Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 43, Vincennes, Knox County, 10 December 1825 — Page 1

WESTERN 8UN fe (RUNEKAL ABYEI

3,9 BYELIHU STOUT. VINCENNES, (IND.) f&f URDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1825. Vol. ig No. 43.

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mentor TWO DOLLARS at the time : of Subscription. I Payment in advance oeing tne muiuai interest of both parties, that mode is solicited. A failure to notify a wish to discontinue at the expiration of the time subscribed for, will be considered a new engagement. No subscriber at liberty to discontinue until all arrearages are paid. Subscribers must pay the postage of their papers sent by mail. Letters by mail to the Editor on business must be paid, or they will not be attended to. Advertisements inserted on the customary terms. $C7 Persons sending Advertisements, must specify the number of times they wish them inserted, or they will be continued until ordered out, and must be paid for accordingly. Mr. Owen's Address, To the Citizens of the U. States At sea, lYete- York packet, October. 1825. Americans lam again hastenv ing to your shores, & return with a fixed deter mination to exert all my powers for your benefit, and through you for that of the world at large. In your industry, mechanical knowledge and general enterprize. in the quality and cheapness of your soil m the extent and varie ty of vour climate, in your libera tion, in par t, from the prejudices ot t lie old world, but more parti cularlv in the freedom ot vour go vernment, you amply possess the means to secure immediatelv, the most important private and nati onal benefits to vourseUe- and to posterity, and to give them to other nations still more in want ol them It, is true you have derived ma nv advantages from vour Euro pean ancestors but it is equally true that von have transplanted a very large portion of their errors and prejudices ; you cannot therefore, enjoy to their full extent, the benefits to which I refer, until thee errors ol the old world shall have been removed. The great st and most lamentable of these are the notions that human nature has been so formed as to be able to believe and disbelieve, and to love and hate, at pleasure, & that there can be merit or demerit, in believing or disbelieving, and in loving or hating. These false notions are the origin of evil, and the real cause of all sin and misery among man kind ; vet they are received and continued in direct opposition to every fact known to the human race. Every one may easily ascertain for himself that they are errors of the imagination. Let any one endeavor, by his own will alone, to compel himself to believe what he disbelieves, or lias been taught to think he disbelieves. For instance, let any one who is a sincere christian, endeavor, wifh all his power, to compel himself to believe that Mahomet was a true prophet ; or a devout Jew that Jesus was the true 3les siah and only son of God ; or a conscientious Mcsselman. that IWahomet was a cheat and an im poMor. Or again, let any one ench'avorto dislike that which by his nature or education he has been made to like.

This experiment if fairly and honestly made, will be sufficient to convince every one, that belief i j r i . i

uisucnci, luve anu nairea, are not under the control of the will, It istheretore irrational in the extreme to maintain, that man can let all religions and laws have been hitheito founded on this error. Hence their want of success ; . , hence the present irrational state of the human mind in every part of the wot Id : and hence nenrh U , ., ' V Mm aim innr.i ii. r ir . int. l us, LAtrja move oi cnmaie, which afllict the inhabitants of the United States. ' v ' , When these errors shall have been removed, there will he no obstacle to great improvements in education, rapid advances in valuable knowledge of every kind, the creation of wealth 6c the arrangement and government of socirtipc for the well being and happiness of the inhabitants of every state in the union. j But this change cannot be ef. fected until society shall be remo- j delled, on principles in strict accordance with our nature, nor un 1 til men shall bn taimlit Hip fn.fo . -" - ' upon which these piinciples are founded, viz : that no infant ever I formed any part of itself that no ' two infants are alike that infants from birth, are gradually formed into the characters which they af- ; terwards become, by the eucunifiances wntcn exist around them, acting upon the peculiar Cti!intion f faculties, qualities and jToj pensities which has been given to : the infant at birth. j A knowledge of these fa-Ms v. ill ! developethe real nature of man, and show the importance and necessity of well directing the circumstances which shall form the characters of the next and future generations, and which may materially amend those of the pre- ! sent. Having devoted many years to acquire a knowledge of the influ. ence ot the various circumstances , , en have been hitheito by which men formed and governed, and in an plying this knowledge to practice, 1 am induced to think that the experience, thus obtained, will enable me to explain to the world the science of the influence of circumstances, through a knowledge of which, society maybe, in future, so arranged and governed, that it shall almost always produce hihV piness, and scarcely ever produce misery. It cannot be expected, that a subject so comprehensive, in prac tice. and so new to the world, should be readily understood, by a verbal or written explanation, except by a few superior minds. I have, therefore, had a model formed, explanatory of the proposed new arrangements, under the influence of which the character & condition of each individual and of society, cannot fail to be entirely changed and incalculably improved j This model I bring as a prcsrff to the general government of the United states, that the individual government of each state may have an opportunity of obtaining a copy of it, and that all, if they

ne accountable tor either, mot parted tome on the various sub- 2000 to 6 or ,8000 Wells and unjust and injurious to force any jeets connected with it, I freely Lilly, booksellers lost property such absurdity into the infant give, without the expectation of a- supposed to he worth from 50 to mind. ny return You possess nothing 70000. The whole loss was ve-

choose, may be equally benefitted, should the plan be found to com. , prise all the extraordinary ad vanI i i . '

lages wnicn long experience lias taught me to think it possesses. The model, and all the know, ledge which experience has mi I m i n which I desire to obtain, except your good will and kind feelings; and these you cannot avoid -ivi - ring, if circumstances shall be nvated to produce them ; and if not, von cannot in stow them Vmir - i.i. i ........ .1 i ii veami. piari ami minors l couid not, with my views, ( ither value or accent. Your onuses wouhl be no praises to me; ami the princi pies which I entei tain lead me to estimate future fame less than an infant's rattle. 1 come to you with a fixed determination to .1 make no pecuniary gain in vour country I come to von therefoie with no sordid, nor with any int. nested motive, unless it he one to desire to see so many of my fellow creatures enjoy the happiness which I believe this change in your system will produce If you do not make the change I cannot, in the .slightest diMTrrtv Mum .-nu j- ---w. v. i T of you; hut I shall attribute the want of success of my views to tnc deficiency of power in myself to explain them in uch a manner as to make it appear to he vour interest to adopt them. AH 1 ak ls that you will fully and honestly examine me sonjeci. i our tneiid, K. OWEN. From A7C6' Register. Old " Rebels" There was a deligh ltd meeting of old Et hels." (as they were called about fifty years ago, and would have been called still, had the doetriucs of k legitimacy' been sustained by ' le gitimate' power in the U. States.) in Derby, Connecticut, o u tfjfe, 10th November present thirtytwo soldiers of the i evolution. mostlv neomnniM'ts rmnr lrl nirl i r,Kt. r. , i Icchle. A dinner was prepared fnr rhrm nn . Ihn, . i ' -. v.ivj invj out im ii III! 150 persons of a later generation, to partake of its good thingX A line band of music attended Vitr? a detachment of artillery with field pieces, to honor these vener able " leaves" of " the times that tried men's souls. " Lafayette was received at Havre with the greatest enthusiasm

ii ui't-s inn uppcur mat me gov- I , n , . eminent had taken any measures klll(-h' RJ"g to sleep in the to prevent a favorable greeting (,f c?bl'1 ? a smal vessel a Newhim The Urandywine saluted V "J Hhey had lighted a the forts, which returned an equal charcoa fire It is wonderful that v such awful examnles are iicrps.i.

It does not appear that the gov mi iim irn.ffTiiiK On th ito.Y hi is disembarkation, the gener

proceeded to his country seat, ac- Vv,USe,0t tmscoaI ,n c,ose rooms, companied for two leagues, by a . h do not as Uel1 burn numerous cavalcade, consisting of 1)1 imstone - young men of the principal fami Light House, to he lighted lies of Havre $ its neighborhood. gas Irom the earth it is said Captains Morris and Ueed, with about to be erected near Fredo3Ir. Somerville,had proceeded to a on shore of lake Erie. Paris. ; We have before noticed thib natuIJoston. There was another nl supply of inflamable air. extensive fire at Boston, on the? Congress of Panama Depu. morning of the 10th Nov. It be- ties from Colombia. Mexico and gan on the south side of Court Peru have been appointed to meet street, and spread with wonderful in congress a Panama, and it is rapidity, the wind being brisk said that the United States have from the north. Several ranges been invited to send representaof buildings, on both sides of lives also. The object of this

Court street, were destroyed and others adjacent murh ini tired' The names of the oecnnmt'c f . . "dopants ot

me nouses destroy ed are given thev amount to 52 of whom ii are attnrnies. Several of theni lest their libraries worth from '.- - u t ry great. Tin? old ,tatc house u twice on fne Nine or ten lar buildings, and several small oi 39 lar ire r Lilian were totally destroyed, ! The late Fins. ' rv York l:tr.r. ones ton, ' " -1 H o 1 1 i 1 1 ; - . . i i . npti- ( mis nuc oecn raided lor the relief j of the sufferers hv the laJe fnes in New Brunswick. &c. The ad dress of a committee to the people of B ston has the following paraginph; One fate now awaits the growing village and solitary log house. Nothing can live upon the face of the eaith.for ti e soil itself is burning cinder. T e forlorn and terrified sufferers, in many instances, betake themselves to the water as their only resource, and in Hieirtlight from one dai oe- hecame ietims to another Who I stops merN death. death tn.ds t. ...i. :... n. i lorn who hVs" Thp hnJna Q torevrr sepHi-atrd fivm his wife parents from children - hieiuU, relations inmates are toio hnra each other never again to meet ; hile great numbers of the survi. vors are left houseless and destitute, tint merely of the means of retrieving their losses hut of the tood & raiment necessary to prolong a miserable existence. Rtbbon Cane A species of the sugar cane, thus called, is b, ginning to be cultivated in Louisiana It appears to have many ad. vantages oer the old cane, for it is larger and less liable to be injured by cold, being one month earlier. It also takes a firmer hold in the ground, and so the better stands a gale of w iod. The suar made from it is of a superior quality. The planters of Louisiana are invited to adopt the cultivation of it in lieu of cotton and. if it generally succeeds, the revenue of the U. States will soon be materially affected by the increased production of sugar. But altho this is a terrible thing, we shall not regret that our brethren of Louisiana are prosperous.- that a million a vear may be sued to the nation by a domestic supply of sugar Charcoal Two men were late. SULU au examples are necessa. ?' t0 make ,enlllt raufious, as to