Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-10-19

implacable hostility, to every other candidate for
the Presidency have brought injury upon their |
cause and disappointment upon themselves--For |
verify, they have been like Ish:nacl of old their
hands have been raised against every man and eve
nv lnan's hands against thcm." We should there
fore be inclined to presume from this fact alone,
unsupported by any other evidencn that all is not
exactly right that the " finger of Joab" is in tins
matter, and that there is something acting behind
the scene whichw are not permitted to view-But,
FIVE are mistaken in all this, time alone will recti-
| fly our errors.
! Aud whereas furthermose, would consider it
| impolitic and unwisc for Georgia, at this time to
give her vote for VIM. II. Crawford, because, we
believe that he cannot i'm any event succeed, and
consequently the vote of the would be thereby
thrown away. Because, we believe, that he is not
the choice of the people AT large, and therefore,
entitled to it, And lastly, because, believe that
there arc others much better qualified especially,
this time to controul the destines of this people.
| And whereas believing do, that Gen Jack
son possesses in high degree all the qualifications
necessary to be combined in President of the u.
States, and believing that he is a of talents,
integrity, patriotism and true republican principles,
combined with fearless and honest Independence
the man who has stood by his country in the hour
OF danger and rendered services which should ne
yer be forgoten--We codsider it mpcrious upon
us to support him for the first Office in the gift of
his countrymen.
But shall it be said, that Gen. Jackson is not a
his ,cOrds. In Short we refer YOU to the history of
his life. Shall it be said that he has not sufficient
experience III matters of dipioacy we ask you what
experience in these matters had Gen. Washington
himself before he was made President of the u.
II is true, that Gen. Jackson has visited 10
foreign court, but, at the time while he is igno-
rant of the etiquette, lie is destitute of the artifce
duplicity, intrigue aud corruption of foreign courts
Like w Washington and Cincinatus, he is taken from
among the people. He comes Immediately from the
pnfs nd cI,at to Il,
that he is not a man of unGuestionabe integrity,
who viii dare utter it: No fellow citizens, he is
too high-mindcd, too honorable to shrink from the
truth Is there one among who will say, that he
Is not the 1orer of his country the ardent and dcvot-
ed patriot, the true, unbending republican and that
he has not performed under the oppressive
ana appalling circumstances the most signal servi-
ces for his country, would again gladly refer
such an one, to the history of his life.
Who then is General Jackson, and what is his
prctcnsions To the Presidency. His biographcr
tells u.s. that Inc is native of South Carolina, and
one, OF the remaining heroes of the war of the re-
volution-Whose infant efforts were made in re-
sistins the unmerited aggrcssons of foreign power
having lost his father and of his brothers at the
tender age of fifteen years, he was doomed to wit
ness the death OF his only surviving brother by the
blood-staincd hands of the British soldiery and
himself reduced helpless and forlorn to the tegra-
dcd condiron of British prisoner of war. And
here, he was left wtou; family friend aud while
fcer, "to clean his boot but Jackson though strip
ling and prisoner, Indignantly refused to obey the
rnanuates of that supercilious and dsamful tvran,
and taught him what it was to be freeman; some
years after which time, the young hero, removed to
the state of Tenucssce where he filled many impor-
tant appointments in a civil capacty--He was there
appointed Attorney General Of the State-clecied
a member of the Convention that formed the Con-
sttution of the State--afterwards he was elected
Senaror in Congress, and appointed one of the judi
ges ofthe Supreme Court of Tenn and then Ma
lor General III the army of the u. States; he was
then, appointed mission to Mexico which he
declued, on the ground that the celebrated "Itur-
bide was tyrant, and that to appear his court,
would be to sanction his usurpatons He is a this
time, Senator i'll the Congress of the U. States
from the state oil tennessee Is he without talents:
Is he destitute of experience: Has he done nothing
for his country! 1t is necessary that the committee
should call the attention of the public to General
Jacksons military career, in that he stands unriva-
ed--the celebrated riumphs of Napoleon Bona
parte inferior to his Cesar and Alexander the
Great. were not his superiors in military PROV
css; and Europe, will be constrained acknowledge
that Jackson. is "abovc all Greek, above all Roman
fame In his Indian campaigns, never disponduq
but almost always suceessiul.--But how could il
have been otherwise, when 4 would cheerfully
submit TO the most distressing hardshIps and priva-
ions that ever were endured or any set of men ev-
er sutered after all this, shall be told that he is
ambitious, and thrsts for power, we must answer
That If lie Is ambitious, the object of that ambition
Is the glory and happiness OF his country. Let us
now turn our attention to the war of 1912 for Jack
son has been properly called the "hero of two wars
the war of the revolution and the last war; i'm which
we had to contend with the master-soldiery of Eoa-
land. When the British armies invaded our co,st
JACKSON, was the man who was found ready to meet
thea, at the very threshold, disputing every inch of
ground, and for the unparalleled splendour of his
achievements, need only 10 refer you to the ccle-
brated battle of New Orleans--Thcrc the pride of
Brtons was humbled--Thcre, the best trained
troops of Europe doomed To witness an inplo-
rious deleat--Therc the brave, and ardent Pack,nr
ham, met an. unIimely fate-There, the anuincibirs
of Lord Wellington, were conquered. While the
plains of New Orleans, were then drcnched with the
bones of the thousands slain. But this victory was
OF much more consequence to US, than merely to
dazzle on the page of history. 1t has been admit
ed, and think very justly, that it the Salrafio,
OF our country Had Louisiana been overrun, who
can tell where that desolating tide of British power
would have terminated.-Lct it be asked who pre-
served our property from spoilation, and our wives
from pollution Who defended the saDcttv of orr
homes and the domestic quiet of our fte-sides p
VINO preserved our daughters from the licentious
embraces OF the British soldiery whose watc, word
was "beauty and booty" and whose over-lustfuI |
propensities were impatient for handwriting on the
Spoils o injured innocence and virtue? In word
who rescued us from the impending yoke of foreign
oppression: Who redeemed us from the ron-prasn !
OF power that threatened our political existcnce?- |
VINO eclIPsed the boosted triumph of proud cnem,,
ana laid him low Who restored us. 10 orr ho,ocs
our 'cireS, our chidrcn aud our friends and ,rb,
taught our hearts to- be glad at the news of return
ing peace: Gen. Andrew Jackson the great in