The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1827-10-11

dams without censuring Monroe and tho
Congress who thought the allowance bue
ssanty justice To him ?
| have now, | believe. gone over the
whole list of objections 60 the present inc
cumbent; let us turn our attention TO those
against his competitor. To recount the
whole Of these would be 10 write volume.
| shall confne myself, therefore, 10 somo
of the most prominent lie has excluded
n Legislature from the hall OF its setting.
He has arrested, paraded, through tho
streets under tile of soldiers, and threat
ened with the gibbet, the venerable Judge
of a national District. lie has insultmgly
told the Chief Magistrate of State, thae
he had no right TO issue military order
while he was in the field He has abridg-
ed the liberty OF the press. lie has disres.
gorded the writ ofhabeas corpus, designed
for the protection of the citizen from arbi-
trary oppression. He has waged war n
gainst neutal power, in the face of his
Instructions. He has exercised the pow-
or of life and death on prisoners, in con..
tempt Of the decision of his favourte tri..
bunal, an independent Court Martial y
lie has openly directed the officers mder
his command TO disobey the orders of The
President OF the United States. He haS
threatened to enter the halls OF the Natlon-
al Legislature To cut off the ears of Senaa
tors who presumed TO inquire into his con.
duet. lie has inflicted death, and ignomIna
ous and degrading punshments, upon hun-
dreds Of mllitie, against all necessity and
against oil law. And he has deliberately
announced To his countrymen, that if he sd
willed it, in tho absence of law, he could
find n sanction "under the I'd section" 10
hang whom he pleased: for II he could
feel justified in hanging in the case retcra
rcd to under that section, every man mnse
admit that no case could occur in which ha
would not find the same Justification
Now take any one of these offences coma
mitted by Jackson. and weigh il impart6ly
against the whole list of objections to Ada
ans ! ask you TO say candIdy fit would
not overbalance them all. Speak out honA
estly and frankly, conjuro you IN tho
0ame Of that liberty of winch cnch man ID
n part the preserver. Look at this tbreat
10 cut off the care OF a Senator--eveb tboso
Of our lamented Eppes See him in tho
tnti-chambcr ofthe Senate, surrounded by
his body guard of aids and dependaits,
and just ready TO enter the door. when the
patriotic Decatur interposes, and declares
1fhe pnss, il must be orer his dead Joay>
iiy this intcrposltlon alone was the. Senai6
hamber preserved from the threatened
pollution. When you have sufficiently conA
tempIaled this scene, lie, me ask you, can
this man be Iit for the Presidency OF FREQ
people you doubt the truth of the stos
ry, besides several persons now living who
were witnesses OF the dreadful specta.
Gle, there arc hundreds to whom DetofuS
communicated il, 10 whom could refer yo,,
and among others, one Senator n, least,
who was went, before he put on the livery
OF Jackson, in dclineating the character op
his lomeh,cd and gallant friend, to dwell
with particular delight on this instance Of
his iirmncss and stern Roman patriotism, =
IT. you shall still, after this. regard Jackson
as the only man in the Union whom volt
viii have to rule over you, be Il so Bni I
fear that like the foolish frogs, who ipsistA
ed on having the stork as their king. yot
may soon have reason 10 repent. and 10 frA
gret the peaceful administration you bayo
so unwisely abandoned. ! cun scarcely
think that majority Of you can wish that
this net had been perpciroted, and C0nA
gress expelled from their sittlng--unless.
indeed, You belong to the school off mod.
ern orator. who sees nothing Objectionable
IN Cesar's nsurpotions on the liberties OF
hIs country, and whose morality converts
this monster into patriot, and Ry,ius into
an assassin. A FARMER