Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-06-01

fences: suppose he did not carry Oft and live with
Mrs. Roberts, the undivorced wife Of another man,
with the threat of shooting her husband, who wish
led her to be returned to him suppose he did not
kill Charles Dckerson in duel, in which he re-
ceived his random fire, and then coolly walked up
shot him dead and suppose all these and other
things copied and published in the Journal were not
true in part but wholly false still, ask, what
qualifications for the presidency have been really
discovered in the General, by his old opponents,
that were not as manifest in 1894, when they pro-
nounced him totally unfit for such station That's
the question. Has the General made any visible
progress in useful science or learning, of any kind
or obtained any valuable acquisitions in civil affairs;
or subdued Or even tempered his unfortunate dspo
siticn, since the last election If he has, have
not even seen it asserted by those who are not the
most modesti in their assertions. What then, can be
the real, urgent cause, why these prominent Oppo-
sition men now support the General, after having
proclaimed him, in publ" and in private in CONVEX
sation and in writing disqualified Tor the Chief
Magistracys
Will it be asserted that the character of the ad.
ministraon is such that there is sufficient apology
for this course of conduct, and that it is the only
course they can adopt to make their opposition ef-
fectual? But, good sirs, who have thus pronounced
upon the character of the administration? Who
have alone made this grand discovery? Did not
this clamor originate with prominent disappointed
and restless men, who can only be quoted by &C.
cupying those stations which others fill? Did you
not disgrace the Senate of the United States, and
render it perfect bear garden? Have the people,
OF their own accord, in any respectable numbers,
manifested their disapprobation? Where they have
made public expression of their sentiments and
WILL can il not he traced to the suggestions and ma
nGuyres of restless and aspiring individuals?
And now, notwithstanding the plan of operations,
determined and agreed on, in the midnight caucus
at Washington, is it not with great difficulty that you
can induce the people in Maryland for instance, to
assemble i'll any respectable numbers, III opposition
ohc administration? II is you, therefore and note
|people that dissatisfied. 1t is you, therefore,
r and not the people that are aggrieved. They have
neither seen felt that there any ground for
all this uproar. Were all these expectants of office
and of promotion, informed that they must forever
remain in private life OF resign those posts which
, they now hold, how many mouths that are now cla
injurious, would be forever sopt? In such case
the patriotism of these gentlemen would present ;
very different aspect from what we now see. The
charge, therefore, that the character othe admins
traon is such to justify such course of conduct
: cannot be established, by amy evidence which tn,
!, people have offered, unintnenced by the manage
V ment Of aspiring men.
But there are individuals, in the estimation .
f. these Opposition men, Of whomw have been speak
ng, that are much better qualified for such post
o Why not select one of them, and give him their sup
y port? If they are such patriots why not show hei
&c patriotism in giving their support to some such mar
h who, they know, is much fit for the presdenc
"a than General jackson
T. But this, in truth, is too much to ask Of thes
D patriots. The chance Of destroying the admins
- tration they consider greater, in the support of tn
"Military Chieftain :" and if they cannot fattt
themselves. in such an event, that they promon
the real welfare Of the country, they cherish the hop
of something vastly more dear to them--the chan
= of promoting themselves.
" These remarks, it will be seen, are totally irr
1yalcnt to the conduct of those honest, well mea
ing, original Jacksonians, whose eyes are not y
, entirely opened to the plans and projects of yo
eleventh hour men, your Jacksonians by necessit
-, Time is leading reason in triumph TO her seat
and truth, and fact and argument, are perioTmi
o,s their Office the minds of many Of those who
g., sisted their influence. We thought, say they att
49,. all this noise and commotion, that there must
.,, something rotten in the state of Denmark" '
~; had coniessedly, prepr;sessions in favor OF the
f,r neral which the opposition at first seemed rather
H. strengthen. But we have now more fully deber