Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 15, Number 25, Vincennes, Knox County, 31 July 1824 — Page 4

I own ",t Mjlf yn ir Jih:oi Love, V r "t;s t vtvi my l)hss I owe, T.u' i s vy it' IM not better. Love, S Ki-pay th l- baLi;:cr kiss I owe? r Injustice yni'U ncnitif. Love, A hI pr;ne tlvit yni are true to rr.c, If i mmkiI'.I then i peat it. Love, Tiwtc'il he a balance due to n:e.

T'.i little urchin, Omul, Love, I'ten-ily CLrk- we keep, you knov.', Is t -;tiier ui.v.dor stupid, Love, Ail ipt to t.dl ;iskep you know, 'Vis ) -st then, tans to j ;jj nini , Love, An-1 m ike him c ini l:ip iy, ou know, For sh vi I d -vc chi le or hmi Love, Tne joy ini;;;t runaway, you know.

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ruin his army, gave an order for1 deserters to be put to death without the benefit of trial; and this or der was obeyed. Jackson with the same, or greater object in view, because greater danger as sailed him, proclaimed martial law; and for its wanton infraction, arrested two distinguished person ages, a member of the Legisla tu re. and a Judge of the United States court With this strong authority, it mav be well inferred, that if any man, possessing their love of country, decision and firmness of purpose, had commanded where the Hartford Convention sat. he might possibly have punished some of the pow

erful leaders; and whether he

would have d me it tinder the first,

second or third section ot the law.

would have been a matter presen ting no material enquiry: all good men would have been contented with the decision, from a knowl edge of the fact, that if high trea son were not the hidden purpose of the meeting, at least was meditated that kind of treason, the ob jeet of which was to parali ze exertion, and estrange from duty every well meaning man in the

The Second St ethm of the Rules country; Perdition catch the Gen-

f T'.e ro - ie p ss-ses tilents. Live, pi d i- t t iu.i a.v'.y, you know, 4 An i viien :ie. strikes a b.ilcinrr. Love, . il in tu r isp.M i o ir 6:iYv, you know, Taee, L-v. us ieVr depute, my Love, vVud'- tune enjoyment ril!es so, 1 u t,iK.e .1 ki--- to b j Js my Love, 1 e.m.ioi st .uivl on trifles so. Sh on reck'nings make long friend?, my Love ..vrr'.v wnikl ne'er be ru:i:ii?.q o, T.iea let us make a uencls, my Love, For 'tis unpleasant dunning so; Tnroa;:;a He's allotte,! term, my Love, It t!u- wvlon't foreet we ove.

When ile via dissolves tiwjirm, my Love, We'll pay t ae only u;b! ve owe. ; : ; o -.: o : ; ; i POLITICAL.

From th Columbian 0&serier. Ni)Ki:V J ACK.S )NT.

ami Articles of I Tar.

(ViOMI CONCLUDED.) The Hartford Convention

cr d, who struggling for a nation's safety, would have permitted to

pass unnoticed oflences and

f- 1U "lliaietl JIMCCIS d lWTier Oil- ,Cimc nl'c.Mi nlnrmmrrnlurnpr

) fcr.it tmin any thing that lias jf,.;ther Washington or Jackson -en yet avowed 1 Hey met not wuulJ have suffered it; and vet t,. iir.jji,. lv.it to demand alter- the one fought to obtain, and the a i .ns i,) te government Toe other t0 perserve our indefen s.'-atnem lep.esentation in Con 1 deuce; and in their mighty eff.yts p -s. the efluvt .il earl v rompmtn-; b tn succeeded thanks to'a ruling le mv.l ol -ood Irrlm.r. was to be pri,viJt,ncP w ho in the g.eat yteld.-d oral leaM ,eq ,i,ed to be cailse fi,Pnv, droned them yielded, the better to advance hut as instruments in his hands. .Eastern power- the war was to Tllis set.()nd sc(.,ion. so much l- abandonded. and peace rest or-; written and spoken about, de e.l ... any term- to winch our en : clares- That in time of war, all

v v..v v... .,.rv. pet sons not citizens oi, or owin )aion to he insisted on that the allegiance to the United States of troops ot no Mate should he mar j America who shall he found lur-c-e-1 beyoiid its conli ies; hut a kin as spies, in or about the for b Me all tois convention ten. led. ! tiii, . nni.nm.vm.itc b

thi, all persons not citizen?, or all' tected in planning and plotting

persons ovvinfr allegiance to me acis cuicuiuieu 10 impair mc ruiu-

U. States, who shall be guilty ot ty ot a country, and to paralisc us the crime stated, shall suffer death; efforts in war. 1 take this to be hence do its denunciations rest as the substance of the authority well against citizens as against contained in this ca-e, inasmuch those who are not ; both under pe- as that alone constituted and euliar circumstances are declared made up the proof in his trial, proper subjects to be brought be- V ho then u ill maintain, that the fore a court martial, to be crimin- members of this Convention were ally proceeded against, and there not equally culpable and criminis no reason why it should not be al? This country, the only one so. If moral obligation have any on caith where liberty and the thing to do with the inquiry, the rights of man reposed, was vitally reason for punishing a citizen, j and dangerously assailed. She who appears in the character of a ; was struggling hard for deliverspy, is indeed infinitely stronger ance- The New England state? than towards a foreigner, who . had refused to send forth their rests with no binding obligation , strength for the general defence, to any other government than or to fight but at their own doors, his own. j and for their own household

The period then, to which ! goods Public credit was fast Jaekson had reference, w as such failing and despondency had peran one as by the provisions of the ' ched even on the bosoms of the section was fully embr aced, for j purest patriots. At this moment, the reason that war existed; and and under thee eireumstance. because a fair construction ot the when the boldest efforts became sentence, makes it applicable as necessary to keep alive excitewell to citizens as to foreigners: mtnt and maintain the country the only inquiiy then left, is whe- ,n defensive attitude, did this ther or not at the period adverted convention and combination of to, such a complexion of things nlcn gather lawlessly together to existed, as was calculated to bring plan their plots and prostrate evethe actors immediately under the ry hpe. operation of the section to which The answer to this will be. that he referred. They must be found, Andie's execution was before says the act, "lurking as spies a-S lne states nat formed a union.

bout the fortifications, or en ! and before the laws made in per-

campmcnt of the U. Sntes"

suance of the constitution inter-

a 1 doubtless was so designed, to !

What was the crime for which posed a barrier, and hence that

Andre died? Was he found lur ;hp analogy of the two cases is king about either a fortification. defective Let this be granted, or an encampment ? Not at all! a,1d what then? Nothing more Andre came on shore with the is proved by it, than that the Iaw consent of General Arnold; and : Vvl "naps, under Jackson's conwith this same privacy entered struction of it, w ould have been the American line, within which .inf' acted, not any moral duty viohe was anested The whole- con-1 lated. The account then, and cert and scheme was, the seizure ' reckoning would simply have and surrender of General Wash-! stood thus: Persons who plotted

ingion 10 tne isritisli; and yet for im un rsl miscmei and evil; and thLHhedied. Why, certainly not wo, if they could would have

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uccaubc ne was im uing ahout either fortifications or encampments, but Simply for the reason

(li-;n ii and lay prostrate the best feelings of the country The Constitution of the United States rcc'iuzed no such self ereateit Convenrion; it was alone the child of usurpation, plavinor l)y virtue of a seit ereation its wily tiicks, a.ul plotting the direst mischief.

armies of the United States, or a jtlldl ne meditated humility to the

sacrificed aiid destroyed the country, have been punished, all their schemes have failed and

been brought to nought; and a

war, for until then the law isinop erauve. Tois being the case, the cioestion which arises, is. on what

I'll were not so. why has man- j sci ipcion of persons can the law ki m1 and even those nearest the J be made to operate; and under scene nl action, been m long de j what existing fa-ts and circum lude.1;and why, too, when the stances can it operate? diM.ua etosrd did a special mis- he ommoii reproof is, that si-yi under us authority proceed to i J-kson cgreiou.ly mistook the a-uogi .n City, to Jiav e an in- mt ainng h terms, for the reason te.-view with the government? l!ial the members of the Hartford Wlui but with a view t lay op- Convention, being citizens of the en toeir budget d treason, aid United States, came not within demand .t the Rx-eutive a reeog- the pIOVisions of the section, nUioo ot meir jneaures? There union alone did, and was intenuas nothing innocent about it. ded to oi uv itie. nu.iinst tne trea.

E,lher wi iite , or treasu.ed in re- sonable desi-ns ofh.i ei-ners. Tne

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inoftuem, shall suffer death ac- Seneral caue of the country, the gnst this beneficial account

cording to the law and usage of ! S11 btl llole in which we were s,a,lds amply the violation of a nations, bv sentence ofagSral engaged by becoming the instrn ,avv- admitting the objection in its Court Martial" i ,nent to Produce the seizure r idlest force, and no stronger eonFust, then, there must exist a surmider of thecornman(iirg g-n-, elusion can be from it adduced.

eral This offence resting against ' What tuough, to argue sfill him. souwed him the enemy of nearer the point is the legitime the United States, secretly and meaning of the word spy? covertly acting; and for that of- with those who stick to the v y fem e tie was deemed worthy to letter of the law, we would endie, and did die j quire what undei standing is to be Now it reason and analogy be aaejied ro the expression -founl the principle on w hich criminal lurking about the fortifications or law is based and it should rest on encampments of the army." Shall notning elbe. in what is there a va-; a foreigner or a citizen be p-r-rianee between the case of Major' nutted to enter our lines, obtainA.. die, whose death was with the U,S an accuiate drawing of our approbation and direction of one ' detences. and rejiort tlie state and oi tne giea estaud best men the condition of the army. & not be world lias ever seen and thoe liable to punishment ? According gentlemen who were memners of t0 lle, c.)res letter, unless he use ilartioid Convention? An- u'as "fouiuC u the very act, he die was an Englishman and owed 'could not be punished Catch null, n.g to ihiseouotry the I i : ; r 'i!m akerwards and prove it on ford members were citiz; Jt .i him. and altiiongh an entire army owed every tning Anure sin niight iiave been sacrificed by his

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w oids ol the section It provides P'y pitted tne destruction ot one uicni-t ull communicated, yet tn st. against al; , ei sons not citi-, man; tne otuei s sought to paranze ht; CitU ue punished onleso zcns - ttncU States! Now, had exei Hon. and open tor tne enemy j tounu" in the act of doing what u iniended to n no turther than a road to success, by wnich tne i the law toi tude How near too,

view, Peace, and the victoiy of to uenounce a ponisoment against war would have been protra ted ! !t't it be enquired, must heapNew Orleans. toiei-ners. enough certainly was a d material injury have resulted : proach a fortification, or encampI shall not argue the question. Contallltv(i m flist eIMllf.ni.P to the nation at large Andie's ; cnt to be considered in the

i i . . , crime and theirs comoared to chaiacUT ot a lin ker. The law is and there consequently it might ' , urus, eompateu io 1 J. . n gether, either in object orettect.is lU l,Pon thlb tibject, and have stopped; but there it did not , , s a d U) a miilJIIlailK a speaks not of distance; and whe-

the ablest jurists have maintained, stop; for its language is, not only bursting volcano to a taper. T C'incr' ttieietoic he is to be found

tint none other could do it while shau punishmentrest against char- court tnen mthe case ot Andre, c a necessity and the peril of the ! acters of this description, but like-! more intelligent one. perhaps, ne countty have maintained a con 'wise against persons owing alle ; ver sat upon any trial, under all tr ry opi uon. Was nntnn. for giance to the United States The the circumstances deterr.m:-d.

gcif pi c&Civation; audio ave i'tom language uf tlie section 4s fairly that a spy was onewhowaa de-1 (tuududtd un the 2d jiuge.)

icruo... ds uuih ui i.Ms con holders ofihi, ariri.me.it robSlv

il lllll lt'll'l 1 11 1' O.t.l t .... ... 1 v . . . w

vv-inunc- pes e-ted against the hap

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pines- and saiery oi tni tree country ; a id notiung prevented a full di-cl ime of t heir plans save two bright ha hiuiiers wnich at that aiipici 'us moment broke to our

lemseiv es.

Cviin inced ot it, it is onlwc&ece

tney re stn v evrtilv-

i?ar that

s x fmg contended, wuetner any ot ertluin Cimgress. is competent

to a vlec'aiation ol martial law;

w it tan one, tv o or three, or a dozen miles is not disclosed; yet to all t; ere nice and technical ex. ceptious, our very learned jniisL?

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