Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 10, Number 18, Vincennes, Knox County, 1 May 1819 — Page 2

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Tt) the PeOpiC Ol Indiana, Fallow Citizens, The present deplorable state of our currency has bell rme the trite subject of comUunt asnong all classes of people. The Merchant in ;.s daily transactions, is mad.c to feel the evil in ail its magnitude ; and even the Individual, whose o asiotlS seem not to require the lame intimate knowledge of money, by frequently finding himself in possesv ' ' a KWged note, or one on a batik v ' !l lH' 1 ue 1 iC a' c mmouatmg I ' the day) " closed its business,1 feels himself prompted, in the PI t'SS Of tils SOll. tO llillre&te tictructlon on all such establishments, sod those concerned in them. In thil count! v, ths iv.nv inducerr.cnts which the facility of doing business on ficticious capitals and on fraudulent principles maybe suppos I ed to hold out to men of depraved minds, eager to embark in any kind of liiaed swindling, has Started such a quantity of these institutions into existence, that, to a person laiiy in the practice of handling their notes, it really becomes no trivial part of his j businesi to inform himself which has failed which refused specie payment which withholds even the Wretched accommodation of exchaniti the not( s ot other tricks, perhaps Lily depreciated) ior their own ; fo proportion the credit of each tofrat w hich these acts severally jusIt is painful to observe that an evil, Vt tally affecting the property ,the charac ter, the independence we hadalmost tne verv existence ot the Amencan people an evil which has been r owing for years and is daily becomi tg more and more intolerable, should have excited so little attention from our Legislature during their last sessiOn : one would have supposed, that, acting as the faithful guardians of the people's rights, their menal energies ouid have been employed in devising expedients, if not to eradicate its existi nee, at least to put a stop to its inu .ise, and by some wise regulations, render it more endurable. But, citin of Indiana, how keenly must you hive f it the unfaithfulness) incapacity or ignorance of your guardians Sc representatives when on looking over the laws enacted by that body and approved bv your governor at their last sitting, you observe that anv which have s reference to the subject at all, directly and avowedly tend to perpetu'ate this cursed banking system on ourselves and Ottf posterity to the latent generation. In What other light ran that law be viewed which provides I it if any creditor refuses payment in not cu rent at t re time tne tewirr i mad .(which by-the-bye is a ditiiralt matter to ascertain, because some tntrchanti refuse whatothers receive) he shall he obli ed to wait one year ere he cm command any equivalent to which, in his estimation, value should be attached. The obvious ten- - rv Which this law has to break L wn ind weaken that virtuous stand ch some of our reflecting citizens thight be disposed to make for the i . . purpose ot discount nanciug nce Vms of depreciated paper which imw lorm our circulating menuim. is t i ;i 1.c icntly apparent ; to produce h an effect, it was in ail probability intended by a majority of our enlightened legislators. We learn also from the pub!i newspapers that another law of precisely a similar cast has received t icir concurrence ; we allude to the one prohibiting the establish ftttent of I Bi such of the United Mates' bank m this state a law ince dedeclared by the highest authority of the natl n, they were not competent 0 enact. Their object in passing it we can essUy conceive by the general lenor f their other acts, was to rehnove that obnoxious check which sn an institution w uld h ive main Rained over the operations ni those Ibanks now established among us ; in Ithua wt discover with what friendSnaiety our Legislature seem dish i I to purine or adopt anv mcasuie M-nhited in the most remote degree to facilitate the free circulation among of i the r-ic,v Which can be colted from the four quarters of the nion, in addition to those of home tufacture unrestrained bv any tontrot whatever We put the question to you. fellow hiUsens: arc men, capable oi enacting ,s Whose tendency is so pernicious nfjfc ihe 'ran whose sanction to em is required ere thev can tike feet, and wh afford, that sanction, cser;ug' f anv other treatment tiom Oti than to be hurled from Mations hev know not how to or copy ? We prak of the majority the mtnonty, l"n) (;,. ;se tne p.isu r ot sucn rts. are entitled to our unqualified Hut f. llow-citizens if those to bom c have delegated the guar-

dianship of our rights and property

have proved untaiuuui or incompetent to the trust. Shall we the pcopie, the body from whom all power emanates, told our arms in listless indifference till this dierful calamity enPUiohs US in one eeneral ruin ? Let

not the farmer imagine that so long unquestionably be the result, as he can pass to the merchant the lithe people were only alive to the common paper now in circulation the preservation of tin ir liberties or proeffect of its depreciation is unfelt by pcrty, we should feel a cheering hope him. The wiiter of this article is that they would unanimously adopt SO well aware that from a spirit of com- wise, so benificial a determination. nctit ion amonir the merchants of this Let us. although it mar be we "shall

place (which may be viewed as the emporium of the state) an enhancen,eMt on the prices of goods in any degree proportionate to their losses m exchanging the money taken in exchange for them, has not as yet been nef Bsfirl that rotcrnnrktlir iKji calamity has visited this class of peopie with a more oppressive w eight than perhaps any other. But so exVO Jt'yiiJwv. V I 4 I l 1 V. WOIIJVA Ulill? orbitant ot late have their losses become on the article of monev, that ft with several it becomes a question whether or not they shall be able to realise first cot out of their present stock of goods, if continuing to sell at the current prices. To suppose, therefore, that men will continue in an occupation where no adequate compensation is attached to the labor, expence and risk incurred in the pursuit of it, is to expect an effect without a cause ; nay more is to expect that they will heedlessly involve themselves in ruin while their Understandings arc convinced that that must be the inevitable consequence. Should no change in the existing state of things tako place, we say it is reasonable to expect that merchants must oe under the necessity of advancing the price of their goods proportionate to the losses they sustain in exchanging the money, k then the consumer, who ever he be, will feel the oppressive load with which banking institutions, as at present conducted, tax the fruits of his honest industry. The farmer already experiences in the difficulty of exchanging the depredated paper which he is obliged to take for his produce, into such as win liquidate his original debt to the government, and in the losses, mconvenience and uncertainty to which he is subjected ere he can accomplish it, a few of the evils which the unrestrained libertv enjoyed by banks of inundating z. country with their issues to any amount they please necessarily produce. We wish to prepare his mind for those mischiefs yet to be developed, when the poison which is now rapidly working its way, shall have completely transfused itself throughout the entire system when confidence between man and man shall be but a name when bankers (for the crisis seems fast approaching) acting as little despots in the several places where they are located, holding one part of the people in subjection, and the other at defiance, and following up the victories they have already achieved over the liberties, the virtue and public spirit of the people, shall insolently command the individual to begone from their doors who dares to present one of their notes and humbly intreat them for payment. Hut without expatiating further on the misfortunes to which we are subjected through the fostering care ex tended by our legislature towards those shaving machines, the question of most moment for us to discussSc un derstand respects the measures which may yet be adopted to counteract them as far as possible, ere our liberties, vwv property and ourselves shall have fallen a prey to their hellish influence ; Sc here the writer of this article, without entering on that field of interesting though abstruse discussion which the subject if viewed by the light which the science of political economy now affords, would merely confine himself to a few obvious arid practical remarks It appears to him that the Press, the grand ex poser of tyranny and oppression, under whatever shape or form it exists, might be made eminentlv serviceable in circulating orrect information throughout the coun try with respect to the solvency ot the several bmks whose notes now circulate among us, were every merchant or trader having occasion to make a demand on a bank tO Informthe public through the medium of news-papers with the reception he meets We e the merchants of this place, who certainly as a body possess t! e best opportunities of ascertaining their solvency to enter into a determination tint thev would not receive the bills of anv who were un able to redeem In specie, snd to publish regu lath in the pipers those they would receive, and did ever? individual view it m the light of a duty he owed nu country wmcn ne was oounu sacredls to perform, to discoyntanan e both in his wn nsercantlle transact lone and by every other means in his power the circulation of a single doli : . . . i i i i i

hr of spurious paper, we should soon

have a better currency. Temporary inconvenience would no doubt he ft it by holders of such paper tiil they could return it to the place from whence it came, but important benefit to the community at large would never be the favored participators in that change which it would introduce, just behold in prospect the happy cflects of it. As it respects the town we live in and its immediate vicinity it would kick out of circulation a nnontifir rf ctPim mnll v-iior tKtflt has usurped the place of a better medium, or oblige those who issue it. to its redemption in money really cui - 'JO U I i 1 I Vil HCV'Ulll 1111 I 1 i K I 111V. 11 rent, not nominally so. The farmer who has attentively watched the operations of thi establishment since its commencement and has observed or thought he observed, symptoms of a suspicious character, feels anxious to part with every dollar of such paper, almost as soon as he receives it ; and lather than lay it past will purchase articles he really does not want. This seems to create an object generally desired, a brisk circulation of money but it ,. . . . ., is in reality a circulation impoverishing to the farmer, and as goods now sell, of little benefit to the merchant. We say, that viewing prospectively the changes which the measures we have pointed out would introduce into the present state of things, if the steammillcompany were ableto redeem their notes in such money as would then be currents evinced a disposition to do so, their establishment would be deserving of the applause, the countenance Be support of every honest man in the community ; but as existing at present, the mere dependant on the Vincennes bank the engine thro which that bankbtsfi upon the public as current money, an enoi -nous isimc of paper at 6 months, it s operations cannot be watched with too much jealousy We were on the point of savins cannot, so long as they are of such a character, be sufficiently held up to public execration. To discant on the various other benefits which would arue from the introduction of a better circulating medium, would almost seem to be abusing the patience of my readers. That it would completely test the solvency of the steam-mill establishment is abundantly obvious, & either quiet the apprehensions of those who belie e it to be not founded on capitoi, or oblige its lf continued, its conductors would befoi cevl to abandon that position they have dared to Assume, and instead of presuming diet Ate to the public what is, and w hat is not t urrent paper, they would allow the public to be the proper judges of a matter which so nearly concerns them This, fellow-citizenS) may be supposed to be an attack on men and measures too direct, too daring, to accomp ish the object it means to subserve u is the bold and fearless language ot freedom disdaining to succumb to any man or set of men, and coming from one who not merely eCofnues m theory, but who wishes to exemplify in practice ; his feeling of one ot those blessings our lathers have bequeathed to us the unbounded liberty of communicating our opinions either by speech or by writing on all subjects connected with the public welfare ; aware that those who may feel themselves affected by it, have the same medium of reply that he has of attack and that considered in the abstract none perhaps would be more Sealous sticklers for the exercise of this privelege than themselves. Did our citizens on the promulgation of every act of imposition similar to that which the Vincennes Batik is now engaged in. we mean the issuing of papei payable 6 months after date, thereinnot only committing a breach of one of our laws, which enacts that no higher interest than 6 per cent, shall be charged, but depriving the country of so much ai tivc capital for the benefit oi a few Interested men, till their notes become due ; we repeat it, did every citizen consider it his duty to hold up such acts to public censure, it would St least have the effect of curbing the Insolent spirit of these institutions, and perhaps destroy in t; C bud many an unfledged act of villany, of Which we may have no conception; but which emboldened by impunity. may now be hatching to rivet more effectually the chains of slavery cn U merican people. But not to weary our re t leis further in the prosecution ot a subject whose immensity only opens to us as we proceed, we shall conclu.h for the present A ClTI 7Jt. N". 1LAK LICENSED, ifcc,

JACOBS & LeROr,

0 Offer r or Sale ON Rn A 'ON ABLE T L RMS, 22 Barrels Kentucky win a KEY, 0 AD 6 Barrels Country GIN. JUST RECEIVED. Vincennes, April 24 17 tf 7f ft t 111 If. 1 javge twa story frame HOUSE, on Main street Opposite Mr. LajTOW's Store r,n f 4 r i For further information, apply at Dr. Wood's ADOtheCarv sh April 24.-3 I 3D. FOR SALE, on reasonable terms, A sett of BLACKSMITH'S TOOLS. Appply to April 22. DAVID McHENRT. 17-tf General IV. Johnston. IAS resumed the practice oi Law, in conjunction with Wn rprp IV Fin dsn ?j leir practice will extend throughout the Fourth circuit, and in the county of Knox in the first circuit. They have established their office in Princeton, where they will also execute conveyancing in its a:ious branches at the shortest request. From their attention to business, they hope to obtain a share of patronage from a liberal public. April 2d, 1819. U tf EVJXSVILLE WARE HOUSE. THE undcrsiged most respectfully informs the public that the has resumed the Vl STORAGE 7) AND Commission Business. AT KVAXSVILL : R, (IXDIA.YJ.) thankfully receivAll favors will be thankfull)' ed and promptly attended to, on a moderate commission. E. HARRISON", J car the UflfteT Landing, Evansville, find.) Nov. 29 l-tf The highest price in Cash, will be given tor 2000 BUSHELS OF L 1 M K. ENQUIRE OF THE PRINTER. February 4. 10 tf T o the Citizens of KNOX COUNTY. PBHE subscriber having returned 8 to Vincennes and settled himself permanently, offers his services in the practice of Physic and Surgery. Those who wish to consult him mav hnd him generally at his shop next door below Mr. John Ewinp's store. ROB't. ALLISON. March 25, 18 19. 14 tf NOTICE. THE public are hereby informed that Stock in the Jeffersonville OHIO CANAL COMPANY, may now be subscribed for at the Receiver's ollice in Vincennes, where the ooLs are opened for that j.ni p.sc. IV PARKE, renr. N. EWING, ) Deputy J. DOTY, Arcnt: Vincennes, June 26, 181c. 30-tf If KMmeSfl .Y Dunbar (AttJnxkla Cou tccUoTt at Law) HATlWi entered into partntrship, will in future practice law in con junction, they will attend the Circuit Courts of Orange, Washington, Jackson, Jefferson, Clark and Unison ; also the Federal and Supreme Courts, and one of them will :-tter! in the western circuit. Those whowish to consult them in their professional capacity, will fi'.d one or the other, constantly at their Office in Cory don. MOORE fit DUNBAR. If I e'ters business must be p vt paid. JL ' I. I'j . IT V rrf m I OrVVF. fuily authorised Join Brunerto sell my house and lot, to collect mv d I ts and puy the mon over to my creditors when collected during ray absence to New-Orleani SAMl. BRUNER Vincennes, March 17. 13 tf

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Treasury Department) Second C,mfitrtUett Office,) March 25th, 18.9. Whereas, by the act entitled act regulating the payments to Intra i I pensioners," passed the 3d of u present month, an affidavit of tv.o surgeons or physicians, as to the coutinuancc and rate of disability of the sere ral applicants must accompany their respective applications for the first payment which shall fall due f.ftcr the 4th of March next, and a! the Cmd ijf evcrv fwfi vpnr t! .rrrufi t t

And whereas some misunderstanding may arise as to the time when the above mentioned act shall go into operation : Tnis is to notify all whom it Biaf concern, that, by the construction gWen to the said act bv the Second comntroUei of the treasury, the t ' mentioned affidavits rtrrM tr . r r" J form published bv the hen. the secre tary ot war, under date of 2Zd but) will be required to accompany the application for all pensions to which they apply, failing due on the 4th day of September next. RICH VHD CUTTS, ( 17. .1st sefit.) 2d comptroller. VI AN 1 tU. The Subsciibcr viskes to employ a good .1 Journeyman Tanner y Currier to wh ma ood wages aad constant employ will be given. He will also take one o: twa Ah firenticc to the Ta ing & Csftr) ing Busin ess WILLIAM HART. Washing! b p, Ap. '! -17-3 SHERIFF s BALE. BY virtue of three executions directed to the sheriff of Gibson county, there will be exposed to sale at public auction at the house of B. BroWQ in Princeton, on the 6ih day of 3iay next, the undivided moi . cf Thirty Acres of LAND. lying immediately west d the f . wneicoii nou'Ti m . r. vans, l ow oeing pari oi me soutn erst quart r -1 oi scciion .no. i z m w :at is eomr-oi.-ly called the seminary township. V Taken as the property of Williai A. Tarlton, to satisfy an execution ir. favor of John W N faddox. ne in Gnr - of Jones Sc Stock well, and one in tai r nf id'ia Cooke, all against the said Wm. A. Tarlton. Sale to commence between the hours of tt n and twelve, where due attendance will be given by JA's K. SLOAN, d s cc. April 22. xvii-tf Jacobs & Lellotf) H WE JUST RECEIVD : Ton of best Juniati Iron, 10 Casks 4. 6, 8 Sc lod Nails & brads

ac luu mi.s a bra.:?, and Axes ft s, b( st quality) J1 Window Glass?

Spades, Shovels and Axe Anvils and Vices, 6 boxes 8 by 10 AN ASSORTMENT OF GLASS-WARE, &c January 23. 8 t: STORAGE AS!) COMMISSION J) USIXF.S.'; THE subscribers respectfully inform the public, that they have ccrv menced the STOR tGE A SD COMMISSION BUSINESS IN VISTFNNKS, where GOODS. WARES Sc Af E R C II A cV I) 1 j Ey nf everv rlevrintinn. i,r.h a Foreign and Domestic, will be received and sold as the owner's may direct. All Goons directed to Hugh Me.Garu or R. HarriMon, at I' vass vili, mouth of .vig Pidion. or to John Marhai, Sm AWV KK-Xo W M for J remiah and WiUlam L. Col man, Vincennes, ill be attended to and forwarded without Njla. All favors in their line ill be thankfully received and promptly attended to. J. & W. L. COLMAN J re have ju ?' received . 4 PHESH SUPPLY OF MERCHANDIZE, COS V. TISG OF DRY-GOODS, HA RIMY RE, GLASS-WARE, GROCERIES, which a ided to their former :,U ck makes their sjsjoTtmi nl c m nleto I I W L C ENTERTAISML FR ANC IS ( L NX ;GI1 H as opened Kouse ef Entertain? JL m I St ' Marker e lately and Fifth -in . t j ul; occupied by Joshua Boot!, htre le hope bv attention to Luii ?ss, to re ceive a rhare of public patronage he assures them that no exertion on h part shall be anting to merit it. Vincennes, ficpt 16, iSi7 43tf

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