Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 20, Number 8, Vincennes, Knox County, 4 April 1829 — Page 1

WESTERN SUN & GENERAL' ADVERTISER

BY ELIHU STOUT. VINCENNES, (INU.) SAT KOAY, Al'Hll. 1, 120. Vol. XX. No. 8.

jets; wmuu may oc discharged by the pay

ment ot 2 at t:io time ot subscnbinir.

icnt in advance, being the mutual in

it!) parties, that mode is solicited.

to noti IV a wish to discontinue at

A lailurr:

TllK HESTEkN SUN I representatives, for the cession of her unmpro-

IS md:i..b,d m tt2 so rrntc. fnr s limJ pnatcd lands to that state. Missouri and Mis

graduation bill. Ohio has as, vet made no ex

prcssion on the subject. The greater portion of

the public lauds which are of any value in that !

state have passed into the hands ot individuals,

or are covered with military districts, leaving

the expiration of the time subscribed for, will her with little interest to contend for ; so that it

nc conduct cd a now engagement; fik no sub scribcr at liberty to discontinue, until all ar

rearages arc paid Subscribers must pay the

postage on their papers when sent by mail.

Letters bv mail to the Ldltor on business

nmt be paid, or they will not be attended to.

Produce will be received at the Cash

tuem fo e a majutii), an air of ridkulc, were they not to tal;c the management ot af fairs exclusively into their own hands. Nay,

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would not be surprising, if Ohio should feel kike

warm, or go into the ranks of the old states on this subject. Hy a recent treaty with the Potaxvatame Indians, held at the Big St. Josephs in September last, their title to a tract of country, of considerable extent in Indiana, was extinguished. It includes the country watered bv the Elk Hart, and other

Market Price, for subscriptions, if delivered tributaries of the St. Josephs, and is supposed to

within the year.

be in extent, about one million of acres. H.' his f I'n-lfl' It II O I . -k t ttrt4,li,l A ft t "t v t-1 .(irtM ft

AnVFtlTtSFMFNTS lint CVCecditlP- thirteetll ' u.,w i.it.iiiv.u. zm a j u uiauuu-iui ADvr TisEMENrs not cscccuing 'rff 'M its survey is made, and some of these lands will

ines, win ue inserted tnrce times tor one uoi- lm f,0,,ht . hrnmr,.t int lhp mnri-nthn rtninn-

far, and tivenly-five cents for eaeh after in- year. It is said to be u delightful region of coun

scrtion longer ones in the same proportion, try, and that the tide of emigration to it has al-

Err Persons senditnr Advertisements, must readv set in.

specify the number of times they wish them

mscrtcd, or they will be continued until ordered out, and must be paid for accordingly.

bill authorising the occupancy of the. mouth

of the Oregon cr Columbian river, gave rise to

considerable debate in the house of representatives. It was simnorted as a measure necessary

for the protection of the fur trade, for the prevention of British encroachments south of the line, and as a measure necessary to ensure us a

the federation becomes a mere rope of sand.

Proscription w ould then be ten-fold more inveterate than it is at present. Vast pecuniary

interests would be involved, and statesmen

Washington City, March 5, 1829. Sin : At the cloue of another session of con

gress, I again address you. A stormy and unpre- fair participation in the commerce of the South cedented period has just passed by, upen the his- Sea. It was resisted as a measure likely to pro

ton of which it is not ncccssarx- to enter. I he du.ee collisions with the British 6c Indians in that

contest is over, and the intelligence and patrio- quarter; on account of the worthlcssncss of the tisui of thc people, hav e commanded a prompt country, compared with the expenditure neccs-

acquicscence in the declared public will. The sarv for keepiag up an establishment there, and

session has been one of more than ordinary good on account of the bad policy of settling a colony,

feeling, and apathy, rather than excitement, or establishing a territory, requiring protection jcems to have seized the body politic. If the ves- at so great a distance ; but .above all, on account

sel of state shall be held in the same direction, of the delicate nature of the unsettled question of

her onward voyage will be equally prosperous, boundary westward ot the uocky mountains. It and should the present administration pursue the was negatived in the house of representatives, policy ef the past, on the subject of Internal Im- where it originated. A bill ton for the establish - pvovement and the Tariff, all who really went ment of a territorial government west ef INttchi

for measures, more than tor men., will lcjnice m gan, passed the house ot representatives, but w as

the prosperity ot tho country, no matter w ho ad- not finally acted on by the senate.

ministers its aMairs. 1 he foreign relation:- ot the country are in a

The oath of office, as President of the United condition gratifying to the friends of peace. We

Staves, was yesterday fulministcrcd to gen. Jack- have to be sure pending negotiations, on qucsti son. The day wr, pleasant, and a very large or.s of boundary and commerce with (he.it Bri

concourse of people witnessed the occasion. Be- tain, and of spoliations w ith Denmark ex France

bevmg that his inaugural speech will be more ae- But these threaten no inquietude to the country

.x-ptahle than any thing eKe, I give it entire. and the wars of Europe, between Russia fx Tur-

It was published in the Western Sun, of the key, and between the latter power & the Greeks

21st ult Sun, 1-d.j have little or no elket on our commerce, remot

A law has passed appropriating b0,000 to the as those theatres ot war are iroin the Atlantic

Cumberland road m Indiana. An appropriation ports of Europe. We have indeed been under

too of 100,000 has been made for the progress the necessity for years past, of keeping a strong of this road w cstwardly of Zancsville, in the state squadron in the Mediterranean, for the protccof Ohio, and the work may be expected to be in tion of owr commerce, and the suppression of piprogress, during the present year, on the greater racy there ; but this, independent of the wars of part of the whole line, from 'Zancsville, to the the Grand Seignior, would in all probability hav e

eastern boundary of Illinois. An appropriation been necessary to protect our commerce ae; oust

ot IUU,UUU uas also ueen made ter repairing tins the pirates winch continually infest those seas, road east of Wheeling. 1 he war between the Turks and the Greelv

The financial affairs of the nation, arc at this probably owing more to the destruction of the

ume, u uie u;ie uaii uu c.u s p.isv, in ;i inuv. l Ul K1SU IlCCt at Aavail!l(). IIKH1 tO ailV Ot U'l'

prosperous condition. During the last four years, cause, has for some time past been totally sumx u - i distinction sickened us

on has often been asked of the M or gon affair. Since the public has pleased to honor me so

' far, I Lay, that 1 believe the affair is a vile

they would evince any thing but loveofcoun-; speculation to make money, and not only to try, in permitting the public measures, and u akc money, but further designed as a politthc public insikmiotis, to be in the least in-j ical engine. The. stoiy, like Jupgcrnaut,

uueuceu o: comioicu oy principles anu (ioc ; operates upon tuc weak ana lrnorant : and

fines against which, as injurious in tenden-ithe crafty and designing use it to their ad-

cy, they were urracd. Measures and men' vantage. If Morgan was murdered, what of

is practically a better maxim than measures, j it How many men are murdered daily, with-

not men: and it loilcws that as a wise consistency ai d a honest practice of one's pro-

essions, piohibit certain disappioed Ktnea-

surest the ' v:cn inseparably connected with

those 1 measures' and always avowing a predisposition to them, are alike prohibited.

Let us for a moment imairinc the effect of

out ascertaining by whom ? You cannot open a newspaper but you find a late murder. If ihe same fuss were U.adc about every man murdcied, of which no account could be given, it would exclude every thing else fiom the papers; the presses would fail. Why is

Morgan, il he be murdered, more than any

abolishing by unanimous consent, the com-I other man f If he be murdered, it wasawic-

mnn phraseology of political party, and ot I Led deed ; and why not banc the murderer.

confounding in one mass, all w ho have hei e- j if be can be found, and say no moic about i:

tolorc been disjoined. Is it to be univei sal j than other murders ? Hut, say they, Morgan patriotism? Universal viituc? Universal k j was certainly murdered ; but we cannot find

toleiant rnalry lor the general good? 1 hat I his body or the murderer ; nor can we obtain

ia an impracticable peifection, at which Ulo- j positive pioof who was the murderer. Then

plan theorists alone ever dream ol aiming. how how can you say he was Certainly murd-

Were it fios&ible no one could oppose it. ered ? The face of the thing proves its ab-

Hut the least knowledge ol liuman natuie, or Uuulity. Will any sober may say then, takirr .

the least study of historical annals, must sal- into view the number engaged-in this.furce . isfy us all, that however captivating the idea bitter k enraged as they pietcnU to.br, with

may ic as a philosophical or moral specula- every civil otiiccr in the United States at

tion, it is certainly unattainable in practice.

Men r.'ilt differ they ti'Hl differ honestly and when they differ, they will struggle for ascendency. Hence fiartics, of one sort or

other, temporary or personal, must arise.

What substitutes is it proposed to offer for the Democratic and Federal parties, as now distinguished :

tncir sen ice, it they thought proper to call on them, they could not in all this time detect the murdetcr? Uut there were mete than one murderer then it is the easier detected. 11 the murderers cannot be found, look lor them still ; if he or they cannot be found, it proves, either that there is none to

Find, or, that they have not done. their duty in

A Tarij'aui an Jnti Tariff party ! M Ae searching lor him. This Morgan., story . is this the only settled political distinction, and - precisely like the witches of Salem; and

nothing keeps these fanatics from cutting the thtoat of every mason in New York, -but the law s ; it is not their goodness keeps them from it. This Morcan nlan is a match fcr

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would be preferred only as they fattened the the scheme to raise money; and like

purses of one or the other class.

A A'nrth and South, or an Kant and West party ! Again we say, the Union could not last a year. Doth sections would be equally willing to dissolve it. If, by a miiacle, they kepi together, one of ll-.cm mur.t be subordinate, and mu st be oppressed. Our domestic policy would be partial, and pregnant with in sui rection. Our external attitude would be crippled, and inglorious. Foreign nations would be imilcd to treat us with contumely and injustice, and would c:zc utioii eveiv

them, they arc now aiminc: at power. But

the masons they are hercticks. Was not gen Washington a good man ? He was a mason WTas not gcnl Lafayette a good man? He was a mason. Wras not Dr. Franklin '4 good man? He was a mason Was not De Witt Clinton a good man ? He was a masom These are enough. Now all these are not oidy the best, but the greatest men in the world. ' These silly men might as well attempt to

pluck the sun and moon out of the heavens,

pretext to make war upon a people thusica-1 as to destroy masonry, as old as the deluge.

dy to make war up m then. selves. And, to give my opinion of it in a few words,

not for r

cm! of

The meeting held j bad not been for masonry, it never would have

J A A'jti-slave fiotdttig and a Slave-holding j if it were nc ! party I The little taste we once had t?f this become a h

uisonry, me work woul.i 1

avages ; arid more, 11 1;

there has been paid on account of the national dcd. It has left Greece in a wretched condition, j j,, this very city, on what was termed the ' km any thine- else but savage. Like the fire debl ;,S.,M2 28 ; ami should the same hs- II cities pillaged and burnt, and the count, v Mnri tjucstior:, was more fraught with j , n the altar, they a, c the only class of men cal prosperity be continued to us, which has ex- depopulated by famine and the sword. I ; 1 1 . .-. i. ' , , ' . , , .sted the last'vear. the debt will neffect.be en- m , Lr, o :,n Lvinn i n. , ' W i 'langer to our con.t.Uiuon, hocrties, U l.vcsMhat have preserved cHABirr and pesevo-

titelv extinguished in little more than four years. Her agriculture almost wholly destroyed, and ,hin cvcn thc Hartford convention. ood 1 lekck alive ; that sacicd spaik which came

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tirely extinguished in little more than four years. Her agriculture almost wholly destroyed.

The whole remaining debt, exclusive of the bank the nation reduced to the extreme of humaiKiiU

tivueK nein 01 ,uuo,uoo, was, nu tne 1st 01 jam tering ami calamity. last, S l,3fv2, Kv T8, and of this the S13 000,000 The war between Russia and Turkey has bren

of the old Revolutionary three per cents, w ill in existence dm ing the greater portion of the last pi obably be redeemed much below par ; so that year; but unlike the wars of Napoleon, those the actual debt now existing, is little more than two powers ha e had half a million of men i 1 the the amount paid in the last four years ; and the held, without producing any considerable advanbobt wMi the warmest friend of President Jack- taee on either side. A few weeks or months at

: --mi can feel or utter, is, that his administration most, was sufficient for Napoleon to manb his

may extinguish the debt during the presidential armies to any portion of F.uropo, whitherso:er

H no f.a- which he h elected. This would be a he inclined to co : and with him a simle hit -

civir wreath, no less durable than the laurels tlt would often terminate a r.amiiniiMi . rmrl bv ihr.

Int already encircle his brow. Then will the destinies of kingdoms. In the present w ar. thci e

puhhr- lands in the new states be released from is little of the spirit which triumphed at Marenthe heavy weight of the national debt, and their rro. at Austerliu. and at Jena : which conducted

pk-d-o to that object, which has heretofore set the French annus in Italy and on the Rhine.

W ith much respect, your ob t. scrv t. VliJ,lAM HENDRICKS.

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men, thinkintr only of what nttirht to

got what m.v and eager to reach their ITeau- ; masons. Whatmore it consists of, I know

tiful land of promise, seemed iccklcss ot the : not, (lor I have never looked in Morgan), this ocean of storms and carnage w hich intei ve ! was enough, ami more than any ether humap tied. institution can boast. Masonry can boast qf Is it probable that any of these states of the b-st christians since thc world began. party would be less ptoscriptive than the one j My husband, well known to have been one of now in being f We presume not. 1 the respectable men, and descended

lint why keep up a distinction that is real- hour ore of ibe most respectable families in

like an mcuiMis on tne hew states, will cease to

exist. Then will it be in the power of the rvne

ral government to diminish the public re t ae

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p om to iu or i j millions, winch will still be esary for t'ae current expenditures, including internal Improvements, and this amount can be - imposed, as sufficiently to protect the primary ;nanufactan s of thec.ountiy. The high duties present im:cd in articles not manufacUn ed .0 bom", may then be totally abolished. The ;-'!'-'!'ip; vii tiio shipping and commerce of the ii'.u n stales, and on the agriculture of the i ."nth, mav t'uen be lessened, if not entirely remo,td; :'id the. nothing deserx iag the name of .Nrue, will lemain, tvi justify congress in refu-

-ng to aeko'vled;;e the sovereignty of thc new - v , in :mv1 over their unappropriated lamK ? !:e a'uectof the public lands is one ef much 1 no i r - ment even at thc present day; nor is ; a st emb:ii rassment likely t diminish while the i't and d:sjusitieu of them. 1 emain in t!ie tede- : 1' go et ument. A large portion of the tune of v a ;i's is aheail; empi ed iu legislating on 'ais su'-jeet, for the new slates under the present ; . sU in, and for many years past, have the tables t in tli houses ! ecu burdened with proposition?: voking to a change, of system. Among thosj" positions, that ot 'graduating the price aecor-v1'"'-to the ipialily, has been pres-T.ted to the on e.e for the last sis e. 1 s. T!.. graduation bill has been frequently discussed in t'ae senate, a d 'vo.at t!ie prex ions session, ju essed to adeiioa in t!i it 'uuh . The result was untax orable. i'he iiu'iuItis from the now states seem less inclined than heretofore, to press this bill, and in- ( lined to aw it the rig! i ii the nexv states, to their iui as incident to, and inseparable connected with state sovereignty.

Resolutions assoiting m the stronger terms, i vice of the country men on whose nc

tne ri,;:usoi ine new siaiesxo mo unappropriated lands within their limits, have, during the present session, been received from the legislatures of several of those states. Louisiana, Indiana, $c Alabama, have taken the same grounds ; Illinois has presented a memorial, the spirit of xvhich is very much the same, and Tennessee, for the last two sessions, lias had a bill before the house ef

Ft o;n the ..n rfju Sentinel. A continuance of the same detnaieation ol political parlies xxhich has existed ever since thc establishment of our National Govern

ment, seems, upon the whole, the safest course for the preservation of peace, of pi inciple, and of union. We ate axvaro that many utgc an extinction of thc phrases Democrat and Fide r-liTt, and a new vocabulary, with a fresh organization, upon reasons, some of xvhich arc certainly plausible. Uut they do not sufficiently reflect upon the probable, if not sure consequences, of thus abandoning terms now universally understood, ami adopting others, thc import and application of which could not become fixed and satisfactory, short of half a century. Is it not xxiser, " Tc t ear the ills wc have TSaujlij tv those ue know no: of." That there are i(V consequent upon an adherence to the past and present party distinctions, xve admit. Time and opportunities arc, however, teaching us gradually how to alleviate, if not cure them: and, indeed, thc rapidity with xvhich one side is gaining upon

and absorbing thc other, promises to narrow

the operation of those ills to a small sphere.

It is unquestionably painful, and secmir&j

iy without a diffeicncc J It is not so. Dt -mm racy, in its party meaning, and Fuleralism, are more decidedly different than Whig

Americ:., uniformly told me it was thc grea,tcst institution in ihe world, and that if l ever

should l.nppcn to be in distress, to call on

and 7 Vy. The former are, in fart, in a re-! them. This I have found to be true when

public, analagous to thc latter in amonaiehy.

In laigland, thc Whigs are thc democrats,

and thc Tories thc federalists, of their form I encd theirs.

of government. Thc constitutions of thc two countries arc expounded differently by thc respevtixc pa' tics: their fixed maxims have a different tendency : and though occasional circumstances may confound them in the practices of ostensible leaders, there is a vital and salutary principle of mutual repulsion xvhich keeps them forever from amalgamating. Was there evera state of political partics in Cheat Ihitain preferable to that of Whig and Tory? Was that of Roundheads and Cavaliers better ? Of Ficnch & Dutch?

christians, so called, the godly missionaries,

shut their doors against me, the masons op-

Af.it) Does No portion of the U. States has heretofore been troubled less by canine madness than that which lies N. West of thc Ohio river. Many of the early settlers of Ohio and Indiana have recently told me they never heard of a mad dog having been seen in cither of those states. The case with us, is now unfortunately changed. A short time rince a person near this place had a dog, 14

fine sheep, and several bogs, bitten by a dog supposed to be mad. The dog bitten was

Of Papist and Protestant? Of Court and fastened up in thc ordinary time, gave eve-

Country ? f j ry sign of canine madness, and soon after diLct it not be supposed thr.t w c pi each in- cd. Several of thc sheep died almost imme-

vctcracy. We do not fc?l,and cannot incul-1 diately, fiom thc severity of their wounds

thc others, and one of thc hogs, have since gone mad and died. Strong symptoms of

thc rabies canini have appeared in a person

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catc it. Uur sole object is to enter a caution against the cant xvhich abstracted and visionary men, sometimes honestly, sometimes

artfully, vent against those xxlio, upon broad!

and practical, and patriotic principles, insist that it is but to keep ua existing and known divisions of party, notwithstanding the fexv evils which accompany them, than sink into a condition, whence must spring other divisions infinitely more dangerous to thc peace and honor of thc country. MllS HOVAL S V1FVSOF FHKF.M ASONR Y.

xv ho xx as bitten by a dog supposed to be m?d

in a part of Ohio adjoining us, and many dog have recently been killed there in thc last stage of madness. The great numbep,of dogs in this country, and incredulity of a large portion of the pcopic arising from a belief that such a thing has not been seen among us, have induced thir. notice of thc subject, apl statemtnt of facts,

tfiat this inostfaial disease may be guardee

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Prom thc second volume of thc k Ulack j against in proper season Centetville Timet. xve extract the following para gVnphs. ' ' -

not truly patriotic, to exclude from thc s( They contain much truth ; and though fiom According to thc latest accounts from Eu-

rsonal thc pen of a lady on whom a fexv senseless rope, the Russians had completed the fortiri-

mtcgrity xve may rely, and whose abilities

might be useful, merely because their opini

ons or preferences have tbroxvn them into a minority. Such a result is, nevertheless, and always has been, unavoidable. Thc majority would be unjust to themselves, and would cast upon thc content which has determined

scribblers have long endeavored to fix thc op j cations of Varna, having not only repaired

pcllation of insanity, they would not discredit all thc breaches made during the Utc sicge, thc discernment or reasoning faculties of ma- but added new works of grcpf trcngth. It it ny who claim, over her, an intellectual supc- said that the Turks themselves.admit that the riority. They exhibit a liberality of sentiment place is more strongly fortified than it wa worthy of commendation. Masonic Garland ', before the siege. As to thc deiigpi of the " Apropos, speaking of masons, my opini- belligerents, wc find that Knswa bis dctsr-