Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1827-09-01

members ofthe present Cabinet have been al
lowed to destroy Tor the qualification of private
| resentment, or with the hope of producing u
confusion which may afford to ambition ia
vorable field of action Moreover it fills our
mind with regret and anxiety to perceive the
utter impossibility of having tho use of his
military talents, should there unfortunately be
occasion tor them, In any war, under an admin
4 'stration, certain members of which would be
more occupied with intrigues to iniure him,
than with views for promoting the honour and
safety of the nation.
But General Jackson, forsooth, committed
/ "errors in military life" We have never yet
heard OF them, and we suspect that nothing
more is meant than his vigilance, promptitude,
and decisvcness of measures, whit was so
announcement to certain neutral and suspicious
characters, that 1t was, of course, denounced.
as unnecessary violence by them, al. the time.
and is now called "error" By the envious from
whom the censure and the term are borrowed.
| We cannot comprehend the meaning of our
opponents when they speak of the crash en-
erJles' OF General Jackson elm the war with
the Indians" The fame, or the remembrance
OF his victories, has brought them to a submis-
sive state of mind over the whole continent
on this side the Mississippi, and bevond il al.
so, very far. No such scenes as the horrid
butchery OF white people at Schenectady i'm
/ one war, or the humanity vengeance taken
at Conestoga In another can ever be again
acted III our country. Thanks to General
Jackson There may be occasional murders
! committed by Indians, nor can it be alto
gether prevented, any more than among civil
lied men, but the perpetrators have been
and will ever hereafter be, more sure even
than white men, to receive condign punish.
, ment. The tea. Of all the tribes who have
heard OF General Jackson, prompt them to
surrender al! culprits, as soon as demanded.
Nor Is 1t likely that there ever will be a.
mong them again, another of those blood
thirsty emissirlcs, or infatuated Chiefs the
long list OF whom has been forever closed by
the names Of Ambrister, Arbuthnot, and
Francis, the Indian Prophet. To shrink from
malignant censure on occasions which de-
mlnd severe examples to repress atrocious
practices OF ong continuance, displays weak
| ness as unworthy of statesman as a sol
der. General Jackson was compelled to act
, as he did by that same stern and lofty viz
tue which made Washington reject the offer
ed sword OF Sumonville, at an early ner;od
! OF his life, and refuse a pardon to Andre. in
mature age. The sublime Hero of the Re.
volutlon might with more reason be CHARGED
with crash energy upon Long Island in the
month OF July, 177G. If he had waited the
assault OF the British Army in his trenches
at Brooklyn with his whole force undivided N.
| York would probably have been rescued" and
| the =" brilliant seven years warfare" rendered
| unnecessary by zone lucky victory" The
| war would have been perhaps terminated with
out any more ''hazardous conflicts :" a peoi,Ie
| redeemed, and birth given to an Empire. he.
| fore the celebrated Declaration of Indepen
dence could have been made. But the too sspro-
| found and statesman-like minds would then
have passed away without any ''pretension to
extraordinary distinction" further than Gene
raj Jackson now enjoys, according to the rea-
sonlng OF our opponents
10 compare Washington with any man now
living. or who ever did live, is as far from our
intention and inclination, as it is above our
power, and below the high honour we give to
his memory, or the justice due to his character
| Whenever parallel between him and General
Jackson shall be attempted by our coadiutors
or our opponents, we shall reply by instituting
a comparison between Mr. jefferson, and the
present Chief Magistrate OF the Union. and
we will reply in no other way whatever at any
time.
General Washington, fortunately for his
country, did not acquire too mach learning to
De convenient or safe Tor practical man, al
ways engage n important affairs. Yet he re-
celved good English education, sufficient to
make him master Of his own language, which
enabled him to give to his country and the
world, and to ali posterty, his valuable thoughts
in such way to add high literary distinc-
ton to his other various renown. General
jackson had no education at all, yet nevcrthe-
less his native genius, supported by an uncom-
mon strength of all his mental faculties, has
elevated him to the high dignity of being NAM
ed as worthy of filing, for one term of four
years, the place once occupied by Washington,
and by Jefferson. All we claim for him is the
acknowledgement that his pretensions to fill a
place first occupied by the former, are not less
reasonable than were those of the present in
cumbent to come into office, after the more
immediate successors Of the latter. That, in
comparison, he does not appear further below
his sublime model, which none can ever fully
resemble, than his rival does that other type of
excellence, in another kind, which may also re-
main forever unmatched. Or to speak palmer
language, and at the same time to indulge per-
sonal feelings of high respect, towards Mr..
Adams; would not Jackson, Clinton, and
Crawford, as counseIcrs of this nation in
peace and in war, approach nearer in excel
ience to Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton,
than Adams, Clay, and Barbour, ever can to
the same Jefferson, Madison, ana Gallatn?
! Military Chicftain.--It cannot but be mat
ter of regret to every true friend of Grill liber-
ty, to hear of the election to the French Cham
Der of Deputies, of the Marquis de La Fayette.
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