Weekly Messenger, Volume 1, Number 76, Vevay, Switzerland County, 23 February 1833 — Page 4

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WEEKLY FEESSSHGEU'

To l iso citizens of Switzerland an'I Ripley counties. .( jii.t-iis I avail mvselfof tin

-:-! !o.-a .1; :i rrptic v iil'tT .1 lf I jr Iili)- ; i es sessioa. t irve v.'M an ouiline of the h !)-rs attempted changes in our System ot" i t vv S. Without detaining you with an ac- ( ;. 1! i,( :ev volt either (or or against :i. measure. 1 vili e;v (mi ;i I'n' fab- !' !, x ;! fit" Sunk o'icsiioii. which :,.. r.i.m- to whi.e, wiil.m this or-j sri 1 avow mv v-i-s and the rr;iMtn hv ui!i''i t!nv were governed: or the re- 1 refer vn l,t the ne-.v -papei and ' en done hv w .e tiling pnwe: i-si a innil'irf i i;-i inie .in ciini ren.ler or 11 1 vice to the pen'd - v. l- n

,r. s....t-.hv i.rewntirj; tu-ittv,t f",'l,,,i "erally and not a fe-v , bid law f.v rfofinirr!',1,:l,,h' r"sons o.ily nonM be accom ' & I : ,.! .... I .. ill. I.. .... 1 .-..! -......

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I ,t ,,(,,. . .1-1,1 "mi Hiiin. niniuiii HJ.umt .;.,7 r,:,de to i ,!,.!" ,)"' that the bank and branch- ! " .. .. I I U.. . 1 ; . 1...

r. v a '!;.!! pnii.n o wur repu'ilira a !i''!?v. bv pri'veiitia otj from v ii"n m a .?!( r I vv nshi than the ,.! ; nn n you i'e..if. A p'o:--i?;n!i as (n-de hv resoi. ii !'. ! n i-r a! the act for th-5 enrnui- , "lo-'nt o.; crimnon schods. St'-Hn--it iitiv se"n, -i; h a propoi";iun n !ai:':. t!o p ir i. ilip cenai;' en fir a to n f d to a commiMre, but t!w co't'noi ;.-r if pii-tf-d unlavi.ir.il)!? lo the ji vi-.il, a'-.-i t'ir ''".i ttc r.iicui r d iath"; r ' p ' . And i to he te f d tint the e '"i- t r r t of their 1 hildien will m f. . . . ..1 1 -A.. iijre ne o ii m r 'o in jeo;M: of Inn a! a- !; 1 !i c.-.na? h e! will nut n-un m ;..av man lo the -1, ,t.,r j u-n. .IA n,!-,-tv w ! 1 d- -i'i o liive iiiscnbcd on hitorn .)-' i:-e. iie.e he.anene.ov tof.ee! . I -1 ,- ,r.v f ... I I" s( li'ii!:-. r-: 1 ii ae sure 01 so looiorah';e e.rm"-nio. v, onld have l!ie to';e ! 1'-. 1. . 1 i O. Oi t'(t 1 the ioseriptioii carved in !-.';tiing les! kis fiientU to erect a i'lr-iiunien; in vtnh his sentiments wiiite o--i-ll g At'vnp?s were made, hut without e;K-' t, lo c h 1 ge the pieiMle coui t sy s t.-o-. la the m'rP'ia there is one vita! ciiu:-. which it h ped mny pro d ! (' s ihi'at v ellr-'Ct.-. Though ins-'fi:e tew reeifie'.;s thei o are hoiMiralile exrroti .-, et it is in undeniable fact. tht in m M of 'lie iegi:i-cnts of (his S'atc, !o military science is acnuireil ov avis rriii 13 v the present law ihe private fi-is to pay St 60 per annum 3 m- nested of military duty. Hy the amended law ativ private who will pnv Nl lo the ti-ooif-e of the county -ean r-arv.or (o "lie chool poi-n'T)iss"itr.er, at his d'-c i etion. before the first dav ot 0 toHr-r i eai h vear, --hall be X'-oipi froiji mililarv doty in tr-nes of peace, e ept in aid of the civ il a u: hori ! ies . S i. nj'.d !,e choose to pay the uioue ti; tn;- sc!i.)1 CDtinai -ionf-i, in that cast; 1'. ! to tie applied to the support ol the 1 oeianni si h ds t-f the towi Miip ii. whu h he reM.lcs. Ii perhaps is imt a Very wild conjecture th-tt thi- little act will do more iio-ad than ail the acts ot oicoi p or ! ti.iti iieretefiii e enacted in out s-a'e. Iii-nigii it mav meet wnh opp jVnrn s-.moo nuhtarv ntiemen, i! .:: !-t rrmern'iered, th t! -"oine dis ii ti -:- let! (;)di;riiy jX'-ntl-'Cjn'n were its Mv-p irtev-: unniig them generals Ior '' ' L --g tte Jailer venth-maii is i io tli. rrrdit of tie1 pmie.ction. ;.;o i, ma' e ol u-ir nurseries of I. -ii.j in alter times. wi'!l ciiant the ni;ie o Long e.s a gieat p.ublic bent-fi-t.-.r. A odl pa-ed the senate to provide t ?r tne reception into tiie Indiana CdI .".'e - iiinoiningt on. of an equal number of boy from e.irh rountv in the e. to Lo educated fi "e o( expense. 'I "his bill fell in the lower house, not fi -mi its want of merit, hut because it came with a throng of bills on the I is! day of the session, and had to he 1 i 1 over iviib (he unfinished business. A ie'g.- lias been incorporated at ! i:-o-t:r, in J ip ron county, which is t be cti .tlui li d upon the manual la. bor sy-tein. -f ::'H:- bank bill were injrodurpd , l"o in the senate and one in the house. A-" to the xnedienry of any or cither c; r,. bids, or of tbe" stale tmharki m i .to ha-if. ing, is a subject on which 1 t :i n. t -utftt ieatly informed to he ah!' to iorin a better opinion than most ot m consiiiuents; yet a sorted bank maei i sr-ems t he perv ufing some pari- of the state, and if l ditl wrong bv v!ii,j it, favor of the biils of the Feus., vTas tj j uto that error bv letters from several of the most respectable citizens in Ripley county. Those r.l;, whether politic or not,-were cer t.mdy constitutional. Tho bill that passed the house, as it came from tha body, if it had been constitutional, was Tt t well calculated to accommodate tb faiming irterest and the citiiens generally with loans. It provided that li;erei no doubt, thnt a few years n-ro, one ef (!ie counties of Indiana c ected a man who p'itd;hed these sentiineiit.s for the purpose of rendering himself more popular. Such is the inarch of intelligence, tii at those peupls would now duepise such a man.

ght have pei manent loan's or hve year loans lo the amount o! :x( their sine k: at the same time 'he oneinai payment required to ena - ide ihe ank t ijo into operation, was 1 p nnin.l of 30.000 in 0.000, or 3 8 i ffn h sloe kholder so. that, by paying tv'VJiV a sloe kholder could draw $400, as a permanent loan; and in obtaining; loans stockholders always having the preferenre. the great body of the peo pie would riot he henehtted by accom mo """ b'U most he hit to apply t 1 he fU.is iag-shnp of the lucky stockudders, the priviledged feu who could draw money from the banks. Tidiest tire in the bill I voted with others 'o -1 r i k out, and it was so done, not with the intention of voting for the hill. . I. . 1 . .1. : . . r . 1 it ' 10 nirnnon,ii 11 sdouid pas. ,.- nr; M-lircliHiC illlll IIIMt IH"(l-dr-t iacorp-iralion wav proposed to He clianved 90 :.s to make a joint reftsfinlitv, conforming to the letier Hid sph ii of the constitution "A Mate bai-k and tranc hes," according to Iht tenth article, of the constitution, and aoi a mere imme. This aniendinerit I supported, and i'h (hi? ini?ndm nt I could hve voted for the bill withou' consi ieutious consMlulion.l scniples wiiluoit it, with my undo: slaadii." i( the contilu'ioi, it waa impr.i-.j vole lor it. The amendment w no: m ole, ami tile m!l l-ll. It vv as altemptt-. l . .. . . I :. t .. ...ti : . 1 r" 'i J i.n.j; 11 oui at.O f'rUZ ! stend the piir,ri,.-al p,rt 3 mro,lU(r(l t.y tir. Min-. vni.n tv as constitutional, hut wittiou T. 'Pi. .1. 1.1 '"" "o uio.ni nnstitoti-.iotl. -and that tie; tic. ion f the nauie ''branches, unci a p. , n -v

isiixkhohlers mi

r . 1 1 , -i i r. f ',: ' . -. , 1 r fund, made it un. I his safety fund .cent as 11 was lormoily.

was in tho .-,.nrliivn r.( t., jv, r i : t failures for .yl.'JOO of stftck, wi,i, uiilit be lawfully extended to an i-eue of doi!'e the amount, 5"2.000, and nn-l-iwf'ully e!(Michd. to what amount n evils ,iud inst curiv. time ainl the ore ra ! in.as ot suth an institution alone . ..! deir riiiii.e. U vvas not "A ia!e bank a -i! branches." M was. us I beheve, a ,?ie villi widt h to cover a vie itina t iliat p.ilai of our slate go eiMneet whiih I had s.v oin to su.,. poit. Four per cent, o a the si - ck of the ijioliier i ink and 5 branche-, a mounting to 9t0,000. would make 3;?.. 400, as a security agaiest any and aij contingeni ies that might occur. One institution aione, or branch as ii j rail ed, vrnuld have Mock to the amomit of I b'0,000. Ii might issue hiw fully, no'es to the amount of 320,000; and yet 38.. '100 is provided as a safety fund for six ucl banks, nirk-numed branches. This pittance of a safely fund, it would seem was to be always ready to meet any coun'iegenc ie. But your a-tou mnt will not be a little excited when you are told, that it would have taken eight years lo collect this fund together for on-ly one hull ot one per cent, is to he paiJ yearly into this fund. la eight years it amounts to four pei

cent -ttien it stops acfu iiulatiiig and current j ir:-dici on u!er the ;lh.Mcif it should he called for to help pay tioil of the practice act, which autliorthe defalcation ot one or all nf the-e ises the appoiritme, t of a commissioner hanks, then it will take another eight to make and cx; uie d' eds to real es-

years lor it aaiu to grow to the vast bulk of four percent, and it would take: two bundled years to lay up civxighl at this rate to pay for one lotal failure. J And if the banks issued double their iumount of stock, and ail failed, it would reaniie four numlien years to collecti

ths safety fund, It pay Ike losses with- unimportant changes which it would out interest, if there was no bank pro be irksome for me to detail and more pertv for that puipose. Cut this is ex- irksome for you to read. travaaiit, it will be said, il the banks One important thing in which you will not and canimt fill: well, suppose all have or ought to have a deep conone only fails, for double the amount cern 1 will not omit; it is the school

inf her original slock a lawful issue,

3 20 000; Ihe salety fund will have to ships, eve. I hey have been revised he tiiled and re filled eight limes and a and embodied into one act, and made little inore than a third, (o pay this much easier to comprehend. Some nm, without interest, and being eight few changes are embodied in this reyears in tilling, it would lake a little Vi-io;i. They are mostly as follows: more than sixty six years, by ibis a(j Any five householders may petition for unliable constitutional safety fund, to an election, to ascertain whether the

pay the losses without interest and

this would be a year or two longer than township trustees may alter the bounds ihe farmers would choose to watt foof any school district on petition of a the redemption of bad notes, which majority of the district. The district they hair received for their corn, pork, trustees are to be elected by the inhaand wheat. This i th binding chain j bitants of the district. The iuhabitwith which the people are to be delu- ants of each district form a little com-

ded into the belief that this incorpora-jmunity,

'ion i4 a slate bank 'and branches 'twould be ns reasonable - to anchor a hip of i00 tons, with an osier twig, and call it a cable. ' The people of Indianapolis were some of them very etiicous in endea voring to influence the votes of the senate. Their senator, Mr. Fletcher, who was chairman of the. judiciary committee,- feeling himself oppressed by the importunity of his constituents, resigned his seat rather than vote for the hill of the house, which he thought unconstitutional. The four members of the convention that formed our consiitution, who were members of the senate, to wit: Robb, Pennington, M'Carty, and Graham, voted against the bill of the house because they thought 't unconstitutional. And Gen. llannu, i he only member of the lower house

J who had neen a member of the conven -

1. on, oppose.! u as un m.uiuuohi ; 01 these five, Haima, M"C;rty, and (ira lham. eie friendly to a constitutional bark. Twenty five thousand d.-llars are to be expended on the Michigan road, be tween Logansport and the Ohio river, hut in case the 20.000 heiehdore ordered to be expended between Logans port and Michigan, will not make thai part of the road as good as the former, then so miif-h of the 23 000 are to be expended on the Utter as lo make ?arh equally good. DomeMif attachments may be issued to several counties if l vied on property or served on a garnishee in the eounlies in which they are issued. The 60'h section of the road act is repealed, and the county commi-sion ers are to allow supervisor? sr h com pensatiou as they may deem just and r-'.KO'iable. Two hundred and fifty dollars of the three per cent fund is added lo the former appropriation for building a bridge over Indian Creek. $'2M of the same ior uie 1 lumo creen Dnoge. i.ami o! - lite certitu aiesare declareded evidence of legal title. In appeals from a Justice judgment, either party may amend his statement or detetice, without changing the 'na ture ot the action, by payi g all costs that have acciued up to thai lime, or confessing judgement tor .-aid costs and replevying uie same, nut such last ua- : I I t ... rued judmcnt is not lo carry a docket fee. Courts may he adjourned in times of pestilential di.-ea-e lor a limited time. The interest law is so changed, that no higlicr rate of interest than ten per cent per aimumcan be contracted for, 1 o wnang, tne standard rate is six nrri Tl le . . 1 ..... v.tiimi , ,i tin liUl! or Congressmen ii taere be a call ol Congress before the fu-t Monday in August. Our Congressional Piricl is conifoed cd' the con ties o! i'raklin. Dearboni, Switzerland, Uipb.y, Decatur, and Ittisii. JuMitos of tlie Peace are to have cot-current juri-diction witii (.'ircuit Courts in eases of Foreign Ailachmeut, to the amount of li)u, and where no real estate is levied on. Persons who pursue and apprehend hor.se thieves, are to he allowed any sum out of the county treasury, not exceeding forty dollars, at ihe option of the county commissioners. Hills and note- filled in the Clerk's office are to answer instead of declarations. I cannot tell wheter this will or will not make every man a lawyer, until it has stood the scrutiny of experiment. Circuit and Probate Courts are both to have original jurisdiction in cases where executors, .idiiii..istrators, and guardians are parties. Probate courts are vested with the right to partitwi: cs-ales and assign dower. Probate and Circirt ecurts have con late, in cases where the obligors ol bonds for till:- ate d-ad. Horse ra-eingaed shooting at a mark across or along a State or count v road. are prohibited under a penally not el .reeding three dollars. there are many small anil rattier law respecting Congressional towntownship will sell their land. The and may meet as often as they may think proper and vote to build or adopt a school house, to employ a leacher,to asses a school (ax, and though this is to Qe decided by a majority, y et any one that is dissatisfied may witlidrawhis support from the school, and may thereby exempt himself from any tax, which tax can rever exceed i per cent. District trustees may be removed by the inhabitants of the district. Where part of the inhabitants of a district are separated from a school, by an impassible stream, the township trustees may give them a premit to send to any other school, and yet they may draw funds. There are several minor changes, but the most important is the revision itself, though it cannot be expected to be perfect, having been done amid the huny.oflegislatioii. The amendments

jwiih the previous laws on the subject

-are divided into short section?, perspic1 1 , , 1 . 1 uousiv Mated and methodically arrah - ged. This law is to he published in pamphlet form, with an index, and is to be furnished to every Congressional

tovvnsinp, and every school district in " United States shall consist v in 'lLthe State, and to each school cornmis- " vying w;.r against them. or 1.1 ridh rsioner. In t!ie great labors attendant ing to their enemius, ivin Iliem aid upon this improvement of the school " and comfort." " " laws, Mr. James Whitcomb, t'ue Sena-j In theliialof Aaron B irr, it was detor from Monroe county,and chairman cided that the term 4 -levying wr,w of the education, committee, was the ;bas that i-eiise in the Cniitution wldcb principal and most ctficient actor. Itjt was understood lo have in the tatulo is more than prouahle that the commit-'of Ed ward III, from which it was detee e.u'-ossect as its several members ' rived ; and ih it aa asembl aft Df m-nr were with other legislative concerns, ;desii;ninr a treasonable purpose such coulJfnever have accomplished the task j war hg-iinst Rdveriimcii1, or rev dubut for the indefatigable exertions of lionizing any of its territories, and in Mr. Whitcomb. a condition to mke such w,tr. e nsti' It is proper here to remark, that a tutes "levy :ng of war." To 'levy war school district may build as cheap ajtroops mut be embodied -men house as they ple.ase, and out of such i be opealy rais.dj but neither arms, or materials as they please, even round! the actual application of the force to

1 lozs. f :t liohtpd and m .dn romf.wt. able for the teacher and scholars but 'if thev wil, not build a hnu.-nnpm.-iin-Stain a" school part of the time, those dis;tncts that will do it, will draw all the money, l or turther particulars I must refer you to the newspapers, the jour nals and the laws when thev shall be j printed If in the discharge of the ma - ny concerns with which you have so kindly entrusted me, I have failed to fulfil y our wishes or expectations, that failure has not heen'produced bv indifit 1 ui negie: i, out irom a want otr i . . 1 . r . the knowledge of what were vour wish es. Fiomthe citizens of Switzerland

1 received no expression of any wish)'00

011 any general rrjnject. Ut the citizens of Rinley I may say the same, with toe exception ot a few letters from som A: -.1 . . '",,!U - ' "viiueaurig- u.e esiaa isnment Lf.n lv,,.L-., tu.?t ,..:..,i 1 x V" V'"1 1 "eoeve 1 ll;Vl ll lone as they would have done had they been at the spot with a view of the the whole matter before them. Accept, fellow-citizens, mv unfeigned thanks for your many expressions of confidence. JOIIX DUMONT. '!:" IM.KiS LIFE' SOCIETY. Mr. Ciay piesented, in the Senate, I in. 13, a memorial from certain perons in the West, representing them selves as Subjects of Endlm ie," -t iling that they had made great moral and religious improvement?, and ask t ig an appropriation of land in aid ot lo ir objects. He was puzEled, he s aid, to know what he should do with the paper;, bat as they had been sent io hiir , be should, be supposed, become a '-ubject' of their endless' enmity, unless he presei ted them. The pe-ilion-rs, very mod-stly , asked merely a life (stale, in the land, but the committer on public land, to which he proposed to refer the memorial, would remaik, hat accoiding to ihe fiiili of (he pt !i (ioners, a life estate-, to thm, would be an esfafc i , p rpi-la-ly. The memorial was referred lo ihe committee on pub ie lands. I3'-ing curious to knv somelhiee more of this fantasy,! subsequently obtained an opportunity to peruse the papers winch eonsWi of the memorial above referred to, and a letter from r. ie same source, commending it to the special attention of Henrv Clay- and tvicnaiu iVj. Johnson. The memorial comi"ien lhu: 'The mei).",ria of the sabject of endb ss life, residing jn the west, hav iag s.iui k the Rock of Principle higher ihau the highest in relation to the great purposes and end of our being, and giving to ur bodies, aoulj, and spirit perpetual existence p-m this globe, which ii the consummation of ancient and modern lore, that which kings and phophets long desire the sight of, and the knowledgt of which cannot be communicated to the unsavored mind," &c. " V e ask a lease of land for this subject or principle a some of the government lands, near the inouthof the Ohiu on the Mississippi; fenced with all the guards to shut out interestedness w (nth the wisdom of your body ran devise, for the life (natural) which we say will be (endless) of Alexander AkDaiiNl, now 60 y ears of age, in appearance weak and infirm, sare the the buildings or immortality !'' Tke memorial goes on to tdate that the New Paradise will be placed at the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi that there the Tree of Life will be planted and the 'Subjects of Endless Life' gathered togethar. The number of us,' it further states, is at this time l'ior 15, though not all are now here.' it is signed. 'Leonard lo'ies and Henry Hanla, a Shaker for several y ears, excluded from that soriety for this blessed faith,' Sec. It is dated 'M ercerco. Ky. Dec. 15, year of our Lord, 1832, and of Endless Life the 1st.' What is Trason against the V. S. As the crime of treason U now of course much discussed, and the question often asked what constitutes trea sou against this government! we copy fiom Ihs National Intelligencer the

j f Ihuv ing condensed vi- w .f ilr- ..,!,.

ec t. (hat all may undeistand wlt r.-i.. Istituies an overt ai t, as decide') hv Ui& United Stales Court. Uv the 3d section of th '.t .:!. 1 the constitation, "Treason aii st the the object, are ind'speni..biy requisite. Ttie meeting of particular bwdu s of men and their man hi . from plar s of pai uai 10 places ot geuer .I r-ndeZ.uU i such an assemblage aj tonsliiutes o levy in-g war." To march in arms, with a force marshaled and arraved. r,.mm;. !'ts of violence in order to cnmoid'ibZresignation of a public officer, a-,4 thereby to render inellective an a' t uf Congress, H II -n Treason. v ne it war 1- ene I, who pe'f r.T nart I .. . i ...... .. . . r r " 1 'mnuie or reuj.-it.- 1 -m t 1a scene ol action, being h.u j lt ihe tre.teral 1 ou.iMr.in-. . .. . j luiiiiiiit nea- '-'- 'H ting ohjeer or commit ssirv. iii), .v., pw lue armv.u gtuUy ot l.e.tsou in ex-cuting his offi. e. Il any one advise, mocurf or !inand an overt act of Ire,,,, r. guilty as nn accessary. By an act of April 30th, 1 790, if any person, having knowledge of tie c,rr m.-ion of any treason, shall conceal', and not, as soon as may be, di-close the same, to il.o j... jju.l,s?e or gvvenor, .-uch person isgoilty i'lcriuciii, or soma of nutprison of treason, and is liable to be lmiuoned seven yearn, and fined, one thousand dollars. SLAVERY. The Rev, John Ka.ki, a presby. leiian clergyman ei Onm. ha published a little volume on tin- u ject of slavery in the Uuiieu Stales, for which every good man must frel grateful to him. It ishows its author to be one of lhoe who ore called the salt of the earth, because they preserve it from putrescence. He states that in 1824, two slave trde-s in Kern nc k , nam. d S7one and Kuutiugknm. had coll cci a drove onsisiuij; ol forty r en and iliirty women. Tlie men were handcuffed aid toimed in ranks; and a chain about forty feet long, passed bei ten the ranks, tu wbi. h handcuff, of each file were attached by smaller chains, xmuected like branches with ihe larger one. The women, yoked together, we.e A rmed in the rear. At their head were po-t. d two muiciarm, ai d about the untie was the Jmchcan fa, borne bv hands in manucles. la ihis order the r rores-ion mo ved to Ihe sound of merry n-u?ir fowards the slave rnaiket cf He Orieans. j hey were seen by the f; v. James Dukev, passing through lie town of Pari, n Kentucky, and he poured out his gijef a,id indignation in an eloquent ami touchii-e letter to a friend, giving and acco unt of the abomiuatioii. A case occurred a (c years ago in the court of chancery ol South Carolina, nf which the Uels were these: 4 planter named Walker died, leaving by his last will certain real and persor al estate to the trustees for ibe use and support of hi negro slave Betsey and her three children, who wtre abo bequeathed by him to the ame trustees, with a direction to make them tree. The questions far the conrfc were, whethtr they could be made free in this manner, and whether the boquests and devises in their favor, (i being well understood that the testator was the father of the child ren were to be executed and paid. Itquestions were derided in the negative. And Chancellor Desnus?ure. in pronoum ing ihe opinion of the court, held the following langna": "The condition of slaves in this country is analagous to that of the slave g of the ancients, the Greeks and Romans, and not that of the villeins of feudal times. They are generally not considered as persons, hut as things They can be sold or transferred a goods or pcsonal cidalc; they are held lo be pro nullis pro mnrtuis. Almost ll oui statute regulations follow the principles of the civil law in relation to slaws, except in a few cases, wherein the manners of modern times, seft. entd by ihe benign principles of chrisnanny, could not tolerate the security of the Roman regulations. They cannot be tortured, they cannot be put to death with impunity." Liberator. Why is spring welcome to the trees! Ik-cause they are rc-lcmed by its approach.