Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-10-14
PROVIDENCE.
PORTRAITS OF THE OPPOSITION
No. VII.
GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON.
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of an incident singular in itself, or one that
naturally strikes the reader with astonishment,
that, which stands living monument, to show that
General ANDREW JACKSON did, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four,
received plurality the votes Of the Electoral COL
leges; and when future generations shall read the
fact, and shall fully become acquainted with the
history of the and their ancest ors, they will
ponder over the records Of by-gone days, and Won
der how 1t were possible, that military chietain,
by the tnse that decorated his person. and the glare
of his achievements without the necessary acquire
ments or talent, for statesman, should succeed in
gaining the sufrages of four. ffths of the American
People.
Whatever merit he may possess as warrior
and it is not contended, even by his most partial
friends, that he lie, strictly speaking, correct disc
plinarian-it is certain that he is absolutely defc
lent in a knowledge of political economy and sci
ence, and that he is not capable of representing
his district ably and correctly in the American Con-
gress. We have seen him thore, anterior and sub
sequat to that day, when the splendor of his victo
| ries placed him before the eyes of the world; and
what, we ask, has he done-what did he do, to es-
tablish his claim the perections of intelligent
and Enlightened statesman Can those who cater
| for his vanity, to supply themselves with bread,
point to a monument that has been erected to per-
petuate acts performed by him, in the deliberaive
councils Of the nation-acts which bespeak correct
ness OF PURPOSE strength Of intellectual
ces' they produce any proof of the greatness
Of the man, as Legislator, a dpomatist, a mag
strate, let them come-lor the time has at last
rived when they should place him in the most ia
vorable light before tho American public.
! Unaccustomed to restraint, and acknowledging
no superior. he sets up his political dogmas as
sovereign laws, from which there ought to be no
appeal; and with that kind Of arrogance and
sumption, which distinguishes the political bravado,
he supercedes the powers vested in him; and whilst
with one foot he would trumple on the Constitution.
with the other he would stamp the necks of the
people. His whole life has presented series Of
tyranny, AMI whilst he has set the laws ofhis
| try and of nature at defiance, he has entered the
domcil of domestic repose* and desolated the
tuary of the virtuous and the happy.
Perhaps, however, those who friendly to the
|
lcitous preserve the Constitution from the inva-
sions of military despotsm would be better pleased
| with evidences of the mans character, than with
mere decanlatory efTusions, shall presently lay
before them, documents signed, sealed and delivered
by the hands ofthe General, which, in our opinion,
will place him i'll proper light before the country.
Most Of us recoect his correspondence with Gov
| ID Mo;n
FIELD SCOTT, in the years 1918 and 1919 and a:
the letters written by the Tennessean candidate on
those occasions, unfold many of the traits of his
character and tell too plainly that power placed in
his hands is always abused, and that he sets the
rights Of States at Defiance and looks with contempt
on all who do not accede to his propositions, we
shall make from them few cursory extracts. Let
it be remembered too, that these letters were writ
| ten a. a time, when he with no little pomposity,
held himself up to the world, as the champion Of
those Republican principles which JEFFERSON
founded, and which his followers have scrupulously
practised.
| In the year 1918, whilst his way TO com
mence the Florida War, he addressed the following
extraordinary note to Gen. RABUN, of Georgia, IN
which he sets forth pretty clearly his ideas ana no
tons relative to State rights-and shows what his
views are IN regard to international law. From
this iS would seem, that the General, like many
other despots, would assume for the General Co
vernment u decided sovereignty, from which there
could ! no appeal, and that, whilst acting in his
official capacity, by virtue Oft commission granted
to him by the United States, there was no power
equal to his, and that the rights Of individuals and
Of States faded at his approach. His department to-
wards General RABUN, to say the least of it, was
such as ought to have dismissed him from the SER
vice of the United States. But in the Governor OF
Georgia he found man, who was not to be intimi-
dated by the threats Of bully or the frowns Of a
bravado;-an antagonist who was always ready to
meet him, and to defend the liberties Of those peo-
pie, who had delegated to him the Office of Execu-
tive against the assaults of desperate adventurer
who, though ecting with commission in his pocket,
from the Republic, was, in fact, in pursuit Of some
other object than the countrys veal
This following sketch of the correspondence be-
tween JACKSON and General RABUN, will, we
trust, convince the reader, that the Military Chief
tain Of the West, .hould never be vested with the
sshould it become necessary we may at no distant pc
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