Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 4, Vincennes, Knox County, 17 December 1808 — Page 1

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VOL. II.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1808.

NO. 4.

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JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE INDIANA TERRITORY, ( Continued.) Tuesday 18th Oct. 1808. The House met according to adjournment. The House according to the order of the day resoived itself into a committee of the whole House, on the act from the Legislative Council, entitltd an act to amend an act entiled an act concerning executions, and after some time spent therein mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and mr. Biggs reported that the committee had according to order had the said act under consideration, and have made no amendments thereto. Ordered that the said act be engrossed for a third time now, whereupon the said act being read a third time. On Motion, Resolved that the said act do pass and that the title be as aforesaid. Orritrfd th.4t the Clerk do inform the Le tlitive Council thrrrof. Mr. Johnlton from the fcledt committer to vh;im wr -re retrrrd the petition of Ifnc MorKomery zvd Robert Anderfon, ni'f'e the fdlowini; report. Th it t!ic fud committee have carefully ex'uni'vd th jnirvjncr rf the petitions a. d hr nrver of the Dtfition, and are or C it :inii Y At t!.r lame ought to berrjrettd. jur t!i- f 1 ! r w : ; ' regions. If:, u-rre tficsr two pt ritiorers allowed r: Cotrprrf it!n virwrrs t the rojid, o:her i.-l. .tioiis vvuuld be macfc for fimilar al-lonces.

Mr Speaker being abfent mr. t)ccker took the chair as Speaker protem. . Mr. Johnfton from the committee of enrolled bills reported that the faid committee had truly, compared and examined thr cngroffed with the enrolled, bill, entitled an act to amend an a A entitled an act regulating the fees of the feveral officers, and pcrfons therein named, -whereupon nir. Speaker protem. tigned the faid eurolltd bill. , Ordered that the Clerk do inform the

Legiflative Council thereof

country where liberty wjs defervedly, fo dear, and had been pun haled at fo high r price, prefented a feature of deformity not, to be juPiified every fhte battened to putan end to the horrid traffic, thofe ftate9 which could do it without angcf abolifiid flavciy altogether, and thoft which from the great number of their ne grocs could not with a due regard to their lufety follow at once the dilate of iuftlce

inu numanuy, enattcc! laws lor the pro tcctioiv of that unfortunate clafs cf men

nd then gradual emanfepation, when the

Mr. Johnfton from the 'committee of Hortli-Weftein Tertitoiy wirs ceeded by whom were referecf , the feveral petitibns Virginia to the United- States, Congrefs

praying for a diviiion of Dearborn county made the following report That by the feverafpetitioners the figners to which amount to thref hundred and fix-ty-fix, the divifion or. boundary line prayed for to form the. faid new county is feventh and eighth Townfliips, and that by the other petition, to which there is two hundred and five iigners, the boundary line is prayed to be made between the eighth and ninth Townfliips your committee are of opinion that as there appears contrary interefls, and wifhes exiftirg in thtpart of the prerr.jt county of Dearborn, which wonld form the faid i new county, it would be improper in the Legillaturc to give the preference to either, until more uid fatisfactory information may come before the Houfe upon the fubj' cV Your consmittec would advife that the petitioners or fome of them, do advertife in fome publick news-paper printed neareft the county of which the new county is wifhed to be formed, that . their application for fuch formation will be renewed to tlie

Leiflature at their enfuing feffion, which would afford a fair opportunity to all partie?. On motion Relolvedthat leave be given tc ferin in a bill to alter the terms of thr fctti- o!

the court of Chancery, and that mefiVs.j

johnlton and lYj plunger be a committee to prepare and bring in the fame, whereupon

mr. Johnfton reported a bill to aitcr th

obeyed the impulfe cf jbftice and ber.ev:

olence endeavoured to prevent the prope

gation of an evil which they could not to

tally eradicate by enacting in the ordinance

which forms our conftitution, that there

fi!?ll be -neither flavery nor involuntary

fervitude in the Territory, cthei wife than

The law of the Territorv entitled an ni concerning the introduction of negroes and mukttoes into the TerritorVi makes it

lawful tcr an holder of Haves to bring then, into the Territory, and to keep them therein during lixty days during which' period the hegroe is offered the alternative of either figning. an indenture by which ht binds hjimfelf for a number of years, or of being f?nt to a flave ftate cr Territory there to be fold. The natural inference from thisftatemeHt forces iti'elf upon thr mind that the Have 'thus circumftanced is held in involuntary fervitude, and that the law permitting fuch proceedings is contrary both to the fpirit'.trd better of, the ordinence & thit therefore that it js unccnftitution d your committee. might add th..t the noit flagitious abufe is mavle of that Hw that negroes brought here are commonly forced to bind theinfelves for ?, number of yesrs,. reaching or extendinf"

the i atnal term of their lives, fo that the

condition of thr-fc un

not only involuntary

right ilavery it isp?rh;.ps unnecdfiry to

advert to the novel circu:rftant? of a per.

terms of the court of Chancery, the fidjf0II untler cxtrenie durefsot a fl;.vt: beconu

that a general view of the different ftuci of the union, nnd "of their refp. tire mrars of pjofperity and importanc will foon convince the impartial crquircr that the hand of freedom can beft J ytl.e f.mudation iz rapidly raife the fabric of publick profperU ty . the old Hates North cf Maryland without one fingle precious commodity exporting nothing bur bulky articles prcfent every where the fpedUcle of induftry and imitation, the ftile' "of their agracultufe is fupericr, their mills, bridorcsroads. ca

nals, their manufactures arc in p'o'iMt pf number without a parellel, in the Southern ftctes, and they befides other puts of the world export to thefe ftstes manufactured commodities to a large amount annually : on the fubjea of puhlitk improvements we will beg leave to rrfrr the Houfc to a document laid before Congrefs on the fnbjfct of rodg uid canals ; the Hate of Ohio furniflies us with a cafe in point which aptly iliulbates the tw fcrrirninr

obfei vations,Mn the fhbrt fpacc of a fe

years our eyes witnefs growing into inj.

portance wi.en but a little while before Indian hords and favnge beafts roamed

without controal, farm, yilhgrs, towns, multiplying with 3 rapidity unprefidrnted

m the iuitoiy ot new fcttltments ; the f me caufe will produce the farac effedls

tne e;:crtion ot tl-.e iree man who labour for hinifelf and family muft be more effect ii A than the faint efforts of ? meak

... . tj.v. i ii nuic rcnuiucn is nevcr to be bettered by his ir.ctfTant toils ; the induflriouf? will fi.uk where induftry is honorable and hone red, -ml thr man of a? independent fnirit where equity reigns, and where no proud nabob can cafl on him a look of contempt 3rd. WiJi ijfpect to the influence which th; practice of flavcry re ly have upon morale and m-nnets, when meo are invdird with an uncontroaled power ever

ii tiui, iu nidi uic . .,t.- r ii r i f rt ' r . r.nmber cf fnendlrfs human beings, lorturate peiietisis 'i ff ... , . . t ' r i!i !',J'ni to inrellant labor . when they can lervitude but dowiiij ,! fa. .1 i- 1 -r , cily lec the whip hurry iticr nromifcuouflv

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fi om v lutij-

a Erlfljtnre fliould act 1, and 1,1 o : v, rr nriv.ite

niftives ; rtlt r ai.;.iir-.ti, .r s 00 hi ;i ; jnun! hrtnid-, a: d th ;il i '"-:e:w.;n ii',-,fit and to wh'.t e.:ent w u'J r:ot fiuh tllow iiir.s ". rd itv!vr tl. I e r 1 i t ) t roimtv in drht : -nd th.-n t'ie Hchm - mi 'rned ui't'l to-:r jrr :v ::;or1(;:H; 9 l ci;. W'tfliicRay lOthOl. 1 hos. Tbe Hw'ul: met accordir.- to adjjurn-

bill being read thefirft time, ordered to be

reau a fetond time now. Qrt motion Refolved that the faid bill bf engroff ed for a third readiiig now, w l-.n eiij-v-ii the faid engrciffcd bill was read a third :ia:e. On Motion, Refolved that the faid bill do j ifs ard

that t!ie title be ds atorelaui.

ing a party to a contract, parting with him felt i-.n recicving iiothing."

ily iec thz v.hip hurryitig promifcuoufly

the young, t!e aged, the infirm, thr pregnant womin and the mother with herfuckling ir.fnt to their dailv toil, when they can fee them umr.ovrd fi;i rring with cold and pinched with hurptr. when thrv Can

1'lut fla.ry though in itfelf unjuft'barter a human hrir.? -with t he fame un-

miht neve: t!jchis be tolerated IVcm rea-; feeling indifference that they h ,rtej a horfe, ions ot expediency is a point whit h ynnrjnart the wife frct.i l:er h-jfl; 4nd ard urrcomin'.ttee cio not f-tl trjtmf.lves at !-r- mindful oi t!i-:r inn.:ui ciies tear thr rM l

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in the un-

pet lu ition that vvuat 1 morally wrong, canMridleti 7!Mt oi ilormy parions jnfiict cruel

ty t concede, tliry are fiimly fixf d in th jfrom i's nit'.hcr, v. i'en they 'can i pet fm: ion that what is morally wrong, cin'hridletl ?uft of tlormy paffioiu jn:

Ordered that the Clerk do rarrv the!" hn: ' . C n,hk j;n;r.(hmem5 wou h no U,v can avert, or frud .tt th. le.m.tivr Counril d d,J M'nne if generally a jm; jn:.:;.re : when fuch things c an take plate,

Ire tl rir corrnrrce the.Mn " WVjlj ,?oa ,,n' ',,,r "vr.y5 it. can it i;,- expected tht the. milk of human ore their concur.ei.ee t.ieuto. . banditti, our Ihects uith t .tp.ds, ...u ii.i l indn-f- vriii e ver moiilen, in th-ir interMr. Johnfton from tV.e committee to :n..r f.v. t v, tvith Uvi-t'!er- I .,'!.... V w' .1 c u horn were rearer, at i-rent tunes ou-,po!(f . ltft ;;lf b:ds the meafure, wlU rt :.n the d-ily pr.dice of fuch Vftf, ,n,t;t ring t,e prefent fedi.n t,e feveral petit.,nsp,a p .abtio.i, the gie.t at,t mo, . , , d ,vil! refect tl , moral obli rho lor nnd agaipft the dm;i.ion nf ihv-ry .nvn,;,a pulation of the m.d: ;,d :,ws of juftu e which thfv ,re toidr.ntly lothi lerriiory, i:uue the lodowing re- L(1icrt. (i,.fS( tou,p,rrti to trut f t!. nt-cio jr with the rt. h, d ner roe, thrir

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