Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-06-14

And TO This proposed course OF proce.
dure no exception appears to have been
taken. Nor is there ground TO bellows
that any is taken by the great body OF his
constituents, now the proposition having
been carried INTO effect His vote, as all
accounts from the West declare, meets
the appreciation oil large majority Of
those from whom he derived his authori-
~ 10 give It.
For his acceptance Of the appointment
OF Secretary of State, Mr.. Clay has been
censured by some of his friends. Wa
think the censure unjust Having been
chiefly instrumental in placing MIR.
Adams in the Office OF Presidency, he
was not at liberty to refuse his aid in con.
Quoting him through it. For lime, ae
least, the administration is likely to be
troublesome. An organized opposition
will throw difficulties in its way. Had
Mr.. Clay declined being one of the ca.
binet, his refusal would have been altris
buted to the influence of unworthy mo.
tlves--timidiy--a reluctance to encoun-
ter opposition--a shrinking from respon-
sibility, a falthless abandonment oil Mr..
Adams for the purpose of having him
destroyed, or some such fabricated and
improbable cause. Besides, being init
mately associated with the President ss
one OF his most confidential advisers, he
will be the better enabled to secure to
his iavoriIe system Of Internal Improve
ment, all the weight Of executive patre-
mage. He will still, therefore, be the
great beneiactor OF the interior and the
HEST.
The conspiracy of which the con-
temptlbie kremer was the Instrument
and the scape-goat, bul in which we are
confident that General Jackson bad no
participation, had three-fold object in
view--,o in,imidate Mr.. Clay from SUP.
porting Mr.. Adams in the contest for the
Presldency-to prevent him from &C.
cepting The office OF Secretary OF State,
in case OF the election of that gentleman.
that the cabinet might be weakened bv
the want of his talents-and to destroy
HIM IN public estimation, that he might
be no longer barrier to the success Of
their candidate at future election.
1t belonged to Mr.. Clay, as a man Of
frmness and an enlightened politician, to
meet and defeat that envenomed faction
at every point, as he has triumpbautly
done.
On the whole, believing him still to
be, as he has always been, an toucsS
man, an unimpeachable patriot, one OF
The wIsest and most sagacIous of states
men, and an inhexble friend to free 60.
yernment and human right, we admire
his consistency and approve Of his course
in, the late election; and such, we pre-.
dict, will be ultimately found to be the
sentiments OF the nation.
To General Jackson, as a benefactor
of our country, and one Of the most SUBJ
stantial props of the American charac-
ter, our friendship is honest and our gra-
uude lively. We wish him sincerely
length of life and herhetuny of fame.
But, to enjoy the latter, he must repose
under the shade of his military laurels:
He has already attained the only PIN
nacle of Lofty ambition for which nature
has intended him. Should he attempt
to shine in civil life, for which he is dou-
bly, incapaciated, by The original inaf-
hrofriate structure ofhis intellect, and
his Srant Of education and discipline in
affairs Of state, he zuiU certainly fail ;
and that failure will tarnish not little
his reputation in arms. All history de.
clares, that to the fame of great man,
nothing is so certainly fatal as want Of
success in any projected and favorite en-
terprise. Disappointment becomes the
tomb Of his well earned glory. Former
achievements are forgotten, and nothing
is recoliec,ed but recent disgrace. The
benevolent will pity him, while the envi-
Gus and the malignant, will triumph in
his degradation.
Search the biographies of ilIus,rious
men, and if you find to this statement a
single exception, then will we concede
the possibility, that similar exception
might occur in favor Of General Jack.
son.
But TO cast into the troubled and I'M
tried ocean OF civil life the precious Jew
ell of a reputation like his, earned amid
the tolls and achievements of The field,
under bare Possibility OF being able to
redeem it, would be an act of indtscre.
ton, not to say rashness, which we trust
he will never be suffered to commit.
Such an act would be self INN otation,
on bis part, and criminal abe,men, Of
il on that of his friends. Let him not,
then, by vainly grasping at what, TO him,