Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 19, Vincennes, Knox County, 15 February 1812 — Page 4

POETICAL ASfLUM.

FA 1 rLE OF 1 IPPECANO& Mm Gentleman of ! ting ton CVfjr.) Aw k i Awake ! my gallant friendt i To amis 1 To trm ! tl I foe is nigh ; The Sc. unit I hia Watiunj iendo ; And hark 1 the treac hertm lavage try. Awake ! to amis I the woid goes round ; TlH drum's deep roll, the (kit's ftirill The trumpet! u!al proclaim 'd thro' nif;ht An Inuian band, bloody light. Olufte thee Baen, a is 1 too late ; A red Chief! Btm now t.u Uic blow ; (An tarry but a gtorioua fate ;) The tomahawk haalatdthet low. Dread darkucTs reignsi On Daviess, on ! Where! Bo ''. and valiant Harrison, Commandei it thethrtUian force i Auvi Owen : Ht'i a bleeding cOrfc "Stand, comradei brave, Rand to your fofta i "Hrrt frWj and Foj I atJ Barton all c jiiult now or WOll or mutt fee loll : M Tly hnikl; bayonet, i.vord and ball1 ThU! fpoke the Gea'i .1 whfna yell W! heard as tho1 a ht re felh And hark ! the Indian whoop again It is for daring Dalies Haiti I O fearful M the battle! ff ; No Lady'a hand is in th 'tr y, But brawny limbs the conteft w ge, And i niggle for the victor's t.y. And oitrtiulela bodiea ttrcw the plain,

And yella and gtoans, and t

roar, tcho along the Wabalh (Lore. But mnU ! where break! u-on the eyr, Aurora's beam. The coming (J-). hatl foil a frantic prophecy , Atd ehrifttati ealdr ell difplay.

Ne'er did Gonftnt . - oldie AVuh more ot j fof nc0i

CURIOUS NOV F.LTY.

A man who holds a fmall farm near St. Al bans, and who has ever btfen looked upon as a mod ecccntick being, made his e litre in the latter place on Saturday in the following manner, viz. mounted on a fmall car, which as actually drawn by tour large hogs. He entered the town at a brifk trot,' amidfl the acclamations or hundreds, who were drawn together to witnefs the tirange and uncommon Ipeclacle. After making the tour to the market place three or tour times, he tame in to Wook Park yard, had his fwinifh cattle regularly uiiharnefed, and taken into a liable together, where they were regaled with a trough full or" beans and walh. They re matned about two hours in the town, during w hich time he difpatched Ins buftnefs as ufual

at the market, when they were again put to, and driven home again, multitudes cheering him to the very end of the place. This man has only had thele animals under training hx months and it is truly farprjfing to what a high Date of docility & ti audibility he has brought hem A gentleman on the fpot offered him yol. tor the concern, as it itood, but it was indignantly refuted. Lon. Pap. The Additional Army. The aft for raiting an additional regular

force of twenty five thouland men having

may be mo'fl relied on for immediate fervice ; and that, although a certain regular forcfc w ould be neceflary to follow vp the operations commenced by the volunteers, the latter may at firfl be adrantageoutly employed. I he regular force neceflary w ould of courfe be the fmallcff in proportion to the amount of volunteer force to be employed 1 en

thoufand men, thcnMmber laid to have been dcfircd by the executive, we fiiould have deemed, in this view, to have been amply fur -ricient ; and, as it was probably as great a j number as could be euliUed in any reafonable time (for we trult that voluotcers would be actrarled in much greater numbers by the American Dandard alone, thair regulars would

be by the recruiting drum and fire, the au'hot ization of a larger number did appear to

us unnecetlary and caculated to produce no other cffecl to fatten on the public purfe a vail corns of officers without men to com-

mand, or fer vices to perform. But it was not for the executive to defignate the force neceflary ; it was for another department of the government, which has perlormed its du-

ty according to the dictates of its judgment ;

and, in the lame fpirtt in which it was authorifed, we have no doubt it will be employed in the fervice of the coumry as advantageously as poiTihle. But it has been infmuatcd in fome prints, be-

caufe the executive did not require fd large a

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Thifl theft tbt blathtng ul the morn. Boyd on his Ready band, Wiib &r tilling barem ti buti iOi'd bright, Whtt could :!ir dtintleti charge withRand! "What (lay the ararriora match, f might ? Ru thing aroaui, they thard the held, The Lavage toe totiftfaiti t ta )ieid To Hjmson, wh heal and tar, Gave form ai.u Ipitit to the ajaf loymti found tHethirge ! fpu fpor the tteed And fwifl the fttjritivea purlue

' J'is vain, rein in your fttoaoil Ipeecj

Could not o'eitake tne recreant trrw. In low land marfli, in dell ibr can , X.' . - U In li m 1 . i . ' . Ill ti i A v e

Whence, peering tortfe, with i.-i adu iifa HefaW the Prnlirt's town on fire. How, ttH grrat Kagle of the Weft, Triumphant WMfg was Leu wave : And now each foldier'l manly hreaft Sigbd o'er t ' liV . c ni(ftde rve. borne dro p'U a tc.r, uad nitit'd thtW ' ) Thru iain'd in meafufcl march tl - file

And here au.1 there CeP Wtftful "e. Tlut might Curviving friend ucuiy. Bjt 1ft a foe again appear, Orealt or wrii, of 1. utli or north ; The foldier ihrn lhal I Mi tear, And fearlHs, gily fairy forth. With Hgfet'ning eye tnd wirlilrt frofi He'll meet th bittle'a deadly brunt : Cotne -ul 01 Brit ft it irra 'd l or filu Ijc'11 fttl Krceniafi i ulao;

now become a law ; all predictions ot its re- j force tjiac an indifpofition was fhewn to fol

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low up the lentiments exprellea in tne mesfage by correfpondent meafures. 1 here always have been, and always will be, in govments, as in lociety, men who are difpofed to let up their own judgrjnent as the ilandard ot infallibility ; and fuchfnen, a difference in opinion from ihem may appear to be political herefy. But addreffing ourfelves to the reafon, not paffions of nen, w e afk whether there be the flfchteft ground for the imputation ? On a ielrence to the meflage which is the bafis of thefmeafures adopted and in imitation, we fee volunteers, militia & regulars exoreftlv and diitinclly recommended. Hav-

ifig a regard to the detachment of militia and i pnif.Impiu nf volunteers, a. certain regular

exprelled his conviaion ot the neceffity of a forcc u thought fuflBcieoi by the executive, t hange of attitude, leading to more energe- ; The egVflature defirous of amply nrengthenrie and decifive meafures. I he opinion of j he cxecutive arm, authorife a greater the executive, as indicated by the tenor of cQrce The law for that purpofe. without the

his menage, cannot be, nomas it oetu, nns . rfejay receives the fandion of the executive taken. His voice was tor war, the lait re . . wjft,ecj not for to large a force

jedion having failed; tlie oppofition prints

h.ive undertaken to excite diih ult and jealoufy by declaring the cabinet, that is the executive and the heads ot departments, to have been oppofed to it. We apprehend thele af fertions to be as erroneous in this cafe, as the pafiagf of this very law has proved their

prediction to have been in another ; and our

'ijict is formed from circumitances as they have arifen to our view. 1 he prefident in his meflage to congrefs at the commencement of the ieffiun, as was his duty, exhibited to the affembled people his views of public affairs; in doing which, lie went as tar as he could with piopiiety in ail rWiTmrr hnnlH to a leoifla.ive bndv. He

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ir hf xiicd not for io larpe a force.

lort of republics as well askings, to enforce hefyates not for a moment to yield I, is opiniour rights and avenge our wrongs on to tlat 0f the legiflature. Nay, more, he

In tl;c lace of this public mandeltation ot , occahon. in a meiTage fubfequent to the

padageof that law, to enforce his former recommendation to make adequate preparations for the fupport of our rights. With the legiflatore, whereat ought to be, not the executive, now rcifs the fefponfibili-

ty and, to them do their conff ituents anxi-

the views ot the executive, confirmed and lupported as it is by his reply to the addrefs ot the legiflatore of Tenneffee, and his more recent meflage to congrefs, we are told that, as a lels force than 25,000 men would, in the president's opinion, have been fufScitnt to rneel the prefent orgency, therefore he w as

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, . 0 J v , f m9 ilc orl (;u(ly ooktorrhe adoption of luch mealures as imical to the law as it palh d. Let us ad- 1 . . . ... ,,r r- . fnr nip-amp; thi" nprfd hfv rnr

nit, for argument fake, that in the opinion

at the prefident a fftialler regular force would aave been lutficienf. We thould fuppofe, hat the executive, having a fpeciSc objeel in ieW, had alio foi med an opinion as to the juantum of force which, would be neceffary u execute it I be exigency peculiarly rejuiring celerity of movement, ot courfe that

the times call for meaiures, the neceflity for

u bich every friend to his country deprecate, but which, once commenced, muff be vigoroufly profecuted to their completion. From an unity of fentiment in all brandies of the government, we may expeft efficacy of aclion. W ichout it, our chain of meaiures

w ill prove a rope cf fand.' Let thole then be

J g j " - i 1 nrries ot force ouht to be employed w hich rewarded w ith A reus eyes, who nek to low

oold be moll fpeedily and readily railed. 1c diltrult and dilumon, to array one depart- ; pears to us a volunteer force is of that de , mint of the government againft the other, cripttOn w hich can be moil eahly railed, and and fcattcr dillention in our public councils.