Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-05-25
RICHMOND.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1894.
The President, Gen. Jackson and M: Lo,o,ie,


The President, Gen. jackson and Mr.: Lo,o,ie
II No. 9.
In our last paper, we attempted to satisfy our re-
ders' OF what we were previously aaa entirely con
Vinoed' that MIR. Lowres veracity had been fully
sustained by the exhibition of the correspondence
oetween the President and Cen. jackson, and tina,
the department OF that gentleman, throughout the
contest which led to the publication of the cores
| Pondence, was manly, dignfed and honorable In
considering the whole transaction, we have Invested
ourselves OF party feelings, and stripped the main
question: which was Mr.. Lowrie,r;nnocence or guilt
ct those characteristics, which, having no bearinr
'po" 'hs primary point, were used to inure or adj
vance the interestsof certain the Presidential
idates, and were calculated TO defeat instead of 70
aid, our search after tie truth. Two of these coll
lateral points, not without their interest. and
we SMALL therefore, tarry in consideration of the
second proposition, "Mr. Monroe's innocence or
! gum, TO oestow some attention upon thcm and Nix.
I.owric's connection with them.
| The first of these is, the purposes which the enc
mes Oh Zen. jackson expected subscrve by re-
vealmg the character of the Generals letters to the
President, and Mr.. Lcwrc's agency in ii, When
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american Sentinel Of Philadelphia, that Gen. Jack
SON mad, at the commencement Mr.. Monroe's adj
'nimstration, written him, voluntarily, letters IL,
winch nc advised the analgamation of par,c,. and
tic mdiscriminate appointment of Feterai;t, and
Republicans to Office, the Harrisburg Convention
was on the eve of assembling. In opposition to the
ordinary course of things and to that rule of exnc
''shee "mch teaches us to expect night after lay
ana thunder after tightening, it was known thar =
majority OF the people of Pennsylvania, supposed 10
DC attached to the Quaker principles of William
Penn, and to quiet, orderly and pacific govern
'nent, were either so n,islcd by dcnago.ucs or in
tatuated by the glare of that military rcnown. which
they were previously agined to despisc, as to be
III FAVOR OF General Jackson, next President of tho,
United States, and the Harrisburg Conv en,ion was
convoked for the express purpose OF dignifying his
pretensons, by the regular nomination of the POM,
iEus, Central and Republican Stale of Pennsviva
ma. When Gen. Jackson's prospects assumed the
''atefins aspect that such even, necessarily
gave hehi, 1t became the duty of every citizen who
considered his advancement to the Pre- ,;dencv nc
AN nraciion of tl,at order of succession which The
possession OF cira attachments had estabished-
| as ffaught with the mischievous consequences
10 inc character OF Our government abroad, and its
| stability and consistency at homeland who iuda-
ing from his previous history, were alarmed at the
piospec. seeing military man. who through
out his publ career had manifested the most per-
i"ct contempt for the rights OF persons laws and
constitutions, and forhumanty itself, at the head
OF the governmental became the duty of all such,
to defeat his views, by the employment of all fair
and honorable means. There are many men, and
men of hrmness; sagacity, and political experience
who view the possible Gen. Jackson witt,
shuddering. They award him all the merit that his
~arnest admirers have ever claimed for hnl-but
they think 1t incredible, that man who has had no
political eXperience-ho is rily ignorant of
| the diplomacy of the country-who once threw up
scat in Congress, for the avowed reason, thai he
was incompetent to fill it-anti who is uracquain:-
ed with all the forms of business-tley think it in
credible that such should be competent to dis
charge the functions of the Presidency so inoora
in themselves, and involving SUPERINTENDENT of
the whole machine of government. IInpcllcd by
| these jus: and reasonable apprehensons all prope,
means to exclude Gen. Jackson, were and ought to
nave peeh resoTtcu 10. Among others, his alleged
attachment to the Republican party and to its prin-
ciplcs questioned-and the two PHILADELPHIA
papers which we have already mentioned cited the
sentiments contained in his letter to the President,
as furnishing very strong evidence of the insincerty
| OF his proiessed devotion to the Republican party,
and of the slcndeTncss OF his claims be consider
| ed true and consistent Democrat. Immediately
preceding the meeting of the Harrisburg Convent
it doubtless expected that this discovery OF
Gen. Jacksons deser,ion of the party, to which he
now claims belong, would produce some effect on
the firm md undertaking democracy of that Assem-
bly, and its constituent5.-Tbat it has not done So
argues the absence of that political orthodoxy, te
which the Pennsylvanians lay claim--or proves
that mon in state of high political excitement, vi
olcntly pursuing favoritc object are indifftr-
ent 10 principle and consistency. 1t does not prove
that the. Convention At Harrisburg, acquitted Gen.
Jackson OF sinal federalism, or subsequent apos-
tacy.
But arc the persons who used Gen. Jackson's cor
rcspondanco with the Psesidena to lessen his poI;i-
cal standing in Pennsylvania blame Tor doing
When this correspondence was known to exist, and
TO contain sentiments at war with the professions of
the writer, and with the political opinions of the
State of Pennsylvania was it the duty of those to
whom the task of pTomusing it properly belonged,
to acquesce in the attempts that were making to
suppress it, or to call for its exhibition, 10 enable
the people 10 judge its character, and 10 estimate
the merits Of The Presidential candidate whom il af