Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 25, Vincennes, Knox County, 20 July 1822 — Page 3
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vrxcEY.ES, july 20, 1 822. vv c ocen requested to announce William Pitts, as a candidate to represent the county of Sullivan in the state Legislature. We have been requested to announce
r.nl Tolin Isenehelu, as a candidate to
represent the county of Sullivan in the state Legislature.
Vc have been requested to announce Genl Peter Allen, as a candidate to rep
resent the counties of Sullivan, Vigo, I side, and entered into new combinations
tion, for adjusting and settling, or even
investigating the rights and wrongs of the
state. But parties have become much amalgamated; and the light of reason is breaking in on the minds of the people.
who must, and will, right themselves of
the injuries they have suffered, and the
impositions practised upon them with im
punity, for a succession of years.
Your private friendships is as fictitious
a your public conduct has been ill direc
ted : they have been made to subserve your ambition and st hemes of aggran
dizement, by the security of the covert
under which your operations have been
conducted ; and you have thrown them a
Parke, Green, Owen, Putnam, &c van, in the Senate of this state.
Mor- and relations, as the influence of interest
was felt, and the most successful course
of your object determined
I should not have troubled you with a-
ny lemarks on the past, had you sat down
Wc have been autnorised to announce George W. C. Sullivan, as a candidate for
Brigadier, General, to the 1st brigade of I in the privacies of domestic life, where
Indiana iniiiua. I nature, and the solid interests of the state
admonish you to rest ; but, at the close
We have been requested to announce of the constitutional term of your admi
CqL Frederick bholfs as a candidate tor nistration, you come forward in a circu
brigadier general, to command the 1st lar, requesting the suffrages of the peo
brigade, Indiana militia.
FOR THE WESTERN SUN.
To point a moral or adorn a rale"
pie, to represent them in congress ; from
which it became necessary to shew the foundation on which your claims rest, for
confidence and future honours. Much re
mains yet to be s ud the catalogue is
To Ja.iatluin JenhhlrS GoVtrnorA long the picture is dark. Farewell.
1 n tyf ft fa f I it ft FARMER REUBEN.
cyu. i. u uj cue oiuii uf inwiinii. I .l I. ...... i . nirclll tn 1' fill I' V
sip. -in au.j.,. ... mr. stout The following reply to a wri
eeiicncy on lopicw in m u yu yi.- tn. in the Evansville Gazette of the 15th to have been an actor, I hope you will ex- junc jlas bcen transmitted for insertion in
case the o.d tashioued American manner, j that paper; but as the paper containing the of statins tinners, s thev are here brought I slander was sent to many citizens who are
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ho can lessen the m in the opinion of any thinking man. But as regards my being 44 thought of," if what he says were true, how came he to think of so many irrelevant matters respecting me ? How came he to refer to the ever memorable 44 letter from Gibson county" which stated that Mr. Daniel asked the people if they would instruct him to advocate the establishment of a loan office ? And if my merits be so humble and obscure as thi-i traduccr would have them, why refer to me in any way ? His falsehood is here apparent, for his own course gives the lie to his declarations. This Voter1 next says 44 that a short time after I became a Judge I violated one of the most penal statutes of the state and had to bach out." What a pitv Messrs.
LE&tors, that this redoubtable, truth telling
champion did not tell his name, and cause me to 44 back out" once more ! I will only remark in addition, if the base assassin of character will choose to examine the documents relative to that affair, he will find them at your office. He next says, 41 the most valuable part of the commons arc sold, and the money arising from the sales squandered." This is also notoriously f.dse. The common contains upwards of 5000 acres of land, about 250 of which is all yet sold, and about one half of that has reverted to the Hoard of
Trustees by forfeiture for non-payment so much for 44 the most valuable part." 'VL ii . i 'i-
a no money received ov tne l reasurer was I believe about 3000 dollars, and after payim, the expence of surveying, selling. Sec. the re
sidue was placed at interest under the following resolution of the board.
Board of Trustees of the Borough of Vin
cennes, August 6, 1819. Mr. Patterson introduced the following re
solution,
Resolved by the Board of Trustees for
the Borough of Vincennes in Common Coun
cil assembled, 1 hat so much of the monev
now in the hands of the Treasurer for the
in review, in tne simpie ami jjiam uic cf detailed facts and the reflections and ;iiiwtr-triniis to widen thev cie rise I
shall content myseif at present with pass
in over the causes which at fit st brought
vou into notice among us, and introduced
you to the highest offices of the state, and
in .my of the effects which your cunning
has accomplished, or attempted to pro duce. by the vilest intrigues and prostitu
tion of official dignity ; and only note a
not in the habit of seeing "it, I beg a place for Co?n, as will be received in general de mv renlv in vnnrs posit in the bank ot Vincennes, shall be de
JOHN EWTNG.
my reply in yours.
15th July, 1822. To the Editors of the Evanr.ville Gazeit
posited there, and the balance shall be loaned to individuals, wishing to borrow the same
at the rate ot six per cent, per annum, wnh good and sufficient security for the repay
ment within thirty days after the board shah
think proper to call for the same.
Upon which, Mr. Sullivan moved the fol
lowing as an amendment That the Treasu
rer for the Common, & the committee here
HAVING demanded of you the real name of the writer of a communication signed A
Voter of the First Congressional District.
which appeared in your columns on the 15th after appointed, shall loan out all bank pa
June last, and mv demand beiny reiected un- per, or so much as can be loaned, that will
few lines in the portrait, which time and der the plea that vou would be 44 guilty of a -o! demand silver or gold, at the rate of six
circumstances may induce me to extend, breach of confidence to disclose the name of per cent, per annum, the borrower giving s.s farasnublic utility may deinind. the writer without his consent" it now be- g""d freehold security for the lepayment
Wo iiarl nn pnrlv pvh enrp nf vour rint I -uiea necessary ior me to mate a tew re- ""''"'"lin) ud aucr uic uoaru snau uuhk
,
cf capacity, or of some
calculation which mi
mediately or remotely, wnne represent- ture to cast censure unnn the Editors for exchanged
withholding the name of the real author." Resolved further. That the Treasurer and
Whether the Editors of a newspaper are committee, shall not loan to any one individ-
oouna to withhold the real name ot a writer uai more than live hundred dollars.
idence of vour want comes necessary tor me to make a tew re- unm unriy uays alter tne lioard snail mink e s Irish influencing marks uPon the subject matter" of that proper to call for the same ; and all the pa- , , i publication, which you are pleased to say in Pcr that can be exchanged for silver or gold, ignt no realized nn- vour x j tQ demand, 44 is not of a na- sliali be by the Treasurer and committee so
ing the territory in congress, when the Canada Refugee bill was on its passage
through that body, and became a law Why vour voice was never once heard e-
ven to complain of the local prejudice the
bill was likely to produce, oi of the invi
dious provision, it contained in favor of
Canadians, , remains yet to be developed
You wei;e not ignorant of the number of
our citizens, who, in the face" of the grea
test dangers, and under the severest privations, had settled on select spots of U. States land, which they improved in the hope of being able, or of having a right, to purchase them at the public sales, which were expected to come on, when prace
and tranquility should be restored to our v t u. .1 .i i i..
UOroers uill uiusc cuu i urisini. UlUuj settlers, were driven off, as suddenly as unexpected, from the cabbin they had erectcd on the path of the savage warrior, jvnd from the fields they had redeemed from the woods and wild plains of nature, by strangers and denizens of a foreign power, to whom a shameful legalized light was given, without vour raising one interposing hand to save them. The fundamental laws of our civil polity have been as little respected by your
Excellency, when private advantages wcte offered, as the interests of the people you had been delegated to guard. It is provided in the 4th art and 5th sec. of our constitution, that " no member ot congress, or person holding anxj office un- ; der the United States, shall exercise the office of Governor." This is a language ;
loo plain to be misunderstood : it is hardly susceptible of any wrong construction ; ahd yfct, notwithstanding your name is to this constitution, as president of the convention that framed it and the pledge of your inaugural qualification to the chief magistracy, you have acted under a commission, or appointment of the U. Sta'es, in a treaty held at St Marv's, bevond the limits of the state. By what a spirit of infatuation the legislature and the people have been bound and blinded, under violated rights and the most sacred obligations, when the power to redress thrir wrongs, to the extent that justice, and the claims of posterity required, was in their own hands ! lUit,sir, you will eventually And yourself in the toils. Those who are unacquainted with the rules of drawing conclusions from remote causes, may SUtrly at least understand and feel tha convictions which the laws of self evi dence carry with them, when the charm that bound their judgment, k lulled their enquiries, is broken and dissipated To
party you owe much ; because the zt al
who chooses to make the most obnoxious -And be it further resolved, That the secucharges against a private individual, because ritv shall be adjudged bv a committee of
forsooth, 44 he does not wish to be known at three, or a majority of them, consisting of
present would be a peurile question. Messrs. Arthur J'aitcrson, William L. ColCommon sense says they are not bound to do man, 1? Richard P. Price. so ; but on the contrary, as honorable men. Whereupon the question was taken upon
whose vehicle was heedlessly permitted to I the amendment the ays and nays were call-
give currency to the slander, they stand ed and taken, as tollows : Ays dolman, bound to deliver him up to the injured party . ing, Price, Patterson, & Sullivan; 5. Nays, ' This course would sustain the freedom of the Law, 1. It was decided in the affirmative.
press ior freedom of any sort, as understood I, George P. C. Sullivan, Clerk of the
m this, and every other free country, has no Board of Trustees of the Borough of in character, or objects to do wilful' wroner. cennes, do certify, that the above and forego
Uur liberty is intended to infuse safety and ing extracts, taken from the journals of the
happiness ; to guard our rights, our charac- Board are correct and true Given under ters, and persons ; our property, our morals, my hand and private seal, this 10th August,
our constitution, It Editors were permitted 1821. to act in all cases as you think proper in the G. R. C SULLIVAN, cb t.s.v.
present instance gentlemen, licentiousness Not one cent of that money do I hold ; but
would soon predominate ; rancorous hate, it is in the hands of good men, who have gicould breed the food on wjiich it feeds again, ven approved security ; so much for 44 squanand, like a winged cancer that corrodes the dering." What will a virtuous people now
conuort ot lite, the press would become a think of that man w ho signs himself a 44 Vopestilent curse to virtue, social harmonv and ter of the First Congressional District," when
i good morals. I have been a subscriber to they see his tui-pitude and baseness equalled
)UU1 p-tci s;r,(e its establishment, and such onlv by the depravity mat prompted mm to 1 am suae is not your aim. Hut if such a wri- slander an individual who is no longer a canter as the 44 Voter of the First Congressional didate, in order to injure Mr. Dew ey ? Ought District," in attacks like that upon mc, can not such falsehood and deception to benefit be secreted, such 1 fear would he the conse- Mr. Dewey, and put every rational good man quencc. hen the acrimowy of personal on his guard when his enemies resort to such teeling be carried so far that the press is base and unfair means to prostrate him ?
lauueu o us miiucnce, the flagrant injustice I he questions propounded, respecting Mr,
that always lollow s, must merit the approbri- Dewev, he has already replied to, and I shall
uin oi public opinion.
office to which he aspires, an! capable of pf rfcrming the duties Ktuu htd to it, is a l.'a i iv which eery citizen has in common, u.v s I desire for the benefit and prcjpcntv cf thl section of the country, that C hanes Dewry should be elected, 1 think those w ho resort to falsehood and deception to injure him thio' me, are actuated by a vcrv (ill-rent motive JOHN LWTNG. TO THE OFFlCF.HS OF T1IK FIRST BRIGADE OF 1 DlAA Ml-.ITIA. Gentltmrn, General i homas Srott having retired from the command of vour brigade, I declare nnself a candidate tobe his successor. In doing this I ptesume it is unnecessary to state the humble claims 1 may have to your sufT.agts, for most of you have known nit foi n.joy years. However, gentlemen, i must be permitted to observe, that both in tunc of war and peace, I have been a fiicnd to my country, and always ready to a ocate and fight foi her And, should I be honored with youi suffiago, and at any time hereafter wc sl.ou d be ai;ain called on to take the field againsi the enemy, my feelings do well assure me. that I should be found with you sharing in tne fatigues and dangers of a soldiers life, and always active in the manly dischaigc of my duty. Very respectfully vourobedt. servt. 'II. LASM'LLli. July 17th, 1 822 FROM THE INDIANA FAHMER, Jgtnfs Office June lVth, 1822 PUULI-' NOTICE is he. eb uiven, that on the 6ih instant, I received $32629, 45 from the Trtasiuy of the Uniud State on account of the three percent fund.
CHRISTOPHER H ARR SON, .igent of the S ate of Indiana, for the 3 percrnt fund. OBITUARY DIED at his residence in Parke coun
ty, Indiana, on the night of the 22d inst. after a lingering and painful il!nes which
he bore with t ue christian fottitude; i apt Andrew RitooEs. aged 20 vcars
He has ieft a discomu ate widow and
numerous relations and friends to mourn his loss. Hi icmains w vie ir.teied with
the honors of Masonry on the 24 ins. at
tended by a numerous concourse ol his friends and neighbors wl o appeared duly impressed with the solemnity of the occasion. The following gentlemen have offered their services to the people at the entitling August election, as follows: FOR GOVERNOR. IV TL L TsJM HEX I) R ICICS, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. WILLIAM POLKLy R.HTCL IFF BjO. ERASMUS PO H ELL, DAVID MAXWELL. congr f ss First District. CHARLES DEWEY, WILLIAM PR IXC E Representatives f r Daviss and Martin Count v. JOSEPH WARN I'R, WILLIAM II. ROUTE. For Knox County OENl. W. JOHNSTON, BEN J MIN V. BECK AS. JOHN LAW. For Sheriffs JOHN DECKER. County Commissioner. FRANCIS LEECH. JAMES THORN,
pUDilC Opl
Uut it is time to notice the production of
tne voier ot the rirst Congressional Dis
n.w niun, jwiutumnv. ii commences in in. nil fi'li .C m j.-
iic ui u wuv r.ctiiTOFFcr, ov a
hatetul attempt to underrate and depreciate
tne man lie would injure. His first slander
is embraced in the notice of my withdrawal
from the list of candidates, and it keeps out
ot view the change that led to it, and Mr.
Dewey s superior talents which justly merit every distinction. The 4 Voter' then coes on
to s iv, what he know s to be false " that I had not a solitary promise of support," and some of his most respectable neighbours can tell him as I do, that he knew that was false when he penned it. The 4 Voter' next recalls to mind a letter published in the Western Sun' last fall, noticing the propositions
i submitted by Air. Kichard Darnel to a public meeting at Princeton. It is true Mr. Daniel : publicly denied part of the contents cf that letter, and abused me mo?t tremendously for ; having it published ; but it so happencd'th.it , v arious certificates were sent to me Contradicting his denial ; one of which, that of the Rev. Alexander Dein was published, and . clearly established the matter relative to Mr. i I) i del as ghen in the first letter. The Voter siys I 44 never would have been again thought of, but for the imposing manner I wish to palm mv friend upon the people of the district." If Mr. Dewey's talents render a simple recomim ndaticn 44 imposing" sure -
in
for victory left but little room or inclina- j ly 'tis not buch a crtatare us this Voter'
temrt tbe
sacred fe-!i. ; , ecr'o' r. M". Ftrvnu;i in Hovd
therefore pass them over.
The 4 Voter' concludes his slander bv an
allusion to the last war but what it had to
do with the congressional election, is a mys tcrv tht all his artifice canr.'T unravel.
Surely those who lost 44 af ithe", a mother, a sister, a brother, a wife and children by British tvranny and savage cruelty," (to adopt his langupv) v.-ill - v with sovereign con-
i c uld sport with their t'. v- 'mrpose cf e lection -y); 1 friends and coun.i nt at the battle of
Tippecanoe 'twijs there the chief losses felt here, were experienced and 44 To pay the tribute of a tear, Shall friendship fondiy linger there; Or winding slow through forest deep, Oft paue on Owens' fate to weep ; And oft a sigh the bosom swell, Where White, and gallant Daxies fell ! Nor shall the muse forget to mourn. O'er Randolph's, Warrick's Spencer's urn , And distant ages learn to tell, How brave they fought, how brave they fell." 1 might now with propriety, ask this 4 Voter of the First C-jvgrrhvcl District,' a few ijuestions in rtard to his favorite, and although I cr uld do so without resorting to fabrications, or party names r travelling one thousand miles dtant t find matter, ytt bring convinced the course is not proper I disdain to follow the example before me. The liberty I take of appiowngof one candidate whom I belicv. to be deserving cf the
Beef! WISH to number of
Beef! Beef! purchase a considerable BEEF CATTLE, for
the Orleans market I calculate on giving Two Dollars c Fifty Ci nts per hundred, and wish to make my contracts as soon as possible large cattle would be preferable I also wish to contract for the building of a flat bottom boat. JOHN BRUNEI. July 18, 1822. 25-tf
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OST on or about the 14th imtant, a A small polished steel dirk bladz
with silver handle any person finding the same, and leaving it at this office shall be suitably rewarded for their trouble. 25-tf Vincennes, July 18, 1822.
Lost Certificate of Lands purchased from the United Nates PUBLIC Notice is hereby given Xhzt nine weeks afier date application will be made to the Register of the Land Office at Vincennes, for the renewal of a certificate in our names, for F actional Section No. 36, in Township No 7 souti , of Range No II wett. in the rUtiittu Vincennes ; the original having bet n loi. Given under our hands at Vincennes this 5th chvof July, 1823. THOS TOWLES, D. HART.