Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 15, Number 11, Vincennes, Knox County, 24 April 1824 — Page 3

FIXCEXAESy APRIL 24, 1324.

FOR THE WESTERN SUN, ZIR- EDITOR. In my last communication I took the liberty of assigning twelve reasons why Henry Clay ought nof to be elected President. I now offer, for the consideration of the public, an equal number, whyJohn Q.iincy Adams ouht to be elected Because, he is the son of pi esident John Adams, an J therefore has legitimate and hereditary claims to the presidency, of which Mr. Clay cannot boast, and which will no doubt be duly appicciatcd by the American people. Because, he is moreover, the political son and disciple of the said president Adam, and was, by him and other celebrated federalists, early instructed in the science of government; and that he benefit ed bv their instiuction is manifiest; for, by the time he readied the years of manhood he was a zealous defender of the "divine rights of kings," and a violent enemy to the rights of the people Because, he has spent much of his time in foreign parts, where he associated .villi Kings, P inces and Noblemen; and fom them he has most happily ac quit cd such a knack for political intrigue; and is so thoroughly vetsed in the etiquette and chicanery of courts and courtiers; that it is beiieved he is, in these matters, superior to Talleyrand or C astleit ah; w hich ccitainly renders him fjrcuHartyJftfedlo be chief m gis'rate of this i cpubiic. Because, such w as his fondness for, and his devotion to, the cause of legitimacy, that, as early as the year 179', he wrote several papers (under the signature of Agricola)on the side of the British min

istry; in which he endeavored to prove that, it would be detrimental to the true ' interest atid glory of the crown, to gr.mt the demands of the B itish people; and these demands, reader, were ulor an equal reprcsentaiion and for a rcdrtss of grievances!!" and he also, in these papers t idiculed the sentiments of I nomas P .line, advanced in his pamphlet, entitled, Rights of Mji;" and w hen Mr. Paine came to be tried for writing this wotk, "the attorney for the crown, rtlied, almo;t wholly, upon the arguments of John Q.iincy Adams, an Amei ican citiien !! to prove that, to write against, hereditary g-MCinmcnts, was an attrocious libel' Because, from the active part he took in this controversy, and for the friendsnip and affection he has ever evinced for the B' itish government, he has deservedly become a great favorite with the nobiiity of that realm, and it will be highly gratifying to them should we elect him Indeed, where is the American; where is the republican, that will not n-joicc to see the dctendcr of the krotten Borough svstem'of old England,4thc reviler of Paine's rights of man and tlu calumniator and satirist of Thomas Jefferson," advanced to the Presidency. Because, he did not join the republican party, "until the last anow in his hostile quiver was thrown, until the keenest snafts of his piquant wit, of his poignant satire the labored argument and the polished verse, had been exhausted to prostrate the democratic party in the dust, and to build up himself and the fedcta! part upon its ruins' audit is believed that, should he be made preM lent, he will "throw off the cloak" and kick out of ot fice, all tnose old republicans, who assisted in doing the same thing to his father; and wiil, moreover gag the mouths of all vhodare to complain Because, whilst he wa a member of Mhe senate of the United States he voted againt the passage of a bill empowering f the president to take possession of LouUlanaand that too after eleven millions of the peoples money had been paid to Fiance for the same; thetcby shewing an insatiable desire to perplex the republican administration a- d to bring it into disrepute with the people. Because, during the time he remained in the senate, (in 1807) he voted against the passage of a bill authorising the president to cause a suivey to be made at the falls of the Ohio river, preparatory to digging a canal round the same; and if elected president, he will oppose with all his power, those plans for roads k canals, which Mr. Clay is at this moment, contending foi in Congress. Because, throughout his whole political career he has been actuated by the most settled and deadlv hostility to ?h in tetests of the West; and never did he omit an opportunity to d'fireciate its impcrtance and check its growth To effect this he strenuously endeavored, whilst a minister at Ghent, to get an article inserted ino the Tr aty of peace, allowing to

th" subiects of Great Britain, an crpial right with ourselves to navigate the Mis9

Sissippi river; well knowing ai the sauicCl.lrisuiutional powers of our legislature

time that this would afford them an admirable opportunity (of which they would, with alacrity, avail themselves) to put arms into the hands of the Indians upon it-s banks, to wage war upon us, and to oppose, with the tomhawk and scalping knife, the extension of our frontier settlements. Because, he is secretary of state, and from Jefferson down the incumbent of this office has always been looked upon as heir apparent to the presidency; and therefore Mr. Adams has been, lor years past, looked upon by his friends as the indubitable suc( cssor of Mr. Monroe; and should he not be elected it will be a cru el disappointment to those hypocrites and parasites, who have fawned around him and who daily served up to him tc most dainty dishes of adulation and flntery; and who in return, have received from him assurances of enjoying lat offices under his administration; and besides, it will seem as though the people were determined, in selecting a president, to look not at the station a man now holds not at the political sentiments he may now entertain; but at his acts and conduct, throughout his whole political course. - Because, such is his fondness for the etiquette of courts, and such his dislike for the plain Plebeian habits of the American people, that he will introduce such rules and regulations at the capilol as will tend, effectually, to banish entirely from thence, th se plain, blunt, honest democrats, whom Clay would cherish; and which will render it as difficult for

a common citizen to cet access to his presence as it would for you or I, Mr. Printer, to enter the seraglio of an Eas tern monarch. Because, he l as received only about one hundred thousavd dollars, lor the services he has tendered this country, ai d has now generously consented, for a like sum, to serve us for four years longer; such generosity ought to b- r warded. 1RONICUS. To the Edi'or of the W Sun, You have published certain resolutions said to be adopted in this ai d an adjoining township, respecting the late execution law, in vonr last paper: if tluy had "appeared in due time to arouse the attention of a majority of he' citizens of the county, brfore the meeting was held in their name at which between seventy and eighty aves, adopted proceedings opposed on t' e spur of the moment by upwards of fifty nayss die result might have been materially different. The situa'ion into wh'n h our late system of laws has obviously conducted us, it requires no electioneering resolutions to discover ; and to increase our state debt, and of course our taxes, and to draw men from their labor to get that system continued, it is firmly hoped the wisdom of the people is sufficient to prevent, Our citizens generally say they will think lot themselves in defiance of dictation, and they have to the number of twice the majority of the late county meeting, signed an address of which the following is a copy to be inseitrd in your first paper. I trust all will reflect upon consequences and am &c. A SUBSCRIBER TO HIS WXCFLLFNCY WM. HENDRICKS GOVERNOR OF INDIANA. SIR. To counteract the injurious effects of a momentary excitement, and actuated solely bv a wish to promote the public good, which we arc well assuied is on all occasions your aim and object, we beg leave most respectfully to remonstrate and protest against any call of the legislature formed upon complaints respecting the late execution law for the following reasons. Because to rcsusitate from the tomb a deliterious system of replevin laws, would be uncon stitutionaly irnfiolitic, unjust and injutiou unconstitutional, because justice is delayed and legal contracts impaired bv that delay IMPOLITIC because the pernicious relapse of that system can never acquire legal validity at d would in cvitable tend to increase fraud, li'igation, trouble and distress its ruinous effects have been lamentably experienced in the partiality of former execution laws. When the rich man indebted to the poor, could giv e security and take time, whilst the poor man unable to give security or collect of the rich, had to witness the sacrifice of his property but few men of wealth have since its first adoption, pur chased property or settled in our state, and now to revive the system when the supreme courts of north Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky, have declared all such Legislative enactments void, would argue a direliction of principle not merited by a large majority of our citizens. Who so far as we can learn, feel a grateful ncquicsence in the late act. unjust because as citizens bound to an inhctitance in the soil, and pasting of a free state, we conceive the

can allow of no arbitrary or sinister denial of that equal protection our laws and government should afford. That il legislative acts trample upon good taith and moral uprightness, or hold forth a sanction or enticement to fraud, the most ruinous consequences both moral, political unci pecuniary, inevitably follow alter confidence and credit are at an end, and the public interest must be neglected, or abused, to satisfy the sinister and ambitious cravings of a few. injurious because to convene the legislute now would cause an expenditure of some thousands

of dollars of the peoples money, to re p.n.art a. svsteni which tins nnlv served! n cnartn thi- industrious. :,d a tran to the honest or it would be viewed as

a condemnation of the majority cfouriail,(1 they are hereby lice nced to m :kc last legislature, who broke the long j sa,c pubhc vendue of he L.ilou itg iut

chain of unconstitutional acts existing i belbre the late revision-for which they,: and vonr exctdlenrv. merit our latitude and thanks-with these few thoughts we igh earnestly pray of your excellency to al low vonr roimtifiiPnttime In and re-

n..t hr i ,t Dvonitir.n i . tt- o.wit'"'" Mday of July nrxf, i.n .i credit

1 - - express their matured and deliberate judgment at the polls next August. Candidates Department. AUGUST ELhCTION, 1824. F r Congress JACOB CALL, THOMAS IL BLAKE, For Senate, JOSEPH WARNER, JOHN EWING, State of Indian. i. MARTIN COUN ; Y. Ft bruary sfieaat lermy '824. COURT OF PROHA I E. Monday. I eb S) h A D. 1824. GM petition ol Charles R Brown Ad-, ministrator on the estate of ThornasG. Prentiss late of Martin comity oeceased. or leave to sell the real estate of: the said 'I homas G. Pretuiss situated in

the town of Hindustan in said county, for-which he will give 31,00 n cioz n althe pm pose i f paving the debts of the so few hundred wcL ht oi 1U: ' S

said deceased, it appian.g to this court, U4X for which the highest piicc will thaj the personal i fleets ol said dt ceased be given in cash or Grocries are. not sufficient to pay the debts of the j Apiil 10th, 1824. 9 tf. sain decd.tvhich he owed at the time of his ! , r7 r - . dc .ih. Therefore ordcrcd,that the said ad-j7TU,1L Sucri,IS respectfully n,h.:m miniM.ator be and I.e is hereby licenced to 1 public, that the : 1)1. ING sell atbubhc vendue, on the fint;Uorfa(i !Wn"S heretofore Curried on by ..,

of July next, on a credit of tuelve months the purchaser giving bond and security, the following lots or lands in the town ofHindostan in s id county to wit: lots numbered as per plat of said town, nos 264, .333, 190. 195,256,251, 123 138.244, 220. 117. 289, 158 257, 278 201, 194. 82. 131.232. 277, 127, 13, 26 28. 205, 171, and 273 or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay said debts, with incidental charges, and that said sale continue from day to day until the whole of said property, or so much thereof as may be necessary hall be sold, and that the clerk give the notices by the statute in such cases required, and that a copy of this order be published for sixty days previous to said sale in the Westc.rn Sun, a newspaper published at Vincenncs Ind. A Copy Teste. L. R. ROGERS, Clk. March 16th, 1824. 10-t-l-m j

GRAND EXHIBITION OF LIVING ANIMALS.

rgUL Public are most respectfully informed that the extensive collection o Jl. LIVING ANIMALS now open for the gratification of the curious, will re main in Vinccnnes until Wednesday inclusive. THE COLLECTIOX COXTAIXS THE F0LL0WIXG .1XIMJLS : . A superb male AFIUCAX WW full grown, s beautiful BllAZlLLMX TIGERS male and female, The I'ILEUM().Y, 2 C0T.iM0.VMES, The SI BE II I AY FOX. Besides many different Species of APES M0XKIES be. The exhibition attended with good Music Doors open from 9 A. M. nnt'.l P. M Admittance 25 Cents Children under twelve years of age half prire. Vinccnnes, April 23, 1824.

State of Indiana. M AR UN cou , i y February Jucial Term, 1 324. COURT OF PRoBA E Wednesday , Frb. f) h 3:4. TT BEING made appear to his court, Jl, that the foimcr a!es of real esute, belonging to the estate of John M Prentiss late of said county deceased toother with tne asbctts tnat had previous to, and since said sales, come to the hands of the administrators on said estate, are not suffi ient to satisfy th dvbt, tint

. said deceased owed at the time 1 his ! dcalh uPon "lotion Therel-i e o.dvli d that the administrators on said rM.itv be , -"w,amilu "K'"y W' lYinK one half o the noun west of section No. 1 in tounsMo no. 2 "orth of range no. , west in 'ne dis;inct oi lands otlered lor v.ile at inc n- ! 3 J"u u,a' a,u v"u' nes. and that said vendue be hi Id on the ol twelve months, the pmrhav r to give bond and security ai,d that tlu-cik give the notice by the sta'ui in sucn ruses required And that a copy of this ordet be published foi six v d vs pie i-ms to said sale, in the We rutv vs a newspaper published at Viucenn.s (Indiana.) A Copy Teste. L K. ROGERS. Clk. April 13th 1S'24 H-t d s Fresh Groceries! SAML TUOKX, I HI S just received horn Nkw Orti leans a iresh and general supP1) ut ( a 1 Of1 17 Y 17 G ViSVOiJl & ft E jOj which he will s.ll low foi Cash, Wanted 150 dozen ('ICCEA'S j " ' Va ,n: om stand ot Auuno ct u isr j win iict eaner oe coufmt.u ti uy Lazarus B. Wilson under lu fnmof WISE wil.-on. Who have now on hand, and mu nd constantly t keep a getifral assoitnunl of Saddles, Bridles & 11 'riie.s, made in the neatest ai d most fahi nh'c manner, which they will sell vtry I'.w for Ca h or Coun'ry Produce ; and hopo by a sti ict attention to holiness to merit a shaie of public patronage JOHN WISE, L. IJ. WILSON". April 16. 1R24 lO-f - Ilr- IIANIKIA (atorxey at law.) 13 AVE removed fioni P'inceton to Vinccnnes la and will practice law in the first judicial circuit. He keeps his office on water street, where he may at all times be found. April 24, 1824. 1 1 -tf