Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 21, Number 27, Vincennes, Knox County, 14 August 1830 — Page 1

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B3T BLIHU STOUTJ VUNTCSIMIvTBS, (LfiL) SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1830. VOL. XXI. ITO. 27.

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Frctnthc Jichn;j.id Enquirer. PUHL1C OPINION. The opposition have indulged the most sanguine hopes, from the effects of the President's Maysville Message. The very men whohavcirocsW to entertain an inviolable attachment to Stats Rights, and displavcd Constitutional upon their Banner, and vaunting of the benefits which Henry Clay, the ultra advocate of federal encroachment, may derive from this attempt of Gen Jackson', to limit the broad swiep cf Cue federal power. Thev are trying to reconcile the most violent extremes in their own person In the same breath, they express their respect lar the principles of the Old School, and the loyalty to Henry Clay. In the same moment, they cant about their desire to arrest encroachments, and yet rejoice at the injury which Gen. Jackson is doing to himself, by his attempt to arrest them. They vaunt of Clay's gaining jjround in Kentucky, Ohio, all the West, .Maryland, Pennsylvania and th3 Eastern States. But the partisans of Mr, Clay are deceived. The very men who adhered to Mr. Adams, with his sweeping Message staring them in the face, the men, who would now lay the Constitution at Mr. Clay's feet, are boasting of his success and attempting to impose upon the people The President's Message has net shaken his popularity through the nation. These men are mistaken in their calculations. We have received information, on which vc can confidently rely. In Kentucky, there is, of course, the greatest danger. The &re:.tba ly of ihe har, the merchants, the monied part of t!u Society, are on the side cf H.Clay bet the democracy of the State is against hiin. No effort cr expense will be spared to secure him a majority. 'He sees in the President's Veto, some possibility of excting the country, mounting the whirlwind ;uvi directing the stcrm. His Orators mmuu the stump, his writers brandish their pens, all partisans will open their purses, and vie whole State will be inundated with even' wpecies of false and inflammatory puMl . itions." In Franklin county, a fund is said to be raised for corrupting the suffrages, cr blinding the eyes of the people. And vet the friends of Jackson do not de spair cf the cause. Recent letters from Kentucky, speak with conhd.er.ee of the success ot the Jackson partv the result m that State is, however, doubtful. The same degree of doubt does not cloud the prospects in Ohio. "Although the Clay leaders are, perhaps, as reckless and as zealous, thev have not the same nam bcrs, talents or resources. Stansberry's district is thrown into some confusion, by bis contemptible eccentricity, or abandoned apostacy but every where else, the pros poet is s lid to be perfectly encouraging, and great confidence is expressed in the ability cf the partv to maintain their cause. Very little fear is felt for Indiana Illinois is even still more unshaken and Missouri cannot be moved. Our friends in Maryland arc said to be in fine spirits, it is even confidently asserted, that the President has won additional friends, by the manly course he has pursued even alon'r the Route ot the Western Road. Every account from Pennsylvania, cm curs in statinsr. that this act of the President is received with almost universal ap:r:b.::ijy.. The people in that great State, arc so much interested in their c'-z intern d j improvements, and so much surfeited with the federal power, that they seemed ready to applaud any man who should "dare to touch the splendid bubble." In N cw-York, no man apprehended any danger: and the Message has still more enlarged the confidence of Jackson's friends. lnNew-Enghind.it will strengthen the administration. The Republican Members of the Legislature of N a -Hampshire, have had a meeting, and chosen a Committee to prepare an Address of c.ngiMtulatioa and confidence, which it is believed, will be voted fi)r and signed by evert Jackson r:.ri rv dz:h H:ui s. Even the President'; enemies ai c either almost entirely silent, cr thev .ipplaud the Act. The prospect, indeed, is the most cheeringif the triends ot the Constitution will onlv (I i their dutv. The 1 re-ident n is trmneu m retain nv t'i- AU sa We all know h? was s ilh .-mlv strong before T'i .ii.iial (''iMiMft; whirh it diMilavs onlv CXCiX-i I niration, and dehe tne pppo.i1 . . tion. " I'nat he has, from a hih sense of p ibhc duty, put to hazard tli .great popularity which others arc attempting to .v. ek thr.Mgh uag. ncrou-. excitement ar.d viuh-nt com uNum. i, of itself, vitfick-m to otistitutc- a wa-apou i f dc fence, that mast prove fatal to the as tihu-t only. To make o'jv gavcrr.T.cnt nore pure, m-re i''ur-

more republican than ever, requires onlv j union and energy anions the true friends of the President and the Constitution."

Littlc factions must be silenced. Out Po liticians must look to their Country's good. I hey must iorgct their own pettv schemes and private wishes. "Let us rauc (as a. Correspondent writes,) a fla, inscribed 1 with "Libertv. the Constitution. Andrew Jackson." It wilt give confidence to our friends. The hopes of the people will be confirmed. A genuine and a radical reform in the administration of our Government, will then be achieved the ambition cf Hen ry Clay will be thwarted and the nation will be satisfied. From the V. States Tele -, THE VETO IN OHIO. The following extract is from the Sandusku C'nrhfOk Jur.e 12 one cf the rr. est violent Adams and Clav papers in the state. edited by a member of the Ohio Legislature. One good thing dove by Gen. Jackson." "He has rejected the bill which passed both Houses ct Congress, authorizing a subscription to the Stock of the Washington and Maysville I urnpike Company. We impose this at:' ot his wul hr cc-nvie-.nned, inconsequence cf the prevalence cf the internal improvement mar, 13; but we think he has done right. It mere were no constitutional objections to the internal improvement system, there was danger cf its becoming too expensive, and General (or we may now sav President) Jackson mer:f the. approbation of the real friends of the coun try, for giving it this check When we see Congress authorizing subscriptions to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, the Dismal Swamp canal, and the Washington and Mavsville 1 urnpike, and listening favora bly to various similar applications, we hac reason to tear that the object is to get the Government enlisted, and subjected to the expense, without any regard to the welfare of the nation." PUBLIC EDUCATION. From the A York Daily Sentinel. ESSAY I. Lycurgus resolved the whole busi ness of legislation into tbe bringing up of youth. Plutarch. Train up a child in the vay he should go; ana wnen nc is old tic wiu not de part from it. Solomon. What sort of education is befitting a Republic? This is an exceedingly important question to which we propose to the best of our ability to attempt a rc ply. A system ot' 'Republican education ought to be open and equal to all. No system of education which embraces any thing less than the whole people, deserves the name of republican; and no other system will reform a nation. Colleges to receive one tenth or one hundredth part oftho young population, may hare their uses; but if citi zens are to be trained up as citizens of a republic ought to be, the schools of the nation must bo open, net to a hundredth nor a tenth of the rising generation but to all. To shut the book cf knowledge to one, and open to another, is an unrepublican mode of proceeding. But some wre arc told are rich, whilst others are poor; some through superior skill or luckier fortune have obtained the means to afford their children an ex pensive, scientific, polished education; while others more idle or less fortunate have not wherewithal to pay schooling tor their children; or to support them beyond the age of nine cr ten even at a free school. This is true, cnourh. If it cannot be removed it is a farce to talk of rcpubli can education. So long as the poverty of the parent (whether caused by rnisforturc or misconduct) is to determine the ignorance of the child, so long will education remain as it now is, a manu facture ol masters and servants. As long as a younrc citizen must have a rich Cathcr or guaidian, beiore he can be trained m the way ho should go, just so long will aristocracy be perpetuated and equality among cm2ensbe destroyed. Many think, for that very reason aristocracy must be perpetuated, and equal' lty must remain an idle word. 1 hey think, it would be unjust and extravagant to give the poor man's child as good an education as the rich man's They say that is giving idleness the same reward as industry, and offering a premium to improvidence. If a man, they argue, chooses to beget a family, without the means to afford them a rational education, whose fault is it, if not his own? and who is to bear the blame and injury, if not himself? It is not society that dooms his children to ignorance and inequality, but himself. Whatsoever a man sows, tint let him reap. If liberty and equality are to be based upon injustice, better we should live without them, and injustice it surely is, that if a man1 has been prudent, careful, fortunate, and is now rich, his children should have greater advantages than his poor neighbor's reduced to poverty, perhaps by ! idleness and intemperance. j I he objection we have to this reason - ! inr? is. that it m k n,- r.lvt motion he. i y - wv -vi.j- - 'tween honest novcrtv an-1 u-nrthlcss no-

vcrty and a still greater objection tint! lory, in which he resides, in common it visits the sins of the father or. the chil-1 with the wt ite inhabitants, or of removdrcn. '; ;ng to the West of the Mississippi, unAll poverty is mt caused by misc .n-' der the Iviunty ar.d protection of ihe gen duct. A nun is oficn poor, not because ci?.l G'cn.ment, a:., I 1 1 ceiv hr. therein

hen less indu-.?ri u5s, but because he is mor? tripu!ous thm his neighbours,:

because perhaps li hood, or s'oop to r;rh c

e will net tell a false-1 a dirty trick to get ; rich. Some novcrtv is honorable: audi

if a father's worth is to be the measure jits execution made necessary, at this; a PRECEDENT. It has been exerof his son's deserts, the child of such a1 time, to avoid the more serious alteina ; cised, and thereby our country's ho'jrs

pcor man merits as gooci nay, a much ; better education, than the fortunate spec ulator's, whose coders groan under half . a mi:::on. But we deny the position that because the parent is worthless, the child ought to be neglected. That a man or woman becomes a malefactor may be an excellent reason why he or she should be shut up iii a state prison; it is no reason at all, why their children should oe condemned to ignorance, to temptation and to vice. 1 he child of the greatest criminal in the Republic has as good a right to a ra tional education as that of the most disinterested patriot. Does the child make its parents or choose them? Is it permitted to determine whether they shall be estimable? According to w hat principles of justice, then can it be punished with igncrance for their crimes. A republican education, therefore is not m any degree, inconsistent with the strictest justice. But the question recurs: How ar all children to receive a republican education, when soma of the parents cannot even affoid to support them at a free school, but must take them home frt ten or twelve years cf age to learn to work ten or twelve hours a day for their living. We confess that this is a knottv ciucs tion. To requite the parents to furnish the means, is often to require an impossibility. To propose that the state governments should add to the fund already provided for education, so as to provide for the support and education of all children whose parents cannot support and educate them, might be to impose a somewhat onerous burden on the country, to encourage imprudent maniages and augment the present ratio of increase to pupulation. On the other hand, if poverty is to deprive a child, as it now does, of educational advantages, the monopoly of knowledge remains unrepealed. Wfcat is to be done, then? CONGRESS. It will be asked, what has the present session of Congress, under the administraticn of President Jackson done? We answer, in a few words, roor much more, than any preceding Congress, since the establishment of the federal Constitution, save that, under Jefferson when the purchase ol Louisiana was effected. But ii may be demanded of us to give some particulars of the acis which make out our position. The reply ihen is, that. The Jackson party have obtained the relinqui.- hment of a considerable portion of the duties on TEAS on COFFEE on COCOA on SALT, and on MOLASSES : They have sent abroad efficient public agents, who have beon more intent to do the business of theii missions, than to tiifle away their time in the gay and splendid dissipation of courts, and consequently the public interests have been benefitted by their talents and exertions, in the following particulars; 1. The Minister to Colombia has obtained complete indemnity for every dollars worth of American property unlawfully seised and detained in that country. 2. The charge des affairs, continued in Brazils, by the express request of President Jackson, was successful in bringing about a settlement of our claims fcr spoliations committed by the Brazilian privateers. 3. Our Minister at the Danish Court, under the fresh instructions received from President Jackson, has succeeded, after many years of delay, in effecting a treaty with that government, bv which indemnity is obtain for the claims of our citizens for captures and seizures, un der their fiag during the French revolu tion 4. Our Minister in London, by his in defatigable labor and address, has pre. pared the way for a speedy adjustment oi all our uimcuiues witn England relative to the Colonial Trade, and such nav igation laws, as have operated to' the in jury of both nations. 5. Our Minister to France is said to have succeeded in awakening the atten tion of that government, not only to the justice of our claims, but the necessity ot providing tor their speedy payment The same assurance comes from Na pies. These various claims will add to the wealth cf our citizens from thirty to forty mUii-jns ot dollars; a sum which has been withheld from them for nearly 1 5 years, through the fears or neHect of former administrations. The great Indian Question has been j finally settled, leaving the red man, the - choice ot remandm ivherf h t - - " n .--..-w iec cn;v to the laws of the state. rr ten,. exchange for the land he fjuiu, a mach wider territory, healthier climite, ar.d

more abundant and

prciuj.e hunting, grounds. This measure wa projected under the former administntir.r tr,a tivc 01 civil war. aicn, the bct acquain j ted with the subject, in all itsbcaiin; consider the act equally the dictate of;

humanity, as ot necessity. j w est, is strictly and decidedly cgriculThe veto of the President, against the i lural. Our soil is rich and abundant in expediency of granting large appropria- every anicleof domestic consumption, tiensfor "Internal Improvements, is of; but money cannot be realized from the great impcrtar.ee, as a political measure, surplus productions of the ct ut.tr. Orro and displays his firmness, patriotism and j general complaint of the fanr-r is- the disinterested attachment to the true and l want of money. Most oT cu ,-grtCul-lasiing interest of his country, in brilliant j turalists arc lar from market, ;nd n3e ro colors. means of creating funds. Grain and They have passed a bill providing for ' stock are the s'apk s of the country Our

extensive surveys ur.d examination ot ; harbors on he sea board, and north w es tern lakes, and erect several new lighthouses. They have also passed a bill for paying the Massachusetts and Maine cluims lor mililia service; which, under the last administration, appeared to have been almost wholly neglected. This act will throw into our State Treasury, if interest is allowed on the claim, more than two hundred thousand dollars. ihey have made ample provision for completing the Miltary Roads, extending from the Penobscot River to Houlton and Mars-Hill. The appropriations arc near g 1 00,000, and the work in such forwardness as to induce a belief that they wilt be fully complete the present year. They have infused a spirit of industry and reform in every department of the government; and adopted such rules and regulations as to secure the faithful and punctual payment into the Treasury of all public money receivable by the ofii cersof government throughout the Union. The accountability will be strict and universal. And last, though not least, the President, by a single stroke of moral courage, has given a death blow to duelling in thVs country "Let their names be struck from the roll!" Truly it may be said in the language of a correspondent from Washington 'The administration is in a blaze of glory?" IMc. Imj. "Le 1 1:3 set doTon together and reason on the subject. The plain practical man will need no laboured argument to shew him what is for his interest. The Veto of the presi dentisnowa subject of general discus sion. i here are one cr two propositions contained in it, which, when correctly understoood, will settle this matter in the mind of every prudent man. Laying aside for the present all constitutional doubts, and meeting the question of ex pediency upon its merits, where will De, where must flfthe opinions of the peo ple of Ohio ? We ccmc directly to the point. Internal Improvements can never be pursued without funtls. To create these funds there must be taxation and to meet taxation, there mwst always be m W r a means, llow stands this mutter tnen with the yeomanry of Ohio? Who amongthem has the cash in bis pocket to hand over to Kentucky or any other State, for the use of itt citizens? We have some men around us who talk verybig about the Maysville road who look upon the veto as if it was an embargo upon every man's principles who esteem it a prohibition to the coming pros pcrity of the country, and who pioclaim it a direct violation of the pledged faith of the nation, General Jackson is censured for his conduct in rejecting the bill, and by loud and boisterous inflammatory appeals to the pasuoss and prejudices of the times, attempts are made to raise up a fallen idol to occupy his place. But before giving way to this ruinous doctiinc of public expenditures, let our farmers set down and reflect upon the consequences To what end woud such a prece dent lead? If the Maysville and Lexing ton project had proved successful, who could number the general rush cf app'i cations that would have flooded congress for like favors? and how could they have been denied? on what principle could they have been refused? If Mjysvillc, Lexington and Rockville, had been accommodated with one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the public money, could not Frankfort and Louisville upon a like principle, incorporate a company and seek a like loan ? In Ohio too, we need good roads, and the people are struggling hard to improve the few they have. If a million on two had been loaned to companies in Kentucky, Ohio also, could well have put. in her claim and shook the public purse. Such aprccedcv.ty once established, however, would soon be met by a more decided VETO thaii that of Gen. Jackson. It would be that of an empty treasury chest, and a poor, depressed and impoverished peo pie ; a population groaning under burdens beyond us means, and every farm m ;

the State, with every foot of ground oc-! and an immense and brilliant concourse cupied by industrious citizens, sutTcring! of Chiefs, cfficcrs, and respectable inhabunder the oppressive weight of direct itants, taxation. Thi is not imsg-nny His Excellency was suluted with vf Certain and incvrable ruin must follow a vs bv the people in the streets through

- system so danguous and so dee'ructive ; Docs any cue u.quke how this could be ?

i no answer no man can n take

for if the constitutional check is t! e executive vrto. ii mnu , Tfrci..,; . ..;fi ..,!, hav e been preserved J he state of Ohio, which now ukes the first rank among her sisters cf the canal w hen finished may op the way tor some portion of the fotn. r. Hut it should not be forgotten tra we shall then owe several millions for this great work. Thaxcs will press rord enough upon the people to extinguish and finally payofTthis debt, withou' favoringany wild scheme of Kentucky wi h the hard earnings of the industrious 'aoourer. Why, we humbly ask, should Ohio plunge headlong into such a speculation? Why posses-sing as we do the internal advantages of a grnwir.g and prosper cus commonwealth, should we rike ourselves a party to a mere local squ bble, originating with a few demagogues across the Ohio ? We put it to those who have a stake in the soil to the practical farmers and grain growers of the country and ask them what is to be gained by such a saciifice ? Look for a moment at the frightful picture of National bankruptcy and ruin that must follow this desolating march of pi blic expenditure. There are now no less than one hun. dred and eleven eurvcys and estimates of Canals, roads and livrrs in different sections of the Union, th-.t have been reported to congress by tf;e United States Engineers. These surveys and estin.ates calculate the cost at sixty thteo millions of dollars!! and there are others in progress that ?ook to ihe government for aid, which would swell this amount to upwards ot three hundred millions of dollars!!! Let us pause here and look at this business. This expenditure would subject every individual in the United States (including the women and children oi bis house) to an average tax of twenty five dollars. With this lesson before us, who can countenance the hue and cry raised against the veto? Where is the man where the friend of his counuy, the prudent, consistent citizen, who, in the faco of these appalling facts, will jom in the crusade arrainst Gen. Jackst r? It is o time that reason should assume her empire in the bosoms ol men. Every freeman is required to guard dgainst the approach of ihat catastrophe with which indiscreet and over heated politicians ate threatening the land. We call on tho yeomanry of the country by every tie that connects them to the constitution and liberties of America, to watch well the public purse. Let all debts upon our hands be promptly and speedily discharged. To meet this object, let a rigid eccnomy be pursued by our public agents. Let retrenchments no longer be a byeword in the mouth of a deluded political antagonist Let it be felt in every avenue and artery of the government, un til one general assent shall be yielded to its purifying influence upon the body politic, and be seen and known, and under stood, at every domestic fireside. 0. S. Bulletin. Frm the Baltimore American, July 8. LATEST FROM COLOMBIA. Thebiig Montilla, Bcckraan, arrived at N. York on Monday bio't Ci'ngcna, bringing papers cf tnat jc- c tne 1st July. The annexed extracts are taken from the second edition of the Journal cf Commerce and the American. It is stated that two days previous to the sailing of the Montilla despatches were received from Venezuela, announcing a counter tevolution in that department, the overthrow of Gen Paezs authotity aad influence, and his forced resignation. The department had, moreover, declared for a reunion with New Grenadi. On Balivar's arrival at Carthagcna, it i stated that all the principal merchants of that place called on him in a body, requesting that he would net desert thsm, or leave the country. The next day rdl the ladies of Carthgem waited on him with the same request. The Southern provinces cf Guyquil and Panama had given him inforrnatior. that if he left the country, they should immediately separate from the Republic of Colombia, and form independent governments Czrthager.ai June 27 On the 23a inst. his excellency the Liberator arrived in this capital, (from Turbaco,) accompanied by the Srs. Prefect and Cammar.dant General of the Department. which he passed. ; Immediately he was nailed on by hi,

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