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Mr. Tones—dons Mr. Rffz'iC tci fuppole that the pi» pie have tK more regard for their inhered than he has tor thecm fidence which his prtron, and the law creating 1 i» office his office has rtpoled in him —.S'urelya greater an abule ot confidence no officer ever w as guilty of than Mr. ./tighter in this patacular—Having transferred ail the papersrel a ivetohjs office to Mr. ——• Ids deputy—n.i man devoid of every thing wliich character-iz.s the good confidential and hoi'cil roan, Co rigardleis ot his own private cha-after, as to Ipoit u away f i the paltry turn «»r li^or eight Collars' —And yet '\c is me man oftiiemighty----rtegtfter.Multitudes »r men ire fuejcCt to ottiuurai ins ot inianiry, they a e ti .b e to be hu.rted into the moH unjultiha le et-treme.s by the artful pi aftices of an inipolLr—-this no dou’. t is ttie cate with vJr. Rrgi’ter foi it mull be acknovc lecgr d that he p htefles not one q. d-location net ellary to proie-. ure 4hlt;* objects tor which he ie ceivrd his appoimmeot. -it is much to oe lament d that fuels chdfadters are imputed upon us—out it is an evii vie thad alw r i aetuojwd td,how. ever one tonlolation we can boaO of, we have airived at that pei iod.that wee lt;n t ho.de from ainoug our fellow citizens toms of the otfirers ne* cciTary to exerc le out own government. anJ f fiucerely hope wc (hall toe more judicious than to 11 alee choice of any luch unworthy characters—luch as are worn out in the fetvice of Bacchus- -Ke-gaidlefs of their ow n private character or the public good -io deceitful ami treacherous that no reliance can be placed in them No doubt Mr. Ue-puty Rcgifter hi- foroe dt fign in writhing to polfefs himfelf of the documents relative to the land claims trot yet confirm-r ed. This will open a coor . of fpeculatron for him, and through his intrigue he enabled to defraud iome poor fclluW OUC Of hil jUfl right.A irtCTAT'OUFOR THE IHDlAMA G-ttETTE,s FfiaC ** there thall bes’ neither jfaveryt nor involuntary* rev vitu.L tv the jaid territory** 1 » the humane language of i the fiifrli article of our confti-il Stition, but w e daily fee this 9 fule abufcd end. violated, not - by thole' who are ignorant of e the ordinance and laws, but 0 by thole? who fill the firl) of-ia aiAare abfolutrfy *p(VtnfM f*adminiUu rueu.. I pon whlt;d? grounds the ntgi he- ilW were in our teruioiy before the p ff;i g of the oidii.anee arc retained in •ululu.e iiavtiy finct, is a cp-t ikon i’ ihouid LC vcty glaa to fe e elucidated* and if any advocate for flase-ry pofhfles either a-gunx ntS or ingenuity enough to on* vince me that the retail'd jf the negmes in bond.ge hnce the palling of the ox'tnam'o is not in aiblolute involuntary fervitude, I am willing to *c know ledge myfelf ouc idy con* Vifted. -No ai guments car certain* ly bedi av\ o (rlt; m tin.ft 1 nhap** p viftuns btii.g rht pu pa it of Hit ir now pnliiflots, while living under the hiw, of Vir^ ginta, as that 1 he confenc btjf h g conlh ained m c lojttduu— dei that Javt anu picviou^ ’C thr pvffing f t if;lt;_ i rdinat.cfc it b came no Konger an mvof-ui tary itiviiucr und.r our 1 or hiru.'on but » tonth uptick o^theold right Aiguilicr* ot this kind lt;ue rco n t r^j f v» (iCal, and il a/iov eo wouii to prove that, *hho' a m.p wasiurcid to can lent to aa oppitiiive 01 un^wlol thrrip•Mf, };ct iittr tioriginal conlti aint is om« p lied the unlawful or tf ihainf*bcci n ts light and »o ionglt;-r invcluniary : j .ifc asif-evtiy daysopprsffion wa* not a coiKtnuaiice of the ia— voluntary conllrainr. Jt iJ* well known and univerfally received m-tim, that any luing tourded on Wroi g car* not be right...apply mat t« the ptthnt fyflem ot flavery encour aged not only in our territory but in thed.Wr Ihati loon oe enabled ia determine whether 1 he countenance of atofoiuie llaverv jijourterutory is either juftconflitutior al or law tuK u ftf-(nui.li as it is fuunufcti o® wroiy.An uhjefflon toa be rnad« that to let the negioes frkti that vveie in the tcrruory p^,r. vioas to the p. flirg the u ci-naniv and then ftaws fm (if* would be to n-ake it kAve at, expolt faflo operation. Bui this cannot polfibly be fup! pot ted 1 yrany a g intntshowi ever rthiitd am. metaphyl^aj for the ordioarce does del declare that all flave.y heretofore lhall b* void, wWc.a would be abfu-dand rende; the former ow ner liable toas action for drttn^ges. clearly imports that aff flave-ry hereafter of «n -bfolut' nature fhall be difallowed 2 therwxfe than for the punfflr.ment of crimes...now if fthd
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Vincennes Indiana Gazette
Vincennes, Indiana, US
Wed, Apr 10, 1805
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