The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 4, Number 48, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 February 1828 — Page 2

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turn and, as had been very confidently espected that I would receive the vote of Louisiana, it is quite likely that it was on that occasion that be held the conversation with me This would fix the day to have been prior to Christmas. But whatever was the actual

day,

there can

be no doubt that it was before the memorable interview between en. Jackson and Mr Buchanan- ..

Here, then, is an unbroken chain of testimony, commencing early in Oet 1824, and extending to nearly the end of the year, Establishing, beyond all coutroversy, my fiied and unwavering decision not to vote for Gen. Jackson. This purpose is deliberately manifested at different period* in different places, and to distinguished individuals who would have been the last in society that I should have thought of deceiving. Thw He* 5 O testimony stands unopposed, and with truth, cannot be opposed by a solitary individual —There does not exist a human being, and it the dead could be recalled, one cou.d not be summoned from the grave, woo could truly testify that I ever expres- ». sed or ever intimated the remotest intention to vote lor Gen Jackson, in any contingency whatever. As to

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in any cui»un5cu^j R-iad, fn.m Brid&epnrt to Zanesyille, him my mind was never for a mo- t!,»: State ot Ohio, and tor continmeut iu doubt or difficulty. And! in^ and completing the survey ct whatever personal predilection I t! Cumberland Koad, ln.ni Zanes:nirht have entertained for Mr. ii» t. th* Hoar «f Government Crawford, of whose state of health there was such opposite representa^ tions in the public prints, when I ilama oa nn

tions in tile puDiic prims, day. saw him myself, there was no j*., Mr. EATON rose and said, that i. «... inflnmiinf llllt that in lii4 vipiv iC thp. S'J^IHCti it WaS nO alternative in my judgment but that which I embraced. I have reason to believe that Gen Jackson and his friemii cherished no expectation that I would vote lor him Gen Call. the then delegate from Florida, was his ardent ami intimate friend, and had been his Aid- They travelled together on their journey to Washington City in the fall ot 18»4. In a letter from Gen Jackson to Mr Eaton. which is contained in the 66th page of the 28th volume of Niles K'*.gistfc,r, he states that Gen Call ?Hitfe him on that journey, and he refers to him as corroborating his own men-ory relative to a transacts at Washington, (Penn It is pre' -uable that the election with its pr-.-snects and hopes mu^t have frequently formed a subject of conversation on the journey It can scaice be doubted that Gen- Call war- well acquainted with Gen. Jack sot's views and expectations At a tavern at RocKVi'de, in jjiarylayd, aboni 15 miles from this City, during that. pame joarn^y, Gen. Cai» and several "hei gertkui^M engaged in con/ers '.tier i'bout ihe residei.tia! election John Eruddock, Esq. (a

election John KruauocK, x-^sq. v* .vas not fulfilled by carrying them gentleman rot known to me, but who, through Maryland ami Pennsylvania, I understood is a merchant ot great to the borders, ol Uliio. As an erespsctability was present and he quivalent for the resolution, it waft stales that ''when the vote which Mr. stipulated in the name compact, that Civ/ would probably give was spo- the State should make-an ordinance, /i /I It .•

ken of, Gen Call ueclared that the frier-ds of Gen. Jackson did not expect Mr. Clay to vote for him, and ii lie d:u so, it would be an act of duplicity on his part"

Jn Gen. Jackson1.*address to the public, of the 18th July last, touch in? his previous statements to Mr. Beverly, and communicating the nume "ot Mr i'-uchunan. as the gentiermn who bore the imaginary overture, he s, ''the origin—the be-

himself the most profound silence, he might possibly find not any justifi cation, but some excuse for his indis cretion, in the public liberality. But what must be the general surprise when the fact turns out to be. that the "origin—the beginning ot this matter with Gen. Jackson, was no as he alleges, in March 1827, but at least two years before not, a9 he also alleges, at W» owu fireside, but in public places, on the highway, at taverns, and onboard a steamboa.. hare expected to receive testimony to establish the fact of his promulgating his charge on aH those various occasions, during bis journey on his return from Congress, in March 18^ At present I have only obtained it

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1 Twentieth Congress.

l'lttST SESSION.

From the National Journal.

LV SENA TE.f

"V** January 23.' CUMlifRllLANr) KOAl). Tiie hill making appropriation for ihe continuation of the .umbei land

ville to the Seat of Government in the State ot Missouri, was takew up as the pnfinUhed business of yester-

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in his view of the subject, it was not to be considered as a constitutional question. It rested on a compact. I'he Constitution was in no way concerned with the bill as presented. What was the original compact? As far hack as the year 1802, dm ins: the Presidency ot Mr. Jefferson, than whotn no man was evei more scrupulously regardful of the Constitution, an act passed for the admission ot Ohio into the Union: and in this set, it was provided, That one twentieth part of the nett proceeds of the lands lying in said State, sell, by Congress, after deducting all expenses incident to the sale, shall be pplied. to the laving out and making public roads, leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atto the 0hiH to the sard State, and through the same s»dh roads to be laid out under the authority ot Congress, with the consent of the several States through which the road shall pass." It was unnecessary to »ay that the beneficial part ot the provision, as respected the Ohio, was, that the roads should pass to and through that State. The compact

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ture. tie v.*} s, 'tne origin—me u^ginning of this mr-.tter was at my own year 1BI5, the aggregate would .1 r... ./f

Eo ise and flre-s^e where surely free.nan may be permitted to spe.ik on oublic topics, without having as crihetl to hi improper designs." From this statement the fair inference j«, that Gen Jackson intends to aver that he had never bgtore spoken of his charge igaiiwt me, /^Tne origin, th.° be",lnn^Jkg', of this matter was he sas, a° his own f-reside, that is. it was in March iy2 when, according to Mr Bcverlj. before a crov.d ol company, of whi?h there were no less than seven Virginians, he proclaimed his accusation. The obligation to obserw the principles of ho"or, and to speak with scrupuoius veracity of all men, and especiallv of our competitors, is unaffected by time or place. The domestic fireside has no privilege which exempts a man of honor from the force of that obligation On the contrary, t'ne»-e, more than in any other place, in the midst of one's family, should examples*be exhibited -of truth, of charity, and kindness towards our IVIlow men. All the surrounding circumstances tend to soothe the vindicltve passions, and to inculcate moderation. Whether the privileges of the domestic circle have been abused by Gen Jackson or not, in my ent and distant sections of the couniostance, let the impartial world de: try, which formed the longest bond a stood before the American people, Mr. fc.'thfet* ftlllided to theimporand the subsisting r^a tions between1 tance ot the roadin a military point in/I mA. miTKf havA ennnn. of ViCW» 111 itS CutriCttfl it liim and me, one might have suppo. sed would prompt him to the obseri ^vance ofttie greatest delicacy. Has lie practised it? If indeed, in an unguarded moment of hilwity, amidst his eonvivial friends, in 4»is own domicil,»iue had incautiously touched a sul^ect, resecting which he might have beea expected to prescribe to

irrevocable without the consent the United States? exemp'ing the public lands in that State from taxation till they were sold, and tor tinterm of five years, from and after the dcy ot sale. If the sum thus relinquished by the State be computed, it will be found equal to tn,um expended on the Road. "From the year 1802 to 1815. sir million* of acres were s^ld^ II half of this quantity had been sold since the

«cV.ni*A biirolrr «i !ll!ll'. lUlll'KinS 01 flCTCS* At 1(16 a ni!)': millions of acrcs. At the Government jprice, this must have brought about eighteen millions of dollars.C Now, five percent (the one-twentieth part named in the oompoct) on this sum, was nine hundred thousand dulloars which should be debited to the Government and tiiiafruin, Mr K. said, had not been overrun hy tlie appropriations.

Mere Mr. K. argued that the condition annexed to th* admission of Ohio was constitutional for it was not inconsistent with her sovereignly, or republican form of government Congress, under the Constitution may admit new States, guaranteeing to them a republican form of government." Mr. h. considered, therciore, that tiie compact was valid, and binding on the United States as much as on the State.

The Senator from North-Carolina had said that it was vain to legislate on the affections of (he people, but that we must depend on a stronger tie.—Mi. -ft. thought that a great highway, connecting the remote parts of Hie States, and facilitating intercourse, would necessarily produce that harmony of interest and feeling between people of the different and distant sections of the coun

of view, in its "fiscal character it was equally important The transportation of the mail, which formerly cost 80 or 100dollars a mile, nowcost 40but dollars. The cost of transportation ofgoods from Philadelphia, was reduced from eight or ten dollars per ton to two or three dollars and. ia proportion as the coosuinp*

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tion of imported goods increase! t»e West, the revenue ol the ^rnment was increased—M r. fc. con eluded by insisting on the lmpo-• iance irf keeping up and this great national, or, be tod ndt care lew the name, federal road.

Mr. Chandler had asked, he saic. what amount of lands had been sold and what amount of ftind lor improvements had been appropriated? He had received no satisfactory' answer. It was said that nine millions «f acres in Ohio had been sold, which had yielded 18.000,000 dollars. Mr C. thought that the appropriation* for the ruad had gone tar beyond the 5 per cent, on that sum His object in rising was to move an amendment to the bill, striking out »4 189,000 dollars," and inserting 80,000 dollars for which he gave iiis reasons.

Mr. Ualon&d that the road was laid out, and contracts had been mad® for completing it to Zanesville Eighty thousand dollars would complete only thirteen miles ol it.

the State, and leading to the under the direction of This compact was binding as lar as compacts ceuld be binding lne Senator from Maine moved me Con stitutional question and asked information as to facts. The two per cent, fund which had accured, had not defrayed the expense of the road.

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Mr Chandler withdrew the amendment. Mr Hendricks said, he was anxious, in the remarks which lie made yesterday, to avoid the discussion the constitutional question nor should he now enter into it. It the debate, for it was known to every one that it had been was not expected that the Constitution would be drawn into settled in regard to this subject, frona year to year* for more than twenty years The discussion yesterthy took a very wide range '1 gentlemen who were so scrupulous in regard to the Constitution he would soon hold out another topic which had far greater demands on their attention. The "•entleman from Maine had made inniiirps iii regard to the state of the Uvo percent, luud. All luiow that p^rt, and read a Pas"S®

five per cent, on tii6 proceeds

sale of the

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appropriated to making roada. »i

pact to makei a ro .f

Mr. Cobb was sorry, he said* that he was not in his seat when the gentleman who bad just spoken replied to his questions He understood, however, that he gave as a reason why the friends of ihe road did not go the whole, and establish toll gates to keep the road in repair, that 1, and* those who act with me, would not consent to it and that he asks whether I will vote for toll gates, or relin

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he would say that he was oppo

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sed to the road, and opposed to

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roads. IV .in. 10.

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To per ceni, to roads had not ,-duc.d „ad S a a Conzress

the road passed was rising from the liHidsTiTMissouri, llli.io.l, and Indi- sUne He had hearf of the Ap.

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per and nml larger sums tor its preservation If

we were

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fo make the road, we »ere not c«npelled to mend it. J'

may,^e

road, and doubtless it is

convenieLt and pleasan' to people who hare occasion to pass that w. y, but it was no* so pleasant to P®°P^ other parts of the country who have to pay for it. It was not proper nor Constitutional to keep up a road lor the benefit of one sect***, at the expense of all We were told!, and we were

always

red to iiwluce us to repair it. Where fs

the

expense to end! The two per

cent fund alone, it is said will pay for it. Will tjiis fund pay lor a rwd which costs $14,000 a mile- The compensation of a superintendant is SR636 a mile.

have

been told on this ffcwr,

that we do not disburse money in the West. The road would remove all reasons for complaint on that score. What good had been effected by the the appropriation Many parts 01 the road had become already impassable Mr Casper Weaver, the Superintendant, points out the repairs which are accessary. He recommends an abandonment of the original

plan

of construction as ineffective

AH that has been done goes lor nothing It was liable to- be swept a*vav bv the torrents^ It was now nroposed to cover it witn iron

Some member said that was a mistake! Mr. 8. referred to the refrom it,

^rovTrTd^-with metal of good

by compact Thu fund was suDao mtend»i,

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dUCel lead e-foush fo»

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ken it for granted that Iron, as the cheapest metal, was inter.ded []Mr Rubles'said it was lime stone.*] It is the first time continued Mr I ever hpard lime stone was a metal Ii'this be the metal |ef that country, it will account for the failure of nr.any of their banks Ihe woods

'.^Tho Snntnr from Ohio says that

the bun. the r„ ,d enables sous and daughters would not be a fu

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West to visit their parents in

East an0 it

omimnjc towards thtsc states. iiu 44intl, nn ffestern ooitmn# Missob:i 2 per cent fund, in particular, "reatly pxeseded the amount n-..-cepsary to construct the road frum the neinhborhood of that state, .0 and through it Mi H. A-ish^.l a1' the facts to be known and ubderstocfor he disdained to derive ar.y ^dvantat fr'»n» concealment. Tlie Senator from lie.or^'a '.vishts to know how the expenditures tally with the estimates. From the re. ports it appeared that some part* oi he route, which he specified, were broken arid hilly, ami theie the expenditures had exceeded the estimates, but in other parts, wluire tne country was uifre practicable, the expendtures would In: much diminished.—The Senator from Georgia seems alarmed at the great expense of the repairs which the road will require. But for seven years, it has been attc mpted to Gx toll gates on the road, without success. When the bill for this purpose, which is now before the Committee shall be reported, we shall see whether the gentleman will join us in authorizing tolls to be collected on the road or whether he will relinquish it to destruction. Mr. H.here adverted to the hostility manifested in regard to the Cumberland Uoad by the Pennsylvania delegation, one of which, in the other branch of Congress, had always opposed it. States were necessarily attached to their own interests. Mr, H. dwelt also on the important facilities which this Koad gave to the commerce of the West, In the mere transportation of goods, it saved, annuaMy, hall a million of -dollars to the Western States, &c.

facilitated marriages

between people, monv. Mr. Smith thought this

the Atlantic and Western Though a friend to matriwas

an expensive way of promoting it It bail been said, and sung too, that neither bolts nor bars, or walls could restrain the true lover But now, it viens the lover must have a wide smooth road, p-ivad with meta» Su' bcold St phingmetic love, he was sure no lady would have and he did not believe that the ladies would be willing to contribute a cent to such a road Mr Smith could not see the use of this road as a military road. Where was the enemy He hoped war was not contemplated with the West The doctrine of preparing for war in time of peace, had cost us more than two hundred millions of dollars We had no prospect of a war for a hundred years to come.

He would say nothing as to the Constitution. That was long ago put out of the question. Convenience was now the Constitution. Convenience and sympathy was the Constitutional rule of the government. The road is to go to St. Louis from thence it is to be continued 1^00 miles further, more or less, to Santa Fee—by the way of preparing for war The first part of the road is for commerce, the last part for war, and the middle is said to be for the transportation of tiie mail, and all this road is to be paved with metal, after having been paved with stone, and rolled and graveled. Our tables were crowded with memorials & remonstrances against the powers whichfwe have assumed to throw away the people's money and here we are making a fine,-smooth brilliant road for commerce, war, mail and matrimony

Mr.JYpble and Mr. Kidgely followed in favor of the 'bill Mr. Harrison had, he-said, intended to reply at large to the objections urged against the hill, but he found himself so ably anticipated by the Senator from Delaware, that he would relinquish the design, and would merely ask for the ayes and

quish the road to •decay. In reply, noes of the 'question. 1 he question was taken on ordering the bill to be lie IfUUlU

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the

toll sates, and should fate for neither. Mr. Hendricks briefly rejoined.

Mr. Smith 6f S, C, had, be said

engrossed for a third reading, and

/i ihmilil 4ata fVii. in the affirmative, as follows: lecided in the affirmative, aa follows: YEAS—Messrs. Barnard, Barton,

XIXI, SJirtiiiv srs we v» «s«wy been uniformly opposed to this road, dreckt, Jobnaoof of Ken, Johnson

Bateman, Benton, Bouligny, Chancers, Chase, Baton, Harrison, Hen

of Lou. Kane, Knight, Knight M'Lar.e, Marks, Noble, Ridg^y* Bobbins, Ruggles, Seymow, Smith of Aid, i.nd Thomas..—25.%

NAYS.—Messrs. Bell Berried Branch, Chandler, Cobb, Dickerson Ellis, Foot, Hayne, King, M.lC0n* Parri*, Sanford, Smith, of S. C., Ty! ler, Van Buren, White-, and Wood

Mr AlacttHf with a view, he said, to try the sense of the Senate as to

the

told, that a smalt sum

ionly is necessary to continue the IrOad, and! the

same

argument wasi ur-

expediency of getting rid ot" the expense ot this road, and the annuut conflict respecting it, submitted tlm following resolution, which was agreed to.*

Unsolved 1 That the committee on' tfe Judiciary inquire into the expediency of relinquishing to the States through which the CumberlandUoad passes to the Ohio river, whatever claim-, if a-ny, the United States may have in the same and that the saii Committee also-inquire into the ex. pediency of relinqn ishing to the

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Concerned,the claim of the

United

States to the whole of the 3-per cent, reserved from the sale of the public lands in such States.

The Senate then adjourned.

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S /.ruRDAr, FEBRUARY 23, 18'^8.

Ii the writer under

the

Editorial

head »f the Western Sun of the 16"th inst. will esamine the remarks. 1 made iu the Register, of the 2d inst. he will discover I did^wof'sav tiateifher Mr. Canbv ur JVlr. JudaU hju! been "brougfit out by the Jick-i stfii Convention." It is equally well known, however, that some of the members of that body did '•indicate Mr Car by "as the candidate of the Jackson party" tor Governor, as, that some 4f them did "indicate 31 r. .ludah, as the candidate of the Jackson party, in opposition

Col.r.

Blake," representative to Congress- 1*1'™: a However much these iii'lica'tions11 may fall sho*t of their ]r,iv~ pose, there can be no doubt of their design, A

Important $ true!- lulel'i^ence has been received, by way ol Havana, that the King of

Spain

hus ar-

knowledged the independence of? South America. A letter from

ada, Freeman, says—^ are ml

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respectable gentleman at Havana, dated the "4th of December, says th* report was generally believed at that place. ,.*•

1 Canada The York, UpPer

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iwiij'jp.stionnble authority 'i-1

Lord Dalhnusie is recalled fronitn® government of -Lower Caiiaili

is said General Tyler is to take W* place,

The first returns have been nM® from the gold«nd silver mine* ivor by English capital in S. The quantity does.tjjpt more i0,000/. •i-*

The Imitation Eye.—^ just beheld an artificial eye, so actlv resembling the fnatura that it would be difficult for any son to pronounce which is I and which the other.

that when it is

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mitted to mention the patne ,,j-3 gentleman who is (he subjec in a a a less operation: it

Mr. John

Parsons, of Mary land, Las'crn» The skilful operator is l)r. at" of the museum.—•Statesman'^

AMwFire-The *,0."'h'lfSrt view states that a deserip110

produced from a very

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to all purposes ol cookery' believed may be opphei

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mon liquid, has been disc mere accident. Ihe he ^(fo $ be so intense that it boi 9 "j-|CHble water in a few minutes,

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ers of steam engines. ^5 traordinary things of traordinary mings u«

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that Review) this disc imple» result of acf ident, and

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ma.d®d

Lt it has

hodr will be surprised thai been infuse since the beg .world, J-

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The brig* At«r'f Hampton Ko3^8 -n Ahi«a' settlement at rprf the 16th inst, jiiat destined as members.^ ^hinf colony.

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