Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 19, Number 21, Vincennes, Knox County, 28 June 1828 — Page 2

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(past, a redundancy of capital. It has been

sicn'v?ill tcrrninatc c:uhc 26th of the present ( Wabash pirt cf the slate, as it rx.akcs further month With much resncct. vour obedient ntotisions towards the prosecution & cccora-

nut t ti ti ttt'i nnti't'c !ni:.i.mnt i,. ru .- rT ti, W "h-.H

I canal, provisions that were indispensably no-

change beneficial to the new states.

The course I have taken on this subject) is seeking investment, at four and a hail and five j servant, erobablv known to all. It has lone been m? ! ncr cent, while in the north western states

oninion. that the nublic lands of riht bclonir there is scarcclv anv circulating medium ai ' To thr Votfrs of the FinsT Congres Icessary, and it brines together the state of In

to the several states in which they lie, and that . all. ! sional Uistkict or Indiana jdiana and the populous and wealthy state of but for the compacts entered into with the fc ; An appropriation of five hundred dollars, Fell Citizens The twentieth con- j Ohio and has a tendency to unite them in this deral government, previous to their adiuhsi- for surveying the obstructions to the naviga grcss having' closed its first session on tin splendid undertaking. on into the Union, they might constitutionally tion of the Wabash river, between its mouth : 2fith of May, I set out without delay on m j An act has passed, appropriating 8175,000 have taken possession of them, in virtue of and Eel river, has passed A bill lor the con ! leturn home, and had the pleasure ol arriving j for the completion of the Cumberland road to

lality with the ! tinualion of the Cumberland road through tht ' mong my constituents on the fifth instant. 1 a mtsville, and which is to be ccnt.nucu tnro

state sovereignly, and their equality

original states. In accordance with this opin , state of Indiana, appropriating fifty thousand

ion, I did at the present session, as I had done .dollars to cut the timber ofl and dig down tht at the last, propose a direct cession ol there : banks, has also passed the senate, and should lands to the states in which they lie ; giving the time of the house permit, it will no doubt to the new states, unconditionally, all the pub , become a law. A further appropiiation ot

he lands to which the Indian title is c:;tin one hundred and seventy five thousand dol

Being again amongst you after an ahsence ol i the states of Indiana and Illinois to the scat of

so many months, and of incessant engagement government of Missouri. ii public service, I presume it to be a n atterl A bill has passed the senate, introduced inof some inter est to you as it is one of impcri to that body by Mr. Noble, appropriating fifous duty to ni self, to give some account ol ' -y thousand dollars for opening the Cumber-

the manner in which I have executed your , land road through Indiana florr, nut u came

guished, and that subject to the Indian title, J lars has been made, for the completion ol that J trust which your kindness has heretofore con to the house of keprescntatives at t,uch an adon condition of extinguishing that title at their : road to Zancsvillc, and to continue its loca- j fided to me. I shall proceed cheerfully to vanccd stage of the session, when so much own exnense i an expense avevauinr hereto- tion to the scat of government of Missouri : t do this, so far as the ordinary limits of a cir- ' of other business had precedence, that it

foro from two to five cents per acre. This also, an appropriation of thirty thousand dol 1 cular will permit, by laying before you a moid not be reached. My collcigue wr. proposition was on the tabic of the senate the lars, for continuing the surveys under the act ! statement of the. acts passed at the late scs 'Smith and myself, made repeated cfirrts to greater part of the last session, but no oppor- of 18'Jl. sion, which arc deemed particularly interest- have it taken up out of the oidcr in which it tunity was afforded for its discuss on until the In addition to the appropriations already ing to you, to all of which I have given my stood on the docket of business, but as it re

present Session; and the bill to graduate the mentioned, that of Sl0M,0i:0 payable in five ! feeble support, and by submitting some ether quired the consent ol two-thitos ot the mcrn

price of the public lands to which it was of- years, to the stock ol the Chesapeake and O subjects of legislation which w ere hut partial

Icicd as an amendment, although reported lor j hto canal company has passed the house ol re- ly acted upon. five successive years, never met the final con- preventatives. The woik to which this is a An act has passed, imposing addi ional tin sidcrallon of the senate, until a few weeks subscription, is one of the greatest import- tics on imports, commonly called tbetaviiV atro. ancc to the western country, and especially act, which, although it does not adopt thv

her s to effect this, and as there was a general stt Uggle among the delegations from the different states (as ii often happens at the clcse of a session) e ch tryirg togctthchalar.ee ui its local business first attended to it was

The public lands, especially of every new ; to that portion of it bordering on the Oi.io ri system of protection to the extent I di sited, four d totally impracticable to disturb the c

stabii hed ot dcr of business or suspu.d the c-

stahliskcd rule of the ln.usc. An act has passed appropriating ore millit;;) of dollars payable in five- rears in the in

vestment of the stock in the Chcsrptakc and

State, arc the primary interest of that state, vcr. This canal will terminate at Pittsburgh, will in some measure answ er the c:;peetati

and reason as well as justice would surely ' and unite the navigation of the Ohio, whh thje om of our countrymen who are engaged in say, that based as our institutions are, on the tide waters of the Potomac and this city. the patriotic employment -! domestic menu public will, that public will should control ' The army of the United States consists of factures, and will douhMcss cnh?.r.ce the value that interest. The legislatures of the new : six thousand. These arc stationed at about of the staple commodities of the west.

states are in my opinion, much better quali- forty posts, embracing an extensive line ol An act has passed, for the iurther iclicf of Ohio canal company. Thiscanal will extend fied to make proper disposition of the public j western and north western frontier. The the purchasers of public kuuh the first sr: - ftem Pittsburgh to Washington, will unite

lands, than is the congress ot the United ; prcservattcn of public pioperty, and the oi :u tion revives and. continues in for ce until the

States. They are better acquainted with the ; pancy oi posts in the vicinity of the various lib day of July JS'JP the various Ind :.

condition of the people, their wants and their Indian tribes, necessarily distiihr.es this wishes. The states would better know how force into small corps, requiring a greater to graduate, and when to give pre-emption proportion of officers than would he nec.essa rights and donations to actual settlers. Un-: ry if embodied in the p'eld. A less army than

dcr the auspices of the state legislatures the that n actual service, would, in the op'mion become forfeited sip.ee the fit. si of lands of inferior quality would be given toac-iof many military men, be insuiikient lor the 1820 and remain unsold.

tnal settlers who might be unable to pur-.' necessary purposes of tire government even chase, and prosperous and compact settle in time of peace. 1 voted however for the re xnents would be formed, in districts of coun- duction of the army in 131, to its present e

try, whiclumder the prcscntsystemarcalmost ! stahlishmcnt, and was then, as I still amol o

'.he waters of the Ohio river with thosj of the

Potomac, is deemed one o! infinite irr.i.c: tance

vv hich expired on the fourth dav of JuH last, io the nation at large, audits ;dvarifages will

and the second section extends ti;e provisions o rnoic tspeciaiiy felt i:i the western ccur.-

of the act to all hnds on which a luithei credit haj not hrcn taken, and which havi

Ui'

An'ilhcraet has passed, forth.c relief of tlie

ti v. An act has passed granting to the officers and soidicis of the revolution lu l pcy for the balance of their liver. there by disclta: ging a

sacred ohliga'ion to those ga'.iant spirits who

purchasers of public lands, which dii cc.s the suffered for us in the most trying times, and forlctted money to "oe jiaid hack to the uitfor seemed lor us the liheitj we Li,(y. The old lunate purcha-.cr of public lard in all ta.es. soldier may now repose in comfort through

Wholly neglected. pinion, that it might have been further re as well whet cone, twentieth part o! the pur- ' the i cmn: nt of his dav s, and when he is about

The bill to graduate which had been long , duced. chase mom v wasil. posited, as in cases wheic todepart this wotld to be again unittd to bis

before the senate, and had from vatious cir 1 The whole naval force of the United State the payment ol entire ii siaimcnts has ht e..

cumstanccs excited a considerable interest in 1 authorized by hut previous to the 3d ot Mart h nn.de. This rrpaymeut is to be mr.de in tin

its favour, was all that had prospects of sue- 1827, consisted of twelve ships of the line, shape of eeitificales ot seipt, which are to , and his count: ymen

early companions in aims, amor.g-.it his last ampliations will be a blessing upon 1. is country

cess at the present session, and of course the exclusive of two on lake Ontario, seventeen be issued by the register ot the land ( Hic s proposition above referred to, was not press , frigates of the first clas-, three of the second where the payments were made, and will he ed to a final decision j no vote was taken on it. class, sixteen s'oops of war, four r.ehoonci s receiv cd ?is cash at par in cvety deLeiiptiou The hill to graduate proposed to cede to the ; and three other vessels. Some of these ate of hind payments. States such lands as could neither be sold in a j yet on the stocks, but this whole foreo is in A hill was aho int reduced in tin st n ite given time for twenty five cents per acre, nor condition, to be put into active service in a and there discussed, having for its object t!;i

'J hesc acts, Icllow citizens, have al! been

approved I y the president and become laws, and I need not remaik that they embrace incisures as ptomincnt and interesting as any wh.ich could have been presented to the councils ol the nation In addition to these,

given away to actual settlers ; but this section short period of time, should ti e exigencies graduation oi the f:r:cr v public la? ds, but if -ue hut ch ed and fifty other laws have passed, was stricken out, and the bill as amended and of the country so require . lv act ol tic 3d was lost in that bodv, which was considerei! ol a mixed character, eencral, local and indi-

finally voted upon, proposed a graduation of ' of March, l27 a tuither nppr.'priaii ;n ot as ilecidin;; its fac lor the session, an prices down to tvventyTivc cents per acre, fal-i five hundred thousand d-llai s j-.et annum lor subject was not tberehoe Liken up ii

ling every two years twenty five cents, and six years, for the gradual increase ot the nav

Belling at prices somewhat reduced, to actu- was m-ade, and under this act, timber has been al settlers one quarter section each. I voted procured, for coi.strue'ion of five ships ' ih for the bill and was anxious that it should line, five frigates anil iie sloops- of war. pass, as the best that could at the present be ; Of the vessels of the navy there a'e n w i:. done. and as a step towards my own proposi- commission, one ship of tbc line, tbtcr I si -tion, to which I have little doubt the matter gales of the fn st class - Mif t!te sec.e.od ; b --s, must ultimately convc. The graduation bill , ten s'oops of war and schoontrs. i hesv Was tcjectccttd by a vote of twenty one to are stationed in squadrons in the Mediien atwenty five in the senate. Two senators ncan, the Htasils the West Indies and the

who were absent would in all probability have Pacific, for the protection of our commerce,

lion-

f-p' esetitutiv es.

A propoj'b'ii was a. so introduced in t!e bef.n e fu.

d the vmuai but they arc not of sufiicicnt inter-

in the cbt even ii t!ic space of a circular permitted it,

to require that they should be specially laid

sep;

:e bv

t. lit ndiif ks. that the Lrcncral ro-

vernmei.l should make a ui:e; t cctsionto t!ie

It i?. row it) proper place for me to sr.y to

you, that, cm atrain a candidate for ctri-

new stales rt sj cct ive'y, of all the public ,rr3s and if the above measures which I lands which lio within tlu-ir charteied limits, have been in some degree instrumental in but tbi also failed, although it was support- "pelting adopted, should meet your approba-

d r.y Mr. ilcndneus wjih en energy and or

increased the majority against it.

numetrt highly honorable to him he i cprcsi n's.

An act has pissed, provi 1

I ' 1, f,f 1 1 1 1 rt rf tl.r. .fitlir. lii-f1c in fltr. tit;! intfi riA .....1 ...... ..

iiv vuiiuiuuii vn mime? in iiiv iM inivj , v. i , vviiii iimi sea uin.-; u i.ti is' rases wiie.e y. . ... .-ve ueer. u i prcbcni aumimsil ai.OIl new states, is ope which cannot last. Equal- The vvar between Dnenos Ayres and the issued, ay well as in nth? is, q .--. i-ondititm ' and that I gave a vote for ity with the original states, was guarantied Krasils, and the pr otracted contest bciw t that the par ty .-hall rcrmquith his :".t!e in such dows ol the six militia mer to them on their admission into the Union, the republics of the South -and Old Spain, mtm as shall be ptescribed by t!:c sect ctai y Mobile! Thtse thivrs I

which the cntci prize of our citizens has cat - rectionof errors in the cut; v

dtrnr relief to rases vvhe;e

lire state tb.c cor-

e Dee t.

f the treasury.

anil liteir inequality is too grossly manncst, to true been ttuitlul soutees ot piraeics, and be unobserved by an intelligent people. It is have largely contributed to the necessity ol not satislactoiy to be told, that many ofthecld our armanrcnts on coasts of Somh Anrriica States had no public lands at their disposal, and the West Indies, and the lawless a;. d santhosc lands having passed from thcBiitish gninaiy struggle betw ccn the (Urceka ;-.rd the crown to individuals before the revolution ; Ytuks, has produced the like necessity, Or

for such states, though thev may not have had an imposing sqnadion in the Mediterranean

the primary

had the pow

The sovereignty

tion, 1 trust I shall be again honored with

your sufiYagcs. But it is said, that in one of my speeches on retrenchment I made use of a highly improper remark, declaring (as icmc have it) that I would sink or swim with

tbc present administi alien right or wrong-

pensioning the wi-

men who were shot at

.viooue : i tttse things i never did, and al

though it would justify some violence of pas-

fee 1-

poriion

dit

money ariiing from the rale thereof in some to such ungenerous and unwarranted accui.a-

An act has ns-:l, to i:ori,-e '.he state, of sion that I should be so charged, my only let Indiana t- sell the z'-''? appropriated within ings are those of deep regret, that any port'u her limits for the u of schools, to invest tht of my fellow citizens should have given crtc

productive fund, .md the piece cdj to be for lions.

ates, though thev may not have had an imposing sqnadion m the Mediterranean evet applied under the direction of the legis reported in ell the newspapers which gav y disposal of the soil have always for the suppression of piracy, and the protcc hiture to the use and support of schools with- full report of it, I said that " I was willing kveroveriMn tire form of taxation, lion of our commerce there. ! in the se eral tow r.hips and districts, but this sink or swim ivithihe cause of the present': ;ignty and independence of a state, . The foieign relations of nr country arc as; is not to be done without the consent of the in- ministration" thereby meaning as the woi

In my speech on retrenchment, and as

ave a

to

ad

thereby meaning as t lie words

is indeed better consulted, by the soil being tranquil as at any penod since the last war habitants of the : tow nships or several districts themselves plainly convty. that I was deter-

in the nanus o! patriotic and industrious cm- Questions however ot some embarrassment r espcctiv cly. mined to suoport the administration to the sens, than in ihe hands of its own govern exist, in relation to boundary, between the U- An act has passed, appropriating thirty last extremity in the cause thty had espoused, ment ; but the people are mere tenants, whose nitcd States and Great 1j itain, on our not ih thousand dollars for examinations and Mir a caicsr characterized by the support ol intersoil is neither in their own hands, nor that of eastern and north western coasts To at . vcys in the country generally, as nreliminaiv nal wifirovtnen' the rnccurarrimt r,f ,1.

their legislaHire ; and the government is any tempt a history of these disputed points, to the expenditure of the national treasure on ' rneatic maniifucturcaywCL an extensh e relief thing else than independent, whose soil is would be too long for this It tter. Somcc it such objects of internal improvement as mav to the fnirchaserM rtf hublir lands This

uvueu uy, suojcci to rue jurismcuon arm 10 say, inai miucuities neretoiorc msurmoun ne deemed oi prm.ay & general importance w s the cause I pledged myself to support the disposal of any other legislature than its table have prevented the designation of oui An act has passed, appropriating fic bun one as much the cause of the people as of ihc' own. A respectful and persevering assertion north eastern boundary bet ween the United ; died dollars for defraying the incidental ex picscnt ailninistratu n, and il general Jukscn of our right to the public soil, as incident to Slates and the British provinces, and the pro-: penscs of the engineers in makimr an cxatn- should be elected the mosulr-nt nf ih,- I7i,itrl

the sovereignty and equality ol the states, is m gress ol settlements on both sides, have led ; ination and survey of the Wab.-sh river alone, States, I would cheerfully and zealously sup-

j ... .... , , , , v. .v. . w.,..,.,JU, ul.,.wllJ.u. umiumi. i ii'uuiu in JL.V i iivcr 1 1 1 1 1 e iiiuuiii oi pon rus aummisuaiion m trie some cause. 1 assume on this subject. Vhie div ided a state of Maine has been considerably agitated,; the Wabash When inviting the attention am for measures in preference to men, and mong themselvcsthey cannot expect soccv-s. on account of the violation of her territory and ' of congress tothis subject, I also mado an cf however much I may be devoted to Henry ny thing short f this attitude, anknow- the nialtrtatment of her citizens by Bi itish fort to obtain an appropriation of moi ey lo be j Clay, or to any other member of his adminledges inferiority and dependence. So doubt- subjects. The same difirculty of boundary ; cxpf r ded immed-at' lv a the grand rapids br-j istration, ll.e very moment they should abandful at least is the argument of constitmioual exists vvestvvatd of the Rocky mountains On 'ow Vincc ones, and besides appear ing before on the present policy of the government

ji n, III Imv. ivvniai iih uiuinii, IUIHI11 lilt UMS SUUJCLI .1 ICIIijlUltllJ V.UlIIJiUIF IXC VrtS lands within the limits of the states, that the fectid by a convention of 13 IS. Which ex j

the committee ol the house of represcnta- i which I consider necessary to the prosperity tives, I addressed a letter explanatory of my j ol my constituents, required by the interest of

compacts wiui me- m-w si ,i e s , nor 10 mieriere pucs oy us own limitation m ten years nom views to tne proper committee ot the set ate,' the Union, and equally necessary to the glory Vith the prim vt y disposal of the soil, and not its date. By this convention it was agreed and w hich the whole delegation fiom Indiana j of the nation that very moment I would abandto tax the public lands, seem to be chh fiv re- that no exclusive jurisdiction should be ex-j and Illinois were pleased lo siyn with me, but j on them. In the language lately used in conlied on; as if power could be acquired bv ercised by either party ; but that the citizens j there existed an insuperable unw illingness to - "

compact, which vvas not given by the consti- of the United Slates, and the subjects of

tut ion, arid a rt compacts made bv sixty thou- Great Britain, should have equal rights on the smd people belore they wcr c admitted into disputed territory. This convention has been

the Union, could equitably be binding in all renewed for an indefinite period of time,

future time upon mil'iors.

which however may be terminated, by either

The present condition of the public lands,- giving twelve months previous notice to the

must forever keep the new states, not only de

pendant on the federal government ; but ab-

other party. 1 lus question of boundary

heretofore has been, as at present it is, the ba

sotutely poor. By the operation of the land sis of unyielding objections on the part of maoflrcei, the country is drained almost to its ny members, to the proposed occupation of laM dollar, and this must con'moe as long as the mouth ol the Columbia river, a measure the public lands belong to the Union. It is a j not likely to be adopted, until all questions of singular fact, that on the seaboard, in the i boundary in that quarter be settled. Theses-

make such an appropriation until there had j .Mr. Adams in his message to the last con l. ' - . . i.i r . i f . ! ... . .

been a previous survey bv the United States

officers. An act has passed, granting a quantity of land for the extension of the Miami canal from Dayton to lake Erie, equal to one half of five sections in width on eachsideof the canal so far as the same shall be located thro the public land, and it further au horizes the states of Ohio Sc Indiana to hold a convention in relation to that part of the route of the Wabash canal which lies within the limits of Ohio, This act is of great importance to the

gress, claims the public lands as having been purchased by the blood and treasure of th whole Union. And the secretary of the treasury, in his annual report, labors ta shew that no change should take place in the price of their disposal that no new inducements should be given to the poor, and other classes to remove to, Sc populate the new states I do not pretend to give the words, but merely their meaning. And this is one of the cau tea of the present administration, upon which Mr. Blake is willing to sink or swim.