The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 4, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 December 1827 — Page 1

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yej, ,j,p citisons "f Kranklin counici'lIV t" the administhe Geneia! Governrrn-nt, •ii leading anJ prominent leal- ,'of i'i p-l«cv both foreign and

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V'«tir. assembled for the purpose „ivinj a free and candid expreso! our opinions and our cordial fo the great svstem of

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Manufactures,

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j-'.'vciicrisliHi* a .-id patronized bv -General Government, by the reeioii of »!m Quncy Adams to, presiJency of tue United States, i.i-e views aie kno.vn to he d-ecid-dlv ieadlv to these measures, and IYVJ has horetoloie given them an, lifcrmand consistent support eaveina ^p'rit of candor and lib •alitv. touli-cr to oui tellow-citUens, ome'of the principal reasons which

ue:ice our opinions, and to invit '•ie.il to co cp^rate with us in tiieir iiippoir, and to aid by all fair and billable exeitions in the attainment of the jreat object we have i'i :eiv, the security and permanence Itif tuoic measures, and the continu li'.ig in power those a'.jie an 1 futhful i*rva:it3 of tiie p-:!)j)ie who have [i. rou }i goo 1 and evil report, wit!) a [constancy and finniv rs deserving ttie •lii^ln-'St praie, amidst t!:e most em littered coiiflictsof party, adhered |lo n::J zealously mai:.lji:icd tlirni-

Ueep!y impressed, by a ri^id scru |u:i» into the conduct and sentimenttiie esitip.2 parties which now IviL'te aud divide oar country, with I ne tincere conviction, that tiiesi h^a-uifs, so Pisrn'.ial to the futur. Kire^tness, stability & ind-pendenc-hf the nation, and of such vital im parlance to the people of the we^JKin states, aro put in jeopardy bv iMcprospect of the elevation of gen. IAndrtu Jjckson to tiie Presidency, Uiulirntdn example most dan^erou ptpu'jlic liberty and the durability jf'f t.'jr f.ee and inppy system of go iUvr,mentis syu»ht to De established l* [.!acii.-2 in the presidential chair a howevi1 rena .vned in ar in ^it!i no other claim to the office but

'notary success, we djcm it a ^crpih].j(j. owe to ourselves and plenty, if, ,,tne forward at such trials and employ the best efforts ir, p'uver to prevent his election,

tncreby avoid such an eximple "t) ddoat one of the chie! ob c^of t'io-e who make use of him ^'•fi.ctby stratagem the destruction

H'.«ajijrea which tiiey could not rv.i«,e sjccessluHy oppose, eithei '^we die p.'dple or iri the legislative *r*L11« o! t'ue rid'.ion. oppnsirio the success of general

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C'iuntiy, Witli these sentii:j -liH lavor, we cicnotdistlie puiiiy of l.i^ p-inciples nor J"c

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to our confideLce individua!' 'Land fueling toward him the most ^ent ^ratilu(le lor his brilliant ifary ac li^vments and the giory

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have conferred upon our country Must wiiii equal frankocss allirm ti)3'- HN helieye hit^ ([ualitied (ij,. cnomaatous ji^d coznpiiof the etuei ^ig*:uuve

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tagistrateof this country. Gilt th a temper unwilling to bro ontro'. rash, violent and wilful, a-' ustomed to follow the dictates is own will unfettered bv the r. traints nf the laws, he is illy quailed bv habit and education tosuh .lit to the duties they imnose, or »-ar with calm and dignified coo* i»ure the acrimony of pirty spiri' »r those salutary excesses of liber! nsepirable from the nature of a fr constitution. O this his whole li bounds with proofs. At the liea our ar iies he trasnpl-'d withou rpm'rt' t!i^ nio-^t sacred provision «i' ie ii!-iii:u*io under his feet, the •v it of

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Kiorida. l»vi oxeicised the e\'r iordi .)ary powers of Ins ollir.e with a latiude, l.^friine and despotic, and in private life, his conduct Ins been trke.l b) p: ivate broils, outrage and oloudihed. With feelings of no lit tie piin a^id rejret we have found •lurselves constrained to advert to thjse Ldeniiihes in a character, which .vc ui!ied to chensli as identified with a proud pi^i in our country'? .i-itory, and must willingly would we have consigned tliem to oblivio.i out for the peculiar character of the times, wtucsi requires the truth fo told, however painful the tas-.k, or howpver humiliating the Let? it may d..-close. »i \Vith great industry and S'dicitu ie we have looked into the volume of ms life for those evidences of his civil talents which alone would te-t his capacity and titness fur the duties of the civil magistrate. These have not been found. We have looked in vain through the whole wl his pubiic service both in the councils ot the state in which lie lives, anil the different b-g' periods in which he served in the congress ot the U. b'ates, lor some speech or public document spoken or written by him, w:ncii shows him

capable of taking a luminous and masterly view ot the public concerns, or that he is in any wise versed in those great principles ol international law, and the intricate St profound arcana

of foreign policy, wmcn c.in

stitute by tar the mo arduous and important put of the duties •i IVrsidc.nt. 1! any exist, t.icy hivi' eluded our researches aoddclied ou: toils And wo think it rarely o. iiiiver happen that w.iere tne op poi tunity nas m) f. equently occur eo toil thesta.eof ibiic ailaus req ined the etruru that a legislator a.ni siate^nian, itn an enlarged capicit or pK?li'w business) an-1 eii'-iowed wi.,, ibilities of a hi^h o.der, would n, on some occasion in the course ol !„ii'' life, have fu.i.ished lame t,i deiice ac leait, ol the superiority, .is understanding. No. Iuvin,» fu iiahetl ti.M evidence, we aie cjio^c. (J to presume he is deficient liiest lalifritioiis, and that he is askin do much at our hands when he aA be p'aced in a situation in the government wtiicn nq ities the »n stant exercisii of these jualitie, an wliich neither natuic iur cdacatio. li-. (jualifi-d i»n to 'l.

Tiiesc objections would' go fo hi•xclusion under ail circum jtances but there are ethers of a loimida^li character against him wh.cn if the. •Hood alone, ig!it, as wecynieive. t( prevent ui Irom according to him oui support. Apart, then f- here--V tnat the highust civic honors nici. .vo.ili & merit cm obtain in a cou irv,w!iich boasl Uie supremacy civil rule, arc to be won on the li.UI of b'.ood, we would Irom the ciiarac ter of the uppvsi'in and the \iewof national po.icy eotertiined by th\ ^reat body of his supporters in tin •outhern States, yet rtreiiu usly op-po-e hi election. 'I'hcse s.atesai no v:i to be opp-ised "to tnc Ain -r:can system, to what is u-uilly cu.led tiie tarilf, a sysieo winch has brought ur ill jiiulact ncii to tiieir prcsenl state of nnturity and will if pre--evered in at no vemote period, renler us entirely independent of for -i mi na-ions f(r a I the neccssa»ies of ii£, and ultimately swell into a prolific source of nationaf levJnue. i'h.s is pro^ 'd beyond a doubt by the and kpeecnes ol then (»el-,-gations in Cut re^, including those ot enr.cssec ihei&elf, and the general tunc oi public sentiment prevailing in the goutt i.

Among the^i Virginia in most prominent: fo.

her legislature at tiieir

session in imposing attiUide of representatives id the people, in the lorm ot resolutions alter solemn argument, emph iticallv denounce the poTicy both as unconstitutional and inexpedient. Vhey also denied th power over Infernal Improvement: and this too, in the face of the extemporaneous exposition ol the con atituUoo by those who framed it anu app» uveti l^v cvcr/ admiaistiation

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No "dupe to party tool power"—Nar slave to Minions of an hour."

TEURB-IT VUTE, VIGO COUNTY, INDl\XA, HEOEM3 Eli 29, 1827. V* H..

rom tha foundation of tie govern ignt, and what is most remarkable, the very man, (Mr Gilo) who in oduced the resolutions. Here is a ep not to he mistaken in its im t. r.ily unique in its -ineiples, hostile not minatory in its character. Ir jves u^great pleasure to state tiiat If. Madison," a name bright venahfe in o'ir history, the author ol

Virginia resolutions of 179S, and ailed io his own state the orthodox •xp ^itor of the constitution, has re•ently in a letter written to the press •xpressed his strong disapprobation the conduct o( the legislature and ully afTirms the power under the ^institution, in Congress, to adopt a system of protecting duties for the ncouragement of our own manufactures. And who can doubt the p-o-•iriety of the measure lias not experience, the wisest ot ail things, demonstrated its utility who can visit our store-houses and take a survey of American fabrics with wliich their shelves are tilled, both cottons and woollens, arid££te the almost incredibly low prides at which they are sold, and take*a retrospect ot the past, hut a tew years back, when but few, if any were to be Seen, when scarcely any but foreign goods were be had, "and these^of an interior rjualitp and sold at the highest prices, can wish for a moment to debtioy this system, compel us again to have our wO! shops in Europe and reduce us to our former State of commeic:a! vassalage to the boasted miitresS o. the seas Our Southern brethren are opposed to it from inteiest, their staple commodities cotton, rice and to iacco find a ready and pr.dilaLle market in Great Britain in exe.ia^g' for these, they obtain ot her all the goods and articles of luxury which either their pride or necessui ies re quire. tiieir opposition. Not with Us in the I'^ iitein extern states. Eng'and has hermetically seal-d her poi ts against a.1 tnc staple pi'oduciitins ot tlie W est. S.ie does not take live hundred doila wort id her biead stull* in a y*'ai, »v..e.» we buy and consu oe millions ul li inu acturcs in the same tiare. Itliis lair is it either just or wise, .at'-te should submit to bet .epiu lers ol her vast coUojJI puvei, ilu iium'j!e dependants ot her a ti !..s and mechanics and receive no cjr re-ponding ucus.fl.s in ietu u." who io olnuled uy p.»r.y spun as to an -wer in tue a'dii mauve

O the &uuject ol Interna! Improvement we presume but lutie need -e said iis advantages arc too oLm )U

io e.-cape the moat careless nb ^eI'ver. ho does ,t feel the waia o! good roads and canals leading t.. d'dcrent maiU ol trade enablu lo get the Oesi maikets (or oar produce, a..d bidding every section ol ie country toget.ui by the stroi.gesl igatujes ol interest a alleclion lad these laciiities been provided, ie nation would not tiave ucen »ad lied with halt the immense deDt inui red ilu mg the war: our a:nies would have been Ud ami travs,rrted at hall the cost: the (J..na!as •lignt have been conquered and the var terminated, it not with more glory to our arms, at least in halt tlie Lime and with a great diminution oi peisonal sulVermg. Convinced Irom 'lie naiUiC of things beyond all cavil, t.iut next to the practice a. muication ol tiee pi ncpies and tin "Acrcise ol the ciiristiaii chanties, nore uepeuds on tins pol'cy lo give trengih and union to our country uid tu accelerate tlieiap:d deve.ope oent ol her re.^ouices man any other, we are free to declare our.-elvc^ its &tead!a-t and consistent advoates. the opinions of Gen Jackson on these subjects are at lca.it problematical. He is mainly supported in the •south on his supposed hostility to them. To the latter altogether, and the. former to that extent which ilep.med nescssary j,to the vigor arid oei lection ot 1he system. A cotton planter him-.ell— his personal interst opposed to it, tlie present ducotton being already high enough to secure that article against to-ei'Mi competition 1 ie liienda ot these measures have called on nim earnestly for his opinion he has refused to give it, but folding hi? mantle more closely around him he observes a mysterious and poitentous silence. Indeed it is lately said by a press among the most able in his favor and the most decided in its opposition to this policy, th|tpthe Kill'or has recently seen a letter written to a Iriend in Virginia in which Gen.

he Tennessee legislature the p«•»• ent session which declares all th meas'Jrps of the ad ninistrafon to be irions to the iti'vresls and inxevv is to the lioerlu'i of the country.

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Jackson expresses himself

s'artled at the latitude of con •.trucfiori contended for by Mr. Adams in his first message [to congress, embracing and enforcing »t. this

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If such are his sentiments,

and we have no doubt but they arv he then proves himself to bs wha his friends in th^ south say of hirn, truly "a southern' man, with southern feelings and into rests," and it would be our boatiden da*y fo oppose hi in.And which side would he iikely take if elected Would he go with his friends or*against them? Dave he deceive their hopes and tray their "interest who will venture to question his honor or to accuse him of trcachery If any there be, we are not of tlie number: we do not doubt the course he would tak". I'ut into office to ell'-ct a particular object, tossed on the surface of a turbid and furious current, boiling and dashing with the rage of the eleinents, he must b? more than man he does not go with those who uphold him and is not borne away by the fury of the tempest Mr. Adams has gone with those who elected him, and history does not. furnish an instance of a.-i opposite example, ftlect hirn then, and who would he take into his cabinet, the friends of our policy or those who arc opposed to it We cannot doubt but he would take his owu. It would be wjrsc than fully in him not to do so, and what might we not fear from the.ir influence Already tois party is so strong as lo ilsy the operations of tiie government. It was with great ditikulty that a majority could be oj-tained last wimer in lavor of the grants to shis state foi the extension ot the Cumberland road. How would it be it the power were p'aced in tiieir nands. s'^apj) mc coJJgre^s should piss other la»v^ in support ol t.^ese interests and he through the influence of cabinet or his own scruples ,"»n the constitulonai (j a est ion or otherwise should oiace Iwj vd-j upon th Ji? could svo il.irds o! the body be obtained carry them in despite ol his oppo.ion Certainly never—w^vv:«alJ lave to witliout taeoi a:U tiioie -.reat wo. ics so essential to the commerce anJ prosperity ol

toe western

-tates, ai:d particularly our own, would lie neglected tor years it not li.ially cut up and destroyed by the power over U:c.m nassiiig into other

oa!idis Again we a=k who would guide

wouid Iu ither our councils,

nia cabinet or iua-seil NV oelieve us cabinet undouotedly! Iur he is too little acquainted with civil administration, loo lutie coversaru witn our connexions with foieign powers by treaties or Otherwise lu rely upon his own judgement 6.i!iu!d we do so, who wuuid not ..reiD'ole lor tlie irsu»t he might mvu.ve the nation in mcxtiicaoic luriorsj slie it is who wouid have to reap the fruits ol ir.s loilics and lUshness. tiut should he content oiuisetf to be ruled oy o.iieis witu more wisdom and c.\perience than Himself, tlie great concerns of this uiignty nation would oe managed Oy a set ot intruders unknown and responsi de io tlie peopie, ly ing inco.nitoand wo: king the wues io their oiV11 per&una, e.nolument or to lurtner tiieir own ubjects ol ambition: we ti ut our Ciuntiy will noi ih' ur these dangers

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:niei ests and her fume by so peril ous an experiment. V» have now an administration whose views agree with ouru.vii, able, eniighleneu a.id patiiotic atnl we cannot see tne wisiom ot exchanging it lor another ol inferior ability vvnose principles and policy are unknown, and as far as ,ve aie able to judge would be oped to tiie Uest mtei eats of the -4j

pO west We have moreover seen with feelings of tlie dtepest mteicst and concern, a party anse amongst us whose ivowed object is to put down the President -and his caoinct ••though pare as the an gr in hea mi."

cannot conceive an object more execrable. It should be met with toe most decisive indignation—every patriot should speak out—should rise tiprtid denounce it—No compromise soould be made with its abettors— they should be held up to the public

to the just denunciation ol

their country. Let them succeed and it will grow into a precedent, and who will venture to predict the evils it will entail upon our country and the excesses it may encourage when future times shall bccoine corrupt. To the reproach of our age we have already seen this d-rk and eul draion pervading Jeve.y village in our land distuibing the repose ot society, setting neighbor against neighbor, and father against son, throwing

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'usion, and wito a miii^ *v invading our halls ot I Seating thej wisest umasu e-i |f oaralV Ain''" the «o

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prnmcnt. As friends to our cou trv's peac^ we dep-eoite u^ e\ ipie: we fear the. npread of its ki-* igion No raal c-i^s'is of !nc.i ii tent have b-jon porciive t!u*^ ntof our pi.^-fcicil sk/ is a» and clear as evtrr—every planet is^' moving in its appropriate oioit tiid| president an I hi cabinet have to! lowed in th"! footsteps of tiieir pred-f "cessors—all the 'land-marks of fhi^ ooiistitution are preservrvi—.fire'

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ermnent is administered on true re-l publican principles at home—lo the4 lang'iigeof tiie Father of his i-| try with anequ il ur»d co nnre'i/ r-3 *ive eye over tins great as!* n': »f com'nil ni i.ies ayrl mtare.srs"—in the iionor of the nttioii scrupulously

ind sedulous/v guirded in ail u,4tercourse with foreign nations.-* Wiiero is there any ist c,m .o .r? compiaent has anv citi/,en t»ee:i oppressed have any !r. i» -i & invaded have any laws oflfensive (& public iiberty dopted? we answer no —vva iiav heard of noae of th's what then has k:nd!e%the to^iad which now lowers over our co^itryr and is sweeping it wi its «vl»iri«5 winds? Party spirit, deep, deadly and venomous, fomented u/ pe^.i dice, and origmitog dmii'iooi-'W ment: .e fell destroyer of social hanno iy and all the ciunUesof ivate tile. hfrigot'ui Goigoricrested with serpents, whose nrtrai is poison and whose look is dealli^ appalling the heart of the itriora 1 threatening ruin to our r.o-jjitrv, 1 to is deliver up our beloved co.intry to tie embraces of the in i»L,-?" 8 u't the victim mike no struggK» at •p'ctaele of the shamde-i? we iie by in inglorioas ease at a time die.* t'fis, w.ie.-i -icnemes the

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ial to our inr-rests are engMi lero-l and itureil when pissionsof tne wcrst kind are at work woen pestilence is wai.\.'ng hi.) ii

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a in in re it is in re it discoi rei nfi and peace ilii-s it.^f f/om her parents? when all tiift •%ure found stions ol our govemnicni are sought to uprooted by actng he miliivy over the civil po-.«,erf bv -eferri.i^ the sword to the

stitution? and when men are seeking their own elevation ai ne pens of tiie fortunes of their cou .- try? w» think not we think rvery pitriot sho'i'-l be up and doing should bui jnnis annr an:l in vt the foe bravely in the open fi -Id And who so recrcant as to shrink from such a contest? if he is destined to defeat, if he nut fa'l before superior numbers, il t!ie c^iuse for which lie contends shall be lost, he will hive the consolation to k*i-»w that he had don his dutv, that it is not for rnortah to command success but des-rvc il" and Hut if he Jailed oe had faikd gloriously in the caasa of liberty and the constitu'ion We invoke all such to come to our a 1 —nothing can be gained by listlessness and inaction: we invite our friends throughout the state to put toeir shoulders to the whet 1 to call •icetings in the several countic3, anpoint com nittees to co operate wiin ours and to do whatever is fair and •'audable to convince »ur fellow citizens of their dangers to St further the great object ot' this meeting.

Let us fake a view of our present rulers & their fitness for the o-'fiees to they hold. Wr Adams is now our President he is a mm of nearly forty years standing in (he public service and has lived in tiie confidence of all the illustrious citizens who have laid fhe foundations of public liberty, and presided over the destinies of the Republic: he has filled many offices of great responsibility—and all with distinguished ability and z^al and to the general satisfacti'm In the one he now fills, the highest of all he his acted with great prudence and mod(•ration and performed its iunetwns in a manner becoming the head of an intelligent and free people. On a careful review of his lite both public .. and private, we believe him an honest

man and a Irttc republican,in principlo and practice—his pi ivate life unstained with a crime, moral, charitableand benevolent, and in hh public stations, upright diligent and laborious, and at al' times with all the ardor of the patriot devoted to the institutions of his country. l'e»v, if any deny him abilities of the highest order his learning is extensive and his habit of thinking and investigation, profound. He is firm of purpose—clear in his conceptions of the public iutQrcsts—sagacious in his choice of fourth fiage

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