Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 29, Vincennes, Knox County, 24 June 1809 — Page 4

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POETICAL ASTLUMy

"yhile War and Glory tunc the lay, Or fire the hearts of wifer men, With my fweet ffcffy may I flray, O'er the-green meed and lonely glen Secure when by our trembling fliores, The hoftile fleets of Europe fail ; , The din of arms and cannon's roar, Can never reach my lonely vale. Nor let the laurel'd hero fee With fcorn my " detliny obfeure No laurels are fo fweet to me As thofe that fhade my cabin door. 0 The joys of fortune and of power, Ambition, I refign to you ; They're but the vifions of an hour, As bright and tranficnt as the dew. But Hetty, in thy charms alone, And the fweet languifh of thy eye, Are treafures to the rich unknown, And joy, which fortune canaot buy.

ANECDOTES.

Authentic memoir A gentleman had five daughters, all of whom he brought up in fuch a manner as was propei to render them ufeful and refpelable characters in life. Thefe daughters as they came to year, married one after another with the confent of their father. The firfl. married a gentleman by the name of Poor the fecond a mr. Little the third a mr. Short the fourth a mr. Brown and the fifth a mr. Hogg. At the wedding of the latter, her fifirrs with their hufbands, were prefent. After the ceremonies of the wedding were over, a foci il cor.vrrfation eufued and the old gentleman made this remark to his guefls ; "I have taken great pains," (faid he) u to educate my five daughrersin a manner that they might act well their parts in life, and from their advantages and improvements, I fondly hoped that they would form connections that would do honor to my family . but I find that all my pains, care, and expectations in the refult have turned out nothing but Poor) Little i Short, Brown, Hogg,

ADVERTISEMENT EXTRA.

At the world's end, the Essex side of Gravesend To he fold by auction, by W. Neverfell ; On Monday 32c instant, the sale to begin ct ten -hek in the afternoon Lot 1. A cwjYcr cai"t faddle, a leather handi .', two woolen frying-pans, and a glai's- wherlbarrow. Lot 2. Three pair of pea flrsw breeches, a china quart c?rt, and two glafs beadfteads, with copper hangings. Lot 3. One deal coal grate, with baper fmoke jack ; a mahogany poker, a pair of gauze hollows. 4. One leather tea-kettle ; an iron frather bed, fix pair of brafs boots, and a flee! night cap, Alfo one pewter waiflcoit, and three flint wiijgs, a bell metal feive, and a calimanco hog trough, a bockfkin warming pan, and a pewter locking glafs, a japan beeilc, and a leather wedge, three filk hog yokes, and a pinch beck fwill tub; four fheep (kin miik pails, a wheat flraw tramel, a lamb fkin jjrindlione, and a muflin hatchet, a pair of pewter pudding bs, and a canvas gridiron, dimity coal fcuttle, and three Cutin chamber ptw wooden timber chain, and a brafscm rove, a profs of corderoy negroes, wall five Ubiio muflin one handled plows.

FOR THE WESTERN SUN. To the people of Indiana Follow Citizens, AS feldom as I have trefpaflcd upon your patience, I fear I may have done fo, more frequently than has been agrcable to you. Moft willingly would I have avoiaed this appeal to your

;.,n: y.a i - u.. u:m I tool. loexDoie their deleterious plans,

from whom I had a pofitive right to demandto give you a clue by winch you may pene

pie, and an evidence of want of republicanifm, but in him is patted over unnoticed ? Believe me, fellow citizens, there is fome hidden caufe, fome malignant pafiion, fomc dangerous plot lurking at the bottom There is exifling here, a faction, deftructive of your peace and harmony, and fubverfive of the real interefts of your country. The fniirions author of the Citizen, is their

j tool. To expofe their deleterious pla

it. 1 have a itrong aversion to the ootrufion of private controverfies upon the public attention ; their time could .be "much more agreably and advantageoufly occupied, than when employed upon fubjects of this natuie. But when a public attack is made upon an individual and common juftice is denied him, I think he may with fome degree of confidence alk of his countrymen a candid hearing of the charges againfl him add a decifion as well of their propriety, as of the conduct of his a (Tail ant. Let it be iniprcfTed upon your minds, that I have not been concerned in writing any of thofe anonymous pieces, which have occafioned fo much ftrife, and newspaper fcurrility. I ftudioufly fliuned every caufe for a paper war, becaufe it would be at all times unpleafantto me, and particularly fo, with the men againft whom 1 knew I would be engaged. f Men who to gain a temporary advantage over an adverfary, would not hefitate to fabricate the moll flagitious Sc barefaced lies. Peace is dear to me, & to prefer ve it without difhonor, I would make great facrifices. To have fubmitted tamely to the unmerited and unprovoked abufe of 44 A Citizen of Vincennes" and 41 A Detector Detected," would have betfii paying too high a price for it : any conferences are preferable to peace witriifgrace. I have been mofl reluctantly drawV into this conteft, and now I fwear, fe long' as it (hall pleafe Heaven to preferve my life, I "will defend my lelf in fuch manner as the circumflances of the cafe may require. After the lucid and convincing expofition of the various falfhoods and mifreprefentations of this Citizen, by the fmoth pen of 44 Detector" no further Cftrarion or enforcement of them can beTSieceffary. I cannot, however, pafs them over entirely unnoticed. .1 never did advocate, but I have always deprecated flavery in principle, and fo far from fupporting the pofitions aflumed by this fcribler of calumny, my writings go to prove that I am in favor of the gradual emancipation of flaves, and the amelioration of their condition. To prove this, I quote the following fentence from my anfwer to this very Citizen, on thefubjeetof the intrcdittionV of negroes into this territory. "But, ifvs Citizen could not reprefs the benevolent efFufions of his mind, why has he not, like a real Philanthropic, propofrd fome general plan for the gradual abolition of flavery, and the prefent amelioration of the condition of this unfortunate race of men ? then he would have merited the plaudits of his countrymen, and every friend of liberty, in the abflract, would have aided him in his laudable purpofe.1' To fix upon me the political fin of ariftocracy, in a country of republicans, on the eve of the election, wssnf the firft importance. Gradually and infiduoufly he

made his diabolical attack upon my political reputation, as the fur eft mode of fuccefs. Objecting to me, not on account of my republicanism, but on account of my want of it, he thus excites the public fufpicion. He, then, advances this undeniable principle, that the friend of flavery can not be a republican. Having prepared his groundwork, he impudently afierts that 44 mr. R. acknowledges himfelf and 1 writings prove him to be a friend of flavery" and confequently concludes that mr, R. u an arriftocrat. His pofition eftabliflied, as he would wifli you to believe, he with confidence tells you, that a man who fo pointedly differs with you in political fentiinents, can not reprefent yon truly. It is a principle in loqick, that correct condufions can not be dra.wn from falfe principles. If, fellow citizens you would take the trouble of comparing his afiertions, with the originals, by which he pretends they are jultified, you will find that his preroife's sre not true, therefore his condufions mufi be falfe. Thus does his argument furreptitioufly and dcceptioufly fabricated, its fiindy foundation bring removed, fjJltothe ground. 1 would afk why I alone fhould be the fubject of invective, why I alone (hould be denounced as an arriftocrat and federalifl, when it is well known, that mr. Johnfon entertains that opinion, vhieh in mc is a monflrous violation of moral princi

trate the thin difguisr which envelopes them, in fhort, to draw them forth to light

44 for light to them would be death," is a duty, which in the sequil, 1 will endeavour

to difcharge. Thofe who difcant moll vehemently againft moral and political turpitude, are frequently detected in the violation of thofe facred principles of truth, honor, juilice and candour, which they hypocritically inculcate. By chanting the precepts of morality, they defign to Ileal the confidence of their unfufpicious readers, and then feize the golden opportunity, which like the wind fleets away, of enforcing their

views. How this Citizen's practice fquarcs with his profeflions, I leave you to judge from the following cirtniniUnces. As a candidate for public preferment, 1 confidered it a duty to txprefs rny political fentiments and particularly fo to. do, upon a fubject which had recently been made an electioneering topic, upon which the public mind had been much agitated, and to which, in my opinion, was attached more importance than it really merited. Poli ticians who conceal their ' fentiments, when they'ought to be expreffed, may, with jnft caufe, be fufpectcd of finiftcr motives. With a lifterting ear and ftill tongue, without the poflibility of detection, they feel the public pulfe and fleer their courfe as policy uay fuggelt, as the tide of popular opinion flows and ebbs their fubtile'niinds apparently go with the current ; when it lubfides and the public pulfe .becomes ftationary, they hypocritically chime with the'majority, carry their point, and finally deceive them. Under thefe impreflions, I candidly exprelfed my opinion on the fubject of the introduction of negroes into this Territory, at the fame time, explicitly declaring that, if elected, I would not at tempt to introduce them and did virtually confider myfelf bound to oppoie their intraduction, unUfs differently inflructed by a majority of my conftitueuts. An a promife thus folemnly andpublickly given you are told by this Citizen not to believe 'me, as morally and politically impoflible. Is it, felleow citizens, morally impoflible to comply with an engagement, or politically fo, topurfue the inflections of conflituents ? Where did this virtuous citizen and wife ftateftnan learn his moral and political duties ? I have been taught to confider the performance of promifes, and an honrft reprefeniation of the public will, by a reprefentative, the efl'ence of moral .and political fcience. If this caitiff is correct, thankGod ! I have always been in error. Whether you Ihall confider me a veracious man, and the Citizen a llanderer I now fubmit to your decifion. In my public letter, I complained that I and my countrymen had been illiberally abufed by anonymons writers. In reply, the Citizen tells you. 44 Tliis is, fellow citizens, one of thofe electioneering tricks, to which I alluded in my fit A piece ; neither him, nor his country, have met with arty abufe from the writers he mentions ; he cannot point out a firgle inftance of it ;

but by telhng tins tale he wiflies to play on the paflions and excite the fympathy of the crrdnlotis electors'" Citizen Thro' compafiinn I would invoke the ilmblante of remaining virtue, if flie ever found a fanctuary in your breafi. to dart thro the denfr atmoiphere which furrounds her, its lovely rays, by which her abode may be difcoverrd ; but I fear fhe has taken her flight, did Ihe ever dwell there, and now alas! the Llufli of fliame never trahsfufei itfelf over your brazen cheeks. Read, fellow citizens, the following quotations from the Farmer fnd pity a wretch fo loft to truth. 44 Who is accuflomed to the fervile obedience of humble negroes, cannot bear the errea attitude of mrn proud of their independence and who can command a multitude of blacks, for no other confideration, than the obligation which his interelt impofes, of keeping them alive, will not readily pay the price which a frre man fcts upon the exertions of his ir.duflry. 44 Were the clamorous friends of that meafure well fupplicd with flaves to fctu their cupidity, or minifler to their vanity

with fuhmiflion and without rewaid, it is not likely that the dangers threatening the fouthern dates or the fu fir rings of the Vir ginia or Carolina negroes would much difturb their night (lumbers. 14 That the white inhabitants of the fou them flates obferve, with regard to one another, moral rules cannot be denied; their own preservation, if no other reafen cy.illcd, would compel them to it : But ftrange ideas indeed, mufl men entertain of moral obligations, who can, when in the way of their interefl, cancel them all. Is there no danger of thofe morol ties being confidered as mere matter of convenience, which, as foon as opportunity ofFers may be broken afundcr ? What evidence have we that the laws, of juftice and humanity, which are utterly difrtgarded in relation to the negro, will pe better fubmitted to in relation to the whites, when interefl or paflions point out the bcnefitto.be derived from their violation ? The man who can calmly tear, for a few dollar the child from its mother's arms, will not feel great qualms of

confeience at taking his neighbour's harfe, is the right of one more facred than that o the other? It is in vain to attribute to the r perverfity of human uature the vices which difgrace fociety, the folly and even perverfity of fome of our inflitutions, are their politic fource- Of that number is flaveryWe may renettr the laws of Draco, and as ourvdeep legiflature have done, write them with blood, but except you cleanfe and purify the foundation, the ftreams ifluing from it will remain impure and-' corrupt. This truth I would wifh to inculcate, I would wifli to (hew its great importance but I mufl confine myfelf at prefent to my fubjea." Thomas Randolph. Junt 21, 1809. (To be continued.)

British Outrage, and blockade of the Chesapeake. The following extract from RelPs Phi. ladelphia Gazette, of the 23d uk. if true, forms a curious illuO ration of that part of the Prefident,s meflage which alludes to Britifh amity ! We forbear at this time to. enlarge, as our information is fo circumfcribed, (having received no Baltimore papers) The next mail will undoubtedly give us every particular, and the fleps taken by Congrefs in confequence of this outrage for it is impcflible that Congrefs can be fo degraded as to pafs over in fileuce this renewal of hcflilities by the Britifh. From our Cotrespondeni at Baltimore Monday, May 22. Arrived, fchr. Amiablr, Fitch, Cartha gena, 16 days. Capt. F. brought letters, and a memorial from the Americaus takru . prifoners . in Miranda's expedition he thinks that if government interfered they would be liberated. Yrflerday at 2 p. m. two large (hips, apparently men of war, gave thafe, one cf them within gun fliot, and began to fire The light-houfe then about two milts did ant being fo clofeto the land and unapprifed that war was declared, we made every fail we could. The (hip we were informed after by the pilot, was the Britifh frigate Melampus, continued to keep a very brifk fire, feveral fliots, paflcd pver and fome fell near us, and others on the beach of the Cape ; by this time we had got within one

mile ot the light-houfe. Perceiving he could not come up with us, he fired a broad fiide and made fail ofF all this time we had American colours flying. Comm unicaticn. A moll horrid murder was committed on the body of a mr. Chapman of Adir county a fhort time finer, by three of his negroes. After repeatedly flriking him with a handfpikc, they carried his Lcdy fome i;t!c diflancc, and built a lare log hep on it, which thny conlumcd by fire. The negroes have fince been appre'hmdcd, and confefied their guilt, and will no donbe receive that punilhment which their crinio merits. Mirror,

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