Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 8, Vincennes, Knox County, 10 February 1810 — Page 1

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(BT AUTHORITY. J LAWS oe tTTt. STATES. Session isoo 8c 1810. AN ACT fupplemental to an a, entitled, ' u An acl extending the right of fufTrae to the Indiana territorv. and for other purpofes."BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Governor of the Indiana territory, for the time being, be, and he is hereby authorifed and empowered to apportion the reprefentatives among the feveral counties in laid territory, as he fliall think proper, having regard to the numbers limitted in the fourth fcclion of the ac"l to which this is a fupplement, and to iflue liis writ for the elccVion of fuch reprefentatires agreeably to the apportionment which he may make at fuch time as he flnll deem moft convenient for the citizens of the fcveral ccanties in laid territory. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That fo foon as the legifliture of fid territory (hall be convened the number of reprefentatives in each county thereof. Hull be regulated by the general afiembly. 6rc. 3. And be it further enacted. That when any vacancy fliall occur in the legilLttive council, by death, rt filiation or removal from office, or when from either of laid caufrs there Hull be no delegate from laid territory to the congirfs of the United States, the governor ih'dl in either cafe be authorifed to ifiue his proclamation, direct ing an election to be held to fupply fuch vacancy according to law. J. LV VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ANDREW GREGG, President of the Senate pro turn. December 15, 1809. ArrRovED,

JAMES MADISO

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infinuation. This forbearance had not the expected clTcc! of retraining him from a rt petition of the otfci.ee. And even on his further infinuation.-? nothing more was done than to prcmonilh him of the inaiimillibili ty of fo indecorous a courfe of proceeding. Thisalfo being without ciftct, nothing re

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there was the lefs hefuation in (hutting the door to further opportunities for intuiting infiunations, as the difi lofurts he had mdc and the fpirit of his difculfions lid fo entirely fl'.ut it to the hops of any favorable re fu It from his million. I will notdwcll on his reluctance to ?ive up the uncertainties of verbal, for the precision of written difcuilion, nor on the manner or the time of his denial that he had given any room at all for a liatement, which, in order to guard againft mifcoticeptions incident to verbal conferences, I had placed before him in writing, with a rfquetl that he would point out any inaccuracies, and to which he did not then object otherwife than by intimating, that he could not have made the liatement with the particular view which feemed to be fuppoltd. Nor will I dwell on the various inflances in which partial or incontinent viewi of the fubject have taken phce of its real merits. But it may not be amifs to make fome obfrrvations on the correfpone'ence, as it re htes to the jollification of his government in having difuvowed the act ot his predcccfior. 1. In not relinquifliing the trade of the U. States with enemies' colonies. With refpect to this point it is not necefl'ary at this lime to difcufs the right to that trde. It is fufficient to rcmaik, lit. That as the trade is admitted to have become in the view of Great Biitain of little practical importance, why has it been made a ground ot the difavowal, and, efpecially as important confidcrations only could, upon principles of public law, have jollified a meafure of Jo fcrious a character I 2d. 1 hat 39 the colonial trade is a fubjret no wife connetted either with the oidcis in council or with the affair of the ChcLpeake, why hs it been permitted to lruOrate an arrangement relating to thofe ful.jrcls and to thwle only ? 3d. That as tlm condition is llfgrd to hive originated in a lnjipoiition that it would be agrecah! to the American goveminent, why has it been pei filled in f:rr the error whs udr known by the rcprelt-n-ttion of mr. Frll:ine to his govcrnu etit, that neither this nor the o:her conditions of the defpatch ot the 23d Jaiiu.iry, weie attainable here f 2. Another point in the d"fnatch and not in the arraoi;r;uent is, t ! i h t ti.e iirudh navy miht capture our trde to portj prohibitrd bv the United States. This col uition too, appears to have hj 3 its origin m ' nod ike ci your meaning in a lonveriation Willi r4r. Chimin:-, nrtt d bv yotirlril, and in -411 lotcrchcr tl.nuc cie du(rd a to ti.e diipoiition of thii , -.frn. ment. liut th.s double mu'tke miilt fuve bernbrot'to Ii; I.t m time to h e t c r n c c r-

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thr if tore hut have failed, either in the immediate renew l of cemm-rce with Grot Britain, or in the immediate engagement that it fhould not he lenrued with France. Thr Hritilh government cmght to have icqui-fed in, and indeed nui'i t to l avs b-eu f.tisfieJ witli, the attain:. ef t cf the important o j-ct of art immediate x y . I of ncr prfhibn,iy Lws, and vi:L tlie conlidertion ih-it the othT ftl.j-cl, 1 ct immediate. Iv aiuifiahlr, w.is un ' t eU,f y at the rime, Tatifr th-prohibition a? to France wai; :h.'-n in F f f r. anti t'fufe there wa rvciyrr.f.n toil i r, t-t only from this fact , t i;C fri rn t.he fpirit ot thr communications made fioTi tirr r to tir;:e, d from the overtures h-f'-re fiit n.itted to thr Britifh ;nvrri ri- C : h 5t, v. i l.rut a irpeA r.f ihr Frr.ch ' ctrt '-'. 010 1 rohtbitorv ln 'fi b" corti. - ud iTit nc' aa'mfr Vr-utfm ' r!f'"C i dly

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