Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-11-30
Gorrtspoa0tuti.
GaEENoAsrln. Nov. 1885.

with great pleasure and satisfaction.---
Several copies come TO this place, and
| believe are highly appreciated by
those who receive them.
Our town is Improving rapidly
A number Of new and comparatively
superior class of houses have gone up
during the past year. Prof. Larrabee.
the late successor Of Geo. Ames, in
the Blind Asyhssn. Is building very
tasteful and comfortable house here.
Mr.. Ames has purchased the house
and property formerly belonging to
DIR. Simpson, and is now occupying IL
He purposes turning his attention to
raising cattle for The eastern markets.
We have two Methodist Churches
in this place--one belonging 10 the
Indiana, the other TO the N. w. Indi.
ana Conference. r
Rev. G.. b. Davidson, A. M. who
commenced his Inherent career, some
where about Brookville, Is pastor oil
the FIRST named charge. ] consider
him. on the whole. one of the best
Methodist preachers in the Indiana
conference. He devotes his whole
time to "lhc one scork" and as nee.
essary consequence is. a highly accept.
able and useful minister of the gospsl
of Christ.
Rev. j. KIger, the presiding elder
of the Indiana Conference District
commenced hts FIRST quarterly meet.
ing on last Saturday. II is still in
progress The meetings thus Ear
have deem unusually interesting. On
asst Sabbath. especially. the power of
the Lord was clearly manifested du.
ring the morning sermon. Many
hearts burned and many eyes were
wet with glad tears.
A large proportion Of the students
here in attendance upon the Universi-
ty, ase members of the church and
professors of religion. Hence deci-
dedly religious influence predominates,
and every student more or less is sub.
jcct oit. General good orderand har-
mony seem TO prevail in the Uni
versiiy The rcpresentativesof Frank
lin county in attendance upon the
College. am happy TO state, are all
gentlemanly young men, whose hab-
its Of study are good. and whose con-
duet is unexceptionable.
Every Sabbath afternoon lecture
or sermon is read or preached for the
benefit Of the students in College
Chapel. Last Sabbath, Prof Downey.
who has charge OF the Mathematical
Department. delivered in the main
very excellent discourse, upon the
teyt. "Be We perfect" NC. In the
course of his remarks however, the
learned professor strayed of too far
into the regions of conjecture. and as ]
thought lost his reckoning. lie in the
progress Of his lecture made an asser.
ton something like tins: .'The frs,
attempt Of the Almighty to create a
moral character was a failure"
thought that probably the idea that
the lecturer was cndeavoriug TO pre-.
sent was good, and correct, but thai
the mode fits expression was unfor-
tunate. II reminded me Of the reply
of young lawyer to the exhortation
of his landlady, who had become a
convert 10 Millerism: "The world j:
coming to an eend, Mr.. Bran. {" said
the old lady, as she burst into tears
warm, trembling with excitement.
1.-THE world is coming to an eend be
fore tomorrow morning." "Well, i
is high. time." cody replied the
young limb of the law, "ior in my
opinion thus far il has been a mos
miserable failure
The Mccormick case has excited
some attention here for the past few
weeks. Some Of your friends are a
loss to know upon what grounds yor
Justify Gov. Wright in giving up Nc
! Cermick. at the requisition Of Gov
I Powell, and at the same time tax,
exceptions to the course of McCor
mick. in fleeing from danger. Yo,
say in your editorial upon the sabjec
that you cannot see how Gov. Wrigh
could lawfully avoid giving him up
Now some Of us in these parts are o
opinion that Gov. Wright was unde
no legal obligation to surrender Me-
Cormick at the instance of the Ken
tucky Governor. The only shadow o
obligation that rested upon Governo
Wright is TO be found in certain po,
ton Of the federal constitution, whicl
reads as follows:--'sA person charg
ed with treason, felony or crime
who shall flee from justice and b.
found in another State, shall, on de
mand Of the executive Of the Stat,
from which he fled. be delivered up
&c.," Now, tony mind il is very
questionable whether the above con
sttutional provision will justify us
in assuming that because aiding run
away slaves. is held ms crime under
Kentucky laws, that therefore the
Gov. OF Indiana was bound to surren
der Mccormick to answer to the
charge Of crime. 1t is stretching, al
we think, the constitutional provision
too far, and doubtless perverting il
intention, TO recognize as crimes ey
cry act that the Legislature OF any
State may choose 10 decide criminal
but only those that are in fact essen
tally evil. For instance if a Stat,
Z (say Ky.) should enact law tina
no citizen should aid another in re
covering stolen property, and if a cit
izeG of that State should in violation
of the law aid my neighbor in recover
ing his stolen horse or cow. and flee
ing from the penalty Of the law
should come into Indiana, no maj
certainly in his, sense would say tha
Gov. Wright was under any obliga
ton on account of the above constitu
tional provision to surrender me at tn
call of the Governor Of Kentucky
Now to my mind, the case before US
precisely the same. Mccormick
charged with aiding certain person
to recover their own property; vi,
! themselves-God's own heritage an
every human BEINGS inheritance