Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 38, Vincennes, Knox County, 15 September 1810 — Page 1

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1810.

NO. 38.

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Washington, Aug. 11, 1810. Gentlemen, I will thank you to give publicity to the enclosed add re Is to the people, and shall fesl myseIf obliged by all, whole liberality and candor may incline them to rcepublsh it With respect, I am, Gentlemen, Your ob't. servant, J A : WILKINSON. Editors of the National Intdiligencer To the People of the United States. Although I had resblved not to obtrude myself upon your attention, until I could have invited it to the irrefutable force of my vindication. I ain driven from my purpose by the proceedings of the late committee of congress, the sole object of the majority of which appears to have been, to search forr matter to criminate my chararier

and condudt ; the report made to the houis confiding of inculpatory evidence alone, indead of being confined to their journals, is now under publication, and will naturally

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ry, vvhofe acts andofikes hve been as varied as mine, could witrdUnd an occult, inculpatory enquiry, if backed by the power and purfe of the nation ? My caufe is the. caufc of all, and if the meniure ol injudice aimed at me be differed to prviil, who among you will be fife, from the mod exalted to the mod obfeure ? I conjure you then defend yourfclves ag..inft the dangers, and your rountry agiinti the odium, ot having i'-tcrific-d a ftlhw ut.zm to the malice ot thofe, who have hern tomhined for the deftruction of yv-ur government ; for bear in mind, ill uld the prccedt t obtain, that the houfe of reprefentatives luvr power to in dilute enquiries into the connudt of individuals, ati-J to puhlifh thr teftiniony thry may collect, before the acrufed hs been heard, no man will be f-ie i-udt the jeaiu fies of artful, unprincipled, p puLr decLi mers, who prod-ding ti e public good dek only the gratification of their amoition nd revenge. The ruin of an. individual, tken in the abdrat, is of little importance, but the example may infufe a deadly poifon into our councils, and reanimate the dormant hopes of thofe who confpired againd your intercd, your hjppinefs and your union ; tor treafon, like the leprofy, is iiu urhlr, k the heart once corrupted by its poilons, is loll to pitriotili and public virtue forever. Livtle uifcemrnent is necedary to trace

the fource of tlie villifications 1 have

curred. You witneftrd the rife and

grefs of my perfecutions, co-eval with Burr's

confpiracy, apd co extenfive rith its t:Aiatioiu. I did not involve the nation in a war on the Saline, to give rCVcl to his confpiracy, tho n;y orders varratted if) the repulliou of the Spaniards and on my own didreti'p, I defeated the wiikd plot, cril graced the prominent ators. and hUdrd the tinider afpirations of nuin'T.ns Sc pownful iiocite ; tor tliefe ftinl fervitrs, I arr no re tiniliy peri-cuvd dun toy mar, pub

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4rc witneucx of H The crime imputed to

me are fpeculatWe and legendary origintting with loofe and corrupt men, fome f them acknowledged traitors, and fupported in the fird indance, by public malcontents and perfonal enemies. Yet thtfe men with indefatigable indudry snd lhamelcfs malig nity, have employed every engine -nd every art, to waken fufpicion and excite your jea loudes ; and a life devoted to my country from the dawn of the revolution, has become a theme of decLmattiiy invecYive : I am denounced in folemu deliberative bodies, by men of your election, without proof on their part, or any hone of redrefs on mine. It is notorious that tuftke has been deixru me, and that 1 have been excluded in a land of liberty, my native country, the ordinary

rights ot the mod humble citizen. j

jluu iirtvc ueueiu a uminguiuieu tuaricter dep forth the avenger of Burr's difecm-

! fiture, and afTociating himfelf with vile in

formers, denounce me in the dawn of the

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kuuipiidky, uc iur c o iiiigic lacx uau urcuueveloped ; and to judify his denunciations, you have witneficd the ruthlefs vengeance, with which this political teaftr has fince purfued me, at the expence of every thing facied to delicacy, to truth and candor. Ycu have feen his faithful coadjutor, the legatee of Burr's refentments, a man who has fcaltd his own infamy in the attempt to effed my ruin, come forward with a volume of manufactured reports, wifehoods and perjuries, fitted to the occafion ; and you have beheld an hundred pens &c prrfies operating againd me, when didant, abfent, ?.nd cfTrring my htalth and life to the public fervice ; hut it would fwell this appeal to a volume, did I attempt todevtlope the fydem tic dlumes of vengeance, by which 1 have been hunted to the prefent hour. Thus pie-Ted and perfecuted, I have no refoit but in yrur virtue aid go d fenfe ; 1 mike it in tot.fuience that you will fufpend your opinions, until J prefent you with the oniv defence in tnv Dower to offer : and if

in the courf? of the cxpofition, which has been forced upon me, 1 Oiould be obliged to iriflic wounds, where I have hrrn drd rous to fp.ire frelings, the duty whh h I owe to the character of a foldier, to my name and family, and the fenfe of my wrong mud excule me. No calumny dull force me fern the filence I now inipofe on myfclf. I lhall mke a Wricf record of -11 the lLnders which rry reach my knowledge, St will attend to them in their proper place ; tut before I clofe the prefent addrrfs, 1 confder it my duty dlernnly to pledge my honor, that I fti!l oring proof:; from authentic fcurces to put to diatne, the profufe offerings which have teen made to effect my diOionor, as a c itiztn, a foldier and a chief, by a long lift of willing witneffes, whofe paflions, piejudices atid re fentmcr.ts fuvr interefled tliem in my dedruiVmn. The war of an ind:viJuil a-

(BY AUTHORITY.) By the PreCdent of the United States of America, ' A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAba treaty hetweeu the United States of America, and the DiLware, Put-watimie, Mtau.i and F.fl River tribes of Indians, was on luded and iigued aC Fort W.ynr, onthr 30th d iy of September ld pad, st d wai culy ritifid at.d co fii m cdhy the pirlidrnt of the United States, on the 2 day of January, in thr year our Li ni 1810, by and with the advuc and content of the fenate, w hich treaty is in the words following to wit : A treaty ottwen thr United States of America, and the tribes of Indians callrd the Dehwares, Putawatimies, Miamiesy and Eel River Mhmies JAM I S MADRON, preildent of tho United States, by William Henry Hrri

fonv goven or and commander in chief of the Indian territory, fuperintmdant of Indian affairs, .md comtniiTiitier pleipotenti-. ary of the United States for treating with the faid Indian tribes, ard the Si hems, headmen and warriors of thr Delaware, Purawatimie, Miatrie and el River tribes of Indians, have agreed and 01 c'uded upou thr following treaty ; which, when ratified by the prfident, with the dv'ne and confrnt of the fenhte of the United Statesy (lull be binding on faid prtirs. Art. Id. The Miami Sc Eel Rivrrtriheff and the Drlawares Pu'.atvtimir'j, s thir allies, airrr to cede to the United 5tatr9 tdl tha tracl. of country whh h dill b- in hulrd between the hrntidry lirr t thlilhed hy the treaty of Fort Waype, t e W-ha(iy and a line to be cmwp firm tJ.e mouth of a crrrk called Racoon creek. em;t ipt it ?o thr Wabfh, on the f'Mithe-ft f,.Je b- ut '2 n.ilrsb'low thr mruth ot" th- tM ort rive, fo 4S to drik" the hourdaty Iin iliiLhlh d the treaty of Groudhird, at fucli a didaiur from its comrr.encemrnt at the northe id toruer of the Virirri nes tradl. as will leave the traO i ow ceded thirty mils wide at the narrowrO pl-cr. And llo all tint tradt whirli d.U oe includ'd h-!ween t!i- fi. I lowing hLUodarie. z: he-innn -t Fdr? Recovery, thrrcr f utJiwardly long the gen-ril hnnr dary line, rdatlihVd by the treaty of Gnenville, to its intrrfecion with the boundary line eit.hl flird by the treaty of Grouf'Und ; therce alrrg f rid line to a point from which a !me drwri prailrl to the fiid mentioned lifie will Oe li miles d.d-nt from the f.mr, and alon the faid parlhl line to its intrrfciion with a line to be drawn fiom For! Rrrovrry. parallel to the line "ftatlifiitd by the faid tiety of G;ouf 1-nd. Art. 2J. 1e !ivTi-, explicitly ac knol-di- the renal nt-ht of the Dflaw?res

--ind a hoi, i- enouli to d;p;er the dout- ! vith h'-mfelvrs to the country v.'atei'd f rd hrtrt, hut hahit hs herd me above j the White river. Hu: it is -Ifo ti hr r!eal

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