The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 5, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 July 1828 — Page 1

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their own, and

confrovp solemnly prayed, I

'[5 never be forced by a nv cir

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that in the c.»ur.se or

lint learnifi-LVVH-S P^. that the State is li lee •,U r,eS and misrepresentations, a'^1 caiculareti to destroy mv myself forever, I feel it

with icndt

I t- 1 we to

political friends

itc of Indiana and myself. ti

forth and meet lh fl-m.i of cal--viiich mv base political erie

now thundering in the ear^

Of the people- Never has man ,„l-

Led mt'f

,lian 1 I,ave lr slan

lP, ircacli'-rv and ungenerous per-

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a a, ell

jn the name of immutable ju

'to pause for a moment, and list-

th«'

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!e stor ol wron

'piev arc more than 1 can bear and ^.-tnow cali upon the ma»mnim

i| to arise and redress my

committed upon me, by base

,„!,inat ms. The dogs of war are

.,iin let l"oe upon me. Look lellov/ cit/z-ms at the TIME when •landers are futnruriaied against me 4H js kr-pt as still as the grave, until "f.Mv days before the election, and

tii'ep, all at once, a concerted attack

is nil''

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in eve

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rftlic State, when it is impossible fur me to go every where to explain Iran ROW, with propriety, exclaim, 0 tninpora, 0 mores. Is it possi be that the people, after they have bf.n so many times deceived, will t.eiiove all that they hear floating through the land on the wings of the wind? Have the. forgotten that assertion is tint proof

all else, and fake advantage ot the alarHimg ii ime whith is spreading through the land, and which

In eat -ns destruction to the very t('!ujjle of nur freedom, and to cu-h me,becausc in common with others. I enjoy the freedom of opinion Though I may be cut down for en j'tvirig my political ant! religious liberty unil rights, I shall never env\ ti.e immortality of tho-^ who lie -1

by riding upon the whirl wind. 1 nail su'ler a glorious marty dom, a fchrine of rights secured Tiii*by the constitution of my coun'rv.

Ii) the lirst p'ace censure ha aiiihtprl upon me. because I wouk not ct)mp out and id-ntify my set v.'ilh the friends of *ncral JackS"fi or the friends of Adams .n tii*' contest about the presidency, revived at an •'arlv period, to occupy ntiiiral ground that I might be a liberty to J' justice to botn of thi 'listin^uiilrd men before u*. and their friends. Whatever individuals Jiiiglitihi thr-in-elves authorized t« not in idiice, 1 rould take otlior stand, ir, th» (iovernor of th

ate. I was elected Governor of In 'h intt \\h-n no party question wa ntnde hv the people in common an\y!ien I saw an attempt making tlliii.w the state i.'jto two parlies, 'h'liirmined that I would not income tip executive of one party to the ex elusion of the others lieiog elected b'iUi parties, I must continue th« °XPCUtivt' of both, -a lon^ as my term tats. The constitution, which lam

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to support, compels me to ex fcijfe the public will in all thins?'. l''i

means the will of the majority ii'liu^ any question, then, it is m\ ''''•ty to stand still, until the question is settled, that I may be enabled t" execute viie will of the majont ., without any tu r, which the prior ex press 0n of opininn mi^ht I« ave on tlie tnir (l, and without

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bUspie

.iori. I

stand 00 n»utral ground, witii

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hands untied, uncommitted to '^.V party, ntul if I am to do the peojustice in my ofiice, so I must reiiniii

I have been censured by some who

,av

no charity for the opinions of ''titers, because I have said that I en 'tained a high opinion of tn ickson and Mr. Adams,

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justified in thinking much of tl'^in both, because they had good ''pinions of each other. Mr. Ad"N* fit one time was the eulogist j-nd defender of Gen. Jacl'.son and 3ackson, in turn, has been the ^i-t of Mr. Adams. I amjusti

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in having a /oud opinion ot Mr.

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8nis. because George Washington pertained it, and said ot htm many 1 itj^r things, such as. that he was

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ablest of our foreign ministers.

Thomas Jefferson, James Madisn ind James Monroe, severally ap pointed him to high and responsib'. offices. Gen. Jackson was also confided in, in (ike manner, by all of out ex-presidents. Yet I ain censured because I say that I am friend!v to both of these men, and to their friends.

I\vo great men have comc in con tact, and we must choose between •hem If I cannot be elected, be ".ause I vvill not come out and abus«' one or the other of these men. then I must fall. If the friends of Mr. Adams suppose that 1 must win their votes by coming out and crying huzza for Adams this is what I shall not do. If the friends of Gen. Jackson expect me to come and cry huzza for Jackson this is what I will not do. When either of these men have been assailed, unjustly, I have spoken the truth of them. I presume that more than an hundred letters have been written to me at various times, and bv various iidividuals, in Indiana, requesting me to state what I thought of these two men. I have uniformly spoken well of them both in my replies, sp^ak'n* of them a* men. and not a candidates for office.

But I do now bo:diy state that if my letters ever have tnade their appearance, or ever shall, which makes me say that I would vote for either for the Presidency, I pronounce them base forgeries.. 1 have written favorably ot the-n both, I have spoken as I ought of both, but I have alwiysaid, that in giving mv individual vote at the polls, by ballot, aright se cured to me by the laws and consti tution of Indiana, I would He govern ed bv incisures and not men It has been said, that. I have written letters to Jackson men, declaring that I should vote for Jackson—uid also to \diins men that I should vote for

My oolitica'l opposers have made \oams Ihese charges are faise. 'lit* dVcovery, that the public mind Discourse I have taken in elections, rives the lie direct to such accusa iii'iflamc! to that degr-.-e ai this tion on the Presidential question, as to inable them, bv misrepresentation, to conti my faff by it Their bu sinessto be at this time to ia\

'ons. I have been in thirty-odd counties, ami addressed the people, i»oth Aditns men and Jackson assembled together, at the same time, and my couise has been uniform every wliere.

The Hon. Thomas 11 Blake, the Representative in Congress in the fi-st i)isti ict has been with me in ten counties, and he will teli the world, that my course has been uniform hive told the people every where, on r'.ie stump and hy letter as I have always admitted publicly and privately. tiat I .s in favor ot the presen' vdininistration, and have reasoned •.) convince the people, that the\ uj ht to be so too. ,J am now in faor of it, and I am confident I ever all be in favor of it, wniist the esentia! measures ot the west, are so blv vindicated as they ure. When say that 1 am in favor of the pres •rit Administration I mean the cause the Administ ation— the measure the Administration and not mm will never bind myself to any man )'jrs is a government of laics ail'. jeasure» not of men. A mm may ,p a j2jo')d man to-day, atid to-mor-ow he may be a villain.

If John Quincy Adams, is re-elect-President of the United States, \nd continues to support good as •ires, 1 shall support him, otherwise not. If Andrew Jackson shall b1 dected and shall be in favor of good •neasures, I shall support him, not otherwise. If the man I vote lor at he pulls docs wron^ I must admit .t. To use the language of a greai statesman. I care not so much, \vh.: 'overns ou" country, as that my country shall prosper.

At the Lst Presidential election, 1 v^)?c I neither for Mr. Adams or STii Jackson, I voted for Mr. Clay 1 done so, because I believed hiin to r,e a «reat man—the fiimd of South \meidcan and Grecian liberty—thiend of internal improvements and domestic manufactores—the man ,vho has endeavored to give universal freetlom, and to strike from the oppressed African his bond*—his fet

To esc same motives will con

trol me, when I shall give my vote at the polls next November for PresiFor me to say in these times if great excitement who I shall vot would be offering a direct bribe for,

bribe

to the people. No officer whoshaM be elected next August, will have any thin* to do with the Presidential election. There is no reason lor making a question of it. A man should be elected Governor of the state upon his own merit-, and not popularity ol another man

Whenever the uames of vo popular men, shall control all state elections, the people will have their libei ty on paper, but not in reality—Despotism jiuon follows. will now proceed to tell royjei ioW'Cituenb, oi the manner iu

No "DUPE TO PARTY TOOL OF POWER"—NOR "SLAVE TO MINIONS OP AN HOUR

TERRE-IIAUTE, VIGO COUNTY, INDIANA, JULY 26, 1828

I have been treated hv men sailing under Presidential llagS) and who have stood prepared to sacrifice, either Adams or Jackson, to destroy ne. At ray last election I was opDosed by certain lawyers and other official men. These same men, instead of bowing to what the people had done, proclaimed opposition as soon as I was sworn into office. And is it happened they were and are still, generally Adam9 men. These men have again voluntarily placed themselv* at the head'of the Ad ministration party in this state. Last winter they sat on foot plans to ruin me. Hie Presidential conventions told a lal* which is recollected bv many. Last winter wken the two conventions sat, these administration men, an 1 enemies of mine, proposed to the Jacksonians, and requested them to draw thejine and bring out a cand date for Governor and then assured them that they would do the same tiling, and in that way they could defeat me, on neutral sp omd. And if they found they could not |pave me out in tint way, they would then join the Jacksonians and so defeat me by a concentration of two parties. And if I became an open friend of Mr Adains, they were prepared to bring out another candidate on the same side. This was the kind of management attempted to he played off upon me. Things passed of] until the month of May, when let ters and information poured in upon me from every quarter, that the adininistiation men, were about to draw the line upon me, and brintr out Htrbin Moore, John 11. Thompson or William Graham, on the question, all avowed Adams men. Well, I thought this course a strange one indeed and I could scarcely b" lieve it until further information come to hand I received the rol lowing resolution which was enclosed to me by the chai man of the Jackson Central Committee, as having passed that body.—It teads as follows, (viz:)

SALKM,

May V. 182B.

Resolved, That a committee appoint by the Chairman of this Central Committee to write to G.v Ray. to ask him il he will c.nscnt to run as the Jackson c.mdaLt^ Governor at the ensuing Aug iisi lecMon, provided, there should 1 an Adams mai brought out as a car.dnla bv the opp -si• ioo and iGov Kay sba'l so consent to be a lackson candidate, provided shall have opposition as aforesaid "ten we as rnemners of the Cen ral Committee, will con.-ider ourselvcpledged for his support as

Whatever has been said, has been with an eye single to the condition proposed to me by the Jackson C. umwhich inittee, thai tf the opposi||po \that is

Gov

ernor and the Jarksm party tiim'out the state so far as we can con rol. This resolution, or Governor Ray's answer, not to be published or mid* known, unless there be an \dams candidate for Governor, th Governor Ray's name is to be adwed to the republican ticket as a caadi date for Governor. J'y this you can •see that we are disposed to elect you md suffer you to remain perfectly neutral unless an Adams man should oppose you for the office of Governor."

IIE5JRY S. HANDY-' I President

Thus speaks (he resolution.— Whether this resolution was passed, and sent to me to entrap me or not, I cannot tell. But what answer should be made fo it was the ques tion. Could I sav to the friend, ot General Jackson that I would not have their support when voluntarily tendered, then they would have turn ed their backs justly on me, and have said with just v/rath- we shall have nothing to do with Gov. llay The friends of Gen. Jackson constitute a part of the people of Indiana, and are entitled to notice as much any other people. I am not ashamed to acknowledge, that I was thankful for their friendship I was elected before by Jackson men and Adams men jointly and I never heard it uiged before that it was a disgrace to me to consent to be supported by the friends of Jackson. I cannot prevent the support of any of my fellow men. I do not wish to make distinctions. W hafever ha* been said or written a luose, cart less private and confidential way, and never intended ior toe, public eye, (or cxpla nation would have accompanied mv remarks) I claim before a candid world, the privilege of qualifying and of laying before it the real sentiments of my mind. I have too of ten, it is true, written in a very loose and general manner, what I would always claim the ri^htof explaining.

toe Adams party) drew me ine oi on me standing upon neutral ground, that they woul I step forward ami save me upon the same ground.— Whatever was said, was to be considered as if it never h„d been said, as a perfect nullity* unless I was first forced from the ground on which I stood—unloss I was compelled to throw myself upon the mercy of any who might think proper to support me.—I have ever been opposed to drawing the line and was determined that I would not Mirow the first stone. But I have rights as well as others and felt no disposition to be sacrificcd, because I had occupied neutral ground. Because I would not become a/?arfizoti Because I would not prostrate the office of Governor for paFty purposes. Ibis was inv sin if I ever said, that I believed Jackson ought to have been elected, my reason was that he had a plurality of the peoples' votes, and majorities should govern yet I believe that Mr. Adams was eonstitutionallij e'ccted. If I have said tlut 1 disbelieve the charge of bargain and cor ruption, I mean, because sufficient evidence has never met ray eye to

establish it. If I have said that I discredit the charge upon Jackson, that he is hostile to internal improvements and the protection of home industry, sincr the receipt of his letter to me in those subjects, I wish not to be understood as tneaniug to say, that it. was his answer to my letter, standing alone from any acts of his, that satisfied me, or that am yet satisfied that he is in favor of either of those systems, to that extent which I could wish. Hi- vote in the Senile of the United States and his letter have satisfied me, that he believes that the United States have a (institutional power to prosecute those systems but the General has not in detail, as to matters of expediencv, made himself explicit. His answers to questions, were not .tirect as to particulars but if he is fevor ot any tanffatall,he thinks it constitutional—if he is in favor of •Eternal improvement at all he is favor of the system and this is ail the opinion'I have expressed. \nd when I sav I had doubts before I addressed him, I mean as to the constitutionality of the systems and and thev are removed. If I have nid of the General, that as between and Adams, my old f'eeling3 are renew, d. I intended and iru'snt to iv ak of them as m?n— as individu~ als tnd ot as candidates for the Presidency il I have erred in say1" to the friends of General Jack vdii, 1 am in your hands, dispose of •nr a"d my name as you in your lorn think proper, it is an infirmity of.iny nature lor if the huaiblpst man in society should expressa wish 0 vote for me, I should tell biin the same thinj and thank him too and let'the first candidate for office that wtil not doit, speak Have I erred in apprising the friends of General J.ickson, that I should not become a pirtizan. and wished to be elected on my meri's? Whilst I consent to receiving the votes of the General friends «-n my merits, I tell them that that shall not make me a partizan 1 mi. lit well admit that I would no", undo"what they did in state elections i.ecause I had not he power to do so

I he people controul me, not me, them. If I said that I would admit the election to be a test of strengthI meant to fi that idea to the condition p.--posed in the resolution lithe committee, that if the administration men drew the line upon ine, bv which they all went against me and I was without any act of mine unavoidably compelled to throw my ^p 1 upon the mercy of the Iriends

General Jackson, for my

elect,on

.standing upon neutral ground, that would not afterwards ieii a tie about it. If true that they did elect me, 1 must say so and so I woul say, 1 elected by the friends of Jft. Adams in a

party

controversy. But I sure

ly intended to speak of the election of myself and my competitor, and not Jackson's and Adams', when speaking of a test of strength. objected tt the publication ot my letters it was to support the position which I took originally, that I would not meddle with the Presidential electioo knowing that a publication of anything I might write to the committee would be deemed an

ference. If the friends of Genera. Jackson proposed to take me upKnowing as I declared to them, a I was in favour of the measures o. the present administration, an uton neutral ground, and neither gainst them or for them, to save m. nuii the cruelty of a party about u«.h me because I would not abu JacksoD, what other ackaowledgc-r'.-s» */*r 'v*

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:»e '.i 1 IKtT i-V--.il -ay in truth, that I «taod committed ,* to admit, as strong as the \n.l-'s, iat thev elected me is wis all the committal meant, and upon the conditions named. 'Pie Jaekso 1 "omajittee made thr* proposition to me not ine to them. Ksdmino dates of sC Resolution and answer. I5.ic 1 gives me great jov to discover and believe, that no party question wi.l be made—that all will b-- elected upon their merits. This wis toe /s way in which I have been desiring elections to take place J« .I public servants will not be thr-'-vn away, and giddy and untried ones placed in their stead Iiinnony and good will, I h..pc will a-i \j* restored. And I now pledge mvself ~r 4 to the public, that if the dihnini.stration men or Jackson men do not make a question, if they will prove by their acts, that they will not vo J' for my co npetitors, because tiiey a«e Adams men or Jackson me'i, a.id I am elected, (as I believe I will oy a large majority,) after the electi »ra i« over I will come out and declare to the world the fact that I was elected by no party wnatever, ou -jv both the friends of Mr. Adams and -j

General Jackson When the people Tl come to the polls to vote for Governor, tiiey ought not to enq-nre to- a moment, whether the man they ie-

tend voting for is ari Adains man or Jackson man, for the Governor has nothing to do in making a'President, more than giving one vote with the ,, people at the polls, v,

A charge has been' going the rounds that I called the Jackson party an

Mv fellow-citizens, this is the last time lean have an opportunity of?" addressing you until the election. To-morrow I shall leave this, not to return until after August. My enmies may apply to me every kind of epithet, and I shall not know it. VThey may circulate the basest slanders and forgi ries, and I cannot answer them. Whatever ought to N have been said, should have come out in a Governor's election, three 4 mont is i-go, in justice to me.

Look out for certain wise lawyers, who will oppose me, because I have said I would revise the laws Let not the maxim be verified in this Clection, that party is the madti"sS of many for the benefit of a v? Kxamine w^at I have done tor your atate since I have been in office, and remember, that I have three years toserveifyou elect me. before my constitutional term expires, and I un certain you will award me justice. Whilst uy enemies are writihg my infirmities and errors in biass .-r »s

I louk to the people, in common, to place some

good deeds on the same tab.e

Indianapolis, July 14

TO THE PUBLIC.

Never in my life have I consider-: ed my duty to my TeHow citizens .... more closcly involved, than on tfye present occasion, .and never did I,.*.

bought, and so expressed myself to the Governor and others, that my support would not be of that character it had been heretofore—that I was .. •,ot convinced, even after some ex-

•ranation, that he had acted correctyet, fellow-citizens, after reading he letter of Mr. Handy, confidential it is true, but that injunction now "emoved, 1 view the matter inau entire ditterent light. The principle*

outrageous and violent faction, at Brookville some time since. This is false—and the Editor from whotn it was said to come, has since admit- *r* "*t ted in his owti paper, that he never asked me any such a question. It has also been said that the tavern 4 registers over the moun ains, show a contradiction in my recording ,ny 2 name—that I so netimes wrote Ad- v.urns, and sometimes Jackson.. Tnis is also false.

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JAMES ray. £.

The following was written by a citizen of this town, after Governor Ray's communication came into our office—with a request it should accompany the Governor's lemarks—• .t the writer agreeing to tiear the ex- .• suppose if the Governor refused. Ihia fact we are ipquesfed to state, that Mr. Rav mav rot bear the blame of writing it. We believe it was done without his knowlege

SMITH & BOLTON, Pr's.

give an opinion with more caution *, t^han at this junctur«. As the uniform friend of Governor Ray, one, a* the editors of the Journal express themselves, speaking of the publish,rs of the Gazette,who has stood by him in good and evil report, 1 nust confess, that my faith in tho man was greatly staggered, on reading his letter to Mr Handy and had

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