Western Sun, Volume 7, Number 37, Vincennes, Knox County, 17 August 1816 — Page 1

THE WESTERN SUN.

v From the Press of ELIHU STOUT Publisher of the Laws of the United States. VINCENNES, (Ind. Ty.) SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1816, No. 37Vol. 7.

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(BY AUTHORITY). j- s r j- r y s t r r s s s -r ' j J

L WS OF THK UNION. I4A Congress ist Session,

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to Increafe the petitions of Inva-

lids in irrtv.n cafes ; for the relief of the Invalids ol Militia, and to" the appointkfefeent of Penfioft ge nts in thofe States Where thcrr is n o ( ' vn mi (Tinners of In n Bb it enacted by t'n Senate and Huss cf Representatives of the United Statee of Am ica, in Congress assembled, That al! petfons of the rank- he rein a r :er named Vkb now on the military pennon roll of thr J. Sut-s, (hill, from and after the plTure of thii art, be entitled to, and receive, for disabilities of the higheft degree, the following fums in !iu of thofe to which Itiey are PO'V entitled, to wit ; I firft lirutenant, 17 dollars ; a 2 i lieutenant, 13 dollars ; a 3.1 lieutenant, A dolls ; an enfign,

llrs ; and a non c mmitTioned ofti er, in or p'ivitr, 8 dollar! prr month ; t J. s J ,,' iti'-9 oi a drgrre If fs than the I, ,V. n or m r t i mahly left.

who may not knnw him as well as I do,givc this a place, end oblige yours Sec. A Bo Mr. Ewing commenced by ohferving that he was not borr m lllil country, but it was in this country he received his education, he had fucked the milk of freedom in his youth, he had imbibed its principles, and he Ihouid fupport thrm pure & uncontammated, taction and fraud to the contrary notwitl landing, until he ceafed toexifl. Ke then Hated that in coming before the people of Knox at the prefeot time, as a candidate to reprefent them in tbv frnate of the Hate, he felt with peculiar force the importance of the trull, and the great refponfibility it would necrlTiriiy impofe. He hoped, howcvei, that the unchangeable refped for the rights and freedom of his fellow man, the love of country, the folemn reverence t religion, and the irremoveae'e regard r it truth, that had beeh early iniiillrd :oto him by his p'o Sod exemplary pirents, would

bee on. o ? rent in t!ic Cviurr he -Oioilld pu,oe,and merit for him when his term of fcrvice had expired, the dffiraole found of k wr 1! done good and faithful fervant '? He fliou'd hope for this, he fa id, aa bis conftant endf-avors would be to merit it. Ke ve y moch regretted he C:d, to be forced to drdarr, that there were ier with whom he bid but a very ilight prtfona! acquaintance, fo obfr.natcly perveifein what tlu-y miht. or did know to be wror.i?. that his principles, his frclings, his ccindudl t:d h;s fentimnta had b-en grofsly mifreprefented, viliH d and abuftd. He llated, that it be come him, however mvich he dcfpifed their et' rrs. to notice a few of the fUtements nude by the interefted fyropVrants, echoes and trumpeteri, of certain well known char iiv'lers, fa;d he Would beftow this notice on their tali' hoods, not becawfr it was t!nexpeded or nncomrnon at the time of an clrction, for the moll Mrortblefa Sc unprincipled to fend florirs into circulation witiiv-.iu even the (hadow of '.r-jth, bat beeatofe fome had

been fabricated that w his mora! as Well as p

Mr. Ewing here

intended to affccl ttcal c tiara cter. iied all an';mofity

ajaii.lt anv honorable nnronent. who adttu

led his judgment ; treat Rich with

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all perfons o the aforesaid ranks, who nny rafer be plated on the military penOon toll of the U. States, (ball, according to th- r rnks and decrees cf disabilities he tcd on at the aforefaid Irate, of penfionl in liU of thofe heretofore eftahhlhed : P L tivcc, tht nothing hfrein contained fliall be contVud to leffe i the p-nfin of ?ny perfon who, by fpi cial provifion, is entitled to a higher penfi n than is herein provided. Sec . An.: c :-jrth?r mac led, That til law! ana reputations to toe ad m tfion cf the officers ar. j foldiers of the regular army t. V p.'-vced en t'r- pnfi n roll, ai he U States fhall. and thry are hereby declared to rflte rqaally to the officers and foldiers cf the nittUiS whilit in the lervice of the U. State?. Sec. 4. And be if further exacted. That th f treta'V lot the department of VVa; be,

nd he is hereby authorifVd and required to

appoint i nir n; ano o'ope.' perion in rnoie flt-sand territot tea where there is no rrm in' fll nifr loans, and alio in the DO rift of Elaine, to perform the duties in thole Hates IpJ tTfitriesand in fi I 'riff respectively, relating to penlfons & prnfioners. which are now required ol aid cornmiliianers in theu resi H m Speaker cf the House oj Represent at iiesi OHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate r0 tempore, April 24, 1316 KVPn - t D, J M ES MADISON. FOR TM rVFS TERN SI V.

upon principle and he fid he thou Id th it e'lfem, der-tt juftly merit but I rxpeted of him by deadlier blow than could wot be exp-

1 1 c l 1 1 y Miuwn ill ! 1 . . J . U1 a ilU Jtl founded opinions, that goto arraign both his p diiics and his integrity. He then f Aid thu he Had been brought forward by his friends as a candidate for a feat in th late convention, and tint nr. Nat. Ewing, the then dated amongfi many oiher things intended to i! ui hirn, that he ws an enem7

to his couott . lie. i e next day after he he a declarator, he pubtifh a bate i uior and i ! Concife vietv of his pel

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4 lowing has not to O.fum tre retei ft

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that he

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(igried ' A Farmers &

Mr. Stout, I herewith fend a fteth Of the fpeech made bv nu. fnhn Rwinfif, at Liverpool, Hawkins townflltp, on the morning of the lad rlrclion day. H SS a candidate fn the lenatf of .u- new tate, and as 1 w-ll know his election w? vrrv mat"ril!y eflfrclrd if not entirely rfrated bv certain falfefaooda, yon will p)rjfc, in juftice to his ftntirncnij, Sc Lr the fatisfifvion of friends

put .00 ctrcuiatfcn ;d W't'.ten the pice

Settler,' and alfo thofe fignet

patrio s Rights,' intended by the bate mind that Coold fi-cgfrt fuch a thodght( to make men brhcve he would do above one Garniture, what he would undo above another, he had given this the lie alfo he faid, & he would tak this opportunity to declare that he hit ret n to believe the trriter ot the 4 Settler' is a man of unimpeachable integrity, of fupenor mind, and fuprrior talents bet it was the appearance of thole writing? he thought that hrf! cau fed N. Ewing to ihew himff if Jc he would now aiOc thVm as citiz-ns tnd nen, if any writings tending to fhew the iflegality, injurtice and itnpilic? of the late proclamation of the prefiJent, to remove iettlers from the public land, or if his not admiring N. Ewing, and fbtne othets, or if theft things, trge'he- with ail that 1 orir.cip'ed enemu-s ni.tV' choofe to d or iay, unknown and unnoticed, touid make him an enemy to his country ? that country here thofe neareft and ilearrft now rfide, where a!i he po (TV firs row is and wheie his mother, a brother Sc a fiftrr have been born ? No, no, he declared his iodividual refponfibility for entertaininc no fm h fear he fbould always flnd ioi rl e country, not for s party , ur a Uc'or-hc fhculd

always be the advocate and fupporter ot principles, not men nd he hopcu the wile and the good, the intelligent and the iree, would uuly appreciate the uiftmdlion, let their opinion of Ins enemies and ot himlclt, be as it may. He faid the education he hd received, taught him that principles Ihouid alone be chrrilhed, and that the declaration of irdependeuce. & the Constitution of the U. States, were the basis upon which his principles rested thcte principles he hoped would ever caufe him to diiplay that ardent love of country which every honelr pa not fiiould a!one uphold But he faid the charge formerly made againil h m by N. Earing, feems at the prefent eleflion to have difap peared, or to be metamorpholed into anotb er that is now bellowed by the ttentonan lungs of a McDonald, a Parr, and others, all totally unworthy of notice at this time, as a matter ot very frrious reproach, it is this, that 1 am a Federalist l If, (aid he, 'thofe ignorant and deGgning brawlers had faid that I m not an honeft one, then might I refemble fome of themfelves,' thefc were h;s words but, he continued, though this charge, if it be really thot a charge pro ceeds from the fme fourcc as the tormer ; yet firange, 'tis true and when he givc his underftandingof hat vVord, and Ihewed what it really meant, and how ?t originated, he wofld leave them to iudge he Mid, f it be a crime ! He tlien Oated tbt by turnit'C over but a few leaves of hiilorV, or by referring to the public journals ot that g;o rious period when the liberties of our country were fect?red, and th? confutation of the U Stites tUabliuied, it would be difcovcred that in the general, as vvt 11 as in the Gate conventions, there Were men oppof d tc fome of its lead inff features, and, faid he, without gVving you s hiftorV 01 their fentiments, 1 will brn tiy itate, that all who advocated and Upheld that ineOimable in Qrj ment, were tiirn called federalists, 5c thofe in onpoutton, were then called antt federalists. The immortal WASHING I ON, the founder of our liberty, the father ot our country, was amonofl the former, and the title he c'-iimcd I will never Taid mr. Ewirfr, never thick discreditable. He then fiid, the confederation of the Rates v;as at that d?y, a feriotis queftioo, happily for us it was then efthJifhed, 3c acr urR be he who would diOerfe theu'. Thus, faid he, the term oriolnated, and from this a'one, the Union of the Hates, ; its meaning with him was derived. Can it then, he afkrd, be difhonorable ? Can it be criminal ? No, no, he folemnly declared his conviction, that none who were free from faction, would even attempt to make it appoar fo. But faid he, the men who wifh that it might be thought a fligena lipon me, rmeniber to forget thsfe

thii gs it they ever hrard oi therr.. I hey

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Ice the tUle of federalist a crime,

with lit underftanding it, and in my opinion without knowing why or wherefore, fome amongft them might be induced to fwar that it was one ! If, fellow citisens, af:er hearing my fentiments about it, you think fo, why even fo be it ! but remember that political appellations, are of theouclves nothing. I feelrnyftlt fo confeienc'u us on this point, that I care not by what name, appeUtion or title, any party, faction, or fet of men, may chocfe to call themfelves (if not totally repugnant to my feelings as a freeman) I oulda with them on no other principles than thofe recogni-ed and eftahlifhed by the declaration of independence and the conHitution of the U. States After John Adams had egregioufly erred, Thomas Jefferfon, with a rcfoeflable charafter as a modern philofopher and fcholar, was elected prePdent of the U. States it is well known that the party by whom he wa9 tr-ft effentially aided m his afcent to the pre." dentin! chair, had embodied a lare proportion of the old party called ami federalifts yet in his inaugural fpeech he had the cand our ard hone fly to avow that ' we re all federalists, we are all republicans' and you wiij, frid mr. Ewing, allow me to reverberate to tbis--Jo long as -we continue republicans, we must continue federalists, uuder the present federal constitution. We have lately feen he faid, under the democratic adminHlration (as it is called) of j -rr.-? Madifcn, fome of the fame meafures adopted that had caafed John Ad in s to be by a portion of the men who aflifted to elevate him : and after ferintr ard knowing all thefe things, can it he pnTible that thofe men srho wrt to dictate to you, believe you avail lock on farther than names? They wifh I am wn Convinced, that you would not hut they uvjft fear that you will, elfc their tenom,

their malignity nd hltehood, would not have been delt out fo abundantly. Like fome little infr&i on the banks of your W hite river, fdid mr. f wing, which con e to life in the morning, tu-hl nil the ends of their creation' and Uje betore night fo I lufpedt in the various townfhips are the t U notions ot me, tht will this morning oe ufliCfed luith to lupport the mny tbejr have already uttered lor 'tis too :ru, and if thofe men defire to continue f tV , they fhoulc! know it one lie requires twenty to fupport it. Fciiile as they have alrr(.y proven themfelves, I will not fear their liock is e;:hculled, but I muft regret th-t I cannot haar them this day at every town Hup in the count) refpecting thefc lies he !nd he would clufe his renark- 1 y deci ing, that in offcnng hiinfclf to repref-nt the people he is not influenced by any oil er feeling than an ardeni. defire to 1 CUit tncir liberty, rights and iosereit, by his u ll endeavors--determined never to suppot t cither men or measures the negiect of true Hepublican principles, and resolved to submit to no dictation but from the Ruler of the Universe, Mr- Ewing after a number of other independent and c haraciert ttic reUMifca, faid it was thus be fiiould now notice the degrading t-tlea and charges; that had come to his knowledge, and as be hd intOcretcda feeling or a fen ti meat, he woufo tieely have it ior the intelligent to el'imate their re worth. He dt I.ired that he did not believe his opponent, mr. Police, fancVioned any unfounded ftorieS, that he always h d tfteemed rrr. P-.ik" as a good citizen, and art honed man, be therefore, he laid only wifh ed thetoortfi merit, intentions and qualifications ol the c ndid .tes to t)e judged, w uhout hut bias which faltchood h(j treated, and frjud fanclio'ied, again A bimfelf. Mr. Ewing then fdid he would take the. liberty of noticing (as had htm defutd of him a Lnhjecl that appeared to be petuh aiiy interellirg to the peoplw of that town fhip it was the divifion of K sox county and he foon Tatisfied all then te.r. He fi i. remarked that we were bout to embark all that freemen cherifh, ali that wifdom cn hold -lear unde r a ft ite conftitution of w Inch he faid he yet knew nothing but this, that the additional taxes muft be coiTiderable, if not enormous, for its fupport or that the new llte muft fall heavily in dbt to a kind ot paper w'une, called a bank, tht niuit have l-oa interrfl from the people.!-. He faid that we fhould not, he thobi ht,d Cm fighedly increafe this expenfe at the pre f( nt time, nor 'ndeed, he f id, until we can ca culate with fome prer iHon, thr eypenr rs incurred, and the advantages and :! outrages that n-i!it refult frorn a divift0n. He faid that nature had certainly bee n boun.'u iul to that portion of oik prefenr. coun'v its inhabitants had a falubrioufi climate, a fertile fos', a defirable country, boundrd by a navigable ftream, that will render them almoft independent of the prefent county feat but with ail this, if there were not other Urgent rfeafona, be could not think this a favorable moment for div-th", n, as it '.vould without increafing their meant, udoubtedly intreafe thr r taxes, mh'v h, for SUght he kr.ew might become heavy enough for fome time, without any fuch increafe. He here added, if the new government be filch as it fhould be, and the rulers and UgiflatorSOOW to he elertrd. fur h as have WorA and merit, Knox mutt foon become a great and powerful county, and when this be afcertained by experience, let the d'.viQon take place. But faid he, this is only my advice, my opinion is, that let the divition ol IC.nox take place when it may as nature has given to you boundary ',Pra r the eaft and to the areft, thr fork?,, if abe to fupport Itjfliould be a diOincl county and faid he, I will further add, that if I be eh died, your wifhes and wants (hill always command my attention, and he with my fieuder abilities fupported, in every mfure not ter-ding to counteract the g-reral good. I will not tire you or your readers by follow ing mr. Ewing to the clofe his rr marks upon every fubj- he noticed, fatifled me, & have reafon to believe, a largo proportion of thofe who heard I m. The clof- of his addrefs ws impreihve he called upon the voters to acl mdepensfenttl to follow the dictation of no man, or fet of men entreated them never to prf thrir ri lers an example of improper u tluence, hut as they were the fourcc of all power by our rnppy form of government, Wegged they w. uld (hew that the fhalh iawNition of knave, and other who my have a diO'mc latere it, cannot aifcC thB ;o rove that