American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1826-10-31


fitness for the discharge of civil duties. Has the
public expectation been reaizedP His euIogist is
leit with nothing but The boldness and success he
has displayed In his military character TO sustain
his pfetensinns to the Presidency. May he not well
be said to be man OF military growth, entirely? To
view these admissions as leaving him with very in
adequate preiensons for the exercise of the chief
executive functions of the government will not,
confidently trust, be taken by discerning public as
any sort of probable proof Of i" deep prejudice or
disposition to deceive y
disclaim toward Gen. Jackson every feeling of
personal unkindness. No man holds the distinguish
ed services he has rendered to his country in high
er estimation nor can any one more deeply regret
the attendant circumstances that contribute to warn
the country, not to con6de to him the presidency
as 1t values its peace and the sanctity Of its Laws
constitutional and statutory.
am denominaled by your correspondent an "un
called for volunteer" This is gratifying mark of
his candor if not OF his respect have acted in re-
ation to Jackson, the impulse Of sense of duty
unheeding alike whom may crafty or displease.
Unlike him (says Mr.. Eaton) am no volunteer"
Pray then who has impressed him, under what
banner does he act; that of the committee, or that
OF General Jackson? Let the public determine how
fit person he is to stgmatize others with " deep
prejudice against the General
1t was hardly to be expected that ,ne situated as
he is should not be betrayed in the attempt to make
the worse appear the better side into unfair ard un
candid interpretations Of the language of his oppo
nent. ! am made by him to say that General Jack
sons military merits and vices. ought 10 exclude
him from tine Presidency-I never sad nor thought
any such thng-lf he possessed the attributes Of
character necessary for The duties of that post, his
military merits and services would aid his claims
without them those merits and services offer war
rant to raise him TO it,
am charged with having censured General Jack
son with an illibtral and unsparing hand. while I
have chcerfully culogIzed the President and Mr..
Clay Against them (says Mr.. E. !" have moth
"ing to urge. General Jackson requires not to be
6 sustained on the defamation abuse OF any
This, gentlemen, cuts deepest The wrong way
his IS severe rtbuke to the committee. 1t was
10 the licentious abuse of MIR. Adams and MIR Clay,
by the committee replied They were charged
with black "curruplion and the violation OF the
principles Of the revolution of '76 till then held
sacred" and that too without pretending even 10
advance probable proof Compared with these char
gcs, General JIe kson's errors mere peccadlos
1--WE will not' (say the eommlttee) Judge Of
: the administration by their acts, or by their
surts, when they to give an account of the,f
= stewardship, but will then sdvt rt TO the vice Of
their origin, to the treachery and corruption which
characterized their political birth y (They add)
81 they cannot forget thu master spirit" (meanire
- MIR. Clay) "by the power OF whose influence
mysler,ously exerted, effects opposite to repub
(" licanism, were produced and thai he was instant
"ly rewarded with the office Of Sec retsry of State
I" long the object OF his ambition
Could more unwarranted or more licentious abuse
than this be INDUCED in I? o. any whit h are
more certainly compelled to refer to in,e,erate pre-
judice arising out of disappointed hopes and expec-
tations. Well may the cry OF ppccaui be put up for
them. Their intempersnce has called for an ex
position of The claims OF their selected candidate,
bot,omrd on melancholy but stubborn facts. Mr.
Eaton seems to have pro6tted by the errors of the
committee, who for themselves cannot complain of
the application of the te.r tationis.
When General Jackson is urged as presidential
candidate, with such ntoIerant vehemence the pub
lie ae called upon 10 examine well his claims to
their suffrages. volume of words is used to
apologize for his unnecessary continuance and IN
temperate administration o Martial al Law New o.
leans. At what time Mr.. Loualier was arrested
we are not infol med, specifically what was his
offence. that OF The suspension OF Judge Halls
judicial functions and his polite banishment, be, ond
the line OF encampment These things II Is admit
ted were done, and the apology found is in the
sity Of the case. Five cases only OF hardshlps
(says Mr. Ealon) alledged to have been com
mtted,' for the particulars OF which, we are refer
red to Eatons lite of Jackson A member OF the
legislature Continues Mr.. Ea,on) was tried for
" the offence, of which he stood charged, and
9 acquitted" The "inflammaory and mutinous pub
"lica,on." which was the pretence for this proceed
ing is not given. He was acquitted by court
martial, we may suppose, +" an independent one" oi
which General Gaines was president Mr.. E. adds,
because the quo amino was not sufficiently apparent
This is an unwarranted inference II the accused
was acquitted it not for the biographer to know
more than that he was innocent. The record of the
court must be grossly irregular if it cants about the
quo amino.
Mr.. Eaton proceeds, a member Of the legisla
g ture the author OF violent and infammatory pub
"licaon which caused mulny in the army, and 10
g dnced many to abandon their duty, is arrested,