Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 9, Number 32, Vincennes, Knox County, 11 July 1818 — Page 6

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ln$, en An ler the canopy of another Frank DDI patriotism will rekindle at

tUc remembrance ol tunes pvst wnen vc ihstll hot jeet the offered services of s-ich met) M the lamented Tossy, whose wii o n end bitortuptiblt firmness, erosi I twrc our happiness, prosperity sod glory. Lamented Posoy ! Din I say ? But death caused no murmuring in his own 1) cast. Supported by the consciousness life devoted to his country and by a i sincere jilety, Ve died in the fullness of years Sc Usefulness and left hot one blot to stain the huiity of his name. ff our institutions for the promotion of learning ;tnd religion sre not neglected if our state policy he enlighted and comi tensive if there be a wise equalita tin of every political advantage if priv i eg s and laws he the same to all with Out .1 dnction if there he no partiality instate aftVirs except what merit has created an 1 worth secured if industry be em ouraged and the rights of the pcoe well protected ; then are we jut as PoSey would have rendered us and as my political Breed dictates we should he. Bui if things be different ; then are the pillars upon which our state freedom res s I fear defective. With regard to the measures aft' ctin u ;, that emanate from the general government we may test Happy and seccre ; its benign rays can est i to our most remote concerns, and afford a healing salve to stl th.e CT 'i nces not cured H home. We all Isno - however, it is with regard to some BiaH rs, difficult for the most w ise and U :': government to correct the abujes of ! I jnted powor so remote as we .. . ; Ton Washington City ; particularly if fhose anuses produce wealth, and be protected by the strength that wealth creates. But we may rely if such abuses xis the general government will hot permit their continuance she will hoi when grounds are afforded on which si e can art, permit strength to graft? out of ill gotten riches ; and thus afford I clandestine premium for the disobedienceofher own laws. I will now draw to a conclusion The western hemisphere is just enter jrn t from savage darkness t! at glorious change from slavery to freedom, W ch we met here to commemorate, as flavin t ken place in th.e original states in 1 775- has grdualVf extended westward ever since ; and must ere long) if t' e Spanish Provinces had hut a Wash a' "--' v, a FVwniMinfan .4 Jams a Greene! a ' ; a Pfirr, and a few more of the transmutated spirits of such heroes to aid their end?a.ors, draw in th.e sympathetic feelinpsof vreemen, the whole American continent Such spirits will yet arise to direct and aid them, for neither God nor man tviil much longer en dure their superstitious bondage. There tc many considerations, mime tfi telv affecting ourselves that T might here press upon vour attention if time permitted ; but I have alrealv trespassed and shall close with a few additional remarks. Our freedom and prosperity, fellow citizens a is moment are not endai gr ed in mv npmion, by any internal or external cause, so much as by a tytttm of banking now become general in almost every villa-e in the western country There is in mankind a thirst for distincti m, that nothing but wealth or talents Can command those that are wanting in the latter, will seek the distinction they most covet by possessing themselves of the former ; and to this alone, 1 attribute the establishment of so many flanks. A number of them have already failed ; and many more of them must he expected to follow. The community ac large a:e the losers while a few of the interested may secure themselves by V ise&sing real property, that years of 1 - h economical industry could with difficulty acquire The existence of this' Itate or things led to the establishment of the present Dank of the U States a solid national institution, that is now dc orie l brail tottering establishments. But Congress wisely provided this safe' guard for the people and the national government and if Indiana could pro cure branch her citizens would in my Opinion be materially served k benefited. It would banish from circul u'on the unsafe currency now amongst us, and bv making an amicable arrangement, afford vigour and strength to the state insthuti m it would replace the foreign doubtful paper n w here with its own ; whi h throughout the Union for every purpose) affords certaintv to farmers and many a'vunta jes and facilities to trade Vny argumtntl used amst its pi e scut man

agement ar.d tendency, must apply with double force to many of the Hanks now amongst us. but the only questions in my opinion for the people of this state, are : do they want additional capital Sc a safe and certain representative of money, that will answer every purpose throughout the U. States! or (.o they pre ler a species of paper that ca&not be viewed secure in itseif, and even if it Were so. will not answer any valuble purpose, without a sacrifice w hen it is fio:n home I These are the proper and only considerations for our citizens to determine and if it be thousrht expedient Sc serviceable, let them apply and procure a branch if otherwise, let them refr in. Although am decidedly in favor of having it. yet I well know Indiana must BP soon nourish without such aid. We l ave a population hardy, brave and virtuous, and if in our state affairs we arc not altogether very fortunate, still we have no pressing cause for complaint ; the people are the sovereigns, and can when they choose remedy that which may be defective. Animated by the most ardent love of liberty, emigrants of character 8c standing arc adding to our population Education is extending i's vivifying influence, and manufactures are daily springing op amongst us. Thus our present prospects in many points of view, arc pleasing and satisfactory, and if we do not continue to improve if we ever degenerate, 'tis ourselves only We can blame I will not fear this however, for aitho we may occasionally differ on speculative questions of policy, we v. ii! still cherish with care the, fundamental principles of that constitute n which is the guarantee of our national union and national glory. In doing this we will all manifest equal love for the liberty it secured to al! entertain a conscientious decorous respect for the equal rights of our fellow citizens, and thereby evidence, unequivocally, a true devotion to pure republicanism our doing to will be a shield to personal independence, ar.d will prove that we have a love, like the love that beats during life in undivided hearts, for our free institutions and the principles on which they rest such death-d fying love as will when the last trump shall sound, preserve, for the declaration of lxDFrF.Ni k a c f and the c onstitution of the United States, the everlasting consciousness of immortality. If however, I deceive myself if parly delusion can ever overcome us all, then farewell to virtuous freedom. "-But, ho with heart and eves Could walk where Liberty had hern, nor see The shining foot p-ints Of her DeityNor feel those gocUikc breathings in the air, Which mutely told her spirit bad been there.'' I hope never to see the day that d ilu ion of any sort can overcome us ; for ki I would not give one day, ore hour of virtuous Liberty, for a whole eternity of bondage." No 1 That day of gene, ral delusion can never come. This enlightened people will never sa

crifice theglorious privileges that belong to them, but will leave such an example as rr&y cause them to be transmitted to posterity from generation to generation, until time shall be no more. Ladies Sc I Sen r i. e m e n I hate done 1 would fall far short of my feelings were i to attempt complimenting the graces i charms, accomplishments and w s lom, l otv before me I will simp y acknowledge my gratitude for your polite attention.

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LAWS Or run UNION. AN ACT to enable the people of the Illinois T;r; itory to form a constitution and stite government, and for the admission of suc'i state into the L'nion, on an cq d footing withtbe origiml statesB U f naett the Senate ffotue r.f Rrftreirntmtivet of the Lr?:i:c d S:atrs of Am rtco, fa Congret s embled That the Iohthittntl of the territory of llhnoii be, and thrv trr hrreby authorised to form for th-msrlves a consti'ution and ;tae go. vrrmnrnt, and to assumr such nam as thry shall drem propr r ; and the said star . whe n farmed, shall be admit ed into the Union wp.-tn the same footing wi'h the otigha! statrs. in a'l reppcf9 wl atrver. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted That the ?id statr lhall consist cf all the trrtito?v included within thr following boundinrs. to Wit : Brgirnirg t the mruth of the VVabtsh ntcr, thence up the larr.e,

in3 with ht ? rf Tninna. to the north wr?t coma of sa.vi stitr ; thcrce east. Witk the line of the simr statr,to the midJle of Like Michigan ; thrnce north, 1 rg the nuJdle of aid I kc, to n h th lati u lr trty . two degrees thirty Q I us ; ibencc w t, to the middle of the lltsVt$sippi rierf and thence, dovsn long the middle fl :ht river, to its C ilifluenct with the Ohio tiver, and thence, up the 1 4ttcr liver, loig itsnorthweurn shore, to the hein inr Provided, That the convention hereinafter pro.dtd for, when formrd, sha'l ratify the bottQ dariet aforesaid ; otherwise they shll he, and rrmdn, as now prracribrd, by tl.eordinoice fr the government t! - territr y northwest of the riwtO i: Provided ol That the said se si all have concur rent jurisdiction with the state nf 1 dians, m the Vbash river so far as s .id r.ver !; II t ; n a bomm m boundary to both ; ard -1 so concurrent jurisdic ti n on the Mississippi river, wi'h any state or tus, to be formrd west thfrtof sn f.r as s id river sh al hum a common boundary to both. Sec. 3. And be Ufkrthet cvactcd. That a!' w. ite m:dr c itizns of th United ttrs. Who ihdl have arrived 3t the aire of tw n ty-one years, ard baie resided in laid te rritoiy s x months previous to thr d y of election and 1! per ns hating in other respects the legal quilifirations to voe for rrprPSrntative s in the general assembly of the saiJ territory.be, and they are 'hereby, authorized to choose representatives to fo. m a convention, who shall be apportioned a mongst the several counties as follows . Fiom the county ot Bjnd, two representatives : From the county of MaJison, three representatives ; From the county of St. CLir, three representatives : From the county of Monroe, two rrpretentative i . From the county of Ra.ndcfph, two re-pres',it-.tivr g From the county of Jackson, two representative!: : From the county of Johnson, two repre sertativpc ; From the county cf Pop, two rep'esentatives : From the ccun.7 cf GalUtin, three re prrsentatives ; From the county of White two representttivei : From the county cf EJwards, two rep. resentatiees : From the county of Crawfoid, two representativei : From the county of Urion, tv.o rrpresentatief s f From the coanty of Washington, trro reprrst n tatif es : And from the county of Franklin, two representative? . And the election fir thr representatives aforesaid shall be boiden on the f: t Monday of July next, ar.d r he two following days, throughout the sc7-rn c unties in t!?r said territory, and shall he rni:ou ted in the s. me manner, ard under the s.n.e regulations a? prescribed ly the L'.vs of -he said territory regulating e r.i'P! therein, fr 'he members cf i lie Musc of R' presentatlves. Sec. 4. And be it further exacted, Th&t the members of the convention, Uius duly elected, be, and they are hereby, suthriaed to meet at the seat of government of the s id territory, on the firt Monday of the month of August neatt, which convention, when met, shall first determine, by a nrjori'y of thr whole Dumber e!ee ted, whether it b-, or be not expedient at that time to fvrr. a cons'itution and state government f n the prople within the said territory, apr1, if it b expedi-r.t, the convention shall be ar.d is hereby au'horized to form a constitution and state government; or, if it be deemed more expedi-nt, the said convention shall provide hy ordinance for electing representatives to form a constitution or frme of governmtnt ; which said representstivel shall he chosen in such manner and in such proportion, and shall meet at fu h time and place as shdl be prcsr ribed hy the siid ordinance, and shall then form for the pecple of s - id territo-y a cnrs'i'o'ion ar d state government ; Prjv.dtd. That ti e same, whet ever formed. sh?H hr reruhliran, and not repugnant tr the ordinance of the thirteenth July, seventeen hurdred and eighty seven, between the original statea and the people ind statea of the territory northwest of the river Ohio ; excepting so much of said articles as rrl jte to the boon. da'i-t f the states therein to be formed ; Ar.d provided a'so. That it shall appear, from the enumeration directed to he m 'e by the legislate of the said territory that there arp wikm the p-rp-sed state not lesg thai f irty rhotnand inhabitants Sec. 5. And be it further enacted. That until tb- nx' general census sha'l be taken, the laid state shall be e:.'.r.Icdu oue rrprs-

sertstive in tf.e House cf Reprrsf r.tatirci ot the United Statea. Sec. 6. And be it fur h r cnactdy That the foil vriog rsr pontions be, and the same are !. re' v ff red to the convention cf the s id territory cf Illinois, when formed, for their hrr acceptance or rt'yt tion, sal is h, if accepted by the c onvention, sh.ll be ob!ig tory upon the Uoiteo States at d the s.id ' t-. F.rst that section numhered sixteen la every tiwfiship, and, when such aectnn hit been SulJ 01 oth-rwise disp-jsd of other la: C5 1 q ivlnt there to, and s contiu tS as ny e, sh.Slbe rnted to the t.w for the u- f the i:. habitant ol such townihi; j f r the use of Svboul. Second Tlat .11 r lt springs wihm u h stte, rti,d the land reseivtu off the usr of the snne, shall be granted 10 the s.id jtate, for th us- ot the sud state, and the sure to ' e used under such terms and condition., ar.d teguUtionai as tl.p le.-i!ature ol the sid st tr shall direct ; Vr ?:c'.d. The legislature shall never sell, nor le Staff tlie samet f r a I nt'rr period thui ten yeais, at ary one tinie, Third. Thet five percent of the cett proceeds of th Isndi lying within such stte and Wl iv.b shall be sr'd by Conprss, from and -fter the fi;st day cf Jar uary, onr thrusand cif;ht hundred ai d nineteen, after dedncttng all expei'Ccs incufen to t!e same, shj'.l be reserved f ir the purposes f. il wirrr. iz. two filths, bedubuised, undt r :hr a rettion of Congress, in making roads leading to the state ; the rest !ue to 0e approbated by the legid ure of the state, to the encourngement of le?rrir, of ,ch ere sixth part shall be exclusively bestowed on a cot! je or univrsity. Fourth. Th-t 1 1 1 ty-r x serti OUS, or one enti e towns'. p, which sh .J! be designaed by the President of the United States, to. gather ui:h the one hcretof rr rrrerved for that purpose. Shatl be reseVe( for the u?e 1 f a seminary of h rnu..-, anj vested in the lr-gi-l 'ure of th s i n ,trj 0 be appopri.ited solely to the use nfsttell seminary by the sud IrgisUturc ; Prcrldid ahHffS, That the four f iregoing proposiriona, htrein offered, are on t!ie rouditions t'nat ti e tOSV vention of the laid state shall provide by an ordinance, krevoc ible wi'h. at the cm. sent of the United Sta'es. tint every r rj a ffh tract nf lands hi hy h- United St-esf from and f er thr Ci st c ay of J.nuiyt one thousand e rK Tit hundred and r.ineteen, shdl remain r x. rrpt frrm ary toX Ur.d hy order, or under at y authority cf the star, whether for sti.tr, rounty, cr torsvip or ar y other purpose whatexer, f( r the terra of re ycas from and after the dy of sale And further. Tht the hrunty land? granted, or hereafter to be granted, for military Services daring the late war, shall, while thry Continue to be held by thr p4ter tres or their heirs rc m I to exempt as aforesaid fr. rrj all t .X' s, for the term rf tl ree years ftottl and after the d.tr of the ptent respectivrly and that all thr hnds belonging to thr citiaens of the United States, residing without th.e s.id s'are, &hall never be tsr d higher than lands blongirg to persons rtsi dil therein. St c 7. And be It fui :h r enactta That all that pnrt of the territory cf the United States K ing north of the state cf Indiana, and which was included in the former Indiana territory, together uilfa that part cf the Illinois territory whit fa is situated north of and not included w;t! in the boundaries prescribed hy this act, to the state thereby authorized to be formed, shall be, and here, by is, attached to, and made part of the Michigan territory, frrm ar.d after the formation of the said state, suhjret. neverthc less, to hr hereafter disposed of by Cof ' gresf. according to the right reserved in the fif.-h article of the ordinance aforesaid, and thr inhabitants therrin ha!l hr entitled to the same privileges ard irr.nu nities. and subject to thr same rulrs ar d regulations in ll regrets, wirh the other citizens the Michigan territory. IT. CLAY, Speaker of th.e Tlonr of R' presctytallienj JOHN CULL ARD, Pr s'r'ent of the Srnj'i pr o. tempore. April 18.1818. Approved: J A ME MONROE.

LEATHER, he.

We have juM recehed,

A QUANTITY

Calf Skins, and

Sole Leather, also

JUNIATA IROX. Which we offerfbff sale on good terflr.. Samuel 1 JLill7 & Co. Vinccnnes, Jail. 9, 1818 6-4;

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