Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 41, Vincennes, Knox County, 6 October 1810 — Page 2

trmis foe confented to go, rati c r than to be j and ille sra, impYing thai (lie hid elcpfc! federated from her children. Notwithibn-, Under this idea James faid he rejoiced that ding this, he took her directly among the I he was iu,w clear of a wife, linkers. He h td alio proniifed that Hi-j '1 he lmt- evening after this had paflrd, 3 fliould ro to vifit her friends on Seven mile j flickers came to fjid houfe & ordered Polly creek. Some time in February laft, my j out imrnedi itclyi under the idra that James (lepfon John Irvin, went to fee Polly, and J bad nothing, having given up all to God. (he propjfd coming with him or. his return B-it mr. Bowman, who h.id a leafe of the to fee her friends on Seven mile, to which! nlice, eanrr and warned the linkers off the

Tames at tirft confented, and bridled a marc j pUnuuop, and admitted Polly to (Uy in

on r"3r lie r

for her to ride. But i liippole initiated

by the (bakers, he took the bridle cfT the mare's head, and faid if flic went, it would be agamft his will. She told him Ihe was only going on a vifit, according to wha he had before p'romifed, and would foon return. John Irvin promifed to bring her back in a few days, or fend fome of her friends with her. Accordingly I and my flep fon William Trvin went with her. On our arrival at llnkertown, we found that on the fame day on which Polly ftarted on her vifit, James had advertifed her in t public newfpiper as follows : l Take notice, that this day my wife Polly left my houfe and board without any jull caufe, Sc contrary to my mind, I therefore forewarn all perfons from trading with her, or harboring her, as I am determined not to pay any debts flie may contract. "JAMES SMITH. 14 Turtle creek, Warren county, ftate of Ohio, February 24th, 1810." The next day after William Irvin and I rrived with Poily at Turtle creek, being on Monday, March 5th, we applied to Jas. to know what he would do for her, he had to confult the (Inkers, and nothing could he done but by the direction of D. Durrow. Finally, the conclufion and anfwer fignified, that whereas Polly had eloped contrary to the mind of James, nothing could be done for her, unlefs flic would confefs her fins to them, and receive their teftimony ; to which he replied, (lie would rather fuffer death. She then afked of James the privilege of feeing her children he told her where they were, and faid flie might go and fee them, butrefufed to go with her. W. Irvin & I vent with her to the houfe where the chil-1 dren were, and afked to fee them. We were told by John Woods, and Mamcom I Worley, that James had committed the j children to their care, and (lie fhould not fee them. We ufed "entreaties, and finally threatened Woods and Worley with the civil law, but all in vain. That night we returned into the country the tender mother in deep diftrefs, bereft of her children, not knowing whether Die ever would fee them again. Tuefday, 6th "March, we returned to maker town, to try again, if by any means Polly could be admitted to fee her children. A (liort interview wis granted on condition that (lie muft not converfe with her children except in the prefence of Otakers. When (he was about to take her leave of her children, her eldefi fon laid hold on his dear mamma, and wept bitterly O ! mournful fecne I 1 there beheld the tender child forcibly wrefted by the iron hands of a defpotic fliaker, from the affectionate arms of a weeping mother. The feelings of my heart, I cannot defcribe My fon before he received the (ha. ker's teftimony, was kind to me and effeetionateto his wife, he received me into his houfe, and gave me every reafon to expect his fuccour in my declining age. To fee him not only fed need fiom chrilliinity, but diverted of the feelings of humanity, to fee my kind daughter treated with favage barbarity, her heart-rending farrow, made a fubjedt of mock and exultation, my dear grand children forced into defpotic bandage which tends to the ruin of both foul and body, was too much for human nature to bear. This" is the fruits of fhakerifm ! James was naturally friendly ; a dutiful Ion, a kind huiband, and a tender father : He is now a dupe to thofc deceivers. Before he left Kentucky, he frequentlv told me their chief cider David, was infal-

lably infpired and could do nothing wrong,

and thatherauft implicitly believe and obey lii'rt this he called believing and obeyirg Gcd.

u e strain applied to Tames to know it

he would cs any thing for Polly, he tcld l:-r privately hV might ro into a houfr

which was on the land which he had hough:

u!d di!p '

ir .4

W'-dre i.i t IsrMU-. I" all J -

tov ii, and no one

r rr aiH her. He alio pir oi the honlri.')' 1 furniture. , itri. Tth, W. Irvin Oartrd l-'iir lUy the (hikers tame t " ' 'n vr P iy en thiul rt T provided we would iign

; cf wrr.inr, which wa i!te

the hwufe during his time.

Tnefday, Maich 13th, I and fome others went again with Polly to lVe her children ; we found her eldeli fon, about 8 years ot age, chopping in a dealing, his hands were very fore and all his knuckles bleeding; when Polly complained of hard ufage, John Woods fid, (lie ought to be thankful to them for the privilege of feting her children, and ought not to talk fo, that if he was in J. place, (he fliould never fee them again. The makers are a hidden people, they fay they are not of this world, and all others they call the World, and have no connec

tion with them, only to buy or fell whatever they can, fn as to make gain or bring money into their treafury. Their leaders 1 believe live in eafe and luxury, and conceal their principle views from the lower clnfs, who are flaves. One f the men above mentioned, who had left them, told me, he believed that elder David ftored up liquor for their own ufe, which was as far as poffible concealed from the common people. He faid that he faw elder David's iUwart at one time buy feveral barrels of rum and wine, which were taken to his Ioding. Little can be known of fhakerifm from their publications ; MNamar's pamphlet, and a piece printed in an Almanac, give but a faint idea of it. Befides, their language is fo ambiguous, that no one who is unacquainted with their Oyle can fully underHand them. For infiance, when they men. tion Chrift, they mean Anna Lee, or the unftion or fpirit in her. When they fay in the piece called the Religious Regirter, publimed in an Almanac, ' The miffion of Chrift into the world, was to fave his people from their fins, and before him, behind him, or at the fide of him, there never was a foul faved, but in him," they deny the perfonality of Chrift, what they mean is the 'unftton or fpirit, and that this uncYion or fpirit is come the fecond time without fin unto falvation, into Anna Lee, and that thofc only who believe and obey this teftimony can be faved. When the fhakers firft appeared in the weftern country, they were covered with (beep's clothing, they pretended to be meek and inofTenlive, that they would not violently relift nor feek redrefs at the civil law on any account, but in proportion to their increafc in numbers, power and influence, the difguifc is in fome meafure thown off. I rejoice in the freedom of our American conllitutions, that all men are priviligcd to worfhip God according to the dictates of their confidence. Yet I cle-uly fee that the dais of people under their protection, are endeavoring to fap their foundation. They condemn all religion except their own as antichrilHan ; they alfo condemn all go. vernment, both civil and eccleliaiiical, except their own. Let fhakerifm predominate, and it will extirpate chriftianity, deftrcy marriage, and alfo our prelent free government, and finally depopulate America. According to their ftheme, civil and eclciiaftical government are blended together, theirs is a defpotic monarchy. The Pope, their chief has the treafury in his own lund, money creates influence, their's is a money making fchetr.e. It my be thought the enlightened Oatc of Americans is a fntHcient fecurity, but from the progrefs of Ifukeriftn for a few years paft, 1 think it is time for the friends of liberty and of mankind to beftir themfelves. Popery had its beginning ; the allcnied infallibility of the Pope, was the fonrce of his power and intUience, which was arbitrarily excrcifed over all - who believed in hiau

which i preciiely the cafe with D. Dunow.

The fupremacy of the Pope, prevailed until 10 kiiigs and their people became fubjret to him. If Atr.eric-n freemen are enlightened to know their rights, and the vlu" of their p:iv;!rgc?, toiies have alio encreafed in fublilty and aittilie. I believe if all the delpots on ei th, and all the infernal fpirit. had united to invent a plan to drfrrov chriftianity k enfiave mankind, fhakerifm cculd not h-ve been rxirrded. Satin is tranl tormrd into an anel of lijht, and his min iiht : into miniHers of rightecufnefs. Holilies ii their thcincj i;l:;A tl.ry bind fc:te;s

eir ;d fnl duiuih the peaCe cf I !

fmilir ard fotiftv : viol ii mrriaK'' whicli

is inftitutlm of God. the ntaieii, the hppidl relation in loci! life. Who would have thot' thit fliakerifm could huve fticcerded far a it has airway done in cur weilciii country I u lcr the arrival of the 5 firft (Inkers who came hither, fnrrm rrten of learning, talents and apparent piety joined them, it may be they were tmitofs in heart before, and the moie rendilv acreded to their ireafenous fchemf. All wiio join them of this defcription take the phce cf recruiting oftiteis ; who are actively employed in their miller's fervice. They compafs fea and land to make one profelvte, and he is ten fold more a flave to Pope DaviJ than they are, for they partake of 'David's benefice, and the profclyte becomes his llave. They have : large party

on Turtle creek, another on Kagle creek, both in the ftate of Ohio alfo a confiderable number in Kentucky, Sc on the Wabafh river. But admitting there is no general drger as to our government, (hall not the innocent be protefted ? Shall children be torn from the mother's beaft and fubjedled to fervile bondage, and fiie be left without redrefs ? The (hakers teach their deciples, that it is a virtue to be without natural affection. If then under the influence of this doctrine, men become monfters, and abandon their wives, fliall we fuffer the mother to be robbed of her tender offspring, by a father profelTtdly deflitute of parental j,ffrcYion ; and by him configued to bondage ? Here is a fpecies of involuntary fervitude. Ana the rights cf confcieiice are alfo violated, children under the terror of the lafli muft kneel and dance to the (bakers' Idol, Anna Lee. Thus the principles of fcrvile fubjettion are to be ingrafted in them, that they may be wretched dupes, and pefts to fociety ; and under the pretence of woi (hipping God, the root of civil and religious liberty is deeply wounded. 1 do not conceive that the fhakers In general who have come to mature age, ate voluntary flaves, they have been artfully de coyed into it, by the promife of greater liberty they are objects of pity, feduced, be

wildered and loft, under ftrong deluuon kept in bondage, by' the fear of hell, or the terror of the whip. It may be enquired, can the Legiflature conftitutionally interfere? I leave this queftion with politicians of the prefent day to anfwer. But I aik again, if a law can be pafled to prevent black and mulatto perfons

from refiding in the ftate of Ohio, except

they give bond with fufticient fecurity, becaufe they have been degraded Sc unmanned

by flavety, can we not touch a treafonous neft which is hatching and breeding among

us ? I am an old man, my time of fervice in this world is near an end. I have fought for liberty in the American revolution. 1

have in my weak manner been advocate for it in conventions and legiflative aflemblies, and now, when 1 fee a fnake in the grafs, or a poifonous worm gnawing at the root of the TREK OF LIBERTY, fliall I not at leaft oty out, TAKE CARE ! ! ! ( To ke concluded in cur. ntxs.J

BY WILLI AH HENRY HARRISON. Governor and Commander in Chief ol :i e Indian Territory A PROCLAMATION. WIIKREAS the circumitances rf the Territory require that the J.egifUtiir fhnnld be convened. 1 l.ae thouehc

proper to appoint, and do by thefe pre fen ts appoint Monday the 12ih day of Novcnber next, for the meeting of the fame and the members of the Legiihtive Council, and of the Houfe of Reprrfmtatives, ard each and every of them, are requirrd to give their attendance on that day, in the Town of Vincennes accordingly. GIVEN under my hand, art! the fril

of the Territory, at Vincennr, th'13 twentieth day of Sr pterr.br r, L. S.one thenfand eight hundred and ten, and of the Independence of the United States th thirty fifth ye r. Wm. HENRY HARRISON. By the Governor, ' JOHN GIBSON, fecretary.

BEEF ! BEEF ! B E EF ! r I ' HE fubfenber wilhing to furnifli tht A citizens (Indians and negroes excepted) with god BEEF, will give Two Dollars and Seventy Five Cents per hundred, in ' CASH, payable in , two months, foe good fat wholrfome Bfef Cattle, dtlivered in Vincennes he hopes to meet with ntouragrmcnt from every good American. milium M'Qo vau Vincennes, 9tli Aug. 18.10. tf : BY feme means left the plantation of the fubferiber, in Buflcion townftiip, fometime in May laft, one dark browa man- colt, with (1 beiu-vr) a fmall ftir under her foretop, long tail, two years old laft fpring.Cne fmall roju mare colt, two years old laft haryeft, flicrt tail. Likrwifes one bright bay horfe colt, fiiort tail, cne

year old lait Innntr Whoever delivers

feenres, or gives fuch ii. formation that I can get them again, fijall be genermfty rewarded, and all reafciiable charges thankfully paid by John F. Thompson. September 29th, IS 10.

REGl

NOTICE,

'REGISTER'S OFFICE. VINCENNES.

VLL thofc perfons who are entitled to JLA. Donation land, by virtue of any Re-

folution or Act of Congrefs, and who, by reafon of ahfence or minority, have not hitherto exhibited their claim?, are hereby reminded that the time allowed for exhibiting notices of fuch claims, by an Act of Congrefs, palTed on the 30th day of April, 18 10, will expire on the lft day of November next. J aim Badollct. Reg. of the Land Office.

J.IS7 NOTICE. a-tTL perfotu indebted to the luhfctiber

1 1

uoou, noie, or oook account are

deiired to come forward and fettle up their refpective balances by the 1ft day of October next, as I expect to leave the territory about that time thofe having cpen accounts are particularly requefled to come forward and at leaft give their notes as no longer indulgence wdl be given, but fuits ir.difcriminately commenced agair.ft all who neglect this r.ctice All perfons having demands ?gainft me will pleafc c-11 and reccive their dues.

Thomas Joncu me.

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War Department, JuU 10, 1310 . ' NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, rTHAT feparate propolis will be receiX ved at the officc-cf the fccrc-taiy for the department of wu, tjitil twelve o'clock

cuiuer next, ior me lupply ot 11 rations that may be required for the ufr cf t!: United States, from the firft iiv cf Tunr.

. f , . . . . . ' -

one : nrn i i nri .irri-.f ,1 i

clulive, to the fn ft d.-v of Time-, one thru, and eight hundred and twelve, within the States, Territories and Diftricts followinr. viz- ol lft. At Niagara, D' rroit, ?.Iir l Jj;m sckinac, Fort Wayr.r, Chikgn, and x thrTr immediate vicinitirs, and at ar:y place -r places, v;h-re troops a;e or n.sy be ftii; iu d, marched or recruited within ti c tnritt y of Michigan. 2nJ. At any phce or place-:, J re troop? arrrnir'-v fce (Utionrc. n'.l J or

recruited within the ftates of KenttuJv

l c nneiler. 3rd. At Brlle Fontaine, Fr,rt OTc-e hv.d. Beh'e Vue, and at any phrr, or places, where trocpj are. or may he Rationed, mlifched or recruited within the fbte of Ohu and the Illinois, Ir.cianiar.d Lm.ifiaMs, trrI litories, except Fort Wayrc and Ci.igo, and their immtdiate vicinitie?. 4th. At ai;y place rr places, v.hfre troops ar-, or may be ftatinr.rd. m.rd.fd or recruited, within the Miffppi a,.d Oilcans territories. Prcpofrls will be received at the fame time for fupplying rations within the dif. triS .forefaid, for two ve-rs. Cnrr.:r erciroon the fn ft day of June, ci;e thrul.nd eic-lr hundrrd ard eleven. 5th. At any place or p,e?J v,pcre troops are or may he ftationed. m.uhrd cr recruited wi:hi thc d.Rrict cf M,m, apd ftate rt New HarrpHiire. Cth. At any place or places, v. here troops are cr may be flatiuu.d, t:4,rcht, cr recruited, within thc ftate of Vermont. 7tb. At a: y place cr olaccs, where tr.s are, cr may be fUtm.d, w,rCh. tu, cr rccru.ted, within the il.tc of Mil-