Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-06-07
From the Providence Journal.

1t is understood a petition will be
presented at the next Congress from
the surviving officers of the Revolu-
tionary army, residing in Massachu-
sets, who were excluded from the be-
neit Of the pension act, praying for an
allowance of half pay the remainder
of their lives. A circular has been
sent to the officers Of the different lines
in other states, recommending them to
adopt similar measures on the 4th OF
July next. II would be highly graft
flying to see this application meet with
the success it deserves. If there ever
was proper subject for free and even
lavish expenditure in government, it
is the rewards due TO the surviving
veterans of the heroick struggle Of our
infant Republic; and if the present race
cannot meet the expenditure, posterity,
if worthy to have descended from such
sires, will rejoice in the legacy OF a ma
tional debt arising from the gratitude
of the people TO the assertors OF their
independence, and their greatest ma
tional benefactors.
The pension act originated in one OF
the most noble impulses of the heart,
when even Legislators and financiers
forgot every computation but that OF
gratitude. The principle was undoub'-
eddy the same whether there were fifty
or five hundred thousand surviving SOL
diers of the revolution; but, as the APP
plications increased, the gratitude
seemed to diminish, and narrow and
technical constructions were resorted
to for the purpose of excluding every
intruder who would not lay aside the
dignifed bearing ola veteran receiving
from his country long withheld and
most righteous demand, and cap in
hand, with his tattercd garments and
his certificate Of utter poverty and
restitution, the oaths to which had
been wrung from the old soldier in
the hard struggle between necessity
and honest pride; come to ask of his
country the little pittance grudging-
ly doled out to him, not as right
but as boon to save him from want!
1t is melancholy to see a great people
attempting an act of justice and
magnanimity, which it afterwards
turns outwas thought at the time could
not be very expensive but from the
effect Of which they shrunk on finding
the claimants under this act of justice,
greatly exceed the number that were
supposed TO exits. But it will soon
pass. These veterans one by one are
mingling their aged frames with the
soil which drank so freely of their
youthful blood, and the genius OF re-
trenchment brooding over this list Of
worthless exults, as he daily strikes
from the roll some incumbent and di-
minishes the array Of figures at the
summing of the account; and when
posterity shall Judge Of the act giving
relief to the survivors OF the revolu-
tionary struggle, and of the construc-
ton and application of that act, it is
AAa ~ Aa y ss Nthi fF APPROVE p %s
Piqan, (Ohio,) May IA grand
Council, consisting of delegations from
various tribes Of Indians, will be held
at Wapaghk onnetta, about thirty miles
north of this town, in few days. The
representatives from many tribes in the
south and west, and from beyond the
Mississippi will attend they are only
waiting the arrival of Governor Cass,
to commence their deliberations. The
object Of the council, we understand,
is to make proposals to those tribes,
who inhabi: the country bordering on
the white settlements, to remove be-
yond the Mississippi, and there place
themselves under the immediate pro-
lection Of the General Government
This proposition, if we be correctly
informed, is in direct opposition to the
views of some of the old Indians, who
have accumulated property, and begin
to feel settled; they have no inclination
to leave the home of their fathers,
where they are comfortably fixed, to
commence new tolls, in an unknown,
and perhaps hostile land.
We learn from the Detroit Gazette
Of May 10, that Governor Cass left that
place on Saturday, the 9TH, for Wap-
aghkonnetta, Ohio, 10 treat with the
Delawaes, Shawnees, Wyandots, and
Senecas, on the subject Of removing
from Ohio to the west side of the Mis-
sissippi. 1t is expected that he will
return 10 Detroit about the 10th of
June, when he will Immediately depart
for Prairie du Chen, where he will
meet with the Sioux, Chippeways, Me-
NOMINEES, Sacks, Foxes, Ioways, Win
nebagoes, sc. for the purpose of fix
ing some boundaries for the several
tribes, and thus check in measure
their frequent quarrel,.
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