The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-03-28


following gentlemen as Senators David
Henshaw, Edmund Winchester, Andrew.
Dunlap, Samuel K. Williams, John w.
James, and Joseph Valentine, Esq'rs.
Boston Gazette.
GEN. JACKSON. A pamphlet has recent
ly been published at Knoxville Ten. adj
dressed to the electors of that district by
Samuel d. Arnold, candidate for Con-
gress in the place of Gen. Cooke, in which
the character and claims of Gen. Jackson
to the Office of President are freely exam
ined. The writer accuses Gen. jackson of
having abandoned his former opinions on
important points of national policy, in or
der to coincide with the present opposition,
and adduces strong evidence of the fact.
He says, that he had been taught to look
upon the General with reverence, but that
his regeneration and abandonment of Vi
tai principles, together with the intolerance
of his friends, has scattered his old partial
tiles, and that he is now able to view him
as he is, lump of naked deformity. We
make the following extract relative to his
moral character, which, though it discloses
no fact new to us or to portion of our
readers, will, we have no doubt, strike with
surprise, those who have known nothing of
the man but his military character.
Gen. Jackson spent the prime of his life
in gambling, in eock-fghting, in horserac
Ill g,
duellist, and to cap all his frailtes, he tore
from husband the wife of his bosom, to
whom he had for some years been unitedi in
the holy estate of matrimony. Roberts,
the wretched man whose wife had been
taken from him, did not very long survive
the disgraceful transaction; but during the
time he did live, Gen. jackson lived with
his wife in a way that would have subject
ed any other man to an indictment in the
County Court for "open and notorious
denied or even palliated by his most en-.
thusiastic friends; on the contrary, less
than two months ago, heard one Of the
Generals prominent friends boasting of it,
as an act of gallantry and said that the
General had driven Roberts off like dog,
and had taken has Wite." If Gen. Jackson,
IcllON -ClIlZGIlS, Will lIIeS6 SlIIS UPON HIS
head, uurepentcd for, should be elected
President, what effect think you it will
have upon the American youth Will
they not feel licensed to follow every spe-
cies of gambling, and when they have
ruined their companions by the "Btack
Leg art, they will then imbrue their hands
in their blood? And if one gentleman has
pretty wife and another has taken fan
cy to her, he has nothing to do but to take
a pistol in one hand and horse whip in
the other, and go and whip the husband
y Ike q dog" and take possession Of his
wife. Will the youth not say, we may per-
petrate all these enormities and yet be the
greatest men in the United States-Gen.
Jackson did, and he is now President. But
the Generals friends say the moral ard
political character of a man ought not to
be blended. For my own part, l have all
ways believed that the happiness and pros
perity of any nation depends much upon
the morality of it's inhabitants. And the
morality of it's inhabitants, depends much
upon the morality of their rulers. Gle
that ruleth over men, must be just, ruling
in the fear of God. And he shall be as the
light of the morning, without clouds; as
the tender grass springing out of the earth
ny CledI SiilulLS dlIeI Idlli' . Oulll' CIldp.
xiii, verses "a.
SCHOOL LAW. The new school law will
be found on our first page. 1t deserves,
and will command the particular attention
of our readers, as the arrangements under
it are to be made at the approaching town
meetings.
CASUALTY. On Monday, the 10Th inst.
the dam of the Wolcott Woollen Manufac-
turing Company gave way in consequence
of the failure of floom, under a pressure
of about twenty feet of water. When the
walls and gravel we're thrown down, the
rush of water was amazing, as the pond
consisted of about twenty acres and very
deep, in some parts 25 feet. 1t passed
through the opening of the dam about one
hundred feet, and, in its course, swept a.
way a wood house, coal house, blacksmith
shop, and two out buildings Of inconsdera-
BILE worth. One of the small buildings
went into the current entire, and carried
away part of the bridge below. The
bridge is already repaired, so that it is pas
sable, and the works will be in operation in
few days. The loss is estimated at
$4,000. Fortunately no lives were lost,
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