Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 22, Number 19, Vincennes, Knox County, 18 June 1831 — Page 1

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BY SLISJ STOUT.J VmCS&KSS, im.) SATURDAY, JUSTE 18, 1831. VOL. XXII. 3STO 19.

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IS published at g2 50 cents, for 52 numbers; which may be discharged by the payment of g2 at the time of subscribing. Payment in advance, being the mutual interest of both parties, that mode is solicited. A failure to notify a wish to discontwue at the expiration of the time sub scribed for, will be considered a new engagement ; no subscriber at liberty to discontinue, until all arrearages at e paid Subscribers must pay the postage on their papers when sent by mail. Letters by mail to the Editor on business must be paid, or they will not be attended to Produce will be received at the Cash Liar lc ri Price, for subscriptions, if delivered within the year. Advertisements not exceeding thirteen tines, will be inserted three times for One dollar, and tuemy-five cents for each afer insertion longer ones in the Same proportion jfT Persons sending Advertisements, must specify the number of times thev wish them inserted, or they ill be continued until ordered out, and must be paid for accordingly. HCPUBLICAN LEGISLATIVE MbKTLNG At a meeting ot the Democratic Re publican members ot both houses of the Legis:aui e, held at the Capitol in the city ol Albany, on the evening ol the 2ls? day of April, 1831, pursuant to previous notice, the Hon Edward P. Livingston, Lieutenant Governor, was chosen pr . sident, and Hon George R. Divis. speaker of the Assembly, and Hon John F Hubbard, of the Senate appointed secretaries. .Mr IJerds'.ey, from the joint commince appointed for that purpose at a previous meeting, reported and read the following address: To the Republicans of the State of X. T It lus been the practice ol the Republican members of the Legislature, as they approached the tei mutation of their Lcgisuti ve "labors, to present to you Such inflections upon the political con eluion ot the Union and the State as seemed to them to d maud your attention If we had no other motive to ad dcss you on this occasion than to do tvhat our predecessors have always done, we should feel that we were imitating an example, which from the repeated sanctions it has received at your hands, could not tail to command your approbation now. We will not dwell upon ths salutary results of thi practice. It is iuiricieot to say that t tn ough their in. tr-coiirse during the winter, your repre i! j'.ivcs became fa niliar wiih the condition of every stction of the state; and by ying beloM: you the results ot the Ini . ;o uion, .vhiclt they thus acquire, thev iie enabled, with greater certainty t. point out to you the source ot your ow.i s - ength, and guard you against i he nviv" nctus and stratagems ol your ad vc rie-s. Bir iiiero aro reasons peculiar to this orras'.-.m, which sender such an appeal boih pioper and necessary For some U'uc o bvious and ter we assembled fog . ti i r for the put pose . I discharging the duties devolved on us by virtue of the 1 i u - t s which you had committed to out- i .kN g'eai exertions were made b o.ir p dtical opponents to create ne 1 up e-sion that the previt Chief Ma ipsf ate ol the Union, in whose admint ' i ion thin fa' the be-n hopes of the ?m:ttty hive been realized, vvou'd de cli'i? re election. These predictions. Winch were drawn from apewtision o: Ocrtani passages in nis uite aoie ous t?ge to Congress were industriously ptopagrcd ith a view to divide the if ength of the r epuh'icao party, bv sow fng distention among the triervis ol those Individuals, vvho fmm thci command jng talents and dts'inguisned public scr icet. would be most likely h succeed tim in the t iministrati no of the govern ine it. It is g; a'ilv ing to r( ll :ct, that fii -ne devices of our political pone:its hav? betn al'ogethc .v it lion' effect bo tint no p'etence for misapprehension tmg'tt tiv, it was thought advisable th.it (ifii Jackson should be formally pttscved to the public as a candidate fo n election. In imitation of our repub ran fel r citizens of me legisla tee of Pennsylvania ami other States, wo me- together, and pissed resolutions

apniovig his course in administering ; been brought to a successrui issue Dy . by a rigid economy, that the public debt the government, and concurring with I the present administration, the negocia-j shall be discharged at the earliest possi-' then in opinion, that his re election 1 tion w'r h Great Britain, in relation to the j ble day. Ilauid advances have been U" ild promote the best interests of the! West India Trade, is the moM impor- j made towards this object: and if no uncoonfv In the opinion, which, in our tant in its bearings upon our commercial j toward event shall occur to frustrate the

. .... mniviouai npu-i'.ics. we uatc urns cx - iircss -u, we oenevc- wc uac uui uunwuii cc 1 vourowe; th-u we have acted a you vrouu mum uiauy nave none, uic sjnuiu-.u.u.uu, -m i i v ii constituent had been reversed; and we look with cor.fi Irnce to the next clcc tio.. for a practical assurance that wc have not mistaken your wishes or opini.,ns The effect of this nomination has been salutary beyond our expectations, It has aticnerd the clamors and fruMrated the d.fein of the opposition; and W fixing the attention cf our republican

friends throughout the Union upon the!

single object to be accomplished, it has! produced a degree of unanimity r.nd concert, which, with far inferior numbers, would insure us a triumphant victory j

On this point wc will only add, that the j Adams were finally convinced of the nomination has not been declined, and j extra vagance of their pretensions, is obthat Gen. Jackson stands before the peo-j vious from the fact that they were abanplc ol the United States, a candidate lor j dom d, and a minister sent out with inre election to the office which he now ! struclions to accede to the propositions

fins with so much honor to himself and usefulness to his country In a review of Gen Jackson's administration, theie is not a single measure with which the friend of republican principles have not abundant tsense of satisfaction. This reflection is the more grateful, when we revert to the predic tions with which his adversaries opposed and the confident assurances with which his fiiends supported, his election to office It was contended by the former, that his inexperience in civil affairs vvouid cmbar i ass tfic admin istration of th government, that his martial propensities wornd inevitably involve the contusions and calami tics of foreign war; and that the constitution itself would present uut a fee b!e barrier to his arbitrary conceptions of executive power. Uut the issue has confounded the prediction of these calumniators, and justified ah the assurances o his friends. In his firmness, purity of character, and prompt decision in difficult emergencies their confidence was unshaken. Upon his sound republican principles they placed the same reliance. They were not surprised therefore, when his veto was interposed to arrest the progress of constructive power, and to maintain inviolate the reserved rights of the states Uut in the promptness with which lie has made himself familiar with the foreign interests of the country, and instantly resolved on the must judicious measures to be adopted to secure them; in the success, tv ith which he has labored to reconei.e the conflicting interests cf different sec tion ot inc country, creating saiisfac lion in some, allaying excitement in all; in the sagacity with which he has de tected the first approaches to an unau thorising extension of the constitutional powers of the government, he has exhi niicd a degree of practical wisdom, which could not have been anticipated by ihose vvnoc knowledge of him was almost entirely derived from his military services. It may be said without fear of contra diction, that dming the Ust two years our negociations with foreign powers have been mort successful and fraught with mo-e beneficial results to the couti try man during any other period of the same duration since the organization of he government. Our claims on Den mark for spoliations committed upon our commerce, have been recognised and adjusted; and a board of commissioners is now in session to distribute to the claimants the sum which has been received from that power. Similar daims upon li-azil have also been satisfactorily arrange:); and this result is the more gi atity ing, as under the preceding administration they had not only been neglected, but the agent of the U States, who dared to assert them in a spirit like that which has led to their fi.a! a justment, was eceivcd with coldness by his own government at home, for i etusing to compromise its honor by submitting to indignity abtoad A tteaty with Turkey has been concluded on advantageous terms; and a vast inland sea, the waters ot which have scaice ever been visited by ati American merchant ship, has been laid open to the commercial enterprise and activitv of our countrymen. Our claims on F icc are in a train ot ad justmt-.nt, and thete is evcryrcason to believe that they will he sc$di!y recog nis-d and allowed The settlement of the H'luhdaiy question between the state ot M iius and the British province ol NTv n Brunswick, has also received a prompt attention, and will doubtless be amicably disposed of at an early day i'he vigor of the administration has been felt on every question between ourselves ! and foreign powrrs; no case has been i i . overlooked or neg ected; almost all have been brought to a prosperous issue; and those which have not yet been finally acted on, are passing through the necessarv forms of negociation, and approaching their conclusion as rapidly as the magnitude of the interests at stake will admit

But of all the measures which have;minUh the expense of the Government

.. . . i- i , : interests nu our relations wnn inaij lower, oeiwccn wnom anu ourscnca uic strongest motive exists to a friendly un - iier sianumg ana correspondence. ii; iviiiwiiiuLiLij utji Miicr a it'ij iiiiu fruitless attempt on the part of the pre-j ceding administration, to arrange satis- i factorilv the points upen which the two i countries divided, the negociation result- j j ed in a complete diisnlutinn of our ini trrcourse with the British West Indies, j bv an net ot interdiction on the part of ! Great Britain. This measure vtns pro-1 ; yoked by a long continued neglect on ourj

part to respond to the most favorable

propositions ever offered us by thatpow er, and by the exorbitant demands of those who administered our governmctit. That the administration of Mr of the British Government: but before he reached his destination, that government, wearied with our procrastination, had rendered all further negociations nugatory, by interposing the intcidiction referred to The propositions offered by Great Britain and accepted by Mr. Adams, (after they had been withdrawn by that power) constitute the basis of an arrangement, which has recently been entered into; and experience has already begun to show that its terms are highly advantageous to us. As this negociation advanced, the language of the opposition was constantly varying. As long as the result was uncertain, it was confidently proclaimed that there was no prospect of a satisfac tory adjustment ol the question When probability ripened into certainty, t,e terms of the arrangement were called in question; and when the result was made public, it was declared tnat it would bring no benefit with it. As a re futation of the last and only remaining objection, it is sufficient to observe that of seventeen vessels recently arrived at one ol the British West India Islands, fourteen wt-ie American and only three British; and that the lowest estimate which has been made of the profits of that trade, is two millions of dollar s per annum. The superiority of the present admin istration over the last in these negociations, has resulted in a great degree from the dit ectness and plain dealing, with which they have been conducted The individuals, to whom they have been cntiuated, were selected with a view of their talents and integrity, and not to their skill in wie ding the weapons of diplomacy The whole course of tho administi ation and of its public agents, in relation to foreign powers lias been marked by a sincerity which, without i setting up unfounded pretensions, has firmly asserted all out just clai.os. The icsulthas been to secure from the oppo site parties a corresponding frankness. And it is honorable to all the countries concerned, that confidence and lairness have been introduced into their diplomatic negotiations with each other, as sub stitutes for indirection and management; that the ancient disguises of diplomacy have been laid aside; and that they have been willing to meet, in frank and familiar correspondence, upon great questions connected with their common interests It is a signal triumph ot honesty and plain dealing over the miserable arts of diplomacy. In the settlement of these perplexing and complicated questions, no angry dis cussion or disagreement has arisen be tvveen ourselves and any one of the powers, witli which they have been entertai ned The foreign relations of the country have continued undistutbed by the slightest collisions: In a state ol profound tranquility at home, our resources have rapidly multiplied: the new chan nels opened to our commercial industry have been filled with the pioducts of a giicullure, the prices of which have not only r isen, but are continuing to rise ; &c to furnish a triumphant reply to all the prognostics of evil, with which the oppo nents of general Jackson signalized his entrance into office the same individual, vvho, in a season of public calamity and depression raised the military character of his countrymen to the high est elevation, has given additional lustre to his country's reputation and his own, by the success and skilfulness with which he has cultivated the arts of peace Violent and vindictive attacks have from time to time been directed a gainst his public and private character. But we do not hesitate to sav. that they have all tailed ot success; that they havenot cast the slightest shade upon his uprightness or puri y. On the contrary, his character has derived new lustre from these successive attempts to im pair and stain it. It ha3 been a prominent measure of general Jackson's administration so to husband the public treasuries, and to di . ... " measures wnicn nave been taken, it will oc accomnnsneo in t ie vcar iRTf, j We appeal to you to say, whether a career, mus happily tegun and prose - Luivu M.ouiu oe interrupted whether he, whose merit it is to have traced out this great outline of public usefulness should not be continued in ofiVe to fill it up? whether it would not be tr ifling with theunexampled prosperity of the country to commit its destinies to new and untried hands, and put at hazard a system of measures, from the accomplishment of which the happiest remits aro ta be

anticipates: ,

In closing this view cf the general go- the whole career cf the leaders ol :.nivernmcnt and the measuies ot the indi-1 n.ascnry. While they professed to seek vidual who presides over it, i is to us, j the punishment ot the guilty, their extras it must be to every republican of theitiens have been directed to the prsirastate of New-York, a source of deep ! ioW the lepublican party, by whem all satisfaction to advert to the important'! the light uhich has becnthrown upo share, which one of her favorite sens has j the subject has been breught cut.had in the management oi its foreign re-j While professing impiacable ho?tility to lations, and the high degree of cor.fi. I the masonic institution, they have io dence which be has enjoyed with the n. ore than one county set up &dh.. rirg chief magistrate. This distinction has; masons for fiice. oDnciinc their, loin-

been won by the faithful and assidious: dividuals who openly disavowed i co; devotion of his time and talents to the ! ncxion with the irtitution Thtvhave 1 I M ( m .-.Id

puuuc service, Ul the members ot the administration generally it may be said that they have not allowed themselves to be obtruded on the public in any idle parade ol personal homage Ly their politi- i cal fiiends. nor have thcii voices, like those of their predecessors, been conti-1 nually heard amid the clamors of feast-: logs and revelry. But, in the spirit of . republican simplicity, and with a just sense ot their responsibility to the people, they have been intent on the execution of their official Ulsis, ambitious to be known to their countrymen by the merit of their acts, rather than by an ostentatious exhibition of their persons The condition and prospects of our own state are not ltbs happy and pros pcrous than those ot the country at large. In population, wealth and general prosperity, our progress has been uninterrupted: and in our works ot internal communication we have an earnest of continued advances in resources and power. That much of this prosperity is due to the ascendency ol the republican party, and to tfic wisdom ot those vvho have for the last few years adminis tered the government, c nnot be denied Notwithstanding our numerous sources ot prosperity, circumstances hav ren deied gitat vigilance and care indispen sable in the management of our public concerns: and no fears need be cntei tallied for the issue if the same watchful guardians shall continue to preside over them and the efforts ot faction lotiivide arid overpower us shall be defeatt d. -We confess we have not the slightest apprehension of a different result; but it is only through unceasing vigilance and exertion that political power, however preponderant, can be maintained. The adversaries ot the republican party in this state although divided into factions wiih each other, both to men and principles, are nevertheless arrayed ur. der the banner of anti-masonry for the common object of raising political pow er. For all the nurnoses of onoosition. we can regard em only under the col lective character which they have assu med by virtue of this combination: for it is a rule of universal justice, that the flag shall determine the character of the belligerents. , It cannot have escaped the notice ofany one, who has read ihe testimony given upon the late trials at Lockport, that the transaction, to which the ami maon ic party owrs its existence is henceforth to be regarded under a new aspect. All the facts connected with the murder of William Morgan, as far as they can be ascertained by judicial investigation, arc before the public. On these tiials no witnesses stood mute; names and cir cumstai ces were fully disclosed; and if any thing lemains untold, it can be known only to some one of the individuals who are clearly pointed out by the testimony. These disclosures have spread a general alarm among the lead ers of anti masonry; their success de pended upon concealncnt, and not upon; exposure ot facts. There are no more lips to be unsealed, nor plots to bo detected; no chasm for the imagination to supply bv creations of its own Tht conspiracy is unfolded; and for the hon or of the community it appears that it was the work of a few individuals, distinguished neither for intelligence no moral charrcter, acting under impulses of their own. But it is enough that the perpetr ators of this foul deed are identi fied; and the object of anti masonry, if its object be justice has been accom plished, as far as it can be by human ex ertion and human laws There is another circumstance connected with these trials, which is equally unexccptable to these anti-masonic leaders, and which, to the honest portion of that paiiy, must clearly indicate the character of those by whose counsels they have been guided Two of the principal instruments in the destruction of Morgan have been peculiarly the ob jects of anti masonic favor. A publication by one of them has been widely cir culated by the agents and under the pa tronarre of the nartv: and it is onlv through the wisdom and firmnrtscf the executive of this state that the other d"es r, o. ,rn K.r- .u i,i i j a full pardomand invostcd.at the instance 1 of an anti-masonic leader, with an ample fortune us the reward of perjury and guilt. By a singular perversion of rea son and justice, the countenance of the leaders of that party has been extended to those whose hands are as deeply im Wrutd as those of any livin- man in the guilt of that sanguiniry transaction ar 1 their denunciations visited upon those j who have made the greates. exertion to bring the offendri to ponishract

This incor,SI,,,rt.v h- .liritirm.

ior years been ain.mg to break tiowr tl c rcpub ican party, without a;signir:g t e abuses ihcy intended to correct, or ha principles ol icorm which they inui.m ti to introduce. - All thtst it consist i i have arisen Iron, the success ol a tew ambitious politiciar.s in converm g to their own use? an honest fcelirgo indignation. so deiply occupied with the outrage, m which it originated, a to be misguided by tht-ii artifices Tl.eir deceptions cannot be perpetuated Th people ser that these individuals have lather inbarrassed than facilitated the purposes of jusnice; tt at thetwemst prominent act of ihose, who star d in the foreground of the party, are an attempt to impose upon popular credulity by mutilating the dead, and a proposition to stimulate a venal witness, by u.eitenary reward, to testify to facts, cf which he had twice, under the solemnity of an oath, declared himself ignorant; thuk insulting, in one case, the intelligence of the people, and in the other, poisoning tie current of justice at its source I he position of anti masonry can no longer be maintained upen its original pi mciples It would involve the g'ai ir g inconsistency ol withdrawing theatrtntion from the known authors cf tie c ukrage, and assailing ihose who are r ot only avowedly inoorent, but through whese persevering exertions the gui ty have bten detected ti.d exposed V hatever strength the poauion may have had, wheii assumed with the pretext ot discovering the perpetrators of the out age, it has become omen&ble, now U at pretext is withdrawn. Under this cf ar.go of circumstances, we look without apprehension upon the mo, Icy array of disappointed politicians and ancient federalists, who have rallied around tre standard of anti masonry Tht strugg e ou tbei part has become an unoisguiv (. U. naked contest lor po-iiici powir, without the pretence ot a principle to sano tion or tONer it. It may be emphatically said, thi-t tho seasons of prosperity for the ntrnr. have been those in which the repub!ic- n partyhas had the ascendancy. 1 he reign of federalism has bten uniformly atte;.i ed ty disorder anti confusion, aid by 'i impe: ding evils which always fo'iru g, departure frorji the doctrines of rtpiblicani&m. Upon these ut pohtica' sys tern essentially resti, and it is only by maintaining rhem in htit puriiy that tho structure can be tphtld Ui.dT it tse conditions it is gratifying t- nfiru 'I at the republican party m this 6iatt is :n do danger ot being overthrown, and tlui its pubiic iffairi are administered by et c, whose talents and unblemished character insuic a faithfuexecuiion of the trust. It is still more gratifying to refket, sii cc the safety of the whole is of more im portar.co than a part, that the republican party ot the Union is equally secure a gainst all attempts of its adver&ari s There never has been a period in which it exis'od m greater strength. Even in New England, the demociatic s:ate of New Hrti p hire, and that part of pncier.t Mass-schueus which now constitutes the state ot Maine two unrepresented portions ot New Eng'and io the il&rt'oid convention are unwavering in theii attachment to the republican principles cf the constitution. With this strong foothold upon the very territories ol the enemy, their strength and their artifices maf be bet ar defiance. There is another consider.'tion connected wih this subject, to which in closing this address, we cannot forbear biiefiy to advert In turning our attention io the old world we perceive in all directions indications t f an approaching struggle between the advocates ol free government and the tupporters of arbitrary power The r!emeets ot eliscontent are every where visiblr; and the time may be near a hi :4 when the Eu'rnean continent may , csent the most cfU cting scenes of disr u:er and desolation "1 he principles, w: u b have led to the general og'ration v tho political world have emanated from ihe institutions which our fa'hers built up r a this continent; and it is not too much ro j say, that the friends of human liberty, wherever they are to be found, are intent upon the great expeiiracnt which wo are performing here; that the example of twelve millions of freemen, rapidly advancing to wealth and greatness under the protection of liberal institutions, will have a powerful influence upon the issuo of the approaching contest No citizen of the United S'atts can contemplate the spectacle of cur prosperity without tho deepest emotions of gratitude tri pride. To republicans it presents still higher motives to elevation o! feeling. Much cf this prosperity is due to the admini-