Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 15, Vincennes, Knox County, 7 April 1810 — Page 1

THE WESTERN SUN

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VOL. III.

SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1810.

NO. 15.

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(BY AUTHORITY.) LAWS OE THE U. STATES. Session 1809 & 1810. AN ACT To prescribe the mode in which application shall be made for the purchase of land at the several land offices ; and for the relief of Joab Garret. , BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of June next, every person making application at any of the land offices of the United States,

for the purchase at private sale of a tract of

land, shall produce to the register, a memorandum in writing, describing the tract, which he shall enter by the proper number of the sections half sections or quarter (as the case may be) & for the township & range subscribing his name thereto ; which memoandum, the register shall file and preserve, in his office. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Joab Garret shail be permitted to withdaw his entry, made on the second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven, at the land office at Vincennes, from the north west quarter section number two township number seven, south range number seven west ; and the money paid by him on the said entry shall be placed to his credit, on any purchace he shall, or may have made of public land in the same diftrict. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives GEO: CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. February 24, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON.

FOR THE WESTERN SUN. TO GEORGE LEECH Esq. WHEN I first addressed you through the medium of the Western Sun, it was not to injure your election, but to afford you an opportunity of supporting your character against the aspersions of an artful Scotchman, one who is so hackneyed down in duplicity and falsehood, that his name, like his character has become proverbial.— But in place of answering me cool and dispationately, you insinuate, and often repeat, that my admonition was a base electioneering trick, and which had no other foundation than the venal effervescence of my own brain—It is not my wish, sir, to unentomb the convalescent (as I think the sovereign voice of my fellow citizens have plainly proven to you, that ground, which the God of nature designed you should occupy) but I mean for the present barely to convince the public, bv the subjoined certificate, that you had pledged yourself to William M'lntosh, to the extend I formerly stated, in a venal oppofition to our chief executive magiitrate or that M'lntosh has baseIy attempted to give a mortal stab to the vitals of your character in circulating the report, (of the truth of which there remains not the least doubt, as I'll venture to assert, that the deponant Desbiens, is an honest mans, and one whose character is as superior to that of M'Intosh's as the usefulness of good fat Turkey, is to that of a Peacock) which, if authorised by you,

would unconteftably prove, that youwifhed to foift yourfelf upon the public hy open protections that the public pod was your aim, when in fact, you had privately pledged yourfelf, fuch being your aim, to blalr. our rifing profperity by purfuing the deteftable oppofition of a difcontented and reft lefs party, to the conftituted authorities of our country. You will exeufe me for not purfning your courfc jn idiom, it fo much refembles the Billingfgate, that dtcency, and the refpect I owe the community, tells me it is unbebecoming ; and that the epithets, liar, rafcal, See. Sec. will in no manner difcover or fecrerete, prove or difprove, the truth of an accufation, fo that fliould you again reply upon this fubject, for the fake of propriety, and your own reputation, lay afide your little, low, common place, and vulgar epi-

thets ; otherwife you will be no fnrther

noticed by A VOTER.

KNOX COUNTY, set. Andre Defbiens, ot the faid county, of lawful age, being firft duly fworn, depofeth and fayth, That on Sunday morning, the 18ih of March ult. William M4Intofh told him, the deponent, that the French people in this country would never be fecure in their rights, whilft governor Harrifon con tinued in office ; that in order to prevent his ufurpations, it was abfolutely necefTary for them (the French) npt to vote for any man as a reprefentative, who was in any wife attached to, or had any refpeft for the governor ; that they ought all unanimoufiy to vote for Geo. Leech, for that he, Leech, had pledged himfelf abfolutely to him, M'lntofh, to oppofe to governor in every think ; and that he, Leech, might be depended upon, for that he, MIntolh, believed him to be an honest man : -The df ponent further Hates, that on Sunday the 25th

ult. he had another converfation with the faid M'Intofh, in which he, M'lntofh, repeated the fame obfervations with refpect to Leech, and then included mr. J. Caldwell, with J. Johnfon, as being under the lame pofitive engagements, to himfelf, Ewing Sc others, to oppofe the governor; the deponent ftates that he could not, nor has not mifunderftood M'Intofh, for that he the deponent is a Canadian Frenchman, that M'Intofh convenes in the French language with eafe and fluencv, and that their two

different conventions was in French.

The mark of ANDRE x DES3IENJ. April Ifh 1810. Cog : Coram me. G. W. JOHNSTON, J. P. K. C. Frov.i the Lcv.Jji: Statesman, Tc::, II.

(An eppzsitien Privt,) The budget ot mr. Gallatin is n hmr r.tab!e prorf of the departure of America from the principle rf eccnorr.v, m which the has Li:h:iU acd. The UcJ of cormotion have, wereatlv fear, aheauv' been ft cj 0 fcattcred in tht only remaining feat of freedom. Even the remarkable events th: liave recently occurred in Europe, are lef calculated to excite furprife, than th? announced probability cf the United States bein cninpeHed to refort tJ cir !;:ablr and ruinors fvftem of burrow For t!.e Uft feven year t'.ie profperity ul America, the iticre:!"e cf her revenue, and thj cx tirinn rf her drht, have been fuV.jrcts oi annval tiiunj.l.. Vct in i 3 1C, vi:h z ex

ample of England before her eyes. Amc. rica is about to open the flood gates of cor ruption to loan mongers !" As yet, the : emigration from England have been chiefly from thofe clalTes who could no longer exift in their native land, in confeguence of the effect of this very fyftem, which is bout to be adopted in America. F?rewel, a long and eternal farewel, to tbehappinefs of that land, in which the funding, taxing, banking, jobbing, fighting fytterns, once gets footing. What has America to do with war ? If the kingdoms of Europe pre fer blood Ihed and daughter .to peace, why fliould America involve herfelf as a party in their madrefs ? Has not America tbe means, the ample, nay boundlefs means, of comfort end happinefs, within the befom of her territory ? What a defpicable race mufk the Americans be if they any longer hefitate to refufe all intercourfe with the belligerent difturbers cf Europe ? But the commerce of America; (hall America fubmis to the privation of her commene? What fociety of human beings enn erer hope for independence ? What fociety indeed ever deferved the enjoyment of that bleffing, whofe reftlefs cupidity, whofe in fatiable avarice, leads them to the moft remote regions in purfuit of wealth, while they neglect the bleffirgs, the comforts and happinefs which nature has placed before their eyes at boje. The exchage of ths products of thevarious climes of this gljbe was the origin, and is the natural, re a fo liable, and legitimate objects of commerce. With all the bigotry, fuperftition, and in many refpecV, grofs ignorance of China, we look in vain for the fme fteady adherence to the true principle of national independence. On what country is Chins dependant tor her commerce ? America is of extent fuperior, and in refources equal to that vaft empire. Why does not Ame rica, by a rigorous adherence to nonintercourfe, compel her population to direct their

attention to the fabrication of those articles of human comfort and necessity, for which the now transports the produce of her soil across the Atlantic, to be converted into cloathing for the very men who raised the material on which the industry of Europe is exercised. The various soil and climate of America are adequate to, perhaps, every production that contributes to human comfort and human happiness ; and if she now prefers war, taxes, loans, and the funding system, to indepence and happiness, we may be justified in drawing the melancholy conclusion that America, has fought and bled to obtain that independence which she knows not how to enjoy.

DUELLING The legislature of Vir. ginia has passed an act to prevent duelling, Besides the usual punishments of disenfanchisement, hanging, &c. the law contains the following salutary section. And be it further enacted. That from and after the passing of this act, every person who shall be appointed to any office or place, civil or military, under the commonwealth, shall, in addition to the oath now preferred by law, take the following oath : I do solemnly swear, or affiem, (as the cafe may be) that I have not been engaged in a duel, by sending or accepting a challenge to fight a duel, nor in any other manner in violation of the act, entitled. An act to suppress duelling, (since the passing of that act) nor will I be so concerned directly or indirectly in such duel, during my continuence in office--so help me GOD.'