Pennsylvania Republican from York, Pennsylvania • 2

K' i Ji IIAYTI, ro a became officer. lie' killed sin Coulter, of the brig-IVony, arrived here yesterday, in 22dayJ Captain rived he the Conduct of those who, are clothe with high authority, been such as tc repoM'-sihis drooping'spirit They' nordoes an' Aux Cayes, informs, that on the 3Xrf 1is in a quarrel find' was oblig. edf return to. Since that the instruments of their bwn Jestruction; let not the citizen soldiers of th stated whichhe constitution appoints onl" to repel Invasions, be con vched int a instruments of aggression to invade other Rege de Ur mt plectuntur achivi. It tafcngagemcnt took place near thr have Kjen so applied i -belween the armiesof Christophdf, i which is up Bid PotlAll Sm uiKleli laftan ft ult.

he nd Petjon, in which the latter iAi' i successful. uponarocca: siops pro Qming the abject jninious state which, for seven v-ainti; be has constantly beep employed 4 in currying on the war gainst the Turksl IDs.hrother.havingfxamreitied he 'condemned him'1 to br lie pnf eet 'vast influence over thr eoplc of Belgrade. i i OsrifttophtHfleerSraf blockading. Jeremie, which place, as well as those in itsflhvirons, had, on The people ire sacrificed to the policy v- of iiulers. the 5th ult.

It islstated irf letters, de dared in favor of Petioh it' was expected that Aux Cay es1 and several other parts ot llayti would soon do the snme. Fnm the New-York Com Advertiser City of Washington, April Sth. Mr. YORK-. RECORDER.

ba-rcniMY, May 2, ,1812. this county has endured, pursue such-a mode of conduct, aalculated to quicken the national spt, or enliven' to active usefulness, its sense of honor. -By long and frequent acquaintance and habitude with supposed ignomlby, the mind is at length prepared for enduring the The transition tsom silent acquiescence in- imppted national I shame dishonor, to its hated reality, I i is easy and natural. To hurry this transition, npthing has been left unsaid. The nation has been, for years," told, that longer submission, would plunge it in dishonor it has submitted nger antT no adequase exertions aire been made, to rescue it from that iiai Con nei ticut'Aviiyi correct had its election on Ionday.

The ghost of democracy scarce appeared on 4he occa sion. In most of the towns, guvernon Griswold was unanimously voted foiv Bbcton CtineL INDIAN HOSTILITIES. St. Labis, March SI. S.nce Chr'it ns laktthe following murders have en committed by the Indians, in this country 2 persons nar the mines on the Mississippi 3 in the district Charles, within the set lement, supposed to be killed by the Kickrpoos 1 man, at fort Ma-dison, on the Sd inst.

by the Winaba-goes. There' were several men whn left fort Madison for this part of the territory, about the 17th inst, who are supposed to have fallen into the hands of the enemy; as they have not been heard of. Main Poc, the Pottowatimie, is pre-p i a war party to proceed against die Osages. This fellow has been, until lately, at fort Malden, it is tho't at the that he intends to strike at the whites. We received a few days ago soroq accouiu.ul governor Harrisons, treat- in with some of the chiefs who wrre in the late action on the Wabash.

This news may be correct i but we know, from the most authentic sources of in-formation, that those were only squads of bands, who are either amusing governor Harrison; to avert a merited retaliation jor wish to secure their individual families from an expected attack this spring. depth of dishonor Would it then be I have observed, In the public pa. prrs of -New York, that a detachment of Militia of that state is ordered to the defence of the frontier by the govern-'went of that stated in the pursuance oj instructions from the President of U. A. Upon, what constitutional ground this measure is adopted.

It is. impossible fqrraeto conceive i certain. I am, that it' highly imports the state of yonV, to keen a v'gilent eye on this pro-ceediag, to canvass it as involving the nix' rtant constitutional question. The rights and privileges of the militia are of ttic first moment to the respective states and let them look' well to it. how they are made use of by the Pres-identofthe United States' for any ther purpose than those specified in tht constitution.

By the constitution, the militia car be called forth in three cases only execute the laws of the Union, us sur. 'press insurrections and repel invasions. Neither of the two first cases are pretended to exist but the last invasion, is the alledged ground of the Preside nis requisition on" thcTgovem or. of matter ofsurprise, however it may be deprecated, if the spirit of American Mtriotism should have been taught, through these means, to fall into nerate langouV Having had full time tp. determine whether or not we will have war having had sufficient time to weigh the consequences of it, and to prepare for it might be expected, adequate preparations have been made Foie enemy oQur choice is po The proposed recess of congre for 30 days, has been negativcoF in the house of representatives.

Preparations for War-j The President of the United States has issued orders, to ifcp executives of the several states, tolioid their respective quotas of 100,000 militia in readiness, to march at a moments warning. CANADA, of course, is the object, against which the united energies of our 25,000 and one regulars, and heroic militia, are to be directed. The government, it Is said, is pledged and cannot recede from the war-like tonc which it has assumed nor from the war-like attitude, whice it pretends to have assumed'. vie must, therefore, take anada. The simthing consequences which arc expected to result that event, will make atonement for every thing it is to atone for the insults we liave endured, as well from Bonaparte as from king George i it is to rt store UMPiaiiy to oar to i ievg Icable one j'it see ms to have been necessary to break terms with one of the belligerents, and thro' apurely chi-vaous spirit, our national councils have resolved, of two evils, to choose (he greater.

Our enemy is knpwn to ptssess abundantly the requisites both for offensive and defensive warfare. What, then, are the means, to which our rulers have resorted, to repel the one, or operate against the other To re pel the fleets of Great Britain. we have five or six frigates we havo The United States invad by the Ca-' jiaeftani III Strange, passing strange I would not ask for the evidence invasion in Canada, but I put the ques-tion to every man in the United States, if this pretence is not false on the face of it, and the reverse literally true. liave not the United States upon the floor of congress, (During the whole course' of the present session) threaten ed to invade the canadas Have they not voted armies for this avowed pur-pose IOn we not seen iir-goreTTrnienp3tHKanadarinTentTmfy The officers of the garrisons of Chicago and Fort Madison, -U. States' a-gents on the Mississppi, and Illinois Traders, all concur in the same story that the Indians have no idea of making peare with us that red wampum is passing through all the upper villages from Sioux of St.

Peters, to the 'head of the Wabash that, at every council fire, the Americans are devoted and proscribed i and, in short, that a general combination is ripening fast. We should be sorry that governor Garrison fhould De tne dupe ofTTew on defence against the threatened invasi on I Does not the comparative weakness of Canada evince that she never will provoke hostilities that while she must always fear invasion from us, the first principle self preservation, will restrain her from setting a hostile foot upon our soil JTfThere be a main who fears invasion from Canada, it is in vain to reason with him. -There is invasion- rascals, or that we should call our frontier people to a fatal security, Wv giv-ng them a suporific from Vincennes. We know that we have a better opnor-tunify oF acquiring a knowledge of Indian movements, than can possibly be obtained pn the Wabash and there 'ore will sound -the alarm when danger is appreheamed. It i a well known fact, that most, if not all the Indians -east of -the -Missis-ippi, have divided into small bands Some are for peace while a band of the tame nation are determined on war with the U.

States. i thrnattbnalcharacterfroiti'lhe'rcal or imputed imbecility into which, in spite of the acknowledged wisdom our rulers, it has by some means fell i will renovate the precious fire of patri. otism, now so languishing it will, in a word, as we observed, do every and more too The couquest of Cana da is to humblp the lofty pride of Albl, on, and bring her, gladly to the. ac ceptance of such terms, as are usually dictated by conquerors. These; are a few of the infinite ana adyantegeous consequences, which wil in streams of peace and beauty over this blessed country, upon the subjugation of the British colonies 1 It has been ascertained remotest doubt, that we must have war, and that we must take Canada For the former, the honor and dignit; of government are pledged the latter is necessary to console the disagreeable feelings, which an infuriate spirit has.

awakened in the breasts of the war-like leaders in congress. Since this is the case since we must have war with England, and take Canada, any efse we cannot take,) it may be worth while to bestow a thought, on the pre parations whiph' are made, and are making, to meet this crisis Uo important to the at large and brin it to an honorable termination. Jt i some twp or three dozen of half-decay ed gun boats and we have Robert Fulton- and his Torpedoes 1 Could a' fleet of 30 sail of the break' thro such barriers as these If it could not, then are we safe if it could, our sAboard would not be quite safe Our means of offensive operations, which are to commence the furious onset of the war, before the rocks of are, 100,000 militia; and 25,000 and one regulars the militia- arenoir put in requisition, and are to be equipped and the regulars are now wanted, bare to be huW--vTheswreighiyfav-ces are to act iu concert, (if they shall ever happen to become embodied,) and arc to. plant, on the strong cmbattel-ments of Quebec, the bannere of Republican America. Is it likely, is it even plausible, that 25, OCX) troops, even tho already rais- ed and aided by a disorder-1 ly band of militia, will be an efficient force to send against the English colonies -It it is not aa efficient Our regulars may be brave, but their diminutive number will' render their bravery unavailing.

As to the militia, the observations of any person will con- vlncc him, that in offensive operatipns, they are of little use. The refractory disposition, with which they -set cannot easily be Conquered in three months; at the end of that period they return hbme. anew spirit ini-; mate them or they will be useless in the approaching war. In the defence of their families and property, when; threatened by an invading found efficient but in 'no other sc- Nor will fhey be useful, general change of system and disposition from the waters of the Athn-. tic to the forests of the west.

AVhe-. thef we should; or.r deprecate such a diange; remains tov be deter-. minedr A short conciuaon 'occurs tho we may want Canada, we must tty a-while longer to do without it Extracts of letters from Chicago and Peorios, received in town a few days The Indians who have committed the muirders in Illinois Territory, are within a few miles of this but they -will not be given up. Several attempts have been made to obtain, from the Potowetimies, an account of the number lost in the Wabash affair. They say there were only forty or fifty kiljcd and a few wounded, who are getting well, lliey take pains to hide the number they have lost.The prophet is exerting himself to Collect his forces the Potbwatimics are all for war and are iorming plans to sack this garrison.

And the Winahagoes are assembled at Millenakee, 90 mile w. from this place, to the amout of 500, and breathe nothing but war and. revenge. From every village, nothing is but the s'-ng of war, and it is expected to commence as soon as a few chiefs return, who went to VincennerTO" feei-the pulse of governor Harrison. specified-ip-the constitution, nor the iminent danger of invasion? provided for by the.

act of the 20th of Feb. 1795 and let the governor and citizens of New-York look well to it, how they lend themselves to the views of the President of the United States, and sanction a measure in the very teeth of thecohstitution. What their views? I answer, agrei sion, meditated hostility upon the Canadas, to be brought about by the -militia and it must be confessed, that the means are happily adapted to. the end. As soon a our militm detarh-ments take their station on the frontier oi the iiiti st.t'i the Canadians, having witnessed the deliberations in Congress ir invading that country and conscious of their having had np intension of invading the United States, will consider our movment asinexecuc tion of the threat to 'invade sml will of course collect an opposing military force for defence.

Hostile passions will be excited, and disputes, and bloodshed inevitably follow. Here the threatened war begins, and through the agency of the militia. After rivcri.jQf.JriQbd shalUiate been shed, United States may-possess themselves'of all the Canadas and No-. va-Scotia' i blit then greit Britain may say Retrace your steps and restore all to the former owners, or you shall never tail a vet set upon the ocean The in conncil are but how are the conquered by invading Ca nads But course 1 govern ment miiy adopt, let not the tniiitia, the sacred bulwark of the individual states be nude by tbe cxecuuve of the United FiANxroRT, (Ken.) April ft Extract of a letter from ir gentleman in to gentleman oi this county, dated; Jffeuon (Ten. March 26.

On the situation of this country, noi much scarce-any period, since the close of the revoluti- i onary war, has it been in a -situation less capable of repelling offensive war. We possess, it is true, resources far superior to what they were in that day, nnd the. spirit of patriotism may not be extinguished tBut have there re sources 'been properly applied Has uir-tyt bare this moment ncciTei orders to again! th Creak Indians-They hare killed twenty fainiLe oa -Elk Riven We mareu this moment Vi vVt 1.