The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 5, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 May 1828 — Page 2

xhe Mus%ujman nation was indig nant at it, and it i« quite impossible fd "tout impoMibilite) that it should be consented to.

The

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Ottoman Gov-

rrnment endeavored to prevail them to renounce their preju ic«s. bv every sort of arguments and answers, but its language Produced effect. Proud ol the* power, they obstinately and r.gorously persisted to press their demands and they tin ished by sending fleets into th Mediterranean they openly hinder cd the Egyptian and Ottoman squadrons, destined for that purpose, from attacking the islands, these t.. squadrons having entered the port ol Navarin, were there tranquilly waitinff the orders of the Sublime Porte, when the Russian, English Sf French fleets, suddenly entered the same fc harbor, all three began firing at once and every one knows the catastrophe which resulted to the Imperial squadron. 4 The three powers, having openly -'"Violated subsisting articles, and de- ,« clared war, the Sublime Porte had a rHit to retaliate, and to act othertvfse than it has done towards the

Ambassadors, the subjects and the vessels in this place. But the Mmisters of those three Powers have endeavored to justify them by dedaring that it was the commanders of the Imperial (Turkish) fleet who had been the cause of the battle: the Sublime Porte, considering the circumstances, remained still silent, and, by a last effort of policy invited the three Ambassadors to abandon altogether the atfairs of Greece.—

Deaf to the voice of justice, those Infidels did not cease to require that their demand respecting the independence of Greece be admitted such as it had been made- It may even be said that their solicitations became more pressing. In a word, the hostile intentions of the Franks against

Islamism became evident. iNevertheless\ for the purpose of gaining time, at least till summer, every possible show of moderation was used in the conferences and conversations which tock place some weeks ago. 'f^t was repeatedly declared to the

Ambassadors, that as soon as the Greeks would sue for pardon, their fog!* would be wholly forgotten that their good, their persons, their estates would be restored that they would enjoy perfect tranquility! that they should be relieved from the payment of the capitation, and other tributes which they owe since the beginning of the insurrections that hesides,in order to gratify the three Powers, they would be exempt from all tribute for the space of one year a^d that ail privileges which the condition of llayahs allowed would be granted them, but nothing beyond that limit. -1

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In the course of the conferences, the Sublime Porte earnestly requestthe Ambassadors to transmit to their lespective Courts those friendly declarations and sincere explanations, promising that the armistice which thgy had demanded would be observed until the answer should be received*. This invitation only served to increase their pride and their pretensions. Finally, they declared that Ihey would consent to nothing so long as the privileges which they claimed should not be granted to .» the' Greeks inhabiting ancient Greece that is to say, the Morea, Attica, 4 and tho isles of the Archipelago, and they announced that they would depart all three together.

Thus have alfairs come to this point. If at present (God preserve its from it!) after having witnessed auch oonduct, and been asked such conditions, we were to give way, and to concede-the independence of the Greeks, the eontagion would extend to all the Greeks settled in Romelia and Anatolia,without the possibility of arresting the evil. They would hll pretend to the seme independ»:nce they would renounce their duties aa Rayahs, and, triumphing in a year or two over-the gtne.ous jWus8ulman nation they would finisfaone day, by suddenly imposing laws tipon us, (God preserve us from it!) and the ruin of our religion and our era•i pire wou-Uf be the inevitable result. whilst, thanks to God! the numerous provinces of Europe and Asia

filled with an immense Mussulman population, does the sacred book aud does our law,permit us, through Jn.ar of war, to let our religion be trodden under foot, and to deliver ourselves to the Infidels from hand to hand, our country, our wives, our children, our goods, and our proper-

hough, in the origin, the whole world was in the power of the Infidels, nevertheless, at the birth of the true religion, God, aiditfg

4the

faith

ful, our Mussulman brothers, who have appeared and disappeared since the happy time of our Great Prophet, up to this dt»y, through the effect of their sincere devotion and unconquerable courage, thought nothing of the number of the Infidels. United in heart for the defence of religion, bow inauy thousand times have they

notput thousand*-the Infidels to the sword? How many provinces & stetes have they not thus conquered sword in hand? As often as wc shall be united like them, and that we shall affront battles for the glory of God, the Most High will enlighten us with his inspirations, und our holy Legislator will cover us wit!** his tutelary segis his absent companions will become our guides and who can doubt that, under their auspices, we should not gain the most brilliant victories?

If the three powers, when they see us determined, as in the past, to refect their vain demands, accept our answers, and our explanations' and de9ist from the Greek affair, it will be well. If, on the contrary, they should persist to force us to accept their demands, even though, according to the tradition which says that all Infidels compose but one nation, they should all league themselves against us, we would recommend ourselves to God we would place ourselves under the protection of our Holy Prophet, and united for the defence of religion & of the empire, all the Visiers, all the Ulemas, all the Ridgals, and, perhaps, even all Mussulmen, would form but one single corps.

This war is not, like all former wars, a political conflict to acquire provinces or to settle frontiers. The object of the Infidels is to annihilate Islamism, and to tread under foot the Musulman nation. It must therefore, be considered purely as a religious and national war. Let all the Faithful, rich or poor great or small, know that to fight is the duty of us all.. Let them not dream of a monthly pay, or any pay whatever far from it, let us sacrifice our property and our persons let us fulfil with zeal all the duties which the honor of Islamism imposes upon us let us unite our efforts, and labour with heart and soul for the maintenance of religion until the day of judgement. Mussulmen have no other means of obtaining salvation either in this world or the nwxt

We hope that the Most High will vouchsafe «to confound and disperse in every quarter the Infidels, foes to our religion and our empire, and that in all times, in all places, and in ail cares, lie will grant victory to the Faithful Our true position being thus known of all Mussulmen, there is no doubt that, if they have the least faith and piety, they will also know their duty they will unite heart and soul to maintain our religion and our empire, as well as to insure their own salvation in this world and the next and that, (if the occasion requires it, they will discharge with zeal and valor the varied functions of the war, and fulfil exactly the duties imposed upon us by our holy law. Help comes from God 3

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TERRE-HAUTE:

SAtuRDAry MAT 1828.

In a public speech at Covington,

on Monday last, Mr. Boon said that he was fairly elected at the last Congressional Election and that he was defrauded out of it by certificates,— he was understood double certificates —and, has promised to furnish proof of it—I shall wait a reasonable time for his evidence—presuming that the Hon Gentleman will verrify his as

sertion—I hope the certificates were not given by proxy.

The Steam Boat. -Cumberland Capt. Beckwith, passed here on Saturday morning on her way from Attica. "4- JL

The Cincinnati Capt. Colt, arrived this morning from Louisville, and is yet unloading.

The Wabash is yet in fine stage.

FOIl THE EEOISTEH.

The purity of the elective franchise, as secured to the American people, is a just source of national pride, and an anchor of national safety in it we hold an indirect, bat effective control over the councils of the nation, and on the judicious exercise of this right, depends all our future destinies. How reprehensible then, is he, who gives his suffrage under the influence of passion or prejudice, or without at all.investigating the character of the candidate, reflects not whether it is to be productive of good or evil to his country- There is nothing in connexion with the approaching presidential election so much to be regretted, as the great warmth of passion, with which the partisans of the two candidates have entered the lists. I regret it because one party or the other must be wrong, and if a man is in error with his passions enlisted in its support, it is impossible that he should come to a knowledge of that error: but it matters not how erroneous h's opinions may be, if he will examine them dispassionately, there is abundant evidence, by which he may arrive at the truth. In reflecting on the presidential election, it is difficult to avoid being acted upon by some of those causes, which have operated so successfully in keeping up a state of excitement: hence the equal difficulty of pursuing a chain of reflection, in a calm dispassionate temper of mind, without which, all reasoning is out, aud it is not possible to arrive at proper results. It may, however, be at tempted in a manner such as this personally, the two candidates for the presidency are alike, to me.— let the election terminate as it may, I can have nothing to ask of either.— I can have no interest, and ought to have no wish, other than the election of that man, whose knowledge of our national interests, and whose political principles, are best calculated to secure the rights and promote the interests of the nation. It is only by frequent recurrence to principles such as those, that we can, to. any certainty, avoid the influence ol misguiding prejudices. The sum of all this is, that we owe it as a duty to our country, discarding passion, prejudice and the pride of opinion, to make it a matter of personal indifference which of the two candidates should be elected: afterwards, honestly and carefully to examine their comparative merits, and make that selection, which may be demanded by the interest of the nation. 1 have endeavored to preserve such a temper of mind, when investigating this subject, because I have felt that was a duty: and I ask that those who may read my conclusions, would do it in the same temper for,in a different temper they will do injustice to themselves and to the country.

In writing a few essays on the approaching presidential election, it may be well to begin vith the .charge of corruption, as coming from get. Jackson partly because that, by his silence at a time when he ought to retract, he seems to persist in the charge partly because many of his friends continue .to repeat it, and partly because it may be necessary to advert to it in another place.

Gen. Jackson says that Mr. Clay and his friends proposed to make him President on certain conditions, and gives Mr. Buchanan of Penn. as the medium thrpugh whom that proposition was made. Mr. Buchanan

acVoowledges to liave hsd as. interview with Gen. J. but denies that he was the bearer of propositions from any c.'ie. Sophisticating reasoned may say what they please, buf the fact is sufficiently obvious that Gen, & and Mr. B. are tairlj at issue on this subject. 1 he names of Major Eaton, Mr. Isacks and Mi. Markley

have

also been used con

nexion with this subject* but ihey were all friends to the election of Gen. Jackson, and we are withou evidence that either ot tUem had spoken with Mr. Clay or any one his friends on the subject. it not seem strange that conversations, had by Gen. Jackson and his friends should implicate Mr. Clay and his friends with corruption? 1 am not about to charge Gen. J. with corruption: but I fear no refutation when I say, that it the*e conversations must be evidence o.t corruption, that evidence can apply no where, but to Gen. Jackson and his friends.

But by the most extraordinary perversion of language, Mr. Buchanan's letter is made to be a confirmation of all Gen. J. had said. This places Mr. Buch&nan in a situation extremely awkward for he must have known the proposition to be corrupt: he could not be the bearer and advise its acceptance without making himself an accomplice. Besides if Mr. B. was the hearer of propositions he ia bound to give up the authority under which he acted: because he or they by whom Mr. B. was authorised to make propositions, must have been public servants, and if public servants have acted treacherously the public is entitled to know it. Nor|is it sufficient that Mr B. should publish the charge of corruption and shield the guilty from public odium by concealing his name. We ought to know ail the circumstances, when, where and how. I say we ought to know these things and we wish to know thetn., that the author and bearer may together be consigned to eternal infamy. Further, until Mr. B. does satisfactorily give up the authority under which he acted, because until this is done, it is an unsupported charge |of corruption, on which no public officar ought to be put down, especially one whose public services have been so numerous, and so important as those of Mr. Clay. At present it is a broad unsupported charge of corruption, which its author has chosen to locate any where, or no where, and the people are expected to swallow it in that shape and impute it to Mr. Clay. I could not object if Mr Clay should be fairly voted out of office, 6imply because the people preferred another, or if the place he now fills should be filled by another, because its duties could be discharged with greater advantage to the country but I cannot consent that his name should be stamped with infamy, and dismissed from public trust on the charge of corruption, when that charge is entirely unsupported

The above reasoning is on the supposition that Mr. B. has confirmed the General's statement but certainly it is more charitable to allow Mr. Buchanan to speak for himself. He says he acted "on his own personal responsibility," and has lately, on the floor of Congress disavowed any knowledge of corruption. This so far from confirming the General's statement, is as good as to say in so many words, that the General had told a lie. Besides,all the friends of Mr. Clay who voted for Mr. Adams, have unequivocally denied any knowledge of propositions, made to Gen. Jackson. I shall clairo for those gentlemen, a respectability no higher, but certaiuly equal to that imputed to Mr. B. by Gen. J., and it is diffiicult to conceive how Gen. J. himself can avoid crediting gentlemen equal in respectability to Mr B. when they deny any knowledge of a crime, which no one has dared to impute to them.

Under every rational view of the subject, the conclusion forces itself upon us, that Mr, B. was not authorised to bear, and was not the bearer of propositions from Mr. Clay or his friends to Gen Jackson. The obligation to support, or disavow the charge is alone with Gen. Jackson. The time has passed when he ought to have done one or the other and we are justified in the conclusion that this high minded General has shown an entire disregard of truth, in niakiug a charge of corruption against an officer of state, which he cannot support and will not retract.

This charge has contributed largely to produce the present state of excitement as such it is a part of the history of the times, and must go to posterity who will pass an accurate judgment upon it, when the accusor and the accused shall alike be no more. There is scarcely any thing more desirable than that we should be held in respect by those who are to come after us and is it possiblethat future oges should respect the memory

this generation, if it

should prove that there k*

and intelligence atnorw

ririn

ject the claims to the 'to a malicious slanderer, whr ithe magnanimity to retract his!?11 when it is pro.yen. to be faise'

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The following extract of

aletter^

Washington has been co

ted to us for publica.il

publication....*:,,

assurauce that the writ** "1 highly respectable.

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"WASHING FOX, -V.aI.cll

"The opposition is somewlm larmed about the indication, districts in Tennessee, and nJ !0' out good and sufficient reasons this, as on all other subjects facts are not ascertained, diT persons entertain different onin^ Some say that no electoral tiri-"!' fcr Administration will be run one district in Tennessee that it false lure, and that the General ". have almost, if not quite, all tJ,e meval votes in the State whileoth^ apparently as well informed and did, say, that such a ticket ^1?' supported in two of the districts wit! a reasonable and fair prospect of cess. With the latter opinion I con. cur aud rnv reasons are.thaf Ti,n 4 11 «om as Arnold, about a year since oiTer ed himself as a candidate for Congress, and in a pamphlet he address sed to the electors of the district he declared that he was in favor of'the election of Mr. Adams, and oppose^ to Gen. Jackson He very ably re. viewed the character of Gen. Jackson. and shewed his unfitness for th& Presidency. There were three candidates in the district, to wit: Mr Arnold, Mr Rees, and Mr. Lea, 1'he first two were in favor of th* Administration, and the last in favor of the election of Gen. Jackson.

Mr. Rees is the son-in-law of Gen. Cocke, the former member, and received his influence and support. Mr. Lea was elected by a majority of 14 votes, over Mr Arnold. Ihava not a statement of the canvass before me, but if my recollection is correct Mr. Lea did not obtain two-fifthsoi* the votes. Gen. Cocke was a warm supporter of Mr Crawford, but after the election, he sustained the measures of the Administration, during the 19th Congress He and Gen. Jackson are personally and political* ly opposed to each other.

Gen. Cocke incurred Gen. Jackson's displeasure during the war, and would have atoned for it with the loss of his life, if he had been overtake! and arrested' In the spring of 1824, when gen Jackson wasreturnin^fryfjr Washington, a gentleman in the stag* askedhira what he would havedou» with gen Cocke, if he had taken him? —to which the General replied, ''Bf the Eternal God 1 would have hun him." Gen. Cocke has not sought refuge in the amnesty proclaimed by Gen. Jackson, and it is somewhat doubtful whether he was not excluded from jt, for the declaration mentioned, was subsequent to the timo that Mr. Benton and others were taken into favor. In the appointment of Postqioster at Nashville, Gen. Cocke opposed the views of General Jackson, and defeated them. Froni these and other circumstances, there is no doubt that Gen. Cocke will unite with Mr Arnold, in supporting an Administration ticket in that district, and there i3 every reason to believe that it will succeed. It is known that Col. John William an. Gen. Jackson have long been opposed to each other. Gen. Jacicson by his management and intrigues, in or der to be at Washington during tne Presidential election, was chostft to the Senate of the Unitftl otatts, and took his seat at the opening the J8th Congress, which had been previously filled by M-r.^Vilhams, aud fur which he was again a competitor. Col. Williams is a gen 'e" man ot.talent, of great firmness character, and approves oi the niws ures of the Administration, esccp the instances of protecting

nraml^

tures, aud making internal imp|^ ments. He offered as a

car,ai'"\|

for the Senate of Tennessee la* and was elected by a large though he was opposed, on &^°u of his preference for Mr Adanis, all the influence of Geu. JacM0" his friends.

It seems to me ifhat these are testible tests of the strength friends of the administration nessee. That it will be broiiS action is evident from the f^c they have established Knoxville, in order to inform concentrate the public min1-

with confidence depend00

two votes in Tennessee.

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these circumstances, I ta«a friends of the Administration.

F, om the NatiunaZ JeW" tmtter&tanihno ia re*

'To form a correct of thexourse of the

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lution.to the Tariff JJill, sary to place before our rea. facia, in addition to those .we given former papery /,

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