Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-28

!, was necessary and codsnulional power;
Pm, Adams. il has been said, has received
go or our money than he was entitled 10.
reference TO Monroe's allowances as settled D!
ro,oress themselves will show that Adams mas
received less than he did for the same services
Gan vou censure Adams without censurlng
Monroe and the Congres who thought The al
Iowances but scanly justice TO him!
have now, believe, gone over The whoie
lis, Of objections to the present incumbent: lei
us turn our attention to those against MS com
ne,itor. To recount the whole OF these would
be 70 write volume. shall conhne mysen,
therefore, to some of the most prominent ne
has excluded Legislature from the Hall oi
its sittines He has arrested, paraded through
the streets under ile of soldiers, and threat
ned with the gibbet, the venerable Judge OF
National District He.has insullng.y to'a inc
Chief Magistrate 81 a State, that he hao no
ight to issue military order while he was IN
the field. He has abridged the liberty al the
Press. He has disre garded the wri, oil Ha-
beas Corpus, designed for the protection
of the citizen from arbitrary expressions
| lie has waged war against neutral pow
CT. in the face OF his instructions. He has ezer'
cised the mower of life & death on prisoners, III
contempt of the decision Of his favorite tribu-
nal. an 0independent cosrt martial. lie has
! onen,y directed the officers under his command
to disobey the orders of the President OF the
United States. He has threatened 70 enter the
halls Of the National Legislaturs cut OFT the
ears of Senators who presumed 4 inquire irf.o
his conduct He has inflicted deseh, and lg
nominous and degrading punishments, upo'
hundreds of militia, against all necessity and
eaeainst all law. And he has deliberately an
nounecd to his couutrymen, that it he so willeo
| it, in the absence of law, he could find sane
ton "under the second section" to hang whom
he pleased:-ior if he could feel justified ii
hanging in the case referred to under that sec
| ton, every man must admit that no case coulo
occur i'm which he would not find the same jus
LITIGATION.
Now take any one of these offences committed
bv Jackson, & weigh it impar,ially against th'
whole list of objections TO Adams: ] ask YOU t'
saw candidIy lift would not over balance then
all. Speak out honestly and frankly, | conJurt
YOU in the name Of that Liberty of which eacf
man is in part the preserver. Look at hi:
threat to cut off the ears of Senator-ever
those of our own lamented Eppest See him II
the anti chamber of the Senate, surrounded b!
his body guard of aids & dependents, belchina
forth his imprecations, and just ready to enter
the door, when the patriotic Decatur interpo
SEES: and declares if he pass, it must be over hi'
dead body BY this interposi,ion alone was the
Senate Chamber preserved from the threatenee
pollution When you have sufficiently con'em
plated this scent, let me ask you, can this mar
be fit for the Presidency Of free. aeople? l.
YOU doubt the truth of the story, besides sever
al per now living who were eye witnesses o
the dreadful spectacle, there arc hundreds te
whom Decatur COMMUNICATED it, to whom
could refer you-and among Others, one Sena
tor ut least, who was WON, before he put or
the livery of Jackson, in delinea ing the char
acter of his lamented and gal!ent friend to dwell
with particular delight on this instance of hi
6rmncss and sern Roman patriotism. II yol
shall still, after this, regard Jackson as the on
| ~ man in the Union whom you will have te
rule over YOU, be it so! Blu. fear that like TIT
, fop,. \ frogs who insisted on having the Stori
as ,h.ir kiag, you may soon have reason to re
pen,, s. re- greet the peaceful Administration yol
have so unwisely abandoned. can scarcel!
think that majority of you can wish that this
act had been perpetra,ed and Congress expel
ed from their sit;ings-unless, indeed, you be
long to thu school ola modern Orator, who See
nothing Objectionable in Caesars usurpalion:
| on the liberties Of his country, and whose NOR
atty converts this monster into patriot. ano
/ Bruius into an assassin. A fARNEh.