Western Sun, Volume 1, Number 51, Vincennes, Knox County, 12 November 1808 — Page 1
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1808.
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POETICAL ASYLUM, English transation of the celebrated fragment of Sappho. Blest, as the immortal gods, is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while, Softly speak, and sweetly smile. Twas this deprived my foul of reft, And rais'd fuch tumults in my bread ; For while I gaz'd in tranlport toft, My breath was gone, my voice was loft. My bofom glow'd : the fabtle flame Haa quick thro all my vital frame ; D,er my dim eyes a darknefs hung, My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my liirbs were chill'd, My blood with gentle horroi , thrill'd, My feeble pulfe Torgot to play, I fainted funk and died away.
(CIRCULAR.) Teller Citizens, ONCE more have I ftepped back into the peiceful duties, and cooling breezes of retirement, from the public toils, and incelTant care? s your representative? in the Grneral Allembly of the Territory, to which your free and unbiaffed fuiTrage tailed me two years fince. It i, fellow citizens fublimely fid, "That we mull all give an account of our ftewardftup at the drama of life" now to apply the metaphor to myfclf, my political
tijc uur repreieutative, having terminated with the Lrt frllion of our legifldture, 3 feel it iiuurr.bent, nay, I take a pleafure in giving you a conci'fe ftatcment of the trar.faftions which have tranfpired in the general afiemhlv. I lhall for the ikr rf n Hettrr Mnderftandinj;, adopt the ru e rf prefc: ,-i ; then, a to th- proceedings of fril4.,u t mc;T. you hve already had an outline, m mine tnd my cn'.lrapue's circular Utter to you of the 2111 September, 1807 you arrt Pr. tainly not ignorant, for it has L,een echord, and re-echoed, that at that feffi-m Davis floyi wasdcclcd Clerk cfthc Houfc of
Reprcfentatives at the opening of the prefent feEon, I gave in his refignation, and mr. William Jones, was elected as his fuccelTor : it was alfo thoacht advifable in or-
der to expedite bufinefs, that an afTiftant
clerk should be appointed, which was done. In the fpeech of his excellence the Go-
, ar vernor of the Territory, made to the two houfes at the commencement of the feffi-
on, a fubject is portrayed in lively colours, and with that glowing animation which should warm the breaft of every true Ame
rican! mean the embargo ; this in my
opinion, was a judicious and wise choice in our rulers ; it was the leffer of two inevitable and unavoidable evils--a horrid war
fare, with all its dreadful and concomitant
confequences of blood shed, rapine, and the entailment of an enormous debt upon
our latelt poltenty, werr. confpicuous on the one hand ; while a partial deprivation
of a few of the luxuries of life, & the flop in
the aggrandizement of a few of our trading
part of society, appeared on the other which then ought to be the choice of anv
government, except one " whofe trade is
war, and monopoly, under fimilar circumftances as ours was fituated in at the
time of paflimr the embarcro aft? the an
fwer is fo fimple and emphatic, that I (hail
not oner an mlult to your underftandings
uy naming- u.
An impeachment was raifed at the laft effion againft Robert Morrifon, Clerk of he Common Pleas of Randolph county, at
this feifion the Houfe of Reorefentatives.
coniidering that the evidence which could be adduced upon the trial would not fup. port the charges, and if fo, that the exptnee would be very heavily felt, and iuflly com
plained of by the Territory, were induced to
enter a nolt prosequi to the impeachment.
1 he hrlt and only cale ol a contefted e-
ection in the Houfe of Reprefentatives of
his territory, came on, and was decided his feflion it was tlft election of Rice
Jones, efq. from the county of Randolph, contefted by R. Robinfon. efn thp houfc
decided that mr. "Jones fhould retain his
leat, trom the principle " that the omissi on of a public officer lhould never work an
injury to an individual," which would have i . .
oeen the cale, had the cleaion of mr. Jones been fet afide.
A part of the unGnifhed bufinefs of laft
eflion, was the petition of lohn Gibfon.
prefident pro tern, of the board of Truf.
tees of the Vincennes Univerfity, praying that the board of Trulhes might be authorifed to make fale of a further quantity of the Seminary townlhip of land ; this petition w is rejected, becaufc it was thought inexpedient to grant its requeft.
A nomination of two perlons from Clark county, was made to fill the vacancy in
;e Lreillativc Council, occafioned by the
feat of Samuel Gwathmey, efq. a member of that body becoming vacant. Seme petitions wt-re pitfentfd to the Houfe of Reprefentatives, praying for the formation of nt- county, out uf Clark t: Dearborn ; they wr re rejected from a belief tiiat that part of the country was but thinly populated, and the formation of fuch new county would be useless expensive and trov'sle-sctrie other petitions were likrwife prtiented tor the formation of a new vounty cut c,( the county of Dearborn, thofr were alio rrjred liom a contrariety of interefis appraring frc;n the petitions. A hill wss introduced in the Hcufe of Reprefentatives for the admifiion of rquitahie trials in fuits at law. wl.'n 1 vl.i.! Iia
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tabliOiment of a court of Chancery, and itlgrefs for opening a road from the Saline to was believed would have been far lefs ex-lKafkaflria. and tKat TT.,; to4
penfiveaRd affording all the advantages of in that diftria maybe laid ofTinto quarter the prefent court of Chancery ; this bill feaioni and alfo, that Congrefs would was rejeded in the Council a bill to a- grant a townlhip of land to the diftrift of
mend the election law fh a red the fame fatelTrflTrrfonville.
--as did the bill concerning the former Clark and Dearborn, for th- ufe of fchoofs Attorney General alio the bill concerning a refolution w-s introduced in the Houfc the Wilt of Habeas Corpus tdsubjeciendum, of Reprefentatives by the member from (by which it was provided that the Clark, and after mtirri rrmfult jrirxn ni(TA
" return ot fuch writ fliould
taken as conclufive and hininor,
g i - Y aj viii u car v which means, the writ fo much boafted oUtriSulation. but thrr- tnnb ftnH mi
as being one of the bulwarks of our liberties refolution was introduced by mr. Jones, might anfwer fomc defirable end, & benefit from Randolph, and was carried, (three to thole who may hereafter be imprifoned by two) by the weftern members, to operate as
power; auo me Dill tor inltruetions to the delegate to Congrefs, in the appointment of county treafurers alfo case there should be one, to ufe all the means the bill to amend the feny law alfo the in his power to efTedl a divifion of the Tcrbill to alter the terms of, the fittings of the ritory there were a number of orders ta court of Chancery and alfo the bill to ken on different petitions which were of a repeal the law for the introduction of ne- local or nrivare nature, and vnnM nnin.
groes and mulattoes into this Territory dtertfting in this place, it is therefore thot the ground of which bill was the verv ela-broDer to defer them, as thrv will flmrtl
borate and geopraphical, political, moral appear in the publication of the Journals of andconcife report of a refpeaable commit Ithe houfe.
tee appointed by the houfe on petitions! It is very much regretted that the clec which had been prefented from all parts oi tion for a deletrate to Cnnrrri-fs rnnM nMf
the Territory, in which there appeared alhave been made at rarHir n.rrt ;
majority t 60f3 and odd perfons : this re. feffion it was rroeranin&trl
port will ere long be publiflied at full ail the members of the two houfes fhould length, and will 1 am purfuaded convince receive the benefit of tbIr vr.tr ! T f.,f
any rational mind of its propriety, not 'to be excufed in not giving ynu the charafter
mcimon us pnuanmropy. ot any ot the candidates (as I was for fome
1 he following bills were reie&ed in the time during the feffion mp. and thf
" j 0 i O w Houle of Representatives, viz. a bill mak-Iin my delineations, might he faid to be paring compenfation to the Chancellor anu foi tiaH or of the delerrate : but mn flnr.r-lv
other purpolcs a bill fupplemental to the wifti it was in my power to caft an impenet eftablilhing and reeulatiner the militinl trablr veil nvrr thi-
w f 0 .... . . ...w I."V.VIUtl0 W A fcUW and a bill allowing compenfation to the twenty fecond of Oclober ! ! !
witneiies who attended the trial of the im- borry am I toobferve that it became ne peachment of Robert.Morrifon. cefTary in 1808, as it was in 1807. to naf
The Governor reieded the aft contern- fpecial afts for the collrrlLno nf thr trrJ-
ing the otnee of Attorney General, and for torial revenue, in the two weftern counties ' other i urpefes, (by which it was provided, and from reiterated delays in the col-
kaw icvciai tuuns oi common neas ieciin oi ine revenue, our trealury, lhamefhould appoint the profecuting attornies in ful to tell ! is quite empty, their feveral counties) as infringing Apon At the time of my writing this -begin, the powers veiled in him bv the ordinanr to hear th vi-II nf rvcmtlon. hmr.- th
alfo the a& eftablilhing diftrift courts, printers of the revifed code were allowed a
ana a nign court ot errors and appeals dollar per page for printing, and eighteen
and alfo the act to amend the ad rerrula
ting theadmiffion and praice of attorneys and counfellors at law, (by which it was
provided, that no attorney fhould practice in the Territory without an aftual relidence
except thofe of the Louifiana Territory) becaufe it was not general.
1 he following refolutions were pafird in
the Hoofe of Reprefentatives at this feffion,
and have been Tent on to Congrefs, viz. Praying the palfape f a law that the dele
gate may be elected by the free citizens at
the time ot electing their members to the general afiemhly !fo, that the power of the executive in negativing laws, and con
vening and proroguing the general allembly, may be placed upon the fame footing
as the powers exercifed by the prefident ot the United States under the conftitution alfo, an appeal from the general court of this Territory, to the Federal court for the difhift of Kentucky, for all fums above a
ietermmate value alfo, prantincr a further
time to the claimants of lands in the countv
of Knox, to claim and locate the fame
ilfo, that fugitives from itiftice mav br
siven up by the executive of any (late, tc die executive of the Territory unon de
mand, as isp-ovided by a of Congrefs i
rrar'. t, 4te rtllo, that frttlers in the
Jiltna of K.fkficia, may cover their im-
nrovemeots with militi or head rights, and
Interceded ;hc nccclfry cf :Lc iepcratc cf.'tha: an apprcpriiUon ruaybcm.de by Ctn-wa. ba: bw.
pence per copy for binding the laws and
acts ol lalt iefhon the Territory were disappointed, gentlemen fay, fliamefully by fome months in the printing, and that fofr this disappointment (altho the printing is acknowledged to be accurately and well
donr) the printers fhculd have been allowed
A I ALL, or at moft, not more than the one' half of their contraa !
let me here put thofe fimple and plain queftions to every 'just and car.did man,
wou.a you lir, exadt, far from wifh, your neighbor to expend his moiry and work for you at the rifk ot his health, and allow him NOTHING ? admitting that you made a contract with U. to perform a certain fervicc for you by a gvcn time, and he difappointed you for a ftw months, hot yet performed the frrvice to your approbation, would you not (having pretentions to honef. ty) pay him for his labor ? does not holjf writ irfbuel and infpire us with the noble principle that the hirelan is worthy of his labor?' and vrould you as a member of the community act with greater unbecoming forJidnefs ilun when -ftirg for yourflf? would yru, in fine, wifii k exacl fomething for nothing ? If this is r.ot your principle 4$ I'm lure it cannot he of any upright man, the Lrgiflature acled as they ought toh-ve lone in allowing Stout tc Smoot, t!" a-
mount cf their ccatraft, vhich at beft,
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