Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1823-12-03

on account of his infamous character.
Mr.. Crawford killed Mr.. Van Allen, who
had before lost one Of has eyes. What a
horrible state of society does this show
6~FoR what deplorable ferocity in the
parties concerned.-Take it either way:
Attribute the effect to either cause. is
this the training for the chief magistrate
of a moral and religious community
Are these the qualifications (which are
to recommend Mr.. Crawford TO the SUI
frages ola free and virtuous people ??
8. That Mr.. Crawford was PRIV to
and in conjunction with Judge TAFT, d.
Frectly concerned in most vile and pro-
figate attempt to destroy the character
OF Gov. Clark, by the confession Of one
Clary, that he, Gov. c.. together with
several other respectable characters in
Georgia, had been concerned II, passing
counterfeit money.
a. That when the Legislature of
Georgia, subsequently inquired into this
transaction, with view TO the alledged
misconduct of Judge TAFT, in respect to
it, Mr.. Crawford (although implicated
IN the charge) managed TO get himself
appointed on the committee of inquiry,
and then managed to get report in ia
vOr of his friend TAFT, for 1phom he had
before killed poor Van Allen!
5. That Mr.. Crawford first began to
distinguish himself as politician at the
time of the famous Yaaoo speculation,
and the burning Of the records when
the resembling act was passed, which
was afterwards declared to be unconsti.
tutional, null and void, by the Supreme
Court of the United States. The origin
al grant having been repealed by the
Legislature, and the record of it by Mr..
C's faction, digest of the State Laws
was published containing the original
grant and the resembling or burning act
This faction was so irritated by this pub
LEGATION, thai they procured a law au-
thorizing new digest to be made, and
Mr.. Crawford was appointed with an h
er person to compile the new digest.
He completed this work in three months,
(Which it seems was regarded in Geor-
gia as great achievement !; +" but in
stead of going as was expected, to the
original manuscript acts, he took the con-
ds'nned digest, and copied herefrom the
lauvs 1Oh'ch the other compilers had collect
ed to has hand, leaving ont the famous
Yazoo act, and by the mere schoolboy
operation of copying from the labors of
another, he soon furnished a digest
which received the executive sanction.n
The facility with which he accom-
'plished this merely mechanical task,
caused him TO be elected in the year
1908 member of the legislature for
the republican county of Oglethorpe, to
which he had removed from the federal
city of Augusta, where he resided in.
1898, when his famous address of adhe-
sion to John Adams was prepared. Mr..
C. had found il convenient to change
the scene of his operation, when he
changed bis political character.
6. 10 1918, Mr. Crawford made an e.
.ectioneering tour in Georgia and
whilst he was at MiIledgevile, he, or his
friends, contFived 10 have published a vi
olent and infammatory newspaper arti-
Gle against Gen. Jackson, "a man whom
he both fears and hates) and in which
the hero Of New Orleans was compar-
ed to Cesar, Cromwell, and Bonaparte !;
and it was stated that the cabinet at
Washington was equally divided upon
the question of arresting him for disobe-
die"ce Of orders In the Florida expedition.
This article was levellcd, not only at
Mr.. Calhoun and Mr.. Adams, but was
meant TO reach our venerable President
himself, who it seems did not think pro-
per to arrest the saviour of his country
in order to crafty Mr.. Crawford's re-
sentiment.