Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-11-15
From the Charleston City Gazette.
THE PRESIDENCY

now cordially prefers the man It has
described below to be an unsullled,
learned, and republican statesman
man whose simplicity of manners, res
pective for the laws, diplomatic talent
and cultivated mind, would, 10 any other
country. have conciliated the conf
dence and love of 3 free peopIe.-l re-
neat, | take the character OF General
jackson from his friends from those
who advise and persuade the people to
vote for him:
From The Richmond Enquirer, of.1fdreh o, 1924
owe pass over the earlier scenes that were
exhibited at New Orleans IN December and
January, i814-l815. We shall not en'er IN.
10 an examination Of the question, whether
martial law ought to have been proclaimed. or
the legislative body put in state OF surp'i-
lance. These extraordinary measures, no"
ever harsh, might have been necessary-sno
thete are crises when the safety OF the People
is the supreme law" But why SO Vigorously
maintain martial law. when this Necessary seem
ed to vsnishi rhe British army had Withdrawn
"Mr. Livingston had arrived on the LIST OF
March from the British fleet, whittier he hal
gone to effect a general cartel: through him
AtlittTdl SJGtlIhNC ~
ola vessel from Jamaica, with news OF a peace
having been agreed on by the two countries
The same intelligence had reached Ne~-oT
leans from another quarter. On the 9TH Marco
General j. received an express, sent by the
Postmaster General pesring COMMUNICATION
from the Government, il is understood, ina
she Treaty of Peace had been signed the AN
December, 1914. Was il not time, then, 10
close the odious scene of military power Dlo
necessity require that MIR. LouallIer, snemoer
of the Legislature, should be arrested ana
conined' That Mp. Hall, District Judge OF
the United States, for issuing a writ oil ho6eas
CORPUS, on application Of Mr.. L., should nun
self be seized, dragged to the Generals camp,
detained in close custody, and then sent beyond
the limits of the encampment, "unhl the ratI
fcation of Peace is regularly announced, or
Until the British shall have left the Southern
COAST" That the District Attorney, Mr. Dick,
who applied 10 Judge Lewis for a habeds corpus
60 liherate Judge Hall, should himself be arrest
edf And that an order should be issued, also,
for the arrest OF Judge Lewis? Were these
high.handed measures rendered necessary by
the circumstance of the casei Or do they not
rather 6espsak that species Of temper IN General
Jackson, vehich ia DISPOSED TO MAKE HIS own
WILL THE SOLE RUIZ OF HIs AcrIossf"
eftN ~ ~ ,
"Whst would be the situation of the South
ern States, IL, in the mids, of an Instruction,
they were compelled to wait, until the CON
manding officer OF the TINTED States should
please to issue his order tor ensuing their Safe
ty! Or, where is the respect in which the
States of the Union would be held, it their
Chief Magistrates should thus be boarded by the
military officers of the United Ststes' o,
where is the respect which these States NIGH er
Pecs TO receive from The hand Of a President, uho
should entertain such sentiments, and erpress them
On such q manner"
From the Richmond Enquirer, of March 10, 1894.
w have attempted to show, from the course
of bis (Gen. Jackson's] life, from the confession
OF his own respectable biographers, that he
cannot be possessed Of the extensive informa
ton Of, great statesmsn-that this defect alone
is sufficient to disquahfy him for the Executive
Char.
"We have attempted also to show by the re.
cord, that he has exhibited at Natchez, at New
Orleans, and in his correspondence With the Go.
vernon OF Georgia, an impetuous and arbitrary
temper-sVhich lily qualities him for Me high STA
sion to 7chich he aspres.
at has long been maintained as a maxim,
that a man who cannot obey ought not to com
mainland the rule, in the present case al
least, stands upon this sound reason: that the
man who makes his own will and pleasure tae
sole rule and guide of alt his actions, ought not
TO be trusted ruith the large pozVers eta President Of
The United STATES. We want for that Office a
man who will coolly and carefully observe the
law and the Constitution, for these are to be
his guides in the administration Of his powers.
Now, 10 Gen. JACOBSON possessed of that cool and
tempered spirit sVaicA mil ft hita for that Erscu-
fiue .HagIsfrate' Has he exhibited that spirit
in past timesl What say, for instance, the
history ofhis measures in 1879"
Here we see how Georgia has been treated,
and what she may again expect. But will South
Carolina give no higher evidence of her sci
yism" than TO support such a mani The idle
and degrading comparison between Jackson
and Washington, is thus hit of by the friends
sfJscksop:
From fhe Enquirer Of March -, 1924.
"Do General Jackson's friends pretend TO say
he is equal to Washington When the, modesflg
lay claim 10 such q pretensiOn, it will be time e.
nough to answer them. General j., il is said,
has given some essays, at New.Orleans, &c.
True, they we're fine essays; but they we're mi.
litary ones. You might as well pretend tba,
the Baron Stuben could write a mastery essay
on the law of na,ionsl"
From che Enquirer of .afay Is, 1924.
"General Jackson, 1t seems, always thought
Mr.. Madison was one ofthe best OF men, and a
great civilian; but did not prefer him as Presi
dent, becsuse he ''alwsys believed thA, the mind
of a philosopher could not dwell on 6lsOd or cor
mage With any composure: of course, that he was
not we'll fitted for a stormy sea-" How prepos
ferrous is this objection, when il is secollected
that Mr.. Madison was the very man to recon
mend a war, in which war General J., owes his
own high reputation. The General, IN this one
stroke Of the penal, draws bis OWE character
War is confinnaLu Goatinp beE.e hs o1gn enea