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- . ' ;" Oort arethe pUm of fair, dcliffctftt Peatt,' ' i, -U 'W?:- ' 's. . I.- , . - - ' -- " ST- ' 'i - .-'.VrlT w 0Bp gutfjor(tpO . AN ACT for the rrlicf of the OfHcerf ai)d Soldier vho tcrred in the lte CAmpalgn on tbe Vbb- BE it caaed tlx Senate awd HwtecJ Re prttenuaite fth United Staret of America, in Cogrt$ autmbUd, Thai the Sic en, iccordrag to the rnk sssigntd them, and which ihtj held on ibe seventh dajrcNovem- ber. one thousand eight hundred and e leven, the non-commissioned; ofScers and soldien rf the volanteer? tnd mllt'.ii, and the legal reprcsenUhfes bf those who were killed or died of their wounds, composing the arroy'that aervid in Re late campaign on the Wabash againa' the hostile Indians, , shall receive the tame compensation which is allowed by ar for the militia of the United States when called into actual service of the United States. Scc 2 Jf be it farther enacted. That the officers, according to the m k which thty held as aforesaid, the rion-commis aioned oERcers and soldiers, of the volun teers or militia, who served in the said campaign, and who were killed or died of wbends received in said service, leav ing a widow, or if no widow, shall have left a child or ch ldren, under the age of sixteen years, such' widow, or if no wi dow, such child or children, shall b? en titled to, and receive . the half of the monthly pay to which he deceased w-:s entitled at the timo cf h'u death, or re ceiving the wound of which hedird.for and during the term ol five yean ; and in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the term of five years, the half pay, for the remainder of the term, shall go to the child or children of such d'. ceased officer or soldier, whilst under the agt of six teen years ; and in like manner the al lowance to the child or children of such deceased, where there is no widow, shall j be paid no longer than while there is a child or children under the age afore said : Provided, That no greater sum shall be allowed in any case to the wi dow or to the child or children of any officer than the half pay of a Lieutenant Colonel Sec 3. And Lett Junber enacted. That every officer, according to the rank which he held as aforesaid, non-commissioned of ficer and private of the volunteers and militia, who served in the said cam paign, and who have bee) disabled by known wounds received in said service, th-ll be placed on the list of invalids of the Uncled States, at such rale of pensi on as shall be directed by the President of the Unittd Slates upon satisfactory proof of such wound and dis'tbiliiy being produced to hc Secretary of War agree ably to such rules as he may prescribe : Provided, The rate of compensation for such wounds and diiabilitics shall never, for the highest disability, ex.eed half the monthly pay of such c fficer, at the time of being so wounded or disabled, and that the rate of compensation to a non commissioned'officer and private, shall never exceed five dollars per month ; and all inferior disabilities shall entitle the person so disabled, to receive a sum in proportion to the highest disability, but no pension of a commissioned officer shall be calculated at a higher rate than the half pay of a' Lieu-enant Colonel. See. i. And be it fustier enacted, That anj person or persons belonging to the said army, who may have had a horse or horses tkillcd during the late battle on tbe-Wabash therein, shall be entitled to, and receive the value thereof: Provided, that the proof of the value of such hore or horses shall be by affidavit of the Quarter-Master of the corps to which the owner may have belonged, or of two other creditable witneises. Sec 5. fAadbe if art her enacted. That to the heirs or legal representatives of e very person who was killed, and to eve ry person who was wounded in the said campaign, who were purchasers of pub lic lands of the United States, and whose lands had not, before the seventh of No vember, one thousand- eight hundred ar.d eleven been octuallysold or revert -ed to the United Stales, fbrrthe non payment of part of the purchase money, a lurther time of three years sball be al lowed, in addition to the time allowed by former laws, to complete their pay ments ; which further time, of three years shall commence from the respect ive times when their payments should rme been completed accordinglo form er laws. HENRY CLAY. v Wx. H. CRAWFORD, v PrttUrwt 0iht Statt pre Uapor. April 10, 1612-.Ai.FRovap. JAMES MADISON. sFrom CobSett' (London) Weekly &e$uter. NOTINGHAM RIOTS. On the 20th February the House of Com nxms passed a bdl ' for making the crime of frajncbreaking punishable with deatb, instead of tranipoitation, as it was before Upon thus occasion some .very interesting observations wereimade t and, as the subject is of the great. esmroDortance. I shall insert them here, as find,therr. reported in the Morning Chronicle, where the debates are most fully and correct ij given I look upon this subject as one otve ry gmt consequence. There had been a mo tion made for previous enquiry into the cause ot the violences committed in Nottingham shire j but this motion was rejected : and the bU was finally passed as abovementiooed. have no room for adding any remarks of my own ; but I beg the reader to peruse carefully those which were made by the members upon this occasion. , Mr. Hutchinson said, that he would be the lat man in that house to de fend or justify the outrages egainsi which this bill had betn provided ; but it was a material point to ascertain, be fore this bill passed into a law, whether it could have the desired effect df putting a stop to these outrages. He did not think it could and. he was foriified In th't opinion by the frank declaration of the right honorable gentleman (Mr. Ry der), who had, in introducing the' bill into that house, protested against pledg ing himself tor' the ultimate success of his own measure, f Hear ! J After so strange but explicit an avowal on the part of the originator cf the bill, he tho't it became the house to be ' cautious of adding to the pile of their penal laws one of which ihey only could be certain, thst it might take away men's lives wih out at all resirain ng their ctTcnces. The law which had oeen the professed iiodel of the present bill, made the of fence of frame-breaking a- transporta ble felony this penal; y, howtver, was departed from, and the offence made a capital felony. The reason for this change did not appear. It had been said that under the former act nopcr sons could be brought to discover If it had been so difficult to get witnesses to prosecute to conviction, when the of fence was only transportable, would it be less so under the present act, when he conviction lffected life ? He thought rather that this very alteration would en hance the difficulty it was intended to obviate. But they had no! merely the authority of the right hon. secretary a gainst his own measure ihey had that of the minister himself, who had ex pressed his apprehensions that 'his of fence had not yet reached its height ihat it might yet proceed to an alarming extent, and reach pefhaps throughout a great part ff the manufacturing system of the country. If the evil now to be provided against was so to encrease, e ven under the operation of this statute, why enact 'it at all , They were not pledged to this particular act. Why not look anxiously for some bctter.re mcdy ? For certainly gentlemen would not contend, that that which could do nothing was the best possible remedy the case admitted of. What has been the immediate cause of these outrages ? Distress perhaps unparalleled. Did not , this involve a consideration that bound them to reflect upon the measures that had created that distress ? Why not then first inquire into the causes of that distress 1 1 If ihey had been pursuing a system which, in its consequences, threatened tho people with beggary and want, it was their bounden duty to stop, and change that, system, before they sent out an act to hang up the people for ouiragcs into which their own mal administration had driven them. They had no right to be so very keen and prompt in punishing the madness whieh they themselves may have occasioned. They had been called upon to be firm -let them be firm in resisting the outa ges of the lawless ; but pertinacious ob stinacy in resisting the complaints of a distressed people, was no part of that firmness ; but according to their own shewing, where was the firmness in ma. king an ineffectual shew of power in doing that Which could do nothing? Will this act do away the unparalleled distress that has provoked, and must continue to provoke, these outrages ? . Bat mai k tjtf inconsistency of ministers; wnq aamiuea ana aeniea me existence and extent of that distress,' according as such admission or denial was meant to square with xhe -topic then to be dispos ed of. If t6 e' efficacy of the orders in council was Impeached, instantly this distress became comparative commer cial prosperity: The tradeofthe entroy was annihilatcdi and ouravwas progres sively prosperous; but. when the house was 0 be called upon tor anotner penai statute, and when the unprecedented distresses of the people were attempted to be traced to tfieir natural source the "unprecedented errors of the government men tnaeeu inc extent oi inc calami ty was admitted and ascribed to the wide and heavy operation of those, decree which they .'had been told the orders in council had rendered altogether nugator ry and futile. Could the people think them sincere in their professions to re lieve their pressures when they fund them thus sporting with their distres es? An allusion had been. made.tp ihatrpart;of4he 'Jewish Ijw which con emncd children who rebelled against their parents, to be taken without the gates )f the city and there stoned .ty death but were there no obligations on the part of the parent ? If the parents profligately and desperately consumed the' substance of their children, deprived 'hem of their birth-right, and aU means of !ivjng were children so abused bound by all those strong ties of tenderness and pte y which connect those sacred relationships in ordinary life ?! He, for his part, was shocked to see such total indifference on the part of ministers to ihe sufferings of this i lass of their mi serable fellow-subjeCts ; in the name of those sutTeMngs he called for ; enquiry into them. They were bunfl.to know what those people suffered before they could ascertain the amount of that,cr' minality which their miseries had ex torted, and whi: h they were now going to punish with 'death. Was it the war I or the mode of carrying on the war? or were they to look at home for the fa tal cause was it to be traced to a total abandonment of all economy at home ? If it was one of those, apply , the reme dy to the source, and do not begin by unnecessarily cutting off the extremities. After vaun ing so much about me pros perity of the country, was this'the com ment put by ministers upon it ? They send out this act to tell the people of their commercial prosperity his first act of what may yet be followed by a bloody code an act that professedly can neither remedy nor prevent, but hang the criminal without putting a stop to the crime. It was rather an in auspicious act fur this new administra tion to commence with. They bVgin their new government of a new aera by adding, to the capital crimes of the country, an offence arising ou of the desperation of unexampled distress this, he must say; was rather an uufor lunate beginning at so prosperons an era for so unfortunate a set of ministers I He asked if they had yet given the people one practical pledge of ' heir sincerity in the cause of economical reform-? They had been lately making enormous ad ditions to their civil establishments, and 3ince that they had again thrown back ihe reversion bill upon the discontents of the country. An honorable gentle man (M . Hubert), had talked of the White Boy system in Ireland, and said, that if the Irish Parliament had not re sorted to those vigorous measures which were proposed in the present instance, that system might not have been put down. He (M.. H ) could not help thi king this a most unfortunate allusion. The White B ys broke out in 1760 at that period, owing to a great dearth- ol cattle in consequence sj a geneial mur rain in the north of Europe, ! cattle in Ireland brought so hsgh a price, that it became an object with many land holders to turn their arable into pas tures a system that, ' by taking. in, all the commonage, operated in the most hard way upon the poor peasantry This produced the insurrection Reno minated the White Boys Mr. Courtney Mr. Speaker, I beg leave to know if this be within oider ? TheSzr I hardly know how to answer that question. IHt be within order, I am at a loss to discover how it is so. (Hear, hear I J Mr. Hutchiruon The riots of the white boys were adduced as analogous to those of the frame breakers. We we're told that the Kate vigor which had checked the one would now be necessa ry to put down the other. I answer, fii s;, that 1 admit the analogy, because both species of outrages originated in iniquit ous grievances and' hardships apdse condly, that as the white boys were put d wn by redress of tfuir-grievahces, and not by the rigour of law, that according to the same analogy, you are" bound. Jo ioquire jnto the grievances pf the frame breakers, and m'emedyt hern -without delay, as the most effectuarway of put- I tint a strin to these outrages I not', sir," whether you can now' perceive the applicability of my , argument or Whether you are still at a loss diucov er whether, ih urging it, I anij within rthe limits of order. 4 repeat th'en that Rhe'Vigdur of the law failed ip ('putting down trie wn ne ooys tnat it w;m iau in nuttine down fhe frame breakers. But is it meant that the one should be the pure model of the other Vbildj you introduce the "pitch capind the other memorable insignia of torture, so well known in 1 Ireland, though not under stood here ? Would you introduce tnerh into EifgUnd ! The whi.te boys code ws fi only for the meridian ofj Bcrba ry, as it ha'6, indeed, been well describ td by a most intelligent writetion the state of Ireland. - But Ioo at this sub. ject as you will, you are forceq to the consideration of the cause '-lire any portion of the people of England given ib wanton riots ? was this the national i i character? was it the character ofl the n.anufactui intr part of ther coiintrw';? were thry not proverbially jaLgtjave, plodding,)quiet,, discrec, sedate, badness-involved class of men ? .Wh-it but inioieraoie aistress couia qrivej sucn a . t i i - "ai l j- r Li 5 class to lawless outrage ; and the dis tress was too great to be bornel the Le mslature wan bound to interoOse some O - ."- v . j remedy, and not hng men because they could not gutter oeyonn numan nature. I have now stated my objectiong to this measure, and condole with the , neif mi nister th.it such Should be the first act of this new sera of the 8ourishingt state of the Empire. The proofs of such; na tional prosperity were unfortunately but too equivocal, if they were to be found only in such a measure as that which they are now about to pass, or in a rup. tuie with America ; or in the midst of such treneral peril, in the alarming dis contents and jlien .tion of the Irish pebX pie. I he man who, can repose. conn- dence in those ministers who have bro' the emi ire tosuch a state, isnot Only, in my opinion, mcapaoie oi lorruing a ,ane judgment, but would desery, while he rant, d labout bur national prosperity. to be hung up in a cage to the gaze of the starving multitudes in this country, and himselt be made me sport ottnose upon whose miseries he could pass so cruel a mockery. If the bill does pass without inquiry, I trust that the people of England will proceed to hold consti tutional meetings, and resort to every constitutional mode of redress. I hope . . i ... . ' . . . i . that they wiii at length make that voice be heard within 'these walls which has had for spIpng a lime such little influ ence upon our counsels. The bill was read a 3d time and passed f ' tram the Alexandria Herald.. THE VVArT OFFICE. After a peace of 30 years it seems as if, the people of the United States be- i ve, as Well as every branch of ihe fe aerai government, nai war wim orcai Britain is inevitable, and every measure of importance taken by Congress this session proves the fact as well as . it proves their Zealand their patriotism, that war is the pbject,, lr is .then em- phaticaliy asked; why . we have no or ganized force adequate to our object ? whycuch dclay.in raising,andorg3iiizing an efficient force to Carry on effectual war? I slate no'delay has taken place in Congress or in the head of the war department other than that whichriias arisen froth circumstances over which neither wisdom nor talents could have had any controul. '.The Secretary of Var, in a crisb like the present, is placed in, a most responsible; situation, and the want of an intimate knowledge ofthe complicated and accumulated du ties and details of the war office, upon the verge bf war, naturally produces an im pres5fl on, not founded i n cprrectness. that unhece?sarydelay ( has taken place in organizing, a military forcei j would ask the persons;who have made com plaintabf tfclay. p ijthis deparhent to point out the. number; Mature anjd?ex tent of the duties .which ; have, been.j) mitted oi neglected-nPreparalions for war 'have progressed . slowly :',u;,.fortu nately. so. h 1 k has arisen from .the no refiy bfour. situation, thenaMire of our free.- government, w hich- prevents. 4- A hasty and; precipitate warVanj-notfor the wantjof industry or. talents in the Ogr ess of .he, U. States;oT.in ije'mr department ; and alihowe may notfat this time jpy.e k forcer sufficient. tQ; in vad e the possessions of our. eqemy, we are in a state4f very great security up on our seaboardftrlolirforh npori' the Canada line ind- Detroit ai a force has been assied: jtottf e and which will;Xinp blow, cbuldbe ekpeced uy eveu it: ' war, was Taeciarcqio-niqr row ; and although J am riotliorinectedj; directipr indirectly with the ' vrWU; fice my. simatiojAnddtita$ rgiveto me a view of the prcceedings of that department, anB I do rtot hesitate Wtzy that an examination of theubject would satisfy 1 any- reasonable, unprejudiced rnind that the Secretary of ; JVaf wants neither talents nor industry and that he has discharged Ids1 duty with as much fidelity, ability and dispatch as any in dividual could who :has not ;had'niore. experience; Af ' this very mbmeht the greatest difficulties afe. overcome, 'ahd rapid progress ismaking inthe organi zation of an efficient force, who will do honor jo themselves when, brought I in the field to serve tneir country, and the time for declaring war need not be de- ferred on account of j the war depart ment., -; 1 he commencement of' war m the United States will always be more or. less tardy but when once engaged in it; the impulse and operations will be irresistabTe. : It is to be lamented, therefore, that so 'many individuals, who ' . cannot see in detail the jgreat and'im- portant duties of Congress and toe aq- ministration, shouldfmake. their indis- crimihace complaints' and censures I wish to see the admtnist ration act with wisdom and enei gy as theyvhave done . I wish to sec Congress actwith abili y . anu pruuence, inucpenueui pi . conse quencesand all: should recollect that the Secretary1)fart htolwaybeen . disti n fished fpjafniari man of oire pr ai trian of the revolutionvand r every allowance . snouiq De raaae ior a seeming ueiay in the operations of his .department, and uniu ne is Known: to oe. aencient, sup port him. - I may be under the neces sity of making other: statements i State of N6rth-dai4)iirtai i Halifax County, April Tirm, 1812. WE, the Grand Jury in and, for the County of Halifax, disclaim; all interference in the nroceediners of the General Assembly, in our characters of .Graftd! jfiriit'Citlnt of the State, with all due deference to the opi nions of others, we bee leave 'to submit our Own.i., "" .p- - ';.- t-&ifj-&:&?c-' And whereasisome ha ve? complained of an Act of the last General . Assembly, . entitled An Act to repeal an Act passed in the year 802, . entitled ' An Act for dividiner the State into districts, for the put pose of electing Re- ptesentatives in Congress and an Act passed in the year 1803, .entitled An Act directms the manner ot appointing Electors ,tovote tor President, and Vice. President; of the Ignited . States we have" taken the same tinder bur consideration, and after examining' this clause. of the Constitution of the- United States, vz. article 2d, section 1st, Clause 2d, " ach State shall appoint, 'in such, manner as, the X.egsla. ture thereof may direct, a number of Electors equal to the; whole number of Senators and Representatives to -which the State may be entitled m the Congress and having before our eyes me example oi even aiaiess, at xne last Presidential electtori,' yiz.' Mastachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, NeW,Ywk, Delaware, South Carolina and Georgia ; Ve Uierefore do ibidwsrtf the Repeal, of the above ' named'Acts was perfectly Constitutional. 2dlji Resolved; Ttiix was necessaryf and expedient ; becatise; had the. Act of 1802 re-, roained unrepealed; the election, for CongresiT would have come. ion next: August, by which Act North Carolina would have had but twelve Representatives in Congress, ' but by postppn- ; iug the election until affer Christmas it will have thirteen. Representatives V and had the Act of 18Q3 remained unrepealed, N. Carolina would have ad Only fourteen votes for Presi- dent and yjce Pre'sktent,! whereas no it will have fifteen 'votes ; therefore we are of opinion that'Nen'Xaib1ittJ;?win;nby have its full weight and influence in both the Congress, and Presklential election., .. . ' Sdly. Resolved, Tat we do not consider the Rights of theOPeopie1y any means invaded; becavtse every, rainc who hitherto voted for E lectors; has theight of Votjng for Members of the -next General Assembly. v' ' A Resolved, .That the Foremaapf this Grand Jury is.requested to transmit a copy of these Resolutions to the Editors of the Regis ter and Stsr at Raleigh for publication; i WiiisASToWman." vi Joseph BranchtJas. Allsbrook, sen. -it hU ludluhsjiJames Simmons, - ApsalomBroohiy Jr'Dogge - rJcsepli.Pearce James Barnes, William "VVoptten. Wv J. Hamlin .. Willie Bishop, iaward wng, a Ys.WhSvHanfrf II, WJM. West, Henry bhaw K'Drrt lvey. . ii For Salerat Jj GaXfis's Start, MADISON RELIGION," "Or a Warning to the People of the Utates' i'-i ; ..r '''' v iHisMisTjysi ' ' v ' Price Twenty $ve Cents. ; j -aCv'', i'i ' ! i ' ' ' " o4hree Sermons on ELECTION, by Smith ?xs 15 cents. s , c - t.lfc SiHt 't,!l Hi it, 4ks ' IS1, f,1 " V I . i"' ' ill X 4-; Mr- V 1
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