laid low, He smits the forest's aged oak, Its writhes beneath the blow. Such things as these I still must love, The awful and sublime, Whilst, in the same unerring course, Rolls on relentless Time. C.H.W. THERE IS A STAR. BY ALONZO LEWIS. There is a star no gloom can shroud A hope not we can sever--A ray that through the darkest cloud Shines smilingly forever! When nature spreads the shades of night, With scarce one hope of morrow, That star shall hed serenest light, To gild the tear of sorrow. When melancholy's silent gloom Enshrouds I he heart with sadness, That ray will issue from the tomb. To fill the breast with gladness. Then, humble Christian, fearless go, Though darkest woes assail thee; Though dangers press and trouble! flow, This hope shall never fail thee. The Duke of Sussex, a brother fo the King, declared in the House of Lords, that he had in his will directed his body to be dissected.

REMARKS OF MR. STAN'BERRY, On the motion of the Chairman, of the Commit-1 ttt on the Judiciary to be discharged from the j

further consideration of the resolution referring the affidavit of John M.Clintock, alledging certain charges of official misconduct against the Collector of the Customs for the port of Wiscasset, in Maine, and that the paper be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. STANBERRY, of Ohio, said he hoped the motion to discharge the Committee on the Judiciary from the further consideration of this matter, would not prevail. It is admitted, (said he,) that the collector is an officer liable to be impeached by the Constitution; and .1.1 n . " that, if the charges made against him 1 . i" . 1 1 1 ....I be true, they constitute an impeachable offence. But it seems to be thought that because he was appointed by the President, and removable at his plea - sure, that it would be encroaching up - on the President's prerogative, for this House to meddle with the officer. I rise chiefly for the purpose of entering my protest against this doctrine. It this House sanction it, we will relinquish the most salutary power vested in us by the Constitution. Is it certain, if the most satisfactory proof were made of the guilt of this officer, that he would be removed by the Head of the Treasury Department, or by the President? Sir, the People whom I represent, have tried the expenment of endeavoring to effect the removal of a United States officer by making: complaints against him to the Head of a Department.

l no. supenntendant ot the Cumber-; host? ol the faithlul to withstand him. j should be planted. Note, honey locust j land Road in Ohio wa guilty, not on-! Nearly all tho adminstration presses in j or sweet briar plants, may be set out j ly of defrauding the Government, but j the country, in obedience to the in-j when one year old. ! of oppressing and defrauding individu-j vocation, opened their batteries upon 5. Assort your plants. Let your jals with whom contracts were made j him in a simultaneous discharge. The : quicks be assorted; the large, the small, ; for the construction of the road. Ad- j strong men of the Senate.lIayne.Smith, i and the different sizes of the intermedij ded to thi?, heVas notoriously incompe- Forsyth, lienton, Tazewell, Tyler, ! ates. Set the largest on the poorest itent for the discharge of the duties of j Bibb, Grundy, and many others, array- j land, the smallest on the intermediate j his office. Complaints were made to ! ed themselves against him, and disputed l kind of land. In this way your hedge

i the late Secretary of H ar. who sent a respectable and intelligent officer ol j ! 1 tie Army to investigate the charsres ! This officer (Major Talcott.) did on the spot enter into a laborious investi- : gaiion ot t. lie coiuiuct of the supennItendent. He took the testimony of l witnesses en oath, and the superintend-' j cnt had every opportunity of making j i his defence. The testimony,accompa-j ; med by tuc report of Maj.l alcott, wasj j transmitted fo the War Department, j '1 iLTAencara, nor i nave not reaa tiie ; j testimony of the report.) hut I have no ; coubt of the fact, that tnc testimony j did most fully prove the charges made against the superintendent, and the re-i jportol juaj. l alcott recommended his j j removal. Well, sir, was the Superin-j tendent removed ? No such thing. He j still holds the office: and.notwithstand-i j ing the great interest which Ohio has j j at the continuation of this road, 1 be- j ilieve most of her Representatives feel almost indifferent whether any further j 5 appiopriuuons ne maue.iums jsupenn- j j tendent is permitted to hold his office. ! ; We know that the money t ill be i wasted, and that the work will, lanI guish. - I .ni r. ........... inc. fcuperuMoutient ot vhe Lumoer-, land Road is not the only officer who I has been suffered to continue in office, j after proofs of his transgressions had i reached the President. Was the late j Secretary of War removed in consejquence of his attempt, fraudulently. I ) ' to give to Governor Houston the contract for the Indian rations? I derive my knowledge of this transaction not j from the columns of the Telegraph. I riii ...1. l . . 1 . 1 . i ue wnoie aiiair was Known to meal the time it took place. The Editor of the Telegraph gives himself too much credit for defeating this attempted fraud. I under.-tood that it was in consequence of the remonstrances ofthe Delegate from Arkansas, that the contract was not completed, There is cne fact, however, for which lam indebted to the Telegraph; and that is, that the President had full knowledge ofthe bu.ii!cs,and that it did not meet with his disapprobation. Is not William P.. Lewis still suffered to hold his office? And is any further proof needed to convince any man ofhis guilt? . Unlimited confidence in the President is a doctrine unknown to the Constitution. We are placed here, to check the Executive. But now, il is thought the only mark of genuine patriotism to profess the most unbounded devotion to the will ofthe President; and the conduct of every officer, favored by fhe President, must be exempt from all inquiry or censure. " It does not become us," said a Roman knight, in the Senate, boastingof his friendship for Scjanus, and addressing himself to Ticerius " It does not become us to inquire into the person you are pleas ed fo prefer above others, or into rea-;

son. To you Heaven has given a consummate judgment. To us there remains the glory of a cheerful obedience." Language fit for cars 'of a tyrant, master of the lives and property of his subjects; but most unlit for tho

ears ol the Chief Magistrate of a tree People, holding his power by their wj. , reSDOnsible tn ,um for ;ts I ' . I abuse. "what has HE PONE?'1 FROM THE LOUISVILLE JOURNAL. The editors of the Advertiser, appealing to us, exclaim: What has Mr.Clay i done ? The. tariff remains vnchanrcd.l i . i. . .. . i a luxe or letter of its numerous proj visions has svfferred modification.'''' T . H , . . , " e can tell the gentlemen what: Mr. C. has done. At the bcginnm'T of the session of Congress, he went to seat of Government, determined to j protect the American system, in the j present alarming exigency, against the j clandestine assaults of the President j and all other enemies of the nation's j interest. Agreeably to this determina tion. he lost no time in introducing into the Senate, composed' of a majority of nearly two-thirds ot his political op ponents.a resolution to instruct the Com miitee on Manufactures to report bill, securing the protective svstem against danger from the. great lluctu - i ations, past and future, in the condition ; of the country. i ho adminstration j ranks were thrown into confusion bv ; l!!e learlessness and conscious strength of the champion who was thus unfurHtv? the banner of his power among them. The Executive invoked the Ins progress, inch bv inch. Over all! tms oppostion, he has achieved a tri-; umph ot unparailed brihancy. 1 he instructions, which he framed for the protection of his and I he people's favor - ite system, he has, by an all-powerful

ctlort, carried through the Senate. Athe root or vellow part, leaving four

body, where his opponents hare an (buds or eyes, overwhelming superiority of numbers,! 5. Sparc plants. Select a tenth or has been constrained to place, witli its; more of your best plants, aud set in

own hands, toe wreath of victory upon his brow. i nere is no uangor, mat ine musm-, ous Kentuckian, will fail to accomplish j what he has fo glorious begun. J he j Senate h.s expressed its approbation j of his principles, and nothing remains but to cany them into ellect. lie has fought the great battle, and the task, now left him, is a plain and easy one. Having swept down every obstaele, he is going forward to restore the American System to the same beau - tiful symmei try which belonged to it before the misguided spirit of faction nad tugged, nue a mind giant, at us pillars, and disturbed its fair propor - tions. We need say no more; his achievements bear witness for them - selves. The more he is assailed, the . . more do the people behold and admire

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nis greatness, ins lame speaits aloud j me inclined plane or slope, in a in the fierce roar of a corrupt and pen-j straight line, 0 inches apart, (more or sioned press, and glitters and sparkles i less,) and as deep, at least, as they were in the angry curses, that emanate from in tiie nursery; then with a hoe carefulthc envious hearts of his enemies. j ly draw on the mellow earth to cover

From the National Intelligencer. j From Georgia we learn, through; a private channel mat me Aianaate of the Supreme Court of the United States ia the, case of Samuel A. Worcester vs. the State of Georgia (the Cherokees case) having been delivered to the Court to which it was addressed a motion was made by the Counsel for Mr. Worcester to reverse the judgment of that Court, according to the judgment ofthe Supreme Court, and that the motion was refused by the Court. A motion was then made that the Mandate of the Supreme Court should be placed on the record of the Court, accompanied by a motion for a writ of Habeas Corpus, and that this motion was also refused. The argument of those motions occupied two or three days, and the decisions were renfered without any written opinion thereon. Finally, a request was preferred for a certified statement of these decisions of the Court, and it was denied; the Judge taking tho ground, as we had anticipated, of disregarding altogether the Mandate of the Supreme Court. A letter from Palermo, of 3d Jan. states that in the place ofthe volcanic island which had existed for some months, and disappeared lately, is now seen a column of boiling water, about twen-tj-four feet in diameter, rising from between ten to thirty feet above the surface of the tea.

i FROM TIIE HAMILTON INTELLIGENCER. ! LIVE FENCES. j Mr.; Editor: In fulfilment of the ; promise made last week, the following directions for setting and training a ! live fence, are submitted to farmers; j accompanied with an earnest solicitude that some public spirited individuals ; amongst their number will reduce them to practice. These directions are

i mosl.lv extracted from a letter written! by Dr. Shurtleff to his son. published in the New England Farmer, vol. ix., pace 200. and given as nearly in his . '-, . own words, as that abbreviation, which was necessary to compress them with, that abbreviation, which compress them with, i. ... " . . . in our limits, would admit, 1. Materials for for a H -The plants commonly used for a hedge, are the English white thorn. (Crataegus oxycantha.) the purging buck thorn, (romnus cathasticus.) the three thorned acacia or honey locust, (gleditscha Iracanthos,) the red cedar (Junifcrus Tirginiana,) crab apple (pyrue mains,) &c. "1 . T 1 . . i . - but I much prefer the American, Virginia or "Washington thorn (carriaegas cradata.) 2. Season to set a hedge.-- in our climate a hedge should be set out in the spring, before the plants begin to vegetate; and every fibre of the roots! I should be taken up with them: and by no means be cut off. 3. Age of the Plants.--The more age the plants have the better; (say under 7 years) as they are more hardy and j have better roots. Loudon says three j years old is certainly the youngest, that j will grow evenly; but if you set the large and small plants promiscuously, the large will soon overtop the small, and leave your hedge full of gaps. Either before or after planting cut off the tops of the plants about an inch from your Nursery, in wide rows, and at a distance from each other in the rows. that you may fill vacancies in your hedge should any occur. Manure and hoe them, so as to keep them well ahead of your hedge, that when set in a gap, they may not be smaller than their neighbors. 6. Preparation of the soil. Let your land be well prepared, a strip eight feet wide, deep ploughed, well harrowed, raked over and cleared of all sward, sods and weeds. If any part of the land is poor, harrow in well rotted manure; then plough a trench through the middle 8 or 10 inches deep, one! side perpendicular, and the other with a gentle slope, or angle of thirty de-j grees. 7. Mode of planting. Your land and . . - ' plants thus prepared, lay your plants on the roots, and press and pat it down well around them. It will be best not to till the trench completely, but to leave it a little concave above the roots, that the moisture may be retained, and that you may be able to draw a few inches of pulverized earth annually around the roots, to make them throw out new shoots, and this without rising the surface so much,as to lose the moisture. By sloping your plants, small roots strike clown from the old top roots, and you have a great number of new roots to nourish the plants and keep them firm. By cutting off the top of this plant.you will have 3 or 1 strong upright young shoots, starting from the surface of the ground, instead of a solitary old one. 8. Hoeing and clearing. Let your hedge be well hoed and kept free from grass and weeds. A little fresh earth ought to be drawn around the roots at each hoeing. 9. Pruning. Prune either early in the spring, about midsummer, or late in the fall. When you planted your hedge, you preserved every root, but you cut off the top leaving but four buds, these will produce you 4 large stems as supports. These stems must not be pruned or trimmed, on any condition until they are 5 or 6 feet high; then you may trim them down to the height you mean to keep your hedge. But the side branches should be gently trimmed every year, leaving those near the ground so as to have them

broad at the bottom and tapering gradually towards the tops, in the form of a pyramid, or young cedar, or pitch pine. This trimming of the side branches will make them send out more new shoots from those extremities, until, by repeated trimmings, every crevice from

top to bottom of your hedge will be filled up; whilst the unpruned, upright shoots will ascend with strength and support the hedge. 10. Pruning instruments. Trimming is usually performed with a "bill hook," an instrument resembling a broad sword, except that it is more crooked at the point, and has the edge on the other side. It is sometimes performed with pruning shears. In all your cuttings up if you wish to benefit your hedge, cut down if you wish to ruin it. 11. Miscellaneous observations. These directions apply particularly to thorn hedges. Our bottoms would produce the finest live fences. Forest trees planted in a hedge row make a beautiful appearance, but they shade and injure the fence. Honey locust would grow too large. Cattle and sheep must not bruise your plants before they arrive at maturity ; therefore begin the work while you have old fences to protect them. 12, Errors and Mistakes. In my first hedge, my land was a tough sward, not well prepared, and I set my large plants, that were two years old perpendicular; for my second hedge, set out two years after, the land was well prepared and I set my yearling plants sloping. The second is now ahead of the first. I lost one year's growth of my hedge by planting two rows of potatoes on each side of it, the tops of which grew so luxuriantly that they completely shaded the hedge. My grand error was in cropping the tops once, and generally twice a year, with the expectation of making the hedge thicker at the bottom, and more impervious throughout; but it had a contrary effect. The offener I cropped the top the more weak shoots came out, where cut, shading and ruining those below. The top of the hedge became wide and bushy, and the bottom weak and destitute of branches. Those which I did not crop have large firm stems and have thrown cut large strong suckers from their roots making a fence impenetrable to an enraged horned bull. I ought not to have trimmed the main steins, after th.3 first pruning, until they were 5 or feet high. 13. Recapitulation. Prepare your land in the best manner; use suitable plants of thrifty growth; assort and accommodate to the different kinds of soil; preserve all the roots, but crop the tops leaving only four buds; keep a few in your nursery; set them a little sloping and leave the ground a little concave about the roots; keep them clear of grass and weeds; and a little earth at each hoeing; trim the side branches carefully and leave the main stems to mature, till they are six feet high, then crop off the top to the height you mean to have your hedge. It will look like a wedge with the sharp end upwards, and will exhibit a most beautiful appearance. In eight years my second hedge was a sufficient fence. By following the above directions, a better hedge, can be raised in half the time Ruricola. THE PEACH TREE. I have somewhere read the opinion of an eminent orchardist, that tha blossoms buds of peach trees generally perish when the mercury sinks 2e) deg. below zero. These are two circumstances however, to which I believe that writer did not advert, one of which at least, is of great importance in determining the temperature at which they would perish, namely: whether the buds after they are fully formed and matured, do, or do not become started or swelled by mild weather, either at the close of autumn, or some time during the winter. The peach bud when mature but not started, is very hardy, and I suspect will not lose its "vitality much sooner than the branch that supports it. In this dsstrict where the peach tree is extensively cultivated, and where the mercury rarely descends more than ten or twelve degrees below zero, wa never ascribe the loss ofthe blossom buds to the cold, unless they have started. When this happens however, few degrees of frost arc sufficient to destroy them. Our severest winters are often succeeded by plentiful crops of peaches.. Duelling. It is aid that by the Mexican laws, if a man kills another in a. duel, he becomes answerable for alibis debts.

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