Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 11, Number 27, Vincennes, Knox County, 3 July 1819 — Page 2

FOR til I WK T. RX SU.s. Tr.!.LO W-ClTlZr.NS, I f any portion of you ran without honor &. disgust, reaci the combined defamation of ayouni; man Who has long been striving with rumen m difficulties in defiance 01 fraud and of falsehood Mtrcly none Would re rose to hear the tame person not unneediullv defended. I well know the best and most becoming shield Against lulse accoeers, is si-

and honest deeds set

enec

against

dishonest words ; mio were ilandcf Sc Infamy content to make an end where it fust fixes, and not seek to traduce every person and every thin that bear any relation therewith, I should plead against vile calumniators nothing else but when I discover the base intent is not more to smite at ine, than through me to try and render odious the irrefragable truth I have occasionally promulgated, and then stain with i rnominv very bono, able and independent heart in this community, I ft el mvselfirre ststably impelled to come lorward, oJM nly and above board, that any portion of the people who may have been deluded may see, know, and alter a fair hearing, fix their judgment. Let me here premise that as my accusers appear throughout all their scandalous mvectives, characterised only by deep rooted personal enmity, ruffian presumption, 8t brutish vulgarity, I have no idea of joining issue with them, while like other assassins they may continue to conceal their real name. 'Tis alone out of respect to the good

opinion of my friends and respectable neighbors, which I trust I shall never justly forfeit, that I am induced in this way to come before them Let my slanderer throw o!T his disguise, and then he may expect merited attention. That T was born in Ireland and not within the limits of the U. States, appears to be mv first, and ostensibly, mv greatest crime. Can or do any portion of my fellow-citizens view that circumstance as worthy of reproach ? For myself, I glory that I can by birth boast of the country Where a love of national freedom, tho not enjoyed, is warmly cherished

where an Emmett, a Curran, and ma

ny other eminent patriots have always ecu found to support its real tenets a country where candor generosity Sc moral uprightness, is proverbial But at the same time I also glory and rejoice that ry choice I ca.i boast of the free and happy country of a WdSWtVG r o if and a F r a y K lis

Where although as in every other country, there may exist a lew unprincipled vipers with human shape, yet where I have discovered and experienced all the good qualities possessed by the inhabitant of the old world, free from many of their worst vices ; -k where I can lite under the auspices m a government the most pure just, enlightened & benificent now existing

i'i the world. Thus it mav be discover

ed that altho' I have not k never. shall

forget that I am an irishman by birth.

I have learned, during fifteen years residence, to cherish and glory in the name of an AMEtttcAU bu choice and

by adoption. I suspect my base accusers well know they cannot succeed in this community in the purposes of

deception, without lessening the just standing of their opponents ; therefore it is that with tonnterfi it pretentions, aid counterfeit patriotism they think it necessary to upbraid, and if possible, ruin me. At such proceedings I feel no uneasiness ; their own consciences must speak daggers, and create verv different feelings to mine. The epithets f "British hireling ' 11 renegado," Sec. &c. I fling back in their teeth With contempt they mav adhere to the being from Lfifu.they proceeded, but cannot to

meV. L. Junius Brutu mav be able '.$ where he was born, but 1 v ulcBfcucsti ' is regard for am country or people If he be a legal scavenger, without character, tin-, country does not claim him if an unprincipled desperado, who. as a pur vevor of corruption, can only collect and disseminate falsehood and filth, no count rv should rlalm him if the mere tool of infamy the hireling of a desperate faction, the minion of underlings, the des$oilef of character rod proper tv, who rejoices at the loss of the one, and endeavors to rob Upright men of the Other, then must he present a fi pure of all Others the most vile am! no count-v would claim him. As regards an v mere difference of Opinion between one and another root! man, T shall only observe every citizen of intelligence and observation knows that our mind and faculties an not formed hy one general Standard : Consequently there must alwnvs eir clivevsitv of npfoion in regard to every ula?ive question, and such diversity i not onlv of 'he verv ecence of our nature &, DUt also of our happv form of government Now with all

due submission to the profound sagacity of my unfeeling and unpiincipled slanderer, who can smell Ireland at 4000 miles distance much easier, it appears, than the familiar corruption and impostures which may be just undcrj his nose, I take leave to say, that an honest dislike of the men who may at any time administer our government, implies no dislike to the government itself. The Constitution and Laws arc the government of the people not the arbitrary mandates of a-

nv man or set of men whatever. The polluted slanderer would deceive my fellow-citizens into a belief, that because in heedless conversation I may have disapproved too warmly of some of the former Presidents of the U. S I am therefore an " enemy of the country I" I do not court the good opinion of such a wretch as my accuser and it would be an insult to every upright, unbiased understanding, to flatly contradict such malignant baseness a degree of consummate baseness that to degrade me would willingly have the people forget that it is not the tongue it is not the voice only of a man, which speaks his life his conduct, more frequcntlv when the tongue is silent, cry aloud k testify all that any one could desire. Words and persons may be seen differently, as they are differently shown but actions are visible, and cannot be misconstrued. I think my idea as regards this matter, may now be comprehended by every person ; to attempt to corroborate by longer argument, would be equally absurd as to add mortal light to

' The matchless splendor of the king of

day." As regards temper, (for which I hold myself always accountable) it is well known mankind are extremely different Perhaps there is no man

who has not at certain times, i

cause to feel dissatisfied with many

things around him but a wise man will always cherish an aptitude to be pleased ; and if i have not, those wretches, who have been almost incessantly endeavoring to destroy mv peace, character and property, may give the reason. Had malice never been known in the country until it grasped at my reputation, the people would not at this moment have to regret the many injuries it inflicted on some of the greatest and brightest ornaments formerly amongst us. My slanderer, it is well known, only profits by the previous labors of Ids equals in moral rectitude, who went before

him m the same channel. He re

verts to former times too, and casts a

darti shade over the first and best in

habitants of the country heaping ranJ 1 1 1 .!

corous laisenood on their habits and

manners. Let it be known and rc-

belong to t!ic corrupt faction; Sc inwJiat I say 1 speak as my siandercr did, of the whole aggregate of the population.Were 1 to judge altmc by his production, I should declare that corruption and tmpositi n, "savage ferocity" and "barberism" seems at this moment to be in the height of their grandeur, for their conceit and insjlei.ee arc certainly in the extreme. Fellow-Citizens Although 1 have thus noticed some of the slanders re

peated against me, yet 1 ho a it optionary whether 1 shall do so again or not, without some responsible name be affixed to them. The experience of two years, 1 might say fie, have instructed me by observing the conduct of certain cnaracters, that nothing is too gross or too refined, too savage or too wot thless, to be used against me. No rule of honorable hostility has been observed by them, and probably no weapon, however despicable, will be left untried to injure character and banish all just estimation of moral worth. The slanderer and slavish sycophant may still think it necessary in order to falsely flatter his friends, to falsely btigmatise his or their supposed enemies and although in private moments, when as Homer expresses it, he is left to deTour his oivn heart in chagrin, he may relent for a moment, yet 1 expect his poisoned pen will again be in use some men are determined to blast me if practicable, Sc his malignity of soul fits him for the attempt but 1 trust he and his employers will have to la

ment that the obnoxious lumcs pass off

in derision, and the implacable hatred explodes without evei injuring the intended victim. I acknowledge I have (laboring un-

tier repeated injuries and provoca

tions) said many harsh things but

nothing that I am not ready to avow

kl not

greater service

than by upholding with my slender endeavors, the cause of the people, of truth, and of justice, with all that becoming earnestness arid warmth, required on the occasion. Where it could be demonstrated I had inadvertantly erred, 1 never hesitated to make the proper corrections but in the w hole course of my life I never w ished to descend to private character or transactions as regards the falsehoods dealt out by the Centinei in regard to mine, 1 disdain even to reply. -- 1 have vet to learn that honest cn-

infl amatory ravings of the chagrined distcnibercd "L.J. Brutus," i have not advened to the hideous deformity am inflation of style, observable throughout all the writings and speeches attiibuted to the same hireling calumniator. If, however, I were authorised to mention his real name, 1 might be enabled to shew him as lie is known to have been in the state where he once

j sputtered into momentary notice ; ano

demonstrate that if his present pay master loses his station, and Jonathan Jennings be supcrscdedby the honorable choice of the virtuous Sc enlightened CHRISTOPHER HARRISON, for (i or b n soft , he should be viewed as careless of his God and his coun

try as he lias shewn himself to

truth and honest reputation.

nan nothing that l am not ready to us;t I have always thought 1 coul any render my country a greater si

be of J.I

COMMI SIC Al ION.

Mr. Stol t, If a gocrnor pervert

be buried by degrading fabricati rfs Vet with all this although a perfidious and bake personal accuser, he d ires nothing like personalities to be mentioned in reply ! Well so be if Truth is no s ander ; slander CSSSttStl only of falsehood, and with that the false reptile L Junius Brutus" of the Centinei, is positively and unequivocally charged. The people of the west will still unite their virtuous resolutions I hope, in the cause of moral uprightness they will not suffer their character, social happiness, and dear bought liberty, to expire under the lash of coi : . t and designing knaves. The e ; : already see from the probably pice Certed defalcation ot t;;:ar, bov ci tain Jennings fiiends are now these is no other candidate, of hit re -election how open and unbounded their rate and insolence, and if our anc ici.t

the design of nagistry and abuse the d respectable citizens are l ot i, ! 1

power that is put into his hands to

protect his underlines anddestioy big opposcrs must we the people, In i.d tacitly bend to him and his unpiincipled sycophants and pi ops, or be reLrardcd as enemies ol the state ?

If we the people, in the legitimate exercise of our inherent and constitutional rights have power to constitute I government, do we want powei to investigate the conduct of am unworthy public officer) and change or restrain his in. proper proceedings ? Had our citizens rather that a governor should reign to lend hi- ii :..- ence for the protection of offenders, ami the state constitution and law s trampled upon, or that such a governor should fall, and such injury, con

tumely am! disgrace no longei txist r

alert, designing harpies w ho are likely to become the mere cieaturcs of Jennings props, may be wiii.out dl rtficction, elected to tM MSI legis! -tore. At such a crisis as this it is loped there hue the influential and inn iiigcnt will be on the alert thioughout the different counties. Be me n in hae offered whose presumpln n Li d vrnity are with other thirgr, their i oU -gus though probably conifoitablr, tailings ; a carele ss insensibility umh r the influence of such failings n : y reiukr Dppcarar.cts well crouch, lit I 1 cpe our citizens will ioc k sen t - what to causes aad affects, mad ghoce

n views, sentiments, and the conduct

likely to follow tl.cm. If any mm would offer who is capable of becoming a subservient tool to the unwoitl t.

t hese questions naturally suggest or. DT rocwus cringing drudge of tt-

u .fcuir, ii. cy m.cuiu necr Le cntrusti a to legislate for the people. One of the curses arising from banks is the undue and sinister ii.fluer.ee they can exercise on all public (ji.esticns, etn tl ough the chief heads msy have no superiority. Hut the frecdem i:r

themselves to .nv mind on readme the

last weeks "Centinei." I there see under the abused signature of L Junius Brutus" invective, scurrility, defamation and base falsehood, dealt out w ith all that rancorous viciousness of heart whith is said to belong onlv

to cow ardly assassins, occasioned it citizens beast, is not a phantom tlx :r appears by some correct strictures dependence is not easily drcasn; aatV published in your paper upon a piti-, not heBerc the influence of banks ful governors Conduct. That Centi- t this time, can he fc it here to any ncl w riter seems to trust alloc ether to eJfnt Robert Buntin, jr. and his despb aide arrogance and lies. His (;eore R C. Sullivan, I hope, w ili he

aim is to wound the cause of ti utb, bv "Pncia wrougnottt the district they

deavors to transport the produce o

membered however, that this being

has not been long in the country, and rations published

that n ls base object is to Halter and de- mattei

eeive those w ho have lately come amongst us He talks of the1 rudeness, u bestiality," M savage ferocity," andu obscenity" of former times and the " pleasing courtesies" and '4frank and easy politeness of address" of the present day, with the most arrogant and hypocritical self-complacency at the moment too, when it

appears his heart was burning with

the countrv to another market, w hen

unfortunate, are to be disgraced. Ii any set ot men hereafter wish to monopolise, prabablyit is con. eived such wretched attempts to disgrace mav help them, and deter competition if so, I can declare 'tis a con

clusion as false as many of the decla-

m regard to the

A being who is so lost to patriotism as to compare a respectable body oi

attacking the private character of an inoffensive and intelligent individual, so that as the election approaches he

may reanimate tne dvinc cause oi ins

to mv mind, an infallible omen ,1,Hy "KKt to injure them. Vou

his own vicious heart The de-1 from an

AN OLD INHABITANT.

1 ae served us heretofore w ith saiifaction, and from their experience they are now able to serve us better hereafter, they shall therefmc have

base employers ; yet he is so desper- n, votc a!'(I influence in despite ol i .1

ate ami m iniquitous, that he only at-. u,u,uw soo ismhii i m nvnss

for of

praved w retch who could so abuse Sc : stigmatise for independent conduct, or rather for an honest difference of opinion, must be a slave and ac ustom-l ed to scivile obedience. Uut con-:

icmptible as I think him wl en I sec:

any being with but human shape bending to a supremacy supported only bj paper, (bunded up( .n a demoralising

snd unrighteous credit which is pai

CJMDIDJTBS .IT THE JUCUS T ELBCTIQM.

their countrv s service to a leeion of

maggot a should be nothing else but a "british hireling" Be k renegado." Let such wretches go on with abase, for me "there is no terror in a Iiarswords" -but w hen the menace be carried into

effect With all possible venom, it shall

base depravit) , and his language the not deter or frighten even a ceaseless

choicest nosegay for a liidinsrate

scavenger. What a lovely paragon of 4 politeness," and pretty flower of chastity, the writing of the Centinel slanderer presents ! Never no never tlid I before see truth and decency assailed by such barefaced calumnies. I need not ask if 41 frank Sc easy politeness of address" 8c ''pleasing courtisies" can be rec incited with rancorous falsehood house burning rejoicing at the losses of a fellowcitizen ErrovelliiTK subserviency to

barking will give little, if any annoy

ance to me ; and my fellow-citizens may depend J shall never to pacify such malignity, offer honey or sugar candy. Even though the slanderer may appear in all the sootiness of the regi ons below, his salute shall not be neglected if the name of a visible object be aflixed to it. If for live years I have been able to resist the combined threats, delusions and injuries of a few unprincipled characters, and have endeavored to uphold ;he inter-

tgnorance and depravity slander ests and views of virtuous freemen, I

and, to sum up all in a few words, in

deception and corruption ? No no Our honest blunt cituens arc better versed in civilization ; and the early settlers and inhabitants of this country, I am credibly informed, and have good reason to believe, knew nothing f such baseness, until some cormorants k vipers' settled amongst them. I would here call upon the spirit & intelligence of the first settlers to interpose their influence and unsullied characters I would invoke them in

am not at this day to shrink from the pointless slings of slanderous depravity, or cloak myself from any thing like honest scrutiny. No like the c 3 u sc I have always advocated the cause of freedom,virtue, uprightness and t: uth, I viil nei severe through good report, and through evil report ; bearing all things, suffering all things, and having no fears of a complete and final triumph. From this it may be seen that I cannot and I do not feel any regret at reoroaches however acii'nonious

hospitality, to be compared with the renerable Col Vic.o ? Out upon all such comparisons In principles and nanners, 1 really fear this part of the Country, if not depreciating, is certain' If not improving. I do not hesitate o led are that many, verv many ol our late emgrantS are intelligent and honorable men ; but few of uch

,m n ," rWy fitting themselves for tial in its effects and must be ruinous

in its consequences, I can imagine nothing to paiidte such virulent and base slander. It has been suggested the writer who profanes the signature of UL. Junius Brutus" is a eertain blustering pettifogging lawyer if so, he should remember that even his profession is but a necessary evil, and his falsehoods arc an intolerable grievance. His profession familiarises him with vice ; indeed it irrows

mm out of the very follies and vices which such wretches as himself may too often encourage. We have some men at the bar who adorn their calling whose undeviating integrity, talents and moral worth, the people have o;i

more than one occasion, duly appre-l

ciated but the rancorous Cc.itinel

viper is of a quite different cast. If I were certain of the man I believe I could show, that he has vainly tried to inflict that punishment on the virtuous. Which he and one or two other miscreants, alone merit. Still while I view the despicable leaders of a certain faction here, by whom he is no doubt set on, I do not wonder that his baseness would try every means to extirpate with ruthless hatred, every honorable and active opponent our citizens generally however, have intelligence and virtue to stamp w ith indignant abhorrence the unprincipled and infamous attempt. hat truth

and knowledge will not permit him to

effect in this community, by fair srgu

mcnt, he may rely Ins invecthe and It '!t 11- ft

maiice win never enaoic mm to ac

complish. He had better quit the use of every species of clandestine insult and calumnv f,r he assails with a ma

lignity of heart actuated by sinister

feelings no doubt, sufficiently apparent

to correct all the poison. I could not

help remarking that almost every to

pic of public interest is dropped by the

last kK entinel and notorious false

hood in order to draw off the mind of

the people, is dealt out most abun

dantly. Mark in that respect the slan

derers imouitv truth must vicld to

calumnious lies and contumelies, arid

well attested facts must he thinks

FOR GOVERNOR. C iiristophtr Harrison, Jonathan Jcnhings. For Lieutenant G uenur. RATLIFF BOONE) .lo'lN DEPAUW, D E WIS PEttNINGTOH, MARSTON CLARK. STATE. LEGISLATURE. m Robert Buntin, junu Ceo. H. C. Sullivan, Joseph Warner, Peter Allen. Tho's. H. Blake.

pt.rs'jss h Arise rv

behalf of liberty and truth, to stamp they are, coming as thevdo, from tin

such abominable misstatements, and putiid source of corruption nor can I abominable repetition! of them, with repent of numerous and extraordinary the most decisive indignation. Where iUedged offences, of which 1 am enis the governor who for accomplish- tirely unconscious The infamous nents, mind, and true dignity of char- : blackguardism with which my cl avacctei, to be compared with our for- j ler has been loaded for twelve or eighner governor . H. Harrisov ? teen months past, through the filthy Where is the citizen of recent stand- columns of the M Centinei", has been

me who lor genuine politeness and 1 conveyed in such vented terms thsi

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it has pleased more than it has reformed ; and I have long wished to kiss the hand that free from all symptoms of 4barbarity," labors to kill character in so plea-ine S instructive a manner I remain the friend of the jut and upright JOHN EWINO. S th Jene, 1319. N. B. Iu this notice of the false and

SiMESS irjjM Aj

Geo. ilussev. A During his absence, will please apply to SAMUEL HILL, vthois duly authorised to receive and receipt for any Money due him.

,"()() bushels Corn for sale

A r PLT AS

A Bor E. June 26

Notice. YV7HEREAS my nifc XF.l.I.Y

T c um MIA o has left my bed c board ithout any just cause . Iherehu forworn

all persons fiom crediting her on my account, a- i am determined to pay no debts ol her contracting. JOHN CUMMINS.

, 1819. 27 3t

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Notice, VLL persons indebted to scriVr, are reuu-3ted

b. 1 A

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Lof

: seme ott their re TKCt.ve Nr

and accounts. Any neglecting this notice, I think is unfriendly. I have

thoughts of going to the Eatwrd,sr Krwllt tin imn " .. C 1

"uvik viv , l j t IKHJUV

W. E. BREADING June 26 27 tf