Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-09-16
Jackson will get the vote OF New.

In Virginia, although II Is oeiieV'
ed that the actual popularity of Jack
son far exceeds that of any other can
didate. it is probable that the organ.
iized force, the stimulated industry.
and the habitual influence of the Rich
mond party, armed as it is with the
formidable fundamentally Of the
general ticket, and with the subser-
vieney of press which. although,
declining in influence, still gives ex-
tensive and exclusive circulation to
political misrepresentation, will sue
| coed in making the vote of the State
repagnant to the wishes of the PEG.
| pie.
The citizens OF Virginia are not
insensible to the transcendent claims
of Jackson, nor are they prone to be
deceived by the shallow fictions and
superficial attempts at reasoning,
wherewith the eaucns party endeavor
to represent him as soldier Of for
tune, man of military habits, and
dangerous temperament. They make
Just distinction between Washing
ton & Wellington: between the noble
exertions of patriotic citizen de
tending his own country, and the
ambitious success of martial leader
INJECTING desolation and slavery on
foreign states. They are disposed to
believe that the best evidence an A.
mercan can give of superior talent.
consists in the prompt, and undauut-
ed devotion Of his life, his fortune
and his honor, in generous and
skiIful struggle to repel the invader
from our soil. and TO protect our sa.
cred rights and dearest interests from
the danger and violence Of war;
This they consider better school
for public abilities and ardent patri-
otism, than either a residence in To-
reign Courts, or the enjoyment of
high domestic offices. The duties of
these they know have been adequate
ly discharged by men of ordinary Ca
pacity in every age and in all COINS
tries, while they acknowledge that
few nations or eras can boast of
citizen so useful and patriotic as Jack
son: equal to the emergencies of Pc
ril and war, and fond of the modtr-
alton and tranquility of peace, They
do not tolerate the political ethics
which convert the glories Of the sol.
der into stain upon the character
of the citizen, nor can they consent
to the doctrine which by subjecting a
successful defender of his country, to
all the impu'ations which may be at
tached to adventures in the trade of
blood, 0bstruct the most generous
course of republican ambition, and
teach the sons Of America, that in
order to obtain the highest degree of
popular favor. they must shrink into
insigniiiCance and safety at the ap-
preach of national danger, and that
the path of ambition is not that of
glory. When they are told by the
enemies of Jackson, that but for the
events of the last war he would ne
YER have risen into competition for
the office Of President, they at once
reflect. that but for the events of the
former war. Greene would never
have left his forge, nor Washington
his farm; that the same divine good.
ness constructed the moral and the
physical world; and has supplied both
abundantIy with their respective ele~
ments: and that the genius of gifted
men is called forth by the course of
events and the esigencies of society,
20 save and to elevate nations, as the
varieties in the structure of the Cube
and inequalities in its surface, bring
cut the living waters to refresh the
air and feriiize the earth.
The Jackson Central Committee,
persuaded that the great body of their
fellow citizens entertain these fair
Il rational opinions. cannot fail deep
ly to regret the sinister influence of
caacus vaccinations, by which their
efEcacious expression is impeded; but
relying on the fasting en~,'sy * free.
dom, the insuppressible force of rea-
son, and the unextinguishable lustre
of merit, if they despond, they will
not despair. They request earnestly
of each of the gentlemen. whose