Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-09-01
.AIeslss.x y T.bt21As
sATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1927.

tleman IN kentucky 10 MS triend In Thiiduei-
mia, gives brief but very faithful history o'
the rise and progress of Jacksonism in that
State:
az am very sorry 10 find the history Of our po-
Iitical divisions upon the Presidential question
so little understood abroad as j. is. You re-
member the origin o. our money difficulties,
and the weak legislation which attempted 10
release the embarrassments OF The state; by
chartering forty independent Banks They del
uped the country with bills, whose immediate
effects led the people into excessive cxtravagan-
ccs. which were s0on followed by ruinous de-
mediation or those bills, total failure of some
Of The banks increased pecuniary difficulties;
and general want of condolences. Many Of
your merchants, believe, suffered, aud yet suf-
fer. ffom the cosfusion Of those times, and some
Of them, as understand, absolutely failed from
,2i5 cags".
.srfe people Of Kentucky, in their distrcsscs
and confusion, looked 10 their legislature for
relief, and elected members to that body on
hedges that they woeId make Efforts for legis-
!a,iye relief Here arose the relief aud anti-re-
lief parties The first predetermined passed
laws pos poning ,hc payment ofdtbts, and es-
Publishing loan Q flee, with branches over the
state, whose notes became legal tender. The
anr.relief party held, that contracts should be
met according 10 the faith which existed at the
time Of contracting, * that the pew laws were
unconstitutional. a case under the laws came
before Judge Clark, who decided that all those
new csactmentS, imparing contracts, were IN.
constitutional and void. Upon this decision
he was impcachcd before the legislature, but
The relief party failed to remove him. He i'm
nedi2tely resigned Other judges decided in
after cases as Judge Clarke had done. The
relief party became incensed against the whole
Judiciary, and attempted the annihilalion OF
the Supreme Court, byrepealing the act mere
" Of organization; whereas the Constitution oil
kentucky has an express provision, by which a,
lone iud ,;rs may be removed. This party APP
poined new Judges from amongst themselves,
and assumed The new name of"Judse breaking
Party" whilst The anti-reliei; took that of'Con-
,;lu,ionajls +" Under these names, they Con
tended most lurioasly for sone months, when
the Constitutional party began TO be ascendant,
and have gradually increased 10 decided ma
ior;;y. They have reins,ated the old judges,
repeated The ex post Gacto laws. and are leading
affairs INTO some thing like esularity.
Judge Clarke has through all this, been held
up by The Ju6ge breakers, as The great evil and
in conseQue, c. of Mr. Claws friendship with
him, anil The fact Of Mr.. Clly's siding with the
ConsIiygt ioualisis, the iadge-breukers deteTmi-
ned to take up General Jackson, and thus OBJ
struct at least some OF The views Of the ConSti-
tutionalisIs, who had defeated them in the state
poliuics.<@v
You remember the violence of "a and '25-
II has not abated by the overthrow OF the Judge
breakers, but YET RACES under The flags of Jack
son men AMI the Admin ,uation men,"
Proceedings cf'lhe C0areatioa o/DeIegates
from tie serer0I Corporations and COun-
ties ofthe District Of COlum6iq, upOn
The subject 0fthe Chesapeake aad Ohio
Canal held at he City HoH, in HASH
ingtOn, on Friday 24th, and Tuesday
2Sth y2uSuSt, 1897.
FRIDAY 24t. Eugusf, 1897.
The Convention was organized by the APP
nointmCnt Of SAMUEL II. SMITH, President, and
l,NEs DUNLoP, 81 cretary; and then adjourned
Ill Tuesday, 2Sth August, 1897,
TUESDAY, 2sth 8Ugust, 1927.
The Convention again assembled.
PRE,rxr.- From Thompson +.
Mason, Jonah Thompson, Joseph Vaudeville
Ph;ncas Jauucy, Robert I Taylor, Hugh
Smith, VIM. c Gardner, John e. Vowel, and
lIumphrv Pcake.
From, Georgeio,rn--John Cox, Thomas Cor
,oran, ir Francis $. Key, Clement Smith, and
James Dunlop.
From UqShingioa.--S amI. II. Smith, Corne
Ius M'Lcan, VIM. a Bradley, Waiter Jones
lohn Davis Of Abel, George Bomford, Peter
Force, and VIM. Duncan.
On motion, the following gentlemen were APP
pointed, by the President, a committee to con
sider and report upon certain resolutions sub
m,ued By Mr.. Smith Of Gr-rSetown, viz.
Mcssrs c. Smith, Key, raylor, Mason Jones
and Bom(ord.
The committee reported the following rcso
lulions, which were read and adopted 5y tht
Convention:
l. ResoIred, That this Convention do recon-
nerd i, 10 the several Corporations OF the Dis
uict Of Columbia to free their proposed sub
scrip,ious TO the Stock of the Chesapeake ant
Ohio Canal Company, from any conditions ez
cept those provided by the charter oil sh'
Company.
. hesolced, That Congress be requested L
authorize the several Corporations. and Coun
lies of This District to raise nv loan, guarantee