Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-09-13

Generals leg and we are sorry TO say
fractured It below the knee. We have
just seen and eunversed with a gentle.
man who was present and witnessed the
whole of this yillainous outrage. The
fellow It seems was arrested on the spot
and would have been torn In pieces by
the indignant populace, but for the com
mands and Inconsistencies of the Gene
raj himself. He has however been com
fcrtably lodged 10 limbo, and has since
acknowledged that be received five
thousand dollars from John @. Adams
and Henry Clay, for putting a rifle ball
through General Jackson's heart. de-
clarlng moreover hat be was only sorry
that he had not done It, as he had re-
ceived the sinners before be lett Wash
ingtcn. This IS all according to the
most approved Kentucky rules for win
ming a race. That is, to break your ad.
veTsary's neck if you can; if not it will
do as well to break his leg. What will
the coalition presses say to this pretty
little job, of their pure and honest Mr..
Henry Clay? Indeed we should not be
vastly astonishcd, from their habitual
imprudence should they deny the whole
matter. But be this as it may, the peo-
pie can read and understand. and will
soon relieve the said John @ Adams and
Henry Clay Of the burshen oil managing
the affairs Of this nation.
.dibuny Argus.
Among other articles of intelligence
from the South, will be found in our CO.
lumns to day the Nashville of
the accident which befel General Jack.
son on the day Of the election at that
place, and by which his lee was broken.
In the jackson prints, this affairs said
to be the work of q nan hired by
Nessrs. Adams aud Clay to take the
Generals life. We shall avoid all pre-
mature committals on this subject. 1t
may not be amiss however to remark,
that il the man had not frightened the
Generals horse, the General would not
we suppose have been thrown, if he
had not been thrown the accident could
not have happened.
Democratic Press.
General jackson it seems has broken
his ieg-pity it had not been his neck.
For this however, fate may have in
store a far different destiny. The com.
bination will no doubt whine over this
event as a national calamity. For our
selves we cannot forget the story of
poor Harris and his murdered compan.
ions. But it is written, whose sheddeth
mans blood, by man shall bis blood BE
shed;" and therefore General Jackson's
neck, was not to be broken By a horse.
The Republican Citizen.
"a paper published in Frederick Town Md
The attempt against the life of General
jackson which We publish to day, must
excite the indignation, we had almost
said the vengeance of an insulted PEG.
pie. We are enabled to furnish some
further particulars of this wicked out
rage, of the truth of which we can as
sure our readers. In addition to the
four rutfians who fred at the General
in the street, eight others have since
been apprehehded armed with dirks ana
pistols, and who have all confessed that
they received FIVE thousand dollars each,
from John @ Adams and Henry Clay,
to murder the Hero Of New Orleans.
These are the rewards reserved for the
man who in the language Of the immor-
tai Jefferson, 'has filed the measures
of his country's glory" We are impa-
tent for the day when this usurping
alition shall be hurled from their unhal-
lowed elevation. D1oy. Hal.