Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 24, Number 23, Vincennes, Knox County, 6 July 1833 — Page 1

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the organization in favor of this system, at j tcrnal improvement and the powers of Con- ! er, embracing the present state of Alabama the time of the veto of the Maysville road press over the subject, no oue now cau hesi- j and mot cf the state of Mississippi. '1 hose

that the President was regarded as

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having by that act alitnated a irrcat portion

of his friends, assumed a position in which no man could sustain himself, and given a death blow to the ascendancy of the party by which he had been brought into olhce. His message, althu unanswerable in its exposition cf the ruinous consequences to which the sanction of the principles contained in that bill would lead, was received by Congress with strong disapprobation, and

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this affords, of the want of candor and consistency, even on the part of those who have labored to represent Cicn. Jackson's agency in hastening the extinguishment of the public debt, as the mere consequence of laws

j o er. which tie had no control, and from the

execution of which they could derive no claims to the npplar.se and gratitude of his fellow-citizen.. Who now that is anvNvise capable of appreciating them, can, in the face of the happy consequences that have attended the stand he made on this occasion, refuse to accord to him the praise due to

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LIST OF AGISTS. John Murphy, Washington, Ind. John Vantrees, do do. John Arbuthnot, Princeton, Ind. John 1. Necly, do. Tinnra? Cissell, Mnmt Pleasant, Ind Post-Master, Owl Prairie, Ind.

llioomtieid, Ind. Sandersvillc. lud. Owonsville, Ind. wM:.,t....r.. At;'.' In,'

V. Wilborn, M unt ernon,

Levi Price, U ansville, Ind. John W. Davis, Carlisle, Ind. Iaae his, Memm, Ind. Pvt-M aster, T-irmanV Creek, Ind. Jo!m C. Keiley, I.awrcnceviile, III. Vost-.Master, Palestine, 111. Pot. Master, Boouville, In I. Pest-Master, Rockport, Ind.

Post-Master,

Post-Master, Post-Master, Post-Master,

Ind.

Faori tiif. GLonK.

a iMJirr VtFAV OF TUP. ADMINH-

Vlt'.V.)N OF AN I) 111 'A V JACUSON.j and enjoyment to its citizens.

onsidcration but the public good, nothing

eordd deter him from assuming the responsibility which his views of the public good called upon him to encounter. Never vas the moral firmness of a President put to so hard a trial. No influence could be stronger than that which was arrayed against him in this instance, composed as it was in a

great measure of representatives, known as

his personal and political friends, and who were supposed to be acting in conformity vvith the views of the great body of the people, whose confidence and attachment had

J elev ated him to the post he occupied. Fortunate is the country tint has at its head, unj der such circumstances, a man Nvho, superij or to all party weaknesses as well as to all selfish fears, cannot be turned from the j straight path of doty. And fortunate is

that country nuts own character, when its

judgment is too strong and too steadv to he deterred, by appeals to the pride of opinion, from justly estimating the conduct of such a man, or by the cry of dictation t from giving heed to his counsel. There is nothing so seductive in a government like ours, as those systems which promise to ineiease the productive power of a

country, and multiply the sources of wealth

Thsv have

tate to admit.

But this is not the only act of the administration connected with this subject which deserves our attention as evincing the injustice of those who deny to it any credit for hastening the payment cf the public debt. It is obvious that a strict enforcement of pecuniary responsibility is not only indispensable to the pm ity of the public morals, but constitutes an essential feature in every practical system of public economy. Peculation is the inevitable fruit of remissness in the discharge of this executive duty; whether it proceeds from inattention or from the weakness of mistaken and unjustiriabla. lenity. Yet we have been the performance of this duty denounced with the utmost bitterness. Sciutiny into abuses, the exaction of

the public funds from detected defaulters, the enforcement of penalties inflicted by the laNv, and the dm. 'motion of expenditures wherever the executive discretion could reach them, have all been embarrassed by every obstacle which it nvus in the power of

ingenious and arttul opponents to interpose. They have each in their turn been ascribed to that spirit of proscription and wantonness with Nvhich it has been sought to identify the character of Gen. Jackson, and to stamp all his leading acts. But the people have res cued him frim the odium of this spirit, and done justice to his motives. They have protected the tree until its fruits could be judged; and there are but lew now who would rut if 1"itt i.

During the fiiNljcur years of this administration, there hoTTeeu applied to the payment of the public Vlebt, in addition to the

sum of SiO.000 OOO.tfur which provision has been made by law, by the annuual appropriation often millions, the sum of S,992,?o9; leaving only the sum of Sr, 001, 653 short of its total extinguishment, (d ) It is well known that the stock owned by the government in the Bank of the United States is

more than erjual to this deficiency, so that Ni e are Nvarrauted in saving, that on the 4th of March last, the debt was only nominal. We now. therefore exhibit to the world the spectacle of a powerful and iYmrish'mg

regions were then cntirelv occupied by the

Indian tribes. South mid North Carolina alsoclaimcd jurisdiction over stripes cf territory running westwardly to the Mississippi, embracing at least the btate of Tennessee as now bounded. The charter of Yirgir.ia.cmbraced all the territory "from the point of lard called cape or point Comfort, all along the seacoast to the northward, two hummed milts, and from the said point or cape Comfort all along the seacoast to the soutliNvard tNvo hundred miles; and all that space and circuit of land lying from the seacoast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest."

This grant embraced the present states of Kentucky, Ohio. Indiana, Illinois and the

tenitoryot Michisrm, all occupied by the

Indians at the time cf the revolution, with the exception of a small portion of Kentucky and a few French settlements in Illinois and Michigan.

NeNv York had some undefined claims fa

tne western territory connicinig in pan with those of Virginia.

The charter of Connecticut extended her

territories 'from the said Narraganset Bay on the east to the South Sea on the west

part," &c. &c. embraoimr a portion of

Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and coming indi rect conflict with the charter of Virginia.

The charter of Massachusetts also exten

ded to the South Sea and involved the same

difficulties.

Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode Island and New Hampshire seem to have

had no claims to lands in the western tern tories of the present United States. In tli'.s condition were the several colo

rues when the i evolution broke out. 1 In urgency of the occasicn forced them to u

nite on xpjal terms without settling bounda

ries or considering their comparative

strength. But when the articles of Coined

eration .were presented to the states for their

approval, the attention of their statesmen

was called to the tuture. and the small states

having no claim to western territory, be

(c.OXCLt'UFP ) ! The Pubic Debt. When praise hv been bestowed upon tlu adu inis ration tar its faithful application of the fiscal 'esourcts of the country to the rapid t y.TlNGUlStlMKNT OK Hii: Pt HLIC pfct, there arc not a tew whi h ive withheld it as undeserved, ascribing whatever merit was due. to the progress made towards this obiect to the laws which were in operation before Gen. J .icfcson came into office. Those laws were doubtless founded on a just view cf the policy which regards a national debt as a national evil, and its discharge as not only due to the honor and jmnd faith of the government, but in many points of n'icnv necessary to the prosperity .,.,.1 !,..r,nii-,. of the people. But however

tneir origin in the sa'fle mistaken views that! ty dispbiN ed on tin saibject by the man of

nation ki:kk. of in nr. 1 he distincti-m is came alarmed at the prospect cf aggranone, thoinipovtar.ee of which to the success dizement which seemed to await the larger

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ot our system, aiut its alue to the great caue of f i ee government cannot be too highly appreciated. It is enhanced by the peculiar cit ciii.i.ilances in which our country tVumd itself at thu critical juncture when the voice of the Pkotlk called Andrew; Ja :kson to the helm; ami in the sound, practical statesmanship ami patriotic iufleXibili-

we s-o otten witness m puvatc l.'.e, tempting individuals to hazard their substance upon the chances of loose speculation. If their tendency is not so apparent, it is because the field on which they act is so extensive, and the interests they affect so divcrsifed as to require more time to demonstrate their true character; and it is then generally too late to rep or the evil which has been produced. The individual may see his error, and by economy and industry restore his fortune; but the nation exhausted by the anticipation of its uieavs; relaxed in its power ovei the government, which, by ministering to combinations of local and partial interests has subjected itself to their control, and enfeebled by the corruption engendered bv the

! contraction ot debt, and the profligate ex

their r hoi. a;, the champion ot popular gov

eminent will foul one of his strongest illustrations of their eapacny to choooL" wisely.

strong may have been the general assent of j pcndtiures of public money, either sinks inthe country to this policy, every one in the ) to the apathy which tolerates despotism, or

lean aupiainted with the history ot legi-ia-tion for the last ten years must know, that it

was nil leu ov iiuru-s m-n.

rignts itscit oy otic ot tnosc convulsions which dissolves and reorganizes it. That such, under our form of government particularly, was the tendency of the views prevailing in the outset of the present administration, in regard to the policy of in-

( ;') The following tables exhibit at a glance what has been done on this subject dutiog the two last presidential terms. To appreciate 'properly what has been effected by Gen. Jackson, Iiowcni.t, we must not only consider the sum which he has applied to the debt, but advert to the disposition which, but f or his ptcsumj tion in dictating to the nation(as it is termed) would h ive been made

of it by those who considered it a matter of no sort of consequence whether a debt so perfectly manageable were paid at once, or left to be paid in the future indefinite. If the question merely regarded the amount of dollars and cents, as compared Nvitlicau national resources, it was certainly a irTuttvi of little moment. But the subject had b&ar-

states Some of these hesitated to sanction the articles of confederation. The .state of Man land in 1773 utterly refused, unless the larger states would surrender to the U. States the jurisdiction and x ii of the wcatern territory "to be parcelled out by Congress into free, convenient and independent governments," and memoriali

zed Congress to that effect. The difficulties w hich had arisen induced the st.ite of New York, in 1780, to pass "an

act totacihtate the completion of the arti

who have claims to the Netfn country, to pass such laws, and give their delegate? such powers as mav effectually remove tne t nly obstacle taa final ratificaticn cf the article of confederation; and that the legislature of Man land be earnestly requested t authorize their delegates in Ccr.gres to subscribe the said articles." Ye have here the motives clearly developed, which induced the transfer of t-.c western country to the United States. In our next we wiP show hov. and for vhat purposes the several tran?ftr v.eie made. We give, fiom the Winchester Virginian, a paper w hich is distinguished for :hi judgment and genius vNhich has presided over ;t. the follow itig just tribute to the chancer cf

lur. an Hurcn. mthir.g is exu geri;ed in relation to Mr. Vaa liuttu, nr "cuvkt

set di"a?n in vialice" as to his advers ir'.es.

The article is marked by a true auc deli

cate discrimination.

MR. VAN BURKS". The Vice Pcstdeut cf the United States

is at present among the most cou r inus.

men ot tne age. A sketch ct his biorarhy

is placed on our first page, teaching a !eson

to all in early Iiie that there is no post of honor, in this country, which talents, inter-

nty ana industry may not aspire to, and at

tain. o nublx man has sustained himself

more efneh-ntiv in every post to which he

has been caited than Mr. Van Hurek.

From an humble origin he has been elevated by his fellow citizens to a greater number of high and important trusts than a.iy other cit

izen ot this country, m the same length of

time. o other citizen, except Mr. Jefferson, has held the two highest stations next to the presidency, since our goNernmcnt went into operation. So man has oeen more persecuted and abused, except the apostle of republicanism, Thcmas Jefferson. Attaching himself to the. democracy of the land, he found in Sew YovL as powerful an aristocracy in the commencement of his political career, as Mr. Jefferson found in the general governmem before the celebrated and ever to be remembered revolution cf 1800-1. Thesbado v of Kufus King, and the aNvful shade Dewitt Clinton, would

often pass over the rising stav, but as these mighty orbs settled i.i the western horizon, MAkTix Van lirjKEX pursued frs illustrious career until he was lord of the ascendant. When the "Empire State" had poured all her honors upon him when she had ncthing more to cftVr hhn he passed to the more conspicuous station? of the general government; and in the couxsc cf four years, has occupied, successively, the three "highest stations, next the presidency. His promotion to the Vice Presidency, by the overwhelming voice of thp people, is the

must giunuus event ci ins n:e, ana n.o4c

:s of a far

different nature: as t

losing siht of it, and devoting the resources cf the Tieasnrv to schemes of internal imtirnvrmrnt. wliich. if not arrested, would

have postponed the payment of the public;

"S'.cht to a verv remote period; if, indeed, the j of December, and it would have hcen some:.'uvit which the svstem was calculated to (thing of a miracle if a drop had appeared ,.!, -.Mider and t.i strengthen, had not become , for "the public creditor." lie nvouUI h ino

e-o'oerpoNvcring as to Tender that measure been the last man to grumble at the drought; il'lorether homeless. and all the other parties to the contrivance

nv?i i dotnt tne extent to w nicn would nave oeen wen satisnet lind h id already become psison- ration. Members of 0ngre

Let those

the vn;'.ic mn

eu Nvith its one

ress would have

t.vl bv the temptations of local intercuts, aid-! made their return home welcome by being cd bv the insensible influence of party feel-1 the bearers of jobs for the improvement of

v.-es, tarn to the calendar ot t ongrcss m tne

v.mtcroi and examine the num ber of projects, originating in ihce causes, -which had obtained the sanctiam f that bodv; and which but for the firmness of the Executive would have absorbed all the mean that the flourishing condition of the

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tne vtcinaite. Contractors nvcauu be am

thing but grieved the laborer would be glad, for labor Nvould be in demand and the men of property would sit down to count the enhanced value of their kites. The purveyor of these blessings would be sure cf a smile from every hp, and a vote from every n aice in the precinct: and it is well known

what effect is generally produced through-

well knew who sought to confine the public attention to "the insignificant sum," and to represent the President's anxiety to pay it as a childish notion. Sl'ATKMF.NT of the amount applied to the Ibiblic Debt annually , during the Administrations of Mr Adams and General Jackson, distinguishing between Principal and Interest.

(M In Mr. ('lav's speech at Cmcmniti m ; out a district bv popularity thus acquired.

vU), it was his boast that, during the ad- Ebcnu as well as lofiaz

ministration of

priations were

Mr. Adams,

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V pll ItlOnS Were ULlOt III u IJ'. .is n nmu. u ,i: .tji v.n inn. .13 ... r iurTove ncnt, t'oati had ever been made5 by ethers to get the upper hand. Where the - fin'tihz i:-!"i!:sfra!;":s brjrc' I'h'.s; temptation to- join in a logrolling would ) "was certainly a glorious impetus which the; hae been so strong, and all efforts to resist

has a tinger in

most tluags, m vongress as well as else-

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cuse for the exasperation ocv a-i nevl oy tee . which is the daughter ct experience, exhi'v.tion of the vi vicrlix of tlie Veto. ' (c) The dis ippointment of these hopes is 'This feeling, however, contrary tocxpecta-j referred to by Mr. Clay, in his Tariff speech tia:i could not be co.nmu aicaed to the pen-! ;it the last session, and adduced by him as a t;le:' They read the veto and approv ed. j reason for givi.ig way with a good grace on In the s.n speech, after denying all a-, that branch of the American system. In

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y to the President in the re h mption ot support of hi position that "the American

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tarv hi v self has no mure to do nvh'.i the op j "i: can be placed on a better and safer founrationth in the hvdrmts thrsnili which the ; d.ition at this session than at the next," he v.tcr parses to the censirnpti m f tins city, i thus refers to the President's views, and to

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J dv in each vear, and th.' public tr?a -ure is I pie: "Is tiie issue ot numerous elections, inpoured o it to the public creditor fron the i eluding that of the highest officer of the reservoir filled bv the wisdom of C.Migress.' government, nothing? Is the explicit re-

e extent of tne annu il i commendation c t that etneer i ruli jus, a f.utnf il pic-1 at the opening of the session, it whs intended to be i he is by a recent triumphant

Tail h certainly, to the extent ot tne annu u i commendation c t that etneer m his message an'.ro-jri ition cf ten milli jus, a f.uthf il pic-1 at the opening of the se-sien, sustained as t re of the matter, as it whs intended to be i he is by a recent triumphant election, r.cth-

iid as it r.'ulJ hdjci cc:i nan tne opera;tcn ; rugr is no. eieciarauon m nis prociamaticn

that the buiilees ct the vxuth ought to be

. ;v.-iUv thcwiVaom of 1816 con.in

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! relieved, nothing? lithe introduction cf a

(A) S.GSt 01 of this amount paid pre

vious to ;ih March, 1S.5.

(H) S-jI?' of this amount paid previous to

4th March, 1SJ5,

les of confederation and perpetual union a- triumphant in its character thau any other

mong the United States of America.' The political event in our history, except die sucpreatnble to this act sets forth the difficul- cess of the republican party in 1300-1. ties which had arisen, in these words: Accused, in the highest fcrum in cur land, "Whereas the articles of confederation and of having sullied the American name; charperpetual union, recommended by the lion- ged with having laid the vestal robe of our orable Congress of the United States of A- reputation under the paw of the liritish lion; merica, have not proved acceptable to all exposed to the moral artillery of such men the states, it having been conceived that a as Clay, Calhoun and Webster, who, stimuportion of the ivaste and uncultivated terri- lated and excited at once by fear and hope tory, within the limits or claims of certain the fear of their rival, and the hope cf states, ought to be appropriated as a com- their oivn success if he were prostrated mon fund for the expenses of the war,"&c. poured upon him aa unbroken and violent The act proceeds to authorize the delegates stream cf vindictive feeling, which would of the state in Congress to cede to the Uiii have swept away almost any other man than ted States all the tight of New York to the Mr. Van BcaEsi. In all this, it is said of soil and jurisdiction of the western teritory, him, that he permits no reproachful lan"for the use and benefit of such of the Uni- guage to escape him in return that he is ted States as shall become members of the mild and amiable, winning the good will and federal alliance cf the said states, and for kindly feeling cf all who are brought xvith-

no other use or purpose whatsoever." m his reach; presenting a model of that It seems that Virginia, whose claims were "republican statesman" who "endures all perhaps the best defined, having already ex- things" for the good cf his couutry, and tended her settlements into Kentucky, and trusting to time and the ir.tciligerce "of his having conquered from the enemy the posts countrymen to rescue hnn from unmerited of K. ask ask las and Vincenncs, remonstrated reproach. against the claims of other states to a sur- What other man can look upon a lorg render cf her territory in that quarter. publichfe, aad in the retrospect sietcfcv The memorial of Maryland, the proposal of public acts which he regrets? It vc scan Ncnv York, and the remonstrance of Vir- -Mr. Clay's, Mr. Webster's, vr Mr Calginia were all referred to a committee. Up- houn's political history, how many It-.cid nts on their report. Congress, on the 6th day of are there ia each of them, over which they September, 17S0, adopted the following pre- would fain draw the pen of obliion. On amble and resolution, viz: the skirts of each &mmhanpsheavilv

"That having duly considered the seve-1 heavily heavily which, tomchovj cr other

ral matters to them submitted, they con- keeps them down down down. W e mean

ccive it unnecessary to cxam'mc into the no unkind feelings to these American states-

merits of the policy of the instructions or men, cr either of thegn; we speak of the

declaration of the General Assembly of simple fact as it is, and as it is demonstrated

Maryland, cr ot the remonstrance of the to be Un the contrary Mr. van Buren reGeneral Assembly of Virginia, as they in- ceives office as well from the people as from

vol ve questions, a discussion of which was the executive and has but time to put on

declined on mature consideration, when the the robes, to shew the world that tney fithli

articles of confederation were debated; nor, shoulders, and that he is able to wear them in the opinion of the committee, can such when he is summoned to divest himself cf questions be now revived with any prospect them and assume others of higher order.-

ot conciliation; that it appears more advi- 1 he mimic scenes of the drama are not sable to press upon those states which can shifted and changed with more ease and raremove the embarrassment respecting the pidity than Mr. Van Bufkn passes through western country, a liberal surrender of a the highest stations on the drama of human portion of their territorial claims, since they life. Under alithese circumstances to deny cannot be preserved entire without endan- him talents and h'h attainments is as idle gering the stability of the general confede- as to whistle against the north-west wind: racy; to remind them how indispensably Where this triumphant career is to end we necessary it i? to establish the Federal Uni- neither prcphecy or pretend to know, but on on a fixed and permanent basis, and n we conclude this article as we begun, by principles acceptable to all its. respective pronouncing him one of the most remarkamembers; how essential to the public crcd- able men of the age.

;t and confidence, to the support cf our ar-

my, to the vigor of our councils and success of cur measures, to our tranquility at home, our reputation abroad, to cur very existence

as a free, sovereign and independent people;

that they are fully persuaded the wisdom of

MICHIGAN. Emigants were crowding into Michigan territory by hundreds. The Detroit

Courier of the 1 4th inatanf, says: Tho

-wisdom" of a U'er pet ua liaa inserieu mio ; uiu into tne iione oi representatives em-t.-cf-voir" a svnl.on of irreat and sroNy-' rin this sesacn. sanctioned bv the head cf

i - tho i r!i M.ent, "power; whi;h piomied the Treasury and the Adminiiration, prcat preserve very ttfctually the reservoir trat'mg the greater put of the manufactures fiom all danger f b irsting. Bat f r the j of the country, nctLin" And atterwards, plug p it by the veto into it c.t; w'.us a id j wh.de urging the impolicy of trusting to a h trdvr V.inj mouth, the Se ".i eta-y might re tiiticr: on this subject, he exclaims. Ile net only have turned 'the cock on the 1st .1 ; s.-, er.- v:.- crrM..' cr.it re-acti:? Have January atid lt of Jvil," bit have kept I u-r n-Jt t-cci Jiif. i'i'eJ m i: a to ether

iK0:i TilK (iLODf.. AO. . THE PUBLIC LANDS MH. CLAY'S BILL. Gngin cf the Public I.ar.ds. In short numbers we prciposc to examine into the policy cf the Bill for distributing atnong the several states the proceeds of the

sales of Public Lands, provided fur in an act wliich passed both houses of Congress at their lat session, and was reUu.ed by the

f resilient. We will first inquire into the origin of the Public Lands of the United States. Prior to the revolution, the province cf

Georgia, atterwards the state of Georgia, UisUtures of the several states, and that it extended westwardly to the Mississippi riv- bv earnestly icccojiictidcd to those states,

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the respective legislatures will lead them to uC OI popuiauon mat it now Mowing in

a full and impartial consic!era of a sub- to our lerniory exceeasill former pro

ject so interesting to the UnitexTLates. and

so necessary to the happy estayiTmcnt of the Federal Union; that they areJbotifirmed in these expectations by a review cf thebeforementioncd act of the legislature of Xcw York, submitted to their consideration; that this act is expressly calculated to accelerate the federal alliance, by removing, as far as depends on that state, the impediment ari

sing from the western country, and lor that purpose to yield up a portion of territorial claim for the general beneht: Whereupon

AVcvrd, That copies cf the several papers referred to the committee be trans

mitted with a copy of the report to the le-

cedent. Several of the last boatt hivir.t

arrit ed late, wc have not been able to judge of ths number of passenger they may hate brought; but the Henty Ciay, which arrived on Saturday, was literally crowded to over-flowing. We should think there could not be lesa than thrco hundred; and from the number of wagons and spinning wheel which were piled ca every part of the deck, we should iudto . l. -I f ; , J ...

mcy arc a ui craigrxiilS WHO Will add to the productive wealth as well at the nuraetical strength of our territory. Our streets are crowded; end i majority cf tbcis no csei ere tuese feces.