Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 9, Number 50, Vincennes, Knox County, 14 November 1818 — Page 3
THE WESTERN SUN.
VINCENNES, NofftMBii i4, it t,
Jenningt Centinei. The little wiiey doctor, who edits the Centinei paper declares that we pronounced "e very senice of His would justify a remark." but he forgot we suppose to add the latterclause of the sentence, which is ; a i l fmt c fiQ9iritoe 1 ontradiction, a - ty ncceeiaty alteration, in atdet to be tec eiv t a matt roffatt Has not this been i; parent t; every reader, since he g I possession of that press ? II s further say , he would be glad tou 1 le in just i "return the compliment,' we have no doubt he would be glad were 0 to follow his unprincipled example ; but that, all his cunning and base arts c ton e nice u i to do Hs may ro on
vHth his unfon ide i abuse T he
a pBjwho know and c in
he av viXfv
it w
JETSt
lis hearts corWI 1
id to his o vn infamy and
the infamy of his employer. The peopi G are our masters, and it is them we thall serve. We publish in this days paper, the Lt. Governors letter to the editor of the ,4 Indianian," on the subject of Jcnning's late breach of the constitution and conge mcnt relinquishment of the gubernatorial chair. We wiil nnlv remark that our present acting gov. Harrison, mantle its on the occasion, a decree of intellir nee and upfi rhtness, which cannot failtO endear him to the people ; and it So a decree of firmness r spirit, which, rntrasted with Jenning's double dealing, will not, cannot lad, when carrried into the government, to insure his adminis"tration their support and confidence.
TO THE RDITOR OFTHE WOIANIAtf I nresen? to the public thrdtferh the
.ttium of.your paper, the subject and
teal ; he replied that he had it net, but that governor Jennings came into his office and look the seal from oft" the press or table. I shortly after met with governor Jennings, and after stating to him my impression that he had abandoned the office rt govesjsr of this state, demanded of him the 5 of the state of Indiana. Ciorernprjaunings replied, that he was in possession of the seal and would keep it; that he"had considered the subject, and would be answerable for his oa conduct. Governor Jennings sine-" issues commissions attested by the Secretary of state. Who has the constitutional right and authority to administer the government, and from whom will the general assembly receive communications as chief magistrate at the commencement of their approaching session, are questions fairly laid before the public without comment. CHRISTOPHER HARRISON". Lieutenant and a. ting Governor of the State of Indiana Corydon, Nov 2-', 1818. r 3 THE IVB S YE R 7 S US MR, stout I am surprised to find the Centinei writer who signs himself u A ''itizenof fwilOX," so far Lorn manifesting any regret or compunction, at the injudicious deception in which he has been detected, aggravate by his communication in that paper of last week the culpability of his former conduct He mav imagine that abuse will secure his object, and therefore I suppose it is, he indulges the malignity of his nature without restraint I should regret however, if in his rediculous reviling, he only characterises himself! From a conviction ot its absurdity and worthlessness, I make no reply on this occasion ; but although I thus pass over his abuse, I cannot pass over his mistatements relative to gen. Taylor I was willing to believe until the appearance of this last communication, that the natural intima-
feferclse nf the judgment and the purest
ieclings of the heart, and the unfounded
The Compend of the RTATITTR r.A wo
mahgnitv of tne C enttae writer can on- T i. i -n i i r Of Indiana from he e .f '&r to thf iy encrease it. 1 he other law for the . liu . 1 year 18 I 4, incisive. Lv
restoration ot servants and slaves who
runaway from their masters, gen. Taylor voted for, and ?:o did the most wise and venerable patriots, in both houses of congress Indeed, under the constitution of the U. States, and in accordance with ? compromise made at its formation, betwixt the slave holding and the free states, what upright, honest politician would not ? As to the complaints of that writer on the part of gov Jennings, I will possitively deny any degree of submission being ever manifested to that man, or any other, by gen. Taylor let a distinct charge be presented embracing that Jbint, and I do here pledge myself tolprove its incorrectness; if I do not
give lflupon the best possible authority,
year i !4, inclusive, Ly
GRNL. W JOHNSTON, is now ready for delivery to m bsciibcrs, and for sale at this off.ee.
Vanderburgh County, Pidgejn tonsfiift A KEN up by John U. Slinson of
A said place
One dark Bay Mare,
five years old past, thirteen hands
one half high the right hind fcot and a blaze in her forehead, and :
white speck in each eye. appraised at
imrty-nve dollars. ALSO One bav mare Colt, two years oid, with some few white bairi
in his forehead Appraised at twenty
is anl wi J I small W
a possitive negative, I will upon such au- two dollars and fifty cents before me
ihonty, shew that it merits disbelief. I will take no noticc'whatever of the charges founded upon that M submission" all who know gen. Taylor know that they merit none Let the opinion of the people throughout the state so far as it has been of late publickly expressed, except upon one occasion, be taken as a criterian of Mr. Jennings great worth, and I am convinced gen. Taylor is too firna a republican, to gainsay the voice of the people. The writer in the Centinei declares it was an " excentric idea" to say that executive favorites should not be elected to power by the people. I will shew him that it is not so. Montesque, in his investigation of the distribution of power and its uniform effects upon the liberty of the people, lays it down as a maxim sanctioned by all experience, that liberty cannot exist where too much power is given to any one man." This is exactly the idea I expressed Rl ether words.We all know that a governor can
strengthen himself sufficiently by his
THO'b. L TTON, j p.v.c
FOR SALR
Plantation on whu h I t ow lira
situated in Iarriton TownthiA on
the west ol River Duchcs about seven miles from Yir.cenncs, containing TWO HUNDRED ACHES.
About 40 Acres f the Land clean d, young Apple Orchard and a goo
DWELLlNG-1 OUSE thereon. Terms will be made known on applir cation to the subscriber on the premises. REOR E LEECH Senr. November 12. 5i'-3w
BY virtue of an Execution to me directed from the Clerks office of Knox Circuit Court, 1 will expose to
sale for ready money on Saturc , 28thinst.on the prermses the lots'
parts of lots and builchn
in the occupancy of John McBam, II. Menck and Blackbourn, nirrctlv
the
aid
irs thereon, now
BU.Jna.ivv ji vv i nv.-ii buu.ipui iu v y vji vnat muci mill d wtliaiu uij ui.ui Ul u ft fl'Jl'll mt Til ff f U.11U aS tnat SllCngTn IS p p I) : i ... r . i a.. u u : i i i ii i. i j l ., . , . K-r. i rice
r u ivni jj.u uui Mioi uiiiuit kjii uic mis piauu uugnu nav e uceuiessiy leu mm someTimes aangerous to tne mriits 01 tne ij r TWCVV
j. i ')i vr..n)iKi idbi, i ictrnt'i nuiu uiw ura auujniuii ui auinc ui ma ujJitnuus jjcupic, lli'"y S..OU1U never K nOW;l :gly aciu X'oVCnbcr 10 50 2w tlie governor of this state, a letter dated udou this subiect. and on discovering his to it. I shall thi tim UiAm
i j ' r - - a . . l v. i -. - i ii'. i i - I i
opposite the Tavern of Col Lasselie. in
the Borough ot Vincennes, as tlie propertv of I ruman Iilackman at the suit of
ShfT. K. C.
at St. M irys, the 3d of the same month, error, made manifest by my former rew dch is now lodged in the omce of the ply, I expected to see such an explara-
' tary 01 stat1, and which was pub- tion ot his declarations, as would acquit lis, d in your paper a short time since ) him of any intentional deception. But informing me that he was witimut the instead of that he resorts to the most suslimits of this State, negotiating a treaty picious declamation; instead of giving dawith certain Indian tribes in this state ta or authoritv, for havinvr declared Isaac
jttid the state of Ohio, for the purchase of leads, and that his absence would still ae necessary f ir some: time longer Vpon receiving this information on the 17th uit. I repaired to the seat of government, and received the seal of the atate from the Secretary of state.
On examining the constituon of this
Blackford the man of the people the man most deserving the man whom the people of the west would honor in preference t gen. Waller Taylor, Sec. fcc. he endeavors to cover the egregious mistake by lauding his patron Jonathan Jennings, pointing out an omis
sion in the law authorising the sale of
State, I found that in the 4th article, sec- the common, and objecting, that genl.
tion 5th, it is provided that, "no member Taylor voted for an act which bnly terds
to secure servants and slaves to their legal owners ! With the sole view of not wilfully injuring Mr- Blackford, that writer should have corrected his former declarations as respects the opinion and wishes of the people in regard to that gentleman for a senator. The late election has shown them to be Utterly unfounded Before that election the question was before the people and I believe there is not a man elected, or one who claims the honor of being so. within the bounds of what may properly be termed the western part of the state, with one solitary exception only, who did not ex
of congress, or person holding any office
ynd r the United States, or this state, shiil exercise the omce of Governor or Lieutenant Governor" and in the 4th article, scciian 13th, it is further provided that '-no pc; 'S m shall hold more than one lucrative office at the same time, except as in this constitution is expressly permitted " Having as ;:vtained that the Governor ct this t ite di 1 hold and exercise the oTice of a commissioner, together with tne honorable Benjamin Parke and Gov, Ca ;,to hold a treaty With certain Indian tribes, under the authority of the Unite 1 States, the notoriety of winch fact renders it unnecessary at this time to submit evidence of the Same before the public : Believing also the spirit and meaning of the constitution of this state to be, that the chief executive of the state houid not be under the control, influence and pay of the general government, I decided in my own mind, that the honorable Jonathan Jenning, in consequence of his holding and executing said office, had virtually and constitutionally abdicated his offn e of Governor of this sta'e.
(Krnti-
sl-
that
presr his warmest wishes tor the
nuance of gen. Taylor. Certain it the gentlemen returned as elected,
so the one who claims a seat, from
district, declared themselves on
point more than once distinctly indeed, throughout this, and all the counties I am acquainted with, the well merited preference of gen. Taylor before any o'h-r 7?;u:. wa3 during that election, a very necessary passport Now if the coirect opinion of nineteen twentieths of
the people can be gainsaid by the writer
Hwing some urgent private business in the Centinei, shy he cert
which required my absence for some (lays, I mentioned to the Secretary of state my intended absence, and as the oons'itution prov ides, article 4th. section 2th,that the seal of the state of Indiana should be kept bv the governor ; and in the 1 ith section of the same ai tide, that, he (meaning the chief execu'ive mafrirate shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed," observed to him th -.t it was inemvenient for me under existing circumstances, to take charge pi the state seal and would leave it with bim ftrovi ird hr would firymiif to keefi it fof t, tubjeti to eay or.L rt a.'jne ; Qthruite I v$ 'ild hut In my fioekct The secretary promised to take charge of the ifal on those conditions, and to reborn t me alone On the 24ih ult I left Corydon an 1 returned again on the 30th, and learned flint G jvern r Jennings had returned and ha 1 received the seal of the ?tate from the S rt-tar 'i he eat day I saw the iccrt U'y and asked him far the fttate
rtajnly i i ias)t
must
W!TW
icr
be what he seems to think f
fy great min. The omission whic
writer thinks he discovers Sft e
respecting the commons is altore
ideal, and would be if added, mere surplusage. The trustees are rendered rtsponsable to congress for their conduct by the law, and being composed of men whom their fellow cr.izens elect annually, ti e objection is not only futile, but creditable to the discernment of general Taylor, at whose instance the law was passed ; for it shews that even an ideal omission of a clause in a law, would by that writer be cunjured into a charge against him. But this amounts to nothing gen Taylor has been warmly applauded for his conduct, and a law is selected Which he took a particular interest in, and which is calculated in its effects to promote the general interest of both toun and Country ; more perhaps, than any law of congress cver before enacted, in order I suppose, to deaden that applause , but u wt occasioned by the best
lUackford without remark it is folly to
expatiate upon the qualifications, public services and merit of an individual who has unequi v rally declared himself not to be a candidate, and who entertains no views inimical to the re-election of Gen. Taylor. This annunciation the writer in the Centi'.el entirely misconstrues, 6c if judge Blackford really intends contrar tiieretc, to become a candidate, that misconstruction shall be made manifest: It requires no vaunting to support the public merit and individual wortn of such a man as Gen. Waller Taylor a man whose suavity of nitur" eU ated disinterest Jacss and pi " tic srdor, both the people and ths people's Representatives have long known; nnd whose equal for the station he now occupies, is net within their knowing What must we think then ofthe principles of the Centinei writer, who ran wantonly sport with public feeling and sen imcnt , on a subject of so much import ance as the re-election of that gentleman a writer who can deliberately attempt to deceive that public in reg'ard to unequalled public worth, on the correct uaderstanding of which may depend the futiye w elfare ofthe western part of the statej A"d 'hat should wc think of the Centinei newspaper that gives publicity to such base endeavors ! It is needless tor mc to s cv they are before an intelligent public whose good sense they have contemned, and whose fondest and best hopes they have endeavored todestroy .. .with that public I leave it to pass sentence. ONE OF THE PTOPLE ffjThc Members of the u Vin cennes Theatrical Society" are requeued to meet at the Vincennes Hotel on Monday Evening next, at 6 o'clock for the purpose of electing their Managers. (1 AUTION .eTey caution all J jp'sons from being imposed upon bv ayfersonhv the name of WILLIAM
C If.UfnEKS, by profession a shoe-ma-
r, wiio decamped from this place on
aturday night last considerably in my
debt, and leaving all his debts unpaid. He was taken ca:c of with the utmost kindness by myself 6c family during a long sickness ; the d' CtOff who a' nd d him has received no remuneration for Ids services Mis ingratitude ' an be only cquallcd bv l is h p rr:v In short, his conduct durine; a residence of about 8 months in this tow; . has fcrf ited all claim to confidence from any person whateve-. Shoe-makers pticularly are c mtinoed against empioyingi'as,they wul find themselves encaeel Mn a hard
9 bargain. ar7A!! persons are forwam-
NEW GOODS.
JOHN EWINO
HAS Tins DAY KECIKT i,
Cambric Muslin, Summer Vesting, Factory Cotton, Buff ? ahkeen,
India Muslin, J-
Womens1 leather Shoesy
I 1st quel S ity.
Calfskins, So Sec.
ALSO, 1 pr Blacksmiths' bellows, 1 Anvil and Vice, Broad Axes, Log Chains,
Drawing Chains, Hewing Axes, fcc. with a variety of other articles, a I ich hO ill with a large assortment ofseusuable GOODS now in store, sell che p 27tf Vinctnnes, tn e 6. Me BE N N E f, Ri .SPE( TFU LY informs the bibs bitants of VinCtnncs ami its vicinity, that he opened a S( HOOL for Gentlemea
and Ladies in the semisas t oi Vin-
Ft au
cennes He will instruct in
Spelling, Writing, Englih Gramm
the most approved Grrgrafihh. Ariih-
metie, Composition, History, Jhr: .ric9 and Purveying He will not onlv . sett himself to improve the minds ot i pupils in the several branches fchith thew may pursue ; but will also par ' t -t rictest attentiori to their morals and man ners His School win be limited to 40, and the terms of tuition h . Reading
Sp I b e and V litirer, will b 7 '.ret
Dollar per quarter ; for the other L: aa-
ches. Five. incenne3, So 7 48-tf
Mrs TILLINGIIAST,
WILLopenaSCHOOl in Vtwen. fs for the instruction of Young Lmttirgp. on Monday the ninth day ot ! oven ber next in a commodious Room iu th House lately finished by Afr Craeterp Dtarry opposite the C ourt House. TbbUs Pee Qiarteb fi'cding, Writing;, Aw tone tic i F.nglih Grammer, flair .S-o 1 ing Afarring and Ornwmt ntal .V' edl li'ork, - - - - $5G: . q-raphv. ffis'orv, Parmng, and J-.mbfcid'rv, - - - - - - Oct 28th IM 4P tf
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RANAAVAY frdto tie subscribers the nig. t ofthe Igl iast an indented App; entice to tl e I fa- la rmcd GEORGE PLRLEV
H about years of ar, Ligl i hair
and blue eyt v Whoever til retun. s i Apprei.tice to me in Vi: c ur es," shall
ed from purch:isiug ancteofhand for receive t&C al rewr.rJ R20 against John Hutton 8c mv e!f, held I HOT RoBERTbOM.
Vtv thr ;rid ChrThfr ai if i n ,A V.
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