Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-03-12

time; but, 10 his unuttera5!e grief, he was pre-
vented, by unavoidable circumstances. Gener
al Riego was Washington; General San Mar
tin was Washington, General Bolivar is
Washington; and General Jackson is "a Wash
lnston. A child may now bend the bow o
Ulysses. Gut, take them altogether, thro"
| their collected souls into one crucible, and they
could not furnish 1.-THE of the godlike spirit
which dwelt in the bosom Of our Washington
He was no swash -buckler. There was nothing
Of rhodomontade, violence or bombast, about
him. With all his martial virtues, (and he had
quite as many as General Jackson with all
his frmness, decision and intrepidity, he was
mild gentle and unassuming
Did George Washington ever bully Judge,
threaten to cut off the ears Of Senator, or play
any other Of those "fan,astic tricks before high
Heaven" which are recorded among the a.
chievements Of the young and giddy Major
General Andrew Jackson? II he did, we must
alter our opinion OF him, though we shall still
think the same of Gen Jackson. 1t is barely
possible that secrets might be revealed concern
ing Generally ashington, which would lower
him in the estimation Of good and honorable
mer:-but we look upon il as utterly impossi-
BILE, that any thing further can be disclosed
with regard to General Jackson, which would
make his reputation higher than it is. His
friends have not kept secret the good he has
done. His left hand is perfectly conversan,
with all the motions Of his right He has been
piled so necessarily with the grossest flatterv.
he has listened so long to the darling mu sic of
Themistocles, that he would be eXcusabe in
thinking himself greater man than even Gen.
He has been called the hero Of two wars-a
revolutionary hero. Whv? Because, when a
mere urchn, he refused 10 black the boots of a |
British officer. ANY other boy, not destined |
10 immortal renown, would have thought him
sell singularly happy in escaping a thrashing
Tor such display of diminutiye Righteousness. |
Was there never a boy on earth, before that re-
fused to black pair Of boots? We cannot, of
course, withhold the due mand Of admira-
ion from the boy who manlfests' a spirit above
backing boots, but if the impression should
generally prevail, that such spirit constitutes
! sound claim 10 the Presidency of the United
States, there will shortly be no such article in
he Union as pair If clean boots. II will BIZ
leah to Day anc Martin, and all other COM
FOUNDERS Of Jap.a
He has been called the Saviour Of his coun-
". When was II thai the people Of the u
states were obliged 10 cling 10 the skirts Of
len Jackson Tor protection? When was ii,
hat the palladium Of our liberties and glory
'as confided to thu strength of his single arm?
country would have been as
ale and as pro- porous as il is now, il the Bri-
sh officer, whose boots h. refused TO clean,
ad bit his head of, aad SAID no more aboa, il.
lew Orleans would have been saved if he had
ever been born. Nay, We will go fur,hcr-& ]
n \ ms Hirt III !
,g his countrymen--we will affirm, that New. S
'ileans would have been saved if he had led a
re British lroops-i b. had been the British a
s,ead ofthe American General. In the name .
Heaven, is all the courage, talent, and patri- n
ism Of the republic, oorornt'u ted in me per. q
N of General Jackson? a Spartae.--SIs-.
WITH bis last orea'n
at "Sparta had many a worlhicr son than ~
;, we like Rome in the days oil Caesar, are
!, men bu, for the one man." Leonldaa, al the .
,ss of Th,rmopyl1, was no more than any
her S,sr,an:-bu, General Jackson, reposihg
n;e,lv under the shade OF mis- laurels IN Nasn-
lie and sending out his emmissaries 10 clutch
!, him the mos, honorable and lucrative Office
the pift Of his countrvmen, is to US tIod.
I, NAV be said that General Jackson has not
one this. The answer is ready-qui taclt per
linn facit per Sc He could controul his friends
Win any man pre,ead 10 say that General jack
on knew nothing whatever OF The fifteen nun
red dollars which we're given to the vocilerous
lockhead who edited the Columbian Observer:
Ina, was no, Treasury pay. but Hickorysap-
nd sap miselably wasted too, though 1t APP
years il wa, much wanted where II was applied.
No one questions the right Of Gen Jackson and
AS friends TO buy up all the honest, eloquent,
md iucorruprbl, patriots that are III the market
No one Questions their right TO establish as ma
nv minis for the coming Of lies as they can
,fford to keep in operation. No one que stlons
heir right to hire as many trum2eters as 'pe!
can, and order them 10 play whatever tunes may
sui, their fancy:-Bu, i, is very hard indeed,
that man should be compelled to declare that
the lies were all true, ana the music mos eH'
Gen Jackson won the oa'le
Of New Orleans. We must believe that 'ne nj
teen hundred dollars was small aekno"ieoS-
ment for services, rendered without the remo!-
es, expectation OF an Acknowledgements: inat
was mere interchange OF comp'''nents-dlsin-
terss,ed admiration on the par; OF Mr.. Simpson,
and lively gra,itnu. OIL the part Of Gen. jack
SON We must neleve it, If we car; aod we
will strain hard to swallow il for the sake OF
No, Or,.aue and TallaDoosd; though we nun