Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 12, Vincennes, Knox County, 17 March 1810 — Page 2

cn that fuj- it wUl be a difagreeable I effV. By tins you need not ccnduJe that lie, Is, like all Authors, to puff ourfelves talk, and no thou- but felt" tit fence will in- I will let you efcape on that point. It (lull into notice ; fet forth our litcraty pretend-

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is not the fear of governmental vengeance, or the smiles of fortune that will deter me from it--it is mv aversion to newspaper scribling and mv domestic avocations that prevents me at this time from dating my reasons more at large However, to gratify your tender feelings, which are attuned to the govermental standard, I will give you a short statement of some of my motives in not petitioning for the reappointment of governor Harrison. 1 ft. The vitals of a republican government consists in the purity of the elective franchise, and the rotation in the executive and representative offices, which is not the case in the territory. 2dly. From an examination of the whole number of petitioners for and against the reappointment of governor Harrison, there are only 360, and out of this number there were a considerable quantity of petitioners against the reappointment of the governor ; but admitting they were all in his favor, would they constitute a majority of the people in the territory no, not even a respectable minority, & I will never agree, let the consequences be what they may, .that the few aught to govern the many, as a thing of right-- further, a considerable number of those petitioners had no further interest in the government of the territory than birds of passage.--3dly. The manner that those. petitions were obtained they were hawked about from - post to piller, from house to house, from kitchen to kitchen, to beg for subscribers, for six months before the meeting of our last mock legislature. -4thly. If the governor had acted properly, he wanted no recommendation, and if he had acted improperly he aught to have none.-- These sir, are some of my reasons without any comments. From the fulsome adulation which you heap upon the governor, a stranger might conclude that he was the very paragon of political perfection, and while you are dancing about him for an office or his smiles, you & co. wish to fiddle the citizens of the territory into your political jig ; but, sir, rest assured they will not beat time in unison with you, the music is so bad ; and because I happen to think or doubt a little left or more than the govermental standard, you & co. have endeavored to let loose the whole contagion of low defamation against me which you have in stock. You have, sir, risked the damning of your own character, and the jeopardy of your political prompters, all of whom, it is believed by many, would betray their country with a kiss for a few sheckles of silver. If there is a sin superior to every other, it is that of wilful dander or lying through the medium of the press ; mos others are circumscribed within narrow limits, and many kinds of sin have only a mental existance from which no infection arises, but he who is the author, aider or abettor, of newspaper lying, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds the harmony and repose of society to death. 1 leave it to you, sir, and your worthy compeers, to boast of these honors, I feel no thirst for such savage glory. The intrinsic worth of truth is of too much value in the scale of providence to be cast like a pearl before swine, at your feet or any of your twin stars in newspaper ribaldry, and you aught to have had sense enough to know this ; otherwise you should back out into insignificant oblivion, there to spend the balance of your days in contrition. Sir, 1 now dismiss you, and be assured I am no friend to scoundrels, JOHN JOHNSON.

t The motto which is prefixed to your piece in lattin, 1 was informed of 2 months ago-- you got doctor Goodlet to translate the motto into lattin, and I can now shew it in the doctors' own hand write, as translated, which he gave in order to detect the impostor. Now, sir, I believe you as much the author of the piece as you are of the motto. If you had published the piece two months ago, the time when you got the motto translated, and when you told some of your quondam friends that such a piece was preparing. by the aid and advice of your compeers-- I should have had an opportunity to prove the charge of duplicity laid to be practiced by me upon mr. Dill to be as malicious as it is false, by writing to Dill and others on the subject. But you and your twin stars kept it back till the eve of the election, knowing that I could not write to Laurenceburgh. and get an answer, before your tissue of lies would have their desired

not deep until I prove it false, and you the

retailer of that falsehood. FOR THE WESTERN SUN. mr. Editor, I HAVE had the pleasure of perusing Mr. J. Johnson's short though vindictive, address to the Citizens of Knox-- I am well apprized of the course he designs perusing in his responce to Phocion, and beg him to accept the assurance that when your Sun again irradiates, the political horizon, it is probable (I had almost said it is certain) that its fructifying rays will generate a reply to his second and possibly more luminous production. PHOCION. EOR THE WESTERN SUN. The Editor of the Western Sun, will please insert the following ticket for members to represent the County of Knox, in the Teritorial, house of Representatives, in the townships of Buseron and Palmyra they will have at lead one hundred and ten votes and it is believed they will have a majority in the other townships, of the County, Peter Jones. G. W. Johnston. John Hadden. It may not be improper to observe that Mr. Jones is a warm republican, and firmly attached to the administration of the Territory, his honor and his honesty soars above suspicion, nor can they be wounded by the shafts of the malicious and evil minded, or sullied with the breath of vindictive calumny ; his integrity & his talents, will, it is believed secure him the suffrage of an independent people, and are a sufficient pledge that he

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ons, and establish incontrovertably, that we are as well acquainted with the Classes, the Sciences, Trades and Professions, as the mother that bore us. By this method likewise, we expect to command the attention and patronage of our countrymen. We warn all persons not to condemn our works thro' prejudice, without having read them ; nor precipitately and ungenerously to scoff at them, because they have the misfortune of being an offspring of the wild woods of Kentucky ; but we intreat them to join with us to foster the native genus of our state ; trim the untried pinions of the Western Muse ; awake the minds of our Freeborn Youths from their lethargy ; and open before their eyes, in delightful prospect, intellectual fields which they may be inticed to explore. We are proud to inform the public, that the gates of our Garden are now thrown open ; and we invite them to enter in ; examine its productions, and contemplate its beauties. Within it, Apollo reigns, who, to charm our courteous visitors, shall sing original verses to divine airs ; and enrich its scenery with all the decorations which can delight a refined imagination ; and the Miscellaneous Muse, shall scatter in the pathway of our spectators, Flowers of all hue and without thorn the rose." In the mean while jHy Heed Wit, Hull hang an Epigram, Pun or Anecdote, on every Tree, to entertain cur vifitprs. We have endlcfs variety in our Garden, and know how to join bitter and fweet, and charm by novelty even the Thiftle and Nettle are not wanting there ; by which the rude critic, who endeavours to defpoil our flowers, will be ftung nor are vc without Crab. Apples, and green Perfimons, with which we will undertake at any time to ftifFen, and make rough, the finooth and nimble tongues of flande'rers. In Ihort all kinds of yerbs that ever entered into the Medical Vocabulary of an old dame, we have, and mean to have in our Garden ; whether efficacious iu eafing the heartach ; in foothing the troublous paflions ; in cleanfing the corrupt fouls of men ; or in

fiimulating and enlivening the llupid fenfes.

tion with fidelity to himfelf, his

country and his conllituents the efforts of his enemies and the enemies of his country to brand him with the epithat of federaiilt, will prove abortive, and only tends to excite the pity and contempt of the friends of liberty and tru th. Col. Madden has occupied a feat in the Virginia legiflature for the term of eleven years, during which time he was never known to fwerve from republican principles, or defert the caufe of hib country at the moll trying crilis, his character and his fervices are fo ge nerally known that it is ufelefs to recapitulate them in the columns of the Weftern Sun ; G. W. Johnllon during the felhon of 1 809 faithfully difchargeii the trult repofed in him by his fellow citizens, and merits a continuance of their confidence. AMICUS POPULI.

PROPOSAS Br WILLIAM DR0MG001 E For publiihing oy fubfeription in Birdf. town, (Ky ) a Periodical Wcrk, to be entitled THE GARDEN. Br CHRISTOPHER C R ART REE, Es. AND OTHERS. So all agreed through fweet diverfitie, ihis Garden to adorn, with gret varietie. D. Sl'ESSLR. TO TI1K I'UBLIC.

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our literary abilities, we here give fuch a fpecimcn of our acquirements, that we are

confident no one will have the boldnefs to interrupt us hereafteT. We, therefore, inform the Doctors, that we know Efculapi us was deified, and that the bed, methods of curing the tooth ach are u are to boil ycur head well, and then hake all your teeth out, or to fill your mouth with water and hold it ever the fire until it boils " The Military man and Duelift, we inform, that guns and gun-powdrr, were invented by Swarts, a Monk of Cologn. The Belies and Beaux, we inform, that Queen lllizabeth was the firft woman who wore fdk dockings in England ; and thatthe French King, was the fird perfon v. ho ever wore them. But to the Lawyers, we honedly confefi 41 Ignoramus." It may not be improper, notwithdanding, to fute, that we have feen the outsid; of Blackdone, Coke,

DjIUs, and others, w Inch is nciiffy as rnuclJ

as many a srjuio cracker cl tr.e u-y can i-y. But above ail, we are rrtat Linguilb, for wr know that the G.tck name of water is Wjcr, the-Lacin nai.:e, Aqua the French namr, Eau, the Dutth Vusser ; but as to the Hebrew, wc declare to 'our readers, that our it.fuperable ueteftation cf the whole Jewilh p:ofcfficn, h.is been the caufe of our not having dudied their language. After the above model! difplay of erudition, v- hope no one will dare to fneer at our productions, but lrt us fght in peace, with the vices of the land. To the Ladies, we make our bed bow ; put curbed foot foremcd, ard afore th.rnj, we fhal! i.l.vays Le on our P's and O s-Good-natured wholeLme advice will be dminideicd to them, refpecting the management of their beaux ; matrimony will be commended and preached up f.-r their fakes. And woe be unto Bachrlnr ! fnr

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i, iMauir, leaion ar.3 laughter lor we are wr.rm admirrrs, of the gentle fcx ; and prchtTcd difciples of Chedtr field. In order that our Garden may not wound the eve of anv on. vv.- l:,tl.'..,;.1l ...

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fuch isonr bohhielV, that ur Hi 1 1 not bedtate ti attack the hugelt I'jIso's, the Co. lumbi d not exwepted. Hut wc more particularly declare ourfelvFi ihc (ua.ii-i;s Morrtlity and the fworn foci to all manner of Vice. We earncftly invite the corrrfponden e of the Youths of the Wed, and all men of Letters ; and wifh their communications to conlid in Moral, Scientific, Diverting, I It-.itf f.iKJfrts. or fnch as relate to ti.e-

fashionable world. To conclude, we have, as in the words of our motto, " All agreed through sweet diversitie, This Garden to adorns with great varietie." CONDITIONS of THE GARDEN. I. The Garden shall be printed on a New Type, and on paper of a superior quality, and executed in a style, not inferior to any work hitherto printed in the state. II. It shall issue every Two Weeks, and be delivered to subscribers neatly stitched in Blue paper;. each number shall contain twelve large Duodicimo pages. III. The price to subscribers will be Two Dollars per annum, paid in advance, or Two Dollars and Fifty cents, payable at the expiration of six months.; We earnestly beseech those gentlemen who may hold subscription papers for the Garden, to return them to the Post Master at Bairdstown, by the first day of March next, as we are anxious to commence the work immediately. Bairdstown, Dec. 30th, 1809. ' Subscriptions received at this office. A PROPOSAL BY ZADOK CRAMER, , Bookseller, Pittsburgh, (Penn.) FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, NOTES OF A TOUR TO THE WESTERN COUNTRY THROUGH THE STATES OF OHIO AND KENTUCKY, A VOYAGE DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS, AND A TRIP THROUGH THE MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY AND PART OF WEST FLORIDA, Commenced in the winter of 1807, and concluded in 1809. BY F. CUMING. Sketching the state of the vast tract of country through which he travelled, a distance of between three and four thousand miles. Early history-- progress in settlement-- population manners-- customs-- natural and artificial curiosities--rivers-- creeks-- towns-- villages,-- manufactures-- religion-- politicks-- Indian wars and massacres peculiaries of backwoodsmen and hunters-- Indian mounts or ancient burying places --fortifications on the Ohio-- Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians on the Mississippi their manners and customs settlements on the Mississippi river-- soil, products, climate and diseases, &c. of these regions. Proposals for this work were issued some time ago, but its publication was necessarily delayed in consequence of the author extending his route, further than he at first intended, down the Mississippi river, thro' the Mississippi Territory and part of West Florida. The Tour is now completed, and the manuscript in the hands of the publisher, and will be put to press immediately, &c issued with as little delay as possible.

there were number of subscribers the first proposals, and more are now

pectfully solicited--those especially fond of encouraging literature and science of learning the date of their own country, geographically and physicallv-- of reading man as he is, with all his burdens on his back of storing their minds with useful information, rational and beneficial amusements. Such will subscribe and read with a considerable degree of pleasure-- for our author takes us as we are, with all our foibles, and faults-- our vices and virtues--pervious and imperfections.

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