Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 15, Number 24, Vincennes, Knox County, 24 July 1824 — Page 4

Poetical.

FROM THE N.Y. EVENING POST. Valley of Death - Inscribed to Ellen. Valley of Death! that name how dread, How much we fear that vale to tread; How much we strive that path to shun, Yet find at length it can't be done; How fly we all to human pow'r, To lengthen out the-living hour; How much dislike to leave this sphere Yet know that grief awaits us here. Valley of Death! how sweet that sound. How fair that path to peace profound; Oh. how divine ! that Heavenly way, That opes the golden gates of day. Where Jesus, our blest Saviour's gone, And bids us lay our burthens down; That path that leads to Heavenly ease, And realms of everlasting peace. Brandywine Bard. AN OATH Do you, said, Jane, the other day, Love me, in earnest, as you say? Or are those tender words applied Alike, to fifty girls beside? Dear, cruel girl, cried I, forbear, For by those eyes, those lips, I swear. She stop'd me, as the oath I took,

And cried, you've sworn, now kiss the Book.

POLITICAL.

From the Columbian Observer.

The Second Section of the Rules and Articles of War. Under this section Louvallier, a member of the Legislature of Louisiana, who was charged with exciting the army to mutiny, and conveying intelligence to the enemy, and thus giving them assistance and aid was tried; but he was not convicted, not however, because the section did not reach the case. It is under this same section that Gen. Jackson com manding in the district of coun try where they sat would have

tried and punished the three prin cipal leaders f the Hartford Convention. Two questions a rise here. First. At the bar of conscience did the members of this Conven tion deserve punishment? Second. Could this punishment under the second section, have been legally attained and correctly enforced? In the examination of this case, let it be borne in mind that Gen. Jackson, in using the expression so much cavilled about, stood not in the character of a lawyer with his book before him. digesting an opinion, and studying a conclusion, for which he was to he in a ny degree responsible; of which from any reasonable calculation to be made, was ever to come be

for the public eye. He was

writing to his friend freely and in confidence. He was replying to suggestions and opinions previously thrown before him by

found them guilty. Now sup-

pose he was wrong, what then? Mr Jefferson thought and able counsel agreed with him, that Burr deserved punishment; the court said otherwise. The state of Virginia declared she had a right to tax the venders of lottery tickets authorized to be sold by act of congress - and New York that she could create a monopoly in favor of certain steam boat com panics. In all these opinions the ablest counsellors of the country agreed, and went forth into court, and with great ability endeavored to sustain themselves; but they fail ed; and shall this error in, or mis take of, opinion, be imputed to them for censure? It ought not to be the case, for every man is lia ble to be mistaken, and on no subject more than in the construction of law. Jackson however, wrote without reference to books from no expectation whatever, that he was doing else than unfolding in

the most confidential manner to his friend, hasty undigested opin ions, and in a loose, unstudied manner. This is the rational, reasonable

defence, if wrong:

example to the rest; and if to have | and murderous propensity. A

been prevented in no other way | boat had been taken, and the little

he should have arrested, be should | children found, on board, were have punished them. All good | whirled by the heels, and their

patriots would have cried aloud | brains dashed out against the sides

well done! Wretched sort of so

phistrv indeed is that which main-

of the boat. Horrible, horrible

cruelty! Should such men have

tains, that twenty or thirty lead j lived to repeat again their murding men may get together in ! ders? Ought they to have been time of war. and secretly plot the , spared? Or should benevolence most deadly and daring hostility . and feeling even now drop a tear to the best interests of the conn- j on their graves? By no means: try. and that they shall receive all ( They were cold blooded, desperthe mild treatment of less ofTen 1 ate assassins, and well deserved ding citizens. Necessity has no j the fate they received. In this law! When theretore a country business, w hat motive could Jackis wrapt in the blaze of war. and j son have beyond what even his every thing, even the constitution ' enemies have conceded to him, stands staked upon the issue, bold i the good of his countr ? He could

- i v -

nes is requisite and must be re

sorted to, or all will be lost. Let

have, and did have none other;

they were peopled not in his way,

the boldest enemy Jackson has .they never could be! Wasitcru-

point the time, amidst all the dif-1 city then which dictated the meafieulties be had to encounter, j sure? Let the following indispuwhere a single act of oppression table and authentic anecdote solve or tyranny took place; or where : the question; the good of the country, its ad-S The dmn sounded: the hour vanccment its tranquility and saf bad come; the execution was ovety were not the constant ineeri- er. The officer to whom had tives to every act he did. j been confided this solemn duty, Toe inflammatory, indiscreet ; stood in the prrer.re of the Genpublications of Louvallier, at N eral, and announced his order atOrleans, if not intended were at tended to. that the two Indian

least calculated to operate most Chiefs were no mote 'What:

B it at conscience' bar be was ! injuriously: to communicate in-! shall be done with them? Shal?

riot wrong; nor wrong either in i telligence to the enemy of the! I direct them to be thrown into;

me construction given to the weatc ana ueienceiess condition oi section. our army, and excite to mutiny; Toe assertion is not as has been it did thus excite, for in the course changed against the General, that ' of one night operated upon by he would hang the three principal these publications, the most im leaders of the convention He portant passes were forsaken, and

says he would have punished two or three hundred oi the Louthem, but gives no det:il as to isiaoa militia deserted their posts, manner; whether thcrefoie he our juries would have said dont would have resorted to the pun- disturb the gentleman, let him a ishment of death; or by arresting lone, or you will infract the eonhave detained and prevented them stitution. J3 -kson thought other from maturing and carrying into wise! His language was this; the

execution their , treasonable designs, as he had done on a pre vious occasion at New Orleans is not disclosed: nor are we to infer

country is in flange :and although possibly the ?aw and constitution may be somewhat infringed, it is preferable to having mv vmv

1

! at New Orleans, and the necessi

tv thpl'P fVlCtirur i.mih imnlll

, th it fnen-l; and brcathnin; forth f;. t,,e sake of sat,tV-a re'ort to rather that wh,-h t? fcchn d,c I martial ,a,v vvcrc fl,;s h and fl)1! in t vc l. than that his judgment had , his r..t,0C( tion. IIe recollected

t'Aaimm-u ana ascei laitieu to OCui n,wl- ..k..

more than the text of his letter destroyed, and the hoc hsoft e imports; to wit, that he would country endangered;6 ond there have referred it to a court for de- fore did he arrest Mr. Louvalier; eision. and inflicted wliat they and therefore, too, did he arrest might have decreed. Judge Hall, who interfered for Now, the idea contained in. the release of the oiher. If a Jackson's letter is that a state of member offend, it is better to cut things should have existed author- it off than that the whole body ising the declaration of nvirtial perish; and by similar analogy it law. lie could not and did not was better, far better by tiie ar mean to say that in the mere ea- rest of these men to restrain the parity of General of division, the mischief complained of. than bv civil authoshy would have been omitting to do so. permit them to superceded. 11 entertained no endanger the army &nd the safety such opinion. The difficulty he i of the country. It was public

had been compelled to encounter j good, and not a disposition to op

press, which prompted to the course put sued tnere was noth

the rivers For their inhuman

acts had led the offi er to the belief that nothing of respect was due them. Jackson, in pensive mood the big tear swelling to hiseye. surveyed him for a moment, then replied. Sir. recollect they are no longer our enemies: their reckoning now is with a higher Power; go. attend, and sec that their bodies be decently interred.7 Such it- t He man who bv his enemies is proclaimed a Cataliue a Crear. a Nero; nne whoo heart neve,f r a moment, m lied to

wyomi?;

( To be concluded next

..... if.j.

)

Correct. Mr. M nroe had gone elabora tely into an exnninafi n of the

rise and progress of party in thij

country; and tre ly spnl-r rf the "daring nvasntes of 'he Ia tford Coovenlioii." and in replv J u-k

manoeuvreing with which, on a former occasion, he had been compelled to contend; and he meant only to say, that situated as he had been, with an enenv to contend with, he would at everv

hazard have put down the daring

ing of oppression in the act. In the execution of Arbuthnot and Amhrisier, and tlie Indian Chief, the sraiie consideration induced him to act; a disposition to aid and to promote the best interest of his country. What right had those Englishmen to enter t : territory of pain. and excite i-'c j.ulians to murder our women

DOMESTIC LIFE. No man ever prospered in this world, without the consent and co operation of his wife. If she unites in mutual endeavors, or rewards his labor with an endearing smile, with what perseverance does he apply to his vocation! with what confidence will he report to his merchandise or farm, fly over land, sail upon the seas, meet difficulty and encounter danger, if he knows that he is not spending his strength in vain, but that his labor will be rewarded by the sweets of home! - Solitude and disappointment enter into the history of every man's life; and he is but half provided for his voyage, who finds but an associate for happy hours, while for his months of darkness and distress no sympathizing partner is prepared!

i children? This thev did do.

Bon agrees witn the President; ad rty , ts of this combination furnishing them w ith , arms and nuts tnat their measures were of: men Tlie legislatureof N Orleans I amuniti-ui. and encouraging Wwm a daring character and then con iihir'm.r thp nf thnt nin ;,Jin thnrcu':.. :itul mnnL'tnncr!...

eludes that it he liad commanded eonelave tlehan-tt th nrmmrtv nf'sins Tiiev had even annp.tiprt ' UUU '", ?n; t.e south Sine 1

I. ' - . : CiM ni'r t1o'lr noriinnltniilK

pu!)hc councils witli the' 4 "" I'i""'-'

there, he would have punished ' surrenderinn the ci'v. and mak

the three prmeipal leaders heliev- yllVr terms w itn the enemy Jackuingas he did. that under the see-; son placed a guard at the Capitol, ond section an iuJependant court and prevented their meeting; but ini tial would have found them suppose thev had at some -other goilty Recollect, lie speaks not place met. again to agitate plans of'.acing toe law into his own calculated to parage and render ha is a,.d detertnming its bear- , in-ubordioate the arm v, a less cle ing; (pute otherwise! he would me it course would doubtless ba e referred the case to an "hide have been pursued; he would pen leu: court inirdiV whie.h h ive anvs'ed, punished the princi-

cuui t nc Ucnevcd would have pal leaders, and thereby given an

in their pu

savages: and as fruit of their assis

tance given, three hundred scalps as is sta'cd by Gen. Jackson in one of his despatches to the gov eminent, of all aies from the mo ther to the infant, were found at the Town Il mse of one of those executed Indians: besides these, fifty ot... rs. freshly torn off and hung on a poll to dty were

I louiid the fruits of their cruelty

Captain Brooke, in his recent Travels to the North Cape, states it as a fact well authenticated, that: there is the skeleton of a whale on the very summit of the mountain

of Sandhorn, which is upwards of

de-

to

the sea.- Nat. Int.

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