Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 13, Vincennes, Knox County, 24 March 1810 — Page 2

tcr, and would probiMy obtain lum tlie com in nd of ths internal legions Turning with abhorrence k detection from apiece tlut is dcradi-ir to the chancVr of a gentleman, and d.lgraceful to the columns of newspsp-r, lllull leave its author to he gnawings of guilty confeence, and the corrodingf of envious and d.l.ppointed am. bition I will not fellow citizens infult yourundeifUndingi by pointing oil the brilliancy the polifc and the ftrength" of tny opponents mind' they are confpicuouf. ly difplayed throughout his literary produc tions, his fplendid dialogues and recent publication, are the monuments of his fame, they will perpetuate his memory, and transmit his name unfullied from generation to generation one bfervition more, and 1 ihalldifcard this pirt of my fubjeft, the vhole of which I bate entered upon with Tegret, and which nothing but the mod illiberal abttfe, and the grolTeft perverfion of fa&s, could have prompted me to purfue the liberty of the prefs, and the freedom of opinion, are the peculiar boaft, the ineftimable inheritance of the citizens of united America to inveftigate - the conduct of public officers, and candidates for public favor, is the prerogative q( the people I for one, have thought proper to exercife that privilege whether I have done it with calmnefs, with moderation, and with independence, rcfts with you to determine, and to you I appeal for the corredlnefs of tny conduct, and the propriety of mr. Johnion's if he has difproved the charges alledged againft him, decide in his favor, and if he has not (which is evidently the cafe) refufe your fupport to the man who can betray your interefl for a mefs of pottage. The certificate of ror. Johnfon's very worthy compeer the right honorable doctor Goodlet, famous for his fibbing' during his iteneration in the county of Knox, is an infamous falfehood I can eftablilh it by indubitable evidence if neceflary. Mr. Johnfon doubts my knowledge of the lat- ' tin language. Whenever he may deign to put it to the teft, by the ordeal of his examination, I am prepared to fatisfy his curioGty. Let him take care, that I do not prove more capable of examining him. The manner in which mr. Johnfon mentions the petitions in favor of governor Harrifon's reappointment, is truly infulting to a majority of his conftituents. That nine tenths of the electors of Knox, were, and ftill are in favor cf the adminiftration of the territory, is a fact that cannot be denied without a wilful departure from the truth. 1 feel for my countrymen when I hear them compared to 41 birds of paflage" and charged with living in ' kitchens" furely mr. Jhnfoti was dreaming of Knights, of Stars and Garters, and copceived himfelf feated on a throne, and addreffing his abjeft vaflVls. Freemen know how to repel fuch indignities, and it is prefumed their adlions will accord with their information. LEX TALIONIS, ALIAS N. E. WEST FALL. Having feen an oblique attempt in the Sun of the I7th inft. to implicate governor Hrrifon as the patron or author of Phoci n, I think it my duty to ftate, that he was not concerned either directly or indirectly, in dictating or writing that eflfay, nor did I hear him fprak of the charge? exhibited by Phocion againft John Johnfon, prior to my having received them through a different channel, I compofed and wrote the major part of that production in the prefence oi a gentleman whole affidavit will be obtain, ed and publifhed fhoulJ mr. Johnfon deny this ftatement in direct trnns. This much 3 have been induced to fy from a refptct for the caufe of truth and julVice, and to rne it is a matter of indifference whether nr. Johnfon docs or does not brlieve it, as I ?like defpifc his friendOiip and his enmity it is not to fuch men that I addrefs this certificate, buttothofe and thofe only who Xl'iQi to think and act correctly. N. E. WESTFALL. To G. W. JOHNSTON, Esc. Sir, HAVING feen a piece in theWeflern Sun addrrfTed to m., with your fignaturr thetrunto Jiffixed. The moderate yc in which the piece is wrote Ims induced me to drop you an anfwer, out cf a view to put you right ; yttU fy I had pafird judgment that you by accepting the appointment of a Jufticecf t!elracCt ft,r this county, had thrown your Celt out 0f court, that is to

fay, you could not, nor flioutd not be fuf-1 iered to appeal at an attorney at the bar of the court of which I am preliding Judge. This I deny either you or your informant is under a miftake The words made ufe of by me if I recolledl right in converfati on with mr. Bond, I ohferved that 1 had been informed that G. V. Johnflonhad ac cepted of the office of Jultice of the Peace, he, Bond, faid he undrrllood he had l then obferved mr. Johullon muft not have adverted to the law, othewifc he would not have accepted of the appointment, or perhaps lie intended giving up the pradtife of the bar, for the law was again( his acting in both capacities perhaps I might have gone further, and repeated the law regulating the ad million and practice of attornies and counfellois at law, as inferted in the 6th fection of faid law ; more than this relative to the fubjedt was not made ufe of by me. There is no man living more cautious than I am of prejudging a cafe that probably might come before me ; with due difference to your fuperior knowledge, it is the firft time I ever heard that a man's mouth muft be locked iu a cafe that does not come within his province to decide as a judge ; I cannot conceive what reflection you intended to throw out againft the revifersof the laws of the Territory or the copyefts as you Hyle them ; you feem to inGnuate that the part of the law which makes againft you muft have been brot, in thro fome finiftcr view permit me. to apprile you, that the whole of the law regulating the admiflion and pradtife of attornies was palled into a law under your own eye, as fpeaker protempore of the houfe of representatives, and that the 6th fection of the law, which applies to your cafe, could not have crept into the bill without your knowledge ; let me alk you as a member of the legiflature who patted this law what is the meaning or intent of the words nor (hall any perlbn who holds a commiffion as a Juftice of the Peace, Coroner or Sheriff, or who acts as deputy Sheriff, Jailer or Con(table within tliis territory be permitted to pradtife as an attorney or counfellor at law.' This is the law which, according to your definition no penalty is affixed. But, fir, recollect the penalty is very adequate, and rightly adopted to the cafe, to wit : prohibition from the praftice of the bar Kyou will remember the only way to comtrue law is, when the words made ufe of will bear no other meaning than the exptefs words themfelves, and Hands unrepealed, as this law does, muft be the rule of decifion Your obedient Humble fervt. JAS. JOHNSON. P. S. It is not my intention to enter in to a newfpaper difputc with you. j. j. FEMALE PATRIOTISM. Mr. Editor, 1 dont allow myfelf to talk politics on common occalions ; but I think, in the prefent Itate of our countrv, the Women have as important a part to act as the Men. With all due refpect to what you call the Kefolves of Congrefs, I think the Refolvcs of our Sex of lull as much confequene to

the Nation ; and that a hundred j thoufand Spinning-wheels, put in ; motion by icmalc hands, will do as

much towards redreihng our wrongs, and cllahlilhing our Independence, as a hundred thoufand of the bell Militiamen in America. I am not alone in this opinion. Squire Homespun a true Ametci inside and out fays the noife of Spinning-wheels and Looms is more alarming to John Bull (as lie calls King George) and his folks, then Mr. Macon's bill, and all the other bills that Congrefs are m i king for his annoyance; and the Squire fays further, that his Cotton Spinning. factory will be as great an eye-forc to old England, as a man of war with as many great. guns as his factory has Spindles, Now, I know of no better rule of warfare, than to find out what the enemy wilhes us not to do and to go about it in earnclt. My Neighbors agree with me, young and old, and are determined to attack this fame John Bull with

a luindrcd effective Spinning wheels. DOROTHY DISTAFF. ( Boston Patriot J LITEKAKY Knickerbocker's Hiflorv of Ncvvyork. Having accidentally looked into a Work juft publifhed, by I nfkecpand Bradford, with this unpro mifing T itle, inflead of find, iilg it a grave matter-of-fact fiory of our Ancedors, what could exceed my aftonifhment and pleafure on difcovering it to abound with the lame ori. ginal and fpirited vein of humour, which fo eminently dif tinguiflied that favorite of the public, 1 Salmagundi , t is not intended, within the limits of this brief notice, to give a regular plan and analylls of the Work. The author has chofen the events that compofe the hiiiory of the 3 Dutch Governors of Newyork, merely as a ve hicle to convey a world of fa tire, whim and ludicrous defcription ; arid, as this period is very remqjte and obfeure, he has freely exercifed his imagination in forming a kind of dramatis perfone and hiflori cal romance; giving a delightful picture of the manners and cuftoms that anciently prevailed, and archly intermingling fly hints at theabfurdities of the prefent day. The firfl is a good-humored fatire on thofe minute and

dull Philofophers, vvhofe cru

de vihons are embodied . into

vulgar fyflems, and palmed

upon the gaping world with

the impofing formality of pro

found difcoveriesQ The 2d part is levelled at

the follies of Governors and

Governments of all ages; but

particularly of the prefent age

and Country. The 3d and laft divifion of

the Work comprifes the mock-hercic chivah ic rcinn

1 of Peter Stuyvcfonr, who appears to be the Author's ta vorite Hero. The whole is interperfed with moral and fatirical re-

marks on the local cufloms

and manners of the old Dutch times, as well as the prefent day ; together with a delcrip lion of the city cf Newyork and its vicinity ; and a faith

ful and whimlical picture of

the people , called Yankees their origin and hiflory. The characters of the 3 Dutch Governors arc drawn with admirable difcrimination and fupported throughout with the fineft ftrokes of humor. I n fliort the Work prefents to the mind a mod

animated and cripmal portrait of times pafl, prefent, and to come, free from malevolence or ill humor. We felecf , as a fpecimen of the Author's happy manner, a difcripuon of the pcrfon of Wilhelmus Knift f commonly called William the Tefiy) the id Dutch Governor He was a brifk, wafpifh little old Gentleman, who had dried and wilted away, partly through the natural procefs of years, and partly from being parched and burnt up by hit fiery foul ; which blazed like a; vehement rufli light in his bofom conflatly inciting him to mod valorous broils, altercations, and mila'dventures. 1 have heard it obferved, by a profound and philofophical judge of human nature, that if a Women waxes fat, as fhc grows old, the nature of her life is very precarious ; bur, if happily flie wilts, file lives for-, ever. Such likewife was the cafe'with William. the 1 eflyt who grew tougher in proportion as he dried. k He was fome fuch a little Duthchman, as we mav now and then fee, flumping brifkly about the fireets of our city, in a broad fkirted coat, with buttons nearly as large as the ihield of Ajax, which makes fuch a figure in Don Homer an old fafhoned cocked hat, luck on the back of his head, and a cam as high as his chin. His vifage was broard, but his features fharp, his nofe turned up with a moll pctulent curl ; his cheeks, like the region of Terra del Fuego were fcorched into a dufKy red doubtlefs in confequence of the neighbourhood of two fierce little gray eyes, thro which his torrid foul beamed as fervently as a tropical fun blazing through a pair of burning glairs. The corners of his mouth were curioufly modelled into a kind of fret work, not a little refembling the wrinkled probofcis of an irratable pug dog. In a word, he was one of the mod poiitive, ugly little men that ever put himfelf in a paflion about nothing.' We might lwell this communi. cation to an immoderate length were we to indulge ourfelves in extracting from this inimitable Wor k. Siifiice it to fay that it abounds widi whimucv.litics, ludicrous defer iptions of characters, and mellow pictures of Nature, in all themajedy of uncultured wildnefs calculted to delight & inflruct every clafs of Readers. The writer of this article cannot conclude, without obferving that this Work itfelf is a proud refutation of the hackneyed charge againfl our Country, ol the want of taler.'s. And as the public can only be the patrons of genius, he confidently hopes that the moll liberal generolky will be extended in order to eneourace the Author

to fur tiier and fuccefsfui efforts of

ins ability. LITERATUS. BLANK DKKDS For Sale at this Of ice, ALSO

Blank Warrants, Summonses and

Executions for Magistrates. For Sale at this OJJice,