Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-03-28

accordingly. know, fellow citizens, that 1e-
neral Jackson's military renown operates uPo"
some of you, as it once did upon me; us splea-
dor dazzled and captivated me; out, ieiio" ei'
zeIfs, when we see man changing MS Srou"
when we see him forsaking principles o. 'nsi
importance for which he once voted whiie a..-
ing under the solemn -asseseration OF an oap''
and when called on by one OF the people, 'or tne
reasons that wrought the change, we see "l''
d;sda;nine TO give them; l say, fellow cliizens,
thu, when we see these things, it is time for US
70 pause and examine the ground upon which
we stand. Are we prepared to mob every man
who does not forsake his protested principles
because General Jackson has forsaken his; are
we prepared TO sacrifice every man who does
MOI sing hosannahs 10 General Jackson as he
rolls along in his military Juggernaut, and who
does not cas-, himself under its ensangulned
wheels, and suffer himself to be crushed to
death, that General Jackson may be promoted
In short, is General Jackson to be Carried 10
the Presidential chair, by sword and faggot.-
Gen. Jackson gave my partialitles Tor HIM Sc
we're shock in 1928, when he lent himself to his
mnions to crush an individual, and to deprive
East Tennessee Of a Senator TO which he alter
wards admitted she was entitled. Although at
that period, (lS2S,) and previous thereto, had
been taught 10 look upon him with the highest
reverence, yet thought at the time, II was
very small triumph, and one that his friends
oueh, not to have boosted Of But his subsc-
ouent regeneration and abandonment 10 vital,
principles, together with the intolerance OF his
friends, and the manner in which have been
prosecuted by them, has scattered from my eyes
all my old parlialities, Invested me OF all my
state pride, and I am now able 10 behold
him as he is, lump of naked deformity.
am now able to reflect on the precedent we shall
set to the American youth, by elccting this man
President Of the United States. Gen. Jackson
spent the prime of his life in gambling, in cock
fighting, in horse-racing, and has all his lite
been most bloody duellist; and to cap all his
frailties, he tore from husband the wife OF his
bosom, to whom he had for some years been u
nited in the holy estate Of matrimony Roberts
the wretched man whose wife had been taken
from him, did not very long survive the dis.
graceful transae lion; but during the time he did
live, General Jackson lived with his wife in a
way that would have subjected any other man
TO an indictment in the County Court for "open
and notorious ewdncss - These facts have
never been denied or even pallia,ed by his
most enthusiastic friends; on the contrary
less than Two months ago, 1 heard one OF
the Generals prominent friends boasting oil
it, as an act Of gallantry, and said that the Gen
eral had "driren Roberts off Ike dog, and hGa
taken his ,Dfe" If Gen. Jackson, fellow citi.
zsns, with these sins upon his head, unrepeDted
for, SHOULD be elected President, wha, effect
think you, 1t will have upon the American youth:
Will they not feel licensed 10 follow every spe.
cies Of gambling, and when they have ruined
their companions by the "B!ack Leg" art, they
will then im5rue their hands in their blood?-
And if one gentleman has pretty wife, and a
mother has taken a fancy 10 her, he has nothina
Morse whip in the other, and go and whip the
husband "hke dog and take possession OF
vile. Will the youth not say, we may perPe-
trate all these enormites and We, be the greatest
men in the United States. Gen. Jackson did
and he is now President. But the Generals
friends say the moral and political character OF
a man ought not to be blended. For my own
part, have always believed that the happiness
and prosperity of any nation depends much up
on the morality Of is inhabitants. And the
morality Of its inhabitants, depends much upon
the morality Of their rulers "He that ruleth
over men, must be just, ruling in the fear of
God. And he shall be as the light OF the morn
ing, without clouds; as the tender grass spring
ing out Of the earth by clear shining after rain. {"
Sam. chap. xiii, verses Sd.