Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 19, Vincennes, Knox County, 15 April 1809 — Page 1

THE

WESTERN SUN

Each Century has its peculiar Mode of doing Business, and Men guided mcue by Custom than by Reason, follow without Enquiry, the Manners which re prevalent in thkir own Tim.. HuztE.

SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1809.

NO. 19.

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FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, THE

LAWS OF THE INDIANA TERRITORY, Comprising those Acts formerly in force, and as Revised

Br Messrs. JOHN RICE JONES, and JOHN JOHNSON,

(BY AUTHORITY.)

AN ORDINANCE for levying and col-

letting a tax, for defraying the expences which maybe necessary in widening, opening and repairing the streets in the Borough of Vincennes, and for other purposes.

TJE it ordained by the Chairman and

m M Trustees or the Borough of Vin

cennes in Common Council assembled, and

it is hereby ordained by the authority afore

said, That all dwelling houfes p.nd lots, and

vacant lots, in the faid borough, are here by made chargeable for defraying the Bo

rough expences, to be taxed and colledred in fuch manner and proportion.) as is herein

after directed.

Set. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Chairman of the Board of TruQees on or before the twentieth day of February

yearly, fliall appoint two difcreet perfons,

rending in the Borough, who (hall on cr

before the twentieth day of March, proceed

to appraife and value ech dwelling houfe

and lot, and vacant lot in the Borough, taking into confideration the fituation and

improvements of the Ume, and the faid sp

Ipraifers aftt r having made fuch valuation

(h ill make out a fair and nluhabctical lifi

thereof, dating the names of the proprietors

or occupsers cf fuch houfes and lots, aim

vacant lots, with the valuation of each on

nexed to the fame, in the form following

to wit.

A list and valuation of Dwelling Houses

and Lots, and vacant Lets in the Bo

rrtrjh of Vincennes.

he collector upon receipt of the faid du

plicate, lhall proceed to coll'-tt of the owners or occupiers of the faid houfes .md lots.

and vacant lotsj a fum not exceeding fifty cents for every hundred dollars, to be com

puted according to the valuation in the I4' thropy or his felf love, for reftrsininp: the

aia duplicate, ana tne laia coiuaor man intemperance oi painon towrus nis nave,

And passed (after amendments) by the

Legislature ; and the Original A&s

p-.Sicd at the First Session of the Second

Cicnerai Assembly ol the I am icrruory, Price Three Ddhzrst Hfj Cents. ALSO A FEW COPIES OF THK LAWS tassko At the Second St-sficn f the Second Ge

neral Assembly ot the indiani 1 crritc-

TV. Trice Fifij Cents.

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rANTrny A BOY between l i I h yars-ofs

JLjl as an jppr-uice to the printing bi fmcf; at tins oin

The Miami nation of IuJi'-ir.s, h.'ve hrot' in and dtrlivtrrd up to the ovrrror, one

brown maie, fuppoled to have btn Uol'-u, :ibeut f.) years t)l 1, 14 hand hisL, Lrai dtd

on tue i -r 1 1 uuui'utr. 'iiu ror itiiioi?,

little wliitc on l.t i U li ir forr and hr.r!

foot, heavy with f.rtl, l,?s brr; - Y Indians iince ll fall thr owner defirr.. to ci.tnc forv. Aid prove property, pjy chfr res and take her rv. rv. 7 HARRON Int.

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Sect. 4. Be it further ordained, That!" learn to imitate it, for man is an imita-

" tive animal. This quality is the germ

44 of all education in him. From his cradie to his grave, he is learning to do what he fees others do. If a parent

11 could hud no motive either in his plilan-

collect, and pay the amount cf all fums,

which may, or can be collected, into the

41 it mould always be a fufHcient one that his child is prefent. But generally, it it

hands of the Trrafurer on or before; the not fufficient The parent lorms, the

twentieth day of July, annually, who hallj child looks on, catches the lineanv nts of

give a receipt to the faid collrAor -for all

urns, fo. by the faid colleclor paid, and

which receipt fliall be entered by faidTrea-

urer m a book, whernn fliall be kept an

acccunt of all monies received, and expen

ded, for, and on account of the faid Bo

rough.

Sect. 5. And be tt further ordained,

That any perfon or perfons, who fliall think thcmfelvcs aggrieved by the appraifed value of their prcperty; may appeal to the Chairman and Trjftees of faid Borough for

which ihall be held on the fecond Monday

of April, annually, when it lisdl be the du

ty of the Beard jt iruuees, to lay the taxes of the Borough.

All ordinances coming within the pur

view of this ordinance 2re hereby repealed.

HENRY HURST, Chairmat of the Trustees. Pafled the 3d March, 1809.

B. PARKE, CM.

44 wrath, puts on the fame airs in the circle 44 of fmaller flaves, gives a loos to hs word 44 ot paflions, aud thus nurfed, educated, 4 arid dady exercifed in tyranny cannot but 44 be Oamped by it with odious peculiirities. 4'The man mufl be a prodigy who can re44 tain his manners and morris undepraved 44 by fuch circumflancrs. And with what 44 execration fhould the ftatefman be load44 ed, who permitting one half the citizens 44 thus to trample on the rights of the otherf

14 transforms thofc into dripots, and thefe

redrefsof fuch grievance, it their meeting!14 into enemies, deftroys the morals of the

FOR THE WESTERN SUN.

for sau-;.

PON re.f in -A' nns the l-jllowri

HdCts 'it 1 4(0 ay rr in tlir oL

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?rpe''wS i'linin;; rnr. l.pUntr, on the N.

V. ii - u t'n- Wabalh ; for tcruis ap-l in Vinccnnrs, to, 11YAC1NTHE LASSELLE.

Mr. Editor,

SLIM Simon in his inconfid-

erate zeal for slavery, hesitates not to bring

forward revered names, insidiously to in

duce a belief, that because of Jefferson, Giles

and other eminent patriots of Virginia hold negroes, they therefore approve the

system of slavery. That attempt to mislead those who not consulting their undertandings, rely upon the conveniency of precedents to stifle the murmurs of their con-

sciences, cannot be too severely reprobated.

It tends to the destruction of the native in

dependence ot man's mind, and to introduce an un------- spirit of servile imitation

more likely to propagate the errors of eminent men, than to inspire the virtues by which they are counterbalanced.

which they are counterbalanced.

But it is not true that to hold slaves is to

be a friend of slavery ; in a country where no other labouring hands are to he found,

imperious necessity compels the best of men to use negroes on their farms, or to abandon cultivation. They cannot, they ought not, indiscriminately to be set free, to the

nation alone. and not individuals, belongs the difficults and almost desperate talk of totally extirpating the evil. With a view to make amends to the readers for the imperfections of these

W'.un lsl. t)t .duation, the fid appraifers iketehrs, I will now -ffer to t'?ir icflex'mni

flu!', vlrlivtr to tlr Chairman on or before'thr fentiments of one of thc.fe worthi'-s i i

the firlt day of April annually, and which Virginia on this fubjecl. Spakincrof the

dull forthwith oe, hy him. filed in the of- manners of thatllate nir. Jtlferfon exprelTfice .f the clerk of the faid Truficrs. es himfelf thus.

Sec. 3. Be it further ordained. That the clerk lh-ll .n-l.e out two fair copies of I ltd ltd of valuation, as corrected by the Heard ot Trutlee?, adding thereto the rate t.rr cent to be coll?e'!ed on fin h valuation, ne ot which, uup.icitts (hall be delivered Ky him to thr editor, and the other fileil n hii liice, o:i or before the twentieth Jiy of Annl.

44 There muft doubtlefs be an untnpp) 44 ir.fluence on the manners of our people, 44 produced by the exifunce of llvrrv a4 motjgll us. The w hole commerce be 44 tween maAer and flive, is a perpetual 4t exercifr nf the moH boiOerous palfious.

44 th, mofl unremitting defnotifm nn thr 4 one pirt, and degrading fubniilTmn on

14t!ie other. Our children fee thii anJ

one part, anc tr.- r.mor pairix ot tne o41 ther. For it flave ran have a country 44 in this world, it inufl be any other in 44 preference to that in which he is born to (' live and labour for another ; in which he 44 mult lock up the faculties of his naturr, kk contribute as far as it depends otr his in

44 dividual endeavours to the cvnilhment

14 of the human race, or entail his own 44 mifcrable condition on the endlefs generations proceeding from him. With the 44 morals of the people, their induOry alfo i is deflroyed. For in a warm clirr:te, no

44 man will labour for himfelf who can make another Ishour for him. This is fo 44 true, that of the proprietors of flaves a 44 very fmall proportion indeed is err feen 44 to labour. And can the liberties of a 44 nation be though: fecure when we have 44 removed thrironly firm baf , a conviAicn

44 in the mines of tne people that theft li. 44 berties are the gift of God ? That they 44 arc not to be violated but with hii

44 wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my toutu41 when I reflect that God is jolt : that his 44 juftice cannot fleep fcr eer : that ccr.fi44 dr ring numbers, nature and natural means 44 only, a revolution of the wheel of for-

tun, an exchangr cf fituatioivis among poflible events: that it may become

4prcbahle by fupernatural interference ! 4 1 he Almighty lus no attiihute w I ith cm 44 take fide with us in fuch a lontelt Hut 44 it is impolTihle to he temperate ;.ni ro "purfue this fuhjeel throuph the various

r onliderntions cf pohcy, f nigral:, ot

hiflnry natural ar.d civil. Wr mult he

4 contented to hopr thry will force their 14 way into every f nrs mii.d. I think a 14 change already perceptible, finre tlir nr'4 igin of the pref-nt revolution. The fpi-

4 rit of the nailer is abating, that of the

flave rifmg from the dufl, hi condition

44 mollifying, the way I hcv preparing, un-

derthe aufpicis of Ueaven, for a total 4 emancipation, and that this is dispofd in 'the orrler cf events, to be with the con-

k4frnt of the maftcrs, rather than by their

extirpation. From the oerufal of Slim Simon's pro-

JueTtions we feel ctirfrlves rompelled to la

ment thrit talents which mi;;ht have heeti .levoted to the deOruition of error, ar.d the uifTemination of coi'e prinriplrs, fltouM have bren unfortunately rnifinplicd to the hickening of the veil which l'-lfifh paflions throw upon the moft lacrrd t eti t f i and the accemplilhment cf :he iujI nefarious pur-