Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 51, Vincennes, Knox County, 2 December 1809 — Page 1

THE

WESTERN SUN

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VOL. II.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1809.

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PROPOSALS BY GENERAL W. JOHNSTON L. D. ( of Vincennes I. T. ) For publishing by subscription A work to be entitled THE INDIANA JUSTICE AND CONSTABLES GUIDE. This work shall embrace a Iegal desertation on the life and progress (under the laws of Englnd) and present respective powers and duty or Justices of the Peace and ConstabIes under the statuter laws of Indiana—it shall likewiie contain all the necessary forms for their respective offices —and be prefaced with the Constlitution of the United States.and the ordinance of the Territory. The utility and essentiality of such an undrrukiiu; and publication, ef')rt'nllv in i!iii na, cannot in ;ced it ouht not, for a moment, to he doubtrd it is therefore Ijrptd th it 'V what is j-riu-ially tjood, will be liLcrallv encotirax-d." CONDITIONS. 1. It will he fompriiVd of one volume ocl iut, ol netwern one hundred and one hui ffli ind i ft y piges. 2. I: dnl! he n.intcd on looj common

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FOR THE WESTERN SUN. Mr. Editor, HAVING by mere accident he?rd that J. B. 1 nomas, (alias Judge Thomas J fince his arrival at KafktTku has fallciy endeavored to imprefs the people in that quarter with a behef'that I never whifpered any thing derogatory to his character, untiil after his departuie from this place ; in order therefore to lhew what degree of credit the aficrtions of the Jude drferve, I hereto fubjoin a certificate limned by a number, of perfons in this place ; and I take this method of reminding Judge Thomas, that although he is at more than arms length diltance, and may feel himfelt fecure on one, fcore, yet he is not out of the reach qf my pen ; and that as foon as ltifurc ferves, 1 fliall prepare a complete hif tory of the Judge, fiotn the time of his Mercantile infamy until the period of his appointmentment on the Bench of the 11 linois Territory - which fliall be publilhed for the benefit of thofe on whofe lives and property he is appointed to decide. 'Men, bafe, and cowardly indeed mufl that man br, who would be terrified by the threats of firch a mileiable wretch as Judge Thomas. He might in fact, (if any fuch there are) ftand a competition wijh the Judge himfclf for the palm of infamy and degradation. JAMES DILL. Laurenceburgh, 18th OcL 18U9.

We do certify that a publication in m--nufcript purporting to he a expofition ot thef.ondud of Jtlle B. Thomas, dated the 19th of April, 1809, and figntd, James Ddl was left in the different public houfes iii Laiuenccburgh, for the infoedlion Ec examination of any per fen who might wifti to fee it, at left ten days before tbe departure of J. B. 'Fhomas fir KiffCdikia, and we further certify it as our belief that Judge 'Fhomas. (if he did not fee the publication) ws well acquainted with its contents. Jabez PercivJ, Saml. C. Vance, Fhos. Wardell, Jacob Warner, Win. Wilfon, aml. Craw;, Clumber Poller, Stephen Ludlow.

I attribute in a great degree, to the immoderate and unnecelrary profufion with whu h the public money is lavilhed. This Uud is tythablc, and being lately called on fur an increafe of the annual payment in refpecA to my great tythes, 1 wrote a letter lo the inhabitants of Godv.lming, near to which my farm lies, which is lb exadlly illufli ative of the prcfeiit tituation of the country, that with your ptrmillion I will take the liberty of reading ir. Whatever coinci? deuce there may appear between this let ter aud'thc objcdl of this meeting, I can tlTure you that tven the rtquiiition was at that time not known by me to be contemplated. You will obferve, that in the account of the expenditure of the farm, the ux on our horfes is accidentally omitted and the truth on that fubjett is, t hat the tax gatherer are lb numerous and undeterminable, that 1 really forgot to infert it lb that the lUtement is really below the real amount of expenditure in rates, taxes and tythes. My houfe too being on a fcale fomewhat more extenlive than that which would be deemed rrquifite for the occupation of a firm of this extent, I did not think fair to include the houfe and window tax. A fanner to be fure mull luve a houfe that is, it he can get one in the prefent alarming and deplorable Hate of the country, read read! Mr. Townfend then read the following letter.

HOME TRUTH.

Beauties of the Rritifh Government. We cxtrac! tiie following from the proceed

ings ot a very numerous meeting ot the

A letter addrcfied to the inhabitants of Godalming, on the recent rife of the great tythes. Bufbridge, July 23, IS09. Gentlemen, AS an increnfrd - demsnd for tythes will oblige me to ceafe from being a grower of Coin, a circundLncc which concerns the public as nearly as it dors inyf If, 1 pre lent the inhabitants of God.dtnin IV rilh with a lUtement cf facts, v.'. uh perhaps may Himulate thnn to come foiw -id with the irithUs of Bntilh lieedom to pro cure that reform winch can alone favc the country fiom ruin. When a bow has been ftraintd to the utnio(l, it wdl break at lad. But ?s if the y.illj, of the government were not fu (Fluent

,j to fnap the tiring, and as if the fu.ipping of

it Wtie an honor to fe coveted, thr proprietor of tythes 1ms come forward on the prefent occfion to give thr fmilhing pull, belure another Budget Ihould h.ve pievrntrd the tanner tr t.ni hijpKm the people with

freeholders ot the ir.unty of Middlefcx,

(LngLud) con veied for the purpofc of! Corn, except t a p.ue which none but the

laKing into conliiieration the necelh'v ot a p tilmuK-ntary reform, Aug. 9. 18U9.

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here I diil not think that I fhould be called up n to f cord the resolution.; fo ably introdutrd by my friend Major Cirtwright.

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ration of hich, I flnll now proceed to (late my f icls, by giving you an account of w hat I py annually, under thofe heads, upon a farm, for whuh, were I to let fit, I could not obtain more than 1501, per annum rent.

. s. d. Laud tax, 16 8 5 Property tax, 31 6 4 Poor rate, 47 5 O Highway rate, 10 17 3 Church rate, ' 113 6 Great tythrs, 29 2 6 Small tythes, ) 1 5 q Total 157 18 0

This, gentlemeu, is what I pay at preft nt. But then the Proprietor of the great tythes was for rifirt them to 501. a yryr ! which would have brought my outpoints for tytbrs, taxes and rates, to eight pounds fifteen fhillings and fix peine per year, beyond anyreit I could obtain, felc'that the l ift pull broke th- bow, but that it nerved the man to rr 11(1 further opprrflloti ! Gentlemen, when you confider, in addition to what I have here Hated, the increafed price if laloters wges, and the incrra. led price of every thing that is ufed upon a t-iim, fuch as iron, timber, feather, carL horfes, Sec. all of which are in conllai t , wear and te.-.r, (the three firfl m the fliapc of harnefs carts, waggons, harrows,' and ploughs, for which "gain there is necelTirily 11 increafed demand in the ma.kif? ; a.d that the lait are frequently fVf-pt r.flf by the dilbidtrs incident to colts, or the i rliume ot contigrous diftempers) y-ru cannot wonder at the Lie U price of un ; and you mull hf convinced that the prrf-nt fvfitci of tything i;d taxing, if peifever d in, will ma Hunt tiuif ptevrnt thr f miiT from filing the produce cf his land, rxi pt at fuch a pi ice, -as I have obfervrd before, which none but the aiHueut c-11 afTord to pay. Now, per.tlemen, there is an eafy remedy lor the giirvai, ccs uhicb all ferl. hut .f which few daie openly to complain, and that is, a lair nJ t qual i r presentation of the people in Paili.iii.ei t. W -rr thr j;uardiai s of thr j-rp!es proputy the i real rei.r frnt-tive's iulieaj of bring returned to frrvr in Pa'Iimrnt the way they rr, it is not unreafmaMr t fjp pde that (ome check might br pt iJ4 thl'op?irtor of tythe?, wln hi exorbitant dfm,nJs have driven the farmer t. fuhmh " to I113 tythes bring taken ii, kind ; sj d :hit the f.nntr (lu,u!d at F 11 luve a ri;;ht to rrtaui a trt.th put of hi . c opb IV r part for thr moi ey hr h d rxpnu'ed in buvmfc dr (h:.g Ji d ai L.fu iol maiu.r" ; at d n 0, u'd

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