Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1827-04-07

presiuentIal canNass, cOulu DC SO conducted, as
to carry it TO successful issue, without entering
the sanctuaries of the dead, or narrowing up the
private and half oblterased faults of either of the
candidates, and without entering the bed chambers
of either of the asprants The friends of Dir. Ad-
ans, in their career, have been, with but few ex-
ceptions, particularly deoorous IN their remarks,
and evinccd disposition to treat the canvass
fairly and honouraby, and without making ef
fort to awaken the angry passions of the public.
The partizans Of General Jackson, have always
assumed a different kind of management; and
confident, that their candidate nerer succeed
in gaining the support of the public by his own
merits, they have sedulousl y endeavoured to bring
his competitors down to his level To effect an
object, to them SO exceedingly desirable, some
two three years since, they assailed Mr.. Ad-
ans with all their venom; accused him of making
an attempt to avoid the fuflment of contracts,
voluntarily entered into, and even had the assur-
ance to intimate, that he had been gully OF inn
proper intimacy, with the famous Mrs Moulton,
a woman, who after having received his bounties
and bcnefactions, was, by set of individuals as
vile as herself employed to engage in the crime
of forgery, with an assurance, that her nfamy,
would rebound 10 the defeat of the very ndivid-
ual, who when she houseless, afforded her
shelter, and who, when she was" an hungered,'
gave her bread. Mr. Clay, has not been spared
from their malice; they have accused him of gross
immortality, secuted him as gambler, and told
long and docful tales, about his reputed associa-
ton with the Infamous Barbara Waters, and
many other false and malicious stories, originat-
ed by malice and circulated by men, who TO at
tain their own ends would readily perperate, al
most any offence not recognized as such by the
laws of the country, but upon which, the rules of
morality, and common honesty, have affixed the
ignominy of positive crimes, and which, in the end
are visited by the vengeance of merited retrbu-
ton.
If the parizans of General Jackson, will pursue
such course of conduct, they must expect retail
iation, and if in the wax thus courted, they meet
with defeat and are oyerpOwered by numbers,
they must content themselves with the reflection,
that the contest, unwelcome as it may be. was
produced by their own provocations
Very recently, Mr.. Thomas l.. Arnold, gen.
tleman of great responsibility, and of more than
ordinary talents, has been nominated candidate
for the Office of representative in Congress, from
the district in Tennessee, formerly represented by
the famous General Cooke; and on being thus
placed before the public, he has thought proper
TO address circular to the people Of the District,
in which, after giving an exposition of his motives,
he thus speaks of General Jackson
"Gen. Jackson spent the prime of his life in
gambling, in cock-ightng, in horse racing, and
has all his life been most bloody duellist; and
to cap all his ralties, he tore from husband the
wife of hls bosom, to whom he had for some years
been united in the holy estate OF matrmony.-
Roberts, the wrctched man whose wife had been
taken from him, did not very long survive The dis
graceful transaction; but during the time he did
live, Gen. Jackson lived with has wIie in way
that would have subjected any other man to an
indictment in the County Court for open ana no
torious lewdness'' These facts have ieyer been
denied or even paaed by his most enthusiastic
friends; on the contrary, less than two months ago,
| heard one of the Generals prominent friends
Of; nf. and, Il 81,
the General had " drira' Roberts off like dog,
and hal taken his rife"
1t affords us no pleasure, to give publicity to
the story of the abduction of Mrs. Roberts, now
Mrs. Jackson, and we should not have recorded
it, had We not been driven At, Dy tic imp,
dcncc and folly of General Jackson s partzans.
The story is not new TO US, we have heard II re-
peated a thousand times-it is known to be
true, and the friends of the Military Chieftain, are
called upon to disprove it if they If publIci-
ty had been first given to it in this quarter, it
would not have been believed, even by the most
determined opposers of the General, but when we
see it published in the town of Nashville, but a
few miles distant from the Generals place of
residence, and then read by him, at Hermitage,
and not contradicted by any one, can we doubt
any longcr
The story is true:--it is so familiar to the cti-
zens OF Nashville, that they now think but little
VI allnouSn tHeTc was Il Wnen the fcCOl-
lection of it, closed the doors of respectable pco-
pie, and, avenues to decent society, agains, Mrs.
Jackson, and her husband, the champion Of her
guilt.
Previous to the celebrated Battle of New-Or-
leans, and the attainment of that military glory,
which surrounds the brow of the &" Military Chief
tain," Mrs. Jackson, could not obtain admttance
to the fashionable circles of Nashville, nor is hel
society at this day courted by those, who regard
the alterations of guilty women as criminal, ol
by those who value vrtuous reputation, as a jew
el OF lnestimable value, and worthy of the admir-
alton and alteration of the world.
The whole of the disgusting story, has not been
told by Mr. Arnold, if told, the dark tints
and shades which belong to it, have not been Civ.
en- by the painter
Mrs. Roberts, now Mrs. Jackson, was not SC.
duced from the bed of her husband, by the wiet
and articles of the libertine and licentous rake
but at the dead hour of mdnight when the un
suspocting partner of her joys and sorrows, pill
lowed his head upon her bosom, and knew not o
the approach of the destroyer, and dreamed o
nothing but onnubial bliss, she was torn from hin
and conveyed to the polluted bed of her "prout
| conqucror.' Such is the tale that is told il
Nashville, and been made to ring in the ears o.
General Jackson, when seated by the domesti,
fire side at Hermitage, and yet it never has beer
contradicted; nor have any attempts been mad,
to wipe away so foul stain upon the chara cter 0
an aspirant for the presidency, and which, iffalse
ought to be ranked among the vllest of malig
nant calumnies. But it is true; it cannot be wip
cd away, and the hero oft, quietly sits bencatl
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