Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 16, Vincennes, Knox County, 26 May 1827 — Page 2

Gwcetzcr, to oppose the bill incorporating a company to improve that part of the Wabash river which is under the joint jurisdiction of Indiana and Illinois. What influence, if any, Mr. Sweetzer may have exercised over Mr. Beckes, is unknown to me, but I am confident that I exercised none. I may be mistaken in the character of Mr. Beckes, but from the opinion I have formed of him, he is the last man with whom I have any acquaintance, over whom I should expect to beable to exercise any influence. And although Mr. Deckes and myself are on terms of uninterrupted friendship, yet if my recollection serves me right, we never had any conversation with each other about the Wabash Bill." I had no knowledge whatever of the Course that Mr.. Beckes intended to pursue on that subject. I neither advocated nor opposed that billj other than by my silent votes, for I saw from the beginning it would not pass. It would have been rejected on its first reading on the motion of Mr. Howk, had he not withdrawn that motion at the request o$ Mr.Beckes. I did not approve of the billj because I believed it to be defective in all its parts that it was not calculated to promote the best interests of the community, but would be a direct clog on those interests. It appeared to me to be a private speculation, without ahy direct view to the public good ; and what was most extraordinary, donated public funds to this private company for their own individual benefit. I viewed the improvement of the navigation of the Wabash river, a matter of great importance to the public at large. I considered this navigation as one of the great western links of internal communication, and that

it would not be long neglected, and that if

a little patience should be exercised the aid of tUe general government would in due time be extended to us. As to the subject of internal improvements, I stand in the front ranks of the advocates of the system, but I have had sometimes to differ with my friends as to modes of proceeding. Your friend, S, C. STEVENS. Indianapolis, May 11, 1827. lilr. Stout A recent publication of G. W. Johnston Esq. addressed to the citizens of Knox county has just been hand-

cd me. In it I perceive a charge against Mr. Beckes of representing Mr. Stevens and myself, in the last legislature, instead of his constituents or in other words, acting by our dictation. With the design of Mr. Johnston's pulication or his difference with Mr. Beckes, ot the election of either, I have mulling to do; but when a charge of the present kind against Mr. Beckes is wholly unfounded, I feel it a duty to contradict it. The conversation I had with Mr. Beckes in relation to the bill for the improvement of the Wabash river was very general. He always expressed himself very anxious for something to be done, but I did njt know what course he would pursue last winter, nor did he know mine. The integrity, independence and good judgment of Mr. Beckes, al ways precluded the idea of undue influence over him to be acquired by any person ; nor do I conceive it possible. The intercat of the people of Knox county, I believe he at all times intended to advance. The charging of Mr. Beckes with hostility to the bill for improving that part of the Wabash river under the joint jurisdiction of this slate and Illinois, by my suggestion, is in effect charging mc with the SiHiic. That hostility I avow, and I believe I moved to postpone it indcrTinitely. I have always been in favour of internal improvement, and I would not vote for any person unfriendly to it. The connecting the waters of the lakes with the Wabash, and improvement of the latter, is of Ihc first importance (o the state, and by the aid of congress last winter, will shortly be effected. The legislature has heretofore had no data by which they could estimate the cxptmce of improving that part of the river above alluded to, and if they had, the state liadno funds to appropriate. The bill of last winter I considered to bciwmcand directly opposed to the objects of its friends. It vested in a speculating corporation the entire control of the Wabash for thirty rears, k excluded the tatc from making the improvement, should the corporation fail to do it. It also appropriated a sum of public money to be squandered away at their pleasure and they were amenablc to no tribunal for their improper conduct. I do not impute improper motives to any one who supported that hill, but Mr. Johnston will permit mc to exercise my own opinion as to the utility of a measure proposed, as I alone am answerable for my conduct. Had that bill passed into a law, I believe the people of the Wabash would have regretted it, although I may

be mistaken. Respectfully Yours. B. SWEETS Eli. Mr. Stout In answer to a publication in the Indiana Journal of the 15th inst in which I am addressed personally by S. C. Stevens And as I am informed that that address, by particular request, is to appear in your paper of this week ; you will please to give the following, a cotemporary insertion with a rcque&t to the Editor of the Journal that he will give it an insertion in his paper. I am Sec G. W. J. Vincennes) May 22, 1827. S. C. Stevens, Esq. Sir : I have this moment received the Indiana Journal of the 15th inst. containing your insinuating letter to me. Had you sir, adopted a different course of communication, I should have appreciated your motives much more highly. Your acknowledged acumen should have enabled you to discover the ironical view 1 had in making the inference to you and Mr. Swcctzer, therefore I supposed you would pass the thing over sub-silenlio. But yoiir anxiety, it seems, to gratify a new to an old, a quandum to a real friend, or something either better or worse ! excites you to addiess me in the public prints. You sir, and the public will excuse my laconic style. And with the same charily you seem to have adopted towards me, I will on the present occasion, use towards you And say, that you formed your letter in the lodging room of Mr. Beckes, or any where else where the Journals of the last session were not to be found, than in the Secretary of States' oflicc where they were to be found. You say, my pamphlet ' is the ofTspiing of personal difficulties between Mr. Beckes and myself." Had you sir, upon this occasion shown the least degree of respect to either yourself or me, you would not have made this assertion, lor in the commencement I avowed the intention of investigating his conduct as "a politician undone of the peoples representatives ;" and it was my privilege and duty to do so. With his private character I have not interfered, had I or should I yet hedi ovc to it, a single sheet would not contain iis true delegation ! You say you iK are an entire stranger to those difllcultit'H" v i;;t iili i:riilM. nil,.

Cr than those stated in my rutmnhlct. in re

gal d to the bill lor the improvement of the Wabash, &c. and which were iho subject of your scrutiny r And ifso. von must be a very ?tntvr.somc man to form and express a positive opinion up m subjects with which you were an " cii'irc stranger. I did not, nor shall I charge you ant' Mr. Swectzcr with "influencing Mr. Beckes.' But as ou were both opposed to the passage of the hill, in u hich opposition Beckes joined and in his address to the citizens of Knox boasted of having represented his constituents," I theiefore had the right to ask him whether you and Swectzcr were the i constituents' he refercd to. You say you and Mr. Beckes " arc on terms of uninterrupted friendship". Surely sir, you here forget youiself, or you must refer to a pcticd posterior to the last session, when some sharp sparring took place between vou, on the floor of the louse, in consequence of the amendment offered by Mr. Boon to the section (T ) in the special appropriation bill, respecting C. G. Brown's claim Or may be, you intended the observation to apply and be confined to the sittings of the last Federal and Supreme courts, when, as I am informed, you endeavoured to persuade some of the jurymen from Knox, to support Mr. Beckes at the approaching election. This being taken as fact your cpinion of the bill, of myself and of Mr. ticckes ; And the causes and motives which induced you to address me, in the artful manner you have, are stripcd of their fine drapery and tinsel. You say I neither advocated nor opopposed that bill," (meaning the one for the improvement of the Wabash.) Now, by reference to the Journal, page 506, you not only " silently voted" lor, but moved the House to adhere to the fu st amendment I ! You speak of Mr. Howk and wherefore, unless to boulster up your quandum friend ? You say it (meaning the said bill.) would have been rejected on its first reading on the motion of Mr. Howk." I was ignorant of the fact,i it be sc, until now, that Mr. Howk'a dictum was a law, a sine quanon, to the House of Representatives ! I But now for the whole truth Had you examined the Journals a few pages further on, after the withdrawal of Mr. Howk's first motion, viz. page 311, you would also have recollected that Mr. Howk moved to reject the bill, and which was not " withdrawn at the request of Mr. Beckes" and the vote by A. and N. upon that question decided whether your prediction as trjthc fate of

the bill, is partial or impartial, true or fallacious (In favor of rejection 9, against it 45 a fearful odds, is it not my friend Stevens ! 1 1) The Wabash bill, as it is generally termed, apppeared to you as a private speculation" O ! my dear sir, you above all other of my. friends, ought to be the last who should complain of private speculations" 1 i But to my understanding the bill was not so ; but has already been demonstrated to be otherwise. You say the bill " donated public funds to a private company, for their own individual benefit". Your best friends admit you possess some talents for investigation and discrimination ; but this remai k staggers them for they dislike to admit you are a mercenary writer ! ! You say you ' stand in the fiont ranks of those in favor of internal impiovemcnts". The "tree is known by its fruit" and you gave but poor and weak evidences of your assertion, three years ago, and at the last session ; particularly wlien you voted to lay the u Joint Resolution approving of the exercise of power by congress, to make internal improvements," upon the table and afterwards, npon Mr. Beckes's motion, voted for " an indefinite postponement," tee Journal page, 420 and 421. Your Iriend G. W. JOHNSTON.

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