Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-14

Uil tribunal, he has SHOWN disnosuioH uahSeI-,
Gus TO the liberties of his country, and which
renders him an unsafe depository of power.
In the investigation Of this proposition, let US
refer again 10 his own declarations. :" am
free" says he, TO acknowledge, had conf
manded the military department where the
Hartford Convention sat, ifH Ind been Inc last
net of my life, I should have punished the three
principal leaders," sc. He then refers to the
second section Of the act establishing rules and
regulations for the government oil the army.
The section reads thus: SIN time Of war, all
persons mol citizens of, or owing allegiance TO,
the United States Of America, who shall De
found lurking as spies, in or about the 'orunea
tons or encampmen, of the arTy OF the United
States, or any of them, shall suffer death, &c.
After the remarks heretofore necessarily INTRO
duced on this subject. futher comment seems
not requisite lie positively and solemnly de-
cIares, that he would have inflicted capital
punishment upon individuals assembling under
the protection of the laws, for purposes recog-
Missed by our constitution, and against whom no
charge could be sustained, either by the opera
ton of the civil or military law, and this decla-
ration was made cooly and deliberately, long
after peace had been established, and when no
excuse remained for heat and passion. His
aDologist, i, is true, says" We have only 10
| refer to that section (2d) to see hon much and
hop Didely be (the GeneraD mns led asfray by,
the journals Of that day, backed by the letter OF
the President Of the United States but surely
| we win not be called upon TO combat such stun
| as this Ii is incredible, that, at the time he
penned this memorable letter, General Jackson
should not have had an opportunity oil acqulr.
ing correct information; that the stray ldmo
should not have again reached the fold, II will
ling to be restored.
No unprciudiceG person, we think, can read
the history ofthose days, without full convic-
ton Of the disposition of Genera! Jackson 10
execute, TO the letter, every :hlng that tie ae-
clared he would have done. Po,Der and oPpor-
funify were alone wanting. This is fairly to be
inferred. from other transactions familiar to all
where laws were disregarded, private rights IN
vailed, aud The blood Of uno6sadng citizens pour
ed out like ,caier.
A uniform spirit has distinguished his ca
reer; under one prrtence or another, whenever
the CIVIL POWER has thrown an obstacle IN the
way Of his ambition, or passion, her voice has
been drowned, amid The noise and Domp oil
military parade; and for tedious and complicated
forms, intended to protect the property, ahd
lives of men, he has found it sometimes conve
MEN, TO substitute the more promp, and unem
barrassed procedures Of a military commission
Are instances required!
Ii is only necessary to consider The case
the six unfortuna,es who persisted most unjust
ly, q, Mobile, blythe hands Of their fellow-cltl
zens-and who required this sacrifice! Andrew
Jackson.
Witness the majesty Of the laws insulted ant
degraded. oy the imprisonment and oppression
of her minister al New-O rleans-and by whom
, was this high-banded act perpetrated! Andrew
y Jackson.
so oppressive that even they, who had so Iatel
eroanrd under the rod ola tyrani, could no, en-
dure their severiy-and then inquire who enac
ted them? They will inform you that i, wa
Andrew Jackson. But il is time 10 close an ar
tlcle already so 2rotracted; and will conclude
with the remark, that the apology set up fol
the General, by his friend Of the Evening Post
Is as corclusive an argument against his course
as any that his enemies bav. advanced; and
adds another TO the many instances in which
the General has had little cause 10 be Obliged
to his ingenious friends
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