Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 9, Number 43, Vincennes, Knox County, 26 September 1818 — Page 2

FOR THE WESTERN blN, FcIIjV) Citizen, I promised you last week, lhat upon my ascertaining who the author of 4 A Voter" was, 1 would endeattr to satisfy you of my innocence of the charges he has insiduously brought agPkt me and of their malignity. This iVAld not so well do without knowing theuthor's real name, for two reasons, ie : 1st. That I am determined never to notice scurility, either direct or indirect, when covered by fictitious name and 2d. When in possession of the real name, we can immediately discover the views and motives of the writer, and thereby appreciate his declarations. The general assertion that if you were really my representative, I should be very unwilling to submit to you any of mv grievances; for there are so manv well grounded complaints against you, that self interest would induce you to conceal or neglect them" is too vague and uncertain to merit attention, and is truly characteristic and worthy of the great Capt. Joseph Warner. The first specific charge I shall notice, is in tle following words 1 Pray sir, do you recollect any thing about the expedition of Black's waggon and the manner and circumstances of his payment" The correct history of this case as succinctly as I can state it is, that Black's waggon and team were impressed by Lieut. Richardson, then commanding at Fort Knox, to transport provisions &c. to Fort Harrison on the way up the Indians defeated the waggoner and guard, and done considerable injury to the waggon and team After slack's return he applied 10 Lieut Richardson to remuneri r i i

ate him Kicnaruson reierreci mm to

lr. Vic Intosh agent for Wm. Morrison

tractor for payment, Mr. Mc. ntosh

proposed to Black that it he would re

ceipt on the accounts he would forwrard them to the Federal City and if allowed, he would pay him Black being unwilling to release as he thought a certainty, by action against Richardson for damages far having unauthorisedly impressed his waggon and team, refused Mr. Mcintosh's proposition ; and I brought suit for him against Richardson. After suit, 1 expostulated with General Gibson, then acting governor, shewing him the hardship of the case, both as to Richardson, (because he was a young man in the armv and must of course live up to his pay what damages Black recovered of him, if paid, must be a loss which he would sensibly feel and that what he had done, though unefficious, I thought he was convinced was for the beat ;) and Black who was really a sufferer and might never be able to collect of Richardson his damages. My arguments prevailed with the general, and he directed me as agent for Davis i loyd the Quarter-Master appointed by him, to make out an estimate and include $260 to cover black's damages. This 1 accordingly did and the money was drawn ; but before I had time to see Black and bay it over to him, a misunderstanding took place between Richardson and gen. Gibson in the clashing of their authorities and rights in the removal of Fort Knox to Yincennes, in which Richardsen counselled by Lieut and Quarter TV' aster Butler was obstinate and Gibson became irritated to so great a degree that he directed me in the most positive terms not to pay Black the money notwithstanding all expostulation I found

encral determined and irremoveable,

onsidored myself as agent for Mr.

under the general's controul, and

ticularly so, as Mr. Floyd's ap-

ointment as quarter-master was a Ter

ritorial one, and the money came into his hands through me, by gen Gibson's onier. In this state things remained When and for some time after gen. Gibson and myself left here for Jeffcrsontille. In the year 1814, John Johnson, Esq. (now dee'd.) wrote to gen. Gibson that it had been ascertained at the War office that $260 had been drawn by his order to cover Black's damages and that unless it was immediately paid he was employ -fd and instructed by B!ak to brine si.it. anw rtothis letter gen Gibson replyPl ! It Honu r Johnson, in the following terms : " JetTi rsonville, Feb 13, 1814. I am a little astonished that so much pams should have been taken to ascertain a thing which might, could and would hnve been done in the Territorial Secretaries Office. The fact is (and which has never been denied or secreted bv rue,") that the 260 Was drawn to cover Black's damages, under the supposition that proper vouchers would have been furnished by f jLieut. Richardson to authorise the pavtKent of the money bv mv quarter-mas. Ater (Davis Floyd,) to Black but this not laving been done. I directed the application of the monev to other purposes, Which were in mv opinion, much better uun.ed to remuneration from the U. S.

than the claim of Black ; not that Black was not a real sufferer, but that Richardson was the person who should answer to him in damages. I have directed an inspection into the accounts of the quarter-master's department, and if a sufficiency, (which I presinn-j wilfcc the

casrj remains in tne iuarter-wsm s

hands, Black, (you mav tell hint

yet be paid, upon my being

with the necessary vouchers. 4 P. S. As soon as Genl. V Johnston arrives at Yincennes, which will be in a few days, he will designate the nature of the vouchers necessary for Black to draw the money upon, which if made in that way, I will sign and the money will be paid " Accordingly every preriquisite was arranged upon my return to Vincennes and the amount paid over to Mr. Black in the vear 1814. The second charge, if it deserves that appellation, is couched in the following ambiguous terms,4' Or about an officer receiving pay from col. Scott for doing the mere duties of a soldier." To this interogatory I might with much propriety respond in the negative but as capt. Joseph Warner in the profundity of his wisdom and the great depth of his erudition and learning may charge me with evasion, I'll state the circumstances as thev occur to mv mind, of the only case which ever happened between col Scott and myself The colonel as a militia officer under the Territorial government, in man hing to the relief of Tort-Harrison, found it necessary to impress certain property, about Busseron a part of this property say to the amount of g 1 60, was lost in the public service. The owners were importunate on the col. for compensation he was willing to relieve them as far as he could, not implicating himself individually and to that end made out accounts, accompanied by the proper vouchers, against the Territory, which were either passed or offered to be allowed by gen Gibson ; but as the territory was in debt, no tunds & her warrants or public evidences at low ebb, the claimants refused to recieve their compensation in that way. In order to release the colonel from his embarrassment (the property having been impressed,') and enable the claimants to come at their money immediately. 1 accompanied the colonel to gen. Gibson's, (for whom I then wrote as private 'secty, 8c not as an officer) and after some considerable length of conversation, (in which I stated to the gen'l. the hardship of the colonel's situation, he having impreased the property for the public service the general government being much better enabled than the territorial to pay the expences of the expedition, the propriety of her doing so, because although territorial troops, thev were considered under

eliction or duty In permitting a newspe

per to be prostituted to such unmanly and disgraceful purposes. There are a tk Regulus," a Son of America," a Citizen," and even the fair sex are ironically lampooned by an 4 Amanda Fitzgerald " The si !.:ur.jMtt all have been adopted by the sameprosatuted w riter, and indeed that is not Voir improbable, as there is nothing but low abuse, with a total absence of truth and reason discoverable throughout the w hole of them. The writer in their last, above the signature of" A Citizen " is I suspect the same from a similarity of ideas and style, who has for some time figured in the Cntinel with quotations from Dick the Apprentice and from Shakcsperc. above the abused signature of Regulus. This reptile in order to take readers off their guard with respect to the course he pursues, and to shew them I suppose that he knows what is right, although his aim be diffeicnt, says (as though he really feels what he says)4 it is not by word we should judge the character of men," " by their fruit ye shall know them " Jot this was the divine precept of him whotaugnt as nc -cr man taugh. To see such a heavenly sentiment forced into a piece of silly defamation, falsehood and scurrility, and appearing in a paper that has become the sink of base slander and corruption, really caused it to attract my attention particularly ; and when I had read the piece through, and seen a continuation promised, 1 could not help involuntarily exclaiming can holy prcceptsJMi us prostituted, or permitted to aid tncphfce of falsehood ? 1 only reflected oiMlsL cond before 1 clearly discovered that nm pure and holy text will in itself condemn the false and corrupt commentator. There are many men amongst us Mr. Editor who have other recommendations beside the notice Sc the hatred of the worst men to make them loved Si esteemed by the best; thcCentincl invectives pass sucb men like the dust which they heed not. 'Tis not at this day for designing knaves to proclaim that the man who shows his dissatisfaction at r. certain administration of the government or at any weak or wicked measure it might adopt, is " an enemy to the country" -they render themselves enemies by saying so they shew their unworthiness to be free men. Our government rests not upon the men who administer it, but upon the constitution, the laws and the people ; and if the avowal of dissatisfaction at any improper act can render a man justlv obnoxious, 'tis a curious mode of reasoning indeed that could show the propriety ol it If such be the fact then T'.omas Jefferson and James Madison were cnt4niesto the country during the administi-CuoVof r i. . I I c a. r -1 J

asmnufion : : lor some oi ine ac:s emus

Son in am7 nubhc discusvon. frtler

than the individual is blended with t;.e act in view, is defamation and the wisest of men has said that' he who nVfimri or slanders is a fool V Kvcn truth looses its force in an invective, as it does in a fulsome penegyric in the first, malice, overcomes, in the last Battery. It appears very strange indeed, if the corrupt advocates ot Jonathan Jt ; j g think that they can cover h'u ettwrm and their own un worthiness by abuse k ur rility Yet this appears to be their chief reliance the various charges brought forward against him are parsed eve? m order to create a fu-s about other things, and deal out scandal. l hey may ptoceed, and deceive then. selves to tl.eif hearts contents they shall have tl.eir pains for their trouble. Their cup N i jt yet (uitc full when it be, the oa of worth rotneth, when their fml visions, ix tin ir foul proceedings w ill he obliterated altogether. We have citizens who know that dig

mty bestowed may be divert aced.and w have observed that even liisgracc n av

dignified men who hae hearts witho

guue, and souls witnoui tear, who ( ia permit libellers and columnrators to indulge to the utmost ocess their hmio

- - tent malice.and then unhuitSc unaffected demolish their inupuitous labour. This is from ANOTHER CITIZEN. A. 5. -The writer of this can rcinember when the few men who hac disttUV bed this place and the county. Grit came here. Some of them were scarcely B4 ted down, before party spirit began for the first time, to shew her blasting influence ; and even the very man who had procured offices and bund for some of these harpies, was vilely traduced by them The inhabitants of that day wilt not soon forget the violence and serious losses to which their infernal spirit of faction gave rise, and the very manm I in which JonathnnJennings was palmed upon the people at first (then a met grccn-hoin with slender education, and even without the manners of a gentle man) will shew the disgraceful shifts Sc impositions to which these men can resort. I know them well I knew them, lone ; and they shall have a true and faithtul historv. A (.

WMMM W

the control of the U. S. & the refusal of administration they publicly and wai my the claimants to take territorial eviden- disapproved of But that point is all

fudge a man might with equal propri-

ces in payment,) I prevailed upon the general to allow the accounts against the United States. Col. Scott then requested me to change the accounts from territory to U. S. saying he would pay me for my trouble this I did aad the acc'ts were allowed by gen. Gibson by him ordered to be paid and the col drew the money for this changing (and not for performance of any duty as an officer, because it was not gen. Gibson's business to make out any account,) I acknowledge and never have denied that col Scott paid me (after receiving the money) seven dollars. The original of those accounts I still have prcserviuusgst my old papers, and shall be Miewn when necessary. Now suffer mc tcmagb&ur candour Fellow-citizens, was I blame in this affair? if I was,vou must then say that

I was to blame for endeavoring to support

ety be called an enemy ot his wife because forsooth he disapproved of her head dress or to roasrl because he could not eat of it. cooked in a certain waysuch flimsy Stuff, may do 4 to suck fools, and cronicle kmall beer," but it won't take with freemen. I believe I k",o- the gentleman ainst whom the calumniator in the Centinel has particularly aimed his pointless darts of malice and I believe I know the calumniator alsobut if he will only keep at it.. I hope to give you a better account of him by and by. The former was I do know, bred a man of business under the strictest regulations of one w ho long and justly sustained a standing and character few can acquire the latter this 44 Regulus'' and 4 Citizen" if the same I now imatrine, was an under clerk in

my family in a fair, open& honorable man- one of the public offices at Washington ner, which I am convinced you will not Citv when 1 first heat d of him ; his ex-

say. it in either or both ot those transactions I have merited any blame. I confess very candidly I know not hew to act to steer clear of censure and vou are now enabled to judge of the malignant views of4 A Voter" when too you must know that he is no other than my competitor Joseth Warner!! I am Fellow-t itizens. Your ob't servant

GEN'l. V JOHN

FOR THE WESTERN SV

Mr KmTon I have alwaj

mat tne tne writers who are exci

it i m

actuaten ov personal nate, oniv dismay

their own false pride intolerable vanity and corruption of heart, in attempting to convert private malice into a cause of public interest through the medium of a newspaper, or indeed in attempting to trouble the public with personal railing except it be in a personal cause, and then in a proper manner. For weeks, however, certain miscreants have been going on as it appears to me, solely upon that ground, in the Centinel ! and the corrupt imd depraved editors of the paper cannot it seems estimate the value of character in the community, or have not sense enough to discovsr their own der-

cesssive vanity, and love of notorictv, and false pride, were as conspicuous there as they have been here ; of his integrity and principles, I had no opportunity of judging let them nrw be ascertained by his own decent productions 0 temtiora lS"c. Vanity, self conceit and prcsu motion, are the offspring of iirnorancsjjand nJse pride and obviously Mr. Edttqsa reigning qualities in the character of some men, and where they have deep root, the individual is frequently betrayed by them into errors ; so that where he most covets esteem, he falls into contempt. A man of that description, with a very shallow mind, w hen he writes for the public will just pursue the course this Regulus has done. Without sufficrcnt understanding to argue upon principle, respecting public affairs, he will immediately resort to pitiful personal invective and shower his abuse without either ryme or reason on all who come in his wav. Tndeed this is the height of such writers' abilities ; Whereas when a man of sense sets down to write for the public, he can chastise public vices, and inculcate public morality, and will thereby either directly or indirectly be nefit his fellow citiaens. To attack per-

STjiTJi OF IND1AXA

Knox county set.

In the Knox C Court. July term Francis I.asselle, complainant v

Mark Harnett & others, defendant

IN CIU.YCEKY :

THIS day came the said complainant by his counsel and on motion. I is ordered by the court, that unless Jane Dubois, executrix, and Toussaint Dubois, executor of Toussaint Dubois, deed defendants to the said complainant's bill c"f complaint, appear here on the first (k-y ol the next October term of the u A four, and answer to the amended bill of the said complainant, that the same w ill

be taken as confessed, and judgment

thereon decreed accordingly. Attest,

u-3t l K x 1 IN. r r. K

NOTICE

ON Monday the fifth day of October next will be let to the lowest bidder, in the Town of Palestine Crawford

County Illinois Territory! the building

ot a COURT-HOUSE for said county ; the w all to be made

brick, 44 feet long, by 36 wide, three stories high. Bond and good security will be required of the undertakerOne third of the monev to be paid on the loth of September 18 I 9 tin balance on the 25th December lHl9atwhiifc time the building is to be finished. A plan of said house with anv other necessary information will be made known on the day bv EDWARD II. PttM. Palestine August 7, 1818. FOR SALE O.YE QUARTER SECTION OP LYND,f $ in township No. 8 North of Range No 10 West with 6 acres cleared and under fence a comfortable Double Cabbin, Sc never failing spring within " and a halt miles of ME ROM, For terms apply to the subscriber living on the Land. GEO. KIR BY, January 8. 1818 9 tf BACON " THE subscriber ha about S00O weight of Bacon of the first oUaUtv for Nale, per

sons wishing to purchase . ill do well to

apply soon, as he is disposing ol it

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