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PORTRAITS OF THE OPPOSITION.
No. VIU.
GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON.
(CoNTINUED.)

deDtally iei IN our last, we resume the consdera-
tion ofcertain facts, relative to the Seminole War
which have, thus far, escaped US, and which it be-
comes us, as faithful chronologsts, to lay before
those, who may have forgotten the extraordinary
acts OF Gen JACKSON, whilst prosecuting an unhal-
lowed and unauthorized war, against people, with
whom we were then on the strctest terms of neu-
traity.
Among all the extraordinary circumstances, in
cidents, and events that marked the career of AN
DREW JACKSON, during the Seminole campaign,
was his entrance into Pensacola, with about twelve
hundred men which place he subdued, without
scarcely show Of resistance the part of the Spa
n'sh Commanding officer, who, being unprep pared
br such an attack and unable repel it, even ifhe
had anticipated its approach surrendered the gar
ri'on without firing a gun, and yielded quiet po-
session 10 his proud conquerors. The Governor
being panic struck, Aed with the utmost precipita.
tion to the Fort Of Barranacss, distant about six
miles. To that point the American army instant
ly repaired, aud a demand being made for the sur
render of the Fort which was refused, an attack
Was made by land aud water, aud after lombard
ment and cannonadng Of two days, during which
some lives were lost, the fortress sure ndered
the garrison made prisoners Of war and the officers of
the government, civil and military transported to
the Havana agreeaby to the terms of capitulation.
which terms the Commanding General declared.
were more JaroraJle than conquered enemy had
right to expect" conquered enemy indeed
Spanish fortress feebly defended, destitute in re-
sources aud unable TO withstand the assaults of
Pisny force, received at the hands of rantiny
commander, Of unwarranted forces terms of ca pitu
laiion, more favorable than conquered army had
n right to expect!
In the midst of all this bravado, we find him en- |
gagged in the mser able business of reducing for |
tresses, incapable Of defending themse ives, and of
wagns an unauthorized war against peace able,a
neutral, and defencetess people
II would seem, from the general tenor of his con !
auc'' daring the whole Of the Seminole Campaign
that he regarded himselfas the Supreme Dictator of
the American people, accountable TO no one but
the Almighty, and the God he worshpped in sim
cerlty and in TRUTH" for his actions and that he
considered himself at liberty TO subjugate the whole
Ola Spanish Province, for the acquisition of which,
this government was then in Treaty with his Most
Catholic Majesty of Spain. !
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the Executive Of the United States, after he had Ia
ken possession OF the Floridas, and planted tho
American standard on their walls and fortresse. he
lnnulled the government Of Spain, and aboishing /
the revenue laws ohis Catholic Majesty, instituted
those OF his own, and appointed Captain CApsoN Y
Collector Of the Port of Pensacola and by him, un
fer the authority of Gen. JACKSON, that depart, p
nent Of of the new Government was organizel."t 4
Having satisfied, for moment his ambitious views n
md secured, he supposed, a territory, in the 50
ands of which he had already been an extensive p
Pecuiator declaring that the object of the war Il
Ad been completed, he returned to his residence p
q Tennessee to enjoy the smiles and adulations of
he sycophants and pimps that are always walking NJ
his wake. o.
But it seems that the objects Of the war had not a
nded for, on the 7th OF August. of that year-more
han two months after his conquest of Florida-iC
ndeed the subjugaton Of those Provinces be enti- le
ed to that ept1et-he issaed an order to General J
iAINEs. directing him to take possession of St. Au-
ustine the strongest fortress of East Florida The
becs he had in issuing this extraortlina tr
order, we but too well know ; and they tend but OF
tile to the advantage of Gen. ANDREW JACK m
On. Previous to the occupation of the Floridas b,
is we'll known, that he associate with n comm.
ofiand jobbers and sp eculaiors, had, in ant,ci G
alton OF the acquisition Of these territories entered d,
20 compac~ with certain individuals Americans liz
hen residing at Pensacola, and ST. Marks, for the
urchase Of immense tracts ofland, at prices ii,
early nominal The negotiations then carried on ar
: Mr. MONROE, with the Court of Madrid for hi
''sion Of the Floridas, to the United States were w
mewhat dilatory, aud from the policy, and nice Il,
scretion pursued by the Executive, it seemed ar
'obe'natical whether the territory in allusion. fu
oud at any immediate period, come under the its
risdction OF the United States. We will not ven.
re to say, that the campaign was undertaken with a
view to the acquisition Of East and Yves, Florida au
'th hope and an expectation, that it would con- gu
inmate the projects and speculations o those en- la
'sed in the land jobbing business but we do on
low that there was confederacy at that time OK is
ting in Nashville, and other parts of Tennessee. ira
no contemplated the reduction of the Floridas a, dc
rhszard'; even at the expense Of the political m,
,aracter Of the nation. 1L
We should be unwilling TO attribute impropcr ma
ouVe 10 General JACKSON, and although candor for
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